The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 5, 1922, Page 9

FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1922. af BY A.S.M.H Copyriaht, 1921, A. (Continued From Yesterday) ur Tm the morning. the tn the mortuary coroner's court, hie and with shock most t with the calam.- adjoining mind sud terrible made cont ‘ty it had pursued, In the mortuary. When he arrived and alighted from his cab be found & small crowd of Persons assembled about the yard of the court, Some one said, “There he ts!" Some one aaid, “That's him!" A kind of threatening murmur went up from the people, A general move- ment was made towards him. What! was the matter? What were they) looking at? They stood in bis way. SMHilfehinson UTCHINSON & M. Mutehinsom tile, ‘There wae again that murmur that had greeted him when he stepped from the cab, At th of him one of the two men at the head of the table started to his feet, A very big man, and with a very bie and ma: @ face and terrific ey who started up and raised clenched fists and had his jaws working, Old Bright. His companion at the head of the table restrained him and drew Dim down again. A tall, spare, dark man with @ thin mouth tn a deeply lined face—Twyning. The hunch backed man beside them twisted about In hie chair and stared long and narrowly at Sabre, @ very faint amile playing about his mouth; « rather hungry sort of smile, as tho He seemed to be wedged among & mass of dark and rather beastly faces Ddreathing close to his own. He could not get on. He was being pushed. He was caused to stagger. He said, “Look out, I've got a game leg.” ‘That threatening sort of murmur arose more loudly im answer to his words, Some one somewhere threw & plece of orange peel at some one. It almost hit his face. W was up? What were they all doing? A policeman and the coroner's of- ficer came shouldering thru the press and helped him towards the court. He thought it wag rather decent of them, ‘The policeman said, “You'd better @et inside. They're @ bit rough.” At the door of the court Sabre looked across to where on the other side of the yard some men were shuffling out of a detached building. The coroner's officer said, “Jury They've been viewing the corpse.” “Corpse! The rough word stabbed thru his numbness. He thought, “Corpse! Viewing the corpse! scene and horrible phrase! Corpse! Effie! He made a movement in that direction. The man sald, “Yes, perhaps you'd Detter. ‘They took him across and Into the Getached building. He Was against a glass screen, mis ty with breaths of those who had stared and peered thru it. The po- Hiceman wiped his sleeve across the “There you are.” | eee | Now, suddenly and with | shock most terrible, his mind made/ contact with that which ft had pur-| sued. It had groped as tn a dark! room with outstretched hands. Now, suddenly and with shock most ter-| rible, it was as tf those groping | hands had touched in the darkness @ face Ah, tneupportadie! Thie was Ef. | fie. This was Bright Effie. This ‘was that folly little Effie of the old, | Million-year-old days. This! This! >he lay on a sinb Inciined towards the glass, She was swathed about) Od | he anticipated a bit of a game out of Sabre, ‘They led Babre to a seat on the front of the benches. v From a door behind the central dias @ largs, stout man entered and took his seat. Whispers about the court sald, “Coroner.” Some one bawled “Silence.” ‘The coroner fiddled with some pa pers, put pince-nes on his nose and stared about the court. He had a Dig, flat face, He stared about. “Te the witness Sabre tn attendance?” The coroner's officer sald, “Yea, ati Some one jogged Sabra He stood up. ‘The coroner looked at him. you legally represented?” Sabre’s mind played him the trick of an astoundingly clear recollection of the officer at the recruiting sta tion who had asked him, and at whom he had wondered “Any com: | plaints He wondered now. He said, “Represented? No. Why | should I be represented?” The coroner turned to examine some papers, “That you may per |haps discover,” he remarked dryly The court tittered. The hunch backed man, little more than whose huge head appeared above the table, faughed out loud and rubbed his hands between his knees and made a remark to Twyning. He seemed pleased that Sabre was not legally represented. A man seated not far from the hunchback rose and bowed and «ald, atching the Intereste of Mrs. “are Sabre started. Mre. Sabre! Mabel! The hunchback sprang to his fret and jerked a bow. “I represent Mr Bright, the father of the 4 ‘The coroner bowed to each. hunchback and the solicitor repre senting the interests of Mrs. Sabre leaned back in their chairs and ex changed whispers behind the men seated between them. The jury shuffied up from their fn cerements. Only her face was vis-| seats and were sworn in and shuffied | ibie. Within the hollow of her arm reposed a little shape, all swathed. | Bhe had brought it Into the world Bhe had removed !t from the world that would have nothing of it. She} bad brought a thousand smiles into | the world, but she had given offense | to the world and the offended world| had thrown back her «miles and she now had expressed her contrition to the world. This was her contrition that she lay here for men to breathe upon the glass, and sta nd rub away the dimness with their sleeves, and breathe, and stare again. Oh, insupportable calamity! Oh, tragedy beyond support! He thought of her as oft and again he had eren her—those laughing lips, those shin- ing eyes. He thought of her alone when he had left her, planning and preparing this frightful dissolution of her body and her soul. He thought of her in the stupendous moment while the glass paused at her lips. He thought of her in torment of in- ward fire by that which had blistered her poor lips. A very terrible groan was broken out of him. back again. . . . The coroner was speaking. and you wil) hear the evidence of the witneases who will be brought before you... and I propose to take first the case of the deceased child . . . two deaths and {t will be found more con. ven! Flapgood sald: “Did I say to you last time, after that Brighton business, that the man had crashed, that the roof had fallen fn on him? Did I say that? May I never again use superiatives till I've turned over the page to make eure they weren't comparatives. Eh, man, sitting on bis bed there at Brighton and gibbering at me, Sabre wae a whole man, @ sane man; he was « fortunate and happy man, compared with this that I saw come at him down at Tidborough yesterday. “I've told you that chap that came up to him outside the Lew Courts evidently told him the girl had killed herself and that he was wanted for They took him along. Iv ‘The court was crammed. In two- thirds of its space were crowded benches. At the upper end of the room was a dais, a schoolmaster’s|chap I went to desk. Flanking it on one hand were forms occupied by the men Sabre haa on shuffling out of the mortuary. On the other hand a second dais|to it. And told me what inquest. In.) was clever-—clever, my word! It} stood. Facing the central dais was! 8 long table at which men were seat: | on the side looking towards the | dais. Two men sat also at the head of this table, facing the jury. As! Sabre entered they were in deep con- versation with a stunted, hunch backed man who eat next them at z E woorige FY tn the room turned to-| told you before, I’m not the sort of | Jury without leaving the box brought Sabre, the perspiration streamed pelied by big oars and po such | other people got on, then the men wards the door as Sabre entered. | chap that weeps he knows not why;/in that the child had died of suffo- | down — ° like 7 aoe oll, and as you may have seen rivermen! pushed off from shore They might have belonged to a single | I never nursed a tame gazelle and ali | cation due to misadventure he'd flap his great, tongue t ga ody aad cmey pcr. to have althat sort of thing. I can sit thru] “The court drew « long breath; you | around his jaws and mop his stream-|f use on thelr log booms and Gwifter and swifter ran the ® expression and @ single |a play thinking about my supeee lees Sear tt " veryboay, nettled | ing face and etic ane his et ne tts creit| shvie tnd the. coe seme . as % it wife ruins her dreas and| himself down nice and comfortably.|ing mane; and all the time he'd be thought: a dark and forbidding’ ex-' while my ‘The curtain-raiser was over, and very stooping down to Twyning, and} “And there were no siles of! small and frail betwen the plo the inquest. Next day I went down, knowing nothing about !t, of course. | you, Doc I hit up Tidborough about twelve No train out to Penny Green for an hour, #0 I went to take a fly. [heard it was Sabre’s place I | looking for, | this inquest; se quest! You can guess how I felt was the first I'd heard about tt Hopped into the cab and drove down to it. “By Jova, ol4 man... By Jove 014 man, how I'm ever going to tell you. That poor chap by those fiends... ,. By Jove Ry Jove. OF STHE. A QUEE “Here we are,” sald the dove, flut- the top of the gate that led into King Verdo's palace. “T may not go any further with you. You ¥ «6 to finish your errand alone.” ‘Rut wil you walt to guide ack again over the seven valleys?” x wait, but you wil need the dove | not need to go back over valleys—nor even the mountains. It was only neces: for you to make the trip once Returning, you may wish there in your magic es. I shall fly with you, to see who Is to marry She ts my mis- and I love her coos Therma tress, you know, dearly.” “What's afl this talking about?” sked a new voice suddenty. “Here 1 was, enjoying @ nics game of cro cust by myseif im my flower garden, us) y WIN = Berton R KING jand having everything peaceful and quiet, when I'm disturbed ty two prattling children and a nolsy dove | Who are you?” “We're Nancy and Nick, the Twins.” replied Nick. “And we came to see King Verdo. The dove ts our friend.” | “Did you say King Vertor | “On! said Nancy. “Yor,” nodded Naney. + “Well—I'm bim, no, he. Fim, ha, him, he!’ went on this curious person thoughtfully. . I'm not either him or he, I'm me,” he went “I'm King Verdo.” “Oh? waid Nancy. “Oh™ cried Nick “Ont cooed the dove. They were all most astonished at so unkingly looking a person with such unkingly manners | “Why three oha when one would | do?" asked the king. | “Kings are three times as impor |tant am other people,” said Nancy quickly. This put King Verdo tnto « very good humor. “That's so” said he amiably. “Come in.” (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle star) on on and a thought dark and hos my trouseta crying over them—but) ADVENTURES | suffocation of the baby | him back O14 | hook it, I saw it then, when he smiled rter, when he| towards Sabre and then enapped up! face like wan| bis face and plumped down. told me Sabre was at|the jury saw it. id he'd drtven him tn | from that moment. in there baited | ing before the morning was out that| a .. You know, old man, I’'ve/as I know about THE SEATTLE STAR aor BY AHERN WB SAID He OF FERED AW ART 1 DEALER WALF PRICE OUR BOARDING HOUSE BY STANLEY. WELL NEFFY« 1 SPENT ALL MORNIN’ GOIN! AROUND TO ALL “TH BARBER SHOPS LOOKIN’ FoR AN OL’D FRIEND OF MINE NAMED’ BILL SMITH’: I DIDN'T FIND HIM, BUT THEY ALL SAID HIS NAME SOUNDED FAMILIAR © THEN I WENT TO A VODYVILLE SHOW = THEY WAS A FELLY ON TH’ STAGE THAT DID A MIND READIN’ TRICK = ‘WE COULDN'T KETCH ME ONY BECAUSE IT WAGN'T DOIN! ANY “THINKIN THE OLD HOME TOWN HOLDER | NEWT SHES AREARIN “ HUGO ~ How DID You GET ALONG BROWSIN' ABOUT) “TOWN “ODAY 2 ARMS WERE BROKEN orr! TWO SHAENG MUGS AND A BASE ARGUMENT WERE BROKEN UP - TODAY BY AUNT SARAH PE. LEADER OF THE SOCIETY FOR PPRESSION OF PIPE SMOKING. this business, old Sabre up in ‘coat Witness box with his face in a knot and stammertng out ‘Look here- Look here—'; that was absolutely all he ever said; he never could get any farther—old Sabre going thru that, and the solicitor tearing the Inside out of him and throwing it tn hie! face, and that trebledyed Iscariot | Twyning prompting the eolleitor and | exging him on, with his beastly. spit tle running lke venom out of th corn of his mouth—I tell you eyes felt like two boiled gooseberries in my head: bolled red bot; and a red-hot potato stuck In my throat, | stuck tight. I tell you . | “When I crept into that Infernal! court, that infernal torture chamber, | they were just finishing the case of | the child. This solicitor chap—chap with a humped back and @ head as big ae a house—was just finish! fawoiog round a doctor man in t putting It up to him that thei was nothing to suggest deliberat Oxalle acid polsoning——was it not the case that the girl would have died in great agony? Writhed on the bed? Might) eastly have overlaid the child? The doctor had seen the porition in which she was found lying in regard to ih child—would he not tell the jury that | she almost certainly rolled on to the child while It slept—that sort of rath @r painful stuff. Doctor chap rather | jibbed @ bit at being rushed, but humpback kept him to it devilish cleverly and the verdict was as an given. The doc. was just goin: out of the box when humpo calle ‘One moment more, Doo: | tor, if you please. Can you tell me, if you please, approxiamtely the of the child—approximately, bu near as you possibly can, Doctor? “The doctor said about five months —four to five months. } “Five months,’ saye Hurmpo. mouthing {t, months.’ He turned deliberately round and looked directly at Sabre, sitting sort of hud died up on the front bench. ‘Five months, We may take ft, then, the child was born In December last. In December last.’ 6till with his back to the witness and staring at Sabre, you understand, and the jury all staring with him and people stand. | tng up tm the court to see what the| like @ threeparts deflated football | Gevil he was looking at. ‘We may | Looked as if he'd been poured onto) take that, may we, Doctor! He waa his seat out of a jug and jollified) watching Sabre with a sort of half|there. There was old Bright, the amile. The doctor eaid he might take | girl's father, smouldering like inside it The chap snapped up his face|the door of a banked-up furnace; with « jerk and turned round. ‘Thank | smouldering like ff you touched him That will do." And he| he'd burst out {nto @ roaring flame sat down. If ever I saw a chap play.|and sparks. There wae Mr, Iscariot ing & fish and suddenly strike and|Twyning with his face like « stab— in the back—and his mouth on his scar. T was this nollo And| itor chap next him, with hia hump, Ho'd got™’em fixed | with his hair ike @ mane, and a head Fixed! Oh, he/| like @ house, and a mouth like a loave. He'd a great, big, red tongue, |about @ yard long, like a retriever's. and a great, long forefir Tr with practically told the jury what to say,! about five joints in it that he wag reminded them, if they had any lin-|gied when he waa crossexamining gering doubts, that the quality of|and shot out when he was inerim.|/ merey was not atrained—him show. | inating like the front nine inches of ake. That chap! When he was in the! full ery and ecstasy of his hunt after | ¢ ? 01 Wa [nr | ar ye * A STRANGE LIFE PRISONER Mis, Miller) right down, happy as 4 clam. “Then onto the boats and som body lift oa the about tn her downy bed and gent- * * “Those boata,” went on, “That ended that. The coroner rumbled out @ bit of a summary they drove the horses “were moro like rafts} than real boats, just rough-hewn | boards nalled across logs, made little girl, all wrapped big enough to float a wagon or he knew about as much about mercy Arabio~and the two with thelr teams and pro-| ly placed her on the boat, and the too. nice, while he was stooping and Twyning | | prompting him with the venom prick: | ing and bursting in the corners of his mouth, all the time he was stoop ing this chap would leave that great | forefinger waggling away at Sabre, | | w for the drama, “They got it.” raflings to them at all. neers and its raging waters, “Now, while the mon were get-| “Tt was slow work, too, trying ™ “Look here, get the hang of the thing. Get a bearing on some of these people. There was the coroner getting off his preamble—flavoring it with plenty of ‘distressings’ and painfuls’ and ‘father of the decensed ting ready to go across with the) to steer the clumay eraft across ANY TIME You WANT To SGE MG, JUST SQUAT OUT HGRE AND PUNCH THAT HORN INSTEAD OF RINGING THE DOOR BGCLL, wagons and everything was walt-| to the opposite bank, and every and Sabre clutching the box, and his face in a knot, and his throat in a Ingp and choking out, ‘Look here ing, Mrs, McMillin was thinking| eye was fixed either on the oars hard ax ever she could abeut some men or on the point they were well known to and respected by many | Look here— to protect her sick little girt! chap, the corone t there impas- | yo : | teve e, and nobody naw sive like a flabby olf Buddha. Face!’ (Continued Tomorrow) |] white they crossed the river. And] | VOry Sie all’ nooo ALWATS OCs |] presently ahe said, ‘Why didn't 1] ‘Pt once when they had been SEC (Oo * AANA think of that before? And ghe| Caught In an eddy ana the boat Comp f OUR FIRST YEAR pulled a feather bed vut of the) had tossed and rocked before it wagon and laid Eliza on it, and] righted itself, something Yad * ~—~~~~~~— By a Bride —~——~ M\] "then she folded it back over her,/ rolled off the edge, .ro.ed off 80 CHAPTER II.—QUEER ANTE-NUPTIAL || "1 {tet her up dust ike s ittle) gently that it womrosly made a CONTRACT appesinrcnydin. Posen nad could be, | splash, and nobody heacd a itt | M but this ts soft and muffled scream.” WHAT'S ALREADY (To Be Continued HAPPENED when It's tested, without crying like a warm! Eliza sighed and weenie It ia the bride's firet woek as a| baby?” | | housekeeper, With loving eager.| I wiped my eyes and held up my | Se #0 ness, tinged with @ litte anxiety, chin. By simulating courage, one/dear little mother! Sometimes, in, companions; to be equal and inde. jee ‘was ever to be jealount We dared to give each other thie she prepares an elaborate dinner for ean acquire it. I suppose, With Wwad| spite of her brave independence, 1| pendent friends; to retain our Mberty |, Ceftainly ours was something new | vast liberty because we trusted ealy her brand new busband. The’ phone, high, I faced the workout of my lit-|think she regrets divorcing my|as individuals. e & program for the marred. jother implicitly. Jack was the soul |rings. Instead of coming me he tle theory about freedom for married | father. And 1 know affe's lonesome,| We were to keep house together In| But it was all in acc with the |}°f honor, If he said that he in going to the club to play ons |now [Tam married the normal fashion, But cach was,moedern girl's sophistication eoncern- | Me, I could be sure that a» did. § h his friend Jim, who is in town) In ourengaged days, T bad ex-| But if Fhe hadn't divorced my! to fel entitled to have his personal |in# the average unhappy marriage.| The phone rang aguin, 4 picked between train plained it to Jack, and he had agneed |daddy, if T hadn't geen my. parents |interests in people, places and things, |! liad geen great misery develop un-|up Joytully. ie thet to it. Perhaps he hadn't agroed with | pull apart after happy years to-| Jack was to play chess whe ¢ |der my father’s roof, had sven it end “Now eo here, Pegsy Maéiecnt|much aleerity. More than once f{gether, I'd never have acquired my | wanted to. I was to go oa th = lin tragedy for my mother, if ‘not for | ae Septet ~ chanaen nig You've no right to weep becaure r had suspected that he war only| extremely advanced views avout love jacting at the Little Playhouse my father. me Wie” ace “4 ry neing Jim new husband {s spending au wvening humoring what he considered ajand marriage Jack called it a fair sway, For he| And Jack belleved that tf women |old cheas—for me! peed Up ae at his chess club,” said 1 “You've known about his hobby as long as you've known him! Anyway if you hadn't, there's your own pet whim of mine. Personally, I considered my theory excellent, altho novel My mother was responaihie for my Can't you a ide by it, | radical p ne about marriage. Poor te Me. Jack says ours in the oddest pre- | was no more interested in acting than |are bound one way 9%y the +ustoms nuptial contract ever made, I tn chess. and traditions of marriage, men are | We had agreed to coninue, after) Neither was to tnteffere with the | hampered just as wnuch in other be understanding and sympathetic for a man or @ girll Abuve all, we agreed, I seized the phone with a quick> beating heart. e But the man who answered was not Jack, ‘To Be Continued) marriage, to be chums and pals; tol|other’s social preferences, whether! ways. It should be different with us, proposition!