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TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1922. ry CAS MHittchinson } ©19U_ASMNUTCHINGON (Continued From Yesterday) “Old man, I went a! to the Royal with this Lady Tybar, Told her who I was and what I knew Ortered some tea there (hich wo @idn"t touch) and «he began to talk to me Talk to me 1 tell you What I thought about that woman White she talked, I thought, leaving | @ut limelight beauty, and classic Beauty and all the beauty you can fee in a frame presented as such leaving out that use It wasn’t be there, I thought she was the most Deautiful woman I had ever seen Yes, and I told my wife #0, That shows you! You coulin't say where it was or how it was, You could @nly say that beauty abode in her face as the scent in the rose. It's here and it's exquisite; that's all you ean say. If sho'd been talking to me in the dark I could have felt that whe was beautiful, “What (lid she tell me? about herself and Sabre. What did site say? No, you'll have to lot that go, old man. It was more what I read into what she said. I'll keep it—for a bit, anyway “There's else to tell than that ‘That cabman I'd got hold of sent in awhile after to see me, Said he'd picked up Sabre a mile along and taken him home. Stopped a bit to patch up some harness or something and ‘All of a heap’ (as he expressed it} Sabre had come flying out of the house again into the cab and told him to drive like hell and all to the office-—to Fortune, East and Sebre's. Bald Sabre behaved all the way like | as If he was mad—shouting to him | to hurry and carrying on inside the gab so the old man was terrified. “I said, “To the office! What the She nail @evil now? I ran in to Lady Tybar| and we hurried round. We were! scared for him, I tell you. And we'd| Teason to be—when we got there and found him.” . | When! that cad which Hapgood} had dispatched after Sabre from | oner's court overtook its quest, the driver put himself abreast of the} distracted figure furiously hobbling| along the road and, his second pound an | fhote in view, began, in a fat comfortable voice, a beguiling mon. Ologue of “Keb, sir? Keb? Keb?) Keb, str? Sabre at first gave no attention Farther along he once angrily waved} his stick in signal of diwmissal, About | & mile along his disabled knee, and} all his much overwrought body re | fused longer to be the flogged slave! of his tumultuous mind. He stopped| im physical exhaustion and rested | upon his stick. The cabman alse Stopped and tuned afresh bis ent ing and restful rhythm: “Keb, sir? eb? Keb? Keb, eirt™ He got in. He did not think to gtve a diree tion, but the driver had h direc tions: nor, when he was set down at ghia jhouse, to make payment; but pavtnent had been made. The driver | asisted him from the dub and mto hls door—and he needed assistance— and being off his box set himself to! the adjustment of a buckle, repair Of which he had deferred thru the! @ay until (being @ man economical of | effort) some other cireur should necessitate his earth. Sabre stumbted tnto his house and pushed the door behind him with a} Tesolution expressive of his desire to! coming to in that court, No! It was another face that passed before that passion. ate countenance and stood like flame before his eyes, Twyning! Twyntni Twyning, Twyning! The prompte the goader of that passionate man passion, the instigator and inatry ment of this his utter and appalling destruction, Twyning, Twyning, Twyning! Knock, knock, knock! Ah, that knocking, that knocking! Something was going to give way in & minute. It must be abated, It must, Something would give way else. A feverish desire to mmoke came upon him. He felt in his pock ets for his cigaret case, He had not got it. He thought after tt He re membered that he had started for Brighton without tt, discovered there that he had left it behind, He start. to hunt for ft, It must be tn this room. It waa not to be seen tn the room, Where? He remembered a previous oocasion of searching for It ike this When? Ah, when Effie «i told him she had found tt lying About and had put !t—of all absurd places for a cigaret case—in the b of the clock. Ten to one ahe had put it there again now. The very last thing she had done for him! Effie He went quickly to the clock opened it, Good! It waa there, He snatched {t up. A folded paper on it: Mr, Sabre. She had left a message for him! She had left a message for him! That clgaret case bustness had been deliberately done! He fumbled the paper open. could not control his fingers. fumbled it open. He began to read.| Tears stood in his eyes. Pitiful, oh, | pitiful. He turned the page—knock knock, knock! The knocking sudden ly ceased. He threw up his hand He gave a very loud ery A stngle note, A note of extraordinary exulta tion: “Ha! | He crushed the paper between his | hands. He cried aloud: “Into my| hands! In my hands thou bast de livered him He ©} again, b mething else there. His name penciled Me} He ened the paper and read * hand shaking, and now a most terrible trembling upoa him. Dear Mr. Sabr “I wanted you to go to Brighton #0 I could be alone to do what I am just going to do impossible, and I ought to have seen it before my little baby and I it would be like this. the never dreamt tut you see et me keep my little baby | won't jand now I have made things too ter-| rible for you. 80 I see the only thing| to do is to take myself out of it all and take my little baby with me. Seon I shall explain things to God and then I think it will be quite all/ right. Dear Mr Sabre, when I ex plain things to God, I shall tell Him how wonderful you have been to me My heart tn filled with gratitude to you. I cannot express tt; but I shall tell God when I explain everything | to him; and my one hope ts that after | I have been puniahed I shall be al lowed to meet you again, and thank you—there, where everything will be understood.” } He turned [t over. “L feel I ought to tel you now before 1 | © this world, what I never was able to tell you or anyone. The father Nttle was farold Twyning, who used to be in your office. We had been secretly of my bab engaged a very, very long time and n he was in an officers’ training camp at Bournemouth where I wan. and I don't think I quite understood shut away from himself all creatures |We were going to Be married and Of the world jand be slione—be left | then he had to go sudden entirely alone. By habit he cl jhe was afraid to tell his father and the stairs to his room, into « chalr, His head was not ach throbbed within his b and enormously, a pulse that seemed to shake him at its every beat. It was going knock, knock, knock! He began to have the feeling that if this frightful knock! inued ft would He coll * bak there! . censelexaly beat its way mething would give way. Amidst the purposeful re Yerberations, his mind, like one Squeezed back in the dark corner of &@ lair of beasts, shaking | and appalled. He was the father of | Effie's child; he was the murderer of | Effie and of her « He either; but the crimes Upon him as ineradicable ypon his skin. Hie skin was white but it was ann black Bot a glass of the mirrors of actions but showed it black flected upon ft hie that was blacker yet. He was a betrayer a G@erer, and every refutation could produce turned to a brand tn} his hands and branded him crouched aj there was is past and re a mur deeply. He writhed In to ever, in every hour of ev Right, he would carry the metnory Of that fierce and sweating face the table jthen this happened and he was more afraid. I do So that was how it all was want you, please, to tell Ho t I quite forgive him, on I t quite write to him. And dear Mr Sabre, I Go trust you to be with Har ola what you have always been with me and with everybody—ger and understanding things. And tell the Perches, too, about Mr. Fargus, Good-by and mr bless and reward you fore ever, EFFIE.” bi He shouted again, “Ha!’ He cried again, “Into my hands! Inte my har He abandoned himself to a rather tasy of hate and passion horrible to purple and and the veins on He cried aloud horribly mimicked "8 such a good a good, Chris Harold's never «aid horrible His fa amy became rather His face be black and knotted, hig forehead black Harola! Harold! sr He rat “Hare An n bad w or had a bad thought Harold's such @ good boy." He | out: “Harold's such a blackguard! Harold's such a blackguard! A b guard and the son of aw vile, infa THE Back over the seven valleys Nancy and Nick and the dove, flew | fmagic Green Shoes making better time than the fastest express. After then came King Verdo, who had made @ wail of his long bewrd. Princess Therma, who had been Watching from the tower of her Castle of Mirrors, saw them com ing, and made a wignal to the furious falcon who guarded the gute of King Indig’s palace. For the f time tn « thousand Years, the fu ua falcon © ok his flew to @ trea near her eo f ‘s fulcon’s r th m and in ancient bird. T on, with been King Ind Catch bh gs only army. Quick mt’ cated King Don’t suffer longer with stomach | “JOYNER STOMACH | REMEDY Can now be had at any drug #tore or} t sent direct for $1.00 and $2.00 by Joy her Drug Co, Spokane.-Advertise- | ment TWO KINGS Indig, forgetting all about playing the |hopscotch and jaining in the chase | f@r end of the room, himself. Everybody ran and by and by they came to the park where trey found the falcon resting outstte Princess Therma's window. But before anyone had time to b the tree, there was a noise in the air and Naney, Nick and the dove arrived, followed in a moment by King Verdo, who looked like a flying machine. When K ng Indig saw King Ver how those two hated each ee EEE rincess Therma looked | ‘aie 2 — Dink eBid enon va t fae and shuddered. ‘Ihen she| CHAPTER V.—BECAUSE I AM MARRIED pledged never to eat another meal at all! I exclaimed. And the idea | Ploved girls allowed at business so-|for married women? stroked the white dove which had| Under an agreement with his bride: rarebits after the theater: often had| alone with me? suddenly classified itself with other |! affairs, And there are some| Never before had it eecurred to me dwn 40. her W se ill that marriage should mot interfere we shared anything we could find in| Caught up thus between long | novelties marriage was presenting | WO™e2 Who play chess, you know.| that anything, not eyen my mat. “Oh, T can't marry atther of (Witain ezine phonos (hat he'ts stay, {the home refrigerator; times in-|friendship and the traditions of|to me. And what ary you going to say to| riage, could menace the frank friend- them,” she sighed, “They are both ‘at his club to play chess with an | numerable had wo two dined from|proper behavior for a married! “Ol Jack's all right! I know ana | ‘at? [ship which had existed between Bart #0 ugly.” | chum, Jim, The Hh de oe of the the pantry shelf. woman, I was confused and hyster-|you know, But consider, When his| “I'm going to say ‘all right? 1 | Hliot and me, Suddenly the falcon erted out, iy re Sart iiiiat her pine | Our mothers were tbe best of|ical, To keep from weoping, I gig: | insurance crowd goes off to conven: | knew all that before I was engaged.| As a pioneer in a new order of “Silence everybody! It Is now to be|tonte. fri ways he's coming | friends and neighbors. gled |tlons he'll simply have to take some| Why should I begin to worry naw?” | more liberty for wives, what waa I decided which of these two gentle. |to take he Hlayhoune club.| and yet, just because I had prom-| “Wow! Bart's preferred expres-|of the women to dinners and plays. “Wow! In short, a married man | going to do? men i# the finer looking. Longhead, the Wiseman, had decided, and his words are @ record which the| Twins brought here where all can hear.” on (To Be Continued) I ere now it t# all/door and got in. In but I was #0 very fond of | ti | very gates of hell I s {] take yourself off. Hear? Quick | come back i tt won't} “He never did | i er ee ee ee “Little woman much plenty agi! |] have you arounas | big," he growled. ‘Heap plenty not |Bhe agre THE SEATTLE STAR PAGF 11 BY STANLEY OUR BOARDING HOUSE NUP MR. HOOPLE + AFRICKY 16 100 DERN FER AWAY BY AHERN I'D Like TO SEE MYSELF GIVING WE THE OLD HOME TOWN. 1 THIS GOLD MINE, M2 FOSTER, IS LOCATED ON THE WESTERN COAST OF AFRICA = NATIVE LABOR \4 A FELLY ONE TIME WINGS »* THAT \G CHEAP AND AS SOLE |-\tRiED 1} GELL MENA OF BOY COULD HEADS OF THE ENTERPRIGE,| some STOCK it) AM \\ WAL oP eh thon gn wr R capa. f/f & PARADE O Bry aca seats ey Jf ONL MIME IN NORWAY, 5 cy poCKETS ‘ WHERE THEY GET TH KNOWLEDGE OF // Ben ay! OPERATING, WHY / ~ taped eet eg WA-HA> BUSTER'S UNCLE 16 A MOTHH WITH ASBESTOS OUR PROFITS / | WOULD BE / | BUT LC COULDNT TALK ENORMOUS ! TM LANGWIDGE AN’ _——~., |GOod ‘Yoy SAY)\NIGHT / ‘OR RAILROAD LANTBRNS, j ~~ . DIDNT TAKE anv! — | | | us, lying, perjured biackguard.” His passion and his hate surmount . ed his voice. He choked. He picked | F GPx up his stick and went with frantic 4 striding hops to the door, He cried *. » THIS ONE ' }3 DRY; ANYWAY - aloud, gritting his teeth upon it, “I'H| cram the letter down Lis throat. I'l cram the letter down bis throat, [ll take him by the neck. I'll bash btm across the face, And I'll cram the) letter down his throat Two Hearty Laughs ° VLL JUST PUT THIS VERRY Sign OVER HERE To = KEEP Some BUM FROM by PLANTING HIMSELF DOWN WERE WHEN! WANT The cab driver, his labor upon the buckle finished, was resting on his box with purposer. 1 luxurb ous rest of a who has heat and burden of the day waved his stick at bim, and « to him, “Fortune's office in ough. Hard as you ean. rne the Hard as the the put into mo by its startied driver, he put his bead and arm from the window and was out on the step. Stop! Let me out, I've something to get He ran again Into the house and bundied himself up the stairs and a his room. At his bureau he took ® drawer and wrenched it open #0| that it came out in his hand, ewung on the kets of ite handle, and scat tered tents upon the floor. One} article fe Hie service re! 4q volver, He grabbed it up and dropped on his ha nd knees, padding eag erly about after scattered cartridges As he searched his voles went harnh ly, “He's hounded me to hell the . wot him, and I'l) have him by the throat and hurl him in?’ He broke open the Breech and jammed the cartridg counting them, “O: two, three. four, five, six! He anapped up the breech and jammed the revolver in hin jacket pocket. He went scramb ling again down the «# he scrambled down eram ¢ fown his t can.” wrenehed op A moment startied » scarcely Stop! its heavily SUUCKS * T 7 WISUED We KNOWED wuaT T DO. he cried # letter roat. I take him by the neck acroms the face. And ter down his Tl bash him rm ram the when out with him, drill him for that he is.” | All the way down as the cab pro | corded, he alternated between a! | ed behente ~ the ariver t Marty ‘Twyning had not heard him. repe 1 Of his ferocious intention of Gow ‘ Over and over again; gritting his) H® stood over him and locked dom” QHEN A PERSON ASKS ou A Se STON teeth upon I: picturing i; In vision | Upon him. | neck, nook, knock i le a | Koy TURNA CANGUID EYE ON HIM AN king 1 #0 that the perspiration | Curse the thing. | There was Twyt Car MUTTGR SOMETHING IN AN UNKNOWN) S upon hin body. “I'l evans] ine usiee’ oa bie bead, thet in @ IDpacecr iif INA STRANGER HERE AND letter down his throat. I'll take| ofidte he would catch him by. . « * THE BEST ROUTS TO WALK VE by the neck. 1" bash him | TIAN De ee a ould catch bls + | T THS CGNTCR OF TOU It! across the face, and I'll cram the! hair and wrench him back and cram ee aoe enone Cer SP4| nis meal upon him. Knock, knock, || sd over again; visioning it in hie mind, | cnock. Curse the thing ail his muscles wor Ho naid heavily, “Twyning, Twyn |] dy dv isly performing it. He fe ant | immensely we He felt RE hn Ing, I've come to mpeak to you about si abel Cc Ag 7 fit The knocking was me in hi your © Page 671 pg tar se ee mod ay Pgs THE VERY LITTLE LADY AND THE BIG, RIG ENDIAN i am take h ni d > an to c I'l cram the letter down ‘ie Sabre. Tila face w “Remember,” said Mr Hawks, much ike some sort of furious Iit- throat.” in an odd, thick v “that woman was little Webt asa] tle wild ent that the Lig Indian He was arrived! He was here | sabre, have you bh child of 11 or 12, and the Indian| was scared almost to death and ands ha ) Sabre anid Heard y wer © the ¢ ly “ies nities My Harold. My boy. |] Was a brawny savage, ble enough | ran off as if an army were after go up the stairs, He|My boy, H Oh, Sabre, Babre, to have broken her in two with | him. no one, He came to| my boy, my boy, my Harold!" |] his two hands. | “And the wee little woman went door and put his hand| He began to w his shoulders t stig walked straignt up to| on about her work latch. Immediately, and} heaving. y. br r+ night Mr. Comfort jourly, wo that fora moment he| Sabre gave @ sound that was just/] him and sald her say, brave asa) “Toward nig roed to pause, the pulse broke|a whimper. Ob, irony of fate! Ob,|]} lion, You sea, when sh heard| camm home, and when he heard out anew In his head. Knock, knock, | cynicism incredible in its malignancy! that ‘ting’ she looked ur toward! the story he took his little wife Knowl. | Knock, knock, knock. Curse /Gh, cumulative touch! To deliver |} 1.4 shelf where she haf fut her| tn his arms and told her she must, the thing! Never mind, In! Int) him this his enemy to atrike, and to | by At him! At him present him for the knife thus al six prectous spoons, ant tt looked | she must be more carefi He went tn | ready stricken! to her as if one were gone. “Why, that Indian might have mt No sound in all the range of sounds killed you,’ he said. ‘Car't you see “ he «ook down the On his right, as he entered, @ fire| whereby man can express emotion Meese “ sh i ba make| What @ dangerous thing you did? was burning in the grate and {t|was possible to express this emotion|— glass and counted, just to make) ‘ anda Jetruck him, with the inconsequent | that now surcharged him. This was|[} gure, and sure enough, onty five} Don't you realize how careul you) You Go STRAIQGNT | insistenc | have to be when there ts no one This was | sues, hor of trifies in enormous #-|no pain of man’s devising. OP TMS STREeT ! spoons were there. | chilly for the time of year|@ spectal and a private agony of the| . | to.take éare.cf you’ | the day had been and how folly cold| gods reserved for victims approved | “Then beaks uhe:went to the tall) oe, a good gia? che | his own house. On the left, at the|for very nice and exquisite expert savage, and without a warning or | laughed. ‘I'll take care of myself. tat) ment, Hoe felt himself squeezed right a threat, she jerked his long! j hip desk. He was ¢ t his|down beneath a pressure squeezing | j I'm not afraid.’ jdesk. His head was buried in his|to his vitals; and there was squeezed blanket apart and there, just aa] ” ws) ace Comfort was quite hands. At his elbows, vivid upon|out of him just a whimper. |] she had expected, was the missing | wor@Mll: Ha was eo afraid the In the black expanse of the table, lay| He walked across to the fireplace; |{ gpoon. : dian would come back and hurt his wife while he was gone to the postoffice. So he found him, and gave him pay, and then he whipped him, #0 that he would not want to dull red {and on the high mantleshelf laid his} | Sabre shut the door and leaned his arma and bowed his forehead to the} | stick against the wall by the fire. He| marble. |took the letter from hin pocket and | walked across and stood over Twyn- ja torn envelope, “*You dirty, thieving Indiant she ncolded, ‘taking my spoon | while Iam getting your breakfast | ready for you! Aren't you ashamed of yourself! Now you can just) (Continued Tomorrow) Sore i “pea his & ~~~. By a Bride “And she looked so fierce and 80| small,” to go. eee |ived to honor and obey Jack, just be- sion of extrem disgust. "Say, Pex-|Married or single, ne lenuse my old friend wax @ man, 1 gins! Let's get this over, Do you | of It." Dozens—hundreds of moni had | was obstinately refusing to share |suppore that old Jack never, never) “I'm not golng to object I with him my thick and julcy steak!/any more is going to take a girl to | torted vt get out | has his privileges, and a married) po as my mother would have done woman has none! Bunk! Now, Peg-|_and lose Bart forever? gins, use a little of your old sense!! Follow my own radical notions Let's broil that steak and risk Jack? re (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Ptar) prepared for Bart Elliot; breakfasts! 1+ way preposterous. And Bart|lunch without you or seme third] “And when his office has its| Was ever a bride so distressed? In spite of our agreement — before early hikes; late imncheons | paid go. party along?” [dances and picnics he'll have to at Warn ever a steak so neatly bal-/ realized it might amount to that after high school classes; (ndigestible! “Bo—as long as you live—you're| “I—I've never thouglit sbout it tend without you, None but the em-| anced between old and new customs (To Be Contin