The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 12, 1922, Page 13

FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1922 “The Color An Absorbing Story of L outt B. S BY Ss. (Starts on Page 1) ine, and she said she would. It may prem ® rotten thing to have done, but out. My God, what will Jonsie do? The man on the raft always shiv @red at the memory of that agony Jessie, the girl he worshiped, lest to him, and promised to another man, and that man a thief was only one thing for it must never know, Any decent man would do anything to save from pain the woman he loved. Both he and George were involved, and if he were to disappear the crime would be charged to him. And then Jeasie would never know she lowed a thief she would be bappy with the man | she loved. So he had showed George that the | Se#an to dank would not know which partner | had substituted the forged certifi. cates, in spite of his making the loan; |DUt first settling the monoc he \¥ or i course George had protested, but the | Propelled the cumbersome craft to and then he had told him what met to do—for Jessie's sake. man on the raft had remained firm. He had to hurry, too. He couldn't | say goodby to Jessie. He had told George never to Tet hi know the truth, which was rather foolish, be- cause of course George never would Then he had gone—a fugitive from ; made the raft fast with the few justice to save the woman he loved from suffering. And for five years he had lived behind these awful whis- kors, in the rage of a beachcomber— for Jessie's aake, Bome day, perhaps, when he was very old, he might go back to England and see Jessie. But he would never be able to speak to her. . Well, after all, she didn’t love him, and he was soniething of a fool to keep on loving her the way he did ® bit of a eneak, too, because she was long since married to anot man. But what was the infernal raft going to do? Why didn't the gods do something—send along a current. for example? He laughed at the con eit. An unusual man, poet in many lan guages, with adoring women desiring him all about the islands, with dusky Monarchs begging him to accept their eternal hospitality, he, never. theless, wandered ali about, a true minstrel, with a single eyegiass his only harp and relic of respectability Better known than many men who had spent their lives the known by many names but never by his own. But there Is a motive, however obscure tt may be; and although the man om the raft was barely aware of it, something more concrete, and very much more charming, than any questioning of the gods had really sent him on that extraordi- nary voyage from Tahit! to Pit cairn. All of which had no doubt greatly amused the gods—else why had they smiled upon him #o kind- ly, instead of letting him down? And so that he might amuse them further, they had more cinse- ly tangled the motive of his voyag- ing with his destiny—and this mo- tive was a woman—what simple folk the gods are, after all, when you get to know them!—a glorious ly made, Polynesian girl, with just enough of other blood in her to make her wonderful, who, with tn.| easing agitation, was watching the raft and ite beloved occupant For more than three years she had loved him, and while he had never actually said so in so many words, she knew that he was any- thing but indifferent to her love. Being so intimately acquainted with the sceneshifters of life, we know that {f was not mere chance that had sent her along the trail to Pit- cairn'’s southeast corner, nor yet was it accident that had caused her bright eyes to rest upon the strange craft and discover who was on it At last, It seemed, he had come o of Seattle AUTHOR OF “COOMER AL I never expected this to come | Jeasio Well, there |™ueh thought would disclose to her. | Tt munt be saved | “But why don't you swim and/ push it to the shore? “By Jove-—never thought of that behind every desperate chance | OUR BOARDING HOU of Her Soul” ve and Adventure in the h Seas H. HURST 7 Wey You Wise ™ J SKULLS = BRING YoURY 7 EVES OUT AN’ SPREAD ‘RA ON THIS GARDEN OF MINE NoW« THERES |. A CREW OF ONIONS seen, he was somewhat ignorant ! because Hike All the isianders ane| | AN You E@@S SAID was extremely religious, but she) | I COULDN'T RAISE } Was impressed by the raft It did not look beautiful or even useful, but who his references to DUST WITH A FAN IN THIS GARDEN ~ & was she to ques ‘MON O |tion bis opinion? Beyond doubt,| cm AS that weird collection of planks hel AN’ SEE! & significance which only time and| ~ what a brain you've got, Mary. 1/ j Was just thinking that I'd have to Gesert the bally thing, after all the trouble I've had getting it here.” | She laughed with delight, slipped | j overboard and, swimming strongly push the raft slowly] shoreward; and the man, without removing his fragments of clothing | firm} in its place, followed her 80 for about half an hour they |wether, until it ground against the rocks, But the last effort had #0 | weakened the poet that he | [not climb the cliffs without the| | girl's assistance, so he watted until he slipped into her «mock, and t | feet of rope remaining, Then she helped him up the cliff and made him comfortable, pulled a few or anges from the heavily laden trees, | and fed him—her joyous presence vying with the scents and the sun: jfaine to pour strength into him. But man needs stouter food than oranges even though they be daint-| ly fed him by loving fingers; and) usTER He nie |he shortly announced think #0 examined Whereupon they mn to walk) bruised knuck! carefully along the trail hand in hand, toward| you really got hydrophobiat* the anything but palatial shack the) Mary, bubbling with delight, lqirl had inherited—a truly ances-lecetatically to the | tral home, the first posts of which| shouted to had been sunk by the tarry fingers! old woman |of the original McCoy, one time| mutineer of the ill-fated Bounty | Par below them the sea sparkled | the face of him.” |like a sun-clad army, and the post's)". “°° ar “Did he try to kiss you? mind harked back to the founding} “YOU. You the = ‘missionary how ao loyal (Stftiwled to his feet, hie long lie viaioned the illiterate sailors cf|Dlck hair frisking like the tail of |the old British man-of-war, guard edly debating night after night with | CA! collar. crude mantier of words upon the| “That will do,” | fate of the officers who had not}, "Ob. Yes, you've got the best [treated them according to their|'* ww, but my turn will come Mking and who would not allow|P@tbaps sooner than you think.” jthem to desert the ship to settie| Pre & pitiable object, talked down upon some jewel-like island|/X® One on the verge of tears. in polygamous bitss., He beghn to walk away, For of such was the Bounty| ‘turned suddenly. mutiny. What a heaven Polynesia| “What's your name? he asked must have seemed to those {ll-fared replied the poet, “is a seamen, half of them pressed and| er, but one which I pre the other half with excellent rea-| ff t@ keep to myself,” which wa sons for not wanting to return to} Maracteristic but — undiplomatia | England! Small wonder they took|*8use & beach-comber should [the matter into thetr own hands,| "7878 have an alias, not eo much lbut what a sorry mess they made|'" DUrposes of identification as to of it. And—hero curb curiosity warned the poet then was Mary Mo | ©" : Coy, bronze of skin and Irish of} “I thought e0, ‘the missionary leye and hair, smiling love at him, | "Poke the See aaee-te How the ceaseless mill of. infinity) €'¥* Your name, eh? Well, well Sate ‘qo Cad Ctanat we'll see.” And he abruptly left | A cry startled them, and hur | riedty turning corner they eame| {final ts it wer Mary. ERB | Upon the snake of their Eden. The|, On, nothing Det ae island miasionary—one of those un-|°Ut for the moment he was troubled, just as a calm sea Ty sanctified things who | visited Piteairn at that }terfere with the beliefs of the most} | Christian community imaginable, | but who fled the place when it was| stricken by an epidernio—was abus ing an old Kanaka women about jsome lack of duty concerning the | supply of vegetables. periodically | ruffied for ® moment by a stray air immediately to become calm ain. He regarded the girt quiz zically through his abominable eye jane. “Let's go and eat.” So they continued thelr walk | forgetting the mi mary and all his works—for, indeed, that inter | tude had only lasted a few minutes, He was « tall man, and the poor loi erone groveling at his feet, and vos Agta - oa few minutes to cringing from the stick in his| Mtn an lovet—passing the | hand, looked like « tiny, withered|°DUreh. where the old Hounty's bell 4 | Mill swings and calls to service and lor her. She would wait among| monkey uttering unintelligible crie ae pens. tonnes and raptareely | for a — nd turning into that collec surprise him when he landed. The! “That beast, Always hitting some) > ol —— « tig where the lovely summer morning became! body. Some day he will be killed. bog i. ope. Bve, oo reaching more lovely. But why didn't he) Beats his wife, too. But I slapped! oe tine, = = 7 1 he bits swim ashore? Why did he lie on the| his face when he tried to kins me,"| 0) rng Of mulch she was #0 raft, and do nothing? Was he sick?| snapped Mary, the Irish in her) P* Tos )y Brot shown the In a spasm of apprehension, she| spoiling for a fight Rela 2. Pearle =i tlgersy on ran down to the shore, slipped off| The poet detested rows, and gen daw then <itheus a poh ssigey? Soy her single white garment, laid aside| erally avoided fighting because it| To. othe throat and dimnens of her wreath of flowers, poised for @| disturbed the serenity of his laziness) 0" 1 rok’ me citations of Inoment in the purity of a nudity/and thr of ht very pure, so very beautiful ‘aad that does not know shame, and|rmonocle, but a cane « winag Mas 4 dived like @ merwoman into the|manding action. Besides, the fel-\"" P" : warm water. A few strokes, and| low had tried to kiss Mary sn Fong gg ren pores. Oe she climbed aboard the raft. Squeez-| But it was a very short affair. | ition took sindie cma Whois ‘ued ing the wet out of the marvel of|The preacher tried to defend him-|i.4 eaten sha began, na sho ulwave her hair, she tied ft into a knot,, self with his stick, but the post wam| Gia to ae him questions about and knelt by the poet's side, |rather a good boxer. Hobbliing| piciang—that wonderful country What is it—ob, what is the mat-jaway, the olf woman turned to en-| pee” tne same Queen Victoria ruled ter?” for it seemed to ber that the| Joy the discomfiture of her tor-|" 1)? | 0s BAUM Wien ne Piteaien man she adored needed the Julce| mentor, and while that dixcomfiture| (oo) Tne" mt? teen ae ulmoat of oranges and other things, and|was complete, it lasted hardly 1on®| \taiq to use—-in @ place called needed them badly jenough to satisfy. The missionary.| 7 00. He explained the situation as well| apitting blood and teeth, looked up| '“CON™ oo. steangers had net foot as he could—and the. ane remark- the poet, snarling iy sehiee' cn Pieuai wa ak ae able thing about the Pitcairn people| “All right, you tramp. I'l met ee” oe tig ignorant rallor is their excalient knowledge of the English language. She was some- what shocked by his references to the gods—about whom, as we have ageous, the real king of ts and the Diddyevvers, y to Nancy and Nick spoke kind ADVEnTuR! OF THE TY THE THREE WISHES nm, and you'll * sorry for this class, who answered the many ques ly you'll be sor | ton ss a : r uitured voice contrasting #0 oddly , say RAG : TSG: SED SHO cultured voice sak ated derful man who said he had actual ly seen a gentleman in ES INS who rather | marked whom ately anxious to hear as he did. | pre that attended by absent-mindedly — re. English lords—about ladies were deaper dressed just eying the Victoria was of red.sweat that Piteairn tives. Renides, I must decide what to do with these two imposters, King |indig and King Verdo. They, t must be punished.” Queen an army “My dears,” waid “it fs due tol «Do we have to take one of the|ered gentlemen your bravery and wita that 1 have|thres wishes, or may we make a| But even this romantic sallor had heen released from the spell that|wish of our own?” asked Nanc | halted when asked if the queen had bound me. And thanks to you, also,| “Anything you like, my dear,”|ever Invited him to visit her, #0 my son, the prince, and lis sweet: | smiled King Courageous. that Pitcairn stil) waited for an heart ces Therma, have been| “Then,” said Nancy, brightly, |adequate description of the interior made happy, for they will be mar | “please don't punish anybody, and | of ee tani at tke ie ae jist Nick and me xo home in our| So it happened that, as Mary r “Now 1 shall give you your choice | Green Shoes. We had tu walk here|moved the ab ne old question of three wishes. Firat, if you so de-| over the Seven Mountains and Seven | @ = you may stay here and live| Valleys, but when we go back wo| fe me in the Castle of|may just make a wish, the Fairy |) OUR FIR ich is my real home.|Queen says, and whisk—we'll be| Nick « have nO sat shines ; there! eS nen ee one y pl vaplhorypint bn pegs and| ‘Well, well, well!’ sald the king, | Bis. : By wad Nancy shall have a pony that shines | kindly, ‘What kind hearts you have, | CHAPTER VIII—KIT( * allver and goes liks lightning. | You shall go to six movies & week | #n4 have a hundred lollypops a day. Hecond, if you would rather have) it so, you may ride for a year and a day in my noble ship and see the of the world | Third, if you so wish it, one of you may rule over the Diddyevvers| and the other may rule over the; Korsknotts while my son #nd I are away making war on Twelve Toes, «ot all bis wicked rela- It shall be as you wish, Goodby, lit tle ones. Jack puts on the kettle onch morn. “You have been very brave and|ing while I dress. I make the coffee made us all very happy. When we| while he bathes and shaves have conquered Twelve ‘Toes and| We slept late the mornirg follow broken his magic the prince and 1 | ing our first night o} Not until 1 shall return. Ho will marry the| heard a whistle of distress from the princess and rule over one of my|kitchen did I remember that I had kingdoms. We shall end our days) left it in an awful confusion I rushed to help my husiand. “Can't find anything, Pegginst* explained my bewildered spouse “Go and shave! You're jate, dearf’ in happiness and peace. Now good. by, again.” And he kissed them both, ‘0 Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, by Seale Star) BEGINNING TD UNWIND [il PART BUS, OL’ ELEPHANT MAKES 4 ‘A CROP SURVEY=~ while this drifting piece of human) “——— ——— eed flotsam was a poet he could yet| With his terrible whiskers and dis crave a certain stew which Mary | reputable clothing that the mission contrived most exquisitely-—a stew| sary stared at him with pecullar the matin ingredient of which was| interest, « forgetting the pain | Pitcairn goat-—and this solid fact) of his ait ton Why, do you! Have clung poet's arm and the now disappearing | I don't ‘wonder you wouldn't let hin with a horse among the dandruff on hie of the a y who ate tobacco—to he great distress of Pitcairn, who pe Oo as « sin—and ho described Victoria as a lady = dressed entirely in diamonds: ut | im: | THE ATTLE STAR BY AHERN | LISTEN ‘To “Ty! “= WINDOW BOX FARMER * SHOUTING ABOUT HIS cRoPS~ I'LL BBTT CAN TAKE A PLUGGED DIME AN'GET MORE VEGETABLI |\ FROM A STORE, AN’ ALL ) BUS WILL GET OUT OF | | THAT PATCH WILL BE A LAME BACK* A STORM COULDN'T COME a UP ON THAT F 4 SEED NEST: |’ % 7 \ {] SE HA-HA+ GET OUT! * /TWEY AIN'T SPROUTINGS “THOSE ONIONG ONLY HAVE | GROWING PAING FROM “THAT GICK SOIL*® WHY GAY, IT | AIN'T ANY SKILL ON YouR WRISTS = ONIONS WILL GRow UP UNDER A PARADE = Y'CAN'T KEEP 'EM DOWN = Soy it SSS sreserners i | DOINGS OF THE DU. SAY TOM, | CAME OVER TO INVITE ‘You OW ALITTLE FISHING TRIP WITH A COUPLE FRIENDS OF MINE - WE'VE GOT AAS Lc, preety recurred to her, and she turned] abruptly and asked the very com fortable poet | “Did you ever visit the queen at her house | Why, yes, severn! times,” he ed, without thinking what he ying. | | He was startled by the crash of several dishes—and dishes are an exceedingly valuable commodity on| Piteairn—and by Mary's entire dis regard of the loss of half her for j}tune, as she flung herself at him battle + ar 2 Page 674 * * with the request | m3 5 i me—tell mo what {t's Ike THE END OF THE W LITTLE WOMAN STORY n Is it anything like this? “The emigrants never knew | people in their train waited. feng eee ne st Teocatctatle tif Mt Hawks went on, “sus! w “Very little was said, but every: Mt diamoné neomfortable, | | would think—but, then, she's queen, | to look out for, One time the sav-| body was on the watch, and about and different |] ages attacked one way and nner the middle of the lonely afternoon, Mary — jacrecr| onl time they did somehing ‘alto-| ar across the open,-they saw plates, he parried, annoyed at \s * a \careless admission. gether different them coming; a long dark line of Tell me all about {t.” Mary was “But there were certain things! racing ponies, each mounted by a | breathlexs with Interest. that every traveler on the plains! painted warrior, a hundred or Ph a a 8 on sg binge 4 soon learned, Even tho they| more abreast, bare bodies bent could, all about the different res |dences of English royalty. And he|f Couldn't understand the white! forward, war bonnets flying, from first hand, while man's language and nis strang | hoarse: cries from time to time the med entranced. But ways, they liked certain things! coming from a hundred throats, afterward, although he trie his nat the hite man hed. : st to avold it, came tho inevi sat ithe ' + | hey halted, some of the lead “And many a trata In danger | question ers of the whites went forward to | “How was It you went to visit | A chief met them and the au rather than powder and bullets, — | , Saji | | told of the morning's trouble. od by beads an] Mankets, | was saved by beads an] Mankets, | meet them What a da “The Indians loved a trade, too, ¥ ling she was ‘0 Tea it joa oft} Want woman,’ he said, ‘Give rey ‘ 4 often trouble was warded o Well, you see, er, T was, er,!f am lure av By | Woman and we go away.’ there was some work to be done,]| by getting the red men interested rgd 8! “Mr, Comfort explained that she | You see in a trade. | Her face came very close to"his | “Well, very few nettlers startea | W®" Very little and showed the and she took hi« hands in hers, ho Wire Apt i chief a beautiful blanket which he examining them smilingly FE ete ch edie at tie eee ee Ged thawed ee tant “The work must have been mak they had in each trains a supply missense touam ibe ics: ing up poetry,” she sald pointedly of blankets and ds and touabibe | “One blanket—then two—then ra something like that," he pre and bright calico for just such | four were offered in place of the | “Then, make ma some more—|f times png little woman, and pres- never mind the plates—I'va got “But, of course, they never] emtly, quite satisfied, they rode [every bit you made mo last time] knew whether they would be | away. lyo ere here _ a ” Rea a, oat le a given a chance to talk and trade| “That's all,” Mr, Hawks finish - |] or whether they would be set upon | ed his story, “The women didn’t Sat tt eee +B3 and mas without warning. | think much of things Uke that. It “So the Comforts and the other ! was all Just usual,” |, cesssssssessssssssesessse=sdaiteiiaiciiaiielioss se a ) titicmiAonnnatictanemallll wy Bride kitchen was hot and close for I had | Jack heard and cama to mo. ‘HEN CATASTROPHE left the broiling burner turned on} I pointed to the spoiled beef and all night! sobbed the harder because 1 could | ,1 pushed Jack toward the door. “T'll| On the table, my expensive tender ire in his arms. ‘Then to myself, “Good-| loin steak had turned from a “I hope you'll fix things pink, never have ness gracious! What will he think |bard surface to something flabby,|thing more important to bss of me as @ housekeeper? Never |dull red and unappetizing. The heat /about.”| my husband — whispered have I seen @ kitchen in such a/had done it! It was unfit to eat! — | "We'll live on rice until we've made atate!’ | And I couldn't afford it in the/|up for it® In my hurry the night before, I| first place. And if I'd stayed at| Because my kitchen was in dis. had forgotten to put the food away, | home and attended to my business|order and becauso I hat eried go Cold baked potatoes aterned my |as a wife it wouldn't have happened, |long, my breakfast was late. Jack pantry shelf, Lettuce aud mayon-|And if my housekeeping was going | couldn't take time to eat what he to turn out like that 1 began to sob softly, The smell My | naise decorated the sink, {of cauliflower was over it all, 2 ‘equired, Dear old | dear boyt But he didn’t complatn, . THE OLD HOME TOWN THE UNEXPECTED RINGER ARCHIE HENDERSHOT PITCHED BROKE uP ; THE HORSESHOE PITCHING CONTEST TODAY. | CAN FEEL ONE OF THOSE BABIES PULLING ON MY LINE RIGHT NOW - I'LL KNOW TOMORROW [| GUST WHEN WE'LL START BY STANURY OLD ER NEWT > HES AREARIN NOTARY PyBLic PAPER HANGING AND PIANO TUNING HE STANDS OUT AND TALKS FISHING. DooR IN UP Sue RANA NGCON'* TOC Me, EH JONNSON, 2 CAN ALMOST. E)DStserT \t IN WouRm | fa FACS. Cat's Gp Ee BPACK HSRe To Goed MORNING, 6VGCerrT. TM FPSSLING THE BIRD StORE Heee's A MOVRNEUL OWL IN ONS Winoow AND A BUNCH OF PLAYFUL PUPPICS IN THE OTH GGT A SCOD LOOK AT Ten t re “Tey Tee BIRD STORS BSFORE We PRUE StoRE | As he kiswd me goodby, he gave state. his wrist watch a quick glance, then| 1 never had earned any money. terminated our emorace suddenly.| After my father and mother had Never had he left me so »bruptly. U/| parted, daddy continued te send me was burt. And Jack never noticed!/a small allowance menth'y, Only in later he phoned to me to come|order to make it last me a month, downtown for luncheon. T needed/daddy paid it in weekly install cheering, he averred, And he had a| ments surprise for me. | My own checking account! Jack It was, indeed, a grand surprise. | was a generous and thonantful hus Jack took me to his bank and opened | band. That night he gave me a les @ checking account in my name!/son in making out checks and In One hundred dollars to open it and} keeping stubs in the check book, fifty for me to spend any time. My| And he laughed a good deal at first checking account! A coveted! some of my questions, dignity was added to my married (To Be Continucd 4