The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 15, 1922, Page 11

MONDAY, MAY 15, 1922. THE SEATTLE STAR = =| OUR BOARDING HOUSE BY AHERN | THE OLD HOME TOWN BY STANI : — ; 7 , BY STANUEY The Color of Her Soul” || , oe, An Absorbing Story of Love and Adventure in the } ne re Gaiety Z bo 6. 78 dete E Wael chee | E ‘ South Seas 7 = BY S. B. H. HURST (S QUITE TRADITIONAL © |=2 ee TREES HAVE A [1 OF ARMS! IS | | of Seattle | HWE NAME FIRST CAME 7 REALLY, MR SHADY PAST = A PATCHED | | He's TH'SAP oF | ELBOW = TH’ 1 INTO PROMINENCE wourf FAMILY TREE WHEN Pd gust Fawnicy, || HS FAMILY TREE 4] ONLY ROYALTY CHARLES THE FIRST WE HAVE A LOT AND HER HIS ANCESTOR BESTOWED THE “TITLE IN COMMON © ANCESTRAL HOME || KNEW WERE , OF “EARL” ON 1 AM A DIRECT 16 COVERED WHFS IN A DECK SIR EGPRERT DINWOODY, | pe GCENDANT OF OF ROXBORO"! / ("LORD AVONDELL© | OUR ANCESTRAL J HOME STILL STANDS AND |S COVERED WITH WY! , ft v DINWOODY'! AUTHOR OF “COOMER ALI" (Continued From Saturday) | Se@snst the rock to its length, and Bo began a great business of get | the end dropped into the still water ready for what the old head man | hundreds of startled fish flashed In ied in bis prayers that night "the | the heavy green. | e of death.” With that amus | Across the calm face of the Pa. jack of reverence which certain | cific a Mock of fying-fieh broke for ds call “piety,” he had “talked” | caver, pursued by hungry bonita matter over with his God, and | seeking breakfast d an excited | iy culled a glow of “righteous. | gull followed, looking for scraps. For from the thought of his send./@ moment It grew darker, and a f the two lovers to almost certain | chilly breath of alr hurried across fh. it may be well to interpolate | the ocean with what seemed uncom: | the people of Piteairn, af the| monly like the fussy importance of d of Christian's administration, | a little man angouncing the coming sted the curious anomaly of | of a great one, Jepmeking perfect Kngtish white think wonderfully contrived sail of AA, from the narrow standpoint of | the raft shook irritably, then, as the ihe savage Just converted to Calvin: | air passed, Mapped with annoyed dis | | gust against the crooked mast; while | the corners of the rocks and cliff | took on the shape of distorted hu man faces, aping Interest in every: thing, So it all aeemed to the two lovers, sitting side by side, waiting | for the wind; both of them a litte B being picked up by @ ship, where | overwrought by the strain they had were few and far between, | tried to ignore, tn Christian's prayers | Suddenly the dark waa gone, as if Je obstruction to what he| wiped away with a sponge by a great upon as the wrath of God,/hand. The real wind of the morning | vented by himself ag God's | filled the sail, which tugged healthily, | nt. rattling and testing the gear. Shov- | But the girl and the poet ghowed | el! headed the raft out from the land, consciousness of danger. They |@0d their eventful voyage had com. jeed «their hurried preparations | menced. nh laughter and kisses, denying | Your watch below, sweetheart,” | ras they denied fatigue and want|he announced, as he settled the sleep. The raft was still bumping | Course. “Wrap up in one of those | tly against the rock where Mary | blanket 4 I'll call you for break: | b be t luck, coupled with excellent pe by sun and estare—he had jpase—had enabled Shovell to his crude craft to Pitcairn; but luck wae hardly likely to be hts ba! Indeed, only the possibility > d made it fast. and Shovell lashed | | ra in r hours, After that, I'll/ . Tope around ft until it looked|#l*ep, and we'll keep wateh and/| ° than ever Uke a package of | Watch.” CLIMB THEIR Dilities. Mary made no protest. She w FAMILY Th “ TWo BILL POSTERS ARRIVED 8 FE Bur the danger to the girt irked |siready nodding, and after the usual | IL EES = IN TOWN TODAY — re > eo man. Delightful as was her|Tites she curled up among the bian 4 a nee, he would have been hap-| kets and went to sleep at once, while | —————~ = sali cities ° if he could have persuaded pen eve filled a thoughtful pipe. } lord dOes not wish to look the part stay behind: but he realized that} “Seven hundred years,” he mused. |“5y longer—there are too many in-| a discussion would be aa bar-| “For seven hundred years the Shov. | Gulsitive mixsionaries loafing around 2 ay ap pone “He . Of result as it would be offensive | ells had an honorable name: and I,|the South Seas, Do you weet” YOU SAY YOU BOUGHT ha er You'D THINK THIS WAS-A La Mary. the last of them, threw it away as| “Yes, my Tuan—it is better eo. SOME TICKETS FOR REMEMBER SECONDHAND SHOP BY THE. ONE OF THESE | Cold roast goat, bread and great)!f it had no value—because I loved | Now I will got breakfast.” THE THEATER FOR MAT ROW BUNCH OF CLOTHES THAT ARE BAGS HAS A ; ~ gion of that dainty indigenous |# Woman who didn't love me = Y “Great Beott.” he thought, “she's “TONIGHT P WHAT WHAT RO’ ALWAYS HANGING Here! NO, I'M ONLY . Pitcairn, bananas, dried like figs,| they'll close the book, the title wiil/the most wonderful woman ever| Row DID You THEY ARE IN- SUITCASE SKINNED | HALF WAY DOWN t lashed on a raised platform as | become extinct, with the last wearer | borm—not a word of question, when GET? 1 HAVE THEM IN To DEATH i amidships as the queer shape of /Of it branded as a thief—uniess|@ty other woman would be crasy to a MY BAG HANGING Bo a raft permitted. It might have| George tells the truth, which he| know all about what the parson got 1 RE é Detter to have made another | won't. jin hie letter, Here's one married N THE 4 im spite of the shortness of time,| “And I hope for Jessie's sake he | man who ts going to live in peace a ‘Pe w certain affection for the old| Won't. Otherwise, all I did goes for| Bh. ho, I'm sleepy.” i eng¢ coupled with its hitherto lucky | ®othing. Yet I haven't lost, They‘ll} But Mary's genius served to keep a and s desire to get away ag| Cll it “miscegenation,’ and if I am | him awake, rapidly prey @ break as possible, vetoed that idea. | not arrested I'll be called a beach. |fast under difficnities 7 the heavy wooden chocks they |comber. Arrested—the devil. What | able to the avers led around thelr water jars were| Would I do then? To tell the truth / bent her Venus more hindrance to disintegration | Would kill Je and to let them | steering m all the lashings of rope—a fact | send me to prison would just about | Watching ber, his many attempts at ed by both the basteful/ kill Mary. I must not let them get | describing her poetical ended |me. But likely enough there'll be) !8 an admission of de Then came the making of a new / to chance-—-it's a long way to Ta | Like all the i from the ancestral bed-linen of | biti... P you terrier, pull.” jthings, you can ancient family of McCoy, and| The wind was rising, and the raft | art. To word-paint @ stretching of it along a yard|careened before it like a dissipated | i sunset is silly; all you can from the limb of an orange |crab, leaving a wake which must/*ay about @ diamond te th t ¢ and before daylight their ship|have given every observant fish «| shines; if you tried to tell a man ready for sea. But never did/ headache, But she wae flopping ho had never seen a rose what it ts A and woman embark with jess| slong at a good four knots an hour, | like, and afterward showed him « of reaching port, yet never | and holding together. Pitcairn was|rose and a cabbage, he wouldn't man and woman embark with| clear, before Ite lazy Inhabitants had|kaow which was the rose and which Of delight and laughter. Jlert their beds. The god of the|the cabbage—assuming, of course, [They were together--that was| chances had evidently been pleased that he had never seen cabbages. | ithe It was likely that the|with the burnt offering. But if And you are like that—wonderful sea would send each | Shovel! had only been a better sailor, | beyond telling, my lady. We will be! of the raft upon a voyage sep-| be could have trimmed the raft into| married in Tahiti minister and te and distinct from that of its/ sailing at least a knot faster. | the witnesses shall know you as ow planks, a fact Mary potnted And then question he had| Lady Shovell. After that we will while commenting gleefully upon | crowded out of consciousness seethed| have to disappear, And you «@ distinctive weirdness of every| out of his underconacioustiess like Quite content to go with me, believ tied by Shovell with much wind-/a bubble rising suddenly to the eur-|ing that I am not « criminal, just of rope. And there were other | face of & deep pool. because I aay I am not which they whimsically dis| “How in —— did the person get) “Cloudiesiey,.” she aravely, l@vered afresh, and enjoyed like two|my mame? There seems to be only ve that doeg not trust is not love, @idren in the wonderful toyshop of | one way—by the missionary echoon.jand the woman that listens to, or dream. Then, before casting off,|er. It hits Pitcairn about once every | believes, tales about her lover ts not Mary's delight, Shovell decided | ten months. But how did the schoon- | Worth loving.” Stat it was necessary they should er get it? Must have been some in He nodded. Ppropitiate a deity of bis own inven-|quiry. But, surely, 1 don’t look much| “But the average woman ts more tion whom he called “the bibulous/ like what the society columns called | concerned about what people say | god of the chances.” He therefore | ‘one of the best-dressed men in Lon.|about the man she is thinking of Made a small fire on the rock, upon|don.’ The preacher must have| marrying than sho js about what she hich with intense gravity he laid | guessed. thinks about him, Which is about nana, shouting to the wonderin, the eyegiags. That's | th is: it. Scotland Yard sent my photo “To thes, O god of the chances, we around—all over the world, I expect, | Feacrifice this poor unfortunate ban-| because George stole an awful pile| “for we are going t@ enjoy this won-| ana. Like the important part of all|of money—and the'preacher guessed |dertul voyage.” Mecrifices, the banana has nothing | me because of the glass. It's got to| But the voyage was not destined ly endugh, she hurried to nestle in| ft say in the matter. And we start| go. But I'll feel awfully lonely with. |to be either wonderful or prolonged. | gnovell’s arms for what looked very | #\pon our voyage dependent upon thy | out it.” The breeze that had carried them! much like the last time. @unken attention. Lift thine eyes) He pulled the betraying ornament |away from Pitcairn island was not| jor there was nothing they could] Pabove the rim of thy cup, thow Boeo-|out of ite place, looked at {t with|any ordinary morning wind, for it! ao 4 moro skiliful sailor might have | fan deity, and be with us—give us| kindly consideration for a moment, | did not die before nine o k, but | ma shift to make a sesanchor | ‘j& chance, © god of drunken humors, | and then pitched it Into the sea 4 with them, gradua’ reas | with the broken spars and one of the *{8nd—oh, bother, that’s all I can make | flashed in the sun, and disappes after the island faded from | piankets, but even that would only | up. Give me a kiss, sweetheart,” he! “Like the life of a human,” he | sight @ bank of ragged clouds|have been a eort of pastime. For leoncinded, boylike, kicking the fire | murmured, “just a flaah, called con-| they had noticed Just before sunrise | wnat use to keep the raft head to ) i: BY BLOSSER FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS That’s the Way He Sees It [ vesuer sonar waar err lou rcarr val woo OT ama Nos SUESS A BISTHDAY PQESENT ? WHAT (TS UNTIL YOU 4 AGA\N ~ IT BEGINS GUESS « ITS SOMETHING ) WITH AN 'M’, ae You most awful sentence J ever man od.” he finished laughing. Now go to alecp,” she ordered, * THE MONEY, EVSRSETT € Tt WOULDN'y 1 ttl WHY Don't You WANT To CEND ME 2, Palie BLAME YoU Form REFUSING A TOTAL ar. By Ma ‘Pinto the sea and jumping aboard the | actousness, and then Inte the depths. | had held a pror er intent, | sea when it was rapidly breaking up |I wonder tf Mary will recognize me/and, while Shovel . & half gale|wnen the waves were tmeking * And while Mary cast off the paint-| without it?” | Fone to stagger the raft clean sweeps over it, and each plank | Her. he began to push the raft into| A wave broke amidships as if bent} But Mary held on without waking |was struggling to get free of its! ithe breaking dawn on solving that Intricate problem,|him, and while she steered she! neighborat Page 676 As yet there was not a breath of | aplashing the girl into s charmingly | reached the summit of her happl-| ‘Their food and water jars had| THE PLAY “I think,” Mra, Bartlett con-| fore the curtain went up, and I wind. The night breeze had died.| lazy opening of her blue eyes. For|ness. At her feet, wrapped in her) gone, and, while the sea wag not . tinued, “I must have been not| was a little worrked apout that, land the day breeze seemed to wait.|a moment she lay curled up among | blankets, lay the one man in all the 4, their state was a miserable A patch of ragged clouds which|the blankets like a aleepy kitten,| world. And he was here, Hers te | ye. The chafing of the planks had hoked, as Shovell said, as if they| blinking prettily at Shovell’s strug:|be loved, to be slaved for—if he} cut the binding rope, and instead of more than eight or ning years old | but finally decided to vee what we : a Foot ove ae ee, Tort the| gles with his unwieldy bi lh oe * my ad be obeyed, lng affording protection the raft was|| when I wrote that play had istern horizon in a ur way ned acti . | ed nd every effort of steer rapidly becoming a source of danger e 2 ” > « While above their gloominess a pale| Itho the rough oar tore at her Iike| Very soon It pa ry aot ain Bee ei I remémbor the writing and] 0 before the curtain we tratl Sow heralded the coming sun. | joticed it at once, «ht @ frightened wild thing, thrilled her,/to swim among the wave-tossed spelling bothered ma more than|ed out and in our shrill little | In the haif-light, the island seemed | “But why—all the pictures of lords | because her toll allowed the man to | planks would be exceedingly danger. the ‘plot.’ voices piped up on the hymn we ji exhale, like something asleep, the| wear it?” Mary was actually dig-| rest ous. To jump overboard was the! ” nt tert | loved beat in Sunday school, “Out itor of fruit, flowers and apices, and | tressed. But the wind panned beyond | safest thing 10 do, but they were + Pon © vine & ; aoghe tig ok at B jess We 148 the pole in Bhovell’s hands pushed “Yes, my dear, but this particular| Mary's control. To keep the raft | naturally loath to do It. |] heroine, a hero and a chili in the| On An Ocean Al nundless: dead before the wind, unless she was| “Shall we try to get one plank |f Blot. And I finished tt and took | Ride,’ Then the curtain was drawn quite mure it shifted, had been Shov-|jooK@ from the others, and swim || tt to Mrs. Wallace and mother to ADVEMVURES [EW fests cite ie fy tne a seen ie wae ie See | raft steered much asa drunken man | how! of the wind i fe) T Ls | T wi NS | walks, while the hastily constructed! Mary shook her head | “They smiled over ti, 0° course, | ed like 4 lady, holding a big rag Clive Barton |rigwing strained fearsomely. Here] “No. Better awim without It. The|| but mother said I migh. ‘yroduce’ | doll in her arms, while she rocked 4 ~ and there small holes appeared i) plank will bring the eharks.” it in our new barn Jand sang, ‘Rock a-byv-baby-on-e | | the sail, unttl It looked ike @ mediey | ~ ghovell rather doubted that, and/ of independent fiutterings kept to-| wan also rather skeptical about the | gether by 4 miracle, and suddenly | yoracity of deep-water sharks, but if ou can have my big shaw: | tree-top.’ for a curtain,’ she salt, And Mre. hen in rushed the villain and A NEW ADVENTURE he Felts Quere weetes otter of / Ts. be. ne eee a fine JoK® | the wind shifted fully etght points, |the girl felt that way about it they |f Wallace sald, ‘And ming, too.’ kidnapped the child and jeft the eduction for the Twins to give to ale i Mal pace Gi peace yom: | coming down upon the unfortunate| would have to swim away from the “Go we worked and we worked, | mother weeping. m | tu c c c vith ost hurric ore, | . ft. Peerabout when they pot to the | 110 cther tairies who were gathered | rey Seating tor with te team of Gritting planke Because it ie 4/1 built our stag, hung the two| “After that we. sang snother hoon. When it was finished, 8h@| around to see the Twins off on thelr! crows sea. hoteatte to ane pine dt oe ig ad, shawls for @ drop curtein, prac- | hymn that we all knew and the tied over ‘parts’ and arnounced | show was over “Since that time Wve written a pening. eS eee nh put | Ereat deal; histories and sketches ‘Our audience was small but/ ang an opera based on the true prompt and when Mr John Chap: | story of @ beautiful Indian maiden man came, he aid, ‘T aways pay | Who Ilved not far away from us when I go to a show,’ and he gave | tere at Stilacoom : : . “She may have had an Indian || us a ‘short bit,’ that was what | rame, Ido not remember, but we |] we called a dime tn the early days, | called her Julia and she was rare- |! so that was what we ‘took In at) ly beautiful, with long, ehining [| ended it to Nick who put it away |new adventure. “That's a fine joke—| at the same moment, what was\all, wns the wes of swimming? There | farefully in his pocket. to ask @ person with a bat lke an | ieft of the sail went away to looward| was no place to head for. No, it | “Do you want company?’ asked |open umbrella, if he con get down |iixe @ tattered pocket handkerchief, | was just a case of swim, awim until ¢ Magical Mushroom. “I'd sort of| from the moon. Yes, my dear, I can | and the mast and yard fell in @ meas |one of them became exhausted, and | ¢ to go along for I haven't seen | sail down as easily aso parachute-|of raffle. There wan no need to|then... Well, they rhotld dle to-| ¥ old friend Peerabout for years ‘n’ | jumper can Jump out of # balloon at) waken Shovell—a piece of flying| gether, anyhow. Tho gods had de 66 the circus. Don't worry. I'll be aafe/rope had done It very effectively, | nied them life, but they had no pow: yes, do come,” ericd Nancy. | enough.” | flicking him Ike whip—and altho | love to have you. Can you! Nick atarted to be offended when | Mary hauled in the steering-oar cool er over death, (Continued Tomorrow) isl’ yourself so far?” the Mushroom laughed, “I don't know whether my magie|thought popped into hi but another ee L Just o wil! hold out for that distance or|then and crowded out tle feeling. | the door’ black hair and great wistful eyes * answered the Mushroom, “but| He looked up at the sky, squinting | YEAR | “Mra. Wallace had told me| as tender and soft as a ceer's.” t's matter with each of you! hin eyes in every direction. “There | }, about the music, which came be (To Be Continued) of my arms (the Mush-/ian't any moon now,’ he declared, | &---—- — By a Bride ——--~----~-—_ 9 } id rma you know, my dears, We'h have to wait until tonight to CHAPTER MY NEXT EXTRAVAGANCE for years?” A hug ended this qu tomorrow. We do need more dishes, proud of my credit, very man 8 too) and when vee b your: | start.”* 1AT'S A ADY HA ‘ doamsae? tees jawfully. I've found soma wonderful |ought to be, So I aever abuse my ves up to the moon, I'll 80 t00.”| mig watry Queen hook her head Phie bride and groom have agresd| | wid “Dollars?” irl Pald fort And oh, Jack! | Vedswood. If we're go'ng to givo|credit. See, dear? I'd hate to have But can you get down?” adked on, no you won't, Nick,” she paid. | S2,marntain.qnetr indiyidual iborty nacHow oan & man queen what « gir Pee ive conare. tor ‘beggar|? dem adore thant” veto they nee! @ few ttle “dinners ove present | any bill run. And Pessina, you'll : “There's always a moon, only you|ing his bank account ying $683) 70°," «show me, Pessin . You don't mean tt!" a lot prettier than they secmed in| be eauipment is pretty seant Admit, this furniture bill will have Money-back guarantes with every Can't see it, any more than you can | Worth of furniture yesterday, Now vee ee : " “But these are not ordinary things. | the shop.” “Now, ig it? I thought we had|to run, unless I dig into my save it. Laff, the Tallor, 1106 3rd.—Adv. | ®€* ® trolley car after it turns the | here?" I bought them at Bernick’s.” “They look good to m, too! Syn.| Wedding presents to last a century, | ines!” ; lcorner. It's night now on the other| “Did you do any more shopping to-| From my blouse I pulled a string) “Are you saying that the bent /thetio—and I can’t detect the dif.]A man doesn't know much about] “But I expected we'd pay it little Beat Spring Tonto | side of the world and that’s where|day, Peggins?” jof pearls; of course I mean pearl | jeweler in town sells mock paaris?” | ference!” he repeated. Tien, with aj Such things. But, Pegwins, dear If/by little! Of course, if you @ay #0, IDEAL BLOOD the moon is, Mr. Peerabout never} I sat up on Jack's knee and pre. | beads. “He has to. They're av fashion-| kiss, “I'm giad you bought them’ | You can possibly get aloug I wish| I'l let the dishes go for a while | rota a rest on that account, He's|pared to confess, Perhaps I had| “Beadst You've wanted thoselable! And just look at mine! As| “I adore them! And T hat a won.|¥OU wouldn't shop any more this/Altho Bonny Tearle, and some other MIXTURE ke Mr. Sprinkle-Blow, the weather-| been reckless, considering what the |things for years? Well, I'm glad|lovely as the gem tn my ring!’ |derful time shopping to“ay—thanks | month!” girls, who have everything, are coms Bicod cleanser and systern renova-|man. Somebody to please ALL the |davenport cost thef're yours at iast, my dear!! Carefully we compared the genu-| to my hubby!" “Ob-heh! Why not—now T can get |!ng to lunch with me thts week—and Hor. $1.00 and $2.00 bottles at drug | time.” “| did! Something all for myself | Again may T inquire—fhow much?" |ine and the false pearls. “Good enourh time to Jast a/ things charged?’ it would be nice to nave thut darling ores, or p. p. by Joyner Drug Co., | (To Be Continued) that I've wanted all my life!’ | Dwenty-tiver “Can't see the least difference! |month, Peggy?’ | “Because 1 like to pay alt bills be. | Wedgwood!" Zach month, I'm (Zo Be Continuxd Whane,—Adverlisement, (Copyright, 1922, by Beatle Star) “Whar “Tweutytive centa? Why walt—IJack admitted, “Bynthetio~and as “Why-l was golog cuwn town fore the 10th,