The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 16, 1922, Page 11

“The Color of Her Soul” i An Absorbing Story of Love and Adventure in the South Seas | BY S. B. H. HURST | of Seattle AUTHOR OF “COOMER ALI” (Continued From Yesterday) ‘The man held ber close to him tn long, passionate farewell em ee ‘Their lips clung. tt was just her of life's sardonic jeste—tn @ joy and strength of their youth bad found a wonderful love Cup Of bliss bad been held up to but as they reached for it the m hand that controls had ed ft from thelr taking Shovell faced the end with a understanding of tts injuntice, wing that it was the end, while » with the simple faith of a ‘Was quite sure that, after a ter bours’ struggle in the angry | they wouk! pass together, still | into a fairer and « happier | d. Surely, if the world’s wis is true wisdom, it ts better to ignorant! Bey looked Into each other's eyes, both amiled bravely. Then, bal @ moment on the heaving they dived as far as they and began to swim slowly d to sea and away from the dan- Jxoon go. Presently you will see more things, Because you are so good | you wilt see the angels.” And ho atecled himself for what he expected to be the worst agony Jot his life—Mary dying, far from | and and delirious, But te please her he raised himself and looked. The next moment he was shouting and waving his hand frantically. “Take off your shirt and that,” she evted, “You flatter the fragment.” he said, bis sense of humor never de serting him; and with her help, and some further dismtegration of the arment, he managed to get it off, when they took turns waving It And luck was with them. In the | growing dusk such a amail object as ja swimming man i only seen by chance, but it se chanced that the officer on the bridge of the yacht saw the waving shirt, and bis bin- cculars sbowed him two people | awimming, Much bustle resulted, A boat was lewung out on the d@avite and| us planks. Then, to add tothelr| manned. Blankets and brandy were ery, the rain came down in sheets | Provided. The yacht's owner, deep , or while the rain somewhat ley.|!y concerned, spoke to the captain. 4 the sea, it was icy cold, And| “Poor things, What do you think they swam their minds were buay | they are?* Mary's occupied chiefly with the | “Weill, misa, some sort of natives, fhope of some sort of rescue, for her | I expect. That gale would have hard faith never wavered, and with the/| ly capsized a decent-sised ship, altho | m of the future when she and | i did blow @ bit stiff for a while, but well would be together, far from | @ Pative scow would go easy enough. N who would seek to harm them.) Stop her. All right, mister, lower | the amiled dreamily ax the spray | @Wway the boat* into her face, fancying xhe| The steamer hove to about a hun: Kissing the tiny fingers of the|dred yards from the swimmers, and | is who would be theirs. Shovell was busy with many epecu What remarkable chiktren they | lations, What if the steamer were | be. Not at all Jke other peo-| bound to some place Where there | Ys children! How could they be,/Was a regular police force? mm their father was such a man|Seme dirty Bhovell, and a lord, too? She, of after all, but a detafl, The| tell? Who would belleve he had tried | ing glory, the ultimate, utter.}to sail from Pitcairn to Tahiti on a i realization of joy would be srg amp And the questions he would being the mother of his babies. That | be forced to find an an: w for. He fwere bliss Indeed. would have to get on the right side But Shovell was not thinking of | of the captain. Get him to pass close i He was thinking of the un./to some uninhabited iand-—near ha fate that was his—that just;enough for Mary and himseif to a8 love came to him he was destined | swim ashore. to lose it. First Jessie, and now the| would he manage {t? ful girl by his side. The toughts, he tried resolutely to put | Understandingly out of his mind, by focusing his | boat—thank the Lord.” He was no quitter, and he would | passing looks of comprehension from igo on until he could go no farther;}one to the other-—thetr estimate | but it did seem such a waste. Be | based upon Mary's color and Shovell's darting she was, With a smile for} A side ladder swung from the htm with every wave they surmount, His love for her seemed to tr altho such a thing seemed bie. She was the acme of cre- the master effort of a master | the {interested owner waited with the | tam | captain, | He turned on his back, and held) “Where do you wish them put, hie arms; she glided into them | mise?” asked the old man. he hugged her to his breast. sank and swallowed some wa » but the embrace was worth it as they came up laughing Shov felt ashamed of bis recent | face with the help of a kindly sailor, girl had to be helped up the ede, | lis her husband—” y summer gale began to moder. late rapidly, and the vindictive waves Hirelaxed the intensity of thetr bat- terings. Suddenly Mary raised her- if out of the water and looked ind the short horizon. The rain ceased and the eea went down. i Again the girl lifted out of the water ike a seal “1 see a ship,” she erted. He smiled, shaking his head. “Never mind, sweetheart, {t will her. And then, girl, he cried— “Jeasie!" And the owner of the yacht was sobbing incoherently in his arms. And then Mary staggered against weight of her color. Finally the Twins, each holding the Magical Mushroom by a sickle and sometimes like half a started on their trip to the moon. Wes | eetincesinesniens detective going to pre-| dering the crew forward, and then! vent his marrying Mary, after all? | the would be a Indy: but that/And what sort of a tale could he | m Sent word to the different minsion aries, because you hinted to George you might go to Don't you see, I never but yout to marry had. But how on earth | darling, | Oh, you splendid boy “Pretend not to understand Eng-|love me to give up everything for! ht of Jessie leading to other | lish.” he cautioned Mary, who nodded; me the way you did! “Here comes the| found you again stand, or are you too tired?* lattention on the futility of continu-} The sympathetic sailors lifted the} “For five y have believed jing to swim. Dedraggied two out of the water, | yom were Shovel said dully, looking et Mary's back H Mary's presence « sides, death might be rather inter | whiskers. Mrs. and Mr. Beachcomber | girl esting. There might be something | blown out to sea, and capsized, while} “Is she—she—your-—wifet™™ ashe after death. So, since there was no | fishing for the daily fare. But where asked brekenty. chance of rescue, why not die at/were ali the little beach combers’ Shovel) sighed a long, tremulous lonce—why not go and see if there |The mate offered brandy, and helped | sigh | was anything? But he would give|them to the needed blankets; and be | “No, but she ts going to be.” the wonderful woman by his side no|ing a gentleman he neither stared And then the English girl, with) inkling of his thoughts, What ajnor asked questions. that marvel of self.abnegation v hi only the thorobred can a yacht's rail, but both Shovel! and the/ went to Mary and hands. and ft was all they could do to stand/ voice kept breaking tm «ympathy| | when they reached the deck, where} with her heart: | “Oh, let the girl be taken care of | must be. by the stewardess. Or, if the man/and put you to bed." } Shovell was wiping bis head and/in a deck-chair problem. ughts, and became fiercely deter-| while Mary waited, remembering his | stronger than it bad been five years mined to live, to reach some place|caution. All was as had been ex: | before when he had given up every he could have this marvel of| pected, when suddenly the girl's|thing to make her happy, wae no| woman for his own. world seemed to be falling In ruins. | greater than his love for Mary. He With the setting of the eun the| For Shovell was looking at the own-|feit that circumstance had tricked er of the yacht ae he no often looked | him into « situation beyond the pow at Mary—his eyes full of love for|er of man to endure, his voice breaking|in a problem to which there waa no like that of an overwrought school | solution. | Indeed, he was rather proud that two such perfect women loved bim Ing by hin aide. imitab! the rail, bowed under the awful)arms and kissed him ling She dimiy heard the captain or-|who can love as you love,” | pered. | that the one you love may be bappy akin from thelr thorns | do you ask?” ered and ugiy—ti at woman.” mort pityingly, It seemed. she went on. be thirty-five years old—for the Pit.) cairn women look like that at thirty five. meant it, as he kissed her OUR BOARDING HOUSE Top G zy “WIS (IS THE HAT I \ q WORE IN AFRICA, ALVIN, E 4 WHEN RIDING WW A “HOWDAH \ 2 JON ANELEPHANTS BACK I \ {Goss aN! AUGED To DIRECT THE APTURE./ UNCLE AMOS , OF WILD ANIMALS FOR ALL |} WILL Y'asKk | THE CIRCUSES = WHEN THE |/ TH’ cIRCUS \ CIRCUS COMES "® “TowN I || CAN F Go UP | WILL TAKE YOU “TO MEET NTH “TRAPEZE THE ANIMAL “TRAINERS, AND/ | AN’ HANG BY MAYBE I WILL PLACE My MY TOES 2 WEAD IN A LION'S . MOUTH, EH 2 a Est > “Sn mS ‘ * V'IMAGINE MAT EG@ \VAWN2 © HIS '\ a iy WA-HA CAN \ Nose wou \ GIVE “TH’ LION | | COULDN'T GET \Wiecouaus! THE SEATTLE STAR BY AHERN HIM “TRAPPING Y | WILD ANIMALS LI FOR CIRCUSES) WEDGING Hig [4° ONLY THING HEAD IW A LIONS HE EVER 'RAN ‘DOWN! WAS A } HILL# WHY, HE AN ANIMAL CRACKER INTO A BOWL M eae SS NS HIS WILD ANIMAL. other woman's yolor—all like the kery of some hideous nightmare 1 have looked all over for you DOINGS OF THE DUFFS P'; yuth Beas ed any one George never asked me him, and I wouldn't if he He tricked you, you generous! and he afterward confessed how you must | have under Do significance of! ame to the Englist And then the moplish, | took both her} She spoke gently, but her | | - You—will be very ponition as hostess! “Rut, you poor . how tired and worn out you Let me get you some tea, The following evening Shovel sat ruggling with bis| His love for Jeasie, even involved him But he was not ashamed He looked up to find Mary stand.) Then with her tn his grace she F#lippe “1 am glad to be loved by a man she whis “To give up everything s0/ more to, Dont Why did you leave England?” KO}{ APVentures erent tng oe loo ai] “Presser “oeue yur wea | “Yeu, now—because your eeu! e Jlove, that is not eelfish. Look at . | a my feet!” ix white, Because one with a white OF THE TWINS eer ig wiihe. emioe ove wih 4 veie| Roberts He was astonished, for the one|the one loved, forgets self, len't| 1" part of her that failed of beauty was | that so? TRIP TO THE MOON [ete a Sense’ bow | Free hee, f |ahe could watk bare-footed among | oe — my soul et terse aeul the pineapples to cut for his ny, darling. you kno < breakfast, when he required heavy \course T said #0 lieggings and boote to protect hia) “Which Is best for you-which te best for the man I love-—to marry « who will be lovely until | be! white gtrl, ola to withered and He tried to get up, strained him “Mary, I positively refuse to eon tinue to talk like this. You will al- ways be beautiful to me.” | Bhe kissed him again “That's it: I always want you to! think of me as being beautiful, and But the white soul thinks | the loved “And do you remember old Julia?” “Of course, sweetheart. But why me, who will at thirty-five? but she re “N “Because she is eo old and with a monkey, isn't | But she must be « very old “Ye The girt looked Into his eyes, a “She has borne three children,” you will about the happiness of And she must | one. Like this.” | | She kinsed him, untn he thought | the delight of it would never end |then with a swift movement she dis- | jengaged herself from his arma,/ o—in fifteen | looked at him with unutterable ador- | worse than |ation, aprang lghtly to the rail, and/ “Yes?” wife. “Yen, Cloudesiey He didn’t answer. “When I am thirt I will look « ‘ years an arm, got so claze io the moon that tt looked as big as @ | oid Julia, because of my ninth white | plunged overboard | house. |biood, Witt you love and kiss mo| The sudden confusion gave placeil or the " . " | then?" to orders quickly executed, but as Well, Nancy and Nick finally got sometimes the moon looks little Ik®) wun, you darling, of course.” He|Shovell struggied with the sailor | who prevented his following Mary he loving, “and heart to a young brave. and had| promined him that when he came | for her, #he would go with him and live in his wigwara end be his| eyes followed him wistfully, ten moccasir: footed ME ekote “CHee Wenew ‘“whtees| Or? ORS Sometimes ihe ® sliver dol | even, you might, But what would | heard the captain's ery a lar. Because the earth gets in th@) ... Cniidren think of their mother—| “It’s no use. If she wanted to t wi them off up thru the air over tree | moon's way and cuts off part of its} \) ‘Engiand?” Jawim, we could get her; but she deautiful d mouutains, past | light “Mary, stop It.” doesn't want to, and she will not s, until! It's as easy to enderstand as in| “Look.” she pareisted, “you at) come up again.” | finally they were so high that th | 4 at neither yor earth itself looked almowt Ike an-|{P0t neliher yen Other star below them. Or rether it looked like another roun4 moon Now I'm gotng to tell you a funny nor I need tell you that, altho #e can only see! a weenty slice of the moon some | | thing, my dears. When you're on sank ces ba nk bi “ & e | the earth you look up 2° the moon, |“. ; OA A Te eas there was one great fallen tree | gong, and then she cust herself over att. depending upon where| Otherwise I'm/ afraid My, Peer.| which waned far out over the bay| into the water there to 4rown her uP } | it is. And when you're on the moon pot snd Mas are Poe? would | Ol 4 |] and to this Julia would often go| &riet.” You look up at the eartn, cr over at| Mas his footing and ‘all uff, 1 at eventime and sit u Peggy Uked the theater story — ie pon the great it, or down at it, deponding on where! Finally the Twins, each holding | ~~ By a Bride ——————~ 8 | trunk tar out over the. shin vadaen David was quite keen * abou 1@ Julia on the Magical Mushroom by the arm, | it} it is. It’s a sort of n geme of hide and seek that the earth and kot so close to the moun that looked as big am a house. the |come tax, my dears, an¢ something] your best, with an old, ugly black | to| woman, walking on But I jus wanted to | London. tan't a better woman tn the world! times, it really is ail there all the| than you, or one whom I love more And Shovell was telling the entior, | the street in over and over again, ike a talking | it look nica to you?" | machine that knows not what it “there | Kaye “It's true, {t's true—he's right THE PND De “Mary.” he anid gravely, | - | CHAPTER XI—AN EPIC OF CHICKEN SOUP My five most Intimate girl friends) Ronny Tearle, incredulously. “They r , Julia w Gerfully beautiful, and she was) besides, wonderfully sweet, and | she given her! I very grand end very and the surrets were Purple and rose and shining gold just as they are now, and Julia used to atep Nghtly out of her tent and go and look end look and dream of her low r, “Down by the water's onsov! iv’s, PULLOF MONBY. SOMEBODY MUST HAVE LOST IT! CES WUTZe and ax, and only the érer narrow paths down to che water's edge, where they’ camy te to the best hunting ¢ruunds. ferest ar, Or, y Fook: £ Page 677 THE SAD STORY OF JULIA 1 suid, won ‘This was tn the very long ago, before the beautiful spotied by the white man's saw was made drink, Indians made narrow tratia thru the trees edre Deeeesteasemamenstsnsansisnnarenetiaialintatiaiel ee THE OLD HOME TOWN = bhi” We YESTERDAY DID NOT PUT UP CIRCUS POSTERS. AS SOME FOLIKKS HAD EXPECTED - SAY, YOUNG FELLOW, DID You FIND A oor OSES MTS A MAGNETIC WAVE RADATED FROM A TRANSMITTER AEQIAL WHICH INDUCES RADIO OSOLLATIONS OF FULL ing and dream her ¢reama. “Well, brave came to Julia one morning the young «nd paid, ‘I | go’to hunt in the forest, I go @ distance, but when I return, I re: turn for you, of my “Julia's heart fluttered and her star heart! @erly as ho disappeared up the narrow trail “Then she beran nor time of waiting. | two weeks, One week rhe waited, and her cart grew heavy; three weeks, and she sat upon her fallen tree and sang a low, plaintive song into the sun- set “Another week passed and an- other, nad teen little when he had gone, It has grown round, and then smal! and large the moon again, and still he did no ‘Then, one day, a mensne came “He has found another maid,’ the message said. ‘H's heart ts | satisfied: he will neve return.’ "So when the suns-t glory was faded, Julia walked out upon the fallen tree and sang her plaintive come. much! Hud} BEEN “ELECTED TO PRES A TOWN AS MAYOR | beet: BY STANLEY. DRINK Of,o DOE TOR PIFFLEWITZ LOG LOFE ITreRS 1S et ‘yh Day B) ho Mae. p FC.) i ee” BILLPOSTERS WHO CAME TO TOWN NO, BUT I'LL TRV “TO FIND “THE HERE'S ANOTHER WOMAN WHAT WONDGREVLE STRIDES POOR, WGAK WOMAN LS MAKING mMoes MAN (3S PHYS PHYSICALLY’ WOMAN, BuT Woman [S LVTSCCECTUALLY SuPSRIOR To MAN I! PN wih) oF Yo A SvPcRior To And I had already spolled the grease remain to float conspicuously Moon play, bobbing about the way Closer and | | 1 they do, and that is the reason that| closer they came until It looked as /junched with me today look to me like twenty thousand dol. | informals. reasons, And with frieuds like the| SUP! So my first luncheon nearly!as an advertisement of my igs Resist ps set sat | big as & mountain, and finally they! They were simply wild about my | larst* Yet I am determined to do what T| Alirons and Tearles I—we ought to!¥& & failure! | norance. Me NEW were #0 near that they couldn't see | pearis. Jeanne Alison offered to buy, Her verdict settled the cane./oan, socially, for Jack's sake, 8o-/make the grade somehow, But 1] Thad planned to serve juet a few] “Strain it!" sald the cook book. CANDIED LAXATIVE all of It at once ltnem. Said she would give me twice | Bonny's opinion about dress and lux: | clety ts a real Investment for an am-|couldn't put the case ao te Jack, | things, quite in the present fashion, |And this morning {strained It. “Qoono! mhivered Nancy “T'm| what 1 paid. As my college room: |urtes is final with us gitlx, Bonny |hitlous young business maa, T think. | He'd stall! Jack never must know |dainty, delicious, elegant things,| But all the time 1 was wondering , FOR CHILOREM OR ADULTS leold. I wish I'd brought my coat.” mate, Jeanne takes advantage of her| han things such as only a pewly rich | And so Jack must know the right|that I have any social ambitions for|chicken consomme first | whether to wear my pear beads, | } “80 do 1," remarked Nick privileges millionaire father ean buy, Bonny | people him. I spent half of yestentuy p | Suddenly 1 found myself wander B " | “Oh, a little magic wi fix that] 1 wan tempted for a minute, but) hna gazed on pearls at Palm Reach | His family t# intellectuml, Hia| Informal, tat “different,” my first |{ng my chicken broth, It ing about my kitchen with the i 2 |up." comforted the Mushroom. “Mr./1 didn't let her have them They |and the Riveria and in the best New |father is a newspaper min, But not | luncheon waa to be. initial experiment !y seup |dripping strainer in my hand and | Pi will sprinkle you with|are my first purchase as a wife. 1] York and Parts shops. one of them would go across the} Girls who have butiers at home|! followed the cook book faithfully, | Wondering what to do nexe With @ jnome of his stardust puwder and| paid for them the first money my It was well that ny beads gave|astreet to play bridge. Ruther, they | just love to “play house" sometimes. | using cold water, simmering for | Sheek T came to. | you'll soon be as warm as tlap-Jacks. | husband gave me. T mean to keep (the girls something Inteesting to] would all go clear across town to|Jeanne Alison fixed my flowers, but|hours, ete. ‘Then, according to di.| There was nothing to do next! frre oestest actees im Te wow «| Why, here we are!” them forever, I'll have them buried | talk about for I’ had neariy ruined javold a game. they looked elumpy and I didn't dare | rections, 1 set it In the refrigerator} T had poured my precious chickem WO KEEP THe Lives AND BOWELS ORCEMy (To Re Continued with me my first informal luncheon, Of| 80 it's plainly up to me to get/to rearrange them, overnight so that che fat would |consomme down the kitchen sinks “Tewnty-tive dollars” drawled course, 1 never can give auything but | Jack to going socially. For twsiness! And Bonny sulted the salad too|barden on top and not a drop of’ (Po Be Continue r AD Alt GOOD DRUGGISTS (Copyright, 1932, by Bee iti Stan) i