The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 25, 1922, Page 13

DAY, MAY 25, 192: the affection of rf The decision to tea’ NDA DRUCE Feform, divco’ A a leerer. “I sce you are beginning to formu & philosophy of life You will i, my dear, if you mean to this out alone, Philosophy ts Medicine only for lonely hearts, ethers It merely hardens” Lecinda eyed Willis sharply, “Rel Deen to see you.” looked me up,” Willis admit. im mild surprise, “two days after disappearance, thinking you have communicated with me. qourse, I could tell him nothing. st how did you know—?" “That suggestion, the ui ht that I might not be intend. to fight out my fight alome—that ted with Bel, didn't itt “Well! Willts stammered, trying emile disarmingly—"I confess—" “Tt wasn't enough, of course, that J should have found Bel out for the nth time, there had to be a lover my background to account for my | ¢ him! Did be mention any pame** Willig sighed, and renounced—“It didn't imply—he merely said was afraid—" “Tt doesn't matter. What else did have to say’ “He seemed most remorseful—* “I know how remorseful Bel can BEGIN HERR TopAYT Touth. Deavty, soctal position, and sincere love—these were mot sufficient to MYT_DRUCE, cursed with an appetite for him came when hi Me tolerated a sertes of excapades and SAD WTLLIR Lectnda refoses te return to her ‘co ON With Tum srony * sae, Mirtations and expensive Reed of other advice, you need onty write or telegraph, and if the emer gency requires it, I will come out to confer with you.” “I hope I won't have to impose on your kindness to that extent.” Willis blinked, removed the goid- rimmed pince-nes of his fading day, and polished the lenses with a «ilk handkerehtef. “And pow,” he pursued—“If you don't mind satisfying an inquisitive old man—I would very much lke to know what you propose to do with your freedom, when you get itt Leacinda jumped up and turned away with a quaver of desolation. “Ah, I wish you hadn't asked me! That's what [I'm trying all the time to — “I thought eo." “The emptiness to come!. . . What can & woman do to round out her | lite when she's lost her husband and is fit for nothing but to be a wife? “She can find another husband. Many do.” “Marry again™ A violent move ment of Luctnda’s hands abolished the thought “Never that! I'm thru with love for good and al.” “No doubt,” agreed the student of law and life. “But are you sure that love is thru with you" xm “He spoke of employing detectives trace you.” “Tt wouldn't do Bel any good to) me; it would only trritate him to | 4 I could hold out against a plea Made in person.” Willis sighed. and renounced—“it | must, you must, I presume; and will do my best to serve your my dear, Only tell me/ “Why, naturally, I want to get tne | orce over with as quickly and/ y as possible, with the mink amount of public scandal.” “The laws of the state of Nevada Most Nberal. Hut it would be| ary for you to establish a legal dence by living there six) the.* “I suppose that’s unavoidable.” “I will look up the most reputable, of lawyers there, and recom | you to them. If you are in For Yea | stopped stock still, transfixed by the D TRAVELS By Hal Cochran (Coprright, 1922, uy The Seattle Mar} OOCOOCOHOOOCOO EHO OOOOOOOOOOOCOOOOOOOOOOOOLELE ‘Wills left for New York on a late afternoon train; and when Lucinda had said good-bye to him at the sta- tion. she felt as if she had parted with her one real friend in all the world. She applied for transportation and a drawingroom thru to Reno but learned that the winter stampede of California tourists was in full west- ward «wing. The best the agent could do was to book Lucinda thru to San Francisco with @ section to| herself on the California Limited leaving the next night, arranging for her to return from San Francisco to Reno, a trip of some eleven hours. Returning to the hotel about five, she was approaching the elevators when, midway im the foyer, she sight of Bellamy standing at the reg. ‘etry desk, in earnest consultation with one of the clerks. to Color ® e BELLE ISLE elle-Isle 5 Is quite rs | | | te Detroit ool for sport t's noted ‘round the country 4s A summertime resort TH \ E MOON-MAN’S AIDS FOES, Now, then,” sald the Man-in-the | know In the first place that up here) o when the Magical Mush- m had gone, “I'll have to tell you} MM about my fairies, my dears Bancy, you sit on this crooked little Pool, and Nick, you sit on this! je chair, There, that’s all | rabout himself sat on the crossed his legs. | " said he, “when earth the moon shining s0 lly in the sky high over the nod and ray to each snap the Man Nothing to do but alace and They don’t | | | 1221-Third Ave "COR UNIVERSITY AST aMWwOrS » OF TE TY lchildren they throw ‘em out.” jabout my enemic | ARE MANY—AND HIS) TOO we have the utmost contempt both for silver palaces and laziness, “They don't know, either, what a time my fairies and I have of it” “Where do you keep them? Your fairies?’ asked Nick. “Well, in different places,” mid Mr. Peerabout. “My dream fairies live here in the moon in Snoozelum wn beyond the Silver Forest.| naa began to walk rapidly toward |me—" 2 lies.” “ye? - wads of our story, but they would go | all right.” <A eit, ceiae er {8 street entrance, bat had take | out there and stay two whole | Now, he said that in a sort of Yh, a sry a . = waste ~ days and a night, cut their own | joking way. He thought, of 1 -gencightlinge: Thgscublar icy gama |] wood, build their own fires and do| course, everything was all right, there were real dream fairies.” } . . everything was all righ the Moon-Man, there are the ters, They 1 in Village, beyond th 1 den Forest, with the Sweep. They sit in the chimneys on moonlight nights, and if any bad fairies come along with unpleasant dreams for the nodded ‘Then M—m?" ere are. Chimney Smokysoot “Are there any more?” asked the Twins eagerly. “Yes, oh, yen, indeed,” nodded Mr. Peerabout. ‘There are the Steeple Sliders and the Tree-Rustiers, and the Cloud-Rollers, All fine helpers I couldn't do without. The moon's full of fairies,” “Then you won't need us,” said Nancy sorrowfully. “Ob, won't I?” exclaimed the Moon-Man. “Wait till I tell you (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Stan) |her way to the street. | was oddly at once aghast and elated. | | wet of bis mouth. | you, but thought I recognized your aoe PAGE 13 i BY STANLEY, | THE SEATTLE STAR NO-NO-1 SAY HELL NEVER CARRY A LIGHTED WHOL! DIVING TUXEDO? IMMENSE, EH 2? = TD RATHER STRUT our on TH’ BEACH LIKE ‘THIS, THAN LOOK LIKE You GUYS nl Your SPLASH SUITS = SOMEBODY WILL MIGTAKE You FoR A COUPLA HALL TREES AN’ HANG “THEIR BATHROBES A DANGER oF You GETTING HARPOONED = HEY OUGHTN'T 1 ALLOW DOES ALL HIS NAVIGATING wW oF “TH'’ LUNCH MORE ‘HoT: DOG’ MUSTARD OW HIS. SUIT “THAN HG Does} BAY WINDOW W A WHEELBARROW AN! PUSH fr UP AN’ Dow) “TH! BOARDWALK ! AFTER A TWOMILE CHASE PETE PERGAN, AND HIS POCKET, WERE CAUGHT BY THE FIRE DEPARTMENT - THE DAMAGE BY WATER SOMEWHAT EXCEEDED THE FIRE Loss- ood Saas Buster TRIES ON ~ WIS WAVE WARDROBE === Apparently Bellamy had gust! learned what he wanted to know;| Lucinda recognized the backward | Jerk of the bead that was an upfail-; ing sign of gratification in him, and saw him turn away from the desk Galvanised, she hurled herself to) ward ono of the elevator shafts, the gate to which was even then being | closed, When she entered her room the telephone was calling. She locked the door; and for as long as It com tinued to ring, which it did for up wards of five minutes. At length she gave it up as a bad job, and she sank limply into @ chair near the door, till a knock brought ber to her | feet in a flutter. | “Your bill, ma‘am.* | When she forced hervel¢ to turn key and knob, she more than half/| expected to see her husband. But the bellboy was alone. Lucinda took the bill and counted out the money. “Take those bags, please, she said, indicating the new dressing case and the bag which she had brought from New York, “put them in @ taxi at the door, and hold it till I come down.” | Renning out inte the hal, abe) found the stairs and pelted up two) fights. One of the elevators was rising. It stopped two Moors below, then came on up in response to ber ring. “Did you let somebody eat at my floor™ “You, ma‘am, & gempman.* “Take me down, please, without stopping.” The car @Gropped with sickening rapidity, and she stepped out into the foyer in consternation when Bel placed himself before her, blocking GET YOUR HAT AND VLL TAKE You To “KIN | ASK Jimny REED To GO ¥ 4) Ki) Wi, } | ] } Her heart checked and raced, she! Subconsciously she had wanted to/ see Bel, face to face, to nee how he | looked, how her flight had affected him | Tho he seemed to be quite him- f, bis face looked thinner, bis eyes | @ trifle more deeply set in his head and there was new firmaces in the ' In this new guise, the old appeal, was strong. For a space of several beats her heart mingave her... [tow stepe when Bellamy ranged In @ matterof-course way Bel of- | aiongwida fered a hand, and Lucinda touched| «ying! you've got to Meten to me!) it mechanically. 0" thing I've got to tell “Sorry, Linda, tf I @mppotated | eres something Tve & hand-bag boing earrted to the door,| “I mean to go to Rena, as soon as and waited for this car to come|7OU let me pass down on the off-chance.. .” Bellamy’s eyes narrowed as tf in “I see,” she articulated with an physica! pain. He threw out «hand effort. |of inarticulate protest, and let it fall) “You can gtve me « few minutes! in despair. Subdulng a strong de.) surely.” sire to bolt for it, Lucinda began to “Belt 1 teM you ft's too Inte descend at @ pace not inconsistent Struggling to keep his temper, Bel | with dignity. At the same time ef caught his undertlp between his| #itiveness to the situation, the feeb | teeth, while Lucinda cast witleasly|ing that they had been playing a| about for some way of escape. Nc scene of intimate domestic drama for the edification of an entire hotel, TA 4NSFER, PLeEASS. abe Page 685 MORE INDIAN WAR STORIES Once upon « time when the) glass in tt setglers had fust started their nt} At night owls hooted In the offered. But she noticed that a trees, wolved howled in the tim- young man standing nearby was ob-| made her aware that the young man ie homes, and farms and their), and anthers gave their hate serving them with keen interest, a| whose interest had first manifested |] pew towns in the great Northwest | tui, wailing calls from the hilb near the elevators had followed across the foyer and was now stand | ing at the head of the steps, over side. But the two Ittle boys talked as gaily as you please of the mor ly good-looking young antly well dremed. As Lu ia’s glance rested transiently on country, there lived a family by the name of Kabler. him, his face brightened with a ten-| across from Bellamy. fice most eartyday famities, | row’s plans, climbed into their tative smile, and she thought he| Pushing thru the door, she|] the Kahlers had children, and| “punks” built against the log started as if be were impulsively | breathed thankfully the stinging|} ents story ts about two of the| wall, and never giving a thought moved to approach. If so, he recon-| winter air. The canopy lamps made) vi | to the big dark world about them, sidered instantly. With a frown she| the sidewalk bright, and she @iscov.|| boys George an@ his older) 9) ice prowling and brother, ‘The father bad taken one claim tm a little town and one for a ranch quite a way out In the for. est, far from any other white people. All around the ranch the great still forest grew. There were clear | littie springs and streams in which the boys could fish and| “Sorry, boys,” the father they thought {t was more fun | answered, “but I've got to ride out than anything to go out and play| that. way myself today, and I at clearing land and being settlers | want you to stay and take care of all by themselves, mother and the little ones. I'll They weren't very old, one was | look around for you while I'm out 9 and the other 11, at the timo| there and seo that everything is looked back to Bel [ered her bellboy shivering by the/ He made & gesture of entreaty.| open door of a taxicab. “You can't put me off like this, Lin-| Abandoning all pretense, Luctnda | da, when I’ve come so far, gone thru/ran. The bellboy caught her arm to | so much—* | help her into the cab and chattered: “I can because I must, Bel—I|“W-where ttto, m'm?” She was will.” | prevented from answering by Bel, io, by God! you cant and) who elbowed the boy aside and shan't” caught her by the shoulders. He canght.her arm lightly as she “No! he eried violently. “No, you ‘tried to pass, She stopped, her face | shan't—d'you hear?—you shan't go hardening. | without listening to me!” “Are you going to make another| By some means, she did not know scene, publicly disgrace me again | quite how, Lucinda broke out of his even when sober?” hands and stepped back. His hand dropped to his sida Ia-| “Let me alone!” she insisted. “Let hotwing in that dark, they slept the sleep of healthy, tired chil dren. One day, tn the fan of 1855, they got up one morning and said, “Father, we've got a lot of work to do on the ranch today, may we start early and stay till to morrow night?” Hey !! You WET THAT SCRAP OF PaPeR AND THERE'LL BE SOME scrRaP all their own cooking, The little cabin on the place was built of logs and had a “stick” chimney, and a fireplace, | no stove, and there was no lock on the door and for a window] caused his blood to run cold, there was a square hole with ne (To Be Continued) | Ruemnisinsiaiaenmemmcminncaentios (et $00 aunitenmmmmtnitsinmisesmmaniads but when he got to the cabin, on the ranch, the door was open; there were tracks of moccasined feet on the path, and the sight which met his eye as he entered OUR FIRST YEAR & —~~ By a Bride CHAPTER XIX—IS HUSBAND A CENSOR? Jack didn’t menn to leave me so,and it's only Thursday, and I had! |spent every cent Jack gave me last | Monday morning. He gives me $10 every week for how easity he can hurt my feelings. | eroceries and meat and this morning subdued this morning. I'm never going to let him know papers, health and recreation, chart ties, 15 per cent; food, 20 per cent, with tt in his pocket, “First of all, we save,” he explain- ture was to make a budget and live by it wonderful joket “Lat's make life a great adventure For when he went Into budget|it was all gone, all gone on account r . making so solemnly it really seemed of my luncheon for the girls. together, Peggins!” he sald. “Let’s| “I've always kept accounts at|t “Put down 10 per cent for sav-/ and 10 per cent for personal and mis to me that he isn’t quite satisfied) And after I had told Jack I hadn't |take the 1 and the bad of it as it | home,” I told him. ings. Rent we have already con-|cellaneous, my daily lunches for ex with m6 as @ housekeeper. a penny to buy our dinner I found | we were explorers! After my years} “Somebody says that keeping ac-|tructed for, our lease says $60 a/ample But I guess we'll have to ex» We've been married only stx/that he had only $6 and that he/in the war, darling, nothing at home | counts Is writing epitaphs on dead | month; that's one-fifth of our in-| periment a little, Peggins! Taxes weeks and this day he proposed that | intended it to cover all his personal jis hard! Nothing that cay happen to | money,” Jack laughed. come; 20 per cent for rent is too|have to come in somewhere” we make a schedule for spending |expenses until the first of the|you and me together can hurt. No| “I suppose a budget is a sort of|much if we have a family—when we| Somehow, housekeeping seems our salary. Am I @ poor manager?|month—five days away! |money for five days? Let's make it | futurist fashion,” I said. “You divide|have a family"—bhere Jack kissed} much more important to me, now I up your income before you spend it. Let's make one now!" But a budget was not to be quickly mapped out over the breakfast table. an adventure, Peggins!* But I couldn’t see it so, I didn’t have sense enough to stop bemoan- ing our financial stringency, and me—"we'd have to save on rent to spend on food. “Clothing, 15 per cent. House keeping, including laundry, cleaning have some fixed rules for spending. But I wish I had suggested the bud- get myself. I can’t help feeling “oénsored” because Jack thought of Does he think I'm a mistake as a/ I'd never have known ff I hadn’'t| business partner? |insisted. For Jack gave up his fiver So many unexpected worrtes turn | with the gayest smile, I had to go} married! This|thru his pockets to find out how up as soon as you're budget business tumbled from alimuch he had left for himself, Only |finally, Jack suggested that the way} Jack had to go to the public library | and any extra help, 10 per cent. ne 4 clear sky, 1 bad rua gut of money |83 cents! And Jack thought it a] to keep out of such @ fix im the fu for a model, He came home at night ture, m S Cub |it first, (To Be Setaivayigs ha