The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 2, 1922, Page 13

, a t + & ace “bow mitioay Bit, PFRIDAY, JUNE Linda 9 10m Wy Law eh Taam (Continued From Our Last Teste) She rehearsed the scene: but Bel failed not only to cal) at the hour @ppointed but to send word of expla Ration, Lucinda had sacrificed the evening to sense of duty; a true sacrifice, for Lynn was leaving carty next morn ing to spend a fortnight with his company in an Oregon logging camp Losing patience, Lucinda called the Alexandria on the telephone, and Was informed that Mr. Druce had “checked out earty in the morning, saying nothing of his intention to return. No note came from Bellamy the Mext morning, and nothing trans. ired in the course of the next sev. eral weeks to afford any clue to the riddie; with the upshot that Lucinda thought about her husband a great deal more than she wanted to or had at any Tt was strange, it wasn’t like Bel to treat any woman so rudely, XXIV. Jacques kept the Summertad com- pany away so long that its return found the first Linda Lee production f full swing, with Barry command, Lucinda playing the sup ple puppet of his whim. Fanny de. murely walking thru the feminine part of second importance, and Lon. twine functioning at the peak of his capacity as executive genius Why it should be so hard on him Seemed to know and Lon- taine was too busy to explain. To all his symptoms of hustle and his wife played silent but attentive audience; tho oftentimes her pretty eyes would li¢ht up with &A unspoken comment too pungent 2, 1922. to be wasted and, discreetly questing | . & sympathetic confidant, would find H without fail in Barry Nolan. Irish both by descent and profes sion, Notan had at least that sense @onspicuously developed. \Vhat oth- ers he possessed was a question Which came to occupy many of Lu- Cinda’s spare moments. She couldn't aecount for Nolan's high place in ¢@inema, unless a sprightly disposi. tion, a fetching grin, Infectious ‘verve, Impudence without end, and & distinetly indicated vein of genius at crapshooting, summed up the @asential qualifications of a director who pretended to earn a wage of $25,000 per production. But Lucinda first mistrusted bis ity because of his appalling nee concerning rudimentary Principles of social usage. Since the story they were con- @erned with had to do with people Of fashionable New York, Lucinda} thought !t important that their man- ners sheuld conform to approved Convention; but Nolan was so Little} learned im suth matters and his LOUIS JOSEPH van time since leaving Chicago, | Nolan in! impationce with them was whole | hearted: “Ah, what's it matter? | Ninety per cent of your audiences jare solid bone from the neck up, and the rest wouldn't think they'd got their money's worth unless they | found something to beef about in a |ptcture, Why worry about little | things lke that? Life's too short, jand we're wasting time!” | But that distrust of Barry Nolan's competency which troubled Luein da’s mind almost from the very out set of their association had yet to lorystallize on the Saturday when Summerlad was expected home. To got rid of Lucinda's presence, which instinct was already beginning | to warn him was silently skeptical Jot his claima—Nolan artfully sug | gested that abe might like to review |the rushes of yesterday’s camera | work, | Avnming that she would find the projection.room empty, Lucinda made |her way into it without bothering to remove her make-up, but on open: ing the door saw a fanlike beam of turbid Light wavering athwart its darkness, and would have with. drawn, had not Zinn’s thick and enial accents hailed her from the ar of the long, black-walied, tun- nel-tike chamber | “Come right on In, Miss Lee. We'll be thru in a minute, Just running jsome of the fillum come thru from | Joe Jacques yesterday. "Sgreat stuff lthat boy Summeriad’s putting over this time.” Then with a Muttering heart | Lucinda identified her husband in | Zinn's companion. “Shake hands with Mr. Druce, | Miss Lee; new tenant of mine, going | to work here same as you, just signed a lease for space to make his first production.” “What! At that monosyllable of dismayed protest, Lucinda saw Zinn’s little eyes of & pig grow wide with sur- prise, “But T am fortunate, Mr, Zinn, tn already having the honor of Miss Lee's acquaintance.” Bellamy took possession of her hand. “Is that so? You two know each other! Whyn't you tell me?” Lucinda found her voice all at yonce, but hardly her self- possession. “It ian't—it can’t be true! Bel: It isn’t true you're—P “Afraid it is, Linda” Bel's smile was lightly mocking. “The picture business has got me in its toils at jast. Only needed that trip out here to decide me. Now I'm in up to my ears. Something to do, you know.” When Zinn departed, however, Bel's manner changed. m sorry, Linda—TI really don’ mean to be a pest—" “Then why are you here?” “Give me half a chance.” | 1922, (Copyright, Tre sailor boys Dressed up in Get trainin In the st@ Mr. Peerabout, the Man.in-the Moon, w aking and Nick over the moon s them the Say.” he said suddenly, “do you know I completely list you brought with y forgot abc a fr Mirth. If re going to try to ease folks we'd better begin “Let's wee! Here's a letter trom He wants a p haps my fairies can Well, maybe they “I'll speak to Wink about it. He’s my chief dream-mixer, I'll tell him to mix ums for Tommy and his dac the man who sell po ween them they ought to fix ome way “And s a letter from Susie Smit t on Mr. Peerabout e's heard so much about THE NEW CANDIED LAXATIVE, FOR CHILDREN OR ADULTSS ATHE QPEATEST ACTERS mi THE WORLD Yo KEEP THE LIVER AND BOWELS OROERLE. AT ALL GOOD DEUGUISTS For You to Color#@ TINTED TRAVELS By Hal Cochran ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS » by Clive Roberts Barton ~ MOON-MAN HAS HARD SEASON AHEAD | 7 The Seattie Star) |back at amy cost, still madiy in love THE SEATTLE STAR iinet PAGE 13 OUR BOARDING HOUSE BY AHERN 33 vd. gh a. THE OLD HOME TOWN — HA-HA® AN He's “TH! FAT HEAD WHO WORRIED “TH! JUNGLES, EH?2« IF HE EVER PLAYS HIS CHINO ME AGAIN ABOUT WILD ANIMALS TLL BUY HIM A*NOAW'S ARK "= eR PETE THIS 1S PLENTY CIRCUS FOR ME* IF “TH! LAUGHING HVENAS GAW “THIS ACT It'd STOCK 'EM UP ON GIGGLE _ To WORK OVERTIME = NoW ALVIN, You WILL OBSERVE “THAT ~ we BOO- WAH! HELP! = CALL ATRAINER\ 00- GOSH LOOK AT UNCLE AMOS = TH’ ELLYFANT KNOWS HIM FROM WHEN HE WAG IN AFRICA ! MAKE HIM KNEEL DOWN, UNCLE, AN! ACK Like HE'S BND PRIZE FREE GR NUMBER WITH POUND OF TEA FOR A SHORT TIME TODAY IT LOOKED AS THOUGH THE FIRST PRIZE AT ROBINSONS STORE WAS DOOMED. “You had that chance weeks «| and deliberately refused it. | “But surely you got my note ox plaining I was called Bast on two hours’ notice, but would return ot I'M GOING OVER AHO THREATEN “TO SHOOT TWAT NEW NEIGHOOR If HE DOFSN’T QuIT Yow 0O You |] on, | DON'T ween Bor'|| PLAY v i. | NICE HoRN! ‘heures y-M STILL. | WOULD YOU LEND) OBLIGE A IT To ME? soon as I could?’ “Possibly Lucinda suggested with labored scorn, “you misaddreased it, | forgetting which of your numerous feminine acquaintances you were | writing to,” | “L addressed it," Bel insisted) stoutly, “to Mra. Bellamy Druce.” | “If 90, that explains ic They| know me at the hotel only as Linda Lee.” | When the screen once more shone blank and the ceiling light Mashed on, Bel was smiling cheerfully. | No wonder you fell for the screen no hard, Linda; you're exquisite, and no mistake.” i “You said you wanted to explain, Bel; you won't get another chance.” He nodded soberly. “I can say all I want to say in three minutes, Then you're free to call it quits for good, | if you like.” | That posed her rudety. Did he mean—-could it be possible he meant he had become reconciled to the rift im their relations? - | “Can you doubt that’s what I'll ‘like,’ Bet? | Bellamy gave his head a stubborn | shake and stepped nearer. “Please don't be angry because of anything stupid I may say, I came out here that first time dead set to win you with you, absolutely unable to con- who sail the seas, middies grand ~ at Annapolis of Maryland ;my moon-fairies that she'd like to Hy” see ‘em some night. Let me see! It might be arranged. | Mr. Peerabout stroked his long | |beard, then scratched his bald head, | and finally took out a small note- | book ceive of @ life that didn’t pivot on you, Linda. I was prepared to give you any pledges you could possibly ask—" “Did you fiatter yourself any| pledge you could give would mean anything to me, when you'd broken your word so often?” / “I hoped I could make you under stand what a blow your leaving me had been, how it had brought me to my sense at last, jolted me up on the water-wagon, w I've been ever since-J haven't had a suspicion of a drink, Linda, since that night you ran away—and made me see what an unsfeakable rotter I'd been, fooling around with women as I bad. | That's another thing I cut out like| a shot. I haven't looked sideways at| With these people, be good enough sical ‘eramasie ‘aitieie 7 |to keep my wife's name out of it! “Not even after discovering 1’4| Get your divorce, and get it soon. fallen in love with another man?" | That's ail I have to ask of you.” here (t+ BM. Seattle _ + ar. Jot even after that. Somehow| Lucinda replied with a slow inclin NEIGHBoR casual women don't mean anything | ation of her head. : to me any more—I mean, ual| “What you want ts my dearest | POUNDING THE oe flirtations. They're too damn’ stupid | wish,” she said. “Depend on tt, Bel, | IVOR\GS. waste a day, I'll take the! tch for Reno, after ailly waste of time. I guess I had to be squiffy, as I used to be most of the time, not to be bored by them) then.” Is first train I can ¢ finishing this picture. . at's simply splendid ef your’ a “This is all very interesting, I'm | Bellamy Jared heartily. ‘Any: |] (tt, sure. But after all, it doesn’t explain|thing I can do to help along, of/ age 692 now, does it?” + | course—just let mo know.” THEY ENTERED THE UNIVERSITY AT THE AGE OF SIX “It explains why I followed you! “I'll be glad if you'll go now,” “AN the way from Portlar “We divided them up, Mr, Hill Lucinda told him. “I think I’ve had 1 I can stand for one day.” out here the first trip, why I had to! see you in another man’s arms, kiss taking the larger boys and girls Seattle,” Mra, Hill went on, “my and I the little ones, and the mid mind was on that nice position I | abo’ | | ing him, and then hear all the small-} hen good-b my dear—a thou-| rs din to dda 18 yeuce: town gossip about you two before! sand thanks!” was going to have. bee aad ip to 8 Bec ve Ud bell ; Les xxv. “Of course, when I thought of a m colles ‘3 x oe allege v8 “There is gossip then?” “It’s funny,” Lucinda confessed to state university I thought ¥ the | pe apy Parry as Py cane po “What do you think? Accordi % “1 do University of Michigan from| ‘¢ What do you think? According! Fanny that night. eg don't pemend) “an r tea guadneed net fade mathematics’ or any other sub- to all reports, you've been going it, |to understand . . ject, but I must have had a bench sut the seeds of }f before, a university with lots of | rather, you and this chap Summer-| No more did she, wee hink ught iad—stepping out together,’ as they |suapicion that conversation planted || students and a big dignified / or ® pew. 0 think for P lausnt ‘ollywood.” pk root rea 4 flowered 0} culty. f tree te say in Hollywood took root readily and flowered into|]} faculty, can at tad tn ee Lucinda affected a shrug of tndif-|a dark jungle of strange fancies in| “When I got to Seattle, as Ire | poomrull of boys and girls! The ference. Bel mustn't guess she cared | which fears ran wild until Lynn|| member it, Schwabacher Brothers | fovetiest children!” Charles and = E Se what people said, Summerlad came home to charm|} had the only big store, the only “ . . Arthur Denny, th Colman va _ “And what has that to do—t them away. Lucinda only needed to|f| hotel was the Olympic down near | jee ang tittle ter Tedae por" OOOO Sao I: 45 P.M ust this, I don’t Uke it. As I/see him, indeed, to forget her trou-|[ pioneer square. the yelneeat. ‘Theva wate As oF JAZS— NEIGH Bo R say, if you want to run around with |bies altogether and become once Well, that's not telling you al shop them and Me, Hill had about " 7 a movie actor, that’s your affair; but | more the voluntary thrall of a spe-| | cles of intoxication as potent to her| senses as a drug. ‘The Lontaines had arranged a sup- school story, is it? But finally we did gét to the university. “The campus was up on a 10 acre tract there on University st. as many in his room. “When we were all settled and had begun our work, the Indians used to come and peep in at the so long as you remain my wife, it's my affair, too, Don't forget it's my name you're trailing thru the muck | | | | “I'll have to mark these things | down,” he said, “so I won't forget.” | | Then he looked at his list again, | } “I declare,” he exclaimed, “I'm joing to be as busy this spring as a} jcat at a dog show. It seems as if jeverybody wants something, Well, if old Comet-Legs, my enemy, lets me alone, and you two kiddies help, | »s I can ian ne people of Wt pering Forest wi © earth mean the} | moon. Scampe wants one| |kind, Corny Coon * another, | Ben Bunny and Chirk Chip. munk anothe | | “Big moon, little moon, sharp | |moon, round moon, half moon, quar-| |ter moon, misty moon, clear moon, | |dull moon, bright moon, red moon, | j bive moon, fat moon, thin moon, full | | moon, no moon! Hum hof* | “Don't ry,” the Twins laughe [We'll help.” (To Be Continued) | (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star A German soldier must obtain per mission from his commanding ofticer to marry, jof this sink-hole of scand) per party at Santa Monica in Sum and Fourth ave., and when I went a She flamed at him—'Bel!"-—byt he| merlad’s honor for that night. At into our home with ite great trees | Windows. They were real ‘flat ldn’t heed. |seven Summeriad called, finding his all about, the trees seemed to shut | "ead#" then; I even saw one baby You don't suppose you're going|way unannounced to Lucinda’s sit- me th and imprison me. 1-felt| Wt? tts head in a press. to get away with the Linda Lee|ting room, She went to his arms/I depressed and half afraid. “I recall one morning young thing much longer, do you? If all| with a cry of joy, buried her face on (A ‘ Theodo: heobalds came in all er, , A i IT was surprised, too, at the excited with ‘Say, Mra. Hitt, these people don’t know it's an a#-|his shoulder, clung to bim as if she |] newness of everything. And the|What do you’ think happened. to sumed name now, they jolly soon| would never let him go. mntinthad. tock me last night? It ‘went out owes dl Ps 09 fae nt eee si : after ows an—an—and I will, If you're going thru, if you're| “I've missed you #0, Lynn, T'vo|] " srne university bullding tteett| Jumped up on’ bis low and, air bent on leading the life you bh: | missed you so i haa sitori but th “ right at that minute on the other been leading ever since you fell in} (Continued in Our Next Issue) an auditorium, but there was)! end of the Jos, up Jumped @ bs pied ban "san no furniture in it. I remember great-—big—boeart on — ——$—$—$—$—$——$—$——$— eee that we gave a ‘play’ to earn) “Well, T jumped down and the money to buy seats so that it| bear Jumped down, but I aldn't opening day of school. And I], Mrs Hill laughed as she told : \ 100 r 90 " ? “My husband and his brother, pam By Bride ——~— stood with my young kusband and | Gant. George Hill, used to hunt aid Pi # Sai watched the students gather. and shoot lots of game in the CHAPTER XXVI—MATCH-MAKING “University students! Wiehe Where the sutemonile ge ct is now,” she concluded, “Take me home tonight, Bart!” I/them. She isn’t in love with George, tet tne ; ie demanded before the rehearsal, | but just daffy about him, he's fascin or se ba | open only : BEA afte Jack's gone to Mrs, Herrod’s—he in-|ated her—like—like—a serpent?” supposed you'd join the money-mad |lovers—and then some day they'll bogey oer the bunk you men fill/nor the rehearsal, nor to Bart after tends to call for me, but I'll phone| ‘“Do I gather that you expect me|crowd!’ \ Jelope! Isn't th pee Peal 7 we entered our suite. Perhaps be a ; pe! Isn't that an awful prospect A whistle from Bart, then: cause I chattered so him not to, if you'll walk with me.|to cut in? “Of course T expect Jack to be rich| “I should say that any girl who'd| “You score, Pegwinal” : *. I must talk with you, Bart!" “You do! And maybe she'll fall in|some day,” I asserted calmly. “I'm! elope with that sport cht f ene 1 explained why I had wanted t@ And so under a white moon, we|fove with you, Bart!” I gasped, for|not ashamed of the idea, not a bit Ye coming ta here eee Se) “Bonny will. Later to. you sant Pee nae sats eae T Teed ee strolled slowly homeward. And aitho|I had come close to telling him that |But that has nothing to do with srt Boocyi Th a th her | i perenne Tay vies face iy tag weg cso es € & as se rsa | c ty) o 4 nderneat er;is my amusement—on the stage|make him talk about his event 1am a married woman, violently in| Bonny was in love with him, Bonny. You never look at her. It's | tations, she’s pure gold. And|only! he protested. Nevertheless, {with Mrs. Herrod. pc love with my husband, 1 own that | ! You know I loathe! But talk he Bart seemed to enjoy our walk k “You've got to help me, Bart,” I explained. “Benny mustn’t be al lowed to run around with Bradshaw any more. Of course she has no end of admirers, boys of her own age and college men, but she only tolerates time you did. Mr. Tearle is exactly | George Bradshaw's idea of a father. | in-law. But he knows the Tearles | never will let him have Bonny. And so he'll just coax the child along, feed her on high-brow radicalism about love, develop ber ideas of in. dividual liberty, and the rights of! the only daughter. I owe it to Mr. Tearle to keep Bonny out of mis. chief if T can.” “But you can't, Peg. That's the trouble with all the flappers, they will not listen to older girls who know.” “I agres, Thoy keep their ears he agreed to consider my proposition | would not about her. solely as a favor to me, For the first time I imagined that ~ My husband was letting himself | Jack didn’t like to have me walk into our apartment when I reach) with a handsome man in the moons the door, The mon greeted and|light! I began to suspect that there parted with their customary friendli-| was a flaw somewhere in the works ness. ing of our fine theory, ¥E But Jack did not refer to the play, {To Be Continued , “Also 1 know her father is worth two millions! Rart's sigh was prolonged and de- spairing. “You girls! Peggins! Like Money—money! You, the rest! I pever Sat wee heath e Pay HV URLS ema on, F