The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 5, 1922, Page 11

OT te Lows Somegh Vemee, (Continued From Saturday) “U'm sorry, I only wanted you to understand why I felt I had to warn you against Nelly. She's unfortunate, ‘God knows, but she's dangerous, too, They all are, once the stuff gets a hold on them, there's nothing they Won't do, no tie they won't tell... earthly paradise!” “It isn't California, ft tent Hotty. ‘wood, it’s human nature.” XXVIT Lucinda dated from that Saturday the dawn of a fortnight when every thing wont wrong for her with such regularity that, in the end, the bur. den of its crosves grew too sore, the woman had been something more than merely mortal whose stores of fortitude and forbearance had not run low. Naturally she blamed Retlamy. .. . But one day Lucinda devoted pain- ful hours to totaling up her bank ac- whose performance brought to light thousand dollars, to be cashed by Rim and deposited to the credit of Linda Lee, Inc. If she felt slightly dashed by this discovery, it was less because of the money involved-—for she had from the first been prepared to pay more | dearly for her whistle than Lontaine | had declared it would cost—than be- cause the end was not yet, the first picture remained unfinished. Tt was now necessary to write ‘Willis and ask him te find her more But her only course was to con- sult Lontaine in the faint hope that out of the sum entrusted to him there might be enough left in the she hesitated to do because of an in tuitive feeling that he would take this as directly challenging his com- petency. Lontaine was a sensitive soul . . . However, he spared her the pain, for the next time they met he Diandly advised Lucinda that the company could do with another twen- find time to draw the check; and on Jearning that it would have to wait LOUIS JOSEPH ands “And this is what goss on in this | gounts, a duty which she had been | religiously forgetting for months and | ty thousand as seen as she could | comment. from Willis, he seemed consideradly | discountansimend, Or else fancy mis- led her, ‘The day when Lacinda broke with Barry Nolan began auspictousty jenough with @ nightJetter from Har. | ford Willis stating that money mat ters had been arranged in conform ance with Lucinda’s wishes, and add. ing that Willis hoped before long to give himself the pleasure of cal'ing on her in person; he was leaving New York the day he telegraphed, Not a little to her own wonder, Lu cinda found herself pleasantly excit edt by the thought that she was to Bee this old friend aguin. Busy with such reflections, and with the pleasing prospect of soon having a willing audience for her complaints, Lucinda made nothing of the fact that Lontaine showed the whites of his eyes and shied back Mike a skittish cob from the telegram which she submitted to his inspec | tion, and was net much tranquilized by the check which, at the same time, she gave him for the replenish ment of the company’s coffers. And the fact that she had already given | in her most amiable temper she hur- | Harry Lontaine checks to his order | ried from his office to her dressing: | im the sum of two hundred and ten! room, into the newest, prettiest and | most becoming dance frock she had ever owned, who had owned s0 Many, and then out to the stage. ‘The company was waiting, the cameras werp waiting, Nolan, with an | alr of noblest patience, was waiting } there was other work in abundance that could have been attended to. As Lucinda drew near, Nolan hoisted himself out of the basket chair in which he had been loung. ing. with something more than a | suggestion of limbs cramped by pro longed inactivigy, and bowed polite ly, too politely. “Sorry if I've kept you waiting, Mr. Nolan, but 1 had some business ped Mr, Lontaine we couldn't put “No matter at all, Miss Lee, T as. sure you—no matter a-tall! My time is yours, the company’s time te yours, all the time there is yours to use or waste, just as you think dest.” Lucinda couldn't very well let of | fensiveness so pointed pass without She stopped, turned squarely to face Nolan, with a keen smile looked him deliberately up and | days, or until she could hear! down, a movement of shoulders sum. | Klieg lights focused. © For You to Color Qeeeescocoooosooes | All of which was quite neediess, for | You GeNTLemMen ARE AFFILIATED WITH “HE DRAWMA = How UNERESTING- // ming up clearly enough the sub stance of ber impressions. “Thank you for telling me,” sald sweetly, “And now that is un for the time I've wasted, if posible, by getting to work at once, .. .” Nolan's eyes snapped, but the only | to be inadequate in point ance passable display ‘Let's go to it, then of good spirit. the set, upon which two cameras! stood trained at close range, with | “Now, Mins! | Lee, | you this scen OUR BOARDING HOU. she | derstood, suppose we try to make up| retort that occurred to his mind as all appropriate he felt tnatinctively | of ae | “Pair enough,” be agreed with a! He approached I'l just line in what I want of SE - 7 bei Vy T UNDERSTAND YOUVE GOT US [| WRONG, MRS. HORNSBY: WE'RE A SET OF ACTORG, NoT DRAMA Tle- WALKERS!? | we DON'T “OUCH SHAKESPEARE WN OUR ACT® His WISE CRACKS ARE Too OLD = OUR TURN Is FULL OF SNAPPY NEW ON Se SISSIES ALL RIGHT, SIR~A SHAVE BE - STATES IN THE UNION HAVE You EVER BEEN ST.Lovis ? THE SEATTLE STAR DOINGS OF THE DUFFS NICE DAY OUT - THIS KIND OP WEATHER MAKES ME FEE! LIKE TAKING A TRIP SOME PLAC VVE BEEN IN THIRTY DIFFERE. BY AHERN HA-WA- THERE A BRACE OF EG ‘SCRAMBLE: SE Ue WHAT THEY KNOW BOUT p 1T Wie 1 CAME NEAR Bi To DENVER 1S A Swes.t Town! IN DENVER, BUT | LIKE THE PLACE - ITS A FINE PLACE To LIVE IN A TENT ~ 1 THINK I'LLGO To CUBA ON MY NEXT TRIP - ‘The wet was a simple angle, where | two walls met in an apartment hall | way, with a door that opened inward | By Hal Cochran ; (Copyright, 191%, by The Seattle Star) SOSOSOHSSHSHSOSHSEHSHSSHSOOSSOHOSSOSEDS ESO LOELERS CHEYENNE, WYO. 5 is the down, oe rand near, out their bucking’ broncos for Up every year~ A DVENTU are s oF ENE Twn WINK’S IN TROUBLE “Oh, ho! You have, have you?” said a voice Wink, the dreamfairy happy laugh. One of the happy Dream Dairies, of which Wink was be Snoozelum Town on the Moon, irene three little poppy-leaf bags over his | shoulder and slid down & beists | |the roof of Tommy Brown's house moon-beam to the earth }and climbed up to the top of the It was « glorious night, a night chimney. He expected to find Black | #0 clear and lovely you could see the|Cap there. Biack Cap said he'd te| colors of the flowers in the garden.| sure to see that none of Kena} ‘There were faint stirrings and rust-|Meena’s bad fairies with dreadful lings everywhere—night sounds, peo- | dreams could get down first ple call them. Some say it’s the| Sut Black Cap was not theret sleepy birds, some say it's the tiny was the first time the little Chimney It Wink slid down hin moon-beam to | insects, and some nay it's the wind. | ¥ But it’s really the fairies that! c from the moon Over in the forest the trees rnatied | and swished softly. That was the ‘Tree-Fairiex who hop from branch 9 branch looking out for the birds, their babies and nests Up in the air was the faintest hum the wings of the Cloud Fairies. Here and there one could hear a at chirp—the Chimney Fairies on chimney-tops calling to one an- Ga there! That sounded like a! iry had failed him “On, well,” said Wink, do want Tommy to have this nice dream about @ pony on his birthday he hed a dream along, Wink could nee, in an ugly tondskin bag. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, by SeatUe Star) =-/ OUR FIRS |down to Tommy's room, anyway from a living room set beyond. jramatic moment of ing men, the heavy father and the Juvenile, his son, both of whom were / understood to be in love with Nelly Here, in his bachelor apartment, Nelly was to call at midnight on the father, to beg him to intervene with | the titular villain and save her way: | | ward brother from imprisonment. | ‘The madly infatuated father was | | to propose marriage, and Nelly was |to accept him, momentarily carried jott her feet by the sincerity of his | Passion as much as by the glamour | | of bis wealth and social position wh hia was going on, Dick, the lson, passing In the street, was to catch a glimpse of Netly’s shadow on the window shade and, wild with! jealousy, demand admittance. The father was to conduct Nelly to the Private hallway, understanding that | whe was to slip away by the back door Instead of doing #0, Nelly was to Unger and overhear the quarrel be tween father and son, in the course of which it as to transpire that the former had once offered to wager | the latter that he could make the girl dis mistress within a given pe | riod of time. Whereupon, in revul-! sion of feeling, Nelly was to con-| | front the two and, while confessing | | she had planned deliberately to mar ty either one or the other of thera for his money, assert herself to be} | too good to be the wife of either. Nolan proceeded now to act out in his own person the business which he conceived to be in character for; a girl of Nelly’s quality in circum stances so contrived ag to make vol juntary eavesdropping on her part | seem constructively defe ible. And | Lucinda looked on with earnest at-| © [tention and puckered brows, eager | to catch every hint that would help as a pantomime which he indubit ly ponsenned, she had much re | spect. } ‘This enthusiasm was ruming away with him now, he was build ing the solo scene which Lucinda was to play on lines of broad emo- tional melodrama widely inconaist ent with the situation. Forgetting that, while the conversation assumed to be going on beyond the door was one well calculated to annoy and disgust her whom {t concerned, its revelations were after all hardly of a cha er to break her heart. lan was, as Nelly, ranting and rav- ing in the angle, like one gone half. mad with shock and grief, Yet such was the fire he infused into the per. formance that for the time being he truly succeeded in perverting Lucin- da’s grasp of the scene, Having ex hausted his repertoire of emotional artifice, he stepped out of the cam «7 lines, consulting Lucinda with a glance and the etereotyped inquiry, “See what I want, dear?” she nodded without thinking—"“You make it most real. I'l) do my best”—and stepped into character and the set as the lights blazed on, the cameras began to tick, and Nolan seized his |baton of authority, the megaphone which he invariably used while di | recting, tho he had as much need of it now as the cameras had of tele | scopic lenses Now Gear,” Raa | he buires thrn thts By a know! It's Imponsible to ienore the fact that being married doesn't keep peo. ple from flirting nowadays, But my the play was to be staged, ‘a scene | involving Lucinda and her two lead. | | nev | tremolo of Nolan's voice instrument all you've got letting yourself go is your big scene, In this story, to put it over that you're a sure-enough actress . Now you }put your ear to the crack in the door and hear your name. Give a big start and look horrified. You dreamed men could talk about that, you know, Show Don't be afraid of Remember, biggest you've got i" Hike ua horror ‘Great snakes! What's the matte For of iden Lucinda laughed outright. suddenly the heartrending as he de tailed the awful offense Richards had committed against Nelly in the play Uckled irresistably bh sense of the absurd; and her laugh followed nat urally, inevitably, uncontrollably “I'm sorry, Mr. Nolan,” she gasped “Forgive me, 1—1 didn’t know I was gong to laugh tilh—tUb—till it struck me as so funny—!" What's that for? “go to it and show us! this your ont grand litte! dear, and make it strong, | her become a better actrenn, Her|7OU can't make It too strong. Re — Mabel distrust of Nolan extended onty to|™ember you're just realizing the “BUMP” | man you love is such a rotten cad is abilities structive builder | “afte 2 oe fron ating wares Kad a jeans] 2° could make a bet about your vir-| After noon recess," Mrs! 14, to say his piece, he scowled of pictorial values. For the very ta@- It Just makes you feel sick all|] Hewitt went on, “wo all went in) 04 wriggied and looked us sullen considerable amount of raw power over and got into our places. (And, by as he could and said, ‘Aw, I don’t that’s another thing the hers had to annoy them. the one the way poor te When next the wall, the inside child, was called upon ‘to recite, all the others in that desk | had to squirm and scuffie out into the aisle to let him pass. And it either, | |] was no little scuffle, with five or #ix pairs to every seat, and each little foot shod with a heavy |] thick.soled shoe.) B cs vad ‘ ee and ape in an “We chewed pitch, too, and other peal of “hysterical merriment, her words became unintelligible, || led our pockets with it. Those while Nolan literally ground his|{ teachers must have needed gas teeth masks, the smell of turpentine “What struck you aa so funny?” he exploded. “Bhow me anything funny about this scene and I—I'll eat my megaphone. What's so damn’ funny?" I am sorry but still her voice shook and of idiotic mirth, “Yo see—wben you aid that ards being a rotter struck me—I'm sure I don't know why--as fury, too awfully funny tor words!" (Continued Tomorrow) ST YEAR | Bride | That has made us very popular for week-end motor trips, I've welcomed these trips because we can't possibly afford @ vacation so soon after our Lucinda was} doing her utmost to’ sober herself, | her| body rocked with recurrent spasms | what you said about Rich: | all at once it} was so strong.” “Wasn't it sticky in your pock ete?” Peggy asked remembering the day at the picnic when she had got some on her fingers, “It surely was,” Mrs. Hewitt told her, “and our mothers had to |] scold us many a time becaupe our aprons were so hard to wash." “You didn't finish about David reminded her. “So I didn’t, and that’s what T that | boy, 1 okt: Senin ote tone rant ote started out to tell you, wasn't it.” | and laughed. Oh, yes; he punished a reason, Why's tt funny?" “Well, when Bump was called] the boy later; he had to.” + + eeennsnenessnessnnnestitielallindadialicliersnss | honeymoon, Jack has tried to show me that these week-end excursions cost as j|much as a vacation all by ourselves, for he stands his share by taking the checks at restaurants and hotels. } And 1 want to put an idea into | CHAPTER XXVIII—MY POPULAR MAN After Jack had figured a Mttle, I daddy's head, I've a dream for him, Jack is a popular man and I am)Jack moves among women as|hadn't the cow to tell him how |toor* awfully proud of him. He's hand. | smoothly, as elegantly as coldly as a| much my motoftoge have cost. I “Oh, bo! You have, bave you? |some—he has manner—and more|king on a chess board, The married | bought the best things and had them jmaid a voice, it was Comet-Legst He|than that, he has charm. All the| girls can spend hours with him with-|charged. The suit case to fit a car had just come from Bena Meena and | girls feel it. And he doesn't mem to|out making their men jealous. jwas $50. We couldn't be seen at smart places with smart people un less we had spiffy clothes and mine are just as good as Mary Smith's, altho she spent twice as much as L THE OLD HOME TOWN 1ST PRIZE —HANGING 2NPPRIZE-FIVE PouNDS OF SMOKING TOBACCO 3 TO AVOID ACCIDENTS TO THE GRAND PRIZE HANGING LAMP IN FRONT OF ROBINSONS’ STORE -MARSHAL OCTEY WALKE R_1S NOW mtveheli wis an a BY ALLMAN. WELL You OUGHT To STAY In THE SHOP SOME WHOLE DAY Y p ~~ ee Ay Tom Gets a Free Tour 1 USED TO WORK IN A SHOP IN THE DEPOT AT RIDIANAPOLIS: “THAT'S WHERE | LEARHED To SPEED UPA SHAVE - YOU HAVE Td GO SOME MEN You WORK IN A DUMP LIKE THAT - HAVE You EVER BEEN UP TO THE ELKS’ CLUB HERE? 1 GO UP THERE AND PLAY CARDS- 'M UP THERE ABOUT | oF | = | My hat cost me only $18 and Mary's cost 50. 1 always try to be PING KILLED AH, MR. tRUG, WANT TO SHOW YOU A SAMPCE OF WHAT T CAN DO WHEN 2 PUT My MIND TO (T. lL MvS ComPosGD a POEM ON SPRING -------/% * td By Mabel Cl nd _% know any piece! “‘Christopher Columbus Fowler,’ | repeated the teacher with slow emphasis, “Tm not going to speak! grumbled Bump. | “‘Come up here and say your | said Mr. Thatcher in that tone which no pupil can mistake, piece,’ You SPRING THAT On AND tit SPRING on YOU! AND You'cu NEVER “Uwe Yo SS&e ANOXHSR SPRING Il “Red, angry, embarrassed, to an of suppressed giggles which were more than half nervous fear at what might | happen to so bold a lawbreaker, accompaniment Bump got to his feet and stumbled to the front of the room, “Then, with an impish grin, he gave us 4 new sensation, I don't know whether the jingle was or- iginal or not, at any rate, he said it with great fervor, * “The devil came flying from the puth, C. A. Thatcher mouth But when he found he had a fool, He dropped him down to teach our school.” “A blank silence followed, then Mr. Thatcher threw back his head \" | | With in hie which T ought to have paid out of my housekeeping money. feelings I worry most about. 7 think every bride should study her ‘economical, One has to on our sal Business isn't going very well with | husband's feelings and not hurt them ary of $2,600 @ year, Jack, Commissions simply don't ex-|Carclessly, Men are a lot more sen- We could get along very nicely |ist. And so we are compelled to live |Sitive than some girls think and on our budget if it were not for our bills. When the bill for my motor |hat came I hated to show it to Jack. He looked woefully tired and so I added that bill to the pike in my jwriting desk, I remember I put it on top of the milk bill, And life has moved so fast that T forgot all about those envelopes until they came in again the next month? It was an. noying, for then I had two milk bills jon his salary somehow. That's why | Jack is far more sensitive than most I haven't let him know what I've | men. had charged, I intend to as soon| He likes to stick to his principles, as my adorable davenport is paid |Since he resolved not to break into for. jhis savings, the $1,000 he put away I know Jack will be perfectly love- | before we were married, which he ly, as always, when I show him what calls his wife's safety fund, I know has been necessary for me to|he wil] manage somehow to get all buy. my accounts balanced without dia | Jack always understands, nover|turbing his savings. giooms nor grouches, and so it's his (To Be