The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 6, 1922, Page 11

(Continued From Our Last Issue) “Because—really, you know, Is a ridiculous way to expect Nelly to carry on when she hears what she hears, She isn’t in love with Rich ards, she isn’t even in love with Dick; and surety—" Lucinda was @nxiety to justify herself to Nolan's face of a thunderhead “—surely she Oughtn’t to go to all to pieces just Decause whe hears Richards confess, What she’s known all along, that he's the sort of man he Is.” “Listen here: who's directing this Boene, you 'r me? Who wrote the eontinuity, you 'r me? Who knows Dest what this story's all about, heh, you 'r met" “Hut, Mr, Nolan, I'm sure if you'll Just think a moment you'll see it fan’t natural for a girl like Nelly to Tant like a tragedy queen over this Situation. She woulin’t tear around in this corner like a—tike Lillian Gish in “Broken Blossoms” whon Don't you see?” “Sure I see." Nolan spoke with an ited evenness of tone, for him: Dut the tone was ugty. “I see a lot of things. I see you've made up your mind to try to make a fool of me, arguing about my visualimation ‘of this scene Iike you have. Well, al! right; you win. I resign. I'm out. You've got your wish. And this time I don't come back, not if you was to go down on your knees to beg me to finish this fool picture!’ Im an abrupt break of fury, oddly out of keeping with the level tone he bad used, Nolan raised the mesa. phone above his head and with all his might east it upon the floor at Lueinda's feet. "And that ”" he an- nounced quietly, and ‘walked off, Jeaving Lucinda in a temper curt- ously divided between relief and re- egret. XXVITT. At a late hour that afternoon the * war counct! of the incorporators of “Linda Lee (Inc) stalled on dead cen- ter. Taadore Zinn, owner of the studios, Opened the door far enough te per. mit the introduction of his head and Nothing more of his person. For a Moment or two he held this posture For You TWINS, YOU" RE NEEDED The Manin-theMoon suspected trouble. He had seen CometLegs, his enemy, slip off on his shooting-star fn a great hurry. the direction of Kena Meena’s house where bad dreams were to be had. So when night came and the moon as almost empty of fairies—al He had gone in ERE is the idea! laxa- tive for elderly people who find them- selves chronically const! Farhad Caldwell's Syrup epsin will give you daily limination in s ml Id, gentle Thousands of old folks will on! @ Dr. Caldwell's 8: iyrup Pepsin. It flan Senna and other simple herbs with pepsin. The formul package. A dose costs lees than a cent. HALF-OUNCE BOTTLE FREE excape constipation, do Lyodormpf race ape femal oto Mothers Rest After Cuticura Row rapidly growing serious in her |” she’s trapped in the scullery and her | father’s breaking in to murder her. | TINTED TRAVELS : By Hal Cochran (Copyright, 192%, by The Seattle Star) Grate is @ scenic: place Thats built on terrace ic Mountain ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS Clive Roberts Barton of} |playtully, looking from one to an this | other of the unhappy four with a leer | Jat once inquisitive, knowing, and |hideous, Then hoe thrust the door | wide @pen, came in, and shut it be hind him. “Hello, people! he saluted aftably Tow are you making out?” # an impasse,” Lontaine stated. “We're all in a blind a know.” “Bet your life I know you are,” Zinn agreed vigorously “I was thinking maybe T could get you a director—Wally Day, best lit tle comer that ever breathed into a megapho “But what's the use of tantalizing Jus?" Lucinda demande frettully— le Mr. Day is under another con } could come to some sort of an agree Now listen of green money, I don't know how much, but a lot, maybe a couple hundred thousand dollars, maybe more. That's all right. We don't have to worry about that till T come to look at your books—" “Look at our books! | post ultaed. | Zinn pacified btm with a gros hand that patted the air, “Sure I | got to look at your books, ain't I, if {1 sit in on thie productio: You sett jme the production as | ‘ory, con. |Unuity, Miss Lee's contract, all your | properties ’n' everything, and I! pay }you 60 per cent what it cost you to |date, cash money. Then I and Wally jand Miss Lee here'll go ahead and }tinish up, and it won't cost you any |thing more, Mim Lee, and I'l give jyou 10 per cent of the -net profits | Meanwhile you” he nodded to Lon- taine “—can be fussing around and taking your time about finding a studio all your own and getting all set to use Mins Lee again when I and Wally are done with her. If that ain’t a sporting offer, I don't know. What you say?" Lucinda looked @ublowsty to Lon- taine, Hie eyes had suddenly grown more stony and staring than she had ever seen them, and she fancied that he had lost a shade of color; but he met her glance with a quick nod and said In a husky voice: “I agree with Mr. Zinn, Linda.” Lucinda delayed another moment, to Color Lontaine ex Pow + Sound, by EARTH! he DOWN ON THE them being down on the earth took his spygiass and looked down lat the world and hunted up Tommy | Brown's houne. Wink, the dream-fairy, had con. fided to the Moon-Man as he left he [had a fine dream to spread on | Tommy's pillow and was going to try and make it come true | But Mr, Peerabout suspected | trouble, so he took his spygiass and looked down. He looked down at minute old Comet-logs met Wink on top of ommy's roof. He could | see Comet Legs had a toad-akin bag over his shoulder and knew that in }it was one of Kena Meena's reams. € t Wink’s shoulder was & poppy-leaf bag with Tommy's nice dream about the pony. Mr. Pesrabout put his hand behind his ear and letened. the very awful “Har came Comet-Leg’s voice with a jeer. “What are you doing here?" “1 might ask you the mame thing?’ Wink. none of your busines! re bad fairy, rudely. “I was torted t here first. “Where's Wiuk, Did you do anything to him?” Black Cap? demanded “I was to meet him here. knocked him down the boasted Comet-Lega, “and that’s what I'm going to do to you if you don’t get out of my way.” “Well, I won't! said Wink stoutly, And the next second they had laid down thelr dreams and were punch. ing each other fearfully. “Nancy! Nick!’ called to Mr. Peer about excitedly. “There's a job for you now on rth Go the Tommy Brown's house once.” ¢ Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star) you've spent a} BETTER LET TH’ BARK ALONE BUS,OR HE MAY PLANT HIS TEETH UNDE YOUR SOCKS = THAT BONE 197TH! ONLY THING THATLL COME UP OUT OF YouR GARDEN ANYWAY I & LET 'IM BE~ He's GOT / A LICENSE “To Do 4 WHAT HE WANTS! THEVS A DOG WHAT LIVES NEXT DOOR, AN' HE'S OUT W YOUR’ GARDEN PLANTIN' A BONE NEAR“TH’ ONIONS! WHAT tt \S HE THERE Now 2 THEY'LL BE PLANTING THAT VELP AFTER I GET-TUROUGH DUSTING HIM* HE'LL SKID HOME WITH ENOUGH BRICKS ‘ OWN HIS BACK “TO BUILD, Fr a GRAND PRIZE FREE LUCKY NUMBER WITH EVERY POUND OF TEA, 1.57 PRIZE —HANGING LAMP 2) PRIZE - FIVE PouNps OF SMOKING TOBACL! ) | | | THE HOME FOLKS WERE MUCH DISTURBED(S WHEN THEY DISCOVERED THE LODGE LADIES FROM HOOTSTOWN TOOK MANY CHANCES OV te HANGING LAMP: } ——— The Last Straw then turned to Zinn with a smile. “Very well, Mr. Zinn. If Mr. Lon aine's agreeable, 1 don't mind. « .”|1 TAS YSUAL, HALWAYS TRY TO IF You DON'T LIKE THE 1 SUPPOSE You THINK bognaed PLEASE -1 HAD SIX HATS THIS 1S A HOT NUMBER? Harry Lontaine got home at a tate! OTHER TWo, HOW DoES hour for one who had it in mind to} bathe, dress and put in appearance for an 8 o'clock dinner several miles away } Before the door which gave upon | the private quarters of the houne, | however, he hung for some time in seeming reluctance to proceed. Eventually he pushed the deor open. Immediately he aw Fanny.| Bathed in @ great glare, she eat in her dreasing room facing long mir-| ror of three panels; decked out en| grande toilette, wearing every jewe! she possexsed, groomed to the finest nuance of perfection; a brilliant and strangely immobile figurine of mod ern feminity, with bobbed hair like} burnished brass, milk-white bosom | and arma rising out of calyx of peachblow taffeta, Jewels etung to | | SENT OUT SO THAT YOU COULD HELP ME SPLECT KNOW WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE BUT I'M GOING TO KeeP IT AND TAKE A THE OTHERS GO BACK! NO, 1 DON'T LIKE THAT One® EITHER -You STILL HAVE ONE IN IT LOOKS LIKE A BU2Z SAW - ' TAKE IT OFF: iridescent life by that fierce wash of Night. As if hypnotized by so much bright loveliness, she cantinued steadfastly to gure upon her reflect- ed self; even when she heard Lon talne at the door and the mirror placed him behind her in the door. way, she did not move by so much as a trembling eyelash. In @ voice that strained without success to sound easy and natural, Lontaine said: “Ah, Fanny! dressed already, eh? Must be later than I thought.” “It'a past halt-peet.~ plied without expression, Lontaine glanced nervonsty at the back of his wrist. “Right you are. See here, old girl: you're all dressed I may! but you've laid it on a bit) | thick tonight, haven't yout | "I wanted something to remember | | myself by,” Fanny mystertousty tn | formed the mirror to which her at tention continued constant. } “What do you mean by that? Lontaine paused for answer, but | | Fonny was dumb, He easayed an. | Jother short, confused laugh. “You | know, Fan, sometimes you think of | the damndest things to say.” “Yes: don’t I™ Ho recognized one of her mnitshty enigmatic moods and withdrew. Lontaine reappeared in the door. Faany re «| “Fifty thou—perhaps a few more.” | Following another little silence, | Panny gave a curt laugh, left her | ) | be chair and, standing at the dressing | “HeNot Thought you were gong | table, began slowly to strip off her on ahead.” |Jewels, her sunburst brooch, her} “Presently,” Fanny reptied tn brtt-| riexibie bracelets, the pearis that had tle accents, “Something's the mat-|been her mother’s, all her rings, | ter” even that slender hoop of platinum | “Cant find my razors.” Jand diamonds which she bad never} & “No.” At last the woman broke) removed since the day of her mar-} | her pose: her counterfeit in the gines | | nodded gravely to the man behind| |her. “No,” she tterated—and he! jhad the flying thought that her} voice had never vibrated so eweetly “and you won't find them, either, rry. They're In a ws ne geod hunting for them “What! Lontaine advanced one| sudden stride, “What's that riage. She cromed to him and paused, | looking down not unkindly at his bowed head and shoulders. / “t don't love you, Harry, and you; don’t love me, It's funny to think we ever did—inn’t it? All the same, we've been thru the rough together | *0 often, I don't want you to go away thinking I blame yon . . .” “Geo away? Lontaine groaned. | “T thought It might sve tronble.| “whore can I go, they wouldn't find| | You seo, Harry, I haven't forgotten | me? I'd rather be dead than a con-| that hideous scene we had in Lon-| vict!* last time you decided {t was all| “Don't worry: I'll soon talk Cindy up with you, there wasn't anything | round, persuade her not to be too to do but cut your throat. I didn’t|/hard on you. Here...” She bent j#ee any sense in going thru all that| over and poured that wealth of jew- again.” elry Into the cup of Lontaine’s hands. After a ful! minute of sflence Lon-|“These ought to see you a long! taing uttered heavily: “I see you've! way ‘a guessed. . ” Ly Lentaine fumped up, “There have been #o many of these| staring in daze at the treasure in crises in our life together, Harry, 1| the hands that instinctively reached ought to know the aigns—don’t you | out to Fanny, offering to give back th ° |her gift. But she stepped away and stood with hands behind her, shak ing her head #0 vigorously that the | glistening short locks stood out like * Page 695 “AT THE DARKENING OF THE MOON THEY WILL COME” “De you know,” Mrs.| at midnight, there was to be a Hewitt, after a pause, “I believe | total eclipse and then the savages we had a pretty good time right) would strike, thru everything. “With which cheering news, “Take those awful years, 1865-| ey rode away and left us.” 56. 1 recall the winter of 1856,| “The soldiers left, but the com- the settlers had cause enough to] P@ny cama. News and letters and be afraid, dear knows, and they | partiged ms ee pagel bya folks didn't write invitations an had to be on the watch, but st) FON | oe ee seems to me that we were taught | ¥!t for answers. Everybody was to feel afraid, as children we had| Tedy for company when tt came, Itttle real fear of the Indiana, | 4 the company made itself at pa . et 2 & home and stayed as long as it remember that fall there liked. Stella. were the forts all about, at Stella | “It was very interesting to us coom and Nisqually and there to have the wagons come up to were little neighborhood forts, | the bovn called ‘Fore| CW” nowse and see tho children eee eee Fort) cotting out, Or if they were . Mugginst nearer weighbors to have them sald sin, I SAY wry (38 IT YOU ALWAYS WANT A REMARK REPENTED | pate” The man stumbled to a chair, and} bent a louring over countenance hands savagely laced. “What else “And sometimes when a new MT dot entices, opt tite), brazen nimbue. “But you, Fanny straggle in carrying thelr treas- he mutter 1 BG | Pewee ccge apa bool alarm was given the settlers h there's no other way out|~What will you ures, would gather together in some one home for better protection. “I think it was in January that soldiers came thru our part of the country and warned us that the Indians were again on the war- path and would strike when tho moon should be in eclipses “Was there an eclipse to come soon? we asked. “Yes, on such and such a night, ot ” “Never fear for me, Harry.” She fixed his puzzled eyes with a smile of profoundly fronical significance. “I'l get along...” “Put these... every blessed trin- ket you own... .!* “IN get others.” His jaw dropped. She continued | to posture lightly before him, an ex: quisitely fragile and pretty shape of youth deathless and audacious, a dainty spirit of mockery temptingly incarnate, diabolically sage, diaboll cally sure of the potency of her time old lures... (Continued Tomorrow “The fathers and mothers seem. ed to think it was serious, but they laughed and joked and made the best of things, toa “Of course we knew that danger was near, of course it was awful to think that we would all probably get scalped, but it wouldn't help any to ery. That's how we felt, T think, (To Be Continued) On “There are stenmers every no often from San Francisco, for Honolulu. China, Japan, the South Seas . “No use, They'd get me by wire. leas \f they ever allowed me to go aboard. Zinn I'm sure that Jew devil suepecta .. . insists on getting at the books first thing to. morrow.” “How much have you got Cindy for? Lontaine raid What's that? “How much rowed, Harry?” Into stopily, “Hh? have you ..» bor higher education of a bride. I do] pitchforks!* like her immensely, Jack, She's} “But you've never been afraid of charming, now, isn't she?" the rain, Peggins! You love to be Jack did not reply, He merely | out in it. Come along!" gaged upon me as if he couldn't But I would not go. get my meaning, and so I added: night. “Let's ran over to Mrs. Herrod's,” he suggested at dinner, “It's raining—torrents,” I objected. “But she called me up today. She's leaving this week for the married, Certainly T had on right to object, for our contract had been shaped to cover exactly this kind of @ case, Jack and I were not to dictate about individual friendships, OUR FIRST YEAR And Jack. Every time I decide that 1 must | show my bills to Jack, something pops up to make me postpone the ordeal. When it seemed that I could de lay the exhibit no longer, I prepared the daintiest dinner, all Jack's favor ite dishes, It had ralued all day, we ~ By a Bride — CHAPTER XXIX~-MRS, HERROD INTRUDES had been out every night for a week, I felt sure that my darling husband would love to settle down and read @ magazine aloud while I embroid- red. And at some psychological moment 1 would produce the bills, mountains. And she has discovered another two-mover che knows I'll want to file!” “That seems to settle it" T laugh- ed pleasantly. Why should Mrs. Herrod eall up Jack at his office in- stead of mo at home? To be sure, she always had called Jack so, and eism of Mrs, Herrod. Hut I couk social affair, “Mra. Herrod has been extremel: So I couldn't say a word In eriti- not pardon her for calling a man at his office to give an invitation for a nice to me lately,” I remarked casu- ally, “She's taken such an interest perhaps she ought not to be expected |in my housekeeping. Site's appoint But Jack upset my plan that|jto change her habit because he badjed herself a kind of professor in the “It ruins so, I think you'd better go alone, dear! “Oh, Peggin: There was sincere reproach combined with appeal in my hushand’s voice, “I'll call her up! I'll tell her you can't comoe—"* “You'll do nothing of the kind, sweetheart! You simply have to go she's leaving town this week!” I was obdurate, “Seo—it'’s raining id y Medaianiniene icc ees agate REIT LTE protested he would not. Neverthe: less, he went. I fancied I could settle down calm ly to enjoy a novel after Jack had gone, but I couldn't read. 1 could think only of my man and Mrs, Herrod as 1 had watched them at many & gume with their understand. ing silences, their intimate silences, (To Be Continued) Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Stay »