The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 8, 1922, Page 13

shy Be OT & Lows Jooeh Vaan, (Continued From Our Last Issue) But always ere now he had fortt- fied and shriven her conscience with mind, it must and would be Reno Now Reno no longer held forth any promise of salvation, of the law's sanction, the church's counte. mance. Today and henceforward it Must be all for love or .. . nothing .. . @ break final and irrepar able And for all the shock she had suf. fered, for a! the wrong Lynn had Gone and the pain of which his ill. faith bad been the cause, the love she had given the man still was dear, dangerously sweet and disarm. ing. Already she was aware of anxiety to grasp at excuses for him, to comfort the ache in her heart with the thought that she was ac cording charity to a dear transgres- for, already she felt her strength to resist being sapped, flesh and spirit succumbing anew to the spell he Anew too well how to weave. ‘The scales hung long tn trembling. ‘They turned only when Summeriad, | ‘unwisely, losing patience, sought to take by storm the lips she had not yet made up her mind to surrender, and thus aroused resistance till then it, With an ease that tn a queer, de tached way she found = surprising, she managed to break his embrace. Nevertheless the effect left her faint Bhe faltered to the fireplace and Festedy a band on the mantel, her foreh@ed upon the hand. Over and ever he murmured gently: “Linda, Linda, Linda . -" Shaking from head to foot, she made a feeble sign of appeal, He disregarded this en- tirely, his arms again stole round her and would have drawn her to him but that, of a sudden, her mind caught at a straw of memory, she Grew away, with a hand upon his dosom put him firmly from her, eyes | that were melting none the less denying him, lips that were aquiver with “Yee” resolutely pronouncing “Nom “You are eruel. . .° “No, Lynn . Wait. Tef me some. thing . . . You say she—your wife @greed to divorce yout “I made her promise,” Summertad asserted grimly. ‘The day she “When was that? @isappeared? The day I found her lying senseless in her room?" “I suppose #0, Well, then—yes.” PIKE’S 6) Louls JOSEPH VAN (Copyright, 1922, by The Seattic Star? “Did you have much of a scene? “I'll say it was some stormy young Stanion,” sary to strike her?” Summertad started, “Wh: her! What do you mean?” But his eyes winced from her importunete regard. “She—Nelly had a bruise on her cheek, that afternoon; and it wasn't an old bruise, Lynn; you struck her!” “Perhaps, Maybe I did forget my self, 1 don't remember, What if I @id? She asked for it, didn’t she? I'd have half killed her if she'd tr Strike stuck to her refusal to go back east’ Realtzing that his tongue was again running away with his discre tion, he curbed it sharply She started back in repulsion, but he overtook her in the middle of the room and again crushed her to him, “Linda, Linda! what do theese | things matter? I love you, dearest, | you love me, nothing else matters. forget—" The fury of her antagonism found him unprepared. Once more his arms were empty. And this time when he started in pursuit, some. j thing he couldn't see struck him brutally in the chest and threw him back, In the same instant he heard |a heavy, crashing noise he couldn't } account for, An inhuman sound. Jt shook the room, beat« deafeningly | upon one’s ears. As if someone had overturned a heavy plece of furni | ture. Only no one had. Certainly he | hadn't, certainty Luetnda hadn't. She was flattened against the father wall, watching him with a face of horror, blanched and gasping Enraged, he put forth all his strength to recover from that inex } plicable blow. And instantly it was repeated. And again. Each time ac }companied by that savage, crashing noise. Like thunder cut off short. And each time he reeled under the impact, and sickening pains shot thru him, like knives white-hot. He felt himself sinking . . . In expiring Mashes of conscious. Ress he saw Lucinda, still flat against the wall, staring not at him but at a French window nearby. Re tween its curtains a woman's arm was thrust, the hand grasping an automatic pistol with mazzle faintly fuming. There was a face of sha. dowed pallor dimly visible beyond the curtains, a face with wild, ex e PEAKK ADVENTURES NS OF STHE: T TWINS $ET FORTH TO SOLVE THE GREAT MOON MYSTERY Mrs. Cottontail mistoo “Nancy and Nick,” said Mr. Peer- about, the Man-in-the-Moon, “I wish yeu would find out how much mis chief my enemy, Comet-Legs, is do ing.” “Has he been wicked again?” ask @4 Nancy “I'm not sure,” nodded Mr, Peer- about. “Horneone has been tamper: ing with my handles I run the moon with. s¢ cone has been in my en- ow 1 had tt fixed so that earth People would have a clear, bright, full moon last night. And pere I got a better saying that the moon w h nd pale end only out half time) that *®. Cottontail mistook burdock for Wuce in Farmer Smith's sass. n garden and had to have Rice.” w can we fad out?” asked le burdock for lettuce. “Well, the best way I think,” said Mr. Peerabout, stroking bis long beard, “is to go down to some good |place on the earth, and mark down in @ little book everything the moon | does “We'll do the best we ¢an,” said Nancy. “Have you got a book?" Mr. Peerabout had nice little red one and handed it over. “Now, you children go down on a moon-beam, or wish yourselves down | to the earth with your Green Shoes, land I'll fix the handles so that there will be a moon like half a dollar. 1 mean a dollar cut in half. | “And I'm going to have it as clear as a drugstore window. If it is dif. ferent, I want you to tell me at once. l¥ou can telephone. There's a tele. phone in Cob Coon's tree alin Old Oak Apartments.” Away went the ‘Twins, (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, by Beatue Star) that why you found it neces | For God's sake be kind to me! let's; He lives | ‘To | | 1 | | | ultant eyes Nelly's . +6 XXXI To the woman pinned to the wail |by shock the moments immediately |following that murderous fusilade were a raving welter of horrors. Between two heartbeats she saw Lynn, with a face us blank as paper, spinning, toppling, beating the air | With aimless arms, pitching to the | floor like something biasted, resting | there in a sickening, inert crumpie; jand was keenly aware of the acrid (reek Of smokeless powder cutting, as jacid cuts oll, the sensuous scent of that dressed the room in ; and all the while was con scious of the pistol nosing in between the draperies Wke an animate thing | of infinite matice, and the pallid oval of the face behind it, that seemed float in the dark as might the mask | Of some mad ghost As the din of those three shots lost weight and volume, « thin shout ing became audible from some point Outside the house, and Nelly Mar. Quis, with the aweep of a fury, her eyes burning like black opals, broke! thru the hangings at the window and pulled up with pistol leveled) point-blank at Lucinda's brea | A single thought persisted: An | other instant and I shall be as Lymn... | Then abruptly thru the window a/ dark and heavy body hurled and fas. | tened upon the woman's back, swing: | ling her aside, the pistol detonated }with @ bellow, the bullet plumped into the wall close by Lucinda’s head. ] | She heard a voice crying out again and again, “Bel! Bel! Bel! { Her own voice... and for a jleng time hung in dread upon the | iemue of that swaying combat: while Bel clung to the woman's arm, mut-) jtering and panting in futile efforte |to wrest her weapon awhy; while Nelly clawed, bit, kicked, pound her free fist repeatedly into I |face, and wrenched madly at her captive wrist j Of a sudden, from her hand a spiteful tongue of fire licked out at | Bel, his right arm flailed back and fell useless, agony his features. Free, the woman bounded away and with a laugh of maniac | glee swung the pistol to bear upon hin head Without knowing what Lucinda flung herself upon arm and bore it down. With deflect jed muzzle the pistol exploded for the convulsed she did ast time. Dropping it, Nelly turned on Lucinda and dealt with her as might a madwoman, Impressions krew confused beyond assortment, of flopping wildly this way and that, of hot breath beating into her face, of her bare flesh suffering « rain cruel blows Thrown oft w hout warning, how the couldn't guess felt herself reeling back, tripping. falling. Some thing struck the back of her head a stunning blow, and she knew flicker. | ing nausea while dense night like al lis wove cloud on every hand closed | | she in upon her Choking and coughing, un. | cloned her eyes upon the ot Rel's face A hand holding a bottle jot amelling salts dropped away from her nose. Bel saluted her reviving lintelligence with an even erce “You'll do now, I guess. Try to p yourself together. No time t« “My hea She Bel in hig shirt-sle jeuff turned back elbow ves, with the above his right the forearm rudely banda with torn linen on which a dee | strain was spreading, “But Bel-—| | your arm—?" | | “Hurta like hell |thru the underside from wrist to| | ¢lbow, nearly. I'd be dead if you! hadn't jumped for her.” “And Lif you hadn't come thru} the window when you did, But{ . Lynn?" Rel laughed shortly. “The excel lent Mr. Summerlad’s still breath: jing. That's all we can tell till the surgeon gets here.” “What became of—~her?™ | | “Got away clean, worse tuck!—| |ducked past me and thru the win. | |dow like a shot,” Summerlad lay where he had fal: | |len, on the far side of that piece of| |furniture. His face, upturned to the| | staring light, was like a thing of | sculptured ivory, expressionless and Bullet ploughed | CHAPTER XXXI—OL | 1 strung my beads on a linen | |thread while Jack finished his shay ing. We hadn't expected to find} each other perfect, I thought. 1| wasn't But I did most things the/ lve! 1 could—here fell a few tears | almost as large as my beads—and T had believed that Jack had married mo because he preferred me to ali OUR BOARDING HOUSE ALONG YOU COME AN’?P ™! Joe ! = GET UP BAD LUCK,oR I'LL SHAMPOO | And it isn't as if you could do Sum OUR FIRST YEAR | - By a Bride ——~——--~-— 8 YoU FATHEAD ! « AFTER WE WoRK A ‘= COUPLA HOURS TRYING RIG UP THAT SWING [f CORK OUT OF OUR | | DOINGS OF THE DUFFS DID You WANT ) YES, THERE IS ALITTLE MATTER | WANTED TO SPEAK To You ABOUT- LETS SEE, YOURE MARRIED NOW To SEE ME Boss ? A FRECKLES AND HIS “uses Listen OVA HEAR THAT ? SOMEBOOVS’ COMIN’ blanched. The ehirt beneath the flowered dressing gown was hideous ly blotted. } “You think © Rel! do you really think he will live? “No fear Bel sneered Hell make a fool of many another woman before he's finished. My chauffeur wili run you down to the hotel. I think he’s to be trusted. Wish I felt cure of that Jap.” Sure of him? “Why do you suppose I'm hurry ing you away? Do you want the pa pers to get hold of the fact that you were keeping an assignation with | th or whethis wife caught you and shot him?" Lucinda let her wrap fall, “If my relationship to Lynn i# what you imply—then my place is here with him.” | | “Please yourself. But remember the papers are going to make big capital out of this scandal in the movie colonly They've en itehing for tt for year knowing it was bound to break out some day How long do you imagine it'll be before the reporters will ferret out the fact that ‘Linda Lee’ is Mrs Bellamy Druce? Do you want to ait n the witness-box and — testify against that demented creature when the’s tried for murder?” | “What you think . . ! “What the devil ¢do you care what I think? If you aren't what people | are going to say you are, what are you doing here, alone with Summer lad, in his own home, at night?” “The Lontaines were coming to dinner, but—" | “‘But'!’ Bel snorted. “Oh, all right! I'll gtve you the benefit of if that'll induce you to} the doubt, clear out of this before it's too late. merlad any good by staying, His fate’s all up to the surgeons, I'll) keep you posted, I'll come and tell | you what the surgeon says,” | He bent with painful effort and lifted her wrap. She took it with out word, swung it round her shoulders, turned and left the room. (To Be Continued.) JR FIRST QUARREL other women-—-more tears but what ack really wanted was to sit op posite Mrs. Herrod and make life one continual game of chess! 1 th it ends of my thread as} neatly possible, 1 heard my hus: band go to the closet for his coat. THE SEATTLE STAR “THROUGH A REVOLVING BY AHERN | ‘=F MAT GUY IS AB AS NIMBLE AS A THREE LEGGED ELEPHANT GOING DOOR = HE COULDN'T WALK IN TH! SAHARA DESERT WITHouUT KNOCKING OVER A SWek's TENT BEEN MARRIED FOR NEARLY Dou FRIENDS a THR OLD HOME TOWN WOLD ER _ NEWT SHES iS WIN THE = LAmM| AT THE MASS MEETING HELD TODAY, PLANS WERE DISCUSSED To BEAT OUT HOOTS TOWN IN THE RACE TO WIN AMP OFFERED BY STANLEY 157 PRIZE -HANGING ZW PRIZE- FIVE POUNDS AND HELP OF SMOKING TOBACCO HANGING P FOR OUR AF THE GRAND PRIZE HANGING S STORE - BY ROBINSONS S Strictly a Personal Matter YES SIR- IVE | weit YouVE BEEN| THANK YOU, ; BOSS -VERY GOOD WORK LATELY-| VERY MUCH ! ANEAR NOW! /YouR SALARY WILL BE RAISED TEN DOLLARS A WEEK - STARTING NEXT IG PRETTY Page 697 THE CREEPI “It recily was funny,” Mrs. Hewitt said, “There that old woman sat, weeping and wailing and knitting, and the louder she cried the faster she would knit And about once every so often she would stop long enough to turn tearful eyes to her husband, who like the other men, was busy with his fire arma, and cry out “Oh, Samuel! I'm so afraid you'll hurt someone with that gun? “Hy suppertime every man had his gun ready, his full number of bullets and patches and his plans made for fighting off the attack “The dixhes were washed and put away and under normal con ditions we would have been put to bed (probably on the floor. 1 can’t see how mother did manage all that crowd of children.) “But no one was to go to sleep that night. Every eye and ear must wateh and listen “Over the tree tops the moon rose, I shall never forget it. It was so big and round and clear and there wasn't a cloud in the sky. I- never saw a brighter night, but at midnight it would grow dark and at midnight the Indians would come. Re and without speaking to Jack, I|that! Who would have dreamed that started downstairs after the mail. “Peggins!’ 1 heard Jack call did not answer. “Peg! Come back My Never had I My prolonged silence of the morning had produced some reaction, 1 was pleaded to note. But if Jack was exasperated, husband's voice was stern heard him speak so. at last, so was I! I proceeded on my errand downstairs and paid no atten, From my third story window, I saw | Madison, the postman coming up the street, ‘To be ordered—by a husbund—Llike Do be careful. | HADOW far 1 got in my gruesome NG 5 thoughts then, being 10 years old and my father's one daughter. I said | “Well! If we've all got to sit up and wait to be killed, I don’t see why we mightn’t just as well te some fun while we're Come on and having doing the waiting. let's go out In the yard and play “So out we trouped more than a dozen little giggling, whispering j children to play under the big Balm O'Giliad tree. | “We played, 1 remember, an old | kame we called ‘under the juniper | tree,’ where we all marched round and round and somebody got kiss | ed. I don’t recall it exactly. | “But I do remember how every | time a twig snapped or a leaf fell, we stampeded for the house, sure that the Indians were upon us! Only to go softly out again and resume our game-—a tiptoe, and with no voice above a whisper. “The old clock on the shelf pointed to 11—mother and father began to have a tired, strained look about their eyes, when I peeped in at them, there was faint dark rim on one edge of the shining moon—the shadow was creeping upon it!’ (To Be Continued) re JusT A Minute! 1 WANT TO CAUTION You NOT TO MENTION THAT RAISE To THE OTHER BOYS IN “THE { AND HER SISTER Went To TORONTO, CANADA, CAST WEEk! EeveryBoer WHO SAW HOVE SAID SHE WAS CCOKING AWFUL SAD Ir was AN AWFYL Blow TO Her - Rami } THEY SPEnTt A COT oF MonGY OW HER So THEY Tec. me} TeeSny TEC CN ae JOR ie | | band's first harsh command? The postman had left nothing in around the corner of the building T gave it u swift glance, our box jand rushed out of doors. hieft to seen the postman, | stood why I | without him, had had not not asked wolf | my considerate Jack could become so | of stubborness, 1 I | domineering? And what could @ bride | house, hearing Jack on the stairs of spirit do but ignore a young hus. | just before 1 had just enough common sense realize that Jack had not! under. | needed me, was going downstairs | come indispensable why. tion whatever to Mr. John Cuthbert | wouldn't have let me go for the mail! tortable, as long as 1 amused him?/not for how long! had he known, would have gone him.|That had been woman's ancient Moved I know not by what streak my own mother it had ended in dé flew out of the | yorce. Well, I had learned from mother's the door slammed be- | experience. A score of steps took m 1 would not forgive Jack too easily, that I decided, altho by this time I was not very clear about what Jack ought to be forgiven. And how was | to guess that Jack |imagined the impossible, that he hac jdivined my hurt about Mrs. Herrod. and that when I left our suite, he believed I was leaving him, he knew hind me. I wanted to get away from Jack, | wanted to Mok alone, wanted him to miss m How could I make him feel that he that already I had be as long as I stayed at home and made him com. (To Be Continued) way. What had it got for her? For (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle