The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 20, 1922, Page 11

WELL, WE'RE HERE « i i | way Don'r You Guys ARTHUR BR REEVE HoP IN AN! GIVE “TH! Fic an 7% A. ery Oh go I THoueuT From Yesterday) moment later, “Mother, we'll go out rp AD BeOy AG NOU CLIMBED OUT OF YouR TOGS YOU WERE Gow! RIGHT IN AN’ MINGLE WITH TH’ waves! to the club together. I'm going to put on my swankiest gown—and get | the drop on those old gossips out | ea ‘em off their ears. Just < CHAPTER VU LTBRNATING AFF RCTIONS was tate when Dick finished re. | ing the conversation in which he Listened In over the wireless dio. ph. : Dick and Garrick were taking! ‘i ; “Now, Ruth,” Garric! i, wertheless Garrick Insisted on | '** . jarrick said, d se! ing the park and dropping in| #avely emailing, “let me go home t the Usonla. On the register, | "24 sleep, Don't do anything more | J ty blotted, he read: until T get a tow hours af rest. It takes sleep to keep up with you.” As Dick was protonging the good. dy and trying to arrange when they were to see each other again @ bell: boy opened the hall door and set down a beautiful basket of roses. PF aiisg Ruth Walden, Nonowantus, ie Vira Gerard, Nonowantus, 1. ‘“Bvo late to disturd them—bdut gan bet It won't be late in the " ” Ruth's face rank in the flowers. ping when they'ie disturbed . jedi yy 4 Wrinkling up her little nose she oo Rogie aah sah "| looked trasingly at Dick. She drew & card out of the basket and threw tt on the table. “Mummay, see what Jack Curtis sent me, Isn't he thoughtful? They are my favorite shade. Mra. Walden looked none too pleased. Dick was in the depths again. He would willing have stuck up Jack. Fifteen minutes tater back tn Ger riok’s rooms Dick was att! scowling, this time at the dictagraph as he re called what he had overheard Jack Playing In the Jove game last night ln her haste and nervousness sh Garrick picked the headpiece up. “You know, I never really eaw this to the door of Ruth’ put her hand on the wall hersel¢ and listened. In| thing work, What was the matter heard yolces. She | with {t last night?’ but did not walt for Ruth) “Someone jammed tn on the same atime” Withoot 0 onsont’s wave length. I can't see yet how, ™ Without a second's Garrick held up his hand. “It's Ruth ran to her mother. Vira and Glenn in the Pink Room.” Phere was no reprimanding, Nita} fe listened in intently. “Vira, I've rt felt only a joy to have re- been aching to have you alone. what she thought might) Please don't get angry at Hao's deen lost. Only @ miother| foolishness with me, I can’t stop know the depth of that feeling. | her without mak’ the crowd gore. took Ruth's pretty face loving-| You know how !t T've wanted to her hands and looked intensely | tell you this in some place where I depthe.jcould . . .” “Don't Pl si There wae a atlence. 2 muffied, “I oughtn't “Ruth—ts all right) to tell you, but I can’t help it, They th you?’ Her hold on Ruth tight-| say you shoulda’t be jealous—but if sh Ruth doesn't sleep much ©) Tihatgh he concluded. “The thought you and the wrecked car and the she ts in will keep her awake, few serious thoughts in the dark- wih do her a lot of good. W for you—early.” Tt was not much after seven when | Dick and Mre. Walden rode tp the Usonia elevator. As the per clanged shut, Mre. Walden mo. Garrick back, with a nod. 2 ager almost a bad as no lege. As if in answer to a prayer for now | hearts to conquer, Jack ewept up! with a flurry in his crimson chummy } car. ‘There was nothing Mustered, noth- ing hurried about Jack, altho he left the motor running, throttled down. No one could have been more defer- | ential or reassuring to Mra. Walden. She did not like the bey, but on sec | ond thought she was forced to admit | to herself that she had nothing “on” him. The conversation wafted merrily to the new chummy car. “Wouldn't you like to try the new botiert” “Would I? Run me over to Mer- rthew’s garage. I want to see that wrecked boat of my own and give some instructions what shade I want the body done over in, I feel lost without a wheel in my hands. You won't mind, Mummsy—for @ little while?” Mrs. Walden was powerless. She! had wanted Ruth to stay on. But) she had her cue from her own! daughter. After all it was she who) would have to sweep the older gos | sips “off their ears.” Ruth mey have to impress the crowd at the olub but it all went to Jack's head and he broke out in Intense leve making. “Did you get my flowers, RuthT “They were beautiful. How did you know my favorites? “Mine, too. . . That's how, Ruth, Gear, haven't you noticed how many things we have in common? Love of | fast cars, speed, exciternent—even to roses! Why I couldn't even quarrel with your* | He edged over under the wheel! nearer her. Ruth emiled st bim. Suddenly he leaned over to sttal a kiss. ear. “I'm going to tell you « secret. waa that in Ruth's eyes that) When you gave up that key to give eld ef innocence in spite of her/ to them, do you know what I did? I ld love of excitement. got the stuff out first from your Dent worry, Mrs. Walden.”| house . . . to protect you. I did it Vira. “Her only com-jon my own. And It was lucky I did. as yen ly Sand aptat MM pert Deda. 4 = a uckled. Hore at ; “Be carefull iknow that last night they There was a muffied whisper, Don't you back to the club we'll go out to my workshop om the harbor. If any- thing's golng to happen, it will be out there.” “And you'll be near Ruth,” pene ° - | trated Garrick. or vial in my food or coffee, lke) “Well! Where Ruth ts, @id in the old days—hang !t,| where things happen, eh?” y don’t need love philtres in these| When her mother’s car pulled up when they make "em as won-jat the club that afternoon, Ruth/ as you! Confound ft, the wilder| hopped cut and was up the steps are, the more I want to have! with a bound. to . . . Ruth, dear, lean over, I “Well, it Ia good to see you, Ging!’ to whisper something.” Ruth|*ghake hands, Jim, olf dear, Wasn't over. “I love you"—-and air tucky I didn’t get killed dead?” surreptitious kiss on the ear. | ‘fiello, Bob. Steering gear on the | “Ruth.” It was Garrick, with «| pFrits.” “What a jolly crowd to see le that he might have worn if after being laid up for a couple of been 40 years older, He walked | days.” “tT tell you, Vira’s a peach of over to the window aside, lean-|@ little nurse. Never go back on down to talk low to her. All/that girl.” “June, you should have Dick caught was a fragment,| seen how we nearly went over the “and the estate—the income of ten | bridge!” Somehow Ruth was giad that’s the next moment she had taken Jack's hand and given it They were just about leaving Mer- | rihew’s, when the faithful McKay, | who had been watching the depar-| ture vigtlantly from the parking | space st the club, tapped lightly on | the door of Dick's boathouse work shop. ' It needed only to have McKay epll! the news about the automobile ride | with Curtis to set Dick frantic over Ruth. A few minutes later Dick and Garrick were on the club porch. | Professor Vario was there with} Million dotiars, next month—when Her mother stood and locked at| Mrs. Walden, very thoughtful and you are 18—" In a manner that no! Ruth agha: No one eles had got fn | sympathe In fact, he was fo at- ime else could imitate, Garrick was} a word and she had had a word with|tontive that Garrick found himself s scolding. He is just giving a iMittie fatherly advice. Ruth said . almost nothing. But once their met. There seemed to be a of understanding. “An4,” with still serious smile, “be—be care every person on the porch, had made them feel that they were each her particular friend and had been let In on the whole secret. She hadn't given anyone a chance to ask «| question and had told only just what she wanted and no more, just as if/| it had been the whole story to the| whole crowd. “These fiappers dont need a mother or « diplomat; they are all the wisdom of the world condensed,” soliloquized Mra. Walden. It was perhaps an hour er two later in the afternoon when the big story had become ancient history, a mere nine minutes’ wonder, that Ruth at the Country club began to feel lonesome. With no car, it was 8 we ing where lay his interest—in | her or daughter? It beats the devil,” Guy found himself wondering, “how these dod dering scientists can be #0 clever and deep In thetr own fields—and such children when it comes to! affairs of life and the heart.” Dick saw nothing. His vision was psed by one thought. Ruth was! somewhere with Jack. Nor was It long before he blurted it out In some thinly disguised form, “ wouldn’toworry much over Ruth and Jack,” put in the professor “Phone youngsters neem to me to be quite capable of taking care of them- selves—at least Ruth does.” He paused @ moment, “I think I know enough of their habits \from watch- ing them around here at the club to guess where they might go. I'v got to go over, to the old Saville station this afternoon. I'll take @ look at some of the places on the! ) Glenn called to take Vira to the! Ty and the four motored back Mrs. Walden's apartment. “Well, Mummsy, it's good to get . I'm going to kiss you again.” Mrs. Walden lowked at her pretty Metrl and sighed. “What o joy it ts what a responsibility to raise a fn these days of woman's free. | | “Nothing to what it must be to ‘Taine a boy!” retorted Ruth. Then a Clive Kob DB way where they might stop—the | TWINS IN SEARCH TO LEARN PEERABOUT’S Se cat conag masiiehs dahad WHEREABOUTS to calm Dick down. 1 may be a} great inventor and all that,” he re marked following out the thought that had been running thru his mind, “put... well, tackle the wireless reading of a woman's heart, then” ‘The Twins were hunting Mr, Peer the City of Pearl, but nobody had About, the Man-in-the-Moon. He was|#een bim. oe . ‘Phen suddenly one ol4 fellow in the City of Pearl remembered some ‘They looked into his house, but he v HOUSE Lo =nre It went wrong and fell on her | at waan't the one Dick bad kissed. But) Uttle | squeeae in return. | THE SRATTLE § WHY, We'Re WArTING FoR Youd LAUNCH = 4 Nou'Re TH’ BGG THAT \ DID ALL TH’ SHOUTING ABOUT BEING "IW First)” INt= G'WAN, LeTS See YoU CROWD uP “TH’ LAKE! MiSs Lee, | WAS LOOKING FOR You- 1 HAD SOME DICTATION, BuT t GAVE IT TO Mids FRECKLES AN Garriok’s sententious answer. lo the late afternoon Curtis drew | up at the Binnacles, a queer old place furnished like the cabin of an old clipper ship. There was a wire lows at the Binnacle and broadcasted music. “Twot winked. Jack leaned over. “Going to see what that wink meant,” he whis pered to Ruth as he followed the waiter out. A moment and he re turned. “Name's Herman. He's all Might,” he explained. A few minutes later Hermen ap peared with cocktails in tea cups. “Here's looking at—" Ruth and Curtis had the cups balanced, ready to taste, “Don't!” Ruth looked at him qurprised. Yes, sir.” The waiter s 2 drug—ether—something—" He turned quickly toward the waiter, rove, seized him by the shoulder, swung him around. Then he reached into the waiter’s waisteoat pocket and drew out a little vial. “You'll go to jail for this, Her man!" “Planted on me!” “That's what they all say! The screen door of the porch in, He had evidently heard the whole thing on the other side of |the thick boxwood hedg: Before anyone could say a word he selzed the vial, smelled it, then emetied the two cups. “That's an aphrodisiao—a love po- tion.” He turned toward Curtis, “I believe you saw me getting out of my car just now outside, young man.” en fle thing. “What do you mean?” snapped ners. “"Tother day I was taking a| Dick, contentiously. ‘Then they went to Snoozelum y ¥, ‘othing—just nothing.” was |walk,” aid he, “and I saw Mr. | Peerabout talking to Comet-Legs on j@ mountaintop. After while I saw Comet-Legs coming back alone.” “Which mountain was It?’ asked y. “We'd better go up and ~ Town and asked the Towslles (the P Uittie dream fairies), but they didn’t know a thing. Next they went to Smokysoot Vil- Plage and asked the chimney fairies 98nd the Sweep. But no Moon-Man. | "Then they went to all the cities, p the City of Ice, the City of Coral, and OUR FIR By a “That one yonder,” said the olf fellow, pointing. Up the mountain they climbed, Embarrasing Hairs Can jand when they got to the top they | J jfound the other wide so steep it Be Quickly Removed |) poernea to drop down into nothing. i tiihdinectepeompsienimmenanaieneiinenieath (Beauty Culture) Haire can be easily banished from the underarms, neck and face by thin quick, painless method: Mix into © stiff paste some powdered delatone and water, spread on hairy surface, “nd in two or three minutes rub off, ph the skin, and it will be free CE Chaos prevailed In the auditorium of the Little Playhouse o# always at rehearsal. The original barn, once @ vast and elogant shelter for a rich man's car ringes, bad been improved by the laddition of a stage. This wing was Mr. Tearle’s first contribution to the dramatic art of his city. At tho entrance of th Jeanne detained me. “Entrancing—as alwayst’ she ex- claimed, “Better than the play!" Nancy peeped over. Far, far be low was the earth, “Nick,” she said, “I'll bet you any- thing Comet-Legs pushed Mr. Peer. about off the moon and he's down on the earth this minute. We’ to go down and search for him Just then Wink returned from de. a nice dream to an earth | auditorium, hair or blemish. Excepting in| !vering The chairs of the auditorium were Savery stubborn growths, one applica y. | piled h against the walls, All the m is wufficient. To avoid disap ‘Mr. Peerabout’s there,” he said. | activities incident to staging a drama) pointment, buy the dejatone In an|“! saw hin.” were in progress, (Oontinaed Tomorrow) ST YEAR Bride CHAPTER XLI—FLAPPER AUDACITY ;malds, belonging to the Viking east, set them to whirring madly during every pause in the rehearsal, The | costumes for all parts were designed and made by members of the com- pany. Below the stage stood a pressing board, placed hortgontally on two chatr backs, the flatiron connected with a socket In the footlights, And upon the froning board rested the director’s megaphone, also the dl- |rector’s elbows, while he latened to [the actors on the etage. I suppose Judge Ballou never before had been in touch with « laundry utensil, Acattered in heaps upon the floor hed heen (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star) Two sewing machines original package and mix fresh.—Ad- ertisemen pnd tossed over chair backs were swung open, and Prof. Vario strode) OUR BOARDING E SETS OF COLD FEET DOINGS OF THE DUFFS HAVING A 'D HIS FRIENDS | | | | TAR BY AHERN I JUST PACKED’ AWAY A BIG FEED© Y'Won'T SPoT ME FLOPPING I AFTER ® MEAL AN THEN GO HOME WITH A LILY IN MY HAND! « I'M GONNA SIT HERE AWHILE AN! GET MY FIRST FITTING FOR A Lo * * “Ours was a large company,” Mrs. Davis’ soft yolce went on “When they were all gathered to- gether and counted they found that there were just a hundred wagons, 98 gray ones and our own two flaming red ones. “The men got together and made plane for the trip, that we might help and not hinder each other as we went. “They elected my father— Btephen 8. Maxson—captain of thé train and early on a spring morning we rolled out. “One day, as we journeyed along the Platte river, a strange thing happened. A young man had walked ahead, as they often did, he was all alone and just looking about him at the country which was new to him, when off to one side of the train he saw the flutter of a plece of paper. “He thought little of it, but | something idle curlosity, per haps, made him go up to ft and wee what it was, What he found ‘was @ letter tucked Into the skull of a buffalo; a letter directed to "The Leader of the Next Train to ee ft tity of unout flannelette of all ool- ora, and scores of water color de- signs. Buddenly Jeanne exclaimed: “Look at Bonny! “1 don't see how anybody could overlook her! I replied, "She's the | most astonishing note in this amaz- ing jumble!’ “She's dressed for a dance,” whin- pered Jeanne, I murmured that from our point of view she hardly seemed to be dressed at all. That audacious fapper was seated at 4 kitchen table, Page 707 A POSTOFFICE THE O LD HOME TOWN <—. a IN A SKULL me This Way.’ “The young man hastened with back to my father and they it read it and were grave, for the letter was & warning. The man wrote that he alone was left of ome whole train, ell his compan- jons having been massacred by the Indians, “‘and they are watting for yout he wrote, "They strike at mid- night. Follow my instructions and you may be able to-save your train.’ “Then followed instructions as to how they should go, and where { they must cross the river, and how they must use a ‘natural bridge’ for taking the stock across. “Ot course all haste was made to get the great trein forward, as there was no time to spare. ‘ “They found everything just as the man had written, found the natural bridge and the island it led to, but they found no trace of the poor man who had warned us, “We got across and at dark all EXCITEMENT RAN HIGH WHEN “THE NIGHT WATCHMAN REPORTED AN UNKNOWN PERSON HAD TAMPERED | WITH THE DOOR OF ROBINSONS STORE LAST NIGHT; || EVERETT TRUB “BY STANLEY =. = GRAND PRIZE FREE LUCKY NUMBER With EVERY POUND OF TEA ¥ Nata BY ALLMAN. : 1 SENT HIM ON beg | WANT TO KNOW Om was Jos | MSS corner’ |\“poe me heL | 7, Nosx So ceoes Wh | ee, pb ching Back ' VACATION DOWN STAIRS | Opeice Bove [| DE BACK IN A MISS. LEE ? e oe Hoag” EVERY TIME L See You, MR. SNOBBSE, You H4ve THAT SAME THING ON ‘SOvR Face. was tense and everybody was busy doing what he could to make things safe.” (To Be Continued | diciiielllessiesssnseeesssesseses people had requisitioned for a writing desk. ‘What's she up to? queried ments of the production, “Looks absorbed, doesn’t she? Well, she tsn't. Bonny Tearle Is perfectiy conscious this minute that you are talking about her, that George Bradshaw doesn’t take his eyes off from her, that hvr evening cloak has slipped from her shoulders, and that the only bits of her covering on view rhinestones suspenders!” hearsal or worked for it or watched it that night. eyes gazed straight at Bonny when she rose to greet our party. .|eame, half running, a mere child in figure and dress! 1 almost rude, have taken a young matron of 30, one with a lot of potse, sophistication and social prestige to get away with | that daneing gown, put in the best light and two Norse| half finished costumes and a quanja stage “prop” which the publicity] above that kitchen table are thosegnly 16} Her skirt was short and not very full. Her bodice was of silver cloth |coming to an upward point in the One hundred pairs of| middle of the front, barely as hi. as required; to each side of the pyint | was attached a string of rhinestones {laid on black velvet straps which went over her shoulders and fastened to her skirt at the belt, They eonld not have been attached to the waist |in the back for there was none, The \silver bodice sloped low under the | arms and tapered to nothingness behind. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Stazy Fifty persons worked In the re- She esture. But—that awful Amazement made Jeanne and In any normal social era it would And Bonny was i