The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 17, 1922, Page 13

A) THURSDAY, AUGUST 17 WY AAMILNE 1922, HOUSE aierx YSTERY As © Gm BP pe copeny (Continued From Yesterday) “Cayley asked us to bring « letter gions.” Bill explained to Betty se ine. “Here you are.” ‘ou Will tel] him, won't you, how dfully sorry I am about-—about t has happened? It seems so jess to say anything, #0 hope- even to believe it. If it ts true we've heard.” repeated the outline of the te of yesterday . And Mr, Ablett hasn't shook her head In distress, “It seems to have happened to dy else; somebody we didn't at all.” Then, with a sudden amile which included both of “But you must come and have) tea.” LFit's awfully decent of you,” said awkwardly, “but we—er—" | “You will, won't you? ahe said to i ire, Norbury was delighted to seo m, as she always was to see any im her house who came up to necessary standard of eligibility. hen her life work was completed, ad summed up in those beautiful : “A marriage has been ar and will shortly take place, o Angela, daughter of the late Norbury then she utter a grateful Nunc dimittis depart in peace—to a better if Heaven tnsisted, but prefer. ligibles™ that ‘Visitors from the Red House received with such eagerness and even if her special smile were there, it was tn. rather than reasoned. All he wanted at this moment was of Mark. For she was it off at last; and, if the columns of the “Morn- Post™ were preceded, as in the @f its obituary columna, by a bulletin, the announce. of yesterday would have cried te the world, or to part of the world as mattered: marriage has very nearly been ‘ @y Mrs. Norbury, and Bi certainly take piace, between only daughter of the inate y things which were of could possibly have hoped. “It is terrible, terrible.” she sald. f te @uggest that dear Mr. Ab Antony made suitable notses. geen Mr. Ablett for your it, A kinder, more warmhearted man—" Antony explained that he had not Mr. Ablett. | "Of course, yes, I was forgetting. | Prine of | mother.” et to him than; Hut, belleve me, Mr. Gillingham, al intuition ie | | ean trust a woman's these matters.” Antony said he was sure of that “Think of my mother.” Antony wae thinking of Miss Nor bury's feelings as a daughter, and! wondering if she guessed that her | affairs were now being discussed | with @ stranger, Mark engaged, or | about to be engaged! Had that any bearing on the events of yesterday? What, for tn: bury have thought Robert, that family « this another reason for wanting brother Robert out of the way? “I never liked him, never!" “Never liked—?" sald Antony, be. | wildered. 7 “That cousin of his—Mr. Cayley.” | “How did Miss Norbury get on| with him?" Antony asked cautious ly. “There was nothing tn that at all,” said Miss Norbury's mother em phatically, “Nothing, I would say # to anybody.” “Oh, I beg your pardon. meant—" “Nothing. T can say that for dear Angela with perfect confidence. | Whether he made advances—" She | broke off with a shrug of her plump shoulders. Antony walted eagerly. “Naturally they met. Probably he| might have-—I don't know. Rut my duty as a mother clear, Mr. Gti lingham. | Mr, Gillingham made an encourag | Ing noise. | “Tt told him quite frankly that— | how shall I put [t?-—that he was trespassing. Tuctfully, of course, But frankly.” “You mean,” sald Antony, trying | to speak calmly, “that you told him | that—er—Mr. Abiett and your daughter Mrs. Norbury nodded several times. “Exactly, Mr. Offfiagham. 1 had my duty as a mother.” | “There must have been a certain | awkwardness about the next meet. ing.” sugested Antony. “Naturally, he bas not been here since. No doubt they would have been bound to meet up at the Red House sooner or later.” “Oh, thie waa only quite lately?" “Last week, Mr. Gillingham, 1 Spoke just in time.” “AhT sald Antony, under his breath. He had been waiting for it. He would have liked now to have gone away, so that he might have feolings as A I never my feelings aa thought over the new situation by | himself. But Mrs. Norbury was still | talking. THE SEATTLE STAR OUR BOARDING HOUSE — tn ~. BY AHERN Ve's TH SAME V WHEN fT COMES “Yo “TREATINGS | We KEEPS HIS | | HAND DEEP DOWN |! | HIG PockeT | | LIKE He's GOING To, BUT He's | ONLY HOLDING | We ALL HoP FOR OUR CAKES UP HERE MAJOR = YOU MAY GE ABLE “TO Give work “TH’ SLID BAcK HOME BUT V'cON ONLY DOTHAT IF You'RE OUR \ cues You BOVS DON'T MEAN ‘TO Go AND LEAVE ME HERE To DO ALL THE CAMO WORK ALONE 2+ REALLY, TT CAINS ME TY REMIND You “MAT 1 AM youR GUEST 4 (Aw OF “THIS ROOST 1S THAT EACH GUY DRAWS A DAY ‘To ‘TRICK T'coTs, RINSE TH DIGHES Ail’ $uake UP TH’ MEALS + an! ers YouR BAT SAY, DO'You KNOW THAT THEY SAY THAT THE COTTAGE YOU ARE LIVING IN IS HAUNTED: SPOOKS COME AROUND AT NicHT / NO, AND DON'T ' MENTION Any THI THEY Tere MO! TC Like THAT TOMY \ \ FAMILY - You'"LL. SCARE ‘EM GREEN. “Girls are #0 foolish, Mr. Gilling. ham,” she was saying. “It ie for- tunate that they have mothers to guide them. It wan so obvious to me from the beginning that dear Mr. | Ablett was just the husband for my | little girl. You never knew him? | Antony said again that he had eg I | seen Mr. Ablett. | BEES, GIANT AND AN ELEPHANT FAIL TO | SCARE TWINS / UH] ZZ) = | And what did he do but change into a pink elephant and| tharge'at them. ‘The next place the Twins came to (the Tinky Winkle Star was « 's house “Boo! yelled the giant out of the Wintow. “Boo yourself!’ answered Nick. | “We're not afraid of you. Bot afraid of anything.” F “Tl bet you nre,” answered the PMR. “Just you wait.” | Pretty soon be reappeared in the * my. And what did he do but P@hange into « pink elephant and Push We're For Infants and Children tw USE For OVER 30 YEARS, nfs bears C, THE NEw a) Sand lia re hy tis OTIS | shuddered, and shook her head. |. But Nancy and Nick bravely stood | their ground. Even when the pink |elephant took his trunk and lifted | jthem on his back, they weren't afraid j ‘Oh, shucks’ said the elephant. | |“Aren’t you afraid of anything?’ | | “Only bees!’ answered Nancy, | . on » ha I thought there was! something!” eried the elephant, and| | then he disappeared so suddenly that ‘the Twins Mt on the ground with a thump. And just as suddenly there | was @ buzzing and a wuzzing and a large swarm of bees came right at| them. | “Oh! screamed Nancy. “Save me, | Nick?” } Quick as @ flash Nick grabbed al large mat from the giant's doorstep | and threw it over his sister and then crawled under himself. | Of course the bees couldn't ating | thru anything so thick, and they | got tired and buzzed away | Nancy and Nick waited and wait. | 4. Then, peeping out, they saw the | bees has gone, #0 out they crawled. A purple fairy, flying by his ears, ‘wan just disappearing around the corner. “My goodnesst* said Nick. “The giant and the elephant and the bees must have been Mlap-Doodle himself. He's changed himself with the Fairy Queen's wand.” (To Be Continued) Antony nodded at “uch & gentleman. So nice-look- | was something new. Why did Mark ing, in his artiatic way A regular | go to Middieston the day before yer; Velasques—I shouki say Van Dyck, | terday? But, after all, why shouldn't Angela would have it that she could | he? A hundred reasons unconnected | never marry & man with a beard. As! with the death of Robert might have | if that mattered, when—" She broke | taken him there, | off, and Antony finished her sentence He got up to go. We wanted to be tor her |alone—alone, at least, with Bill, Mra “The Red House certainly | Norbury given him many things charming.” he said } nk over, but the great outstand. | “Charming. Quite charming.” which had emerged was} She gave « deep sigh. Antony | this: that Cayley had reason to hate was about to snatch the opportunity | Mark. Mra, Norbury had given him of leaving, when Mra. Norbury be) To hate? Well, to be! gan again how But that wae “And then the brother of his, He was perfectly | You see,” he said to Bill, as they frank with me, Mr. Gillingham He | walked back, we know that Cayley told me of hie brother, and I told | is perjuring himself and risking him him that 1 was quite certain it would over this business, and that must make no difference in my daughter's |be for one of two reasons, Hither feelings for him After all, the|to save Mark or to endanger him. | orother was in Australia.” That is to say, he is either whole When was this? Yesterday?” An: | heartedly for him or whole-heartedly tony felt that, if Mark had only men. | against him. Well, now we know that tloned it after hig brothers an-/|he is against him, definitely against | nouncement of a personal call at the | him.” | Red House, this perfect frankness| They had come to the gate into! had a good deal of wisdom behind|\the inst field which divided them| it. {trom the road. ‘It couldn't have been yesterday,| “Jolly little place, Isn't Mr. Gillingham, Yesterday—" she | Bill. “Very * oo Mother Dear had just come) || from Port Angeles, and her eyes) |] looked all starry and rested, and} she squeemed the kiddies with « good, strong hug, not the little} tired, patient lovings she had been | giving them before she went away | to rest laughed as she She looked #0 like} Grandmother watch a gay little girl “Port Angeles must have been | 4 her, & wonderful place; the alr ts eg | wine, and the water is as blue, But rather mystertous. | 4 Ian't there a drive, or a road or any.|}| and Ob, Davie man," turning to} down here in the morning.” thing?” David, “we were driving in from “Oh, no! There a such a thing, Mr.| “Oh, there’s a cart-track, but mo Lake Crescent and T was all awed | Gilling as being too devoted ajtor-cars can't come any nearer thant 4.4 tnritied by the beauty of the} lover. Not in the morning, no. Welthe road’—he turned rouné and ba both agreed that dear Angela— Oh, | pointed—"‘up there. So the week-end thru which we had no. No; the day before yesterday,| millionaire people don’t take it. At) come, when just before we got when he happened to drop in about ; le '6 have te build 6-9 tea-time.” and a garage and all the rest of It occurred to Antony that Mrs. |if they did Norbury had come a long way from| “I s#ee,” gala Antony carelessly, | her opening atatement that Mark|and they turned round and con-| and Miss Norbury were practically | tinued their walk up to the road. But engaged. She was now admitting! later remembered this casual | that dear Angela was not to he|conversation at the gate, and saw rushed, that dear Angela had, indeed, jthe importance of it no heart for the match at all “The day before yesterday. As It happened, dear Angela was out Not | that it mattered, He was driving to| going to hide in that pond that} Middleston. He hardly had time for|night? Antony thought that he a cup of tea, so that even If she had| knew now. It was Mark's body. | been In—* (Continued Tomorrow) WHOM MOLLY MARRY? | "3.32300 =~ ~< BY 80M BECKLEY —————_mltna satety without thr, | NO. 18.—WILL MOLLY TAKE WHEELER'S OFFER? “Ben,” she answered slowly, mov: | \ing away ever so slightly, “I am try: | Molly stood looking down at Ben's] She raised her eyes and, meeting |ing to think it out. strong, sun-browned hand as {t| Ben's, was surprised to see what\|me so, You're #so—so hard gripped the table edge. His other | good eyes they were, He held her|what is the word, implacable. arm suddenly went round her|gaze steadfastly and pressed her a| make me ‘stand and deliver,’ shoulder and gave her a firm little | bit closer against his side jerk. | Onte more Molly felt a sweep of. “Come what was it, emotion? No, not quite it?” said} “LT thought perhaps he had been m. big forest into the city, there, coming over the crest of the hill, with flags flying and bands playing and big grey battle wagon things clatter. ing, came troop after troop of soldier-sailors, with guns and packs, all dusty and tired, just as | if they were really marching into an enemy country.” “Gee! was all that David could | any. | But Peggy didn't often find | Mother Dear #o résted and so full | on he CHAPTER XVI | What wan it which Cayley was} had not at magnetism, that was | and You You in: | sist that I choose between ‘strength and sweets,’ as you put it ” | answer me.” he repeated, ‘Well, I love atrength THE: OLD HOME TOWN PAGE 13 BY STANLEY k/). B | WHOOPEE!: AM | MARRIED? 1AM NOT- BUT NIM WILLING! i MARSHAL OTEY WALKER REC HAND PAINTED SUSPENDERS FROM IVES A PAIR OF BEAUTIFUL . THE MYSTERIOUS VEILED LADY HE RESCUED FROM A RUNAWAY HORSE YESTERDAY SS Cail mee bel By Ma was " VPage 757 THE STORY OF A SCOTCH LAD of things to tell. question quickly “Didn't any marching over Dear? Then Mother Dear sat right down and began to tell her about some early-day stories up in that part of the state. “In the 1874,” she said, “way over in Scotland, there lived a Scotch dad 80 ste put a come Mother poineers the hill, year whose name was Donald. Now, Donald heard often, and in many places about Amer fea, but he really knew very lit tle about the place, except that everybody seemed to think it was & great, big, grand place, where every lad had a chance to get to own land and get rich “So Uttle by little the thought grew in his mind that some day he would go to that big country and seek bis fortune. "Bo one y a Wetter came to his mother from a brother who had already found the new land This uncle of Donald's had been @ seafaring man, and his mind ran to ships and harbors near his new land claim, where the weather was nover very hot or very cold, where snow-capped mountains rose high out of the sea, and giant forests pressed close to the shores, and wild birds and deer and bear were plenty as chickens in the door a" (To Be Continued) ine me ed Le man I marry must have~a certain sweetness too, gentleness, delicacy: Oh, I don’t know how to express it, Ben, but you—you are so hard and somewhat relentless,” Molly turned away, dropping arms in a weary, baffled set in its hardest lines, you mean,” words harshly, “that I you more than I do. must = ey or S27 her | gesture, | fa: But you force | Ben looked steadily at her, his face | You're in love with that sii he said, clipping his! mind offer | you wait—" Yet I can give} |you marriage, a fine home, plenty of | wait.” an" Ris we MAN WHO NEVCR CARRIGS A UME+PIGCE, BUT (20 POSES ON, A/S FRIENDS For THE HOUR (T'S “TiMs To BUN Aa water hh. want. As for ‘delicacy’—" Ben pro- | shrill and temperish, nounced the word with contempt, “I| “I hate that streak of cruelty In admit I'm no dainty Willieéboy, nor| you, Ben, You're as hard and sttibe — do I want to be.” jborn as the metal you deal in, ‘ She was silent, angry at herself| “You say you are going to change for her confusion of minds and at/me. Well, two can play at that ~ Ben for his dogged 0. |game. Suppose I undertake to ~ “Very well, words |change you—put you thru fir and clicked, a fearful hammering, as you do your -|steel! I'm going to do it for your’ own sake—and mine! Let's see who | wins!" Abruptly she turned and left the — office before Wheeler could meet her challenge. tect. Well, I'm going to chi I'm going to change “That's just what I wai * He made | money to do with as you like-—to buy Molly's failing patience Scarcely; Ben a movement toward her, “—but the!all the beauty and sweetness you! parent in her voice, usually! " (To Be Contin 42 414 Goon vevuuiuere (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star) |“do you want strength or sweets?” |that., Magnetiom? (Copyright, 188%, by van