The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 6, 1922, Page 13

From Yesterday) gee ewer spirttedly into the gounge of the Hits, 0 tall, fair qirt, gery goottocking indeed and brih gestumed, and placed Mon Paul Martin in one glance, fate instant of bis calculated start @ recognition, At once her thos gented up with a charming amile— qwomen could boast teeth as and fine—and almost before pefore Rim, holding bis hand. stm oo glad! It's been simply ages 1.4 And looking so well! I don’t Jellere you've changed a bit.” The nicely judged pitch of her yoke, neither so high nor so low te attract more than passing at won appreval which Lan aeaT a yard put into the pressure of his 4 Tipe upon her hand and the bow, at 1g. ) ence punctilious and intimate, that aecompanied It . “and you, Athenats, always ex 4 quisite, but today Truly one hy never seen you looking better. “Fiattery,”” she commented. “But T love Meanwhile her gaze, that seemed go constant to his eyes, reviewed @her people In the lounge in one ‘a gwift, searching glance, and re- a turned to Lanyard with a droop of 4 the lashes, imperceptible to al) but Rim, that signified there was no one Si opresent likely in her esteem to sf prove dangerous to their peace of ‘ mind. ~~ Z S6eQ35 7 @: “Flattery? To you? But tmpos He delighted her, and she showed f openly. But her lips said only: “Have I kept you waith & fright. fally long time, poor boy? “Let your appetite accuse you, Athenais.” “But I am starving!” “Then, as I take it, nothing on @rth can prevent our going in to @inner.~ Lanyard had already consulted with the maitre d’hotel over the Menu and the reservation. As the two settied down at @ table on the fide of the room, not conspicuously far from any other in use, and at the same time comfortably detached. their iced melon was waiting to be werved. “Always the most thoughtful of men.” Mademoiselle Reneaux de- eared. “No fussing with the carte, Y mo thrusting it into one’s hand and ) saying: ‘See anything you'd like, | My dear? I rather fancy the boeuf- p @lamede for myself” That's why Té adore dining with you, Paul, even if I didn’t adore you tor your. self.” “One ts well repaid when one's Modest efforts are so well appre. elated.” “Biague, my friend, sheer bingue | You know you relish a good dinner » ef your own ordering far more than Shybody’s appréciation, even mine.” 3 The waiters had retired, leaving _ them aione in a momentary casts ®f public isolation. “Mademoiselie.” said Lanyard tn More formal vein, “I am sure, un- | Gerestimates my capacity for appre- Giation. May oné venture to com ig Pliment mademoiselle, who is mar a Velous in so many bewitching ways?” + q “Why not, monsieur? Was ever a Music sweeter™ The girl laughed; : then her eyes sobered while her features retained their appearance Of complete amusement. “Monsieur ed mil i fecetved a telegram this afternoon?” ~ ; “Yes, mademoiselle. And you?” q “It is here—since I am. May I 4 see yours?” With a gay gesture she handed over her telegram from London and took his in exchange. The ordinary cipher of the B. 8. ) «8. was as readily intelligible to both as if the messages had been couched in open French or English. “Kindly place yourself beginning With dinner tonight and for dura- tion his stay in Paris at the com Mands of Paul Martin, Hotel Chat- ham, lunatic but harmless and of Sreat value to us. He seems to be at present concerned with some affair outside our knowledge, but } “And afterwards—t could extricate himself} “Disappointed.” chair she was at pause} “And are you going to obey that from ble | injunction to treat me as somebody's | aister “Paul! she cried in Ulting accents.) Jim her a THE SEATTLTM STAR VAGE 18 OUR BOARDING HOUSE BY AHERN THE OLD HOME TOWN BY STANLEY > ” < * Se a aad y <P Ss HOLD ER NEWT ~ Y : GET OUT =e Say TH BAGE Is = § cunt * a eS nl Ne GUY RAN TD SECOND: ey You COULDN'T A . GONNA CARRY A soda ctidba COME ON \ acces a \F HE WAG DELIVERIN MADE First on \ WY CANE TW NEXT TiME IN OTEY HAT ALWAYS , . i A NEW SUtT rrp BEEN (RY THAT Swacr (TH HY UP INSTEAD OF A BATS fi AN TRY BRINGS H. OUT OF STYLE WHEN HE BALL ROLLED DOWN PEO) HA-HaA- 1 THOUGHT TH’ fj SOME FRESH) \_ In?! GOT THERE™ HE MUS TAB |-1o-1H! Post orice AN'| I] prrcHeR was Bona CRACKERS 7 ' |} BEEN A WALKING CAME BACK “TOMORROW Fil —m Work “TH! OL’ AN ‘CHEES! DELEGATE BEFORE WE YI GY MAIL = C'MON RUTH=!28"\"\ippeN BALL” “TRICK “YooK UP BASEBALL ~ Lies SEE You NUDGE €¢ \ WTA HIG MOUTH, BUT /! WHY GAY, I COULDA val ONE WD INDIAN jd 7\ 1 SEE Now rr's /( MADE ATRIPLE OUT /<'C'\ —eerrroRV= BALL /ic,{\ ONLY A CHEW OF ONE™ AW =THEY’RE // > O ~ogacco HE'S \ GONNA WALK'M 3 /yOfery © ROAM Y= lor at ae PR Af } nNo-NO- FREE Presumably deaperate, else he would not be tnterested. Please exert best endeavors to get him out of France alive as soon as possible,” ‘The girl wae laughing she re turned Lanyard’s telegram and re ceived her own ‘Mature charms’! she pouted. “‘Rajoyable intellectual evening! Oh, how depressing! Poor Paul! but you muat have feit discouraged.” “I did- iret.” he <i | er in my life!” | “How thent™ “As anybody's wife.” Perplexity knitted « little pucker tely lined brown “Paull you couldn't speak French 80 weil and be an Englishman!” assure you, Athenais, I am ally—a native of France.” She sighed luxuriously, “What an amusing prospect! And this ia the sort of man at whose commands I jam required to place myself.” | “Not required, Athenais, r degged, besought!” “I lke that better. And," she inquired demurely, “may 0: what are monsieur’s commands?” “First: you will continue to fMirt with me as at present—outra geously.”* “Even when you make it so dif. tieult?™ “And then, to waste an evening in my society.” ‘Must it be wasted?” } “That will be as it falls out.” ! ‘And what do we do with thie evening of such questionable value?” “We finish dinner here at our leisure we smoke and chat a while in the Munge, if you like, or if nothing better offers we go to & play; and then you will take me by the hand, if you please, made. moiselie . . .” | “Im the maternal manner appro priate to mature charms, I pre- sume?" | “Precisely.” “What then? “You will—always remembering that my interest in such things ts merely academic—you will then lead me hither and yon, as your whim lists, and show me how Paris amuses itself in there days of its nocturnal decadence, You will duti fully pretend to drink much more champagne than is good for you and to be enjoyipg yourself a» you m have before If i discover x ~ an interest in people I may chance - 4 to see, you will be good enough to emnnenill tell me who they are and—other de i = > _ tails concerning their ways of life.” “It 1 know,” “But I am sure you know every- ene worth knowing in Paris, Athe nals.” “Then—if I am right in assuming you are looking for some person in particular “You have reason, mademoiselie.” | “T rum the risk losing an ¢n- tertalning evening. | “Net necessarily. Besides, there are many evenings. Are you not at my command for the duration of my stay in Paris? “True. So I will have to chance my perilous question. . 1 pre sume one can't help being true to the traditions of one’s sex.” “Inquisitive, you mean? But what else is every thinking creature, male or female? What are men of science? What-—?" “But it was Eve who first—* ‘Ah! raking up old scandals, eh? But I'll wager something it was really Adam who—taking a purely scientific interest in the business— exged Eve on to try a bite of apple, asserting that the domestic menu lacked variety, telling himself if she died of it, it would only cost him another rib to replace her, and «perhaps I know them. It might’ yard cheap at the price.” ve ume if you would give mé€ on, it uested WALKER SINCE THE NEW DRESSMAKER. TURNED HIM DOWN BY BLOSSER © 3 He Never Saw a Bobtail Before . MERCY s BUT IT Took YOU AN) ANIFUL LONG TWE, TD BRING THAT they might move a — AND I THINK 1) MRe sav = “Paul: you are to lan ra “ +t “igen iad Ge’ te tes oot samo Oe yea who: adi ie 0 contumiinen T6 _— i] TRUE, SUCH A MATTER about you, directly directly, risk josing an enjoyable eventog.|taurante. A S500 ae] SHOULD HAVE BEEN HANDLED IN AN ENS and see what you then have jut so be it. Le Comte de Lorgnes?” | for a music-hi to say about the curiosity of siademowelle Reneaux looked) go, they killed another hour at e ce" women, blank the Ambaai irs, whore they were # But I shouldn't mind, it would be “sudame la Comtesse d® Lorg-| fortunate in getting good places and oa too flattering, So dig away.” fs on corte : * “L will, Who is it you're looking young woman shook her! uoon the attention; wh 1 for in Paris after midnight?” ties sediner. tha Sele | * abel C cland—-_» . i en aie { Any one of several pe Both of a class sure to be con-| gute Sy MANNER! — FOR, INSTANCE, ntly well-drose MAKES 'EM Mile and were stuck in a muddy diteh Miside the road But the Green Wizard saw the Mdger and just as the two bad fairies reached the car he threw an Mchanted sheet over the Twins, Butomobile and all, and they became e¥aim at once. Wor guidnens saket’ cried Light rs. “I must be going blind. Pell me, Comet-Legs, did 1 or did T ‘Bot see the magic automobile with ‘Twins in it?” ‘ou did!’ declared Comet-Legs, it now. Something must have ed. Now, what do you sup- two bad tatries wondered and but that’s all the good it Anarene . fo) oat hE, TY TWINS RESCUED!—GREEN WIZARD'S MAGIC ture of «it adventurous night, mademoiselle?” | young woman whom everybody » thie he and the children| Steila m, however, befo: very She nodded; and Lanyard sighed:| seemed to know and admire and|] carried blankets and things #0] jong, and from the settlers at “It is true, then: man ages, his|like. In none of the re they! that they could run to it as a| Puyallup that no settlor was safe follies never.” visited did she fall to ¢ or be safe hiding place if they need | with his famtiy on a lonely farm, ‘A quaint little stupid,” the girl| hailed by a handful of acquaint-|| ea it ,| that all white people would beter ot jances. Yet they, were generously “However, the summer passed} gither into the forts so that they They climbed on Comet-Leys’ Star and soared away | pardon, mademoiselle?” let alone | ED ay ga itement, till one night | m ht stand together and also Light Fingera and Cometlegn; By and by they wandered off,then| “1 was thinking of Whitaker) As to that, Lanyard could not st, when mother and| have the protection of the sol m they climbed on Comet-Legs’ star! Monk.” complain truth was that, de-| 4 whispers and | diers. Mere after Nancy and Nick, and) te iid wailed away to tell Twelve| “Quaint, I grant you. But hardly| spite the dark thread of a pur knockings at their do “You take the children 8 Nancy and Nick, you must |‘Toes the bad news. little, or stupid. A tall man, as) pose which ran thru tions tolerably * ‘Quick! oh eome quick! and! father,’ mother said bar vaio ‘ When they had gone the Green| thin as a diet, with a face like a! purple hours, he was being exce hide!’ the children were saying, | the fort. We aren't one bit afraid; ow, were likely to be caught, a en too otf the enchanted sheet comic mask of tragedy " lently entertained. Not by this sed “y the Indians! Do you hear?| we'll look after both places here Were in the Fairy Queen's automo-|in4 there were Nancy and Nick in| “Paul, dear,” said Athenais Re-| business of scampering from one|} jndians! They're coming to kill| and gather our crop.” I saw it myself. But I don’t) cage ovv THE REFL IN A STUMP the late| “As quickly as possible, mother spicuous in suct eu as Maxity’s.” | mannered to im a Lanyard = explained. The names,| ag a4 bee a then, ake probably fictitious sciousnes » If you could describe them, pet-| to themselves asant ¢ very much using expres. “One day along in haps—?" sion of a civilization cynical and spring,” Mrs. Wilt went on with | got up and ed and father got = scleas, I am afraid; neither 18! seif.sufficiont Meee sey, werandoa, oad, “You| hie qib/bad stkated "to: Todd itt an uncomm F w mt pie} | But tt at was €0 whe r they know thecé seems to. be some.| You know how they loaded guns r wou vt Went that night; and sens ae hg Pan A ose INVISIBLE ee dee atta anaes 0 sencle<ae Cand tien aeame Seorotnate my] thing im all this talk about tad| in thove early days? Well, some same life. Are y nh acquainted. in the world ts the doctrine of go- feeling the Indians, 1 | bow in hi , futher got hi with @ man named Phinuit—given as-you-please-but-mind-your-own - bust. think ft would be well to.prepare | ¢unwad too t ‘and. 12 onde he fame unknown—an American hese more studiously inculeated by —sccisbdiad ‘astinan an Mean? (used the ramrod with all his oe Whitaker Monk, of: New| te houn ot potent nes 3 er Again the young husband and| strength, but he n't budge had not been #o long exile laughed at the idea and went| it, and finally he had to run with millionaire?" |have forgotten bow on about the business of getting | the others, carrying the gun with GA IT AGAIN s quite possible.” | tirely, and w new sine ready to tend and harvest their] out @ load, so it was no better BEFORE THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED IF You HAD ANY OPINION To Gwe AND You SAID NOW! “He made his money in muni! his time M: neaux was tions, I believe,” the girl reflected) thoroly acquainted, And if he felt first crop, “or perhaps it was ol himself rather a ghost revisiting “But ¢ “Then you do know him?" glimpses of a forgotten moon, if all wiser, elim’ than a heavy club. being older and “AN that night they lay bud. right over | dled in their strange hiding to the bill] but when morning came “| met him one night, of rather|the odalisques were new to his!f. there,” she 4 Macciored rode one morning several weeks ago, with vision and all the sultans strange,|] which you can see from her win-| bloodcundiing ye a; DoF pte a gay party that joined ours at\if never an eye that scanned his|} dow, “and found a great hollow] footfa had — distur ir they cautiously went back face turned back for a second look stump, burned out or rotted Out, | peacy out to Pre-|in uncertain reminiscence, he had "t know which, which seem-| to their homes ole him the company of a him the thing he wanted.| “Word ce breakfast at Pre-Catelan. “And do we still driv Catelan to milk the cows after an/to co from the fort at plain view again neaux more in sorrow than in an- place of dublous fame to another;|— ust (To Be Continued) “Ob, thank you,” said Nancy. ody has been taking ad-| fot by any reckless sense of reju we tneh P, “Now we can take the automobile of your trusting nature.| venation to be distilled from the| == ——— — | anton Pelee QUeew i igs 0 Bohs sony Practice of buying champagne at! sew him, her or it; if there|a sort of champagne effervescence in one of those moments of gravity She called herself Athenais Te ate goon Me oe a oe oe ee A go i oy ee stb a ony any place she shouldn't go,|Of youthful spirits and an easy- which sorved to throw into higher neaux, but she didn’t pretend |e |Wisard. “You are stuck in magic person imaginable.” al dissuiving tableaux aiwaye much the| she either went or had been there;|molng cameraderie, lncomprehensible relief the Ughthearteduess of her| Lanyard thet she hd no. bettor ttle oes ae n Saent harve teeta ted ruefully, “one did wisely! ame in composition if set against, if there were anything sh uldn't| When one took int nsideration bad nage with Lanyard; asserting to another name. . ve ay nb 1g Bhi” agg AR oa yy ad edeaagh Lae tee a eee Mackarounien ut ater | do or way. or think or countenance,| the disillusioning circumstances of an entirely wilting disposition to| of the purest, @ delight to ste go to . 4 rary signed ar t i pn acs if you don’t mind, | dressed women sitting with concu-! those things she—within limitations her lite, her voe ation, as a paid gov- stand aside and play the pensive,’ yet she was in fact oe a wome ashes and’ soot to sprinkle Let us get hence, 1 yo cavum iniplscent ten and swallowing oslé| did and sald and thought and’ac./ernment apy, trusted -with secrets amused, indulgent spectetoe dn) Spe) than Mngilsh. | Hae padeune) | Saae ee nr ee ee ek. ahd Ul tndesotoul . slat ‘as matters of/4nd worthy of her trust, dedicated masque of love danced by a. world) bears to the third generation had rj nk ani " ¢ 7 yolsons in quantities calculated to| cepted or passed over 1 el an strong FINK and ie OO ne eel tod tO eer tednd no consequence. And tho|to days of adventure always dan-|mad for it, grasping: for love @reed| lived in England and married Eng Ho off he strode over the tree-topa dances of an unregenerate genera eeglaatio dances by Hone Of thaee lane observed. scrupulously certain! merous, generaily ordid, and lke) ily even in ite cheapest shapes and lishwomen, she said; and more than to the place where the Sweep lived. tion. | " ’ er|at any time to prove deadly, guises. | this much about herself, nothing} |but simply by the society of a self-imposed limitations she nh Knock, knock, knock, went the “If it-comes," she sighed, “it will! Perhaps deriving some gratification, j oman of a type ot un ‘te thia obvious, she simply avoid-| Young, beautiful, admirably) bor ce lll aboemgerss 6 scale tk Deki ee nivel in Rly erpetienes nid ist|ea what she chore to consider bad| poised, nccomplished and intelligent,’ find me waiting, and not unwilling.| from leaving such broad fields of, and the Sweep stuck out his head. pnd ry he . Reneaux) triguing to his understanding | ‘aste with a deftness and tact that|she should by rights have been| But it will have to come in another | conjecture open to the ; raerver (ape ne whet one 5 ae ‘ sever dinner and coftes| If there. were anybody, or thing| would uve secmed admirable in alwrapped up in love of some man | form than those I know about.” which an enigmatio personaly cask once” pact Nei peered f Rthencis wat | Woman of the great world twice her| her peer in all these attributes. But! “My dear," said Lanyard, “be un-|Rever failed to excite. : (Yo Be Continued) and cig with #o much tacit de rl of her age } (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star) liberation what, by the time Lan aboul twemtydive-—shoulda’t know,) age. v And with it all sho preserved she wasn't; or she said sho wasu't| afraid: it always does.” waite Be Continual al %