The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 6, 1923, Page 11

__TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1928 THE SEATTLE STAPF PAGE 14 ——___—_———— — Ul A Novel by W TRENT |= I married, I n, too, the allet, that Riviera, and When the mas jueer that & new didn't get shaken by over b fins to fling d-|be so keen on t got into touch with | fuls of gold to the populac et before, ike IV a idea, Probus, And What do| #nctity of et people like Doctor Bir Isaw nes in thelr set on decency to keep rich should | tion bh, the king arrives in the Kast the private it ther D) N sacre ts he chu the the Wardieg f trave Extraordinary people they do it for? People Ike Mossat, who'd just got his knight hood. It seemed so extraordinary to |! see this short, fat, ewarthy man, of whom Lady Denshaw said that he things (sat were happening in the| was as black as a new knight, in telligert and 5 rts0 county ja 1818 were peculiar. The| the inconventent, t Abba: She begin newei t fringes, which one profitesr: were arri The little! of old Lady Eliwood, oe eee t which one gladly c nes wer bu rw’ cottages, | keep it up, so was Fr & . the tribute uf the bridge Wella, He wa. Heally, he was at up convalescent home (he was # cinema pre ), paying for the education of all » of boys and girls belonging to his doorkeep- ers and clerks, shedding a rain of| flowers, woolen things, and coal on the old cottagers attached to Ellwood place. I stayed there once for two or three of tok He made E ke an ob raordinary nary places, » Geor the ad the ¢ thélr Wlens dark tut i to criticize, and really the € Upnor clever lw Copyright, 1921, by Harper & Bro! L nes m hen, and for a one’s being, like scent that Hapela? Or the sugges kiss of the sensual w people I know now that were not peoullar to my county, and |t this wort Is dotted ali over the yuntry ‘from John o’Groat’s to| elves na eed id Whe the meals, At the! ‘The conversation was rather like Monsats’ it was like our own, abo y, and ridge’s, for they'd given rest of the world chef a thousand pounds to or will; ts Lady Dor them, It rather puzzled me to t daughter? will Mr. Hyph up my mind when nent to Canafa because offered champagne, claret, burgundy,|car thru the tollgate? whisky, hock, cider, lemonade and| shabby ( el Risby looks in barley water but I got used to| scarlets! and is the ground too hard it. As one might get used to living | or too soft? is there @ chance « at Whitley's, Everything was there, | getting a badger in the spinney? and days, at the invitation of bis daugh-| If by catas-| will Sir J able to keep up The ter Judith, and I talked to him, %e|tfovhe, anything had been forgotten, | T that he’s been let in —_ . | there waa the telephone to the sta i? BY CONDO OUT OUR WAY 4 diseppotn: clothes by in Tame beyond need, mate t RSULA TREN its down to write 30, married and happy her ay \ on Hurleigh ¢ thy war when nt lod. with tmita- f th ta bad nian. keeping for his staft Then come WALD, @ young me ings 8 killed | efore aly ne pital service. ‘There , who scorna the uppe st long, for she tx rules, She learns 2 she works unde. the MR. KNOWLE, former departmental manager of a London dairy NOW READ ON What interested ine most, when at querer? last I discovered it, was the inne-| I don't know. I suppose men and life of @ government office, 1 did| 0% every night, with papa pre-| women take these things differently, | E aot at once find out that the natural | *!'!Me an atmosphere of official se-| Dut men caresses are often unsatis- enemy of Srotion B was Section /,|°f¥°Y and fending off innocent ques-| factory {hey Siwaye man ts Pee Tt was Miss Probus whe explaineg|olt# a4 tothe milk supply, “But,| which we always, shrink. We are| the mechanism, She was one of thn | UF#tla, no, T mustn't ask you these| soothed by what «timulates them, We | clerks; she always wore a dirty lacy |*!tm Offictal secrets, and all that."| always say with Faust to the fleet-| ie Serge ra 1 was very bored, Nothing was hap- |!" moment, “Tarry yet, thou art se neck. pening except that Doctor Upnor met pgtnaeyd hicnne Dy 04 es as it had never been less. She| me on a Saturday afternoon in Colby wane tt ey sae "Bo we flee becatise had a sniff like a razor blade. But 1/ Wood. He had come over from Wok-| an clothes our dream of mist in the got om with her because she was so/!ng, and we had a very long talk.|ieaden garment of reality. We feo? nasty tha hat she must be/ It wasn't exactly a lovers’ talk, and! 14 we fee? Do wo not flee as a! unhappy ® would be, with a by therefore I forget most of it. It ta) nymph trom a satyr, laughing, and| bow round ¢ neck. Miss Pr so difficult te gf on to details! iooxing over our shoulder as we run,| knew offices; she'd apent When @ man discourses about classl-| 55 that we may not outstrip him too| years tm them, and once, when 1/cal education, especially when one| much? vaguely wondered why Mr. Knowle|feels that he hates it because he ‘ was always running Into the director. | hasn't had it gener ffice, Miss Probus leaped| Perhaps because this seemed to up. at me like a lucid but disagreegbie | #t him so, we ca 4 little nearer) was having @ lot of trou ak jto being lovers. Ho pleased me, this| with g butcher-t “Wow. can you be se allly?” and aggressive young man. I} white pique 7 asked. “All these sections think the | ¥8#2"t used to hin sort, no I respond. | | other sections unnecessary. Haven't | % When he suddenly slipped his hand | ; you heard old Knowle say that it's no| ‘FY my arm and whispered | lapels were use his dealing with one article of|_ “You aren't like that Urwula.| quiations, This wa diet, lke dairy produce, if he can't] YO" aren't tled up., At least you're : aetiu cope with the farmers who are pro. | C2P!ns aren't ducing fatted stock for killing in-|_ 1 don't understand,” 1 stead of going In for milk? ae chy are meant ®0/ it away and wore ft, and, he o ni as difficult to understand men. Thoy| knowingly sat 0 damp seat tn the ates 1 eal, “but I.don't under-| use long words and they think things ey cate awlasnmel went maple © buying big v e ruined stockbre The richest, v untry a little longer, hoy the Morsats, the Sedberghs, e Wardles, were cocupying what « Spanish pal- vy! coopy ie fresco to Gron 0 gaze acroms the f Phyllis Dare, boys go to Eton, Mr. Profit eats lem cachets expensively and hides himeelf t ke a cigar where Mra Profit won't fir Experience? © exe periences (Catinaed Tomerron} 3Y WILLIAMS temocratio |; vt the front he ts bus: an-| 4 He a h tn eased “ cause in it one give curiosity? Or ts it triumph? the secret desire to see thowe dark eyes, blue eyes, cloud with pleasure, with greed, or slowly, rep turously half close? Satisfaction or of power? Conquest or con fon of There They were fitting ountry, rather in sunpect, that a conqueror Le some extraordinary out u ‘owe’ 0, was funny to leave this and go ver Ca NOW, OSFORE 1 Decing TO HAVE You Bor My round her She was about 40, and looked Have HaN@OCED HERE wm Town, some m1 There ts no such thing as @ linen| coat and skirt that fits pr ah remedied, u been left 4, developed along its length of puckers, Furlously, It et A SWEET VINEGAR!) HAVE L Scoen (T El! EVERY BOOY IN TOWN HADYPLENTY CHancs ro 366 tt!! IT W483 UNDER Con. sald, tho! » Misa Probus absolutely sibilated/ her mext sniff: “Oh, I've no pa-| tence with you! Don't you see that he wants to amalgamate Section B with Section A? The director of Sec- tion A could be got rid of by promo- tion or something; then when A and/| B are combined under B he'll have mich @ big section that the director- general will see for himself that tt's absurd to keep on a little section like C for potatoes and roots, Mr. Knowle ‘Nl get them all three. Then he'll start going to Reading and develop- ing general interests In the county control, while the director-general wastes his time over letters and work and all that; then there will be a re- | arrangement. Mr. Knowle will be/ director-general. Then he'll go to| London and see the minister, and so on. Uniless,” and a flush of hate rose im the suet of Miss Probus’s cheeks, “unless A knifes him firt, or C knifes them both. That's government, Mins ‘Trent. Knife or be knifed, or, more clearly, I can't do that; I fust feel that a thing ts or is not, but I don’t know why.” “Oh, yes, you do understand,” he maid, he caressed my hand. “You understand that you're in a world petrified by rules and excttementa, and false ideas, a world which puts love on license. Like a regulated vice on the Continent + except that the license fan't transferable. You're very beautiful, slim Ike one of those birch trea” We stopped for a moment. He gazed at me “I wish I dared to love you,” he said, “but I'd love you too much.” I did not reply. He was married. His shadowy, unknown wife made me feel guilty, Yet I thought 1 wanted him to love me, because he Interested me. Nearly all mén say such dull things; they ask you if You've seen So-and-so In the play of the day, or whether you prefer the country to the sea. Then they relate their own experiences tn the country and talk about themselves, Doctor Upnor talked about things tn gen- | xigzag wrinkles. Finally the skirt | began to sag and ended an inch} longer at the back than at the front. I tried to tell papa why I waa so angry, but he only laughed and said that war workers must not be co- quettiah.. A tancy-dress dance had been ar- ranged at Alton to collect funds for| the Red Cross, It wan really very/ nice, with a jazs band from St. Dun-| stan’, The county “really enjoyed| itnelf—at leant, the soldier portion, because tt was able to wear masks and, thus sheltered, to talk to pretty | tradesmen’s daughters whom. so far| they had gazed at only covertly, Sir) fl Fitzwater Ingham was eplendid as Don Quixote. Verena cams as Co: tumbine; Claribel was a gypsy, which she thought an original note The town made wonderful things out of| curtains, chair covers, gilt cardboard, | and called itself Harlequins, Italian | briganda, plerretten I wanted to/ come as a harem favorite, in @ loose, tleevelens coat of red velvet, gold- braided at the edges, over a white TORN DOWN > Oi is VCTION SO LONG THAT A PERSON COULDNIT TH WHETHGR AT WAS RCING BuILCT a, Bains IT WASNT HIS OWN SHADOWNHAT CAUSED. A CERYAIN GROUND HOG vy “TO GO BACK INTO “THE HOLE. politely, for the public, ‘Official Co- / for )/ HELEN, How DID THE NEW MAID Gar eral, the only things I really tfke men |} Alone ‘Topay P DON’T Come WELL- Onn OuTHERE. HELEN! 16 YERCY NEAT 14 HER WORK IN “THE 1OTCHEN ~ are Sta * Story Cle Page 905 ora, is there? They clothe ome, in fact, considerably.” Mamma evaded me She always aid. “No no, no! It really wouldo’t do. People wouldn't like it.” ‘We had a long, rambling discus- sion, during which I first tried to} find out why people would mind. I at last managed to discover that mamma didn't mind my trousers, and that she was sure that Lady Edder- ton didn’t mind my trousers. Prob- ably nobody id separately, but put together they would. Then I tried to/ tear out of mamma the reason for which she would mind thelr minding. But that waa impossible; mamma wasn't used to having things torn from her, Finally I went as a ballet dancer, bare arms, very little front, hat ore back, and showing four Inches of leg above the knes. Everybody was delighted, and an Idiotic young man at arms dragged me down with him and put his spurs thru my skirt, which cost four pounds, after an awful hagxile for six guineas, As I had epent all my drens allowance, papa paid, remarking that it was worth four pounds to keep me out of trousers. Tt was these small trritations, I suppose, that made me more critical of my surroundings. I don’t know how I became critical. Papa wasn’t, mamma wasn't; Isabel was too busy eC * 4 nd J THE LINES oh, Pegsy-lamb? “Well, you see, I knew this Dr. Maynarni when I was a little gtri, and he was the only doctor of any kind fn Seatth, and somehow I Just know him, and until lately I didn’t go back and learn about his coming, but now I know.” “Tell me.” Peggy begged. “Cross- ing the plains and just everything same a4 all the rest, and when he came and how big Seattle was and where did he have his little home and every—everything.” “Every — every —evorything,” grandmother repeated slowly. “What a big book It would make, the ‘everything’ about any one cf the early settlers. “Dr. Maynard kept a litt diary while he was crossing the plains. He came all alone, no family or near friends with him. “He started with « mule, a buf- falo robe, a gun, a few books, a little bag of medicines and his surgical instruments. “He had given away or lost by misfortune all hts money and his plan was to earn his way to the ‘West Coast by helping and ‘doo toring’ some company of tmmi- grants.” BETWEEN Grandmother sighed as she let the little flat book ¢rop into her lap, and her eyes had a faraway look. . “What is ft, grandmother? Pegry was quick to sete the sad- ness in grandmothers gentle face. “I've been reading Dr. May. nard’s diary in this little book, dear,” she said, “and there ts 0 much—so much between the ines.” Pegsy picked up the book and | carefully read a half page. Read- ing was still a little hard for| Peggy and as far as she could see, this book had no more between} the lines than her own school| reader or her story books, just spaces of white paper. “What's between grandmother?’ she can’t see anything.” “Oh! hunger and loneliness and suffering and endless weariness and danger and romanie and ad- venture and—" She stopped as she saw Peggy's fave grow more and mor» puzzled, and smiling down at ber said, “Grandmother ts talking riddles, icliiciialickathel Seattle Star’s | COUPON How to Get It For the Mere Ni 1 Coat of Manofacture and tribution COUPONS 3 AND 98c secure this NEW authentic Dietio bound in binck pe 24 int trated with full Daday Tareas Commons, isn ae er cost of hand mucking, clerk hire, ete, the lines, asked, “T lama ama A FURNITDRE & FUNERALS SAD, WH! SCENARIO O BE COLD, VUNDERSTAND?= WHY WHEN KY ADMIRERS SEE THAT MOVIE THEY'LL “THINK TM SLIPPING Uke AN OLD GARTERI = New Universities Dictionary UNIVERSES. 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