The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 28, 1923, Page 11

Continued From Yesterday) We pny, we wom I © a halfway the Mank, had 2 shown me, I began by self-conscious when I wore the at it as the others wo no more at the men; it makes 4 we're so frocks down to the that we tell one another ied whispers? “Don’t ¢ Do you know cheek to put his hand on man What an outsider!” other woman la not that man isn’t the modest sex whatever r sty may be. was embarrassed if I while he. was to it, 1 su Or pe s they don't trust themselves’ as we they aren't © of being as able t eye. We are always sure t's a pity we are mr It was rathe & success with an undergarm that began with lace at the top and ended UIRSULA TIRENT A Novel by V vo George . ft “ v Jultan | screens, and tempta ‘ 4 Me impersonated eet waltr days and show all What's th j 1 Bear's invent A look of stra 1 ace at J T oft 1 I thought skirt ang t you are, still in’t for him t call it the are about him, But I won't that ‘ll be pu aid J "e be absurd. He hasn't hally the doll was given to @| giv @ oh harity ba and rea en 4 Sadie, fer an c nat I didn’t lik much Christine yet. He's only keeping Julian had made friends with the! to make the pac few weeks 1 a/think I'm going to be ry f t . tographs of Julia anything rotten like that nm modern clothes, The first ploture| think he’s rea was awful. He was standing by t more than he's tatue, holding her hand, and look Don't you k her with an i anxious to believe him (Was 1 a litte ‘Of course I t How long second he was have you been togett rd with chemise sole ticoat he's not going to ‘ those lovely little shin you." wo kit man's bowler hat Bhe irather sadly, “You may t itt" asked Jullan.| think ¢ but what does Pi t Don’t you th t arm He thinks just aa Ido, Let ni talk to hi yu odd ‘Oh, 1 couldn't! I'm not gol Th iderstand.” He went on talking t t 1 and 1 CHAPTER IV Susptcion | I As we w walking along Picea OF THE Chive THE MAN ADVENTURES WINS ON STILTS The first was a man on stilts, eating his lunch out of a bird’s nest. Now that the Twins were past the fiery mountain and over the wide. wide river, they went on toward Jack Straw’s domino house ag It was so near now that they could see the double five where the door was. But their adventure was not to be ended so soon, for other things were to happen ‘The first ¥as a man on stilts, eat. ing his lunch out of a bird's nest “Hello, therel’ he called down “Who are you?” ‘ancy and Nick,” said Nick po- litety. “Well, I declare?’ said the man. “And where are you going?” “To Jack Straw's house to put him out,” said Nan “He's mixed up everything in MixUp Land and put out King Even-Stev We're seing to put him out. “Why, he's out now,” said the @an, “I just saw him.” “Then we'll fix it so he can’t get in again,” said Nick. “We'll knock down his domino house and he won't have any place to live.” “Excuse me’ said the man, ing a large bite out of a ham and tak ' jwich. “I just found a fine ham sandwich tree and I can’t think ‘till I've eaten something. There! One {bite gone. That's one thought! Two lbites gone! Tha two though hree bites gone! ow I’ve got an ied the we should make Now here is my idea Dare Jack Straw to put his ring on nis right thumb. He doesn’t know t. but if he does no. g will Land w ne and King Even-Ste “How do you know?" asked Nancy “Tl heard the wi: 4 ho m it tell the witch who « e it, who told |the magician who repaired ‘t, who—”" “Tl guess we cen't wait to hear the rest," sald Nancy politely. “Good day, sir.” (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1923, by Seattle Star) & OF BA? le lan 4 Page 924 THE OLD, ¢ LD LEGEND (Chapter 2) Ho a great silence feli over all the people and the medicine man spoke. “The Great Spirit is displeaned with my ‘medicine’ He answers ne not at all. He hides his face. He gives me no council. “It ia because I have not gone to the top of a high mountain. ‘There he would hear my volce and my medicine.” “Stay here. Go your hiding places. 1 will return.” All night long he struggled up the rocky slopes, and down the slippery trails, never stopping for a moment's rest. Thru the soft-sighing pines he went, keeping his eye fixed on a star which hung low over a cer tain tall peak All about him were: the long: drawn howls of the wolves and cries of panthers, and the mourn ful hooting of owls, but the te watty wasn’t afraid; he felt no fear of anything and no weariness in his bones, And sunt not down to In four days as the sun sent her first pink rays into the ky, he teached the mountain top and straightaway began to dance and make medicine’ for the Great id nure Spirit swirled enough this time the heard and a thick cloud round him and he feit himself being lifted far up and into the Great Spaces, and after a little while there he was safe as could be right In the Spirit world. It was all so beautiful that he wasn't thinking of teing startled or afraid, when all at once, right behind him, he heard a sound, and turning quickly, he saw a huge mountain lion looking at him with eyes like the eyes of a man. And its forefeet were Ike a man’s hands, not like lion's paws at all, And his yolce was deep and sweet “Lam a spirit,” he said. “None is greater than I, save the Great Spirit Himaelf, Once 1 was chief of all the animals that lived in the beautiful valley. “No man can look upon the face of the Great Spirit and live, If you have words to speak great lion-benst, will he Bo the medicine man tol) him about the warlike white men and about all the troubles the indians were having, and the mountain Hon said "Go back to first promise you will never mountain lion, a wolf, a bluejay or a white dove, and make that promine aleo for your tribe. Not one at fall to promine For atl they are sprite such ae When he finished an a thought, the wrapped |twelf about the and he was bo back close but that your people, for yourself kill or hurt a aking, eloud Indian hin people (To Be Condin ay ae em fondly that I was a I liked him being nice to her was very sweet, and very kind, and #0 anding; of Course It frightened m her women must find him as hat a fright I look! hal walked out, chattering. Ir a quarter of an hour he had resi her pride. i | We saw a good deal of Sadie just jthen, for we were the who had helped her reason to be ashamed. We need hered to keep our sympathy secret, for everybody was half amused by the affair and seemed to Ruens as much as we knew Karl Meerbrook, who came to dinner, was an pro-Christine ax we were pro only people no she had no have bo fie, and brought news m the other front. We did not often ask people to dinner eed, we seldom dined at the flat, because ing was poor and someh got cold. But this was a ning. nd Meerbrook with Julian. During the talk was of Sadie the cook w thingy giny eve- d come in noat of dinner | but when the 1 to their cigars Meer: k grew expar the subject a. He had, it seemed, | two men his light o} ° f,. is Grey will receive callers THE ONE-MAN WOMAN rey s|: - | ae V I <a | BY RUTH AGNES ABELING 5 ; se . TAL Many Unhappy Marriages Result From Girls Who | f ¥ . : as Loathe Baseball, Pretending They Are Fans, to LW Recaps tty Bada aa Attract Some Man Whom They Fancy — Vice’ Se et tent Aaa + Ee yoga al Versa, the Man Who Detesta Dancing, But Falls \tiece-» rh ert Bo doy 2 burden of ae Mask of Deceit Only After Wedding Ceremony,| A 0 nm f 1D. ii * Not b “se 1 t Dear Miss Grey: One of your correspondents asked read a ine xp But ; able husband, or if, because of his age, he might be set in hi i. B. A \ 1 he hi mind ow out t ed ate 1 the piq rm, that it would u Dorothy, Indeed ° ly had come to be a part of t dreaded th w, wit duty of ng the that hb iry Alice | Kate wondered if tt had beon and his | for growing things which had made him we She was glad, the next morning that had been laid up in la r long ¢ it had refined itself t he meant by lutes and pink brocad He played two arias and a chorus nut of the first act, J down upon his stool, wild w ment, He kicked the p breaking down in the m quintet at th where a more that did not “get what he ca of mu interjecting at Interv t explain because I When I was 27 years old I r have been happily wed for nearly narried a bachelor of 49 10 years. From nd we own experience I should say that it depends entirely upon the nion man, and the woman, too, If they truly care about one an other and have similar ideas I do not believe age, one way or nigge the other, makes a whit of difference nish ig My husband and I went about together for nearly three | with rot cheese crackers years before we were married—we threshed out all of out ie eed difficulties before and had a thoro understanding as to the Asks About course we would sail our matrimonial ship, consequently we Coin Book have never mutinied . haf: ‘ The chief trouble with 80 many couples is that they are not |*7f,°0" hook and. wt su honest and sincere with one another before marriage. Take A READER for example the girl who loathes baseball games, but will at Y v he m books at THER tend them religiously because she knows her sweetie is an Pest H dpe sliny Be abs si true feelings and flatly refuses to go again and coaxes her| ech y department when found him in the kiteh ball-fan husband to go to a movie instead th . : with t cof h be Then there is the common cz of the man who does no . Pals i 3 mot “\ naturally care for dances and becomes interested ir : ; = Saeed So ene” th’ let als who is fond of treading the light fantastic. In order to F Oe v. father Kate appeared | a hit with her he nearly dances his fool head off—until after | °/ th e-kalser, died of a cancerous _ , | the ceremony. vhs bing saa Mey vut T)' I could write a book on the real reasons so many married| wnat explanation of the ¥ milled % quarrel and separate, but the above is the principal one. | craters and fr the moon? T a o th 1 2 If Sarah, the girl love with the 40-year-old bachelor, ir on the nis con- arly wa lk over with you,” | will put in the next few months in an effort to find out rips Aittlnapogsete es S, sold, likes and dislikes and whether they coincide nearly enough| surface, the theory betmp that the ab hay »| With hers to produce harmony, there is no reason on eartn| sence of a belt of air to break the ed, secming to pense th n-| Why they should not be happily wed shock caused meteors errs py oT , NY ites to splash into the still molten , iy oc aaa i AHAPPY MARRIED WOMAN, | | X61 fo) 2iiee ie hare tae tee harailt" euteliy Dhonvae | are gigantic bubbles raised in the | (To Be Continued) in @ small town like Kent, or Auburn | moon's skin globe was stilt * (Copyright, 1923, by. Beatt Query than In the city of Seattie? | molten, by vol gases from below. - — Dear Mins Can you advine MRS V.8. | oe % haraiony; Seyth® “anid “erpaotee | MMi lt ' chdaper to divorce | a depends large on the at | How many patents are credited to a t 7 Pes i rei “4 a : — re ‘ y at ‘ ° ie played golf with 8 a B wad ee vin eonnes eats nts for more | ! he Stanfield?” she te Was it ee played, Jin his gre near Woking tha , and at last| murder was committed—a policeman the piano stool to ¢ © | was f ot there? In an armeh » wiping his head and Ir “lw ying with Mr. hysterica! f us to say that I I told her. never dis take an in she re The Judas m BY E, PHILLIPS OPPE Copyright Arret. N BEGIN HERE TODAY sin MAN GREYES, formerty of Heotiand Yard, c his time to king dow ar y disguises known to his MICHAEL #AYERA JANET HOALE, maid tn Bayer England, love w » be called a really great detective, cover the murderer?” “It is beyond my powers to bring him to justic at any rate I re plied. “There are many king about today, of whose guilt ub re perfectly well aware. They cannot be arrested, however, for lack of Z “How thr ips Oppenheim W Service, Kiss of police she murmured. you ask me to dine night and tell me some of you: adventures?” I shall be som ppy to do #0," I re | myself, she stirred in my memory a Meanw faint suggestion of reminiscence, She accepted my departure a little | ed to the few. words with h ngly, I am not a vain man, ntroduced myself, and smiled | "94 I felt inclined to\ wonder at a certain graciousness of attitude on her part which more than once dur | “It in true t 1am very foolish criminals with you} nike se nets fakes is alniithed, “tat (thie *d aa y had forced itself | er stout little dark man, with the ways been a p f supers! | Later, about 7 o'clock, note was | atures an te nt ha 1 have owned my necklace for S0M6| Fought Into my room: | ne musician. His light opera wan ars, and’ bave had it with me iD) near sir Norman—A lady and her| very precious to him. Guite lawless places, I have never, |) stand who were dining, have dis-| aves ig calutenty e-monthy vacation. Greyes| however, felt just the same amount ikl ok ORAS yon br Aa all very ¥ ng on like this, year | rcnce company asks Mr. Norman ta | ct epprenension as Ido at the pres-| “ro “be my guest? If 80, let us A after year, we music that ‘ll show | question a Bouth Americ ow, living | ©2t Momen: haat at:¥ 0 cack is’ (har Inaiiok | a leg, one gets sick of {t.|at the hotel, regarding « policy of « hun-| Sho came over to my side, and *Hoperully yours) of tt, aled, feroclously. | are ovat Mamta iarTiet © MFT |without unclasping the necklace, Iet| “BLANCHE DE MENDOZA.” | A Nioe, jing tunes that Bert) Now Go ON Witt THE stony |!¢ rest jn hands. The pearls! 1 scripbied a line of acceptance. 1] ea a and Mybel can pick 1 4 whistle. i were all ma usly matched, all of | | e Have you had any intimation of tel I descended into the lounge Wahig tt: Gatetey un a bit of| considerable size, and with that | thieves working in this neighbor- : that evening, a premonition that life variet I can hear those swines of}, oto 1 asked him, | milky softness which she pointed out | © tt Pacis’ Hi sraceyis B f th ff managers, that don’t know a sonata |" |to me as being a proof of their great |£0F he next few hours was going to) erore ie eggs or coiree from a re. ‘Give It a bit of Iife,| “None whatever,” he replied. “I tion. Aé se stood th = be very interesting indeed. Karl. We don't want any of your | Will be perfectly frank with you. It}. one together, a wisp of her| At 8 o'clock, | pret pay ena Now our experts have perfected a Quick Quaker Oats—the damned leitmotifa. What you want|!8 not an ordinary robbery of which! hain touched Necinen fendoza came into the lour to dish up that tune again what you| had In Act One? What's the {deer, | Karl? Ah! tn thelr own words, they give me the sick,” We | 1. “Surely it tan’t as} bad as all that,” said Juan. “They've | let you do charming things. What's wrong with ‘Gloria’?” | “Oh, ‘Gloria’! natd Meerbrook, bit |terly. “You should have seen the} score before they started mensing bout with It. Before they cut out} the quartet In Act Two, and before! made me shove in three songs} for that white cow of a Bella Thurs-| by. It's murder, 1 tell you, Of | course It pays. But that isn't what I wanted to do, When I waa a kid, I remember coming back from school and walking along the Bethnal Green | Road, drunk. Drunk, with the song in my head, a thing that swelled ike @ hundred organs, I've half forgot ten it. The motorbuses have drowned they it Only now and then it gets thru the buses. I stop before the foun- tain in the Circus, and the flower | sellers for a moment are dressed up| in pink brocade, while Cupid with a lute plays oh, like Locatelll, Uke | Couperin—anybody—until a conduct or shouts dy! ‘Thin don't g |ter Cumberwell. Try the Twelve A.’ 10 God! | “This new thing of mine, I don't lknow whether It's good, but there| lisn’t a moment when somebody can | bellow, ‘Girls!’ (upon which enter 24 | gominudes). Opportunities for othe |girls than the prima donna. No |chance for Harry Tate's mustache. | It's munic, my boy, muste. What it's | worth, I don't know He threw Jup his hands. “It's the best I can | do. Like to hear some of it?" | He looked triumphant and afraid, |like a dog frisking for a walk, that may be left behind. | "Go ahead,” said Juan, settling to his cigar he spoke Meerbrook |went to the plano, struck a few | chords, grumbled. “Damn the piteh Why do you have It so high? ‘This damned French piteh At last he began to play, commenting as he , that's the over went, “Tinkle, tinkle | ture played in the dark, of | course He wald nothing for a moment, ‘Then w, mark the oboe. 1 caught a grin of delight upon his features. T was enormously }impreaued, tho the music was charm, ling rather than profane, It was, | woll, how shall 1 put it? Danae music we are afraid. For some other, our Inquiry department haa formed a dublous opinion of Mrs. De Mendoza herself.” reason or “1 seo,” I remarked. “You afraid of a fraud.” “Precisely! Directly we recelved the letter from the ho detective, rang up the manager here. Al! that we could learn was that the fIlness was altogether unexpected, and that been compelled to go hom . moment's notice. In reply to our request that a trained detec. tive might take hin place, the man: agement assured us that they consid sd nothing of the sort ary No robbery of jewels had ever taken place from this hotel, and they sidered their night porter fully com petent to watch over the interests of thelr guests, William Greaves: are we the man had nece: con: our mana st a feo of wer, desired me to sug two hundred guineas," my visitor concluded. “L will accept the commission,” I promised. The next morning I interviewed the manager of the hotel, to whom well known. He showed some irritation when I spoke of Mrs, Dé Mendoza's necklace and her nervous ness concerning it as “To be quite frank with you," he confessed, ‘altho Mra, De Mendoza i# a good client and pu her ac ounts regularly, I am inclined to be sorry that, we ever let her the rooms,” “Why?" T asked . “People with valuable jewelry should accept its possession with a certain resignation,” he replied, “This is the nat hotel in London where a Jewel robbery would be like: ly, The Indy herself, 1 understand, takes every possible care and cau- tion, She wears her necklace no- where except'In the restaurant and lounge, and every night it fs depos Ited In the hotel safe, However, you may rely upon it, Sir Norman, that every facility will be given to you in your task, I would suggest that you pay a visit to the lady herself.” The idea had already occurred to me, and later in the day T sent up my card to Mra. De Mendoza and was at once Invited to enter her sits ting room. 1 found her writing | ters, simply dreased in a black negligee and wearing the pearls, Ag she turned and Invited mo to Beal my | thing In the timbre of her low laugh | jas she brushed it back induced me jto look up, Tt qualities | about her smi nd the peculiar ex- pression of her eyes which gave me a momentary thrill Some was w aring a white lace event dress, with an ermine wrap which y around her ris underneath a mild sensation. Mr who was seated in his o 4 corner, drinking his cocktail, watched our }into the restaurant with obvious sur. hung loc ore were ‘De you admi " asked soft are very wonderful,” 1 ad my pearls?" she Phey pris mitted “The little man was there again She mover ow away. I) who stares at me so muchMr, Stan breathed more easily as the distan |field, I think you called him?” she increased between us. She looked | remarked as we took our pla jov shoulder unexpectedly, and] 1 nodded, 1 believe that she realized my sensa-| +1 dare say he was surprised to see on, The slight frown passed from|ue together.’ 1 said, “I asked him jher for d, She was obviously | who you on the night of my ;™ore content | arriv al here. “Tell me how you propose to guard} = “Why?” my treasures, Sir Norman?” she in-| “For the same reason that a great quired as she sank into an easy-|many other people ask the same chair, "Shall you stand behind my | question,” I replied chalr at dinner, disguised walter, and lie on my mat at night? It gives one quite a shivery se tion to think of such espionag “Believe mo," I assured her, “I shall not be in the least obtrusive, I understand that you your | as a made a little grimac You are determined to pay me no and Lam | comp: wearing my favorit “LT admire your tus her send Anything else pearls down every night to the hotel] “You are the best-dreased and the | safe,” | best-looking woman in the room, “T have always done so,” she an “Too impersonal,” she complained, swered. "Do you think It would be] 1 turned the conversation to the better to keep them up here? Will| subject of the necklace. The pearls you pyomise to wit in this easy-chatr, | were collected for her, she told a with a revolver on your Knee, all|by her husband, some in India, some night, if I do so? in the Malay states, some in Paris, “Not for the world,” I declared.| some in Rio. She spoke of him quite ‘The hotel safo is much the better|frankly—A prosperous fruit-broker place. who had achieved sudden opulen “Iam glad to hear your decision,” | “It was quite as much a chan. sho said with a slight smile, “T| for me as for him,” sho remarked, “I should sleep very Httle if I thought | was a typist in Buenos Aires before that my pearls were near me—and that you were sitting here, on guard. The idea would be disturbing. inot guard we were married, I have known what it tx to be poor." 1 all answer my questions Against mir-| without reserve, displaying later on rved, "but I think you} much interest in the recounting of our mind quite easy} @uch of my adventures as were pub: about the necklace. If you should|iic property, 1 begun to feel that I had been mistaken with r, that she was really exactly what she seemed—a very wealthy woman of adventurous type, suddenly re- leased from matrimonial obligations and a little uncertain what to make need me at any time, the number of regard to y room is 4 yn this floor?" "On this floor.”* “Tell me," she asked @ Iittle ab- ruptly as I rose to take my leave “who was the man with whom you}of her life, We took our coffee in were talking last night in the lounge |the lounge afterward, In the back a slim, middle-aged man with alground my golfing friend, Mr, Stan very hard ’ him in the lift’ “A man 1 know seureely of," 1 replied. Tam nlways seoing | field, wax seated, smoking i cigaret in a retired corner, and having the air of studying everyone who passed (Wontinued in Our Next Lasug anything “ds nana, 1 bellove,d meeting and departure | quickest-cooking oats in the world. Your grocer now has it as well as the regular. 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