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ies pERT> MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1928 SATTLE A Novel by W. L. George. ~opyrtwht, 1921, by Harper &@ Brothers nued From Saturday) CHAPTER VI Awakening 1 I couldnt get rid of Sir Char Ri a Now and then I wor dere ther I wanted to, The awful words of Isabel stuck in my head. She so conf expected @ sma Very likely my relation Wouldn't last forever. I think that tn that ment I ceased to love Julian. without his having done any Wrong. merely by being able to con eeive that he might no longer love me, When a woman says, “You @on't love me,” she means “I don't love you.” Love ts little more than echo. Sir Charles took me out to tunch| ence or twice March; once we went to a m 1. punotiltously | told Jutian every time; it didn’t seem fair not to. He didn’t mind, “After all, you must lunch somewhere. Only don"t | you go and fall in love with old Baldy.” “Don't you want me tom WS ° I replied, “Not tt can help it” He irritated me; he ought to have made a fuss Also be took the edge off my companionship with Sir Charles. I didn’t want to make Ju. Man jealous; I wasn’ so silly; but I wanted him to be jealous unreasonable if you me. you Cal like, but I think, however, that I could T let hy the only way to p t He was ma and futile; he did m kins me ance matter to hed with bir as lw x body wh t to do one t 1m) body. So n to alt i restaurant alone, when most of th thers are coupled. 1 made no p Mainly, I regarded him as a man who gave seats at the theater, flow ere, crystallised fruits; a woma must have that sort of man, Wha are we to do? We most of us b many desires and little money, If We owned the money of the world. and the men didn’t, then we could afford the male independence, virtues of dignity wenerosity, and per haps even truth. Virtues are the great luxuries, but so far as I ean see a man has to get jolly rich before he thinks of acquiring them Btu, the absurd Sir Charles was to influence my relation, One da tm April he appointed to pick me up at the flat and take me to Hyde Park Corner for a walk in the park He wanted to see the tulips; at least to he said, We walked from the Achilles statue acroms to Victoria gate, after he had made a vain effort to take me up Church Parade and later thru the Flower Walk. I wouldn't. One didn't know whom one might tm : t in those respect a “~e Jeltar Jealous if I had/ able areas; but he didn’t care, and, eacribed the way in which Sir| indeed, he forgot all about the tulips: Charlies behaved. I saw no reason| He employed the hour before lunch to report this I told Julian I was! in formulating a de tion of love, going wi him. Th cleared my/| which showed that he ooo his mo. conscience. Why aid I tell him| ment for business better than for his mo 2 ose to misunde are. He started well, but I be Bir Charles, that wasn't to want my lunch; if I could Indeed, Charles was rather em | have be ru is pirate K. B. Darrassing He o at pass the) BE. it would have bt then. jena rack with t shaking hands.| “I never felt to a girl like I do ‘onder wh let him? I didn’t/to There's somett g about SOG ies. Ferkina be wis’ moce-|the wey yoo hold poor bead. you mental; he was th profiteer tri mow, that one doesn’t come across umphant, and the profiteer of that ry day Period had a Juggernaut touch that} “Look here. Let's get down to was impressive. I Uked to hear) brass tacks, ag the Yankees say. I him talk of the rivals he'd samashed,| know your Jc nie, a nice boy and the government officials he'd cor-jall that. Eh, what! Stull, he can’t rupted. His super-Rolis-Royee | marry you." crushed bodies every day, and they “But ° all bled gold. ‘Oh, I know all abc @ a held ed ° aE, Tw! NS The schoolmaster was ringing his bell as the Twins passed and he asked them in. ‘And you can imagine, my dears, day, Wednesday, Tuesday, Monday,” how the schools got mixed up tn} Mix-Up Land. ‘The schoolmaster was ringing his bell as the Twins passed and he) asked them In. So they thanked him and went in-| aide. | The scholars sat with their backs to the teacher, the writing on the blackboard was upside down, and the stove was on the ceiling. In-| stead of taking their wraps off, the | children put them on, and instead of taking their books out to study, they hid them away. Everybody talked at once and nobody learned a thing. “What shape { the earth?” asked | the schoolmaster. | “Square? answered the school. "Good! Now spell ‘boy,'" com-| manded the master. “G[-r-1,” spelled the school. “Name the days of the week,” was the next thing. “Sunday, Saturday, Friday, Thure- was the answe “How many eggs in @ dozen?” joven. Where Is the north poleT’ “In the middle of the earth.” ‘Where's the moon?” he bottom of the sea.” “What is five and five?” “Nothing.” Say your A BC's” '%ZYX WVUTSRQPON MLKJIHGFEDCBA” an swered the school promptly. “Pine,” declared the schoolmaster proudly. “You are smart children and have nothing more to learn. ‘There is no use having school any | You are dismiased for good. until Mix-Up into Apple-Pie more. “Don't you mean Land turns back Land?” asked Nick “Yes,” said the schoolmaster, “But it doesn't look much like It.” (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1923, by Seattle Star) Lo a JSSQ te abel Cle *” Qoattle Book * Pa nalJ Page 928 FOR EVER AND EVER AND EVER When the medicine man told his story to the people, all tho people cried out, “Wake, wake, mika hyas sollekst’ (Be not, oh, be not very angry with us) And so sad was their crying, and so long and so loud that the sound of it went up thru the tree tops, up thru the white clouds, up thru the thin spaces that are high and higher, and into the land of the spirits. And the great mountain lion heard, and also the Great Spirit heard. And a voice called to the medl- cine man, and he went yet @ third time up in the cloud. And the mountain lion, looking at him from {ta man's eyes, sald, “Thus hath the Great Spirit spoken: “I have heard the cry of this tribe, And because they have all promised and promised truly, I will save them. But I am the eat Spirit, and 1 must punish obedience. 10 tbmoit to your people and send them far, far away, All must go, save you and your good wife, I will tell you what to do’ fo all the people left except the medicins man and his good wife; then the medicine man was nent up to the top of a prent rock, on the top of the very high ont peak UE Bel kelel “Put your finger on the tip-top of the the Great Spirit cried. And the medicine man touched the rock and as he touched it the mountain trembled and fire burst from the rock, and a river of molten lava began to flow. The medicine man and his wife ran for their lives, and as they ran, after them, and over the moun- tain, spreading, spreading, spread- rock,” ing, ever spreading, ran the molten lava. And the little streams were fostled and tilted Into a deep river and the earth wan covered and burned by the white-hot lava, and presently the river cut {ts way thru solid rocks hundreds of feet high and tumbled in a water-fall tar down, down. And no Indian aver sleeps near the falls, for they know, and to this day the Shoshones and the Bannock trites will tell you it Is true that in the white foam is the spirit of the disobedient woman, condemned to tons there forever and ever and ever. If you don't believe this, they will show you the miles of lava beds to prove It. And they will tell you that if you are all alone you can hear the wail of the wicked old woman's spirit above the roar of the falls. (Vo Be Continu I did . 1 ¢, And put fifty 1 I was playing up to Well, Oh, I couldn't,” I murmured. The a was ailent Jo you mean, aidnt? Don't you get me? Start you on an allowance, say @ couple of th 1a year, and give you a good time, When you're ready you'll have your own theater, and | you eave press to Charlie B, Eh, what?” was terribly tempting, What had Isabel said? How long would my looks last? My own theate My picture in the Tatler! Frocks from the Maison Dromina the only thing Julian couldn't give me But Julian! No, I couldn't do it And now this man was holding my arm above the elbow, I hated him his blunt features, his wealth ners he had just purchase from Julian, I couldn't have yes.” I can't sell myself, I'm NO good at it. I refused. He took it marvelously “Well, we let it alone now. Eh, what? We'll have anot! k by and by. Now let's « have lunch.” We went to the Carlton, I was vaguely uncomfortable, tho he did of accepting defeat and alluding to another str worried me, Per haps that was how Sir Charles had got what he wanted. That was t Still, lunch was very nice; the 1 wa pretty people w rich ones. Arf had a party, obviously capitalists, judging their collars and ties, I recognized a popular actreas; fa on a decrepit but distinguished But just as 1 was raising to my a fragment of I saw, half a dozen tables away, Christine Wal dron. I smiled at her, and after a second she answered, but with a iit tle flicker of discomfort in her ex pression, 1 ed from right to Hleft to look past the tables that | ervened; I wanted to see who she # with. Then I dropped my fork The head of her c showed thick waves of 1 golden hair 0 I don’t kr got thru that neh, except that Sir Charles helped me by relating at length how made plush. Ho was the sort of man who enterta! women with that sort | of thing. In the middle, Christine muat have told Julian that we were | there, for he turned and waved his hand at me. Bir Charies turned and acknowledged the greeting, “We'd | better join them for caffee” he re- marked. “All right," I said. My mind was ina whirl I had told Julian that [| was lunching with Sir Charles, but he hadn't told me he w: with Christine. He was hbidin wa unjust enough to think that of @ man who was “hiding at the Carlton. , An intolerable sense | of grievance overwhoin If he | bad time to /anch at the Carlton, why jcouldn't he take me? Didn't }to. Preferred to take Christine. I saw why he wae a partisan of | Sadie’s and wanted to keep her with | Pawlett. On the sly he | ling after Christine himself |was the smash. That's how | began, r Charlee sald |fore we join 4 me. ow waa ng 80 here & smash “Look hers, be- them, have you been | thinking over what I sald this morn |ing? Because I'm still ready if you |say ‘yes! As I did not reply, he |preased his advants “Come on | Better say ‘yes’ while you can. Fh, | |what! Two thous a year till you're ready, and then fifty thou wand quid and your. own theater, | Don't miss your market.” “1 anid. 1 didn’t I didn't want Jullan, I want him: was nick of all these men. Still, Sir Charles got up to go to thelr table, | I followed him | The same old talk began, the end-| leas talk which until then had seemed | to me new. | “Have you seen Satterthwa sked Sir Charles, looking at Julian “Oh . + no,” said Julian, b |tating. Then, moro firmly, “How's old Mo'?" Sir Charles paused before replying. | “He seems all right.” “Yon,” said Julia never knows. We two women ‘listened sharply We didn’t understand, and yet we felt that there was something to un | derstand. “Of course one | He's a sporting sort of fellah. What?" paid Sir Charles, “Of course @ man can overdo it a bit, He want ed me to put money into his renting company, but I said: ‘No.’ Not for | Charles B. He puts his money into his own business where he can get it | out, Eh, what?" | “[ quite agree with you, Sir! Chartes," sald Jullan, “gtill, I guess he'll raise it" | A few words were said about Rev- | ben Satterthwaite, who, it seemed, still wanted to be a rabbi, Then| Baldwin glanced at Christine and said, slyly, ‘Well, Miss Waldron, how's Pawlett?” “It's no business of mine Mow Mr. Pawlett is," sald Christine, looking dignified because she felt awkward “Sorry,” said sir Charles, | “Thought you knew him." | “Course I know him,” sald Chris tine. “Who doesn't? A man who| lives at stage doors.” “Do you know,” said Str Charles Baldwin, thoughtfully, “It seems queer to me that a follah like Paw: lett should be hanging round Sadie What? She's a good-looker in her way, yes. Still, if I was Pawlett I'd | like something a bit fresher,” Sultan wald: “Yeu, aho in getting a bit ancient, ian't nhe? Fortunately it doosn’t matter on the films; brings out the features, You should see Sadie rog intering depression; she's made for tt ‘You know, the corners of her mouth nre going down; those folds near the chin help a lot. Well, well, we must all come to ft, muan't we? So must | |you, Christine, even if you do look | like next year's peach, Got to make} hay while the sun shines, don't you BY paid vered that for plece « r oad, rs 4 paws were in the battered t rked the ffing « ui] length of the bot that he was beam which ran the f tom ‘Come away Monk.” and on his collar With ttemptod her Kate er affairs once, and she maid she hadn't enough finge 1 toes to do| t on Also she maid It would | those of to count up years, Ye Pawlett.” | THE ONEMAN WOMAN |Cyathhia Grey RUTH AGNES ABELING Bachelor Who Has Obserr Pha for Past Who Ponders Over ous Girl oard on one BY CYNT » whether a bach constructive i ul to print them, as we are ug such a problen y I t way st Bachelor Offer J Dear Mi *| bachelor of a fling at it Advice Bride I could ne fish thar t and selfish in } might be pn If she ha. expects him or anyone else If she ha the true instin ~|a good wife, forget him, and again. folded contents of the bottom a man mig , have done age Ho sat watched gr and to © trec not fingers wkir med the ly venturing to remove any them. Thoy to her, It them in was 60 like Dan to have he is @ business man ar the precise and them his p nal be (To Be Continued) = Copyright, 1923, by Beattle I was F Drom n a taxi, and § ir Char Ho tried to and I Never forg me bh me. kin I with Ju men. I was a tho, because for ns to me, g enough to offend y enou; The Leeds Bank ssi room ens T Robbery makers tut, He knew the. ag BY E, PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM san nm «Copyright, 1922, by E. Phillips Or ure all Arrgt. N. IA. Be Inc rT » shilling e fenved that BEGIN HERE Thore was just 4 bare white yt c MICHABL SAYERS, 1*| house, a lodge, the gate of which a ittle sdout _ ° | was held open by @ great, raw-boned ey.” JANE ALE, shoots «| Billie, miles of what noemed to be| “It seems to me,” I admitted, “that ‘bee interminable m nd below,| you have been a little premature in SIN NORMAN GRETES, formerly of) the pea. 1 looked around with saus-| framing your case against Mr, Ralph tracking down Sayers, known tm a Roberson. Aaa age, Dag es fe roe You're Bandy MacLano, the “So the magistrate thought,” Rim- Michaal drives in «email ear to Brown's taker here?” I asked, jeaning out of|mington rejoined dryly. “We man- Dash, tn the muburbe of Leeds, shoots t* | the car, aged to get two remands, This Into w touring car in which Jan awaits him, Bayers races for ic On the road to Bcotland the notes ar passed to two men Im motor ears and & third on @ motorcyale, leaving no evidesioe on Michaal's per ‘ NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY MICHAEL BAYERS TALKS We were to have one minutes before we Teache ping-place for t just passed thru « small town, our silent cha preparis to let out h ogine again, when were confronted by was, ur circumstan ver tense the nigt ur was on, w very. sin ‘ Two mon on bicycles, ap- ats us, dismounted a stood middie of ¢ ad with out- retched hands sun, even in © distan flashed upon their unt forms. We re od nce that they re policemen. The chauffeur half you do?’ Janet do- manded y 1 replied. “Why, the nat- ural thi of course, Ali thia is pro- vided for Oliver, § dded, lean ing forward, “tho poll on seer to want to speak to ua Pull up.” We came to a dst: ® yard or two away from them. The larger of the two men, wh wore the uniform nergeant, made a solemn and portentous approach. jood af 1 hop rnoon, Sergeant,” I said. 6 not in trouble?” He looked at moe as he might have done at a man were dripping with the blood of his best friend. “It's your numbor-plate, sir," he announced. “They telephoned us thru from Ripon to stop your car and call your attention to It” “What is wrong with my number- | plate?” I asked. “Why, you've been driving where they've watered tho roads freely, the sergeant pointed out, “and it’s muddied {t up entirely. There's no one can read a letter of ft.” I felt Janet's fingers clutch mine, and they were as cold as ice, It was not n moment which I myself for- got, less for its significance than for its effect upon my companion, The chauffeur, the police-sergeant and I solemnly Inspected the number-plate; and the former, with a duster from that we @ whose hands his tool-c! carefully rubbed It) clean. | “That will be all right now, Ber-| geant?” I inquired. | “That will be quite all right, str,” |he admitted, taking off his cap and |‘phe man was known at the shop as wiping the p forehead. "It for the bicycles.” “Tam sorry to have gtyen you} this trouble,” I said. “We tourists are proverbially thoughtlosa about our number-plates, I hope you will accept this and have a drink with me.” “Wo will that, sure, str,” the ser- | geant promised, saluting first me and then Janet. “Come along, Jock,” he added; “we'll pay a@ little visit to the Widow McGill on the way back.” —_ | So we drove off again northward. My chauffour was an elderly man, who has faced all that the world rapiration a warm from day, his this, may hold of evil with moe many a| time, but his driving for the first few miles was erratic, Janet, T) could s69, altho outwardly she had recovered herself, was on the point of hysterica, I ttled myself dow: in my corner, adjusted my horn. | rimmed apectacion, and drew from the pocket of the car a new half- crown book on the principles of golf, written by a late beginner, So wo traveled until we reached the Inn| where we stayed for the night, and] late on the afternoon of the follow. ing day wo arrived at our destina- He made a noise which sounded| morning he was discharged. like, “Oo ay!” | “If the grocer’s assistant ts telling “Which way might the golf Iinks/the truth,” 1 remarked thoughtfully, be?" 1 inquired. “Roberson could not possibly Ho pointed with a long and hairy} committed the robbery. forefinger. What sort Jof young man ts the assistant?” “The clubhouse is yonder,” be| “Highly respectable and very tn- Vouchsafed @ bit somberly, “A step |telligent,” Ri ton replied. “It across the road ts the fifteenth tos, A be quite tmy le at any I sighed with conte ‘Come up to the house,” I ordered. After toa 1 shall play a few holes.” | to shake his evidence.” Mr Iph Rober 1 now who else is SIR NORMAN CONTINUES That's the difficulty,” Rimming. My friend Rimmington calle to|ton confessed. ‘One doesn’t know © me on the ni, of my return n. The only other two ‘om Norway. He looked around were about the spot at with an air of dist at my various|the same moment, were a man and traveling paraphernalia. his wife touring up to Sootiand in a “So you're really off, then?” he re-|big Dartier car. They stopped to marked. make some purchases at Bailey’s, but the contrary, I've just re-/nelther of them alighted.” 4,” 1 told him. “It was too late| “Any description of the man? I season to do any good, and I | asked a mistake in changing my Yos, the grocers asrietant who The whole thing was a frou” | went out to take the order remem- Ummington sighed bers him. Ho describes him as a Well, im glad to see you back,” |sporting-looking gentleman wearing he deci i, sinking into my easy-|a brown alpaca dust-coat and a gray “All the same, London in|Homburg hat, Such a person could August isn't exactly a paradise! not possibly have left the car and me about Leeds,” | suggested. | walked down the street without no- “To judge from the newspapers, you | tice.” seom to be saving @ lot of trouble| “Any description of the woman?” about a very aimplo case,” | Remmington shook his head. Himmington frowned. Hoe was! “To tell you the truth,” he con- silent for several moments, and/|fossed, “I didn’t ask for one. There glancing across at him, | noticed that he was pale and apparently out of sorts, “I think I'm stale, Greyes” he confessed. “Tho Chief pretty well hinted the same thing, and worne, when I got back last night, I really dropped round to see whether you could help me.” wero GUNS & and golf-club The two up to some place they Scotland.” On the face of ft, there seemed no possible connection between these tourists and a local bank robbery | Yet the thought of them lingered ob- “If I can, I will with pleasure,” I) stinately in my mind. A man and a promised him. “You know that. |woman, a bank robbery, and the fact “You read the bare account of the|that I was supposed to be safe In affair, of course,” Rimmington went| Norway! I began to take up the on. "Two fairly credible witnesses | pieces of the puzzle once more, and deposed to seeing @ man in a gray |fit them in according to my own de. flannol sult, with a Panama hat] yicen pushed over his eyes, drive up in a Ford car, leave it outside Halley's grocery stores, walk down tho street and turn into the Boulevard wh the bank ts situated, exactly at the time that the robbery took place. Three women and two children saw him pass up the street two minutes later, and 0 seconds after that, he cromsed the street and ontered Balley's grocery storea The clerk who served him with some marma . tea and bacon, saw him climb into the Ford and drive away. A cartridge-magazines pn the top of the car ‘© apparently motoring had hired in we (Continued Tomorrow) represents the | Ralph Roberson, There ta no doubt that {t was his car, “Halt an hour after the robbery, Roberson was arrosted at his house— he was cleaning the car at the time- and altho he had changed his clothes, the light gray sult which he had re- cently was discovered in his bedroom, and the Panama hat, warm with perspiration, In a cupboard. His exense for changing his clothes was that he put on older things In which to clean the car, and his account of his morning was that ho had driven stralght up to Bailey's for | nome groceries and straight back again. 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