The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 13, 1925, Page 14

PAGE 14 WATERS “Ty CAPTAIN A.E.DINGLE -am Pasa NS RR DM et SO HPGIN Hi TODAY }Oh well, wh N DRAKB, forr m nal hb him juck. I am as of the officers I had sured that ne to turn cranky toward Cap. command of I t t tain Drake At the end of the JAKE STEVENS, whose enmity hi : : tor news, these lines seemed to Mary t MARY MANNIN( be written in dancing flame Town Captain Stever 3 way im v us captain of the O ng to influer but Drake's mission f paradoxically, he saves the ex-cap- | does. you find him spliceable, I tain’s life from the hands of a crowd | won't put snarls in’ the hiteh.” ;| Mary gazed out over the rolling “Oh, I find him spliceable! 1 fee [like splicing him with a martinspike NOW GO ON wr breathed. On the Yook Mary «THE off to some o sTony ng, Drak 1 friend CHAPTER XV and told the mate A Present From 4 at Rondedose he might per ashore in tw mit the me watches, ail were aboard by nigh Cape of Good Hope. Agulhas seas and Twining stood by, w a 6 most awe-lnspiring of ar orders as to the division of t seas, when they rise In their majeat erty men, and Steve lowed with his dark! parting figures of the ca currents were not omberly fol-| But the ig eyes the de. | m riloua than the n and! human ere currents that ebbed "SHE'S MIN LAW OF RIGHT AND JUSTICE! 2-MINE BY EVERY Dis passe: Orontes. | loitered 1 hore leave. boat touch . Two or three seamen jand flowed aboard © the oy, hoping to get first | Mary had gladly given her maiden When the ékipper’s ltroth to Alden Drake on a never-to 4 the steps, vens | beforgotten night in the flower jew: | abruptly underwent a sharp trans-|eted suburb of Rondeb< formation. He raised his fists, and| The kiss h nding of his tee . the grinding of his teeth sounded ji sti burned when she recalled | ike he grind g of ce on Hike the grinding of clear tc the moment coming home when he} 4 preased upon } rock. | | swept her Into hia strong a an aa, w [awene Ber’ ay trong arfad’ and | of right and justice! B: Mar wa a | man and divine right she Heaven, and mine she gritted Stevens, in a gal sion, and the two other mates drew back amazed at tho depth of tm the man. His paroxysm over quickly, and he calmly; but sailors runn: to get ready for a shore jaunt ried Joyful news of a chief mate who <a hot against the Old Man, vee had never known at love meant until she felt as if were melting deliciously in his her body and soul merging into first lesson was all er She wa full rexperion the kind » if the (acher were able to touch the right.cerd, as Alden Drake had been able to. of pas sions; she one lesson teaches thorc Drake turned and smiled at M and she started towards him brightness and rosy warmth. But his smile was not what she expected; it was the courteous smile of a cap tain for his favored passenger. He passed inside the chartroom and be gan to pore over the chart “Last night he was the perfect lover!” she breathed, angrily pose it was win When Drake fi work, he took de Sailing Directions for the | body the Ocean and sat down as if he ex. | Would lay pected to stay there for hours. Mary | turned away in a temper | She went to the breakfast table all primed and loaded for the face to face explanation she meant to de mand from Capt. Alden Drake. He came down all smiles a pride, Her wrath was swept « So she was not as | | Es attery develor led with the 1 after the ship sea. That first day had been & chilly experience to her. She had forced herself to patience, knowing that sailing day was ever an ordeal But she had ex had ev right to expect, |that when the day. was done, and evening found the ship run: over jong, easy swells thé got te to a new captain. pected, st uneasiness, her lover ide his prim dignity and become again the human being she dered to. But Alden Tal had shown an amazing front She drew him gently to the leeward, into the soft black shadow of the clew of the mizzen course, her hands claspea on his arm. She looked up into his face @ fresh breeze dissipates smoke. He|*hyly. Surely a girl might look for a looked ruddy and clean; the bruises | i#s; an embrace. Drake patted her and scars of battle were no more | hand, drew her nearer to him, and than very masculine embellishments | She shivered rapturously. to hig handsome, strong face “This is the sort of night which “1 thought you had forgotten me, | makes even a sailor love the sea,” he or considered me beneath you august sald softly. She waited, nestling notice," she challenged him. He|closer, She didn’t like that talk of touched her hand lightly and|loving the sea so well, but she was laughed, |not one of the forward sort. Love “T could not forget you, Ma: he| of any sort was promising. But the | said; “and as for being beneatl Indian wan her? JO} ott the) BOOTS | Wey PROF. TUTT — THiS 1G A GuRPRGE! GR BY Ss IN —— The DAY OF THE | BEAUTY CONTEST CONDUCTED} “DAILY HAS ARRIVED INTEREST OUTCOME ce 5_ QUINCE YO SHOW) HOW DUMB YO‘ FIRST HAFTA KANE A TOOTH PULLED= WHAT DENTIST ARS YA GOING WHY'R So GLUM EAT | THE Cop” THE To BUST YOU LOOKIN: MR.GUNN? RE EVEN HAD A Fike HOTEL WERE WOULDN'T KNOW 7 | NOW PACK MY VALISE QUICKLY TEACH You f ie. THE MEANING, oF SAFETY/ He F AND HER BUDDIES AN, JUST PASSING BY AND THOUGHT 1D RON IN TODAY MAC- HAD QUR CANOIDATES BEEN ABLE To ENTER THE CONTEST ANDO WIN, OUR BUSINESS WOULD Hh BiG INCREASE OUT IN FLAMES THE SEATTLE STAR WELL, DONT STAND LOOKING AT ME HURRY ARE, TLL Bet YOU PRILL! IF THIS | YoU) THine To DO AND T'LL J RST Joe Found the Kas iest Way Out jue i |( THAT VAS A /Y'DD PRETTY WELL Shwe AND GAY HELLO! AW-YA OUGHTA GO TOUR DEATISTs HE WUT IN hay FOR ALMOST THREE WEEKS SEEMED TO BE IN OUR FAVOR AND I LOOKED FORWARD To THE DAY WHEN WE COULD PUBLISH A TESTIMONIAL A LETTER GVING MAGIC MUD THE CREDIT Z| FOR A GREAT VICTORY BUT INSTEAD OF SUCCESS SMILING ON US TODAY FAILURE GRINS AT US FROM YONDER CALENDAR VEVEMENT JAE SHOWN A THIS YEAR - kiss camo not. "AK Nor the embra fen!" she A softly, bu a little note of displeasure, nat is It, Mary? Shall Wh your coat?” m notice, you know that cannot either, You forgot it was notice of you which first drew me down to the} She looked sharply at him. There ‘was something about his words and | tone which puzzled her. And last} night she had thrilled in her very} innermost fibre to the ardor of pis passion. kb “My! my!’ said the March Hare, “You're not under the weather, are |as he galloped along with the Twins |) you?” she asked. on his back. “I'd no idea that “12 Good Lord, no! Never felt things were so backward. It's all better in all my life! Do let me give | Jack Frost's fault. I'll have to find You some mors omelette. Do you feel | him.” the ship leap? She's out fora record| “What to Java Head, Mary. I'll show you|ed Nick. what whe can do with a sailing! wp Corinthian to drive her. No more] aces anywered the hare omélette? Jove! you haven't the | jist ‘look! arcaly: ET oe appetite of a canary. |showing No pussy ‘When Mary sat in her deck chair |0¥% *nd no ‘after breakfast, making a pretense | / at reading, sho wondered if this first | ; day ut #ea was a fair example of | the many other days that must pasy |. He talke befor Java Head was rounded, even |Mareh Ht a the Twins be supposing a record to be made [eat te: Wonder Ut He “Why, he’s no more to me or 1) Where he was going to him than simply captain and pas.| He kept muttering, ‘Yes wenger!” she angrily told herself, Per. | heen here, Yes, sir, he's t her haps unwittingly she had stumbled |too! And here and here and here, upon the exact situation. Captain|Every time he saw a tiny spot of Drake might hold so rigidly to the |snow behind a stone he would say, religion of duty as to consider her|"Here and here and here." nothing but a passenger while his | ship called for his vigilance. She|what are you muttering about had heatd of such men. If truth |asked Nancy were told, she admired the man who| “Jack Frost! Jack could sacrifice all for duty, But|the March Hare. Mary was a feminine Woman, And|you? Those are his footprints, all what woman ever lived who wouldn't |that white stuff is where he's been feel enraged if her own man sacri-|trying to dodge behind — stones, ficed her own company for his duty?| Everywhere he steps he leaves Her lips were prim and pressed as|snow and ico tracks. There! Look she took out her father’s letter from|at that! He's been around: here her book and glanced over parts of|yery recently, Very recently, { it again. » Jack Frost's fault?’ ask “Wh, il} the little star flowers that ne up first.” | as he ran, the really knew “What are you looking for and CANURES Sere TAT? & Olive Roberts Barton NO. 3—JACK FROST HEARS A LECTURE “Ar said t you or enough of you to know who | jyou are and where you are, Jack Frost Still here, up in (To Be Continued) » you there?’ called Hare answer 1 aren't fooling me a he hare crossl. “Ll ca But altho I can on no answer, but tho may as well get he said. “You don't time of year one in Bluster Gust tho #ky along with the cn. t with I get An Hoe ly ner t spring hasn't got a better) your nose, your ears can’t be far |away and I'm going to give you a en! plees of my mind.” hare 4 i ver leaf, ora bit) wont right on, wiggling his nose ot water cress, or a speck of hepat-| excitegly "You mut of long all Land other nulxance fairies and you'd better be sir, he's |packing your trunk ening The Aro yo nose never moved, so ou Hy there is no doubt that Jock Frost heard everyt raid. hing the mad March Hare “Peopla want to get their hounes ‘leaned and they can't do a thing | with you anceping around, 1 Frost!” said | whould y ak WEA) “Depgrture, departure for where? 4 ios Did sho just leave your, hotel? Is | ee) ibs i a - a she still In Atlantic City |do they know that you aren't go- | FM take théle parlor ou f they artaing “Didn't I tell|down and wash thelr windows, how ing to come around and palnt them all up again with white fussy ferns. And look at the willow fairies! Thoy can't tie thelr willow buds jthe branches for shivering. Jook at the green things trying to} onto And deed! I may run across him any|come up out of the ground! ‘The “Mr, Drake offeved such a price|minute. Aba! What did T tell you!| minute the little around fairies push for the Oronten that I could not re-|Look behind that tree. There's his|them up from below, you #¢tamp on fuse,” Captain Manning wrote, “He jnose sticking out.’ them and they go hack, Get punt, must Nave plenty of dibs, Mary. He} ‘Tha March Hare stopped and|dack Wront,”’ eriad the mad. Maboh can't make a profit on the abip, pay-|poinied with his ears toward a|Hare suvhing behind the tree with ing the price he did, But according |large oak, and the children could|all his might to lie lawyer, profits don’t bother|seo a long white sharp thing stick But nobody was there, him. Apparently he was at sea be-|ing out behind It that did certainly| “He's gone! I've neared him," date, and never quite lost the fever.|look Uke a nose, ovled {lic hare delightedly, “Now A NOTE WRITTEN BY LESLIE | PRESCOTT AND ENCLOSED | WITH OTHERS TO JOHN ALDEN PRESCOTT closed please find letters sent | 4 per instruction. ugh you told me to open your | egraph you if there was s important, I have, how- | aken the Mberty to send all} | your mail un-opened with the excep: | jtion of tho one I opened first, as | was afraid I might find others that | fam quite sure you did not intend mo to read, Sincerely LESLIE HAMILTON PRESCOTT, | relephone Message to Manager | | of Traymore Hotel, Atlantic City | — ose Bd 27s | “Ta this the manager of the Tray tmore ? | “This is John Alden Prescott, 1 have boen trying all the morning to She is 1 ¢ | on the wire, plano may be oranda ond up- right, but te ts often played false. » spring will have a chance.” He didn't seem to notice, as the Twins did, that the long sharp thing was still theron tiny dead with her two ehildren and ervyanta at your hotel “What do you say? Shé checked out yesterday? Surely you must be mistaken, Why, I was to meet her there tomorrow and go back to Pitta burg with her, Did her friend, Mrs } Burke, go with her? ¥ “Oh, she told you that aha had | news that made her Immediate de. arture necessary |branch with the bark off. “What is that you say? She didn’t tell you whore she was going? She simply went th her Automobile and told you sha would aénd for her bag gage lator, "Thank you, that is all’ | 4 j Letter From Lesily Prescott to | size the Little Marquise, Care The | Latest typo of powerful X-Ray pastes Dyats unwed at the Bleetro Medical Clinic, 1 $rd ave, where they make an tay Pxaminatte of the or stomach for $2.00. At net, ttle Marquise, after an understanding and belief that at last th thin powerful machine ew o 7 Ui a oy « movement arene ke gmachine every 1 did understand, of grent Joy and plainly yiat Hours 0 a.m, to 710 vem, DA In-307 1, you, the confidante of my most se eret and sacred thoughts, wi | Month ago It was after a quarrel ‘with Jack, Junge | months of eestacy and pain, of mis {many quarrels with him sineo thon and I have come back untiappy and alone, more so than when I went great agony, T am here alone with | away, JT WHAT For THE FIRST ATTEMPT! | PULL A GUY g “LADDER CLIMBING is bs || DO WHEN HE AIN'T THE PRICE 7 fe s ] . RENT AN DON'T WANT AN ART IN ITSELF! y om \ A piste | His VALET = To GeT WiSE 5’ e \ ? ot f BY KEN Kui N AWFUL TRICK I WHAT THE DEUCE Do WE CARE ABOUT WHO HOQRAY PoP! LOOK=- MARIAN WON THE BEAUTY CONTEST HH! SHE'LL GET THEN WE BUT JUST THINK PoP- $5000 AND CAN GET MARRIED !! Rooe PAIWT & ARN VES +> UNFORTUNATELY HERE HOLCOMe ||m WAS COUNTING EG@@s WHEN THE quise, all about those letters of some | Jick’s that T yead at Atlantic City— | letters which again made mo und stand how impossible it ia for Jack | to be true to mo under any circum: stances, | What am 1 going to do about it? | I don't. know, KG) yright, 1025, N. 1, A. Sorvice, Inc) TOMORROW; This lottor continued, When 1 left this house T have passed through I have already told you, Uttle Mar.