The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 15, 1925, Page 10

PAGE 10 {E SEA TAR | He LADDER WILE THE STORY GLORIA y per . mend her ways asks Wayburn fe f DR. JOMD CAREWE Dick re turns and + Because of Carewe May Women’ friend etop Gloria from Dick is dang Monta He 5 OHARA, — whose sed to “Miss Susan Lriggs NOW GO ON WITH THE sTORY Gloria went into her own room after her wraps to go out and mail Dick's letter. The day was cold and there was atiny jet of steam hissing out from the radiator beside her dressing table. It gave Gloria a sudden Idea. She picked up the envelope and | held it against the ijitle jet of steam. The edges of the gummed Map began to curl back slowly. + + + She would just open that letter and read what was in She would find out what Dick was Writing to Miss Briggs about! He had no business to be writing to her, anyway. Didn't Miss Briggs telephone him every morning from the office to tell him how things were going “there? If he had anything tmpor- | fant to say to her, why didn’t he y it, instead of putting it letter, for goodness’ sake? . less it was someth that ho d Want anyone to hear. Ah, must be it! Gloria picked up her nail file from her tray of toilet th She Slipped its sharp polnt under the loosened flap of the envelope. Then she stood still, looking down at the sedate syllables of Susan Briggs’ name. She was filled with sudden self-| disgust. | What a sneaking thing she was| doing! Opening another person's letter! Gloria flung the envelope down! om her dresser as if it had been a live coal. She pressed the flap down tight. Then she snatched it up and went/ back Into Dick's bedroom. “Looky | here, Rikky,” she began. “Do you think it's fair of you to write a letter to Miss Briggs and ask me to mail {t for you? Particu-| larly when you give it to me all! sealed up for fear I might take a| peek at it.... Here it is! I'm not| going to post it for you. | eee She tossed it down onto the cov-| ers of Dick's bed. | “As if I care a snap of my| fingers what you've written to your! old Miss Briggs!” she added scorn-| fully. “You flatter yourself!” | Dick threw back his head and Yaughed. “By Jove, I belleye you do care, at that!’ he said “I belleve you do!” The thought that she might/ be jealous of Miss Briggs seemed | to please him immensely. | He ripped open the envelope. “Here's the letter I wrote to her, Glory,” he said. “Want to see it?” Gloria took the two sheets of| NO. 13—A QUEER DINNER if SICEMEEY Mrs. Sea-Cow took each of the) Twins by the hand. That 1s, she| held out a flipper on each side and | Nancy took one while Nick took | the other. Away they all went thru the! Land of Wonders to Mrs. Sea-Cow’s house. | “It smells good,” said Nancy | sniffing with her nose in the air. | “It's the soup,” sald Mrs. Sea- Cow. “Henry 1s a good cook. But | your grammar {s faulty, my dear. | You should say, ‘It smells finely,’ | “Worse and worse,” said Henry sticking his head out of the win. | dow. “That's no way to teach | grammar, Soup cannot smell finely | or any other way when it hasn't any nose. But thank you for the compliment, my dear, Come in, | everybody.” | Mrs. Sea-Cow's house was built of | conch shells in which the sea was still roaring, It was really a very Nolsy house. “Did you put out the best spoons?” asked Mrs. Sea-Cow, run- ping @ flipper over the table to see if Henry had dusted. “Yes, my dear,” said Henry. “Also the lump sugar. It was as| DOCTORS ADVISE! PORT WINE AND OLIVE OIL Prominent physicians say jf the} public only knew the tonic value of port wine and ollve oil they would quickly regain their health, Portolive {# @ combination of rich cream, olive oi! and rare old port wine nolentifically blended with other medicinal agente. It restores tired out, rundown aya. tems, i» especially ' valuable for dyspepsia, stomach troubles and| conatipation, Start today taking — Portolive nature's food tonic, and see ho quickly you improve. All drugginte, Portolive | VCNVVRESF Gores TA “Mr. Dick's father {s out of town,” | Maggie went on, “And I do think & Olive Roberts Barton someone of the family should bo at | jter has of a cactus,” sald ther| MOM’N POP Laxative Tonic Y Beatrice Burton © 1925 NEA’ sERvice INC. Oo} a f jo her face 1m up the teleph and called a h L ght th 6-876 office number " f f her shor I'll neve t he had sald te ¥ t with May The ot h What an ugly word rel | Mins Br sweet voice a was a to to Miss Briggs. | w ’ pwered at Gloria read it with frank curt Glaria saw now that sho ought to “Could ‘you leave the office for « 5 I ’ : hour or two, and come out here t os Brigg it ran T Sta Wa m v the house?” Gloria asked her I've din Is oke! Will you please send | w had ki 1 her in his dress. had some bad news from my mother a check itt ing re That would have been and I've got to leave Mr, Gregory for Sincerely you! the squ thing to do a little while, It's your sister's day RICHARD GREGORY." But the whole affair had happened off duty, you know Gloria looked at it dumbly so Kradus that she hadn't “1 be there right away," Mins Briggs answered, Gloria was sure sho could hear a note of engernens in her volee. “Did Miss Briggs say she'd ne?’ Dick asked "Did she nay she'd come? Gloria laughed with cutting sarcasm. "O} boy, did she Why you couldn't keep her away with wild horses Her idea of a perfect t ing care of you for an afternoon You fitp it from me, Rikk the has a real crush on her boar And don't you forget it eo is tak “Why don't you phone mother to come instead?” Dick asked, ignoring Gloria's rem: I'd rather bi been here for an age # about Miss Briggs o her, She hasn't she's not at home today I happen to kr had a sudden vision of Mo ory in the white operating m of the haspital T've got to hur she sata “Here, put your arma into your bathrobe! And let mo brush your hair I must doll you all ur | for Miss Briggs | She straightened the covers of Dick's bed s laid the volume of Stevenson's “Vatiima Letters” on his bedside table “There'a your book," she said Your darling Susy can ait here with her best bedside manner and read it to you all afternoon in her sooth ing sickroom voice , and you won't misa your Gloria a bit!" And again Ing to M Dick 1 it was Dick asked good-natured was having an af late, after all, to ut of the h he rot him ‘and try t 7 head. i wife to Dick? I won br + After all, what were a fow | snapped, as hung up ® anything I can do for nile rides with} But how to keep Dick fr your mother let mo know,’' Dick a few aut 7 as the|called after her as she went into her own room to dress, Hin kind ve | ness was a roach in itnelf. ut his mother, ‘T go away and o G H ns to her! And ese thin . ° matter « an re to go long be w 2 1 n I ety ¢ ¢ the ell rang I'll tell you all about It »|of him again! sh , ouldn't t fore 5 , | snatched her coat and ran dc before I tell he ts impatiently. Gloria looked at him thoughtfully | with Yen, sho would have to| “If I'd had any » with her wide, brown eyes. | She put her handkerchief up tojask Miss Briggs to come and stay|sent a cab for you. Ti: “You don't supposs you ever | her eyes oad brushed the welling | with Dick in her absence, There wan| a thing ke this she sald sharply will care for anybody but me, do|tears away. nothing else to do. to Miss Briggs as they went up to you?" she asked, startled. + + + The telephone burzed loudly! That was my dad on the phone,” | Dick's room Sha wie surprised to fool the euree |e tt om |Glorta fibbed to Dick. “Ho saya my| Miss Briggs flushed. She knew . g Glorla glanced at her wrist watch.| mother’s sick and wants me to go|that what Gloria meant waa that if bee natin das arenes e It was 3:30, And 2 o'clock was/ over to the house right away sho had had any sense she would band tine hes ie area falling 18/the time that she usually met Stan Would you mind tf I phone Miss| have hurried to the house in a cab yd toh A pgs cite fs Jat the corner of Second and Madison | Briggs to stay here with you while| herse! “Not a chance In the world,” Dick | for a drive or a hike! He wan prob:| 1m gone?’ She bit her lip and said nothing. answered. “You know I'll never care /ably phoning to ask why she had} pick conaidered | When she opened the door of &@ rap about anybody but you. But) fajied him! | I can stay here alone, can't! Dick's room there was a radiant I'm just telling you that you needn't} shall I answer the phono,|, aah) after’ at hae hisdiagny tbapportsiegie She GA ome "Dick asked. here's no need to bother Miss| "'Good- Briggs of any other woman living, not Let me do it!” bec Mepsonithe Printed Pied Ate 3 the room like. «small at's nonsense! You can't stay | (To Be Continued) Gloria couldn't wer him. A 4 and took the Instr t ite: ts lump arose in her throat rad Sg eR ApS SEE STAT es Dick was so honest. So decent. | she sald nervo tm MUDD CE) ITER FOLKS BY SMALL ne srim| & ‘ “=S LETS Have, & PiPe-FuL, He was too good for her! t was not Stan's voice tha —_ . S ZEB. L'M TRYIN? LIKE. What would ho say if he knew | answered. (SIXTY T’ BREAK OFF'N ¢ had let Stanley Wayburn| “This is Maggie, ma‘am,’ make love to her? She raised a] voico at tho other end of the wire| |SMOKIN’, SOI Leer My TERBACCA #OME -— was as if sb x | Budden! ria thought of Miss ute’s paune.| smile in her eyes. acon: pointed finger and rubbed it hard)said. ‘Will you please go up to across her lips. She felt as tho they | Providence hospital right away? Dr were soiled by Stan's kisses. Seymour has just taken Mr. Dick's She made a little movement with} mother there to operate on her for her hands almost as if she were | appendicitis!” wringing them. Sho was terribly | eee afraid she was going to cry. And| Dick's mother! Gloria could] she turned away and looked out of| scarcely belleve her ears. | Mother Gregory with her bright} eyes arid the blown roses in her| cheeks, was the last person in the world who looked like a hospital case. jthe hospital when they operate on/ | dusty as the table but I fixed it.| I shook a little powdered sugar | over each lump and now tho dust | no longer shows.” | “Why, Henry! said Mrs. Sea- Cow in a shocked voice. “I’m not sure that that is the latest way of | dusting sugar.” Then to the chil- dren, “We havo so few visitors and we get so out of touch with the world! When you go home do write us and tell us the latest mode in sugar-dusting, won't you. But sit down or your cold tea will be warm and your hot soup will be| cold and the hominy will be —" “Busted up,” sald Henry. “It's swelled so already it won't stay in the dish.” “For shame, Henry,” cried his| wife, ‘Busted’ indeed! You should say ‘bursted.' " Nick laughed. “Excuse me," said he, “I didn't mean to be impolite. But really, {f you don't mind, you are both wrong.” “Then what Js right?” asked Mrs. Sea-Cow nervously. “Burs ald Nick, “Past tenso| Many a girl has to be kissed be Yr of burst is burst." « cause she can't help herself, 1 “I haven't any more {dea of what you are talking about than an oys SIR WALTER RALEIGH WORKED A HARDSHIP ON SOME SMOKERS WHEN HE. INTRODUCED TOBACCO~ AFTER ACQUIRING THE HABIT ITS & Lot OF BoTHER To HUNT UP A& FULL Topacco Pouch, PLUs A CHEERFUL LENDER— © 1925 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. hostess, “But if {t's more gram- mar I five up. Grammar {sn't what it was in the good old days pL when I went to the Iceberg School and learned my ghree »'s—swim- al \\ ming and—" “What were the other two?” ask (@) ed Henry, wiping the soup off hin long mustache. "T forget,” nald hin wite, “Starting and stopping,” 1 sup- aid Henry, 1, one thing St wasn't sup. ping,” sald Mrs, Sea-Cow. ‘I never heard anyono make such a noise with noup before,” “Ten you hear someone now," sald Henry loudly supping another spoonful Nancy and Nick looked at onch | other, What a queer place the} Land of Wonders was! So far they had not seen a sign of the Fairy sing, uy os x eat ° | Queen's honey bees. 150. toa ony (To Be Continued) Nooo pent (Copyright, 1926, K. A. Bervies, Ine.) io) ee 1s" smn Wit Ng ‘ Ii hyn ett pone, Ay Warman: pours 4 tN) hint as ys (On BoN-1 UE Goth Bie N DAY AnEAO OF © DTATE - NOPE JGUZL AKT UPiNty THe TCTROHONE Tris MORNING es 9—N- “OU Pook DOMBELL- CANT YOU SEE i. NDER ~~ / a \pabrranc--maa "7 2 i-< VENTLEMIEN - « AND NOT ONLY WAT, BU {ET- STILL -FuRHERMORE WE LLL NOT CONSIDER ANY THING € en | A PA' / ib / ray vi / a . 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