The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 2, 1925, Page 10

PAGE 10 _ MAY SEYMOUR EATRICE BURTON FOOTLOOSE SEQUEL TO"O/o FLAPPER WIFE" | | she's like a mother THE STORY 50 PARY MAY YMOUR, whose husband. DR, JOHN SEYMOUR, killed him elf because of her love affair w iM CAREW? returns h town after @ year’s abadn comes date one fall night home of her lawyer, DICK} and GLORIA, his wife them how the ugly story a followed her every sho has made up| Europe where ever the a, she la ¥ to dress hy widow for months, and “land rich hus bund. ‘A week later, with $8,000 In $500 bills in her bi Ma At lantic City f TA FROL aud her frie BRBURY an e cE’S little supper are joined by PRANCIE LE one of Adoree's| explains | that such women as I earn | hostesses.” Waterbury their living by dancin, h un attached men in these *. r asks May to et him ¢ her $8,000 for her many men came alone to the « Francie went on. “And she s give it UDI me and two or three other promises to put it in| the hotel safe. Waterbury makes love to her, and she fee eure that she ie in love with him if The morning after the party at Adoree’s she buys a 0 black 1 ring on her way to breakfast oardwalk restaurant There She meets Francie Lee, and Fran cle tells her that being a “hostess” s the most terrible Job In the world. «NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY) ae ars EFORE I ‘tell you anything about myself, I'd like to ask yon a question,” Francie Leo be- gan. “How old do you think I am?" May narrowed her eyes and look- e@ at the face opposite her as an artist might have studied his model Francie’s pale skin was drawn around the orbits of the eyes. eyes themselves were old. Th Jooked as if they had seen every- thing there was to see, and had} grown tired from too much strain Below the ear and under the chin there was a tiny slackening of flesh. And while there was no im the smooth black halr, it did not} have the live look of healthy hair. “Well,” May said truthfully, “I should say you are S34 or 35." “Twenty-eight!” There was a kind of bitter triumph in Francie’s walce as sho answered, “In another | five years I'll look about 40.” May could only shake her hend “I was on the stage when I first came to New York from my home town in Ohio,” Francte said. “Adoree | was in vaudeville theo, and 1 was with her. Then she started her mid- night supper club in Now York, and ft was such a success that sho gave up tho stage for good.” “I remember the piace,” May Sey- mour broke in. “I went there one} | besides w } clock mendt } with a wide porch she knew to sit at thelr you know and talk to them-—entertain a “Ill say this for Adoree .. . Ways sees that we get home | And sho's made a rule that none o us meets the men patrons outside the club Franct ark eyes grew darker as she sed for a second, ‘Goodness knowa, we never want to seo them again! We're about pass out of the ploture after four or five hours of trying to danc and talk to a lot of fat old ment “Hut, at that, it wouldn't be ready to }auch a tough life if it weren't for the drinking we May's lips curled at that in a dis dainful amile “But you don't have to drink with th a yout’ she asked. Not ur ite such a terrible way of lving why don’t you go back to the stag have to di ws you want to? rd it “Well, I did try going back once,” Francie said, gloomily turning her lass around and around in } hands, “But there's so much more money in this hoatess Jot “Wo get tips just as walters . you know,” she went on frank ly. “Sometimes a party will giv rl as much as $50 If sho's been bright and entertaining. Of ¢ a lot of men are tightwad 1 think $10 Is enough for talking “Where to now?" asked Nick. . the little clock fairy, stopped under a street lamp and looked at a Nttle book he had taken out of his pocket Ihave to gO and fix the cuckoo clock next,” he sald. “It y| belongs to deaf old Mister Kubler who lives on the hill, Come on, y and Nick, follow me and we tll soon be there." Off scampered the little fairy fol lowed by’the Twins. ancy carried | the big key for the clock the off can for k Tock carried the bel hich he did the dust of other useful things © might need tn his ing and a In about two minutes the three were at the top of t standing before a n 1 house a big chim Shall we go down the chimney we did at the’ last place?" asked | No, it won't be necessary,” sald Tick Tock. "Mister Kubler never locks his doors. He says that the} more he trusts the world the bet ter it likes him, and if he has any thing that will do anyone more t three or four years ago with my husband.” “Well, Adoree noticed that a great LETTER FROM MRS, JOSEPH GRAVES HAMILTON TO LESLIE PRESCOTT My Déar Daughter: ‘There was a short paragraph in the London paper this morning to the effect that someone had been breaking into your house again. I am very much worried. I do wish that other man could be captured. I'm afraid something is going to hap- pen. I would even be more comfort-} good than it does him, he is wel- come to take it ever, hax sent him back Into melan-| cholia again. | Up to date we have been having such a wonderful time. As you by this letter, we are back in ¥ land, We came back to stay for a couple of weeks at Betty Stokely's house party. You remember, sho was poor Alice’s best friend, nd both Alice and Karl stayed with her be. fore they were married. She mar- ried one of the Carnovans, and an able if I thought he had tho old/ nexed a wonderful country estate, pearls. | Poor Karl always gets nearly be- side himself whan anything is said about them, for he seems to feel that} he is to blame for the whole thing— not only your having the pearls, but Alice's death. I was awfully sorry he saw this paragraph in the paper, for he had been more like himself lately than I have known him since Alice's death. ‘This news, item, how ORDER BY TELEPHONE MAIn 8251 . | I got the boys’ pictures. How 1800.000 cups fare served atthe PANAMA-PACIFIC Internation POSITION — Ask fHorlick’s The- ORIGINAL Malted Milk” sey Milk | ForInfant. Invalide,” wah The Aged ibleNo Cooking, tions = Substitutes tA A land she always was railing at you as well as a title, Karl and I ha’ been staying with her for the la ten da d she wants us to stay until the end of the month Retty's younger sister has grown up and {x a lovely girl. She is also staying here. | Between us, my dear, I think the} Stokelys and the Carnovans would like to make a match between Mary | nd Karl. Karl likes her very much. | They have many tastes in common. I do wish he would fall in love with her, for he has been so unfortunate in his heart affairs, I would like to! have him have a great love before jhe dies. Altho I am sure you didn’t mean it, my dear, you treated him rather cavalierly when you fell in love with Jack, and it very effectually | spoiled Karl's life. I don’t think he'll | ever care for any other person as much ‘as he did for you, and his| love for you was more of an obses sion than a passion, He married | Alice, I am sure, only because he saw he could make her happy by do- ing so, and he thought he would Iike to be in our family. But I cannot complain of Karl, dear, Whatever he married her for, | no man could have been better to a woman than he was to my poor, unfortunate younger daughter. Betty told me the other night that Alice was al s crazy about Karl, because, she waid, you had treated him so badl Do you know, Leslle, I hope those fateful pearls have gone out of all our lives. I have tried not to be superstitious, but you must acknowl edge that In the cases of both you and Alico they have spelled tearn. Honestly, I hope you will never find them; I woujd gladly think of you as losing the money, because T have found that money means very little in the making of real happiness. | much brother looks like you! He has | the same wistful expression you had | when you were f little girl. Strange, | like Jona? You would almost thing he was really his father. I hope he will never know he ia not, They have just sent for me to com@ down and have tea, so with a kiss to the boy and love to John and lf Tam, JUST MOTHIGR, TOMORROW—Clipping from Fitts. burg Sun (Copyria} 5, N. 1. A, Aervice, Tne.) Are you uslng Star Want Ade? If fan’t it, that little Jack looks so much | A aacinn CORES OF VES PUN bY Olive Roberts Barton NO. 7—THE CUCKOO CLOCK “Nobody ever goes in or tov & thing except to do him a “kind neas, such as we are doing now ob and gave it a t hed. The three we inside and Tick glass lamp At that stopped for te,” “I for ut the bird In made i “We just came in time. He's run d said Tick Tock you needn't whisper, Mister Kuble and a deaf an a x He » believes tn fairies and I'm afraid of him.” “L should may not,” voice from the wall And a ii carved wooden man who had been st ing on one ride of the clock, left his place and climbed over the rail of the little where the 6uckoo t ] the same time another hn man who matched eald o new! | | climbed over the ral n the other sido and echoed, “I iid say not.” Who are you?” naked Nick. “Woe are the comes of the moun ain,” said the little wooden men oplo in Switzerland who jon cuckoo clocka often put us on for a ments wind up the clock, the cuckoo here will finish song and tell you! al} about “Right-o," said Tick Tock, jump. ing up to the pine-cono weights that hung near the floor, up began to Hoe put big key into the keyhole on face of the clock and turned ar and around. little cuckoo bird fir ished hin song where he had left off, “—00, cuckoo, cuckoo,” each time dodging back thru a doorway and then sudde ing ott to sing a new Soon the clock was tic away A climbing for dear life all olled and dusted ‘ound I'll tell you a story,” (To Be Continued.) (Copyright, 1925, N. EB. A. Rervice, 1 FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: People who are ‘eager to wed are often just honeymoonatruck If you} kno’ THE SEATTLE STAR J dancing your fect off] ric ved happily ever after’ | sing stuf uw . | A hard look came into Francie’s » afraid not,” of & matter of fact dering that very thing Well, I'm? just as was when I left Mt wy age i But just the body bracelets, » one for a moment and her 2 heavenly moment ened arma Ever been tn non?” ah ¢ she m hes, I wonder what his in the w rancie remembered her role of All green lawns and white b c Widow. And sho bough’ night, You knew the kind of towa " ‘ dress 1 meat " A ie shop 1 Maribor “Well, I sang in the chotr of our | oughdlenhelm. church, and everybody said ought to knock Herby for a 4 Voloe » 1 made he told herself I's taken me 10 yea out that I was licked bef nd ed," sho wighed jood morning, Me Widow womldn't you?’ May asked 1} bur 4 to. motor} really love the bright Mghts ar lunch with | home the jazz and all the rest of the life | you lead h . ‘olee thrilled. gave her a long. Can you make} from head to t Quakeress May wed by x the © Quake waited for 10 4 be J came again as he was rd of cown finer than of me kind of ¢ I wore, T I talked, and th pretty stral noed out in Vernon, you know, It's a 9 o’c town, all right 19 got up and to May give mo for tory on near Pitts: | red. “But I My ut our real ere's a filo nh ANAD- aha know wha housa, \ daugh seed her har away ne you he sald. "Ye H 1 so they mar. | MUDD CENTER (To Be Continued) FOLKS THET WOULDeé& KNOCKED HIM COLD, BY ainks! Ge ZEB YouRE MA SLUPE'S PREDICTION THAT BANKER ZEB PERKINS WILL FIGHT & DUEL WITH HIS RivAL FoR THE HAND OF THE PRETTY BoARDER ar GRANDMA HOPKINS’ HouSE HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BY THE SOUND OF SHOOTING IN ZEBS Bacic YARD «~~~ THe FACT THAT zeEB'S SLUMBERS Have BEEN DISTURBED BY STRAY Cars 1S NoT KNOWN TO THE GOSSIPS ~~~ ©1025 @Y WEA SENVICE wc. tha); ane $ALESMAN $AM Wk'D BETIER Stop ALONG HERE SOMEWHERE AND GET SOME | Balt, nba Ape Hy 4 ‘ a FRECKLES AND CANT YOU COME AN PLAY WITH rol CNO-1 or MANY TAINGS Yo DO-NHEN T GET THROVEH HERE ‘t 60T OTHER THINGS I GOTTA 6GE-You CERTINY GOT A LOT T'DO, ANT You, JAG? 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