The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 8, 1925, Page 10

PAGE 10 AY SIEYMOUR IT LOOSE AY SEYMOUR, wore husband M. DR. JOHN SEYMOUR. killed himse!¢ | Decause of her love affair with JIM CAREWE. returns to her home town ; home of her ORY, and GLORIA, : | tella them how the ugly story of her S past has followed her everywhere FF ARd #0 sho has made up her mind to § to Europe, Bisew ner. his wife. ! where no one will| =, She turns over her house WLYSSES X. FORGAN, a w EP widower, to sell for her. And she| her stocks and er they will brin Fa is enough mo: to dre! © part of a rich } widow for a few months, #0 that apa | can “land” a rich husband. > A week later, with $8,000 tn her! Shandbag, she goes to Atlantic City | f for a rest before sailing. There sho| Meets a divorcee, CARLOTTA F RO! ING, and her two friends, BERT WATERBURY and SPRAGUE. rt of a wistful ege to Water- He gives two or in her honor, and er pictures of his houses. that he is. the millionaire Sure husband she Teads him to belleve that she uch more money than the § fg looking for, May has nm says he can get for her Bs & " One day W Phave a. tet i He te! erbury asks May to| tete luncheon with| her that he loves! but doesn’t ask| her passionately, her to marry him. = SIMAY was sick with angry disap. | potntment as she said good-bye | to Herbert Waterbury and went up fo her room. Taking off her wraps, she gave the mirror a long, close Scrutiny. ‘It offered to her eyes the picture | af a woman of apparent wealth— | > .& young and beautiful woman, dressed in expensive clothes, wear. , ing expensive jewelry. Why, then, had Herby falled to Ask her to marry him when he had/ eo etude | “You'll pay for this some day, young woman!” desirable wife for any man, even a} -tyers 1 " millionaire like Herby! ce ah ea » {Tm a fine one to be passing out| A sudden thought struck her. Per: | that must be it advice to Carlotta about landing a/ haps Carlotta had already told Her. |} A sudden wave of hopelessness husband, when I can't seem to do it|by about Dr. John! In that case,| submerged May, Sho th = Myselfr" she told herself bitterly.' Herby not to/ upon the bed wep * A DOVE Carers: & Olive Roberts Barton NO. 13—THE ALARM CLOCK hod 4 E GO ON WITH THE STORY) with twice her m by cide! a chance of unhapp am ying the widow of a w herself long and and If. 1 her eyes, and propped upon one elbow, looked out |at the gray rain. A tap camo at the door, She dragged herself across open it Carlotta Frotking stood there. on I wanted she shut a ‘ou, b y € What kind of a clock shall weyevery morning. So it depends on toi flerbert Warerbary about my Wepair next?’ asked Nick, when|alarm clocks. Come! We'll see!hushand killing himeelf? It ‘ Tock had finished tightening | what Is wrong with Mister Smith’s| you have, please be honest and tell oiling and winding the nice old | clock. @mother clock I happen to know that he in the cherry|has been late at the office for two! put Carlotta shook her blonde b 1 ok her bl a c that stood on the floor. days. If he ‘s late again tomorrow | vigorously. “Indeed I have not!” pre “I think we had better go and | ft may go hard with him.” “ about Mister Smith's (pesca .* said Tick Tock, the clock me so!” | said, choosing a cigaret from the Off went the Twins and the clock} blue enameled caso that swung at} fairy, until they came to Mister| ber wrist. . ‘I swear it, on a stack of Smith's house. peven Bibles!’ | They climbed up the. Vv. She struck a match to her cigaret, | alarm, clock! Why, Oiey.-ar¢lercener to the porch rode wit ae land feaned’tmck in her chatr staring | nly good to make a noise. }thru the window. There on a lit.|#t tho coiling with eyes that were yYou certainly should be smack-| tig stand sat the saucy little clock, |®? ‘@d soundly for saying that,” said pm ! nea pond “Pooh?” cried Nick. “A common é Jand there dn the bed lay Minter zost tell tye) deen crying?" ee, cock cgloanghart Nancy |20KR Smith, snoring | ahe asked Aden) pa vee, They aro ucly, orent| ttle card with some names| May nodd You can see for “ym y Pott fom ft lay of the bureat and. Theic|7OUrsele tbat I haver she answer “Certainly not,” sid Tick~ Tock | 7X Picked it up about the same | “He's been to a dance,” he whis | pered to the Twins. “That means | ™¢n” tcidedly. “Nothing is ugly that J is useful, and an alarm clock is that h didn’t t ¢ t af the most useful thing In| chore Sido nee eee ntl ner carclean alang. ‘Tell me your a se Od Invoke you | about 2 o'clock. ‘That will never| Per © j ere wite » youl do. He can't do that and get up| ‘roubles first, and then I'll tell you pusht say that all the business and / at 7 work in America depends on alarm | bestd “clocks nowadays, when people have stopped going to bed with the and expect to do good work | ne” les. If he wants to be a good! business man and get on at the! office, he'll have to get more sleep. | Now let's seo what is wrong with|ahead with yours But May slowly shook her head Mine aren't the kind that can b told right now,” she said didn’t I "It nay jorre Seite cent the | the clock.” Propose to you last night? Is that z somal on the fairy, “'Then|, H® Jumped up on the table and | what's wrong Sen the sun came‘ up again, they | looked the clock all over. Then he "4 Nea" Kécaisen< they were | Stinned dow, and stood with up, by: Dec: ney | “The reason that Mister John | May, apparently : 3 Pate Ae cen cos tok Smith's alarm clock doesn't go off |View of the ocean Rie tcetobiica ana fhows and |i? that he was too tired to wind| “N act Carlotta walked over to the win her back to absorbed in her y,"" she answered [the alarm,” he whispered. “Tl | presently. ut he told me he in ferything on earth almost to kee) wing jt for him and leave him a|love with another woman. Now, can jem awake, people don't go to) 111). ing the nerve to until 11 or 12 o'clock. And,| on, next morning when Mr. John| say a thing like that to mo, after course, they wouldn't get up Smith woke up at 7 and reached | all these years?” out to shut his alarm clock off, |—————— he found this note: i vt you don't forget me, 1 won't! LIPPER FANNY s. forget you, if you want me to ring, | | sive me a good turn or two. “THE CLOCK." “. EB. A. Service, Inc.) Continued.) | until noon if it were not for alarm ‘elocks.”” . “Daddy says that the man next r weakens him with his lawn fer at 6 o'clock,” laughed Nick. | “Well,” said Tick Tock, “the rid can’t depend on lawn mowers the milk-man to waken it up (Copyright. 1925, (To Be ER FROM RUTH BURKE TO &, LESLIE PRESCOTT * You certainly have been having iting times lately at your house, ile, dear. What with robberies near drownings and all sorts of I didn't want to worry you about | the matter while you were having so | much excitement, but I hope now| we can come to some conclusion be- | fore Walter returns. Ho rags me a ar good deal about the business—says citement, I would think you were/I’m not as good a business woman having very littie rest of any kind. as he thought I was. He »# | I wish you would come over here | always expected me to take care of yand make me a Iittle visit, Walter|him if he lost his money. Of course, 4s going on a yachting trip, and will|I know he aaid this in fun, but I'd| gone at least three months. He/|like to show him; mat least, I would galmost refused to go, but I made him| like to make a go of it or wind it up. | en I think husband and wife| N Leslie, I am saving my uid get away from each other| greatest and best news until the end| ce in a while, I know he’s long-|of the letter, I’m going to have a ig for a trip. You know how he|baby. You are the first person I | Balled all over the world before we|have whispered it. to. I have not} Wwere married, and I think the wan-|even told Walter yet, and I’m not _deriust has taken hold of him again.| going to tell him before he goes away, for if I did he wouldn't go. he An apple a day keeps the doctor away, but an onton a day keeps everyone away. | ! | “Oh, sure,” Carlotta answered with THE SEATTLE turned suddenly to May, and gan to cry “Who's the woman » « F te Leet’ May asked n Ive you,” Carlotta sobbed into her handkerchief. with astonishment atted the unhapp May ¢ She got up little of her woman on oD plump, shaking shoulder “Oh, he's just teasing you. You don't believe such tommy-rot do you she asked Carlotta shook May hand off, in stant! Believe it Of cour 1 be Didn't 1 wateh as hard @ jeve Jt! she cried ou Vamping him Just ould the wimmi when you Oh her da togethe were i not biimd, you know! 1 ‘saw loing with exasperation. sho began, “I what May laughed My dear w don't Dan. Nice 4 I wouldn't have him as a gift Unkle of the wall hone broke in upon her spiritual renuncia on of Dan Sprague “Hello, merry widow! voloe that came ga "How would you like to Put on your old clothes and go for a walk in tho rain, with me? May hesitated want your as he It was his y over the wire! She wanted to talk to Dan, but she certainly did not want Carlotta to know about it ‘Can you call me again in about dly Carlotta asked asked guarde 15 minutes?’ she “Who was tha suspiciously when sho turned away from the telephone, “It was Dan, wasn't It Certainly not,” May fibbed with it so much as the flicker of an eyelash, “It was the clerk down stairs She sure that Carlotta did not her Poor little thing!" she thought with compassion, “Think of caring for a man the way sho does for Dan, and then to have him tell you he's crazy al her woman!"| “Twelve years,” Carlotta answered diamally 1 was down In Mexico with my husband husband's @ bridge builder, And Dan was there with nome oll people.” my you know “I was only 24 at the time,” she t on, stealing a glance into the mirror above May's dressing table. “The minute I saw Dan I wan in love with him—not in the lukewarm way I'd cared for my husband—but forever and ever! Tho kind of fool affection a woman has for just one person in her whole life “Well, he seemed to care about 0 just that first; 1 couldn't stand living with my hus band. So I dashed back to states, and divorced him, Of course I had no reason in the world to do it. But I did!” way —at “And you thought Dan would marry you, a® soon as you were free,” May finished the story for nd he never has! Inn't Frotking nodded, and ’ r red-rimmed, And ho never will added. “I know It, And yet I > hoping againat hope that he f he comes East, I follow And ho doesn't pay any more ion to me than he would to if he had one. Not as his sister, much!” She smoked in silence for a few minutes, lost In her own gloomy thoughts. In the silence of the room, the tinkle of the telephche sounded loud and portentous Dan Spraguie’s voice again STAR I just know it | Bhe stood up and whirled across the room, with a funny, rolling | movement | With her hand on the door knob she turned and faced May, “You'll pay for this some day young wo she said in the tones of a tragedy queen Don't be siliy!" May said ebarp jy, "As a matter of fact, I am go: jing out to meet your precious Dan Hut not because I'm in Jove with }him, as he probably thinks I am. He doesn't know it, but he's just due for the razzing of his life from me About the way ho treats me Carlotta asked, sighing "About you, of course,” May told jher. “Irom now on I am going to be a sort of combination guar Hian-angel-and-matrimonial - bureau for you little mout! she | But Carlotta’s weak “You think #0, dropped. now," said, “I can seo that you really in [tend to be a good friend of mine Hut Dan has a way with women. He'll get around you somehow.” “Not with mo, sweetie,” May answered firmly, “I'm in just the right mood to go out and tell som |man or other exactly what I think of his entire sex. They're dead beats and cheats when it comes to love She was in apparently high spirits! when sho greeted Dan Sprague. few minutes later, A bloom of color in her cheeks-—she was ra How could Dan know that th liance had {ts inspiration in her anger toward Herbert Water bury He tucked her hand in his, and they set out with their heads down against the high wind that ro! and great waves in from the sea, | swept the spray into their faces. pu're my kind of a girl to a she heard Dan's voice exulting, above the sound of the surf. adventurer, aren't you? An adyenturess, you mean!" May anmwered, enjoying her own foke Yes, I'm an adventurens.”* You're a darling!" he said, then. shouting to make himself heard. With « sudden movement, he drew May close to his aide, turned his face and kissed her cheek just below heft ear. She heard him laugh, triumphantly | “Don't do that again!” There was a dangerous sharpness in May's For Dan her toward him, held her close in hin jarms, and laughed down at her, | showing his strong white teeth in @ grin. | “You know you want me to kins you!” he said, “You know you do! You know, if I asked you to, you'd almost answer swung drive over to Philadelphia with me |today, and be married, wouldn't you?’ May was speechless with anger H-how do you get that wa she gasped at last. “Why, I wouldn't you if you were the Even if you | belong to Carlotta, ,you for a gift 1 wouldn't have I Just finished tel! ing her #0 She felt his arms relax, and she tore herself away from him “If you feel that way about me,” jhe asked sarcantically, “why have you been making love to me for the | last three days the way you have?" May could seo that he really was | puzzled—that he really thought she |had been asking him to make love | “TN meet you outside on the/| to her. boardwalk {n 10 minutes,” May told) “Why—why.” she asked faintly him, shortly, and hung up re have I been doing that? Truly, I celver didn't know it!” Making dates with the hotel| Was she so anxious to find a it ‘What's the to lure # , wondered. g to me, Mrs. Seymour? 1) (To Be Continued) ' “MUDD CENTER FOLKS — HERE'S A HAT BELONGS HAVEN'T SEEN MR BROWN FER SEVERAL T’ TH YOUNG FELLA FROM } DAYS - HE Paid HIS TH CITY — SEEN HIM LATELY ? AMONG MUDD CENTER *COULD PossiBLY PAY AND THEN DISAPPEAR BOARD IN ADVANCE FOR A WEEK AN’ HIS, CLOTHES ARE STILL IN ~ SSS THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE HANDSOME YOUNG STRANGER AT THE HOTEL, ALONG WITH THE FINDING OF HIS STRAW HAT ON THE RIVER | BANK, 1S NOW THE CHIEF ToPiC OF Gossip CITIZENS ~~ NO ONE. HIS BOARD FOR A WEEK UNLESS SUICIDE OR FouL PLay Was THE Cause ~~ THE TOWN MARSHAL HAS BEEN NOTIFIED ~~~ 1025 BY WEA SERVICE, hdl) 4 We have been together almost con- “tin Oh, Laalie, you do not know how juously ever since we were mar- filed, and when he proposed that I| happy I am over the thought of my baby that is coming. I'vo been so "should go with him, I said: ‘My dear, do you realize that we|envious since yours was born that, ‘are growing into one of those bore-| honestly, I could not bear to come some wedded couples that have noth-|over and see you. Walter, too, has Jng to talk about elther when they|been anxious for children and, curl Vare alone or with anyone else? It|ously enough, he wants his first to Pwould be different if you were work: |be a girl. His mother has implanted i, and for the last year I have|in his mind an old doggerel | it the little shop go without much MOM’N POP A SPRING IN THEIR, CAR AND UM NOT BECAUSE First a daughter, then a son, GOING TO HELP ing. We are getting 60 that we} And the world is well begun. Eonar PAY FoR IT with each other to the extent| First a son and then a daughter, UP HALE ESTHER, our whole life is growing into “the dry rot of monotony,” » You must come over and see me, And tho trouble cometh after. Ridictulous, isn’t it? But lately he has said many times; “I hope our OF THE COST OF i= wteslie, while Walter is gone. I|first child will be a girl,” and then POS NAT y Tthink we ought to have a reorgani-| repeated that silly verse, Until 1 gation of affatra at The Little Shop. | knew 1 was going to hive a baby, I To THEM hey're getting rather muddled up.| used to go cold when 1 heard him| | NOT AWORO We have! made any money for|say he wanted one, for fear 1 might HAS BEEN the jast two months, Since Julla| never havo one; but it's all vight| \EXCHANGED Anasted married that young boy, she | now, and when Walter comes back BETWEEN has been little good about the place. > fim very glad we did not give her @ partnership in it, for T think wo | will have to get rid of her, or else pell out to her, 4 A I'l! surprise him with the news Lovingly, NUTH TOMORROW—Telegram from Sally Atherton to John Alden Prescott, THE TWO I DONT CARE IF THE \ KNOW THEY'RE GUNNS NEVER SPEAK TO OS- IT WASN'T MY FAULT THEY BROKE S D stoat \ _ THAR, MAKEETER BALK, EH 7 — | WILLING 10 Ws HEAD OFF IF YOU'D ONLY TAME Hi BACK, Ext 7 ALL BUSINESS - YOU GOTT me “An|— BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES TW TIRES ARE HEY. AL Down) TH’ GANG Os) “Em T'SWIM wr ‘TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1925 BY SWAN { a GozneM-—1 WANT My OLD JOB BACK AS CLERK IN Your stone- Fao NOW ON " Nelenahomens | 17 BLL. BUSINESS - LA THROUGH Pa \ , | WITH EVEQYTHING Else ay’ ie f ( BUT BUSINES? Dan ) OLD CROOK You- RON SOUR ‘ 4OURSELF SRV THEE, Heaw Kemet STORE ey th a ; —— 36400 HiREO KONRAD \ ALLAIGUT-| (VERN MLLT> MAT SAY? SWELL Go TO 5 TR. C'MON IN = HE'S WORKING- HIS ERO. CAF RIGHT mow wi YOO Next SUNDAY ETC — LUNOA "Toad, AND TAKE i TH! BAG DANCE ToniGHT— [BY TH’ Wr-'CAN 1 CALL OM SHOW) BY THE WAY Boots-WHar BECAME OF THE CAR YOu CAME DOWN IN- THE ONE WITHOUT AN ; ee ENGINE 2 | ALWAYS WILL THINK WE MISONDERSTOOD TH’ FELLA WHO SOLD IT To OS. | THINK, KE MEANT SO INSTEAD FF D- ETHER WAY WE Got GXPED WELL FOR ONE THING, NY OPAL USES WHaT's LEFT T'REGEVE COMPANY lett pientione WHY, (7 DONT SEEM BUT A COUPLA DAYs A60 SCHOOL LET OUT AN’ + ERE WE ARE.GaN’ To Do HAF TH’ TWNGS L WANTED TD DOTHIS FRECKLES JS MUS MORNING ? 6EE-HES LUCKY - KE WONT HAFTA 60 TD SCHOOL MN I | BOT TREYRE Lucky! TASH T COULD 60 BACK With ; THEM! SY AES Wwelgy- I Wisk I WAS IN TX HOSPITAL. \O1pas ev NVC IMPOSING ON US BUT WHAT ARE WE GOING To Do? WERE 200 MILES FROM HOME AND WITHOUT ENOUGH MONEY TO GET THERE -‘fob CAN) AT LEAST BE FRIENOLY TILL WE GET BACK our FRIENDLY ME EYE!- WE'RE NéT GANG “TO BE ONDER ANY OBLIGATIONS To THEM AS LONG AS OUR FEET HOLD CLOTHES AND GET OUT OF HERE BEFORE THEY GET OP Moaning Winds WE'LL. PACK UP OUR You DON'T MEAN To SAY You'Re f GOING TO WALK os BACK HOME ? FOR THAT OLD PANHANDLER- HE BROUGHT US OUT HERE UNDER THE PRETENSE OF A PLEASURE TRIP AND THEN TRIES “To GET HIMSELF A NEW CAR, PIECE BY BY TAYLOR IM _NoT GOING TO BE AN EASY MARK 6UT WE MIGHT HAVE LEFT A NOTE SAVING WE WERE LEAVING AFTER ALL THEY WERE GOOD NEIGHBORS AND WE MIGHT WANT ‘To BORROW FROM THEM SOMETIME WE CAN GET ALONG WITHOUT THEIR FRIENDSHIP PIECE, AND HAVE ME PAY FOR HALF OF iT. HE SAID L OWE HIM $5117 BUT L KNOW HE'S GOT THOSE FIGURES PADDED OUT LIKE A SALESMAN'S EXPENSE ACCOUNT