The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 21, 1925, Page 10

PAGE 10 THE iE § o [ater al gave m—|for 1 ny" —whe MAY SIEYMOU | J May aghitu f r brea of 5 mine oa " ‘ i i ' ent present And if \ f 1 1 1 4 m that's ex I'm ¢ but I The sergeant laughed. “Yes, lad Bot 1 me f if we can find mn he echoed, | he ' ' a . But that's the trick--to find him!| “Yes, it 1 fe \ Mogt of thene ka have three or decite « nde by BEATRICE BURTON ar ene, earn on, Wa 7% much as one address! see? W th Ma SEQUEL TO"24e FLAPPER WIFE" — ©NEA font know where to Took for |" 1 have «bead tA b : A week later May sat in her! f ned to fal xud af a t Muffy bedre m he 1 me u thin her her 6 # ab: | Minny's boarding hi ! uid prenently 4 one ave. waiting for the nto the hour, slaprming t ' 1 ring behind dim. But in ag “ ALS | From the hall outside her door| ment he back at he - es: }eame the soun¢ « waxophone and | alt the nell of frying onion Mayt ad delicate nostrils quivered. If there) *troll, aft ¢ hit was one thing tn the world she de udache, mayype tested above all other things it waa | Pressed her upper arm ever e@eligh the smell of onions with his th Ve Aud Miss Minny’g house usually; Ma herself away from th smelled of them—and sometimes of |¢xperimental touch, and her dixgust frying cabbage, which waa almost | showed in her face as she answered gear an see as bad. jhim, "No, thank you, Mr, Bulley Bret, gee. hee fen, er By the time the supper bell did) was-all she said, And quietly, af ia b Mig ring, May iad almost no appetite. | that tooking fin Slowly she went downstaira to‘the| But Mr, Saller felt‘as if she had fee be a! Maat. Ss jong table in a dining-room that| smacked him across his plump, pink Gari S Snatene Was Rapered, most depressingly, in| face, with its quivering globes of her in California } chocolat brown cheeks, and ite yellow mustachd. He Then, ie MOR _ Waterbury pro The soup had no taste at all. It) left het w ut another word, and Rahim. the $34,600 chat lp all. ohe Jrots and the fried onions. May laid} than eve he w inio tl has left after buying a fur coat} |down her fork and looked around | pouse and some expensive clothes and her In minutes May went o« the eve erhaps they liked fried Gnio walked up the dark staircase (6 ber Relea ' aS 1 Uppose I'm just so o own roorr A he awit i k Sprague put sorta myself hat nothing ghia whe noticed how dirty and fy from tm od to me,” May fi dec ed the berg May goes straight to Waterbury ef : oa tine ont uagor wate Pig i ghia ee and der de the return . . dy bla I'm living ier. Waters and\ enjoy it if I had an appetite. + ho tHotight, with a shisdder meyer returns, and 2 t| fim had not been able to eat for] she sat down under the dim Ught ent sho has in the we | }& week. Bhe was not sick but! poured the contents of her beaded » {NOW GO ON WITH THE sTORY)| heartsick as she faced the future:| bag into her lap, and counted he $ | She was poor, as she never had] mongy OW long she stood there, beside life, May opened the door to a bellboy who handed her a let-| been poor tn And ahead of} She had counted Before the railing, sobbing into the! 4.5 from Waterbury - | was the immedifite necessity of | that day. und knew ¥ ‘ darkness, May never knew. But y. ing to work, back to.the grind of!the Inst cent. But tiny when she finally dragged her} cream into the circles under Ler} mo, but you would have married me | ‘¥Ypewriting for a living! . mistake—t had paalbbapirs ¢ 2. eee the A knock came upon the door,|for the wad you thought 1 had. 1] It seemed imponslble that only a © than she thought | Ray here's 03 oe (Pace aeaaede opened it to a bellboy who! got you Instead—that's all. And| Wpek ago she had beon « well-to-do ut no—there were exactly §200.03 ight here and there on the frescoed | handed her a letter—a letter from | next time paste it in your hat that widow, living upon the fat of the !in the imported bag with its sterling walls illumined It. Watartiney\aaseai Terria Siabae’ catenin be 4cneied land ina luxurious hotel. And here | siver top, May held it up ly ite She crossed the great, deserted Perhaps he had repented|money—they simply don't’ k she was now—all but penniless, sit y chain apd looked at it medi. Space before the desk and axked the | and was sending bwek the check to|how to hang onto it.” ting at the supper table of a cheap She had uImost $100 Hight clerk “if Mr. Waterbury had | her! Wild hope rose in May's breast,| The letter wan “Herbie amg houss, trying so eat fried 4 month ago nar that aba left any forwarding address." But|as she tore open the cheap white | May's heart against him ae i ‘ must have : Herbert, it seemed, had not. envelope. she read tt looked et them, piled’ in ®1' ihe things women felt they. “just earth had opened and swallow But within was only a single had finished dress brown heap on her piste. | must’ hayek the tinported. bags, the him up, so far as May was con-|sheet of paper, penciled across in da large breakfast sag Ae CE Peete sas, ot | Perfume, the" ments and corned Waterbury’s bold) handwriting eras starts Ur murcel the silk stockings, and And yet, she was to hear from| ‘Don’t be too sorry for Bic ri ‘ high-b Absurd thing him again. . }it read. “Remember that 1 Bary Gende t nary si _ Early the next morning, as [to put the hook into You didn't copia yap pecengar ts nite ner isoh’ ther ‘oniit © stood befgre the mirror patting cold care the snap of your fingers about potas to, the clan air. that’ emelled| Bod, May knew thit-ahe coulint ee ee ee fof the soa. afford thene things. he had no job 6 stood bn the porch looking up| ‘hat would ylold her a weeicly sala ught peace : ace and biown-back hair a ed at it for a Y Olive Roberts Barton [ee naieiuees ect SYREUESy IE rae tae, tealte Te sare Aboonens: | t the féet eit os : he aa ; i—first, a happiness and) ™ eor luxury of NO. 24—THE LAST OF TICK TOCK certain—ahe world | 00d. fortune, one of misery | it 1 hate to well it “Why, did you say that old clock jthe organ inside the church can sit| have fur coat and the | “nd il luck : ee nie ee to 90.1" abe on the kitchen wall took a thoug|Wown and play any tune he winhea | Jewels sho had just bought for Gd aheoat Bigg OF raced s inl t I : pope aa the jeweler would | Comes, I suppose the only thing t go back Smad men to make?" ‘asked Nick.|Om them, on the chimes, I mean,|S*!f\ Perhaps the jeweler would) 1 oi) and bear it,” May|to the old hatet Mitve seen men in jewelery stores|@nd they can be heard for miles, [take them back and give her what |)” ') 8 Ati Met Mit | densdlgery of pouditie: eh CaP 4 lThat is Trinity church in New| %be paid for the ring and the wrist raelf philosophically | Sues pounding the keys of a fix up clocks and I think one} ~ y , | watal } A yolce behind her roused hor| typewriter all day long in somebody's man could make one.” ork. Amd becaues, theses chlcaes | Tne cattainly. ought) tothey'fe [270m her, thoughts | dull office. It hadn't seemed no like Tick Tock, the little clock fairy,| 8° 9° sweet and #0 fampus, Jewel.) HP SONI Y Ott And ao|. “Nico iilght, ton't 17 ft asked. | drudgery 10 years ago, when she had laughed. “I just knew that was | oS copy Pauses in emailer clocks, 1d an a take it tls to the | May turned. no owner of the voice | been stenographer to Dr. John Sey What You were thinking,” he said.|‘D@t !s in house clocks. Many # i nee what he'll do about }%@% one of the young men she had| mour es, after all the material was re abd ee Sgt pont Ape ve * : foed at the table In the di But 10 years of wifehood and eane given to him, perhaps he cou! ek ne ad eo Ne i sod, ar: Pup has’ tankioal MD ewelor firet,.| room she had just left had softened her. The said Tick Tock. “But it takes men |‘ foe Ce bait et he oa “No,” he said firmly, shaking his | YOURS fhan, with a rou At of work frightened her to make material, or even to find) o 1 nimes that ring out in Trin-| bald head. “It makes no difference fac® and 4 bald spot her, now it. The works of a clock have nll) Mme Culmed ONAL Ting i ute” When’ 'ya0 Bought theese, things. (Of Nis wide head “Pil put It off.ax long as 1 ear sorts of minerals in them that must |‘ cetargt 2 [Thes're necond-nand the minute, iss Minny had introduced him to| she promised herself be mined and worked and purified| “That is very interesting,” sald) 9 oO A foethare.\ "May as “Mr. Sid Saller, who traveis | (To Be Continued), F before a watchmaker or a clock-| “My, you know a lot, Tick ied Borngen hse — ELS his head thoughtfully you half of what you paid! mo for the ho decided, after a jong pause. 4 that’s better than you'll do anywh ne maker can use them at all. Steel, brass, and lead all Place in a clock. Even gold silver in some clocks—and Jewels, Cop) have’ I know of another clock, nd | Not so large,”” said Tick Tock, “that was made in Spain about the time Columbus discovered America. It . “The porcelain or enamel in the ihe 7 epee lattice & white Raed — Of fine baked olay |!3 made of silver and looks like a| May argued with him f whi Ghat takes miding. and. preparing | ™USic box, for underneath the clock the end triumphed and And all sorts of things before it] “orks !s & zither. On the hour it has\ehea teat cota toe thes becomes a clock face. Then there| Plays one tune and.on the half poral ” she had paid for the et Tote) another nan two; trinkets less than a week ago! fs the glass, and the wood in the|! ad gota ag Le | Outside's high {wind w othe , the oils to make it go, and ecm tie Site: an 4 ging ore hat satin’ Gah tat Baty there, the wun|@nd May shivered as she sank her - } c 1 Ow I promised the | Pointed n deep into the soft fu made from black fish which are/i* coming up en ee nar é MESA BOIL tede "for airy Queen that I would have you very hard to find and hard to] hile,’ ‘ ‘ ten ae ‘men again! Yes, t¢}Dack. {9 bed long before morning, |> Tilt, she tox lared. “I need tt fakes a thousand men to make the| YOU Will be very tired when your) | Bo Instead of voit Ach cat s s wet °| mother ‘comes in to waken you.""| tore she retraced he ps and Plainest clock, my dears. Ships.) “wo. Lor said Nick, “We never| hunted up the nearest police sta trains, mines, furnaces, and a great | deal of skill with tt Clocka | kre wonderful things.” | magic. shoes.” tion d the get tired in the “Well, good-night, then,” “Here we are right in nee where you have t this bird who beat it }1ittle fajry. MUDD CENTER FOLKS Y’ OUGHTER BE ASHAMED MA SLUPE, KEEPIN’ YER BIRTH= DAY ALL To YER- secre! © DIDN'T Me (Tv AN’ — — HERES &: BRAN’ New MoP HANDLE I HAD CHARGED DOWN To CALEB Sykes’ Ar Mou ‘We have had a fine {ime on our) your room where I found fou. Try | With your money,” the sergeant te adventure,” said Nancy, “and W0l i, remember some of the things 1| her when she had finished her stor have learned a lot, haven't we |iave told you and we'll go on an- fuel it ae Nick. I'me sure we are ever Nd) other adventure some day.” cs ever so much obliged The fairy took the magic shoes | a “You're welcome,” said Tick Tock | and gathered up his keys and oll heartily. ‘There are still more! can and tools and jumped to the|| | clocks in the world that you have) hearth i | not seen, but time was too short to| He peeped up the chimney show you everything. 1 know of/ the next instant he was gone j one clock in a church that has| (To Be Continued.) such beautiful chimes, a man at! (Copyright, 192%, N. B. A. Service, Inc.) | | vara — rat | vase was taken from.its low pedes- | | |tal, and everyone thought it had) been thoroly investigated. | CLIPPING FROM THE PITTS. | ye Gi’ glocicus black, Chinese | BURG SUN 60 are: ba te Titer Slace he | It has become an axiom around 1 the priceless trea | the Sun office that if the feature and it into. a hundred editor of the paper gets a little) pieces. Among the ruins were found short of local stuff, he says to one| the pearls. of his reporters seoms that on the Inside of "Go up to Prescott house and|the vase there © two narro jece on Mrs. Preacott's| shallow pockets, and into one of Today's story belongs to|thess the pe had fallen and editor, but the reporter| lodged securely, and when the men was asked by the Prescott family| put their hands down in tho vase, not to throw up the item in sensa t tional headlines {n the news col-| The vase was an extremely fin umns, he is going to write his| specimen of the fam t pleca against all ne ‘er office | celain of the Ming dynasty, and ex-| tradition, which insis t the valuable; but n at the Ree atonld' be put, n° the, first destruction, Mr. Prescott| 4 girl doesn't necd gunpowder. to paragraph of a news story. This ery glad to have solved tho| ™ake her looks go over with a scoop is going to masquerade as a| Mystery of the pearls. eee feature article The finding of the jewels in the| ~ “MOM’N POP THIS 15 A FINE KETTLE OF FISH house proves almost con The friends of Mrs. Prescott, how- | Prescott ever, are always sure that there is! Clusively that Commissioner Laid-| womething to be told that will be|!4w's theory ts corréct, This theory | sensational in regard to the most,| i that Miss Ellington, hearing a| splendid collection of pearls in-Pitts-| Nolve downstairs, came down, At| burg. The news that was given to| this time the thieves had not gotten | the reporter this morning keeps up| into the house. With rare presence ME ANO MOM SCOLDS ABovT OUR QUARREL. CONTINDALLY = pti 1 FEEL AS COMFORTABLE the average ad Miss Ellington ‘hurriedly AROUNO HERE AS A GOLDASH Mrs. Prescott’s pearls have been| removed the pearls from the safe, JR BARREL found. here she knew the butglars imme ~—— PI Altho the police thought they had| Mate look, and dropped them in fearched the downstairs —rootns| the vare thoroly, they found they had over It was then that the thieves made looked one place of conc nent thelr nee, and were proba Reference has been made mony| MY torturing her to make her give times to a wonderful porcelain vas the combination of the. safe which stands in tho library. ‘Thin| When Sydney, Carlton’ heard the | j- - ——_—— ———— | Noise and came downstairs. } (Copyright, 1926, ‘A. Service, Inc.) | C Quick, safe, sure relief from painful callouses on the feot. At drug and shoe sores Df Scholl's Zino D S y TOMORROW-—Olipping from Pitts borg Sun Have you lost a sake? By wi u Star you may be able to get J wit the finder, treasured keep Want Ad in touch TYTE 15 AS MAD AS A HORNET AT GREAT HONK! ~ THAT LOOKS LIKE A LAWYER GOING INTO TYTE'S HOUSE ~ LLL BET THE OLD BIRD \S GOING TO SUE ME FoR HITTING HIM WITH THAT ‘TOY AUTOMOBILE SS tM, Sirah. Aaa THOUGHT SEARD A ~ BOOTS AND HER | HAD A SWELL Time CMON IN, JIMMY~ (SEE BA 1S HERE “IF ‘you'd LIKE T'CHAT WITH HIM AR, we [yung FRECKLES AND HIS FR ENER SINCE I GOT AY LEG KURT TIVE BEEN 6ETTIN A NICKEL A DAY TO SPEND © WELL GO DONS To TH CANDY STORE AND SPEND AY AICKEL. WHAT ARE YoU GOAWA GET ? JELLY BEANS, , DROPS, SUCKERS, LICORICE STICKS, HOW'D You LIKE SOME AIcE LICOR ice STicks ? TUBRE'S SOME | Nice CANDY HEARTS, FRECKLES! aca A RERETS BUDDIES IEN CHOCLATES, GUM PTEMBER BY SWAN MONDAY. HTS ORI TORN ‘EM | \ OR KONRAD COMING PND DOKING DALEKS ES, DEAR=YOU RON ON | JIMMY AND | ARE GoiING | TO TALK FOOTBALL. 1 WAS. > BAC TIME AND LIVE OVER, Me THOSE DAYS WHEN 1 OSED TO PLAY THE OLD (A AWFUL "WRED, Bix. \F YOu AN’ JIMMY WILL EXCUSE ME,1 THINK Li GO oe WOULONT {IT BE WONDERFY \F YOO COULD DO “THAT, a aM = LIVE THE OLD DAYS, OVER LIKE 1 SUST SPOKE OF 2 dS BY BLOSSE a GEE-1 DONT KAOW WHAT TLL BUY~ LE'S LOOK AN SEE WHAT MES GOT THATS OM, AO =|F WE GOT THAT, WED HAVE TO WASH OUR FAcES! ALL RIGHT MR.TYTE = TLL ATTEND To THIS MATTE: PROMPTLY ~ IT WILL TAKE A DAY BEFORE ‘THE PROPER PAPERS CAN BE DRAWN UP CAN YOU BEAT THAT © AFTER TRYING TO BE NEIGHBORLY WITH “THAT TIGHT FISTED OLD CROTCH HE'S GOING To SUB ME FOR. + DAMAGES AND IM AS HELPLESS. AS ACAT ON A PIECE OF FLY PAPER / ii RN \