The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 28, 1925, Page 12

PAGE 12 | imped as he walked, | The richest woman in America | Over the oll covered table he|comes to me last year, wanting # aniled at her with his bulging Diask/ fob in the m *, he went t ve Li WZ eyes, and tapped the thick white bowl| "Hut you have a crooked none,’ 1} ING ®S S00 = of steaming chill with his spoon tell her And it is true, Bo I put} 50RP “Think he began, his th her » dan hall neene. The rivh FOOTLOOSE BEATRICE BURTON SEQUEL TO"O/4e FLAPPER WIFE” THE STORY 50 FAR: MAY SEYMOUR, whose husband Killed himeelf because of r love affair with an man, returns to | her home town after @ years ab sence, She sells her roperty, with her tiny f une in cash, out to find and marry @ man | and sete with money. | stools to ait on? Well, T never go) OU : At Atlantic City she meets HER. back to New York without having a| “Tomorrow I see you then,” Fish BERT WATERDURY | and DAN ree eae NRT lant 4 ack maid, tucking the paper Into SANLOTTA PROLKING. Doth men | | Before May he took a| Ms bilifold. ROLKI} | \aee ead ahlaky rom his| They had reached the station ——. ‘ | platform. ‘The train was ready, and coat pocket and unscrewed the top, | 5 = | Have fust_n touch?” he aaked,| May caught @ gleam of purple on pie (GAERT % . or| ite rear car Bhe supposed that 7 PVA TS Hes ‘pend the | holding. it poised over the top of her| !t ra , J 2 nage | | natouthed elass of gingerale Goldie Gay must be there, With YOU tiusT 6 | WAS >, attractive, | i] | May shook her head Dan, no doubt! } FLY -PAPER It!!! y pee ES Waterbury having Fina n all her And he no 1 hue of food, “at om bu Jana fingerbowls when I eat! Mowers on the table, candies, everything Just But this ts the kind of meal I er takes mo back to my boy no. lJor ss» hoot." May remembered vaguely that the great Fishback had etarted his ca reer as a bootblack or newsboy on New York's Hast Side “There's a little allnight restau rant down on Heater at. that to moe was the grandest place on earth, In Fishback went on, and | ONEA | thone days,” there was a certain wistfulness on his | broad face. “You know the kind | pork chops piled In the windows, high “No, thanks,” she sald lowered the flask, and ho looked at her with bis Fishback ones more eyes half shut rll bet you fhe minute T saw f, never take a he sald the train, I sald to mys THE SEATTLE STAR oat woman in America, and she le part of the background for Lemuel Vishback May looked at him How dreadful he waa! Lemuel caught her glance, “That's the way you should look!” ho said, raising both his hands, way! . . and men Medainfully Mean, y' know! Oh, Proud you'll be a knockout an my du Ho fumbled tn his vest pocket and pulled out @ stump,of « pencil and A solled enveloped the “Now and tell me name,” he ordered, May wave him her address, name, and Carlotta’s The thought brought her back to reality Al last hour she had felt ag if sho were part of a queer dream. “Let's got our bags! “and for Pete's mke sho cried, hurry | | hat's the | A Wouldn't it be ghastly if we missed 4 lady, There's @ Digh-/the train. I'm #o tired I could 4 ‘ hice , | opt" | | her frienus, | DIK 4 | Ho waged a finger at May ar She turned to go, but Mahbac } thy: ESF RGAN we wh mide 4 | went or 1 said to myself, There's) qucht her by th i : ‘ i p' r ho falls tn love with her Zim duchess inten,” he ea. We don’ ave mado up her mind to accept him, re startled wo oF an al fuses him. But at the same time Fishback ricdded emphatically an hire ® om Almost always I she admits that sho likes him as a FeROAes 7 rn up| travel in my own car ls Seiead Better than any Men‘on earth I'm doing an historical movie WP lit ts, with leopard-skin ru da i ‘Om the train. going. towats Los in the hills behind Los Altos," be | (jf wits Onn: wo Alpe she meets Dan Sprague, He ed between great mouthfuls money oan bu cate a A 4 bers but way ta sure ‘he ts only “and there's a Spanish duch-|7" po’ gicy of Ii. ... 1 Uke to get \ : i fortune hunter like Waterbury. She it. Not @ big. part, but 8 6000 | go niko ae ? Sag OR: 4 apr cS doesn't tell him about the loss of and? . . » And you're|o. Ze = ken Re : — AK mca stm her money, and she is amused by Lad * rat Be ee & _ mart: — his flirtation with GOLDIE GAY, a . 1 Hut sh her h “Ne TS i yi 217 a n Ris diatlsn wish GOUDIE Ay." wrest any tndien any| But May shook ter head. “xo! BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES BY MARTIN May sits & man who watch more,” he added mournfully. “All| TANKS A) a ene see 55 ——_—— i every move. Goldie says this women act like movie actrasses ) going to wtay with in Los Altos eo Al ( LEMUEL FISHBACK, a millionaire the women act like mov tes Jexpects me by train. Bhe'd ON) om ear! TWS 1S WHAT ICALLS CLASS . BOT NOW) 1 CAN SPEND AN EVENING ; searvie: producer. | He shook his great broad head wotiier what to think ie ¥ turned sip | > PRECZ, 1 KOME AGAIN. SUMMER CAMPS ARE am WITH HER OR TAKE KER oor ; “But yc you loc th 7 hat to think 4 urned u 4 ] e < ‘ -ANy’ i (ROW Go ON WITH THE STORY) | patch ree ok ike * lin an automobile with the most fu V7 Ko bark 1 WENT WAD A DATE With ee oe ae ee | to. t ad ae. went, See y were | mous man in the world Bools ALL SUMMER THAT A BUNCH OF 2 | . keh yee Foose oreee Hin the’ serent alking slowly back | ™0U# man in the world | GONG WERENT WARCIN pemhorersia i 5 paced targa ieak ra ltoward the atation, “Will you take| And with this bit of Mattery, May Bawer) SOMEWHERE j stepped out on tho platform. Behind t+ That ts, if you filo ’well, |left him sitting on the platform, ; ! her tripped Goldie Gay hr eg her lot tres understand? We'll take|!0oking for all the world 11 ; short purple skirts; and after her ee | great’ Bud with” Wile ‘fat ¢ | followed Dan. some ‘atilln’ of you u ! " . | Would sho take the part? Would | and Uitle bi k ng eyes } May yer coat dar whet had te: any woman in America have re} ‘i come of muel Fishback as sho fused it? | no train was fast filling with a sire Notes er Tagenge and leaked \ "May jumped at her. che |nolay crowd boys and girls abut her at the hurrying, colorful no asked. “WII 17 | with tu: basket. women with crowd. wil... When ¥ you | Children a their skirts Then suddenly she saw him com- : : : May walked thru coaches be i And in the arms of this man who had just asked her to 3 . |fore she found « seat pitched j ing toward her, smiling broadly as ee nae : answer Fishback jo, Coe eee See ‘ i he came marry him, was Goldie Gay of the films, her lips pressed | vegan to toll her in bis slow, sleepy | got UMA) INN TO Phe and sank ' “There's been an accident up the| tight to his. ....” jway. that this was how he picked). ) : f line, and we won't get away for an jail his ce Phe'train gave & fork tart : hour. . . . That is, if you are going | asked In an ordinary tone, as if he| friendliness was 1 along the street, and pee | ren ESVe & 7 ad _ i north. You are, aren't. you?’ he'had known May for years. His May nodded, and ;a man with the face of a criminal, « of the ; ————— | “To Los Altos he explained. “Maybe he's a real black | She was dreadful after her | stale agen ning $40 a week, and orm, a\i Her eye t am If there| the straightest man alive. But he x, to it | t ul lott te nd six months late it vulgar,” she thought uit r : Wil Nis je for the quiet of Carlotta’s bunga- | 9nd onli 4 would ever have thought that YASSUH . MRR. WM = COME | COULONT GET THOSE low, a bath and a nap. America knows his fac ba each gota mie RIGHT IN WES A BIT BIRDS OUT - BUT 1 CAN y Olive Roberts Barton | “Wonder what's become of Dan?" | face + Tae Job 1n his oat Seo easier aoe pcaraceyaghl cpt NG KEEP ANY MORE FROM [whe thought and looked around for/look of a . duchess am Seeger NOTHIN’ BOT STANOIN GETTIN’ IN — NO. 6—MORE ACCIDENTS | For all of Grubby Groundhog’s; ‘Well, said Grubby, wiping the | him. He was nowhere in sight, and|namo...” | nelther was Goldie Gay | “But you haven’t taken it. May/ “We may as well go and alt down | interrupted break eo Gay. to Goidic the news to It'll be quite eee 6" Bho narrow escape when his automobile | perspiration off his nose, “I thought a7 gop hl Fishback paid hesitat| patience: We are coming to cay Gaetie toua wad die hit the turtle in the road, he hadn't | you were a log—or a ditch or some-| ingly fay glanced at him and sawl i.) gishback reproved her, and| Ditty adda saey Dh us tor learned his lesson. thing that would wreck me, or 1— | ‘Pat he was looking at her with half) Jn) on 1 take your name, and in ; a the ‘open door ‘of the His fender was mashed and aj I- shut eyes—an artist's look aa he , three months, millions of people studies his mode} two, three m: . peop’ ar she ¢ ht a glimpse of he entered it from the other light was broken, but the engine} Sammy Snake grinned. ee A Il know it 1do.thil Lemuel Cur ana tn tho armen nett, wasn't hurt a bit. “Or you woukin't have stopped."| ).. a.51 as so nomething great ack from Heater Street! Hein. | no hed just asked her te meen In about halt a shake of a guinea| he finished. “You'd have run right|M*txPloded suddenly. || sta a good joke? Ihim waa Goldie of the ‘Pikes jes pt pblbend lngdieiey: Sor lige sec the Mlary Bhs Al acti ama Bd cian Nateneer, Me pao Fish. He burst into a great laugh and her lips pressed i hte Neer and whooping it up again as hard/a good notion to tell your father as he could go. | And how did you get your fender] “Hooray!” he cried. “That gazoo- | smashed?” | kums, certainly did fix my car fine.| “I—oh—I hit somethir sald I like gazookums, so I do, And I/Grubby sourly, getting out and| hate folks that are always preach-| starting to take off js spare tire. | fmg about being carefuul and run- He was wonnd is what his fa pinched May's looking {nto her face that was on a jlevel with hie own May laughed and again he! pressed her arm with his tick fin gers | back!” sho answered, arching her arm sappreciatively, eyebrows at him, “maker of movie queens!’ A puzzled frown darkened broad, colorless face with hanging eyebrows and bulbe arms wound arow: “Well, there's o has taught her. him. thing the screen May thought with startled amusement knows how to kins!" (To Be Continued) She certain “How did you know wh | Mics Mitt ae ning slowly and al! that. Those|ther would say when he saw the he asked suspiciously, and o May ¥ “ road signa are silly olf things, too."| car, No one needed to tell him.| gave her little trickling laugh | MUDD CENTER FOLKS Hoe flew right along the hard,| He could see for himself. marrow road and was going about; By and by he got it fixed and & mile a minute, when. suddenly | ran his car back on the road again. he saw a long object lying acroas| “Good-bye,” called imy Snake. the path in front of him. | But Grubby was too cross to oven Grubby stepped on his’ beake like | be civil. And he didn't answer. lightning, and altho the little car| However, it wasn't two seconda| blue jowls shook and his cheeks quiv | EIGHT LEGS EIGHT Lecs? / carp? nearly turned over, it didn't quite, | Until he was hitting the high spots| ered. May could seo that he was | 1 ens vf But it skidded off the road to one | #sain. He'd completely forgotten all | enormously pleaned. (% side and tore off a tire. eee and he flew oe 1t so well-known I am, then, | \ Cus ; = | like the wind. at people recognize ma on the oS -8 “What's the matter?” asked Sam-) s14 there was still more trouble| train?” he chuckled. “Like one of “Sil if TH Tce my Snake, raising his head and) .) 004, my own movie stars, I guess, yea? en 4, Papen, Rreung. Pt auryene. | The trouble was Prickles Porcu-| Well, well Here, boy!” He aig. = = a4 “Is that you?” shrieked Grubby-| pine. There was Prickles calmly | naled a red-cap with a wave of his} Sa rx. j “You old goose! What are you lying| walking right across the road in| Sausagelike fingers Fy KF 1 there for? Don't you know that | front of him. And he knew that When he had checked his bags and o. (ot 5 at you might get killed? And what’s|i¢ he touched that walking pin-| May's, he took her by the arm and We a=—— ¥ > more, you nearly killed me. | cushion he was done for. | steered her down the sunshiny street SGD. A373 to a chill parlor a block or two from Ss pee, “Tl answer your questions one| Grubby stepped on the brakes for at a time,” said the snake. “Yes,/a third time that morning and this it’s me And I’m not a goose. I/time his car turned clear over, don’t even look like one. And I|Grubby wasn’t hurt, but the car know that I might get killed, but/was nearly ruined. It cost a for Just because other people have no| tune to get it fixed. sense. I like to stretch out in the; And Grubby never raced again, sun and get warm. I have just as (To Be Continued.) much right here as you have,” (Copyright, 1925, N. M.A. Berrice, “Oh, I'm not a lady detective nor | yet a prohibition agent,” she said, | and then she told him how Goldie Gay had pointed him to her as the famous man he was Fishback laughed fatly, mo that his | Cates, I #eaR ELMER SNODGRASS HAS GOT TWIN CALVES WITH the station. May noticed MY GosH! witH\ ROOM LEFT. FRIENDS 2 GEE-HOW I HATE TD THATS. RUNNY -= DOES FRECKLES CARE ) AY OTHER CRUTCH AUST feeb uly pou BE HERE SOMEWHERE VAULT ON KIS AN STILL I LOOKED LETTER FROM LESLIE PRES- efficient business manner in which ALL ver If COTT TO THE LITTLE MAR | to do It. QUISE, CARE OF THE SE- Hurrledly I called up Jimmie Con. 2 CRET DRAWER—CON- don. is TINUED “Jimmie, this 1s Mrs. Prescott. | Did you ever, Little Marquise, | Isn't Mrs. Atherton coming home come in contact with a situation | today?” | trivial, almost ridiculous in itself,| “Yes, Mra. Prescott. She'll be} which still presented a problem al-| here at 6 o'clock, thank the Lord.” | most impossible to solve? “You'll be very glad to seo her, I knew that something must be] won't you, Jimmie?” | 4one with a vulgar young woman| “You bet your life I will! who refused to tell Jack that his|me, Mrs. Prescott, but I wife was calling, and most {m-|awfully glad to seo Sally. politely told me she was not sure Ij are a lot of things around was Mrs, Prescott. The action in| fice that itself did not amount to much, but) badly. Mr. Prescott misses her, too, if she spoke that way to me, she| Sometimes I think he misses her would speak in the same manner! more than he is really conscious to others, and {t would hurt not| of.” Pardon will be There this of. need her and need her only Jack’s reputation but his busi- | nears. 1 was almost sure she would not| “Is Mr. Prescott busy? Has ho been in conference this afternoon?” “Not that I know of, Mrs, Pres After all, a bachelor has nobody} to scold him | for being lonely, MOM’N POP “BY TAYLOR OH LUCY- Luust { GRACIOUS -L HOPE V2 NO INDEED! =LISTEN 16 WHAT say anything #0 peremptory to a|cott. Ho has been visiting with . WELL | WONDERFUL? man, but it certainly would be Im. ie GOT A LETYER FROM THEY HAVEN'T THE BOSS SAY9~"IN VIEW OF f YES - BUT IF I DRAW possible to keep auch an employs| ime aout you and. the heya He SHE OFFICE~ Come /'( DISCHARGED You YOUR LONG TERM OF FATHFUL DoS Se ete Naat MY PAY TLL FEEL AS ¢ THOUGH 1 SHOULD RBTORN TO WORK A ANDIFLDO THE ° INSURANCE COMPANY }} WILL STOP PAYING ME TAAT FIFTY BUCKS A WEEK! S about the office, altho I did not know how to get her discharged) things ride until Sally got hore. 1 without making a scene, I had|think he’s go glad she is coming never interfered before in any of) that he can hardly contain himsolf. Jack's business methods, but it) ‘Tho girl he haw had In his office seemed to moe this was something hay mixed things up for fair, Mra. that should be interfered with by| prescott. 1 have never been able nome one. to understand why Sally picked her I was wondering Just how to 40) out, Usually she hay good judg HERE QUICK! FOR LAYING OFF_ SERVICE WITH THIS COMPANY, We Yi ARE ALLOWING YOU FOUR WEEKS VA NY FAY AND HOPE BY THE END OF THAT TIME YOU WILL BE ABLE. "To RETURN TO YOUR OLD POSITION” told me he was just going to let WE CAN START USING CREAM @ IN OUR COFFEE AGAIN AND TAKE ADAILY PAPER it without appearing jn it myself,| ment. I¢ it were any other “oman for Jack would be sure to jump at) put sally, I'd think that #°e put the conclusion that my feelings had) that tittle piece of pretty incom been hurt or that I was Jealous. | petence in there to show tho boas Penteitats AE mikauiietie. oringe. tO | tow. much, better eho fe than, the think of my being Jealous of such | average woman, but I hardly think person—for jealousy to me haw al-) gally@yould do much a thing. ways implied a feeling of Infortority. | conyeignt, 1996, N. B.A. Bervies, Inc.) Buddenly the thought camo to me? i Wasn't sally to arrive homo today? She was the logieal woman to fix db bbls saat up, and hers was tho TOMORROW—Latter from Leslie Prescott to the Little Marquis, care of the Secret Drawer—Contlnucd, «