The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 29, 1925, Page 10

May finds Dan much mo * ive than Waterbury, But cides that aterbury et husband she is looking for gets her p for him. He poses ani May accepts nr When he offers to for her she turns Almost immediately he and the money with him! Pennies: diamonds to buy to California, wh On the way she invest her money over to him. disappe BS FORGAN her at first marry him spite of his wealth Bon that she likes h marry him without kk On the train bound f m too r Los Altos, phe meets Dan Sprague. Not kno ing that she has lost all her m Dan makes love to h But M n the sal of a movi EMt FISHBACK. to fa part in a new film ¢ his; and she leaves Dan to the - der mercies of LDIE GAY a Would-be film May discov era the pair locked in each others arms on the rear platform of the train. NOW GO ON WITH THE stony) 3 = WAAY'S first impulse was to turn and run before the shameless | pair on the platform could look up| and seo her. | Butt he sight of them there, laced | im each other's arms, held her to/ the spot in staring astonishment. «+ « Why, they never bad even Been each other until two hours ago!| > Yet here they stood now, as Antony > and Cleopatra might have stood to- Bether, with the man’s head bent fo the woman's straw-colored one, | | | “IT wouldn't care if you kissed every actress in America!” ressed down upon hers! st a group of b waved thetr | tt he sight of this} tie Gay so much as stirred, They to be deaf and blind to every- his mouth Tho train rus! Mexican workmes \ hats and jeered rt petting party emnel ves t twisted May's earth t am of disgt A sp Neither Dan nor | face One day O14 Daddy Cracknuts| WArove his automobile up the road “past the Twins’ garage. “Hello, Daddy!” called Nick. | "Hello!" answered the squirrel entleman sociably, as he waved his fail at them. Having both hands on the steering wheel he could wave them. Daddy was a very careful | river and careful of his cai—very. |) He wasn't a one-handed driver, not sfor a minute, “Hello, Daddy!’ calied Nancy. And again the squirrel gentleman @-ealled “hello” and waved his tail in greeting. 7) “Daddy takes good care of his Car,” said Nick to Nancy. “He "Always drives slowly, and keeps it oiled and clean and in good order. ‘He has fewer repair bills than any if the forest or meadow folk.” ~ But scarcely had he spoke when y's car, which had just gone Iittle distance past the garage, | ; e to a sudden stop. | ua “He must have forgotten some. “He's stopped Vand coming back. But Daddy didn't come back. Tt Twins saw him jiggling the gears )aeand brake this way and that and & finally gét out and look at the ep- | "Something must be wrong,” said Wick. “Come on. We'll go and help him.” So both of the Twins went over 4o the place where Daddy Crack- nuts was working with his “What's wrong,” Daddy?” asked| Nick. “That's just what 1 was go- | Ing to ask you,” said Mister Crack. ts. “I can't find out what it ts.” | Mebbo it's your battery,” said | Nick. - Daddy climbed into the car again | and stepped on the atarter and _ turned the lights on and off. OE Gar ae TF ALVES LURES OF THES PUNT Olive Roberts Barton NO. 7—THE LOST GASOLINE 1 t Just | of a cheap littl He the world coming t ing in wa The ¥ i t courtahiy. “No—that’s all right,” he sald. had “kept “It's not the battery comp, with a girl, had finally “Mebbe ‘it’s t rburetor,” said | #sked her try him, and then Nick had kiseed > weal the bargain! “[ don't know what that Js, but| Hut nowadays a man kissed a you m' be * gaid Daddy, | irl the first time he met her, kept “wilt look and sée?” Fe on kissing her so long an he to... and later, if he he asked her to marry aybe. Love was no longer the tender and romantic thing of which pocts }had sung . .. of which lovers had ir ladies at twiligh t's not that,” he sald fin. ally { “Have you enough oll? No! It says half full, so that's all ri Tt isn't o Are you sure you have enough gasoline?* “{ just bought morning,” said ~Daddy, haven't run 40 feet since, be gasoline either two » longer stood be- nies to serenade arta, Today knights of ky flask and the Ford car It can't collected. The nies and the}, their s loudly to call Woodchucks and the Mud turtle families, also Ringtail "Coon and his | nie and Cobbie, Even thought May Phil was there and all the} was a far other frogs, Then Colonel ‘Possum! Then a memory flashed shuffled up and after him came) acroas her min n't she, her- Mrs. "Possum with the five little! self, made a farce when she "Possums hanging to her tall wed to Herbert There were a lot of others be.| because mught he sides, but I hayen’t time to tell Hadn't she, herself, about every been only looking little The thing is that there was quite| thrill when sho had ng Jack a crowd, person in the|Darniey kiss her under the stars crowd w ome reason for}ot Atlantic City? . Of co she had! Daddy Cracknuts’ car Some said it was the br id it was the gears, id it was no water in tie So, who was she to sit In judg. ment on Dan Sprague He was only doing what men had some iator and some sald this and/done since the beginning of time some sald that kissed and ridden away. It But nobody could find out the| was F of men to do | trouble. that, es that they But just by chance Nick looked were! into the gasoline tank. “Your guso- sede line is all gone, Daddy!’ he cried.| At that instant Dan raised his “No wonder your “The idea!” exclaimed “What do you suppose pened?” car won't Daddy. has hap- go," | ——$>____—— FLAPPER FANNY s. ©1925 oy Wea Semnce. Ime [ (To Be Continued.) | Me A. Bervice, Inc.) | (Copyright, 1935, N. E. TEP THEE ES Pera QUISE, CARE OF THE SECRET DRAWER—CONTINUED. ‘What is the young woman's name, gedimmie?” 1 asked, as I had deter. ©.mined to go and meet Sally and tell © her my predicament. “She calls herself Margarita Stimp- won, but I suspect her father and = mother call her Maggie. You know © Severy well, Mrs. Prescott, that no | ge family by the name of Stimpson @ would tack Margarita on to one of = their daughters, But her nama will| [be Dennis when Sally gets home She'll realize sho pulled a boner the i Moment she talks to her. You never B have seenagirlchange so in all your Pilte. rom being a rather quiet ttle | Geountry girl, she has developed into S the pertest stenographer you ever| = fiaw in your life. Sho certainly got \Ahe bighead when she got the job of cs then I could have bitten ny tongue Em for asking the question ‘Sure, she's pretty, art that's | Bevhat'li surprise Sally the most. | “when she put the girl in, three | Femonths ago, she was as ugly @p a mud fence. Her complexion was “bimply, her teeth muddy, her hair Musually stringy, and sho stood very Spedly. Now her complexion has Pipleared up, her eyes are bright, she le very handy with her lipstick, and Shite I don't admire the way she sands, it certainly in the latest thing | debutante slouches, You see, Mra. | "rencott, the girl has the natural) shrewdness which you find tn some | Giavho have sen from ignorant} Sibarents® Altho 1 disapprove of | Sever greatly, 1 can't help but admire he way sho has improved fierself wretty thoroly, but when I camo to C vecretar: a 1 % y to the boss | nf ye ‘ ih ae ly senses I knew she wasright and | | Sally—that is, 1f you come early, al cause I'm quite sure she won't be| here at the end of the week.” | “I don’t expect to come down to} the office, Jimmie. You know, it is| one of my obsessions to stay away | from the plant. I think my mother | taught me that. She never visited the plant when my father was alive, | except by special invitation, and then they made quite a festival of | it. My father, however, told my | mother a reat many things about his business, and took her advice ‘ : very often | ite “It's getting toward 4 o'clock, | DEIN and I think I'll dress and go down| [07 Ceetetei% fo meet Sally, Jimmie, shall I seo} you there?’ i | A gossip never leaves tha, sewing “You sure will,” ansy firat, | Condon joyously wered Jimmie “There have been | “il talking about | moment came swaying into the | Lemuel to drive to the conda on hy I-ever-loved' in your x life! As if ahe divined that May her, Goldie at was this and stood at Dan's elbow up at him with eyes of childlih nocence. Then sho calmly taliuahty Crictss +o Ragpeie igaret, and smoked It, blowing Aula ta ca amoke from her rouged & pak Wiad ts . "1 da remember, now her at's remind me of it," Dan ¢ Rating hor’ But to tell the truth, tt ena asst my mind for x His tone was | nt h Lose slow-gathe ape saree I may nee dently what you “I hope you real do doesn’t mean a thing in my life, Dan Sprague! she criod 1 wouldnt care if ua kissed over actreas in America me with fury fs that you can treat way way? Dan asked “Which lently ness if I chat with a young woman for 10 or 15 minutes. “Yes, and besides, we hunted all i's a rotten job, over for you and couldn't find you,’ “It haven't any money Goldie Gay fibbed, still with that! Ps curled a little. “Your babyish look in her eyes, “We hunt-| Mr Waterbury, it ed all over the station. » Where | D8ven’t a cent the ware wen ° As you probably know,’ At that May lsughed again Biba 5 Also! 1) ‘gate jee agente “Well,” ahe said with ctuel sweet-| cig you t don't hear frome Ware ness, “If il be any sate ' to you to know it fered to star n was not at, of course, true, Fishback had not tar her in bis film give her a «mall p ne them, But M t Goldie Gay not t man from under ahe nodded emph h 1 kno ¢ ked b Goldie echoed monsy because t ont Yeu, he on ' voice. I've out beyond “And tomorrow?’ sco brig 8 where I'm goin n't know Fisht "Dose of Spa I used to work for gave me a little part in tt back’s film, ing the nuh? D» “ Is finger © ittie movie actress, for inatancé! his finger tn ev ; There's nothing straight or As if she was honest about you!” need commented dryly her iniahed, “Well her lips a v raat tongue of r f ishback’s peated, 9 to ask you you to ans *) him. winter her expressive shoulders. But what fills | to fnao- |y “I'm wure it's my own bust: | por you're around beg back for @ job in must know jotta told me that you and he are out a sign you think I have a lot of But in who T, I can see that! H fairly breath and faced er me She drew a long don’t you think y “Dan, during the May said shrugged How do you happen to be going seo her? You to spend inter surope,” Dan asked then “And mu have all t oney you're wur happen ing Lemuel Fish sald you we wed to Wave, how does it » movies? You th crooks that you way, 1 ke hed wit Hie pupils of fe you becaur money the meantime, you your hands off happens to be can any woman around—thin winter, (To Be € OF PRESERVES AN’ FER GOODNESS’ SAKES WATCH a Yer Step! FLL, POP,GO DOWN CELLAR AN’ BRING UP A Jar times, Mra, know, Prescott, ay you perhaps when I have hated Sally | ‘MOM’N POP , DOCTOR SOAKED ME 48 BCKS-T WONDER HOW HE EXPECTS ME TO GET WELLUBY) SENDING ME h, ABILL LIKE THAY ? conclusion Just | to the that she's about the dandiest woman in all the | world. “Once I thought she would make splendid wi nd she might do that for somebody else, But 1 know now that the only thing, and the| best thins, she can be tg Jimmio Condon is m good counséllor and friend, I know@phe knows moro and t# moro jogfcal, and 1s much more just and decent than 1 ever was,’ “Just keep thinking thig, Jimmie, | and you won't go far wrote,” T sald | is I hung up the receive (Copyright, 1925, s,m A, feryice, Ine.) TOMORROW—Letier from Leslie Prescott to the Little Marquise, ind her appearance, You'll probably pawee her when youcome downto seo | tinued, care of the Secret Drawer—Con- | HERE’S A LETTER “THAT JUST CAME ~ LHOPE IT ISN'T ANOTHER BILL WHY IT'S. “AS TAM RI ON OUR ENOUGH WAI IPR; ARYA Ob iL DEAR MR TYT! FROM GONN —!! E: ESPONSIBLE"For Your. RECENT INJURY, AM ENCLOSING ARECEIPT FoR $50,1'7, THE AMOUNT You OWED ME 2 I HOPE THIS WILL BE GER YOUR DOCTOR BIL’ BOCTE YOURE WANTED ON THE PRONE AGAIN. WOULD YOO J06T AS SOON READ IN HERE BEGITE rti0! wELo! HELLO!! SA—*~ WAKS TW’ MATIER, WITH THIS PHONE ? EVERY - WME <"tRy VT STARTS ACTIN’ UP — Still Worried WELL HENRY YOU'VE GOT TO ¥ “TAKE YOUR HAT OFF ‘TO MR.GUNN AFTER ALL~THIG PROVES THAT HE'S CONSIDERATE AND WILLING “ DO HIS PART ESDAY, THE E STAR / Tl EPILMBEK 2y, 1925 ae ha his ive ai ail’ tien Waiked otiaaaty’ ak Mh rae he if OF __ MAY SEYMOUR SE Se Ssceeate | 77 | rin t gaging smile car SEQUEL TO"O/e FLAPPER WIFE" © ©NEA his rumpled ‘wecktig, ime had ae | been thi . mes to fin = Wouldn b pe ys Saale ye eatly to the distress added asibly you've forgotte the part of a medineva byt iso bs 2 in that Man aa eon . Le “he ea defenmively with her in her California an to be the newe niy-womar ai geal A PAACTI CAL BY MARTIN HLO! WHO? OW- HUL—10 ERNE! TAM ~ OMIM ~ONHONMA~ TLL SAY ~ g, EYC-ETe QT? TTS DONE NOTHING BoT RING AGAWA-\1S BEEN SO DOLL HERE ALL SOMMER | WAS ALMOST IN P TALK WTA AHA! SOMEBODY S97 CANE YOU A BE ¢ “Af LAMP! TD BE ASHAMED IF & OT FEELS UKs TRAT UTTLS, KID YOu 6b rr! 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