The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 2, 1925, Page 21

PAGE 23 __MAY SEYMOUR FOOTLOOSE SEQUEL TO"O/e FLAPPER WIFE” THH STORY SO FAR: ! MAY SEYMOUR, whose hust killed himself beca’ t finally him over to him to he disappears with tt! nniless, May sells her furs and | ons | «NOW GO ON WITH THE sToRyY) | ITH fascinated eyes she watch ed Mr, Harker come slowly to- ward her across the tiny office As he came May backed away from him, step by step, knowing all the} while that she should not back| away What she ought to do, she told herself, was to stand her ground] firmly. | But what she was afraid of was that if she did firmly stand | ground, Mr. Harker would seize her and ki her. Kiss her with those horrible wet lps of his that were | stretched above his yellow teeth! Mr. Harker chewed tobacco. At last May felt her shoulder} blades touch the wall. Sho realized that she had hacked away from Mr Harker. just as far as sho could. And still he kept on coming . “Don't you dare come a nearer to me!” she panted. you dare! ,.. step | “Don't If you do, I'l “Don't you dare come a ste. “Don't you dare!....” in scream sy the whole town can hear | dow ms!" Her flat. Mr. Harker smiled. “Ob, no, won't!" he said comfortably want this just. as much voice was faint Your eyes have been asking me to/ fi Kiss you for a week! ... A what’ anyway? .. . Mttle kiss,” eh?” Before May could say another| word in protest he took her firmly| A a little kiss between friends, | out: ‘Just a little love, a| followed by and | c¢ Then What mh!” Ho Iaid one s qn May's mouth was a faint tap of the door three shor ng on the © loud tap ones It | sounded again. “That's raps that way!” Pauline she always Mr. Harker whis- ————————— SSSSSFSFSFSSeSFFSFeseM Lqnccerwerr py ¥ Olive Roberts Barton “I had a ‘good chance to buy it,” tshly when Nick came out. “Why don’t you buy a car, Mis. ter Coon?” Nick asked Ringtail one day, when the coon gentleman stop- Ded at the “Twin Garage” to buy some pop and cigars. “Well,” said Ringtail thought- fully, “I'd like to. I really should like very much to have a snappy ttle roadster.’ You see Ringtall Coon was sort of a dude. He was considered a} rather good dresser, as most bach- elors are, and besides he was puick- witted and up-to-date. “Then why don't you get it?” said | Nick. “You would have a lot of fun out of it, I'm sure.” Ringtall finished his root. beer and | wiped his mouth and bit the en off his cigar before he answered “T'll tell you why,” he said. “It's on account of those rascally nephews of mine, Corny and Cobby. Every fall when school begins they come and stay with me, and not only would I never see my own} car, but I would have all sorts of smash-ups to pay for, besides peo. ple suing mp for damages, No| thank you! I know when I am well off. No automobiles for me.” But Ringtail Coon wasn't the first person who has talked «that way and wound up by doing exactly the opposite, It wasn’t a week after that, that Nick and Nancy looked out to see Ringtall pulling up to one of their gasoline pumps in @ racing car as| ——— | | | | |cuse to do things, he said rather sheep-| | yellow as a pumpkin “I had a good chance to buy it," be said rather sheepishly when| Nick came out, “I didn’t Intend to| buy an automobile any moré than | I intended to buy the river, but a| friend of mine had to go away sud- | denly and it sort of fell into my lap, you might say. Two pints of high-test, please.” Nick didn’t say that all that news about buying cars—having a friend going away and his r sort of| falling into your lap- s new as last month's bread. He knew and| Ringtail knew that he knew, that he wanted a car and went and bought it. Everyone wants an ex- and I think tt queer. It really isn’t so very | onest It is like trying to put the} blame on someone elsc | But here I am—preaching. And you want to hear the story and be done with {t, don't you. I'm as| bad as Ringtall, “Now, boys." said Ringtall when he got home, and Mrs. Sharp Nora, | his housekeeper, hal served up the | corn cakes and fish, for his and | his nephew's lunch. ‘I've got a| surprise fod you. That is the sur prise isn't for you. It’s for me| and I'm only telling it to you. 1} have a now car—a yellow sport car, a racing car it is. It goos at about 90 miles an hour and holds two people easy—three to squeeze,” “Hooray!’ shouted Corny tossing up @ corn-eake and catching {t in his mouth, while Cobby choked on & mouthful of fish in his Joy. “No hooray-ing about it,” Mister Coon sharply, ald "T want it | distinctly understood—no racing! It | | Optometrint ination is an per. akill, sclontific instru. nd years of experience By | FREE EXAMINATION Globe Optical Co. 14 absolutely against my principles to race, Twenty-five miles an hour is my limit, ‘That and no more!" Can you drive it?” asked Corny. “Yen, I took a lesson and brought it home,” said his uncle, “May we drive it?’ eagerly. “When I learn thoroly, teach you, In case of emergencl raid Ringtail Coon thoughtfully, is always well to have several in the family who know how to handle a car,” (To Be Continued.) (Copyright, 1936, N. HA, Mervioe, Ine.) asked Cob About 32,000,000 papers aro printed every week day in the year, land tell her p nearer to me!” 5 panted, “Bhe'll be May xr bad enous’ even If she but hating him “For two 4 way Harker, hated had loved Mr. him the way pins I'd go right out what you were doling,” 4 t ng sounded upd time Jt was more 0 May whisper ed furlously. * w what were doing. hy my tel you Mr. Harker laughed silently ‘There came a s0 y on the the office, and Mr. Harker unlocked the door threw it open. May sank down at her desk and hid her face in her folded arma She was shaking from head to. foot Suddenly sbe heard a votco di rectly behind her—a woman's voice “Now, Henry Harker, what were you and that girl doing in here locked up alone?" tt asked ‘There groan from Harker. 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