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q PAGE 22 THE SEATTLE STAR FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1925. ALESMAN $AM sar A | , \ : his calls, ularly os J trained nur n the house 8 she tries 4 LETYER FROM RUT LESLIE PRE Dear Le WAKE TO | dy OTT have keep a che ked after ae a 4 for until I’m on the verge 4 from you atnoe I etter to you. I know you ar wy and I nee that |of insanity into the p And all the time, Leslie, I am per- what the Pitts-|fectly well, I never wae better in for front-|my Mfe I know 1 could dance and ot for the | or and go about my busi aie me ee ae ® cripple you. I'm on the mishaps | ne a normal woman, but Wa women | ur faithful pearls | ter not hear of it, He won't here ain't. | sness, there is al. |even allow me to go to a moving ‘e wife, but cing ir fam-|ploture shov ons he knows that ' there is nothing in It that he thinks Dear, I am sending you 8. © | will excite 1 1 feel as it I wae the Pass he meets up with « | @ day or t if you oan get |!f you would come ¢ « French-Canadian giant who o away from Jack and hie troubles,|two I could make you en ¢ f and Pierce Is invited to share Tc m'e | Walter has developed the strang ie aiculous fear. I have often noes tent a erm ont obscaalc " hat n |of women rt wher —— Arr ~ eg gy they find it bot Haas ay ome ry 1 die. pepetodane they w the SON CARS. LI LOE. 4 occupied by a beautiful woman, a hasn't tat world, but am HOW COME MAK. HOSENCE, Norsewoman, from appearances, aa Oe ald this to me GOT OWE MORE PeUNE “HAN TH’ AEST OF who that she may be allowed to stay and dry her clothing. She You nee explains that her canoe has capsized at axpresston | Whose mother when he was Oot fe the rapide and part of her camp on his f + he thinks I am | born and so he has had this é wmplex not Ic o-family physictan |¢ver since he was old enough to re CHAPTER TIT (Continued cashes Cae avery enrii Suse that hie mother gave Her life During this speech, delivered inal = . ty " A this so n for his, He seems to think that moat eee eee ater Pa Pee ba) sot partner named Jerr the two together and|ing doctor didn't If wo ve. (Women die at that time, and altho! owner of the tent had managed to| roualy, but I've T just | Point out to him that the world ta| overcome his first surprise; he re-| she's gone.” nd as strong as theirs, “I am | ll: peapled “with: panty of women moved his hat now and began with} “I met her at Lake M. untess Courteau,” said she. | “He's a great ladies’ man, Old Jerry [n,m to | + and ste) an effort | “We've a lot more c DANE” sar Thaton eerie’, | ick Y |how many mot big fumilien he “Tm a bad hand at beggtr jthey're not here. My n ; Warhd a Tckhatl eased ine nows, he w t be comforted. 4ons, miss, but you see I've be: }t r-less Ch: a frenkiy ads ts Bien . 4A Perhaps tf you come over and ex fering the pangs of bereaveme e- | tt m. I'v , ut I'm a D I th . ‘ ne exoapt ie and 7 |Diie to hin that you're att ly over some dear, departed gr named Jerry t 4 bought tt ol hat ag r the birth of two children, he thought you were a thief and I look-| gether, and drink hearty. This young untry. He was ~ Jwill not worry any me ed forwart to the pleasure of seeing | man is Mr. —” The speaker turned! sort of count, and I'm at I am so glad that you dance. I apologize. Would you} questioningly upon Phillips, who| countess, But I'm a oo: }has gotten back, I ki mind telling me where you came} made himself known, “I'm a famity| very good cook tndeed—a depending on her so muc from?" jman. Mr. Phillips ts a—well, he's «| excuse my looks and p “From Dawson.” There was a si-| good packer, That's all I know Yence the while the flaxen-halred wear your sweater I'll pre © 1925 BY MEA eORACE about him. I'm safe and sane, but! per.” woman eyed her interrogator less dis-| he's about the right age to propose| Linton’s eyes twinkled ax he said,| to bear hin wist rics = 1a a dainfully. “Yes, by poling-boat and| marriage to you as soon as he gets| “I've never et with the nobility Who 4 Sok tha osu not BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES BY MARTIN age bark. I'm not fleeing the law;/ his breath. A pretty woman tn this}I don't know as I'd like thelr ¢ nquired nd Pierce le i. 1 'm not a cache-robber.”* 0 0 pect thi ‘ou | fo! steady thin . ‘ 7 . i : i nd ? 7 Elem nese country. haa to expect hat, aa you| for a steady th but—the baking-| villa om a ATTAWAY’ DO Y'KNOW OM GEE.(M COLD-ARENT|| WHERE DOES HE iva’) woken: aoaasa “c Es probabil Te powder ts in box and we fry Just an ordinary stampeder, like : TURKEY IN THE ‘STRAW, YOu ? WouLd You MIND HANG OUT~IN TH’ man nodd ‘an you} The woman smiled and shook hands) with bacon greasc the rest of fs, I think Of course, dear, If you have any Too? RONNIN’ DOWN N ASKIN FURNACE ROOM? stow me away for the night? You! with both men, exchanging a grip.as| Wood and water were handy, the| “He's more than that, He's the| thing that really needs you at home, ! d Ua uae 2 TH’ SANTOR T'SHOO A - ———_—— — Countess Courteau had a quick and] kind who'll go thru and make good. |! don't want yc come to me, but LITTLE HEAT UP? ~ Jos’ Tam ina A quandary and I ( / YELL ‘im (TS colo op h HERE capable way, therefore supper was|I dare say his partner ts just lke [oy veN a \4 Y R EAS not long delayed. The tent was not} him bagi “deh ; Se arate nies equipped for housekeeping, hence the| Phillips approved of the Countess Lovingly your \ < Praga OF THE IVAhit NeSn | diners held their plates in thelr laps|Courtreau this morning even mo TH. | 5 | and elther harpooned their food from N. ! / y Olive R Po ne: carealian tata thoroly than he had on the even right, 1926, N. B.A. Service, Ine.) 4 it from tin mus, and they had not wa’ f z cans, but even so It had a far before he realized that axa trav-| TOMORROW—Letter fronrSydne: NO. 22—THE BACK SEAT DRIVERS pier Pe MomenaaNered,: 0: ¢ ‘ he was equal of him or| carton to John Alden Prescott. that both men grasped the polgnant/any man. She was lithe and atr | fact that the culinary art is mysteri-| and t of foot; t ashe ously wedded to female hands, Mr.| ered ground aw his sincere a Linton voiced this thought in his own r © did not trouble to talk manner. ¢ dispensed with sma r be | “If a countess cooks like this,” he red observed, “I'd sure love to board with a duke.” Later, while th were being wa. sitor had shown | plaining her preae ot: | tall, he said, whimatcally: “Seo here aa Mia a . TT ma‘am, our young friend haa t 3 complet Lape = atching you like ho was afrald 4 lyou'd disappear before he geta an! way wit orn; there was ar | eyeful it's plain to be seen that he's devoured by curfosity. As for | me, I'm totally lacking in that miser able trait, nd I abhor it in others but all the same, If you don’t see fit to tell us pretty quick how you came to pole up from Dawson and what tn | Heaven's name a woman like you ix 5 “ | doing here, alone and without bene Daddy Cracknuts smiled as he lighted his pipe. Jot chaperon, I shall pass aw dreadful agony.” “It's very simple,” the countess | told him, “Tt have tmportant busl-| cor ness ‘outside.’ I couldn't go down! “It blows my | the r, for the Yukon ts low, the are ag flats I's are er OW GOOUY=Now ITS comin’ SURE -HE SAID HE'D OP. HORACE KNOWS HIS SEND SOME HEAT STUFF AWRIGHTIE (VE BEEN COLD ALL EVENIN about her, and she ‘eam #0 many were com said she t's getting we It was a very fine evening and|line and started the en ni Daddy, Cracknuts asked Ma Crack-| away they went. eae a4 nuts and old Mrs. Gray Tall i¢ they | “That's too fast,” sald Mrs would like to take a spin in his| Cracknuts present red car. | hair." “I should say I would,” said Mrs.| “Mine, too,” sald Mrs. Gray Tall. steamer Cracknuts, quick as a wink. “It's| “All right," said Daddy, and he y I came been so hot all day and I've been! slowed down, up agal am. I've been there's a making nut preserves for our win-| “Oh, what did you come this way | working ali my life.” i pr there’a such a small demand ter spread. I'm as tired as I can| for?” asked M: Crackn’ by eae (To be continued.) be and a ride always rests me." iby. “Wo can't see "I'd like to go, too!” said Mrs.| the road is Gray Tail gratefully. “I love to} “1 thoug see the sunset these lovely fall] said Daddy. evening. I'll put on my warm wrap| “We don't,” said Mrs. Gray Tail. | 30 I won't catch cold.” { "Woe told you so the other day, So they all hurried up with the} “Men haven't any memories, | tho trouble dishes and in about five minutes) Mother,” sald Mrs. Cracknuts | again and without the fi they were ready to start for their! ‘so jt seems,” sald Mrs Gray | of embarrassme: “Ho a I bumpy.” you liked this road,"| MUDD CENTER FOLKS a (rANNY BUZZ. WAS TELLIN’ \ ME THAT EV'RYBODY IN TOWN 1S LAUGHIN' AT THAT HAT —~ FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS THATS Riexr.’ ride—Daddy Cracknuts in the front! Tall, | out of the picture for years.” She ; ' : RUN IN TH House! seat and Ma Cracknuts and old Mrs.! “Where's that squeak coming| tured to Pt and inquired, ab- I Don'T Blame EM! IT'S “FRAIDY CAT! Gray Tail in the back seat. |trom?” anid Mrs. Cracknats,’ “We |Tuptly, “What ts the packing price to A DISGRACE! ‘The boys, Scamper and Scramble, | sound like a plg under a gate, 1| Sheep Camp?” were doing their lessons with the/ don't belleve ‘this car has been| “Fifty cents a pound, coming this Coon boys as they all had to go to} ojied for a week.” way. Going back it {s nothing,” he bed early in time to’ get op for} “: don’t hear y ” told her, gallan ear anything, , emcees | Daddy. resin alpen haven't h to carry, but if “I'll have to get some gasoline, “I Go," sald Mrs. Gray Tail. “Bo you'll take ft I'll pay you the regu | ." sald } > oth said the squirrel gentleman, stop-|a squenk and a tattle, Mister Bon| (af Price. I'd like to leave at day ping his car at the “Twin Garage.”’! ., Reape Ught.” & y seems to keep his car in such “ey ” “Hey, Nick, a little attention here,| good condition. It never squenka"| "You seem to be in a rush,” Mr please. Here's a custome 1” yous" iG ns Linton hazzarded, mildly of Non! Mare ita | “You're going too fast’ again.| “s, “ & Peed: Gantt “Hello, Daddy?’ cried Nick run-| Daddy," selid Ma Cracknute, “I2|...1,%™ , Now, then, if you don ning out. “Good evening, ladies! | you're goltig kek tiataws aay ag | mind Tir turn in, for I must be In It's a nice pleasant evening for) well turn back home. Thare! That's| Zc ‘morrow night re itr" Yountess Courtreau, {t seemed @ ride, isn’t it?" better! Oh, Hoden "S| ‘The Countess Courtreau, 2 , Roodness! You nearly) to nim, was a unique specimen and And then he asked Daddy what/ nit that car, Another half inch andlextremely hard to classify, in that Bien Gee ts iiag te th ‘wa would have: been | wrecked she was neither old nor young—or, Til take the Kind in the blue) watch that muddy place,” sho! what was even more puzzling, in that pomp,” said Daddy. said in a few minutes. ‘It geta the ~ ears she waa not “Why don't you get the kind In| car go dirty. Besides I'm Fi ox qrate orate than he, in the red. pump?” said Mrs. Crack-| o¢ skidding. ‘There! That's over.|tact—but in experience, in wisdom, puts. “It matches the car better) miq you soo that? Trying to pass! in aelf-rellance she was vastly his su. and the Bunnies and the Wo0d-/ us on a curve! My fault! Well, 1| perior; and experience, he believed, is chucks and the ,,Porcupines and/itke that. Daddy Cracknuts, you| what makes women old. As to the everybody uses It. can take us right home.” family, {he suborder to which she be MEBBE SoO,MA, BUT IT'S DURNED HANDY! WHERE Z WOULD ‘vy, BUT T OUST SAI WHAT TROK PLACE , THROVEM THE Window! I WUZ JN TOO TD BE ASWANED OF AYSELE = “Oh, I Ike the other,” sald Dad-| 4, Ma Cracknuts hung up her| longed, he was at an utter loss to de D' YoU WANT THESE HERE p MENT T ALWAYS TOLD 7 AUCH OF A dy, stopping tho car in front of tho/ nat, she sighed. “It always rests| cide, For instance, sho accepted her GROCRIES PUT? y YOU TO TAKE YOUR, wurRy!! blue pump #0 Nick could fill UP! me go to go out in the evening,”| present situation with a sangtrold . Dy PART? wiv OIDNY J ~ Xe Bis tank. she sald. equaling that of a camp harpy, a You TURN AROUND 9S “That's right,” pouted Mrs. Crack. nd what a lovely sunset!’ sald| few of whom Pierce had seen; then ae: I suppose if I had said the| ste, Gray Tall. too, she was, or had been, married blue pump, you would have taken 5 to a no-account forelgner to whom the red. It just nema that 1 can't] Asati cheteicinhg smiled as be} ine: referred with a calloused and say a word any more, Don't you| !#hted his pipe. most unwifely flippancy! Moreover, AND DEFEND think so, Mother?” she asked Mra. (To Be Continued.) she bore herself with a freedom, n Gray Tail. (Copyright, 1925, N. B. A. Service, Ine.) | boldness, quite irreconcilable to the “I quite agree,” said Mra, Gray -—-— modesty of so-called “good women,” ‘Tall. There are but 150 miles of rail The Countess Courteau had been Well, in a couple of minutes they | road lines in Persia, a country with| first to arise; sho was fully dreas Were ready to start again. Daddy| 9,000,000 people and an area of 628,.| tnd the sheet-iron stove was glo climbed in and paid for the gaso-' 000 square miles. ing when her companions roused = — - ———-—.| themselves, By tho time they had returned f the ‘lake sho had Nd Jerry is going to be awful sore at missing this court function,” 7 MOM’N POP He tong Sie. ©1928 my NEA SERVICR INC Benefit BY TAYLOR , H, what a wonderful feeling tojcause 8. 8. 8. helps Nature build =: - - ay \sras Ho tree from. the miserable| the red-blood-colls that fight off tho GREATHONK. HENRY ) DONT woRRY. 1TH WS) (= RenelroutEs Teeontaiiaa HALF HOUR LATER WELL YoU KNOW THE . To know again the! ED TAG 1CAN GET YOU OUT MY TOURING CAR b 5E p rheurnatism. 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