The West Virginian. [volume], September 15, 1922, Page PAGE 11, Image 11

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I By OUVB .ROI
. A STEA
(PK1/ TUp-Doodle went up to th
\ Beimy star because he liked t
jsjtaytn' the sky.
B ' And ot course he took the Fab
Queen's wand with him.
Ks&Naaey and Nick watched hli
until he disappeared, then NIc
|g|sa!d with a el|h. "We'll hate t
jfv'Tlah ourselves alter him."
V "Yes," nodded Nancy, "but Fla
^ Boodle will see ue coming an
gpwave his wand and we'll drop 1
_ the sea again."
fe.. -Suddenly they heard a ne'
voice,.or irather a voice the
ft;hadn't heard (or a long .long timi
; "Hello, children," said th
J , cheerful voice. "Cheerio?chee;
J, .Why so gluml"
gj? Who do you s'pose It was, m
Sr No other than Mr. Fllpplt:
a fairy who -wore en?orshoee!
hy, Ellpplty-Flop, how ev<
)U get here?" cried Nancy,
lit take a look at my fee
Copjrtiht, 1112.
THE DAILY
10RT STORY
M'S OCCULT LOVE
By JANE OSBORN.
ho'sthe pretty girl?"
>re were surprise and cor
n Mrs. Claverly's tone as sh
1 first at the small phot!
print and then at he
w. Thomas Claverly, seate
Ite her at the reading labl
i Claverly living room.
;etty girl?" queried Tom. "
. meet any girls, much lei
! ones."
hyt In one of these picture
you gave, me to look atinithls
envelope that you sal
I wen viewB or.-your suaci
ather queer. There's u gir
M life and twice as naturi
Ing beside the cabin?that1
ctiy clear, too. only the gii
s to be bigger thun the eabli
what does it moan?"
et's see,"' said Tom, streteli
l much tanned hand acros
able* . "To tell the truth,
t seen the prints. I got tliej
^the photograph man on m
homo and didn't look a
; But the only pictures I too
of the shack, with oue o
Df .Bob. There weren't an
there- Good Lord! How th
om Claverly, who is she?"
leased if I know. Yejt seem
jpd seen her somewhere, bit
.familiar and yet "
om!" Mrs. Claverly looke
fcly into her nephew's fac:
BP ?Tom. I never though
vere psychic enough to hav
ling/like that happen to you
know that medium had soot
ow, ajint. j$.ij , haven't.; bepi
; to any tmore of those foo
ics. Have you?"
hat's neither here nor there
plearly this picture is one o
J?i-you know, spirit expoi
Tom, did you ever know
that looked like that?wh
lied? Goodness no! 1 have
of an idea that I saw a git
Hut looked like that once, liu
H Isn't dead."
HT(iave you been thinking o
her? Has her fuce been huun
IHf your dreams? Tom, she's you
saul-matc. She may be alive, hu
^uer spirit Is hovering nea
To all of this Tom Bald "Bosh.
| He (lid not admit that on carc
fclully studying the face or the gii
rathe picture he recalled havtn
sen her and having watched he
PI Launching th
uy zuis
I Inside a white-enameled fenc
F that made an enclosure five fee
ll. square, a chubby year-old llttl
lily wobbled in her first efforts t
^Kralk. Her pink rompers wer
Kdorned with an embroidered chit
ken and an embroidered pup r<
spectively, and on the wee ovei
blouse was an, embroidered kitte:
These cherished animals served
noble purpose. Whenever their ow:
er fell down, motherhad taught he
to/look quick to see it any of ther
were hurt?which saved many
Just now her round cheeks wer
Pished with sun and flushed witl
pleasure, her blond curls awr;
f with the breeze. Her fingers wer
fimfetlnger, and a deep aea-goln
'tightly clutched about a gnarlei
Rolce gently rumbled:
l; < "Avast there, Commodore, por
iMOUr helm or/ you'll Bing your craf
you're a bit short of sea-legs am
you heel too much to leeward
' But your pld shipmate's standlm
And the baby gurgled and beam
ggtjrom tfle waite-columneu pore:
I lit a colonial cottage with apple
w: Ween blinds In which a little tre
[was scroll-eawed, came Connie.
llefe^'YoU'll be having Nora swearlni
I lea-oaths next. Uncle Dale!" ah
li laugher with tbe deep noto-of lov
J In her voice. "But you're a apt
I statist In navigation so I oughtn'
If' somplaln. Here's Mary to givo Nori
ly'Ser dinner. Will yon come and ge
I | Captain Dale heaved up his bl|
SjSeems I'm always being pipei
iff when 1 rather stay on thi
ISndge," he grumbled, but obeyed
'Fred's most due, Isn't he?"
"Ta-ra'ta-ra!" sang an auto horn
wiAround the curve of a bonlevan
B iat led.from Manhattan Island ti
Bp pretty new suburb of West Fo
K,at HIUs. In Queensborough, swep
K bright new Gypsy, with Fred Dali
Kn the seat He swirled up to thi
NGE RIDE
a' Miss," said Plipplty-Flop."'and
a your question vwill be answered."
Nick laughed. "And do you
y still cary as mhny things In your
shoes -as you used to?" he asked
n the fairyman.
k "Nothing but feet, now," an,o
swered the talryman soberly. "I
emptied my magic shoes before 1
p left home so as to make room for
d something else. I took out a
n cooking Btove, and a washingmachine,
and an apple-butter
w kettle, and a talking-machine, and
y ?but tjiere! Whatta you s'pose I
s. was making room for?
e "What?" asked Nancy,
r- "You two children!" declared
Fllppity-Flop. "I heard you say
;y you wanted to go to the Beamy
r- Star without being seen. Hop 'In
- and I'll take you up."
Flipplty-Flop opened a little
ir flap-patch In each qt his toes and
the Twins hopped In.
t, (To lie Continued)
Tka W.?t Virginias.
I at the hotel where he stopped on
bis way to his mountain retreat,
where he had just passed his va:
cation. He had taken no photoj
graphs on the way. The weuther
was untavorahle. lie didn't even
; know the girl's name, yet he-had
to admit that he had thought of
that face, that once even he had
dreamed of her. However, he did
not confide this fact to his aunt.
l" /Arul that was all there was to
e it for several days so'far as Tom
was concerned. He did not know
that the next night, when he was
d working at the office, his aunt,
u Mrs. Claverly, wont to another of
"those fool seances," and that she
1 carried with her, carefully wrapis
ped In tissue paper, the picture of
Tom's mountain shack and his
is sodl-mate?his occult love, as she
- called it. She-showed it proudly
d to the medium, who in the course
i. of the evening had a coramunlcaI,
tion from a departed Indian
il princess, who made itf perfectly
'a clear that the girl in question was
'1 still among the living. But she
i. was the soul-mate of the man
who lived in the' shack. Her
i- Kuirit was huuntinir him
s The raedftim asked for the picI
lure, and Mrs. Claverly compron
jnised by promising her a photoy
graph of it.- This she delivered to
t the medium within a day or so
fe and then replaced the photograph
r in the little pocket of photographs
y which hud remained on the living
p- room table. Fortunately Tom
hud not asked -,for the photographs
in the time that elapsed
? and had apparently not tfisooverea
? the temporary absence of the
spook picture that so interested
his credulous aunt..
s'l A Sunday came and went, and
then on Tuesday night Tom came
L* home from his office in apparent
' excitement. He hurriedly fumbled
through the pictures in the
envelope on J.he living room
.: tuble until"- lje 'found the "spt)ok
picture." He studied it carefully!
an'. then looked as carefully at
' a newspaper clipping that he took
from his pocket und then opened
and read?or reread?a letter
B also taken from his pocket.
At dinner he was a little abrupt
a to his aunt. "Who has had those
.j prints?" he demanded, ?and the
, poor aunt hedged, but hail to admit
the truth,
f "Did you know the fool medt
ium gave the print to the newsr
papers, and also gaye my name
t and my business connection? The
r whole thing came out iu a Sunday
supplement day before yes"
terday. Lucky no one at the ofL
flee happened to sec it. But 1 got
1 a letter from the girl "
g "The girl in the picture?your
r soul-mate? Oh, do let me have
i o ' I
; 1'iuiiiuye snip 8
UECKLKV
e porch, jumped out. tossed Nora (or
it a fondling, kissed Connie adoringe
ly and rumpled his uncles thick
o gray locks whicn needed no rumplc
ing.
"Great to be home in the old cot*
tage 15 minutes from the shop!"
r" he bragged. Think ot it, l*nk.
a Quarter of an hour ago a man was
a signing on the dotted line for fC\ir
a Gypsys at my desk on Boadway.
r And now hero am 1 in. my holly*
A hock garden?"
a "Mine!" cried Connie with a
0 twinkle.
\x . "Shucks, you only dreamed of it,
y 1 made it real!"
B "Boaster! Well, it's mine and
g Nora's and Unk's."
d "Well, doesn't that make it
mine?" I
t "AvaBt there, lubbers,' stop be-,
t laying! Mind your wheel or you'll j
j be on the rocks!" ' [
. IIAU ? >?" *
, wc """ ? quarrel, unc' Dale,
p laughed Connie. "We've learned?
what Is It??to tack to the wind
i- Fred needed the city, so I gave up
as I thought, and very nobly too'
h my love-ln-acottage-lnthe-ountry.
! But Nora and I needed It, and Fred
e found a way to get it for us, and
still keep hold of the big cltv with
g one hand. Oh, Unc' Dale, "we've
e learned a lot In these two years?
o and you've helped so much, dear,
i- You've taught us how Mo steer a
t middle course."
a "That's it, my hearties. Marriage
t Is a matter of steering. You can
run a stout bark on the rocks or
5 Ball a frail one across the soa In
the teeth ot a gale. Love, like the
] wind, IB not enough to navigate
B by. Yo've got to know navigation,
. and tackling la one o( the big
tricks. Yo've weathered somo hard
blows these two years, and now
. we're all good sailors?even thiB
1 little passenger here. Blest if I:
j don't think yo'll go the rest ot the I
r voyage sate and sound with no
t more rough weather than's necesj
sary!"
s (The End)
Tomr\Theriext moi
noanced that be would not be
home tor-dinner. No. he was not
going to work, he was going to
make a call out ot town; .he
might not be back that night. Still
no satisfaction, and the next
week-end he.was away?"visiting
friends." said Tom, and that was
still .all the satisfaction (hat Mrs.
Claverly got.
-Monday at dinner she was
frankly repentant.
"You hare been so cuol to me
lately," she said,' a little tearfully.
"1 am sure It was all because
ot that snapshot, ot youiH.
Honestly, 1 didn't know what the
medium was going to do' with it,
and I think/it was real mean of
her to go and give it tp the papers
and to give your name and everything.
But, of course, It Is interesting?|t's
one ot the best
pieces of evidence of the occult
that there has been for a long
i nine, iou ve got to admit that.
But honestly, Tom, I'm sorry it I
offended you. I hope you'll torgive
* "Don't talk about forgiveness,
aunt," said Tom. vot course the
fellows have been raggfng me
ubout it since they knew. It's
given me a little uotoriety that 1
didn't quite expect. But after all
I'm much obliged to you and your
medium friend. The laugh may
be on her after all. But to change
thi subject, aunt, 1 want to tell
you of my engagement. I tee!
sure you'll like her. She "
"But, Tom. you'll never be
happy with any one but the spirit
? girl. She'll haunt>you and make
| you regret "
i "That's the girl I'm engaged to.
You see?but suppose you let
lSleunor explain. I've asjced her
and her aunt to come to iudies'
night at the club tomorrow. You
join us and then we'll get the general
introductions ovor with."
And that was all that Tom
would say.
At the cltrb the next night,
when the preliminaries of introduction
wore over with. Mrs.
juiaveriy looked long and intent|
ly at the girl.
"Excuse me for staring," she
I said, "but I couldn't believe that
I you were really the girl In the pieture.
So you're Tom's occult
|8weetheurt, after nil! Isn't It
wonderful to feel '
"Wgsn'i it the fuuniest thlng?fT
giggled Eleanor. "And we are
co much obliged , to the medium,
too, because if li hadn't been for
the picture 1 never would have
been able to find Tom. You know
how it was? You see, Tom stopped
for the night at the hotel
where my aunt and I were atop
ping. I admit that I was attracted
from the first and knew that
Tom had noticed ine, but of course
there was no way of our getting
an introduction. Well, anyway,
th next morning, quite by accident.
1 left my little camera in
the lobby.
"Fred Guge hat\ taken a snap
of me with it day before,-hut
we'-hadn't turned it; And Tom
must have left his camera in the
lobby too, and when ho went buck
for it he got mine. That was
just before he went away. I knew
right off that 1 had the wrong
cuiheru and I rather thought it
was his. It somehow didn't look
like mine. 1 was so anxious to
find out what Tom's name was,
hut auntie wouldn't .let me ask
the clerk or look at the registration
book. 1 rather thought he'd
I lir.d that picture of me in the
j camera he took. He took one
over it anu made a double exposure.
Then when my picture appeared
in the paper, of course
aunt Insisted on our waiting and
adking him to explain. All my
friends recognxied it us me and
teaehed me unmercifully about it.
So we wrote and right away Tom
came out to see us and?well,
won't it be rich! When we send
the announcement of our engage-1
ment to the'papers we're going to
let them huve the little story
about the camera, not that we
like publicity, but that will let the
world know that there really
wasn't anything spooky about the
pictures j#fter all, because of
course there never is "
And so imprssed was Aur.t
Claverly by the fluency of her
nephew's tiance that she merely
murmured. "Of course not."
(Copyright, 1922
CORENESS
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DOINGS OF THE Dl
htom.ithinkvoudid a
, verv clever thing when
you secured the services
of that detective to
straighten this matter
'out for doris and wilbor
I'll Btl I MET GOT UP WITH Y
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Youthfully Styied
I / Junior Size
I COATS
| $25w
g< **OST attractive sports mod?|
1*1 els ma'de of polo cloth./
! ?| heavy mixtures, plaid back novf|
elties and rough cheviots. Many
j?| trimmed with excellent fur col!?|
Jars. Sizes are 13 to 19 which
If especially adapts these good
H coats for the needs of high '
j| school and college misses?or
?jj for women of smaller than avefji
rage figure.
| '
| Dressy Coats
1 Priced to $200
if ~ t \
rpHE favored models for Fall
?| 1 and Winter wearing are
. now properly represented in
j|i our large assortments. Materre.
lalfi this Rpnsnri qvp ovnnicito in
Igj texture, coloring and wearing
s| quality. Finest furs are used
M extensively for trim m ings.
Styles are different than ever
% before. Choose your dressy
coat well ahead of time to be
% assured of the model you pre!
j| f er.
li Fur Coats on Sale
I AT
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| August Low Prices
<| /-xOATS of Bay Seal, Hudson
l| ^ Seal, Natural Muskrat,
Mink, and other furs are now
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\ offered at attractive reduc|S
tions. There are also several
??' handsomest coats in two-fur
5| combinations on sale at the August'prices
running from $79.50
??! ' to $375.00. This is a fine time to
select the fur coat.- We will hold
|| ' it in storage until wanted for
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Rawak, Gage, Laurel,
Bluebird and Other
Osgood's Hats
upward to $25 ?
ASSORTMENTS were never more varied or
so tempting in point of style and quality as
at present. In fact, we can safely say that we
now have the finest line of hats ever carried in
the store. And prices are attractively reasonable.
Sports 'Mats as low as $2.95.
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Exceptional Values in
New Hats
V AT
' $t.oo
\A7EEK-END shoppers will
* * delight in the value obtainable
in the millinery section
for f: e dollal'S. Many of '
the hats intended to sell for as
much 'as $7.50. Both street
and sports styles,
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New Suits Are |
at $29.50 to $l|j| |!5
W certain to have a Suit in , |? I
the Fall and Winter war'^ihM;;?
One can't do without. That fact ''laM
in large measure accounts iohvffl
the interest our Suit ^splay3|jjHH
are now attracting?and the
steady sale of our models to dis- Sr:.\
eliminating Fairmont ' wiprairM
There are several newmatefj$l|
in the new showings~new mode8^Kffia|
of designing anc^ richer trifn- 1
mings of fur and 'embroiip^^^HH
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