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LAMPLIGHT STORY FOR SATURDAY NIGHT: "WELLINGTON'S GIRL," BY ELLIOTT FLOWER (Copyright. 1914, by the Newi|np«r Enterprise Association) Ralnoy. the 11«•«t» editor, wont Ik Blake. the managing editor, with • ( Plot 1.1 m "Wellington * Ires to know If ho can't have hi* vacation now." said R*lno\ lie want? to stop over p. r:i mill 1 I, is. M W jfZ* j . . v ' \: J . Jhk a ll ~i O) «» X? ~ J (.'/ •/• •[/>• >— .Tllll ll " PT*' 1 . ~. V i u nn *QL; Vi y v/ JTORL, . m *frr? r r rrrrr^k i ,, J s y s - , V i If B ...• Ilnic Bon Marche's BeauUfol Opening Display Windows WILL BE UNVEILED AT 6 O'CLOCK TONIGHT Come down town and sec them, in all their vernal loveliness 'I he wh«»!e .V s * < t them, <!< rated : i! I ; | in exquisite designs, forming a fierfectly executed color schcmc Each window containing thing* lovely for Spring wear. In one window are the latest Gowns—costly ex"tiis from the hands of the m.i-ter -!vle ■ rcat'>r« vj-V j j France. Another contains the Paris Hats, heatitiful hcvi>nd compare In other* are artistic diapiaya of rich silken stuffs, dainty ni"k« ear. dr« • - , ~rnlture« and accc .rim Come and see them and get an InkllnK of what the Fashion display Itself will bo when It unfolds It* h« antics on Mori i 11, day morning. ! You Are Cordially Invited to Attend The Bon Marche's Spring Fashion Display Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Match Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh 1 ■■■■KlfOSff MAUC'rIE" , lilili i Boston Dentists 1420 Second Avenue. Opposite Bon Mare*ie. Beattle't Leading Dentivts Honeat, Ouarant'<•'! rw-n'al Work at txiwpHt. F'oH*ihle «'o«t. Examination and advlr« ....FREE OoM Crown*. 22k. anil PC r»n extra heavy BrldK'-work. utrlrtly cp nn flrat-cIaHH, |»<t tooth .... v<J«Ud Porcelain ami I'latlnal ftn Filling V I «U<J Gold Pilling* ... $1.50 UP True-to-Nature Teeth, flm-st Ar tlflrlal Teeth In th< world, jut set — $5.00 ,o $15.00 Ail Work Guaranteed 7>*th remove J »t,dMutHy without f'H iri >■ . "'if "HO i,*< v. \r <1 »»• i - v \ ,-i ni'-ri and lh« d#?ntnl i»rofe»*ion I generally. ■ at Newton on his way home' "Tell him," I nut rooted lllake. 1 "that att.v vacation he takes now will be made permanent. We're short handed, and we want him hack here In a hurry. Me ought to have marled last night " Kultlov wont liaok to III* do-U THE CONFESSIONS OF A WIFE CHAPTER XCVI It wan late when I gor bark from Dick's mother's yesterday after ' noon Dirk wan already hom<! and •lrf>««li)« for dinner, ;i« *• hail been Invited to dine at the home of one of hi* men friend*. t found a number of letter* ad j 4r<»«<(] to ini' on the tabic, and ' every one of them had lieen . opened! I wax dimply furious and ! I grew more ho when Dick railed j from the bathroom: "We'll have j j to hurry, Margie, If w«t Ret to the Symones' for dinner at 7." "Dick, did you open my letter*?" I demanded, my voire trembling with anger. "Yes, they are all on the table I thought, you had broken off with ! Kitty Mai ram," he *ald rather bel ligerently. I have not broken with one of ' my friend* and I do not Intend to, I | and I want you to understand, j Dlek, that my letter* are private ' property and I do not like It at all to have anvona open them " "Why why - why—look here. Madge." muttered Dirk, "I didn't know you were ho touchy about a I little thing like that. I knew you did not have anything In one of them that I might not *ee." "Well. If you knew It that I* more than I know," I *ald hotly. "Do not think for a moment that 1 and aniwuntl the telegram na ill reeled Wellington had heon Kent out on an Important story, wljoh he hid handled successfully, and he should have heeli on hla way home Kalney went lo lllakn again n little Inter wll h another telegram DICK OP ENS MY MAIL l Khali tell you *11 mv friend*' *e rret* any more than you will tell tne of the thing ■ your friend* fell you. Talk about women being rtir lou*. they are not In It with men." "Hot heaven * sake, atop rhln i nfng about It and hurry up and ' Ire**," railed Dlek IMd you see I what .lohn wrote you?" "1 haven't wen what anybody 1 wrote me yet, but It * very proli ! able If your brother wanted you to j ! nee what he wrote me he would \ have addrented It to you." "You bet he would, and, Margie, you better may away from that j rhoru* girl. I won't have you going about for a week with *om« girl j from the rhoru* of an Klsle Janl* ; show." "I don't know what you are talk Ing about," I i aid a* I pit ked up | John's letter and this I* what I | read: "liear Hl*ler Margie: "Won't you do tne a great i favor? Mlk* Imrilap, who I* wltb ' K1 hle .Tanl*. will be In your town I all next week arid won't you. Ilk" ! the bully pnl you are, show her a little attention'' I'oor little t;lr!, | 1 I* in mueli alone In the nun pany and I know *he would be aw j fully pleased If you would go and i see her. "r*e my name Tell her you are | my sister-in-law, for I don't mind THE SEATTLE STAR _. ... f '\\ ellltiKtiin w ant* to atop over Saturday and Sunday at Newton." he an lil. "No!" thundered lltako "lle'a lost one day already. What la there at Newton, anyhow, that make* It so Interesting''" | Wellingtons Kill. I liollovo," re telling you, Margie, that Mary Dun lap In Dip girl I am going to marry on noon ax I am out of college and am earning enough to nupport a wife "In the meantime *he haa to earn her own living, and she know* thai her only talent It for the nt i km. "She'* a good girl. Margie, and ahe tell* nie i»he love* me nml I* willing to wait fur me. "I hope >mi will not show this letter to l)lcl< until after you have seen her and, above all, don't tell him we're engaged. Me ha* the prejudice of a man who hi»* met some pretty lively girl* In other mimical Dhow* and well, yr>u know, Madge, I am hacking on you and I know you will like Mary, If once you meet her. "I>o thl* for my sake "JOHN." "Nice kind of a scrape for John to let you Into." Mid Dick, who came Into the room Ju*t a* 1 had finished. "Hut I'll wire hlrn that there'* nothing d< Ing." "You'll do nothing of the kind," I answered "This la my business and I'll t ike euro of It In my own way. I consider your Interference on n par with your opening of my private mall." (To Be Continued Monday) l.tlJCfc OM I IMKKK.HIIiII IN A (.•Hill I*l,A< I TO I. AT \ lull Thl« I lit* Rrslnitrnnf Tl»«» Mr»U Ar»» (inotl WARREN S LUNCH Furii rrl»' WhwlfrV "IH I nloft. . piled Halney Oil, that a It, la II?" exclaimed Illlike, with a laugh "Well, we're iiiiiit lit k a newapaper and not a matrimonial tinman Tell him to Kilt back hern oti I lie flrat I lain "WcllliiKtoti aav a lie'a going to alop lit Newton," llalney an lioiincod. "Klro him hy wire!" Instructed 11 In I o angrily "Can't," returned Kalney. "lie aald he was leaving for Newton when we wired last, and he gave no Newton address May not he at a hotel, and we couldn't pick out the rlitlit one, anyhow " "What's the glrl'a name?" "Ihin t know "What a devil of a lot of trou ble wotuen mak< "' growled Itlake "I'll see that a letter of discharge Is on hla desk when he Keta hack, and that ihe reason la clearly stated." The letter was written and put on Welllnifton's deak, and there upon WelllnKtou became a nog llk I tile quantity ao far as the "Kx pre**" was concerned II" was considered no lonicer a member of the staff when a startling Asuoclit* ed I'resa hulletln was ri-ielved the next day, Thnre wore others who next day. could handle hln stories quite aa well. If not better, and this was so hla that the •liKhtltiK of less im portant tnalti-ri never would be no tlced. The bulletin rend "Cloudburst In the mountains Town of 11 Ik !i wood destroyed Through past ii Ker train In lllKhwood depot lost Wires down and tracks washed out No word since la t night, except story of one half dead survivor who baa Just got through " Itlake jumped for an atlas and a time table, and Kalney and the city editor leaned over him as he looked Up I Ugh Wood "Can't get anyone there from here beforw tomorrow," be an nounced, but It'a ticre than a single day story " Then to the city editor "Start three men anil an artl»t. Ilrowu Tell them to be there tomorrow morning, If It's ne< 1-naary to buy up the road to got through It. line * and I will fig tire out today's story " Hold on a minute' Here's New t»n only 60 tnll<-« away! Ixud' w. vo just got to get hold of Wellington! Win* him, Kalney, and then try the long dlatam-e phone Why tha devil didn't he mention his girl's name*" There Is nothing more aggravat ing. no gmater strain on the nerves, than comes with an at tempt to get the elusive details of a difficult story Ho It naturally liappeneil that Itlake was In no amiable mood when he was finally notlfbd that Newton wanted him on the long distance "Wellington at last'" he ex claimed tint It was a feminine voice that came to blm over the wire |a> you want Mr Wellington* aak<d the vole*. "l>o I want—" He broke off short and demanded sharply. "Where Is beT" "I thought you did." aald the voice "I beard a messenger was bunting for him with a telerratn. so 1 got I lie telegram and o|M»ne<t It Then they told me you'd been telephoning too and 1 thought "Are you Wellington's girl?** Itlake blurted out thoughtlessly, and he heard a gasp at the other end of the wire "Why—why. yea. I believe I am," came the hesitating reply. "Well, get blm to the telephone quick " "I can't: he isn't here" "Nut there' Oh--" lllake re membered that he wa* talking to a woman Just In time to chop off the last word." "No," said Wellington's girl, "he Isn't here He left for Hlghwood on the flrat relief train thl* morn ing ran right away from me when I hadn't se'jti him for " "Hone to Hlghwood'" cried lllake "Oh good old Wellington' "Yeg. he too* thrwe men with hltn " (ireat old Wellington!" was all lllake could say. DEATH . I By Nixoln Greeley-Smith (Written Especially for The Star) State Tuberculosis Sanitar- : ttitn. Mont Alto, Pa.. March Mrs. Margaret Davis, the wife nf a laborer, and eight of i ler children, ranging in age i from to IH, are all stricken with the terrible disease which men tall the great white! plague, but which is really the ! blackest plague and the great est shame of the human race because it is the result of pov-1 erty. The poverty of the Davli family forced the girl* and boy# Into child slavery. And that unholy slavery rushed mother and children Into consumption. Doctor* are Inclined to think that two or thrre of the nine MAY live. The Davis children started to 1 work f.«r a living when they were It years of age The father and j these children, all working to j maintain the little home In Dick j son City. I'n . got $fio n month. Girl Work* In Mill Two boys, Ralph nnd Joseph, worked In a coal mine, one «» breaker hoy. The oldest girl, Helen, was em ployed In a silk mill Working ten hours a day she got $1.50 a week The window* of that «llk mill were always closed so that the ends of *llk might not be blown about and Injured. From the base ment great vat* full of dye sent up foul fume* all day long. In that vile, overheated air on long, hot afternoons, frail young girl* bent frantically over the whirring loom* and no matter how faint or tired they were, no matter what the tem perature, they KEPT ON WORK ING WITH THE WINDOWS CLOSED. One girl who snt next to little Helen Davis had a cough. And aft er two years of work beside her, Helen Mavis, too, had a cough And soon the cough had spread i through the entire Mavis family even to the father, who refused to "And a photographer" "ilully old Wellington!" cried Itlake. Iki you want any bulletins?" ah" asked. "Ilulletlns!" repeated Hlake "S«y! you're a newspaper man's girl all right " lllakn himself remained at the telephone and look her bulletins. "Hhe'* a prlxe'" he exclaimed as he finally got up from the telephone desk, "Tear tip that note on Wel lington a desk," be added, as an afterthought. Wellington knew that hn was quaking trouble for himself when I lie stopped over at Newton, but he did not believe It to be as acrlou* | a matter an lllukc was disposed to make It, anil besides he wanted to bring the girl back with him Ho lie took the rl*k and disobeyed or dors "Itlake," he told her, "must lie tnad enough lo tear tile paper off the wall, but I Juat had to stop over and *ee you." "Of course,'' shn *ald, as If It were a matter that admitted of no argument. "Who la lllake?" "He's the managing editor. He said I couldn't stop over." "How ridiculous of hltn!" she com nn-nted "Isn't It'" he laughed. "He'll be pretty warm, but I gues* 1 can ex plain II all right when I get ba k I d like to tell liliu what I think of him," alio *ald. I'd like to have you," be assured her with cheerful mendacity. "That'* why I want to take you hacit with me " "Take me back with you' In > t wo dava!" "Call It two weeks," he urged I'll resign and stay over. If neces sary." "No. no, she said, shaking her bead energetically "Two months." he peralsted, "I'll get tny vacation and come back." "I'erhaps," she conceded I won't promise I must have time to think j don't want to be hurried. I<et'a talk of aomethlng else." Wellington never had been ao foollah as to think that he fully un derstood girls, but he had thought be knew a little about thla one, and be waa the more bewildered In con Hoqucnce Hhe began to talk lightly and brightly of other things, aud he had to make the beat of it ll' was In Ihla perplexed . tate of mind when the news of the cloud burst came Instantly, the newa paper Instinct became dominant Ilia eye* sparkled, hla tulnd was alert, he was considering all the (■oaslblllties iiefore he fully reailied It The track* were gone, the wires were down, the place was Isolated. It would lie difficult to get men there from anywhere, and he was certainly the ne*re«t upon whom his office could rely A train would take him part way. and he could puah on with horse* or on fool "That's my story'" he announced Jubilantly. Hut you're not going to run away from me." she protested ' Why. you've hardly more than got here '' "It'a my story." he repesti»d. as If he had not heard her Indeed, he waa already planning for a pho tographer and wondering whether he could get any local assistance. "1 won't let you go!" she de clared Won't let me go'" he exclaimed. "Why, Kittle. It'* my story; I'm on the *|mt almost No one el*e from the office can reach It, You don't want me to fall down on the chance of a lifetime do you? You don't want me to shirk* Thl* I* a big thing Hl* a-nthu*lasm was infec tious. and she began to feel some thing of the thrill of It i couldn't keep away from it if I tried. And. iwrhap*. you can help." "What can I do?" she asked. "I don't know what the conditions will be around here." he explained, peaking rapidly. "I may have to '•ome back here to get wires. I may want typewriters who can take from dictation on the machine, I'll be late and in a hurry, you know. I'll telegraph or telephone—to you." "Will you really. Her eyes THREATENS FAMILY Mr*. Davis and SBven of Her Children Photographed a* They Were Boarding Train to Go to Tuberculosis Sanitarium at Mont Alto Pa. Next to the Mother Stands Helen, Who Brouaht the Disease Germs Home From the Silk Mills. ro to Mont Alto anil continues nt lilh work, and to tho 3-year-old baity Hlchard, who was too young to bp taken alonK. All Grt a Cough The two boys who worked. on# down In tho initio, tho other on tho coal h maker. coughed a llttlp worse than the others One bov thought tho coiikli was duo to tho damp air of tho mine, the other to the coal duat from the breaker. Ah I »at by Mrs. Mnvla' bedside she told tun how she and her chil dren were stricken with consump tion. I had noticed that everybody In the family, from father to the baby, was coughing," she "anil sparkled at the suggestion that abe might have Im-i llialo In the work and excitement. ' I shall lie riady, and I'll look out for bulletins." Mullet Ins' Well, you ei Mainly are a newspaper man's flrl," In laughed "Do your best," she urged, and she kissed him. Hhe certainly was a pu/gllng girl. Kittle s brother, lack, was wild to go lie wa* a college boy, bright, and quick, and he said he could got another youth who bad some news paper experience. <iei him' " Instructed Welling ton. "Take a carriage and hustle I'll try to pick up a photographer on the was to the station. Hut don't miss the train." Jack appeared at the station with two assistants, so the party, with the photographer, numbered five. Klght or ten miles from High wood they had to leave the train One wire was working that .'ar, and they were told there might be a aec ond hy evening. From (his jKdnt they pushed on by wagon, making the last two mile* on foot. "t'opy" was prepared a* opportu nity offered, a box or a board on one's own knee serving as dot k but the problem of "the wire" wa* ever present, fine man wa* sent back ■ arly, to try to get the story started Ijifer the other* followed, and found the temporary telegraph Office |n a state of siege "No chancn here for what we've got was Wellington's decision. We'd be lucky to get a thousand word* through," "It * Newton for us," exclaimed Wellington. 'We can get wires there " No train," said the station agent, w hen approached "May be one latei. but It'* uncertain " "(live us an engine!" said Well ington. "Can't without orders," returned the agent. "You've got to'" Insisted Well Ington. You ve got a railroad wire open Wire headquarters that the Kxpress wants au engine to New ton." "Well, I guesa not," wa* the re ply "I think too much of my Job to bother em that way at a time like this" "I'll teb-graph," thri itened Well Ington. "A telegram to your sut>er- Intendent will have to go through, and I'll wire hltn that you refuse an engine to Newton for the Ks press.'" "Hold on"' cried the station agent, as Wellington began io write hla message I'll wire him my " Wellington hurried back to the telegraph office and fought his way to the desk "One word to Newton, he pleaded; "Juat on'* word! Handwich It In nnywherc'" There was Instant outcry and protest. He won hla point finally, and sent the single word "Com Ing to Klttie. There waa a pro test that thl* waa no time for love messages, hut he Instated that thia was strictly bualness And It was It a the best I can do " he con fided to Jack "It will be nearly midnight before we get there, and well want wires and typewriters 1 hope abe II understand ' You g«-t your engine, and the track * clear'" the atatlon agent called out. In the office of the "Expreaa there was anxiety and excitement, fragmentary report* of the cloud burst they had. but there was no complete story and not a Hue of social" except what had been secured from surrounding towna. Itlake hlmaelf wa* nervous and anxious when the hour hand of the clock atipped past eleven "With the wlrea. clogged and working badly, he ran't get much of a story in now anyhow.' grum bled Itlake. "We'll have to go ahead without him." At 11 30 he gave Instruction* to use the emergency introduction: at 1! 40 he wa* (ailing Wellington names and swearing at everybody in the office; at II 50 — "Newton loonin t Into the office!" one of the telegraph o|>eraiom when the baby used to Ret chills «nd way, 'Mamma—baby bo cold,' even when 1 had him In my arms, 1 got really worried. Then Martina —she's 10—be win to Ret a Rood deal worse and 1 sent for the doc tor. Called It Pleurisy "That doctor a aid Martina had pleurisy. Helen, the oldest, had been coughing for more than two years. She'd come home from the mill, crawl In the door and lie down on the sofa or the bed. "She cried terribly and said, 'Mother, I don't know what's the matter with me, but I Just havent any strength any more. I can't even get through my work In the called out. "Newton! rmrwl Hlalte "What the <1»v11 d<»«« N«wlon wan' ' "WelllnK'oti mu*' h..vo not luck there," *<iKKe"ted Rtln«r, Newton loop! Ik In on a *' on'l wlr» on u third'" called the ehl«*f operator. "Wwlllru on'i atory > "tn ItiK on four wire*!" A thrill went through the offli f.h« more pronoun-«' 1 becaua* 'if the lonK. anxlou* wnlt, and «very man nsrved hlmaelf for 'he ra< iiKiUnftt time In KP'ttnK thla a'ory Into tin- paper "fJood ol'l Wellington*l«(be.l Iflake. forgetting 'hat he had been ronalipilnK him to tbe perpetual fumac- a few mlnu e* before "Newton on the long -4l«t*nce!" rami- tin* fry from the next room, and Wake hurried there "It'a a girl anl *he want* you," ■aid the city editor "Wellington* girl!" e*clalin»'l Make "Hello" *ald the girl; "l» It 'oni- lng?" On four wire*," aald the Jubilant Blake "That'* me." aald the itlrl, proudly but utigraminai Ically. "What!" "I got the wire* my*elf. and went for the extra operator* with a < ar rluge " "flood old Wellington'* g Irl *" commanded niake, that being hli favorite form of commendation "And I had the typewrite! ■ ready." "Bully *>ld Wellln»tton'« girl'" xald Hlake. Don't talk Ilk# that!" said the girl sharply, "or I wont give .ou tJi«* fast mall story." What'* that'" "Mr. Wellington Raid you'd ttoniu thlriK* for the fast mat! edi tion that wouldn't get througn In time. Me made note* of tb*-m, r-o fil ing In on the engine, a mile a min ute You ought to see him' Me'* black and dirty and torn and muddy and wet and—and —splendid." "Never mind that now " "Me couldn't call you up, b# a use he's dictating," the girl perflated "Th« plot urea go by mall." "Yea. >e», I know." Me turned from the telephone a moment. Two men here, quick! Take i.cle« on this by relay* and write It out on a split-second schedule" Then to th<* Kirl: "lyet her slide." "What!" ■';ive me the fa.! mall story." "Oh yen." Heading from the note* before her. she gave him the facta. even supplementing them with detalla ibat »he caught as Wellington and th«* others dictated to typewritus Tell Wellington to call me up when bis story's finished," said lllake when her work was done ' All right.' 1 ».be replied But— oh. Mr. lllake! "Yes." "I don't want you to think thia Is so dreadfully Improper. My brother's here, you know.'' lllake laughed. To think of chap eroning at such a moment aeemed to him amusing and dellgh'fullv fetnlnlne Me liked the girl: she had feminine Inconsistencies and vagaries, but she could do things Me told Wellington so when the latter called him up "Bring her back with you.' he said. "She won't come," replied Well ington. whereat the girl, who could hear this end of the conversation, ; gave a quick little gasp of compre- I henslon "Won't come," repeated KlaKe. "Tou stay there at office expe&i-e until you get her Shea a mascot' Won't come' Muh. Don't you be lllevo it! Why, sh© told me over 1 1he telephone that she was your girl—yours, mind you! Just reiiient | her that if she tries to bluff von ' "Did oho really »ay that?" a»k<-d WdUnittoß Joyfully, whereat the girl trl.-d to think what iihe nad said and remembered She harked Into a corner when he hunis up the receiver and turned t ward her Me followed. "Ye*. Tee, I'll (to," »he said, weakly durrenderinir. (THE END.) mill.' And then she'd fall to cough ing again. "Well, when Martina Rot so hid and the medicine the doctor pave her for pleurisy didn't do her any Rood I was real scared and soni body said, 'Take her to the dis pensary.' "1 took her and the doctor exam* •, Ined her and looked solemn and then he asked me If 1 had an> oth- « er children with a cough Btid 1 said * 'Yes nil nf them' \nd he told ins a to bring then in A The state broiiKht Mrs. Pavl* and her children here and will <ie its best to Rive them back their health—an Impossibility in most of their cases.