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VKSPAY. MARCH 28. 1022 (Continued l-Vnni I'ag-e () kaeu feeling like a foot. Their nam* homantsed them an<l relieved hla •ark ward reeling, "Ha: Jinka. ah? High Jinka and Low Jinka. what?" Ha laughed. It struck him a* rath er comic; and High Jinka and low Jinka tit 1 ere.! broadly, toning In tha imwt astonishing way the on* her ••verity and the other hwr glumnaaa. Mabel aerated *uddenly to have toat her Intereat In h*r exhibit* and fcrir rag». She rather hurried Mark tha kitchen promises and, Waving into tha garden.' replied rath f «r abstractedly to hla [tons for the I J*r\len'» development. Suddenly ahe nakl. "Mark. I do I wish you hadn't mid that la the | UtcJ en • • He *u men tatty examining the (■** tin ;t ties of a makeahtft racket court against a comer of th* stable aqd barn. "Kh, what In tha kUch •a. dear?" "That about High Jinka and Law Jfeiks." "Mabel. I imar we ctroM ft* up a tapping sort of squash racket* in that earner. Those cobblaa art worn •l»Bnlutr>ly smooth " ~I wtah you'd listen to ma. Mark." H* caught big arm around her gave her a playful aqueexe. "Sorry, old girl what waa It? About High Jink* and low Jink*? u»' oa«had funny U»at. vloot you OMnk** "No. I doo't. I don't think ITa a bit funny." Her lone waa euch that, relaxing hi* mho. he turned and gasad at ber. t* l '" ! you? lKm t you really?" "No, 1 don't. Far from funny." Soma tiuainct told- blm be ought jft to laugh, but ha could not help ~ Th* appealed to him a* di* ttnctiy and clearly comlt. "Well, but it la funny Don't yoti aee? High Jinka alone la such a funny axpr*asion sort af-well. you know what I mean. Apart altogether I from Low Jinka," and ha laughed | wain Mabel tnmpreased har Itpa. -I atrnj-lv dotiX Rebecca la net a bit like High Jinka " H« buret out laughing. "No. I'm Ashed If ahe la. That'* Just it.** "I raaily do not see it" "Oh. go on. Mai-el' Of course you do You make It funnier. High Jinka and low Jmkal I ahaii (mil them that." "Hark." Ilka spok* th* word •reerely. "Mark. 1 do meat ar Matly hop* you'll do nothing of the kind." He stared, iiuulnl Ha kad triad la explain th- aboard thine, and ahe •toiply could net eee u. ~i simply don't." t Mant diacoofort shot tbra htm. IX lk>" to the com ee at tka t ■W" toy awika Tha ahnrd l ******* «*»• ißwnortlatoly tota hi* I **°* ramained in hta mftvt MM* Jinka and Low Jinka waa i dHnla. No geular oew It. Incon j •aatahty eomte. Htupid. of eouia. , but Juet tha kind of stnpM thing feat tickled him IrrealKtlhly. And ahe couldn't aeo It. Abaolutely could ■ot see It. But If she were never going to aee any of thasa atupld Itttle things that appealed to him---? And then he wrinkled his brow* "You remember how ha uee>l to wrinkle up his old nut." as tha gar ruioui Hapgocd had said. A nlgtit-llgh*. her wish, dtmty ITbi mined the room. He raJeed himself and looked at her fondly, sleeping toeaide him He thought. "Dash It. the thing's bewn Just tha same from ADVENTURE'S Ot=> THfc TWINS _ly Ctiv Rolwt/ B»rkn But there teas no sleep for Twelve Toes, the Sorcerer Th» Twtna finished tfcetr wrrvvr and then put tha empty ill*?*** and napkin f«<k Into the llttla banket. Instantly It disappeared. •"We'll have to find acme place to ■leep," aald Nick. "I wlah w<* were •n the Eiderdown Mountain, It •ounda to wifL Hut It look* a* tho It vu about a mile away. J*f» crawl under thla buah and atart In xh» morn In*." Nanry yawned. "All rlrtit. ni hide the record behind the bl* atone bo no on* will find It." Wlijeh ahe did. and then scattered aome (travel eo top. They were aoon aaleep, thetr arm* around each other'a neck* and the kind little atara. which came out •ne by one, looked down amlllnr. But there waa no sleep for Twelve Parlor Fun ForEvekyone HOKhKHIIOB CI'T l'l* lyjooc^ MATEIU Al>8: J»ap<-r cut in borae -ok* *. or IT, aha.p<'.. aciaaora. PROBLEM: To divide the horne aboe Into aeven parta by two rut*. SOMrriON: Cut flrat a* ahown at •"•ft, then arrange the pleee* aa at r.«ht and cv» >vi/u tlie thiec plecaa i\£S. MHutcntnsoni • •V'H AA*JiUTCMiH6OW • her point of view. That «i»n bust l,M *. 8li« like* den. and 1 can't stick dea. Just tha aunie lor har a* for me that High Jink* and low Jink* tiuklax ma aud ifcaaau't UiU« her." lie very gent!y morel with hta Oncer a tree* of her hair that had fallen upon her faca. , . , Mabel! ... Ula wife! . . . How gently Iwneath I>W filmy bal|ti»n her boeoin mae and fell! . , , How ut terly calm har faoa waa. How at peace, how eecure, aha lar there Ha thought. "Three wnrk* ago the w*-i iletptnf in the terrific privacy of her own room, and here *h* la come to me to mine. Cut off from iwrythlni and everybody and coiue here to me."* An tnexpreiwlbla tendernemi filled him. He had a sudden mm of tha poignant and 11*mtndoua advvntura on which they were embarked to gether. They had bean two Uvea, and now they were one Ufa. altering completely the livaa they would have led ungly; a new *e«, a new ahlp on k new. •tranaa ml What Uy be fore tlieni' Kh* atirredi Hta thoughts continued One Ufa! One life out of two Uvea, una nature out of two nature*! M)*trru<u* and extraordinary roeianorphoau. She had brought her nature to hta. and he hi* nature to bera. and they were to uungte and become on* nature. . . . Abaurdly and inapproprlataly hi* mind picked up and presented to him Us* grolMiiu* word*. "High Jinka and low Jinks." A not* of laughtar waa Irrasiatlbiy tickled oat of him. • She said efry stoepOy. "Mark, an you laughing? What are you laugh ing at?" He patted her shoulder. "Oh. aoth tog" On* nature? CHAITKK 111 I On« nature* la the fifth year of their married Ufa thoughts of her ' tnd of the poljrnant and tremendoua 1 adventure to whl< h they were em harked together »«r« no longer pa* ! Klb.e while th« lay In bod tiealde him They bad cm* to occupy MianK rooms. In tha fifth year of their married 1 life iwml* nUllnl Peony (areen Mal-I caught It Their ladnaxn »u naturally the «ck room. Kalre went u> aleep tn another room- and the arrangement prevailed. Nothing wan •aid I-etwee ri litem on U>e matier. one way or the other. The sole reference to recognition of p*mtaiien<7 la this devaloptnep' of the relations between them wam made when Kahrw. oa tha first Sat onlay afternoon after Mahal's rrcor err- he did not go to bis affioa at Tldborragti oa Haturdayw- nan-led out his Idea, eosratverf during her stckneaa, of Miring tha badrooaa Into which he had neoaed aarea as his study alao. Ha had ime rot rid of his distaste for his 'Man." Re had nerer fait qulta comfortable there. At luih h na fhta Naturday. "t tell you what I'm rnlrr to do this a/rer noon." he said. "I'm going to move my books up Into my mom " He had t*en a little afraid the den business would ha reopened by 4hl» Intention, but Mabel's only re ply wu. "Tou'd batter have the mutd* help you." "T*s, I'll ret them." "No. ro give tha order. If you don't mind " And In the afternoon the hooka were moved, tha den raped of them. TWELVE TOES' RAGE | Toe*, the Rorcerer. Any off In hla ■ cava beyond ttm flmt mountain he waa atorminr np and down In hla ! nlrhtrown. rnashln* hla teeth and *haklnr hla flat and carrying oo like j-*>h. I'd hat* to tell you! Ilecauae—he had heard Kip. the Hrownle, talkinr to the Twlna on the Klectrlc Mountain that a/'ernoon. He had heart] on hla telephone. ' "Kip'a riven away all my aecret*!" |he rarcd. "How tan I ever atop ! Lhoae kid* now? They'll ret that record to the prince** aa sure aa I'm | a wicked fairy, and then the prlncena | will pot It on her phonorraph and hear the word* of Ixmrhead, telllnr ; Iter which kin* to marry. Oh, mus ! tard' Oh. sardine* and red pepper!" And then that wlcloed old feltow had a moat terrible Idea. "I can't follow em " ha ahouted suddenly, "btit 1 can atlll do some damajre." Then he went to hla map on the wall. "They're likely itpendlnr the night In the pleasant country be tween the Electric Mountain and the Kldcrdown Mountain 111 make my aelf Into a bat and fly up to the !>renm Htar. And I'll send down dftrn* that will make them walk In their aleep and they'll ret lont. The JfViwnie* are all asleep, mo they can't help them. "Yo, ho, ho! And a bottle of cat sop! No, I mean a sweet mosquito. 11l have to find me one." Twelve Toea had turned Into a black hat and flown out of hla cava Into the nlffht. fTo He Continued) ICopyrlKht. 1»22, by Seattle Htarl OUR BOARDING HOUSE bis bedroom awarded them 111*1. Jinks and Ix>w Jinks rallier enjoyed It. passing up and down the stairs with continuous smirks at this Dew manlfeetau-ui of the master's wa>s. The bookslielvsa proved rather a business. There were four of them, narrow and high, "Wa'U carry these longways," Halve directed, when tha first one was tackled "I'll shove It over. You two Uks tha top. and I'll | carry tha foot " In this order they struggled up the ■**"*. High Jinks and l-ow Jinks larliwsnU. and the smirks enlarged Into panting gigglea, Halfway up earn* a loud crack. i "What the devil's that** said ; Sahr». sweating and gasping "I think It's the )*< k of my dresa. Mr." said High Jlnka. "flood lord" (Convulsive giggles I "You know. I*»w, you're practically sitting on the dashed thing. Tog vr twisted yourself round In some es iraordlnsry way " Agonizing rigclea Mabel sptwared In the hall he. nea'h "lUlas n up, Rebecca Ralee It. Karah How can you expect to mova. stooping Ilka that*" raised It to the level of IMr walata, and prograanton became seemly "There yoa ai~e sbM febra Tbare was somehow a feeling at both ends «f tha bookraae of having boon caught. R Tha hmifctaaaa were of Akhra/s own Ha was mM< rdtnarfly fond of his hooks and he hsd ideas about their arrangement Ths lowest *h«lf was In each rase tAree f»*t from the ground; he hated hooks being "down where you can't see them " Also tha rase* were open, without glass doors, hs hated "having to fid die to gel out a book." He like-1 them to lie Just at tha right height and straight to his hand In a way hs could not quits dtturlle (lie was a bad talker, framing his Ideas with difficulty) be was attached to his books, not only for wbst was In them, hut as entitles. Hs had writ ten onie tn a manuscript book In which hsd caused I ton Juan to be "Ths other day soma ore had I tad out one of ray books and returned It upaide down. I swear It wbj» as rn>te«]ue and painful to ma to see It upside down as If I had come Into the rawn and found my brother standing* <-n his head against the wail, fastened there. At least I couldn't have sprung to him to re lease him quicker than I did to the book to upright It." Ths first book be had ever hought "specially"—that Is to say not as ons buy* a bun but as one buys a dog was at ths ac« of seventeen whan he hsd bought a Hyron. ths complete works In a popular edition of very great hulk ami very amsll print. He bought It partly liecause of what he hsd heard during hi* last term at school of I>on Juan, partly because he had picked up the Idea that It was rnther a fine thing to read poetry. and he kept II and rend It In great secrecy because his moth er (to whom he mentioned his Inten tion) told him that Ryron ought not to he read and that her father. In her girlhood, had picked up Ryron with the tongs and burnt him In the garden This finally determined hlnl to buy Ryron. Hs l-egan to reed ft precisely as he wss accustomed to reed hooks— that Is to say at the hrglnnlng snd thence steadily onwards. "On the tietilh of a Young 'Admiral Psrker's daughter, explained a footnote); "To E "; 'To I> —" and so on. There were seven bain dred and eight pages of this kind of thing and Don Juan war In the five hundreds. When he had laboriously rend thirty six paires he ibrclded that It was not a fine thing to rend poetry, and he moved on to Hon Juan, pege five hundred and thirty three The rhymes surprised him. Ha na/1 no Idea that poetry poetry rhymed "anntmltles" with "trite tt Is" and "Jew It Is." He turned or» nnd ntrm P®Bfy wad Pari —and! Paris CHAPTER XLVn—NOR One afternoon a wk after the party, I'olly ant aewin* In her funny Uvlnif room. The little lift rum* bumping up and ahe listened a* ehe alwaya did when tt atopped at the fifth floor. She wua glad to nee Norma'i hrlffht fa/ e nt her door. "H'lo, I'olly durllnt, how'a every 'liing! I'une to make my party ciifl DOINGS OF THE DUFFS bored the canto*- «l«ti*n; and then Ihr number of vernea In «a« h ouilo •txl the totaltwo thousand on* bandr«-d end eighty . . . Who-o-o! ... It wu w endless as tlrc seven hondred and eight pajrea liad ap pes re'V wli»n he lad rtairrered mi far a« page thirty-six. II" began to hunt for the partlcular reran* which had caused I»on Juan to be recommended to biro and pvesum ably had rnuwd hla grandfather to carry out rfyron with the tonga and burn Mm In the garden. He could not find them, lie chucked the rot ten thine. Hut aa he was putllnr fhe rotten thing away, hia eye hapi>ened upon fWo line* that stru<k Into him It whs \lke a physical blow the most extraordinary sensation: Tile Isles of Orfcece, the biles of Greece Where burning Sappho loved and ■tine. fie caught his breath. Ft was ex traordinary. What the dickens was ItT A vialon of exquisite and un earthly and brilliantly colored tsauty seemed to lie liefore hla tyea. Islands, all white and green and In a <o*a of terrific bliw, . , . And music, the thin note of distant trumpets. . . . Amuxlng! .He read on. "Where pelos rose and I'heobus sprung' Kternal Hummer gilds them yet " Terrific, but not quite so ter rific. And then aguln the terrific, the stunning, the heart-clutching thing. On a different notn. with a different picture, colored In grays. The mountain* k>ok on Marathon— And Marathon looks on the sea Music! The trumpet* thinned a way, exqulaltely Ihln. tiny, rone! And hltrti above the mountains and far upon the sen an nrtmn shook. Ha fmjd, "Well. I'm dashed!" and put the hook awnv. fly 7m BrrUqr (narrrtfht. I*ll. br Tk* HwrtU Kvl .MA SMELLS A MOUSE! and drtiif you 'to "Chez Mlnrof for tea. Only the wweltent In Tarls nulla my mood today. Hurry and cot on your hat." They walked down thw Hue St. Honore, ahop lined and busy, to the broad Hue Itoyale with Its ~w«nn of truffle. "Itie/ Mlnirot" wiia the tea room of the hour the smartest, orlKinullat, expcrmlwst. Tolly and Norma found placed at THE SEATTLE STAR FRECKLES AND lUS FRIENDS (Continued Tonwrrowl BY ATIERN Gteir* Settle ♦ * j^orrl^ok^" * Ry MAIK'I ClflAnd—> jf "Tve heard my father tril It." Mr. N#eley went on with hla ■lory, "until I some times foal as If I had gone with him. "l>ur party got ready to camp for Uia night and w» watched the men go back after the last cow without much anxiety, tho any going lack along the truii was pretty serious bu.iine.sa. and a small party of whites was In more danger from attack* by the In dian.s than a Ug one. "The alx HR-n were all armed and all rode horses except father, lie wits riding a wild mule, that was known for hla meanness to most of the men in the party. "We were following along the laink of some river. I don't know what river It was. I remember the banks were heavily wooded, and we soon lost sight of the men as Uiey rode off. "Kalher an id Itiey hadn't gone very far when they begun to hear a stranre noise. " "Wonder what that Is?" om> of the men said, 'May be wolvea/ loat and ordered chocolate and "Ctm MlnK«>t" ices. "T/iat was the cutest party of yours. Tolly! IJon't know when I had NUt'h u Kood time." "If It hadn't lieen for you, we wouldn't have the flat at all. Kvery body raves over It, Norma, and Im plores 111 to help them find one like It. Why, they fnlrly alt around and wait for ua to die, so they cjui tret It!" Tolly's wordN were cheery, hut aim" had a vaguely preoccupied air, and THE OLD HOME TOWN Wilbur Must Have Been Four-Flushing They Sound Related Page 635 ANOTIU.It DAYII) (Chapter IV) somebody answered. and they rod# on. As they rode, the aound grew more distinct and tlwy hurried their homos, for they becan to feel mire that the sounds they heard were the cries of many l*o pie, either In pain or In terror. "Father siud they quit talking and felt of their guns and went on. knowing that they would meet hostile Indians before lone. "After a time, they rounded a liend and came upon a arene too awful to deacrlhe to youngsters Ilk* yon. "Did anyone er»r tell you what a massacre Is? Well, a big band of savage Indians had come rid ing across the country, painted and yelling, and mad with the liate they hod against then great companies of strange white famil ies. who kept coining and onming In an endless train of slow, cov ered wagons, and whe® the si* riders c,»nw up, the cruel, bloody work wua dona. "The Indians were yelling and leaping aliout the scattered wreck of what hail been household be longings and chairs and pillows, pots and puns and little tin cups, I why clothe* and sun bonnets. And the people who had usefl them scattered about among their things." (To He Continued) Norma noticed It. "You ought to be the happiest kid on earth- you've »rot everything." Tolly w»a xllipnt, looking down at her platn. Norma touched her hand ami t»nt toward her affection ately. "Is anything wmnu, dear? Some thlnjr on your mind?" She waited sympathetically, and wlien no an I>wer cum. went on In low tones: "Come, we're In Tarla, where there are no Inhlbltionn—where people think and talk, and pretty nearly do EVERETT TRUE as ttwy feel. So talk away, there's a good kid." "1 can't, there's nothing to talk nlxuit. It'* Juiit a touch of llie blues." "hhe Isn't worth It!" "Who?" Polly looked up. startled. "Violet Hand. Don't you suppose I know what's troubling you? It makes nte boil, too, for VI simply Plays wltJi men us she'd play a game, foi her own amusement. Hut that doesn't moan she can't win. Oh, don't misunderstand, dear your Paul's us as a klrinx. Only JiY STANLEY BY ALLMAN BY BLOSSER BY CONDO ' likes to see how far she can |X) — and she's no fool. I'd stop her If I wer» you. It's perfectly sinipls. What's sauce for the gooae la sauo* for the guilder." "No, Norma, dear, I cant." Polly matte a weary feature. "It's not dig nified to—" "Fiddles tick si That's Just your puritanical prejudice. Do you mean to suy it Isn't dignified to fight for your husband's love? • • • But there, U lsu't iso serious ss all that. Just you leave It to me!" ('!'• U» UunUiiue^ TWrett