W9 tf ' M' 1' Xlt uv -EYtitilHd PtlMt liEDHiLArlfilA, FKIdA' JULY 16, . !&0 : 1 ' -"i i. : , t2z s , : : : iWWCJ . t' v. "ft M " , f", I ? I .i' ' I r-f ' ' THE GUMPS And tltc Villain Still Pursued Him By Sidney Smith SISTERS m ". 'i . 1 u bwr By KATHLEEN NORRIS Author of "JoBselun'a Wife" (Copyright. lilB, bv Kathleen Norrli.) "Fi mi S r s HEIU&O r VNfetL- THEV DIDN'T WAIY IJJ BUt. THE WORLD HllilS iSiu auSi I ill i 1 1 I I ii niigM r IT SACK.- TH& CAft IS AT VHG -- ArA SAt )gg -rT.rAnT8 Tim BRV. Tins -- . Li. ta-o anugn' V. !"W ' , ni iviiri Cfterrj P' " ... .nrf ooe Iktor. r "" ....... C " i niir iiiui ' v . .. .. ..iii (4S rhtnu receives our it.!.." -- rt PtM moin.j lire n plt fcllilrf 'f'i.. ,..!, S. " II in -- -,-,.. -i nm "w" i r. and P',er.- . ttau to find t c.i . "T- the rfoorwoi. ej . loW fll"i,i.;, nuletlU moved rcU rtw.ffi'XJ refer lnrf ;. Fn?J$ Inker and M Is H'f1,!,! iiinicnir o ffti imfrf. .?'-.; rrllfS 10 A" !. lT " hr ,nMotm lines W'miff i relfi '"., ...'VScS 1P "." -..... in the gar- 3 I9:- .f-M. when lie .spoke to J"' '"..kiTi ' nnf Shakespeare, ''U surprised htm by addlnir. agsSliKTO-avw fr . n.it l mine enemy. 5ER &. not h rfon- . And for that name wn. - Mrt Of th6 F" " l . v At bewn to thump aBaln. .he.lLbnKthe Barden: It was Sl'Varmand starry Kaflcr a .Hnce. 't acre, my ; VarV.' But I k"1,,hAn.kitl hSm you were ,, a It me with "" ,, Ul0Ra i fancied ou "c 'ftT.,d:,.-.v,wur,he.aw bi 11 wtta - - briefly. , , ..,, n ilttlfl amuatd FS"i-.rfffii why I ti'O' .....j i hate f,h,0hX.,;Eo0n8tmhno1vn,fooHeh fve affairs, too' she of the he you er, as ashamed as she oi weakness lahel. oo hi could hardly call It tnal . .,Sdeoyeril.tanytWnB!:: treed, In reuei. " "- ,ked. nulckly , , , .... . .,. .ere acn i mucii ... - ,.- through the ranks of wet al- h aird.roE.es. , .,,,,,. bthliiK 1 s n sam again. .u..... :l ' l?J h... ni.rrt ih. house he i hiieii ui.- .. ---v . .. Z..KHW.1i fHatlirhArl In Sfie H I0OK L-..ki.. nt o'l.inic something Ised and embarrassed on her usually k little face, and to reaiue ma. m.o conscientiously avoiding his ees she ana aiix nna gone io dcu nt orn the little red voluire that was ed "Romeo and Juliet." nm1. found core or lines mat sne nau (juoiea. mnld that the same words could on the printed page so bare anu : co rich and full irr Chem u noil. inder the stars. i next day slio talked In a troubled. tain ay of going hack to Red , and he knew why. But AIlx was hast at the Idea, and 1'eter, who losing Doctor Strickland s estate, io careful to depart early In th rrgi, and return only late at night, he uttie alarm, it it was that, died 1 Martins plans were uncertain, thtrry might he needed as n wit- In the will case. If Anne's claims iprcnw unjusiinea. so ln.it ii. I.lim nor tntrry cou d ind a loc i hent with which to combat Allx'a its against any cnango. ni time mat tjnerry went Into lAlIx did not go, and Peter, sitting i ucck gi me eariy coat witn her, I her again to ham lnnnhf.nn ..lth IJmmedlatelv a cloud fell on her nu ne saw ner nreaat ris nnlrl.lv ler," h asked him. chlldiahlv. : b ralght into his eyes, "why T tell Ax about iliatT" r tried to laueh ami felt hi.v..ir in r.Ml.l. T... -. ...ii.oc.h i iiTinuio again PUl nuatr' hn RlammA.l PUt OUr havlnt lionn hn- u.. h l... ..."..? "-- .'..to nuuro W-" '" eK; pj-i dont know'" peter said. K nenoualy. ' I was ellent. nnn th... ....j ...,.L i.. ..l: -" ..oj hi iru wi.n- ' Bu, : rerzn L m.?eAln?. .??r 'to the telephone "p.tir felt a "Vl10",1 a" noon his fr.U?...s.denl7 before his eyes ng him V0,ce wns rcall' nd ng mm. She was at the ferrv om, n hart fiii..i .-.:' as rolne hnn,. "Ku """Pvms, at'snne1" p.ir um n..u t. nau km i - ., ..mud ue up sihalclnJ .I1.1 momh nR0' But iHlng as he went back to his t night Uhpn All- u-j hw r?P?l" on knee ThFS?, rt In 7he .T, L"""1 ."? wholly ,n - .uuic 0no nau chanced ;n ih, hear(j th(. She VZe d. t"e y?y nd bewn,?i "peak as Teter came rrv i. "?l ' ' llP toM YAll h". I'l . breathing ........ .... uu' on. ot " '. i -eier was and...:. .' R wild whirim. 7"- ocnsfs ....ft u. remniM. br"Jh uinilng . if Jt cy.es flxc'1. '. for .,rf -5.ns lf the. had been iWr3?- u.d I'1 i "lilsner. neither spoke lber' P J9U remZmS..;.00 ""J-, her cold fwmmber7" 4C n lhA h. "" st in ;'ntbi,'hd0,lbo,k.lh.'''nrtbe0n i' . ,u mo nreninr.A ..no said. !..'.;."" II B read- wliai?" ' '" me merest E?S"aif0H!!? !'?'. r-" - us or that n..Vi ;".""'""" nr4e.ne,.:bVc:au8roI, ; -wing io exnr i .:' "' wnat i'n the flam? n? hl'?lh wero " 'pj urprls? aL,her 'w rela ." n th. .. "nd . ,?"Tor wen n the stran mm m v in.."- ""me nr Joy of their I tVlltat 'norroTv" rhmlir K oack ' off in . "r". '.ets not ta UV .h. tfrruptlon, a ''5.1.5 .' lather . - ... wuick lntH....-..: " "ve snou.n ". ?""iion as he o In I'Mhw i . nrt ib w... . . ' ' ii V nnnlo mi... " r J'p r'. w"" vnnr v:i -- . t I'RIBI. " -- 'minute- rotcr DrolMI . tesS"'"' - " na lookirt V. v '""' now sho ned n... t? back at him ,. ""re ttaa ''rdld.not speak at - '"".ncni of absolute In it hh.Sgnt'Yalf-"'-;'": til ;,"" m Her rrn ; "" J' ,ur ."i one hn..ij. -'.'"' nn'i ner i.Lnrrj. alci, w,i, , iH J"mpled 1 "nieiii. ihS?rifcu"bI- to reaii. imA.orKu.5!f J IwtncancetS S'i'n'101"' 80ul E nelthl"1 I0"" h U wire M of t?.he.r-c,f?r'y. ."-r 'eyes It." u a '"PS' J22k. this-. Chcrr-! Look at fclJ-sSGrhSSaffltbHtU i;."'"'"d near ti,i ir ". s r.-i'i'i.nea to flni.i. "c'.iui aga n. ?,,(I I r(ac,,?a,1l'' '" novel.-'A x Ibeen ih..."!" 9' ad's olrt mui. k... ;"' Ol Dm .l,.i. "" mce I wii ,..-". " ntui" my SM.?t. too?NaBn, m"-'f'l. and Tve ...'V'.A thin ii;;"V wnat w luuan Ak.j . . .-r tfiini no ii4 vn, .i!""" Violent r...l,."..' :lD.r. -. me pape, ,nj'"un oi tee . to read It nu b0t towatel the .vnM?':,' a irBi:"!B. "onderfuP" ccl at thr. .V"nla receipt to a IwuM.-V""""'" that Is makKg nUUed t0 th -till bewildered ?i.i Pi,'..1." VMn lhcre a "'g Ume i,Slr.Lry,Lh9 Rdded' ln a "I" rich m.i..i ir..ard..m'm?r'' "tnftfs what he .?... ,y .8n""K1 It. was In Matthew. ii?i.' A.l9K'me,.,2,,fr7 ,Jolrt mean that. ret? Isn't It perfectly clfarj" m!,rim'!0,y nboul Bn'00 for you and l herry.' Peter answered. "Yea sir. .,iiia.?5eTU8 Perfectly clear! .He ial'1 It back overj cent of It. and got riimWJ i.. ,'m,,hls P rather a crimp In Utile a plana I'll see to morrow. This calls off his suit-' i "He -1,y,..II' !A Allx a8k1' wtn dtric JXn ? An(L " "lcnn!1 that you can keep the old house. Cerise," whe ex Pi".'' triumphantly, "anil we cm be together part of the year anyway! Oh. come on, ovcrybody, and sit down, and lets talk and talk about It! Iet me nt9nln.?B?l,,,n.rCfCnUl0n 0f "II Cla''S 5l!l "l lJ.'c V?1"1 "tlnguljher afore mentioned' sit down, Pete. It'n onlv in n'nin.,1. I t ... .,. . :. v. v..u.r , uvi b laiK. Aren t simply will with Joy. cherrvr But she told Teter later that she had i-t'.lr "u.r,,J",.d. "f C'eriy's (juletness; Uitfrry hud looked pale and abstracted, and liHd not seemed half enthusiastic enough. 'Though er probably," mused Allx, It brought hack dad'n death, and sad dencd her In that woy, and mote than that, I know she Is worried all the time about feeling as jhe does toward artln, and perhaps he'll feel that she ought to put this Into some horrlblo mining scheme!' Cherry Is not mer cenary, I'll wiy that for Iter." "Whnt will you do with nil yours?" Peter askod, "I wish wo three could go about the world togcthor," Allx answered. "I'u lovo to see Japan and India I'd like to aee butnlng-ghats on the sacred Gunca " sho adrinri. ehnerfiillv. "Hut 1 don't know money doesn't buy you much !" she jawncd. "Perhaps I'll go to dome old ladlon' home, and give eacn of ino uiu gins iuu a quarter wouiant they have fun, buying scarfs and wool and caps?" "Their families would Immediately re- movo them, for the revenue," Peter "Uggeated. He was itrntinc at her: he felt sudd?nly the wholcsomonesa and safety of her absurdity and originality. He liked the characteristic earnestness wltli which, In the very act of snapping off her bedroom IJght, before going out to the sleeping porch, she widened her eyo at him, and frowned ln concen traled thought. "Then I'll give them JSO a quarter!" she decided. "Just enough to buy them some little, things, ou know, brass tea kettles, flannel underwear, whatever they wanted! Presents they must al wb.vh want to be maklnjr Christmas pres ents." And she yawned again. "Shut our door, Pete, If you rend." she said. "The light shines against the trees, and It's right In my eyes'" nut ten min utes later he heard her call through Ihn rtnnr "Or I rnilld clP It on COndl tlon that they stayed In the home and didn't let thtlr families get It!" and grinned again ocr his book After that there was silence, and gradually the little sounds ot the sum mer night made themselves heard again. Allx's light was out Cherry came, trailing her thin wrapper, to the porch bed opposite her sister's bed and sllppod Into It with only a brief Rood-night, But Peter read on deep Into the first noum ui iiiu tiiM.iM.'n. ul., v.o Yn. fling ng the striped blue tablecloth over the porch table the next day at the noon hour, and clinking knifes and forks, was questioned by his master. ... , . ,,,., t. "You go catchem 'nother plate. Kow. Peter said. . "Missy no come !" Kow answered, un ...MI.J KUIvm mtnxf nr fJIII Mm I rUUlfU. mill n.' m --.. - Aii -.. .v.. nnmlliirr lA llinch? "N-n-not to me!" Cherry answered ... !.. nnAmn Kh CAtTie till tO the norch. with her hands full of shorl- stememed roses. i...m...j "Him go fiend house," Kow elucidated. "Fiend heap BlcK ! ,..j .. norvln?" Pherrv nuestloned "DM Bhe stay at Mrs. Garvin's, for i,,..ni.n i.nri.urw It'x the Gorv n baby. she added to Peter. "She said she was ....I.... n etnn In .' bViliiK lu niwii ... , , "I'll find out!" Peter wbs conscious that everything was beginning to trem hi on.i thrill ncruln. ni he went to tlie telephone. "Why, yea," he said, coming bnck to the porch, ''the baby arrived Just before she got tmre, ana mey were .. unset. She's n her glory, oi courac, Says that she'll be home to supper, even If sue goes nacK : ru i" riiprv sH. In r small voice She sat down at the tabic, and ehook out her napkin. Peter sat down, too, and. as usual, served. Kow came and went, and a alienee deepened and spread and grew more ana more terrioio oery ... IL was a Sunday, foggy and overcast, but not cold. The vines about the porch were covered with tiny beads or moiei- ..p. ..nmnno- tlm hllcVlon In tllS garden t' tie scarfs and veils of fog were caught. and from far across the ridge tne aron Ing warning of the fog horn penetrated at regular, brier inie rvms. "Cherry." Peter said, suddenly, when the silent meal was almost over, -will you talk about It?" . Talk ?" she faltered. Her voice thickened and stopped. "Oh, I "'oulrt rather not!" she whispered, with a frightened glnnce about. .,.,. "Msten. Cherry" he "aid. following her to the wide porch rail, and standing behind her ns sh sat down upon it "I'm sorry! I'm Just as sorry a3 I can ho. But I can't help It. Cherry. And l would like I do think It would be wiser Just to to look the matter squarely In the face, and and pernaps discuss It A. ..., minutftn unrl then end It. Shs gave him a fleeting glance over her shoulder, but she did not go i awn . Peter sat down hehlnd her on the .rail, and she turned to f"" hlrn. although her troubled eyos were still fterttrl. ...i .. v,k .cii.i tiien. "I'm as sur- prised as you are-l can't tell you when It It all happened ' But It 1 eter folded his arms across his chest, and ,..m, n crlmlv t-nunred Jaw looked otT Into the misty distance "It Is there. "'..SK'"- -nrrv- Cherry whispered on a breath of utter distress. "I m so rw, tAf ut nvr flnOUlU HftP lot it hanncn our car nar for ecn otner we" nevePr should have allowed our . . ui.i in rtp.m or sucn a- f.r 1". "Au 'ri.P T'm .n lck about lt.( S.T". ".' i J, Tn.Where ntlv with filling ;,... -"I'm inkt sick about It! I know I know that Allx would never have per; m :Un"BAose To 'her: and now he laid hl?.Iht?ame2Le'': erBSald. quite involuntar- it., i it u.-fl. n lU'fiVH nnreii for VOU 1 know It's madness I know It's too late hut I love every hair of your beauti ful head! Cherry Cherry -' They had both gotten to their ft. and now she essayed to pass him. hjr face white, her. cheeks blazing He stopped ner, anu ih-iu .:. v" t l.l.J Aftxl nltiai ""or a full dizzy minute they clung together, arms locked heBrtfln'.R'm1l! madly and close, and lips meeting again and again. Breathless. Cherry .wnehj ed herself freo, and turned to drop into a chair, and breathless, Peter .too looking down upon her. About tnem was the silence of the dripping garden . all the soundH of the world came multled and dull through the thick mist. Then Peter knelt, down beslc.e er chair, nncl gathered her hands together lit hlH own, and she tested her forehead on his. and spent and silent, leaned against his shoulder And so they .re mained, not speaking, for a long while. Kow clinked dishes somewhere In a far away kitchen, ami the fog-horn boomed and was still boomed and was st l. But hero on the porch there was no sound. . ,. "Cherry, tell me that you care for me a little?'' Peter Mid after awhile, ant; he felt ns If he met a new t .herrj, among all the strange new Cherries that the last bewildering week had Bhown him, when she answered pas sionately: .. ,,. , ,., "Oh, Peter Peter If I did nut He tightened his fingers about er own, hut did not nnswer. and It was presently Cherry who hroko the brood ing, misty silence again. "What shall we do?" she BHked. In a small, tired voice, ..... Peter abruptly got to his feet, took a chair three feet away, und with a quick gesture of his hand and tons of IH3 Head, flung back his hair. .(CONTINUED TOMORROW) stopped ner, nut. n.-.u -- . .... arms, and after a few seconds he felt her resisting muscleB relax, and tney PETEYA Warning to Others -.- - i .- By C. A. Voight -This Ii Mvuwar ( nnrTnc-I'm I PeTeY, PocTor smith f Gcao To kwow i j. - Ojfi,VMeP'j ..rf P a& :BCl S ICIjTMm ' J I S 'tterW V- HW AS0UT-V CQk SAV. Ooc HAW WAWHErc 5E- LisTew, HOW A"B00T ? H0l?t?OT35.'.' He askepThe MiwisTeToGWc HIM A PRmscripTiow Fcrp UPUOR?.5' ( -OH. I VA3 5o NtoTlFieo '".'" ' i-' - How's i kwow?.f TUoucuV HevA A THVSICIAN .': I " The Young Lady Across the Way The young lady across the way says you never get the best things when you order by telephone anil every housekeeper ought to be her own biologist. Dad )Vaa Willing to Take a Chance With HU Own Breath By Fontaine Fox J, "HfcNfiV! this Young MAN ' iV CAULING ON CLAKA HAS LIQUOR. J I ON HIS BftgATH- 1 WANTYOO jffl c r To 0RDH HIM . j ; 1 Of THE a XM" I '' SXtP IN THE HOUSE, CUARA J? J WI5H TO SPEAK To THIS 0ffi tffc tf. YOUNG MAN TourouCKT To B J T7TJ Wl S&& ASHAMED -OP.' I 4V& k m 'f y'vuv-fc-iwv-fcso. j v y J)' ' SCHOOLDAYS By DWIG rfieu5j) ... i'TSSe'-''' vil, its fm x-! tr,) r ti&Tft&S&lr L k41 Jvtt0 bom tow o n. jMyy ' & IT -J v' TuwW fro a". - I SOMEBODY'S STENOGHer Week at Bullbull Lake Is Eventful -. CorjTlrht. :. by Tublle Lodjtr Co. By Hayward -J-1 I 6UESS Af?SAW BUUIOAJ IS OMB OY THg FASHIOJABLE SET AT THIS LAKE f?SOl?T BUT WHEM I 6ET THROU6H VWITH HER SOU SHE'LL WANT To CRAWL INTO A KNOTHOLE.' SH&S WORRlEb CRAVf AIOW BECAUSE HE CHASiy' ME .' SHELL RE6RET THE DKf SHE SAIUBBED A1E WHEN I MENT(ONED HOW AllCE The view was! silly calf, HE IS. UST AllGHT HE WAMTED TO GNE AAE SOME. OLD "FAMILY JOOLS! 1 6.E-MA6IM '. W .I.A Wi m- "zzh&s i,mii.L "i m illin '"'" iiMi. m. IViWA'I' uifc ll 'iW -r VNHY VAM OE SMITH . I DlDAiT KAfOVA VOZJ vwereatthelake: maybe you CAM HELPME itithTESA PERFECTLY COAWCW KEKSOAf hlEKE AT THE HOTEL WHO HA rTST - PWOIAPF?DMVI"i ''- 45HES A PERFECTLY HORRID ADVEMTURESS, dUST AFTER AAV RESY'S MOAIEY. WHY SHE ACTUALLY) TPlPn TO SPEAK TO ME. OAJCE . ...H. a ,. . n-f rrvi t-Tlwi ' VWUMIJU I J iiwuui.i" THERE SHE IS AIOW : X '. x fwHr-i J F.S -T ) V -A S fv" &"" -That's Mss o'flage - i kajou her vaell ( She's a little BrickW t Oh cam : jf 5!0f I OH WHAT HAVE. I tte ik n DONE ! 1 Sftot J . . yc tthat wayaeout -4S)k O && OF VAAi'S c- A-E-HAVWA.TVO-16 CtSoriS "CAP" STUBBSA Lotta Chance a Ball Team's Got By Edwina INDEED TH' "BOY CANT TLW rm APTEnNOON: mev HAVE TO WORKi: f CAN'T HELF VT P VOUrtN "N f lhincrn ,. ge, rAWr th v f T3AVX. TEAM OES PLAY ( IA SET. . -s ( ,eili!S-0.CATrrs:TLW 1 I SOME OTHER 3AUV- I 6DTTA I V V M F Tft wo n K TVHi LftWN HAS roVC V VOiV J ( gfihy 1-TL WCLL-WHO WOW, THI5 APTERrVOON', X (WV!) TIT H t & y .0 -SI ri I jii ?.i : 'ijrVi ait f Ka i." . 1 i!fc... ..!w-.-v ikftjJi: A'AiSiiv-rfd ujftr . ik "i s liB mmmmmJL.
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