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AUGUST 3, 1020' ' . J JLl.vW
EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA; TUESDAY,
THE GUMPS They Just Dropped in on Mother
SISTERS
M KATHLEEN NORMS
Author ot "Jowlyrta WUtT
(Coprrltht. 1019. by Kathleen Norrii)
. . N ; ; ' 7 By Sidney ffmWf :: M
7tfi heat pressed like ft dull pain In
M. Xt Dully; quietly. h went
.JTt'&tnS day.' He'?
fiSM0 mu.lo M ftand . they
WSS
"?' ,,Jrf so well ehoutd keep their
?.,. But he went to her desk, think
F'ln tM long, olltary "'". J?
V .irnv various papers tnai bijo mucin
a'i'l JiMtrowd beore the cabin wna
it. found It only after he had Boirte
."? ?"Sr..li h different email draw-
S?Mi P&ontoi of the desk.
wnnd pigeonholes which were, to
Ste rtSrf MWntahlni. .order ; for
r Everything was marked, tied,
keted: her accounU were balanced,
?2?if .ho hod anywncro left private
pipers, they welD at least nownero to
S"nln all this a dread confirmation
f his first suspicion of her death, l'eter
Smrtheless experienced a shock Kwncn
ft found her letter. It had been piaCcU
ta an empty drawer, face up. Ma wt.
a?cd. and addressed slmpjy with hw
naIV!,.. hnMlne It In his hand, and
moments paBsed bcloro he could mien It.
SO ll HU UN h.MV, ...., ...w ......
hat he bad tried all these weeKU to
crush? He had Dcen weignmg, inuuaur
lne, remembering, until Ms very oui
s Bick with me uncertainly. Hm inma
hid bten n confused wet) of memories,
of this casual woid and that look, ot
vhat Bho had possibly lienru, huu
urobably seen, Hau sUHpecteu Known
Now ho would know. He toro optn
the envelope, and tno uozen jvnltuu lines
were belore n.H eyen. 'tun letter was
(UUll, It IllOgl lilllJwUUI thing lul iilx lu
do ana "Saturday, 1 o'clock," waH writ
ten under the uuie. It wua the, day of
her death.
Ho read:
l'eter, dear, don't feel too badly If
I rtnd a stupid way out. I've beon
thinking tor several dayu about It.
Vouto done so nyjch lor me; and
utter you, of course, thero'a no una
but Ctitiry. Sue could be tree now;
he couldnt prevent it. When I saw
lour fuco a tow minutes ago I know
wo couldn't light It out. nemember,
this 13 our secret. And nlwuys re
member that 1 want you to be nappy
bcuiusu 1 Ijvo you bo.
It wus unalgned.
ivti.r s:it staring 'nt It nwhtlo with
out mo.vlng, without a Btlr of a changing
expression on ms xuue. aiiuii iiu iuiuuu
It up utid put It 111 the pocket of his coat
and went out to the uackyatd, wncro
Kow was feeding tho cnickena. Tno
wot, dark day una ending brilliantly In
a wash ol rtu sunBet light that sent long
shadows from the young fruit trres ami
toucneu every iwib wun u uuu kiuw.
Kow." Peter said, ufter an effort to
kpeak that was unsuccessful, 'i'no Chi
nese boy looked at him solicitously, for
Fetcrs lace was nsnen unu nuoui ins
mouth were drawn lines. "Kow," ho
tald, "I go now."
"fin now other house?" Kow nodded.
glancing down toward tho valley.
But l'eter jerked his head Instead
toward the bare ridge.
vso, 1 CO now nui como uuck no
Mystery Tomorrow!
A story whoso author 'dollghts
President Wilson will bfjln on this
page tomorrow,
J. B. Fletcher, author of "Tho
Middle Temple Murder," will pro
ceed to hold your Interest In thrall
tomorrow.
"raradfso Mystery" is tho name
of tho thrilling serial which be
jjIns'toinoVrow. Did wo mention the fact that tho
big thine that is to happen is to
happen tomorrow?
Start It Tomorrow
Mirsons and other things. He had found
her a spirited .enthuslnntlo little person,
extremely artlculnte nnd quite unaelf
conscious ; and she had entertained him
with an excited account of a ex feud
that was being pushed with some
vlolenco at her school, and had used
expressions that rather shocked Peter.
A quiet third glrla niece, he gathered
had Joined thp group, a girl with
braids and olean hands, who elucidated:
"Allx and I don't like our teircher."
"She's a sneak nnd a skunk." Allx
had-frankly contributed. Cherry, now
quietly established In her father's lap,
had smiled with mischievous enjoyment:
nobody else, to Peter's surprise, had
paid this extraordinary remark tho
XllffhtCHt attention. Hi. romnmlinr.J Tno
ho had fancied only tho smallest of
mese cnuuren ana nnu Dcon glad When
they all went out of tho room
But after that Allx used often to
nmuso him, and ho always folt mora nt
nimw wiin ner innn witn the other two.
Hhe had only been n. irawltv nnrt thin
fifteen or sixteen when she began to
nssert herself in his kitchen, dictate to
Kow. and wnsto good nutter and eggs
on experiments. He had secretly rather
admired her quick tongue and her dar
ing, ho tlkd her to ride hi horses, and
was nmazed at the speed with which she
grasped the controlling principles of tho
motorcar. He had seen her move plants,
treat sick chickens, sew up the gashed
head of a horse with her own fingers,
while Cherry, lovelv. rnund-vi!. lm.
mnculate In whlto ruffles, watched her
with fear and admiration.
Looking down at the cabin, the years
nuppru pum mm iiko a nying mm, nnu
It wan tho nresent nsraln. nnd Allv
Allx was gone.
He roused himself, spoke to the dog.
nnd they went on their way again. Mud
squelched beneath Peter's hoots In the
roadway; the dog sprang lightly from
clump to clump of dried grasp. But when
they left the rood and cut straight ncross
the rlso of the hillside, tho ground won
firmer, nnd the two figures moved
swiftly through tho dark night. The
early stars came out and showed them,
ill'ioupttod nnlnt the skv nliove Allx's
beloved Tamalpals, tho man's erect form
with Its slight limp, the dog following
faithfully. Ilia mumv tall and feathered
If phowlng a dull luster In the star-
m
PETEYHe's Not a Searf wring Guy
By C. A. Voighi
Ilnht
.: "v .-n"T" ...ri,, .nT.v, iiii ' v.nerry, wiin ner vioiei eves nnu corn
Bald, briefly, "ionlght maybe BollnaB color(.d 'nnlr cherry, wit:, her- llttlo
-tomorrow. Inverness. I don't know. , h0'"dsa ffilred i t . nn'i her hinrt
KOW
Uy an1: by the big mountains,
liv and bv I fornoL
Tears glittered In fio Chinese boy's
eyes, but he smiled with a great air
of cheer
"l Keep nouBo, ne promised.
The doe came fuwning and surlnelntr
from the stubles, and l'eter whistled to
him
"Como on, Buck! We'ro going now."
He opened tho farmyard gato whero
her hand had so often rested, crossed
tho muddy corral, open-d another gato
and struck off across tho darkening
world toward tho ridge. The last sun
light lingered on crest and treetop,
tangled Itself redly In tho uppermost
tranches of a few tall redwoods and
as gone. Twilight a long twilight
that hud In It some hint of spring lay
softly over tho shadow ; the mountain
loomed high In the clear shadow.
Gaining tho top of tho first ridge, he
paused and looked back. Lights wero
beginning to prlok forth In the brown
houses of the alio v. burled in their
trees Tho busy little mountain trnln. (
oescenuing, purreu fortn smoke and
steam. Kor away, tho silver ribbons of
the canals wound through the mnrsh,
and beyond the bay the Oakland shore
jay like a chain of gems In tho palo
twilight.
l'eter looked nt tho cabin, tho little
trown house that ho hnd built almost
fifteen years ago. He rememberctfjthat
It was In the beginning a sort Jr ex
periment; his mothsr and ho wero too
much alone In their big city house, and
she had suggested, with rare wisdom,
that ns ho did not caro for society nnd
na nla trnols always meant great lone
liness for her, ho should hnvo a llttlo
eyrla of his own, to which ho might
ietrit wheneer the fancy touched him.
Sho liked Del Jlonto and Tahoo her
celf, but nhe hnd conw to Mill valley
wild delight in its freedom and beauty.
lk.goy,nc(l nnd white-gloved and very
much disliking dust. Sho hnd sent him
plants, roses and fruit trees, nnd sho
had told him ono dnv that ho had a
neighbor In tho nlley who was an old
friend Uf llprM nnitnT Kt.n1lnnil
widower, with children.
i i.remcmbered sauntering up the
SEE?.?.110 c?ny,on t0 Uuly call upon this
Inxentor-phyHlc an one day, Und hla de-
iLup2?, fl"llpff a well-read, muslc
laHng. philosophic, erratio man. who had
S,V?ni?eireC0F,l.ilLe(1 a kindred spirit and
wno iiael mado tho younger man warmly
Pre&Pntlv. nn 41m !.... Mnll
chanting llttlo girl In n shabby smock
S?,,m,cmo In. a llttlo girl all dimples,
HMhi hnd snld that ''Anne wath
X?!wly.h(T; "".'' ll'at Allx " sho
Raa'rono ,P "amC' ' UI ln
. A, somewhat older child, named Allx,
?ne'kl'',i IeR'rv "lB Person with
iP"10."". f.r,?nt teptn- nd. proved tha
cla m bv falling out of the madrone, nnd
nai received no sympathy for a bump,
iTr "iT'l n,lm mtber surprising cen-
BUrO He hnd vet In rnnll Ihnl nAikl,,.
wr 'V'n Allx ,,ut ,nnt 8he nlwnvH ruined
ner clothes, nnd frequently hurt other
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The Young Lady Across the Way
hands gathered In his and her heart
beating ngalnst hla heart, nnd Allx. his
chum, his companion, his comrade on so
many night walki under the stars he
had lost them both. But ll was Allx
who was closest to his thoughts tonlgh',
Allx. the thought of whom "-ns irrndually
gripping ills heart nnd soul with a new
pain.
Allx was his own ; Cherry had never
been his own. It wits for lilm to eomfoit
Cherry: it had always been his mission
to comfort Cherry since the days of hef
broken dolls and cut tlngors. But Allx
was his own comforter ; and Allx might
have been laughing and stumbling and
chntterlng beside him hero ln the dark,
wet woods, full of n child's hannv satis
faction In the moment and confidence
ln the morrow.
"Allx. my wife," ho said, softly, aloud.
"I loved Cherry always. But you were
mine vou vwre mine. W hclongiil to
each other for better and for worse
and I hnvo let you go."
He Went on and on and on. They
were plunging downhill now, under th
trees. He would see n l'cht after a while
and sleep for a few hours nnd have a
hunter' breakfast and bo gone again.
And ho knew that for weeks for month
perhaps for years ho would wonder
so through the great mountains, with
their snow nnd their forests, over the
i.ens, ln strange cities nnu sti anger soli
tudis. Always nlonc. nlwnvs mnvlrc
always remembering. That would bo his
life. And some day some day perhaps
he would comeT back to the valley she
hnd loved
But oven now he recoiled In dlBtnpto
from that hour. To see the familiar
faces, to come up to tho cabin again, to
touch the music and tho books
Worse, to find Cherry a little older,
happy and busy In her life of sacrifice,
not needing him. not very much want
ing tho reminder of the old tragic
t.mi"'
An owl cried In tho woods; the
mournful sound floated nnd drifted nwav
Into utter silence. Some small anlmn).
meeting the death Its "brief life had
evaded a hundred times, screamed
sfarllly and was silent. Great branches,
stirred by the night wind moved high
abovo his head ; and when there vvai
utter silence, Peter could hear the
stenJy, soft rush of tho ccjan, dulled
here to the soutyl of gigantic, quiet
breathing. ""
Suddenly she seemed again to be be
sldj him. He seemed to see the dark,
animated face, tho slender, tall girl
wrapped In his big, rough coat. He
seemed to hear her vibrating voice, with
that new, tender note in it that h? had
noticed when she last spoke lo lilm
"i n go nomo anena of you, l'eter, and
wait for you there."
Tears suddenly flooded his eyea. and
ho put his hand over them nnd pressed
It there, standing still while 'ho wave
of tender. nnd poignant nnd exquul.
n'Oin Tles broko over him.
, "We'll go on, Buck," ho whlspirtd.
looking up through the trees at a ssrlp
of dork sky spnngled -with cold starj.
"We'll go on Sin. p she's waiting for
us tomewherc, old fellow." ,
THE END
The young lady across the wny
bays whatever the result of the
election, there's no danger of hav
ing a minority president, as Sena
tor Harding will be flfty-flrc on
November 2 and Governor Cos is
fifty.
THE TOONERV1LLE TROLLEY
Uy Fontaine Fox
TH6 JKlPPfiR I COMA ARRtST
ONt o' fXftM CITY CA.U& WOT DOWN
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CAUL a "sight seeing excursion "
DOWM To GOOSE CRICK J.A5T itCH MO
CJ-EANtO P A C0NSID5RABJ.E SUM IN fAKES
8BSI0ES HIS ARRBStlNG tee. AS COUSTADLE.
SCHOOL DAYS
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SOMEBODY'S STENOG Sadie Had to Stoop to Conquer
DREAMLAND ADfENTURES
"CHUMS .IN THE WOODS"
iir DADDY
CIIAFTSll II
The Ttny Tigers
JODDI1J PUPKIN8 ' was howling,
Wily wns yelling and Peggy was
wleklng All three of them were danc
ing about on tho little htllook whero
they had Hat dawn in rat nnrl nil thrA
?." making such u fuss nnd a racket
timt Lonesomo Bear rushing to their aid
"Pected to see them being gobbled
Wive by some wild beasts.
vjhones2mo Denr nult worrying about
ineir safety thn mlnnin v... -n... n,. v,in.
?ikn Eni which they were dancing nnd
r,nni?.u.8 l0.Q,c ns changed to a grin.
lint iT." . lliu "ilve rouna tne goou
Li; vntlnF. x toW yu about: why
Sfow??d maklnu' B0 muo, no'se?" ho
Bill?. CwJ 0hl ,00fl "Woof I" replied
nivnn.J Jtnr J,na Toddle Pupklns. "We
are h.iniou.nd TV Rood hunting Wo
In b . " BlVnf: to denth. "We are bc
of!tewi,.?uchl ohl Woof 1 Woof I
chu1kie.som2 .?ear!? Krln f1 'l"t0 a
cnucKie and the ohiipuu v,i,hv.i..i in
gwd iVRV' ,w?wl Wawl Wawl The
sou Jin!1.?, 'ntlnsr has found you and
Wawl" know Hl Wftwl WawI
soDb!,1RvIIfKlJy.and.T0lldle PuPlns were
lnir ftSyB,ai7),nf themselves and dano
thev ,iiSS?. ?ot an,tl tUe on the other
he meant m0 t0 wonlor wl,at
irmviirtt Boort huntlng, let mo at It,"
of? ,.dK?n;Bom.etBoW Bweeplng them
Paw h,J0Ck Lth one' wave of Tils big
j'rtW, Then ns thev leant nn MIMi ffc.i..
ou? X 2a ? ft"".1"1- nomo Bear
kThesS SiJ,eat nP8 1" Its top and sldeB.
I nose holes xhnu,1 , .v.. t.m..i.
wasn't a real hill atn u ." . "mX
mSkiKXiSiSl
M The ant'clTy XS'l.Vv'S
fugilt an carlhaunkA hmi ii. i
IunIf0,nesome Bear'n claws tore
s Sy,,'T0'"i mahm; f?rota, l.
M ntt apHrlmwta' " Into ou ' bl
tH
Billy. Peggy nnd Toddle Pupklns were
astonished when they eaw tho nntB. Now
they knew what was stinging them.
They hnd been nttacked by nn army of
mi. numiuiH wiiu wero gunraing me
"J11 cli& Pd. my hovf thoso ant sol
dlers did bltet
Toddle Pupklns was quickest to find a
way to light the ant soldiers. Ho
Plunged Into a little brook that ran
through Oio valley and Bnuggled down
under the water. That mado the antM
quit biting In n hurry, nnd besides It
soothed the hot stings with which they
had covered the puppys hide, ,
n'Ily and Peggy woro dressed and
couldn't Jump into tho brook, so they
began to roll over and over, crushing
the ants by the dozons.
While this was going on. Lonesome
Bear was scooping the ants up In his
Dig paws, eating them db a boy cats
enko crumbs on baking dny. Ho was
having a fine meal and enlnvinc it him.
ly. Ho d dn't seem to mind In tho leait
the attacks of the ant soldiers who tried
In vain to get throurh his thlok hair.
"Yum-yum, this small game 'tastes
fine," Lonesome Beaar smacked his lips
happily as he turned to Peggy and Billy.
"Hurry up and get your share"
But Peggy and Hilly wero too busy
picking the ants off tliemsolves to an
swer. Toddle Puphttm with Just his
head sticking out of the water, growled
and 8nuffiu, "If that's the small game
you nro huntlnjr, you can have my
share," he said.
Lonesome Bear looked up in surnriso
at this, He was having a delicious feast
and ha couldn't understand why Toddle
Pupklns and Peggy and Billy didn't loin
him. But the ami wero scurrying into
hiding dton amid the ruins of their
wrecked city, so Lonesome Bear went
on gobbling as many a.i he could gather
up. When the last batch was gone he
turned to the children and tho puppy,
Well If you don't like this kind of
hunting, I'll show you another kind," In
rnuflled contentedly, .its he licked h t
chops. ''Como with me." And ho led
tho way farther tnto the valley.
The other klmppf hunting Lonesome
Bear showed IBmrwllI bo described to
morrow, i In.
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"CAP" STUBBS Somebody Must 'Uvc Swiped 'Em!
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