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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1929-05-23, Page 2And your own sense of taste will convince you. 'Fresh frail the gardens' llfi-i[r i SLLr LTIBUa ON. EDISC1Pi M (ZjNALL IU.usreeeeD ey rf �' RAM. .SATTFRTiet,D CHAPTER I. fc.ur richly amber whisiciesand-sodas. The manifold powers of circum-! Thus their meeting was auspicious, stance were in conspiracy against Ned i and on leaving the club, about .seven} clear to nay door.' Cornet this late 4uaust afternoon No it came about that Ned Cornet met were swinging by, and a policeman' dreaming that, throirglt the glass pane was ort the' scene asking questions end ' of the door, her lustrous blue (4) 05 had jotting down license nu ngers, Just i.ollowed the red spark that US$ his for a moment he paused,; at Ned'S tail -light '.till it disappeared in late elbow, 1 deepening gloom. "I aur nixie and address, please?'' . he asked coldly, Ned whirled, turning his eyes train the girl's face for the first tirne. "Ned Cornet," he answered. And he gave his father's address on queen ,Anne Hill. "?how up before Judge Rossman in the morning" he ordered, "The jitney there will send their bills to you. I'd advise you to pay 'ern/' "I'll pay 'enc," Ned agreed. "I'11. throw in an extra twenty to pay for their loss of time." "This young lady says she: ain't hurt," the policeman went on. "It certainly is no credit to you that she ain't. There is'plenty of witnesses here if she wants to make a suit." "I'll give this young lady complete satisfaction," Ned. promised. He turned Ito her in easy friendliness, a queer little crooked smile, winning and astonishingly juvenile, appearing at his mouth. "Now let's get in my car. I'll take you home—and we can talk this over." She directed him out Madison, into a district of humble, modest, but re- spectable residences. "It's lucky you came along—I don't often get a ride n a the rain. detail was important in itself. It had been drizzling slowly and n in Se He didn't even think about it. t Seattle. p It w not enough to bother hint. It ally, but drizzle is not uncommon in eat e. was only a lazy, smoky drizzle that Ned pleasantly had been passing the time deepened the shadows of falling twi- Fourth Street, in the Totem Club light and blurred the lights in the titular, thidoing nothing bad par- street. Ned Cornet bad a fire within • ocular, nothing exceedingly or that more or less occupied his thoughts. In a space of time so short that it resembled some half -glimpsed incident in a dream, Ned found himself, still at his wheel, the car crosswise in the street and the front wheels almost touching the curb, a terrible and good or even unusually diverting; but such was quite a customary practice with him, Finally Cornet's special friend, Rodney bourn, had just re- turned from one of his hundred so- journs in far places—this time from an especially attractive salmon stream in Canada ghastly sobriety upon him. Something The two young men had met in Cod had happened. He had gone into a burn's room at file Totem Club, and perilous skid at the corner of Fourth and Madison, the car had slid sicken- ingly out of his control, and at the wrong instant a dark shape, all too plainly another automobile, had lurch- ed out of the murk of the rain. Ned Cornet had had automobiles at i his command long before it was safe for him to have his hands on them.. When cold sober he drove rather tool fast, none too carefully, but had an going {o the hospital fnsteal I'm almost incredible mastery over hist taking all the blame for that smash car. He knew how to pick his wheel back there—I got off mighty lucky I tracks over bumpy 'roads, and he knew I Now let's settle about the dress—and the exact curve that a car could take t a few other things. First—you're with safety in rounding a corner.sure you're not hurt?" Even now, in the crisis that had just' He was a littlesurprisedat the gay, been, he had handled his car like the 1 girlish smile about her lips. "Not a veteran he was. The wonder was not I article. It would he nice if I could that he had bit the other car, but go to the hospital two weeks or so, rather, considering the speed with, just to rest—but I .haven't the con - which he had come; that it should con- iscience to do it. I'm not even scratch- time to remain before his sight, but, ed --just pushed over in the street. littledamaged, instead of being shat- _knd I'm afraid I can't even Charge tered into kindling and dust. Never- 3 ou for the dress. I've always had too theIess it was not yet time to receive much conscience, Mr. Cornet!' congratulations front spectators. ° "Of coarse I'm going to pay—" There had been serious consequences "The dress cost only about twenty enough. He was suddenly face to face dollars—at a sale. And it doesn't with the fact that in his haste to get) seem to be even damaged. Of course home for dinner lie had very likely it will have to be cleaned. To save obliterated a human life. von the embarrassment I see growing There was a curious, huddled heap l in your face, I'll gladly send the bill on the dim pavement, just beyond thea to you if you small car he had struck. It was a I In the like—"treet light he looked girl; she lay very etch, and the face; up,stuaying brighter face. Her skin had half covered by the arm seemed very tlthy freshness, pink like the white and lifeless. And blasted by a marvelous pink of ' spring wild the steward had gone thither with tall glasses and ice. Coburn had not re- turned empty-handed from Canada. Partly in 'celebration of his return, and partly because of the superior quality of the g .ods that had accom- panied him, his friend Ned raised his afternoon limit from two powerful pre -dinner cocktails to no less than dry thy. 421" ori a slew set of H QUIP your car t < wit ! Firestones— the toughest, long- est -wearing tires on earth—and know wherever you go, your tires will carry you with greater safety and econonny than any others you Lan buy. See your nearest Fire- stone Dealer today. TTRESTONE TIRE & RUBBER cO. OF 'CANADA, LIMITED HANn7 i ON - ONTARIO "Lucky! I want to say if for all the luck in the world it wasn't you'd be Th . girl se iced in his tae. CHAPTER Tl. Ned Cornet kept well within the speed laws on his way back to his father's beautiful home on Queen Anne Hill. He was none too well pleased with himself and his thoughts were busy, There would be sotno sort of a scene with Godfrey Cornet, the gray man whose self -amassed wealth would ultimately settle for the dant ages to the "jitney" and the affront to the municipality—perhaps only a frown, a moment's coldness about the lips, but a scene nevertheless. No one could. look at Godfrey Cor- net and doubt that be was the veteran of many wars. The battles he had fought had been those of economic stress, but they had scarred him none the less. Every one of his fine features told the same story. His mouth was hard and grim, but it could smile with the kindest, most boyish pleasure on occasion. His nose was like an eagle's beak, his face was lean with never a sagging muscle, his eyes, coal black, had each bright points as of blades of steel. People always wondered at his trine, erect form, giving little sign of laid ndvnnced year% Vor all tho UM*. ury with avhle.Ii ha had surrounded his wife. R11i4 non, Ito hintseif hnU:i .41 - ways lived frugally: sinn?le food, suf.., ligient exercise, the Most personal .end detailed contctet with his horsiness, (To leo •continued.) terror such as was never known in all his wasted year; Ned leaped, raced, and fell to his knees at her side. of, praising eye. This girl in his car was The car be had struck was one l the thousands of "jitneys" of which in her early twenties—over, rather he had so often spoke with contempt. than under—of medium height, with The girl was a shopgirl or factory' the slender strength of an expert worker, en her way home. Shaken swimmer, yet her beauty was that of with horror, but still swift and strong a child. from the stimulus of the crisis, he He couldn't tell, at first, in just lifted her head and shoulders in his : what her beauty lay. Other girls had !fresh skins, bright eyes, smiling lips arms. 4 and masses of dark lustrous hair— "I'mThen the girl smiled in his face. not hurt," he heard her say,! and some of them even had the sim- seemingly in answer to some sense-! plicity of good manners. Ned had a less query of his. She shook her head i quick, sure mind, and for a moment i he mused over his wheel as he tried at the same time, and she smiled as i puzzle it out. she did it. "I knot. what I'm saying,"to But sown after this heel Cornet bit!"she went on. "I'm not hurt—one— caught himself with a whispered oath. He was positively maudlin! The Tlre little drama, as if hurled .n an ex - instant from the void, was already; citement, the near approach to tra- done. Tragedy had been averted; it 1 gedy, the influence of the liquor mani- was merely, one of the thousands of i festing itself once more in his -veins !unimportant smashups that occur in! were making him stare and think like , a great city every year. Some of the a. silly fool. The girl was a particu- spectators were yaiready moving on. i larly ative andho girl or for all ory In just a moment, before half a dozen cal m slenderness, ess, athletic foall herer more words could be said, other cars ( enough to waken considerable interest in certain of his friends who went in I for that sort of thing, but he, Ned Cornet, had other interests. The n if -1 ze 1 he bent upon her was suddenly ferent. They were almost at their destina- tion now, and he did not see the sud- den decline of her snood in response to his dying interest Sensitive as a flower to 'suuiight, she realized in a moment that a barrier of cast bad' dropped down between there. She was ' silent the rest of the way. "Would you mind telling me what. you do --in the way of work, I mean'?'' he asked her, at her door. "1iy father has a business that employs many girls. 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