The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-11-30

viii save II for you"
hurried out and overlook the
man In gray halfway down the
block. Ho looked ms ! had seen nun
In my fancy thousand times--uue.
ulent. gray and awful lie walked
with the white oak staff. and but Tor
the street sprinkler the dust woui"
have been flying under his tread.
caught him by the sleeve ann
m,ocr.d him 20 dark angle OF
n,,iisinr. ftnev~ he was myth and
ala no, want a cop TO see me con.
verning with vacancy. Tor nnsn'
land in Bellevue minus my hii'es
,ratrh box and diamond ring.
-Ies-e Holmes" said /. facing MN
..,,, apparen, bravery. II know you.
, hay. heard Of you all my ifs l
srnxx now what scourge you nav.
saec 10 your country. instead o'
s,,,,ng fools YOU have been muruer'
ing the youth and genius tha' az
necessary TO make n people i've an
row grea. You ars fool yourself
Io,ne.. YOU began killing OH ,he
..,s,n,c., and hest OF your country
We, ,hrec generations ago. when ,he
-, n "a obsolete standards OF society
IA honor and orthodoxy were n"'
80, and bigotcd. You proved uhas
-, vol, nut your murderoua marx
upon my friend Kcrner-ho
chan I ever knew in my NE
Tho Fool.Kilier looked At '"e
vri,nly and closely.
.You'vc a queer jag said nc,
CAUTIOUSLY. "oh. yes; ! see VINO you
are now. You were sitting Win MN
a, tho table. Well, II I'm not ms
,ahsn / heard you call him a TOOL
too so,ry
~ did" said I. IT delight IN dolns
no IL Ia from envy. by a" VI,
standards that you know he Is tns
r,o., euregious and grandhoqusn'
"a GORGEOUS fool in all the worin.
rha,,s why YOU want 60 XII MIN
.swould you mind telling me VINO
o- VIVA, you think / aml' asked ,he
old man. - ,,.r
laughed boistercusiy ana thch
.,onped suddenly. for re"''"i,
hered that II would not do 10 pe sen
so hilarious in the company Oh noun
ing but brick wall. -,
"you are Jesse Holmes, the foor
<iller." l said. solcmnly, ana you
.rc going 10 kin my friend ksrner.
! aon,t know who rang you up pu'
!, you do kin him I'll see that you
get pinched for It. That Is. l auoeu.
sospairingly. "if can get n cop 70
400 YOU, They have poor eye ,o'
,,cr,a,a and think II would take
no whole force to round up myu
murderer" , ,v,.t.
10 81 must be going. You had PEI.
To- go home and sleep Il Off. GOOD
night" s,.r
fear for Kerner 10 sot,er anu
more pleading mood. ieaheu
AGAINST the gray mans sleeve ana
beeought him;
GOOD MIR. Fool.Killer. please don't
km little Kerner. why can't you
go back South and kill congressman
ana clay.eaters and let us aionef
why don't you go up on Firth ave
nle and XIII ullbipHai'' 'N
their money locked up and won't lie,
Young fools marry because one oil
,cm lives on the wrong streetY Come
and have u drink, Jesse. VIII you
never get onto your job?"
"Do YOU know this girl that your
friend has made himself a TOOL
about7" asked the Fool.Killer.
II have the honor said l, and
that's why call Kerner fool. He
is n fool because he has waited SO
long before marrying her. He Is a
fool because he has been waiting In
the hopes of getting the consent OF
some absurd Observation-Disclosures
parent or something Of the sort
Maybe" said the Footkiiicr--
.maybo I'll might have looked at II
differently. Would you mind going
back 10 tho restaurant and bringing
your friend Kerner here?"
"oh, what's tho use. JesseY' II