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j Til GREEN FANCY 9 By GEORGE BARR 3 TVT^r.IITr.HEON j...;;;.::.:;;;;.::..... i; I Antlot of "GRAUSTARK.** "THE I HOLLOW OF HER HAND,** "THE PRINCE OF GRAUSTARK,** ETC Cnrndbt by OoddL Me?d Company, 1m. (Continued From Last Friday ? "My brother is unable to be with: jss tonight, Mr. Barnes," explained! iHrs. Collier. "Mr. O'Dowd may havei itold you that he is an invalid. Quite' 'rarely is he well enough to leave hisj . room. He has begged me to present j MiR apologies and regrets to you. Au- j >ther time, uerhaps, you will give him j exaltation that might have ruined ev-: rything! While he was trying to invent a pretext for drawing her apart from the j j others she calmly ordered Van Dyke [ to relinquish his place on the couch . Reside her to Barnes. ] "Come and sit beside mo, Mr. J ] Barnes," she called outT gayly. "l win j , "?t bite you or scratch you or harm j j&o in any way. Ask Mr. O'Dowd, j zed he will tell you that I am quite < tocile. I don't bite, do I, Mr. O'Dowd?" "You do," said O'Dowd promptly. , Tou do more than that. You devour, j Bedad I have to look in a mirror to , eonvince meself that you haven't swal- j Snored me whole. That's another way rf telling you, Barnes, that she'll ab- j ?rt> you entirely." Tor a few minutes she chided him j for his unseemly aversion. He was \ beginning to think that he had been i Mistaken in her motive, and that after ' all she was merely satisfying her van- < Ky. Suddenly, and as she smiled into ] Mb eyes, she said, lowering her voice < HgWly: "Do not appear surprised at any- \ tiling I may say to you. Smile as If j we were uttering the silliest nonsense. S? much depends upon it, Mr. Barnes." ! i CHAPTER X. i The Prisoner of Green Fancy, and the rd Lament of Peter the Chauffeur. 4 Be envied Mr. Rushcroft. The barn-1 \ ttormer would have risen to the occa-' < , stan without so much as the blinking i FARM 1 FOR 87 ACRES?12 miles McCormick Coui of W. D. Morrah, Pr 40 ACRES?About s ville, no improve I and timber. ! 79 3-4 ACRES?3 mil one settlement?-1 on place. Plenty running through i 227 1-2 ACRES?11 : ville. This is a sp! i.-- A 1 eny. A IUI ui saw pi 100 1-2 ACRES?12 ville. Good resid ings. Well atere( and timber. . Pr 189 1-4 ACRES?1( - ville. A splendi provements, aboi torn lands. Pi 541 ACRES?1-2 mi mile from Calho farm being oper; Lies well, is well abundance of wo Pri Can Arran ROBERT of an eye. Fie did his best, however, and, despite his eagerness, managed to come off fairly well. Anyone out of earshot would have thought that he was uttering some trifling inanity instead of these words: "Ton may trust me. I have suspected that something was wrong here." "It is impossible to explain now," she said. "These people are not my friends. I have no one to turn to in my predicament." "Yes, you have," he broke in, and laughed rather boisterously for him. He felt that they were bping watched in turn by every person in the room. ' Tonight?not an hour ago?I began to feel that I could call upon you for help. I began to relax. Something whispered to me that I was no longer utterly alone. Oh, you will never know what It is to have your heart lighten as mine?but I must control myself. We are not to waste words." "You have only to command me, Miss Cameron. No more than a dozen words are necessary. Tell me how I can be of service to you." "I shall try to communicate with you in some way?tomorrow. I beg of you, I implore you, do not desert mo. If I can only be sure that you will?" "You may depend on me, no matter what happens," said he. and, looking into her eyes, was hound forever. "I have been thinking," she said. "Yesterday I made the discovery that [?that I am actually a prisoner here, Mr. Barnes, I?Smile! Say something silly!" Together they laughed over the meaningless remark he made in response to her command. "I am constantly watched. If I penture outside the house I am almost Immediately joined by one of these men. You saw what happened yesterday. I am distracted." "I will ask the authorities to step In and?" "No! You are to do nothing of the tlnd. The authorities would never 3nd me if they came here to search." [It was hard for him to smile at that!) 'It must be some other way. If I x>uld steal out of the house?but that s impossible," she broke off with a ratch in her voice. "Suppose that I were to steal Into iie house," he said, a reckless light n his eyes. "Oh, you could never succeed!" "Well, I could try, couldn't I?" rhere was nothing funny in the renark, but they both feaned back and aughed heartily. ''Leave it to me. rell me where?" "The place is gharded day and night, rhe stealthlest burglar in the world rould not come within a stone's throw I LANDS ^IjEleeeee > from Abbeville, in ity, adjoining lands ice, $30.00 per acre. ix miles from Abbements, all in wood Price, $25 per acre. es from Abbeville? two horse farm open wood, and stream nlace. Price, $2,000.00. miles from Abbelendid piece of proptimber on this place ice, $17.50 per acre. ! miles from Abbeence and out buildi and plenty wood ice, $30.00 per acre. ) miles from Abbe d farm but no imit 50 or 60 acres botrice, $18.00 per acre. le from Hester, one un Falls. 15 horse ated on the place, watered and has an >od and timber, ce, $40.00 per acre. ige terms S. LINK of the house." "If It's as bad as all that, we cannot I afford to make* any slips. You think I you are In no Immediate peril?" "I am In no peril at all unless 1 ! bring it upon myself," she said signlflI cantly. j "Then a delay of a day or so will ! not matter," he said, frowning. I "Leave it to me. I will find a way." "Be careful!" De Soto came loungi Ing up behind them. "Forgive me for interrupting, but I j am under command from royal headj quarters. Peter, the king of chauf| feurs, sends in word thnt the car is in I an amiable mood and champing to be off. So seldom Is it in good hunior j that he?" '. "I'll be off at once," exclaimed 1 Barnes, arising. "By Jove, It Is half: past ten. I had no Idea?good night, Miss Cameron." j He pressed her hand reassuringly I and left her. She had arisen and was standing, | straight and slim by the corner of the 1 fireplace, a confident smile on her lips. ! "If you nre to he Ions in the neighi borhood, Mr. Barnes," said his hostess, "you must let us have you ajrain." "My stay is short, I fear. You have I only to reveal the faintest sign that I | may come, however, and I'll hop into | my seven-league boots before you can j utter Jack Robinson's Christian name. Good night, Mrs. Van Dyke. I have j you all to thank for a most delightful i evening." j The car was waiting at the back of the house. O'Dowd wnlked out with Barnes, their arms linked?as an a for ' mer occasion, Barnes recalled. j "I'll ride out to the gate with you," I said the Irishman. "It's a winding, j devious route the road takes through j the trees." They came in time, after many "hair i pins" and right angles, to the gate ! opening upon the highway. Peter got down from the seat to release the padlocked chain and throw open the gate. O'Dowd leaned closer to Barnes and ! lnroorort hl<j rnlpp. "See here, Barnes, Tm no fool, and for that reason I've got sense enough to know that you're not either. I don't know what's In your mind, nor what you're trying to get into It If It Isn't already there. But III say this to you, man to man: Don't let your imagination get the better of your common sense. That's all. Take the tip from me." "I am not Imagining anything, O'Dowd," said Barnes quietly. "What do you mean?" "I mean just what I say. I'm giving you the tip for selfish reasons. If you make a bally fool of yourself, Til have to see you through the worst of it? and it's a Job I don't relish. Ponder that, will ye, on the way home?' Barnes did ponder It on the way home. There was but one construction to put upon the remark: It was O'Dowd's way of letting him know that he could be depended upon for support if the worst came to pass. O'Dowd evidently had not been de| celved by the acting that masked the conversation on the conch. He knew that Miss Cameron had appealed to Barnes, and that the latter had promised to do everything In hlfl power to help her. Suspecting that this was the situation, and doubtless sacrificing his own private Interests, he had uttered the ! vague but timely warning to Barnes. The significance of this warning grew under reflection. Barnes was not slow to appreciate the position In which O'Dowd voluntarily placed hlmsfelf. A word or a sign from him would be sufficient to bring disaster upon the Irishman who had risked his own safety In a few Irretrievable words. The more he thought of It, the more fully convinced was he that there was nothing to fear from O'Dowd. Peter drove slowly, carefully over the road down the mountain. Responding to a sudden Impulse, Barnes lowered one of the side seats In the tonneau and moved closer to the driver. "How long have yon been driving for Mr. Curtis 7" "Ever since he come up here, more'n two years ago. Guess I'm going to get the G. B. 'fore long, though. Seems that he's gettln' a new car an' wants an expert machinist to take hold of It from the start I was good enough to fiddle around with this second-hand pile o' junk an' the one he had last year, but I ain't Qualified to handle this here machine he's expectln', so he says. I guess they's been some Influence used against me, If the truth was known. This new sec'etary he's got caln't stummlck me." J "Why don't you see Mr. Curtis and demand?" j "See him?" snorted Peter. "Might as well try to see Napoleon Bonyparte. Didn't you know he was a sick man?" "Certainly. But he Isn't so 111 that he can't attend to business, Is he?" "He sure Is. Paryllsed, they say." "Whnt has Mr. Loeb against you. If I may ask?" "Well, It's lllce this. I ain't In the habit o' beln' ordered aroan' as If I I was jest nobody at all, so when he starts In to cuss me abont somethln' a week or so ago, I ups and tells him I'll smash his head If he don't take It back. He takes it back all right, but the first thing I know I get a calldown from Mrs. Collier. Course 1 couldn't tell her what I told the sheeny, seeln' as she's a female, so I took It like a lamb. Then they gits a I feller up here to wash the car. My j gosh, mister, the durned ole rattle-trap i ain't wuth a bucket o' water all told. I So I sends word In to Mr. Curtis that ; if she has to be washed, I'll wash her. ! Then's when I hears about the .new j car. Next day Mrs. Collier send^ fer i me an' I go Id. She says she guesses . shell try the new washer_on the new machine when It comes, an' if I keer to J stay on as washer In his place she'll be glad to have me. I says I'd like to ' have a word with Mr. Curtis, if she on' chn coT7a \fr OnrfJa ? UUII L 1U1I1U, uu OUV * ** VMA w?w I Qin't able to see no one. So I guess I'm goin' to be let out." An Idea was taking root In Barnes' b?ain, but it was too soon to consider it fixed. * "You say Mr. Loeb Is new at his Job?" "Well, he's new up^here. Mr. Curtis was down to New York all last winter beln' treated, you see. He didn't come up here till about five weeks ago. Loeb was workin' fer him most of the winter, gittin' up a book er somethln', I hear. ?Mr. Curtis' mind is i all right, I guess, even if his body I ain't." '1 see. Mr. Loeb came up with him from New York." "Kerect. Him and Mr. O'Dowd and Mr. De Soto brought him up 'bout the 1 last o' March. They was up here visitin' last spring an' the fall before. Mr. Curtis is very fond of both of 'em." "It seems to me that I have heard that his son married O'Dowd's sister." * "That's right. She's a widder now. Her husband was killed in the war I between Turkey an' them other coun- 1 I tries four er five years ago." ] "Really?" "Yep. Him and Mr. O'Dowd?his i own brother-in-law, y' know?was 1 figlitin' on the side of the Boolgarians < and ro"iig Ashley Curtis was killed." \ "Was this son Mr. Curtis' only ] ':hlld?" (To Be Continued , : ] POLICE TRAIL BOMB PLOTTERS WHO TRY TO i TERRORIZE NATION i < Record of Explosions. 1 Washington: Home of A. Mitchell i i I ?)ONT folk the rut of 1 out along the table fashions i i i i: The topic of 1 discussed wi light materia flawless fit of Our stock is e i tion. Par Palmer .attorney general, wrecked Dy a bomb; unidentified man killed. New York: Home of Judge Chares C. Nott, Jr., bombed; special poiceman killed. Cleveland: Home of Mayor Harry L Davis, damaged by bomb. Philadelphia: Rectory of Catholic Dhurch of Our Lady of Victory and lome of Louis Jagielki, a jeweler, jombed. Two under arrest. Pittsburg: Two bomb explosions. Six houses damaged. Boston: Homes of the State Rep- ! esentative Leland W. Powers in tfewtonville and Justice Albert P. rlayden, in Roxbury, damaged by inmhs. Patterson, N. J.: Two-family house vrecked by bomb. Washington, June 3.?Washington Dolice inspectors today believed they lad identified the man who was jlown to pieces last night in an effort ;o kill Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer with a bomb as an anarchist >f Philadelphia. They also said they were confident the nation-wide plot igainst the lives of government ofkials and prominent business men lad been laid in that city. A bloodstained conductor's identification check, found in front of Mr. Palmer's residence early today, showed that the anarchist arrived in JVashington at 10:30 o'clock last night from Philadelphia. He went iirectly from the union station to :he Palmer home and only a few minltes before the explosion he was Step Out! \W dip rownatn / ?? ?' ? - leavy, styleless c : highway of cle i. Wear Keeo-Kool The.National Summer. Suiifor-Mtn Topical clothes is thout mention c Js, the suave "KEEP-KOOL' ;ndless in range ker & Re< i ' seen alighting from a street car a few blocks away by C. S. Briggs, of Marion, S. C. t ? The police would not reveal the ~ ? v.?x ii *?ti- . iuciititjr vi i/iic uiixii, uut tney xcii/ \ confident their investigation since, last midnight would lead quickly to the apprehension of his associates who, they believe, were responsible for the May day bomb plot in which i ' many infernal machines addressed to government officials, members of congress and business men were placed in the mails. Attorney General Palmer did not go to his office today and his aasooiates refused to disclose where he and Mrs. Palmer, who left their home after the explosion last night, had taken up their new residence. All available men of the bureau of investigation have been assigned to the case. ' V >*V' POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS. I hereby announce myself a candidate for Treasurer of Abbeville County and will abide the result of the Democratic primary election. . J.E.JONES. ' : We wish to announce GEORGE C. DOUGLAS as a candidate for the office of Treasurer of ' Abbeville County, in the approaching primary election. Mr. Douglas agrees to abide I by the rules of the Democratic Prim- K ary. Friends. I ^ I tations at Press and Banner Co. S ID \ this Summer I lothes. Stride IR never rightly I >f the superb I designs, the I np and satisfac ese m