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s I "What's the use of flndlnp fault with. Inie? Where'd you been If she hadn't married?" Lnlu said nothing. ^ ?? ? r.... r???4. .iMnnn/lA/1 i H ilttt 1UI S. Dt'll liUliKiaucu : ehrilly. She was enjoying It. Lulu said no more. After a l<-ng time: "You always was jealous cf iDle," , said Mrs. Bett, and went?to her bed. As soon as her mother's door had closetj, Lulu took the lamp from its bracket, stretching up her long body j and her long arms until her skirt lift- ; ed to show her really slim and pretty feet. Lulu's feet gave news of some other Lulu, but slightly incarnate. Perhaps, so ftir, Incarnate only In her feet and her long hair., She took the lam,) to the parlor and stood before the photograph of Xiniun Deacon, and looked her fill. She did not admire the photograph,. but she wanted to look at it. The house was still, there was no 7>ossibllIty of Inter- j ruption. The occasion became sensation, which she made no effort to quench. She held a rendezvous with ! she knew not what. In the early hours qLthe next afternoon with the sun shining across the threshold. Lulu was paring something at the kitchen table. Mrs. ueir was | asleep. ("I don't bl(ime you a 'bit, . mother," Lulu had jnald. as her mother named the Intention.) Ina was asleep, i (But Inn always took off the curse by ^ calling it her "sl-e?ta," long i.) Mo- j ? nona was playing* with a neighbor's 1 child?you heard their shrill yet love- j HB ly laughter as they obeyed the adult '! Bf law that motion Is pleasure. Di was | not there. A nmn came round the house and , a Stood tyipg a puppy to the porch post. ! r A long shadow fell through the west . doorway, the puppy whined. "Oh," said this man. "I didn't mean to arrive at the buck door, but since I'm here?" He lifted a suifnse to the porch, entered and filled the kitchen. "It's Inn, isn't it,w he snid. "I'm her sister," said Lulu, and understood that he \vns here at Jast. "Well, I'm Bert's brother," said Ninlan. "So I can come in, can't I?" np iiiri so. turned round like a dog before his chair and sat down heavily, forcing his f&gers through heavy, upspringing brown h:.lr. "Oh, yes," said Lulu. "I'll call Ina, I She's asleep." "Don't call her, then," said Ninlan. "Let's you and I get acquainted." He said It absei tly, hardly looking at her. "I'll get the pup a drink if you can spnre me a basin," he added. Lulu brought the basin and, while he went to the dog, she ran tiptoeing to the dining room china closet and brought a cut-glass tumbler, as heavy, as ungainly as a stone crock. This she filled with milk. "I thought maybe ..." said she, and offered It. "Thank you!" said Ninlan, and drained it. ".Making pies, as i me, he observed, and brought his chair nearer to the table. "I didn't know Ina had a sister," he went on. "I remember now Bert said he had two of her relatives?" Lulu flushed and glanced at him pitifully. "He has," she said. "It's my mother and me. But we do quitfe a good deal of the work." "I'll bet you do,' said Ninian, and did not perceive that anything had been violated. "What's your name?" | he bethought. , I She was In an immense and obscure excitement. Her manner wns serene, [ her hands as they went on with the peeling did not tremble; her replies were given with sufficient quiet. But she told him her name as one tells something of another and more remote creature. She felt as one may feel in catastrophe?no sharp understanding, but merely the sense that the thing cannot possibly be happening. "You folks expect me?" he went on. "Oh vea i" she cried, almost with vehemence. "Why, we've looked for you every day." "'Bee," he said, "how long have they been married?" Lulu Hushed as she answered: "luf- i teen years." "And a year before that the first one died?and two years they were married," he computed. "I never met that one. Then it's close to twenty years since Bert and I have seen each other." "How awful!" Lulu said, and flushed again. * "Why?" v "To be that long away from your folks." Suddenly she found herself facing this honestly, as if the immensity of j her present experience were clarifying her understanding: Would it be s<? awful to be away from Bert and Monona and I)i?yes, and Inu, for twenty years? "You think that?" lie laughed. "A man don't know what he's like till he's roamed around on his own." lie liked the sound of it. "Itonmed around "on ' Ids own," he repeated, and laughed again. "Course a woman don't know that"' I ght by D.APPLETON ANOCOMfANY "Why don't she?" naked Lulu. She balanced a pie on her hand and carved the crust. She was stupefied to hear her own question. "Why don't she?" "Maybe she does. Do von?" "Yes," said Lulu. "Good enough!" lie applauded noiselessly, with fat hands. His din mono ruiK spjirKieu, ins u\?'ii whiih teeth flushed. "I've had twenty years of galloping about," lie informed her, unable, aftel* all, to transfer his Interests from himself to her. "Where?" she asked, although she knew. "South America. Central America. Mexico. Panama." He searched his memory. "Colombo," he superadded. "My!" said I.ulu. She had probably never in her life had the least desire to see any of these places. She did not want to see them now. Hut she wanted passionately to meet her companion's mind. "It's the life," he Informed her. 1 "Must be," Lulu breathed. "I?* fvlml nr??l trnea If tin one IUVU, uiiu u u^. ? "Where you been mostly?" he asked at Inst. By tltis unprecedented Interest In her doings she was thrown Into a passion of excitement. "Hrre," she said. "I've always been here. Fifteen years with Inn. Before that we lived in the country." He listened sympathetically now, his head well on one side. He watched her veined hands pinch at the pies. "Poor old girl," he was thinking. "Is it Miss Lulu Bett?" he abruptly Inquired. "Or Mrs.?" Lulu flushed in anguish. "Miss," she said low, as one who confesses the extremity of failure. Lulu Flushed in Anguish. "Mlsa," She Said Low. Then, frorti unplumbed depths, anotlier Lulu abruptly spoke up. "From choice," she said. He shouted with laughter. "You bet! Oh, you bet!" he cried. "Never doubled it." lie made his palms taut and drummed on the table. "Say!" he said. Lulu glowed, qub'kened, smiled, ller face was another face. "Which kind of a Mr. nre you?" she heard herself ask, and his shoutings redoubled. Well! Who would have thought It of her? "Never give myself away," he assured her. "Say, by George, I never flint hnfnt*A f 'l'lmrn'u nA telling whether n man's married or not. by his name!" "It don't matter," said Lulu. "Why not?" "Not so many people want to know." Again he laughed. This laughter was intoxicating to Lulu. No one ever laughed at what she said save Herbert, who laughed at her. "(Jo it, old girl!" Xinian was thinking, but this did not appear. The child Monona now arrived, banging the front gate and hurling herself round the house on the board walk, catching the toe of one foot in the he?,l of the other and blundering forward, head down, her short, straight hair flapping over her face. She landed flat-fooled on the porch. She began to speak, using a ridiculous perversion of words, scarcely articulate, then in 'ogue in her group. And, "Whose dog?" she shrieked. Xinian looked over bis shoulder, liclcl out his hand, finished something that he was saying to Lulu. Monona came to him readily enough, staring, loose-lipped. "I'll bet I'm your uncle," said Xinian. Relationship b"ing her highest known form of romance, Monona was thrilled by this intelligence. ''(live us a kiss," said Xinian, finding in the plural some vague mitigation for some vague offense. Monona, looking silly, complied. And ' Iter uncle snlil, m.v stars, such a great Me tall girl?the.v would have to put a board on her head. "What's that?" inquired Monona. She hud spied his great diamond ring. "Tlds," said her uncle, "was brought to me by Santa f'laus. who keeps a jewelry shop in heaven." ' The precision and speed of his improvisation revealed him. lie had twenty other diamonds like this one. He kept them for those Sundays when the sun comes up in the west. Of; course?often! Some day he was going to melt a diamond and eat it. Then you sparkled all over in the dark, ever after. Another diamond he was going to plant. They say? He did it all gravely, nbsorbedly. About it he was as conscienceless as a savage. This was no fancy spun to pleasure a child. J ins was Uh't; lying, ior IIS own siiKi*. (To be Continued). 11 GOVERNOR BONHAM Interesting Sketch of One of South' Carolina's Noted Sons. I (The following Ik one of a series of j articles on the "Paladins of South ! Carolina" writon by James Henry I j lticc, Jr., for the Columtiia State.) My first sight of Governor Bonham 1 iwas early i:i 187S. He had come up j from Edgefield to visit his son, the! present Gen. Mi Hedge Lipscomb lionham, then ill with pneumonia. Always a striking figure, tall, straight, imposing. a born military man, he appeared to my hoy's mind as a Paladin of Romance; nor did that childish impression ever leave me; it abides to this hour, for it is essentially true. Governor Bonham's father, 1 am told, came to South Carolina from Maryland or Virginia, settling first at Jacksonboro, on the Edisto, a place , that 'had attained a certain prestige 1 because the legislature met there dur- | in<? tiio Revolution, owing to n laud- ' (able steal on the part of its members to , avoid being handed. The father later j moved to Mount Willing, tlien Edgefteld district, now cut off into Saluda county. When young Ronhnm became solicitor he prosecuted two white overseers ' for murdering negroes, always a popular diversion with that gentry in the : region and convicted tiiem, both being hanged. Governor Honham married a daugb- i ter of Colonel Nathan Griffin of E lge- ! field, who was the comfort and solace t of his life until its close. Married when she was in her sixteenth year, Mrs. IJonhnm was the j mother of a large family. Marked by ' simplicity and beauty, her character I like adamant graced every section and ' shed over her surroundings a radiance ' of purity and charm. Her taste was , true and exquisito. Fit mate for her I distinguished husband, she furnished J an example of what may be done In any situation by an uncompromising force of character, joined to womanly j sweetness. In a society which might net inaptly j be compared to the most brilliant cir- | cles in Paris, she herself'was the can- i tral figure. Plain in manner and with- j . ^ ,.u? : out a snaauw 01 ijiciciisi-, our ?ua i queen of home and .sovereign of tlie hearts around her. General (afterwards -judge) Samuel , McGowan, an admirer of Governor Bon- i ham almost to infatuation, thus spoke i of Mrs. Bonham to my father, on returning from a visit to the Bonham 1 |home in Edgefield. "She is a wonderful woman, und the) j governor calls her I'atie fher name was j Patience)" and, as the general spoke, :his eyes lighted with fire and cnthusl- j i asm, ' This was the impression produced on | lall who knew her and came within her 11 influence. Joining in her girlhood the i ! Baptist church to which her father's people belonged, she lived a consistent Christian and died in the faith wherein il 'she was born. j: J I can now see the erect form of the!: 'governor, as he sat at nicat, with Mrs. ! Bonham gracing the foot of the table. : I the cheer being enlivened with wit and I; i delightful converse. Never a harsh ' i | word, never a shade of difference there, jl [hut one unbroken charm that drew the i 'guest into that magic circle and niadeji him one of the family. There was j never more perfect understanding he- 11 tween man and wife. Their married : life was an idyll. After the hattlc of Hull Kun General I FUNEF ? ??7X\Tv"'? !***' " r*" ^ _.. < \. BEAUTIFUL EMILY EOILEAU I Mrs. Philip Boileau, the beaui painter, fears longer skirts will ad them to abandon bobbed tresses. I'.onham returned from Virginia to be- j come the governor of the stale and . ruled it during the momentous war yours. At this tirue everything was in his hands. There was practically no ; check. The finest tribute to Governor Bonhum's character tiiat could he paid j is tiro fact that he came out of office i without a dollar. What would not a modem, practical politician, a man of i I he people, have done with such an op- I portunlty? Tito thought is staggering. In 1878 Governor Ilonham was made one of three railroad commissioners, j the office being created largely for him. | .Members of the general assembly, then j composed of high-minded, honorable j men, alive to obligation, voted for the ' measure as a part return foi. distinguished and unselfish service to the slate in the time (J ^tress, S iind Genera! McGowan: ' I rnir,1 for it nnil uonld have voted for it if it had nurik the state of South Carolina to the bottom of the Mediterranean sea!" We did not always wear the livery of shame, the whit?*-h?t brand had n?>t then scared public' conscience. Governor Hon ham told me that ho did not study at college until he attended a commencement, which was ho!d before the goneral &ssripbly. The: eclat of the occasion the way in which young speakers acquitted themselves' and the plaudits of the audience so roused him that next session he buckled 1 down to work and was graduated with j second honor, the lost time preventing his attaining first honor. One memorable night, during my boyhood, it so happened that the gov crnor and I wore left alone at hie home, all the family bavin# '>ne out xrept Mrs. iionham, who was cnwaged with household afl'airs. With that famous twinkle in his eyes, the governor asked me: "S->n, do you read the Bible?" I told him that I did. "Well, then," he said, "you remember about Noah, do you not? He was x human and interesting person, for j lfter having been on", in the o! unonts j Kl days and -10 nights, when Noah struck dry land, ho p'antcd 'him a vineyard, prow gmpes and made some wine j in order to settle his nerves, whi? h had i been upset by his exposure. Was not this a very human thin# for Noah to lo?" So on, from man to man in the Bible, ! fit' went, winding tip with Simon Peter, whose human side made irresistible ippeal to the governor. Withal I was so charmed that sleep tAL OF ARTHUR GR1FFI1 Tr '* / ' . . >' ; ' . v.. ..?.. . . .ii? iir Griffith, President of tlie Irish F d thick with mourners. % JiSAPPROVES OF LONG SKIRTS. tiful widow of the noted portrait !d years to women's age and force was fogotti n anil it. \va3 midnight before the flight of time was noticed. Hooking hack at it, I marvel the more. Here was n man, who had served through .the Seminole war, the Mexican war and had scon service in the. Confi dci.it war, liun was war governor, a man who iiad lived more romance and adventure than present-day writers can invent, who yet could give a whole evening to a boy's entertainment and do it with such grace ar.d rase that the boy was swept away Into dreamland and fairyland. The versatility of his talent was infinite. There, were rea ping critics, of course, who called Oovernor Honham a politician. Nothing'was further from the truth. His one weakness was a love for his kind. He loved the common man. Were he in Washington, among ""''"'wit <>f rhr> finrfh the eommonest citizen of South Carolina would have been received oil equal footing by prince and ambassador, or they would have hod to answer to Governor Bonham on the spot. He would have 'fought for hi" fellow countryman, have le nt him his last dollar, merely because lie was a South Carolina citizen, and tht'efore equa^ to the best people on earth. Born a patrician, a patrician he remained to the end of his life. It is one of the sad aspects of present world upsetting, an almost hopeless aspect, that id the popular mind no man can lie acceptable unless he wallows in filth, looks with lenient eye on dishonesty, or bows himself before idols of popular fan; y. An inherent quality of aristocracy in its tender regard for the weak and lowly. The ward boss in a city, who steals a fortune in his upward career, would drive over his former associates were they in the road. A gentleman never did, nor could do, such an act. lie treats with courtesy and consideration even the servants who minister, to his wants. , Governor Bon ham never descended; he 'ifted others to his level. Between the two things there is an impassable gulf. One proceeds from a man of exalted mind, who loves his fellow man and seeks (o benefit him. The other proceeds font a heart essentially vile ami false, which plays men in order to use tiiern for self aggrandizement. Brilliant, courageous, true - to every trust, this groat hearted gentleman departed even as he canto, a child of light, strayed into the darkness of earth, and lighting the gloom by a life <>: devotion. He was. a true Paladin, a Knight of our Table Round. fH. reo State, passing through the , -v -'' f-;.*-->>:v;-.-?^.i tSfffifMM-% | FLIVVER BEATS BEAR Tin Lizzie Bucks Bruin and Finally Drives Him Away. A thrilling battle between a oig j black bear and a five-passenger flivver , in a lonely mountain roj.d, thirty miles , east of here, in which Hruin was forced to lower his colors and make a strategic retreat, was described by a party of oil and gas operators arriving here, says a Clarksburg, \V. Ya., dis-1 patch. -I Ernest Randolph of this city had | been on an inspection tour of some i leases in the mountains. Returning1 !atc at night, they were startled when their machine suddenly struck some i heavy object, buckled up and almost' came to a complete stop. Then they ' heard a growl and the headlights revealed a big black bear, his fur glis temng in tne ntrni. Angered, Bruin stood in the middle of the road, growling, and surveyed his antagonist. He had won the first round, .for Lizzie had one badly buttered feneder, a bent bumper and n twisted iieadlight, while lie was unhurt. The bear charged straight into the blinding headlights. Mr. Ilandolph, who was driving, decided to wind up the tight in this round. He stepped on the gas and headed the machine straight for Bruin, who was coming head on at full speed. it" It is customary in England to enter a boys name for Eton Colledge at; soon as he is born. All vacancies are now filled until 1932. KEEP COOL GUT ONE OF OUR REFRIGERATORS OR AN ICE P.OX. KEEP COOL BUY YOUR PORCH SHADE FROM US. KEEP COOL SEE US FOR YOUR LAWN FURNITURE. M. L. Ford J. C. Ford Edmund Ford M. L. FORD & SONS LICENSED UNDERTAKERS AND EMBALMERS CLOVER, t. C. See, Phone or Write to THOS. C. O'FARRELL FOR High Grade Monuments In Marble and Granite Plant on Eaet Liberty Street, Adjoinincj Roe* Hill Cemetery. TrunkZ Ham Wc take especial prid and Hand Bag trade. It ing. ({rowing? 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