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I know you have it ! tracked you and your friend here Juwt to get it. You will band it now to me." "I will do nothing of tht? kind/' said Annette- 8he drew a Long breath and ecreamed aloud. "Useless," ho said. "There is no one within range of your beautiful eoft voice." lie look out IiIh watch. "Let me remind yoy, ?enorlta," he re marked, "that my ancdbtors were of the inquisition. 1 will give you five minutes to make up your mind. 1 Hhhll leave you alone, you may make up your mind by yourself/-- If at the end of Ave minute* you have failed, you must take the consequence." Inez < HHtro'H handbag wuh lying On a dressing table; to her It wait the hand bag of Irene Courtier. Hhe Opened It and drew forth a card en graved with tho latter nftfno, together with a little silver pencil, Hhe wrote haHtlly upon the card;. "1 am Annette llington, I am con fined in a second-story room in the rear of this building the barred room where you see tho handkerchief. Ix>ok up." Hhe thrust jthe card between the bars and dropped It. It fluttered down beyond her Bight. Then Hhe tied her handkerchief to the lower end of one of the barn. Ah hIio finished Hhe heard a rattle at the lock of the door and Hernandez, entered the room. CHAPTER XX. Cornered. Tho ensign in the bow of the naval launch scanned the coast line with care. "This Crookwd Crag hotel is an un canny place," he said. "They've prob ably got lookoutH posted everywhere. We'd better land half a mile away and take them from the rear." His brother ensign grunted. "Dol lars to doughnuts we're on a wild goose chase," he nald. "If there's any place that covers up Its tracks it's Crooked ('rag. You're right though, we'll tako them from tho rear" They landed half a mile up shore and as quietly as possible tramped for a mile through underbrush in the general direction of the granito rock which stood out clear abdve^ the tree tops. They halted on thg edge of the clearing, from the centfer of whlfch rose tho botol itself. "Form a circle," said the ensign, "surround the place, and all cloBe in at onco. No matter what happens, don't lot anybody got away." Ono of the ensign's beckoned to Neal. "Come with mo," he sdid, "you know the man wo'ro after and can de scribe him. I'll neod you and abcut throo more besides." With rhythmic, ringing stops, the lit tle squad croHsed the clearing, darted up the rustic stalrcaHo and tramped aerdss the veranda of the botodl.*> 9ol-$, inger met them at tho door. "Yos," gentlemen," ho teald, bowing, "what can I sorvo you?" ' Merve us aottting,' saiu me ensign sternly. "We ara looking for a smug gler that you have got. He is here. We know he It here and we are go j lug to get him." Meantime Hernandez bad entered the room where he had confined An nette. Once more he locked the door behind him and without a word crossed (be floor toward her. Annette had , made up her mind Just what to do. 1 She must flRlit with a woman's weap on# and she had a woman'* weapon ? a bat pin. Hhe waited until Hernandez was within three feet of her, then ?be rained the weapon and sunk It deep Into his outstretched arm.. HIm face white with anger, Hernan dez caught her roughly by the throat. Hut he had forgotten something ? for gotten that she had Inherite'd tremen dous strength. Young and graceful aa she wait, her every muscle was well trained. With one strong sweep of her arm, she threw him off and then plunged into a light, the flght of a wildcat against a wolf. She tore at his face and head, clutching for hit eyes, trying for a hold' upon his ears. Time and agaiu she repulsed him, then with one wild clutch she caught j liim by the hair and held him with a strong grip of her right hand while she pummeled his face wltb a small but energetic left. | Hernandez retreated to the door, un locked It and gave vent to a low jrhls tle. His whistle was Immediately an swered. Ponto entered the room, dragging with him the huge brute. j "Seize her." he demanded of the brute. The girl stared at this huge figure ' with terror in her eyos. The brute started across the floor, and then whimpering, with hands banging at his sides, turned away from her. Hernandez nodded to his assistant, Ponto. Ponto drew his ever ready whip and lashed the brute into Obedience. The huge man, still whim pering, caught the girl In his arms and held her. Hernandez, without the slightest compunction, tore open Annette's waist. "You vixen," said Hernandez be tween his teeth, "I will get that map If I have to flay you." Meantime, one by one, on the lower floor, the ensign's cohorts had strug gled in. Each saluted as he came. , "It's no use," they whispered to the ensign, "Sollnger's got us beat. We can't And anything." Neal was the last to come. He had made a thorough search. A seaman ran lightly up the stops into the ofllce and s&luted. "Bog yoyr pardon, sir," he said. "I found this in a crevice in a rock be hind the house. It looks bad, sir." He handed over tho message which ?\An:iott?v aud scrawled upon tho card of Ireno Courtier ? tho message that ?ho wus confined In an upper room. the room with the barred window# In the rear. "The handkerchief Is tied there, air/' exclaimed the teaman, "and I feel euro that we can lo<^te the room." The ensign read the card and hand ed It to Neal. Neal toucbedkhl* hat. "May I- do I have to wait for or der*, air?" be cried, "No." roared the ensign. They reached the third floor corri dor and derted Into an open room and thruat heads out of an unbarred win dow. The bailor' plucked Neal by the aleeve. "There," be whiapered. "It's next door to thla. The two windows, the ftara and the handkerchief tied on. Come on." They darted out once more into, the corridor. There was^o door, no opon ing; but this mattered not to Neal. He stepped to the far end of the hall and aelted a Are ax, which hung "You 8h?ll Visit Me at My Villa at Newport." there In a rack. Then he darted back and with ringing strokes began hiB as sault upon the wall. Suddenly from within he heard a woman's sttiiek. "Neal," cried Annette's voice and it was the voice of a glrUboside herself with agony and fear. "Neal, it is I ? Annette. Come, for God's sake, come." i * * Neal delivered one mor0 . ftriUaillg blow, then he motioned to his fellowB, "Come, boys," he said, "there's not a second to lose. This thing UVp got to go." \ The corridor was fairly broad. The little squad of sailors withdrew and huddled against the opposite wall. Then" as one man this human batter ing ram lunged and lurched across the hall and propelled Itself againtNr the already splintered partition. With a crash the secret door went down, and with a bound Neal was in the room. Annette, her dress torn, her hair disheveled, struggled with the brute In one corner of >onto naa "releaser /mr. wim Voouuu he crossed the room^nd jerked wide the fireplace, disclosing a secret exit. He crawled through the aperture and disappeared. Hernandez, stupefied with astonish ment, yet had an qipresslon of tri umph and vice upon his face. Fie was thrusting a yellow parchment into his pocket. Annette with a final struggle slipped from the brute's grasp aud darted toward Hernandez, calling to Neal. "Neal. Neal," she cried, "he's got my father's map." With one spring Neal was upon Her nandez. He snatched back the hand with which lleruandez was pushing the map into his pocket. The map came oi*t torn a n<f, crumpled. An* J nette, bealde herself, snatched at it with both hands. Neal grabbed at it and also got a hold. Hernandez still held it in hie iron clutch. All this took place in an Instant. In another inBtant the three had fallen back, each in a separate dlrectipn. The map had parted and oach clutched ,a piece of it. Hernandoz, with an oath, turned and dived into the secret passageway. Five minutes later the fastest boat along the shore ? the boat which Inez Castro called her own? was chug chugging out to soa with three fig ures huddled in her bottom ? the brute and POnto and their chief, Hernaudez. Thoy hud wrigglod somehow through the surrounding circle, had slg-zagged in and out of shots? had made good their escape. When the chase waB over Neal re turned and half apologized to Inez. "8orry, Miss Courtier,'* he said, "but they've made a*way with your fast ma torboat. We couldn't' get to ours in time. We landed half a mile or so Just up the shjre. How do you feel?" "Better," exclaimed Inez. "It's the excitement, the noise, the pistol shots ? they have made mo well again." Neal thruBt his hand into his pocket and pulled forth a crumpled piece Of parchment. "What did you get, Annette?" he in quired. Annette thrust her hand into her dress and pulled forth her own tat tered portion, tnez, watching, bent her head to listen. Neal and Annette Bpread their two pieces, Of the map out upon the little stand. Between them they had the bulk of the lower portion of the map. It was a blank surface, jfeave for three things? a little tall of the-island sticking dowi} and the -words "longitude" and "latitude," and noth ing else. Annette laughed in glee. "We've got everything we want," she Bald to Noal. "What Is here is Important. Whs* the man with the saber put upon h'a face has got is of no use to him cr- us. We beat him to it, Neal, wo be it him to it." O v r en tHe boa Inez, in her crouch ing attitude, still listened, wondering (TO BE CONTINUED.) UHi CHOI' OF PKAl flt-rw Hundred A rrm I'laiH.dWy Fd TE *<*??. Sr.. Ne*r "t A Floreiwv h|M'<1uI to the NpWB'lmfl] ( >nrlrr, daNd Sept. .'10., M>? ( ?m of t In* ll?o*t Interesting sights ly ln> seeh 4)ii a faun htfreaboutM in tt}at ijh flu* farms of Mr. Frank M. Rogers' Sr., In Hack Swamp Township, where at this time lib has heguij tin- harvest ing of bis large iwanut cr<Sp, mention of which wan made in these) news <-ol mutts some weeks ago. ? Mr. Rogers planted thin year 800 acres of Spanish and Virginia iwanuts, which wan noth ing more than ail experj^aent, for noth ing like this great acreage has over before boon planted in South Carolina. It in Haiti that the next largest acre ago planted hy any one farmer Jn this state is near Rlshopvllle, WhJS Hoiue 7ft or 100 acres arc planted. g Mr. Rogers began about toff days ago gathering this new crop, that is In thin nect ion, and one who has neyev seen the |H?anut crop groWn or/ litt r vested would he amazed were thpy to pass tftong the highway and view the result. Hundreds of hands, negro men, women and children, are employed in ploughing, lifting the vines with their tubers, stacking and curing them, mak- . Ing ready for picking and separating. The vines with tlnflr tubers are stacked in the field on poles which have boen erected with an arrant*;, ment at the bottom about a foot {roanA the ground for ventilation. ^ These poles are placed about fifty yards apart and In rows the length of the wife There ure several thousand pole** or'1! stacks, which resemble hay stacks, ottt'' ly they are not so high or so bulky, and It Certainly is Interesting to iwkh along and take a view of Mr. Rogers will net any wl^rrt ijrgn^ 1)0 to 120 bushels of |x*anuts to the acre, and It Is stated that he will be able to dlspoeie of his entire crop ut 90 cents to $1 the bushel. ~ It will be remembered that Mr. Ho gers was the pioneer tobacco planter In this state, which crop Is the out come of the News and Courier's efforts some twenty odd years ago and which has proven to |)e a great big crop in South Carolina. * Mr. Rogers planted no cotton on his plantations this year at all, and by hls not doing so he will no doubt be much benefitted.'' L. I j. Rollck, chief of police off (Jeorgetown, died suddenly In Colum bia Sunday last. Kv?\v. mail < ;trrt*t ou J>urg It. F. I> No H, wiu?*h wtuMi hi* m<>u>K?rW> from uihUt hlw In h ?aiul ..ituis from that eU> . jg Cur load of Ford c*r?& iiom Saturday evening Monday. Aonther car U expected shortly. Ford parts in stock, andFi repair station opened. Call to see us. KERSHAW MOTOR CO, , ... Camden, S. C, 1 |ATTENTION!| Before you buy your Oat*, com and hw me. I have sample* Ue<l Kust-proof, Appier, Bencro Mkfl Fulguiu, also Southern AJfcrussl Bye, I>eei>'K Prolific km ^0W*ii Wheat at the lowest prlce^| have been able t<? .secur^-H bftve good need for sale, I wumm like to handle them. Hold l.lftfl MfWaels Oats, Rye and Wheat oil l(5J(tarday, Oct. 2nd. I am Kellloil every day the things that the !ner uses and am buying the thinpj but be wants. The fertliiaer market has been ex ?ga<UuKly active uud still Is. havei quotations from, every port the South on materials. Can give! you prices on Peruvian Guauo, 16| per cent Nitrate of Soda, C. Meal, and Tankage, phospho ? Plaster and Carbonate of Lime. ? ? A call 011 me will post you upoafl conditions that are vital to the la-fl terest of the farmer. Wantedr-10 cars of White 0? tlO. per 1,000, round measure. Pup tft'iilars furnished at my office. E. D. BOSTICK Ofllce hours 10 a. m. to 4 p. a. Room 7, Man Bldg. Phaoe it '? ' - ?.vV ?? ? " . .|_4<?4fe. &dg i I II ?' . ; yA Positively The Largest Attraction Ever in i JOHN C. FISHER OFFERS The ? :? ?*. ?" fyr ' -v \ ' ' : rSSSa . i| m The Original Globe Theatre, New York <S?|ihJ>anyi WORLD'S GREATEST SINGING AND DANCING CHORUS = " AND =^=^=^==5^^= A BIG AND STUNN PRICES, (Lower Floor) $1.50 and $1.00 ? Two Rows in Bakony Reserved at $1.00;