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PAGIgOL Y- ' THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA DAUGHTER % i ■ • i i : ■ a By Ethel Hneston WlfU flenrte* ff ft r T r,3.X. •JBmmjU iemlf—rtjfct oppotfifitfliM pOk, oft TBi torn oat for a sweep of gntttnTTre&Zh car line, near the university—end lam- } window*. ' r 1 ** her it It, heaps of lumber I Well, I | ^ The awkward square parlor and par- got to figuring. Ton could pull out a lor bedroom, comprising the left-hand Copyright by the Bobbs-Merrill Co. r— SYNOPSIS "" FART ONE CHAPTER L—At s merry party In the atudio apartment of Carter Blake, In New York, Jerry Harmer, Prudence's daughter, meete puene Allerton, wealthy idler. He becomes slightly In toxicated, and Jerry, resenting his as- eumptlon of familiarity, leaver the party- abruptly. CHAPTER II.—The story turns to Jerry's childhood and youth at her home la Dee Moires. Only child of a wealthy father, when ehe le twenty she feels the call of Art, and her parents, with some misgivings, agree to her go ing to New York to study. CHAPTER III.—In New York Jerry makes her home with a Mrs. Delaney i“lflmr), an actreaa, who, with The- reaa, a painter, occupies the house. Jerry takea an immediate liking to Theresa, and the two become fast friend*. , CHAPTER IV.—The friendship be tween Jerry and Theresa, who la ec centric but talented, grows. Jerry poses for Theresa's masterpiece, “The Ocean Rider.” Allerton calls on Jerry. The girl, recalling hie conduct at the studio party, refuses to see him. CHAPTER V.—At a hotel dinner Jerry aeeo Duarte and Is conscious of Ms admiration but refutes to change her attitude toward him. Jerry be comes convinced she hoe not the ability to become an artist and offers her ex pensive painting equipment to an al most penniless girl student, Crete Val. who cannot understand her generosity. A painful scene remits. CHAPTER VII—Returning from an evening of gayety, Jerry Is shocked at hearing from Mtmt that Theresa has killed herself. 8he also learns that Miml le Theresa's mother, and Is pained at the seeming frtvolousness of the older woman In the fare of the tragedy. The "present'' Theresa had promised Jerry p(*>\es to be her pic ture, "The Ocean Rider." Jerry Is deeply moved. After the funeral of her friend she decides to go home. CHAPTER VI —Jerry, with Theresa e help, convinces Greta of her good In tentions, and the two girls "make up." At a party Jerry again tees Duane, and will not recognise him. Theresa hints that Jerry should go home, and premises her a "present." PART TWO CHAPTER I.—At home Jerry Is en- thuelastloally welcomed by her ador ing parents. She wine their sympa thise with the pathetic stories of Tbo re ea and of Greta Val. CHAPTER II.—Unable to settle Into the routine of everyday life In her home city, Jerry Is dissatisfied. (CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK) CHAPTER III The Summer Paste* Prudence and Jerrold had finished (he soup and were starting with steak and potatoes when Jerry ran In that night, profusely apologetic for her tardiness. Her face was aflame with color, her starry ejea aglow behind the fringing lashes. “Awfully stupid of me to he so Inte,” she cried, tossing her gloves and hat upon a chair, and sliding deftly into her place at the table. “No soup for me, Katie, Rut be generous with the steak.*’ She'glowed around at her little family. “I’ve been having a heavenly time, mother—almost as ex citing ns teaching you to dance again. And that reminds me”—Jerry put her knife down and turned about, facing her father. ‘Til have to borrow some money, father—1 don’t know Just how much—a thousand or so. Will jou lend it to me?" Jerrold was working with n refrac tory bit of sirloin and did not answer upon the Instant. “I will,” proffered Prudence meekly. “It’s a\vfully good of you, mother, but I think I*d better get it from father. This la business, you see, and few walla, and build In a few wtndowa, and twitch things ground, a little bit and paint It, and—tort of fnsa it up. I figured out a hundred tblnga that ono could do to It Well, you can buy it for thirty-five hundred, spend WMy an other thirty-five hundred In making It look human—and i’ll bet yon could sell that place for Ten Thousand Dollars I” Jerrold was battering his ro& *Tm.«ure of It,” agreed Prudence. "“Buf why / bother?” asked Jerrold, after a little. ”Why go to all that trouble, and work, and expense—” Jerry was aroased at his stupidity. “Oh, a dozen reasons, father! In the first place, Iowa ought to be ashamed of Itself for permitting such a lot of these stupid, stiff, square houses, that no human being could possibly fit Into. Well, then, It would make a lovely and adorable little spot of a place tboMa now simply an eye-soro and a—a civic ulcer, as you might say.* And once*you get a real sweet, dainty home up there, It’s going to make the rest of the block ashamed of Itself, and first thing you know they’ll all be dolling up a little bit, to keep up with Lizzie. ’Sense the slang, mother—I’m so excited. .And besides”—Jerry’s voice rose vtrl- umphantly—“think of me! I’m going to make a couple of thousand dollars on that Job l” . Jerrold looked at her. “I thought you didn’t see any sense In making money you don’t need, "Just—■*’ “Oh, this Is a different thing! Tills Is—well, I’m doing something for the money I I’ve got a right to the money if I earn It. It’s—den t you see bow It Is, mother?” “Of course I do.” “And think of the poor old house,” Jerry finished pathetically. “After all these years of being a barn, and a blot on the landscape, Just think how It will feel to wake up some morning and find It Is pretty, and lovely, and that people ! are stopping In the street to exclaim | over it! Think how.you’d feel if you re a house.” errold considered that too much of s strain on a business Imagination like his, but he finally agreed that It was a sound practical proposition, and if Jerry had made up her mind to It, he thought It might turn out rather nicely all around. And he would go with her the very next day to look It over, and get figures on It, and if It seemed all she said, they would buy It and pitch In. “Buy It!" Jerry repeated, In great surprise. “It Is bought I y I bought It Je this afternoon. I gave him my five j hundred dollars, and 1 don't have to make another payment for three mouths, and I figure that by that time I ought to have it looking like pretty 1 much of a place. What I want the ' money from you for, Is to begin tear- J tilings down." ■Hi* . Wpen dinner was over, Jerry looked regretfully at the waning light. She should have liked to dash her father and mother out to look at the house right away, but It was too dark. So portion of the first floor, were thrown together to make a broad living room, with window seata'all the way aronnd and shelves for books and handsome bullt-ln cabinets. The staircase which had;so particularly annoyed her was completely thrown into the discard, and a very broad one erected in its stead, rising from a wide base in the rear of the living room and turning Itself about in some carious fashion Rnally to reach the top, where the changes were yet more drastic. One sleeping room was entirely done away with, to be transformed Into a pretty Informal sitting room or lounge at the head of the stairs, a novel and engag ing version of an exaggerated hall. Jerry felt she had never been so happy, and she had never worked so hard In all her Hfe. She encountered many obstacles. Indeed, many times she was appalled by them. It was hard for her to believe that human beings like herself coul^ be so grossly stupid as to misunderstand and misinterpret instructions so plainly, so lucidly, so painstakingly given. She was amazed tp learn that laborers, regardless of the delicacy of the work on which they were engaged, regardless of the Im perative need of haste, regardless of the honor that avqs theirs in assisting to beautify and ennoble and elevate an Inherent weakness da--the structure of their own home town, would drop a shovel on the stroke of the hour, and would even walk sturdily out on strike for a trivial detail they called a prin ciple, but which to her seemed a flag rant breach of contract. She was pained and bewildered to discover that her carefully matured plans, set down In consistent black and white, signed, agreed to, and included in.the financial estimates of the con tractors. turned out to be not at all as she had intended, and that she was obliged to replan, re figure and reallow In order to develop her cherished dreams to concrete fact And she was especially shocked and upset to find that there were things that a lather, in loyalty to his laboring brothers, would flatly decline to do, things a plumber would wash his hands of. things a plasterer would open!? sneer at, things a bricklayer would consider an insult to ills profession--and thus oblige her to deal with a totally new organization Of workfne-. to meet the exigencies of the case- And she found the cost of her work* mounted heavenward on soaring wings, and that her anticipated earnings sank with a corresponding" ratio. In spite of her natural easy generosity, she soon found herself nickering constantly over trifles, arguing with great heat, even with anger, trying to cut down a dollar or so here, grudgingly allowing a dol lar or so there, where she felt the ex penditure mast trot be denied. ’’Why, 1 har-e to argue over fifty cants, like any street peddler,” she said to her father plaintively, regret ting this new but necessary niggardli ness of hers. “Already they’ve forced she pulled out all the old House Beau- | up anj U p much farther than I In- tlfuls, and spread th«-.u over the din ing room table, and worked feverishly 1 with a pencil and a pad of paper, sketching out little nooks and corners as she Intended having them In her . finished product. “Lucky thing I studied Art, after i all,” she said brightly. “I never thought I’d find such a real practical use for all that nonsense.” Prudence hung over her with pleased solicitude, charmed with her avid in- | terest, agreeing with every word she uttered. “I may not make such a lot on this | one,” Jerry admitted later rather re- I luctnntly to Jerrold. "Because 1 don’t ! know how to figure down the expenses of It. But with the experience I get on this one. I’ll make a killing of the 1 next.” “What do you mean, ‘the next’? Is this the first of a series?” Jerry pulled herself up, surprised. 'That was a funny thing to say,” she admitted. "I hadn't thought of a next tended. Why, If I don’t stand np for my rights, I won't make five hundred dollars on th? whcl»» business I And the way I’ve worked over Itl” “Oh. 1 thought you did not care about making money,” he said. “1 thought you said there was no nobility In the simple earning of a dollar or so.” “In the bare earning of It—there Isn’t But this Is a different matter altogether.” Jerry was Joyously, mysteriously, passionately happy. She told herself quite often that she had entirely for gotten Duane Allerton, that she had entirely forgiven him for his vulgar in solence. And she worked harder than ever. Within a month she took an op tion on another wretched little hovel, four-roomed, moth-eaten, run down at the corners, a disgrace to Its street, and immediately began getting esti mates for its rebuilding, and making roseate sketches of Its future estate. Jerrold had taken her to his bank in the beginning of her business adven- course you can see that I must not It’s Impcsslble to be real businesslike wtth you. you’re such a lamb. Of course, father, I can g|v« you a—a mortgage on the ’Baby,’ ways called her pretty roaBsfeF ths "Baby." The first had been Just "Baby,” the Second was “Baby Junior,” and this latest and finest one of all was tenderly known as “The Third.” JT can give you a mortgage on her, but Fm going to. be awful busy, and I’ll have to use her Just the same.” “It might be InterestiBg to know What you’re going to do with It—the money, I mean,” her father put in gently, when she paused for breath. “Not that it’a any of my business, of "Oh, I don’t mind telling—not In the Ipast” Jerry was impulsively gener- oua. She pushed her piste back a little and launched Into a graphic ac count of the day’s excursion with Rae la quest of a honeymoon home. She described Dm "great grotesque barn of 0 thing” on Seventeenth street oppo site Good park la no^mUd manner, "Baa simply wouldn't give It e sec* aid, look," she finished. "But yon Snow, father. It looked pretty good to m Lots of '■*« J*!! one.” She went on brightly, “But of j tnring and obtained for her 'an audi ence with the president, Irvin YCeath- erby, a member of Jerrold’s club and his particular friend. Jerrold was ex tremely businesslike on this- occasion. “I know you have met my daughter, Jerry,” he said, “but I want you to get In touch with her in n professional way as well. She is going into busi ness for herself, and T am starting her off with a checking account of three thousand but should like for you to extend her an additional credit of two thousand If she needs it." Jerry explained her business Inter- oat with the impulsive eagerness of her . youth. And Irvin Weatherby r looked at her, nodded his approval, sighed dismally at her father. “Ain’t girls the darnedest, any more?" he asked plaintively. “That second daughter of mine, Emily— know what the little fool’s dolfig? Sec retary to a dairyman over in Chicago, twenty-five a week, and crazy about It Says she won’t be dependent on any man for a living, father or what-not. I hope to God she gets married, that*! all I’ve got to say.” Jerry laughed at his concern. “Look at Judge Daniel's daughter. Clerking ta the ten-cent! You ought to be glad you drew nothing worse than a secre tary—you might have ^ot a laundress or—an Art Trailer.” • Jerry still insisted, when she thought of It, that she would not work for the sake of acquiring money—she cottfA get that from her father. But she sat up nights figuring how she could cut down the expenses of her business. "That’s a different thing,” she al ways said. “The only way yon can waste all this experience, and if I can make a little on the first I can make heaps more on the second. So when you come to think of It, of course this is Just the beginning." As Jerrold had grown older, had learned to entrust his affairs to others in his employ, he hod gradually fallen Into a way of going steadily later to the office, so that now It was customary In the home to have breakfast at nine o’clock, after which Jerrold took his awn time about getting off. But on the morning after Jerry discovered her passion, he fouqd himself a tardy mem- ~ -b**- of the -houschdri. Jerry pounded on the bathroom door three times while he was shaving, urging him to make haste, and when he hurried down at last, to show her Indignantly that it then wanted ten minutes of the hour, she said: “Qh, I forgot to tell you. I told them we’d have breakfast at eight-thirty.” That was the beginning of Jerry’s most feverish month. She bargained with contractors, plumbers and build- era. She studied designs, she puzzled over matching colors. And In the end, the houea of dreams that evolved from her tender thought^ was built on most lines. Jerry was nothing tf The stiff steep steps leading up to her house from the •tihet had met with destruction first of all, and In their place developed a pretty stair that "went on the bias," as she said, angling up the green ter race In a most inviting manner, and then,drifted up to the veranda which was extend** around the honee to the ThTply she started work on tho sec ond cottage, Impatient to get It Into human, habitable shape before 'the coming wTOter. And in August she took an option, Indorsed by her father, on. a huge, six-storied roomlng-hoose for. women, the veriest skeleton of k bouse as Jerry saw houses, built with no more regard for esthetic satisfac tion than a freight train, but with ac commodations for two hundred women. Jerry worked feverishly over .that with a pencil and a pad of paper. If she rented two hundred rooms, at ah' average of thirty dollars a month, the earnings of the house would be six thousand a month. If she paid twelve thousand for the house, spent five thousand making It what she called fit to live In, allowed a running expense Of perhaps a thousand a month prior to making a sale outright—Jerry’s fig*, urea turned to aureate dreams. She told her father she would bet any amount he wished that she could sell the house It was^plng to be for twenty-five thousand dollars. Jerrold agreed with her. "Prudence said she knew right from the beginning thatv Jerry was right. So she bought the bouse, and In -her new absorption hi estimates, plan* and figures, fell Into a way of forgetting to go home for meals at proper hours, and lost a preposter ous amount of sleep In her efforts. Jerry had returned to Iowa id March. It was early in September when she had her .first letter from Rhoda La Faye. Rhoda was brisk and to the point, in correspondence as well as }n person. Her letter consisted of three paragraphs. The first told Jerry how very much she, Rhoda, loved her, missed her, admired her. The second told her that she, Rhoda, had Just been awarded tbe scholarship by the Academy for her picture, and was leaving the first of October for a year’s study and travel through the art cen ters of Europe. The third said that Duane Allerton. whom perhaps Jerry would remember, had lost all his money in a terrible crash In Wall Street, that the poor fellow was com pletely broke, down and out, and up against It. as recorded in the daily pa pers. that he did not' know where to turn for the next meal, and was said to be looking for a Job, but of course couldn't get one because he. did not know how to do anything. And wasn’t it a shame, a nice fellow like Duane? And now he would probably become a tramp and a bum like other nice young fellows who are left money they don’t know how to take care ot And with oceans and heaps of love— Rhode inclosed voluminous clippings . from tbe dally press of New York to substantiate the last two paragraphs SPEED DEKWILL AT DA. STATE PAID % TWO DAYS OF AUTOMO BILE RACES BOOKED FOR DIRT TRACK EVENTS. THURSDAY. OCTOBER IS, 1125. - HOW’S THIS? HALL’S CATARRH MKWCIJfH Will So what we claim for It—rid your system of Catarrh or Deafness caused by ^HALL’S CATARRH HKDICIIfR oon-- slsts of an Ointment which Quickly Relieves the catarrhal Inflammation. ^ ‘ the Internal Medicine, a Tonic, w acts through the Blood on the Mw Surfaces, tMifc«-*reatorlng normal “ISSd by druifists for over 40 Ye fTj. Cheney A Co.. Toledo. Ohio. YOU HAVE LOSS "run flown,” you will And w Tutt's Pills what you aoed.Thoy tone thoewjk •tomach, aid hulld up the oyrtom. NOTICE OF DISCHARGE known dirt-track speed filed my final report as administrat rix of the estate ox R. C. Kirkland de ceased, with - the Honorable John K. Snelling, Judge of Probate for Barn well County and that I will petitioa the said Court for an Order of Dis charge and letters dismis$ory on Mon day the i8th day of September, A. D. 1925. MRS JANIE KIRKLAND Sept. 1st. 1925. — 'Administratrix. 4t. .. - Savannah, Ga.—Track events at tb* sixth annual Georgia Fair, opening October 26, will include two days of t automobile racing, with stakes suffi- j Notice is hereby given that I have ciently attractive to draw some of tho world's best demons. The automobile speed program will be staged on Monday and Saturday afternoons during the six-day State Fair. October 26-31. Eight events are booked for each day’s program, wltl^ probably a dozen noted drivers com peting for the - purses which the man agement has offered the winners. Un doubtedly there will be thrills aplenty, for the demons taking part In the dizzy speed events will attempt to smash previous remarkable dirt-track records. ' -- - ■ Some of the fastest speed cars in nse in the -world today are expected to be used in the State Fair program, which will be held under the rules of the International Motor Contest As sociation. These cars, built especial ly for hair-raising driving, will whirl around tbe half-mile oval in such dar ing manner as to take the spectators to their feet—that is. if previous per formances are equalled, and in this year’s program there are plans for past stunts to be surpassed. Thrill* aplenty are positively to be had by those who attend these contests: In addition to the two days of mo tor car contests, there will be fast har ness races four afternoons In front of the grandstand. Some of the country'* leading horses will participate in the aontest* at the State Fair. MONEY TO LOAN Loam made same day application received. No Red Tap© HARLEY & BLA Attomeys-at-Law BamwelL S. C. More or Less. " farmer to young man from the cijy: “You want big pay for someone who has rtever done any farm work.” “Well I figure it will be worth more because it’ll take me longer.” Mixed Sweets. Friend to newlywed: “Did you have waffles with honey?” Newlywed: “No she was too tired to get up this morning.” KODAKERS! Send your films to us for develop ing. and printing. One day service. • Write for prices. , Lollar’s Studio ** • 1423 Main Street COLUMBIA SOUTH CAROLINA We sell Eastman Film* j BOXLEB FLUBS MILL CASTINGS AND SUPPLIES BELTING, PACKING AND LACING WOOD. IRON AND •T(Cl Bria* KNU1XK RKFAiK* in an«o fur qclrk woU LOMBARD IRON WORKS, AUGUSTA. GA. LONG TERM MONEY to LEND 6 per cent, interest on large amounts Private funds for small loans. teft, white the stiff square wtndowa tell how you’re getting along la by how AndJ^^OLMtoDig^oorinjCrMttwwa ^aachxnu make." •he Hastily Pulled Out a Pad of Paper and Wrote a Letter. of her letter. There were photographs of her prize-winning picture, of Rhoda herself, and columns In praise of her and of her work. Jerry ungratefully tossed' them to the floor. There were other and more sensational clippings recounting the financial troubles of young Duane Allerton and bis des perate plight, with a tragically pen ciled sketch showing him. down at the heels, trending the rails as he would doubtlecs be a. few years hence. Jerry rend every one of them. She was trem bling. She knew that was because she waz a tender-hearted girl, and even In her own bitterness of disillusionment, could feel but sorry for the misfortune of any human bting. The thought of a young man—any young man—alone la New York, not knowing where to turn for the next meal, where to lay his bead at night—Jerry had read of the miserable ones who sat on the benches in Central park all night—and winter coming on—It struck chill to her gentle heart She hastily pulled out a nad of pa per and wrote a letter. “My Dear Mr. Allerton: “A letter from my friend, Rhoda La Faye, Inclosing newspaper cUppinga, has Just Informed me of your disaster on Wall Street Rhoda says you are unable to get a position, and are with out funds. My, father Is an automo bile manufacturer and employs a great many men. If you care to come to the Middle West he will be glad to give ^ou some kind of position. I dd not know wbat kind of work It wlll^ be, nor how much you can earn, but at least it will take care of you until you can get on your feet again. ' If you have not the money to pay for your ticket wire me collect, and my father Will' •end It by telegraph. - ; “It Is only fair to warn you that you may have to work pretty hard, for white my father Is the kindest man in the jfforld. hfc believes that every man should earn his wages. “Sincerely yours. ^ ^GERALDINE HARMER.* (TO BE CONTINUED) BROWN & BUSH f LAWYERS BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. | “Say It With Rowers” — from — CLOUD’S GREEN HOUSES “Augusta’s Largest Green Houses” • Prompt Service Day and Night I Block North of Children’s Hospital 1423 Estes St. - Phone 3314 - Augusta, Ga. BEST PHARMACY, Agents, Barnwell Fanri Loans 6 per cent, large amounts. Town prop erty in Barnwell, residential and business, 7 per cent Loans procured promptly at lowest cost. Allendale, Bamberg and Barnwell Counties. THOMAS M. BOULWARE Attorney-at-law - Barnwell, S. C. PR HALL & COLE, INC. 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