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•, ' V'? ( THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA By Ethel Hueston WNUB*rvle« ^ ■ uaaaaaaauajE«j8gjMM| Copyright i>y the Bobbe-Merrlll Co. Synopsis PART ONE CHAPTKR I.—At a merry party 1b the studio apartment of Carter Blake, In New York, Jerry Harmer, Prudence's daughter, meets Duane Allerton, -wealthy Idler. He becomes slightly In toxicated, and Jerry, resenting his as sumption of familiarity, leaves the party abruptly. CHAPTKR II—The story turns to Jerry's childhood and youth at her heme In Den Moires. Only child of a wealthy father, when she Is twenty she fsels 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 <**Mlml”), an actress, who, with The resa. a painter, occupies the house Jerry takes an Immediate liking to Theresa, and the two become fast friends. CHAPTER IV—The friendship be tween Je|ry and Thereea, who le ec centric but talented, grows. Jerry pokea 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 sees Duane and Is conscious of his admiration hut refuses to change her attitude toward him Jerry be- romes convinced she has not the ability to become an artist and offers her ex pensive painting equipment to an al most penniless girl student, rtrets Val, who cannot understand her generosity. A painful acene results. CHAPTKR VII.—Returning' from an evening of gaycty. Jerry is shocked at hearing from Mlml that Thereaa has killed heraelf. She also tearna that Mlml Is Theresas mother, and ts pained at the seeming frlvolousuesa of the older woman In the face of the tragedy. The "present'' Thereaa had promised Jerry pgpves to be her pic ture, "The Ocean Rider” Jerry ts deeply moved After the funeral of hsr friend she decides to go horns. CHAPTKR VI —Jerry, w ith Theresa t help, convinces (ireia of her good In- tentlwns, acd the two Kiris "make up" At a party Jerry aaMtu sees Duane, and will not recognise him Theresa hints that Jerry should go horns, and promises her a "present " PART TWO CHAPTER I.—At home Jerry ts en thusiastically wettnined by her ador ing parents Hhe wins their sympa thies with the pathetic stories of The- 'resa and of Greta Yal CHAPTER II—Enable lo settle Into tha routine of everyday life in her home city. Jerry l» dissatisfied CHAPTER III —The sameness.” the lark of Individuality In the houses In the city, has shocked Jerry s artistic Instincts and given her an Idea. She determlnea to create a standard nt beauty In house bulldlrig. borrowing money from her father, Jerrold Har mer, to do It, and Incidentally deter mining that the work ahall he her “ca reer" A letter from Khoda I.a Kaye Informs her that Duane Atlertom has lost hts fortune In Wall Street'fend It practically destitute In pity and sym pathy she write* Allerton, offering him a position In her father's automobile factory. CHAPTER IV.—Alierton applies to Jerry'a father £or a position, partly ex plaining the situation, which Mr. Har mer. In a measure, underaUinds lie Is rather favorably tmore.-iaed with Aller ton. and after a h:ief Interview tells him to go and see "Prudence." persona) aversion. But when* he liked, it was with a quick unerring Instinct which had never betrajed her trust. She rejoiced that she felt tbl» liking for the unfortunate young knight er* rant, wlro - had come to the Middle West on such an absurd, boyish queer. Jerry might fool her father, might amaze and bewilder even one as skep tical as Dunne, but Prudence saw through every little flaw in her armor, saw what Iny beneath her stubborn re- KlKtnnre and her eager Impulse, both springing as they/did from the same •motion. ■ '' • • • ' . ; She found herself spologtzlng for her 'daughter. “You must really exciwe Jerry If sometimes tdie seems a little self-willed, almost strong-headed, her father says. I can’t imagine where she got so much Wft&one. I’ in v m*>' easy about everything, and her father is xfnx In the hands of any due who-tries to wheedle him, but Jerry has a ter rible mind once she gets ft made tip.” Duane found himself thinking less of Jerry than of Prudence, rather, thinking through Prudence to Jerry again. Ills impression of that lovely though willful young woman had to undergo a swift transformation now that he saw Prudence. She explained everything lie had not understood be fore. He found her a rational account ing for the moods of a maddening maiden. Prudence did not ask questions. She j’lst talked, laughing with him, at New York, at Jerry, at the Middle West, snd at his curious obedience to the caprice of her always capricious d^ugh- t«r. An then she told her tmshnntl that she hoped he would he very tactful that night when Jetry rnme liome. so that things might work themselves out to a neat conclusion without interfer ence on his part. “Tact? What do you mean tact?” he demanded. "Tact—you know what tact Is. don’t you? It means, say nothing and be lieve everything you hear,” she ex plained sweepingly. “It means, don’t say a word to Jerry about the young man, don't so much ns breathe his name—and If she mentions him of her own accord, believe everything she says even If you know she’s making It up word for word as she goes along.” Jerrold, who had always found her counsel good, Consented to follow the dictates of tact ns she portrayed It In his dealing with Jerry. And so all during dinner they talked with pns- alonate concentration of a thousand thlnga that on this night Interested them not In the least—of .Terry’s houses and her struggles with labor problems, of Jerrold's business, and Prudence’s lnn<ieent pursuits, of poli tics. wars and religion, but not one of the three raised a .yoke on the subject of Dunne Allerton. After dinner they snt down for s practice game of three-handed bridge, but when Prudence, playing spades, revoked twice In hot succession with out a word of protest from iter oppo nents. she put Iter cards on the table. “You’re not paying attention.” she accused them, “flow can you expect to teach me to play bridge unless you watch me? I trumped hearts twice, ami here I have two hearts In my hand, and now I don't know yjhnt to do with them.” .Tern laughed. “Pretend they’re trumps. Anything Is fair If you can gel away with It,” she said Indiffer ently. And then her father, abandoning the admonitions of Prudence and the guidance of tact, turned on her In dea pe ration. “See here. Jerry, I’ll stand for a lot —and hea\en knows I’ve had to—but when It comes to bringing a strange young man out here from New York and dull'[dug him down on me without warning, and \wushing your hands of him In cold blood—well, you can’t do It ” Jerry stood up. She looked her fa ther straight In the face, but her vole* for a (CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK) V I CHAPTER V Jerry’s Mother Duane’s plaintive annmituciuent at the hospitable door of the Harmer home found echo in-a soft pen! of sym pathetic laughter from within, •md she came herself to receive him. Prudence, both hands outstretched in welcome. “I’m Prudence," she said. “I am Jerry’s mother. Come right 4n, won’t you? It was Just like my husband to send you to me in some suen crazy fashion.” Dunne felt n pleasant, eurhms quiet come over him ns he lonkiMl ut her. Prudence! Jerry had thought It was falling In love like—Prudence. Jerrold hnd sent him Is triumph to—Prudence. This whs Prudence. In spite of the extreme slenderness of her figure, in #piTe of the delh.ite pallor ot her creamy skin and the Taint suggestion of silver in the soft browjj hair, tltere w nothing of frailly about' her, ’rather a sort of youthful, undying buoyancy. Duane loved the humorous droop of her sensitive lips, the humorous light of interest in her bright eyes. Prudence laughed, bolding his hand eompMiiionahly in hers, as she drew "Wm Into the wide lovely room, where She motioned him lightly to an easy chair, and then tucked herseif cozlly into one corner of another, far too ( wide for her, leanliy; comfortably o jr the upholstered arm in his direction, could, have wept aloud over him. yet she liked him. Prudence, with rigid training of her Methodist an- V Still stobtly affirmed that ahe • dislike to any human be lt she was positively without Jerry Steed Up, Looked Her Father Strafght in the Face, Her Voice Was Very Gentle. “Why Can’t IP* Waa All the Said. was very gentle. “Why can’t ir waa ell she sai<V Jerrold looked at Prudence for an- slatance. Prudence was patiently counting the superfluous hearts. After all, what was there to sayf Why couldn’t she? Obviously, she had. And that was the end of it The next morning Jerrold called Duane Into the office. “Do yon want a position?” be asked, still booefnl Amt the '“Oil, ahaoiately., I came on purpoee.” Jerrold sighed.! But he told him to heng about, and put In the time as beet he could, -to tty not to get tn people’s way. end if be accidentally came acroes anything he could do, to feeLperfectlj free to do It Be gave hint cards* to the beat dubs, offered him the use of a car at any time hie wished It and told him to get as much fun out of life as he could. “How much salary do you want?" “Bow much can I get?" “Well. I fancy f could get men quite capable of doing what you’re golne to do for fifteen dollars a week, (ind glad of the chance," Jerrold said, smiling faintly. “But It Jends a aort of tone to the establishment to have your clothes and your accent In our employ, sb^say twenty-five. ~ Anti you might Ihtfnge gracefully about In the showroom as much us you cun; you are sure to at tract uttentiou to the house if not to the motor.* Duane thanked him, and said be would try to be worthy of so tniich trust. He said he had other clothes, far more comment-creating than those he was wearing, and that his entire wardrooe was henceforth at the dis posal of the Harmer Motor. ^ Aiid their he laid serious and studied siege to-’ihe stubborn heart of Jerry. Every morning on the stroke of ten. a messenger appeared at the doo.r with a box of flowers, violet, orchid and rose. Jerry gave them to the maids, sent them to the neighbors, but finally, in a burst of resentment at the per sistence she was beginning to feel was more than Hesh and blood could bear, she whirled the unopened box Into the "And you may have to go to worlt, too,” she told him. “She seem i quite to have set her heart on making you work. She used to scoff at the no-., billty of labor as applied to herself, but she seems to have no such scruples In regard to you. Perhaps she Is going to ennoble you*’ in spite of yourself. But possibly you will not mlnd,^ You do not look at all lazy.” . “I’ve worked before—as yon might say. Well, I never washed cars fo living, btvLPPrha'psT can If I must.”* He asked Prudence. If It surprised or disappointed her, when Jerry gave up her dreams of Art, her hope of becom ing a painter. “Not a hit,” tills amazing woman told him. “It didn’t surprise me, and it certainly didn’t disappoint me. f was glad of It. I knew all the time she couhlu’t paint.” “Then why did you send her—alone —to study, to—” “I knew It. but stie didn’t. She bad to find out somehow, didn’t she?” And then she talked more of Jerry, of a Jerry he bad felt might be in exist ence but bad not known In person. “She may not lie much of an artist," she sold, “hut she's a beautiful, won derful daughter to Jerrold and me. We don’t care whether she cun paint or not, she’s ours.”. After a little, when he felt he could safely venture to Intrude upon the In timately personal, he naked rather awkwardly: . “Would you mind telling me—how— you fell In love?” ^ Prudence blushed a little, laughed delightedly. “Oh, the silliest thing.” she said apologetically. “Didn’t Jerry fell you?” And then site told him of that early morning on the lovely Iowa country side, when she went coasting down a steep grade on a borrowed bicycle into disaster and wreckage at the bottom. When he symimtliized, laughing, with the Prudence lying* in the dust by the roadside, buttered and crumpled and torn, will) the ruins oT the borrowed wheel about tier, and on her con science— “Oh, don’t be sorry,” she pleaded gaily, Joining his laughter, “for I opened my eyes ami there stood over me—Jerrold—Jerry's father—and we looked A each other—” Duane’s lips were a rigid line. “Love at first sight!” he muttered grimly. “I might have known it.” Prudence nodded. “Yes, love at first sight,” she repented softly. “Don’t you let anyone tell you there’s no such thing. There Is! At least there was in our day. Oh, well, perhaps it is not technically and scientifically down in the hooks sa love at first sight. But tlyre Is that little pleased wakening up, that warm attraction—and if It stops, it is nothing. But if it goes on and on. It is love at first sight. Like ours! But [tti'haps things are different now. times are changed, and girls are very different.” •* . Duane was looking past Prudence now, beyond her, to the heart of Jerry, her daughter, unchanged, with the changing times. In that moment he knew with undouhtlng sureness why he had come to this remote and curi ous [dace In answer to the impulsive appeal of her letter. His eyes, on Pno d Pi ice’s face, saw not hers but Jerry’s. “I’m surprised she didn’t tell you ah<>u ( t It.” Prudence was saying. “From the time she ebuld tirtk, she has adored that hit of the family history. When she was a baby, and a little girl—yes, and until she was a prefty big one, she Would always say she was going to fall In love like Prudence. She thought nothing else was really love! She used to ten perfect .strangers, with the utmost frankness and assur ance, that It would come to her like that—love—a sudden look, and* know ing—“ Prudence laughed tenderly. “She got oxer It, of course. When she was old enough to understand, she realized that It doesn’t happen Ilka that once in a thousand years, or more." Duane said nothing. For once. Pru dence was wrong. Jerry had not changed. All through her babyhood, and Into tier woman's estate, that irnd been the. dopilugnt Dope M<1 fejri» of fiefgay roman tic "heirt - XE3 fieTwItfi profane, half-dmnkeh'fingers, and hot half-drunken lips, had rent the veil from the beantlful Illusion that had been her tendereat dream. “! love Terry," he said aloud to Pru dence. 1 hr a very clow and sober voice "Did you know It?" “I—I rather thought eo," said Pru dence. with a little quivering of her sensitive lips. But she smiled Imme diately. “I—I ifbn’t mind ji bit," she said bravely. In gentle! apology for that betrayal of her lips. > (TO gE t CONTINUED ) Lesson f •(By REV. r. B v of the Bvi-tqmt etttuie at Chicago.) PITZWATER, D.D.. Dean tSchoul. Moody Bible !•- (©. l*Zi. Wi-storn Newspaper Union.) Lesson for November 1 THE FIGHT AGAINST DRINK STRONG THUKSDAY, OCTOBER 29. 1MB (Temiw*rance Lf-sson) LESSON TEXT—Eph. «:l(»-20. GoLDEN TEXT—"Ke- atrontf in the Lord, amt in the power of hla might.”— Eph. 0:10. ‘ __ PRIMARY TOPIC—Loving and.Obey ing Ou.* Parcnin JUNIOR TOPIC—How to Be Strong. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR T*>t»- IC—Strong Armor for a Hard Fight. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP IC—The Fight Against Strong Drink. This Is not a temperance lesson in the ‘‘usual sense that It deals with In toxicants, hut in the sense that It has to do with the believer’s walk In con flict with the devil. Perhaps there has been no time when the evil one has made such a terrifle fight as he la now doing In his uttempt to nullify the Eighteenth amendment. The Chris tian bus been saved by grace. Though Ids redemption Is free, between Its beginning and consuiymatlon there la a real, severe and protracted conflict. This conflict Is . most difficult and dangerous because it is not witty flesh and blood, but with principalities, powers and spiritual hosts of wick edness in.high places. »Though the conflict is severe and painful, we should bravely battle on because the hMie is sure If we go forth In the panoply .of Cod. I. The Source of the Believer’s Strength (v..Hf).* It is in the Lord. Only as the branch Is ilniied to the vine, or us • limb Is united to the body, Is . there strength of life. We dare not attempt this conflict in human strength and wisdom. • II. The Enemy <vv. 11-12). The enemy la the devil.* a personal malicious being, with bin many sub ordinates. His personality Is proven ly the names given him, and actions predicated of hint. He has an ex a I tea position, and is mighty In [tower, and all unsaved men are tinder hie powef. He Is tlie original sinner, ./nd is ex tremely running. He has [tower over death; enters into nten: blinds their eyes; .lays Miares for them, and aifts Cttd’*-servants. In carrying on Ids work, he lias Ids churches and min isters. However, he is resting under a curse. The tleallt blow was given oh the cross. Hnd he will receive his doom in the' lake of fire. HI.-The Christian's Armor (vv. l.H-17). This means that his weapon* of offensive and defensive warfare are not of man’s device*. Just as his strength Is from the Lord, so Is his armor. _The believer dare not act merely on the defensive. He must attack his spiritual. enemies as well as resist their spiritual attack. 1. A Girdle of Truth <v. 14). The truth of Cod, sincerely and honestly embraced, alone will avail in tills conflict. IJeason. tradition speculation and dead orthodoxy fail in the crucial hour. 2. The Breastplate of Christ’s Itight- eousttess (v. 14). __yU As the metal plate covered the vital organs of* the warrior, so the right- eotiMiess of Christ protects us from the ewmyV assault. 5. Feet Shod With the Preparation of the Gospel of Peace (v. Ifi). This suggests the firm foothold of the soldier and his alacrity—readiness to proclaim the message of peace. 4. Shield of Faith (v. 1«). By tills he is able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. Christ is the object of that faith. 6. The Helmet of Salvation (v. 17). Consciousness of salvation enables a man, knowing'that'll* Is a child of Cod. and fellow-citizen with the saints, to lift up his head with confidence and to vigorously assault the enemy. 0. The Sword of the Spirit (v. 17). This is the Wortf of Cod, ^ the Christian’s offensive weapon; wlth’H^ he can mast effectively put his efieniy? to flight, This Christ used In the temptations In tire wilderness, Matt. 4:4, 7. 10, 11. The church of ChrlsC has won all her triumph* by the Word of Cod. Where she goes on, using this, she goes on^eonqtiering, hut when she falls back upon reason, cul ture, tradition*, science, or tlie com mandments of men, she gt*e* down in defeat before the adversary. IV. The Way to Get Strength to Use the Armor, and Courage to Face the Foe frv. 18-20). This Is hy prayer—and prayer alone. 1. Every Variety and Met Inal of Prayer Should Be Employed (v. 18?. 2. He Pray* for His Comrade*, “All the Saints" (v. 18). . 1 He sees all tjie believer* standing shoulder to shoulder against the enemy. t * tt. He Is Peraiatent It. W), TAX NOTICE! 'TAX LEVIES B|Y SCHOOL DISTRICTS FOR THE YEAR 1825. . ‘ ■ V School District, 5? « r* n Z p k v o Z ? r s X Z o • £ ET £ » o OB «e. Z o n w 4 n cr 3 I f o Q 3 3- S ** o' 3 » % 3* z o to •r Z o • f 9 o Z o 2 I M! 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