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IF-i MM H41 I I-K-H-v-H-M-H; , SHADOW | (A Story of i Hypnotism | By ETHEL B. HAYNES | pyrlgbt by American Presa Asso- 4. elation. 19IL t i i ill m-m i inn 111 in ;* ittella Brooks looked wistfully nt prospective buyer. "I'm very anxto sell tbe place." she said slowly, or offer is satisfactory to me, but rdly think you will want it after I > told you about the shadow." As uttered the last word all the color k>k her cheeks, ar^d she looked b older. pa needn't say a word about It un oa want to relieve your mind.' ftke It even If the shadow Is a ansunxl Mr. Baker warmly. Hn't an ordinary ghost." protest^Blla. "In fact It lsD't a ghost : 1 tell myself I can't believe and be a member of the Hat tbe same time, but it's very ! Boat tbe shadow should be there. Be same." Kv it to me, please." requested Books, and in silence Estella led By down the front steps to the hut opened into tbe highroad, "she paused and turned, facing PH^png farmhouse, with its low pitcb^Hof and many gabled windows. Hook there," sho said simply, pointj^Vup at the roof of the house. "The Ha Is behind the clouds, yet what is Kre to cast a shadow like that on I Re roof?" Mr. Thomas Baker scanned the red stained shingles with a critical eye. I He glanced up at the sky, a mass of ; gray leaden couds; he looked at Estella standing beside him with every I < a muscle tense<L her wide brown eyes F . staring at the roof. v " "I cant see anything, Miss Brooks." J be said gently. < Estel la turned a disappointed face to his. "1 was afraid you couldn't see anything. Bat if8 there, right between the two chimneys, a great black shadow as plain as can be on the roof. | I suppose ifs only for the family to ! see and remember P "Tell me about it if you care to. . Miss Brooks. But I assure you that i''t ' ? it tfon't make any difference in my read the letter she bad left for his perusal be lei me out to the gate yonder and. pointing to the roof of the house, be said solemnly: "'Estella, there Is a shadow on our house. Do you see that grim, black shadow of disgrace staining Its pure roof? Look long at It Your sister's defiance of me and ber elopement with a penniless stranger has broken my ^Kv heart Mark well the shadow on our roof, for It wi:i never pass away?not In your lifetime or miner "I looked, and. Mr. Baker. I saw the I shadow, grim and black and shapeless. lying there where no shadow had ever rested l>efore. The day was cloudy and forbidding, even as tt Is now. and yet the shadow lay there, and It has always lain there since that day when my sister went away. Nearly every day my father would take me out to the gate and show me J the shadow ar.d repeat his denuncla goo or isaroai*. tie uieu uve rwre j ago. and I have been left alone with ; the shadow on the roof, for beyond a | letter now and then I have rarely j beard from Bai-bara." "I see," said that gentleman, with an air of undden enlightenment "Now, before It go back to town this afternoon and before I pay the money to bind the bargain I would like to ask yon a quesilon. Hiss Brooks. Now > ' - decision. 1*11 take Wistaria rarm n P yon will accept my offer." 'Til tell you about the shadow first." 1 1: ' said Estella. leading the way back to ; ^ the deep Shaded veranda. "After I that, if you want to conclude the bar- | gain, I am quite ready. My father was a very stern man. cold by nature. ( but possessing a powerful magnetism ! that bound his family to him by cords PPt> of fear as well as love. My mother H ; died while I was a little girl, and my sister and I were brought up under my father's strict rule. As Barbara, thee f my sister, grew older she seemed to q develop the same magnetism, and so v. it was that her will and my father's I often clashed over little matters and at last over larger affairs, h- "About ten years ago Barbara was r twenty and 1 was twenty-five. My j sister met ai.d fell in love with a young man who wrote poems for a living. He wus spending the summer 1 in Riverd&le. and he wrote verses | about Barbara's beautiful eyes and her lovely hair, and of course he was j in love with her. My father dlscov- i eved the vers** and forbade him the J bouse, arraigning him in the most stinging terms, accusing him of seeking to marry Barbara for the little J patrimony that woold one day be hers. , calling him a beggarly scribbler and saying other 1;errlble things, although | he really was a most manly fellow, and 1 liked him exceedingly. As for : my sister, poor Barbara was deeply In j love with him from the beginning, and when my father sent her lover away, tossing the daiplsed verses after him. Barbara defied father to his face and declared she would marry Allen la ^)lte of everything. "That night she bade me farewell 1 and went away with Allen Searle and was . larried by her own minister here in Riverdale. In the morning when 'o Hk/vkrorwl hftr flichf nnrt that yon have honored me with yonr confidence, will you tell me whether you wouid change your mind about selling the farm if the shadow were removed?" lie bent forward and scanned her fa> .? v?i:b eager eyes. "If there was no <hacl w there?ar (i if L.arL.ia iot;.d come back son;* times?if we could i>e reconciled -1 would be the happiest woman in the wond. Mr. Baker.'" she cried, with tears in her eyes. "Wistaria farm ; has always been my home?always wonld be If It were not for the shadow. Besides, you see my father disinherited Barbara, and 1 want to give her her rightful share of his estate. If it is turned into money 1 can accomplish it better." "I see?I see." muttered Mr. Baker thoughtfully. "I believe I'll take that 8:30 back to town, but first I'll pay something down to bind the bargain, and if you change your mind about selling it I'll let you off. I shall return tomorrow, and. with your permission. 1 will bring a friend with me" The next day he came down from the city in a large touring car that contained several veiled and goggled passengers In the tonneau. Mr. Baker ! came down the path, accompanied by a short stout man with protul>erant ' blue eyes behind thick lensed s|>ectaclee. Eetella met them at the front steps. "Won't the lady come In?" she Inquired as she led the way into the darkened parlor and threw open the blinds. "Not now, thank yon. Miss Brooks Allow me to present my friend Dr. j Ganung. Would yon object to telling the doctor the story of the shadow on your roof? He is an expert at expelling shadows of that sort" There was no resisting Thomas Bak- J. er*s winning smile, and so besita ingly Est el la related the story of her sister's flight and how her father had shown , her the shadow on the roof. Dr. Ganung listened intently, never; once removing his bright eyes from Estella's mild brown orbs. When she had concluded he spoke brusquely. "If you will accompany me to tbe i gate. Miss Brooks, I will dispel the' j shadow forever. Have no doubt, have r no fear, madam." he assured her as 1 Estella's brows were arched lncredu- I lously. "Come with me to the gate, I ( and I will dispel the shadow," he re-1 pee ted In a monotonous voice. A dreamy look came Into Estella's,1 eyes, and In utter silence she arose . and preceded the two men out of the , house and down the path to the gate. The three turned and faced the < house. The summer sunshine lay warm on the red roof, and there was no shadow save the foreshortened shad-, ^ ows of the two great chimneys. s Dr. Ganung lifted his hands lmpres- . slvely before Estella's face. "Do you the shadow. Miss Brooks?" he In- ? quired harshly. "Yes." she said evenly. "It lies be-', tween the two great chimneys, a arge, i imegular blot on our roof, yet there is I nothing between that and the sun to ( oron o noostnp L*UM a DUaUVTTi uuu Vf vu v* Cloud!" T "Now yon do not see the shadow ] because It has never been there. You s will never see It again. There never ! has been a shadow on the house and * you will forget all about It and never 1 think of It when you awake." The } doctor repeated his hypnotic suggestions with monotonous regularity un- J til Estella's eyes closed. They carried * her to a summer bouse near by and ] placed her In a chair, and she ccntin- j ued in the hypnotic sleep until the motor returned and the veiled lady 3 alighted and came down to the sum- i mer house accompanied by a tall, j. slight. Intellectual looking man. The woman fell on her knees beside Ea- ' tella and wept bitterly. i When Estella awoke she was alone ? with her sister Barbara and Allen 8earle. "I've had such a teiTlble ( dream, Barbara." she said after the ! 6 delight of greeting was over. *T can't! \ recollect It sufficiently to tell you, but j. It hung over me like a black cloud, but the cloud has departed." : 3 "Forever, dear Estella," whlsj-ered 1 ( Barbara as she placed her urns j. around her daaed sister. "I came very near selling the place, j Barbara, dear. I don't know wh it to ] do about It" said Estella. puzzled. t "Keep It or sell It to Tom Baker, as you please, dear. Tom Is Allen's half brother, and they are In business to- \ gether In town. It will make a lovely j summer borne for all of us do matter which member of the family owrs it In the winter you shall come to us." i ; "Mr. Baker writes poems, too, I sup- i pose," ventured Estella. glancing with . Interest at the tallest of the three men ntandlnir In a little fiTOUD OU aide C tbe arbor. ! | Barbara uttered her old light hearted laugh. "Dear me, no! Allen is a poet by nature and has scribbled lots of pretty verses, but as for makl ig a living by It, he simply can't do 1^ I hope you won't be shocked, bui: he and Tom are In tbe most romantic sort of business Imaginable." ( ''What Is that?" Inquired Estella eagerly, for she discovered a growing t Interest In big Tom Baker. ' { "Wholesale paint and varnish?there! i r Not much poetry In that. Is there?" At that moment Dr. Ganung was f shaking his head vigorously at his \ two companions. "Not a doubt of It ! ( my dear sirs. Miss Brooks' father was a hypnotist She has seen the shadew > merely through his powerful sugges- 1 Hon that It was there. It Is a dangerous | ( gift especially If It Is badly used." Allen Searle nodded gravely and then smiled as Tom Baker said, with 1 a proprietory gesture toward the un ] conscious Estefla, "I'll watch her care- 1 fnlly, yon can depend upon me. doc- , tor." And then he had the grace to J blush, for he caught tbe glance of understanding In their eyes. < ' r:i.y uiiiig u?i mc , They ha\e relieved neuralgia in my i he id in fifteen minutes. I have also taken them for rheumatism, head- ? ache, pains in the brear.t. toothache, c.r .che and pains In the bowels and lmbs. I have found nothing to ? ur.l them and they are ull that is \ I claimed for them." j < J. W. SEDGE. Blue Springs. Mo. ' At all drupglsts?25 doses 25 cents. ; N;ver sold in bulk. MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, Ind. | I , 1 A Card. To the Tobacco Planters and My Friends of Williamsburg and Adjoining Counties:? Once again I find myself without i warehouse in Kingstree to do busness for the tobacco season of 1912. This past year (1911) my warehouse [The Farmers') was rented from unJer me to some North Carolinians without my getting a chance at it. CVhen I left here in October to engage in the warehouse business in Virginia I thought I had an option >n the Central warehouse here, but >n my return a week ago, I was informed that a North Carolinian had stepped in and rented that one also, ;hrough a misunderstanding, so you iee where I'm at now. However, I have not given up all lopes,as I am doing my best to get a lew and larger house built in the ;entre of town, and if I succeed I will let you know at an early date. I Vleantime I should like to hear from j some of my friends who are tobacco j growers, if they think it advisable 1 :or me to try and get a good house lere; also would like to ask any of rou what those people from North Carolina have ever done for you? Save thev ever given you any seed? 3o they live here with you, and do rou believe that they can get any nore for your tobacco than the peoile here that you know? I myself lave been in the warehouse business ?or the past fifteen years at Manning ind here,and have always done all I :ould for every person that entrusted his tobacco to me. and I believe ;hat any of you who know me beieve that I can get as much for rour tobacco as any man. But the >wners of the warehouses here don't ;eem to think so. Should I get a warehouse at iCingstree, Mr U J fcJpps will be incrested with me. In conclusion, will say that I will lave plenty of good tobacco seed here >y January 1, free to all. You will ind them at Milhous & Jennings' . md Mr W T Wilkins' stores. Thanking you for your patronage n the past and hoping to be able to lo business with you again in 1912, am. Yours very truly, ( VV Roger McIntosh. j Notice. 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