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CHAPTER V.
The Hunted Man.
That day was hot and windless with
*n unclouded sky?a day of brass and
burning
Long before any aouud audible to
human ears disturbed the noonday
hush, a bobcat sunning on a log In a
glade to which no trail led, pricked
ears, roso, glanced over shoulder with
a snarl and?of a sudden was no more
there.
Perhaps two minutes later a succession
of remote crash Inge began to be
heard, a cumulative volumo of sounds
made by sotno heavy body forcing by
main strength through the underbrush,
and ceased only when a man broke
Into tho clearing, pulled up, stood for
an Instant swaying, then reeled to a
eat on the log, pillowing his head on
arms folded across his knees and shuddering
uncontrollably In all hie limbs.
He was a young man who had been
and would again bo very personable.
Just now he wore tho look of one
bounded by furleB. His face was crimson
with congested blood and streaked
with sweat and grime; bluish veins
throbbed In high relief upon his temples;
hta lips were cracked and swollen,
his eyes haggard, his hands torn
and bleeding. His shirt and trousers
and "orulBers" were wrecks, the latter
scorched, charred, and broken in a
doeen places. Woods equipment he
It Was a Rosa.
bad tione beyond a hunting knife belt.ed
at the small of hl? back. All else
had been either oonsumod in the format
fire o* stolen by hla Indian guide?
who had subsequently died while at*
tempting to murder hlH employer.
Since that event, the man had succeeded
in losing himself completely.
In seeking shelter from the thunderstorm,
he had lost touch with hlB only
known and none too clearly located
landmarks. Then, after a night passed
without a fire in the lee of a ragged
bluff, he had waked to discover the
un rising In the west and the rest of
the universe sympathetically upsidedown;
and aimlessly ever since he had
stumbled and blundered In the maze
of those grimly reticent fastnesses, for
the last few hours haunted by a fear
of failing reason?possessed by a notion
that he was dogged by furtive
enemies?and within tho last hour the
puppet of blind, witless panic.
But even as he strove to calm himself
and rest, the feeling that something
was peering at him from behind
a mask of undergrowth grew Intolerably
acute.
At length he Jumped up, glared wild
ly at the spot where that something
no longer wm, flung himself fruntioaily
through the brush in pursuit of
It, and?found nothing.
With a great effort he pulled himself
together, clamped his teeth upon
the promise not again to give way to
hallucinations, and turned back to the
clearing.
There, upon the log on which he
had rested, ho found?but refused to
believe he saw?a playing card, a
trey of hearts, face up In the sunglare.
With a gesture of horror, Alan Law
fled the place.
While the sounds of his flight were
still loud, a grinning half-breed guide
tole like a shadow to the log. laughed
derisively after the fugitive, picked up
and pirated the cagd. and set out
In tireless, cat-footed pursuit.
An hour later, topping a rldga of
rising ground, Alan caught from the
hollow on its farther aide the music of
clashing waters. Tortured by thirst,
he began at once to descend in reckless
haste.
What was at first a gentle slope covered
with waist-deep brush and carpeted
wfth leaf-mold, grew swiftly
more declivitous, a mossy hillside, as
Hm|i m k iuui, uam ui tiiiuurunmn,
and spnrely sown with small cedars
through whose ranks cool blua water
twinkled far below.
The shelving moss-beda afforded
treacherous footing; Alan was glad
now and then of the support of a cedar,
but these grew ever smaller, and
mors widely ftMMd anil were not ol~
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ways convenient to his hand. He
came abruptly and at headlong pace
within eight of the eaves of a cliff?
and precisely then the hillside seemed
to slip from under him.
Ilia heels flourished In the air, hie
back thumped a bed of pebbles thinly
overgrown with moss. The stones
gave, the moBB-skln broke, ho began to
Bllde?grasped at random a youngish
cedar which stayed him imperceptibly,
coming away with all Its puny roots?
caught art another, no more substantial?and
amid a shower of loose stone
shot out over the edge and down a
drop of more than thirty foot.
lie was instantaneously aware ol
the sun, a molten ball wheeling madly
in the cup of the turquoise sky.
Then dark waters closed over him.
He came up struggling and gasping,
and Btruck out for something dark
that rode the waters near at hand?
something vaguely resembling &
canoe.
But his strength was largely spent,
his breath had been driven out of him
by the foroe of the fall, and he hud
swallowed rnuoh water?while the field
of his consciousness was stricken with
confusion.
Within a stroke of an outstretched
paddlo, ho flung up a hand and went
down again.
Instantly one occupant of the
canoe, a young and very beautiful wo
man in a man's hunting clothes, epoke
a sharp word of command and, as
her guide steadied the vessel with his
paddle, rose in her place so surely
that 6he scarcely disturbed the nloe
balance of the little craft, and curved
her lithe body over the bow, head^
foremost into the pool.
Mr. Law had. In point of fact, eo
dured more than he knew; more than
even a weathered woodsman could
have borne without suffering. Fortyeight
hours of such heavy woodswalking
as he had put iu to escape
the forest fire, would have served to
prostrate almost any man; add to this
(.ignoring a dozen other mental, nervous
and physical strains! merely the
faot that he had been half-drowned.
He experienced a little fever, a little
delirium, then blank slumbers of exhaustion.
He awoke In dark of night, wholly
unaware that thirty-six hours had
passed since his fall. This last, how^
ever, and events that had gone before,
he recalled with tolerable clearness?
allowing for the sluggishness of a
drowsy mind. Other memories, more
vogue, of gentle ministering hands, of
a face by turns an angel'e, a flower's,
a flend's, and a dear woman's, troubled
him even less materially. He
was already sane enough to allow he
had probably been a bit out of his
head, and Bluce It seemed he had been
saved and cared for, he found no reason
to quarrel with present circumstances.
Still, he would have been grateful
for some explanation of certain phenomena
which still haunted him?euch
as a faint, elusive scent of roses with
a vague but Importunate sense of a
woman's presence In that darkened
room?things manifestly absurd . . ,
With some difficulty, from a dry
throat, he spoke, or rather whispered:
"Water!"
In response he heard someone move
over a creaking floor. A sulphur
match spluttered Infamously. A candle
cuught fire, silhouetting?illusion,
of course!?the figure of a woman In
hunting shirt and skirt. Water
splashed noisily. Alan became aware
of someone who stood at his side, ono
hand offering a glass to his lips, the
other gently raising Ills head that he
might drink with ease.
Draining the glass, he breathed hie
thanks and sank back, retaining his
grasp on the wrist of that unreal
hand. It suffered hlin without resistance.
The hallucination even
wont Oit for na to ???? ?? ? ?
.. ?v/ tui uo vu ?; , IU A WUIiltlU tf
oft accents:
"You are better, Aloe?"
He sighed Incredulously: "Rose!"
The voloe responded "Yes!" Then
the perfume of roBes grew still more
strong, seeming to fan his cheek like
a woman's warm breath. And a miracle
came to pass; for Mr. I>aw, who
realized poignantly that all this was
sheer, downright nonsense, distinctly
felt Hps like velvet oareea his forehead.
He closed his eyes, tightened his
grasp on that hand of phantasy, amd
muttered rather Inartloalately.
The voice asked: "What Is ft.
dear?"
He responded: "Delirium . .
But I like It . . . Let me ravef
Then again he slept.
OHAPTER VI.
DI*elo*urea.
In a little corner office, soberly furnished,
on the topmost floor of one of
lower Manhattan's loftiest office-towers,
a little mouse-brown man sat over
a big mahogany desk; a little man of
big affairs, sole steward of one of
America's most formidable fortune*.
Precisely at eleven minute* past
noon (or at the identical Instant ahos
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en by Alan Law to catapult over the
edge of a cliff in northern Maine) the
muted signal of the little man's desk ;
telephono clicked and, eagerly lifting <
receiver to ear, ho nodded with a smile 1 i
and said In accents of some relief: ! |
| "Ask her to come In at once, please." j
Jumping up, he placed a chair In In- I
| tlmate Juxtaposition with his own;
; and the door opened, and a youug
I woman entered.
i The mouse-brown man bowed. "Mlaa !
Roae Trine?" he murmured with a
great deal of deference.
' The young woman returned hie bow
with a show of perplexity: "Mr. Digby?"
**You are kind to come In response
to my?uh?unconventional Invitation,"
said the little man. "Won't
you?ah?sit down?"
She Bald, "Thank, you," gravely, and
took the chair ho Indicated. And Mr.
Dlgby, with an admiration he made no
; effort to conceal, examined the fair
: fnco turned bo candidly to him.
"It 1h quite comprehensible," he said
diffidently?"if you will permit me to
I say bo?now that one sees you. Miss
Trine, it la quite comprehensible why
my employer?ah?feels toward you as
ho does."
Tho girl flushed. "Mr. Law has told
you?"
I "I have the honor to bo bis nearest
friend, this Bide the wafer, aa w? 11 j
as his men of business."
He paused with an embarrassed gesture.
"So 1 have ventured to request j
tl>is?ah?surreptitious appointment in
order to?ah?take the furtlu r liberty
of asking whether you have recently
sent Alan a message?"
Ilor look of surprise was answer
enough, but she confirmed it with vlg,
orous denial: "1 have not communi!
cated with Mr. Law In more than a
year!"
"Precisely ns I thought," Mr. Digby 1
; nodded. "None tho less, Mr. I.aw not
long since received what purported to '
be a message from you; In fact?a ^
, rose." And an Miss Trine sat forward
with a start of dismay, he aded: 1
"1 have the information over Mr Law's 1
signature?a letter received ten daya
ago?from Quebec."
"Alan in America!" the girl cried
iu undisguised distress.
"He came in response to?ah?tho
message of the rose."
"Hut I did not send it!"
'T felt sure of that, because," said
Mr. IMgby, watching her narrowly?
"because of something that accompanied
the rose, a symbol of another significance
altogether?a playing card, a
trey of hearts."
Her eyes were blank. He pursued
with openly sincore reluctance: "1
must tell you, 1 see, that a trey of
hearts Invariably foresignaled uu attempt
by your father on tho life of
Alan's father."
With a stricken cry the girl crouched
back in the chair and covered her faoo
with her hands.
"That 1b why I sent for you," NTr.
Digby pursued hastily, as if In hope
of getting quickly over a moat unhappy
business. "Alan's letter, written
and posted on the steamer, reached me
within twenty-four hours of his arrival
In Quebec, and detailed his scheme to |
enter the United States secretly?as
he puts it, 'by fhe back door,' by way
) of northern Maine?and promised advice
by telegraph as soon as he
reached Moosehead lAko. He should
have wired me ero this, I am told by i
those who know the country he was to
cross. Frankly, I am anxious about
the boy!"
"And 1!" the girl exclaimed pitifully.
"To think that ho should be brought
Into such peril through me!"
"You can tell me nothing?"
"Nothing?as yet. 1 did not dream
of this?much less that tho message
of the rose was known to any but Alan
and myself. I cannot understand!"
"Then I may tell you this much
more, that your father maintains a
very efficient corps of secret agents."
"You think he Bpied upon me?" the
girl ilamed with Indignation.
"I know ho did." Mr. Dlgbv permitted
himself a quiet smile. "It has
seemed my business, In the service of
my employer, to employ agents of my
own. There 1b no doubt that your
, father sent you to Europe for the solo
purpose of having you meet Alan."
"Oh!" she protested. "Hut what
earthly motive??"
"That Alan might bo won hack to
America through you?and so?"
There was no need to finish out his
sentence. The girl was silent, pale
and staring with wide eyes, visibly
mustering her wits to cope with this
emergency.
"l may depend on you," Mr. Digby
suggested, "to advise ine If you find
out anything?"
"For even mora" The girl rose and
extended a hand whose grasp was firm
and vital on his fingers. A One spirit
of resolve set her countenance aglow.
"You may count on me for action on
, my own part, if I find circumstances
warrant It. I promised not to marry
Alan because of the feud between our
fathers?but not to stand by and see
him sacrificed. Tell me how I may
communicate secretly with you?and
let me go as soon as possible!"
CHAPTER VII.
The Mutineer.
Within the hour Rose Trine stood |
before her futher In that somber room
wherein he wore out his crippled days.
In that place of silence and shadows
whose sinister coior-scheme of crimson
and black was the true livery of
his monomania his passion for vengeance
that alone kept warm the em
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'Oh, Come, Come!" She Cried Wildly.
>ers of life in that wasted nnd movoess
frame.
An impish nmlico glimmered in hia
sunken eyes as he kept her waiting
ipon his pleasure. And when at length
10 decided to speak, it was with a ring
>f hateful irony in that strangely
.onorous voice of his.
"Rose," ho said slowly?"my daugher!?I
am told you have today been
tutlty of an act of disloyalty to me."
She said coolly: "You had me spied
jpon."
"Naturally, with every reason to
tuestlon your loyalty, I had you
watched."
She waited a significant moment,
.hen dropped an Impassive monosyllable
Into the silence: "Well?"
"You have visited the man Dlgby,
servant and friend of the man I hate
?and you love."
She said, without expression: "Yes."
"Repeat what passed between you."
"I shall not. but on one condition."
"And that is?"
"Tell me first whether It was you
who sent the rose to Alan Law?and
more, where Judith lias been during
I he last fort night?"
"I shall toll you nothing, my child.
Repeat"?the resonant voico rang with
inflexible purpose?"repeat what the
man Digby told you!"
The girl was slh nt. Ho endured her
stare for a long miuuto, u spark of
rage kindling to flame the evil old eyes.
Then kh? one living member that
Usui power to serve lus iron will, a
hand like Iho claw of u bird of prey,
moved toward a row of buttons sunk
in the writing-bed of his desk.
"1 warn you I have ways to rnakq
you speak?"
With a quit b movement the girl
bent over and prisoned the bony wrist
in her strong lingers. With hor other
hand, at the same time, she whipped
open an upper drawer of the desk and
took from it a revolver which she
placed at a safe distance.
"To the contrary." she said quietly,
"you will remember that the time has
passed when you could have me punished
for disobedience. You will call
nobody: If Interrupted, I shan't hesitate
to defend myself. And now"?luying
hold of the back of his chair, she
moved It some distance from the desk
?"you may as well be quiet while 1
find for myself what I wish to know "
For a moment he watched in silence
as she bent over the desk, rummaging
its drawers. Then wlt+i an infuriated
gesture of his left hand, he began to
curse her.
She shuddered a little as the black
oaths blistered his thin old Hps, dedicating
her and all she loved to sin,
infamy and sorrow; but nothing could
stay her In her purpose, lie was
breathless and exhausted when she
straightened up with an exclamation
of satisfaction, studied Intently for a
moment a sheaf of papers, and thrust
them hastily into her hand bag, together
with the revolver.
Then touching the push button
which released a secret and little used
door, without a backward glance she
slipped from the room and, closing the
door securely, within another minute
had made her way unseen from the
bouse.
(Continued In Next Issue.) '
up* and Downs of Oyster.
The total number of persons engaged
In the oyster Industry of the en
tire United States Is 67,257, w ith year
ly wages amounting to 110,875,801, and
the capital Invested, excluding the
value of the private beds. Is $16,880,-'
032. The yield of oysters for 1912
waa 32,988,815 bushels, an average
}f a third of a bushel for every man.
o/nman anH rhil/1 Irs nnimtrti I
Every restaurant, however humble or
wherever situated, as well as every
Kreat hotel, Is expected during the
reason to have oysters on the bill of
fare. In olden times the epicures of
\thens and other cities close to the
noean had an abundance of shellfish
luch as we use, and enjoyed them
rory much. But to the Jews this kind
>f food was forbidden by tbelr law.
which, allowing certain kinds of fish,
ejected much sea fool, including the
>yster, which was probably but little
cnown to the ancients "And whatso- I
*ver hath not fins jmu* scales ye may
not eat; it Is uuclet, a unto you."
[Dcut 14:10.)
rOVKK OtOPS.
Tlie Importance of l/Cgumious Plants
on Kvery Furin.
To the Kditor of The Ne-ws:
If you will allow me I will attempt
to say a few words on cover
crops. A legumlous plant is one that
adds nitrogen to the soil. The most
common legumious plants are alfalfa,
cowpeas, crimson and burr clover,
soy beaus and peanuts. Any or all
of these may be grown with much
profit in our home county. The
profits derived from the planting of
these crops mav he siinH..s
three standpoints; the addition of
nitrogen to the soil, their value as
an excellent food for live stock, and
their serving as a cover or catch
crop: that is. a crop that er.n he
grown between the harvesting and
planting times of cotton, corn and
other grains.
During recent years the amount of
money spent for fertilizers in South
Carolina lias increased immensely,
the last year's bill being about $!t,ooo.non
a large portion of this
amount was for nitrogen content of
the fertilizer. There are two reasons
for this. First, because most
soils are more deficient in nitirogen
than any other fertilizer ingredient
except phosphorous; and second because
nitrogen costs from two to
three times as much per pound as
the other fertilizer ingredients.
From this it is easily seen that a
plant which draws nitrogen from
the air leaves it in the soil, as do the
legumes, is a very profitable plant, to
grow. e\en though it did not serve
any other purpose than this. Although
nitrogen makes up about
four-fifths of the atmosphere, it cannot
he. used in this form by any
other plant than the legumes. All
other plants require this nitrogen in
the form of nitrogen, which must be
dissolved in water and then taken
up through the roots of the plant.
Hut this is not the case with legumes
for they are able by means of very
minute organisms living on their
roots, to draw nitrogen from the air
and store it in the soil. These
organisms or bacteria, are already
in the soil or may he put there by
inoculation. There is a certain kind
of bacteria fitted for each of the
legumes above mentioned.
Since no farm, however large or
small, is complete without more or
less live stock on it. and the more
the better, it is necessary that food
for these animals be grown on the
farm. Legumes are especially
adapted to voting and growing animals.
which need a large proportion
or pntin in their rations for fattening
animal. Fat producing animals,
such as the pig and beef cow, do not
need so groat a proportion of protin
'n their ration. Though it is an essential
part of tlio balanced ration
tin fattening animal and also for
the mature animal which is tio'ther
'toning or growing, but Is doing
w? rk Since all farms need some
live stock and all live stock need a
uitrogous food, it behooves the farmers
to supply this essential element
in the cheapest possible manner. No
other source of nitrogen furnishes
this important ingredient to the
farmer in a cheaper form than does
the leguminous plant raised on his
own farm.
Legumes are a catch crop and is
ore that is planted between the harvesting
of one crop and the time for
planting the next. A cover crop is
one thnt is put on the land during
the winter to keep the soil from
washing away and to prevent the
plant food, which is constantly being
made soluble, from leaking out
of the soil. Such crops as eowpeas
are recommended especially for soaring
on land after wheat and oats are
harvested. The pea vines are cut
with the mower in September and
October. After they are cured and
put into the barn, they are relished
both by horses and cattle. No inoculation
is necessary for the grow
lg of the pea vines. Burr and crimson
clover are sown in cotton or
corn from August till late fall
These crops remain on the land all
winter and are turned under
for manure in the. spring.
These crops serve a double purpose.
Besides gathering free nitrogen from
the air and storing it in the soil,
hey take up the niltrogen and other
nlant foods that are constantly being
made available in the soil and hold
them. Otherwise these arc becoming
available would he leaked out
of the soil in the spring in a readily
available form for the new crops,
such as cotton, corn, etc., to use.
Land should never under any circumstances.
be allowed to lie bare
and exposed to the weather. Another
crop that is very profitable is rye in
the spring. Rye has the advantage
over all the other crops You don't
have to have the inoculation for it,
and it will grow on all kinds of soils,
whether rich or poor. Especially is
this true in the case of alfalfa. Inoculation,
however, for the clovers
and alfalfa is not a great difficult
task. The best way to inoculate
land is to haul dirt from a field
where clover has grown for sometime
and scatter over your land to
be inoculated Thus It is an easy
matter for the farmer to rapidly improve
his land and produce the best
food possible for his live stock at the
same time. Well Miss Editor, I sup- \
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Valuable as a General Tonic
Drives Out Malaria, Enrich
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You know what you an taking when ;
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K>se I have taken up enough space
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Respectfully,
WALTBK S. CAUTHEN.
Clemson College, S. C.
BRAVE BELGIAN BOY SCOUT
Joseph u Neyssent, a boy bcouI of
Reigium. who bus been given the
bronze medal of merit. Single-handed
he captured two German engineers,
one uhlan and two priests who were
spies. He had fought In five engagements
when this photograph wa?
taken, and had made several daring
trips on his bicycle carrying dispatches.
CHANGED THE COLOR SCHEME
Bride Proved Her Resourcefulness on
the Occasion of First Formal
Dinner Party.
She was only a brido, and this was
her tirst dinner party, Her husband,
a lire prevention engineer and a graduate
oi Boston Tech, was to bring
home some of Ills classmates, in whose
honor the little wife had planned a
"red dinner." The candelabra shadea
were to bo red. She would serve a
tomato soup as the llrst course, to be
followed by red meat and baked potatoes
sprinkled with paprika. The salad
dressing and the dessert would likewise
harmonize with the color scheme.
I Wlnjn the guests arrived, however,
may rouna every lug in yellow. Sarfron
candle shades cast a golden glow
over the table. A clam bouillon wa$
Berved as the first course, then a leg
of lamb, potatoes Newburgh, an asparagus
salad and lemon ice cream.
"I thought we wero going to have
a red dinner, dearie," said the husband
when the guests had left.
"It was this way." the bride explained.
"After I'd got everything all
ready I discovered that 1 had only
two red shades I had half a dozen
yellow ones, and so 1 changed the
color scheme to match the shades."
Helping Children With Their Lessons.
It Is sometimes a question whether
or not a child should be assisted in
the preparation of his lessons for the
next day. Good pedagogy declares
that, the child develops most quickly
who is stimulated by a problem that
challenges his ability, one that Is not
too easy, one that is not too hard.
If it is the former, he is not interested:
whereas, if it Is the latter, he
is discouraged. It may be taken, as
a general rule, that it Is better not
to help n child until he has gotten
discouraged and then rather to help
him to help himself, to guide him
and let hint go the rest of the way
himself.
A backward child, of course, needs
more assistance than a bright child,
but with him more care is required in
developing self-reliance; his tendency
is to become more dependent and his
need of initiative is greater.
No. 666
Thi? it a prescription prepared especially
(or MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVER.
Five or six doses will break any case, and
if taken then as a tonic the Fever will not
return. It acta on the liver better than
j Calomel and doea not (ripe or sicken. 2Sc
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IIC - TAKE GROVE'S
astelcss chill Tonic is Equally
because it Acts on the Liver,
es the Blood and Builds up
rown People and Children.
you take Grove'a Tasteless chill Tonic
showing that it contains the well knows
J. It is as strong as the strongest bitter
no equal for Malaria, Chills and Fever,
ippetite. Gives life snd vigor to Nursing
Removes biliousness without purging,
irits. Arouses the liver to action and
re Appetizer. A Complete Strengthener.
eed by your Druggist. We mean it. 50c.