The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, January 19, 1915, Page 2, Image 3

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" 2 " " TIIK LANT( piacticaliyv unscs loyal soul almost Hut when coiiri Z?ASTKK NKWS, .lAM'A ithed affected that had hacked thi to tears. One of these 1 rat illations had been fun! nrim KV UK 1915. S Into two equal lengths, engtlis ho proceeded to I ~ ind liiu nu'n wulul thon I M ! * r~; i the 1 I ANonlindVmiM L I wf "TU f rey U' He; of |k* MoH? Pietur* Drama ml Ik xhiee? by Ik* Umvmal FBm Cm. Br LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE ?*ta*i Hm*u~~TU Bum Akcft A mutually exchani Efc V|C I awkward pause. LA M I sought one anotl Nam? I Pa,r Qu'ck with tl * I exorable inquiry: In the outcome, who advanced th I was adopted?tho' I ception more thro I than for any act there fell au around Rose's. The eyes of the four be similarly e tier's ruefully, each I Judith. For it tie unuttered but lie I must climb, un What next? I no problem to t , it was Mr. Barcus . er of any pret e suggestion whichj ered best that ugh this was Its re- hitched up in ugh lack of a better 1 sibllity of & a ual appeal intrinsic I been determir The other he left to , I >m ployed by Alan and wan agreed that they : d while the cliff offered iaunt a mountain climbenslons, Lt was consid- r| the fugitives should be I pairs against any poslip. The pairing had led by the fact that arolma o THROUGH SLEEPING CA l\> Chi VIA. pecial R DAILY ca^ii mm | j Dhatrito O ! CHAPTER XL Full Flight "Oh, what can it mean flared brokenly, clinging arm. "Surely you don't 1 with Pk*t*grapki Ctmb tk Plctar* Pradacti? QDTrichU IB11 to U^? J"M?h Vmn VIII. overtaken and warne ter, since the mach them was. If anythl ?" Rose whie* Alan's, just as the n to her lover's faster than elth think . . . Alan kept his gaze I. iu IUC pruiiusmon J "When we broh ventured, with a his thumb to indie yon branching off d?no easy mat* a quarter of a mile in? which bor? all the same to y< Ing, faster than stroll round that v icing automobile natural attraction er. Rut it's sure a ml steadfast to the canyon that doem Harms boasted e down. I saw," he In mountainee backward Jerk of plainly the nioi ate the roud, "a cao- women, the lei from this one about in an emergent over yonder. If It'e j He had wor 5U people, we might with the girl I fay and see what its way up the fac s may be?If any. j a long diagonal Ighty poor sort of a lest climbing. 1't InOfl r? n vu-Ko??r? * *" ' Home slight experience | ! ^ ring, while Rose was 1 ^ "jf it exhausted of tile two ist able to helfo herself ' 1 ?y ked his cautious way,. j Queer n tow. to a point mide of the cliff, following I that provided the eas- Lv. C when Alan stole back Lv. S >uthern K PREMIER CARRIER:OF T i & Crescent Route. SCEDULE: WESTBOUND. Charleston ummerville .airway HE SOUTH. Big Four Route. 8r00 A.M. 8;43 A.M. Surely, it must be accic Surely it can't mean?" "I'm afraid it does," sponded gravely, eyeing the Mountain house. "C consistently?that's all. be us if we didn't pick place where Marrophat chose to stop over nigh ly, it's early; I doubt lental . . . road before them, da look up and round or Alnn Law re- So sinuous and me: the front of course, indeed, that A >ur luck holds see a hundred yards It wouldn't roust pelt on in pan out the one f?r best?that Ju and Jimmy would soon show u| t. Fortunate- something might hapi they're up. Pursuit?never know! '-??? ? ? ?i i ring not once to an,i nothing couh back. fatiguing to our andering was its less tempers than lan seldom could anj fold our han of it ahead, hut wait for soinethii lc flight, hoping anyway we can't t idith and Tlarcus are?and?" |i in front, that "Sufficient!" M: len to hinder tho with a bleak smile Ing whether the Crooking a defe - - au< " hcivj j 10 juaun mid 1 possibly be more evidence of obs mercurial and rest- was convinced to squat down here turned back?p da in our laps and munition, peril lg to turn up?and less hazardous ie worse off than we of the fugitives Without deli r. Law interrupted en(i ur th< own waist, and. rential arm. itarcua #..<u h?.i reported tnat. on tne Lv> nervation and belief, he q that the pursuit had ?J ' ^ erliapa for want of am- .iV' taps to execute Home ^ attempt upon the Uvph Ar. C i. Ar. C ly, then, he made the E? rope fast around his Lv. CI following the way Itar- J^V. C iranchville rangeburg t. Matthews olumbia incinnati hicago KASTBOUND. hicago incinnati 10:20 A. M. 10:55 A.M. 11:24 A.M. 12:55 P.M. 10:55 A.M.. 1>:00 P. M. 3r:55 A. M. 5:35 P. M. with hair a show we ou( to find some way of pv distance between us ai before they waken But Mr. Barcus was a elbow, in thorough sy JLlan's interpretation ol foanoe to be attached to trembled In Rose's hand. ""Sharp's the word!" ? * ?ht to be able i?ntrr lusi ur sameu. ittlng a good And thus catastrop id this town Round the swelling Torn!"' uu/antalnside the i dready at his "he a hunted hare, mpathy with '??st warning came i r the slgnifl- Judith, dismounted, the card that over his cycle and ti motor. he agreed. For one horrlpllati ? ?l- Slon linounM. offered It to Judltl he befell . . . "Everything Is 1 bosom of a wood- garden," he insist notorcycle swept mantle. Are you and without the saunter, just to w ipon Barcus and away?' Barcus bending The woman foui nkering with its a wan smile as si gratefully beneath ng Instant colli- "You're the che KU * ? " " h- Two-thirds o ovely in the formal acc0inplishod. ed?"so sweetly ro hm) arrived in game for an idle fore the temj hile the idle hours proved irreslst Immediately id spirit enough for face 0f the clil le tucked her hand out> leaving a his arm. i shelving ledge erfulest soul I ever 1 roof whose ei - Ar. u f the climb huil been j ^ and Itose and Barcus ? * safety at the top, be- ' A ' R >tation to look down , Ar. ^ iblo. Ar. b beneath his heels the Ar. C T was deeply hollowed Kxc drop of 50 feet to a for Sa of shale as steep as a Seattl fives?-nor)] ana another t \Tn?4t, .minima t. Matthews rangeburg ranchville ummerville harleston client connections at Chicago ,n Francisco, Los Ahjcetes, Oroal e, Milwaukee, St. Filui'and oil 4:45 P.M. 6:05 P.M. 6:35 P. M: 7:15 P. M; 8:48 P. M: 9:40 P. M; with through trains ha, Denver. Portland, fier points West and' < rtuu iucio o a aiuiur ca In front of the blacksr ably we can hire her?" "Trine's car!" Alan swinging round and re< automobile at a glance, here, as well!" "L.ooks like It," Hare "Rut so much the bettei naturally take the darn* hands, and I'll bet a doll ir uver lucre, _ ?u?.uiun tilth's. Prob- Judlth and the mot< most of the width of ejaculated. waB llttle room betwe :ognizing the declivity, less betwee "Then he's fore8t- To try to pa latter side would be < us admitted. bra,ns out against the p. We'll just niake the attempt on t thing off his be to risk leaving the ar there isn't and dashing off into : uic. ajbicub nuu mei, sne said dei >rcycle occupied going to do wlthou the road; there ?we get out of t en them and the goodness only lcno n them and the "Let's talk of e ss them on the suggested hastily, anly to dash his "Unless, of coi > trees; while to with unbroken i he outside would you. . road altogether "Heaven," the 8DO.C? fppvpntlv "fnrfnn. murely "What I'm fifty feet belo> t you wben-if over oth<?r fall of a :his awful business. A,ftn 8huddfer . .. . before nesumlni loinethlng else, he Another 20 arse" she pursued a ledge qultfi sl gravity. "I marry ' ,brond and He gained this young man prayed J"?1' relief and if rising to liis fee ? i - ? * 11UI in v?Jutted out over an- J For hundred feet. t South ed and swallowed; bard ' ' K the ascent. > feet brought him to Ix feet wide, offering a i f path to the summit. W. E. with a prayer of heart- ' A was on tho point of 1 >t wht n a cry of horror ' west. passenger fares, schedules, 1 ern Railway TickefctAgent. W. Division P McGEE, ssistant General Passenger Ag< Columbia. S. C. tickets, ate., call as H. CAFFEY, assenger Agent, Charleston, S. G. i ent. another car within a m miles! We'll be well i giddy mountains long bo anything to chase us wit But his confidence strated to be premature covery, which rewarded sory examination, that very thoroughly out of c Two minutes later, lu ulius of fifty And it was impossi out of these cycle?so brief was ; fore he finds desperation Alan < ] h." of the road; and for was demon- single heartbeat thong by the dis- ! Possibly make it. but the first cur- realized that, he would the car was , ,pont wheel swing off oinmission. i the slope. >\ ver. their | At this he acted sb ible to stop the "That Is hardly ill his warning. "I mean?heave liose the outside should throw yoi the space of a "Humph!" she ht that he might you're right." with the next Their banter v not?seeing the subtle object, nam over the lip of girl who followed lover's arm. arply and upon In the course o Rsiltsnt " ' *rom ,Jarrus u> n * forfeit d that vou from Ros'v wa irs. lf away!" ,H,co- %xarnod * mused. "Perhaps ,,,ial?K* hi,n to knob of rock 1 as not without a r' ely. to reassuro the jerko<l A,an's '* , supported by Iter H'S leet and air beyond the f t lie last '21 hours ?aee dnwnv id a scream (if terror i ?????? tolling over :lie upper ?iir: barely in time to Tl? snatch at ami grasp a before .Judiths weight >P between thein ai d Ki front under him legs kicked the enipry lip ol the li dge, ho VB tixd. clutching desper- I I SOME NEWS A ADVERTISING 1 earnest inquiries elicitt that, although Rarcus wa his surmise that the country was poverty-stri spect of motor cars. M< boasted two motorcycles era were not indifferent to sell them second-han slderable advance on tt price of the machines, w id the fact sheer instinct. As th IB justified In roa(1 a|togother he r neighboring ^nt'e by releasing hi clcen in re- i handlebars and strain psouite Itself I an<' driving it whose own- aB&inst the roadbed. T to a chance was to lift liim bo<lil\ id at a con- machine sho le retail list him like some str; hen new. hui led from the bore nn.i - * . 1 ? cycle left the Rose's jealousy o iske?l a broken found friendliness s grasp of the become acutely < htening out his courtesy which < down forcibly and again deinan he effect of this Judith or seem a * from the sad- to cloud the. coui t from beneath betrothed, ange projectile Nor. indeed, wj of a great gun; destitute of plausi f her sister's now- tli*? knob < * with Alan had ?"'Cbt not coin evident. The least ',is Rrasp t :ircuinstances now "light arrive i d?'d that ho show '"'th. The roj> boor, was enough waist like a du titonanco of Alan's .Judith's body w fool her swing;! is Rose altogether eru' of it i bio excuse for this l"?aKinc> hut 'c >: rixkk. pruyinp that: it it? away ii liis prasp. mpht hold. that Marcus ti timt' to save tlictn * was cutting into his ! ti knife. The tliap tif as friphtt al He could np like v. pendulum at ; s !>0 feet, and could ? vividly what would j;; m ! ? * : j rVf 'i y ?' ' <5 ' !,1 UU And thus it was thnrt minutes frofn Rose's dise / chance-dun frtwarning ini 1 party was a/fein in rapid(' His beauty sfeep dlstr departure of the mncli Parcus and Judith. S< roused on an elbow and 1 the window Just in tlm< ^second motorcycle gathe , auw iiust- crasnea npa within Hn fj-actiou of a se<-< ovpry of UleX phmc the dust, hir^sitle. struck it motion. | face a KOO,j twenty fee irbed by the j 0f the road, and flyin line bearinp j their separate ways ?neca Trine j mainder of the dro| ooked out of I friendly shelter of the ; to see the j Somethinp nearly 11 ring inomen- j them whole. Beyond inst nun in tne feeing It was > ond. twe?y? AJan and J? ,ed^s on4? down palt? lrad^rowatt s shelving sur- hardships they hi t from the brink in common. It v g apart tumbled even in his mos down the re- Alan denied it fi< > and into tlio the other hand, nol underbrush. it freely to horse liraculous saved rived a strangely a few scratches n.o Uiik-ntybU? tiiat be- ,laPl|en " "K idkh of Hyni- fwlty. aft of f!^ Irials'and 4 The fall .if id of late suffered r'-x>f WI?S nothi .'as (Tudeniabie?hut low uould. hew t private thoughts >?"Pact of her ercely. Judith, on *ha!e in tnoiioi I only acknowledged ;jni1 beyond the If. but secretly do- and '-he 1 sweet and poignant 'be chasir. a h ? ?u?, -i-- Tho uw.vif tin rope siiouiu prove 20' fee?* to the ?shale ' . riR. V/hat would folever. spell death. The itody would set the a. like an avai&nche? eaves was oniY einpli- j bowlder-strewn bed of undntd feet i?elow! g nn?H ('nun hia f?wu 'turn, Aian steering, ttose } behind. Sixty seconds later a fl ner of dust was all that remind Mesquite that r passed that way?that, i ? of passionate screams from the bedchamber * Trine, where the cripple j aed by seven devils of ini ' in me seat an{j bruises and a sc*\ they escaped unharn launting ban- were picking themsel remained to gaining their breath j omance had their scattered wits and a series petus no less terrifflc emanating , ha,j been, the purst of Seneca j gwUDg round the bem ? lay posses- aeif directly at the tw Bensate rage. . up0n the road above. I ere shaking up. loved so nuidly an ied. And they That her love ,vea up and re- knew but too well, ind re-collecting might not be altof when, with im- her, after all that than their own them, his loyalty ling motor car shakable. And nc d and hurled it- Rose's rival have o who remained she could not hav did had he not 1 nm?nituhC tUUl MI V ? " ? rd hopelessly. rain. Ills eyes was hopel<>88 sho ets. the diood Evan though Alan w'th a r ?r rei ;eth?*r Indifferent to ?ler. His tinker* had passed between dry. to Rose was un- ! Ho f? i that >t tor worlds would another Instant f hail it otherwise, j torture was no 'e tarred him a* she been rwlleve.d o been so unmowablr a scream from staged in their sock(lrcBinied ii his ears senibting d'Mant tlrnni griAw nuin l. his throat he could aot hold, on < L when, eortii.ily, that j JBore. The ropa ha?i i f.'lt8 burden. He huarJ ; below echoed ay otue I 3* * vvt^aiuD vikjvi&IIK <pot it wafl a matter of m minutes before his dema fl?t and Marrophat and J from their crapulous slu joining: chambers; and 1 elapsed before the chau from his own well-earn< ceeded fn convincing t] pursuit with the motor nf thp nupfitlnn oticuuaiicc? | any precious | CHAPTER nds could be | ? lmmy roused j Sacriflc tnbers In ad- i Tom Barcus 1 hair an hour | l>rofit by the warning i ffeur, roused ! acc|<ient. pd rest, sue- I Alan, he told hii he pair that 1 wouid never have rur car was out j foolhardy a pace wi I --j ?J? true. As it was. XL. IX. hope ker love mig was content to 1< e. herself that, if o hadn't failed to fentd. she would n mplicit in Alan'B sacrifice herself fit And at times inself shrewdly, | praying that suet > hi? cycle at so i accordpd tliout^ good re^ j that (ho sacriiiCf siwee she could not from above, the ;ht be returned, abe body falling 01 >?* and to promise alltb.jring ruia pportunitv ever of- sathjering inojn iot prove umrea<tjr to j Parous, at l< ?r her lovo. him to a i>ta< she cauKftt herself and faint and a ? opportunity would Prune and ahu . and fjuickty. and v-S,1}!? ?5?as:" it sh.wiNt demand ' |h ^ I m the thamp of Judith's ft the rJtale, then the ! ible of the Uuitljvfade I eutum. . . I mgth arrivud. assisted j I :? of HoouriQ*. Spent I ick with hoiror. Iw lay I dderrng. I urance of Uarctia that I tnehow escaped being g Baby's Mornii LL /" * Arvn\Ti;rn ? ! ig Dip j r v t /~v iito ? Hut the devil takes car within another half hour to be sheer, bull-headed brought a casual autonu quite?a two-seated, racing machine of the speediest pattern, driven sponsible wayfarers who too susceptible to Marrof double the cost of the I ?>UU , UI1U II11II t" I UIC7 *11 0 of his own: ( rr?a80n was synonym what seemed i pursuit. I. dumb luck J ^je watJ therefore 01 sbile to Mes- to suo the racing aut high-power canit? hurtling round latest and Very nick of time by two Irre- ann an(j 8Wung her proved only hack out of harm's ihat's offer of trees that bordered t car f. o. b. r??d I.UKIIDIUIIIfl) ?UUU ous solely with. WOU,d CO'"!'!*1 Now prayers i the alert, quicb swerpd when the omobile when It *or, tbp soul, the bend. and in Slowly and p: grasped Judith's toilo(* aloug an ol bodily with him ,owed thtf way. amid tin untl1 a branch si he inside 'of the stream and so dis another trail lea precipitated ov ** shal<* rooi roui are sometimes an- nerve enouph t boon craved is good ,t waR tn,p ' ' ,, to look and st i in fully these four wlthln thm. v Dscure trail that fol~ pjnp ,wr face * ?s of the little river, shp d [ruck into the main ____ (covered to them yet ; ? diag into the west- i er the <taves of the aecfc him and Rare him J o rttsiimv the climb. j when he fouud eoura^ e for himself; she lay anls ut the brink su- i uplifted to the sun. uaar?*d i.ot stir, a single li "I ' v/wl/ixcoo r says grandmotl we'd do without this Smokeless Oil Heater "If I'd only had one were a baby, you'd saved manv a rold a VlNWVYO, " her, "what i j Perfection | when you I have been g nri fTMiinu 1 Detroit?for its immedla The two piled out pron Marrophat and Jimmy Trine from his bedroom them on their murderous a blast of blasphemy. It must have been a when Alan, checking h as it surmounted the long upgrade, looked t te surrender, j qj necessity his mo uptly enough; Abandoned In the mi Jumped In: was 8truck by th window sped motor car and flung j mission with : been nothing more p< ' truss of straw?landii in hour later embankment, a h is motorcycle Bhattered tubing and summit of a ( ^ flrBt blush t >ack and dls- ; 8penled surprising, t torcycle suffered. war(1 canyon. Idle of the road. Then again si e buffers of the they plodded on aside as if it had otber trail blazed onderable than a tlv?y. half-way down Above them. 01 opeless tangle of abandoned, the ci twisted wire. back to the point he circumstance Judith and Harcu hat the car did scended, explored lowly and painfully following blindly an- J by Fates as blind as 3 the road rhey had 0 fmson racer doubled its occupants de? | and came present* spell. For warming cold c< isolated upstairs roorr countless special occaj extra heat is wanted, A V,V'"1V orners and is, and for sions when you need covered, several miles c far-flung windings of i road, a small crimson s like a mad thing tlrel by a cloud of tawny dui en ghost. A motor car. beyond and one of uncommon 1 quality; !t might or nn tain Marrophat and Jimi Ilstant on the nQt gt0p j}Ut then (he mountain hj,nBeif that Marroi hape that ran COuld not possibly ha essly pursued arcjfient involving All at like a gold- , together with the wi I chlno. remained wel all question, , |,n<jprhrll9h at the b< oad-devourlng | yQn jn aj| proi,abji light not con- t saHsjns ha(j assumei my, once more j jjUrrje(j on; an(j 8jnc Harcn^ reminded u')011 ,hf* tr?H < >hat and Jimmy Bloodhounds c ive witnessed the ,lf>d down uP?n fin and Rose. who. K00(l w'" and eap reek of their ma rophat and his ll-cloaked by the The sun was hi ittom of the ran "1P canyon whe ity. then, the as w,thin rifle shot i that Alan hao ^ spiteful she e their own first from a pause ould ufit have set- j H a scent with more I ernoss than Mr. Mar- M&jy^aBwn9 faithful aide. gh and blazing above n the pursuit came, of the chase. the i of lethargic dismay ' tJH| - :^f A 1 PERFECT SMOKELE&ffijaiB>. The Perfection is light, p( pensive to buy and to use, and rewick. No kindlin Burns kerosene ? ensv tn riON I EATERS | jrtable, incxeasy to clean no ashes. i ntul I In pursuit, wnetner, < experience had long s Alan in the gentle art chances. Though It was his sought so pertinaciously yesterday (and then by the first time), they ha if Rose were with Ala include her ruthlessly or not miter , |)Uain(,gs wa8 Conc< ince educated , them, they ha of taking no , reagonjng that, they 4 .v ' ^al wlth h,B unfo1 life that they thejr convenience ? ' no ,ater than (heJr quarry, whost no means for coveted d proved that Afl for Roge and A] n they would , ^ wfaat ha(, happ in whatsoever ppt hjmae]f >rned exclusively u"e Inru>' app d done likewise, they had pe could return and moBt t? the end c tunate friend at A ha8ty unci ifter overhauling wi'h Judith b revi s life they moat behia<l a bowlder proachps to the < Ian?heaven alone a P?werful .45, h ened to them. So *? numb the Im to find out what aasslns^ and reciauon or the fact netrated wltlessly al>f a blind alloy. 1 of war armed Alan olver and posted him conwnanding the ap-i ^ :basm. The weapon,, ad a range sufficient j l2^2bL__f_ petuoalty of the as-' p them under cover1 Screami ? 35! ! f*T* &** #? ^ ' < t Brought Attendance. inexpensive. Smokeless s At all hardware and general stor< Triangle trademark. STANDARD OIL C (NEW JERSEY) Wuluictoi. D. C. Norfolk, v.. BALTIMORE ind Odorless. rs. lx?ok for the OMPANY Charlotte, N. C. I rv.rU.t? w v. rcneme iney idikhi cc Ills personal extermlnai Nor would Tom Pare If they were caught though Judith might b Marrophat's infatuation These two were far sight. Indeed; and mug nicmpmie lor ^ prev,denre kn "on- delay. The raring c iin be exempt. 0j 8jght when he f In company? ahelterlng trees an ie, In view of keels, pelted head lor for the girl. to the spot where tt ahead, out of j ,she(J t somehow be ; To find them no ew without mon "uu oul ?' sigru ar was harety eut 8ayfl the fugiti* iprang from the compass an esca d, Judith at hi.* for in the shed ig down the slopr '?K cabin?souvei 10 others had van- forgotten prosper earthed a length ^onlj^aliv?^)ut With the aid < oi inn desperate es- movement wa es were making to Bhale t)?-d agal pe. i Painfully he behind an abandoned ; CUH asserted, i tir, no doubt, of some | the rope hers etor?Barcus had un- j Up her life t< of stout hempen rope. of a rusty 8hqyel_h^ C? s calculated to set tho I I u in motion. I I realized that If, an Rar- I I *ho had deliberately cut I I ielf, Judith had offered ftJ > aparo his own. Cmh >e Continued.) RicUoaJ, Va. Chariots*, S. C. II J * -