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t jioued from Friday Murder. 3 ioment the tfrl stood, iute| f V: H ifled eyes at the Jewel at her "K I trst aba could not believe I was awake; then, leaning o'HKk* /she picked lt np and placed It L table. The act, simple as It tased ber thoroughly. With s liver, she turaed to her father. ta regaineu wutvivuBoeBB ana etching ber through half-closed ^?H[ Mil** he said. "Well! Say It! /w perfectly *?U what you are thH Ang. Give it a name." to^PJ low came you to take the Bell, fabe^H r I saw It in his tent when we H fht refuge In hU* camp. You Baw mercy- too. Wai jit then that you f Her father noddcq silently but did *1 not take his eyes frota her face. Jj Well she knew where the'trouble ! lay. Well she knewlkhy he had taken rl the htoife<- for the tremble had lain with cl them always, and the shadow of it had blighted the lw*r years of her mother's life. m Sane upon every Ithor subject, the wealthy old miner^who had eurned a world-wide reputatfiWss a connoisseur In matters of art.lft got along with It an equally wcllHrned reputation 1 as a kleptomaniac. < For years Bhe ill known of this failing of her falflE On her very deathbed Dorothy'Ahther had spoken plainly of it, layiaA'itpon the daughter to be careful (^prevent any such thing 'from occurnjk again. "You saw the 49* when we were in hia camp." shs^fctterated. "Was it fl then that you tc^fc?" m Again he no^-Alf*|ktly. The girl, 1 v her bright heat^B upon her hands, A\stood silent wif^ yShame of it. \ "I needed itPfSppeded it! And *. . Sey would i\ot Sgafni a curio. That I t priest would a ^p l)ave sold his 1 as this misetel* Bell. It's a good ' with Kb tl. 'th ( nR' wij ii'tyer ho'?4.i back. I'pton fl&i ml fin 1 than -dmitting the two j Ac djti'uv' * t >>oners. [ V1 -i right, but we had to ' ' JSxin'?hey, bo?" laughed ? " i ^maching the old colonel of M M jfijAjb fibs with the long bar- I 1 ^tw^^vplver. Colonel Mayez jB.'r A ptt nim; then, seeing the .t upon the table, he started ' /'AislEf-*' next second he I HeraAping before the table. Jewel." he cried, "el gen- ' ;'** BsM Any concessions -do ; the last large ft^j^A^yreUC,forces will require A|irih8 eafablit'h. a governpatriots and we are able & recognized nation." f Ai*>*n^to ^ases!" snorted , water injected !i when motor is ru e men? but reduce the carbo?et armB- j . . ,, "ing men drawn in in (hi* mi, la|,y Jn p-Sfe ,4enfy to 1 : " had a , whiih will moi, rea? jn by l^uudl.blow out througlim in it, . *"Th'tlro are a number oick the which are claimed t ), ward r8?" w r " <# ?! v rol. ^>fr M J / nw Y a? Ha,d r ?? , erald Bell, W I we will let go Ty . you to deF *? inytnlng. everything! > general-I?" JI errupted Upton. ' turned to Wilkes. ?gs *n to their camp myA 'tly. "You hold these 2 f? return. I'll dicker ^ rh binder personally; ' I have to, but, any1 >n back with me." t . to the boy," he conV* ire you shaking your n a mortar, yet shall A 1t from him,' " quoted 4 member hearin' that i If you go down 4 aemer.tM^rn the Bell for (,>r Uiul an' shoot you # *S'ou he'll take do Wk m thoot KynaaI, M tv a*?KMineral Obispc1> / fp MEN r e B. Rodney mi isii uiui iu?i yuu n hwh|i ii lur rvcy naBton." , Dorothy rose, pale-faced, her eyea alight with blue fire, like two turquoises flan, "-backed. "Indeed * shall take no further risk In this mattci You will go. father; you do owe it to htm. 1 shall go with you, and we shall take the Bell." Wilkes stared at her, uncertain whether he had heard aright. "You?you?you go? Not by a long shot. Miss Dorothy? Why, it'd be sheer murder?no less! Have you both lost your minds?" The girl's lips were well-nigh colorless; but Wilkes, who knew men, knew when he saw the tense lines in her face that she had passed the dividing line between aommon sense and impulse. "But how?" he asked. "How can you take the Bell?" "So that no one can detect It? Have no fear?wait." She disappeared with the Bell into her own room. A moment later she returned, her face flushed with excitement, her eyes luminous, standing, a veritable picture, in the golden square of sunlight that lay upon the floor. "Come!" she said imperiously to her father. "Corue! We have no time to lose. You will keep these two men in safety till we ret 'rn." Wilkes gave up, muttering his discontent as he turned away, shaking his gray head. "Ain't you got no sense, Upton? Don't you know that what you plan is plumt madness? I've got a great mind to pull a guu on you an' not let you go one step." For answer Dorothy shook her head. She would not betray ber father before them all. What she knew must forever remain hlrl "No," Bhe said again quickly; "he went for ub and we owe it to him. Whatever shall be said of us, no man shall Bay that we Uptons do not pay our debts. 1 have the Dell where none can ever And it. Come, father!" Like a man in a dream. Upton followed her out the door. The rest of the party morosely eyed the two as they walked down the hill, the girl golden-haired, trim-habited; the stur dy, square-shouldered figure of the miner plodding heavily at her side. Silently they passed down the slope; still speechless they crossed the ariojo beyond the alamos?the cottonwoods ?where Wilkes and Manuel had made their capture that morning. As they approached the lines of the besiegers they were greeted with a yell from the outpost. Twenty men surged forward to seize them, but were swept back by an officer, who sprang forward, machete in one hand, his low-swung sombrero in the other. "Lack, perros!" they heard him cry. "It is Senor Upton himself who desires speech with el general. 1s it not so ml amigo?" Upton nodded carelessly. About the cook-fires one or two women moved lazily. The whole camp was asleep in the sunlight as Upton and Dorothy entered the house. For a second the two stood at gaze, the glare of the sun still blinding them. But when their eyes had become accustomed to the cool, darkened interior Dorothy gasped and Unton awore softly. There before them, his arms tied at the elbows behind his back, stood Kynaston under charge of a guard of four men. Behind a table sat the blind priest, smiling quietly, and the squat-figured, bull-necked general, who was in a furious rage. "And you dare to tell me that you do not know where It is, when the padre here says that he is sure you know Its whereabouts?" Just then Upton stepped forward. "I have the Bell." he said quietly. "If you let Kynaston go, as you promise. you get it; otherwise not." "Ha-ha"' The general uttered a nasty laugh. "I'll hold you till I get it, anyway." He waved his hand care lesslv in the direction of the young American. "Take him out and shoot him," he ordered in an offhand way. "You bloody villain! You worse than dog?you wretched, yellow cur! You horse thief, robber, villain, bandit, murderer! You conscienceless, perjured blackmuiler! You dirty, double-crossing cheat! Snide! Crook! Grafter! Tin-horn!" Upton was blazing, raving madangry. Despite the blood ho had lost from the gunshot wound, his face was fiery red. The veins stood out, knotted, on his head; his hands were gropring furiously about his empty holster. "Is your word nothing?" ho raved. "Here you promised to free Kynaston if I gave you the Kroorald Bell; I come down to arrange the details; you seize me and execUe him, anyway. Have you no sense of honor?not even a mestizo's,?" Stunned by the very audacity of th.man who defied him even when know Ing full well whattortues lay in stoi c for the presumptuous General Obispo * A ....! THK LANCASTER NEWS "Stagger Back and Sink Forward In the Center of the Group!" stared open-mouthed at Upton, listening without offering a word In answer, j But when the miner told him he was ' a double-dealer, and?what was worso ! ?proved It, he came to life. "My word Is sacred; not even a gringo can impugn my honor!" he | yelled. The paradox would have been \ funny had it not been so serious. Obispo arose, his face twitching, his body positively shaking with anger. "Here, put a hullet in him somebody!" he roared, pointing at Upton. Taking advantage of the diversion, Kynaston drew back, shaking off his guards But in a moment they seized him by the elbows and threw him bodily out of the doer. Upton, his fingers clenching and unclenching convulsively. stood eying the furious halfbreed. while Dorothy laid a restraining hand upon her father's arm. Before he could even respond to the loving pressure of her fingers a group of angry men rushed through the open" door and threw her forcibly back) against the wall. She fell to her knees. Staggering again t~ her feet, she was aware, as ! one in a dream, of a hideous, fury- | distorted face thrust within a foot of her father's scornful countenance; of a dozen dirty, evil-smelling peon soldiers hanging to Upton as ants hung to a dying hornet. Then came a sharp crack and a spit of flame. She saw her father stagger back, sink, helplessly to his knees, and sag forward on his face in the center of the maddened group. A bare five seconds she stood there. Then the full m&fciing of the scene enacted under her eyes dawned upon her. She was about to scream, but a hand upon her lips mercifully stifled It. A j strong arm drew her back through the open door, and she heard, still as if in a dream, a voice she had learned to I know and love. Kynaston was speak ing brokenly: "Steady, Miss Dorothy! I know! My heaven, if 1 could only have foreseen this! Come quickly and make no noise. I'se your breath only for runi ning." "Hut?Mr. Kynaston?daddy?my faj ther. " "No use. I tell you! They have killed him! Murderers! Just as they probably killed others last night! Come, I say!" There was no withstanding his appeal, for he had seized her hand and was fairly pulling her after him. Thus they began their race for the sheltering trees in the bottom. Breathless, sobbing from the excitement and the speed, not knowing by what accident the way was clear for them, the girl hurried along with him. dry-eyed and staring, as one who has seen a sight preternaturally appalling. "You see"?he panted it out as they ran?"1 tried to get word to you and I could not. 1 feared you would attempt j some such quixotic thing They meant to kill me. of course, it would have been better so. Then when you came in I Intended to anger the old scoundrel at me, and partly succeeded. Then when they threw me out my ' guard ran back and I sawed the raw- | I niue tnat they hail tied me with across an old wagon tire till 1 cut It through " i A sputter of rifle shots cut short his explanation. Pulling her to right and left to dis| turb the aim of the Mexicans, he dashed through the oottonwoods and ran up the slope Even before the door ' of the house could be opened to them, j they were pounding on the frame. A ' second later they staggered into the room to face the gray-bearded exdoputy sheriff. "Where's l'pton?" he demanded truc, ulently. "Where's TTpton?" I Beyond a brief :jod he paid 110 at' tention to Dorothy, nor even to Kynaston. "He's d-d-dead!" sobbed the girl, giving way at last. "Oh, Marian, he's dead! They have killed him! I shall never see him again!" The girl, sobbing as only a bereaved I daughter can, flung herself Into the | waiting arms of Mrs. Fane. She drew the half-fainting girl Into ' a bedroom, and so was not a witness ! of what followed. Had she remained in the living room, she would have seen a fierce old gray wolf of a plainsman open the front door and with all the politeness he was master of say to the two prisoners: "Now, caballeros, It is your turn. The way lies clear to General Obispo. Take It." He pointed fiercely down the slope. The two men ran hastily for the open door. I TO BE CONTINUED TUESDAY < JTNK 13, 1916. CROP CONDITIONS FOR THIS STATE June Reports of Agricultural Department PRICES FOR PRODUCTS Estimated Yield of Grain, Hav and Fruits and Trend of Values Shwn Washington. June 10.?A summary of the June crop report for the' State of South Carolina and for the;1 United States, as compiled by the 1 bureau of crop estimates (and trans jniilea tnrough the weather bureau) | Uuited States department of agriculture is as follows: All wheat: State-:?June forecast, . 2,310,000 bushels; production last ( year, final estimate, 2,430,000 bush-J j els. Oats: State?June 1 forecast, 7,-It 1J 700,000 bushels, production last yea: . linal estimate. 1,540,362,000 bush- ( els. live: State?June 1 forecast, 28,-, I uoo bushels; production last year linal estimate, 30,000 bushels. 1 United States?June 1 forecast, ! J 4 3,500,000 bushels; production last ( year, final estimate, 49,100.000 bushels. j, Hay: State June l estimate..,n. Hay: State June 1 condition, 70, ' compared with the eight-year aver- 1 age of 84. United States June 1 condition, 90.3, compared with the eight-year average of 87.0. l'asture: State June 1 condition. 07, compared with the ten-year average of 89.0. Apples: State-?June 1 forecast. 193,000 barrels; production last i year, final estimate, 221,000 barrels. United States?June 1 forecast, 7 2,200,000 barrels; production last; year, 70,670,000 barrels. Peaches: State?June 1 forecast,! 544,000 bushels; production last j year, final estimate, 864,000 bushels, i "United States?June 1 forecast, 42,400,000 bushels; production last year, final estimate, 64.218,000 < - Cotton: May 2 5 condition. 65, compared with the ten-year average of 78. United States?May 25 condition 75.5, compared with the ten-ylear average of 79.8. The first price Kiven below is thel average on June 1 of this year, anil the second, the average 011 June 1 last year. State Wheat lilt and 150 cents per bushel. Corn, 11? 1 and 102 per bushel. Oats, 00 and 71 per bushel. | I'otntos, 159 and 130. May. *16.8u i and *18,20 per ton. Cotton, 12.?. | and S.7 cents per pound. Kggs, 19! and 18 cents per dozen. j I'nited States Wheat 100 and 131.5 cents per bushel. Corn, 74.1 and 77.9 cents per bushel . Oats, 4 2.1 and 51.3 cents per bushel. Potatoes. 98.8 and 50.8 cents. Hay. *12.50 and $11.96 per ton. Cotton, 12.2 and 8.6 cents per pound. Kwgs, 19.0 and 16,6 cents per dozen. 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THE KKAIi JOY OK NHOOTINO There are experts and has-beens ind never-wases in every branch of :he shooting sport from trap shootng to the small-bore game. One sometimes wonders what enjoyment a man finds in shooting if ho ilwa.vs trails along at the tag end of I lie score sheet. The real joy of shooting comes not from winning various and sundry prizes both useful and otherwise but from a multitude of small things insignificant in themselves but of mighty pwer when all work together. The acrid smell of burnt powder. 11". sharp crack of the report the feel of cold blue steel, and the genuine good fellowship that go-s v ith it all forge chains of attraction about one that neither poor scoreo nor an empty pbcketbook can break. The man whose chief pleasure in shooting lies in winning prizes really derives loss pleasure from the sport than the shooter to whom burning powder and the handling of firearms is of more importance than anything else. I do not mean to say that winnine a prize is not worth while, for it is. The point is that unless a man really enjoys shooting for its own sake, he is missing most I or the fun. The sport of shooting must have .? iic.uciiuuuii [iuw?*r or rascinatlon to keep men plugging away for years and years trie way they do. There is perhaps no sport which comes so soon after the cradle and extended so far Lnto old age. Old men and young men mingle together in the shooting game and old Father Time is pushed into the background. A CONVENTION PA V'hJ ** *** f f II Phone Us ^ * * i i i ' We handle everything goot \\ & Sanborns Coffee, 35, 30 an \ [ & Sanborns Teas. j f Try one of our Stone PO"! j? Golden Sunbeam and Chocob j | from the very best ingredflin Our fruits are always 'fW \ Oranges, Grape Fruit, I,einoiTi ] [ Cabbage, Irish Potatoes. '! I Call us and get your good < > i t I Edwards < ?k?>. \ ,-.v v Huntirig Helps ed R Lade Send Qnest this column is open to questions e of the Editor, antf to discustg connected with hunting or KPKKD OF BUIiliRTS There are a lot of in.erestins; facts surrounding the subject of the fl S V. * ? i? a Psiii ?n tine uuntriM. ritr instance, high power rifle bullets travel very much faster than does sound, and consequently in modern warfare, !f a man is shot and killed by a bullet from a rifle a couple of hundred yards away, as the Irishman says. "He don't hear the shot until he 's dead." It is also true that it is impossible to make a high power rifle silent. You can put a silencer on it and and some of the noise is cut down? in fact all of the noise caused by the expansion of the gases as they leave the muzzle of the rifle, but there is still left a whip-like cracking noise caused by the flight of the bullet. I call it a whip-like crack because mechanically it is produced in the same way. As the bullet travels along at high speed, it goes so fast that the air does not have time to fly in behind it and there is a space hack of the bullet of about one inch or two inches in which a very high vacuum obtains and the noise is caused by thp sudden collapse of this vacuum, in other words, by the air rushing in and closing up. I believe that this noise is irregular and is not a steadv noise because of vlriations in the density of the uir through which the bullet travels, and also because of the many echoes which are produced. The fastest railroad tmin New York to San Francisco In about 4 1-2 days. If our Government Springfield rifle were fired in the right direction and the wind resistance did not slow the bullet down, (Continued from page 7) lRADE IN CHICAGO" H I jPjlfw ; yjK|"j DH wjmm nBEttSr^/Xsv/.v' I ^ourOrders | 1 to eat. We handle Chase ? ,d 25c packages; also Chase 1 O - I LJND CAKES; Silver Slice. ite. 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