The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, June 13, 1916, Image 7
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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
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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,
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tv a*?KMineral Obispc1>
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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
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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
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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.
In the whole field of medicine
there Is not a healing remedy that
will repair damage to the flesh mora
quickly than MALLARD'S SNOW
LINIMKNT. In cuts, wounds sprains,!
burns, scalds and rheumatism, its'
healing and penetrating power is ex-'
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$1.00 per bottle. Sold by all dealers
in medicine.
There U mors Catarrh In this aeotlon of the
country than all other diseases cut together. anil
until the last few yeura ??? supposed to b?;
Incurable. Kor a grvut uiuuy years d.-etora
pronounced It a local disease and prescribed local
remedies, and by constantly tailing to cure with
local treatment, Wouounci'4 It Incurable. Science
has proven C aturrla to be ii constitutional illsease,
ind therefore re?jiJ*res c.iislltutlomil treatment.
Mails Catarrh CuiV ti*ni-factored by K. J.
Cheney A Co.. Toledo^itJo. Is the only Constitutional
euro on the mar^i. It Is taken Internally
In doses from 1<> drops |hn teaspoon fill. It acta
direct ly on the blood mucous surfaces it
the system. They off'-# olW hundred dollars for
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I/ook an good aajrour city cousins. No |
matter if you do iCV or Freckle Magnolia ;
llalm will surely clenn^our akin instantly. i
Hrala Sunburn, \Jo. JVnt put a fettle on
your face and rup it ofFWKain before dry.
Simple and snrt to please. Try a bottle '
to-day and be^in the improvement at
once. White, Finlc and Rose-Red Colors.
7'j cents at DfSiggifts or by mail direct.
SAMPLE FREE.
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Readers are reminded that \
which should be sent to me in can
jions by the readers on anythir
target shooting.?A. P. L.
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.
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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,
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