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SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH June '5, 1919, Trinity Sunday, mass and sermon, 11:30 a. m. Rev. Geo. J. Dietz will conduct the services. Everyone is cordially invited to attend. Engraved cards and wedding invi tations at Press and Banner Co. vvvvvvvvvvwvvvv A, ' V V BUY YOUR CREAM V V N from V V MRS. D. A. ROGERS. V \ % Phone No. 1. V V 5-6-tf. V WVVVVVWVVV^VVV i ? 1> o want I a TO seu. PROPERTY?! S A?K SUTHERLAND t I I I I certainly will show you how to tell property?that's my bniineu. I'll tell it for you and you a small commission that yon will be glad to pay. Yon might get a pointer or two from me anyway, and if you don't hitch up with me in a deal just say "thanks" onryt>ur way oat and there won't be any hard feeling*. 100 ACRE TRACT?Six and one-half miles from Abbeville in Sharon neighborhood; close to school and church. rrn 1 J k..n i liucc-iuum uuusc aau uaiu. Price per acre $32.50. 82 ACRE TRACT OF LAND? 4 miles south of Abbeville. Tenant house, barn, 8 or 10 acres of fine branch bottoms, 35 acres in cultivation, balance in woods both pine and ash. Rented for this year. Near school house. Price per acre $20.00 LOT?on South side ol town, 150x150 feet. Price, $150.00 156 ACRE TRACT?Located 4 I miles southeast ox Aooeviiie 1 S. C. Six room dwelling, 3room tenant house, barn. About 2-horse farm rented for this year. Good bottom land, plenty ashe wood and timber. Price $4,400. TWO STORY DWELLING?6room, hall, electric lights and sewerage, 5 minutes walk frnm snnarp. Rarrain at $1,250.00 166 ACRES?6 miles from Abbeville. Good dwelling, barn tenant house, located in Lebanon section, close to school and church. Price per acre $30.00 5-ROOM DWELLING? On South Main Street, at Cotton Mill. Price, $1,100.00 5-ROOM COTTAGE? Right at High School, on Parker St. ILiOt BUXiy?. Price, $1,600.00. 36 ACRE?Tract of land, 3 1-2 miles from Hodges, 8 miles from Abbeville, good dwelling, barn and outhouses. Price, $1,650.00 43 ACRE TRACT?2 1-2 miles from town, 1-horse farm open, dwelling, barn, good well, good bottom and pasture lands. Party that buys gets 2 bales cotton rent. H Price, per mere, $35.00 m 1 , 5 I f i 1 0 i I ' I GREEN : FANCY j, By GEORGE BARR j vf- n rrr H"Fn W i'lk WW * < i Author of "GRAUSTARK," THE \ HOLLOW OF HER HAND." THE i PRINCE OF GRAUSTARK." ETC i I ??i Copjmahl by DoddL Mead ud Camjw. 1m. (Continued From Last Friday < ^So fer as I know. He left three little kids. They was all here with their mother jest after the house was finished." "They will probably come into this property when Mr. Curtis dies," said "She's a Widder Now. Her Husband Was Killed In the War.'* Barnes, keeping the excitement out of his voice. , "More'n likely." / "Was he very feeble when you saw him last?" "I ain't seen him in more'n six months. He was fallln' then. That's why he went to the city." "Oh," I see. You did not see him when he arrived the last of March?" "I was visitin' my sister up in Hornvllle when he come back unexpectedlike. This IJlot Loeb says he wrote me to meet 'em at Spanish Falls but I never got the letter. Like as not the dam fool got the address wrong. , I didn't know Mr. Curtis was home till I come back from my sister's three days later. I wouldn't 'a' had it happen fer fifty dollars." Peter's tone was convincingly doleful. "And he has been.confined to his room ever since? Poor old fellow! It's hard, isn't it?" "It sure is. Seems like hell never be able to walk ag'in. I was talkin' to his nurse only the other day. He says it's a hopeless case." "Fortunately his sister can be here with him." "By gosh, she ain't nothln' like him," confided Peter. "She's all fuss on* fonthprs nn' he is lest as sImDie ! as you er me. Nothln' fluffy about him, I c'n tell ye." He sighed deeply. "I'm jest as well pleased to go as not," he went on. "Mrs. Collier's got a lot o' money of her own, an' she's got highfaluttn' New York Ideas that don't seem to Jibe with mine." Long before they came to the turnpike, Barnes had reduced his hundred and one suppositions to the following concrete conclusion: Green Fancy was no longer in the hands of Its orig- } lnal owner for the good and sufficient reason that Mr. Curtis was dead. The real master of the house was the man known as Loeb. Through O'Dowd he had leased the property from the widowed daughter-in-law, and had estab' - * ? nsnea mmseu mere, sunuuuueu uj trustworthy henchmen, for the purpose of carrying out some dark and sinister project "I suppose Mrs. Collier has spent a great deal of time up here with her brother." "First time she was ever here, so far as I know," said Peter, and Barnes promptly took up his weaving once I more. With one exception, he decided, the | entire company at Green Fancy was Involved in the conspiracy. The exception was Miss Cameron. It was quite clear to him that she had been misled or betrayed into her present position; that a trap had been set for her and she had walked into it blindly, trustingly. This would seem to establish, beyond question, that her captnre nnd detention was vital to the in terests of the plotters; otherwise she woald not have been lured to Green Fancy under the Impression that she was to find herself among friends and supporters. Supporters! That, word | Btarted a new train of thought. He could hardly wait for the story that was to fall from her lips. "By the way, Peter, it has jusi occurred to me that I may be able to give you a job in case you are let out by Mr. Curtis. I can't say definitely until I hays communicated with my sister, who has a summer borne In tEi Berkshlres." "Ill be much obliged, sir. Course 1 won't say a word. Will I find you a the tavern if I get my walkin' paper soon?" "Yes. Stop in to see me tomorrow t you happen to be passing." Barnes said good night to the mm and entered the tavern a few minute later. Putnam Jones was behind thi desk and facing him was the littl< book agent. "Hello, siranger," greeted the land lord. "Been sashaying in society, hey Meet my friend Mr. Sprouse, Mr. Bnrnes. Sic-em, Sprouse! Give hin the Dickens!" Mr. Jones laughed loud ly at his own jest. Sprouse shttok hands with his vie tim. "I Vis just saying to our friew Jones here, Mr. Barnes, that you lool like a more than ordinarily intelligen1 man and that if I had a chance t< buzz with you for a quarter of ai hour, I could present a proposition" "Sorry, Mr. Sprouse, but it is hall past eleven o'clock, and I am dog + Vaii nrill 4-a ov/tnen tyio '' bUCU. X VU VYUI 11(4 T V WV &AV.UJV **?v. "Tomorrow morning will suit me,' said Sprouse cheerfully, "if it suit: you." CHAPTER XI, Mr. Sprouse Abandons Literature ai an Early Hour in the Morning. After thrashing about !n his bed for seven sleepless hours, Barnes arose and gloomily breakfasted alone. He was not discouraged over his failure to arrive at anything tang^>le in the shape of a plan of action. It was inconceivable that he should not be able in very short order to bring about the release of the fair guest of Green Fancy. There was not the slightest doubt in his mind that international affairs of considerable importance were involved and that the agents operating at Green Fancy were under definite orders. Mr. Sprouse came into the dining U ^ i.l.l VU rwiu as ue wau mKiug ma iasi awtulow of coffee. "Ah, good morning," was the bland little man's greeting. "Up /with the lark, I see. Mind If I sit/down here and have my eggs?" He pulled ont a chair opposite Barnes and coolly sat down at the table. "You can't sell me a set of Dickens at this hour of the day," said Barnes sourly. "Besides, I've finished my breakfast Keep your seat." He started to rise. "Sit down," said Sprouse quietly. Something In the man's voice and manner struck Barnes as oddly compelling. He hesitated a second and then resumed his seat. 'Tve been Investigating you, Mr. Barnes," said the little man, unsmlllngly. "Don't get sore. There are a lot of things that you don't know, and one of them is that I don't sell books for a living. It's something of a side line with me." He leaned forward. "I shall be quite frank with you, sir. I am a secret service man Yesterday I went through your effects upstairs, and last night I took the liberty of spying upon you, so to speak, while you were a guest at Green Fancy." "The deuce you say!" cried Barnes. "We will get right down to tacks." said Sprouse. "My government? which isn't yours, by the way?sent me up here five weeks ago on a certain undertaking. I am supposed to find out what Is hatching up at Green Fancy. Having satisfied myself that you are not connected with the gang up there I cheerfully place myself in your hands, Mr. Barnes. You were at Green Fancy last night. So was I. You had an advantage over me, however, for you were on the Inside and I was not." "Confound your Impudence I I?" "One of my purposes In revealing myself to you, Mr. Bajnes, Is to warn you to steer clear of that crowd. You may find yourself In exceedingly hot water later on If you don't. Another mirnnco nnil the raal nno 5c tn cpnnrp. if possible, your co-operation In beating the game up there. You can help me, and in helping me you may be Instrumental in righting one of the gravest wrongs the world has ever known." "Will you be good enough. Mr. Sprouse, to tell me just what you are trying to get at? I know nothing whatever against Mr. Curtis and his friends. You assume a great deal?" "Excuse me, Mr. Barnes. I'll admit that you don't know anything against them, but you suspect a whole lot. To begin with, you suspect that two men were shot to death because they were *? ?'Al. r.AM/v/\nn O f A??OOn Ill wrung Willi 5U1UCUUC ai uictu Fancy. Now I could tell you who these two men really were and why they were shot. But I sha'n't do anything of the sort?at least not at present." Barnes was Impressed. "Perhaps you will condescend to tell me who you are, Mr. Sprouse. I am very much in the dark." "I am a special agent?hut not a spy, sir?of a government that is friendly to yours. I am known ia Washington. My credentials are not to be questioned. At present it would be unwise for me to reveal the name of my government. I dare say if I can afford to trust you, Mr. Barnes, you cnn afford to trust me. There is too much at stake for me to take the slightest chance with any man. I am ready to chance you, sir, If you will do the same by me." "Well," began Barnes deliberately, I gness you will have to take a chance with me, Mr. Sprouse, for I refuse to commit myself until I know exactly what you are up to." . "in the first place, Mr, Barnes." sai4 p Sprouse, salting his eggs, "you have been thinking that I was sent down 1 from Green Fancy to spy on yon. 1 Isn't that so?" e "I am answering no questions, Mr. . Sprouse." 1 j "You were wrong," said Sprouse, as j if Barnes had answered In the afflrij mative. "I am working on my own. j s I &>u may have observed that I did not e accompany the sheriffs posse today. I e I was up in Hornvllle getting the final word from New York that you were on . the level. I- telephoned to New York. 1 Eleven dollars and -sixty ^ ts. You were under suspicion until I hung up j the receiver, I may say." "Jones has been talking to you," said Barnes. "But you said a moment . ago that you were up at Green Fancy last night. Not by invitation, I take 1 it." c "I invited myself," said Spr*ise suet cinctly. "Are you inclined t? favor my proposition?" i i "You haven't made one." "By suggestion, Mr. Barnes. It is ? ' qnite impossible for me to get inside that house. You appear to have the I entree. You are working in the dark, guessing at everything. I am guess' ing at nothing. By combining forces 3 we should bring this thing to a head, and?" i "Just a moment. You expect me to abuse the hospitality of?" "I shall have to speak plainly, I , see." He leaned forward, fixing g Barnes with a pair of steady, earnest g eyes. "Six months ago a certain royal . h Anoa Jn T?ni?nr>A wne ^nonAilfifl Af l+C k 11UUOC 1IJ uuiupc ?? UO UVOJJW1IV.U Wi. IIW ^ jewels, its privy seal, its most precious jj state documents and Its chapter. They j( have been traced to the United States. ^ I am here to recover them. That Is the foundation of my story, Mr. Barnes. p "Without dfvulging the name of the ^ house I will say that Its sympathies have been from the outset friendly to the entente allies?especially with France. There are two branches of the ruling family, one in power, the tj other practically In exile. The stnte a Is a small one, but its Integrity Is of a the highest. Its sons and daughters h have married into the royal families of nearly all of the great nations of the continent. The present?or I w should say, the late rulef, for he died n on a field of battle not many months ft] ago, had m> direct heir. He was n young and unmarried. I am not per- r( mitted to state with what army he g( was fighting, nor on which front he Ir exile lent its support to the cause of d Germany, not for moral reasons but B in the hope and with the understand- a pi ing, I am to believe, that the crown tc lands would be the reward. The di- tl rect heir to the crown is a cousin of d< the late prince. He is now a prisoner gl of war in Austria. Other members of the family are held by the Bulgarians as prisoners of war. It is not stretch ing the imagination very far to picture them as already dead and out of ^ the way. At the close of the war, if ^ Germany is victorious, the crown will ^ be placed upon the head of the pre-' tender branch . Are you following! me?" , I* I BREA One of the thii its dependabilii I in the house. Whether you \ it's always re: ashes?and yoi knew before. The Puritan t direct contact medium or hig and odorless. ' Sold by all dea 1 STAND \ C Washington, D. C ( ~ > Norfolk, V?. 1 T Riohmond. V?. Wc WOIL < Six Months Ago a Royal House Was Despoiled of Its Crown Jewels, Seal and Charter." "Yes," said Barnes, his nerves tinling. He was beginning to see s r^at light. "Almost' under the noses of thf orces left by the Teutonic allies tc old the invaded territory the crown ewels, charter and so forth, hereto ore mentioned, as they say in legal arlance, were surreptitiously removed rom the palace and spirited away by ersons loyal to the ruling branch o 1 tie family. As I have stated, I am enaged in the efTort to recover them. "Now we come, to the present sitution. Some months ago a member of He aforesaid rfcyal house arrived in lis country by way of Japan. He if distant cousin of the crown, and In way remotely looked upon as the elr apparent. Later on he seques;red himself in Canada. Our agents i Europe learned but recently that hlle he pretends to he loyal to the lllng house he is actually scheming gainst it. I have been ordered to in him to earth, for there is every iason to believe that the men who jcured the treasure have been duped ito regarding him as the avowed rnmplon of the crown. * Now, Mr. arnes, without telling you how I have rrlved at the conclusion, I am preared to state that I believe this man > be at Green Fancy, and that in time le loot?to use a harsh word?will be elivered to him there. I am here to ?t it, one way or another, when that >mes to pass." (To Be Continued NEW PUMP FOR ENGINE. The new pump for the Seagrave 'ire Engine has arrived and has een installled. The second test will e made as soon as a representative f the Southeastern Fire, Insurance Jnderwriters arrives in Abbeville rom Atlanta. KFAST ON 1 \ igs you'll enjoy about a Puritan < ty?breakfast is always on time w vant a quick hot oven or a slow sin: ady without bothering about cog ur kitchen has a summer coolness turner gives a hot steady flame i with the utensil?instantly reguh h heat. The flame stays where s< The brass burners last for years, ilers. ARD OIL COM (New Jersey) ( Baltimore, Md. c,j! l'RJj/ COOK STC Quit Laxatives,. 7 Purges; Try NR NR Tonight?Tomorrow Feel Right It Is a mistake to continually dose yourself with so-called laxative pills, calomel, oil, purges and cathartics and force bowel action. It weakens the bowels and liver and makes constant rtnalne n??w?ss?rv. Why don't you begin right today to overcome your constipation and get your system in such shape that dally purging will be unnecessary? You can do so if you get a 25c box of Nature's Remedy (NR Tablets) and take one each night for a week or so. NR Tablets do much more than merely cause pleasant easy bowel action. This medicine acts upon the digestive as well as ellmlnatlve organs ?promotes good digestion, causes the body to get the nourishment from all the food you eat, gives you a good, hearty appetite, strengthens the liver, overcomes biliousness, regulates kidney and bowel action and gives the whole body a thorough cleaning out . This accomplished you will not have to take medicine eveiy day. An occasional NB tablet will keep your body in condition and you can always feel your best. ' Try Nature's Remedy (NR Tablets) and prove this. It is the best bowel medicine that you can use and costs only 25c per box, containing enough to last twenty-flve days. Nature's Remedy (NR Tablets) Is sold, guaranteed and recommended by your druggist. McMurray Drug Co.LIFT OFF CORNS! / '( Apply few drops then lift sorc?touchy corns off with fingers Doesn't hurt a hit! Drop a little Freezone on an aching corn, instantly that corn stops hurting, then you lift it right out. Yes, magic! A tiny bottle of Freezone costs but a few cents at any drug store, but is sufficient to remove every hard corn, soft corn, or corn between tne toes, and the calluses, without soreness or irritation. Freezone is the sensational discovery of a Cincinnati genius. It is wonderful.?Adv. , \ f/ riME Cookstove is ith a Puritan ' r imering heat, \ '.? tl, wood and that it never hat comes in ited for low, st, smokeless PANl asstfvs p?r Best harlciton, S. C. Results k "^1||AIADDIN| . _ __ ? I SECURITY OIL , mm S a bu.* m standadd I \S r1 fl ai?220 / >.