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'PECULIAR CONDUCT OF POLLY'S QUEER VISITOR By CLAUDINE SISSON. All night long Polly Witham had shivered under the sheets and at 4 o'clock when the eastern sky was a faint yellow and the birds were sing ing in the tall locusts she turned her lace to the wall and slept for tan de licious minutes. The screeching of the pump chain at the back door brought her trem bling to the lioor and she tiptoed to the window and looked out, her eyes heavy with weariness. Before the pump stood a tail young man clad in spotless white yachting clothes. His fair hair was guiltless of covering. He was drinking water from a bright tin dipper. Poily watched him with bated breath-as one watches an r.pparition, expecting it to vanish in thin air. But he did not vanish. Polly raised the window a few cau tious inches and spoke gruffly. "Do you want anything?" she in quired inhospitably. The stranger turned a pair of very blue eyes toward her. It was evident that he could not see her, but he stared at the shutter. "Yes," he replied deliberately, "you may bring me half a cup of tea, half a cup of coffee and a few waffles." "Is that all?" murmured Polly meek ly. "And make haste, please," he added, waving a sun-burned hand toward her. Polly locked the window and hasten ed to the kitchen which was a dark and deserted as any kitchen would be at 4:30 on a June morning with mistress and maids away from home. . Polly made a hot fire of pine kind lings, set on the waffle iron to heat, filled the tea kettle, and ran upstairs to dress. Her only thought was to feed and get rid of the queerly be haved stranger on the front porch. Presently she groped her way through the smoke filled kitchen with a tray containing crisp waffles and butter, a cup of tea and a cup of cof fee with the necessary sugar and cream. Cautiously she opened the back door and placed the tray on the bench outside. Then she re-locked the door and hastened to the front window. "Your breakfast is ready on tbe back porch," announced Polly through a crack of the window. "Thank you," he said alertly, and hurried down the steps. ! He stopped short at sight of the breakfast tray and shock his head. [Then he grasped the coffee cup and ?poured half its contents upon the ,'ground. He repeated the operation .with the tea cup. Then he sat down ?pa the steps and proceeded to con sume the waffles, drinking first a swallow of tea and then a swallow of ^coffee. Suddenly he leaped to his jf_ rfeet, swept his cap off and addressed .the kitchen door: ; "Farewell, fair waffler!" he ejaculat :ed, and stalked away. J Polly Witham watched until his tall .form had disappeared down a wooded road that led to the village. Then she .sat down on the floor and alternately ? laughed and cried. * Later in the morning she drove her little car down to the postoffice. As 'she passed the livery stable she no ticed that the newly washed carriages Vere ranged along the curbstone. . On the front seat of a horseless ?surrey sat her visitor of the morn ling, a rose in his lapel. A laprobe ?was carefully spread over his knees and he was sitting very straight and .staring right over the heads of the ?Indignant liveryman and the village constable. ; The constable rubbed his ear with {a polished stick of authority. "Come jdown outer there, young feller," he {rasped. j The stranger smiled patronizingly. *'My good man, be good enough to !bring me half a cup of tea and half a ?cup of coffee," he said. As the words died on his lips, the ?stranger's face grew pale and gaunt. jHis head drooped and he crumpled ?down on the seat. "Ah!" cried impulsive Polly, as the .'little crowd of onlookers held back ffrom assisting the stricken man. ."'Can't you see that he is ill? Help ?him into my car, constable-he s a ffriend of ours," she lied. : In a few moments Polly was racing ttoward home with the constable sup ?por?ng the unconscious man in the ?seat beside her. I Late that afternoon a little party of yachtsmen called at the Witham "home and inquired for Polly's invalid vrho had regained consciousness only ito sink into a deep slumber. They ex jplained to Polly that the stranger was (Paul Amory, owner of the yacht Sea idrift, anchored in the bay below. Mr. Amory had been suffering from sun stroke and had eluded his watchers and left the vessel in the night. Two weeks later, long after Mr. and Mrs. Witham had returned home, Paul Amory, quite recovered from his illness, took his departure. ! "Miss Polly," said Amory, "since Eve been convalescent, I've been re lembering some funny things that appened-before you befriended me ?that morning." "Yes?" asked Polly, blushing a llt (tle. "You are the fair waffler?" he smil jed down at her. "I am the waffler," admitted Polly Solemnly. "And the half cups-were you not (frightened?" j "I was-and yet it was funny, too." "Well-I wonder if you'll forgive jmen for all the trouble I've caused !ycu and if yow will let me return isome day for the other half cups?" jills hand closed over her small one. i "X-nope you will," faltered Polly. EDNA'S BURGLAR WAS NOT A REAL ROBBER By MOLLY MCMASTER. Edna sat up and listened. Her heart was beating with almost breath less rapidity from having been awaked from sound sleep. It was the third time during the night that she sat up to listen, and as she sank back at this hour of three in the morning she told herself it was only the strangeness of an unfamiliar room that kept her so keenly alive to sounds. She closed her eyes but opened them again. Surely some one was just outside her window! The sound came from below as if the intruder were attempting to climb up the great vine that covered the side of the housa. Edna became strangely calm. She stepped from her bed, and in the darkness slipped on her pink silk hose and satin slippers that she had left carelessly lying after an evening of dancing. Then she drew on her dain ty pink tea gown. Edna went cautiously toward the window and peeped through the mass of vines that clustered about the win dow frame. Her heart fluttered. A man was making his way slowly and by painful stages to her window. She paused a moment wondering whether to wait until he reached the top and fell him with a chair or to throw something weighty down on his unsuspecting head. Edna chose the latter method. She turned in the dark and by light of a pale moonbeam caught sight of the great water Jug on the stand. "That would certainly kill him," she told herself with a shudder; "I can not possiibly do that." She would empty the contenta of the jug on that ascending head. The man was several yards from the ground; for a second Edna hesi tated. Perhaps even then the fall might prove fata). "But I can not be murdered in my bed," She shuddered again and with a burst of courage leaned far out of the window and spilled the water with sure aim on the burglar's head. She heard a muttered remark, a heavy thud and the pitcher dropped from her nerveless fingers. Her cour age completely gone. Edna did her first feminine act of her escapade; she dropped in a heap just within the window. The man, suddenly foiled in his as cent, picked himself up with many short and terse words falling from his lips. He shook himself like a shaggy terrier, but he was drenched to the skin. Looking up to sec the cause of his downfall the man gasped. Lying across the window sill like a pale wedge of moonbeam was the arm of a woman. With almost superhuman strength be sprang toward the vine and climb ed to the window ledge. He drew himself within the room und picked up the girl tenderly. Being without, resources of his own and knowing not what to do. he rush ed out in the darkened hall and made his way ??wn the stairs with his pre cious Bundle. Groping his way toward a door he hammered with his feet lest he drop the uuconscious girl from his arms. The door in the hall opened and a very frightened girl in blue kimono peeped out "Jack Danvers," she screamed, "have you lost your mind!" She glanced with frightened eyes at her brother. His clothes were dripping, and his face white and stern. "No! But switch on the light and look at what I found in my room!" He followed her into the room and laid the girl on the couch. It seemed to Edna the action was reluctant. She began gradually to regain conscious ness and opened her eyes. They lit first upon the stalwart big man whom she had taken for a burglar, and from him to the girl in the blue ki mono. The latter rushed to Edna's side and gathered her into her arms. "Edna darling." she asked tenderly, "what in the world have they been doing to you? And why is my broth er Jack all soaked and tearing madly through the pitch dark house with you?" "I took-your brother for a burglar -and emptied the contents of the water jug on him. I am so sorry," she said prettily. "It is all my faul' " he told her quickly. "I was a silly chump to come out to the country at this time of night when the family would all be In bed. but somehow I just wanted to wake up in my own roora and hear the birds sing. I often take a fancy of that kind, and when everyone is asleep I sometimes.get in by climbing up the vine." "I never even dreamed of your coming out for the week-end when I put Edna into your room," Mary Dan vers was saying. "It does not seem so terrible, sis," laughed Jack. "Does it to you?" He turned to Edna. Edna glanced quickly up at him. and the color rushed swiftly up to meet her downcast eyes. He gave a little helpless shrug of his shoulders that brought an ache to Edna's throat. He threw a glance at his sister and turned to leave the room. Edna jumped up suddenly and flung herself into his arms. "Of course it did not seem terrible, dear," she cried swiftly. "But everything else has seemed terrible since I broke my engagement to you, and if you still love me-" There was no need for words. Kentucky Stock Our second car of horses has just arrived They were purchased in Kentucky by our Mr. B. B. Wilson in person. Come in to see us when you need a good horse or mule at a reasonable price Wilson & Cantelou General Insurance Agency 1 beg to announce to my friends and the public generally that I have re-entered the tire insurance business, and am in a position to place any business intrusted to me with a due and proper regard for the confidence placed in me by my patrons. ? also represen: one of the leading Life and Acci dent Health companies. Respectfully soliciting a share of your business and with appreciation ot past kindnesses shown me, 1 ara, truly yours, C. A. Griffin, Hear of N. G. Evans, Esq . Augusta's Leading Jewelry Store Our st' ck of silverware, decorated china, cut plass, gold, silvery jewelry, diamonds, watches and silver novelties was never larger. DESIGNS ARE fJEW Everything is from the leading and most relia ble manufacturers in the country. Let us supply \ our needs. We have never boen better equipped in every department, and what is best our prices arc very reasonable. Sat isfaction guaranteed, Will be a pleasure to show von through cur stock. A. J. Renkl We selected and registered this trade-mark and it ap pears on the bags of all our fertilizers. It is your guar antee of 100% quality and protection against inferior fertilizers. This Giant Lizard-a land animal, weighing 25 to 30 tons, lived in South Carolina during the forma tion of our phosphate beds. LOOK FOR THIS ON THE BAG iTRADEu REGISTERED White Boys and Girls from 12 to 25 years old to learn to spin and weave in Bagging Mili;will start pay at from Per week while learning. After learning can earn from vj Address Per week Mill runs 57 hours per week, 1-2 day holiday Saturday. Families having 3 or more boys or girls to work can get new houses, with bath, electric lights and, and water, and all mod ern conveniences at very reasonable rent within 5 minutes walk of mill. If interested fill in coupon below and mail to us. s ara e __i_ How many in family warning work_ Mmito charleston Bagging Mfg. Co. CHARLESTON, S. C. Round Trip Excursion Fares to Columbia, S. C. and Return -VIA Soutkern Railway Premier Carrier of the South -ACCOUNT Fifth National Corn Exposition Jan. 27- Feb. 9,1913 Account of this occasion, the Southern Railway an nounces very low round trip fares to Columbia. S. 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We are now in our warehouse, corner of Fenwick and Cumming street?, two blocks from the Union Passenger Station where we have the most modern warehouse in Augusta with floor space of 2 4,800 squa.c feet and it is literally packed with Groceries and fe.-ds frcm te lar to roof. Our stock must be seen to be appre ciated. Our expenses are at least 5450.00 a month less since discon tinuing our store ai 863 Broad street, and as goods are unleaded from cars to warehe-.se, we are in a pesitim to name very cloe pnces. If you really want the wcrth ot your money see or write us ARRBNGTON enos. & co. Augusto, Ga. Office and salesroom 8S3 Broad Warehouse Ga. Railroad tracks. P. S. Mr. M. Gary Sntcher is with us and will be glad to see his friends