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KATHLEEN NORRIS " KATnUEN NORRIf SYNOPSIS. CHAPTKU 1. -With his two daughter?. Allx und Cherry, thc latter Just eighteen years ol<l. ami his niece, Anno, Doctor Strickland, retired, ta living nt Mill Val ley, u short distance from ffcin Francisco, lila closest friend la Peter Joyce, some thing of ti recluse. Visiting In the vi cinity. M ri rt In Lloyd, mining engineer, fulls In love with und secretly becomes engaged to Clierry. CHAPTKll 11.-While the family la speculating aa to Lloyd's intentions. Cher ry bringa him io supper, practically an nouncing her engagement ta him. CHAPTER III.-I>octor Strickland fools Cherry ls too young to marry and urges her to walt at least a year, hut tho girl coaxes him Into agreeing to an Immediate wedding mut Hie ceremony lakes placo, the roupie leaving al once for Kl Nido, Where Marlin it? employed. CHAPTER VII. The Inst day of March and of Cher rys visit broke clear and blue, und with lt spring seemed to have come ou a rush of perfume and green beau ty. Days had been soft and wann before ; this day was bot, and flushed With color and splendor. Allx and Cherry washed each oth er's bair lo thu old fashion, and came trailing down with towels and combs to the garden. The doctor Joined them In the midst of their tossing and apreadlng, and sat smoking peacefully on the porjdi steps. "Oh, heavens, how I love this sort of weather I" Allx exclaimed, flinging ber brown mane backward, her tall figure slender in u f tided kimono. "Dad und Peter," she went on, sud denly sliting erect, "will get lill this nice clean hair full of cigar smoke tonight, so what's tho use, anyway?" "Tonight's the night wc go to Pe ter's?" Cherry stated rather (bun asked. "Do you remember." she glanced at her father, who was read ing bis paper, "do you remember when Dad always used io scold us for being rude to Peter?" "Well, I'd rather go to Peter's for dinner than anywhere else 1 ever gol" Allx remarked, dreamily. "Seriously, J mean it!" she repeated as Cherry looked at ber lu amused surprise. "In the first place, 1 love bis bungalow tiny us lt ls, lt has thc whole ol' a lit tle canyon to Itself, und the prettiest view In the valley, 1 think. Anti then I love the messy pitting room, With all the books and music, timi 1 love the way Peter entert nins. 1 wish," she udded, simply, "that I liked Deter half as well as I tlo his bouse I" "Peter's a dear"' Cherry contended. "Oh, I know fie ls!" Allx sahl, quickly. "Deter's always been a dear, of course. Hut I mean In a special sense-" llnlshed Allx with au en tirely unembarrassed grin. Cherry, through a glittering cloud of bair, looked at her steadily. Sud denly she guve an odd laugh. "Do you know I never thought of Peter like that?" she sahl. Alix nodded with a cautious look nt lier falber, who wits out of bearing. "No, nor I! We've always taken him rather for granted." she n>'mil ted. "Only I've been rather wishing, lately, that Peter wasn't such an un flattering, hlg-brotherlsh, every.day neighbor serf of person." Cherry regarded ber steadily, with nu awakening look In ber eyes. "Why lately V" she asked. "I teen lise," said Allx, brisk l,\ and unromantically, "I think Deter vould like inc to well, to stop laking bim for granted! I Imagine be's awfully lonely. And then I Imagine lt would please Dad " "Dad bas always been ridiculously fond of him," Cherry said, thought fully. ' eier-possibly in love with Allx ! She had never even suspected it. Well, lhere was something rallier pleasant In the thought, rifler nil, If Alix didn't mind bis ugliness and thinness. Cherry thought about lt lill day. She had no thought of money a year or two ago; but she was moro experienced now. Anti Peter was rich. Ordinarily she would have said that she was not going to change for Peter's dinner; but this afternoon, without mentioning the fact, she quietly got Into one of ber prettiest dresses; n dress that bail been made In the long-ago excitement of trous seau days. Peter as a rather auto cratic anil critical neighbor was one thing; as a possible brother-in-law be was another. Rho came downstairs to And her fnther walting, and they walked away through the woods together. 1 Allx had already gonn up to Toter's house lo piny tennis. They walked slowly through the lovely aisles of the trees, crossing a road or two, climbing steadily upward under great redwoods. Cherry's skirt brushed the gold dust from masse* and masses of buttercup*. The tennis was over, but Just over; Peter and Allx were sitting, still pant ing, on the rall of the wide. oj>en porch, and shouted as the others Clime np. "Von missed doubles I" called Allx. "The grandest WO ever did! Doubles with the Thompsons mid titree sets straight to us-six two, six-two, und six two nenin ! They've gone. Oh, heavens, I never had such lennis. Oh, Deter, when you stood lhere at the net and Just curved your hand liku ll cup" -Allx gave an enthusiastic imitation -"and over she wen*, and game and set .'" Cherry, sinking white mid frilly into a chair, smiled Indulgently. The walk had given ber a wild-rose colet, and even Allx was struck with ber extraor dinary beauty. Alix lind wheeled about on the rall to face tho perch, and Peter had gotten to bis feet and was hospitably pushing basket chairs about. Now he gave Alix a critical look. "You're disgracefully dirty!" he said, fraternally. "I know lt," fdic answered, calmly. "Have I time to tub?" "All the time In the world I" be an swered. Allx departed. "It's very pleasant to me to have Allx so much at home here," Cherry said, when Allx was gone, and the doctor wandering happily about the garden. "I don't know what we'd do If any one ever usurped our places here !" She had said lt deliberately; the fascination of her recent discovery wns too strong to resist. The man flushed .suddenly. For a full minute he did not speak, end Cherry' waa sur prised to find herself a little thrilled and even frightened by his silence. "What put that into your head?" he asked, presently, smoking with hie eyes llxod upon ibo valley far below. "Perhaps lt's because there are so many changes, Deter: my marriage, Anne's -everything different! It Just caine to me that lt ls idee to have this always the same." "Perhaps Allx will come up here and help keep lt so some day," the man said, deliberately. Cherry's look of ?labor?t?' surprise and pleasure died before his serious glance. She was silent for n moment. "Why don't you esk her?" she said in a low, thoughtful tone, trembling, eager to preserve his mood without a false note. "I have," lie answered ?Imply. Cherry's hen rt Jumped with a sudden unexpected emotion. What waa lt? Not pleasure, not all surprise-surely there could be no Jealousy mixed with her feeling for Deter's plans? But she was dazed with the rush of feel ing; hurt in some fashion she could not stop to dissect now. "And she said no?" she Stammered in confusion. "She said no. Or, nt least. 1 Inti mated that I wns a lonely old affec tionate man with this and that to of fer, and she Intimated that that wasn't enough. I ought to have said-I ought to explain-that I had told her, only a few days previously, that I had al ways loved somebody else !" "Oh b h !" ('berry was enlightened. She visualized tin affair In the last years of the old century for Peter. "Oh, and lind she didn't hive you?" Clifrry asked. "The lady? She was unfortunately married before I bad a Chance to ask ber." s?i?i| peter. "Oh-h-h !" ('berry said nguiu, Im pressed, "and you'll never get ovpr lt?" she asked, timidly. "Peter, I never knew Hint !" she added as he was silent, "Does does Dud bmw?" "Nobody knows but Allx, and she only knows tho bare facts," bc as sured lier. "Oh!" Cherry could think of nothing to add lo tho sympa I Iud le little mono syllabic. "Finished with the shower!" shrieked Allx from the warm darkness Inside tho doorway. "Hurry up. Peter, something smells utterly grand !" "That's the chicken thing!" Peter about ed back, springing up to disap pear in thc direction of the bath room, ("berry Rill on, silent, wrapped still in thc new spell of thc pleasant voice, thc strangely appealing and yet masterful personality. ? . ? ? ? ? ? The dinner straggled a? all Peter's dinners did ; Alix mixed a s:i!ad dress lng; Peter himself flushed In and out of the tiny, hot kitchen a hundred times. Kow, In Immaculate linen. came hock and forth io fetsjrely tableflettlng. Suddenly evwjrtblng wan ron dy ; the crisp, sinokfog-hot . French loaf, the big, brown Jar of bub- j bllnc ti'v'. odorous chicken, the.lettuce | curled In Hs bowl, the long-necked bottles tn their straw cases, and efioeses and crackers and olives rad figs und tiny tish in oil and marrons in fluted imper tliut were a part of ! all Peter's dinners. After dinner they watched Ute moon rise, until Alix drifted In to the plano | and Peter followed ber, and the otb- . ern came in, too, to sit beside the lire. AR usual lt was midnight before any one thought of ending one of Peter's j evenings. And all through the pleasant, quiet hours, and when be bundled them up In bis own big loose couti to drive them home, Cherry was thinking of 1dm in this new light; Peter loving a woman, and denied. The knowledge seemed to liing a strange glamor about him ; she saw new charm lu him, or perhaps, as she told herself, she saw for the first timo how ch lng bo really was. His sp? .. h soi actually the pleasanter for 'Do . mer at which they had i lauj years ago; the slight limn loot own touch of individuality ano' man's blunt criticisms of books music, politics and people, were omni by his humor, his gt nain mlllty, and his eager hosplh Next day sae took occas thai Peter and his affair to Alix turned Pery red, ht; Inuj hardily. "If he considers that nb Off?;?" can consider it a refusal. ! she said, boyishly em harli like him I'm crazy about I don't want any party in r liloli crinolines to come floating t'Otn dead past over my child' cradle-" "Alix, you're awful!' Ch laughed. "You couldn't tal) tf you loved him I" Alix laughed. "I suppoi f i to be a mass of blushes. ! lu ls, I like kids, and I don*', bands-" "Von don't know onytb ri ^ ut . husbands !" Cherry laughed, "1 know lots of men I'd Uk? U off with for a few months,' AUX sued. "Hut then I'd like to lome le again 1 1 don't see why thai '. u t fectly reasonable-" "Well, lt's not I" Cherry deda almost crossly. "That Isn't / . ringo. You belong wdiere : iw ; band ls, and you-you are alway? ? to he with him-" "But suppose you get tir r ..i like a Joh or a boardlng-hou . -, I of your other friends?" Ally ?ors! ?d Idly. "Well, you aren't supp se I Cherry said, feebly. Allx le her the last word; lt was only th < < r superior experience, she rhot crossly. But half an hour 1 wakeful, and thinking that < I miss dear old Cherry tom fnncled she heard soineth! sob from Cherry's bed, and heart softened with sympnt sister. . . * * ? They came downstairs to (lt next day In mldafternoon, b and wrapped for tim trip, was to take Cherry as far a.1 In the car, and Martin by a chance was to meet them th ttl ferryboat for San Pru nels Valley was not more than ride from the ferry. Allx wi down and return with Peter. Cherrj said good-by to ber father on the porch ; she seemed more of a puzzled child than ever. "I've had a wonderful visit, Dad-" she began bravely. Suddenly the tears came. She burled her face against ber father's shabby old office coat nnd his anns went about her. Allx laughed awkwardly, and Peter shut bis teeth. Anne, who had very prop erly come over to say good by to ber cousin, got in the back seat of the car and Allx took the seat beside lier. Cherry saw In Peter's expression something that she did not forget for many, many months--never quite for got. His eyes were fixed upon her with something so yearning, so loving, Cherry, Tied Trimly Into a Hat T.iat Was All Big, Daisies, Was Silent for a While. so troubled in their gaze (hat a thrill went through Cherry from head to foot. He Instantly averted his look, turned to the car, fumbled with the gears ; they were off. Cherry, tied trimly Into n hat that (Continued oil Next Page) THE FIGURES ON ILLITERACY In South Carolina, a? Shown by Coin pilaf lon from J 1)241 Census. A dispatch from Washington suys: The following statement shows the percentage of illiteracy in the coun ties of South Carolina, according to the returns of the 14th census,.which was taken in January, 1020. An ll-j literate, as delinea in the census, is a pc ion ten years of age or over who ls unable to write either in Eng lish or any other language. The per centages are based upon the total poimlation ten years of age and over, or the total native white, or total negro, as the case may he. The total for (he State is 18.1 per cent. Among the whites it is 6.6 per cent.; among the i."groes 20.3 per cent. The lig ures, by counties, follow: Total. Whi. Abbeville .17.4 ?.2 Aiken.1 S.O 8.1 Allendale .32.4 1.4 Anderson .I 2.S 7.4 Hamberg.1 S..*, 4.8 Harnwell .23.S 6.ti ?caufott.22.tl .">.7 Berkeley.M S.I OJ Calhoun.19.5 I .6 Charleston .I a.4 1.5 Cherokee.17.:: I 1.1 Chester.23.S .">. I Chesterfield.19.1 13.3 Clarendon .19.5 4.1 Colletoil.25.t! 7.1! Darlington.I 9.2 9.9 DMlon.; . 22.:! I 0.9 Dorchester .20.3 Kdgclleld. 20.5 2.0 Ka ir Hold .21.0 2.?) Florence.is.7 7.1 Georgetown .2!>.7 7.i! Creen vi Ile.11.0 ti.:'. Creen wood.10.3 4.7 1 lampton.20.4 3.5 Dorry.1 ii.."> 1 1.9 Jasper .33.0 Cl Kershaw.1 CO 6.2 Lancaster.1 7. S 8.1 Laurens.10.7 5.3 Leo.25.9 CS Lexington.12.5 CO .McCormick. 20.4 2.4 Marion. 22.5 7.2 Marlboro.18.0 10.5 Newberry.10.5 CU Oconee.12.f> 0.0 Orangeburg .18.0 C7 Dickens.10.7 7.2 Richland.13.7 4.0 Saluda .16.7 4.0 ^"?unl">rff 13 7 S 9 . . 16.4 ..17 . il V. '.'i,:: burg . ?? 1.7 ' . "? DODSON'S LIVER TONE INSTEAD Ol CALOMEL. Calomel is quicksilver, lt attacks tho bones and paralyzes the liver. Your dealer sells each bottle of pleasant, harmless "Dodson's Liver Tone" under an ironclad, money back guarantee that it will regulate che liver, stomach and bowels better :han calomel, without sickening or saliva tin g you-15 million bottlea sold.-adv. Train Held Ups Passengers Robbed. Salt Lake City, Utah, Aug. 31 - Tho Los Angeles Limited, of the Union Pacific system, was held up by two masked and armed robbers shortly after 2 o'clock this afternoon near Clearfield, nine miles sough ot Ogden. All the male passengers were robbed. The train was stopped hy an auto matic block signal. The two robbers boarded the train, and while one gathered loot in the observation car the other proceeded to the other cars. rho exact amount taken is not known. Nearing the outskirts of Salt Lake the robbers pulled the signal Bord and escaped in the northern pail of the eily. One passenger in tho observation car, rallier than hold up his hands, i ll ill ped from the train. As he was Hoeing one of the robers shot nt him. Women and children on the train were liol molested. We are proud of tho confidence doctors, druggists and tho public have in (1(1(1 Chill and Lever Tonie. -adv. Dieven Dead in Illinois Explosion. Harrisburg. 111.. Aug. :? I. Bodies if eleven miners were recovered to night from Hie Ilario mine follow ng an explosion this afternoon. More [han four hundred men had boon working,but had been warned.and es caped when a dynamite charge broke lown the wall of an old room, loos .ning black damp. Seven men, who ^scaped the explosion, but are suffer ing from the effect of black damp, ivoro taken lo local hospitals, it is lelievod Ibey will recover. Volunteer Tseue teams were organized by tho niners, hut their efforts were futile. Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days )ruj?lBt8 refund money If PAZO OINTMENT foils 0 cure Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles, nstnntly relieves Itching Piloy, epd you cnn got estful sleep ofter the fhbt uuullcation. Pike GOc. Wizard Edison Reads Latest News to Harding and Others in Camp Left to ngiit: Henry Ford. Thomas A. Edison, President Harding and H. S. Firestone WHO eau i*ay how much power Burroughs, tho naturalist and writer, and influence is represented in I whoso death last spring left a va? thc picture ubovcf j caney when they came to consider Henry Font thc Detroit manufac- j another vacation tliis year. lt ia turcr und inventor; Thomas A. F.di- "aid tho throe principals so highly son. electrical wirnrd und genius; ' regarded' the aged naturalist that President Warren tl. Harding nl.il : they believed no less a personage ll. S. Firestone. I Itu Akron tire man- limn tho president of tho United II fae turor and liiuuicicr, form a quur- ; States properly could All his placo, tot who.se weill th of mind and maier- ! Tho president was pleased to ac ial riches it would be hard lo este copt tho honor to nssinnc the role and mate. j for a few days live thc si ni plo lifo This picture was lidien recent ly in ', that characterized tho career of tho Hie mountains ni .Maryland whore . ngod naturalist. those famous men wore* spending a | '""ho campers wero singularly con night on a cuni ping tour that lasted genial, riding horseback, Ashing, ten days. ? swapping stories, sharing camp President Harding was thc guest ! chores together. Tho president, liko of Mr bluestone, Mr. Fd ison and oilier members, was enger to do his Mr. Ford, who loi years have Poon share around tho camp kitchen, accustomed io take their annual out- which, in his particular caso, con mgs together, living ?imply in camps sistcd of chopping wood for thc kit as far from the haunts of tourist? chen firo Ho was unable to remain ns it is possible to icu. for the entire outing, being called Formerly tho party consisted ot back to Washington on ollicial busi Fdison Firestone, ford and John ness. THU KM I MO USONS I ?OS M M VMS In ('cecilwood County- Ex-Service ! Alan Killed hy Policeman. (?reenwood, Aug. 31.-As a result o? ?i surtes of homicides in this coun ty last night. Willie C. Herring, a Thirtieth Division veteran, is dead, shot to' death hy Policeman T. E. Dukes at Ninety-Six after Herring had shot six times at officers; and two negroes, a woman and a two year-old child, are dead, having been shot to deatr by Nathan Wardlaw.'a negro, at Hodges last night in a lit of jealousy. Sheriff IC. M. White and lils deputies aro looking for Fred Chiles, charged with a third shoot ing affair, In which W. C. Hill, keeper of a country store on (he Greenwood '?ninda line, wari tdl&itHv \Y*,?.>?! .'od in the face thh morijhu;, with ?.hoi frot? n shotgun I'Viroi r Sor',!<.?' "ib1 fi Killi vl, llii?> >.". Hfc'r'r tjfj <?.?. lorinbv | vice man. who was shot, had stopped In the business section of Ninety-Six late yesterday afternoon, according to the olUcers, and was cursing and creating a disturbance in the streets. Officers T. E. Dukes and .1. C. Rush started toward thc scene, and Her ring began firing at them as they approached. He ls said to have shot four times at Officer Hush, the officer returning thc fire, aiming at his feet in the hope of forcing him to surren der without killing him, the officer declared. Oflicer Dukes covered Herring With his gun and ordered him to sur render after he (Dukes) had been shot at once. Herring is alleged to have thrown up his hands, exclaim ing, "I won't hurl you, Mr. Dukes.'* The officer dropped his gun (o bis sido^ and as he did so Herring is said to have lowered his own gun, firing directly at Ibo officer's bead. Oflicer Dukes dodged and returned the (Ire. the billie! taking effect In Herring's abdomen. The wounded man was brought to the Greenwood Hospital last night, hut died shortly after mid night. Ho had been treated for the effects of gas received on the Kron ch front. His twin brother, Jimmie Herring, was killed in France, and ho was severely gassed and shell shocked. The police officers caine lo Green wood and surrendered lo the sheriff this morning. Negress and ('bibi Shot to Death. Andreila Belcher and her two-year old niece, Tommie Romans, negroes, were shot lo death about ld o'clock last night near Hodges, in this coun ty, by Nat ba ii Wardlaw, according lo Wardlaw's own confession. He was arrested this morning and lodged in jail. Rebecca Belcher, the dead wo man's mellier, and lier sister, Mag gie Homans, were also sbol by the negro, but not seriously hurl. Ward law claims ho found Tom Harris at tho home of tho Belcher woman and began shooting. Ho fired once through (he wall and once through each of (wo windows. The (wo-year old child was killed instantly. Tho woman bled to death. Huh-.My-Tlsni ls a great pain kill er. Helievcs pain and soreness, Hhciitnntlsin, Neuralgin, Sprains, Atc. -? adv. An inch of water on an acre of ground weighs one hundred tons. in Kgypt yellowish-brown, the hue of tho dead leaf, is worn as the em blem of mourning. TULLS .11 l?YMF.X NOT TO TALK. Says Loose Talk Often Lends to tho Xoeessity ol' New Trials. A dispatch from Greenville says: An unusual departure from the or dinary run ol* court proceedings was furnished in the Court of General Sessions here yesterday by Judge R, \V. Mein minger in remarks he made 'o a jury which had just returned a verdict of manslaughter with recom mendation to mercy against Walter and Carl Howers, charged with the murder of Andy Wells. Informing them that there was no power in earth which could force them to reveal the proceedings in the jury room, Judge Memmlnger urged the jurors to maintain silence as to he bu loi ha and : * 1 ? thai took plat w.iuH? the ci.-e was under dino ll 88 io ri, vinny mlruoiK:istanding. . ... . d'c r i,ev. irtu I* and bSelesH ?xpab^? it* the ^.y....... i.avu i'c<>ultou tro tu Ibu ...... of loose-tongued jurors after a ver dict was rendered and the Jury dis-, charged, the Judge told the jurors. Discussion of a case by jurors after it has boen (ried is needless. Judge M em minger said, and in many cases leads to trouble. The judge sounded a warning to those who would coerce jurors imo giving information con cerning balloting and discussion in the jury room, and declared that per sons guilty Of such offense would be haled into court if brought to bis notice. A TONIC drove's Tasteless chill Tonic restores Energy and Vitality by Purifying and Enriching the Blood. When you feel its strengthening, invigorating effect, see how it brings color to the cheeks and how it improves the appetite, you will then appreciate its true tonic value. Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is simply Iron and Quinine suspended in syrup So pleasant even children like it. The blood needs QUININE to Purify it and IRON to Enrich it. Destroys Malarial germs and Grip germs by its Strengthening, Invigor ating Effect. 60c. Field Marshal von Beutow Dead. .Berlin. Aug. ?il. - Field Marshal Count Karl von Henlow, who was commander-in-chief of tho Cern?an second army during the war, died hore to-day. Marshal von Henlow, who was T'*> years of age, was one of Germany's leading commanders during Ibo war. Ile was raised to the rank of field marshal on Jan. L'Y. I fl 15, Marshal von Beillow's name was among iho Hst of fl erm a ns whose surrender for trial was demanded by the treaty of Versailles, bul declared that extradi tion was an ignominy lo which "no Cern?an would voluntarily submit." XPECT? MOTHER For Three Generations Have Made Child-Birth Easier By Using Tl SOLD ny ALL D RUO STORES WmitrOR BOOKLET OK MOTHERHOOD ANOTHC BA DY, MU BRADricLO RECULATOR Co., DEPT. 9 0 ATLANTA, GA. Subscribe for The Courier. (Best)