Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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This was January, the last day, and Cherry got here tho same night. He knew us both toward morning. And that-that was all. Cherry was here for two weeks. Martin cnme and went-" "Where ls Cherry nowt" Peter In terrupted. "Rack at Red Creek." Allx wiped her eyes. "She hates lt, but Martin had a good position there. Poor Cherry, lt made her Ul." "Anno cnmeT' "Anne end Justin, of course." Peter I could ~.M understand Allx's expr?s- \ ?lon. She fell silent, still holding his hatti and looking at the ur?. fie looked at her with a greac rzzz of admiration nnd affection. She was not only a pretty and a clover wom an; but, lu ber plain black, with thia new aspect of gravity and dignity, and with new notes of pathos and appeal in ber exquisite voice, he realized that she vi as an extremely charming wom an. Refor? he said goodby to her. bc bad asked ber to marry him. Ile well remembered ber look of bright and In terested surprise. "D'you mean to tell ?ne you have forgotten your lady love of the hoop skirts and ringlets?" she had de manded. "No," Peter had told ber, frankly. "I shall always lovo her, In a way. But she Is married ; abo never thinks of me. 1 And I Uko you so much, Allx; I like our music and cooking and tramps and rending-together. Isn't tbnt a pretty good basis for mur ringo?" "No I" Allx had answered, decidedly. "Perhaps If I wore madly In love with you I should say yes, and trust to little lingers to lend you gently, and BO on-" He remembered ending the conver sation In one of his quick moods of irritation against bor. If she couldn't toko anybody or anything seriously he had said. Poor Alix-she wus takjug life seri ously enough tonight Peter thought, uti .ho. wntched her. "Tell me about Cherry," he said. "Cherry ls well, but just a little thin, and heartbroken now, of course. Mar tin never seems to stay at any one place very long, so I keep hoping-" "Doesn't make goodl" Peter said, shaking his head. "Doesn't seem toi It's partly Cher ry,' I think," Albs said honestly. "She was too young, really. She never quite settles down, or takes life in earnest. But ha's got a contract now for three years, and so she seems to be resigning herself, and she has a maid, I believe." "She must love bim," Peter submit ted. Allx looked surprised. "Why not?" she smiled. "I suppose when you've had ups and downs with a mail, and been rich and poor, and sick nnd well, and have lived In half a-doxcn different pinces, you rather take him for granted I" she added, "Oh, you think lt works that way?" Peter asked, with a keen look. "Well, don't you think so? Aren't lots of marriages like that?" "You false alarm. YOB quitter I" he answered. Allx laughed, a trifle guilt ily. Also she flushed, with a great wave of splendid young color that made her face look seventeen again. "Your father left you-something, Allx?" Peter asked presently, with some hesitation. "That," she answered trankly, "ls where Anne comes lui" "Anne?" "Anno and Justin came straight over," Allx wont on, "and they were really lovely. Doctor Younger and Oeorge Bewail were here every day; you and George wore named as execu tors. I was so mixed up In policies and deeds and overdue taxes und In terest and bonds-" "Poor old Allx, If I had only been here to help you I" the man said. And for a moment they looked a little con sciously at each other. "Well, anyway," the girl resumed hastily, "when lt carno to reading tito will, Anne und Justin sprung a mine under us 1 It seems that ten years ugo, when tho Strickland patent (Ire extinguisher was put upon the mar ket, my adorable father didn't have much money-ho never did have, somehow. So Anne's father, my Un cle Vincent, went Into lt with him to the extent of about three thousand dollars-" "Three thousand!" Peter, who lind been leaning forward, earnestly at tentive, echoed In relief. "That was all. Dad had about three hundred. Dad did all the work, and put In his three hundred, and Un cle Vincent put In three thousand and the funny thing ls," Allx broke off to say, musingly, "Uncle Vincent was perfectly splendid about lt ; I my self remember him snylng, 'Don't worry, Lee. I'm speculating on my own responsibility, not yours/ " "Well?" Peter prompted, as sho hes itated. "Well. They bad a written agree ment then, giving Uncle Vincent a third Interest in thu patent, should lt be sold or put on the market-" "Hal" Peter ejaculated, struck. "Which, of course? was only a little while before Uncle Vincent died," Allx went on, with a yrayc nod. '"The agreement lay in Dad's desk all these years-fancy how easily he might have burned lt many's the time! But he didn't. George Sewall says that Anne ls right They've broken the will." Peter, in the silence, whistled ex pressively. "Gee-rusalem I" he exclaimed. "What does lt come to?" At this Alix looked very sober, gazed down at the fire and shook her head. "Ali he had I" Bbe answered, briefly. Peter was silent, looking at her in stupefaction. "Almost, that Is," Allx amended more cheerfully. "As it was-we should have had more than thirty thousand apiece. As lt is, Anne gets it all. or If not quite all, nearly a!!." "Gets!" he echoed, hotly. "How do .ou moan?" "It seems to be perfectly Just," the girl answered, rather lifelessly. But immediately she laughed. "Don't look so awful. Peter. In the first place, Cherry ar.d I atilt have the bouse. In the *cv.?md place, I am singing at St. Raphael's for five hundred a year, and singing other places now and then. Anyway, I'm glad you're home again, Beter I" she added. "Home again," he answered, balf angrlly. "I should hope I am-and high time, tool Has this-this money been turned over to Anne?" "Not yet. Nobody gets anything until the estate ls cleared-a year or more from now. There are some things to bo thankful for," Allx added, dashing the sudden tears from her eyes, "und one ls that Dad never knew ur "I can't tell you how surprised I am at Anne," Peter said. "Well, wo all were I" Alix confessed. "But lt's Just Anne's odd little self contered wny," she added. "It wus here, ami she wanted ll. Well-1 let Hong go, and as soon as I can rent this bouse, I'm going to New York." "Why New York, my dear girl?" "Because I believe I can mako a living there, singing and teaching and gonerally struggling with life I" she unswered, cheerfully. "Cherry gets most of the money-they are always somewhat In debt, and I Imagine that the reason she ls able to have a nice apartment and n maid now is becnuso she knows lt ls coming-and I get tho house, and enough money to keep me going-Kay, a year, In New York." "Do you want to go, Allx?" be said, affectionately. "Yes, I think I do," she answered. But her eyes watered. "I do-in a way," she added. "That Is, I love my singing, and the thought of making a success ls delightful to me. But, of course, it means that I give up every thing else. I can't have home life, and -and tho valley-for years, four or Ave anyway, I'll have to give all that up. And Fm twenty-seven, Peter. And I'd always rather hoped that my music was going to be a domestic va riety-" She stopped, smiling, but ho saw the pain iq her. eyes. "Georg? Bewail "most k??cUj asked me to moth er his sinai I son->. she resumed, cas ually. "But although he la the dear 08t_?. "Sewall did I" Peter exclaimed, rath er struck. "Groat Scott I his father ls one of the richest men In San Fran cisco." "I know lt," Allx agreed. "And he Is one of the nicest men," she added. "But, of course, he'll never really love any one but Ursula. And I felt-oh, I felt too tired and alone and de pressed to enter upon congratulations and clothes nud family dinners with tho Sewalls," she ended, a little drear ily. "I wanted-I wauted things In the old way-ns they were-" she said, her voice thickening. "I know-I know I" Peter said, sympathetically. And for a while there was silence in the little house, while the rain fell steadily upon the dark forest without, and soaked branches swished about eaves and windows. "Can you put me up to night?" he asked, suddenly. He liked her frank pleasure. "Batherl 1 think Cherry's room was made up fresh last Monday," she told him. She had risen, as If for good-nights, and was now beside the old square plano, where she had pluced the lamp. "I haven't touched lt-since-" she said, sadly, sitting on the stool, and 8he Was Now Beside the Old Square Piano. with her eyes still smiling on him, putting back tho hinged cover. And a moment later her hands, with the as surance and ease of the adept, drifted Into one of the songs of the old days. "Do you remember the day we put the rose tree back, Peter?" she asked. "When Martin was almost a stran ger? v?nd do you remember the day we made biscuits, over by the ocean?" "I remember all the days," he an swered, deeply stirred. "We didn't see all this, then," Allx mused, still playing softly. "Anne claiming everything for her husband, you and I here talking of Dad's death, and Cherry married-" She sighed. "She's not happy?" he questioned quickly. "She's not unhappy," she told him, with a troubled smile. "It's Just one of those marriages that don't ever get anywhere, and don't ever stop," she added. "Martin lins faults, he's un reasonable, and he makes enemies. But those aren't faults for which a womnn can leave her husband. Oh. Peter," she added, laying a smooth, warm hand on bis, and looking Into his eyes with her honest eyes, "don't go away again I Stay here In the valley for a week or two, nnd help me get everything worked out. and thought out-I've been so much .lone I" "Dear old Allx I" he said, sitting down on the bench beside her and putting his arm about ber. She dropped her head on his shoulder, and so they sat, very still, for a long min ute. Allx's hand went to ber own shoulder, and her fingers tightened on his, and she breathed deep, contented breaths, like a child. "Somebody ought to wire Mrs. Grundy, collect," alie said, after awhile. "We will defy Mrs. Grundy, my dear," Peter said, kissing tho top of a soft brown braid, "by trotting off hand in band tomorrow and getting ourselves married. Why, Allx, he gave us his consent years ago-don't you remember?" "Ile did wish ttl" she auld, and burst Into tears. ? ?..??* "I seem to be doing things In a slightly irregular manner," she said to bim the next day, when they had gotten breakfast together, and were basking lu the sunlight.of the upper deck of the ferryboat, on their way to the city. "I spend the night before my marriage ulouo-in a small coun try house hidden In thc woods-with my betrothed, and propose to buy my trousseau Immediately uftcr the cere mony I" Her volco fell to n dreamy note, and she watched tho gulls, wheeling in tins sunshine, with thoughtful, smiling eyes. The man glanced nt ber once or twice, In the silence that followed, with something like hesitation, or com punction, tn bis look. "Look, here, Allx-let's talk. I want to ask you something. There's never been anything-anything to toll you-or your father, If ho was here," Peter said, flushed and a trifle awk ward. "I'm not that klud of a man. But there has been that one thing that ono woman-" Flushed, too, she was looking at him with bright, Intelligent eyes. .,_ ""But lt Tuoughl sHe never even knew-" "No, si?? uever didi** Allx looked buck at the gulls, "Oh, well, then-" she said, Ind?. feront ly. "Allx, would you like to know about ber?" Peter suki bruvely. "Uer uame -rand everything?" MOii, no, please, I'd much rather ?ot !" alie lutercepted him hastily, and after a pause she added, "Our mar riage Isn't the usual marriage, In that way. I mean I'm not Jealous, and I'm not going to cry my eyes out because there was another wonmn-ls another woman, who incant more to you, or might havel I'm going Into lt with my eyes open, Peter. I know you love me, and I love you, and we both like the same things, and that's enough." Three weeks later he remembered tho moment, and asked her again. They were In the vulley houso now, aud a bitter storm was whirling over the mountain. Peter's little cabin rocked to tho gale, but they wore warm and comfortable beside the tiro; tho room was lamp-lighted, scented by Alix's sweet single violets, white and purple, spilling themselves from a glass bowl, und by Peter's pipe, and by the good scent of green bay burn ing. The Joyces lind hud a happy day, bad climbed the billa under n lowering sky, bud come home to dry clothes und do cooking, for Kow was away, and had Anally shined an epi curean meal beside the Ure. Peter was wrapped In deep content; the companionship of tills normal, pretty woman, her quick words and quick laugh, her music, her glancing, bright Interest In anything and every thing, was the richest experience of his life. She had said that she would change nothing lu his home, but her clever white lingers hud changed everything, There was order now, there was charming fussing and dust ing, there were Howers In bowls, und hooks set straight, and there wus Just thu dur?rent little ungle to piano and desk nod chairs and tables that made the cabin a home at last. Sho wanted bricks for a path ; he hud laughed at her fervent, "Do give me u whole car load of bricks for Christians, Peter 1" She wanted bulbs to pot. lie lind lazily suggested that they open the town house while carpenters and painters remade the cablu, but she had protested hotly, "Ob, do let's keep lt Jost as lt always was I" Smiling, ho gave ber ber way. (To be Continued) QUESTION CLEARED UP Walhalla Readers Can No Longer Doubt the Evidence. Again and again wo have read ol strangers In distant towns who have been cured by thia or that modiclue. But Walhalla'? pertinent question has always been 'Tins anyone here In Walhalla een cured?" Th? word of a stranger living a hundred miles away may be true, but it oanuot have tho ea nie weight with ue iuj Uio word of our own citizens, whom wo know and respect, and whoso evidence we oan so easily prove. Mrs. C. H. Whites Broad St., Wal halla, saya: "A few year? ago I had backaoho and other symptoms of kid ney trouble. I had sharp pains shoot through my kidneys and I was In pretty bad shape. I woe feeling quite miserable when I was told to try Donn's IC Ul noy Pills and ono box en tirely cmed mo I advise anyon? auf (erring from kidney complaint to ?lr? Doan'a a trial." Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy-get Doan's Kidney Pills-^tbe same that Mrs. White had. Foster-Mil burn Go., Mfrs., Buffalo. N. Y. EXPORTS OF WHEAT WILL HELP Condition of Whole Country Will Re Benefited, Says Hoover. Washington, Sept. 8. - Unprece dented export of wheat during Aug ust should react favorably on agri cultural and business conditions all over the country, Secretary Hoover declared to-day. According to lils report wheat exports during the past month amounted to M,f>05,000 bush els, or about four times the volume of any pre-war figures for tho month of August. Incroase In tho movement of wheat should particularly ease tho credil situation, said Mr. Hoover, through a lessened demand upon the war fi nance corporation for advances. Recent advances in tho price of cotton were regarded by Mr. Hoover as promising a betterment of condi tions in tho South, provided tho in creased levels aro maintained. If Mic price of cotton stays up, bo declared, tho South will not need tho credit relief which bas boon sought and which tho war finance coropratlon ii prepared to give. To Stop a Cough Quick toke ' HAYES' HEALING HONEY, fl cough medicine which stops the cough by healing the inflamed and irritated tissues. A box of GROVE'S O-PEN-TRATE SALVE for Chest Colds, Head Colds and Croup is enclosed with every bottle ol HAYES' HEALING HONEY. The solve should bo rubbed on the chest and throat of children suffering from a Cold or Croup, The heallntf effect of Reyes' Healing Honey In side the throat combined with the he? I Ins effect ol Grove's O-Pen-Tra to Salvo th rond h the pores ol thc skin soon stops a cough. Both remedies are pecked In one carton and the cost of the combined treatment ts 35o. Just ask your druggist for HAYES' HEALING HONEY. BAY G?ll; WAS ?IELD IN PEONAGE! Says Lifo Waa Threatened Should She Attempt Escape. Hazelhurst, Gn., Sept. 7.-In raid ing tho placo of J. M. Brand, noar here, to-day, Federal prohibition of ficers shot uhd probably futally wounded Brue? Kirby, whom they say attempted to shoot tho officers. They aloo claim to hayo found a 15 yoar-old girl, Alteo Mooro, dressed in men's clothes, whom thoy chargs was held In peonage. She ls from Nunez, Emanuel county, tho officers saki. Kirby ls lu u local hospital with his intestines puncturod in tblrtoon piucos from buckshot. Brand is un der arrest on charges of Illicit distill ing and peonage, and tho girl is be ing hold ns a wltnoss. Tho officers stated that aftor tho girl donned mon's clothing she said sho was told thal her sorvlces woro needed as a guard at tho distillery. She said that her life was threatened If she tried to got away. DODSON'S LIVE? TONE KILLS CALOMEL SALE. Don't sicken or sallvalo yourself or paralyze your sensitivo livor by taking calomol, which ls quicksilver. Your dealer solis each hollie of ploas ant, harmless "Dodson's Liver Tone" under an ironclad, money-hack guar antee that lt regulates ibo liver, stomach and bowels better than cal omel, without making you sick-15 million bottles sold.-adv, FLAMES DESTROY LAUGE OIN. Plant Near Cheater Destroyed by Flro Second Time. Chester, Sopt. 7.-McAliley Bros. largo and modern cotton ginnery at Evans, about three miles from Ches ter, was completely destroyed by lire of unknown origin this morning at l o'clock. Tho loss ls approximately $30,000, with $15,000 Insurance. For a Hmo lt was thought the McAli ley storo would also bo destroyed owing to Us closo proximity to tho ginnery, and most of tho morcbati dlso was removed to the Southern railway's station platform at Evans. However, tho storo building was saved. A possiblo cause for tho dre ls that the building was struck by the lightning which occurred during a storm during the night, and that flro smouldered in the house until tho time lt burst forth early In tho mornings This is tho second time McAllley's gin has been destroyed by fire, the othor fire having occurred several years ago. The ginnery Just burned was ono of the most complete and best oquippod ginneries In South Carolina. The destruction of tho plant will not only cause heavy loss to tho Mc Allleys, but it will bo felt by hun dreds of farmors located In this sec tion, who wore dependent upon lt for tho ginning of their cotton. OOO baa more Imitations than any other Fever Tonio on tho market--? but no ono wants imitations.--adv. Father and Son Aro Killed. Nashvlllo, Tonn., Sopt. 7.-All n Schill, proprietor of a taxicab com pany, and a son of Dr. H. A. Schill, was shot and instantly killed near tho gate of the State prison at I o'clock yostorday morning. Blood hounds carried to tho scone a fow boura later failed to take a trail. A trusty, who occupied the guard bouse at the gato of the prison and who was awakened by tho crack of a revolver, hoard Schill exclaim, "Oh, lordy, they have stolon my car." This was tho last board, and tho words were uttered as tho young man ran aftor bis car, which was found stand ing nearby. OOO cures Malaria, Chills and Fe ver, Bilious Fever, Colds and La Grlppo, or monoy refunded.-adv. Alfonso Buys Fastest Plane. Paris, Sept. 8.-Tho fastest air piano ever built, capable of main taining a speed of 190 miles per hour for sixteen hours, and piloted by the famous war aco, Lieut. Juillet, has ...loft Paris for Madrid. The plane will bo ready lu case revolution sliQuld break out, to convey King Alphonso to England. Tho trip would be ac complished In nine hours. Tho machino is tho last word In luxurious airplanes. It is upbolstor I ed lu Russian leather and contains seats for the king and queen and three other members of tho royal family. Tho outside of tho machine ls decorated in gold and boars the royal arms. Thc "lasa word" In "aerial dread j naughts" is tho Brltlsh-bullt R-38. ' recently bought by the Uuitod States. ' Nearly nine million gallons of wino have boon- made from a singlo grape crop In Australia.