Barnwell sentinel. (Barnwell C.H., S.C.) 185?-1925, July 11, 1918, Image 2

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r HURRY, MOTHER! REMOVE POU SONS FROM LITTLE STOMACH, ., liver, bowels. .. . , a - GIVE “CALIFORNIA SYRUP OF FIGS” IF CROSS, BILIOUS ~ OR FEVERISH. CHAPTER XVII—Continued, j —15—' “Anyway, here It is: You got the ossentiiils.up to a port a In point, from Brooks. But he didn’t tell It nil—his , kind never does, not by a long .shot. They, the four of them, It seems, held a meeting ns soim us 1 shipped ont that gold and puf through that stock- selling scheme. That was legitimate. I couldn’t restrain them from that, be ing a hopeless minority of one. Their * chief object, however, was to-let two or three ( friends in on the ground floor j of a good thing; also, they wanted each a good bundle' of that stock while it was cheap—figuring that with the prospects I bad opened .up it would sell high, So they had it on tl.ie mar- j ket, and In addition bad everything framed up to reorganize with a.CUpl-j talization of two Hundred and fifty j thousand dollars. This all cut and dried before I got there. Now, as it originally stood, the five of us would each Itnve made, a ffinh’ir Torrmie on these Klappan claims. They’re good. But with a quarter of a million lu’out: standing slm k-.- well, it wunld be ull right for the fellow with a big block. But you can see where I would gej off with a five-thousand dollar inter est. To, be sure, ft certain proportion of the money derived from the side of this stock should be mine. But it goes Into the treasury, a*nd they had lt« ar ranged to keep it in tlie treasury, as a fund for operations, with them'doing the operating. They had already indi cated their bent by voting an-annual stipend of ten thousand and six thou sand dollars to Lortfner and Brooks as president and secretary respective ly. Me, they proposed to quiet with a manager’s wage of. a mere five thou sand u year—after I gut on the ground and began to get my laiek up. - “But they capped the climax with what I must cold-bloodedly charucter- Ue as the baldest attempt at a dirty fraud I ever encountered. And they had the gall to try and make me a party to* it. To make this clear you must understand* that I. on behalf of the company and acting »* tin* com-, panys agynt, grubstaked Whitey Lewis and four others to go in and stake those~ eluims. I was empowered to arrange with these five men that If the claims nnwle a decent’showing each should receive five thousand dollars In stock for assigning their cluims-to the company, and should have employment at Jop wages while the claims were operated. s y “They surely earned It. You know what the North Is in the dead of win ter. They bucked their way through a hell of frost and snow and staked the claims. ever men were entitled to what wa^ due them, they were. And not one of thorn stuttered over “And I wouldn’t be put off or placat ed by a chance to fatten my own bank roll. I didn’t care If I broke the Free Cold Mining cbntptmy ami myself like wise: A dbllar doesn’t tC‘rrify Ttn.c^Jd fascinate me—I hope-tf-never will. And while, perhaps, It was not what they would caH good form for fne to lose* my temper and go at them with, my fists, I was fighting mad when I thor oughly sensed their dirty project. Any way, if -helped bring them to time. When you take a man of that type and cuff him around with your tyo hands he’s apt to listen serious to what .you say. And they listened when I told .them lii dead earnest next day that Whitey Lewis and his partners must have what was due them, hr I’d wreck the hunch of them if it took ten years and every dollar I had to do it. .And late asserted itself more and more strongly. * * * • • • 0 • A month passed. Ing that thirty-day pepiodJahe re ceived a brief note from Bill. Just a few lines to say: “Hit thie ranch yesterday, little.per son. Looks good to me. Went fishing last night about sundown. Trout were rising fine. Nailed a ten-pounder. Woke upThis morning at daylight and found a buck deer with two- lady friends standing In the middle of the clearing. I*loafed a few days in Fort George, sort of thinking I might hear from you. ^m ' sending, this out by Jake. Will start for the Klappan about day after tomorrow.” She had not answered his first let ter. She had tried to. But* somehow keeping one’s end up In town gets terribly wearisome, . I’m always, glud to go to the jKpods, and ^sorry when I have to leave. But I suppose It’s large ly They chatted of sundry "matters for a few minutes. . “By the way, is there any truth in thevtatement that this Free Gold row has created -trouble between you and your husband?” Vesta asked abruptly. “I dare say It’s quite an impertinent question, andi you’d be" Weil wlthTri your rights to tell me it’s none-of my business. But I should like to con found somd of these petty tattlers. I haven’t been home forty eight hours; I could 'have put thorn oil the traiup, i when *1hi. tried to set jjen to paper the too—they’d already dipped their fin- right words would not come.. She lacked his facility of expression. Thcns was so much she Wanted to say, gers in where they couldn’t stand IU4- gqtion. . I'm sure of that:—-x)r they would never have come through ; w hich they dirk “But I'mSsorry I ever got mixed up with Htetm l'ltKgoing to sell my stock ami advise Lewis irnd tin* others to do tlie same while we can get full vulue for It. Lorinfer and that bunch will manipulate the outfit to death, no mat ter how the mine produces. “That’s all of that. I don’t care two whoops’ about the money. There Is still gold in the Klappan Range and other corners of the North, whenever so little she seemed able to say. As .the days passed she felt less sure of her ground, less sure-.that she had not sacrificed -something precious to a~ vagary of self,* nn obsession of her own ego. ^ ‘ And slowly but surely sW began to view all (he activities of he*-’circle with a cr deal eye. 'Certain of her friends had become tentative enemies. Kitty Brooks and the Bray womenfolk, who were a numerous and influential tribe, not only turned silent faces I need 4r. But It nauseated uitf. I uhen th<*y met, but they made war on can't stand-that cut-throat game. And- - her in the peculiar fashion of women. A word here, a suggestive phrase there, a shrug of the shoulders. It all bore fruit. Other friends conveyed the avid gossip. Hazel smiled and ignored it. But In her own rooms she raged unnvaUingly. Her husband had left her. There was a man in the case. They, had lost everything. The first count was suf ficiently maddening because it was a half truth. And any of It was Irritat ing— eve\ if few believed—since It made a choice morsel to digest ln^gos- slpy corners, and brought sundry curi ous stares on Hazel at certain times. Also Mr. Wagstaff had caused the stockholders of Free Gold a heavy loss —which was only offset by the-fact- thfit the Free Gold properties were producing richly. None of this was even Openly flung at her. She gathered It ♦piecemeal. And it galled her. She could not openly defend either Bill or herself against the shadowy scandal mongers. . Slowly It dawned upon her, with a bitterness born of her former t xperi- ence with Granville, that she had lost something of the standing that certain circles had accorded her as the wife of a successful mining man. It made her ponder. Was Bill'so far wrong, after all, in his estimate of them? It was a disheartening-conclusion. She had. come of a family that stood well In Granville; she had grywn up there; if lifetime friends blew hot and cold like thut, was the game worth playing? In so far as she could -she gave the Hie to some of the petty gossip. Where as at first she had looked dubiously^*)®' ; spending.Bill’s money to maintain the j standard of living they had set up, she v me.' I.don’t ask you to wire iue, ' now welcomed, that deposit of five ,* pnek. Bill."’ Though 1 would thousand dollars as n means to dem- hls absence he 'That Was When I Sma.hed Hi mg,* ids bargain, even though they were taking out weekly as -much gold as »hey were to get for their* full share. They’d given their' word, and they Were white men. They took me for a white man also. -They took my word that they would get what was coining to them, andgave me In the company’s name clear title to every claim. 1 put those titles on record In Ilazelton, and came home. “Larimer, and Brooks .deliberately proposed t<> withhold that stock, to de fraud these men, to steal—oh, I can’t, find words strong enough. Brooks said to iue, with a grin: ’The prop erty's In the company's mmie— let the roughnecks sweat a while. They've got no come-back, anyWay.’ “That was when I smashed him. Do you blame me? I’d taken over those fellows’ claims in*good faith. Could I go back there and face those men and say: ‘Boys, tlie company’s got your clkiins, and they won’t‘puy for therm’ Do you think for u minute I'd let a hunch of lHy-fingerejl crooks put any thing like.that over ou simple, square dealing-fellows who were too honest tcu. protect their own Interests from Sharp practice? A quartette of soft- bodied mongrels who-* sat iff - stered office chairs while these others wallowed through six feet of snow for three -weeks, living on bacon and beans, to grab a Dot of gold for them I It makes’ my fist doable ap when 1 think, about it Granville, like most other cities of its kind, lives by and for that sort of thring. The pressure of modern life makes It inevitable. Anyway, a town is no place for me. I can stomach It about so long, and no longer. It’s too cramped, too girded about with petty- lareeny conventions. If once you slip and get down, every one walks on you. Everything's restricted, priced, tin keredwith. There is no real freedom of body or spirit. I wouldn’t trade u comfy log cabin in the woods with a big fireplace and a shelf of hooks for the finest home on Maple drive—not if I had to stay there and stifle in the dust and smoke and, smells. That would he a sordid and' impoverished existence. I cannot live by the dog- eat-dog code that seems to prevail wherever folk get jammed together In an unwieldy social mass. I have said the like to you before. “By nature arid training I’m unfitted to live in these crowded places. I love you,‘.lit tie person, I don’t think you realize how much, hut I can’t make you happy 'by making myself utterly miserable. Timt would only prodtfee the inevitable reaction. But "I still think you are essentially enough like j me to meet me on common ground. You loved me and you found content ment and Joy at our little cabin once. Don’t you think it might be waiting there again? "If you really care, if I und the old North j^till mean anything to you, a few days or weeks, or even months of separation won’t matter. An affection' that can’t survive six months is too fragile to go through life on. I don’t ask you to Jump the next truin and follow 111* ‘Come come quick enough if-you culled me. I -merely want you to think it over so berly and let your heart decide. You know, where I stand, don’t you, Hazel, dear? - I haven't changed—not ft hit— I’m til** sal- e aid Bill. But I’d rather hit 'the trail ah*fie than with an un willing partner. Don't flounder ahoht in any quicksand of duty. There is no ‘1 ought'to’ between us. "ISoirTs Itttle , person. 'Tf* v mv^Vav is not vmir way l will abide by your decision . w ithout whining. AiTrHwd*. m-\or you wiinf to -reach mi;, n' message u> Felix Cuur- voi^eur, Fort George, will eventually find me. I’ll fix it that way. “So long, little person. I like you a heap, for ull your cautankeruu* ways. ! “BILL.” She laid aside; the letter, with a lump,In Her throat: For, a brief instant she was .minded to -telegraph the word that would bring “him hurrying back. Bpt—some of the truths he had set down .in cold black and white cut her deep. Of a surety she had drawn her weirjHm on the wrong side in the min ing trouble. OverhasfV?—yes. Atfcil shamefully disloyal, l’erimps there was something in it, \ufter all; that is to say, it might be they had made a tnispj,. take. - She saw plainly enough that unless She could .get httiLk some of the old enthusiasm for that wilderness life, unless the fascination of magnificent distances, of silent-,-breathless forests, of cbntented, quiet days on trail and stream, could ak»y fast hold of her nguin, they would only defer the day of reckoning, as Bill hud said, c No, she would not attempt to cal! him back. ■ She doubted if he would come. Ami she would not go—not yet. ,She must have time to think. 'Altogether, as the fliLt IrapressfairYif -4W-a-letter-gric w less ett+d- to her considered her grievaJces more. And she was. minded to. aei ak she had set out to do—to live bet* life as seemed h«*st to her, rather than pocket her pride and rejoin Bill. *The feminine Instinct to compel ^he man to capitu- onstrate that even In stood behind her financially—which she began to perceive counted. more than anything else.. So long as she could dress in the best, while she could ride where others walked, so long as she betrayed no limitation of re sources, the doors stood wide. Not what you are,-hut. what you’ve got— she remembered Bill snyirig that was their holiest creed. It repelled her. And sometimes she was tempted to sit down and pour it all out in a letter to him. But she could not quite bring herself R> the Always 'behind Bill loomed tlie vast and dreary Northland, and she shrunk from that. ... (>n top of this, she began to suffer a qneey upset, of her physical’condi tion. All her life she had been' splen didly healthy; her body a perfect- working machine, afflicted with no .weaknesses; Now odd spasmodic pains recurred without rhyme or reason In her . head, her back, 4*er limbs, strike ing her with- sudden poignancy, disap pearing as.-suddenly. ~ She was stretched on the lounge one afternoon wrestling nervously with a particularly' acute attack, when Vesta Lorliuer was ushered in._ “You’re almost a stranger,” Hazel remarked, after the first greetings. “Your outing must have been pleasant to hold you so long.” i "It would have held me longer,” Vest returned, "if I didn’t have to be in touch with my market. I could live quite happily on. my island eight months in the y^ar. . But one can’t get people to come several hundred tulles to a sitting. And I feeh Inclined to ac quire a'Ji'ving Income while my vogue lasi«.“ x w ' “You’re rathpr a wilderness' lover, aren’t you?” faazel commented. “I ‘You're Almost a Stranger,” Hazel Re marked, After the First Greetings. yet I’ve* heard tongues wagging. I hoope there’s nothing in it. I warned Mr. Wagstaff against Paul.” “Warned him? Why?” Hazel neg lected the* question entirely. The blunt ness of it took her by surprise. Frunk speech was not a characteristic of Vesta Lorimer’s set, , The girl shrugged her shoulders. “He’ is my brother, hut that doesn’t veil my eyes,” she said coolly. “BauJ is too crooked, to lle^'stralgbt in bed. J’m glaiF Mr. Wagstaff brought the lot of them up with u round turn—which he seems to have done. If he had used a club Instead of his fists it would huvC been only their deserts. I suppose the fuss quite upset you?” “It did.” Hazel admitted grudgingly. "It did more than upset me.” “I thought as much,"- Vesta said slowly. “It made you inflict an lnde- served hurt on a muD who should have had better treatment at ^our hands; not only because he loves you, but be cause he is one of the few men who deserve the best that you or any wom an can give. 1 ' “You’ve said quite enough," Hazel cried. “If you have any more Insults, please get rid of them elsewhere. I think you art—” “OJ), I don’t care what you think of me,” the girl interrupted recklessly. “If I did I wouldn’t be here. I’d hide -behind the conventional rules of the game and let you blunder along. But I can’t. I’m not gifted with your blind egotism. Whatever you ure, that Bill of yours loves you, and If you care anything for him, you should be with him. I would, If I were lucky enough to stand in your shoes. I’d go-,with him down Into hell Rself gladly if he »v wanted me to!” __ “Oh!” HaZel gasped. “Are you clean mad?” • ; . "Shocked to death, , aren't you?” Vesta fleered. “You can’t understand, can you? I love him*—yes. I’m not ashamed to own it. I'm no sentimen tal prude to throw up my handsjn hor ror at a perfectly natural emotion. But he is not for me, I dare say I point, oouldcf’t give him an added heartbeat if I tried. And ITiave a little too much pride—strange aW it may seem to you —to try, so long us he, is chained hand and foot to your chariot. But you’re making him suffer. And I care enough to want him to live all his days hap pily. He is u man, and there are so few of them, real men. If you can make him happy* I’d eorupel you to do so, if r tiiul the power. You couldn’t understand that kjnd of a love. Oh, I could choke you for your stupid dis loyalty.--I could do almost anything that would spur you to action. I can’t rid rnyself of the hopeless, reckless mood he is in. There are so few of his kind, the patient, strong, loyal, square dealing men, with a woman’s tender ness and a lion’s courage. Any woman should* be proud and glad to be his mate, to mother his children: And you—” * ' She threw out her hands with a sud den, despairing gesture. The blue eyes grew misty, and she hid her face • in her palms. Before 'that passionate outburst Hazel sat dumbly amazed, staring, uncertain. In a second Vesta lifted her head defiantly. “I had no notion of breaking out like this when I came up." she suid qoleL- lv. “I was going to be very adroif. I deals us whether we will or not. But if you care in the least for your hus band, for God’8 .sake make some , ef fort. some sacrifice of your own petty - little ^Vsir,i*s, to make his road a little pleasanter; 'ft little less gray than It must be now, -You’ll be well repaid— If you ure the kind that must always he paid fn full. Doa’t be a stiff-necked idiot. That’s all I wanted to say. Goodby!” k * She was at the dooif when she fin ished. The click of the.closing catch j stirred Hazel to speech and action. * “Vesta, Vesta!’’ she Cried, and ran out into the corridor. But Vesta L^iiner neit ler heeded nor halted. And Ijazel went hack to her' room, quivering! Sometimes the truth is bitter and stifs to wrath. And mingled with other emotions was a dull pang of Jealously—the first she had-ever known. For Vesta I/orjmer was beautiful 'beyortd most women; and she had-hut given ample evidence of the bigness of her soil!. With shamed tears creeping to her eyes. Ha- 1 zel wondered If she could love even Bill sfo Intensely that she would drive an other woman t<> his arms that lie might, win happiness... • But one thing stood out clear above that painful meeting. She was /lone fighting against the blankness that seemed to surround her since Kill - w ; ent away. Slowly but steadily it had been forced upon her that much which she deehted desirable, even nec essary, was*of little weight in the bal ance with him. Day and night she longed for him. for his cheery voice, the whimsical good humor of him, his kiss and his smile. Indubitably Vesta Loriroer was right to term her a stiff- needed, selfish fool. . But If all folk were saturated with the essence of / ... 'Wlsdom-r-Well, there was but one thing to be done. Silly pride had to go by the board. If to face gayly a land she dreaded were the price of easing his heartache—-and her ”^wn—that price iffle would pay. and pay with a grace but lately learned. She lay do\yri on the lounge again. The old pains were back. And ns she “D'Jured, a sudden startling thought Tin .shed across her mind. A. possibil ity?—yes. She hurried to dress, won dering why It had not before occurred to her, and. phoning up a taxi, rolled downtown to the office of Doctor Hart. An hour or so later she returned. A picture of her man stood on the man tel. She took it down and stared at it with a tremulous smile. “Oh, Billy-boy, Billy-boy, I wish you knew,” she whispered. “But I was coming, anyway, Bill!” . That evening, stirring about her preparations for the Journey, she puused, and wondered why, for the first time since Bill left, she felt so utterly at peace. No matier\what ails your child; » ;entle, thorough laxative should al ways be the first treatment given. If your little one Is out of sorts, half-sick, isn't resting, eating and act-' ing naturally—look, Mother! see if tongue is coated. ‘This Is a sure sign that the little.stomach, liver arid bow els are clogged with waste. When .cross; Irritable, feverish, stomach smir, breath bad or has stomach-ache, diar rhea, sore throat, full of cold, give a teaspoonfut~of "California .Syrup of Figs,’’ and in a few.hours all the con stipated poison, undigested food and sour bile .gently moves out of the lit tle bowgls without griping, and you have a well, playful child again. Mothers can rest easy after givlnff this harmless "fruit laxative,” because It never falls to cleanse the little one’e liver and bowels arid sweeten the stom ach and they dearly love Its pleasant taste. Full directions for babies, chil dren of all ages and for grown up* printed on each bottle. • Beware of counterfeit fig syrups. Ask-your druggist for a bottle of “Cal ifornia SyjTup of Figs;" then see that it Is made by the "California F'ig Syrup Company.”—Adv. I CHAPTER XVIII. Home Again. Twelve months works many a change on a changing frontier.- Hazel found this so.-JVhen she came to plan her route-She found, the G. T. P. bridg ing the last ^ap In a transcontinental system, its trains westbound already within striking distance of Fort George. She could hoard a sleeping car at Granville and detruln within a hundred miles of the ancle"rit trading post—with a fast river boat to carry her the remaining distance. Fort George loomed up a jumbled area of houses and tents, log buildings, frume structures yellow in their new ness, strangers to paint as yet. On every hand others, stood In varying Ireland's Fishing Statistics. Tin* twenty-fifth annual .report of the Congested Districts Board for Ire land says: During the year £100,031 was paid to the fishermen ,by fish mer chants for mackerel, "the earnings for the previous year being £11.40-4. (>\rk ami Kerry got‘the lion’s share, £l\- 55*3 and £41,.“-h7., respectively. Galway making a ha'd third with £13,8si. The earnings for the herring fisheries for the year amounted to £f*»>,o7r>, com pared 'with £38,323 In the previous year. Donegal Took first phtee with £$37,104. then Cork with £7.334. and Galway w ith.,£0,070.. Tlie total quan tity of maekerel landed was 183.381 cwt.. and tin* total quantity of herring was 02.001. The total value of wet fish and shellfish of all kinds landell In the congested districts was £104,- 821. Besides maekerel and herring, the chief kinds were turbot, brill und sole, £0,033; plaice, whiting, etc., £10,- 034; rod, £1,037, and haddock, £1,480. —F'lshlrig Gazette. Fr V Lemon Juice f For Freckles Girls! Make beauty lotion at home for a few cents. Try it! -t- you were hurled aljsfi In It." J “ThaD would all depend on the clr- emnstKnce*," Vesta replied. “One es capes many disheartening things In a country that is still Comparatively Squeeze the Juice of two lemons Into' a bottle containing three ounces.- of orchard white, shake well, and you hnve a quarter pint <>f the best freckle,' sunburn and tan lotion, and complex ion whitenor, at very, very small cost. Your grocer has? the lemons and- any drug store or toilet counter will supply three ounces of orchard white for a few*cents. Massage this sweetly fragrant lotion into the face,.neck, arms and hands and see how freckles, sunburn and tan disappear and how clear, soft and white the skin become*. Yes! It is harmless.—Adv. ' K - % ’,A Hadn’t Much to Spare. In an Italian field hospital a story Is told of a surgeon who called out to the soldiers: * ^ ' . “Boys is there anyone among you willing to give a little of bis skin to this wounded man?” “That Wounded man,”/ one of -them called out, “Is the son -of the usurer who has always skinned me; but has fought well and it Is only right that I should give him what- little cuticle his father has- spariul." don't thluk you’fi love ft ns-tlcnTl^ Intended to glve^ y<*u a.frbmdly boost along the right road. If I could. But It has all been butaj>ling inside me for a loug time. You perheps think It very unwomanly—but I don’t. care ffiUCh what you think. My- little heartache primitive. The continual' grind of, is Incidental,' one* of the thlnga life Hi* Round Face Lit Up With a Smile of Recognition. stages of erection. Folks hurried about the sturdy biginning of a fu ture greatness. And u|Tkhe left the boat and followed a new-laid walk of planks toward a hotel, Jake L&ueV stepped out of a store, squarely Into her p^th. . ; _ . Hts round face 111 up with a smile of recognition. And Hazel, fresh from the long and Jouesmne. journey, wa* equally glad to set eyes on a familiar, a genuinely friendly face. - (TO BE CONTINUED) , * - Sound reason U given t* f»w. bq| those few exert lnfloenm Cuticura Is So Soothing To Itching, burning skins. It not only, soothes but heals. Bathe with Cuti cura Soap and hot writer, dry gently and apply Cuticura Ointment. For free samples address, “Cuticura, Dept X, Boston” At druggists and by mail. Soap 25, Ointment 25 and 50.—Adv. A *sit. Louis spinster was recently kisse l in a dark llall, and- she! hasn’t hod Jt. IightJiim* since. ^ \ ' -v 8or« Eyea. Blood-Shot Eyea. Watery Eyre Sticky Eyea. all healed promjjpy with night ly application# of Roman Ey« Balaam. Adv. Every sweH girl- graduate thinks it la up to h«*r to r«*forn s**ui<* y- -r -F-