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~yLOUIS jOSEPH'VANCI LUSTRATIONS--BT SYNOPSIS. CHAPTER I.-The story opens at ( Monte Carlo with Col. Terence O'Rourke E in his hotel. O'Rourke, a' military free Isnce and something of' a gambler, is dressing for appearance in the restaurant below when the sound of a girlish voice singing attracts his attention. Leaning out on the balcony he sees a beautiful girl who suddenly disappears. He rushes to the corridor to see a neatly gowned form enter the elevator and pass from 1 sight. CHAPTER II.-O'Rourke's mind Is filled with thoughts of the girl, and when he goes to the gaming table he allows his remarkable winnings to accumulate in- f differently. He. notices two men watch ing' him. One Is the Hon. Bertie Glynn, while his companion Is Viscount Des t Trebes, a noted duelist. When O'Rourke leaves the table the viscount tells him he represents the French government and I tMt he has been dfrected to O'Rourke as a ian who would undertake a secret mission. e It CHAPTER IU-At his room O'Rourke. who had agreed to undertake the mission, I aws4ts the. viscount., O'Rourke finds a. zyxterious letter in his apartment. The viscount arrives., hands a sealed package I to .O'Rourke,. who is rot to open It until 3 on the ocean. He says the French gov ernment will, pay O'Rourke .25,000 francs for his services. A pair of dainty slip pers are seen protruding from under a doorway curtain- and the viscount charges O'Rourke with having a spy secreted z there. CHAPTER TV.-When the Irishman a goes to his room he finds there the own er of the mysterious feet. It Is his wife, eatrix, from whom he had run away a E ear previous. They are reconciled, and opening the letter he had received. he finds that a law firm in Rangoon, India, I offers him 100.000 pounds for an Indian jewel known as the Pool of Flame and left to him by a dying 'friend. O'Rourke I tells his wife that it is in the keepingi of a friend named Chambret in Algeria. CHAPTER V. At five in the morning a heavy mo tor car of the most advanced type stole in sinister silence out of the courtyard of the Hotel d'Orient, at the same sedate pace and with the same surreptitious -air skulked through the town, and finally' swung eastwards upon the Route de la Corniche, sud denly discarding all pretense of docil ity and swooping onward with a windyJ roar, its powerful motor purring like some gigantic tiger-cat. It' carried four; at the wheel a gog gled and ennuied operator in shape less and hideous garments; in the ~ tonneau its owner, a middle-aged ~ French manufacturer with pouched I eyes, a liver, lank jaws clean-scraped, and an expression of high-minded de votion to duty; Captain von Einem in uniform; and Colonel O'Rourke.1 At the end of an hour's run, dis turbed by one. or two absurdly grave conferences between the seconds, in appropriate monotones, the mechani clan put on the brakes and slowed ~ down the car, then fptly swung it !into 'a narrow lane, Ealeafy tunnel 'through which it crawled for a min- ~ ute or two ere debouching into a broad and sunlit meadow, walled in by I woodland, conspicuously secluded. . Tio one side and at a little distance a second motor-car stood at rest; its operator had removed the hood and was tinkering with the motor in a most matter-of-fact manner. In the body of the iachine Monsieur le Vi comte des Trebes, ostentatiously una ware of the advent of the second party, sat twisting rapier-points to his moustaches and concentrating his gaze on infinity. O'Rourke observed with malicious delight the nose of the duelist, much inflamed. Advancing from his antagonist's po sition three preternaturally seriousI gentlemen of. .France in black frock coats and straight-brimmed silk hats waded ankle deep in dripping grass to meet O'Rourke's representatives.1 The two parties met, saluted one an-1 other with immense reserve, and re -tired to a suitable distance to con fer; something which they did word f1y, with enthusiasm and many plc-j turesque gestures. At first strangely amicable, the proceedings soon struck, a snag. A serious difference of opin [on arose. O'Rourke divined that the conference had gone into executive session upon the question of weapons. He treated himself to a secret grin, having anticipated this trouble. The choice of weapons being his, as the challenged, hE had modestly se lected revolvers and r:ad brought with him a brace of Weblevs, burly pieces of pocket ordnance wi short barrels and cylinders chambere 1 to hold half' a dozen .45 cartridges. T..hey were notj pretty, for they had seeti service in their owner's hands foi- a number of years, but they were unden'ably built for business. And at sight of them the friends of the vicom~te recoiled in horror. Fventually a compre'ml,e was ar rived at. Monsieur Juilliard st'pped back, saluted, and with Von Eiin:m re turned to his princiral, his 'ace a mask of disappointment. As f'.r him self, he told O'Rourlre, he wias deso lated, but the second? of Monsieur des! Trebes had positively refused to con sent to turning a me sting of henor into a massacre. They proposed tc ] substitute regulation Fr-ench due:Ing pistols as sanctioned by the' \COde. I Such as that which Monsieur le Col-i onel O'Rourke might observe in Mon sieur Juilliard's hand.I O'Rour . :U2he atnd sniffed at it I be- EndressecT eye. Whiat the divvIe loes it carrym-a dried pea? What l'they think we're here for, if not to lay one another with due ceremony? ksk them that. Am I to salve the ricomte's wounded honor by smiting tim with a spitball? I grant ye, 'tie nagnificent, but 'tis not a pistol." Grumbling, he allowed himself tc e persuaded. As he had foreseen and irophested, so had It come to pass. ret he had to grumble, partly becuse Lte was the O'Rourke, partly for ef ect. None the less, he consented, and in he highest spirits left the car and >lowed through the lush wet grass o the spot selected for the encounter, a the shadow of thw trees near the astern border of the meadow. Here, he seconds having tossed for side, to took a stand at one end of a sixts oot stretch and, still Indecorously mused,. received a loaded pistol from ron Einem. Des Trebes confronted him, white r1th rage, regretting already O'Rourke made no doubt) that he had ot accepted the Webleys. The Irish nants open contempt maddened the nan. The seconds retired to a perfectly afe distance, Von Enem holding the vatch, one of Des Trebes' seconds a Landkerchief. The chauffeurs threw way their cigarettes and sat up, for he first time roused out of their pro essional air of blase indifference. "One," cried the German clearly. Des Trebes raised his arm and lev Jed his pistol at O'Rourke's head. A aint flush colored his face, but his Tye was cold anird t behind the ight and the hand that held the veapon was as steady as if supported y an invisible rest. . "Two," said Von Einem. O'Rourke me~asured the distance ith his eye and raised his arm from heedlhis oisyolholdingotheepssheadwit aiThe, fls i colo n hine. thi Te wanoadke h ard befedlt. igheaIrthshman rd wthot heldt )es Trewas' aseaon was isupported imos anisiulaeoues. u it u "Tw, aim; Vtsbule Eient oweri >rur. Theasurednchea diroppe he ebo ony, holding, texaitol so-b iioosly a nuklifom whc "Thorke's shoaid struc aEtinepar Tle hanken.cHief fell. rsedt mth Iriesa precd ithoth sur-n esn wTees eaponges. dishargae ullym;it surrenet went nowhlerye Jin ~ar lag he atrtencmn dropped heillapon and, wincin,exmipresntl iedohsm, ah knucke romstnl which )ous ksto o havO'ruk a descny par as e n of ski. atseonds frusedhtl urnwith cie prceedb the sman "ah,no"h laughed. iot agier md tolldc tmoo th mtorare. urlard han't Von huged presently econds him, the former isistntl alredy ous teow have O'ore descnd andb elasrteshnd furternal fmrindingp :ihasthateicoe Bt thee ofishur Fauffeur no. .h. laugd. v tNvri Eveto tmoroushed to dre iht Rure dlasnned he ugeree bth lecond wihamtinsd the nighto alray ree own art I've noarked byoac ~isy. Lt'sn hinrryg awa befor the ix;eatsn furt-er by imrittled him elfst snalt pono the Coe d'Azur aper en rot fo Besids'eilles-ia Event mafrhe toaschedue; .w. f)theusae playe bared he lt'. anean feyervieced adaf as hour aeter thcodytone ater-rail of tsa >roecede itadcore atinke byis ivity Noidngtwe hinrim and lf that )aehelsceloed.VcmedsTee "In thnineldays,honr boy,"ashephad if you should foryie he setle h!" niety deys roueafr hearseI ille here. man fo hewa"loe As aiuat to e the ngeroohi iarthe saned his boarden te see hteane latak of the M editer aengt ferr dsaerred and hn hor ae strnd bwy.teatrralo t Picing~ h wthough the cos anent welow betwnd him saerom allnda ;ubsided beloe rhfr oey "Inde nnetyins,tear oy, shelin had ahich, howeverA, elatreng Ter-e yedua shisoulfie. Hehdmuht "eoI sh much fail guard Ragont hes rebebedlag.i.teba. Asund ofpeedl the hungeto hniise 'Rork e stain hisn visi o see laster helan that hed ther. he istcheme ohe coiosye. vd Pecking his waytonpughi apearo usced intthe braathe or ur soref )esebt bukenrg in the acack-i the arms of a young person in tweed and a steamer cap-a stoutish youn Englishman with a vivid complexio and a bulldog pipe, nervousness ten pering his native home-brewed ins( lence, the blank vacuity of his eye hopelessly betraying the caliber of hi intellect. A sudden gust of anger swel O'Rourke off his figurative feet. H stopped short, blocking the gangwa , I It W So This Was What Had Been Sot I Spy Upon Him. and the young, man's progress. So thJ was what had been set to spy upc him! "Good evening to ye," he said col ly, fixing the Honorable Mr. Glyn with an interrogative eye that serve to deepen his embarrassment and coi sternation. "I trust I didn't hurt y Mr. Glynn." "Oh, no-not at all," stammered th Englishman. "Not in the least. No, He looked right and -left i O'Rourke for a way round him, foun himself with no choice but to retrea and lost his presence of mind coc pletely. "I-I say," he continued de perately, "I say, have you a match "Possibly," conceded O'Rourk "But I've yet to meet him. Of th ye may feel sure, however: if I hav 'tis neither yourself nor Des Trebe Now run along and figure it out fC yourself-what I'm meaning. Goo night." He brushed past the man, leavin him astare in sudden pallor, and wei his way, more than a little disguste with himself for his lack of discr< tion. As matters turned out, howeve he had little -to reproach himself witl: for his outbreak served to keep youi Glynn at a respectful distanc throughout, the remainder of the vo: age. They met but once more, ax cn that occasion the Englishman bl haved himself admirably accordingi the tenets of his caste-met O'Rourke challenging gaze without a flicker< recognition, looked him up and dow~ calmly ' with the deadly ennuied a peculiar to the underdone Britis youth of family and social positlo: and wandered calmly away. O'Rourke watched him out of sigh a smile of appreciation curving h lips and tempering the perturbed a! dangerous light in his eyes. "There stuff in the lad, after all," he co: ceded without a grudge, "if he ca carry a situation off like that. I: doubting not at all that somethii Imight be whipped out of him, if Iweren't what he's made himself slave to whisky." For all of which appreciation, hol ever, he soon wearied of Mr. Glyn: During the first day ashore it was ni so bad; there was something amusli in being so openly dogged by a wel set-up young Englishman -who ha quite ceased to disguise his interes But after that his shadowy surveillan< proved somewhat distracting to a me busy with important affairs. And It ward evening of the second de ORourke lost patience. All day long in the sun. withol respite he had knocked about from p! lar to post of Algiers, seeking news Chambret; and not until the eleven1 hour had he secured the informatic he needed. Then, hurrying backi his hotel, he made arrangementsi have his luggage cared for duringa absence of indeterminate duratio: hastily crammed a few indispensabli into a kit box, and having dispatchi that to the railway terminal, sougl the restaurant for an early meal. In the act of consuming his soup I became aware that the Honorabl Bertie, in a diamec coat and a state< fdgets, had wandered doivn the out' www ,~ - e re u'~rant doc and espied his quarry. Tne ract tn: O'Rourke was dining with ~one e: on the clock and in a dust-proof, dus colored suit of drill, was enoughi disturb seriously the poise of the En lishman. Exasperation stirred in O'Rourki He eyed the young man rather moros ly throughout the balance of his mes a purpose forming in his mind at attaining the stature of a definite plh of action without opposition from ti dictates of prudence. And at lengi swallQwing his coffee and feeing h servitor, he rose, crossed the roo: with a firm tread, and came to a fu stop at the Honorable Mr. Glynn's t ble. Momentarily he held his tongu, staring down at the young mian whi] drumming on the marble with the fil gers of one hand Then~ Glynn, glan ing up in a state ol' somewhat pani stricken inquiry which strove vain1 to seem insouciant, met the 1evt stare of the adventurer and notice the tense lines of his lips. "I-I say," he floundered, "what the matter with you, anyway? Can you leave mne a-loue?" . S mark entirely, "that it might be of in 9 terest to ye to save ye a bit of bother D ation to know that I'm going up to 1 Biskra by tonight's train. It leaves in > ten minutes, so I'll have to forego the S pleasure of your society on the trip." Glynn got a grip on himself and pulled together the elements of his manhood. He managed to infuse blank e insolence into his stare, and said 4"Ow?" with that singularly maddening inflection of which the Englishman alone is master;' as who should say: "Why the dooce d'you annoy me with your bally plans?" "Don't believe I know you, do I?" he drawled. - "I don't believe ye do, me lad." "Can't say I wish: to very badly, either." "I believe that," O'Rourke chuckled grimly. The meaning in his tone sent the blood into the young man's face, ai fiery flood of resentment.. "Oh, I'm not afraid of you, y'know," he said, bristling. "Of course you're not going to Biskra, or you wouldn't tell me so. But If you do, I shall make It my business to find out and follow by the next train-bringing Des Trebes with me." "Oh, will ye so? Ye mean to warA me he's in Algeria, too?". "His boat's due now; I'm expecting him at any moment, if you wish to know." O'Rourke's smiling contempt was angering the young man -and ren dering him reckless.. "You'll be glad to know you've made a dem' ass of yourself-if you really are going to 1 Biskra." "Praise from Sir Hubert-7" "Oh, don't you think I mind giving you a twelve-hour start; you won't gain anything by It. Y'see I know where you're going, and I know It's hot there. If you'll take a fool's. ad vice, you'll turn back .now. You'll conre back empty-handed anyway. I don't mind telling you that we mean to have that ruby, Des Trebes and I, C and we know where it Is. You're only t taking needless trouble by interfer 2 Ing." s Truth was speaking from the bottom of the absinthe tumbler. O'Rourke's brows went up and he whistled noise lessly, for he realfzed that at least, Glynn believed what he was admit ting. "So that's the way of it,. eh? I admire your candor, me boy; but be careful and not go too far with it. 'Twill likely prove disastrous to ye,, ['m fearing. . . . But tit-for-tat;, ye've made me a handsome present according to your lights, of what ye r most aptly term a fool's advice, and 'ts meself who'll not be outdone at that game. For yourself, then, take warning from the experience of one who's seen a bit more of this side of the earth than most men have, and -don't let Des Trebes know ye've etalked so freely. He's a bad-tempered, sort and . . . But I'm obliged to Sye and I bid ye a go,od evening." TI CHAPTER VII. South of Biskra there Is always trouble to be had for the seeking, tsouth of Briska there is never peace. -guerilla warfare is waged peren Sni ly between the lords of the desert, the Touaregg on the one hand, and the advance agents of civilization, as Spersonified by the reckless French Condemned Corps and the Foreign Le gion on the other. Year after year ~military expeditions set out from the oasis of Biskra to penetrate the wil -8 derness, either by caravan route to Timbuctoo or along the proposed route of the Trans-Saharan Railway to Lake Tchad; and their lines of march are traced in red upon. the land. ~IToward this debatable land O'Rourke tset his face withi a will, gladly; for he loved it. He had fought over it of old; in his memory its sands were. sanctified with the blood of comrades, Lmen by whose side he had been proud to fight, men of his own stamp whose friendship he had been proud to own [IMentally serene, if physically the re verse of comfcrtable, O'Rourke dozed through the interminable twelve hours of the journey to EI-Guerrah; Lc arriving at which place after eight the tfollowing morning, he transferred him oself and his hand-bags (for now he awas traveling light) to the connecting train on the Biskra branch. The lat d ter, scheguled to reach the oasis at it four-thirty in the afternoon, loafed cas ually up the line, arriving at the term inus after dark. SThe Irishman, thoroughly fagged but complacent in the knowledge that, rhe had left both vicomte and honor able a day bihind him, kept himselif f rom l:ed by main will-power for half ethe night, while he made the rounds tof cafes and dance halls, in search of to! a trustworthy and competent guide g: no easy thing to find. The French force by then was three e- days cut from the oasis, and no doubt e- since it was technically a "flying col tun"calculated to move briskly from ipitto point in imitation of Touar negg tactics, hourly putting a greater Le distance between itself and its start :h Ing point. Moreover, the pursuit con is templated by the adventurer was one f attended by no inconsiderable perils. till By 'dint of indomitable persistence,' a- unflagging good-nature and such In fluence as he could bring personally e to bear upon the authorities, O'Rourke le got what he desired-a competent guide and two racing camels, or me -! iera, with a pack animal that would - serve their purpose. y By dawn they were ready to start; el, and so, in the level rays of a sun that Sseemed a dazzling sphere of intoler able light, poising Itself in the eastern 's rim of the world as If undecided 't whether or no to take up its flight across the Brmament, -the little cars :e v o '-" t into the fastness of sitting a blood-ee mehari as one to the wilderness born. On the sevent): night they bivouack ?d hard on the 'ieels of the flying col imn, having for seven days pursued t this way and that, zigzagging into :he heart of the parched land. Now, when they were come within nix hours of their goal, reluctantly, ong after nightfall, O'Rourke gave consent to halt, conceding the ne wessity; for weariness weighed upon their shoulders a great burden, an'! the camels had become unusually sul en and evil tempered; If rest were denied them presently they would become obstinate and refuse to follow the road. O'Rourke closed his eyes and lost :onsciousness with a sensation of fall ng headlong into a great pit of ob Livion, bottomless, eternal. Yet it eemed no more than a moment ere 2e was sitting up and rubbing sight [nto his eyes, shaken out of slumber )y his guide. He stumbled to his feet and lurched toward the camels, still but half twake. When his senses cleared ir tation possessed him. His guide had )een overzealous. He turned upon the nan and seized him roughly by the Lrm. "What the divv1e!' he grumbled an rily, between..a yawn and a chatter f teeth-for the air was. bitter cold. "The moon's not yet up!" "Hush, . 81dil," Something in the ruide's tone stilled his wrath, "The rouaregg are all about us. They have been passing .us throughout - the ight-" "Ye knew this and did not wake ne.?" "There was no need; we could not xave moved ere this without detection. qow, they are. all a-stir, and we in :he night, ma pass for them-until noon-up.". The guide turned away to rouse the nehara, prodding them up, mutinous, marling and. ugly. In another five ninutes they were again moving for ard. By the time the silver rim of :he moon peered over the edge cf the east they were pelting on at full speed, is yet, apparentlys undetected by the rouaregg. An hour passed, and the chill in the dir became more intense; dawn was tt hand. A sense of security, of dan He Had Found Chambret. ers left behind, came to the Irish man; he began to breathe more free ly, though still the polished butt of a. repeating rifle swinging from the sad de' remained a comfort to his palm. He grew more confident, mentally at ease, seeing the desert take shape L the.moonlight and show itself deso late on every hand. ,Even as he gained assurance from this thought, the guide turned in his saddle and cried a warning: "The Tou aregg!" From that moment on both wielded merciless whips. For out of the moonlit wastes behind them had shrilled a voice, cruel and wild, ar-e nouncing discovery and the inception~ of the chase. The fugitives had need of no sharper spur. A rifle shot rang sharp on the echoes of that cry,' but the bullet must have fallen far short. A moment later, in deed, they opened a brisk, scattering fire-naturally ineffectual, though the bullets dropping right and left in the sand proved that the chase had got within range. Even with that warning, the end was nearer than he had dreamed or hoped. It came in a twinkling and as unexpected as a bolt out of a clear sky: a flash of fire ahead, a spitful snap and-pttt!--the song of a bullet speeding past his head. The guide pulled up with a a"rk O'Rourke, reining in desperately, swung his camel, wide to avert the' threatened collision. Simultaneously the sharp "Qui vive?" of a French sentry rang out, loud and sweet to hear. "Thank God!" said the adventurer in his heart. And aloud, "Friends!" he cried, driving past the sentry in a cloud of dust. By a blessed miracle the man was quick of wit, and swift to grasp the sittiaton-of which, however, he must have had some warning from the rattle of firing. He screamed something in O'Rourke's ear as the latter passed, and turning threw him self flat and began to pump the trig ger of his carbine, emptying the maga zine at the on-sweeping line of Tou aregg. The alarm was hardly needed; O'Rourke and the guide swept on over the slip of a depression in the desert and halted In the midst of a camp already quickened and alive with shadowy figures running method ically to their posts, carbine and ac coutrement glaming In - the mnoQo light: mnen of the -camel -crops, -hard eed to and familiar with their work. The b"aa' down taj. In brai ness-like way tliat-tbried the heart )f O'Rourke. In a trice they were doublitg out past lines of tethered mehara, past the white hillocks of the officers' shelter-tents and, like the sentry, throwing themselves down upon the ground to take shelter of whatever inequalities the face of the desert offered; and their firing ringed the bivouac with a fringe of flame. O'Rourke slipped from his camel and turned to watch the skirmish. Massed, the Touaregg, in strength greater than the adventurer had be lieved-something like two hundred mounted men, In all-charged down upon the camp as it to over-run and stampede it. Yet at the critical moment, when It seemed that of a surety there was no stopping them, they divided and swung round the camp in two wide ircles, scattering into open order and fring as they scattered. Here and there a horse fell, a rider threw out is hands and toppled from his sad Ile, a camel seemed to buckle at full tilt like a faulty piece of machinery; and so gaps appeared in the flying wings. For the men of the fly! 'olumn were picked shots. They hac ieed to be, who had such tasks as this to cope with. Nor-for that matter-were the To Lregg the only sufferers. Here and here In the. camp a man plunged for. ward in mid-atride, and on the firing Ine beyond the tents now and again L sharpshooter shuddered and lay still ipon his arms. Even at O'Rourke's dde an officer was shot as' he ran to :he front, and would have fallen had xot the Irishman caught him with seady arms and let him easily to the arth. As he did so the stricken man oolled an agonized eye upward. "O'Rourke!" he said between a ;roan and a sigh. And ORourke, kneeling at his side md peering into his face, gave a bit er cry. For he had found Chambret. (TO BE CONTINUED.) [OUNG MAN MET DEATH FROM "UNLOADED" GUN 3Ai* C. Smoak Died From Wound In fleted by Supposedly Unloaded Gun. Orangeburg, Dec. 29.-A sad trag dy, by which a popular young man )f this county, Birt C. Smoak, met his leath, occurred last Saturday at Meg ;etts, in the lower part of this State. :t was the old story of the "unload gd" gun. The unfortunate young man who met his death at the hands of one >f his friends, was a son of Samuel . Smoak of the Lower Fork section >f Orangeburg county, who was en ~aged in' business in (his city several rears ago, but, who, for the .past two >r three years has been successfully ngaged'in business at Meggetts. It appears that on Saturday after- * oon several young men were at the 1ome of a friend and, for the fun of the thing, they were making ready to movie the piano of the ,household to soie other place while the friend was - ut. Everyone was In good humor and bent on Christmas. fun. Then - Julian Peeples, who was in the party, seeing an old rifle in the corner of the room, picked it up and poiniting it at Birt Smoak, said "Look out, Birt, I Am going to shoot you." The gun went off, the shot entering Mr. Smoak's eart, and he succumbed to the wound in five minutes. Mr. Peeples had no - dea that the gun was loaded, and he and Mr. Smoak were the best ,of Eriends. The body of the unfortunate young man was brought to this county and Elis old home for burial. The funeral services were, held at Wesley Grove. :hurch in the presence of numerous srrdwing relatives and friends, and the body was buried in the church graveyard. Pension Notice. I will be in the auditor's office each Saturday in January to prepare pen sion applications. - W. G.. Peterson, Pension Commissioner. Has Millions of Friends. How would you like to number your riends by milions as Bucklen's Arnica Salve does? Its astounding cures in the. ast forty years made them. Tts the hest salve in the world for sores, ul Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company Holiday Excursion Rates. Account of the holidays, the Atlan tic Coast Line Railroad offers special round trip .excursion rates between all points, good on all trains scheduled to stop at respectivle points. Tickets on sale December 15th, 16th, 7th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 30th, 31st, and January 1st, 1912. Final return 'limit January 8th, [912. For rates and other information, see ocal agent, or addess T. C. White, Gen. Pass. Agent Wilmington, N. C. W. J. Craig, Pass. Traffic Agent. Wilmington, N. C. Now is the :thm -to- ?ubscribe 4i.