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FLAM ;yLOUIS-JO5EPR1VA LUSTRAT!ONS....-B COPYRIczH1909 $ y LOU 5SPH SYNOPSIS. CHAPTER I.-The story opens at Monte Carlo with Col. Terence O'Rourke in his hotel. O'Rourke, a military free lance 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 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 differently. He notices two men watch ing him. - One is the Hon. Bertie Glynn, while his companion is Viscount Des Trebes, a noted duelist. When O'Rourke leaves the table the viscount tells him he represents the French government and that he has been directed to O'Rourke as a man who would undertake a secret mission. CHAPTER III.-At -his room O'Rourke, who had agreed to undertake the mission, awaits the viscount. O'Rourke finds a mysterious letter in his apartment. The viscount arrives, hands a sealed package to O'Rourke, who is not to open it until en 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 there. CHAPTER TV.-When the Irishman goes to his room he finds there the own er of the mysterious feet. It is his wife, Beatrix, from whom he had run away a year previous. They are reconciled, and opening the letter be had received, he finds that a law firm in Rangoon, India, 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 tells his wife that it Is in the keeping of a friend named Chambret in Algeria. CHAPTER V.-O'Rourke is forced to fight a duel with the viscount. The brag gart nobleman is worsted in the combat and acts the poltroon. CHAPTER VI.-The loyal wife bids O'Rourke farewell and he promises to soon return with the reward offered for the Pool of Flame. He discovers both 0lynn and the viscount on board the sbl which takes him, to Algeria,. CHAPTER VII.--Chambret has l"ft Al geria and O'Rourke has to gain r.. mili tary detachment going across the desert to reach his friend. As he finds the latter there is an attack by bandits and Chamnbret is shot. CHAPTER VIII.-Chamnbrt dies telling O'Rourke that he has left the Pool of Flame with the governor general of Al geria. He gives the colonel a signet ring .at the sight of which he says the official will deliver over the jewel. CHAT PTER IX.-O'Rourke is attacked by Glynn and the viscount who ransack his luggage, but he worsts them in the .coniflct. CTIAPTER X.-When he arrives at Al geria the Irishman finds the governor general away. He receives a note from~ Jes Trebes making a mysterious appoint mnent. CHAPTER XI.-The viscount tells Q'Rourke that he has gained possessin of the jewel by stealing it from the safe Qf the governor general He does not, bowever. know who has offered the re vward for it. He suggests a duel with vanlers. the victor to get that information and the jewel. CHAPTER XII.-In the duel O'Rourke inasters his adversary and secures pos session of the Pool of Flame. CHAPTER XIII. - The efforts of S'Rourke are now directed toward speed y getting to Rangoon with the Jewel .anf_he -starts__by shi. - CHAPTER XIV. In the face of the fact that the im portation of hashish into Egypt has ieen declared illegal by Khedival leg Aslation, the drug is always to be ob tined in the lower dives of Alexan Iria, Cairo and Port Said-If one only tnows where to go and how to ask for it Manufactured In certain tslands of the Grecian Archipelago, it is mysteriously exported under the rery noses of complaisanit authorities and, eluding the rigor of Egyptian :3ustoms, as well as the vigilance of egyptian spies, finds Its way to the tellaheen-among other avid consum ers; speaking baldly, is smuggled into the land. Customs Inspections, fur thermore, are as severe as might be expected by anyone acquainted with the country and Its inhabitants-as was O'Rourke. He felt, then, no sort of surprise at the brevity of the official visitation. The inspector, accompanied by an excessively urbane and suave Captain LHole, consciously but briofly glanced into the hold, asked a few suestions which would have .been pertinent had they not been entirely %pserfunctory, and took his leave. From the gangway the captain turned back directly to his first offi eer and the -latter's charge. Hearing bis approaching - footsteps, O'Rourke gathered himself together and sum mloned all his faculties to his aid. "Troublesome?" demanded Hole, ,pausing. "Not a syllable,"' said the mate. "Th' mon's sensible. I ha'e me doubts but he's too canny altegither." "Peaceful as a byby, eh? Well," savagely, "'eli learn wot for. Get up, you Irish-" -.O'Ronrke lay passive under the storm of Hole's profanity. He had all but closed his eyes, and was watch -iug the pair from beneath his lashes. Failing to elicit any response, 'Asn't 'e moved?" demanded the cap tain. "Not a muscle--" "Shammin'! 'Ere, I'll show 'im." 'O'Rourke gritted his teeth and sup pressed a groan as the toe of Hole's heavy boot crashed into his ribs. "Th' mon's nae shamming," Denni son declared. "He's fair fainted." "F 2ainted hell!" countered the cap _ an Gv f arm a twist, Denni ~of S~oIl.". The mate calmly disobeyed. The arm-twist desired by the captain re luires the use of the twister's two hands, and stoutly as he defended his opinion, the first officer was by no means ready to put up his revolver. He advanced and bent over the Irishma.n, who lay motionless, his up per lip rolled back to show his clenched teeth. "Heugh!" exclaimed the first officer, peering into his face, his tone expressive of the liveliest concern. Without further hesitation he dropped the revolver into his pocket and-received a tremendous short-arm ! blow in the face. With a stifled cry he fell back, clutching at a broken nose, and sprawled at length; while O'Rourke, leaping to his feet, deliberately put a heel into the pit of Dennison's stom ach, thereby effectually eliminating him as a factor in the further contro versy. Simultaneously he advanced upon Captain Hole. But in the latter he encountered nc mean antagonist. The man-it has been said-was as tall as and heavier than the adventurer, and by virtue of his position a competent and experi enced rough-and-ready fighter. In a breath he had lowered his head and, bellowing like a bull, launched him self toward O'Rourke. 'The Irishman met the onslaught with a stinging uppercut; which, nev ertheless, failed to discourage th'e captain, who grappled and began to belabor O'Rourke with short, stabbing blows on the side of the head, at the same time endeavoring to trip him. The fury of his onset all but carried the Irishman off his feet. At the same time it defeated Hole's own purpose. O'Rourke watched his chance, seized the man's throat with both hands and. tightening his grip, fairly lifted him off his feet and shook him as a ter rier shakes a rat. Then, with a grunt of satisfaction, he threw the captain from him and turned to face greater Iodds. The noise of the conflict had brought the crew down upon the contestants. Surrounded, he was rushed to the rail.I Wihthat to his back he drew on his reserve of strength and, poising him Iself, began to give his assailants per sonal and individual attention. They pushed him close, snarling and curs lng, hinde'ring one another in their eagerness, and suffering variously for their temerity. O'Rourke fought with trained precision; his blows, lightning quick, were direct from the shoulder and very finely placed; and so straight did he strike that almost from the* first his knuckles were torn and Ibleding from their impact upon flesh and bone. Fight as fiercely as he might, how ever, the pack was too heavy for him; and when presently he discerned, not In one 'but in half a dozen hands, gleams of light-the rays of a negr-by lantern running down knife-blades he conceded the moment imminent when he must sever his connection with the Pelican. Moreover he had a Ishrewd suspicion that Hole was up Iand only waiting for an opening to use! his revolver. Leaping to the rail, he poised an instant, then dived far out from the vessel's side, down into the Stygian: blackness of the harbor water; a good clean dive, cutting the water with Ihardly a splash, he went down like an arrow, gradually swerving from the straight line of his flight into a long arc-so long, indeed, that he was well-nigh breathless when he came to the surface, a dozen yards or more from th~e Pelican. Spitting out the foul harbor water, and with a swift glance over his shoul der that showed him the Pelican's dark freeboard like a wall, and a cluster of dark shapes hanging over the rail at the top vaguely revealed by lantern light, he struck out for the nearest vessel, employing the double overhand stroke; noisy but speedy. That he heard no cry when he came to the surface, that Hole had not de tected him by the pliosphorescence,I and that he had held his hand from firing, at first puzzled O'Rourke; but Ihe reasoned that Hole probably feared to raise an alarm and thereby attract 'much undesirable attention to himself and his ship. In the course of the first; few strokes, however, he managed to peep again over his shoulder, and from! the activity on the Pelican's decks concluded that he was to be pursued Iby boat; which, in fact, proved to be the case. Fortunately the Pelican rode at an chor in waters studded thick with other vessels, affording plenty of hid ing places on a night as black as that. 1The adventurer made direct for the first vessel, swam completely around it, and by the time the Pelican's boat was afloat and its rowers bending to the oars, he was supporting himself by a hand upon the unknown ship's cable. floating on his back with only iis face out of water. Under these conditions, it was small wonder that the boat missed him so completely. At length rested, the Irishman re leased his hold and struck out fol Eventually i gained the end of a quay, upon which he drew himself foz a last rest and to let his dripping gar ments drain a bit ere venturing abroad in the streets. Not until then, strangely enough did it come to him with its full force. how he had been tricked and played upon from the very beginning. And he swore bitterly when he contemplated his present position of a penniless outcast in a city almost wholly strange to him, without friends (save indeed. Danny-wherever he might be), with "The Irishman Was Upon Him-" out a place to lay his head, lacking even a change of clothing. His kit. box was aboard the Pelican and likely to remain there, for all he could dc to the contrary; in his present state. to apply to the authorities or to at tempt to lodge a complaint against Captain Hole would more likely than not result in incarceration on a charge of vagrancy more real than technical. And-the Pool of Flame! HE fumed with impotent rage when he saw how blindly he had stumbled intc Hole's trap, how neatly he had per mitted himself to be raped of the jew el. For in thie light of late events he could not doubt but that Hole had sought him out armed with the knowl edge that O'Rourke was in possessionI of the priceless jewel-more than probably advised and employed by De. Trebes; assuming that he had failed to inflict a mortal wound upon ,that adventurer. "Aw, the divvle, the divvle!" com plained O'Rourke. "Sure, and 'tis a Sain whc he rros -and clambe.11red, tote o o Cheqaywt thmr hase ha god il inve o h 7ac tha (teplshngofoas,th dimy- oulnd hp'o,"oa ed (n iet.fo i eug,hdsd del ecm isbe O ors,i migh no ete-Plcn u O'RThe wrsma as Uptonogl Him pressedpwith tlhecnito head, lthen even of changienofclothing workitg boxaws him,ajus then Peian and lielyt torean ther, forll he coul dcha tthe shontrry bein hiaresengt atae precapply t the footh.orithpiesr, toe temt whic lod, colaint aaindti Ctawite golae, woul mogre liel anlk nd-lcktve Pol ntv of Flm! He fmednicipa poentho re whenst Hols rap heowl natnlid hehadr mitte thisel eao be raped oth bew-a eelFon gh of lhsapearaentsce coul otkn eout but tat oscence, wsthout himou armedional tche knowl edtht isRhands intahs iposessiond ofunterediwiless jwel-smed t perobably advse wholl cmonicdn air of Trnch;alancetowar the hadficer. The inlcter ranal uns upionus. unila thenvve the ischie orn a tiatne O'Rourke waSure,l an 'tl ie pretty thes wrong made of ith alnw Sayin whisel ee from and cabred uo the en of the quayt tnd mena yell echattesing afeotefgitive.h dimly! oulndae rored oat ha!de inerectl Thif!or thiefug,!" sd Ten blcm visfibe O'Rourse itn mnihtanot, beuthesimulcansl bt Irhman was upoo horougdhld im prssedg with bth oplictiotheat thek lwrs ofincideceh e reharbor. beha willn tolo rununncesay heiss. ceeded.ces t woul the ello tat primsely a thi' breadthn thebe nex whinte glae tefre 'ofre hulk ing blackntierprsnttv.oh Thsee Iiha hould ga soldetar. Forehs, besresnh daredundobety,h devidencesef hase in apearnceha wasgtrikigWouh deiin whatiece without an radditsion tous o the thrus hisbhles ilntois -steets? Mentoennaed hhwldrsuenad yap pnera nos whollhenicn Air Be onhalanc twr he ofier.Nbas nth lateremain-coe yalrdspcaosb outil-admthenthiscionfi wasiga hat caRouves. ssilaulfv yarsteirng twsing, oging man-d oligmitng leape frmthetoaten asphoh the b of the a (and n lecoingoteowin) the gitie h frter Thpef!n Stop thngief!"naro The-ay blaing inland Ofrouthe ia Hrian was uplo hman had ut e f'o stratl ntaorisg stmrffin, recoveing a buoplning thona-And ward th thes harbor. itht h Ihadsieenawedlaforthie hideha sue-i himel-firethr's brathro adlte, tunint int wa maftOure,erno. Bting thmcureofsoemiuts the Irishma howuned camfee ir oie heels,ted srft bt,eendoutedy wahe dving hisefwaon the luckd treet - ynght ho sihal deschfribe in fresh aner ablepg out of th le;, vcoumbles and Alandia'sn iteets Menm en, neaked hilrennd yap resentment, while the clamor of the pursuing rabble shrilled loud and near and ever nearer. Exhausted as he was, the Irishman struggled with little skill before he mastered his own surprise; and in the end saw his finis written along the blade of a thin, keen knife which the Greek nad whipped from the folds. of his garments and jerked threateningly above his head. It was falliig when O'Rourke saR it. In another breath he had been stabbed. Unexpectedly the Greet shrieked, dropped the knife as thougb it had turned suddenly white-hot it his hands, and leaped back from O'Rourke, nursing a broken wrist; while a voice as sweet as the singing of angels rang in the fugitive's ears, though the spirit of its melody was simple and crude enough. "O'Rourke, be all th' powers! The masther himself! Glory, ye beggar, 'tis sorry I am that I didn't split the ugly face of ye wid me sthick! . . . This way, yer honor! Come wid me!" Blindly enough (indeed the world was all awhirl about him) O'Rou:ke, his arm grasped by a strong ar d co. i dent hand, permitted himself to be swung to the right and across the street. In a thought blackness again was all, about him, but the hand gripped his arm, hurrying him onward; and he yielded blindly to its guidance -without power, for that matter, tc question or to object; what breath he had he sorely needed. And as blind ly he stumbled on for perhaps another hundred yards, while the voice of the rabble made hideous the night be hind them. Hardly, indeed, had the two whipped into the mouth of the back-way ere it was choked by a swarm of pursuers. But-"Niver fear!" said the voice at his side. "'Tis ourselves that'll outwit . them. . . . Here, now, yer honor, do ye go straight on widout sthoppin' ontil ye come to an iron dure in a dead wall at the end av this. Knock there wance, count tin, and knock again. I'll lead 'em away and be wid ye again In a brace av shakes!" Benumbed by fatigue and exhaus tion, O'Rourke obeyed. He was aware that his preserver with a wild whoop had darted aside into a cross-alley, but hardly aware of more. Mechanically he blundered on until brought up by a wall that closed and made a cul-de sac of the way. - With tre ing hands he felt before him, fingers encouirtering the smooth. mol surface of a sheet of metal. This, then, was the door. As carefully is tie could he knocked, counted ten, and knocked again-while the mob that had lusted for his blood trailed off down the side alley in frantic pursuit of his generous preserver. And he heard with a smile,, the latter's shrill defiant Irish yells luring them further upon the false scent. "If 'tis not Danny," gasped the ad enturer, "then myself's not the O'Rourke! Bless the lad!" But as he breathed this benediction the iron door swung inwards and he stumbled across the threshold, half fainting, hardly conscious that he had done more than pass from open night to the night of an enclosed space. His foot caught on some obstruction and he went to his knees with a cry that was a cross between a sob and a groan; and incontinently fell full length upon an earthen floor, his head pillowed on his arm, panting as If his heart would break. In the darkness above him someone cried aloud, a startled cry, and then the door was thrust to with a clang and rattle of bolts. A match rasped i~ Exhausted as He Was, the trishmar Struggled With Little Skill. loudly and a flicker of light leaped from a small hand I'imp and revealed to its bearer the fagged and quivering figure on the floor. Some one sat down beside him with a low exclamatlon of solicitude and gathered his head into her lap. Some one quite simply enfolded his necb with soft arms and pressed his head to her- bosAm, and as if that were noi enough, kissed him full and long upor his lips. "My dear! My dear!" she murmurec In Frer,ch. "What has happened, 0 what gias happened? My poor, pqp1 hoy!' Now the integral madness of all thiE was as effectual in restoring O'Rourke to partial consciousness as had been a dovuche of cold water in his face Blankly he told himself that he war damned, and that it was all a dream And yet, when he looked, it was tc see, dim in the feeble glimmer of the lamp, the face of a woman as beauti ful as young, as young as beautiful. One glance was enough. O'Rcurk( shut his eyes again. "If I look tot log," he assured himself, "she'll van is -or tun into a fend. Sure, 'i' a judgment upon mer Too long ha I been an amorous dram-drinker; ti will undoubtedly be the delirium-t mens of love!" And with that he passed quietly in temporary unconsciousness. (TO BE CONTINUED.) STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY. By virtue of executions lodged wil me in the cases of South Carolina Loa and Trust company against J. Blackwelder, J. J. Lane and J. ' Davenport; South Carolina Loan ar Trrust company against G. D. Dave1 port, M. A. Carlisle and others; Ban of Columbia against M. A. Carlisle, al; Wallace B. Todd vs. J. J. Lan( Bailey & Son vs. J. J. Lane, et a: Georgia Chemical Works vs. J. Lane, et al; First National Bank Clinton vs. J. J. Lane, et al; Palmeti National Bank vs. M. A. Carlisle, et a (as well as by virtue of various othE executions lodged with me) I will se within the legal hours of sale on sale day,' being the 5th day of Februar 1912, subject to the mortgages th, exist upon it, all that tract or plant, tion of land belonging to James Lane, one of the defendants in ti above stated cases, situate in ti County of Newberry, in the State South Carolina, and bounded by ti road which leads from the residenc of B. C. Matthews, in the direction the residence of B. F. Mills, whic separates .it from lands of P. Crotwell; by landi George Johnstone; by lands of J. Caldwell; by lands ci the estate of R. Hipp, from which it is separate by the public road that leads from tt town of Newberry to the old steaw mill; by .lands of Rosemont cemetery by lands of Mr. and Mrs. F. N. Marti3 by lands lately the property of Jam( J. Lane, but now owned by the Nev berry Real Estate company, and by street of the town of Newberry whic constitutes a continuation of Harrinl ton street. There are several mor gages 'on this property and ,by ordE of court the sale will take place, 2 stated, subject to the mortgages. Th' tract of land is supposed to conta some two hundred and ninety (29( acres, more, or less, the exact numb4 of acres not being known. Terms of sale: Cash. M. M. BUFORD, . Sheriff Newberry County. Sheriff's Office, Jan. 10, 1912. EXECUTOR'S N~OTICE OF FfINA SETTLEMENT. Notice is 'hereby given that on Moz day, January 15, 1912, at 11 o'clock in., we will make a settlement of th estate of the late Mrs. M. A. E. Wert in office of Probate Judge at Newberr S. C. All'and singular the credito: are hereby notified to present the claims duly attested to Clarence] Werts, executor, and all parties ir debted are required to make paymes to the undersigned on or before.sai date. Susan M. Werts. Executrix Clarence F. Werts, Executo Of Mrs. M. A. E. Werts, Deceased. Has illions of Friends. How would you like to number yol friends by milions as Bucklen's Arnic Salve does? Its astounding cures in tt past forty years made them. Its tU best salve in the world for sores, ii STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. COUNTY OF NEWBERRY. COURT OF COMMON P'LEAS. The Newberry Savings Bank, Plaii tiffs, vs. Frank G. Spearman, Jr., at IJohn R. Spearman, Defendants. By an order of the Court herein will sell to the highest bidder befo: the court house at Newberry, S. C within the legal hours of sale on Mo: day, February 5, 1912, all the interei and estate of Frank G. Spearman, J' in all that tract or plantation of lax situate, lying and being in the Cou2 ty of Newberry, State of South Cara lina, containing three hundred at forty-seven (347) acres, mnore or les and bounded by lands of Mrs. Fanni Maffett, A. J. S. Langford, Thomt Henry Spearman, and Sallie R. Hu4 son, (formerly 3. S. Spearman, J. 1 Spearmani and G. C. Williams.) Also all the interest and estate all that other tract or plantation< land lying and being situate in tU county of Newberry, State of Sout Carolina, containing two hundred an forty (240) acres, more or less, a~ bounded by lands of, or formerly C Will Sanders, Cbarlotte V. Spearmai and others, being sometimes know~ a Little River Place, of the late Joh R. Spearman, the said interest in sai ands, both tracts, being derived ui der the terms of the last will and te! tament of the late John R. Spermna deceased, the grandfather of the de fendant Frank G. Spea.rman, Jr. Terms of sale: One-half the pu chase money to be paid in cash, ti balance on credit of twelve month Me credi pontin to be secured by tI bond of the purchaser and a mortgage ti . of the premises sold with interest at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum, aad tc in case said bond and mortgage is cel lected by suit-or put in the hands of an attorney for collection, 10 per cent. must be added to the amount due thereon, as attorney's fee. The pur chaser may pay all his bid in cash X he 7o desires. Purchaser to pay tor h papers and recording of same. n H. H. RIKARD, Master. --J Master's Office, Jan. 8, 1912. 1- :l 3t ROUND TRIP WINTER TOURIST FARES NOW IN~EFFECT 11 - 7, SOUTHERN RAILWAY-"PREUIER CAIRIER OF THE SOUTH." J. Tickets on sale daily including April Le 30, 1912, with final limit returning May te 31, 1912. 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