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-h- WT •M K' ■ Vt THURSDAY, MARCH 17,1927 -/T' - -* -- - *.• ■*> .* * '»*■ • •• 4 ■ ^ PAGE SEVEN ' * r '“ THE W A N t S FOR SALE—One house and lot on West Main st. Irby Hipp. 3-l»7-4tc CHRONICLE. CLINTON. S. C. •'.. i FOR SALE—One thousand} bushels choice Cleveland cotton seed. Grown on our own farm. Re-cleaned. $1.00 per bushel f. o. b. Clintdn, S. C. Cope land-Stone Co., or C. W. Stone. 3-31-5c FOR RENT—Splendid 20fr-acre farm, partly in Mountville. Alsa store, corner Pitts and Sloan streets, Clinton. O’Daniel & Reid. tf FOR RENT—Residence on East Car olina avenue, adjoining Dr. John W. Young’s place, suitable for boarding house or aparmtent house. Apply to Dr, Jack H. Young. tf FOR RENT—One five-room house on Seaboard street. Apply to C. A. Fleming. 3-31-3tc C. A. HOLLIS has twenty-five brown leghorn hens from which he has been getting from 20 to 23 eggs per day for two months. You might do as well if you fed Full-O-Pep feeds. Mil ling Grocery Co., Wholesale Distrib utors. 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C. 3-17-5tc CHICKS WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE: Frank Beeson, from Albany. N. Y., reaches Benton, Wyoming, then—1868 —western terminus of the Pacific rail road. He had been ordered by physi- 1 cians to seek a climate “high and dry.” He is robbed of most of his money in his hotel and loses his last twenty dollars at monte in “The Big Tent,” a dance hall and gambling resort in the “roaring” town of Benton. Edna Montoyo, compaion of a gam bler, is believed by Frank to have ca joled him purposely into the game. Broke, disconsolate over his discovery that “the lady of the blue eyes,” as he calls her, is what she is, and finally humiliated over his glaring “green ness,” Frank repulses Edna when she begs him to go away with her, sob- bingly telling him that she had made a mistake in letting him lose his mon ey. He goes to take a job with George Jenks, a teamster, in a wagon train about to leave for Salt Lake City. Capt. Adams, a Mormon, is in charge of the wagon train. Rachael Adams, an attractive young woman, one of his wives, is in the train, as is Daniel Adams, his loutish son. When Edna, who has shot, but not killed the gambler, Montoyo, comes a fugitive in “britches” to join the train, Daniel tells his father that she is seeking Jenks and Beeson. Caut. Adams shouts, “No hussy in men’s garments shall go with the train.” Healthy, Strong, Purebred COTTON did not pay but CHICKS will. Get our catalog. 3000 chicks a week. Clinton Hatchery Clinton, S. C. How Doctors Treat Colds and the Flu / To break up a cold overnight or to cut short an attack of grippe, in fluenza, sore throat or tonsillitis, phy sicians and druggists are now recom mending Calotabs, the purified and refined calomel compound tablet that gives you the effects of calomel and salts combined, without the unpleas ant effects of either. One or two Calotabs at bed-time with a swallow of water,—that’s all. No salts, no nausea nor the slightest interference with your eating, work or pleasure. Next morning your cold has vanished, your system is thor oughly purified and you are feeling fine with a hearty appetite for break fast. Eat what you please,—no dan- Get a family package, containing full directions, only 35 cents. At any drug store. (adv) autiful CHAPTER VIII FOR A WOMAN’S SMILE Jenks stiffened, bristling. “Mind your words, Adams. I’m un der no Mormon thumb. As for your brat on horseback, he’d better hold his yawp.” I sprang forward. Defend her I was silent save for stertorous breath ing. Vaguely cogitating over his promise I lay^joes and face up, staring at the brighw^tars; preplexed more and more^er the immediate events of the future, warmly conscious of her as tonishing proximity in this very train, prickled by the hope that she would continue with us, irritated by the va rious assumptions of Daniel, and somehow not at all adverse to the memory of her in “britches.” That phase of the matter seemed to have affected Daniel and me simi larly. Under his hide he was human. * * v * -fr it was after sun-up that a horseman bored in at a gallop, over the road from the east. “Montoyo,” Jenks pronounced, in a grumble of disgust, rather than with any not of alarm. I saw him give a twitch to his holster and slightly loosen the Colt’s. As it chanced, our outfit was the first upon the gambler’s way. “Howdy, gentlemen?” “Howdy yourself, sir,” answered Mr. Jenks. Montoyo was pale as death, his lips hard set, his peculiar gray eyes and his black moustache the only vivifying features in his coldly men acing countenance. He looked upon me with a trace of recognition less to be seen than felt. His glance leaped to the wagon— traveled swiftly and surely and turn ed to Mr. Jenks. “I’m looking for my wife, gentle men. Have you seen her?” • “Yes, sir. We’ll not beat around any bush over that,” replied Jenks. He meditated, frowning a bit, eye- j ing us narrowly. “I ^ad the notion,” he said. “If you have staked her to shelter, I thank you; but now I aim to play the must. She should not stand there-i hand myself This is strictly a pri- slight, lovely, brave, aflame with the vate & ame - Where is she. helplessness of a woman alone and insulted. “Wait!” I implored. “Give her a chance. You haven’t heard her story. All she wants is protection. I know the cur she’s getting away from. Flowers Free/ “I call yuh, Pedro,” my friend ans wered. “We ain’t keepin’ casse on her, or on you. You don’t find her in my outfit, that’s flat. She spent the night with the Adams women. You’ll I i find hre waitin’ for you, on ahead.” saw him strike her. You’ve K ot wo- Hc ginned “She’ll be powerful glad men there who’ll care for her! t0 s <* >' ou ; r He sobered. And 111 I felt her instant look. She spoke “Y ' hl « : ' ™ *•"<!" sorr - v aln 1 K ot palpitant ^ er ’ * or sae d mterestin company You can hare 5 packets of seeds of 6 different and very beautiful flowers free- Hastings’ 1927 Seed Catalog tells you all about It. Hastings’ Seeds are “The Standard of the South.” They give the best re sults in our Southern gardens and on our farms. Hastings’ new 1927 Cata- ^og has 112 pages In alt. full of pic lures from photographs, handsome covers In full colors, truthful, accurate descriptions and valuable culture di rections. We want you to have this catalog In your home. It tells all about Hastings’ garden, flower and field seeds, plants and bulbs—the finest in America. Write for It today. A post-card re quest brings It to you by return mall. H. G. HASTINGS CO., SERDSMEN, ATLANTA, GA. “You have one man among you all. But I am going. Good-night, gentle men.” Captain Adams was frowning stern ly, his heavy face unsoftened. “Why come you here?” “My husband has been abusing me, and I shot him!” “You killed him, woman?”. “Not yet! He’s likely fleeing the public at this very moment.” ‘‘And those garments!” Captain Adams accused. “You wish to show your shape, woman, to tempt men's eye with the flesh?” She smiled. “Would you have me jump from a train in skirts, sir? But to soothe your mind I will say that I wore these clothes under my proper attire and cloak until the last moment.” A new voice sounded. “She shall stay, Hyrum? For the night, at least? I will look after her.” The Captain’s younger wife, Ra chael, had stepped to him. Pending reply I hastened directly to My Lady hreself and detained her by her jack-; et sleeve. “Wait,” I bade. on the road.” “The road to hell, yes,” Montoyo coolly remarked. “I’ll guarnatee you quick passage. Good-day.” With Sudden steely glare that em braced us both he jumped his mount into a gallop and tore past the team, for the front. I could hold back no longer, and hastening on up, half running in my anxiety to face the worst; to help, if I might, for the best. A little knot of people had formed, constantly increasing by oncimers like myself and friend Jenks who had lum bered behind me. Montoyo’s horse stood heaving, on the utskirts; and ruthlessly pushing through I found him inside, with My Lady at bay before him—her eyes brilliant, her cheeks hot, her two hands clenched tightly, and the arm of the brightly flushed but calm Ra chael resting rcstrainfully around her. Captain Adams, at one side apart, was talking to the gambler. “You see here,” he said. “She has had the care of my own household, for I turn nobody away. She came The gambler smiled—a slow, con-! temptuous smile, while his gray eyes focused watchfully. “It’s a case where I have nothing to gain,” said he. “And you’ve noth ing to lose. I never bet in the teeth of a pat hand. Sabe? Besides, my young Mormon cub, where’s your an te? For the sport of it, now, what do you think of putting up, make it interesting? One of your mammies? Tut. tut!” Daniel’s right hand stiffened at his side—extended there flat and trem ulous like the vibrant tail of a rattle snake. He blurted harshly: “I ’iaow to kill yu for that! Draw, you—!!” We caught breath. Montoyo’s re volver poised half-way out of the scabbard, held there rigidly, frozen in mid-course. For Daniel had laughed loudly over leveled barrel. How he had achieved so quickly no man of us knew. Yet there it was— his Colt, out, cocked, wicked and yearning and ready. “Haow’li yu take it. Mister?” he gibed. “I could I’arn an old caow to beat yu on the draw. Aw, shucks! I ’laow yu’d better go back to yore pasteboards. Naow git!” Montoyo, his eyes steady, scarcely changed expression. He let his re volver slip down into its scabbard. Then he smiled. “You have a pretty trick,” he com mented, relaxing. “Some day I’d lik^ to test out again. Just now I pass. Madam, are you coming?” “Your choice of company is hardly to your credit,” he snereed. “Or, I should say, to your education. Saint liness does not fall well upon you. ma dam. Of your two champions—” And here I realized that 1 was j standing opt, one foot advanced, my ■ fists foolishly doubled, my presence, a useful factor. “—I recommend the gentleman \ from New York as more to your taste. But you are going of yolir -'wn free will. You will always be my wife. You can’t get awa>; from that, you devil. I shall expect you in Benton, for I have the hunch that your little flight will fetch .you back pretty well tamed, to the place where damaged goods are not so heavily discounted.” With that he strode straight for his horse, climbed aboard (a trifle awkwardly by reason of his one arm disabled) and galloped, granting us not another glance. Card shark and desperado that he was, his consummate aplomb nobody could deny, except Daniel, now caper ing and swaggering and twirling his revolver. “I showed him. I made him take water. 1 ’laow I’m ’bout the best man with a six-shooter in these hyear parts.” “Ketch up and stretch out,” Cap- j tain Adams ordered, disregarding. ( “We’ve no time for foolery.” My eyes met My I-ady’s. She smiled a little ruefully, and I responded, shamed by the poor role 1 had borne. With that jubilating out to the fore, | certainly I cut small figure! (Continued Next Week.) “You would take her in, Rachael?” f**" 1 ' , m >: *"<1 *he shall go of the Captain rumbled. ^ "a , “We are commanded to feed the “You Mormons have the advantage hungry and shelter the homeless, Hy- 0 ! us » hltf " len ’ f' r ’ Mo " toyo ,, , ed. No one of the sex seems to be ’““V'arily that is so. Talredmef But!f enied 1 b t d “ nd boaid in 5 ' our ** tok : in God’s name, clothe her for the day-j f/ . , r t i r +V, „ * nA “By the help of the Lord we of the light in decency. She shall not ad- . * ^ vertise her flesh to men s eyes! ! . . .... Quick!” I whispered with a push. ™ uch ^ ttcr th /" you do yours,” big Rachael, however, had crossed for us. “Will you come with me, please?” she invited. SEABOARD ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF TRAINS CLINTON, S. C. To and from SOUTH and WE .ST Arrive: Depart: 2:51 a. m. Atlanta-B’ham 1:48 a. m. 2:60 p. m. Athens-Atlanta 2:15 p. m. 5:50 p. m. Athens-Atlanta 11:30 a. m. 5:50 p. m. B’ham-Memohis» 11:30 a. m. To and from NORTH and EAST Arrive; Depart: jl:48 a. m. New York-Wash. 2:51 a. m. ’ .48 a. m. Rich.-Norfolk 2:51 a. m. 1.1:30-*. m. New York-Wash. 5:50 p»m. 11:30 a. m. Rich.-Norfolk 5:50 p.m. 2:15 p. m. Monroe-Hamlet JLOO p. m. C. G. LaHatte, T.. P. A., Atlanta, Ga. W. H; Shands, Agcr.^ Cllrtor., S. C. “Yes,” sighed My Lady, w “Good-night, sir.” She fleetingly smiled upon me. “I thank you; and Mr. Jenks.” They went, Rachael’s arm about her. , Hyrum responded; and his face som bered. “Who are you? A panderer to the devil, a thief with painted card- caill/. ^9 arda - a despoiler of the ignorant, and a feeder to hell—yea, a.striker of women and a trafficker in flesh! Who , are you to speake the name of the . Lord’s anointed ? There she is, your chattel. Take her or leave her. This Daniel pressed beside Captain . . . .. . . . . „ , .train starts on in ten minutes. Adams, talking eagerly. “She’s powerful purty, ain’t she, ■ “I’ll take her or kill her, Montoyo paw! Gosh, I never seen a woman in snarled. “You call me a feeder, but britches before! Did yu? Paw! She s, I ie sb*^ be fed to your mill, kin ride in my wagon, paw. Be yu Adams. You 11 ^et on that horse go.V to take her on, paw? If yu be, P ron to, Madam,’ he added, stepping I got room.” i forward (no one could question his “Go! Tend to your stock and think nerve), “and we’ll discuss our affairs of other things,” boomed the father. ' n private.” “Remfember, that the Scriptures say: She cast about with swift beseeeh- ‘Beware of the scarlet woman’!" hig look, as if for a friendly face or Daniel galloped away, whooping sign of rescue. With a spring I burst like an idiot. in. „ Our group dispersed, each man to But somebody already had drawn his blanket under the wagons or in f re sh attention. Daniel Adams was the open. standing between her and her husband. “Wall,” Jenks uttered, in last words “Say, Mister, will yu fight?” he as he turned over with & grunt, “hoo- ray! if it simmers down to you and Montoyo suiweyed him. Dan’l, I’ll be there. | “Why?” ^ . With tV.nT o^ynatical comment he “For her, o’ course.” 'A Alluring Full-fashioned No- Mend Silk Stockings have more than lovely colors and smartness to recommend them. They wear longer because of the greater number of strong strands of new silk in every thread. Each pair fully guaranteed. J. A. BAILEY Merchant SnjfthosiERY -for Style—for Service- Telephone 400 ‘At Union Station” Telephone 377 e race that never ends B UILDING * telephone system la an undertaking that never ends. The telephone plant constructed for today’s needs, must be so engineered ae to have a definite place In the plane to meet the anticipated demands of the future— five, ten and even twenty years hence. 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