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THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1927
THE CLINTON CHRONIC* E CLINTON. S C.
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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
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 iiito 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.
C&pt. 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 v 1s 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.”
Dapiel, by a spectacular gun play
foils Montoyo’s attempt to take Edna
back with him.
Under Jenks’ and Edna’s instruc
tion Frank practices shooting—is told
to “aim for his feet to hit his heart.”
This follows a clever exhibition of
shooting by young Daniel, who is an
gered by Rda*LS interest in Beeson.
CHAPTER X
INTO THE NIGHT
A meeting between My Lady and
tne brought on, not long after, the ex
pected crisis. As we walked, sudden
ly I saw Daniel nearing, striding rap
idly, straight for us, a figure porfen-
tious in the fading glow, bringing the
storm with him.
She saw, too. Her eyes widened,
startled, surveying not him, but me.
“Please go. I’ll keep him.”
“It is too late now,” I asserted in
a voice not mine. “I am here first
and I’ll go when I get ready.”
“You mean to face him? I knew it.
You will play the man! Watch him
close! He’ll give you little grace this
time. But remember this: I’ll never,
never, never marry him. Rather than
• be bound to him I’ll deal with him my
self!”
“It won’t be, necessary, madam,”
said I—a catch in my throat; for
while I was all iciness and clammi
ness, my hands cold and my tongue
dry, I felt that I was going to kill
him.
Daniel charged in for us. I did not
touch revolver butt; he did not. He
barked first at her.
“Go whar yu belong, yu Jezebel!
Then I’ll tend to this—” The rabid,
epithet leveled at me I shall not re-!
peat. ’
“Be careful what you say, Daniel.
No man on this earth can speak to j
me like that.” j
All his face flushed livid with a
sneer, merging together yellow freck
les and tanned skin.
“Can’t, can’t he? I kin an’ I do.
Now yu git. I’ve stood yore fast-an’-
loose plenty. 1 mean business. Git!
Whar yu’ll be safe. I’ll not hold off
much longer.”
“No more of that, you brute,” I
roared. “If you have anything to say,
say it to me.”
He Whirled.
“Yu! Why, yu leetle piece o* noth
in’—yu shut up!” By sudden reach
he gripped her arm; to her sharp,
short scream he thrust her about.
“Git! I’m boss hyar.” And at me:
“What yu goin’ to do? She’s prom
ised to me. Git, yerself, or I’ll stomp
on yu like on a louse!”
I forgot instructions. I disregarded
every movement preliminary to the
onset! Bullets were too slow and
I did not see his revolver; I saw
but the hulk of him and the intoler
able sneer of him. and that his flesh
was ready to my fingers.
And quicker than his hand I was
upon him, into him, clinching him,
clinging to him,, arms binding him,
legs twining around his, each ounce
of me greedy to crush him down and
master him.
a The shock drove him backward. W’e
swayed and staggered, grappling hith
er and thither. I had his arms pin
ioned, to bend him. He spat into my
face; and shifting, set his teeth into
my shoulder, so that .they champed
like the teeth of a horse, through
ahirt and hide to the flesh
ground with a thump. Here we churn-1
ed, while he flung me and still I stuck- j
The acrid dust of the alkili envel
oped us. Again he spat, fetid—
sprawled upon him, smothering his
flailing arms; gave him all my weight
and strength; smelled the sweat of
him,- snarled into his snarling face,
close beneath mine.
Once he partially freed himself and
buffeted me in the mouth with his
fist, but I caught him—while strug
gling, tossed and upheaved, dimly saw
that as by a miracle we were sur
rounded by a ring of people, men and
women, their countenances pale,
alarmed, intent. Voices sounded in a
dull roar.
Presently I had him crucified: his
one outstretched arm under my knees,
his other arm tethered by my two
hands, my body across his chest, while
his legs threshed vainlj^^^
I looked down into his bulging eyes.
“ ’Nuf. Cry ‘ ’Nuf’!” I command
ed.
“ ’Nuf! Say ‘ ’Nuf’.’’, echoed the
crowd.
He strained again, convulsive; and
relaxed.
“ ’Nuf!” he panted through bared
teeth. “Lemme up, Mister.”
“That settles it?’.’
“I said “NuP,” he growled.
With a quick movement I sprang
clear of him, to my feet. He lay for
a moment, baleful, and slowly scram
bled up.
On a sudden, as he faced me, his
hand shot downward—I heard the.
surge and shout of men and women, |
to the stunning report of his revolver,
ducked aside, felt my left arm jerk
and sting—felt my own gun explode:
in my hand (and how it came there.
I did not know) beheld him spin!
around and collapse; an astonishing!
sight.
So there I stood, amidst silence, j
gaping foolishly, breathing hard, my ■
revolver smoking in my fingers and
my enemy in a shockingly prone pos
ture at my J feet, gradually reddening
the white of the torn soil.
He was upon his face, his revolver |
hand was outflung. He was harmless, j
The moment had arrived and passed.]
I was standing here alive. I had kill- j
ed him!
Figures rushed in between. Hands
grasped me, impelled me away,
through a haze; voices spoke in my
ear while I feebly resisted, a warm
salty taste in my throat.
“I killed him. I didn’t want to kill
him. He made me do it. He shot
first.”
“Yes, yes,” they said, soothing
gruffly. “Shore he did; shore you
didn’t. It’s all right. Come along,
come along.”
Then—
“Pick Beeson up> He’s bad hurt,
himself. See that blood? No, ’tain’t
his arm, is it? He’s bleedin’ internal.
Whar’s the hole? Wait—he’s busted
something.”
They would have carried me.
“No,” I cried, while their bearded
faces swam. “He said 4 ’Nuf*—he
shot me afterward; Not bad, is it?
I can walk.”
As they hustled me onward the
world had grown curiously darkened,
and I dumbly wondered whether I was
dying myself. Across a great dis
tance we stumbled by the wagons and
halted at a fire.
“You’re all right.” Jenks appar
ently had looked me over and was
ministering to me. “Swaller this.”
The odor of whiskey fumed into my
nostrils. I obediently swallowed.
Hands were rummaging at my left
arm; a bandage being wound about.
“Did I kill him?” I besought. “Not
that! I didn’t aim—I don’t know how
I shot—but'I had to. Didn’t I?”
“You did! He’ll not bother. you
ag’n. She’s youm.”
That hurt.
“But it wasn’t about her He bul
lied me—dared me. We were man to
man, boys. He made me fight him.’'
“Yes. shore,” they agreed—and
they were not believing. They still
linked me with a woman, whereas she
had figured only as a transient oc
casion.
Then she herself, My Lady, appear
ed, running in breathless and appeal
ing.
“Is Mr. Beeson hurt? Badly?
Where is he? Let me help.”
She knelt beside me, her hand
grasped mine, she gazed wide-eyed
and imploring.
“No, he’s all right, ma’am.”
“I’m all right, I assure you,” I
mumbled thickly, and helpless as a
babe to the clinging of her cold fin-
gers.
The group about me dissolved.
Jenks seated himself close beside us.
“Your arm won’t trouble you,” he
•aid. “Jest a flesh wound. You two
and eat and rest a bit, and if you set
out Yore moon-up you Can easy get!
“Mouunts!” I blurted. “ ‘Set out,’
you say? You mean that I—we—
should run away? I’ll not leave the
train and neither shall she, until the
proper time. Or do I understand that
you disown us?’’
“Hold on,” Jenks bade. Tain’t
a question of disownin’ you. But
you’ve killed one o’‘the Mormons, the
wagon boss’s son; and when he comes
in the momin’ demandin’ of you for
trial by his Mormons, what can we
do? We’ll take the chance on sneak
in’ you both away, and facin’ the old
man.”
“I think we’d best go,” I agreed.
“It’s the only way.”
And it was. We were twain in men
ace to the outfit, and to each other,
but inseparable. We were yoked.
The fact appaled. It gripped me
coldly. I seemed to have bargained
for her with fist and bullet, and won
hert now I should appear to carry her
off as my booty; a wife and a gam
bler’s wife. Yet such.must be!
“Moon’ll be up in a couple o’ hours,”
Jenks a said. “I’d advise you to take
an hour’s start of it, so as to get away
easier. If you travel straight south-
’ard you’ll strike the stage road in
the mornin’. When you reach a sta
tion you’ll have ch’ice either way.”
“I have money,” she said; and sat
ej-ect.
******
For the first half mile wo rode
without a word.
What her thoughts were I might not
know, but they sat heavily upon her,
elosing her throat with the torture
of vain, self-reproach. That much I
sensed. But I could not reassure her.
My own thoughts were.so grievous as
to crush me with aching woe.
This, then, was I: somebody who
had just killed a man, had broken
from the open trail and was riding,
he knew not where, through darkness
worse than night, himself an outlaw
with an outlawed woman—at the best
a chance woman, an adventuring wo
man—now the spoil of killing!
(Continued Next Week)
statement of the Condition of
The Commercial Bank
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Located at Clinton, S. C., at the Close
of Business March 23, 1927
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts $299,418.47
.Overdrafts NONE
Liberty Bonds 25,000.00
Bonds and Stocks Owned .... 60,800.00
Furniture and ^Fixtures 3,000.00
Other Real Estate Owned 10,000.00
Due from Banks and Bank
ers .... 16,166.19
Currency 3,397.00
Gold 442.50
Silver and Other Minor Coin 740.78
Checks and Cash Items .... 578.90
Other Reosurces 41.01
CROSS HILL ITEMS
OF INTEREST
Mrs. Wade Williford of Hartsville,
and Miss Daisy Hill of Coker college,
spent the week-end with their father,
A. M. Hill.
Miss Katherine Bryson returned to
Monroe on Saturday after spending,
a week with relatives.
Mrs. J. E. Griffin is visiting rela
tives in Augusta.
Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Leaman of
Greenwood, visited relatives here Sun
day.
Mias Josie Griffin and Mrs. S. A.
Leaman apent last week-end in Au
gusta with relatives.
Little Billy Davis of Augusta, is
visiting his grandparents.
Mrs. Lydie Miller spent last week
in Whitmire.
Mr. J. H. Rasor of Columbia, spent
the week-end at home.
Mrs. Hoyl Miller of Ware Shoals,
is visiting her parents.
The afriends of Mrs. Jim Coleman
are glad to know that she is much im
proved from her illness. B
Mrs. Bessie McDonald and Mrs.
Moss and baby of Atlanta, are visit
ing Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Crisp.
Mrs. Mamie Lipscomb of Spa^tap-
burg, is visiting relatives in the </ty.
County Ginnings Are
Nearly 21,000 Bales
Cotton ginnings in Laurens county
for the year 1926, made public by the
bureau of the census on March 21,
amounted to 20, 958 bales as compar
ed with 18,698 bales ginned t;he year
before. Whether or not the report
included an estimate of cotton ginned
after statistics were gathered or as
yet unginned is not known, although
such an estimate was made for/
entire cotton area.
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TOTAL $419,583.85
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock Paid in $ 50,000.00
Surplus Fund .... 25,000.00
Undivided Profits, less Cur
rent Expenses and Tax
es Paid
Due to Banks and Bankers
Dividends Unpaid
Individual Deposits Subject
to Check
Savings Deposits
Time Certificates of De
posit .... ....
Cashier’s Checks
Bills Payable, including
Certificates for Money
Borrowed «.... ....
Reserve Fund Carried on
General, Individual or
Savings Ledger
604.45
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127,203.67
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165,096.39
5,111.19
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TOTAL .... .... ..-..$419,583.85
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County of Laurens.
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