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■rm i'r“ •W ,7 7.'^ * « r 4~r ;- Vi THE CtINTON CHRONICLE. CLINTON. S. C. PAGE SEVEN 'Harold MacGrath Illustrated by Henry Jay Lee i w H.mU Mac CratK * ReUased tKru Au^ocaster Service V Tickets Go On Sale Monday Copyri^Ki W Harold Mac CratK * b \ “BOUND TO THE^NORTH” I.- i it .CHAPTER I It was one of those hot Southern midnights, when the stars themselves seem overtaken with drowsiness and drop from the ranks as weary soldiers , do. . .' : / . Street-lamps threw a circle of light ‘on the pavement; beyond the circle’s penetr rim was soft, impenetrable blackness. ou% I *1 Mp Odt of this a slender yoo% mah suddenly emerged and leaned against the lamp-post for a moment, breath ing sharp breaths. ^ A short rest seemed to revive the youth. He straightened, cKcked his heels together—and'stepped forward. The dim yellow light held his back in view for a half dozen steps. The youth did not reappear in the next circle of light The quality of the street was good. hers. there to the botton of the sheet. John Kennedy, D. D. C-WG-L H-RD-M * A-NK-S P-PA-G G-RD-A J-NF-F J-WG-A F-BN-S F-WG-S W-BE-fl What the literal translations were she had not the least idea, but she did know that they were code-names be longing to a free-lance organization known only to the 'War Office and the Secret Service in Washington. She had heard of this little band, but never, until last night, had her path and theirs crossed. This organi zation was composed, with one excep tion, of young men, educated, well born, daring and reckless beyond be lief—in other words, spies who indi vidually performed as many wonders for their cause as she performed for “You are trying to discourage me You are wasting time.” “Do you love any man?” he eyed her exquisite beauty. “Do you expect to go through life without loving?” % ‘ “I don’t know ; ” she answered'frank- “But J hope that I may. I want . Tickets for Clinton’s Redpath Chau tauqua, May 5-12, will go on’sale next Monday morning, April 25th. All Chautauqua supporters are urged to get their tickets early. The price for i! I the entire seven day’s program is $3.00, with the privilege of purchas ing reserved seats for an .additional $1.00. Tickets will be placed on sale at j Sadler-Owens pharmacy, Galloway- l McMillian book stofe, P. S. Jeans, i Young’s pharmacy and Kellers drug i store. Dr. Frank Kellers is the gen- 1 eral chairman of the committee and any information desired in regard to the tickets, program; etc., may be had from him. The big yellow tent will be pitched on the same site near the Methodist church through the kind ness of John H. Young. KODAK - PICTURE DEVELOPING . / ‘1 BEST—QUiCKEST—WORK GUARANTEED KODAKS LOANED TO RESPONSIBLE PARTIES. FILMS, PACKS, ETC; SADLER-OWENS PHARMACY “At Union Station** ' Telephone 400 Telephone 377 ■ . iS '.'-c'ja Jf : v , V - ^ V ' xj ■ ; • - V. '.'-A ly Clinton To Front In Debate Meets r The flanking rows of brick residences with their white marble steps, present ed a dignified front in the daytime. Into one of these houses the young man had gone. Silently he mounted the stairs to his room, entered and flung himself upon the bed, burying his face deep into the pillows to stifle the wild and passionate sobs he could no longer repress. — * * * * Along the road to the north, beyond the grim cordon of sentries, eleven men were racing their horses. They rode like furies. Death was not only behind them but lay in ambush before them. Death was ready, but the sleeping telegraph operator was not. By the time he awoke, sensed the message hammering away at his key and gave the alarm, the ifight-riders And for weeks they had been here in Richmond, stealing its heart’s blood, 'drop by drop! They had had the dar ing to permit her to carry away these code-names! Was it because their work here was really done and_that they would now scatter and keep scat tered until the war was^atJuuend ? Only one face she had seen, but she would remember that—ah. she would remembeV that until she died. Eleven men against one woman—so be it!, She took up the gauntlet; and woe to them! 'One by one she would track, them dqw^n, ruthless, pithout mercy. They had*trampled her pride in dust, mock ed her; so would she trample upon their honor and mock them. N6t for nothing had she been given revenge. My father, my brothers, whom I loved, 1 have given their lives freely. I wish lo add mine.” So young and terribly serious! , “Jeanne Beaufort, you shall have your revenge. Come; I will take you to the President himself. We qeed women, need their arts and guile. To morrow you shall start for Washing ton. You shall become a member of some family there we trust. Choose some name, and always in Washing ton be known by it. And find a man by the nmae of Parson Kennedy. Bring him into our lines, and you will have served the cause to a far greater ex tent than your father or brothers. To morrow I shall give you all jrour in structions, codes and so forth.” ' * * * * (Contributed) f On Tuesday, April 12, the Clinton high school debating teams motored over to Due West, and engaged in a forensic encounter with the debating teams of Bailey Military Institute. For Clinton, Ouida Cox and Isaac Copeland upheld the affirmative side, while Bolt Bobo and Janet Leake de bated the negative. The Clinton af firmative won unanimously over the Bailey negative in a spirited argu ment, while the negative was barely nosed out by the Bailey affirmative. The local debating teams should be complimented for their efforts in the work4 and they showed they had their material well in hand. beauty and a facile tongue. She plac ed the paper in the bosom of her dress, 1 gave to the world the impression that —-An officer came into the room. He looked like a Creole, Spanish in color and French in gracefulness. He paus ed, undecidedly. “Ah, Morgan,” said the Secretary, “this is Miss Beaufort. Just a mo ment until I see if the President is disengaged.” Henry Morgan fell in love with Jeanne on the spot. Jeanne, on her side, saw a handsome young officer in butternut. She forgot all about him the moment he was gone. \ Later she learned something defi nite regarding Henry Morgan. He Recruiting Officer Here Yesterday A navy recruiting officer was in the city yesterday looking up pros pects for the navy. Any boys in this district wishing information in re gard to enlistments may receive same | by either writing or applying to the recruiting officer in Greenwood. Spring Time 18 Shirt Time Spring Shirts $1.00 to $3.00 Spring Straw Hats $2.00 to $5.00 5-TUBE RADIO GIVEN F^EE! Get a key with each purchase of 50c, L. B. Dillard Ralston “The One-I*Hce Store” Nettleton Shoes and Oxfords No. 2 Musgrove St. Shoes and Oxfords $5.00, $7.50, $8.50 Clinton, S. C. $11.00 and $12.00 LITTLE CHILD INJURED Little S’ira Louise Leake* daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Leake, suffered painful cuts and bruises on her face a j had slipped through into 1 "passively j ro^ and went down Jo breakfast, J h e was a rattlejilatejvainhereany | ^‘^ayT^go 1 whenlhe'accldenTaUy j * friendly zone. | smiling. As dawn kindled the tree-tops they that, drew down to a walk. There-was no chatter, no jesting, no "expression of She had the strength to do was; but underneath this vanity was | feU an(| 3truck her hea( , affainst their matchless valor. This discovery | 'car. The car was parked in Laurens rather interested her; for no womanly the ^ when the little ^ tum Jeanne Beaufort was the daughter, j s left untouched in the presence of a thankfulness over their escape. Only | of Lawrence Beaufort, a wealthy Vir- brave man. one made speech. It was a matter of ginia tobacco-planter. There were five) s oon she reconstructed her bled while playing and was hurt. Sev eral stitches were necessary but she directions, for now ea£h man must go in the family: Beaufort, his spinster his own way, as once more they were sister, his two boys afid the girl, in a hostile country. They divideH at | The mother had been dead since the first fork in the road, divided at Jeanne’s youth. the next, and so on until each man! Father and sister took care of her rode alone. mind, and the brothers saw to it that Ten eventually reached Washington, she should be sane in body also. % She The eleventh, when he was positive sang and played delighftully; her wit that his comrades were well on their was nimble, in argument she was wheeled about his horse and re- wise; and her brothers taught of him as a whole. His grace was due to muscles as strong and highly tem- opimon i s now improving satisfactorily. turned to the main pike, and in leis- how to walk through a forest without her Most of the beasts of prey have j pered as watch-springs; and his rattle-, been killed off—the wolf, bear or wild patedness cloaked a mind as sinister cat no longer threatens our peace of and - flexible as Michavelli’s. In their j mind and the comfort of our homes.' frequent encounters in Richmond he j The rat, however, seems to be treat- j fascinated and repelled her at the ed with contempt because of its size, i same time. He was always about to If the rat wpre as large as a wolf we join his regiment at the front, but would have killed them off long ago. somehow he never* did; and yet for The rat is the worst animal pest in weeks he would disappear completely, the world. Knowing this, the Mellon urely stages wended his way back to crackling a twig, to break and tame ^yben he returned he was always a Institute of Industrial Research has Richmond, through blue lines and but- fiery thoroughbreds, to shoot, swim, i: tt j e thinner, a little Richmond, through temut, magically. f run. little thinner, a little harder, a little developed Rat-Tox which is over fifty The plantation was like hundreds of When the brilliant morning ^ sun its kind; enormous veranda-pillars poured into a certain window in that and rambling wings and French win- beleaguered city (for it was in the dows. Below, on the river brim, was summer of 1864), it gilded a grimy, a clean little gathering of cabins for tear-stained face, small, grimy hands the plantation slaves, flung out upon the pillow, and powder- Upon the peace and plenty of this 1 less effesvesc^nt. 1 When he began to make love to her, she was at first amused. But when she realized that he was in earnest, she broke up his dream somewhat rudely. That was the last of it, apparently. times more powerful than any similar, product. Get Rat-Tox from your re-1 tailer. WANT S| flune out upon tne pinow, ana powutr- wt~.. - -7- . -- - ;, ed with fine sparks the tousled locks happy little duchy fell the thunderbolt He disappeared again, and her duties F0R SALE _ If interested in house of hair which matched.the color of the of war. Beaufort accepted a colonelcy compelled her to return to Washing- and lot see Irby Hipp 4 _28-4tc ; < ► of hair copper-beech. I The tenant of this room might easi ly have passed as a boy at night, for the figure was boyish; but in the day light the male attire could not wholly disguise the delicate contours or the satiny smoothness of the skin. The tear-stained face did not spral: of a higher order of Jeanne* Beaufort was as in a local, regiment, and the boys ton sought glory under Pickett. When the news came to Jeanne that her father had fallen at Manassas and that his beloved body had been buried there, her grief had been terrible. The death of her two brothers at Cemetery Hill left her outwardly unmoved. She courage; yrtld'd not close the piano; she did not brave an*ii' vear mourning; and when th epsin- (To be continued next week.) SHERIFFS SALES daring as any woman in the Sbuth At that time the North knew her [ _ v ' neither by name nor ^y feature; but in K ,n reverence to the dead, the gl rl ster aunt mildly remonstrated with this conduct, which she said was lack- 'O- them! Suits, Coats, Dresses, Drapes, etc, etc.,— we clean them all, restoring their original bright spotlessness. Our process o f fabric-rejuvination changes like magic the soiled, spotted ma terials into stainless, immaculate cloth without a blemish. Our demonstration is sufficient. LET US PROVE OUR SKILL TO YOU! Buchanan’s FOR SALE—Ocala staple cotton seed. Also over the top seed grown by i E. C. Hipp, recleaned, $1.00 bu. Farm- ( ers Mercantile Co. 4-21-3tc! — “Kleaners Who Klean” Phone No. 28 By virtue of tax executions issuedSALE One^good milk cow with it had often sensed the danger of her; it had often, through her wit and re source, seen a carefully built cam paign tiimble like a house of cards in the wind. So it began to grope for her as one person gropes for another in the dark. So the tears had no bearing upon that attribute called courage. The room she occupied was in the house of her aunt, her mother’s sister. Mrs. Wetmore never questioned her niece in regard to her mysterious ab sences. Upon a low-boy, which served as a dressing-table, stood three photo graphs. Each rested in a little frame of mourning: Jeanne's father and her two brothers. * * J * whirled upon her: “I’m a woman.' Ij'! can’t shoulder a musket; I can’t go forth and demand of the North an i eye for eye, a tooth for a tooth. Buti'^K- hear me. Auntie: I’ll have that eye, I’ll; Andrew Fuller, 1 me by the County Treasurer, the fol lowing property will be sold at public- auction at salesday in May, being the 2nd day cf May, 1927. Hunter Township Tom Beasley (colored), 1 lot and building. , Dora Blakely, 1 lot and 1 building. Andrew Ferguson, 1 lot and 1 build- young nett. call. Apply to J. O. i4 Bar- Itp lot. have that tooth!” A week later Jeanne said: “I am going to Richmond.” “To visit your Aunt Delia; I think it a good plan, child. 1 Mrs. Bessie B. Godfrey, 1 lot anJ 1 building. Henry Watts (cblcred), 1 lot and 1 building. Minnie C. Grant, I 'lot, 2 buildings 'and AS acres. STRAYED—One partridge \Vyandotte hen strayed from my yard. Let me know if it is with you. D. E. Trbible. He FOR RENT—Splendid 206 acre farm, partly in Mountville. Also store,! corner Pitts and Sloan streets, Clinton, j O’Daniel & Reid. tf Fresently the girl on the bed sighed, turned and awoke. She blinked a lit- Pfl be home from time to time, un less the enemy stands in between. And even then I’ll come.” -“Shall we win?” “God knows. But win or lose, the Yankees shall pay a price.” Jeanne knew’ bu tlittle of Richmond. This turned out very well for her lat er; neither friend nor foe knew ar.y- FOR SALE—Wannamaker-Cleveland (•otton seed, recleaned, $1.00 hu. Grown in North Carolina in 1925. Farmers Mercantile Co. 4-21-3tc Billie Hunter, 77 acres. John Little, 1 lot and 1 building. S. J. L. Patterson, 1 lot and 1 build ing. Mrs. J. M. Reese, 180 acres. HATCHING—Special price for hatch ing next week only—$3.00'pec tray of 112 eggs. Bring eggs\ Monc’ay. This is your last chance. Clinton Hatchery. itc I Arthur Young, 1 lot and 1 building. REAL S&K John T. Robertson estate, 1 lot and i building. Willie Simpson, 1 building and 14 thing about the personality of Jeanne acres Beaufort. This time, however, she dabbled tie, rubbed her eyes and smiled. But i little in the frivolous, but all with a J. A. Stewart, 1 lot. Franklin Williams, 1 lot. L. M. D. Young, 8 buildings and 147 Hosiery Mills has open-1 ,jng for man or woman to work in; Goldville. keal opportunity for a ; worker. Apply to A. K. Kinard, Clin-: ton, S. C. 4-28-3tc j * the sight of that grimy hand obliter ated the smile instantly. , She jumped up and stood in the middle of the room, palsied with ter ror. With fumbling fingers she^felt into the inner pocket of the coat she wore and drew out a crumpled sheet of papier. It was true, then! This thing, this abominable,,cowardly thing had happened. She made a wild gesture as if to tear this dreadful testimony into tat ters, and paused. Site laid the paper ort the dresser, discarded her male at tire, bathed, dressed and then sat down on the edge of the bed and stud ied, not the body of -the document,*but the hieroglyphics which cascaded from grim purpose. Step by step she ma neuvered until at last she stood in the presence of the one man she sought. “But you are so young,” he protest ed—“scarcely twenty.” “I am very, very old,” she replied with a dry little smile. “And I am all alone, besides.” “There are terrible risks—death al ways to face, and peiliaps dishonor able death.” , “I am ready. I won! revenge.” “To play at love, to suffer the touch of mVn you despise, in order to gain their secrets—that is not a pleasant 'ask for a well-bred woman. War is aot always wen by bullet^; dupliciiyj plays its part.” acres. Jacks Township Mattie S. Glenn estate, 289 Mrs. acres. Mrs. Sallie P. Holland, 1 building and 19 1-2 acres. Wash M. Pitts, 2 buildings and 62 acres. Miss Ethel Robertson, 100 acres. C. L. OWENS. ‘i*28-3tc Sheriff Laurens County. What Do P. S. JEANES Do? ^ a* S V-. ■ i w » '-s 'iV.T. WOULD LIKE to consign Clintcft ter ritory to man thoroughly experi enced in selling marble and granite monuments. Other territory also op en. Ball Ground Monument Co., Ball Ground. Ga. • 4-21-2tc FOR SALE—Several hundred face briik in mingled shade colors. Ap ply to W. W. Harris, Clinton, S. C. POTATO PLANTS—Booking orders] for late April and May delivery., Improved Porto Rico, Tomato, Pepper! and Egg P ant. Dailey & Grant,! phone 146, Clinton, S. C. * 4-28-3tc j Easy as one and one Just add one gallon of linseed oil to one gallon of Stag semi-paste Paint and you have tuo gal lons of as fine paint as you can buy. And it saves you one-third the costl • * • Moreover, this fresh- mixed paint spreads eas ier and goes further. Yod add the linseed oil yourself so you know it’s all fresh linseed oil paint. “Stag’’ won’t crack nor peel. . i Bright, permanent colors, beautiful lustrous finish. There’s a “Stag” dealer near you. See him—Off write us for literature and name of dealer. semi paste m gallon makes Made by HIRSHBERG PAINT CO., Sold by D. E. TRIBBLE CO. Clinton. S. C. STOMPS SPRINGS WATER deliver ed twice a wqek, Tuesday and Fri day, 20c per gallon, 10; at spring. Apply to P! B. Ferguscn, phone 61, Clinttn-, S. C. 5-5-41^, r The Clinton Chronicle—$1.59 a Year *» * vi.-V / ~ ,:v „ • . \- jAS V * '> • Ji Vs. dk Wx ~