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THE CtINTON CHRONICLE. CLINTON. S. C.
PAGE SEVEN
'Harold MacGrath
Illustrated by Henry Jay Lee
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.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
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Street-lamps threw a circle of light
‘on the pavement; beyond the circle’s
penetr
rim was soft, impenetrable blackness.
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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.
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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. —
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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.”
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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-
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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.
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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.
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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
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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?
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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
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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^,
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