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5— # I / /■- vr’ WT. A THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1933 THE CLINTON CHl^NICLE. CLINTON, S. C. / PAGE 8EYIW .t ttk zr stood, and climbed from the bock' board. i “Well—!” said Snavely as he -read , something which is not hard to prove: jthe opening words’; He said nothing;I can whisper in the gulch as well as I more ptil he had finished, then with, any one else!” He' raised his eyesi “Ann” said Ruth anneftlinirlv out liltinjr his head “Well-woll I’ll;quickly his f»ce a dead white. Ruth the g^ntess came towaM helif be! Grey’s alive, after all. Couldn’t glanefed lingeringly toward Ann, then please'^help me” get a word to nobody ’till jest now.. If (back again. “The night of the storm, i w that don’t beat all!” He looked atiMr. Snavley,” she said quietly. ! Miss Ruth—ni he'p you Ruth, then lowered his eyes to the I He faced her in .silence; .the mus- a .0 paper again. Wants me to come an i-jpa nf hi<i inno- .frJnJrv that, Ann — take me to git him. Hermosillo-powerful longltracted spasmodically. Suddenly ^ job getting six days west of there.! walking lllowly to his "7- Must be desolate sure ’nough, else room, entered. Almost at once he re-i®""^ then drive t^re. They'll be home we’d got word of him sooner. W^ell. i appeared, the packet of bank ^^tes things like that happen. But it beats Ruth had given him in his hand.|‘"*^ Synopsis: Ruth W'arren, born and raised in an Eastern city, is willed three-fourth interest in the Dead Lan- tein ranch in Arizona, W’ith her youthful husband, who is in poor health, and their small son, David, (all,” mu.sed. : them out. “You best takej Ann dropped her eyes and slowly i “We shall start to Harry at once,” these here an’ go git your brother.” ’shook her head. “I reckon I dasn’t g^ ^iS=i?;said Ruth, decidedly, “thi Thanes are- {^^th took the notes She thoughtnothin’ 'cept whait I was toT Ruth tonight and-” understood: when she and Harry Ruth tried to appear surprised. “But r. Sna\ Thanes’.’ , “Mama, what are we doing?” 1 As they returned to the house Ruth “Just thinking.” thought over her discovery. The de-i “Tnanes? W’hat they got to do with returned, Snavely would not be on the „ , Pre.sently David asked, “Do you ^ pre.ssion in the rock was a reflector, ^ • Snavely s eyes narrowed^ (Dead T.antern. Perhaps that was tbe ^ nows wan e go o hear that funny little bird?” (and by sitting on the stone and sight-! “I think it would be best if Oldil'^-^t solution. She turned to Ann. “Oh, David!” For the first time ing through the forked stick, one’s |Charley went with me. I’m sure that (“Ann, I wish you would get the buck- Ruth turned her whole mind on heriniouth was placed at it’s focus. The'under the circumstances he would go, board and take David and me over to they come to "Arizona to take up j son. Just then she heard the twitter of {sound of the voice was then conserved and he knows the country and speaks, fhane.s . Ill have an early supper where Ruth’s brother, reported killed j a bird. She had heard it off and on i and directed in a narrow beam to the i Spanish better than 1.’.’ (ready by the time you harricss up.” in Mexico, had left off. They reached Dead Lantern, 85 miles from the for some time, but only as one hears'brown bowlder, as light is reflected’ “You’re set on goin’ yourself, eh?”( Snavely had walked toward his a sound . while thinking hard upon from a headlight. That was the secret,Snavely regarded her quizzically. 'room, now he turned and came back, nearest railroad, with the help of Old somethinjJ: else. The twitter came jof the old Indian medicine men. And j “Why, must certainly! Of course l!*'^ don’t think you’d best go mixin’ Charley Thane, neighboring rancher | again and Ruth started, then rose Snavely had learned of it. He had •” “ who also carries the rural mail. At the ranch they find the partner, Snavely, (the Thanes in this. In spite of the apparent humbleness and a huge woman, Indian Ann, who • greet them susi)iciousb’. As they, trudge the five miles,from the ranch i gate to the house they pass a Huge rock in a gulch where a voice whis pers, “Go back. Go back.” Ruth’s hus band. caught in a rain shortly after ’ their arri\ al contracts pneumonia and pa.' -.es away before medical aid can be bro ight. Rui’n, pennile.<s, and without; friend.s, att(.mi)ts to carry on but is balleii at almost every turn by tlie craTy and plotting Snavely. Despite or>s.:’c’.e.“ cf all kinds Ruth gives notes on Ikiv ranch inteiest to jmrehase cat tle. is a.'-'i.sted by OUl Charley Thi.nc ami his ic:n. Will Thane. A, Mexican family has been hired to as- Bist With the work. -A. peculiar sick-^ iie«.s develop.^ with the livestock., Sr.'.i .ely calls it “livei- fever,” and says ; he has a j)owder for the water to cure ' the-disea.se. Ruth discovers trickery in, Fnavely’s tactics of poisoning her eat-' lie, but says nothing, waiting for ad-; dithor.al evidence. Drought is oveieome ty sinking a well in a ravine, getting j water for the perishing stock. .At the ro seen Ruth, Kenneth and David that . , » , , first \lay—had watched them strugJ ' ^ his tone a twinge of fear caught gling along the road toward the ranch thanes up with ^ nge ot tear caught giing along me roaa lowaia me lancn. »,.n o tr. Ruths heart. But she ansvyered, I ! Then ho had alinm'd into tho D-orco • D >OU 10 a mind to go Without ... . . . ' “No’m. He tol’ me you’d try to make me do that. Hje says I goit to take you right to the Vkilroad.” “But p1ea.se, Ann—you’ll do it for me. He won’t know—please, Ann; I beg you to.” The giantess stood with bowed head and twisted her big hands together. “I wisht 'I could,"’Miss Ruth, I wiaht to Gawd I could.” "Ann, listen to me!” Ruth grasped the huge arm. “Listen, Ann, I’ve dis- j Then he. had ^ipm-d into the go>Xe ^ see tliat it <utn make any differ^ jcuveied the. voice, in .the gulch—It’a by way. of the fissure and had spoken ’ ‘ i _ . . to them.’ Afteiward.'he' ha'd Vne’ would be for you an’ me the .corral, told Ann that he would ’bt-ht out together tomorrow mornin’.”, diffeience to f.n.sh nulk.nK and that she ..hou d ro ; l.nlh thonfht a n.ontfnt; ..hf might and see who was coming through the go with Don f rancisco—perhaps that' • ting Snavely. There’s a trick in it—he’s .'en tricking you with it, scaring you that you would be afraid of him 1 do as he told you.”' (Continued Next Week) - rough the go witn non i* rancisco —perPaps guleh. , , . I would be best. lUd she certainly would' Ruth gripiied herself. “Do you real- She-was tremendously thrilled over'^’»' alore with Suavely. She looked ^ami that | ' her dlHovery. t^e loll herslef that "I bTiaps Don Francisco and : Ytm ei-i^t as'.nm as 1 be4^^^ MXUA/ASi<^ 1OU GlFTh . now she had- ,Shavely where .she ’ v.»u!d manage it,” .she said. i‘‘D’ brother baca. ( solve your Gift problems wanted liim, liuth lay awal^e late that .''ga.in than dv studied ner intenti'V. girl’s amazement, ^Snavely 'by giving-.Magazines this (Christmas? he night, .muiethiiig in he'' tone ami,^like fancy wonts , ' • 1 . iA\' , I I , ii'ioni*!* V’ b w'1 ' ii’iee now \v*i< .siiitl slovv ly, ; o* 1 11 a.'k vviu if you Dost. , p.aiming how sh^should pro' c the •ii-imii i v, ii.v u vv a - iiuio new. .sae vv.is • • ; i- ,1 ; \ oi "a loV-'-er -i' I'ti “look hero ” bo said leah.’.e where you stand now.' His !• o i origin of the voice to Ann. She came ' aa,„ii ..i.aoi. i .ook ikk., ih .saui • ^ .t . , lor the man — Saturday Evening f or the woman — Ladies’ Home to the conclusion that she would do nothing uniil Sunday. With Will ami '’b -n'-ywitT (dd Charloy helping, .slie could get Ann to eumo for a ride in the machine V on some luetex* or other. '1 itoy would tale her to the gulch and .'how her vvliat the voice was. Then, without returning to Hie ranch they would all ihaii ly, "v '-at’s the .matter of rae go- 'vote* rose .- hrilly. "Don’t you see that, .lournal i'ue girl was suddenly angry; whole He dropped his eyes. Ruth was tri- und-up Ruth has enough stock tif “niphant, the man was beaten, he was lell to meet her notes. , (Now Go On With the Story). afraid )ri) into town and place th thing in Martin’s hhmis. On .Saturday Ruth and David ar rived at the mail box later than usual, The girl Stayed on her horse while David disrn^unted and, crawling : through the fence, went to the box. ’fectr^TtiCTP-wiiTlibme-TW^the 'roir of papers .«trarge about the sound of that'i‘”'l magazines. “Thore’.s a letter here TWFN1 Y FIRST INSTALL.MENT ^vas too close, as though the! Mama,” he said, as he held up the roll Ruth worked the letter from under the string about the puickage and looked at it curiou.sly. tl was ad-1 dressed to her old apartment in I’hila-1 delphia; the w'riting was unfamiliar, a| -Ruth entered the gully which ran bird was sitting not ten feet away, eastward a few yards south of the!|)erhaps even nearer. But there wa.s Ihouse, and followed it. At last she not a brid in sight. “David!” Ruth utoiiped beneath an ash tree which had vvas suddenly excited. “Get up on top a low' branch. With the paring knife t,f the rock and sec if you can see the '*he cut the potato in half and made:bird—we must find-it, son!” ^ numerous little cuts in the white sur- “Isn’t it clo.se. Mama?” David heldwriting. The original postmark' face. Into tnis surface .«he rubbed hand out before him. “I think he’s | was undecipherable, but as she opened! pinch of powder from the liver ft*verifinger, but w'hen I look {the letter Ruth"‘noticed that it bore a ’ box. She placed the piece of potato, gone!” 1 foreign stamp. ‘'Vho'rt’disttnL^ Iway^l^l'tedTe^self^ Slow'Iy, Ruth moved away from the A.s her eyes met the,first few words h.M- Pves on thel’®^^*^-. infrequent;of the crudely written letter, Ruth '^^tato wait, hti eye.' jsound.s of the bird, to go toward it. | expression of mild curiou.sity was sud- sU w aited more than an hour and I di.scovered that if .she went clenly wiped out. She uttered a cry (yiU!' brotlu'" bein’ alive makes Ihei jV'.'ill no good? The will don’t work, by j TJod! You ain’t got no rights—you I ain’t no pardner an’ you ain’t got no' llniei'vsl in liiis ranch. D’you get that? I I’m bo^.s here now!” lie whirled to , I ,\nu. "Gil your black face outa here!”j I “Hut niv brotlier- ” For the boy—American Boy. For the girl-k-'l'lie .American (lirl. JA.MES M. ( ALDWELL ANIM AL MEETING Notice is hereby given tnat the an nual meeting of the Ibiar.i of (bounty ('ommissione! s of Laurens I'ounlv I ’lour hiothei how do I. know he a held, a’T pro'ided by law, .Fan- your bi other? He never told me noth- the off ce ..f Goanty in about you ui nothin about any Supervisor. All pc'.sci.is fielding de- jWiil. ’I'prdin’' to my way a-thinkin’ you com^ here jeijit to steal his inter- niands of any kind against the county, not previously presented to the bor.:M, anywayij ? \ ou re a^m-,. earnestly reguestecl to file them at plumb stranger to me—you„ain’t got'„n^.,. ^ith the clerk of tlie boar 1 a thing to say about this ranch an’; iiev'er did have. W hut about all that j GUI BFR’I’SDN ‘ ‘ - She hoard the step of Snavely’s a few feet to right or left she could [and her face went white. She sat on | galloping was about to give up when a littlei^^^ although! her horse like one entranced, lips' little adobe hou.se ... trwn g\f UUU at aiif aivnUUKn I ' nvi.-iv cm-iouvcrtA, £ray ir ew o ' David, behind her on the bowlder said,' breathlessly, eyes staring at! the a.sh tree and alighted bn the. ’ 'i .. _ . I ’Hear it!” at regular intervals. The branch. After a moment the bird hop-i j ■ . , 1 J •. „„„ sound seemed to come from the south Ded to the potato, looked it over, and . .. u- j- a .c u u pou «. I H , I jjj narrow band. As though she were took a’ speculative peck. the paper. Both David and Sanchez' Snavely could not afford to .s{)eak to looked on with intere.st. “Mama—?” “David!” Ruth, whirled about. her like that any longer. She straight- eijed. “Mr. Snavely, there are several very good rea.sons why I do not wish he’s with me; and there are rea- Ifollowing an invisible beam of light Ruth watched so intently that heri^j^^ .slowly toward the {“Uncle Harry — th^is letter eyes burned. The little bird had ta weird; th# voice of thcjalive!” ^ {sons why yoq should respect my wish- aeveral bites when it ceased and moved grew only slightly louder—al- l Ruth returned to the home ranch! V^ur own good. There are away from the potato. .It stood uponj^^^y^^ gggp^gji ^ fg^ fgg^ be-' in an ecstacy of happiness. The whole number of things'" I must tell my a small twig and jerked its head as,f^^gg »pgp yards from the world had changed; for in that world brother when we meet.” though trying to shake something ^ fjg^-yyt of a waist-high Ruth Warren felt that all her trou- from its mouth or throat. ^ *i*^ 'bush and darted up the gulch. Ruth hies were vanishing. To be sure, tie wings drooped, the bir topp e » ^i,g bygh, it was a very ordi=^ Harry was far away, sick, and in dif- hung by u single claw fur a uioment,. rather sparse, differing ficulties, but he was alive. Harry, and dropj>ed to the ground. yy from any other bush. A .her big brother—the one person she Ruth buried the bird; and the piece foot or so behind it rose the wall of'had really depended on all her life— of potato, then walked slowly back to ..sandstone. To left and right, ran ; was alive! She told herself that she the house. Her face was pale and fier'other bushes, growing as close to the, never had been quite satisfied with the knees felt uncertain. In her room wall«as they could find earth, none,story of his death; it sounded plaus- again,' she unlocked her trunk, and of them tail. Then Ruth saw some-jiblo but somehow not like Harry. He after screwing up her courage, ta.sted thing which her eye.s would have, wasn’t dead—he’d soon he with her on the powder labeled Gyanide. ^ missed .six month.s before - in the i the Dead Lantern ranch. It wa.s common .salt. ^hush was a dry .stick about two feet' ^'y,, f^]^ incrciiibly young and Fght- Snavelj^ paled. “What can you tell him?’ he asked gruffly. ' ^ “I shall tell him about the way in side. For a minute he spoke rapidly truck you was jest u-talkin’ that goin’s on about the cattle (lyin’? What of it? Fer all anybody knows, I vvas je.st a-doin’ my best to keep you from stealin’ my pardner blind; that’.s whuL I was doin’! An’ the law would .say the same.” Snavely stejiped closer his face thrust forward and his pale eyes glittering. - “You come on this place with a paper you say is a sure ’nough will, but you ain’t got nothin’ to prove it.” Ruth wa.s agair(¥;t the wall. She was trembling. Tightly she gripped the let ter in her hand and summoned all her courage. “Hut your partner is my biother—he will be coming back here soon—he may e^en come today—any time. The letter must have been ^ent (juite a while ago and he was much better—he might have been able to get to the railroad without any help—”. “All right! If he’s your brother why don’t you go git ^im? What’er you a-standin’ there for? I give you the money. Why don’t you git goin’?” He loft Ruth contemptuou.sly and stepped to the kitchen door. Ann wa.s still in- .1. I). W. WATTS. SujicrvisvK'. 28-;>tc A Lesative t'lat costs only I </ or less a dose NEXT Tl.ME you need medicine to lu't on thf Ixiwcls. try Thed- lord 8 I'.lack-Hraught. It bring* (luiok rt'ilcf and Is priced within rraf-h of all. Black-Draught i» on-' of the least expensive laxa tives that you can find. A 25-ceat package contains 25 or more doses. Refreshing relief from constipa tion trbubles for only a cent or less a dose—that’s why thousands of men and women prefer Thed* ford’s Olack-Draught which you bought my cattle note.” to her in Spanish. Ruth could not But Mrs. Warfen—I tol’ you why I catch more than a word or two. While ZENITH—:ATWATER KENT RADIOS. Radio Exchange Tubes Tested Free. 666 (lone thaLT:aaid Snavely in a relieved {he was still speaking, Ann hurried voice. “I done it to protect you.” {from the door, jiassed Ruth without a I Liquid, Tablets, Salve, Nose Drops ('hcclis Malaria in 3 days. Colds first “When I was in town,” continued Ruth, “1 con.sulted an attorney about my po.silion on this ranch. I learned that I was not your jiartncr and never had lu'cn. And I under.stand (juite plainly that you knew this, and that if glance, and left the house on the way (^“5' Headaches or Neuralgia in SO to the barn. minutes. Snavely. turned to the girl “You’re i F INh. LAXATIVE AND TONIC .Most Speedy Remedies Known. a-goin’ jest as .soon as- Ann’s readjr. Oollcct your kid an’ your things an’ git 1. The gill shuddered. How could any tall with a forked top. This .rtick did hearted. As she and David neared the I had failed to nuet my note youj^’^'^ . ^ sundown.tonight thc^ie a n one deliberately poison cattle? But j not. bedong to the bush; it had been cbattiu'ing and laughing, Ruth (would have been in legal posse:,sion, she knew that to Snavely cattle were stuck into the sand like a stake. fpn thinking of Snavely. She pitied of the entire ranch.” '<>^Gtit I >a only a crop. He wouUl not have killed stepped through an opening on him. Boor, half-crazy, eccentric man "Well, but ” Snavely paused, lielp-i,' led an’'started off this place in t 'n 'minutes! Th(;n I’m goin’ for a mite of te right tttwl came lie^tween the hush ;—there was nothing-To-fear fromJiim-rUkSi^ly. The guilt and conslcrnaiion on-i ^ Hm .j• ain’t INSURANCE crop to fad he could gain pos.^es^ion wall Justhehind the. bush was now. When Harry learned of the his face, as w(*ll as the letter in herj . , , . u,.,i v 'hirk of th(? ranch, that wa.s another mattei.* ^ smooth depression in the sand.-itone} things he had done, .Snavely would hand, gave the girl courage. Koin to ( no )0( y ou ‘ ■ Snavely had, not foreseen that -'^he acros.s and perhajis a have to go. | “The whole thing has been iilac'ed 1 go c u ‘ „ ' nt-i hi • would lock both boxe.s in her tiunk more in depth. It wa.s as Just what she would do at present, before my attorney,’’ said Ruth. ( wk i p( op e an ( nvt^ a rna^ and so had no opportunity to rechange I someone had pressed a giant Ruth had not decided, F’irst, she would “The—-whole—thing?” ‘mim /' fVhT house I the contents. Later, Ann had , basin into the wall when the rock was show Snavely the letter. Nothing he i “Yes. When I learned that I wa.s! ndthimr* soned” the barbecue meat with dirty lower third of this basin could say or do would frighten her {not your partner and that you ** ^ salt, and today the girl had killed beneath the surface of the sand, now, and once he understood that; purchased the note I undt rstuod how, J a bird with)^ the' “fever medicine. ly ^yas a perfectly natural hollow such Harry Grey was. coming back to thelanxious you were to have me fail to Ruth grew weak with fear; th® : as are tO be found in great numbers, i Dead Lantern','’'Snavely was forever meet it. Hut let’s not say anything We offer expert service arrd- protwtiom -for some of The-TttroTi^tst Fire Insurance Companies in America. would do such things in an effort to scoured out by wind and water, in the {beaten. more about that.” rid himself of her, what might he not (ravines. But Ruth | Again she read the letter which she, ‘'“But I don’t see,” replied .Snavely, do? . . lhat night when the drunken something else; a small flat-[still held in her hand. Harry had been jr^ardedly, "what call you got to get giantess had been goaded to kill topped rock like a footstool lay on the' captured by Mexican bandits, had been upfiiLy. Suppose you wasn’t a pardner by the voice. Ruth was ceratin that a little inside the basin, and'with theip several months, had at last —that’.^ your fault.” in some way Snavely controlled (before this stone were the marks of' escaped, was badly hurt, and from Ruih’.s anger mounted. “That so inds voice. I boot h?els. Some one had recently satlthi'ii until the writing of the letter he very well But what will my brother She now feared him as never I^®* upon this stone. She experimented and had been cared for at the inacessible think when I tell him about the " ()^-*^ 'D(m fore; yet, she must not let him sua-, ^ ‘ pg.^gg py„oi;,Guiterriz Rancho six days west of teriou.s disease you called ‘liver fe-i'^*'‘,^ f further to say. But she’d find Harry : She heard _the steps of ^ Snavely’s , hors(', and presently saw him gallop- ^ ing toward the little adobe house i where Magda was taking in her wash- j ing which had festooned the- bushes i since early morning. He stopjK'd his i horse with a jerk and called. Don; Franci.sco and Alfredo came-to the' doorwky; Magda stood in tlie yard. ( her arms full of ’ clothes. Snavely REAL ESTATE Town and country prop erty. Prices attractive. Clinton Realty & Insurance Co., B. H. BOYD. Agent f“ON THE AIR” Francisco f Oiir DIXIE GEM coal is now on the air/’ station WLW, y Thursday hear the mounted at the fence and tied the horses. Davitt. “Hellq, Mama!” His small voice bed. But his hurts were mending andjeyes. Ruth was triumphant; the before long he expected to be up. He (was beaten," he was afraid of her now!; She went first to the brown bowlder, distance. reachedy/her across the intervening requested Ruth to write his partner, j “Didn’t you never think,” he asked I The tears welled into Ruths eyes and seated herself. Ruth waited half Ruth lowered her voice to an ex-1 Hermosillo. a .a * I A.WywaF • a ■ 1 TX i I It J A. _ Snavely, of the situation and ask him, faiteringly, “that things might look different than what they are?” tho.' e p(>or people. They had been so | happy. Like trusting children, they I “SOUTHERN BLACKBIRDS” and hour, while David played about, ^j^d whisper. "Can you hear Mama tt but she heard no voice. Then, system atically, she began to explore. She looked into every depression, behind No,” said Ruth boldly. But al- accepted her gift of the little' broadcast good SoutherH now ?” David did not reply. Then she saw that the forked stick every bbwlder and among the scant j ^y^ich she Had alreaijy di.scovered wa.s piles of driftwood and leaves in thCjgQ placed that by sitting straighter; and went through to the rear. (“Do j bed of the gulch. ' she could just see the boy on the' “Mr. ‘ Snavely, look here!” There j jwu a She returned to the rock and seated j bowlder through the notch. .It was was nothing aggressive in Ruth’s tone, elt?” |“Do you ^eny yoii tried everything! Ann leading two horses through the!pjj|| yg g yf genuine, could to make me lose my inter-: Rihh went into her room and j (began tOi pack. j h.r,u.lf wearilv—it was hard walk- like a gun sight. Again she whispered,; but it' was'like-no tone she had ever I He did not repjy to her question, j IlefoVe she -had f inished .she eould inoTroUgh the sand. Uavid sprawled!"Conte here, David,”. j used to Snavely. "Look at this." |But after a ptoment he^id slowly, hear the sound of the team and buck- ^ hi, stomach before the rock, tick-V u was uncanny; the boy slid from ( Ann stepped to the door of the . still with lowered eyes, "Them things board coming from the barn toward on .h. ..u,, of . doodle jth. cock and n|o,lried toward hpf 1 kitehch and stood ailuptly, her eyeaon !is hard to prove. "h. h„..„ h„ .h. ,„,„ii bag cone. the hou.se. Ann stopped by the small 4^I CUNTON COTTON OIL CO. Henderson PHts, Mgr. ts