Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I THUBSDAY.^PTEMkER 18, 1984 • . 'I / > , ,' : ’ ■ V . " .f, ■■■’-■ ■inE CU^N CHRONrctE, CXINT^N, S. C. V-'i v Tv' ’ i: . f , , jdifferences may b^rthey expct a bojt-' isquadrons would be “pr«c* essi.” I »^UaarOn» . pica^ly annihilated.*: ■V. r /■■ j “I'm sorry, Barry. Truly I am.” Iter ' A5.peaker saidhad been criti- eyes were desperate. “Bun can’t stay.i ' , * **''^*^® ci.3ed for issuing the order but asked, jl—" ,1 ' ■/' ^ r|f you had been in my placa, know* I “Don’t trouble to apologize. Pm not4^*®®^ Ord&rs Groups To^ Disporsc mg that ,if any of .qur people were in 'a jailor, to keep you herej^ainst yOun T^o Avert Massacres. Honea'^*?"*^ they‘would have b^n shot, will. But if you leave hie now, I’m; Path Shootirtjf tiled '' wbuld^ you have>*a3ked them'tq di$!< * • - r - I perse. ^ This'is a peaceful stnke,” he said. through. Don’t ever try to come back ; She put her hand to her throat. ' ‘ j ‘ i * -Tcannot advise men to ,arm because “I understand.' I shan’t come ^j^ck, -vice^ptesiUent of the.f would be arrested for inciting tp Barry.' Good-bye.” . j United Textile Workers of America'riot.” He , criticized employers for- Good-bye,” he said cuptly._He was and strike director for the Soiith, said"^^*^^ said' was arming, ni'en to 1.1 .^^1... t A 'T'"' . . . . > flaAit* rklAvafa cruel with anger and savagely hurt. Ttonight he issued-orders today for fly-' He heard a door close-softly, and 'light footsteps that died. Silence af- THIRTEt&NTH INSTALLMENT v-'She was to disappear completely, and a situation like that blindly ? Synopsis: Three weeks after a alone. And early this morning theyj’ He stopped in front of her and ter that. Empty silence, cream colored roadster ha^ been found started back-toAhe -ranch. Together! caught her arm in a close grip., , | ' • • • t • wrecked in the sea at the foot-of a Imbecile!” » 4 • vV i “Don’t you know that I’d give up' Many miles to the East a number cliff, a girl calling herself Anne Cush-j “iVe done better than ydu think. W everything I have* on earth to hear small things had happened ing squadrons, in South Carolina to' referred to the Honea Path “massacre” and said h: ing appears at the desert tpwn. Mars-'she and Duane are stikFting West’on'yqu say something which would seV^ The new footman had left after less tonight. , ton. Later she marries'Barry Duane the same train it’s for appeaTahces,ithis hideous thing right? To have you’Ibah a^ week of service, a circumstance j i^^ed the ( .•J- . .... ,shooliiig as a disperse and no. resume activity. strikers were unarmed. • * knew if they didn’t disperse it] Criticizing Governor Ibra C. Black- , nieant slaughter, the strike leader wood for sending troops to strUca , told a mass meeting of union members areas, the speaker said if all the na- order be- and against her ^tter judgment re- npt for any joy ride-You’ll probably .back a< you used to be—and to be able which vaguely disturbed the'colorless, cause )ie had every reason to believe tional guardsmen and special deputiaa wfere withdrawn, -^‘all danger of vlo- turns East with him to find herself in. find that one or the other of them will daily conflict with Barry’s mother "go on to Reno,” he added, signifi- and Cleo Pendleton, heiress and logi- contly. cal choice of Mrs. Duane. Cleo bribes «<whv^” her'chauffeur, Kennedy, whom she ^ u j* • 1.1 discovers in secret conversations with! hoi^d in while we Ann., to' sep.r.t, Ann. and Barry.l*®" » P»« •<* asked her to meet me. io take my wife back "among my Mrs. Pendleton._Clcp looked content- lence would, be-removed.” L. E. Brookshire, of Greenville, president of the State Federation of friends without—” * ledly her own image in a long mir- ful ranch in a rough ‘uountaire valley_ rt^uer-wion ui If he only hadn’t'siid that,-about'>2'' to contrive a call ®^ referred to Francis J. Goy- Mrs. John Gage. iJohn, too, saying that he would have' ^ . arbitrate with the At the Gag. offi.ea Winston called to Chicago but had n:ade tion 'emplo'y.rs "are -afraid to ar- to.make a personal report apd found all^^arrangements for her *y ^re. Barry succeeds in interesting John his friends! Anne shivered. “I have told you all I can.” , I She swayed a little, stiffened and, that Gage had-been called away. At 'Paula was feeling just a-little sorry; .,k jstafed at him bitterly. *'> j secretary admitted that Mr. Gage washerself. Miss Cleo Pendleton could j Gage,\the real manager of the Duinej Kennedy looked sharply at Miss, yQ^r friends, they needn’t due to start shortly on a trip West, not have chosen a better moment to' mills, in his irrigation project in the Cleo Pendleton. The'small childish' ^^gr so much how. Marston is a'Winston kept his verbal dynamite'ask for Mrs. John Gage. j,, West. Hurrying to break the good was lit for a secoihd with a sort .jong f^om Granleigh. Tell th^i stored in his own cautious head. j A few days later, when Gage board- . news to Anne, Barry sight's Kennedy of greedy joy. ^ ^ I’m dead, if you want to. That’s quU;ftL.J[n. his comfortable hotel Kennedy jejd his own ca-r in Chicago, his first and follows him to a dingy hotel. Hid- 4^‘Now that, they’re gone. I'd better; ^gg^ people' was studying plump time-tables and glimpse was of a head of snug, shin- Brpokshire s for a two 30- adjoining doorway, he hold myself * ready to follow up and*!(jQ Barry.” edv firreet Anne and en- see -that it goes through. I’ll need' lalkii den in an . _ watches Kennedy greet Anne ahd en- s*® '^bat it goes through, i ii neeuj “You’re talking ridiculously! What ter the hotel with her. fearry inter-1 ™oney for that. How about letting me (Jq yQ^ ^ggu v» rupts ‘the .ni£eting--And--.takes Annejba^ve the other five grand now? Cash «oh, nothing. I’m not going to com- home, telling her that they "V^ill dis- ^bis time, cuss a separation at some future time. discovering possibilities* He also dis-,ing gold, .very much at home in one covered that at odd moments he was of his chairs. In the privacy of a seeing the same face with suspicious ]s-taterooni he jerked an expressive frequency. Being resourceful he con- thumb and said, “How come?” icy of the gover jobs. the union’s request shift week was not cause “it i^^e poi nt to create more “I can’t tell you. It-^it isn’t mine to tell. Can’t you understand that, Bar ry? Why won’t you believe it?” mit suicide. Not because my husband: siderd the situation and took reserva-l 666 Liqiud, Tablets. SalveT^ose Dropa _ “You don’t mind, John, do you? SheM»Uri« in i diiv> roMd firMt Cleo considered it. “I will give you| j.gjfu,gg believe that I’m decent. She'tions for, New Orfeans, where he had is a friend of this Mrs. Duane’s and] the ten thousand in cash and you niay ] ^gu^g^j giowly toward the door, i^aus- no intention of going. Then by caT"and she -told me that Mrs. Duane had been plane, and modest day coach he shook [asking her to come out and visit them. turo over the check.’’ look,back. “I’m going-—back I couldn’t think of asking it.”.Ken-,{q Trairs End. Good-bye.” nedy bowed piolitely. “Five thausand- “You can’trgo noW,” he said sharp-1 zagged his way to Marston. off his exasperated shadow-and zig-il thought it would be nice to' hav6 will be plenty. When the job is com-i w “The Gages are coming-They will : wny wont you oeneve n: t v i i ai v* vi^i^ca aic He wanted to believe, but that dark ‘ 5*? »},'>«, bi, here next Tueaday.’i tormenting suspicion was. tearing both]^‘'J?; sUred at him in a shocked sort somebody along,-and she’s frightfully The junction’s best hostelry was amusing.” the railroad h6tel. Kennedy registered] “Oh, y’es . . . yes, honey, it’s all as Frederick Janies, acquired a slight: right/ Old Ambrose’s girl, is she? How' day. Headaches or Neuralgia in 30 minutes. t^ine Laxative and Tonic Most Speedy .Remedies Known of'them to pieces.’ “Believe that you can’t tell? .yes, you don’t leave me in any doubt ofHhat.” ‘Barry!” Anne quivered and stif- Cleo could, have killed him. “Very ^,gy jjgj.|jjjj^ convincing cough to acco^mtii forjdid, she knowr we were headed'fori she added hur-jhis aimless presence, and a baUered Duane’s place?” j riedly. “But you wee, I shall not^^be.old car. - j “Why, I don’t know. She just seem-, here.”' ^ . He might have been,interested if he.ed to know^ it. You’re not angry, are In spite of all that hacT passed he'had known of Gage’s absence from'.you? I did w'ant somebody with me,' [well. ! will have it for you tomorrow breath'. “I am sorry,' at noon.” The door closed on Kennedy. In the hall the new footman ap- from a cross corridor and'^.Q^)^J scarcely credit his ears. town. This time Paula had been left and I had to start, all alone!’ ^Y®**. *^1 obligingly let Kennedy out. They ex-j “I suppose,” he said in a tight voice, behind in their huge hotel apartment.i “There, there!” He smoothed a rose- fAii ” Kha fiirnaH Kn niViA in nA Ctt ft YA. t a M AvA/J m. M9rv«a^ AM ^M*A - i ..I ^ m .«• • • . .IaY 1 W t % SR* - IR .>* tell.” She turned 6’n him in passionate > changed a word or two, and the door |«^^g^ appeal, “l^on’t you trust me nnoughx- closed* Kennedy paused for a second ^ggjjj , don’.t you love me enough to believe on* the steps.' understlnd what-this visit* Nevertheless she pouted at' the leaf cheek and kissed her. me? W|iatever our personal‘ thought of having to go to some dole-| eel (C ontinued Neift Week) PHILCO Radios & Tubes • ^ Smith’s Pnarmacy me when I tell you that no matter j “There’s something, phoney* about what appearances maybe, there was that bird,^ he reflected. “He was out] nothing, nothing wrong in my going of’bftath. I'll drift, as soon as I get' to meet Jim Kennedy?” ItheRffve grand." ! She knew the second it came out! He got it the next day. Inside of an! that the familiar “Jiid Kennedy” had]hour he had sent, in his notice, re- been a mistake. Barry looked shaken,Iceived his wages and was on his way] a man almost persuaded, but at the]to the Station. j last words hot suspicion flamed again.' A few days later Kennedy’s eye' “Trust you! I did trust you. I trust-' picked up an item in tKe paper, ed you thqi night when you came in j “Mr. and Mrs. Gage will leave next fresh from keeping a cheap rendez-> Friday on a trip to the Pacific coast.” vous with this same man. And you lied] Kennedy’s eyes narrowed thought- to nie." j fully. Gage had business interests out “I have told you all that I can.” 'there. It was not likely to be more* “You have answered me.” He turned than just coincidence. “I don’t see how abruptly arid walked toward the door.[there could be Mf^lhing in it,” he re- With his hand on the knob he paused.; fleeted, “but it wouldn’t hurt to be on “I have this much more to say. There are some things which can’t ibe -Overlooked or forgiven—not between hand.” Cleo saw the seme item. She sat up suddenly- Nancy and Barry had gone man and wife. But,I am not going to i West; The Ga£es,v were Going West, have any open break with my wife^ostensibly to- the coast, but Marston ever somebody’s chauffeur, nor have | was on the way. Jim Keniiedy, if he my mother’s name and mine dragged-^^ kept his word, was going West also. tlvouffh n tabloid scandal. We’ll go on j “I don’t suppose there can be any- for the prfsMt as we arc, nnd at least i thing in it,” she thought. “But Barry maintain the outward civilities. And knows the G^^s^ and he'had been tryr then if you still refuse to.clear this ing for yearsxo get John Gage inter- up satisfactorily, you and I are ested in that old valley. It’s queer. I through.? [wish I had a decent excuse to foHow She made no attempt to answer them.” him. There was something in her eyes > let The Home Paper Follow You! that hurt him savagely. If he stayed Anne was discovering .that not even- he’d be sweeping her into his arms [the beloved Perch could banish a tor and pleading with her. He jerked the'^menting devil of jealousy and suspi- door open and. went out, without-a cion. Things grew worse instead of backward glance. better... As a slow week dragged by. After the door had closed Anne still each day held less hope of reconcili- stood there sick at heart. Barry ex- ation. * pected her to stay, but Jim. Kennedy Ling’s bland face never betrayed had said that she must go. Just for a little, lying back with closed eyes, she wondered what would happen if she anything. Anne was glad that Martha Larrabee had gone back to Marston. Martha had closed the little house defied Jim’s orders—if she stayed, and'at Trail’s End only a week before let John Gage meet her here. Up-[ their return. It was quiet and peace- heaval and ruin,' and « slimy hail of ful, but it was lonely. Sometimes she disgrace. She laughed with a rising' wished bitterly that she had never note'^of hysteria, choked it back and seen Barry Duane. ‘ abruptly pulled herself ou^ of thei She rode Comet often, but always chair. [alone. She saw Barry in the distance She njoved quietly around the 'rodm.^one diy,~fittftif dn CapYai^ilTn juF- ppenitig drawers ud closets, choosing ting point in the.tnni. <pomet whick- ai^eles here and* there and dropping!ered a shrilfgiving and Captain re- them on the bed. Indecision was gone. pU^d, but Barry merely turned his There ..was a tap on the door. It was head, raised his hat and turned back. Bertha,’with a message. Anne’s fa^e stung wUh angry .heat. “Mr. Barry sent me up to pack for She'd rather be ordered out of the you. He. says he’s called back to Mar-1 house than (reated Ijke n chili| in dis- ston, and can you be ready,to ieavO;grace tomorrow morning on the seven-forty-, three.?. He’s just ’phonic for j reserva tions.” She went back to her'own loneli ness, and presently Barry canie in^ saying iittle. She was. dropping her A- filmy garment dropped from small efforts at cheerfulness now. She Anne’s fingers. “The seven*-forty-' must ^ve it out'with him and end three,” she repea^ted blankly. Then she [this, one way or another, remembered the waiting Bertha..“Yes,]* “A.re you busy, Barry?” Bertha, of course I can be ready. Here “No.” He put down the book he was are some of my things. I’ve been gath- reading. . - - • ^^inir them toirether.” ’ I “Don’t you think it is time we came • n ering them_ together Anne went toward the. window and to a different'understanding, Barry ? looked out to conceal her face from You know we can’t go on this way.” the maid’s too-friendly eyes. j “I agree with you entirely. I am '■“I’ll fight for him!’’ she thought ready, and have been, whenever you fiercely, “I won’t let both of our lives want to do your pafi.” -*• ' be wre^ed like this. J love him and Her eyes closed for a moment. “But when we’re at the Perch again I’ll get I have told you that there are things him back.” • ^ that I cannot explain, without-r-with- out invoMhf other people. I’ve prom- . Cleo’s blue roadster swept reckless-j ised—your shouldn’t ask me to break iy up the drive. A watchful footman that.~ sp^ down fhe steps. ^ ' j “Most escapades do involve other “Send Kennedy to. me,” she ordered, people,”^ he retorted, * . The footman-was a new man, but j “I’ve’done rash things, I know/but ^ >, he seemed tabe well trained.' jnothing that I am ashamed of. Won’t; 'Cleo waited impitiently Imthe li-'you believe t^t?*You’ve got to, Bar- brary, Jlere Kei^dy casafv^ infuri- ry. All the rest of our lives depends .ating eight minutes, late. ” - ron it—just having some —some faith “Well, you’ve bungle your work between us. If you can’t have-that, ^ nicely, ^ven*t you?” JJ’m going. I won’t stay in your hoette "TTiink so?” He-‘was defiant^ in a^ikethis.” ’ instant. He was on his feet now, tramping “I do! You undertook io Me->that imiwtiently up and down. Mrs. Duane left here within a ^‘Wtfek.l “How cah you expect me to accept If you want the home news —have THE CHRONjetE sent to you™its regular visits will Be "just like a letter from home” -rT. Students and Tfachers Rate of $1.00, for Nine Months '■4' iSim ’The Family Newspaper Everybody Reads’’ i t -'I