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“Where did it come from? How dio
Maddo}c—?”
“I’ve figured thkrout, too. Mr. Dur
ham must have had it in his pocket
when Maddox found hitp. 'that would
explain everything—dKxw he /na'de your
aunt do just what he wahl^ and wh^
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PAYS YOU BIG DIVIDCHDS
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tery-taliar.
ftm
FINAL INSTALLMENT
clear.
she didn’t ^are to fire fiiniif’
‘ “That’s why she said r<d Kave ^to
marry him! That’s why—X)h, Ben!”
{iBetty rose suddenly and clutched Fur-
jiong. “I knew she was a mean, .^clfi.sh
jjold thing, but I never ^thought she was
so-^wicked./This oil is a cur.se to^)o6r
jpeople. I hate it!”
I “Why, Betty!” Furlong^ exclaimed.
|“Y^’re the wicked one to quarrel-^”
What -happened next the observersi “She’s the only kin I’ve got'lejft and
Til
Mechanically Ben made an effort to Furlong dashed past the speaker and j were never able to agree upon, but thejj t^ied my best to love her. But she
^e, but could not manage it. emerged from the shelter of the'bushes i world dissolved into an inferno of, greedy for quick money that
in time to see Maddox gingerly swing [smoke and flame and the” suddenn^^'notjjinjr mattered. Maddox,
manage
lust have ^ hit on' my head,’
mumbled thickly, and raised groping ^ long,^cylindncal tm over the well
fingeS^. Then he sat up. He knew,*"^'^^^
DOW that he had not fallen into a pit. ^ new mamlla rope had been run
“Where are they? WTiat’s-hap-^
pened?
. too! Ij
of it rocked the sk>v._ up heaved thei^^ade beasts of them, j almost wish
earth. The two came together with a ^^ver heard of oil.” After a mo-
Mtaclysmic roar. Furlong and Betty the speaker continue!
with this, he lowered the charge.
Betty was^obbing wildly; her hair, yelled at him; he waved his
hung in a cascade about her shoulders; Maddox glanced over his shoul-
she was clad obJy in her nightdress, then let the line slid^smoothly
and it w’as soake^with the water she hands. /
had poured over Ben to revive him. 1 “Take my tip an’ don’t go too close,”
Be.side the open dW to the hall lay!the engineer shouted. “He ain’t no
Durham were to.ssed- headlong, flung
dowp like straws. When they scramb
led to their feet, dazed, shaken, terri
fied, it I was to find themselves en-
more
quietly: “I lied to yoir last night,
was Tiller who came «here.”
Furlong’s body stiffened, he breath
veloped in a mighty dust cloud. The j^
ri^hiy.foot tower of heavy timberaI,eo. W hy .l,Jn t you tell me?"
was gone; in an in.stant it had utter-! AV hat s more, she knew he Was
ly
a
Fry Your Homo 'Fown I'irst
Prosootovl hx
gone; in an m.stant it had utter-; ••= mv-it., .-mu- iviirv> uo
vanished. YVhere it liad stood was|<'o»'iP>F'niey arrangt^d it. She as gtnid
shallow, smoking crater. Splint-sent him! That s how he got the
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the wreck of a chair;''two of its legs powder man an’ that wel^s makin’I^^'^j-pYanUing. debris of every'sort, j kitchen kej-
gas,
utes.’
She blows off exery few.mm- j^^j.^ scatteivd far and wide; jiarticlesl ^ This announcement the man greeted
'of earth and giwvel were raining froml xvith tlie growl of an animal. Heliegan
the heaveqs with the sound of a heavy j to pace about the room; his flace l)ad
hailstorm; nothing in the neighbor-1grown black and threatening; his fin
gers were working as he stonived:
were splintered, broken off; Ben real
ized more clearly now what it was
th»t had crashed down upon his head, j Betty seconded this warning in fran-
With an .effort he scrambled dizzily j tic tones of appeal ! ‘Let him go, Ben.
U hi* feet. Water was trickKng into,He knows what ho’i^oing. You’ve got!hood of the.well remained excepOhe
hiR eyes and blinding him; he brushed no right .stopping him. You'll just!toiler and-engine, and the former lay
it away, then di.scovered, to his Ig^reat make trouble—” !' j upon its side. Even the bu.she3 had
suiprise, that it was not water atxall, ^ business,” the lat- been whipped out, uprooted .shaved
but blood; his own bloody His he^n^j. agreed, impatiently, “but there’sjoff as by a sweeping .scythe,
dtd^ something crooked—’” He ceased jhat afternoon Furlong’s friend, the
reWd to olli? ^ ^ kmb spiking; then he .seizcnl Betty and ^engineer, came over to the farmhouse
ivy K rr • her around with the sharp ^ith a considerable bundle in his arms.
Betty s voice came to him as if from vnmniAnd “Run' T-ot ha<«k»’’ .. . .
a long distance; she was telling himi ,p, ’ :■ , . j .[ “Ho^^’.s Betty? he inquire<l.
something, trying to makv him uudvr-1 They were st,II perha,M a hundred; ..she’s all right, but pretty well
stand that they were alone in V™ ‘h-’/'-". F-irlonKSibruised, of eourse." ,
house and that their assailant hid '"'“‘“TV';'' ')«'! V*; ! “'Veil. I guess there’s nipthin’ mom
Fhe (Ihaniber of (Commerce
“Wait! Wait till she getsVback
>nived:
retsVj:
here!”'
“You can’t lay your hand.s on a wo-
• > V, '
q;ian—
“Can’t I?'
-
he breathed.
WAN T S
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Feed Spartan Laying Mash
RADIOS checked free. Tubes, Parts, |* . . mi u a h
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C. W. S. Guano Co.
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Radio Exchange. . tf
HUNDREDS are taking advantage
the low prices at Ellison’s Re
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fled. When this became plain to Fur- c&n do, so we’re'goin’_in to
1 1 4 J _ iThat ropexrom which was susp
long, he sat down.
It was some time before the
succeeded in stanching that flow
until Mrs.
rope Trom which was suspended town.”
.^jjthe heavy ^arge of liquid death no| “Rjjfht: I’ll stay here
**^j loiigerhuhgv€Ttically, it no longer ran j Durham gets hack.”
blood wound, for she W, iw.reely inlPT J*'* ‘‘•'V''*;' “Here’s all of ’Tiller’s stuff, that we
eondition to render help to anyl^y.l'"’'.”'"',7" '*"“« '""T
By the time her Usk was completed'
Ben had managed to get a pretty clear | "
Maddox himself whs alive to 'what
FOR RE,NT—Upstairs apartment, 3
■rooms, bath and kitchenette. Mrs.
V. Martin, phone ‘273-.I. — tfc
idea of what had happened. She had
been awakened .by a sound and had
realized that somebody was in her
room; she had uttered a frightened
challenge, only to feel groping hands
upon.her, to find herself in the grasp
of 'some unseen person. She retained
no very clear recollection of anything
after that; the rest was a hideous
nightmare. Not until the ’ miscreant
had bolted out of the house and she
had finally managed somehow to
strike a light was he made aware of
the reason for his flight. Then she
I reckon yoq better look
had happened. That which he most
greatly feared had comeVpon him, and
he also turned to flee. ~^ut the plat
form was slippery or else he tripped
over the rope and fell. The others
heard his cry of terror. He quicklyibe
regained his feet, but .to Furlong^it-hu
seemed as if his movements thereafter
were maddeningly slow and deJibeTate.
The engineer’s apprehepsfons
been well grounded. Onc^ again
had been relea.sed fi^down in th
earth, and ^w, like breath forced
had stumWed over Ben and realiz^i^*^"^ lungsjpKome tortured giant,
peHing 1
that it was his voice she had heaid I
calling to her, that it was the sound cartridge of, nitroglycerine ahead of
ymg:
-of his coming that had interrupted the
attack. His plight had done a good
deal to bring her -back to herself, but
now she threatened to again abandpiF
her self-control. ^
Furlong checked this by
^Betty Durham!’ You!ve
on but your nightie!” '
Tt was some time l^r when the girl
emerged from her,r6om, dressed after
a fashion, to find”her deliverer waiting
in the kitch^ with a scowl upon his
face. »
gun ?” he inquired,
“Yoqv^t
haraMy.
‘1^0, Bon, Why?”
“I’m going to kill Maddox.”
For a moment Betty stared at the
speaker; with shaking fingers »he
plucked at her dress; It was'in a thin,
^ .Yi?!?®.
“It wasn’t Maddox.”
“How do you know?”
“Oh, I know! It Wasn’t Maddox.”
“Are ydu sure?” ’The girl nodded,
and Ben bowed his throbbing head in
his hands.' “I’m glad," he groaned.
“Providence certainly brought me
back. It wouldn’t happen that way
once in a thousand times. Whoever it
was. I’ll find him.”
Both /the man and the girl were in
wretched condition. ’The rest of the
mght' they sat together, watching the
clock and listening for a i>ossible re-
, turn of the marauder, waiting for the
day to break.
' It was shortly after they liad finish
^ed breakfast that Furlong was sun-
prised to discover signs of activity,
noovements, goings-on at the well
which, catued him to stare fixedly,
then to announce incredulously;
‘*Say! I believe Maddox is fixing to
shodt the well!” « —
Betty took her place at his side.
“Why—he can't! He dasseht! ’The
powder men won’t be here till to-mor-
it as a.iiea is propelled out of a pea-
shoot^. It was a phenomenon by qo
means uhusual in a well as unstable
m its balance of forces as this one.
In fact, under like conditions none but
a madman would "have dared to risk
Maddox’s maneuver. |
The latter had not put fifty feet be^
hind_him when up out of the well
mouth shot the gleaihing tin cylinder.
Directly above and in its path hung
the massive forty-fobt steel Sit sus
pended from its wire cable.
could find,
after it.”
“Anything besidesdothes ?”
“Not much. A few letters an’
things we fouhd in his bunk. Mix'
Durham capiteep ’em in case he’s got
relatives. There’s one suit of clothes
that wbuld fit me. use to throw
’eqr away. Say! It’s funny how scared
was of powder. It musta been a
hunch.”
Shortly after the engineer had left,
Ben came to'Betty with a queer light
in his eyes. In h& hand'he held a
soiled sheet of fool.scap paper. . 1
“Feel strong enough to stand anoth
er •explosion?”, he inquired with art
effort to suppress his agitatloh. “Well,
the queerest thing—! This farm does;
not Wlong to your Aunt Mary, after
all; it belongs to you!” The girl
gasped; she voiceil some breathless
query, but Ben ran on: “Your dncle
Joe left it to ybu[[ just as he promised.
He left everything to you, except a
thousand dollars to her. This ia his
will and Ma^ldox had it. I guess it’s
a good •will, even thoufrh your uncle
wrote It himself. Anyhow 1 Us' wit
nessed by two people—Maddox and
another. FVom the date I figure it
must have been signed just a day or
so before he was killed.”
Betty shook her head; a njoinent,
then a new expression slowly, crept
into her eyes; her chin s<*t itself firm
ly. “No!” she declared. ‘‘But you can
lay ’em on her trunk and drag it out
here where I can pack it.”
“I sui-e can,” Ben agrtn-d. “And'MAN WANTED for Rawleigh route
what’s more, \yhen you get it I'ackoxl* of 800 families. Gooxl profits for
I can lug it out to the gate where it hustler. We train and help you. Write
will be nice ami. handy for her.” As-today. Rawleigh Co., Dept. SCJ-27-
he finished speaking his frown disap-jSA2, Richmond, Va. ll-77-5p
peared; it wa.s replaced by a grin andi : —
he said: “Say, Betty! ^Tiat d'you FOR SALBBeardle.ss Barley, Ful-
think? I’m going to marry an heiress,' grum Oats and Wheat. Apply to
Phone 62
after aH,”
THE END
Mrs. George Brown, R.F.D. No. 3,
Clinton, S, C. Ip
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“All the same, he’s doing something
queer. See those cans—those shiny
things?”
“You couldn’t hire Tiller to touch
nitroglycerine. He’s scared of it—?'
Ben uttered an oath. “I tell you he’s
filling those cartridgee. He’s crazy!
You’ve got to stop hhn!”
Betty turned white; she shook her
head. “I won’t go near the place. It^s
—it’s Aunt Mary’s well.”
“Thefc ni stop hinai WhY, it’s ten
to one he’ll sear the rock, ruin the
whole ijob and—Damned if I <io|D’t be
lieve he’s trying to do that veiy
thing!” .
Foriong startad for the door," but
Betty clung to, him. Wb» he pushed
on past her she f-iHlowed him. To
gether they hurried across the field
and took the path through the mes-
qnite. As ^y went tbs' girl contin-
to implore him $K>t*to interfere.
Halfway to the dicing camp they
met the^ engineer hastening towards
Urn faUbhouae, and the latter an-
noonoed, breath]easly; *^lleiYs gone
p^DDob cdCf Ua ttutl He*a goin* to ahoot
Urn w«a himself.
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