Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SYNOPSIS. CHAPTER I.?The scene at the opening of the story is laid in the library of an old worn-out southern plantation, known as the Barony. The place is to bo sold, and its history and that of the owners, the Qulntards, is the subject of discussion by Jonathan Crenshaw, a business man, a stranger known as Bladen, and Bob Yancy, a farmer, when Hannibal Wayne Hazard, a mysterious child of the old southern family, makes his appearancei Yancy *??i? how he adoDted the boy. CHAPTEhr rT.?N*thanlel Ferris buys the Barony, but the Qwlntards deny any knowledge of the Yancy to keep I Hannibal. Captain Murrell, a friend of the Qulntards, appears and asks ques- I tlons about the Barony. CHAPTER III.?Trouble at 8cratch Hill, Taney's home, when Hannibal is kid- ' napea by Dave Blount, Captain Murrell's agent. Yancy overtakes Blount, gives him a thrashing and seourea the boy. I CHAPTER IV.?Yancy 4s served with a warrant for assaulting Blount. Yancy 1 appears before Squire Balaum, and Is discharged with costs for the plaintiff. | CHAPTER V.?Betty Malroy, a friend of the Ferrises, has an encounter with Captain Murrell, who fortes his attentions on her, and is rescued by Bruce Carrington, who threatens to whip the captain. CHAPTER VI.?Betty sets out for her Tennessee home. Carrlrgton takes the same stage. Yancy and Hannibal disappear, with Murrell on their trail. He overtakes them in the mountains of Tennessee. Murrell gets Yancy drunk and tabs him in a fight that followed. Hannibal escapes In a canoe. CHAPTER VII.?Hannibal arrives at the home of Judge Slocum Price. CHAPTER VIII.?The Judge recognizes In the boy, the grandson of an old time friend. Murrell arrives *.t Judge's home. Hannibal hears of the finding of Yancy's body. Price arrested as counterfeiter. CHAPTER IX.?Cavendish family on raft rescue Yancy, who Is apparently dead. Price breaks Jail. CHAPTER X.?Betty and Carrington arrive at Belle Plain. ... -"W CffXPTER XI.?Hannibal's closes some startling things to the Juoge. Hannibal and Betty meet again. CHAPTER XII.?Murrell arrives In Belle Plain. Is playing for big stakes. CHAPTER XIII.?Yancy awakes fn>m long dreamless sleep on board the raft CHAPTER XIV.?Judge Price makes atartllng discoveries in looking up land titles. Charley Norton, a young planter, who assists the Judge, is mysteriously assaulted. CHAPTER XV.?Norton Informs Carrington that Betty has promised to marry him. Carrington bids Betty good-bye. Norton is mysteriously dhot. CHAPTER XVI? More light on Murrell's plots. He plans uprising of negroes. CHAPTER XVII.?The Judge and Hannibal visit Betty. CHAPTER XVTYI.?Betty Is told why Norton was killed and leaves Belle Plain, taking Hannibal with her. The carriage is held up In the woods. From the bow Bunker had been observing this singular phenomenon. Suddenly he bent and roused Slosson, who had fallen asleep. The tavern-keeper sprang to his feet and Bunker pointed without speaking. "Mebby you can tell me what that i light back yonder means?" cried Slosson, addressing himself to Carrington; as he spoke he snatched up his rifle. "That's what I'm trying to make out," answered Carrington. /^riorJ minssnn. and tossed his gun to his shoulder. What seemed to be a breath of wind lifted a stray lock of Carrington's hair, but his pistol answered Slosson in the same second. He tired at the huddle ol men In the bow or the boat and one of them pitched forward with his arms outspread. "Keep back, you!" he said, and dropped off the cabin roof. His promptness had bred a momentary panic, then Siosson's bull-like voice began to roar commands; but in that brief instant of surprise and shock Carrington had found and withdrawn the wooden pes that fastened the cabin door. He had scarcely done this when Slosson came tramping alt supported by the three men. Calling to Betty and Hannibal to escape In the skiff which was towing j astern the Kentuckian rushed toward the bow. At his back he heard t^io door creak on its hinges as it was pushed open by Betty and the boy, and again he called to them to escape by the skiff. The l'ret of the current had grown steadily and from beneath the wide-flung branches of the trees which here met above his bead, Carrington caught sight of the starspecked arch of^the heavens beyond. Tor h int I >0DIGAL JUDGE VAUGHAnKESTEI^ fuvsT/{ATms By D.Melv/u He Launched Himself Nimbly and With Enthusiasm Into the Fight. I They were Issuing from the bayou. He felt the river snatch at the keel boat, the buffeting of some swift eddy, and saw the blunt bow swing off to t the south as they were plunged Into j the black shore shadows. But what ho eld not see was a big muscular hand which had thrust itself out of the impenetrable gloom and clutched the side of the keel b it. Coincident with this there arose per- j feet babel of voices, high-pitched and , ! I bet It's him! Sho?it's Un." cle Bob's nevvy! Sho', you can hear 'em! Sho', they're shootln" guns! I Sho'!" "Gentlemen, ft fs a eerlotis matter i forcibly 10 seize a man without author-1 Ity from the courts and expose him I to the danger of mob violence?.Mr., U ...If I........ ' ? ll? ICul 11 blits UC1U1 n C UUICJ done with him." Instantly thcie was a noisy demon- j stration that swelled into a burst ot. applause, which quickly spent itsell.! The struggle seemed io have nar-, rowed to an Individual contest ior | supremacy between Fentress and the ; judge. On the edge of the ralled-off ' space they confronted each other: the j < colonel, a tall, well-cared lor pres-, once; the judge, shabby and unkempt. For a moment their eyes met, while the judge's face purpled and paled, and purpled again. The silence deep- 1 ened. Fentress' thin lips opened, twitched, but no sound came from them; then his glance wavered and j fell, lie turned away. "Mr. Sheriff!" he called sharply. "All right, colonel!" "Take your man Into custody," ordered Fentress. As he spoke he hand- j ed the warrant toward Lietis, wno looked at it, grinned, and stepped to ward Hues. lie would have pushed 1 the judge aside had not that gentle- | man, bowing civilly, made way tor j him. "In my profound respect for the law j and properly constituted authority 1 | yield to no man, not even to Colonel j Fentress," he said, with a gracious \ gesture. "I would not place the slightest obstacle in the way of its sane- ' tinned manifestation. Colonel Fen- j tress_ comes here with that high sane- j tion." He bowed again ceremoniously | to the colonel. ' I repeat, I respect his dependence upon the law!" He whirled suddenly. "Cavendish?Yaucy?Carrinffton?I call upon you to arrest John Murrell! I do this by virtue of ! the authority vested in me as a judge of the United Slates federal court, j His crime?a mere trifie, my iriends? passing counterfeit money! Colonel Fentress will inform you that this is I n violation of the law which falls | within my jurisdiction," and ho beamed blandly on Fentress. "It's a lie!'* cried the colonel. "You'll answer for that later!" said the judge, with abrupt austerity ot tone. i "For all we know you may be some fugitive from justice!?Why, your nauie isn't Price!" "Are you sure of that?" asked the judge quickly. I "You're an impostor! Your name is Turberville!" "Permit me to relieve your apprehensions. It Is Turberville who has received the appointment. Would you like to examine my credentials??1 have them by me?no? I am obliged for your Introduction. It could not have come at a more timely moment." The judge seemed to dismiss Fentress contemptuously. Once more he faced the packed benches. "Put down your weapons:" he commanded. "This man Murrell will not be released. At the first effort at rescue he will be shot where he sits?we have sworn It?his plotting is at an end." He stalked nearer the benches. "Not one chance in a thousand remains to him. Either he dies here or he lives to be taken before every judge in the state, if necessary, until we find one with courage to try him! Make no mistake? it will best conserve the ends of Justice to allow the state court's jurisdiction in this case; and I pledge my- j self to furnish evidence which will start him well on his road to the gallows!" The judge, a tremendous presence, stalked still nearer the benches. Outfacing the crowd, a sense of the splendor of the part he was being called upon to play flowed through him like some elixir; he felt that he was transcending himself, that his inspiration was drawn from the hidden springs of the spirit, and that he could neither falter nor go astray. "You don't know what you are meddling with] This man has plotted to lay the south in ruins?he has been , arming the negroes?it is incredible , that you should all know this?to ' such I say, go home and thank God lor your escape; ror me omen* ? i his shaggy brows met In a menacing frown?"if they force our hand we will toss them John Murrell's dead j carcass?that's our answer to their i challenge!" He strode out among the gun muz- J zles which wavered where they still j covered him. He was thinking of Mahaffy?Mahaffy, who had said he was still a man to be reckoned with. For i the comfort of his own soul he was } proving it. "Co you know what a servile insur-1 rection means??you men who have | wives and daughters, have you | thought of their fate? Of the mon strcus savagery to which they would be exposed? Do you believe he could 1 limit and control it? Look at him! . Why, he has never had a considera- I tion outside of his own safety, and yet I be expects you to risk your necks to ! save his! He would have left the j state before the first blow was struck : ?his business was all down river? j but we are going to keep him here to ; answer for his crimes! The law, as implacable as it Is impartial, has put its mark on him?the shadow in which he sits is the shadow of the gallows!" The judge paused, but the only sound in that expectant silence was the heavy breathing of men. He drew j his unwieldly form erect, while his | voice rumbled on, aggressive and 1 threatening in its every intonation, j "You are hero to defend something j that no longer exists. Your organ- \ ization. is wrecked. your signals and : passwords are known, your secrets have become public property?I can even produce a list of your members; 1 there are none of you who do not j stand in iuViuinent peril?yet under- i stand. I have no wish to strike fit j those who have been misled or j coerced info joining Murrell's band?" i The judge'3 sc Idcn old farm glowed | now with the magnanimity of hi.; sen-| timents. "Hut 1 have no reeling of! mercy for your leaders, none lor Mur-j rell himself. Put down your guns!?j you can only kill us after we have' killed Mtirrell?but you can't kill the I law! If the arch conspirator dies ir. this room and hour, on whose head will the punishment fall?'* lie swung round his ponderous arm in a sweep-j ing gesture and shook a fat hut e>> ; pressive fore-linger in the faces of I those nearest him. "3n yours?aud : yours?and yours!" Across the space that separated | them the judge grinaed his triumph ; at his enemy, lie had krown when , Fentress entered the room that a I word or a sign from him would pre- j cipitnie a riot, but he knew now that. I neither this word nor thts sign would I be given. Then quite suddenly he j strode down tho aisle, and toot by foot Fentress yielded ground before1 his advance. A murderous light! hashed from the Judge's bloodshot j eyes and his right hand was stealing toward the frayed talis of his coat. "Look out?he's getting ready to shoot!" cried a frightened voice. Instantly by doors and windows the crowd, seized with inexplicable panic, emptied itself into the courthouse yard. Fentress was caught up in me rush and borne from the room and ! from tbo building. When he reached i the graveled space below the steps he | turned. The judge was in the door-1 way, the center of a struggling group; I Mr. Uowen, the minister, Mr. Saul and Mr. Wesley were vainly seeking to pinion his arm. "Draw?damn you!" he roared at Fentress, as he^ wrenched, himself CORXI METAL SHI . u^AHOTfTO'1 ".j&bsXi 'j I /\Aif "CORTRIGt fefe* i ii and acccPt no 81 : |&f|: Mm will last as long . J repairs ? never i It 411 occas'ona^coa ||j 3 Firt-ptoof? Sold by Cberaw Hardware "Draw, Damn Youl" He Roared at Fentress. free, and the crowd swayed to right, and left as Fentress was seen to! reach for his pistol. i Mr. Saul made a last frantic effort j to restrain his friend; he seized the j Judge's arm just as the latter's linger j pressed the trigger, and an instant' later Fentress staggered back with the judge's bullet In his shoulder. I Continued Evasively Answered. "Oh. Mr. Smith." she . sald: "last alght I had such a delightfufd-"eam! I positively dreamt that you and I? only you and I. mind?were traveling an our honeymoon. Do you ever have dreams like that, Mr. Smith?" "I am afraid I used to, Miss Antique," he answered, "but now I am more careful aver my suppers." NOTICE OF SACK OF REFUSED FRKIOIIT. In conformity with law. the SEAHOARI) AIR LINE RAILWAY will,. rm the 17th day of October, lit 12, at. twelve o'clock noon, at the Freight Station in Cheraw, South Carolina, offer for sale at public auction to the i ] highest bidder for cash the follow-l j ing freight, to-v-it: i Oiip Hundred and Forty-Six (146) bundles of box shcoks. The said i' freight was shipped by LepsKyK Rrdthers at Baltimore, Maryland, to ! the Clu raw Box Company at Chelina. on- the 4:h day of October, 1911, and arrived at Chora w. South Carolina. <:n the t'.th day of (/ctober, 1011, and has been refused a ad in possession of the said Railway for more than six months. The proceedh from said sale, so fur as sufficient, will, be applied' to the charges for the! transportation, slora^e,. advertisine*.. j commissions for sel'.hig the property: and tltu balance, if any, will be paid to the persons entitled to receive th? ' same. SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY By E. J. Cooper Agent. (1? AA ill !for I TWO 5 ROOM HC THY LOCALITY f H. L. I it IIGHT INGLES MOW THE GENUINE? FOR THE STAMP IT" Reg. U. S. Pat Off. jbstitute, if you want a roof that as the building, and never need leed attention of any kind, except > it of painL Storm-proof? Lightning-proof & Supply Co. Cheravv, S C. STATK OF SOUTH CAROLINA County of Chesterfield Cour: of Common Pleas G. A. Norwood, Plaintiff, against I). Sam Cox. Union National Bank and Hank of Maxton. Defendants. NOTICE. Pursuant to a Decree of His Honsr, .Judgp John S. Wilson, in the above entitled cause, dated April 16th, 1912, I wli offer for sale before the Court House door in Chesterfield, S. C., on the tfrst Monday in October, (same being the 7th,) between the legal bours of sale, to the highest bidder for cash, the following described real estate, to wit: "A1 that certain tract of land in Chesterfield County and State of South Carolina, containing two thousand and eight (2,008) acres, more or less, bounded North by lands ind Estate of the late William Linton. deceased; East by lands of Ceorge Freeman and Ellerbe Douglass: South by lands of L. B. Wilson md Tener Creek;; and West by Ha*ria Creelc and lands of Mrs. Mary E. Wilson and S. W. Evans." The above lands will be divided into 'our tracts of as nearly equal acreige as possible, and each tract will will be sold separately. Plat of same ihaser or purchase's to pay for all will be on exhibit at the sale. Purf lecessary papers. P. A. WUilRAj.' Mg Master Chesterfield County. Vly Fall and Winter WoolMis ;xe now on display. Con?>e in and look them Dver and have me take youA measure for a new Suit or Over Coat. SI A A - /I fc Office of County Superintendent of E<iucutiou The County Superintendent of Education gives notice that his office wiH be open every Saturday and the first Monday of each month. I LENT ) >USES?HEAL- I r?IN TOWN. I OWE. I I