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muiiiiii8iii:i:!i:!ii!iiii:ttnm:mmtiii;nt A BIT Of A SHOCK" By H. M. EGBERT. Rittenhouse looked up from his work impatiently as the spund of oices came to his ears. But even an author at work is not proof against the merry laughter of girls. Rittenhouse frowned, pursed his brows, and then laid down his pen and looked out of the window. He had rented two rooms in a little, old-fashioned town for the summer months, so as to be at leisure to complete the book on which he was engaged, without the distractions of city Bfe. But those girls in the third or fourth garden would play croquet?or was it basket ball??and laugh over their game. He could not see anything of their garden because of the row of high elm trees that Intercepted the view. "They're Judge Sanford's daughter and niece," s%id Mrs. Briggs, his landlady. "You're sure to meet them before long. Everybody meets everybody here." Rittenhouse was resolved that he would know nobody. He was fond enough of company, but there was the book clamoring for his undivided attention. "A hit, May! A hit!" called one of the girls. Rittenhouse turned back from the window and sat down. His heroine had to be got out of a difficulty into which her own folly had led her. It was a nice problem. He was puzzled: he frowned again and then took up bis pen. ? - - - a. t-i_ a j. mUVi Swisn! tie sprang 10 nits ieei hiui an exclamation of pain and clapped his hand to his left shoulder. To bis amazement he found an arrow sticking there?a genuine arrow, with a feathered shaft and a sharp point that had pierced his coat and stood quivering in his shoulder. A tiny drop of blood was oozing over the lapel. Rittenhouse plucked it out with a grimace and took off his coat It had made quite a wound, which was bleeding freely the arrow had evidently come through the open window. It must have been shot over the hedge ? by one of the girls, and, as if Winged 1 ^ .1 ~ aft. Sprang to His Feet With an Exclamation of Pain. by some malevolent power, had passed through the elm branches and found its billet in his shoulder. "Well, May certainly has made a hit," muttered Rittenhouse. His first impulse was to break the thing in two and throw it away, but on second thoughts he put it in a drawer of > his desk. That incident ended his work for the morning. By the time he had washed his wound his shoulder was stiffening and paining him a' good deal. As fate willed it. that was the day he wa3 to meet the Judge and his family. Rittenhouse was on his way back from the post office when he ran into Mrs. Briggs, who was standing beside the Judge's buggy, in which the Judge sat, and the two girls. "Mr. Rittenhouse!" she called, and Rittenhouse crossed the street unwill ingly. "Judge Sanford, this is Mr. Rittenhouse, about whom I was speaking to you," she said. "Miss May, let me present Mr. Rittenhouse. Miss Olive Sanford,.Mr. Rittenhouse." 1.1 IHno niiTTQ MISS May was a uiuuuc. iuma W1><? a brunette, pretty, but not so attractive as her cousin. In fact, when Ritten house had looked once into Miss May's eyes he suddenly decided that . he was not so much averse from feminine society as he supposed. He left her, in fact, with a certain fluttering of the heart which he had < hitherto supposed existed only in books, and with some new and realistic ideas for his love passages. That was the beginning of an acquaintance which played havoc with Jbis work. Days sped into weeks, and , the gossips of the town began to nod I ' their heads significantly whenever I I Rittenhouse and the Judge's daughter j were mentioned. Sometimes, when he was alone. Rittenhouse would take the little arrow out of the drawer and gaze at it and behave in an absurdly sentimental ^ manner which, if anyone had sug! gested it to him a few weeks before, he would have denounced as bad art. He would never forget those afternoons in the Judge's garden, when, * Miss Olive feigning some urgent oc- i cupation or other, and discreetly with- ' drawing, Miss May and he would ) stroll together among the flowers. i "Didn't you practice archery?" Tea- t tured Rittenhouse one day. He ha?l always meant to tell her the story of the arrow, but not until a certain propitious time which he meant to bring about at no distant date?as soon as he had assured himself that May loved him. "Yes, indeed," she answered. "Father bought us a shooting set one day, but the bows were left out in the rain and got wet and useless. He's an enthusiast upop archery, you know. It really was his idea. He's always speaking about ordering some new bows from town. You ought to see my cousin shoot," she continued. "She can hit the bull's eye from the other { end of the garden. Some day you must have a match with her." "I don't want a match with her," muttered the young man sulkily. "Why?" inquired May with appar- g ent ingenuousness. "Don't you like Olive?" I "If I do any shooting it's going to c be with you," cried Rittenhouse, tak- \ ing her by the hand. "I want to do s everything with you?shooting and \ walking and eating and?everything. 1 May, don't you see how I care for j1 you? I've wanted to tell you a dozen v times a day, but could never gather up the courage. Can't you love me a t little if you try awfully hard?" May looked at him and suddenly 0 threw her arms round his neck. p "O, my dear, I think I can," she t said. v That was all, and it was not in the least like anything that Rittenhouse o had ever written. But the two young * people paced the garden in such hap- r piness as comes only once to men and ? women, when they love for the first r time, which is also to be the last ? Tf"U>flSt have fretm two hours later i when they were suddenly recalled to r their surroundings by seeing the sun t drop behind the hills. "And now I am going to speak to your father," said Rittenhouse. "He 1 doesn't know, does he?" "Father!" exclaimed May. "Why, he never dreams of such a thing about a me. He only thinks of me in connec- a tion with his hobbies. Just now it's t archerv. But he's a dear and I don't ? think you will have a very hard task I before you. Are you really going to speak to him now?" "Now," repeated Rlttenhouse boldly, and they went into the house together, thrilled with a delicious terror. ( The Judge was in his library, and 1 on the table were two new bows ^ which he was stringing. He whirled J round enthusiastically as the young people entered. ^ "I've got them," he exclaimed ex- 1 ultantly. "I didn't tell you, May? ' going to surprise you, you know. Here they are. Now tomorrow we must 1 set up the butts again. We'll teach Rittenhouse and make a first-class archer of him." "Judge," said Rittenhouse, "I want to speak to you about something." ' "Yes, my boy. What is it?" ' "I want to marry May," he blurted 1 out. 1 The Judge stared at him. "Did you 1 say you want to?to marry May?" he j 1 exclaimed. "Now, father," said May, putting her | ' arms round his neck, "you know you , 1 always said you could never deny me j anything. So don't make any difficul-1 ties, because Arthur and I love each j other and we are going to be mar-; ried " - - - ? The Judge sat down ana siareu : about him in a dazed way. "This will play the deuce with our t j archery team," he said. "You'll lose your sight, May; you'll be thinking of? j of love instead of keeping your eye on j the target. It was my dearest hope to t beat the Claybury team, and now?" He ran his hand through his hair i ( and got up, looking like a man who ^ has reached a great decision. I g "Never mind," he said. "It's a bit i g of a shock, but?take her, my boy. j Well, I guess the fates were against, f me, anyway. 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TAX N< The books will be open for the < day of October, 1913 to December 31 Tax levy for State Special school 4. Constitutional School Ordinary Co. Past indebtedness Int. on R. R. Bonds Road and bridges ? rn _ x _ 1 l I (J lb I lCVjr Cheraw Graded School, S{ Marburg " Orange Hill " Pats Branch " Pee Dee " Stafford Mill Bethel Center Point " Chesterfield " Parker " Shiloh Snow Ilill " Ruby Wamble Ilill " White Oak " Center " Cro&s Roads ' Elizabeth " Mt. Croghan " New Hope " Wexford " Buffalo " Five Forks " Pageland " Plains " Dudley " Friendship " Jefferson " Long Branch " Green Hill " Middendorf " McBee " Sandy Run " Union Bay Springs " Bethesda " Bear Creek " Juniper " Patrick " Cat Pond Lewis " Ousley " Palmetto " "Wallace " Cheraw special Road Commutation Road Tax is $2 ai day of March, 1914. . r-r- * r-* September 15, 1913. AUDITOR'S NOTICE. The Auditor's office will be gr opened for the assessment of both Bi Real Estate and Personal prop- ^ erty from January 1st, 1914, to g February 20th, 1904. 19 All male citizens between the bi( aires of 21 and 60 years are deem- tal fid Taxable Polls, except those 1)g who are maimed or for other ]>0 causes are incapable of earing a pU support. by I1 str dn piKUl^ (UMR'U Hi IclAtS I'll I'lUJU-l- WJ ty subject, to taxes and not returned for assessment onor before the 201 li of February, 1014. fer da I will be in the Auditor's office t0 January 1, 2, .'1, 5, 10, 16. 17, 24, pn and 31; February 2, 7, 12, 14, 16, ne 17, 18, 10, and 20, and at the following places on the dates named: Middcndorf, February 3, from 10 to 4 o'clock. McBee, February 4 and 5. Cheraw, February 0. 10 and 11. Odom's Mill, February 13, from 1 to 3 o'clock. II T. W. EDDIXS, " County Auditor. What la Your Aim? It is not enough to be Industrious; o are the ants. What are you in[ustrious about??Thoreau. C 3TICE collection of taxes from the 15 , 1913. 5*4 mills 1 " 3 - 3 y2 ? iy4 " i 11/2 ? 2 171/2 ? >ecial 3 mills Bonds 1% mills " 8 " 99 O 9 9 o >> A ?? " 3 " " 4 " Bonds 2^ mills l> A >t " 4 " < " 9 " Bends 3 mills j t> 4 >t ] if y ? f> ? " " 8 " " 3 " ?> 4 ?? " 9 " " 6 " " 3 " " 8 " Bonds 4 mills >> y >* ? O M * " 2 " " 2 " " 6 " Bonds, 5 *mil'iK? ?> 2 " " 3 " " 3 " " 2 " Bonds 4 miller ?? 4 " 8 Bonds "j'o " ;* ?B " 7 ^^^1 ? C M ; . , " 5 " " 4 " " 3 " " 5 " " 2 " . id must be paid by the firs? W. A. DOUGLASS, County Treasurer MASTER'S SALE. State of South Carolina County of Chesterfield ? Pursuant to a decree heretofor^^H anted in the case of the lilding & Loan Association vs. Chapman, et. al., I will offer for^| le before the Town Hall in Cherawy^H C., on the 16th day of February,^? 14, at 12 o'clock, M., to the highest^H Ider for cash, the following real es-^H to All that lot in the town of Cheraw^M ing that part of said town known as we Town, known and designated on i in of said town as Lot 66, bounded lots 65, 67 and 77 and by Third ect and running back three hun3d (300) feet, preserving the samedth all the way. repins of sale: One-half cash and > balance in twelve months, the dered payments to bear interest from ^ te at the rate of seven per cent and be secured by mortgage of the emises. Purchaser to pay for all cessary papers. P. A. MURRAY, JR. Master. Fresh Beef and Pork and Pork Sausage at . A. Burch's Market PHONE 80 Covington Hotel Building Second Street heraw, S. C- | J