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# -Dv Stm M« . Arw* kar«MW r **w*<n N^rMrlM am I ■■ippnlBA “ #l4 »*y •! HanUr *»*• "• *• A marie an. a M mi •nvaild. eld and rich and very de •iroue to Uva. Mre. Sidney ta a npanlah woman, dlfnlfled and retl. Ce ? t .‘, J * d ’ ^ l‘Ae a priviiaced member of the family. liiUey house is a flue old isolated country place, with- a murder story, a haunted pool,” and many watch* d0 8s. and an atmosphere of mys- t ® r> '; The "haunted pool” is where Kichard Dobson, son of a former owner of HarUey house, had killed his brother, Arthur Dobson. Jed begins operations by locking the doctor in his room the very first night. Doctor, John fixes his door so he can't be locked In. He meets Isobel, daughter of the house and falls in love at first sight. In the night he finds the butler drunk and holding Mrs Sidney by ths wrist. He interferes. Mrs. Sidney ex plains. John buys a revolver. John overhears Jed telling Mrs Sidney he will have his way. In reply she says she will not hesitate to kill him Mrs Sidney asks John te ">naeat te the announcement of mm engagement te Isabel The meet te Urn mnhe- it Jed Mae la a A b fl r ftl# cmaftch usm In twee ftflg gMMAftg tadeffMptoC Ml he m * * r * ewe pwl amtwtwA "^m #«i WMrWa# * m ewM *>w%wi ftwmf Al AVd Ism (MS up li «ti u« Ne IIlaw iidwey t ms Qfew tw Me. Mil I ha I Is all.** "Twa are a h!deem* old fool."* I said, "bst 1 think I can haodta yoa. and I giro you warning." "I am going to bo quit# friendly,” Mid Jed. . "You flatter yourself," I said. % "Well, anyway,” he said, *Tm friend ly ” . Ho proved to be so. The life of the house went placidly from day to day. Isobel, with a sense of our posturing toward each other, made mocking ges tures of affection which shocked her Inother. She particularly delighted to demonstrate, when Jed tvas serving dinner. I thought she would end by getting me shot In the back, but Jed had rated me finally as unimportant, which did my egoti&tn no good. For such a rascal to discard roe, formally betrothed aa I was to Isobel. In hla scandalous pursuits of that beautiful girl, was preposterous. If Mrs. Sidney had known that I was Idiotically la lore with laobel, she would not have sought relief from her d 1st raws by the arrangement which amdo me her daughter's pent active ha ace. TW only thing I could take I credit her In this aJMmrri dtneUea was I that Mre SMnry was iel allowed to knew the elate eg my fw»^ % < • t e ee m aMdhhe ee % cupBag re montiemm www*d peemfli mo to ho I Mow time 009 BPaemon I im haoMum wwe e eamJ mad rnmmm Woe eWetk W eos eo_ ■MM iMfl th mMMMMBM TVM eed M hod ___ I mi mendo It wna noafty always with leetaet that tl natural. Far aa lavnlld Mho Mr. Sid My It was natural enough. Mrs. 9*d Dry was wholly devoted to him; I was engaged In profeoalonal duties; and for Jed sad the servants In the house It was natural to be content with what they had of life or with the perform ance of duties for which they were paid and which they might abandon at will. But this was Isobel’s She was young, vibrant, beautiful, but vistas opening Into human prospects were closed to her. And she was en gaged to a piece of professional .dead wood who happened 10 be the only masculine . thing available when her mother was In great distress. Later Isobel said that as a woman she knew of course that I loved her, but this la ev^lent fiction. She did no suctf thing, and It would be an un kindness to her to think so. What was only comedy If I were, aa she thought I was, an Indifferent, unfeel ing man. would have been cruelty If It had been known that th# po^loe was mockery of denied bopee. laatiel owed me te gala her liberty Hhe affected fUmlHarittee and called me "Jeflut" dedalvaty. or warm “deer'” ee ”«M dear “ I pMteei gala thee tfce ■fk • are ewgegad ~ Me add I mM faaf" *Ten magus seaMMe Me Mat Urns IV we best ad aa ft m uses of tooeiuiosis fbriaoy to have the am- with the lattamte sup- a pc see ace. a small at niggle that mother and daughtar went through, but It did not seem small to me who witnessed It, and It had no rhetorical and little emotional expression. Isobel knew her mother suffered, but she was wise. Mrs. Sidney dreaded her daughter’s adopted mode of life, but knew her daughter. ‘‘Good-bye, mother,” said Isobel. ‘‘We sha’n’t be gone long.. Come on, John." That was the first time she had called me John honestly and without comedy. I knew her finesse. She did It to give her mother the comfortable sense that she was not going upon a wild adventure of an automobile ride with an unrelated man but was within the strict intimacy of the family. We went driving, Isobel at the wheel. She liked to drive faat and I do not. I am timid. I do not think that loco motion la a genuine human pleasure. Possibly It If, fwhlnd cither a faat or a plodding bora** 1 prefer the plodding borne. Locowmrina then merely reveals gradfcalty changing facets of the ewwrithes ta sea Me manifold of a landscape aafald Rat aa aatw « - » « _ _ a . J Mfsa It resaaWg aa ftsentn It asseaty Maa ami ffMP 1“ tiwt «w mtiscacthMa WHsgk ama aaaaaM ef * • •# mm*% as kew Was Net a Single Cane ef Infiuensa Ptaportad ta itata Health Office During Month ef July Columbia. Not a single case of Influensa was reported to the state health office dur ing the month of July, according to the summary of reports recently com pleted. One hundred and two cases of ty phoid were reported during the month. Twelye of these cases were from Calhoun, ten from Chester, seven each from Newberry.Orange- burg. Richland and Spartanburg and eight from York. All told, 21 counties reported one or more cases of ty phoid. Fifty-eight cases of dlptherla were reported during July. II being report ed from Lextngston and seven from Spartanburg. Thirty cueas of book worm were reported from Orangeburg and 12 from Lae coeat lea Total cases of malaria a am be red 114; af Ikaae M ware reported from falboea. 14 tram r Meter. IS from Leo eed IS Ore AM told. S4 fleece of cmattgog were ft ad * Flee of tbeee ee#e t Meed ffee Mem CMhmm; (bee a - %•*•«*«•« • • ' em | id caaoo of ip ee# ttpea snip hf •tele eemmece by MM fere waa roetlaatdg only aa a p«r ary orgaalaatlea 9 Tba eapraas company li aMlag for aa increase of It 1-S per eeat op la- traatatc data and commodity empress rates to maka them conform te simi lar charges on Interstate rates Szod by the" interstate commerce commis sion. A separate petition asking for another Increase of 12 1-2 per ~4ont was also filed. W. Egleston, superin tendent in Norfolk, presented thm company’s case, telling of the neces sity of increased rates In order that the express company might continue in existence. W. F. Terrill, superin tendent at Columbia, also attended the hearing. ~ • V Firemen Go to Greenville In 1t21 The iflh annual convention of the South Carolina Firemen'* association was held at the Jeffereon hotel, when It was decided to accept a telegraphic lav Hat Ion to held the neat meeting and tours ament at OreeevtUe. and the old oflcers were re elected 4 ffff wmm ease sms peprp seems w am <wf MfluM a mt mp topflM TWne I psp to bo * apfawom* o Mm m ffa flpi •mtoffto Tv. mssh UP* I wafl ip W pPappd %pMMb BHM buM dtofip flaaUBflhe UhUfl *1 Mod W Mbi •• W • k •9 sa 1 PM pNea If ppfMMB I ee 1 «wa * | ppai pftop Mwufl Ifi WfffiUP to ma otoetopp pup had I «ewN*vaau *1 psms ip 1 PMtoapi ha d • ppm n i er op* popd I ep pwawoeriL* ka *• a MMma > BMP wfltP a to ft woa p ppmaba* W umd "1 I d wo boM wpot to tot WPUb 4 pot do j up app ha rm | Mol 01 I Wep to Metoer PC ppM p rahOfli" I Moo wp meat. Bvwa mat Twv» wit* § pester srime yep had e MeflgenV" I sekd "Tap dM! I wee th# rabbit. CM AFT IP IV. Jed came to me the next day ta one ef his candid moods. "I did shoot at you yesterday," he laid. ”1 know you did," I replied. "And you’re wondering why and you’re wondering If I Intend to do It again." “I don’t wonder at anything you do," I said. "And you know that If you rfo It again, the evidence is pre pared against you. I think I am per fectly safe. I know you are a cow ard." "No, I’m not a coward,” he said, as If he were stating a fact and not mak ing a boast. “I never do anything without a purpose, and when I have a purpose, I do it no matter what the consequences may. be. The reason I wanted ta shoot you was because you were engaged te feebel. ! Intend te marry laobel. Now 1 know that yep pro pel goiag In marry Isabel Tap ksofl Me PmMM fears Mel bar reputre P end father wepM Meest M." WtMont saying > ajrthing pure. Me made am see that I had eaed a cheap t" rerape Me renmqefners ef a foeitsti affection. The girl la a very friendly fashion had shown me that my avoidance of her was marked, cool and unreasonable. It was wholly rea sonable from my poor standpoint, but from no other. I saw that I was meeting ray difficul ty by running away from It, and I not only did not like the timidity of escape In this fashion, but furthermore, I did not like the opinion Isobel formed of me because of it. I had to face the music, and after that I did. It ought not to have astonished me that I felt better instantly. I knew that a cow ard only Increased his troubles. I imagine If I had not seemed such a professional stick, such a thing aloof from human emotions, Isobel would have been merely friendly and kind. As It was. she was tantalising. . She liked me well enough, but that m#ant very Uttlr If ebe did not drive, ride, walk or play trpnls with me. she had a choice of the eervaata. It wna I or nothing. I «ea with Mr Mffpef a p o»oe y 4a r TWy *• •mM P» ePfbf a Pay m perwPa flepHriPpsee (heap ee bear Vary "1 obyevfl lap I ap*4 'Not M helpa la ParaOee JP&" "Nothing Perot rep J#4 Me woo be- celled only for a abort while Then be tried ta hill am. He apuioglaed after ward for hla sal stake. He tf^>we Me character of our engagement." "Just the mine, he has not bothered mother since then as he did before." "That Is because be ta a coward and I have him where I can control him." Mrs. Sidney did not understand her daughter. That was not astonishing; Isobel was a young American woman; Mrs. Sidney had Spanish traditions. Isobel came naturally, through ^ her father, to a candor which never ceased to amaze and—occasionally—to dis tress her mother. Isobel said what she thought. Her~ frankness came from honesty of character. Her lovely mother regarded life as something to be managed by reticence and denial. Mrs. Sidney was esthetic, and If a fact were unesthetic, she denied It and put It out of her consideration. It was, to her, the only proper thing to do. , Isobel was a clever tennis-player and I a poor one. She bent me thru# or four arts every fine afternoon. She ffked to drive a car and ride a I drove end • Wo UM mid fer I Mafl Me poosedl tp lobe mm for p Priep foaribag pod flppMMMf Mb b •mwapn m ke edfcwt | Mi osi hr ll woe paed er to Mop Mm p flpgbi mi m ompff ■ m ed mrx bet mj i pet tort Mot N would. M Mo cnee bo g*—d Ho wee p log!cut, ripeoolng amo o race pbenotaenno lu the bumou ram tf bo hod been emotional and sentimental. I ■booid have had more doubt. Mr. Sidney waa Important enough to be known In the neighborhood. The warden of the prison came to roee; him In the office as soon as we had entered. He waa very cordial to Mr. Sidney, who himself never showed more his aristocracy of democracy. I am a democrat. I am most fond of an aristocratic democrat. Such was Mr. Sidney. Mr. Sidney visile the peni tentiary. (TO Bfc; CONTINUICD.) , s piat Feet : — Symptoms of flat foot are polo •tong the instep or even in the calves of the leg*, knees, thighs, hips or often mUtakrp far vboumeti tronbbsa TW ppfwm stands •pert and (pep tl mwpM pud Iuppp Mbs of klodo oodor IW federal board Mr vw ml lira a I pduoatieo. were made at a meeting of the district officers of the board. America* Legion represent* tlvpp and officers of tba Sooth Caro- 11 nn branch of the work. Ton special representatives of the board, appointed from the American Legion, are to materially assist in the campaign to get personally in touch with every man entmeu trainlnf under the federal board. The cam paign is to begin September 1 and close about November 1, two months being considered sufficient time to dispose of all the South Carolina cases one way or the other. Chances In Game Laws "Farmers bulletin TVo. 1138, United States department of agriculture.” has Just been published. The bulletin is a compilation of all state and fpd- pral gam« lawa and contains rtftrta- cps about Sooth Carolina Chaagpp ta tW state laws are ru» aad la tkePP tiff state ramop M tor eeveral A Maas are IW ebaage Ip Ma af tbe have vnrtoue »»* tba past bia after a H. MooredeM. H Thomas, aacroury of •toa. were among those la Mr. Thomas said all tkp mooting* had been very successful and much good had been accomplished. Not only did the people of the vari ous counties benefit by the explana tion of the new state highway system by members of the commission, but members of the state departmpnt alao learned some new facta about tho roads in the state. Bridge Specialist Employod Charles H. Moorefield. state high way engineer, announced that the- commission had engaged a ipacialUt for steel and concrete bridge work for South Carolina, thia work having aa- •umod Ik# proportions tor up ongfa of kta time largely to