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•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
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mm engagement te Isabel The
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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. ~ •
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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
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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.
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"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
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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 : —
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•tong the instep or even in the calves
of the leg*, knees, thighs, hips or
often mUtakrp far vboumeti
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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