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PAGE SIX. THE BARNWELL PEOPLE, BARNWELL, S0l[TH CAROLINA. / THl’RSDAT, APRIL 16,TH 192? Strain A quick, sure way to relieve it Apply Sloan’s gently. Don’t rub. You'll got rolief at once. Sloan’s starts fresh, healing’ Mood circulatingswiftly through the strained muscle-fibres, eas ing the pain and repairing tho . damage. Get a bottle today. All druggists—C55 cents. Sloan's Liniment—pain! fiinBni88i22BB 333$3333Sg$$3$$3S$S$$3$3333SS$3$^^ The Free Traders Uictor Rousseau WNU SEnVICE Then, feeling •eHutionsly above him, Lee continued ids ascent, until at length there came a tiny glimmer of light from above, changing into a sud den glttre as of hig-h noon. The tunnel was fniipty^ 'Pile glare decreased to u glimmer. Lee understood what It meant. Ills as sailant had tilted back tin; rocking ) stone and tied. i Tn another moment or two Lee was beneath the stone. «He flattened'hlm- WllhrytSf^miite wltk So Weak Couldn’t Stand "My wife's health broke down and for years she was Just a physical wreck," says Mr. Thomas Glynn, of Gib son, La. “We did everythin* we knew, yet she seemed to get worse and worse. She was so weak till she couldn't ’stand, and had to be carried like a baby. It looked like nothing would save her that had been done. CARDUI For Female Troubles "I began looking around. I knew that Cardul was for wo men. I decided to try it for her as all else had failed. She couldn’t eat. she couldn’t' sleep, and I was desperate. "After taking a few doses of Cardul, we were so glad to note that she wanted some thing to eat, and with each bit of nourishment, and each day’s doses of Cardui, she grew stronger and got up out of bed. She is now able to cook, and stronger than iu a long time.” Cardui has been in success ful use for nearly 50 years in the treatment of many com mon female troubles. - AH Druggists’ p . I0g | c mjji BdESBXiUimQ GEsninsniiia i Veterinary Surgeon *’ (KTice: I’tuples Pharmacy, Day Phone 66 '-Night 82 Denmark, - - - S. C. i •T**®****^* *••*•*••*%**•*%* *•**•**•* *•*%*••*■ 'I********** 4 ***!**** £ •? DR. J. 11. VARBOROl C.H -j- : x I i 1 Cfipyrlfht by W. O. Chapman. No Hii^wer came. He strained hta #yes upward through the darkness, folors and wheels of light flashed scrosH Ids vision and went <>nr. ‘Telly, ll«ten to me;” - Pee tried ngain. ‘‘You know what , 1 v«- enmo for. You've got no chance. Surren der. and you'll get fair treatment.’’ Still no answer; snd yet la*e could feel that other hitman persoiiaJIJjjr close to him. He waited, baffled. ’There was no way to move, save ver tically; and there was no possible re treat for him. The Ice smooth granite walls were all about him. The tun nel was a straight, narrow shaft, up and down, from the rocking stone above to that deadly drop below. It was impossible to ru’d! the other. Impossible to do anything except to clamber stiffly up those-slippery rungs of rock, expecting every Instant to hear the roar of Pelly's pistol and to receive the bullet ih ids breast. It was absurdity. And on^e again Lee tried : "Polly, you’d betjer give up. I can shoot jo>< from. here. Surrender, and-" He did not end that sentence. For, as lie citing there, in a moment the thing above him had materialized into life, jw tion. fury. A bellow hurst from Its throat, and the sound, compressed within the shaft, and deflected from wall to wall, sounded like the roar of some prehistoric monster. And a heavy bndy was precipitated against him with a force that all hut dislodged him. For an instant Pee Struggled wildly to retain Ids balance —and then tlaue came a blow over the heart that knocked the wind out of him. Pec's hand encountered an enormous bond at Iris chest. Within that hand he felt tin* hilt of a knife. Reaching back. 1 ecs lingers closed upon the last Inch or two of a wide blade. The steel appeared to he buried al most to the extremity within ills hotly. There was no sense of a stab, hut me In persuading him to surrender?" , She shook her head. “We always told him that—my mother and I,” she answered. “But the thing had crazed him, he hated civilization after It hap pened. He was insane upon that sub ject. He will never surrender. ‘‘Let me try to picture to you what happened, and the treachery and faith lessness that have always pursued him. When, my father fled from the law he came here and sett let! with my ' mother. I was horn here. For a long I time we were very happy. My father I Y Y i v He He Flattened Himself On the Ground and Drew His Automatic. self upon ilie gyofmd and drew Ids au tomatic. lie tired oiuv siij't, and, be fore lire echoes had dTed away, had pushed the stone back and emerged, pistol in hand. The glare had been only in contrast to the dark of the tunnel. Ouiside it Was melancholy twilight. Foe emerged into a •solitary, snowbound world. There was no sign of Ids antagonist, who had evidently bad enough for the present. Poe looked down at the fragments of sldri that remained to him. export ing to find Tfeb'iselr soaked in blood. He was astonished to <ee only a thin .ftiread bif bis c|um. He tore ihe rag open. v ■ — L — There—^as only a ' scratch on the skin from the knifepoint, hut tlcwe was a spreading bruise under the thick coils of .levee's- hair, in which the knife blade bad hennae entangled. The blow, struck immediately over tlie liejtrt. Would have killed him in stantly hut for that. Pee raised the tresses reverently t" his litis. And with a deep feeling of tondt'rness for ku instant Pee felt h deadly faint- toward the gi-l. ho began to m*he hi mess overcome him, and again he reeled w - ay through th* i I X X * 1: i x x Me I. U KIN I). BROOK KR —DENTIST— Office Over J. (■'. Moody's'St ore Barnwell, So. Car. f X : Y x I Y Y \Ym. McNAB Representing FIRE, HEALTH AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANIES. ' Personal attention given all business Office in Harrison Block, Main St. BARNWELL. S. C DR. CECIL RAY, Physician and Surgeon. Office at Mace Drug Company. Barnwell. S. C. HOW’S THIS? HALL’S CATARRH MEDICINE will do what we claim for iC—rid your system of Catarrh or Deafness caused by Catarrh. HALL’S CATARRH MEDICINE con sists of an Ointment which Quickly Relieves the catarrhal inflammation, and the Internal Medicine, a Tonic, which arts through the Hlood on the -Mucous Surfaces, thus assisting to restore nor mal conditions. Sold by druggists for over 10 Years. F. J. Cheney A Co., Toledo» O. j BOILER FLUES MILL CASTINGS AND SUPPLIES BELTING, PACKING AND LACING Wood, won and stccl Bring KNQINB RKPAIRK in aoto for quick work. LOMBARD IRON WORKS, AUGUSTA, GA. •Vi r. Vi*. ■ and clutched for foothold. Then ha had torn the hand away, plucked oat the knife, nnd liurb’d !f down through the dhiknc-s of the tunnel into tim gorge lie low. The next Instnnt be wn* f.ghting the mo>t despefilte buttle of bis life to wit; through the tunnel before lie bled into mn onseiciisness. He eutight nt J\\o long, sinewy arms that clutched his body in the endeavor to fling him down; and, hobling ml by their knees : iu,| (Vet, the two wrestled In complete sder.ee. It was a man the thing that held F.ee. but it seemed more like a mon ster. for the naked arms were covered with thick hair, underneath vvlib li the sinews tiMived over* each otlieh like steel hands. Pee was no match In wrestling; he could only ding on like grim deutli. feeling Ids lungs constrict under that pressure, and exp,s ting ev ery inomrii! to feel Ids injured rib crack In his i side.,' Ills left hand encountered a groove in I lie rocky rung, ahove hint, and, gripping it, - determined that rothing shmrid tear his hold away, with Ids riglift. list he. began hammering fits as sn i blip's. (Vice and body incessantly. His blowsTehounded from the great du st us. if it were of riitrhiT, and each bfotV'i sent the breath Jvsuing h'oaVsely from the lu.igs with raucous wheezing that Idled the tunnel. If he mht'r could have got Lee's left hand, he might have imt; him from his hold, hut, as If unaware of Ids hild. his assailant put all ids strength into tho cndeavoi 4 to force breath' front his body arid twist him backwardt-whilo Pee, dinging oh d, s- perately, continued to batter the face and body. Although it was ItjipossilUe to draw back hi* arm far enough to deliver a blow with full force. Pees lower position gave him Die advantage of equipoise over Ids strange assailant, and enabled him to administer fear ful punishment. Fyr a minute or two it vvas proble-' mafic whether Fee cmiid withstand the strain long enough., to conquer. The great shouldorg swung Pee from side to side in the shaft like a child, and all Ihe while I,ee, believing hi itself seriously, if not fatally wounded, fought on with the mechanical action of a piston, dashing his lists into Ida opponent's face until at last groans be gan to burst from the other. Then, feeling the dutch relaxing. Pee let go ids hold, and, standing stiaighf up on Die rung, brought both fists into play. No human being could have stood up against that fearful punislimenL-Lee's fists were wet with blood. The grasp about hint relaxed. He redoubled the fury of ids blows— and suddenly found thHt|.he was ham mering at the bare face of the rock. .•ippreluYision peddle them twilight inward the log bmi’-i lie was hut between the wv iv ye do—ye cm wiiur ye please, but ye'll leave my lasses and weans alone, or I II mak Siston lake . too hot to hold ye ” “Father Mdlrath—’’ Pee tried again. "Will ye light, nton to mon, ye domned Free Trader? V* bl ye tight or wrestle wT me?" “I’d he ghid to. Fat her. hut just now k When. I get i trapped, and In those days tills was one of the richest fur districts in Canada.- "But tny father was an educated man,’ and in ins h«%rt lie was always chafing against his exile. Ho always cherished (lie hope some day to take us south where I could lie educated properly. Then in an evil day lie fan cied lie had discovered a gold mine. “It became a mania with him. He would tell no one where It was, except Jacques Leboeuf, an old servant, whom he trusted. They used to go off by night and work If together. My father was always talking about Die gold lie had collected. He wanted to develop i the mine, to sell it for a fortune, but t lie was always afraid of being dis- *:* covered, and lie put it off and put it •{♦ off; and neither my mother nor I ever | X believed in the mine. ! “Then in an eyil day a man called Rathway came up. He was a >small ( wblAky peddler. He hud committed joins crime Against the Indians. He , -j- ' tiad been beaten, pursued, and vvas ' X >ir dead when tny father saved him I *(• from their vengeance. He took him In and fed and protected hint. Rath- way learned of the mine, and vvas al ways searching for it, hut neither my father nor Leboeuf would__ tell him where it. was. Once lie tried to spy on them, and Leboeuf had him by the throat and would have killejl him if my father had not intervened in time. "My mother died. Rathway grew fat and consequential, lived “here, helped my father with his traps, and, though for a long time my father did not know If, eontlnued'deham liing ;he Indians With his whisky. When I wav a girl of seventeen he began to fake notice of me He said he loved me. I didn't know much about love, but I knew T hated him. Then one day my father came in fmm the woods lust in time to protect me from him. and lie shot 1 lath way through the arm. "He was aiming again to shoot him DiroiigTi the heart, for be was terrible when Ids anger was roused, when ItiitliMiiy. -landing facing him. with his arm dripping blood. tofq him be knew that my father had com mitted one murder already, and that the facts .were In his possession, writ- tin down and left flit* safety- with a friend Jn tiie south. The change in my tn flier was dreadful, lie dropped his rifle, he seemed almost demcived. H:s faafs for my future, conflicting with . his fe.irs lor the present and lb; fear* ■of Uwtbuiiy. broke ids will, for her ."rd speculation as to Ida assail ant. |fi- first thought Tad ! < en that the man was ivilvu But u<c,v he bo- I gan i.» doubt this. 'An old man might •have bad bis assailants sMvr.gtl: -he vvoub 1 not have bad Die ombtranco. Ibit stronger sqI] was Dm conviction f Dint that ntbnstrous form which had a! bo Ted hi.tn jii.tlic sfxuft. c.oiild never have been the father of Joyce. Y t \\ la> Inn IVHv kne . t: >• rc: the frost had already'crusted the sur face, so tiiat ids feet sank in -cum- brously nt every step. But a grput load was removed from his mind; the future now looked roseate. At last the mission came into sight —a group of log huts clustered about a laYger one on a low elevation, sur rounded by the forest. Lights gleamed pleasantly inside them. A hprse vvas neighing in some stables. Over the largest hut a wooden cros-s stood out against the background of the sea-gray sky. Lee strode up Die ascent, hesitated as to which lint to approach, stood Ir resolute for a moment in the open space at the crest of the little hill. Then, as he waited, the door of one of them was flung open, and a man in a mackinaw and lumberman's boots Stepped out toward him. Under ids arm lie held a rifle. He presented it at Fee's breast. He looked to he about fifty years of age. or.a Utile older, lie had a'round, smooth face as soft as a ha he's, an incipient paunch. A silver cross hung from his mackinaw. ' A jolly-looking priest ; hut the eves within the far* were steel gray and ice cold. H» stopped two juries distant. •Take yersel’ off, vv domned Free Trader," he said softly, "or I'll blow ye into Kingdom Come (CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.) if huntxs guAranteed skin disease remedies (Hunt’s Salve and Soap), fail in the treatment of Itch, Eczema, Ringworm,Tetter or other itch ing akin discaaes. 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I llriderstan' he's helped y«‘—uve, there’s good in the w.ursst of us—hut lie'll get around ve, Mee- l.e.iy, <>o hack. ^ And iie phiriried what he vv<>i:b] sav ’•Father., there's souieDiing I want to , f , j,,., j,,. • , ; , t p say to him, Joyet* unsweVed in a oivv L’qprohatilo that her ( tie r would t> per.(‘(’tit. interest on hirue amounts Private Funds for small loans. \ i of rbe !: ine? i ' r'diltmi was a' present : llso|- lib!-*, .* its cun si '.'era! ion l r j vv ; I 11 it t ill' fe;ir that Joy ci '* miaht :ia ve j been, .-,1, !' 'k t *» 1 ilS Wk ' 1. L< •e qili' i :i*!|e, j ! bis 1 cm Pirn igh the y form. which u •is now subsiding •Dio11 ; i the smuv sri i I'clh st eai lily. He ,.| •.in* d hillisc! I Idt terl v ; f,.r Imv tig lei' the girl. Si; fciy Dn sin Jlgth of Dial love j tirri ten i 1 ' mess he felt tow; rd 1 i would 1 •each her, and she V .oi;h! i re-por.il BROWN A Bl SU BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. Y LAWYERS ,f. «;. t •x~x~x~x~> Voice. ' "Aye, hut tie’s got u smooth tongue, and the stomp of ineequby Imsn t come upon his face yet. Ve wopldlta tlieetlk ' he'd sold trs^cif tu liis maister. If ye must speuk to him. I'll just stand hy. mid if I see he's getting: ’round ye I'll send hint aTtoiit lili busineisi*.'’ With which the doughty father took up his post just out of hearing, glar ing at Lee and prepared for instan taneous intervention. Joyce stepped forward. "Lee, I—I'm sonv for what I said to you. this afternoon.. It was partly the shock of awakening; T think. I was unjust to you, ami unjust, too, in_ coining here without trying to get- word to you. I owe you a great deal. I accept your word that when you met me in Die range you duTmlt^know who I was. Diat you did not pursue my acquaintance because 1 was the daughter of the man whom it w as your duty to apprehend. I—I bear you no ill-will for having to do your duty.” "Then, Joyce—’’ "But,” she said solemnly, "you will see h<>vv tfiy father's safety, perhaps hi* life, stands between us. We can only l*e enemies—at least, until—” ‘‘That's what I wanted to speak about," said Lee. "As I understand it, this killing was committed years ago, a .whole geheration ago. It vvas more or less Justified. If your father is hroqght to trial and convicted, it will almost certainly be for manslaughter. His sentence will be a nominal one. Quite (vrobabty It will be impossible to produce the witnesses required to con vict at all. In angh case lie will go free. “He ihas acted ill-advisedly. He should never • .hayofled. His best He. will receive anvthing hat ;i nonjh'.ul sen fence, that lie might even go f!>-e. that • in the absence of witne>.,vs u <-.tmc-. tion inighi prove impu*si!ile. His best eotir-n vv i mb I be to surrender. Lee began to grow more hopeful. The log house came into gif 11 standing bare and bleak in the snowy wilderness. There was no light w ithin. f.ee to the i ilarm inerestsed. He door. Ho called. Hla assaHant tvas gone. Faintly 1 course will be to surrender. Ii«e iieard the scraping of hjs feet on And himself a free man In a little the upper ledgctj, of. the. wet lA<J3£Ti. ’ffhlle, in»tead_of_ a huntevj outlaw. hurried but rio , i answer came. He struck a match.. By tie' tiny liglit he saw that Die kitchen and the adjacent room were empty. . . -.•• ... - . And tie began going from room to room, striking mutches and culling iter, and knowing all the while the fu tility of it. Joyce vvas not in the house. yShe had fled Into the snow. and. desperately weary ms lie vvas after ids encounter. Fee had no alternative hut to take up the quest. She could nod have gone far, but she -must have been In a state of desperation to have gone out into that storm. Which way? The falling snow bad purely long since ob literated tier footprints. J He made bis way down toward the trail beside Die river. Only two ways were possible: one ran toward the mission, nine or ten miles away, the other in the opposite direction to the Five Traders’ headquarters. But suddenly Fee’s hopes and spirits leaped, up confidently. Stoop ing,! he traced the tracks of a sleigh along the trail. It had been drawn by a single horse, and it was going In tiie direiMion of the mission. There vvas only one reasonable in ference. Father McGrath must have been passing, perhaps he had met Joyce, and he had taken her with him. 1 ,ee took up the long walk imme diately.' The snow was deep, progrew wag difficult without afiqwshoes, and V ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ * ❖ ❖ * A ANNOUNCING i t Y ❖ THAT THE ■-4' And Dodge Graham Trucks are Sold in j| this Territory now by f f y ❖ f Y T i Y Y T ❖ f Y f Y ♦> ❖ f I i The Jordan Auto Co. I Allendale So. 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