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THE BARNWELL PEOPLE, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA.
THURSDAY. APRIL 30TH, 1925.
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.By.
Uictor Rousseau
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Copyright by W.
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Looking uliout him. Ix 1 ** .««\v tliat
some two or three hundred vnnls fromi '
liie piftre where he had eim-rxt-d out
of (lie face of the cliff, the yor^e made
n sliarjt tierd, almost at ri^lit amrle,,
and iiere ttie jtround waa ptrewn wit it
n inn*K of fallen houlders. riinKinj:
from htiKP rocka to siiinl! dcltii^.
Above it wap a Kftp in tlie lower sec
tion of the < lifT. from whi< h it hud.
been detached.
I^e made Ills way in this direction.
At once tie came to the conclusion
that dynamite had boon the cnnM of
this co 1 1 apse of part of the surfcce of
the granite wall, which, Ktnooih as. a
■tfcol lining, could have been disrupted
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Very Severe
"I Buffered from womanly
troubles which grew' worse
and worse as the months
went by,” says Mrs. L. H.
Cantrell, of R. F. D. 9, Gaines
ville. Georgia.
"I frequently had very
severe pains. These were so
bad that I was forced to go
to bed and stay there. It
seemed to me my back would
come in two.
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"I taught school for a PI
ft! while, but my health was so ft-
had I would have to stay out *
m sometimes. This went on till |i
jm L got so had I didn't know nw
^ what to do. ^
^ "One day I rend about the ^
merits of Cajrdul, v .and as I ™
had some friends who had f
been helped by it, 1 thought BP
1 would try It. F began to I
get better after I had taken H
half a bottle. I decided to keep H
on and give it a thorough
H trial and I did. I took in p
Mm ail about 12 bottles and now ml
I am perfectly well. I do ^
not suffer any pain and can ^
^ do all mv housework.” ^
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by no nutuml force such ns grnOfy.
And tlteu lie came upon something
thut confirmed tiie obvious deduction.
It was a rotting wooden cradle.
Beside it lay a rusty pick. Not far
sway were two huge iron puns, their
bottoms eaten out wlfh rust, so that
they resembled fretwork In steel.
Under them were stilVtbedashes and
charred residue of the wood that
had been umhFIo thaw out the frozen
earth.
All about among the fallen rocks
were mounds, the residue from the
pans after the extraction of the gAld,
now covered-with tangles of dead
vegetation.
There was no longer any doubt that
'this was Polly's gold mine.
Before making, further investiga
tions here, Leo decided to explore the
remainder of the chasm. It ran on l>e-
yondithe bend for a quarter of a mile,
and rhftn came to an abrupt tenhina-
tfon. Without any gradual lessening
of the depth it simply reused, tile two
walls coming together, in the
same way as they did near the rocking
stone at the oilier end. The 'chasm
was, in fj|ct, simply an elongated
‘crater.
Returning. Lee made Ids way to the
cave formed by tin* explosi**!!. If pelly
was in the district, there waif* hardly
any doubt -hut that lie would hi 1 hid
ing In that inaceessihle spot, where
lie would lie safe against dis o\ery.
It was not unlikely that he was in the
cine Itself at tlmt moment.
Lee tirsl examined the snow about
the mouth of the cave for footprints,
but he found uo traeks except his own-.
Drawing Ins autoniatie, he advanced
Into the opening. The sand in the In
terior bore the marks .of continued
traiiiplinjL', bid there were no imprints
with cietir. edges, and it was certain
that no dire had been there for a long
i .
lime.
Unfortunately, Lee had brought no
candle, hid he advamed some dis-
tanee w ithin, the cave, lighting Ids way
with matches. However, it was a fore
gone conclusion that Pelly was not
In there, for the sandy Interior. Ldrc
no fresh footprints tis fnr as he went.
A faint, distant roaring, ns of a
waterfall, came to Lee’s ears, and the
air was as - if the cave were con
neeicd with some opening in the inoun-
tain side. L<*e resolved to exj lore it
another day. P.ut it was clear enough
that Pelly was riot in the chasm after
1 all. Another tiling that led Lee to
! that conclusion was the fact tint no
• mining operations had been carried
j on there lor a coiiswlemhie- linw long
enough for tin pans to have rusted
through.
If Pelly had taken refuge within thv
gorge, it was Incredible that he would
not have resumed operations.
And these seemed to have been in
temipted unexpectedly.*to judge from
the exposure of the pans to \yind and
weather.
Perplexed and disappointed, Lee
turned Ids thoughts toward the .cap
ture of the man who had attacked him
In the tunnel. He could no doubt
throw light on Polly's whereabouts.
Perhaps he was the assistant of whom
Joyce had spoken.
Lee expected that lie would he lurk
ing in the tunnel, ready to renew Ids
attack, hut this time there should be
no such fiasco as before.
Lee made ids way back on the oppn
Site side of.the gorge. Here there w;is
a thick growth of dwarfed scrub laurel,
which had taken root in the soil
brought down by the little stream, and
bordered it, extending back from it
toward the cliff In a sort of miniature
Jungle. Something protruding out of
lids growth arrested Lee's attention.
It was a wooden cross carved with
the name HELENE PELLY. standing
up above a low cairn of boulders.
Lee stood and looked, and \aguely
mournful thoughts coursed through
ribs. 'Hie hones were bleached w hite, Tthe chasm, In which Lee struggled like
the flesh hud long since (hsajrp^Hrerf.
One bony hand still tightly clutched
the handle of a large, old-fashioned
revolver. The muzzle was choked with
rust; there were rusted cartridges in
side.
Disengaging It with difficulty from
the fingers, Lee saw, on the less rusted
portion of the handle which they had
protected, tire Initials, C. I*.
But he hanllv needed that to know
a madman, dust-white, dishevelled,
haggard, half-delirious from want of
sleep and exhaustion.
- lie stopped, tried to collect himself.,
But to cease meant to yield to des
pair. < inly by incessant labor could
lie keep up the-pretense that lie was
about to tlnd the tunnel. He felt at
the end of ids resources. One con
clusion was being bo r n^ frTl i j youthful:
lie had worked ids wav far lievond the
The aim
ip open.
Leboeuf
never Lnd the way out. You fight me ^ I'etiwuPs lip open,
and I fight you. You sit down he/**) , *’ to (lrj p, but
and I sit down here beside you so. ; 1,1 (1
When you fight I fight, and when you 'never stirred,
stop I stop, and so we wait until you I Uec sat * <>w
steep. Aji<1 then 'le grand mort’ come.'’
This devilish conception made lA*e's
blood run cold. For even now Ids eye
lids were drooping—drooping, and the
other watched with cunning eyes.
He tried to find strength to leap.
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that his mission wns-afrirn end, ami ►nplings on either side; he must have
the last harrier between himself and rl' llsse,} t,Hf finnol during the night.
<ine little orifice unexplored in the
obscurity, and ail ids work had "gone
for nothing.
He would have to go hack to tJieHie-
ginning and start over again.
But no human —being could go
through the test again.
I lien* occurred to uim aiLnHeniatlve,
bid so fantastic that lie 1 'only played
with it as a madman plays with a
straw. The tunnel might lie no longer
•hen*. it might have disappeared
through n rock slide.
That seemed Incredible—Lee put the
thought from him; its very occurrence
nia'ie—him realize that Ids mind was
beginning to wander.
And. lapping up some water from
the stream, and sprinkling himself
with it. he began again—at tin* further
sapling.
The sun rose high. It vfas begin*
ning to descend. It ceased to illumi
nate the gorge. Lee was nearing the
second sapling. He would wnjk on
till that was passed, and then—what?
And now each step of each ascent
was an incredible labor. His hamD
were lumps of bruised Ih sh. He was
hardly conscious wind he was doing.
Joyce overt hrmvn.
The problem* so Inscrutable an
hmfr before had been Solved. All cause
for antagonism between tLiem had
come to an end.
And Lee was conscious of a quiet i
satisfaction. If was the happiest solu*
; tion, and though Joyce would grieve,
she Would coine to --ce that it was llift-
i best. She would be glad, after the
first shock, that her father would not
i
I have to face* the ordeal w hich tie had
i dreaded for so many years.
But as Lee looked down at the re
mains of the dead man. lie became
- aware of a single fact. Nearly every
hone on one side of the skeleton was
broken—the skull, ribs, arm ami leg
hones, and pelvis.
Then IVliy hud hot died of a stroke
or from a sudden attack of heart fail
ure. He had fallen from the summit of
the cliff ahoye—perhaps he had been
thing down, for the revolver which he
had been efutdiing showed that he had
either encountered or anticipated an
enemy.
And, filled witTUtV mixture of emo
tions—happiness tor their future, grief
for tin* news that he must break to
Joyce, Lei made- his why toward the
tunnel.
Bit: all at ome In* made the singular
am! unexpected 'discovery that lit* did
riot Knew where tin eniranee was.
He must conserve ^
his strength—he started up. He had
slept for a indhieHt, and Leboeuf wai.
creeping tltward him. The sun blaze
over the edge of tin* gorge.
Leboeuf squatted down nearer Ler
Vratchlng him as a vulture might watci^
ih* irM*u io iiiiu »irt*iiKm mtuh, .1 1
rend 1dm with teeth and nails If Ids u d.\ing anmni , oqt
bruised lists ami weakened arms ! A moment later .< "» rons olous
failed him. But the other, reading .at Ids side, vet p u,,s mivimr
what passed In his mind, crouched, ; of his . haying tnov .*<, " •'
re*u)v for him closed „lds eyes.- He got up tvear-
I , * . , , " . krt u\ nicked uii a stontv and flung it Into
Lee slmt an arrow at a venture. Le- il\, pi< si u ui . .
Leboeuf's face, gashing ins cheek.
— Leboeuf never moved.
Lee looked uj'put him for a larger
homin’’ \w sulci softij.
The other sturteil. * 4 Kh,
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CHAPTER XII
Freed by a Lock of Hair
It seemed to him that it would lie a
wimple matter enough to ;i>cend tin*
| cliff again, ami In* h id imT^taken the
precaution to take mote of laiuUi’.arks.
Now, however, lie discovered tlnd til**
lower third of tin* granite .wall was
! scored with hundreds ( .f holes and tis-
sarcs v\ 1 crc the fri.dde Idncstom* ha,d
crumbled away, or had been washed
(•lit by the si reams.
The entrance to rhe'Ciiff lunncl was
- somewhere on itiai s-mte ob ;c«* k-lmsm.
some little distance from the bend—
lint whoreV
l.i*i* steppe*! I*a''k' to tin* brink of the
! Still, in* must reach tin*
ling—■
lie passed It. A sort of film de-
I Si •ended over Ids consciousness. In
tln• declining day die saw Idtns.*!f
I siaggering . round tin* gorge. Ms'king
for some other egress. Impossible!
I or forty foot there were fontliolds in-
numeral.le in tiie lower, part of the
(Jiffs: above them the hard granite
surface bulged inward. There was no
handhold for an ape. ^ AnVl lie stag
gered from one end of the gorge to
tin* oilier, 'round and ’round ant
'round an ape in a cage—
He (ITopped upon the ground utterly
worn (Hit. Utterly hopelcs.* ,\ Ijule
respite, and then he would arise, to
you have
learn^my name? That makes no dif-
ferem-e.” *
■‘\\ liy r|o you wisti to kill me, f.t 4 -
hoenf? Is it that you think 1 have
come here to seize the mine?’’
“Listen, then. I swore to my master
before tie died that no one sliall take
the gold away. Therefore, since you
have found tin* way Into the tunnel,
you shall never leave it.”
‘‘Suppose I am a friend?”
‘‘.No, no friend. You have come for
the gold. You came to seize my mas
ter. who is- dead, to'4ake Ids gold
aw^ty. There tie lies dead and he has
come to me in dreams and told me lie
must not be buried till Ma'm'zidle
Joyce 1ms got the gold. At, yea.shall
never have Ids gold.”
"Listen. Leboeuf! Miss Joyce and
I love each other—”
.‘‘No, no, you are lying, and, besides,
it would make no difference. Did I
not hear her in the house,'telling you,
‘(Jo! Go!', No, you shall never take
her gold.”
Lee desisted from sheer weariness,
I le ■strove desperately in his mind,
trying to fipd some way by which he
could convince this madman hut Ids
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stream,and looked up. living to locale
the roes dig stone or mpholiths jor a
guide, but tin* upper Incline of the
cliff hid them from view.
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to the task before him. He looked
about liim, trying to orientate himself.
It wpuj<1 he necessary t<» ascend jo a
point about, one-fourth the distance up
the cliff in order to discover the in
gress. which was no wider than any
of numerous cavities in the wall.
I’lenly of places along the chasm
afforded access, alnl Lee grasoed a
projecting rock which seemed familiar,
and began to ascend, digging his hands
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liiing ih.it leaped forward, snarl- |
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as Lee
Ing, and then
struck at it.
I.**e .was alert <>11 tiie instant. In
that iliing alone lay ids chance of es
cape. And, as it vanished infb 'he
It was high mum, Lee set lumselt shadows l.ee went Jd-wtde-fd-ng after it
* in the Darkness, finding it. losing it.
lb* saw, it in every mo Mi-shadow
among the rocks. He heard it jeering
eyelids closed, and^kstnirieniy, with
snarl, Leboeuf was* upon him, his lin
gers tvviYiing around his throat.
Lee shook himself free. He sprang
at idni, the last of Ids waning strength
put forth. They clinched, they fought,
• Lee's lists beat against the bruised
face, drawing fresh blood. Leboeuf
released him, hut springing to a dis
tance, began hurling si ones at him,
cursing him'.
Then to* sat down and waded.
Lee must stav aw ake till night fall.
He would find some wav out of the
gorge. He Would cut footsteps in the
granite vvith a stone wild and impos
slide ihoughjs ran thfoUwdi his mind,
lie s’ '■ do to .m! fro ! . - .de . ::.(■ rivet -
bank.
Some little distance itW;iv Leboeuf
st*.t »wat* Idng him. Lee s hatred for
that hnbs_ed, impassive face was o!e-
He was lying upon Ids hack, and Le
boeuf was kneeling on him gripplr.g
his throat. He tried to struggle^ The
wiry lingers ripped the tatters of hi*
shirt away.
! Next moment a cry .broke from Le-
* boeufs lips. He-sAvits lingering the
coils of Joyce’s hair. He knew them,
perhaps by the faint odor of ht>r thut
[ clung to them.
He fell upon Ids knees. ‘‘Monsieur,
it -is hers! Forgive! Forgive! Inin
an old fool! So among my people the
I maidens give their bair ns tokens of
jlove! Alt. Monsieur. Monsieur—se*
1 will show you the entrance, and you
j shall take the gold for her. So my
: master spoke in 11 dream- but 1 did
nof know you!”
And, darting from lees side, 1*
gcramlded .straig»H~i!P tiie face of th*
eliff between tin* saplings. He draggei
away 11 stone, fitting so closely into
the tunnel’s mouth that Leo had never
guessed it had been.placed there..
And. with a mournful cry. Leboeuf
disappeared within the tunnel. 1
I.ee staggered to the cliff bene:
It, tried to a sc* nd. dropped back, ,
In a moment was fast usieep upon |
bottom of the gorge.
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< ice grazed his cheek, one struck him
in t lie chest. Now the tiling w as in
front of him. and when tie rushed, it
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it iiupojedble to proceed farther.
Swinging to tiie right, he (IDeoveivd
a larg'e cavity and thVust Ids arm ili
tip to the sluntlder.
A liitter disappointment awaited
him, however, for nt the end ins
tiand enconntensl yniy a .-moot,, sur
face of rock. . .< •
He tried agfiin as in* descended,
thrusting his arms into all th** likely
crevi(*es in the vain attempt to'find
tiie orifice.
H*> (It's* **n(W*d. seUcted another place
and scrambled up j,h+*-jvva!1 again, only
to aciiieve the same negative result.
Ami vvh(*n he reached the bottoiu of
flu* cliff again.—ami—looked up .at the
into the gorge. There was. no respite.
All the while Lee struggle') a'gaiiwt tiie
bonds of -deep lie vWiuTd rest, Ids
eyes closing for. an instant—it was
upon him again, a stone would hurtle
past iiitn ; another rtitdi vvotiid follow,
anu again tiie tiling was gon# in tiie
dark.
I lawn daylight—sunifglit. I'rom-hed
h**iiin(| a ridge or rock al'ove him. I *-e
saw the misshapen figure wiuh the
massive shoulders and the Ipug,
furred arms.
Xml. yielding to the elemental rage
that was in him. Lee whipped out Ids
HUlomafic and fired two bullets. Tliev
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his mind. It was n sad and hmely
burying place for Joyce's mother. Its
existence there was in itself n testi
mony to the , old man's mental con
tlliion—that die should have carried
his wife's body through the tunnel to
that place of his dreams. And yet It
was certain that no .prowling thing
would ever violate that grave. ,
Lee tvent on, and! a few steps fur
ther, stumbled against something else.
It was the skeleton of a in aft, the
hones protruding through the rents and
tatters of tiie scarecrow clothes. The
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lit* mu know nt w
point to begin tiie jo*' ! nt. but III did
not know how high to climb before tie
rciicht d the level of the tunnel en-
t lance • .
lie looked up ji! tiie huge (Jiff, vvith
its inward incline, mid s*'ored with Ps
tnvriads of mocking mouths, arid now’
a sot 1 of fur.v took lued id him. Ag-uin
and again lie scrambled ijit atnl .1 lung
liki* 11 fly to, the elilTs face ; scrambled
| down, ballled. tin*) tiTrn bega.n once
iui*re. k
, It was mnv the middle * f tin* after
noon, and. lie was no nearer a .solution.
He had accomplished not long, .lie-wan
becoming bewildered. It was neccssurv
I Jo proceed in a s\sternum,* way.
He now i>ro( eedeij to thark off what
he considered tin* possible boundaries
within which the tunnel lay. by stamp
ing down two biri li saplings. And j
! 'again and yet again he essayed his
j task, always to recoil, beaten.
; He was only half way from sapling
to sapling, and It was beginning to
grow dark His hands were bleeding,
his nallsv split to tin* quick. Lnt it
j was tiie eerie nature of his efforts in
j the loneliness of the darkening gorge
| that whs the most nerve-racking part
of nil. He w as Ilk** some mythical hero
of the classic world, tortured by inan
imate tliings-rilke Sisyphus, con
demned to roll his stone up the hills
of Tartarm* forever, only to have it
hound down,again before If reached
the summit.
He had been toiling by moonlight
for an infinity of time. He had'cov
ered all tiie space between the sap
lings. He extended his radius; and
novjj. in his desperation, lie attacked
the' I'MfT as if it wen* a hnnuln enemy,
beating on it with Ids fists in senseless
fury.
Dawn, cleat** and gray, and bitter
cold crept into (lie gorge and fomi'd
him still at his labors. The sun rose.
1 Long rays of light streamed down Into
appeared so human, so intelligent, so
much at variance with the misshapen
body, that Lee was shocked nt the
s i g 111 o f it
It was only a man—but such a
man' A gorilla, lill but the human
face. '
Lee bad already pulled the trigger
a Third time, but there was no third
shot. Then lie remembered that he
had bad only two cartridges remaining.
He Was unarmed.
He sprang, and a sfotp* struck him
In the chest mnd hurled him backward.
Like two baboons they bombarded
each other with stones; but at last,
as a fortunate shot sent file other
staggering, Lee managed.to close with
him. ,*
The' face, bruised and battered from
the encounter In the tunnel, looked
Impassively into ids. Lee struck, and
quickly discovered that he had not
strength enough left to administer a
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knockout blow; while at dose quarters
he was decidedly at a disadvantage.
on tiie oilier hand his opponent was
equally unable to overcome 1 him. for
, he could not stand up against Lee s
fists at short range long enough to
allow liim time to get tiie gripping
power of tlmse shoulders into action.
At last, bleeding and bruised, they
broke off tht» fight simultaneously, and
lay sine by side, pantingrjipon the bot
tom o' tiie gorge.
j Lee took stock of the othpr. The
man looked like an Indian, lint there
w as a touch of the'Caucasian^ in, him.
Lee addressed him for tiie first time.
“What is it that you vyant? Why
ha e you attacked me?”
The answer—Lee had hardly ct-
"fyected that |tli?r<^ would 1 lie an an
swer was in a tone singulal'ly sou. in
credibly at variance With the appear^
ance of that gross bodj*
“You find the way la. But you
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«|» And Dodge Graham Trucks are Sold in
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Allendale
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♦♦♦ Distributors for Aiken, Barnwell and ^
A ' Allendale Counties. A
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