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A First Lady Laying Cornerstone him .with happened beyond vUiat | Ms revyjv^gr. My master drew hln avoided. Fut vyhnt has «nd Rathway fired. My master (Ixopfied 1 starved off to m»k’ sur? that no evil thlrfg* had eouldBa he hap[»euhd, and whaur Is she, and that ! hand o' skimUs?'’ dead. Rathway flnng hw rt the cliff into the' ndne not ajy over, knowing I>ee told him as concisely Vis pos- ' ti'at it was the mine. He thought si hie while old I.ehoeuf. tmjEflintr In- It-would never he found.” side the hoiW^Tbrought out spine flour | t-ee fhrned to Father MefJnith. and hacon that the gang had left he- j “I'm going to'^ave her now,” he critsl hind, and firocee^ed to prepare a meal.) exultantly. ‘‘I am authorized to take Father McHrath listened, ‘Uttering Hn .v axecessary action in connection expletives whieli sounded nt-i with I'elIJ’s death, and T propose to niarkaMy like eljpppd* oiirhs, deprtveil 1 P>it Rathway under arrest and bfihg of their harmfui characteristics by thi 1 * him In to Manistree. I.ehoeuf, you t\i!l swear in court you saw this mur der?” “I saw it, Monsieur, fr<®» the tun- Bataillrk Picnic ''‘jLL f<»r attempted Mnji »’;ii\in ('(Milidge laying the cor nerstone of the Theodore Stone Me morial Irnsplinl in VVasliingto'n, an ad dltlon to the Florence t’rlftenden | home. The hospita'I is a memorial to k the daugJdcr of .Chester Snow, and will he completed InJthe autumn. £ k The Free •'i ( Traders T .By. Uictor Rousseau WNU BBRVICHl a Fittfi i while the path gfew’ wider, the mcky walls 'fell hack, becoming out lying spurs of Cie mountains. The lonr.of-the cHtarnet grew faint behind tlvem. They continued- down a gentle gradient into a level plain. 'I'tie forest closed ahoul them. Them wlign they had been proceed ing for ahouh half.an hou/, the forest Sttiidenly came to an end, and to Lee s amazement, ho found himself standing "Story Into publicity. And near the hank of Y]ie main river which well enough that, prima facU alteration of an occasional consonant. d‘^\ye, and I'm no surprise,],” he said. "'Tls hilt what I'd have expected. Rut still, whati can ye• do, Anderson? The lava's the law. Whether of Cod or mon, that compact ye made wl’ Rathway has na hlndin’ power.” "I can arrest’- him jmurder.” '1 he priest laid a hand on his shoul- ! der. “Ye canna do that, lad,” he an- ^swflred. "There's na court in the land would com fit him. In th/’ fitrst place, though ye ,-frteant only to save the lassie him. there’s na jury would believe it. They'd say that compact by which ye were to get his wife for the mine stinks in the. sight o' heaven. Aye, and they'd say ye arrested linn to get the wumnian. Aye, and. fur- thermair, ye .canna shame her by bringln’ her into court as a w.ltness. Na, lad, ye'll e'en ha’ lo let 1 it go. j “Ye foug^it a guid fight for her. lad, hut there's naething more to do. Nor • an ye arrest him ,for hooieh-sellin’, 1 for that ,wud be meexin’ up public duty wi' private vengeance. .'N’e’1,1 see 1 it, lad, when -ye grow <ooF” • J The shrewd, hard, conn non* sense | seemed to turn Lee's heart to stone. He. knew Father McGrath was, right. There was nothing he could do. He could not even attempt the afrest of Pierre and Shorty for .the dynamiting without bringing the whole he knew It looked Baldock, June'14.—‘The annual pic nic here will be held on June -J this year, with barbecue dinner, day and night dancing and all the regular fea tures. 'C. L. Jordan, of Allendale, is again in charge. This is one of the features of the season and is a popular picnic in all the countic'Whroughout this section, It is held annually at the Baldock pavilion. I - i nel, hut 1 could not have stopped it, 1 andnso I hid, !e<t Rathway should find ("the entrance. Afterward I was afraid. LiUm old now, not like I waS when! Rathway stole my woman from me. I ) ! was afraid of him. And my master comes to me in dreams and says, ‘Not yet; Lehoeut!’ Lee-gfljppoid the old/ton by the nnnr “i.ehoeuf. will you come to listenJuke wltt? me ufid htdp me arrest Rathway? We’ll both probably get killed, hut I'm going if I have to go alone.” 'T will go with you. Monsieur.’'’ an swered Lehoeuf (juletly. “Two of us against ’six. But—” “Hand hatTd. mon!” cried Father Mcflrath. "Wnll I he too old, think I ye, tji help ye arrest that rascally, j murrderous hooch peddler ami clean oot that nest o’ skunks wi’ ye?" j “You, Father?”- “Aye, myselV’ answered the priest. "Twas surely a lucky impulse that* made me bring this ritle wl’ me. I dont na, Anderson. Imt the three o’ us can rentier a guid account o’ our selves.” t “And see, Monsteur;*' said old I.e- boeuf, stepping toward 1 Uie house. Hrc-stooped and picked up the rifle Father McGrath had given Lee. Lee Barnes'-Loadholt. ingt Fairfax, Juno 14.—A marr will be of interest to ma t 'throughout the state Was syieriir.izerf that people at ft- J.r the Baptist parsonage, Fairfax, t Sunday cveiiirtg at 6 o'cl ■ k. when ■ T. Loadholt of Fairfax and Miss Helen Barnes of Biunson. wf n ir;ir FOR OVER 40 YEARS HALL’S CATARUH MKUKIAIX has been used successfully in the treatment oi Catarrh. HALL’S CATARRH MEDICIlYl* eon- Bista of an Ointment which Quick) • Hcirrwes by local af'pHcm ion. Internal Medicine a Tofijc, and the which acl^» tirough the U)ood on the Mucous faces,pthrs reducing tho mflarnmatioit.'^V Sold by all drugslstff; , P. j Cheney & Co., Toledo; Ohio. c t X pR. J. H. YARBOROUGH i 1 Veterinary Office: Surgeon I’tH>ples Pharmacy, Pay Phone <H> Denmark, Night 82 - S. C. • * •5 ♦;> / The Rev. (?. Wilsoij v-M no* the con nkosvy ~r tliY- presence of a friends anik-relatives. lumcd Tnv “Happy as Can Be” 1 “1‘ can work as well .as ever am as happy as'c an be. my life ‘been given back to me,” writes Bryant w.h<> says he went and has J. R. ial- to fcj'ecial- ad Brights Money b«ek without Questton if HUNTS GUARANTHED I SKIN OtSEASE REMEDIES I (Hunt'* Salve and Soap),uni > n the treatment of Itch. Eciema Ring worm. Tetter or other itch ing skin disea^A. Try thie treatment at our risk. Mase & Peason Drug Store Barnwell, South ( arbjina. flowed through Xlston lake He could not have been mine than half a mile from the log house. But they heard the sudden throb bing of the motor boat. Lee ground his teeth. In an instant old Lehoeuf had pulled him down hehjnd the |lol- i f CHAPTER XVIII Lee Is Given a Powerful < -e Tool It was dawn In npenejlj Ids ey£s. ,tlie gorge when Lee At first his memo- files were confused so that 1 he could carry them no further forward than the moment when he turned away frofn th^* log house, i leaving Joyce with Rathway. He had meant to kill him then—ajid here he must have fallen asleep in the forest, for It was daylight. And Joyce had been all night In Rath- way's power! . i ’ Murder filled his heart ; and again everything else was blotted out of his mind hut the insensate desire lo slay, a primal instinct that swamped every other part of the '.man s being. He .started up. J Rut —this was not the forest ! He was amazed to see the walls of the gorge on either side of him, dwindling away In the dis- stanee into open country., with a vista -of trees beyond, and splashes of sun shine, interspersed with long* waves of shadow, showing that the sun had already risen. i Almost immediately benehtIfi, the ledge on which he lay was a cataract, hnt not deep—a roaring stream of water rushing among the rocks. And not far a wav was old Lehoeuf. placidly frying bacon in u skillet over, a wood lire. Then all the flashed into Lee a cry. got m\ his *‘Lelii«viif!’ At Lee's erv the old find etirin* toward him, his hand. “Monsieur?" “We must go- hack, he began to -tell the events iif the night, Jie. were married events of the night s mind. He Uttered legs. ter of a rock. Then they, heard Again and again her rang4.ut. l ee' tried to leap to his, would have flung himself river,'*hut the Indians inm Joyce scream, agonized cries feet ; into arms he the en cry his circled him. And, as he tried tu out in answer, a lumd closed over mouth. i * ■ . i NeXT "TTTtnme the fliojbr hunt shot Into mid stream. It hontai’ned Ruth way-and Ills three aides; there wa« something huddled in the bottom of the boat, undoubtedly Joyce; and there was no' doubt tlrtit they were making for Sistun Take. And till tin* while Joyce screamed, and Lee struggled in the- Indian s grasp, and fried to cry out. but he could not move or uiter a sound. ‘■.Monsieur! Think of her!” Lehoeuf was hissing In his ear. “It is useless to betray yourself. We do what we can.. You understand? You promise?" And suddenly reason came hack'to Lee. He nodded and Lehoeuf re leased him. But the next fnstant it. wrls Lee who I simply like an attempt on his j^irt to ! possess himself of the wife of another t S 4 i man. *. * * ' Then there was the dlYctredlf that such a case would bring on the police. 1 But as tie stoftd there, feeling’his last holies gone. Lehoeuf laid down his skillet and came toward them. The old man had overheard all that had passed. I “Listen. Messieurs," Lehoeuf said, “now loan tell'you what l knpvv. I :.me kidiwn Jim Bathwav under tpanv other names, since, w hen lie w as a i young tiian. he firsfJ came into Lids district to sell brink to my ph.ople. !. “Messieurs, many years have gone F • «■ j ■ • by—Uventy years since he eaiire to Lake Misquash. where my people hod their tepees. He was iL friend to us. He trapped, and, if hif sold fi little whisky, that was hetvvhen ourselves. 1 von understand, Mon$irauT. Ami he was my friend., ; “One day we both start to take the ! furs from our trap lines. His. lipe run^ east and mine runs west. I leave my Woman in nty * tepee. A young wife, Messieurs, much younger i than myself. In one week I return, j My tepee is empty. My woman is gone So, tqo, my furs. . * , “Later 1 learn. She has gone vvirh I Rathway. He keep her six weeks. Then he drive her awav into the for- est She dare hot return to her own ists who told him he had Bright Disease and th *y eyuld do nothing for him.' 1 He toot eight bottles of Hobo Kid ney and Bladder Remedy aTd is en tirely satisfied. “Hobo” is a powerful • vivifying ‘balm—made from an herb that con tains no alcohol, no opiates, no habit forming drugs’. For sale by all durggists. ’Price ^1.2o per bohttle, or a full treatment of six bottles for $6.00. b This ■ full treatment is recommended and guar anteed to give entire satisfaction or inoney refunded. « Hobo Medicine Co., Beaumont. Texas. A - MONEY TO LOAN Loans, made same day application received. No Red Tape HARLEY & BLATT Attorneys-at-Law BarnwelL S. C. DOUGHTY’S the old reliable DRY CLEANERS AND DYERS since ! 895 KODAKERS ! Send vour films to its for develop- • I . ' "" " ing and printing. -One day service. Write lor prices. *• Lollar’s Studio 1123 Main Slreel COkl MBIA SOUTH CAROLINA We. sell Kastman Films x ^S TT—— I $Phone 6562, Columbia^ Send Us Your Job Woj*k v * 1 . .i i , — - ' long TERM MO.XEY to lend ! G percent, interest on larpe amounts. • Private funds for small loans. knocked ujT"LeboueF’s hand us old man was drawing a head upon the boat, now some hundred vnrds away from them in the middle of tin* stream. 1 eboeiif looked at him reproachffitty. “Monsieur, I could have killed him. I do hot err at the mark. Monsieur;” \gaih he was about to take aim, hut Lee caught, the rifle in his hand "No, no. Lehoeuf She must not he left to tin- mercyjof those three men. So long as RaHiMay lives theie is a shade of hope for her. I ain't you un derstand ?” <'onipieliension came to the old In- l^tHan. Ife lowered-ih*‘ rifle. Joyce had celised to cry out, and in Ind! toe J. " turned -k!l!flt In and *5 dumb helplessness the two men vv niched the .motej' hoiit Jiont them .m i ifisappear Mr<>und tie .of the shore, Thev looked at r ' / ether. , "if attv harm hah come to her v.r , 'TU- herent. and he was not oyee— eld man that Jove* i! was all And of thi* and itleo-. in making sure tTait he Lehoeuf under Ktieceed* stand. But If T.eluieiif dbr?iot\qei1e under stand what Lee vv/is trying to tell him, he understood enough to send him Into a •filming fury. He shook his fists. He danced. His fin* 1 grew red with blood. He seemed tnuisfonned once again into that monstrous, ape like creature with whom Lee had en gaged in that desperate duel In the chasm. y “We must save her. Lehoeuf./' Lee exclaimed. “We must‘go at once.’’ "We must go at once, M^psleur. But one cannot return that way. There Is only one way into the mine beneath the stone No one can breast this river. I shall show you. But wait!’’ He disappeared within a small cav ern In the mountain, and reappeared In a moment or two carrying a rifle. “Now, Monsieur, there)Ls no time to lose. I shall pick them off one by one as they come out of the Ionise. Kh, my little Joyce In the hands of that devil! Rut my master lias shown me In a dream that she shall not he harmed. Still. It was the last words my master spoke to me while he was alive, that I should protect her from him, and he has warned me f|Hny, times In dreams also. Eh, this way, Monsieur!” Lee, feeling recuperated, despite the throbbing of his bruised scalp, fol lowed the old man along the narrow CpEJng rff rt/ck^beslde the cataract. In l.e Ilk l o hound “Good !" L* ‘Some-men ;ir* denr. Ye lone harm ^\v( a r t hilL *1JI ‘ * j i( i >H( if- lind the . he giust eiiougli for • I rk i • ■nd ill Ba.thvv.ay s led vigorously. (.•;,H'< a.loti. Mon die'. Lie has die man, and I think le lion I >mu.-who hr*" (-alien has grown vvear.v of him. -But what w ill you do now, .Monsieur?" '-Go t*o' Sis ton laTve. Take her away or die there.” L...- ,"\ ery good. Monsieur. That was 1 .my own plan nl*n. But it is a ..journey | of .1 night anil a 'lay, Monslgur. imd it is necessary to eiU. also to take food with us." - -T.ce wa< for starting imniediately. Iitil Lehoeuf (tersuaded him. They iy ere-Hainan urn to the log house, to if any provisions‘hud been left the | people. So she go mhuIi to the cities of the white people. Long 1 search for her, hut I never find her. Ton knovv what hapjrms to our women in the cj/ies of Qie white men. Messieurs. "Then my heart becomes hard, like a stone. As for her, she is nothing. to me no longer. But some day 1 find Rathway again, and then I kill him. "Well, Messieurs, many years ago I come here L work for my master. Mr. Belly. He trusts , me. He teiN me the seeict that lie has e<yme here to hide. He shows me the mine that he ha* found. And for years we work It together, taking out tiie gold. He want me to take a ‘•hare, hut gold is nothing to me. now that past .revenge in my-heart, it curve for Mm, and Mam'zelle each day. . "Then Rathway comes. My people have caught him do : ng am/ther mjch a wrong, i-jit my mnstei tells them to 'forgive, and hecati<e they love my master, they do not injure-him. So the -peace i«; laid upon me also,—* 'But I toll my master what Bath- TWiLy lltd'fo hiy woman, and he turns hack in time to save Mam'zelle Joyce from him. Ho shoots him-rliroiigli the ! unn. And Rathway smiles and tells ! him he has 'learned- the secret that can bring inv master to die. 0 “After that rny master is as hjs ser vant. And again I say. let me kill him. and again my master says no. And he obeys Rathway in fear, only he would never show him the mine, which Is,fofi’Mam'zelle Joyce. “Nlfht aK*-r night Rathway follow* klU'lM Jrle .Stooped and Picked Up the Rifle Father McGrath Had Given Lee. had !et it fall in the snow the night before when he w-as surprised hy Estelle. The wcopon. nearly hidden in the drift beneath the window, had escaped tiie notice of the gang. Lee opened the breech and found six founds in |lie magazine. r ’ “We'll ha' six round apiece, and if i BROWN & BUSH BARN WELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. • k * x~x~:-w~x-:-x~x~j x*x*x*x**x**:*x-:~:~:->x*x*x~x*x*x~:« LAWYERS •J 4 <• ! •:> a t (j* x-> I have the shall be all Joyce some sie behind If not, they were to go j through the mine and to Leboeuf's den ! in the rocks, which could he reached by fording the edge^of the suhterran , can stream. It gave access in one 1 way, hut not In' the'other. And Le- i hoeufs decision proved a fortunate i one; for at the door of the log house they met Father McGrath, his rifle across his hack. “Thank God I've found ye. Ander son !” lie cried. “I couldna sleep all the nh hf for trouhlln'- about ye and that pulr lassie. SP bet'>re the dawn us. but al|jvavs he loses us at. the ■* ■■ V rocking stefe. for he cannST cortVe near enough to diacoger the secret without being seen. iTheu Mam’zelle Joyce goes away to school, ami after that* Raf wajr gives try master no pen.ee.' And at Isa? he betrays him. thinking ifhat whan my u.ast,er has been hunir for the murder, the mine heroines (Mam- ’zelle Joyce'g, and he wtll marry her and It wli: te bis own. “AthU k -' :i policeman comes herer- that was during the war. But my were 'prriidenf, we won't ‘need that' ms’iny.” said Father McGfath. “Ye* ha' six in yours. Lehoeuf.?” But the Indian hud a sflp.gle-li*nding | rifle, an old Winchester. However, he 1 pulled a handful of cartridges out of! his pocket. “That's good enough,” sjtid Lee. ' i Aftep pin king a little food to ; -fi<e them (-n the journey, they started! along the trail. Some little distance ! from the house, however, Lehoeuf shovveil to l iillier MctPiifh and Lee I the jirints of double horsi jracks. going are I' returning. ' ^ l.elioeuf stooped and exaiMnod them, j “It s tiie horse of Rathway'*! wonmn,” lie pronoimeedi , And with that Lee recalled his’in-1 terrupfed conversation with F.s telle the night hefore. “You don’t have to emnudt Tnurder to get her." she had said. . But Joyce's appearance bad bn-ken off their conversation. 1 • • i And h(* wondered what it was that Estelle could have told him, qnd what It was beyond jealousy of Joyce, that had brought her in Rathway’s wake. Father McGrath turned to him. “By the way. lad, there’s more than six— there’s nine .or ten of that h—I s crew,” he said. “Say It With Flowers” — from — ; _ CLOUD’S GREEN HOUSES “Augusta’s Largest Green Houses” Prompt Servic^Day and Night 1 Block North of Children s Hospital ' M23 Estes St. - Phone 33 M - Augusta, G y. BEST PHARMACY, Agents, Barnwell (CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.) Farm Loans 6 per cent., large amounts. Town prop erty in Barnwell, residential find business, 7 per cent. Loans procured prompflv at lowest cost. Allendale, Bamberg and Barnwell Counties. THOMAS, M. BOULWARE ^Attorney-at-law - Barnwell, S. C. WANTED. — Position as Stc no bookkeeper or jrem^ral office assis tant.—Address BOOKKEEPER, care The People-Sentinel office, Barnwell, ' • t S ’ C ? .... r D.V* w r r . L j master could net he found, for he was | dead already.? You see. Messieurs. ; Rttttfwny thought perhaps he would j 0^1 be hun^ aft»*r nil, since It was so I long siii"** my mnster killed his enemy, and so the mine would not he his; and so he murder* him." .. “Whtf’K tiiat?" cried Lee, .starting towe-rt Lehoeuf,, “He kills “my masler, Monslet “You saw this?” ' V i.r>«ieur. It was near Uie^l | rocking eto tc. Ralhway/had foPowed him and Ja^uunded knowledge of' lb*- •>*X-*X-XX*XX—X , -X—.**?**X**X**X*-*!-*X ,, XX—X—X—X—X—X**?' UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA 1 1 Scholarship and Entrance Examinations. The examination-for the award of vacant scholarships in the University* of South Carolina and 10, 1925, at 0 for admission of new o’clock a. m. . Schblarships are vacant Allendale Barnwell. held students vyll be Applicants must nqt be less than at the County Court-House Friday, July 16 years of ^y-T. in the following 23 counties:-7- Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Cherokee, Cl^rendpiV- Dillon, Dorchester, Fairfield, JiauiptonE, Horry. Jasper, Laurens, Lexjngton, Marion, Oconee Richland, Saluda, Sumter, Union, Williamsburg; York. Applicants for scholarships should ‘write To President Melton for scholarship application blanks. .TJiese should be filed with the President by July 7th. Scholarships are worth $100.00, plus free tuition ahd fees. The next session will open September 16th, 1925. " . PRESIDENT W. I). MELTON, University of South Carolina, Columbia, S. (’. T f f r T ❖ t T T f m For further information write to: f T ± vX*X < X‘*X‘X-X'X-X-XXX M XXXXXXXX*X*XX~X~X*<J'