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/ SEMI-MONTHLY MAGAZINE SECTION PAGE TWELVE railway*, traMaj*laftf*« car*. •nfiB«*. m*chln«T paralus of • W k ‘“* TShtI (except public road* aad the rlfbta of way aad other property and »P- . pajrfaaaawrf of rogalarly chartered S ubtle sonrie* railroad ■lit or eoaaeetod with, or bl*«*d > the fMl **tate Ifcrelabeforo dMcrlb- ed or any portloo thereof, with all ( **»• cpparteBaace* thereto, aad ^all other laai*. Btaadtag timber, timber rights, aad right* of way of the Company la the counties aad the earnings. Income and profit* thereof... * „ * » ..-I Excepting, however, from the real property horoloobovo doocribed. 1. The right*, easement* and es tates described In a deed from The Vale Royal Manufacturing Company to C. A. Walker and H. R. Williams. ' dated March II. 1»H>. I*' 0 !?" 1 in Beaufort County. South Carolina, in Lease Book, page 47. And excepting also all timber ' which has been cut and repoved and , sold all rights and privilege* which have expired and all property which has been lawfully sold, exchanged or otherwise disposed of by aatd The . Hllton-Dodge Lumber Company or by the Receivers thereof appointed by this Court. •/ Th« property sold shall ln<*' do all of the personal property and equip ment of the defendant. The Hllton- Dodge Lumber Comany. as a going concern In the hands or possession and control of th* Receiver* herein, in the Eastern District of South Car olina. / 5 Because pf the recent creation of Jasper County. It may be that some • of Jh* properties mentioned and de- . scribed as being either In Beaufort • or Hampton Counties, are now situate, or partly situate. In Jasper / County, but the more exact locations will appear from the descriptions In the original Mortgages from said •I The Hllton-Dodge Lumber Company to Emile K. Bolsot and First Trust dr Savings Bank. Trustees, and from fhe said The Hllton-Dodge Lumber Company to Central Trust Company of Illinois and Malcolm McDowell, and the ■upplejnenUl* Me-*——“ copies of whlchareo^ll Fampton of JuTort Counties, and this notice is given for the purpose of Includ- . (ng all such properties, whether lo cated In'Beaufort. Hampton-or J$si pdr County, or partly In one and partly in the other qc others. ‘ The abov 1 described property will be exposed for sale In one parcel. * The Special Mas top will receive no bid from anyone offering»to. bid who shall not first have deposited with him as a pledge that he will make sood his bid. In case of acceptance. th£ -sum of • Five Thousahd (fS.ObO.OO) Dollars In money or by certified check “upon a solvent Nar tional Hank acceptable to the said Special Marter. AH moneys or checks so deposited shall be on aecount of * the purchase prie*. at which the nroperty.may be finally conveyed to the successful bidder, and all depos- ita made by any unsuccessful bidder or bidders shall he forthwith return ed to him or them. Within Thirty (SO) days after the confirmation by the Court of any bid or sale of said property, or of any portion or portions thereof, the successful bidder shall pay to the aartd Special Master the balance of the nurchas* money due.oh his hid. ahdTupon hla failure so to do the caah'or check deposited by him with the Special Master at the time the property was knocked down to him. shall be forfeited as a penalty for suc)i fallur* to comply with his bid. airf shall *b# applied towarls the payment of the expenses of such sal*, and towards making good any de ficiency or.loss In esse the property should subsequently be sold for less than the amount hid by him, and to wards making good any loss occas ioned hy such failure on his part. Should aliy aale not he finally coiv- (Vrmed without faHnr* on the part of a successful bidder, the amount deposfted hy him shall be ret'imed to-hlm without deduction.* . . •» •" . . - . Any successful bidder or purchas er of said property desiring so to do. shall, upon the cqnflrmatlon of the salo by the Court, pav so much in cash as the Order of confirmation may, require: and for the balance of ...the purchase money he may nay (he same In cash, or hy credits upo n the debt secured hy the Nfortgases here- / ’inahove referred to. as (hp Court may direct. Terms of sale cash, upon ronfl-m-r at Ion of saux\ or a;v above provided. The purchaser to pay al! last's due. after the year 1916. , All sales are subjec to the con firmation of the nd are madd^l subject to the payment by such pur chaser or his assigns of any portion of thp purchase price of such prop erty which may remain unpaid at the date of the execution of the Deed thereof to such purchaser. , ' _ 0 ’A* Th e Ceqgt .reserves the rlgl)t io withdraw from sale all of such rights, properties, and assets here inabove deserihed' as shall be found Advisable or proper. •• . . For morp^ull and ample ‘Inscrip tion .of the property to he exposed for sale, and for a more ample and exact'statement of the terms upon 1 which aaid sale wil) be made, all persons are referred to lh(. proceed* ings and Decree in the cause qhove mentioned, all of file in the Pattfd States District- Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina, and proO)) peetlve purchasers may alsff apply lo toe Special Master for information A. M. HirOER. •. * s. -w *' chattering masses of the poor. The section was largely foreign. The patches of color in some Italian shawl, the long coats and peaked headgear of some moujik, the clatter of the dia lects seemed all the stranger from the sullen London background of mean shops,.dingy lodgings, and low •beer houses. Ydt, in the shadows of that underworld Of the great metro|iolis, sodden fares, guttural oat hs, dingy rags, the blow that prer«-des the w»trd, are the manifestations of tbe .native born. In a.side street.the cab drew to s standstill. Mt was the mortuary, the imnActor told me. A young man jj) the door touched bis bat, and led tbe way down a passag* to a bare stone chaiulier. On a slab in the center the body lay with an elderly man in ill-fitting, <*|oth«-* bending over it. He looked up / a* .we en£p-d, .and nodd«*d to the inspector.- > “You were qui^e ri-'ht, I’eace,” he ■Optcheerfully; “chloroform first, stran gling afterwards.’’ “They to»»k no risks. Dr. Chappie. His reply ^ra)k ingenious, and I liked the ingpeofor .the better for'it, . The man had something more in him ‘than a civil tongue and a pleasing man- ner. , - “Tell me—whai else did you lesrn?’ “That he was murdered in a place with a sanded-flo<ir, probably at no great distance from Leman street, seeing that they carried him there on a roster's farrow .” “I am not a. reporter,” 1 said.-. “I ^ do ih»t -want guess-work.” “I shall probably, be able to prove my -words in twenty-four hours.” “And why not now?” “There are good reasons.” *Oh, very well.” I said sulkily; and we drove on through the night in silence. He left me at my door amid polite assurances that I should not again ' l»e troubled in the matter. I told him quite frankly that 1 was very glad to In-ar it. _ , 1 did not sleep more than eight hours that night, and was quite un fitted for work in the morning. I- ’They made a ch-an job of it,” said ~> roauu-d alxmt n»y studio with nerves * the elderly man, looking down at the slab with his thumbs in l,ii(Pwiasleoat pockets. “Never saw neater work since—well, since I was invalided home from India.” “Thugs'*” “Yes; they did it nigh as well as a Thug id regular practice.” The callous brutality of the con versation filh-d me with disgust. I turned a Way, leaning against the wall will), a feeling of nausea. “And now, if‘I may trouble you, Mr. PhilhiM, will‘you look at this |MM>r fellow, and see if you ckn recog- w/e him?” said Peace. 1 knew him well enough. The black beard, the thin, hawk nose,- the high 'and noble forehead wen- not easily forgotten. Talman had introduced me to him at -the Art Club's Uee«l>-~ lion in July, whi-qiering that he was a Pole and a'lieighlsir of hi-—a deuced 1 queer fish, though a clever one. .11*% ha*l.exhibited a bust 1 of Nero at the Academy, which attracted much at* tent ion. “And bis name-?” asked the ins|NM-- “Amarnff. 1 believe him t^»*be front Poland; that is almiit all I know of him ” * - “How did you come to meet him?” l.toUl.hiinof myintrmluction. Would, I, he asked, give him Talman’s ad dress?’ Most eertainlv—No. 4 Harden place, off the King s road, Chelsea. on edge. 1 cursed Peace and &IK his ‘doings. Kven the pajs-rs’gayo'-liie no further information of this < ( \as|>erating business, being loaded with the pre parations for the 'Oar’s reception in Paris, which was due in two days. In the end I sank so far as to send old Jacob up to (be inspector’s rdoms for the latest news, hut he had been out since daybreak. About twelve 1 wandered off to the club. The sight of Talman was a very present joy to me. He was engaged in denouncing the police to a select circle, choosing as his text that the Englishman's house is his castle.. I .offered my sincere sympathy when he told Inc that hi- nnd liccn invaded at one in th6 morning hy inquiring' detectives. 1 suggestcd that he should writoMo.the Times about it. He said he had'already done-so. Incidentally he mentionisl that Amaroffs address had Ix-cn No. 21 Hardcji place. 1 lunched at tbe little table by the window; but it was in the smoking- room afterwards that the idea oc curred to me. 1 fought against it for some time, hut *thc, tcrn|ftMtion in- l-reasqd'upon consideration. Finally 1 yielded, and told the waiter to call a cab; i would .myself have a* look at the dead man’s studio. , 1 dismissed the hansom at the turning off •Kind’s road and walked dofcn. Harden place on foot. It. was an eddy in the rush -pf l.ondon im- T had no objection whatever Jo Talman ’ proyemen; a (Ksd of silence it) its c' *. r b«'ing roused at one in the morning. Hy all TneJuiM let the old rascal l»c, turned otit of Im-U and «*ross^xaniine«1. His language w<>uld In- a revelation to “ the )N»|iee it woun. really. ^ - The ins|M-etor b-ft<.tne on.the door step for a few minutes, w hile-he w his pered to two shabbily dn-ssefl men whti louii^etl out of the. darkness, and dLsapis ared with the same ' lark of ^oMteiitatioii. Then wc entered our Sab, which had waited, and ^trotted west wadH, the very air growing clearer as it seemed to Die, when the under world, of poverty fell away behind us. It was stone time In-fore I spoke, anti then it was to a>k for 'g solution to certain* puzzles that had Itt-fn form ing in my brain. "Yoh saul he had l<ts-n robbed?” iV-gan. ' “Yes, Mr. Philli|*s. They hadT pone thniugh his |SH-kets with every atten tion to detail.” “Tin n how did you know he was A sculptor?” “He h.oi been callt-d apav in a hurrv, . T1 it-rt- was nitsli-liing day in his ffnger- mtils, and a sphish of pl.-ister «»n his right trouser h g. It was quite simple, as you see.” # roaring traffic. There were frees in the littlo-'-gardefis.The gtxjtli^antl browns of the withering leaves*|H-e|H*d and rustled over the old. hrte|c walls. S-vt-ral studios I noticed—it was evi dently an artists’ quarter—before 1 1 stop|H-d in front of No.'21. The studjo ' a fair-sized barn of niiMlern brick—fronted on the street. The double d<K>rs tlp-ough which a, sculptor's larger work may pass were flankt-tl by a little side door painted a staring and most objectionable green. On the right the- roof of a red-tiled shed crept up to long windows under the eaves.' The side door stood ajar— a most urgent invitation to my eurios- , ity. -After all, I argued, a studio re mains. a place where tip* strict rules of etiquette may In* avoided, even thoui;h its owner be dead. And so, without troubling further in the matter, 1 pu-hed the door gently Open, and ^ walked into a short passage, the .further end of which was'barred'with ht-ayy curtains of faded plush. Be yond them I could hear a whisjM-r of voices. 1 drew hack the edge "of a curtain and peeped within. In the center of tin* big’room was a tall pedestal. ii|H»n which was se t the bust of Nero, which had won no small measure of fame for poor Amaroff in that year's Academy. ’Under the proud and merciless feature* of the Roman J-Itnperor stood Inspector Peace —smoking a cigarette and talking to * big fellow- with a thick black beard. . A couple of men kneeling at their feet were replacing a mass of l«s»se, papers in the drawers of a roller-top desk that had besn pulled some dis- tanee from the wall. . _. 1' was just about to announce my self, when one of the men knocked o\*er a brass candlestick which stood on the desk, so that it rolled to the further side. With a grunt of annoy ance, he stepped leisurely round ami dropped on hi? knees uto recover it. Once out of sight of his companions, however, Jitek^bipped ©nt a square of t wax from hisA»oeket. ami with extra ordinary rtqiidity took an impression from a key that te.lyol l“'l ,t cwn * realei! in his hand. ^It was all over in five seconds, and from the shelter •tlx* desk gave to him, no one but my self could have bta-n the wiser. lie . rose, replace*! t he candlestick, aiid con- . tinned his work. \ Whether the fellow had played his companion a trick or not, I had no desire "Volx; caught‘acting the spy. So,.pulling the curtains aside, 1 walked into the room. They all turned quickly u|x»n me, the 'black-bearded man staring hard as in.attempting to recall, my face.,. But Peace was the first to speak. “tosxl afternoon, Mr. Phillips,“ he said, as if I weye a visitor he had expected “You are just in time to . drive me hack. Have you a cab waiting?” “No.” I*hesitated.'■ * . “It’s of no consequence. We can find another at the top of the stri-ct. And now, Mr*.'Nicolin,” be continued,^.* turning to the hig man, who had never taken his eyes off me, “are you quite satisfied, or do you wish you it . men to make a further search?’.’ “N*», Mr. Insbector,” he answered, with- a heavy foreign accent, “we'’ are quite content. Noding more is necessary.” “.Shall you be wanting to come ^ again?” “No—for us it is4sufficient. It is for you to continue, ‘Mr. Insbector. You tink you will catch these men who kill him, hein?” “We shall try,” said Peace, with a modest droop of the-eyes. " ‘“Aeh—but where can there be cer tainty in our lives? Come now, my children, let ys be goiug. ^Alexandre, you have the door-key of the studio;" give him to the Insbector here.” . So it was the door-key', tliought I, of which Mr. Alexandre obtained a- „ memento Ix-hind the roller-top desk! Peace gave a polite^ good-bye to • his companions on the step, locked up the little green door, and then started down the street tit my side. „ ’’I had no business to-como poking my nose into your affairs,” I said, “Anything you say I shall thoroughly deserve.” - “Don’t apologize,” he smiled. ,“I was pleased to see you.” “And whvT “You can do Better things than remain.a wealthy dilettanti 1 , Mr. Phij- lips. You are t»x» broad in the shoul- lers, too clear in the head, Tor living i the world that- is dead. Such littIf 1 incidents as these—they drag Von out of the shell you-are building about. you. That is why 1 was pleased to see you*. I '‘have spoken plainly—a>e - y«rti offended'.’” “Oh, no,” 1 said, waying my stick ■ to a passing hansom, tho'Ugh I did not refer again to The t*»pic which I foresaw was likely to become |>erson- ally offensive t*> me. . He sat back in Lis corner of « cab, filling his' pi;>e with dc.<r, fingers, wrhile 1 watehe*! him '<>.» the comer of my eye. When it well slight, he began again on a , subject. “London’s a queer place,” Ih- “though perha|w y*»u have not ha : time to find i4 out. There arc eign r«4pni**s, with their own reh and elu .s and p«»titi<-s, working • way through life just as if they u. Odessa or Hamburg or Milan. '| are refugees -»H**aven know s how n for we do not—that have fl« | - fore all the dwpdtisms that suec aqd all the revolutions that i from Siam to ’the Argent ini*. . T fanatics, dishonest presidents,^ ehists, .loyalists,' Armenians. '1 (’arlists, ami the zlwellers in ,\ |x»taniia—a finer collection than / America its*-lf can show; On tlx- i tinent—well, we should lx* ru- them in, and they would be-Mir . bombs. But here no, one tr.. them so long as they pay rent taxes, and keep thehr hands n yach other’# pockets or from other's throats. They ‘ under' us, too, ami stop playing at a sins and conspirators. But'‘on a while habit is too strong for t- and something happens.” “As it happened to Amaroff’’ “Yes—as it happen*-*! to Amur “It was a jKjlitical crime?” “Yes.” ' “And the reasons?” “They have the advantage-of- plicity. Amaroff was a nx-inf. the Russian secret-service, •li-' to mix with and ob-s-rve the N- refugees. The Csdr enters Pm two days, and whcq the Czar tr the (xditieal jxdice of all the c.u are kept on the run. I 8Up|x»se An sh«*w*-d an excess of .zeal that \ , his absence from Dimloh ih -ir Anyway, 'he was found dead. 5 the Russians n-aspnably -roui-h,- ' is the Nihilists who kill»-d him.” ’ ‘ “Who w«'-re those men in the stu •’“The big fellow was Nicolin, head of the Russian servii-e over I don't know a Ih-h*t man ii • profession nor one with fewer mtu Tire other two were assistants, came .down to the Yard’this in<>- .with a. request that they might the studio for certain private p : ‘which Amaroff had and whichbejo to them. So we fi-.ed the app Wnent into w hich you huve just walk “Anil they finished their sear , t “You In-ar.l tjx-in'say so.”., ‘‘Exactly; but why, then, jlid* - want an • impression of the st . key?” He turned upon the with a'sit- jmpatience in his eyes. “What do you mean?” he a- I told him.of my arrival, :uid 0 I had se*-n from fnv post behind curtaips of the «l«x»rway. lb- not sjx-aK^Vln-n I had finished, sat, puffing at his short pipe, » staring out over the horse’s ears we arrived at our door. “If you have further n«-ws toi . .will you mil in Iw-fore going to I. I ask«*«l him as we stixxl on^thi- p ment. ’ , v , ' / “1 cannot promise Vou that. I I sortie im|Mtrtant inquiries tq'mak. the E:ist End this evening, and I' not.know wlx-n-T Mhqll n-turti." * *. I supjxise 1 looked depressed at- answer; imh*e<l tlx* pros|x-*-t <•! lon*-ly evening in nu* rooms with - a mystery in course of solut-ion • side, sei-ux-d <xldly distasteful to j "It is a roifgh district, as you kn> he saidi watching rm-; ‘unit w. you cate to eoiiie along?” “There is nothing I should.like ter," I answered simply. (Continued on Pago 10) / ego ■ -e Invitation to depositors to come in and open an account. It ma&es « -1 . ' ' ; ' r . ' , • , 0 . • ’ 4 ^ • no difference if your account is large or - v • - 3 ' - ' V ** \ i j ^ ' JAS. E. PEURIPOY, ' E E. JONES, C. G. PADGETT President. Vice President. Cashier. ) * d Y K (■ Y (Y' “