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That day was hot and windless with an unclouded sky-a day of brass and burning. ' Long before any sound audible to human ears disturbed the noonday hush, a bobcat sunning on a log in a glade to which no trail led, pricked ears, rose, glanced over shoulder with a snarl and-of a sudden was no more there. Perhaps two minutes later a succes sion of remote crashings began to be heard, a cumulative volume of sounds made by some heavy body forcing by main strength through the underbrush, and ceased only when a man broke into the clearing, pulled up, stood for an instant swaying, then reeled to a seat on the log, pillowing his head on arms folded across his knees and shud dering uncontrollably in all his limbs. He was a young m'an who had been and would again be very personable. Just now he wore the look of one hounded by furies. His face was crim son with congested blood and streaked with sweat and grime; bluish veins throbbed in high relief upon his tem ples; his lips were cracked and swol len, his eyes haggard, his hands torn and bleeding. His shirt and trousers and "cruisers" were wrecks, the latter scorched, charred, and broken in a dozen places. Woods equipment he ........ It Was a Rose. had none befond a hunting knife belt ed at the small of his back. All else had been either consumed in the for-, et fire or stolen by his Indian guide who had subsequently died while ata tempting to murder his employer. Since that event, the man had suc ceeded in losing himself completely. n seeking shelter from the thunder torm, he had lost touch with his only known and none too clearly located landmarks. Then, after a night passed without a fire in the lee of a ragged bluff6 he had waked to discover the sun rising in the west and the rest of the universe sympathetically upside down; and aimlessly ever since he had stumbled and blundered in the maze of those grimly re'ticent .fastnesses, for the last few hours haunted by a fear of failing reason--possessed by a no tion that he was dogged by furtive enemies-and within the last hour the puppet of blind, witless panic. But even as he strove to calm him self and rest, the feeling that some thing was peering at him from behind a mask of undergrowth grew intoler ably acute. At length he jumped up, glared wild y at the spot .where that something o longer was, flung himself fran tically through the brush in pursuit of it, and-found nothing, With a great effort he pulled him self together, clamped his teeth upon he promise not again to give way to allucinations, and turned back to the learing. There, upon the log on which he ad rested, he found-but refused to elieve he saw-a playing card, a :ey of hearts, face up in the sun glare. With a gesture of horror, Alan Law fled the place. While the sounds of his flight were itill loud, a grinning half-breed guide Btole like a shadow to the log, laughed ierisively after the fugitive, picked up nd pocketed the card, and set out n tireless, cat-footed pursuit. An hour later, topping a ridge of rising ground, Alan caught from the hollow on its farther side the music of lashing waters. Tortured by thirst, e began at once to descend in reck Less haste. What was at first a gentle slope cov ered with' waist-<deep brush and car peted with leaf-mold, grew swiftly nore declivitous, a mossy hillside, as steep as a roof, bare of underbrush, nd sparely sown. with small cedars through whose ranks cool blue water winkled far below. The shelving moss-bede afforded reacherous footing; Alan was glad now and then of the - support of a ce lar, but these grew ever smaller, and nore widely spaced and were not al ways convenient to his hand. He ame abruptly and at headlong pace within sight of the eaves of a cliff nd precisely then the hillside seemed. o slip from under him. His heels flourished in the air, his back thumped a bed of pebbles thinly vergrown with moss. The stones ave, the mnosikin broke, he began to slide-grasped at random a youngish edar which stayed him imperceptibly, oming away with all its puny roots caught at another, no more substan tial-and amid a shower of loose stone Bhot out over the edge and down a arop of more than thifty feet He was Instantaneously aware of Citation ['he State of South G.arolina, County of Picken'. 3y J. B. Newbery, Probate Judge: Whereas. D. L. Barker has made it to me to grant him :letters of ad ninistration of the estate~ effects~ 3. B. Barker. i These are, therefore, to a~nd d ~~nish I n sin lar "dandi THE PICKENS SENTINEL, 0' Hearts Picture Drama of the Same Name Univeral Film Co. SEPH VANCE & Bn &w,''Tim Black &g,".Br. from the Pirture Production LouisJoseph Vance the sun, a molten ball wheeling mad ly in the cup of the turquoise sky Then dark waters closed over him. He came up struggling and gasping and struck out for something- darl that rode the waters near at hand something vaguely resembling i canoe. But his strength was largely spent his breath had been driven out of hin by the force of the fall, and he ha( swallowed much water-while the fielt of his consciousness was stricken witl confusion. Within a stroke of an outstretchet paddle, he flung up a hand and wen down again. Instantly one occupant of th4 canoe, a young and very beautiful wo man in a man's hunting clothes, spok< a sharp word of command and, a, her guide steadied the vessel with hi, paddle, rose In her place so surel3 that she scarcely disturbed the nici balance of the little craft, and curvec her lithe body over the bow, head foremost into the pool. Mr. Law had, la point of fack en dured more than he knew; more thar even a weathered woodsman coul have borne without suffering. Forty eight hours of such heavy woods walking as he had put in to escap the forest fire, would have served t( prostrate almost any man; add to thi! (iging a dozen other mental, nerv ous and physical strains) merely th( fact that he had been half-drowned. ge experienced a little fever, a littl% delirium, then blank slumbers of ex haustion. He awoke in dark of night, whoiu unaware that thirty-six hours ha passed since his fall. This last, how ever, and events that had gone before he recalled with tolerable cfearness allowing for the sluggishness of i drowsy mind. Other memories, more vague, of gentle ministering hands, ol a face by turns an angel's, a flower's a fiend's, and a dear woman's, trou blcd him even less materially. IE was already sane enough to allow h had probably been a bit out of hi. head, and since it seemed he had beer saved and cared for, lie found no rea son to quarrel with present circum stances. Still, he would have been gratefu for some explanation of certain phe nomena which still haunted hiim-sucl as a faint, elusive scent of roses witi a, vague but importunate sense of woman's presence in that darkened room-things manifestly absurd.. With some difficulty, from a dry throat, he spoke, or rather whis pered: "Water!" In response he heard someone movt over a creaking fioor. A sulphus match spluttered infamously. A can dle caught fire, silhouetting-illusion of course!--the figur'e of a woman it hunting shirt and skirt. Watei splashed noisily. Alani became aware of someone who stood at his side, one hand offering a glass to his lips, the other gently raising his head that he might drink with ease. Draining the glass, he breathed hiE thanks and sank back, retaining hiE grasp on the wrist of that unreal hand. It suffered him without re. sist:.:nce. The hallucination even went so far as to say, in a woman's soft accents: "You are better, Alan?" - He sighed incredulously; "Rose!" The voice responded "Yes!" Then the perfume of roses grew still more strong, seeming to fan his cheek like a woman's warm breath. And a mir acle came to pass; for Mr. Law, who realized poignantly that all this was sheer, downright nonsense, distinct ly felt lips like velvet caress his fore head. He closed his eyes, tightened his grasp on that hand of phantasy, and mutered rather inarticulately. The voice asked: "What is -it, dear?" *He responded: "Delirium ... But I like it . . Let me rave!" Then again he slept. CHAPTER VI. Disclosures. In a little corner office, soberly fur nished, on the topmost floor of one of lower Manhattan's ..loftiest office-tow ers, a little mouse-brown man sat over a big mahogany desk; a little man of big affairs, sole steward of one of Amerca's most formidable fortunes. Precisely at eleven minutes past noon (or at the identical instant chos en by Alan Laig to catapult over the edge of a cliff in northern Maine) the muted signal of the little man's desk telephone clicked and, eagerly lifting receiver to ear, he nodded with a smile and said in accents of some relief: "Ask her to come in at once, please." Jumping up, he placed a chair in In timate juxtaposition with his own; and the door opcned, and a young woman entered. The mouse-brown-man bowed. "Miss Rose Trine?" he murmured with a great deal of deference. The young woman returned his bow with a show of perplexity: "Mr. Dig by?" "You are kind to come In response to my--ah-unconventional invita tion," said the little man. "Won't you-ah-sit down?" She said, "Thank you," gravely, an'd took the chair he indicated. And Mr. pgy, with an admiration he made no effort to conceal, examined the fair face turned so candidly to him. "It is quite comprehensible," he said dffidently-"if you will permit me to say so-now that one sees. you, Miss Trine, it Is' quite comprehensible why my emploer-ah-feels toward you as he does." The girl flushed. "Mr. Law has told you?"' "I have the honor to be his nearest reditors of the said B. B. Barker, de eased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Pickens, S. C., on the 19th day of November, 1914, next after publication hereof, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why said administration should not be granted. * Given undg.~yhand and seal this 2d day of Novem . anno Domini, 1914, 2..,B 97 .T. B. inv. .L P Pli PICKENS, SOUTH CAROLINA fi.a, this side the water, as well as man of business." in' .u.d with an embarrassed g.s r. 'So I have ventured to request this-ah-surreptitious appointment in order to-ah-ake the further liber ty L a.g whether you have recent y cr.Alan a message?" Her look of surprise was answer eigh, but she confirmed it with vig orous denial: "I have not communi cated with Mr. Law in more than a year!" *Preciely as I thought," Mr. Digby ncddi-d. "None the less, Mr. Law not long since received what purported to be a message from you; in fact-a - rose." And as Miss Trine sat for ward with a start of dismay, he aded: "I have the information over Mr. Law's signature-a letter received ten days ago-from Quebec." "Alan in America!" the girl cried , in undisguised distress. "He came In response to-ah-the ,message of the rose." L "But I did not send it!" "I felt sure of that, because," said i.'r. Digby, watching her narrowly t 'i'ecause of something that accompa nied the rose, a symbol of another sig niicance altogether-a playing card, a trey of hearts." Her eyes were blank. He pursued with openly sincere reluctance, "I Must tell you, I see, that a trey of hearts invariably foresignaled an at tempt by your father on the life of Alan's father." With a stricken cry the girl crouched back in the chair and covered her face - with her hands. "That is why I sent for you," Mr. Digby pursued hastily, as if in hope of getting quickly over a most unhap py business. "Alan's letter, written and posted on the steamer, reached me within twenty-four hours of his arrival in Quebec, and detailed his scheme to enter the United States secretly-as he puts it, 'by the back door,' by way of northern Maine-and promised ad vice by telegraph as soon as he reached Moosehead Lake. He should have wired me ere this, I am told by those who know the country he was to cross. Frankly, I am anxious about the boy!" "And I!" the girl exclaimed pitifully. "To think that he should be brought into such peril through me!" "You can tell me nothing?" "Nothing-as yet. I did not dream of this-much less that the message of the rose was known to any but Alan and myself. I cannot understand!" "Then I may tell you this much more, that your father maintains a every efficient corps of secret agents." "You think he spied upoi me?" the girl flamed with indignation. "I know he did." Mr. Digby per mitted himself a quiet smile. 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"Naturally, with every reason to question your loyalty, I had you watched." She waited a significant moment, then dropped an impassive monosyl lable into the silence: "Well?" "You have visited the man Digby, servant and friend of the man I hate -and you love." She said, without expression: "Yes." "Repeat what passed between you." "I shall not, but on one condition." "And that is?" "Tell me first whether It was you who sent the rose to Alan Law-and more, where Judith has been during the last fortnight?" "I shall tell you nothing, my child. Repeat"-the resonant voice rang with inflexible purpose-"repeat what the man Digby told you!" The girl was silent. He endured her stare for a long minute, a spark of rage kindling to flame the evil old eyes. Then his one living member that had power to serve his iron will, a hand like the claw of a bird of prey, moved toward a row of buttons sunk in the writing-bed of his desk. "I warn you I have ways to make you speak-" With a quick movement the girl bent over and prisoned the bony wrist in her strong fingers. W!Lh her other hand, at the same time, she whipped open an upper drawer of the desk and took from it a revolver which she placed at a safe distance. "To the contrary." she said quietly, "you will remember that the time has passed when you could have me pun ished for disobedience. You will call nobody: if Interrupted. I shan't hesi tate to defend myself. And now''-lay ing hold of the back of his chair, she moved it some distance from the desk -"you may as Nvell be quiet while I find for myself what I wish to know." For a moment he watched in silence as she bent over the desk, rummaging its drawers. Then with an infuriated gesture of his left hand, he began to curse her. She shuddered a little as the black oaths blistered his thin old lips, dedi cating her and all she loved to sin, inft.my and sorrow; but nothing could stay her in her purpose. He was breathless and exhausted wh:n she straightened up with an exclamal'ion of satisfaction, studied intently for a moment a sheaf of papers, and thrust them hastily into her hand-~bag, togeth er with the revolver'. Then touching the push-button which released a secret and little-used door, without a backward glance she slipped from the room and, closing the door securely, within another minute had made her way unseen from the house. CHAPTER VIII. The Incredible Thing. Broad daylight, the top of a morn ing pas rare as ever broke upon the north country: Alan Law- opening be wildered eyes to realize the substance of a dream come true. True it proved itself, at least, In part. He lay between blankets upon a couch of balsam fans, In a corner of somebody's camp-a log structure, weather-proof, rudely but adequately furnished. His clothing, rough-dried but neatly mended, lay upon a chair at his side. He rose and dressed in haste, at once exulting in his sense of comple rest and renewed well-being, a prey to hints of an extraordinary appietite, and provoked by signs that seemed to bear out the weirdest flights of his de lirious fancies. There were apparently indisputable vences of a woman's recent pres ence in the camp: blankets neatly 'olded upon.a second bed of aromatic balsam in the farther corner; an effect f orderliness not common with guides; a pair of dainty buckskin gauntlets depending from a nail In the wall; and-he stood staring witlessly at it for more than a minute-in an ld preserve jar on the t~ble, a single rose, warm and red, dew upon its petals! There was also fire in the cook stove, with a - plentiful display of1 hings to cook; but despite his hunger Alan didn't stop for that, but rushed o the door and threw it open and him self out Into the sunshine, only to ause, dashed, chagrined, mystified. There was no other living thing In sight but a loon that sported far up the river and saluted him with a sriek of mocking laughter.3 The place was a cleft in the hills, table of level land some few acres n area, bcunded on one hand, be eath the cliff from which he had ropped, by a rushing river fat with ecent rains; on the other by a second1 Dliff of equal height. Upstream the ater curved round the shoulder of a owering hill, downstream the cliffs losed upon it until it roared through narrow gorge. Near the camp, upon a strils of helving beach that bordered the river where it widened Into a deep, 'dark pool, two canoes were drawn up, bof oms to the sun. Dense thickets of pines, oaks, and balsams hedged in he clearing. He was, It seemed, to be left severe y to himself, that day; wvhen he had ooked and made way with an enor nous breakfast, Alan found nothing etter to do till time for luncheon ELL WONDERFUL| STOMACH REMEDY| f the powers of your remedy. You Lave saved my life." 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This is e medicine so many of or - een taking with surprisi than to explore this pocket domain. le feasted famously again at noon; whiled away several hours vainly whip ping the pools with rod and tackle found in the camp, for trout that h6 really didn't hope would rise beneath that blazing sun; and toward three o'clock lounged back to his aromatic couch for a nap. / The westering sun had thrown a deep, cool shadow across the cove when he was awakened by importun at'e hands aid a voice of magic. Rose Trine was kneeling beside him, clutching his shoulders, calling on him by name-distracted by an inexplica ble anxiety. He wasted no time discriminating between dream and reality, but gath ered both Into his arms. And for a moment she rested there unresisting, sobbing quietly. "What is it? Wbtat is it, dearest?" he questioned, kissing her tears away. "To find you all right. . . . I was so afraid!" she cried brokenly. "Of what? Wasn't I all right when you left me here this morning?" She disengaged with an effort, rose, and looked down strangely at him. "I did not leave you here this morn ing, Alan. I wasn't here-" That brought him to his own feet in a jiffy. "You were not!" he stam mered. "Then who-?" "Judith," she stated with conviction. "Impossible! You don't under stand." The girl shook her head. "Yet I know: Judith was here until this -ox 4'.5 Precipitating Both Into That Savage .Wetter. morning. I tell you I know-I saw her only a few hours ago. She passed us In a canoe with one of her guides, while we watched In hiding on the banks. Not that alone, but anothr of her guides told mine she was here with you. She had sent him to South Portage for quinine. He stopped there to get drunk-and that's how my guide managed to worm the Infor mation from him." Alan passed a hand across his eyes. "I don't understand," he said dully. "It doesn't seem possible 'she could-" A shot interrupted him, the report of a rifle from a considerable distance upstream, echoed and re-echoed by the cliffs. And at this, clutching fran tically at his arm, the girl drew him through the door and down toward the river. "Oh, come, come!" she cried, wild ly. "There's no time!" "But, why? What was that?" | "Judith is returning. I left my guide up the trail'-to signal us. Don't you know what It means if we don't manage to escape before she gets "But how.?" "According to the guide the -river's the only way other than the trail." "The current Is too strong. They :ould follow-pot us at leisure from :he banks." "But downatream-thie current with "Those rapids?". "We must shoot them!" "Can it be done?" "It must be!" Two more shots put a period to ils doubts and drove it home. He >ffered no further objection, but :urned at once to launch one of the :anoes. As soon as It was in the water, Rose :ook he~r place In the bo'ii, paddle ln land, and Alan was about to step In stern when a fourth shot sounded mnd a bullet kicked up turf -within a lozen feet. A glance discovered two igures debouching into the clearing. le dropped Into place and, planting paddle In shallows, sent the canoe well out with a vigorous thrust. Two strokes took It to the middle >f the pool . where immediately the iurrent caught the little craft In its rgent grasp and sped it smoothly hrough more narrow and higher anks. A moment more and the nouth of the gorge was yawning for hem.\ With the clean balance of an ex erienced canoeman, Alan rose to his eet for an instantaneous reconnols ance both forward and astern. He ooked back first, and groaned In his teart to see the sharp prow of the second canoe glide out from the sanks. He looked ahead and groaned loud. The rapids were a wilderness if shouting waters, white and green, rorse than anything he had antici hated or ever dreamed of. CASTOR IA lFor Infants and Children. [he Kind You Have Alwapje hght Bears the signature of PICKEN PICKEN Capitl & 8451 But there was now ordeal. The canoe ning between wals., ran deep and face. The. next instant it and the man settled do with grim g jnniko, age and -igth -and against thWvning waters at the ca ion. every maid -elamoi .bea&c and tween the;wals of the gorge bellowinga. of Infernal mirth. -He fought like -oene There was never an instant's for Judgment.~or execution; t must be synchronous with, the both Instantaneous, or els tion. The cknoe wove this way and that like an insane shuttle threading some satanio loom. Now.-It hesitated, nus sling a gigantic boulder over which the water4wove a pale green and glistening hood, -now in .the space of a heartbeat it shot forward twice its length through a sea of creaming. waves, - now, plunged-. wildly toward what p,,mised instant annihilaton and cheated that only by the timely plunge of a paddle, guided by luck or Instinct or both. The one ray of hope in Alan's mind, when he suz'veyed before committing himself and tfie woman he loved to that hideous gauntlet, sprang from the fact that, however rough, the - rapids were short. Now, when he had been in their grasp a minute, he. seemed to have.been there hours. His laborings were tremendous, un believable, Inspired. In the end they were all but successful. ..The goal of safety was within'- thirty -seconds' - more of quilck, hard work, whenAlan's Vaddle broke and the canoe swung broadside to a .boulder, turned turtle and precipitated- both. headlong into that savage welter. As the next few minutes passed he was fighting like a mad thing against overwhelming odds. Then; of a sud den, he found himself rejected, spewed forth from the cataract 'and swimmifig mechanically In the smooth water'of a wide pool beyond the lowermost eddy, the canoe floating bottom up near by, and Rose supporting herself with hand on it. Her met his, clear with the sanity of er adorable courage. He fto ered to her side, panted in o transfer her hand to his , structions strucden nd struck out for the shoulder, nearer sh footing at Both fo me and tto hausted, a Then, with remembered the and looked up the rapi - In time to view the last swift quarter of the canoe's descent: Judith in the bow, motionless, a rifle across her knees, In the stern an Indian guide kneeling and fighting the waters with scarcely pei'ceptible effort In contrast with Alan's lupreme struggles. Like a living thing the canoe, seemed to gather Itself together, to poise, to leap with all Its strength, It hurdled the'eddy In a bound, took. the silwater with a mighty splash, an'shot downstream at dminished - speed, the Indian furiously backing water. - As though that -had been the one ioment she had lived for, Judith lifted her rifle and brought It to bear -upon her sister. -With a cry of horror, Alan fi himself before Rose, a living shield,. anticipating nothing but Immediate death. This was not accorded him.. For a breathless Instant the woman In They Found a Footing, -- the canoe stared along ,the sightsr then lowered .her weapon ,and, turn - lug, spoke indlstingnishnhiv to the guide, who Instantly began.to ply brisk paddle. The canoe sped on, vanished wlty round a bend.. After a long time, Alan voiced his unmitigated amagement: "Why-In th'e~ name of heaveni Why-?" -- The gi& said dully: "Don't youn know?' AnB \when he shook his head. .Z "Her pilde -told m~ine you had saved her life on the dam- at Spirit -Lake. Now do you 'see?" His counitenance was blank with wonder: "Gratitude?" - Rose smiled wearily: "Not tude alone, but something more rible. ... ..".She rose and~h out her~aand. "Not that I can b her. .. . "But come; If we s through here we will, I thinkr pick0 a trail that will bring us to B Beaver settlement by dark." (Conthed Next week) DR. R. A. ALL PHYSiCIAN AND SURGE Office over Keowee Pharmacy. dence, Attaway Hous Office Phaone 24 -:- Residence SBA