The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, November 12, 1914, Image 3
Isib
FSTORMA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have
Always Bought
ALCOHOL 3 PER CENT. AlasB gh
Sim'.ana Bears the
tistoesmdaa ws o
IEI~iliniSignature
nessanilistconftineither
In
Use
pnre FiOveerr
Nio',Sr toachi.
!WormsConvalsons.evrisk
IessanlLOSS OF SLEEP.
NEWYORK ' Thirty Years
Exact Copy of Wrappe. THE OCNTAUR CO PANT. NEW YORK GMT-.
A. K. Park
Greenville, := S C,
Ihave enjoyed the patronageot thereaders
of The Sentinel for more than 20 years. I
have appreciated this patronage and have
tried to give "Value Received." I am now
ready to serve you with a large and well
selected stock of
Dry Goods, Notions, Underwear, I
These are the newest creations in their line,
bought right and will be sold at "Right
* Prices," and if goods are n -t as represented
) I AM RESPONSIBLE, and will make them
right. Come to Greenville. Come in to
see us. We will take great pleasure in
showing you our goods, and if goods and
price suit you will be glad to sell you, and
should they not suit, we will appreciate the
call just the same.
A. K. P AR K
All PEPSI-Cola crowns bearing
the word "Greenville" on. inside
under cork disk will be redeemed
-at 5c each.
-Ask the MerChant
There's a great reason why you should
drink PEPSI-Cola. It is healthful.
EVE RYT HING which it brings you is 100
per cent. PURE benefit and enjoyment. Flavor is
delicious---rare. Effect is wholesome, satisfying
quick to refresh. It QUENCHES thirst with its
a tfart, ruit flavor.
"There's a Difference"
E. L. & G. B. HAMILTON
EASLEY, S. U.
The leading Furniture deale,-r 'i the County. The
mad.Lj.Lle. '.a. keX' frorm n'ies to compete with anybody.
us fuiish your home. We'll do our best to please you.
e us before you buy.
jIf you haven't the cash, vge will exchange furniture for
~~ows, Calves, corn, or any kind of feed stuffs, at the market
~prices. We are over-stocked on Furniture just now and will
make prices interesting to you.
Cook Stoves, Steel Ranges, Organs and Sewing Ma
chines. Let us show you the "New Wilson," Sewing Ma
chine, You'll like it---the "Sit Straigh?' kind. Agents for the
osier Kitchen Cabinets, and the "Oriole" Go-Basket for
e Baby.
We sell everything in the Furniture line, from the
~ cradle to the grave. If we happen not to have just what you
v ant, we will get it for you.
P. S. We buy and sell Milch Cows.
? -.- Yours very truly,
~. L. & G. B. HAMILTON
T anc Easley, S, C,
- -but Goods to Meet
a. "cal aEAP PRICE OF COTTON
will be m$1.25 to-_-_._-___---___--_ $ 7.50
you are regn $8.0() to --_-_..._-_.-------..-1.00
__ _ ----------------------- 3.50
4. PIDE1J~, Porfrying chickens up 35e; Hens, 10c
- .~ ~ aPlows andPons
ours for trade.
.endrick=
The Trey
A Novelized Version of the Motior
Produced by the
By LOUIS JC
Adthr of "T Fortm Huer," "7
liastrted with Photograpk
Copyright1914, by
CHAPTER V.
The Hunted Man.
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. "It has
seemed my business, in the service of
my employer, to employ agents of my
own. There is no doubt that your
father sent you to Europe for the sole
purpose of having you meet Alan."
~"Oh!" she protested. "But what
earthly motive-?"
"That Alan might be won back to
America through you-and so-"
There was no need to finish out his
sentence. The girl was silent, pale
a~'nd staring with wide eyes, visibly.
mustering her wits to cope with this
emergency.
"I may depend on you." Mr. Digby
suggested, "to advise me if you find
out anything?"
"For even more." The girl rose and
extended a hand whose grasp-was firm
"Oh, Come, Come!" She rie dy
Oln Coeas Comef he Ciedewn ourd
anhiarificed. finers. me fine Iray
comunicte secretey coutnnc go-an
letu may ount son me oribion!"
mythin pte ifu Ros fidcrinemstnce
wafreher at.heroise that omrry
whern beaue wofe eudi crippeed ours
inather-tnaceto stneand byados
whose scifisted. Tlr-chme hof crmy
comncaeblackewas wth tuliyon
let me oaomanahs possible!" en
geance thaoe Meptneerm h m
whferen he n wor ifo t Rple day
UsthtI~e of hilenemandkadows
whoec siniserers'or-sche Softheast
s.and, b ac ase the truntry ofv
hisndonomana-his assefioint freu-t
fromc that ale keptMayr thnerful1
Sufferer Remed. it eie y
Usy e take T his remedykalel
Sfets om sufeerly-nthe irsthast on
aninfct. l o.D vePrTe cour, N.aC.
-Fodreark able ndufficenresfrmtas
dseasemhch puzldmhedotos.I.
heany hav taknuri remedy and e tll
have werief. Yorflltetmn
has about cured me." -
J. E. ~
bcrs of life In that wasted and move
less frame.
An impish malice glimmered in his
sunken eyes as he kept her waiting
upon his pleasure. And when at length
he decided to speak, it was with a ring
of hateful irony In that strangely
sonor'ous voice of his.
"Rose," he. said slowly-"my daugh
ter!-I am- told you have today been
guilty of an act of disloyalty to me."
She said coolly: "You had me spied
upon."
"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."
These statements come from letter
mong thousands. This remedy is,
nown and used throughout the United
tates. It has a record of results and
Mayr's Wonderful Stomach Remedy
lears the digestive tract of mucuoid
cretions and removes poisonous nmat
er. It brings swift relief to sufferers
'rom stomach, liver and bowel troubles.
dany say it has saved' them from dan
~erous coperations and many are sure it
ias saved their lives.
We want all people who have chronic
tomach trouble or constidation, no mat
er of gow long standing, to try one dose
f Mayr's Wonderful Stomnach Remedy
-one dose will convince yqu. 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