The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, November 04, 1915, Image 8
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! . r the place.
CH --C:ntoued.
It a :; 1 a terrifying
. and, scream
b -.r window and
rr Vrt r:.er's presence,
:.. . r. .0 ut. woried her
i i' :. .:'ti carved screen
S :.a . .:: rncr and cowered
T 2:n.: tr-ugling men, the
t'rt :gro. ' in the next room
new *e cou i c atch the sound of the
lJttf r' parr ng breath rising above
the ca.r or strange entreaties and
xci:ed cries with which the air was
u11: then a q:ick. hoarse shout of
'.kdge: Judge. ' rose in the doorway,
and she became conscious of the pres
ence of a headlong. rushing force
struck m;d way into silence as the fro
-en figure of his master flashed upon
the negro's eyes-then-a growl of
concertrated emotion, uttered almost
in her ear, and the screen which had
been her refuge was violently thrust
away from before her and in its place
she beheld a terrible being standing
ever her. In wvho t eyes. dilating under
th; fresh surprise. he beheld her
doom, ever wh Mile recognizing that if
the troust suffer it would be simply
as an (.:a(le to some goal at her
bac I: ' h:t h :r ust reach --now-be
fcr- he f. 1 fin hi. lIed and died.
What wa\as t. goal? As she felt
hersl ii.f d. na,. almost hurled aside.
h( t(:rne1 to se0 and foundh it to be a
door be-fore which the devoted Dela
ha:.d ::c th.r:.n him:5 lf, guarding it
-:: tr .e. i of his powerful but
raLpdl. si:kie body, and chattering
deh ,c e ith his bloodlIess, quivering
lI+-a figur- rile In anger. sub
l:nae in pu. ' anid piteous in its
failing eter es
"13i(;:! al (f .,ou!" he erhol. and
Ftr ;;d, utal c at the door easing
on either sid. to hold hits lf "ret.
'You Mlannot cut- in hre This is
the .ldg-"
Net (v'.u his ir-m r oi? v or onl(ce
.unequaled hy si1" cuI tand the
sa-tpi 'f tht '-r::lb cash which di. l
figured his 1 r.h ! lb" hal beten runl
over by an aut '::.ohile in a moment
of blind abstral t:o:, and his hurt was
mortal. Air-::di his: hn'a-. h'-:' erset
by the pa t :n
r
cenraton whnwt a iarlyo
Tring hey sBeyeld the judge, Upn
as yo seeIa kFlet. m o o
sirki. owea hbrat yulileave hthlas
idgoey unasd lswear Itha o ofe butl
hinsraton, heven this nlok r i
i decayng tu, iea mtartn byrman
Sgain and cre'tin terribleou gaes.
t1havein ditobiforwaredgn andi
hs youebood it ild his.lash not
tre.eadear tath yo il lee thboa
benath uthen her thet no ohebu
han sfell.- eer tor thel flocks arms
weekl hasefungI elef byw ian
His ea erknoward agaion andond
thme inuteng omn's hopete hat
sifebls oo as itornpad fnow s
bneth n e hbtreloohsdr.
.A fellemn hsh, to he afmghoo g
of Dadumurked emlontet Mios
Weeks ip and she ngrwdlf dater in
Areklea abandboahi not ter
bya he knwunexp itast eoj
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By ANNA KATI
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suspended animation which confronted
them from the judge's chair, shrank
tumultuously back as little Miss
W\'eeks advanced upon them, holding
out her meager arms in late defense of
the secret to save which she had just
seen a ian die.
"Let us do as he wished," she
prayed. "I feel myself much to blame.
What right had we to come in here?"
No one in authority was present;
no one representing the law, not even
a doctor; only haphazard persons from
the street and a few neighbors who
had not been on social terms with the
judge for years and never expected
to be so again. His secret!-always a
source of wonder to every inhabitant
of Shelby, but lifted now into a matter
of vital importance by the events of
the day and the tragic death of the
negro! Were they to miss its solution,
when only a door lay between it and
them-a door which they might not
even have to unlock? Miss Weeks
was about to utter an impassioned ap
peal to their honor, when the current
of her and their thoughts was changed
by a sudden sense of some strange
new influence at work in the room, and
turning, they beheld the judge i.pon
his feet, his mind awakened, but his
eyes still fixed-an awesome figure;
some thought more awesome than be
fore.
Death was present with them-he
saw it not. Strangers were making
havoc with his solitude-he was as
oblivious of their presence as he had
been unconscious of it before. Ills
faculties and all his attention were
absorbed by the thought which had
tilled his brain when the cogs of that
subtle ni hanism had slipped and his
faultics paused inert.
"Where is the woman ?" lie cried.
It was a cry of fear; not of mastery
CHAPTER Ii.
The Veiled Woman.
The intensity of the question, the
emrinpelliig. self-forgetful passion of
i.' r:an, had a startling effect upon
he crowd cf people huddled before
rim. With one accord, and without
topl)ping to pick their way, they made
or the open doorway, knocking the
naller pieces of furniture about and
rearting havoc generally. Some fled
the house; others stopped to peer in
tgain from behind the folds of the
turtain which had been only partially
torn from its fastenings. Miss Weeks
was the only one to stand her ground.
\W:-n the room was quite cleared
nIl the noise abated (it was a fright
il experience to see how little the
udge had been affected by all this
hlbb of combined movement and
udl she stepped within the line cof
hi vsion alnd lifted her feeble and
e effectunal band in an effort to attract
hi. atent in to hierselft.
I ut he did not notice her, any moore
han he hiad not Iced the others. Still
lookinn 'u the one dIirection, lhe criedI
a ioudi in t rou bled tones:
'She stood there! the woman stood
her* and( 1 saw her ! WVhere is she
now ?"
She is no longer in the house,
cam n.In gentle reply from the only one
ini or out of the room courrageous
enough to speak. "'She went out w~hen
she saw us coming. We knew that she
had no right to be here. TPhat is why
we Intruded ourselves, sIr. We did
not like the looks of her, and so fol
lowed her In to prevent mischIef.'"
"How dared you! iHow dared she!"
Then as his mind regaIned its full
poi4se. "And how, even if you had the
temerity to venture an entrance here,
dlid you manage to pass my gates?
They are never open. Bela see-s to
th1 at.''
As she watched she saw his eyes,
lixd rup i to now u pont her face, leave It
antI pass fu rtivsel y and with moany huesi
tations from object to object, toward
that spot behind him where lay the
sou rce of her great terror, till finally.
withI fatal precision, they reached the
poit. where the screen had stood, and
not fin d ig It, flew in o pen terror to
thre door It was set there to conceal
when that somethIng else, hnddln'd in
oozIng blood, otn the floor beneath,
drew them to Itself v-Ith the irresist
ibieness of grim realIty, atnd he forgot
all else.
Dead! Bela! Dead! and lying In
his blood! The rest may have been
no dream, but this was surely one, or
his eyes, used to inner visions, were
playing him false.
GraspIng the table at his side to
steady his failing limbs, he pulled him
self along by Its curvIng edge tIll lie
came almost abrea~t of the helpless
figure which for so many years had
b teen the embodiment of faithful and
Iunwearied servIce.
IThen and then only did the truth of
his great misfortune burst upon his
bewIldered soul; and wIth a cry which
tore the ears of all hearers and was
never forgotten by anyone there, he
flung himself down besIde the dead
negro, and, turnIng him hastily over,
gazed in his face.
'And where was 1, when all this
happened?" he demanded in a vole
made low by awe and dread of is own
-Bound.
"You? You were seated hero," mur
mured the little won, ftIgs
IARINE GREEN
odd, ead & Company)
the great chair. "You were not
quite--quite yourself," she softly ex
plained, wondering at her own conm
posure. Then quickly, as she saw his
thoughts revert to the dead friend al
his feet, "Bela was not hurt here. Ile
was downtown when it happened; but
he managed to struggle home and gair
this place, )vhich he tried to hok
against the men who followed him
lie thought you were dead, you sat
there so rigid and so white, and, be
fore he quite gave up, he asked us all
to promise not to let anyone enter this
room till your son Oliver came."
Understanding partly, but not yet
quite clear in his mind, the judge
sighed, and, stooping again, straight
ened the faithful negro's limbs. Then,
with a sidelong look in her direction,
he felt in one of the pockets of the
dead negro's coat and, drawing out a
small key, held it in one hand while
he fumbled in his own for another,
which found, he became on the instant
his own man again.
Miss Weeks, seeing the difference in
him, and seeing, too, that the doorway
was now clear of the wondering, awe.
struck group which had previously
blocked it, bowed her slight body and
proceeded to withdraw; but the judge,
staying her by a gesture, she waited
patiently near one of the bookracks
against which she had stumbled, to
hear what he had to say.
"I must have had an attack of some
kind," he calmly remarked. "Will you
be good enough to explain exactly
what occurred here that I may more
fully comprehend my oWn misfortune
and the death of this faithful friend."
Then she saw that his faculties were
now filly restored, and came a step
forward. liut before she could begin
her story he added this searching ques
tion:
"Was it he who let you in-you and
the others-I think you said others?
Was it he who unlocked my gates?"
Miss Weeks sighed and betrayed
flustar. It was not easy to relate her
story; besides it vwas woefully incom
plete. She knew nothing of what had
happened downto'n, she could only
tell what had passed before her eyes.
Iut there was one thing she could
make clear to him, and that was how
the seemingly impassable gates had
been made ready for the woman's en
trance and afterwards taken such ad
vantage of by herself and others. A
pebble had done it al:-a pebble placed
in the gateway by Bela's hands.
As she described this and insisted
upon the fact in face of the judge's
almost frenzied disclaimer, she thought
she saw the hair move on his forehead.
Bela a traitor, and in the interests of
thte womant who had fronted him from
tihe other end of the roo:n at the mo
ment consciousness had left him! Evi
dently this inttrusive little body' did
not know IBela or his story, or
Why shtould interruption comte then?
Why was he sitop~ped, whten in the pas.
sioni of the moment hte muight have
let fall some word of Pinlightten~met
which would have eased the agitated
curiosity of the whole town! Miss
Weeks often asked herself this ques
tion and bewailed the sudden access
of sounds in tihe rooms without, which
proclaimledl the enttance of the police
andl put a new strain upon the judge'e
faculty of self-control and attention
to the one matter in hantd.
The commonplaces of an official in.
quiry were about to sutpersede the ptlay
of a startled spirit struggling with a
problem of whose complexities he had
received 'but a glimpse.
* * * , 9 0 , 9
The library again! but how changed!
Evening lliht now insteadl of blazing
sunshine; and evening light so shaded
that the corners Beemed far and th<
mnany articles of furniture, cumbhering
thte spaces between, larger for th<
shadows in which they stood hidden
l'erhtaps thte mian who sat there ir
com panty with thle judge would have
preferred to see more perfectly thai
portiont of the room whtere fiela haf
takent his stand antd finally fallen; bul
from thte pliace where he sat there wat
no getting any possible view of thal
part of thte wall or of anything con
necte'd with it; and so, with every ap
pearance of satisfaction at being al
lowed in thte room at all, Sergean
D~oolittle from headquarters drank thl
judge's wine and listened for thi
judge's commands.
"Sergeant, I have lost a faithfu
servantt under circumstances whici
have call an unfortunate attention t<
my house, I should like to have thiu
place guarded-carefully guarded, yo,
understand-from any and all intru
slons till I can look about me and si
cure protection of my own. May
rely upon the police to do this, bogil1
ing -tonight at an early hour? Ther
are loiterer. already at the corner an
in front of the two gates, I am no
accustomed to these attentions, an
ask to have my fence cleared."
"Two men are already detailed fo
the job, your honor. I heard the orde
given just as I left headquarters,"
The judge showed small satisfactli
"Two menl Couldn't I have three
One for each gate and one to patr4
the fence separating these ground
fronm the adj"4ilg lot?"
"It two men are not enough to i
sure ?oI a quiet sleeni you shafl has
sdow'
three or four or even more, Judge Os
trander. Do you want one of them
to stay inside? That might do the
business better than a fezen out."
"No. While Bela lies above ground,
we want no third here. When he is
buried I may call upon you for a
special to watch my room door. But
it's of outside protection we're talk
ing now. Only, who is to protect me
against your men?"
"WVhat do you mean by that, your
honor?"
"They are human, are they not?
They have instincts of curiosity like
the rest of us. How can I bo made
sure that they won't yield to the temp
tation of their position and climb the
fences they are detailed to guard ?"
"And would this be so fatal to your
peace, judge?" A smile tempered the
suggestion.
"It would be a breach of trust which
would greatly disturb me. I want no
body on my grounds, nobody at all.
Has not my long life of solitude within
these walls sufficiently proved this? 1
want to feel that these men of yours
would no more climb my fence than
they would burst into my houe.' with.
out a warrant."
"Judge, I will be one of the men.
You can trust me."
"Thank you, sergeant; I appreciate
the favor. I shall rest low as quietly
as any man can who has met with a
great loss. I shall always suffer from
regret that I was not in a condition
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to receive Blikem lat ask la quesa,
man fina tosanvd. "Oue wed o ate
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thyman Ito a woman-hleading ac-al
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speerder to addell himhimaw.ha
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gret crossed the wags incehs rom.s
head sank back conaen against thr her,
ack f heis fondananir.rmae
he finllpy oll thatd you werno t agt
the demnd." hs fenon a
Note know that juthe iEnlis ard nt
crowde abut bhys, turedping ornyt
theya ntter cad won oadyinchsall
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butil aey collexa yoy thnkithougt
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Healthy Old
Brin,
Simple Remedy Promotes
Health By Overcoming Ten.
dency to Constipation.
Advancing years impair the action
of the vital organs. Old age should be
the period of greatest happiness, but
good health is necessary. Constipa
tion should not be tolerated-it is
often the direct cause of ill health.
Headache, belching, biliousness,
bloat, drowsiness after eating and
other symptoms of constipation can be
readily relieved by the use of a simple
laxative compound gold in drug stores
under the name of Dr. Caldwell's Syr
up Pepsin. Mr. J. H. Bristol, 1412
Geddes Ave., Ann Arbor, Mich., who is
83 years old, says "Dr. Caldwell's Syr
up Pepsin is the best remedy I ever
used for constipation and I always
have a bottle of it in the house to use
when I fool the need of it; it never dis
appoints."
Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is a
mild laxative preparation, positive in
its effect, acting easily and naturally
without griping or other pain or dis
comfort. For over a quarter of a cen
tury it has been the standard
Many a man's worth is net discov
ered until his will is road.
Writo Mlurinae Eye IEemedy Co., Chicago
for illustrated Hook of the Eye Free.
Follies of youth are drafts on old
ago, the paynents of which are tin.
perative.
Whenever You Need a General Tonic
Take Grove's
The Old Standard Grove's rasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as a Gen
eral Tonic because it contains the well
known tonic properties ot QUININE and
IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives out
Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds
up the WVhole System. 50 cents. - Adv.
Craven Knight.
"Never speak to mue again." ex
claimed the fair maid, as with ibrsli
ing eyes she handed back to the foot
ball hero the ring he had so proudly
placed on her finger a few short days
before. "I can never marry a cow
ard."
"A coward ?" he stammered.
"Yes, a coward. I saw you with
my own eyes at the game this after
noon. You had the ball under your
arm and ran with it the whole length
of the field instead of facing the
crowd and fighting like a man."
He Lived There.
James E. Ferguson, governor of
Texas, smiled the other evening when
the conversation turned to the subject
of bad breaks. He said he was remind
ed of how Smith sadly fozzled.
Some time ago Smith was taken to
an entertainment in an unfamiliar
town by a friend, and being somewhat
bored toward the end of the show he
looked around the room for a sympa
thetic soul.
"You look just the way I feel about
it," he remarked to a sad-looking citi.
zen. "These receptions are the most
tiresome things on tihe face of the
earth."'
"Yes," admitted the sad-faced one.
with something akin to a sigh. 'They
are rather tiresome."
"Bore you to beat the band," r
turned Smith, and then suggested,
"Why dlon't you go home?"
"I am home," was the star-tling re
joinder of the other. "I live in the
bloomnin' place."
MOTHER'S "NOTIONS"
Good for Young People to Follow.
"My little grandson often comes up
to show me how large the muscles of
his arms are.
"He was a delicate child, but has de
veloped into a strong, healthy boy and
Postum has b~een the principal factor.
"I was induced to give him the Post
um because of my own experience
with it.
"I am sixty years old, and have been
a victim of nervous dyspepsia for
many years. Have tried all sorts of
medicines and had treatment from
many phlysicians, but no permanent re
lief camie.
"I used to read the Postum adver
tisements in our papeor. At first I gave
but little attention to thoem, but finally
something in one of the advertise
rnents nmade me conclude to try P'os
tum,.
"I was very particular to have it
Prepared strictly according to dlirec
tions, and used good, rich cream. It
was very nice indeed, arid about bed
time I said to the members of tpne fam
ily that I believed I felt better. One
of them laughed and said, 'That's an
other of mother's notions,' but the no
tion has not left me yet.
"I continued to improve right along
after leaving off coffee and taking
Postum, and now after three years'
use I feel so well that I am almost
yaung again. I know Postum was the
cause of the chaaege in my health and
I cannot say too much in its favor, I
wish I could persuade all nervous .peo,
ple to use it,"
Name given by Postum Co., Blattle
Creek, Mich.
Postum comes in two forms:.
Postum Cereal-the original form
must be well boiled. 180 and 250 pack
ages,
insgtant Postum-a soluble powder
dissolves quickly in a cup of hot water,
-and, with cream. and sugar, makes a
delicious beverage instantly, 80c and
50c tints,
Iloth kinds are equally delicious and
1st about the same per cup,
"'r'sa Reason" for Postum,
gs appine,
MR. J. H. BRISTOL.
household remedy in thousands of
homes. Druggists everywhere sell it
for fifty cents a bottle. A trial bottle
of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin can be
obtained, free of charge, by writing to
Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 203 Washington
St., Monticello, Illinois.
The Man for the Job.
"Hie never complains at his luck.
.lust takes his mis.fort unes with a smile
and keeps plugging along."
"Fine, hle's just the mlan we're look
ing for. Let's make him chairman of
the entertainment committee and give
him the worst of it."-Detroit Free
Press.
YES, .RESINOL CERTAINLY
DOES STOP ECZEMA
Are you an eczema sufferer? Do
those ugly patches of eruptions start
up and itch as though they would drive
you frantic? And have you tried treat
mont after treatment with, at best,
only temporary relief? Then you are
only going through the experience of
thousands of others who at last found
that resinol healed their sick skins'
for good!
With the first use of resinol oint
ment and resinol soap the itching and
burning usually stop, and soon al
trace of eczema or similar torturing
skin-trouble disappears, even in se
vere and stubborn cases. Doctors have
prescribed the resinol treatment for
twenty years.-Adv.
How the fact that town dogs are
bathed regularly must make the coun
try dlogs snicker.
Treat Children's
Colds Externally
Don't dose delicato little stomachs with
harmful internal medicines. Vick's "Vap
O..1ub" Salve, applied externally, relieves
by inhalation as a vapor and by absorption
through the skin. Vick's can be used
freely with perfect safety on the youngest
member of the family. 25c, 60c, or $1.00%
ItHE GENU/NE HAS TN/S TRADE MARK
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