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SYN Tii 1 4". NX .. .,*rowd ,of neighbors invade V ohne 'bf o Uge 'Ost'rander, d0'iud - eocc tio recluse, fol ed woman. bo, proves to be kWidw'r fa inin'tridU before the judge - uetr d t ur er,years before. r e - .aged ,tO the judge's urd Is. between.thb lovers. h pans o ear her *b b e memory and asks - i .'judge'aid. - Dborah Scoville roads X - the nowa r clip ings telling the story the r of Igernon Etheridge by sDark Hollew, twelve hoet at 8pnr Foll and 6h O rehim how, on the day of the mur' 11e saw the shadow of a man, whit. 4 a tik' and wearing a long peaked The Judge engages her and her 1ghter Reuther to ive with'himin his storioig. hoie. Deborah and het lawv '3er, Black go to the police station and the stick used to murder Etherldge. di covers a broken knife-blade po t bPnbedded in It.' Deborah and Reuther go - IVe with the judge. Deborah sees a - rtrait of Oliver, the judge'* po,~with a ack band' nted across khe eyes. 'That Aght "she - fnde, in Olivers roon, . E cap *th a peak like the shadowed one, and. a knife with .a broken.blad6-point.' Anon ou-- lettdr q nd ia 'talk -with Iles. eeks Increase ier suspicions an'd fears. shoe finds that Oliver was in the ravine n'the murder ni ht. Black warns -her and show. her other anonymous letters -inting- at- Oliver's guilt. In the court r To the judge is handed an anonymous 0o1e. The note Is picked up and read aloud. A mob follows the judge to his hom. Deborah tells him wh suspicion as been aroused against Oliver. The -u e shows Deborah a statement wriltten 3F liver-years agQ telling how he saw hr husband murder Spencer at Spen cer's Folly on the night the house' was burned. A vain attempt to silence the anonymous letter writer is made. CHAPTER XIV-Continued. "I didn't ask to see the ladies," pro tested -Flannagan, turning with a slink-' Ing gait toward the door. If .they, only had let him go! It the 'judge in his new self-confidence had not been so anxious to deepen the ef fet and make any future repetition of the situation impossible!. "You underbtand the lady," he In terposed, with the quiet dignity which was so imposing on the bench. "She has no sympathy .with your ideas and no faith in your conclusions. She be lieves absolutely in my son's inno cence." "Do you, ma'am?" The .nasfi had turned and'was surveying her with the dogged impudence of his .class. "I'd like to*hear you say It, If you don't mind, ma'am. Perhans, then, I'll be. Vieve it" "1-" slae.egan, t'embling so, tliat she talled to rdeib her -feet, although she. made one spasmodic effort to do so. "I--believe--Oh, I -feel ill! It's been too much-I--" her head fell for - ard and, she turned 'herself quite a*ay trom them all.' 'Yoq* see, she ain't so eager, jddge you thought." laughed the bill-pos te , with a clumsy bow he evidently m ant to be sarcastic. * 'Okh-..wlhat have I done!" .monied -Deborah, starting up as' though she would fling hqrself after the retrer tin~g flgure, now' a~ lt way down the hall .8he saw In .the look of the judge as he forcibly ,s ppe d her, and heard in the lawyer's ~whisper as he bounded past them bo bI to see .the fellow out: "Useless; n thing will bridle him tiow;" and fit ding no support for her despairing sa rit either on earth or, as she thought, n heaven, she collapsed where she'sath and fell unnoticed to the fioor,.where (he lay prone at the feet of 'the equalyy unconscious figure of -the 'judge, - xed in another attack of his peculia'rteomplaint. And 'thus the lawyer found them -when' .h i'trned - from closing the gate' behin FIIlannagan "chnrjot say anything,Icantd anything' t.' have had a few .words wlth'Mde" oville. -'How soon do you tiiink I ca kto her?" "Not very soon. Her daughter says -she Is quite vorn out. Would it not be better to gkye her a rest for tonight, judge?" The judge, how,.quite recoyvered, but - stratigely sht nk and wan, showed no surprise at this retjuest, odd as it was, on. the lips of tbid honest but some -~ what crabbed lawyer, but answered out of the fullness of his own heart and from the depths of his preoccupation: "My necessity is greater than her. - The change I say- in her Is inex p1icable~ One moment she wvas all fire ufd'feterminatignoatisfied ,f Oliver's linoOcence an'd ,,agei--to' proclaim it. The next-ut you were with um, You witnessed -'her; hesitation-felt Its 9te~l'e and .'What its effect was upon he 4amnat le loamp who-has our bon oa'tho honor of thie Ostranders under his tongue. 'Something must have pro * duced this change. What? good fi'.eadi whaft" * " '' don't know any more than- you do, Jirdge Stat I think you are mis a .eIbh I ndticed ,that shi ,was not ~Bt ath 1erslf .when she came ht"The'tone wa short, x ~ ie ifrat tinme lrtt~te. CDL P minute. I won't 4etaIn her I will Pwait for her wanng.y iflook righi here." The Judge had declared bib neces, sity to be .gieter thau hers, and tei Mr. Q1lack hid, !ubjected him toio 0 d1 hiL most seabhing looko be decided that thi .wa so, and uietlydepartei upon his errand. The Judge left alone, sat, a broodihg figure in his greal chair. with'no ight in heart or' iind to combAt the shadows of apokoaching night- settlig'ieavier and ,heavier up or. the room nd upon himself witti every slow passing- and Aitolerablt minte. A., last, when the final ray had de parted and darkness reigned supreme, there came a low knock on the door. Then a troubled cry: "Oh, Judge, are you here?" ."Don't come any nearer; it is nol necessary." A pause, then the -quiet question ringing hollow fiom the dark, ness: "Why have your doubts re turned? Why are you no longer the woman yoig were when not ah .hour ago and in -this very spot you cried, I will be Oliver's advocatel'" Then, as no answer came-as minutei passed, and still no answer came, he spoke again and added: "I know tha you are ill and exhausted-broken be tween duty a. d sympathy; but you must answer me. Mrs. Scoville My affairs won't wait. I must know the truth and all the truth before this day is over." "You shall." Her voice sounded hol low, too, and, oh, how weary! "You allowed the document you showed me She Lay at the Feet of the Uncon. solous Figure of the Judge. to remain a little too long before my eyes. That last page-need I say it?' "Say it." "Shows-shows change. Judge Os trander. Some words have -beei erased and new ones written in. Thel are not many. but-" "I understand. I do not blame, you Deborah.', The words came after a pause and very softly, almost as softl as her .oWn, but which had soundec its low,. knell of doom through the darkness "Too many stumbling blocks in your way, Deborah, too muclk to combat. The most trusting heari must give way under such a strain That piage was tampered with. I tam pered with it myself. I am not expert at forgery. I had better have; left it as he wrote it." Then after anothei silence, he~ added, with a- certain ye hemnence: "We will struggle no long or, either you or 1. The boy must come home. Prepare Reuther, or. if .yoi think best, provide a .place. for hei where she will be safe from the storna which bids fair to wreck us here. No don't speak; just ask Mr. Black-to re turn, will you?" WVhen Mi'. Black r'e-entered the study, it was to find the roonm' ighted rLnd the judge bent over the table, writ ing. -- "You are going to send for Oliver'?' he queried. The judge hesitated, then motion ing Black to sit, said abruptly: "What is Andrews' attitude. in' this matter?" Andrews was Shelby's district attor ney. Black's answer was like the man. "I saw him for one minute an hout ago. I think, at present, he is. inclined to be both deaf and dumb, hut if he's driven to action, he Will. Ate And, judge, the man Flannagan isn't going to stop where he is." "Black, be merciful to my misery What does this man know? I-laye you any idea?" 'No, judge, I haven'te te' a a, tight as a drum--and as noisyr it is possible -ust possible that he afdt e ~t~ A S t days will tell." ~ent wait .for.tvdy y4s. if I thu't *~'~ ~.'1 If . e4>c##i'ot 1u1inwea and ton ,r't~e '-~'ad written. ro BMapk W ~~ aegraml and ~'~t~o ce. t No delay A RCH IBA*d' A NDJCR. Mrs. Scoville '- supply the ad dres," continued) the poor fatier. "You will see that #Ugfes, nd that its sending is kept seqr9t. The answer, if any is sent, dui ,better.be directed to your offiee. What do you say, Black?" "I am your -frien4 right straight through, Judge. Yotr, friend." "And my boy's-adviser" "I'm a surl'y fellow. judge. I have known you. all. the years, yet I've never expressed-neVer said. What I even Bnd it hard to' say now, thhtA that my esteem is something more "than esteem; that-th'at I'll do anyo thing for you. judge." "I-we won't talk of .that, Black. Tell Mrs. S -oville o keep me informed -and bring mu any message that may come. The boy, even if he leaves the first thing in the morning, cannot get here before tomorrow night." "Not possibly." "He will telegraph. I shall hear from him. 0 God! the hours I must Wait; my boy! my boy!" It was nature's irrepressible cry. Black pressed his hand and went out with the telegram. CHAPTER XV. He Must Be Found. Next morning an agitated confab took 'place at the &ate, or rather be tween the two front gates. Mr. Black rang for admittance, and Mrs. Sco ville answered the call. . "One moment, Mrs. Scoville. How ca. I tell the judge!. Young Ostrander is gone-fled the city, and I can get no clue to his whereabouts. I have been burning the telegraph wires ever since the first dispatch, and this is the result. Where is Reuther?" "At Miss Weeks. I had to command her to leave me alone with the judge. It's the firrt time I ever spoke un kindly to her Have you the messages with you?" He bundled them into her hand. "I will han.l them in to him. We can do nothing less and nothing more. Then if he wants you, I will tele phone." "Mrs. Scoville-" she felt his hand laid softly on her shoulder-"there is some one else in this matter to coy sider besides Judge Ostrander." "Reuther? Oh, don't I know it! She's not out of my mind a moment." "Reuther is young, and has a gallant soul. I mean you, Mrs: Scoville, you. You are not to succumb to this trial. 'You have a fture-a bright future or should have. Do not endanger it by giving up all your strength now. It's precious, that strength, or would be-" "He' must be found! Oliver must be found!" How the words rung -in her ears. She had handed in the mes sages, to the waiting father; she had uttered a word or two of explanation. andthen, at his request, had left him. But Uls last cry followed -her: "He must be foundl" - Mur. Black looked serione. "Pride. or hope ?" hid asked. "Desperation." she responded, with a guilty look about her. "Possibly. some hope is in it, too. Perhaps, he thinks that any charge of this nature must fall before Oliver's manly ap. pearance. Whatever he thinks, there is but one thing to do: Find Oliver." "Mrs. Scoville, the police have started upon that attempt. I got the tip this morning." "We must forestall them. To satisfy -the judge, .Oliver must come of his own accord -to face these charges." "It's a brave stock. If Oliver gets his father's telegram he will come." "But -how are we to reach him! We are absolutely in the dark." "If 1 could go to Detroit, I might str'ike some clue; but I cannot leave the judge. Mr. Black, he told me this morning when I carried in his break fast that he 'should see no one and go nowhere till I brought him word that Oliver was in the h'ouse. The hermit .life has begun again. -What shall we do? Advise -me in this emer gency, for I feel as helpless as a child -as a lost child " "You say you cannot go to Detroit. Shall I go? Court is adjourned.I know of- nothing more important than Judge Ostrander's peace -of mind--un. less it is yours. I will go if you say so." "WViII it avail? Let me thin~c. I knew him well, and yet not well enough to know where he would be most likely to go unde'r impulse." "There is some one who knows him better than you do." "Reuther? Oh. she mustn't be told--" -"Yes, she anust. She's our one ad. vicer. Go for her--or send me." "It won't bi necessary, There's her ring at the gate. But, oh, Mr. Black, think again' .efore 'you trouble this fragile child of mine 'with doubts an< questions which make her mother tremble." "She, has scurces of strength which~ you lack. "She believes abinoiutely In Oliver's integrity. it will carry her through." "Please let her in,'Mr. Black i vjill wait here while .iou tell her." Mr. lBlack :hurried' t ram the r oom. When his form became visible, on the walk withou, Deborah patched him from where Sbi? stood far back in. the room. A staf b N~eed' put in her hand, rotught to tt'h, b. t firm under ~t~~r,~ eneed'd such a staff, -- 3ti t 't4z and the gl.. "Oiver isno ogbut he's wanted hetofle an d. A are going to find him.,ti, w where to look. Get IfiOYe dear; we are going tonbt.' - "B1ut," objected D49ra 'ik Y know where to look tor him, wby taO the child?:* Why. go youtself? Wb not telegraph to these places?" His answer was a look, qulok, sboo and enigmatical enough to requit'e e. planation. He could not give it to het. then, but laster, when Reuther had isft them, he said: "Men who fly their engagements and secrete themselves, with or without a pretext, are not so easily reached. We shall have tio surprise Oliver Os. trander, in order to place his father's paessage in his hands." . "Yoh may be right. Hut Reuther? Can - she stand the excitement-the physical strain?" "You have the harder task of the two, Mrs. Scoville. Leave the little one to me. She shall not suffer " Deborah's response was eloquent it was only a look, but it made his harsh features glow and his hard eye soften. But his thoughts, if not his lopes, receivel a check when, with every plan made and Reuther in trembling anticipation of the journey, he en countered the triumphant figure of Flannagan coming out of police head. quarters. His jaunty air, his complaisant nod, admitted of but'one explanation. [ie had-told his story to the chief authori ties and been listened to Proof that he had something of actual moment to tell them: something which the dis trict attorney's offico might feel bound ,to take up 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 A night of stars, seen through sway. ing treetops whose leaves crisping to their fall, murmured gently of van ished hopes and approaching death Below, a long, low building with a lighted window here and there, sur rounded by a heavy growth of trees which are but the earnest of the Il. limitable stretch of the Adirondack woods which painted darkness on the encircling horizon. Within, Reuther seated in the glow of a hospitable fire of great logs. falk. ing earnestly to Mr. Black. As they were placed. he could see her much better than she could see him. his back being to the blaze and she. In its direct glare. He could, therefore, study her fea tures without offense, and this he did steadily and with deep interest. all the while she was talking. He was look ing for signs of physical weakness or fatigue; but he found none. rhe pallor of her features was a natural pallor, and in their expression. new forces were becoming apparent, which gave him encouragement, rather than anxiety, fo" the adventure whose most trying events lay still before them. This is what she was saying: "I cannot point to any one man of the many who have been about us ever since we started north. But that we have been watched and our route followed, I feel quite convinced. Biut, as you saw, no one besides ourselves left the cars at this station. and I am beginning to hope that we shall re snain unmolested till we ean take the trip to Temp~est .lodge. How rar. is it, Mr. Black ?" --. (TO HIC CONTIN4UED.) WHEN AN ICEBERG COLLAPSES Event Always Source of Great Dan. get to Craft That May Be in the Immediate Vicinity. One of the main dangers in the proximity of an iceberg is its un known extent beneath the water. it is told that. the passengers of a stea ia boat on the Newfoundland coast suc cessfully importuned the captain to approach an iceberg for a close in spection, says a writer in the W:do World. While still app~arently suifD ciently distant for safety some move ment,in the water or natural decay acted upon the berg, and it split apart. Instantly it began to readjust its balance. The tremendous masses beneath the water steadily rose as the *pieces swung over, and one wide ox tending ledge came up beneath the boat. "What shall we do now?"~ in quired a tourist. "Get down on your knees," was the terse reply of the captain. But the great wave from the tumbling ice swep~t down on tihe b' at and washed it to safety. The collapse of an iceberg spresde danger to great distances. It stay be too far distant to threaten a eraft itself, but the wave it raises will' swamp the largest boat in the imme. diate neighborhood. Saw New Era of Warfare. At the first inte'rview between Napo, leon and the veteran genierals wholn he was to command Ramipon unders took to give tihe young commander some advice. Napoleon, who was im patient of advice, exclaimed: "Gentl, men, the art of war is In its Infancy. The time has passed in whlich ene. mica are mutually to appoint the place of combat, advance hat in hand and say: 'Gentlemen. will you have the goodness to fire?' "-"Table Talk and Opinions of Napoleon Buonaparte." Bonaparte's Unlucky Shot. It is somewhat remarkable that the first shell fired at Toulon wa by the hand of Bonaparte, and that it fell upon and entirely destroy'ed the very hlousme where he and his family had re sided during the short time they ila habited the $6wn after their remov II from Corsica, ..It was a hotel kep: I tihe foster ussori of his mother, Li, daughter of he nufse. The husba, c~f the rifate -woian was kill, in' the E.Whi N 4nninen Arns Progran is Anesting of Publio ho( IAO lumbia MaroI 1 Columbia.-Wiliam 0. y~liml of Georgetown, president, bs mad-pub ic the programme for the nieeitg of the department of superint'ndents, State Teachers 'Association, to be held in Columbia during the convention of the association, March 16, 17 and -18. R4. A. Gentry of Ridgeway is vice president of the department, W. E. Black of Lexington is treasurer and L. M. Bouknight of Latta is secre tary. The programme follows: March 16; 4 P. M.-President's ad dress, W. 0. Bynum; "The Attitude of the School Toward Home Study." J. C. Daniel; "The Backward Pupil and What to Do With Him," D. R. Riser; general discussions. March 17, 9:30 A. M.-Open dis. cussion of the -following subjects: "Status of the High School Principal in His Relationship to the Superin tendent of Schools." 'introuc4d by W. H. Hall; "The Teaching of ~n1f; lish in the Primary Grades." intlro duced by Miss Trix Barbour; "The Superintendents' Pa'rt in His Teach' ers' Meetings," introduced' by R...B. Cheatham; reports of committees. March 17, 3:30 P. M.-"The Teach ing of Science in Our Schools," George Harris Webber; "The Superintend ent's Responsibility for a Teacher's Efficiency," S. H. Edmunds; "What Can We Do'to Make tho Standards in the Teaching of English and Litera ture Definite and Uniform in the Pub lic Schools of South Carolina?" R. S. Bailey; general discussions. Creamery Routes Are Profitable. Clemson College.-Summarios made of the ycar ending December 31, 1915, shows that the year was a very suc cessful one for the Clemson College Co-operative Creamery and Poultry association. As a result of the year's activities, the farmers in the Pied mont counties who wbre patrons of the creamery received nearly $33,000 and the average price paid to them for butter fat was slightly more than 28 cents per pound, which will com pare favorably, it is said, with prices paid to patrons of the very large creameries of the Middle West. At the close of 1915 there were 183 patrons, with 702 cows and 232 cream separators. At the beginning of the year there had been 62 patrons, with 190 cows and 48 separators. The butter fat receipts were largest in August, when they reached 14,815 pounds. The average monthly re ceipts were 11,561 pounds. The aver age price paid for butter fat was 28 cents. The total amount returned to farmers- during the year was $32, 778.79. For Good Roads Work. Washington.-senator Tillman has offered an amendment proposing to in sert a new section in the United States revised statutes. He would have con victs sentenced by federal 'Judges for less than one year labor on the roads of the respective county were sen tence is imposed ot where the crime is committed. He would also have it provided that such convict would be under- the same management and con trol as these sentenced by state courts. It is also provided that such wor-k shall be in all cases performed on such highways as are nsed for rur-al deliver-y mail purposes. Cotton Expert Goes to Georgia. Clemson College--C. A. McLendon, who for- tile last two years has been conducting tile cotton wilt investiga tions in this state lunder tile direc-tion of Clemson College and the foder-al department of agriculture, has resign ed to take a position as exp~ert in cot ton breeding wvith the Georgia state board of - entomology. Thousands of dollars have been saved to farmiers in this state thr-oughi tile cotton wilt work and Mr. Mcbendon's services in that field have beeni notable., Death Sentence For Negro. York.--At a special term of court, ordered by Gov. Manning and held( here, Israel Good, a 17-year-old negro, was convicted of criminal assault up on tihe personl of a little 6-year-old whlite girl of tihis coulnty andi was sen tenlced by Jud~ge Thomas S. Sease to be electrocuted On Friday, F~eb. 25. SOUTH CAROLiNA NEW-6 ITEMS. Tile Enterprise Carbonating Con pany of St. Geor-ge has bieen commis stoned( with a capital of $1,000, The potitioners arec: V. A Bunch and T, W. McGill, Tihe publlicit~y (ommllittee of -the Or-angebur-g chtamfber- of commerce and agriculture is offering a prize of $1 to tile per-sons witing the best let' ter of 50 words or unider as to ho0w to entertain the crowd that, will visit Orangeburg durlting tihe nlext "get-to getheor" (lay. The se('retar-y of state has' issued a commission tc the Cititens' fluild ing and Loan Association -of Bamberg with a capital of $60,000.- The peti tioners are: A. W. Knight, George lF. H-ab- and WV. A. Klauber. Rivers in the whiole state touched the high water marks iast week and trouble and damage was repor-ted from many places. Tihe sec-retary of state has issued a . charter to the Shelley-Cook Compan~v of Aynor with a capital of $4,000. Th officers are; J, T, Shlleiy, presi dent, and 1,W. Cook, secretar-y M& fu S .i~ . . .. . 6t thesawro -natikoffeintl onvo4cb nattfs are aU t will obtain you - Silverware aboit y Pro p us a -o90 l #1 t fbr free particul a will reply by return , n s lm' u~n ado, Ofrecipe.. SKINNER MEQ He view it. "Do you believe that theres ly something which can tell when a man is lying?" "I know it." "Ah, perhaps you have seen' on the Instrumentd?" "Seen -one? I murried one." 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