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Aobfrt K. Cassatt. Philadelphia
banker, prescribed for the Ills of the
bituminous coal Industry at the eighth
annual tweeting of thab. National Coal
association In Chicago recently. Sev
eral thousand cdal operators and TOOr—
OOO miners are directly concerned with
what this flnataclal expert had to say.
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And, as she twined her arms
stiont bis neck, be bent and kissed
her. It was the kiss of dfldas. Ret
Estelle, happy again to feel her lore
returned, only lifted her lips to his In
n touch that made him wince at his
own treachery.
. /‘Then i’ll go and stay with that
poor girl tonight, Jim, dear,” she said,
and tell her that there’s nothing ts
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CHAPTER XIX
Flimsy Bars
Rathway confronted Estelle with
bitter hate in his look aa she came up
te him.
“Well, where have you been?” he de
manded roughly.
“What's that to you?" Estelle re
torted.
“See here! You think I'm going to
have you prowling all round the coun
try, doing Iniod knows what, when I’m
keeping you here?" His eyes roamed
•rer her. He saw that her clothes
were splashed with muddy snow. He
saw the fatigue In her bearing.
*By (!od, you fellowtd. me!" he
cried. •
He seized her fiercely by the wrists.
Estelle looked Into his face, laughing
contemptuously. Rathway's eyes fell
He ewore under his breath.
“You think j;ou can frighten me by
violence, JlmV^You ought to have
learned by now that that doesn't pay.
wnien did yon bring back, the girl or..
the gold?”
Rath way writhed under the sting of
her contempt. “You were eavesdrop
ping outside the house, d—n you!”
Suddenly lie changed his tone.
"Both!" he cried exultantly. “I’ve got
the girl, and I’ve cached the gold near
here, where no one can find it." -y
His rage broke out again. "I’ve had
enough of your tongue!" he cried.
‘Til have no spies ta my eaiup." Yoti
could put a rope around my nock with
what you know. Hy (Jod, Estelle, a
little common sense should tell you
you’re playing with fire when you try
to cross me. I’ve never treated you
mean with money. Ymfll have enough
to Hve in comfort on for the rest of
your life if—"
"What have you done with Ander-
aon?’’ asked Estelle quietly. ?
"Anderson’s wnere he’ll caibuTno
farther trouble.”
“You mean you—you Killed him,
•fter—after your agreement?"
“D—n you, you heard that, did you?"
ahouted Rathway, turning livid with
fear. ‘‘No, 1 didn't kill him. if you
want to know. He met-with an ac
cident.
“See here, Estelle," he continued,
“you and me’ve got to work together
•n this game and not try to cross one
another. Play fair with me and I’ll
play fair with you. I want you to
make that girl act sensible. She’s like
a tigress. Now you’re sn intelligent
woman. Yon know how I feel shout
her, and quarrelling won't help mat
ters It won’t laat, and then I'll come
badk to you—"
EMU* draw her bands out of Rath-
way’a grasp and placed them on his
ahovlden, looking searchtngly into his
*!<*.
"Now, Jim, I want you just to lie-
tea to me," she aeld. "You know
jou’re never gone wrong when you've
Mtowed my advice. And I guess you
know I'm the only friend you've got
la the world, don’t you, JlmT'
**W#U, what U tfaafa eafr he mnt-
CA-s
'1 told you you’d made a mistake
la batuflnf that girt here before."
"Ajar he aaeerdd. "end yea told
aa aid Felly's mine didn't exist. And
Tve get the gold! I’ve got the grid, I
ten year W ctfed exultantly..
then, bat that waa a
Jim, you* know tWp la nothing but ah
Infatuation of yours. As you said. It
won't Inst. And what are you going
to do with her afterward? You know
what It’ll mean to you." Estelle was
pleading now. “Yon know when Mc
Grath learns the truth, he’ll raise the
whole country against you. Let her
go, Jim. What do you mean to do?"
fYou know what I mean to do!”
anarled Rathway; hut he could not-
meet her gaze. -
Estelle laid her hand on his arm.
“Jim, did you ever have pity on any
one In your life?” she asked.
"Oh, maybe, when JLivas young and
foolish.’’
, "Did you ever feel respect for any
woman, .Tim?"
"Ah, cut out that line of talk, Es
telle! Don’t try, to ride the moral
horse when It s just phrin jealousy—
one female Jealous of another.. That’s
all it Is."
"It’s not, Jim. And you’ll regret
what you're planning to do. .Tim, I—I
feel you're slipping your neck into a
noose—'* — : •"•7
He leaped hack and swore violently
at her. “Cut out that talk. T tell you!"
he shouted, almost beside himself.
"Jim, listen—Jmd listen. I- guess
I’m not what anyone would call a good
woman, but 1 was like that girl once,
and—I can't bear It, Jim. Jim, I’ll do
anything In the world for you If you’ll
have pity on her. It-may be there’s
Jealousy, too, hut It's much more—
much more for hpr sake—and for
yours,”
Estelle was working herself Into one
of her hysterical frenzies. Rathway
grew crafty. It Is not easy for a man
to fool a woman, except when she 1s-
In love with him. Then It isn’t very
hard. And Estelle was desperately
eager to he "deceived.
“See here, Estelle," said Rathway
gently, ‘‘you know if I let her go what
would happen. I’ e got to keep her
here till 1 know there’s going to he
no come back. I’ve got to see this
thing through. She'll come to no
harm at my hands.”
Estelle looked at him eagerly. "Jim,
you mean that?” she cried. “You
swear that yon mean it?"
"I mean more than that. You
know me and you are* partners,
through thick and thin, for a good while
now, though we’ve had our quarrels.
Well. I won’t deny what you said
about an infatuation. Rut I’m getting
to see things reasonable. And you're
my add pa.ri.hqr t ...Rtclla/* .. ..........
What a fool the woman was—all
yromen were! She was clinging to
him. looking up at him with that ab
surd expression on her face that had
once set his heart leaping. ,Ilow he
hate<l her!
“Jin-.! Jim, dear. Tf 1 could dare
to believe what you’re saying—"
"Oh, 1 guess you can believe me,
Stella/’ Rathway answered easily.
•‘I’ll have to keep her here a week or i
so. Just to show McGrath I'm not run- ! resource
nlng away. You see, there’s Ander-I "Spill It!"
be afraid of.”
Rathway, taken by surprise, man
aged to keep his countenance^ but
when Estelle had departed for the hut,
he broke Into almost maniacal curses.
I>—n her!’’ She had tricked him with
her very innocence !
An<} once again he found hlmKJlf in
the old predicament: he could take the'’
gold and leave the girl, pr he could
wait till the opportunity arose to take
Joyce, certain that meanwhile his men
would demhnd their shares. Eight of
them!
He fell Into a gnashing fury. He
had risked so much, and this fool of
d woman had balked him at the end!
Hour after hour that night Estelle
sat beside Joyce In the hut among the
reeds, soothing her, mothering her,
coaxing her to eat, and frying to re
store her tottering mind to sanity.
Hour after hmiV, Joyce, at her side,
sat staring out Into the darkness, and
did not utter a word.
And hour after hour Rathway sat
drinking in hls hut on the promontory,
and seeking that intoxication that per
sisted In eluding him, without which
he could not shake off the uncertain
ties that oppressed him.
He must get Estelle out of the way.
The thought of Joyce was unhearlahle
—Joyce, whom he had caught a second
time, only to find himself enmeshed In
a web of unfhreseen things,Tfllmsy, and
yet like Iron bars between them.
If he attacked Estelle she would
shrink from nothing. She carried a
pistol, too. He dared not stain hls
hands with another murder. He was
afraid of her trtlst In him, which had
disarmed him; and, to be fair with
him, lie shrank from such a finale to
hls association with her.
The face of Lee, upturned and white
and ghastly In the current, stared at
him from the walls, as Peliy’s used
to do. He shook hls fist at it. It
drove him out, to pace the promon-
The men were fools anyway, but
trebly/ so when thir cupidity .was
aroused. Rathway Imagined the greed
leaping into their eyes, and laughed.
He was reckless now. The hooch d^vil
rode him at last And In hls mind’s
eye he saw the picture. * ‘ ;
And, what a holocaust for Joyce I
No one could prove auythings either,
even Tf TTiAjr caught him. And the
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bodies pf Lee and Telly would never
be found. There was Estelle, of course,
but whatever happened, she would
never give him away. . •
Curiously, Estelle, w-ho had loomed
so prbipinPntly as hls chief difficulty,
now assumed *n tnsTgmficant parfTir
the problem. He didn’t even consider
what dlspoaltlon he was going to make
of her.
“You get back, Pierre, and say you
met me going over to thd neck,” he
said.’ "And hold ’erq twenty minutes.”
Pierre departed: Rathway and
Shorty went softly out of the hut
among the pines. Rathway felt sure
enough of his companion to walk in
front of him.
They heard the voices of the men
about the. fire rise into loud declama
tion ns Pierre returned; then the
sounds- we.re vent off as they turned
along the track through the morass.
Presently the stables came Into sight
above the reeds, and the hut beyond,
with a light'In It.
Ruthway could see the silhouetted
figures of the two women, Joyce in a
chair, motionless, and Estelle upon the
bed beside her. He swore through his
teeth as he watched them.
"I guess~ihis place will do,” .he said
to Shorty.
' They squatted among the reeds,
their pistols In their hands. It had
been snowing intermittently through
the night, and It was an eerie watch,
hven for the unimaginative. In the
Mttef cold and blackness. The night
wind rustled the dead stalks of the
reeds; the muskeg,, more treacherous
for the surface lee that concealed,
but could never hind It, stirred and
heaved imperceptibly, like a vast sea.
Across the neck of land tbe flames of
the camp fire flickered against the
rocks.
Suddenly, after what seemed' like
an
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Shorty whispered/
hoarsely in Rathway’s ear, pulled at
the sleeve of Ids mackinaw, and
pointed. *
From where they lurked they could
see figures owing against the back
ground of flfe"Th the direction of the
neck. - , «
Gripping their pistols they erouehed
motionless, tense with excitement.
But of a sudden rtther figures ap
peared, moving toward the mutineers.
They heard a sharp "Hands up!”
fory; then he would return ajui hurl
himself into hls chair savagely, and
drink again. And again he would
^ing hintself from the hut; and all the
whMf the eonflirt raged in his soul. i
lie T'quld hear hls men muttering
about the fire. They were drunk, no
doubt, hut tht^i had never acted that
way In drunkenness before. Something
was brewing. He must act that night.
He must act soon. He must gag that
wild cat, Estelle.
And the face of Joyce rose up be
fore hls eyes again. He went httek,
drained Jds glass, put out his light.
He waited a inlnnte til! the liquor be
gan to race through hls veins, plan
ning what he should do—
"Jim!” tzztzt:
He started. Hls hands leaped to hls
pistol as two shadows glided in through
the doorway. Shorty and Pierre ad
vanced openly toward him.
"Stop there!" he growled. "Well?"
What d’you wapt?”
They ^shifted uneasily In front of
him. “Well, there’s ben some grum- 1
blin’ about tliat gold, Jim." Shorty ;
vouchsafed. "The hoys kinder seem '
to think you ain’t plannin' to play fair
with ’em. They’ve put Kramer on
guard to watch the motor-boat In case
you might he aimin’ to git away with
her." *
“What's that?" snarled Rathway.
He sprang to his feet. From the
door of the hut he could discern a
shadowy figure near the parapet. For
an instant lie was about to rush at it
in his rage. But then ids cunning
came to his aid.*-He turned back into 7-
the hut.
"What's their game—and yours?”
Shorty hesitated. "Well, ya see,
Jim, me and Pierre's alius stood by
ya, and we kinder thought we’d let ya
know the boys lias been talkin’ things HeJ|rd , ^urp “Hands Up,” Fok
over among themselves^ | lowed by „ 0athf Cries> th# Dj> .
Rathway smiled sourly. He knew, charge of Firearms. ’
the pair of them would not have hesi
tated to side with the mutineers if followed by an oath, cries, the dls-
they had thought there was any chance charge , of firearms.
of outwitting him. Pierre and Shorty ! And Rathway, trembling like an
knew Rathway’s vigilance, hits Infinite aspen leaf, stared into Shorty’s face.
| "It’s him! He—he's come back,”
: he babbled in superstitious terror.
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son’s act-idem. He fell down the cliff j “Well, Jim. I guess they’re gettin’
—killed at once, of course; and if I ready to rush you. now you've put cot
was to go away now, they’d think j~your light. They’re aiming to .tie you
(CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.)
there’d been foul play or something.’’
“You—you swear it was an accident,
Jim?"
"Sure It. was! So you see, Stella,
I’ve got to keep her here a little while.
Then we’ll get away from here for
ever, you and me. and the gold.*L
"Oh, Jim, you've made me happier
than I’ve been since—since you seemed
to cease to care. You do care for Me a
little, Jim?" she asked, nestling
against him.
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"Just to tie me? They wouldn't
hurt me?" Rathway snickered, and the
pair shuffled their feet uncomfortably.
He laughed. And his plans to meet
this situation leaped into his mind.
He!must let the men attack, and then,
when he had finished with them, he'd
make short work of Pierre and Shorty,
and JBstelle too. Hls confidence was
comiitf back.
"They sent me and-Pierre to see if
you’d gone to sleep here.”
"Well, I alnt,” Hfcthway returned,
laughing , again. He knew hls non
chalance , at once discomfited and
bound them t* him through tear. ‘T’va
gone to the hat across the neck to say
good night to the girl, and maybe, If
the presses me, I won’t be hurrying
away. Get that?” he asked, aa they
guffawed aelf consciously.
“You’ll go back and tell 'em I’m
gone, Pierre. You got your -gun,
onort7 r Att ^ rtgm. xou
have a quiet little session In the
P swamp, waitin’ for ’em to come along
a rj . - - xr the trail one by one—eh, Shorty?"
• A. r nee, Mgr. < * He dapped each one on the shoulder.
“There’s gold enough in that sack to
make as three millionaires, and thertfi
he a d—n sight fea* sharing,” he aald
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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH C A R OL I N A
X Scholarship and Entrance Examinations.
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The examination for the award od vacant scholarships in the Univereity of South Carolina and
for admission of new students'will be held at the County Court House Friday, July 10, 1025, at 9
o’clock a. m. •Applicants must not be less than 16 years of age. <
Scholarships are vacant in the following 23 counties 1 : —
Allendale Charleston, Dorchester, Jasper,
Barnwell, Cherokee, Fairfield, Laurens,
Beaufort, ' Clarendon, Hampton, Lexington,
Horry,™ Marion,
.Berkeley,
Dfflon,
Oconee *
Richland,
Saluda,
Sumtery
Union,
Williamsburg;
Yorfc-
v Applicants for scholarships should write to President Melton for scholarship application blanks.
These should be filed with the President by July 7th. Scholarships age 'worth $100.00, plmu free
tuition and fees. 'The next session will open September 16th, 1925. - ---- -
For farther information write to:
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University of Sentli Carolina, Colombia, S. C.