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rAGlgOL the BARWSLL PBOPUMBNTXNBL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, DECEMBER Rr 1B2S- mm w - - ■ ytr-j ■ DAUGHTER ■ ^ I a, a i By Ethel Hueston WNU Service l| Copyright toy the Bobbi-Merrill Co> SYNOPSIS PART ONE CHAPTER I.—At a merry party la the etudto apartment of Carter Blake, in New York, Jerry Harmer, Prudence’s daughter, meeta Duane Allerton, wealthy idler. He becomes slightly In toxicated, and Jerry, resenting his as sumption of familiarity, leaves the party abruptly. CHAPTER U.—The atory turns to Jsrry's childhood and youth at her home la Des Moines. Only child of a wealthy father, when she Is twenty shs fsels tbs call of Art, and her parents, with some misgivings, agree to her go- lag to New York to study. CHAPTER IH—In New York Jerry makes her home with a Mrs. Delaney (‘’Mlml"), an actress, who, with The resa, a painter, orcuptsa the house. Jerry takes an Immediate liking to Theresa, and the two become feat triend*. CHAPTER IV.—Th#- friendship be tween Jerry and Theresa, who la #c- eentrto but talented, grows. Jerry poses for Theresa's masterpiece, "The Ocean Rider." Allerton calls on Jerry. The girl, recalling hla conduct at the atudlo party, rsfuass to ass hlmf CHAPTER T.—At s hotel dinner Jerry sees Duans and Is conscious ot his admiration but refuaes to chang* her attitude toward him. Jerry be comes convinced she has not th* ability tp become an artist and rffTers her ex- penalve painting equipment to an al most penniless girl atudent, Greta Val. who cannot understand her generoalty. ▲ painful scene results. . - . . . - . , r^- — - CHAPTER VII.—Returning from an evening of gayety, Jerry I* shocked at hearing from Mlml that Theresa has killed hereelf. She also learns that Mlml Is Theresa a mother, end la r ained at the teeming frtvolouanees of he older woman In the face of the tragedy The "preient’’ Thereea had proipleed JgfTy proves to be her pic ture. ' The Ocean Htder ” Jerry la deeply moved After the funeral of her friend aha decides to go hums. CHAPTER VI.—Jerry, with Thereea a help, convlncea Greta of her good In tentions. sad the two girls make up” At a party Jerry again seea Duane, and will not recognise him Thereea hints that Jerry should go home, and promlaea her a "preeent." PART TWO CHAPTER I—At home Jerry ta an - thuelaufIcally welcomed bv her ador ing parents. She wine their sympa thise with the pathetic stories of The resa and of Greta Val. " CHAPTER If —enable to settle Into the routine of everyday life In her home city. Jerry Is dissatisfied CHAPTER III—The sameness.' (he lack of Individuality In the houses In the city, has shocked Jerry's artistic Instincts and given her an Idea She determines to create a standard of beauty tn house building, borrowing money from her father. Jerrold Har mer, to do It, and Incidentally deter mining that the work shall be her "ca reer.” A letter from Khoda La Faye Informe her that Duane Allerton has lost hla fortune In Wall Street and la practically destitute In pity and sym pathy she writes Allerton. offering him a position In her fathers automobile factory. CHAPTER IV.—Alierton applies to Jerry's father for n position, partly ex plaining the situation, which Mr. Har mer, In a measure, understands. He Is rather favorably imnrrzsed with Aller ton, and after a btief Interview tells him to go and see 'Prudence.” CHAPTER V.—Mrs Harmer. under standing much mote of the situation than Alfctton realise! akes an In stinctive liking to the young man. CHAPTER VI—Mr Harmer gives Duane a position in his auto factory. Jerry's business enterprise—making over ugly looking houses Into things of beauty and selling them at a profl.— Is not altogether a success, hut sh* perseveres. Despite her studied aloof ness Allerton finds opportunity to as sure Jerry of his love and his detar- ■jlnatlon to win her. CHAPTER VIT—Jerry, with her mother, goes to visit her aunts, Caro? gltd Lark, in a distant part of the stats Jerrold Harmer Invites Allerton to stay at the Harmer home while they are away. Duane does ao, and Jerrold Sifter Judging him closely, Is willing Id accept him as a son-in-law. (CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK) ii- > CHAPTER VIII Between Friends Dvrteg Am dinner hour on an early •vanlng In November Jerry waa called to the telephone, and when she came beck e moment later to her place there wee a curious, qululcal smile upon her Ups and in ber eyes. "It was A del a Longley," the ex plained. "She wanted me to go to the theater with her." "Adda Longley P Prudence was gen- Uj surprised. “Are you goingr asked Jerrold, with Ms usual lack of inter-penetratlon. “It waa Adela Longley,” Jerry re peated, for hla enlightenment. “Of course I am not going.’'I told her I am very busy tonight" Jerry and her mother exchanged of smiling tolerance—toler* for Jerrofd'i mannish ineompre- of delicate social situations, ; tecaeae they loved him. _ For from New York don^n, the veriest half let baa Its central select set which seems a thing of merest Idle chance, and yet the laws of the Medea and Fenian* themselves were not a whit more binding. .* Adela Longley wae one who hovered as It were In the remote whorls of that society which circled about Jerry as a point of pivot. She belonged to the large social life of Des Moines, but was not, and could not be, a part of that inner nucleus which Is so rigidly a thing apart. And yet Jerry sfas the very soul of democracy; she said she abhorred snobbishness of alWhlngs In the world; she made no slightest dls- tinct km as to place or person—only as to personality. She didn’t care for Adela Longley. **Oh, she's a different sort, very nice of course—I don’t care about her.” It was Adela, Jerry felt, who kept Adela In the social fringe. "Maybe she thinks If she gets a lit tle clubby with you I may give her a better price on a car,” suggested Jer rold, always glad to help out with Ms opinion. Jerry was Interested. "A carl An other car? Why, site has a car now l" "She’s tired of It. She wants to trade It In on a Harmer. She has been In three times' this week to see about It." t. Jerry lowered the misty lashes re flectively. Only Jerry knew bow very strange a thing that was. She was not above sounding her father for con firmation of her suspicion. "She has a Darkness! It cost near ly flve thousand dollars more than mine.” "Yes, she said she would have noth ing but a Darkness in the beginning, but she doesn't like It now she has It. She wants to trade It In for a Harmer roadster like yours.” "Like mine! But you hod mine made specially for me, and I de signed—” ‘‘Yea, I know. Duane told her—^ "Who tdld her?" “Oh—Mr. Allerton, you know, Duane Allerton. Da Is on the floor, you see. He showed her the models, and ahe'a been talking to him about It.” "Oh, I see.” Jerry had her confir mation. "Well, go on. What did—ha— tell herr "He said we will not duplicate the body of your car for anybody, hut that we will design another special for her, any style she liken. Hut we do not care to duplicate youra under any cir cumstance*.” • ‘‘Adela Longley made fun of the Harmer when she got hers," said Jerry reflectively. "She said she wanted a good car or none at all. The girls Used to lease me about It.” “Well, utuybe she thinks more of It now. Duane snys she was enthusias tic iilout ihe demonstration.” "Who ga\e her the demonstration?" “He did." "I should think," Jerry's vole* was so soft as to he almost inaudible, “1 should think (he salesmen would do that.” 'They do ordinarily. But she had talked lo him on the floor se%erul times, and asked him partle>durly to take her out. So ot course he did.” Jerry had lost her appetite for din ner. Her thoughts were running along a new' line. "Myrtle IngcrsoM and I went to a matinee Wednesday,” she said slowly. “She wanted to come by the office sind ask you to go with us.” • Ask’ Who?” “You, father. She thinks yon ar# •such a dear. 1 told her you are a per fect slave to business and never go out In the afternoon, and she wanted to coi^e by and ask you anyhow, thought you might he pleaded with the attention. 1 didn’t think anything of It then. But I’m thinking plenty now.” Jerrold laughed easily. “Oh. they Ihluk up sillier excuses than that to get a look at him. Not that 1 hla/ne* them at all There ttreu t. enough good-looking young fellows to' go the rounds here, you know." . It had not before occurred to Jerry to wonder what Duane was doing dur ing (lie evening, with whom he was going out, what friendships he waa forming. Now that this phase of the situation was so forcllly drawn to her attention, the realJr.ed very dearly that In a town the size of Des Moines, a young man of good appearance, who could dance, play bridge, and with great personal charm to his credit, t was not at all likely to pass by unob served. And If further corroboration were necessary, she received It In painful plenitude on Monday evening at OracJ McCartney’s shower for Hue Forsythe, when all the girls of their particular clique were together. Jerry was late In arriving, and was greeted at one# with a gay protesting outburst. “Oh, Jerry, how could you be so selfish P “Jerry Harmer, you ought to be ashamed of yourself 1 Anything as good-looking as that I” “Where in the world did your father find itr Jerry realized It would be foolish to pretend Ignorance as to their meaning, la a town as small and as fraternal as Des Moines. She laughed It off as beet she could, explained gayly that she left the management of the Har mer Motor to her father, and agreed that Duane Allerton was certainly a very handsome thing. “Do yon know him, Jerry P asked Edith Weatherby. . “Yes, I met him In New York." This waa greeted with merry, signifi cant exclamations and laughter. “Oh, so It's like that!" they cried. “No wonder P Tt seems he had some sort of finan cial reverses,” she went on quickly. T don't knew much about It, hut be "fiHifil tQ make a change. «ftd yqg know father Is always taking on “Do yon like him, Jerry?" persisted Edith Weatherby. -Jerry was net to he caught unguard ed. "Of course. Why not? X hardly know the man." j — “And you’re not personally Interest ed, are you?” continued her interro gator. "Because he told me he had lost a lot of money, and I told father- father likes him very much—and t told father I was pure he would rather work In a bank than In a factory. You know my father is always taking on men, too." ; \ Jerry’s eyes were serene and clouded. "Yes, of course. That.would be lovely for Mr. AttMten. I am sure his opportunity would be much _ In the bank than with my father.” More than ever Jerry regretted that hasty Impulse of hers which hod brought Duane Allerton to Iowa. And yet she took a hitter, morbid satisfac tion III having them know that after all she had known him first, that she had been In a sense the motive of his coming—as, indeed, she bad, and In a far more intimate sense than Jerry would have them suspect. On the evening of Thanksgiving oc curred the annuat dinner-dunce at the club, one of the real events of the yeur to which the younger set at least looked forward for weeks with keen anticipation. Usually Jerry made one of a group of her particular friends, while Prudence and Jerrold filled up a table with couples of their own age and Interests. But, for this night, Jerry persistently refused all invita tions, and Insisted on a family trio, Prudence, Jerrold and herself. To her friends she said she thought her .mother would like It. To Prudence she said honestly: “Oh, mother, I’m tired! I don’t feel like pretending to be Interested In a lot of things—when I am not." On the afternoon of the dance she sat curled In a big chair before the fire with a magazine she did not read, and Jerrold aat opposite iftr with ths eve ning paper, smoking, and neither of them answered when Prudence re minded them for the third time that they must hurry and drees. Finally, at her Insistence, Jerrold dropped the paper and sighed. “I’m getting too old for such goings- on,” he said plaintively. "I feel Jnst like* alttlng here iu my own house by my own fire, and going to bed at a rCxpectal le hour.” . Too late,” Prudence told him, laugh ing. "You have to go or you get no dinner. Mary and Katie hare gone out, and there Is nothing to eat. You must go with us or fast." Jerrold sighed again. Then he turned to Jerry, with the news that had been a burden to him for two day s. .' _ “Ob! .7*»iTy-*l»y the way—Duune will be tliwe.” ^ Jerry did not more, did not turn her eyes. "Oh, will lie?" "Ves. The YYeatherhya asked him to go, and I told him to go by all uieaus. I don’t feel th#t he should miss a good time Just because you feel a little—er—sensitive about his pres ence, do you? It’s a wonder you haven’t run Into him before this. They’re Inviting him everywhere. And besides—.” “Oh, don't hesitate on my account, do right ahead. Besides what?" "Hesldea, as I’ve said before, them are more nice girls in lids town Uign there are nice hoy*, other men ham daughters as well as I, and daughters requiring heaulug. And 1 must say that some fathers seem to have daugh ters with s greater degree of that sweet reasonableness they talk about than my own." Jerry smiled sympathetically. "Poor father!" she said. "You did have rather had luck getting only me. But however much you may ju-efer other fathers’ daughters to- your< own, yon can't get rid of me. ?Co t rading daugh ter*. Things aren’t done that Way. You must keep what you get, whether you like It or not.” She touched him lightly on the shoulder as she passed by and went quickly up’ lhe stairs. Jerrold-looked ut Prudence. . ^ "Is she going?" he asked In a loud whisper. •*' , . "I don't know." They tiptoed together to the door way and listened. There was no sound from Jerry’s room above. • They tiptoed tack. “Now If she has any notion of going there and snub bing him In public I won’t stand for It,”. Jerrold said, still whispering. “After all, she brought hip here, aud she shan’t—” “Oh, don’t you worry about that. She wants to make him eat the dust before her, but she’ll never give any body else a chance to laugh at him. YouHl seg!” Aud then she added, half hopefully, half wistfully, “Perhaps they will make It all up tonight, and then we’ll have him here tof Thanbt- glvlRg flfrnjr twBwnflyl* . (TO BE CONTINUED.) — Clyde, the Clown By ROSCOE d. SCOTT ■UPlTAX NOTICE! TAX LEVIES BY SCHOOL DISTRICTS FOR THE YEAR 1925, MONEY TO LOAN Loans made same day application received. No Red Tape HARLEY & BLATT 7, Attorneys-at-Law BamwelLS.C. Send Us Your Job Work. Ifi, 1*21. Western Newspaper Union.) VERY town has a Clyde Davis, saw fit in His great plan tor thia fcirid Jo send down Into each community somebody to make other people laugh^ Everything Clyde Da vis did was (pnny—at least to us, Who spent our ratherH^tles* days In Mid dletown, Ind, When he came Ms mall the post offldd^ftlways rang good shout of ouh. fashioned merriment Our church socials went flat If Clyde happened to be Indianapolis seeing a show. He more baseball games for oar team than all the members of nine. In oar amateur theatricals he shone best. Our home newspaper would merely have to say: The play given next Tuesday evening at the Opera House has a- talented cast, the chief comedy role falling Into the capable hands of our true humorist Clyde Da vis. That was the trouble with Mildred Walker. She took Clyde’s love mak ing as a joke. Not that she didn’t care. She did. Mildred -Walker would tingle under the quaint bits of love making performed by our town humorist—until she saw his face and then she would break from his arras with laughter—saying his face looked so much like Buster Keaton's. A year before, Millie graduated from the local high school. Clyde had been out of school three yean and was trying with friendly ovcd lures to build up o dejected little ga rage business taken over from a slip shod uncle. He had the promise of a good nntomoblle agency when he got on his feet and he would have been standing there erect mouths ago, had he had Mildred. But she pooh- poohed such an extravagant compli ment. Then to make matters far worse, two thing* came along. The first was a catastrophe—Millie Walker inherit ed nearly a hundred thousand dollan tn>m her Grandfather Walker. The second was the advent of a dramatic coach, who hailed from Boston and coached plays for a living, after on al leged successful fling In metropolitan vaudeville. The whole thing looked Uke the makeup of the old fashioned melodrama with Clyde Davis the de jected hero, Millie, p** pure hearted heroine, and DeVdas' Lnngdnn—he of Boston—thfe villain. I-angdon talked knowingly of “back stage acting" and “hogging the spotlight" and very early he branded Clyde a “ham comedian” —but he retained him In the cast, for there was none other to be found. One hesitates to Jump te concln- slons, hut at the local hotel several of us hoohs unwisely told this Lungdon of Mildred’s fortune, by way of get ting reflected glory for ourselves. The night of the play I saw Clyde take Millie to the darkest comer of the theiUer and I saw her run away from him. I knew the JJg was np be tween the two. Clyde muffed every chance at a luugh that night and was funny only because he was so miser able and acted so rottenly. . , She came to him afterward. I think she felt guilty maybe. He told ns that De Voss was leaving after bus iness arrangements the next night and Millie wos going away with him. He confided In me the whole story. Mil lie had told him that her folks were set on Clyde and thought her love for the coach Infatuation. “But gosh, Be,” he said to me tragically, “It’s the real stuff.” He told me how he had offered his clowning to help her get away, for the Walker home Is less tfian fifty yasds from our little depot and facing away from the tracks onto the Main street.’ Clyde was to amuse the family with stunts just ut train time and Mildred was to bent It with her suitor. ^ My protests were hushed. # He said he wanted to. I watched him the afternoon of the elopement. I had a point of vantage that nobody has ever seen. He start ed his fooling with Millie’s little sis- ’ ter, Bessie. But nothing would tempt the parents from the house. For some strange reason Clyde’s feeling had lost Its charm. He clowned with the little sister, with Millie’s great Dane, he called in vain to the house for them to see his stunts; once Mrs. Walker came to the door; but she went back and far away the engine of the Enst- boand train whistled for Middletown. Her folks had always come out be fore to smile over his antics. Millie might think he was not honest In his desire to serve. If he failed she would only despise him. De Yoss had gone to the train in the hotel hack fifteen minutes before. Millie waa prisoned by parental eyes. An Idea! Hla fooling waa forgot ten. I saw him stagger about. I heard him shriek, “Oh God, I am dy ing!" Then he fell headlong and bo> fore I could get to him, Millie’s fath er and mother yere bending over him and he was half laughing, half cry- ing. Into our circle came Mildred, parting us savagely and taking up his baad In her arms. I heard him whis per to her In a true stage whisper that she must rush. But she held os and he wss not allowed te explain. Afld the Boston dramatic coach dis gustedly boarded the train and the vDlaln had been—true to form—foiled. “I am so glad you did it, Clyde,’' she said fis she cried over him “1 thought It was all real and then 1 knew how much you kneant to Which all goes to prove that the old aoelodraiaas were not so far off altar all I"- -7 .7 v ■ • v - ; • • ' • ■ 1 ■ - . ~ ' A * „ _ . \.. ;• / t School District 1 w 2 P 2! S i Ordinary County, No. Mills % o # 2 1—• . OR 1 3 s. | I » p 3 1 z ? : 3 gw*- ST Back Indebtedness, No. Mills 9 9 r* 1 1 I * j S ST Special Local, No. Mills * Z o • S ST '? ( —r < ft f * . '■ •’ A Ashleigh — .A-gJ 5* £ 4* -4 3 4 86 r . A Barbary Branch 5H 11 2 1 4* i ' 3 8 4 40 Barnwell 5% 11 2 1 4* i 3 18 4 60 Bi^\F#rk 5 1-2 11 2 l 4* i 3 12 4 44, BlackvHle -1 5tt 11 2 1 4* i n O 19 4 51 Cedar 5tt 11 2 1 4* X 3 5 4 37. 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V 3 4 4 36 Tinker's Creek j 5V4 ii 2 il 4* i 3 8 4 40 Upper Richland j [ 5* n 2 i 4*1 ii 3 3. U 4 35 Williston | 5* 11 2 i i 4* i' 3 27 4 59 Books open October 15th, 1925 and close March 15th, tfUi. January 1st a penalty of 1 per cent.; February, 2 per cent; March, 7 pR’^cent. After March 15th all unpaid taxes will be turned over to the Sheriff for collection. DOG LICENSE $1.25 payable in January, 1926. J. B.*ARMSTRONG, County Treasurer. j LONG TERM MONEY to LEND 6 per cent, interest on large amounts Private funds for small loans. BROWN & BUSH LAWYERS BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. [MIC TE1 lie TM IH Farm Loans 6 per cent. Urge amounts. Town prop erty in Barnwell, residential and business, 7 per cent. Loans procured promptly at lowest cost. f Allendale, Bamberg and Barnwell Counties. ] THOMAS M. BOULWARE Attorney-at-law - Barnwell, S. 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