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E* f Eighth Installment WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE r*? U m • Dt J ane » on the draw, kills outlaw se, i deftnpe ar, d becomes an coisTo Ria^St a<lv «ntu re s on the road he a m.n ,V d , s rfamp. There he wound* 4 . I V ulv fd Bosomer and become-, a n ° f ?M° th , Cr named Euchrc * Ici i r ^l r IrS -- Ijla H d aml a girl rescues JftS r 58 ° lier b f y - I!1 . nnd - whom he h-isforli f, it : rics . P f intrigues in which IO , rc , 10 deceive Mrs. Bland trtnf,, C t J3 i ,r, I ,,u ' ,,e ’ s WBing of Bland, Jennie ud. A ; ul rushing off with iff n • i 'f 0 ls lost l aler - Duane roam'; voin^ .I 8 f ° r y /'‘ rs ns an outlaw, finally * *{° ,,lc ; ct Cainam MacNelly of the M u VpUv ? h ?- a ^ ke(I see him. aiac^elly is kind to him, and oPers him UcoiS°.% ,f Wl1 ] an offer to g m? Vf -^v aft " Cheseldine's v»- ‘H oecoiac interested in 1 ,‘ ‘i- af l V er a I.cc had spoken in his fm ; buauc - MacNelly to do tivL n y £CrVKC : Meanwhile MacNelly k es lJuanc ruicn welcome news. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY croaching of old dark moods fell short and faded. He found 4*ts sight again And there rushed over him a tide of emotion unutterably sweet and full, strong, like an intoxicating wine, deep as his nature, something glorious and terrible as the blaze of the sun to one long in darkness. He had become an outcast, a wander er, a gunman, a victim of circum stances—he had loved and lost and suffered worse than death in that loss —he had gone down the endless bloody trail, a killer of men, a fugitive whose mind slowly and inevitably closed to all except the instinct to survive and a black despair. restraint 1 Jennie-—-don t mind it—I'm rough— I was carried away,” he said. "I never knew life could be so sweet” “I don’t mind-—I’m glad,” she re plied, slipping out of his arms. "But my breath went—and—and- Come, let’s sit down here by the window.” She led him to a sofa and they sat down. It seemed then that each looked at the other with different eyes, hers dark and sad trouMed, his glowing and soft, full of wonder. Jennie slipped to her knees and her trembling hands reached up to Duane. ‘‘Don’t tell me MacNelly has made you a ranger ?” she implored. ‘The Governor got mad and flayed us alive. Most rangers were lazy, use less gun-fighting shysters.! Ueed lost is temper. He s hot for the service. But I kept cool, and told the Governor r* 011 * ll' 31 it he'd pardon you d break up ChcscIJine’s gang on the ri\er. That sort 01 floored the Gover nor He got interested. ^ I talked to him for an hour, ex- p*HhK‘d how there were only two ways ~to exterminate Chcseldine and the like. Fli t he r with an atmy or with thr ranger service, employing such a scout as you. I Hv* J _ t. .... _ 1 no army idea wasn’t possible. But he was impressed by the other. He said : Set an outlaw to catch an outlaw, eh ?* “Then he pondered a while and at last rang for his secretary. ‘My political enemies say I’m not liberal- minded,’ he went on. ‘Now, I’m go ing to make this a test case of the ranger service. I’ll pardon this gun- sharp Duane on condition you make him a ranger. That is. he’ll not be par doned until he is a ranger. Then well see how the scheme works out.’ ” “MacNelly, I wam to see this Miss Lee. ’ said Duane. “I was thinking of that It’s a good chance. Maybe there’ll never be an- onr ” He paused a moment, «*wmg his cigar. “All right; I see no reason against your meeting her” hr went on. "But let me arrange the matter as suits me. Tomorrow III send a ranger over to Shirley. There’s a tram and stage, too. Now. let’s turn m, Duane We’ve talked a deal And I was tired before we began. Make yourself a bed there. Good night Duane stepped upon the porch and the bell. After what appeared to be a long tune a negro maid opened the door. “A—caller to tee Miss Lee," said A Slender Woman in White Stood in the Door The maid asked him in and led him to a parlor. It was a large room, light enough, yet full of unfamiliar shapes. He stood there uncertain, waitii*. The maid returned to say that Miss Lee would be right in. Whoever Miss Lee was, she must have connections with wealthy people. Duane felt long-absent associations be come vivid in his mind. Slowly he turned A slender woman in white stood in the door, one hand dinging to the curtains, the other at her breast She was whiter than her dress—as white as a flower. Her eyes were dark, strained, staring, beautiful. The look of them Duane had seen be fore. Duane’s lips uttered her name, yet he had a vague sense of not hearing his own voice. The movement of his lips, his hand, seemed to animate her. She had been as still as a statue, and now she was as if shot through and through with life. That supporting hand upon the curtain appeared to uphold her Quivering form. "Oh, Duane, don’t you—know me?” She moved, she swept out her hands and the wonder of her eyes dimmed in a flood of tears. She stepped blindly. Duane's sight, straining with all the abnormal keeness of stunned faculties leaping back to power, caught a slight but unmistakable limp in her step. In a Hash all that had been strange about her vanished. He knew that faltering step. He was back in another world—one he had seared over in his Heart and closed forever. “My God I Who are you?” he cried hoarsely. Then she met him, arms out stretched. "Jennie 1 Jennie 1 Jennie 1” she sob bed. Swift as light Duane caught her up and held her crushed to his breast. The past, like deadening scales, fell from him. He stood holding her tight, with the feel of her warm, throbbing breast and the clasp of her clinging arms as flesh and blood realities to fight a terrible fear that this was only another and the worst of those moments haunt ed by fan toms. Despite a stunned consciousness, he never lost the true sense of the ex quisite life of that moment He felt her and the might of it was stronger than all the demons of his unhappy years. Jennie was not dead. She was alive—alive—alive 1 And he held her as if «she had been his soul—bis strength on earth—his hope of heaven And now. with this woman in his arms, her swelling breast against his, in this moment almost of ressurrection, he bent under a storm of passion and joy possible only to him who had en dured so much. “Jennie! Jennie!” he whispered un steadily. “No dream—no ghost—but you I I didn’t know vou.” "Yes, Jennie. And you never knew me!” She stirred and lifted her face from his breast. Her hands unclasped from his neck, fell to his shoulders, and caught there. A stain of red came into her white face. “Have I changed —so much—from that time over the Rim-Rock?" * Changed ! You’re not the same gir*' You’ve only that old look in your eyes. I saw you limp—that told me.” “I’m still a little lame.” “It was that How everything rushed back! . I saw you as on that first day in the cabin. It’s all clearer than the thousand tunes I’ve dreamed it Euchre and Bland and that fierce woman, his wife, and AUowayt The little shack where you hid and nursed me. Jennie, I went back there—lived there a whole year with dreams and ghosts.” He shuddered and looked out of the window, far beyond, in cold and sick fancy, to the wilds of desert gorge. Jennie lifted a hand and touched his cheek with ineffable tenderness. "I lived there alone alone like a cnpp^wolf. Oh, the lonely night nights with their faces. But Jennie, I found one thing—my salva tion then." He bent over her, looking deep into her dark, wet eyes. “What?” she whispered. “I found I loved you, and one of my bitterest regrets was that you never knew it. Hear it now! I love you I I’ve always loved you I I learned to love you there at Bland’s cabin when we planned to save you. But it never came to me till I’d lost you. Then the memory was all that kept my mind from going. Your ejrs used to haunt me, Jennie. I could see them dark and sad and watchful as you peered through the window at me with that woman, Kate Bland. It all comes back. “Jennie, you must have much to tell me; and I have much to tell you. Can you tell me—you care for me? When I think of what you must have done! Jennie, haven’t you loved me—a little?” She uttered a low laugh that was half sob and her arms slipped up to his neck again. "A little 1 I nearly died of love for you.” she whispered. ‘Tve never lived a wakeful hour without loving you, longing for you, praying for you. Oh, Duane, Duane, I love you I” Their lips met in their first kiss. The sweetness, the fire, of her mouth seemed so new, so strange, so irrestible to Duane. His sore and hungry heart throbbed with thick and heavy beats. He felt the outcast's need of love and he gave up to the enthralling moment. She met him half-way, returned kiss for kiss, clasp for clasp, her face scar- Urn, .1 J .Ml « _ kt^Eer eyes closed, till her passion ‘ 6 H ‘ and strength spent, she fell back upon his shoulder. Duane suddenly thought she was go ing to faint He divined then that she had understood him, would have denied That’s h,” replied Duane and brought himself to face her. He feared a breakdown or at least a storm of weeping. But apparently she grew calmer now that the truth was out. "He didn’t make you a ranger just for an excuse for the pardon ?" “No. It’s secret special service." “Ah! What is it, Duane?" “I’m to make ray way west, find whrre Cheseldine hides out with his picked men. get in with them, and when they’re ready to ride out on an other raid or hank robbery I’m to pi*— • trap so MacNelly can kfll them or capture them." "Oh. Heaven! Duane, was it for that MacNelly got your pardon? He might as well haVe killed you. To send you on a mission like that) Duane, it’s impossible. With your reputation, your known hatred of border criminals —wfljf the death olTHaixi. Alloway, Hardin, all those outlaws against you, why, it would be utterly hopeless—im possible.” "No, Jennie, not that. It could be done by good management and lock." "I mean you’d never succeed—»nd then come hack,” said Jennie. “You might do the same out there as you did in Bland's camp. But the risk's greater I remember all about Chescl- dine. I’ve never heard his name since we got away from Bland; but now it all comes back—Bland and Alloway, Hardin, too, in their talks. “Duane, let me go back to Mac- Nellty" “What for?" To entreat him to release you." “Why, he wouldn’t. He’s keen to do this thing. And I don’t blame him. MacNelly’s a fine fellow; he’s not wanting in sympathy. But he’s got a man’s job, and you couldn’t move him.” “Yes, I could. At least, if I couldn’t persuade him, I could buy your release. The ranger service is poorly paid. They need money. He cpukJ do much with money^ I’ll pay him ten thousand dollars to release you.” "Jennie! Oh, you mustn’t think of such a thing! He wouldn't consent. Remember, I’m practically bound to Governor Stone as well as Captain MacNelly.” ‘ \\ hat Governor Stone would never know wouldn’t hurt him,” muttered Jennie. • The fire in her eyes had spread. Faint red spots appeared in her white cheeks. Her bosom rose and fell with deep, hurried breaths. Duane saw in her the fighting spirit of Texas and sensed a bursting storm. “Dear Jennie, look at it this way,” he said persuasively. Thank Heaven I m a free man now 1 Think how glad my mother win be. I've a hard job on hand. But you know I'm pretty well able to tackle it. I’ll break up Chesel- dine’s band. And maybe 111 get away safe. There’s a chance. Can’t you imagine what I’ll do with that chance —when all the time I’ll know you love me—ore waiting for me?” For all the effect this speech pro duced he might as well have kept sil ent Her eyes, blade now and blazing, were on him. . / "Duane, return the pardon to Mac Nelly and go back to the. Nueces. Be an outlaw again. Til go with you.” 'About your Health 'Things You Should Know by John Joseph Gaines, M. D The Heart We are still confronted with state ments that heart diseases are on the increase. Look over the column in the big city papers, and note the causes of death—the list of fatajitics, I mean. There are about ten deaths recorded in my neighbor metropolis yesterday, most of them were in the early fifties; “heart disease” took most of them. You are positively guilty of every crime against your heart, ignorantly, it may be, but with results just the same; ignorance of the law does not excuse the violator—he must pay the penalty in full. Two chief causes are notable in af fections of the heart—infections and overloading. A neglected throat is almost sure to send a swarm of bac teria to the heart-muscle. Attend t'o your throat right now, IT”it is af fected. Influenza, rheumatism, ton- silitis—all of them menace the heart, no matter how mild they may appear; get your physician’s advice frequently during winter months. Overloading the heart is inexcus able on your part. How do you do it ? First, by overeating and unnecessary stimulation. The heart keeps all fluid elements of the body in mo tion; if you over-eat, excess fluid and juices are absorbed, for the heart to keep circulating through the channels provided. When you are short of breath after eating, you are crowding your heart. It may he gases in the stomach, from indigestion that op press the heart—a warning you must heed if you value life! These heart- disease deaths could have—two- thirds of them—been prevented. KODAKERS! Seng your Aims to na for dovolop- tog m4 print mg. One 4mj Writ# for prices. Lollar’s Studio 1423 Mate Stract COLUMBIA SOUTH CAROLINA Wo soil Eastman Films DR. A. B. PATTERSON Physician nod Snrgi Barnwell, S. C. I INSURANCE FIRE WINDSTORM PUBLIC LIABILITY ACCIDENT - HEALTH SURETY BONDS AUTOMOBILE THEFT , Calhoun and Co. P. A. PRICE, Manager. WEEK-END TICKETS At very low round trip fares now on sale to mountain and seashore summer resorts. Travel by Train Comfortable—Economical—Safe Southern Ry. System —against his lips, rife of d The strife doubt all past, the en- him nothing, not even her Kfe, in that moment But ^ she was overcome, and be suffered a pang of regret at Ms » Don’t fail to read every installment of our New Serial Story-“The Last of the Duanes” is one of Zane Grey’s best stories. MONEY TO LOAN Loans made same day application received. • . - ‘ - No Red Tape HARLEY A BLATT. - -- ar Attomeys-at-Law ; BamwelL S. G. ADVERTISE ia Th. J * A Two Dollar Dinner For Six m Menu Tomato and Pimknto Soup Pork Chop* Vfilh 'Apples Peas Roast Street Potatoes Willard Salad / Peach Pudding Demi Tasso J TEMIZED Costs — Can toma toes, 10 cents; can pimientda^ 15 cents; six pork chops, 70 cents; four apples, 10 cents; can peas, 15 cents; sweet potatoes, 15 cents; celery, 5 cents; lettuce, 5 cents; almonds, 5 cents; can peaches, 21 cents; coffee, 6 cents;/ bread, 8 'cents; butter, 5 cents. To tal $1.90, leaving a margin of ten cents for incidentals. Prices may vary somewhat in certain parts of the country, but will usually be within the limits stated. Tomato and PimUnto Soup: Brine to boiling point three cups strained tomato juice, three cups water, with two teaspoons salt, one*eighth tea spoon pepper and six drops Tabasco Sauce. Add two tablespoons un cooked cream of wheat, and two diced pimientos. Cook twenty min utes. / Pork Chops with Apples : Season chops and place in pan. Cover with halves of cored, but unpeeled apples, sprinkle with sugar and bake until tender, from 45 to 60 minutes, basting occasionally.. Willard Salad: Mix one diced apple with one cup diced celery and one diced ptmiento. Moisten with mayonnaise and serve on lettuce. Peach Pudding: Butter a glass baking dish, put in a layer of can ned peaches, then a layer of gener ously buttered crumbs, sprinkle with cinnamon and chopped al monds. Repeat process and bake slowly, until peaches are very soft Serve cold, with hard sauce or top milk. TREASURER’S TAX NOTICE The County Treasurer’s oflftee will be open for the purpoee of reeeivtag taxes from October 16th, 1928, to March 16th, 1929. A penalty of out per cent will be added to all unpaid taxes on January 1st, 1929; two per cent Febraury 1st, 1929, and seven per cent March 1st, 1929. Tax books and executions issuing after March 16th, 1929. 'Taxes are ascertained the valuation multiplied by mills levied. Treasurer’s duplicate as by Auditor lists real estate and does not itemise personal property, which must be secured from Auditor. When inquiring at to amount of f »*f due, you are inquired to give each and every tax district you own property hi as a separate tax receipt is issued for each district for real estate or pi sonal property. Your tax receipt, giving number of acres covered by H. * ‘m •a 4 t a T. . 9 1? A •3 I l 8 No. 24—Ashleigh — , T B 6M 8% 8*4 % 3 No. 23—Barbary Branch • 5U 8% i 8* i ! % 1 I No. 46—Barnwell ——. 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Annual capitation dog tax of $1.26 per bead, payable during of January, on all dogs, male and female, old and young,, except pups (See Acts 1924, No. 666, at page 1068.) It is the duty of each school trustee in each school district to that this tax is collected or aid the Magistrate in the rnifonunw the provisions of this Act. Checks win not be accepted for taxes under any rlrmmstaiiniis cept at the risk of the taxpayer.—(The County Treasurer right to hold all receipts paid by check until said cheeks hare Tax receipts will be released only upon legal teadei orders, or certified checks. - ^ J. B. ARMSTBONG, 0* US YOUR ORDERS FOR JOB r