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<* l l I I y i ABNER DANIEL By ... WILL N. HARBEN Author of “XOejterfett” Copyright, 1902, by HARPER <a BROS., Who Publish the Work in Book Form. All Rights Reserved - - CHAl’TEU XIII. IN tho middle of the following week some of the young peo- |)lc* of Daidey gave a picnic IS^V/'V,] },t Marlcy's spring, a beauti ful and picturesque spot about a mile below Bishop’s farm. Alan had re ceived an urgent invitation to join the party, and he rode down after dinner. It was a hot afternoon, and the party of a dozen couples had scattered in all directions in search of cool, shady nooks. Alan was by no means sure that Miss Barclay would be there; but, if the truth must be told, he went sole ly with the hope of at least getting another look at her. He was more than agreeably surprised, for just as he had hitched his horse to a hanging bow of an oak near the spring Frank Hillhouse came from tho tangle of wild vines and underbrush on a little hillside and approached him. “You are just the fellow I’m looking for.” said Frank. “Miss Dolly’s over there in a hammock, and I want to leave somebody with her. Old man Morley promised me tho biggest water melon in his patch if I’d come over for it. 1 won't bo long.” “Oh. I don’t care how long you are.” smiled Alan. "You can stay all day if you want to.” “I thought you wouldn’t mind.” grinned Frank. "I used to think you were the one man I had to light, but I reckon I was mistaken. A feller in love imagines everybody in creation is against him.” Alan made no reply to this, but hur ried away to where Dolly sat, a new magazine in her hands and a box of candies on the grass at her feet. "I saw you riding down the hill,” she said, with a pretty flush and no little excitement. “To tell the truth, I sent Frank after the melon when I recog- \>\ >7 \\ x m A \ v ' \ " “I saw you riding down the hilV , nized you. He's been threatening to go all the afternoon, but I insisted on it. You may be surprised, but I have a business message for you, and I would have made Frank drive me past your house on the way home if you hadn’t come.” “Business,” Alan laughed merrily. He felt very happy in her presence un der all her assurances of welcome. “The idea of your having a business message! That’s really funny.” “Well, that’s what it is. Sit down.” She made room for him in the ham mock, and he sat beside her, his fool ish brain in a whirl “Why, yes, it is business, and it concerns you. I fancy it is important. Anyway it may take you to town tonight.” “You don’t mean it,” he laughed. She looked very pretty in her light or gandie gown and big rustic hat, with its wide, flowing ribbons. “Yes, it is a message from Rayburn Miller about that railroad idea of yours.” “Really? Then he told you about that?” “Yes. He was down to see me last week. He didn’t seem to think much of it then, but”—she hesitated and smiled as if over the memory of some thing amusing—“he's been thinking of It since. As Frank and I drove through the main street this morning— Frank had gone in a store to get a basket of fruit—he came to me ou his way to the train for Atlanta. He hadn’t time to say much, but he said If you were out here today to tell you to come in town tonight without fail, so as to meet him at his office early in the morning. He’ll be back on the midnight train. I asked him if it was about the railroad, and he said it was; that he had discovered something that looked encouraging.” “I’m glad of that,” said Alan, a thrill of excitement passing over him. “Ray burn threw cold water on my ideas the other day, and”— “I know he did, and it was a shame,” said Dolly warmly. “The idea of his thinking he is the only man in Georgia with originality! Anyway, I hope It Will come to something.” “I certainly do,” responded Alan. “It’s the only thing T could think of to help my people, and I am willing to stake ull I have ou it—which is, after all. nothing but time and energy.” “Well, don't you let him or any one else discourage you.” said the girl, her eyes flashing. “A man who listens to ether people and puts his own ideas aside is unworthy of the brain God I gave him. There is another thing”— I her voice sank lower and her eyes sought the ground—“Rayburn Miller is ’ a tine, ail round man, but he is not per fect by any means. He talks freely to j me, you know; he's known me since 1 was knee high. Well, he told me—he told me of the talk he had with you at the dance that night. Oh, that hurt j me—hurt me!” “He told you that!” exclaimed Alan in surprise. “Yes, and it actually disgusted me. Does he think all men ought to act on that sort of advice? He might, for he has made an unnatural man of him self, with all his fancies for new faces, but you are not that kind, Alan, and I'm sorry you and he are so intimate; not that he can influence you much, but ho has already In a way, and that , has pained me deeply.” “He has influenced me?” cried Alan in surprise. “I think you are mis taken.” “You may not realize it, but he has,” said Dolly, with gentle and yet un yielding earnestness. “You see, you are so very sensitive that it would not be hard to make you believe that a young man ought not to keep on caring for a girl whose parents object to his attentions.” “Ah!” He had caught her drift. There was a pause. At the foot of the hill a little brook ran merrily over I the water browned stones, and its monotonous lapping could be heard dis tinctly. Under the trees across the open some of the couples had drawn together and were singing: “I see the boat go round the bend, Goodby, my lover, goodby.” Dolly had said exactly what he had never hoped to hear her say, and the fact of her broaching such a subject in such a frank, determined way sent a glow of happiness all over him. “I \lon't think,” he began thought fully, “that Rayburn or any man could keep me from”—he looked into her full, expectant eyes and then plunged mad ly—“could keep me from caring for you, from loving you with all my heart, Dolly, but it really is a terrible thing to know that you are robbing a girl of not only the love of her parents, but her rightful inheritance, when—when” —he hurried ou. seeing that an impulse to speak was urging her to protest— “when you haven’t a cent to your name and, moreover, have a black eye from your father’s mistakes.” “1 knew that’s what he’d said!” de clared the girl, almost white with an ger. “1 knew it! Oh, Alan, Rayburn Miller might be able to draw back and leave a girl at such a time, but no man could that truly loves as—as I believe you love me. I have known how you have felt all this time, and it has near ly broken my heart, but I could not write to you when you had never even told me what you have today. You must not let anybody or anything in fluence you, Alan. I’d rather be a poor man’s wife and do my own work than let a paltry thing like my father’s money keep me from standing by the ^nan I love.” Alan’s face was ablaze. He drew himself up and gazed at her, all his soul in his eyes. “Then I shall not give you up,” he declared—“not for anything in the world. And if there is a chance in the railroad idea I shall work at it ten times as hard now that 1 have talked with you.” They sat together In blissful igno rance of the passage of time till some one shouted out that Frank Hillhouse was coming with the watermelon. Then all the couples in sight or hear ing ran to the spring, where Hillhouse could be seen plunging the big melon into tho water. Hattie Alexander and | Charlie Durant, who had been perched on a jutting bowlder hirrh up on the hill behind Dolly and Alan, came half i running, half sliding, down, catching ! at tho trees to keep from falling. “Better come gel your teeth in that melon.” Hattie said, with a knowing i smile at Dolly. They lived next door to each other . ■•,! were quite intimate. “Come on. .Hre ” Do!!v rose. “Frank j will ne\ t o- o me if 1 don’t have i see queen bee in the “lead with that little makeshift of a man.” Alan dismounted to prevent his uncle from putting up the bars, and they walked homeward side by side. “Yes, and I’ve had the time of my life,” said the young man. “I talked to her for a solid hour.” “I could see that in yore face,” said Abner quietly. “You couldn’t hide it, an’ I’ll bet she didn’t lose time in let- tin’ you know what she never could hide from me.” “We understand each other better now,” admitted Alan. “Well, I’ve certainly set my heart on the match—on gittin’ her in our fam ily,” affirmed Abner. “Durned ef—I declare, sometimes I’m afeerd I’m gone on ’or rayse’f. Yes, I want you an’ her to make it. I want to set an’ smoke an’ chaw on yore front porch an* hecr her back in tho kitchen fryln’ ham an’ eggs, an’ ’’—the old man winked—“I Hon’t know as I’d object to trottin’ some’n’ on my knee to sorter pass the time betwixt meals.” “Oh, come off, Uncle Ab!” said Alan, with n flush. “That’s going too far.” The old man whisked his bait gourd round under his other arm. His eyes twinkled and he chuckled. “’Tain’t goin’ as fur as havin’ one on each knee an’ both pine blank alike an’ ex actly the same age. I’ve knowed that to happen In my day an’ time, when nobody wasn’t even lookin’ fer a in crease.”- This story will be continued in next Friday’s issue. llooni the Town Too. [Hardware Trade. 1 While every merchant is primarily ; interested in making his own busi ness a success, he should not lose sight of the fact that anything which benefits the community benefits him. If a merchants’ association succeeds 'n attracting more trade to the town it is so much gained for all of the merchants there. Each store stands to benefit. Merchants should co- ouerate with the local newspaper to ; attract more business to the town. Properly supported, the editor and his paper can assist greatly in attract ing trade. The edi'or should push the circulation of his paper into the districts for the trade of which his town is competing with others Every town in some quarter comes in com petition with other towns for a cer tain amount of very desirable trade The town which has the newspaper with the widest circulation in that district is the best armed for that contest. The Other Hide of Lynching, [Ida A. L. Wright in The Binghamton, N. Y. Herald.! We have heard enough pleas for the poor negro; let us now hear some thing for the children ; the beautiful, innocent, young girls, knowing and thinking no wrong, crowned with virgin innocence and purity, flitting about their homes like stray sun beams from Heaven, when suddenly this dark, nameless horror falls upon them and the sunlight of love and Heaven is lost in a fate it finitely worse than death. Let us hear some thing of the happy homes which these negro ravishers have destroyed, the fathers and mothers who are bowed to the earth with insupport able anguish and a horror so great that the light cf day and the mtrey of God seem a mockery to them. Lynch law is irregular and unlawful, but so is the crime which is avenged. There is hut one way. Just so long as white girls are ravished by black fiends just so long will negroes be burned at the stake Let them read the writing on the wall: “Let white girls alone,’’ for just so long as they commit this crime the fathers, brothers and sons will arise in their wrath and scourge them from the face of the earth. The law is to protect iMw-abidiug citizens. Lynch ing is to avenge wi jngs so deep, dark and hellish that no torture that can be inflicted is commensurate with the crime If the negroes will let white girls alone they can erj 17 with other citizens the equal justice of our law. Constipation ,^Makes Biliousness and Bad Complexions. nThen where’s yonr beauty’ Keep the system in good condition, and all the organs healthy, by taking RAiffiftais L and Tonic Pellets, which gently assist Nature in eiimi- ■ating the poison, and at the same time make good Mood, good digestion, good health, and will keep The Roses in Your Cheehs. 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I’m going to hope that he lias had good luck in Atlanta.” The world had never seemed so full of joy and hope as Alan rode home ward. The sun was setting in glorious tpleudor beyond the towering moun tains, above which the sky seemed an ocean of mother of pearl and liquid gold. Truly it was good to be alive. At the bars he met Abner Daniel with I fishing cane In his hands, his bait gourd under his arm. “I know right whar you’ve been,” he said, with a broad smile as he threw down the bars for Alan to pass through. “I seed that gang drive by In all the’r flurry this jpomln’. the A I’urnatlve Vleanure. If you ever took DeWitt’s Little Early Risers for biliousness or con stipation you know what a purgative pleasure is. These famous little pills cleanse the liver and rid the system of all bile without producing un pleasant effects. They do not gripe, sicken or weaken, but give tone and strength to the tissues and organs involved. W. H. 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