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\ _______ .a,,.,. J mm •A 4" i! . 0 r-'J* ■X'4* *!• X 4 -i- *. ► *• •» •* O • • •• • • • • ABNER DANIEL Copyright, 1902, by HARPER «l BROS.. Who Publish the Work in Book Form. All Rights Reserved • - M f R %\ X s * t $ ^BXEiESr it By .. . WILL N. HARBEN Author of “'WtjterfeU” Miller fleclnred. "I don't deserve nny- h 0 restored Ins watch to his pocket, thinp, and yet—well, I like to hear you | “i shall stay,” be said, "and I shall talk.” He laughed. “Whether 1 de ! ca n tomorrow afternoon.” A CHAPTER XVII. ROUT a week after this trans action Rayburn Miller went to Atlanta on business for one of his clients, and while there he incidentally called at the ot- lices of the Southern Land and 1 imber company, hoping to meet Wilson and learn something about his immediate plans in regard to the new railroad. But he was informed that the presi dent of the company had just gone to New York and would not be back for a week. * Rayburn was waiting in the rotunda of the Kimball House for his train, which left at 10 o’clock, when he ran across his friend, Captain Ralph Bur ton of the Gate City guards, a local military company. "Glad to see you,” said the young officer. “Did you run up for the ball'/” "What ball is that?” asked Miller. "I am at the first of it.” "Oh, we are giving one here in this house tonight,” answered Burton, who was a handsome man of thirty-five, tall and erect, and appeared at his best in his close fitting evening suit and light overcoat. "Come upstairs, and I’ll introduce you to a lot of stran gers.” “Can’t,” Rayburn told him. “Pve got to leave at 10 o'clock.’* “Well, you’ve got a good hour yet,” insisted the otticer. ‘ Come up on the next floor, where the orchestra is, any way, and we can sit down and watch the crowd come in.” Miller complied, and they found 'seats on the spacious floor overlooking the thronged office. From where they sat they could look through several drawing rooms into the ballroom be yond. Already a considerable number of people had assembled, and many couples were walking about even quite near to the two young men. “By George!” suddenly exclaimed Miller as a couple passed them. "Who is that stunning looking blond? She walks like a queen.” “Where?” asked Burton, looking in the wrong direction. "Why, there, with Charlie Penrose.” "Oh, that one,” said Burton, trying to think, "1 know as well as I know inything, but her name has slipped my memory. Why, she's visiting the ilishops, on Peachtree street—a Miss Bishop; that’s it.” “Adele —little Adele? Impossible!” • ri.'d Rayburn. “And I’ve been think- g of her as a child all these years.” .So you know her?” said Captain Burton. Tier brother is a chum of mine,” ex plained Miller. “I haven’t seen her nee she went to Virginia to school ' .e years ago. I never would have . cognized her in the world. My Lord, ue's simply regal!” T haven't had the pleasure of mect- ic.g her,” said the captain, "but I’ve ard lots about her from the boys \ !io go to Bishop's. They say she’s re- arkably clever — recites, you know, ; ud takes off the plantation negro to ; rfection. She’s a great favorite with ijor Middleton, who doesn’t often !;e to the frying size. She has been i big drawing card out at Bishop’s ■ r since she came. The boys say the •use overflows every evening. Are .. a going to speak to her?” If I get a good chance,” said Ray- i -n. his eyes on the couple as they i appeared in the ballroom. “1 don’t 1 .<* to go in looking like this, but she’d v nt to hear from home.” Oh, I see.” said Burton. “Well, y fd better try It before the grand i* urch sweeps everything before it” As Miller entered the ballroom Pen- r - > was giving Adele a seat behind a < ster of palms, near the grand piano, ; und which the German orchestra v. j grouped. He went straight to her. You won’t remember me. Miss •A le,” he said, with a smile, "but I’m ;• tig to risk speaking to you anyway.” ae looked up from the bunch of f rs in her lap and in a startled, e r sort of way began to study his fj! A N' >, I do not,” she said, flushing a li and yet smiling agreeably. ' ell, I call that a good joke,” Pen- re 1 broke in, with a laugh, as he gr. «■ ed Miller with a familiar slap on th • boulder. "Why, Rayburn, on i^y • atoc: To me a little a. .." - . .*-A g- T—- -?«*' <fr "Would you mind ta king while?” "Nothing could possibly please me so much,” said he. “Suppose we stroll around.” She took his arm, and he led her back to the rotunda overlooking the office. “So you are Rayburn Miller!” she ; said, looking at him wonderingly. “Do ; you know, I have pictured you in my i mind many times since mother wrote un‘ all about how you rescued us from ruin. Oh, Mr. Miller, I could not in a thousand years tell you how my heart filled with gratitude to you. My moth er goes into the smallest details in her letters, and she described your every word and action during that transac- > tion in your office. I eovild tell just where her eyes filled and her throat choked up by her quivering handwrit- . lug. I declare, I looked on you as a sort of king with unlimited power. If I were a man, I’d rather use my brain to help suffering people than to be made president of the United States and be a mere figurehead. You must not think I am spoiled by all this glit ter and parade down here. The truth is, I heartily despise it. I wanted to be at home so bad when I got that let ter that I cried myself to sleep.” “You must not forget that your broth er conceived the plan,” Miller protest ed, “and that 1 only”— “Oh, yes, I know Alan thought of it,” she interrupted, “but without your ex perience and firmness it would have re mained in his dear old brain till the ! Lord knows when. The idea of their being in Ogbt was slowly killing my father and mother, and you came to their relief just when they were un able to bear it any longer. I’m so glad you thought of borrowing that money.” Just then a young man half a head shorter than Adele came up hurriedly. “Oh, here you are!” he exclaimed in a gasp of relief. “I’ve been looking for you everywhere. This is mine, you know—the grand march. They are all ready.” Adele smiled pleasantly. “I hope you’ll excuse me from it, Mr. Tedens- tle,” she said. “I’ve just met a friend from home. I want to talk with him, and”— “But, Miss Bishop, I”— “I asked you to please excuse me, Mr. Tedeastle.” Miller saw her face harden as if from the sneer of con tempt that passed over it “I hope it will not be necessary for me to explain my reasons in detail until I have a lit tle more time at my disposal.” “Oh, certainly not, Miss Bishop,” said the young man, red with anger, as he bowed himself away. “What’s society coming to?” Adele asked Miller, with a nervous little laugh. “Does a lady have to get down on her knees and beg men—little jump- serve it or not, I could listen to you for a week on a stretch.” In truth Rayburn Miller had never In all his varied social career become so suddenly und startlingly interested in any woman. It all seemed like a dream, and a most delicious one—the gay assemblage, the intermittent strains of the music, the touch of the stately creature on his arm, the per fume of her flowers, her hair, her eyes. Ho suddenly felt fearful of the passage of time, th<' leaving of his train, the approach of some one to claim her at tention. He could not explaPn (he spell she had thrown on him. Was it be cause she was his friend’s sister and so astoundingly pretty, frank and sensi ble. or could it be that”— His train of thought was broken by the approach of Miss Ida Bishop, Adele’s cousin, a rather plain girl, who with her scrawny neck and scant hair, which rebelled against being made much of, would have appeared to bet ter advantage in a street costume. “Oh, Adele,” she cried reproachfully, “what do you mean? Do you know you have mortally offended Mr. Tod- castle? He had the march with you.” “And I asked him as a favor to ex cuse me from it,” said Adele simply. “I had just met Mr. Miller, who is to leave on an early train, and I wanted to talk to him about home. Have you been introduced? My cousin, Miss Bishop, Mr. Rayburn Miller.” Miss Bishop bowed indifferently and looked as if she still saw’ no justifica tion in the slight under question. “I’m awfully sorry.” she said reprov ingly. “Mr. Tedeastle has been as nice to you as he could be, and this is Some one came for her a few min utes later, and he went down to the office and out into the street. He wanted to walk, to feel his body in ac tion, keeping pace with his throbbing, bounding brain. His whole being was aflame with a fire which had never feurued in him before. “Alan’s little sister!” he ke# repeat ing to himself. “Little Adele—she’s wonderful, Wonderful! Perhaps she may be the woman. By George, she is —she is! A creature like that, with that soul full of appreciation for a man’s best efforts, would lift a fellow to the highest rung on the ladder of human effort. Alan’s little sister! And the idiot never told me, never inti mated that she was—a goddess.” In his room at the hotel that night he slept little, his brain being so active with his new experience. He saw her the next afternoon alone over a dainty tea service of fragile china in a Turkish ’ corner in William Bishop’s great, quiet i house, and then proposed driving her the next day to the Driving club. He remained a week, seeing her under some pretext or other every day during that time. Sometimes it was to call with her on friends of hers. Once it was to attend a barbecue given by i Captain Burton at a clubhouse in the I country, and once he gave her and her cousin a luncheon at the Canitol City ( club, with a box at the matinee after- ! ward. He told himself that he had never lived before and that somehow | he was just beginning. “No,” he mused as he sat in his train i homeward bound, "I can’t tell Alan. I simply couldn’t do it after all the rub- I bish I have crammed into him. Then she’s his sister. I couldn’t talk to him Is one which is palatable, pleasant to take, # and can be relied upon to act gently, but I'flXCltive thorou g hl y, cleansing the entire system of al’ impurities. Such a remedy is Mosley's Lemon Elixir. It is a pleasant lemon tonic, acceptable to the most delicate stomach, and acts thoroughly upon the jewels, liver and kidneys without the slightest unpleasant- £• ness Sold by all druggists at 50c a bottle. TUf Mozfex's Lemon Hof Drop';, without an JvjL (J& equal for coug: s, colds, sore throat and 1,6171012 bronchitis. 25c a bottle v 0 / the way you show appreciation for it. , „ I don't blame him for being mad, do a b°ut ber—not now, anyway. you, Mr. Miller?” ^ T , “I’m afraid I’d be a prejudiced wit Thi « * t0 7 Wl!1 be continued in ness,” he smiled, “benefiting as I am by | Qext ^ r '^ a Y 9 ' 99Ue - the gentleman’s discomfiture; but real- j ( , alned Korty ronmiH iuThirty.Day*, ly I can't think that any circumstances j , could justify a uian in pressing a lady ^ or 9evera * months our younger to fill an engagement when she chooses brother had been troubled with indi gestion. He tried several remedies but got no benefit from them. We not to do so for any reason of hers.” "I knew you’d say that,” said Adele. “If anybody has a right to be offended it is I, for the way he has acted without waiting for my full explana tion.” “Oh, that is a high and mighty course that will do better for novels than real 1 life,” disagreed Miss Ida Bishop. “The : young men arc badly spoiled here, and ! if wv want attention we’ve got to hu- j mor them.” “They shall not be spoiled by mi,” declared Adele. “Why,” shrugging her shoulders contemptuously, “if 1 had to run after them and bind up their bruises every time they fell down I'd not appreciate their attentions. Be sides, Mr. Tedeastle and his whole ilk actually put me to sleep. What do | they talk about? Driving, pet dogs, flowers, candies, theater parties and silly bosh generally. Dyspeptics r are made every day by their own carelessness. ’Cure that case of Constipation and Indigestion before it becomes chronic. Take and Tonic Pellets, the only remedy that assists Nature and does not get in her way. Strong purgatives gripe, and make confirmed invalids. Ramon’s act gently and leave the system independent of drugs. Sample and BooKlet Free. ^ Complete Treatment " 25 days 25 cts. For sale by Cherokee Drug Company. Strictly Private purchased some of Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets and he commenced taking them. Inside of thirty days he had gained forty pounds in flesh. He is now fully re covered. We have a good trade on the Tablets. Holley Bros. Merchants, Long Branch, Mo. For sale by Cher okee Drug Co.; L. D. Allison, Cow- pens. Some people spend enough time weeping over ppilled milk to buy a whole cow. MietliiK Invited UisttiHe. To cure Dyspepsia or indigestion it : is no longer necessary to live on milk • and toast. Starvation produces such weakness that the whole system be comes an easy prey to disease. Ko- Last; 11 Sunday do1 Dyspepsia Cure enables the Senator Hare dined at uncle’s, and aft- 9 t°mach and digesti\e organs to or dinner be and 1 were having really digest and assimilate all o t e w 0 o some food that one cares to eat. and is a never failing cure for indigestion Dyspepsia and all stomach troubles. Every account on our books is treated as a STRICTLY PRIVATE, PERSONAL MATTER and NO ONE can get any information about your bank account when you make your deposits in this Bank. We want your business and will make it both pleasant and profitable for your bank account with us. The National Bank of Gaffney % ////, W- '•a f/r V/'\ :\v "You are not Rayburn Miller!" Adele exclaimed. ingjacks, like that one—to excuse her, , . , , _ 1 and to pet them into a good humor she basil t talked of anybody , wben sll0 bas , reaK ,„ t0 ob • tiixx 1 n of- vx’rvtil' o rwi c L /v ’ I nor mind about an engagement? That’s a sort of slavery I don’t intend to en ter.” “Y’ou served him right,” said Miller, who had himself resented the young man's childish impetuosity and felt like slapping him for his impertinence. Adele shrugged her fine shoulders. “Let’s not waste any more time talk ing about him,” she said. “I was going to tell you how happy you made them nil. When I read mother’s description of their return home that night—how she went round looking at each object and touching it that she might realize It was hers again, and how father sat up till past midnight talking incessant ly about it, and all the droll things Un cle Abner said—I cried and laughed by turns. I longed to see you. to tell you how I felt about what you did, and yet, now that I'm with you, all I say seems utterly weak and—Inadequate.” “It seems wonderfully nice to me,” lor the last week, and here she”— 1 >u are not Rayburn Miller!” Adele ex .’.imed, and she stood up to give hi . her hand. “Yes, I have been talk- in . of you, and it seems to me 1 have a ousand things to say and, oh, so m; .. thanks!” re was something in this impul siv looting that gave Miller a delee- tuh'e thrill all over. < u were such a little thing the liu- time I saw you,” he said almost ten ' rly. “I declare, you have changed —s.i. so remarkably.” iv • nodded to Penrose, who was ex- cr nr himself, and then she said to Mi:: t, “Are you going to dance to- ni. .:l?" I’ - explained that he was obliged to t:il the train which left In a few mi' ales. ( 1. • saw her face actually fall with di .ipointment. The very genuineness of expression pleased him inexplica bly “Then I must hurry.” she said. a wholesome sort of talk, and I was i respecting myself—well, a little like I am now—when In traped Teddy, with his hangers on. Of course 1 had to in troduce them to the senator, and 1 felt like a fool, for he knew they were my ‘company,’ and it was impossible to keep them quiet. They went on with their baby talk just as if Senator Hare were being given an intellectual treat. Of course there are some grown up men in Atlanta, but they are driven to the clubs by the swarms of little fel lows. There comes Major Middleton, one of the old regime. He may ask me to dance with him. Now watch. If he does. I'll answer him just as 1 did Mr. Tedeastle, and you shall see how differently he will treat it.” The major, a handsome man of pow erful physique and a great shock of curly iron gray hair, approached Adele and with a low bow held out his hand. “I’m after the next dance, my dear,” he said. “You are one of the very few who ever dance with me, and I don’t want to go home without it.” Adele smiled. “I’m very sorry, ma jor,” she said, “but I hope you’ll ex cuse me this evening.” “Oh, that’s all right, my dear child," he said. “No; don’t explain. I know your reasons are all right. Go ahead and enjoy yourself in your owu way.” “I won my bet,” Adele laughed. “Ma jor, I knew so well what you would say that I bet on It.” And then she explained the situation. “Tedeastle ought to be spanked,” said the major in his high keyed voice. “A girl who had not rather hear from home than spin around with him ought not to have a home. I’m going to mine rather early tonight. I came only to show the boys how to make my famous Kentucky punch.” When the major and Miss Ida Bish op had gone and left them together, Adele looked over the railing at the |>ig clock in the office. “We have only a few minutes longer, if you are to take that train,” she said regretfully. “I never had as little interest in trains in my life,” he said, and he meant it. “Not in the trains on our new road?” she laughed. “They are too far ahead to interfere with my comfort,” he retorted. “This one is a steam nightmare." “I presume you really could not miss it?” Her long lashed eyes were down.' He hesitated. The simple thought suggested by her thrilled him as lie had never boon thrilled before. "Because,” she added, “it would be so nice to have you come out tomorrow afternoon to ten, about 4.” He drew out his watch and looked at it waveringly. “I could send a night message,” he said finally. “I really don’t want to go. Miss Adele, I don’t want to go at all." “I don’t want you to either,” she said softly. “It seems almost as if we are quite old friends. Isn’t that strange?” Kodol digests what you eat—makes the stomach sweet. Sold by Chero kee Drug Co. No one can be happy without a friend, and no one can know what friends he has until he is unhappy. 9 Hancocks’s Liquor Sulphur will give you immediate relief and per- manetly cure all such diseases as Eczema, Pimples, Tetter, Herpes, Ringworm, Dandruff, Diphtheria Sore Throat,Cuts. Bums, Open Sores, and all blood and skin troubles. Hun dreds of cases of skin diseases have been permanently cured by the use of Hancock’s Liquid Sulphur after all other remedies failed. For sale by the Cherokee Drug Co. Some people can get along without fljnse as long as their dollars last. A Perfect Painless.PHl is the one that will cleanse the sys tem, set the liver to action, remove the bile clear the complexion, cure headache and leave a good taste in the mouth. The famous little pills for doing such work pleasantly and effectually are DeWitt’s Little Early Risers Bob Moore, of Lafayette, Ind., says: “All other pills I have used gripe and sicken, while De- Witt’s Little Early Risers are simply perfect.” Sold by Cherokee Drug Company. ] “It is never too late to mend,” but some men are too lazy to begin. Careful Laundering The person who goes to a cut-rate laundry usually loses more than he saves. When you count the wear and tear caused by the poor work, it is a whole lot better to pay a legitimate price and be sure of honest work and CARREUL LAUNDERING. Competent and Experienced Help Your clothes will be handled by people who understand the business through out and who give careful attention to every detail of the work and to every article of clothing that passes through their hands. We mean business. Let us have \ ur laundry work; we guarantee to please you. PEARL STEAM LAUNDRY, Phone 122 GILMER BROS., Proprietors. We will call for and deliver your laundry within 2.} HOURS if desired. K 5 i i ioc it or Si £V WeoU, or S-> IVIontli. Just whatever amount you can conveniently lay aside placed regu larly in our “Savings Department” will amount up more rapidly than you imagine, ami may some day prove a most useful nest egg. We pay 4 per cent, interest, compounded quarterly, on all sums of |5.oo and upwards. Start an account with us. Ihe Merchants and Planters Bank “Savings Department*. ft f k k k Made on Real Estate in City of Gaffney and County of Cherokee. Abstracts furnished. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Star Theatre Building. LOANS A Dozen Times h Night. Mr. Owen Dunn, of Benton Ferry. ! W. Va., writes: “I have had kidney! and bladder trouble for years, and it ! became so bad that I was obliged to I get up at least a dozen times a night. 1 I never received any permanent bene fit from any medicine until I tried Foley’s Kidney Cure. After using two bottles, I am cured,” Cherokee Drug Co. Instead of waiting for happiness to come to you. go to work and-make it. The reason why Hancock’s Liquid Sulphur should be in eviry house, it | is endorsed and prescribed by the leading physicians, for such diseases as Eczema, Pimples, Ringworm, Salt Rheum, Dandruff, Diphtheria, Sore Throat, Cuts, Burns, Open Sores, and all blood and skin troubles. No home ! should be without it. For sale by j WHERE ONE MAN Gets rich by hazardous speculation, hundreds become poor. 'WHEKK OIVE JVliVIV remains poor by slow methods of saving, thousands be come rich. riiic r*RCJT>i^iVT iviaiv chooses the wise course and deposits his money in the GAFFNEY SAVINGS BANK, where it will draw 4 per cent, interest. ’he Giffney City Land and impmement Company Offers for sale Building Lois In this flourishing town, Gaffney Olty; Also Farms neai hy and In reach of the Schools of Limestone Springs and of this place, In lots of from 30 to 100 acres on liberal time rates; also Agricultural Lands to rent for Farm pur poses. For full particulars apply to N, the Cherokee Drug Co. B.—All persons are forbidden to enter on.-walk or ride through or over the lands of tWs company, cutting and removing timber, fishing or hunting, under penalty of law. Cure a Cold in One Taka Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. ^ (JLJO Seven Million botes sold In post 12 months. This. MomatnrA. JLyT signature, Cures Grip in Two Days. on every box. 25c.