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CIIAI*TF.n XIX.
, l.ol ISA.
Louisa Banks felt (lini her cup ol
misery was full, bul llioro was more,
much more, to he poured in yet.
When Sim did not appear nl break
fust m-xt mom lug, sin- went Up to hi
rootll to see If llO was there. It was
then she discovered tho little pile of
money and the papers he had h it on
the table. With a premonition of what
was to COIIIO she pushed the money
aside and eagerly took up the first pst
per and unfolded it. It was the poor
little note Sim had written to her. She
read it through, then sanU into a ehttlr
and, pillowing her head on the table,
burst into tears.
It would have bee" a hard heart that
would not have beoll affected by the )
simple pathos of Sim's words, and Lou- (
Isa was not hard hearted. She uns;
touched, deeply touched, by the manly,
generous manner In whleh be absolved
her from all blame and bravely took it
all on his own shoulders. That note
presented him to her In a new anil a
far more favorable light than she had j
ever seen him. It showed bow truly he
could love, how good and generous his |
heart was and how grand and noble his
uoturo.
She realized now that in losing blm
she hail lost one of tho purest and tin- i
est souls that ever lived, and she re- !
gretted. deeply and sincerely, that she
could not love him.
"Hut I tiled." she told herself, "Cod
kUOWS 1 tried, to love him and wanted
to love him, but I couldn't. Yet I was
not worthy of such a man or of such
love as he gave me."
Presently she took up the deeds and
read them over. The tears started
afresh to her eyes.
"More of his goodness," she thought.
"No other man would have done such a
thing. Oh, Sim! Poor, heartbroken
Sim! How I pity you!"
Later in the day she went out and
stood by the gate, looking down to
ward the wood, the way she had seen
Sim go the previous evening. Her
heart was heavy, and her thoughts
were all of him. liefere he went she
bad always thought she could never be
happy except with Crank Shelton, but
now she folt that she could never be
happy again under any circumstances.
Presently Mary Mann canto down
the street on her way home from the
store, where she had gone to view Mob
viu's remains and to barn all the news
about the tragedy. Louisa had not
been from home till day, and no one
had visited her, so she was entirely ig
norant of all that had transpired to set
the community In a tumult of excite
ment. Mary Mann knew this, and,
glad of an opportunity to tell the news
and at the same time Inflict a cruel
wound on one she hated, she stopped
when she reached Mrs. Hanks and ac
costed her sweetly, very, very sweetly,
with:
"Howdy, Loueesy? I'm right glad
lo see you. You rale well?"
"I'm very will. Mrs. Mann," Louisa
replied coldly without looking up.
"I'm glad lo bear it." Mrs. Mann said
In her suavest tones, ignoring Louisa *,
coldness. "I'm rale glad to hear It,
Loueesy, but I must ttay you ain't
n-lookln very well."
??I'm very well, I thank you."
"Yes? And Sim ? 1 suppose he's
Well 7"
"1 presume so."
"Is he tit home today?"'
"No."
"W here Is he. Loueesy?"
Mrs. Hanks, remembering all ahe had
heard of the relationship existing be
tween this woman and Sim, Hashed an
gry In an instant.
"1 don't know," she replied scornful
ly, "that It's particularly any of your
business where he is."
Mrs. Mann did not allow her feelings
to be ruffled by this curt answer. Her
time to deal a deadly thrust was com
ing, and then her revenge would be so
full that she could well afford to wait.
Quietly she said:
"Oh, you feel that way 'bout It, do
foil?"
"1 do."
"Waal, I s'pofio It's nat'ral, Loueesy,
that you should. I reckon It's even
nat'ral that you should feel that It
ain't nobody's business."
"Whether It's natural or not, Mrs.
Mann, that Is just how I feel."
"Jest so. But, for a'.l that, Loueesy.
there's many as will feel different
'bout It. There's a heap of people, an
specially the ofUcers, who will think
It's a right smart of their business."
Louisa raised her head and gave Mrs.
Hann a look of scorn.
"I know of no reason why they
Should," she replied, "nor do I presume
you know of any."
"La! Is that so? Thou you've not
heard 'bout all that's been goln ou to
day?"
"I have hoard nothing."
Now had the time of Mrs. Mann's
revenge arrived revenge for the loss
of Sim ami all she had suffered In eon
Bequenco of it. Bluntly, almost brutal
ly, she said:
"Then you didn't know that your lov
er. James Mclvln, had been found dead
with a bullet hole through his heart.
It was a cruel blow erudrly dealt,
nnil Louisa staggered under It. Her
eyes opened wide, her faco became
deathly white, and for a moment her
heart stopped beating. She reeled and
would have fallen had she not eh ng to
the fence for support. Her Hps moved
as If In speech, but no sound escaped
them.
Her suffering was Intense. It wns
pitiful. Even a ln-art of stone must
bave boon touched by It. Hut Mary
Mann was Impervious to pity. In her
heart there was no compassion. Sho
hud dealt a bard blow, but sho had a
harder yet to deal, ami sho did not hes
itate. Relentlessly she said:
"Yes, your sweetheart has been kill
ed, an It was your husband murdered
him, an you, Loueesy Hanks, uro re
sponsible for It till."
With one wild, heartrending shriek
Louisa fell back In a dead faint.
Two hours later a group of men wero
Btnndlng In front of Hicks' store dis
cussing the murder. Somo there wero
who talked, nnd sonio there wero who
only listened. Hap Sampson, Jason
Roberts and Sam Morgan wero of tho
latter. Jim Thorn, still occupying the
position of supremo importanco in the
village, wns saying:
"No, sir, men, I'vo got nothln on
earth ag'ln Blm Hanks, an thnr's not a
man In the world I'd bofrlcnd quicker
than I would him, but In splto of all,
^ that I can|t shut my oyea to tho plolnj
fact that ever'thlng poos to show that
Sim Banks tired tho shot that killed
Melvlu."
"I liato tnoughtlly to think Shu could
do Bloti a thing," Lllcks remarked,
"but I'm afeard I'll bavo to own that
ever'thlng seums to point pow'ful
strong ug'lu him."
"Of oo'so it does," Thorn agreed.
"Lord, Juke, as much as 1 bate to say
it. I got to own that It's a plumb plain
oast'. In the tust phlCC, Sim bud a icu
sou for kllllu Melvlu, nn thnr wu'n't
llttry another soul in this whole section
that did have a reason. Von kuow
that's so. don't youV"
"I'm afeard It Is. Jim," lllcks *d
inttted.
"Then ylstedy evonln. jest before
Melvlu must 'a' beeu killed." Tbeill
went, on, "Sim was seen goln dotrii
into them woods with his guu on ids
Bhoulder. Lie knowed Melvlu was ut
the store hero, no doubt, an would he
tt'passln tlirougli them woods on bin
way to Turner's. What more likely
than that lie went dowu lliur nn tiid
behind that ?reo till Melvlu comeuloug,
then Uped uu dropped blmV"
"it 'pears lo look like lt-mought a
been that a way." 1 licks replied. "Il
docs shore."
"Then ou top of nil that." Thorn
added, "is the tact that Siin Hanks i<
gone or else is in hldlu Bomewbar
Now, why would lie run oil or hide it
'< ho wa'n't guilty of souiethiuV Aud
what could lie be guilty of If it ain't
this murder?"
Hicks sighed and shook his head.
"1 reckon you must be rigid. Jim,"
he said, "though 1 hate wuss'n plzen
to have to say so. Yes. It looks like
Sim must 'a' done It. It does shore.
"Of course ho done It," another said
emphatically. "Lord, that's jest as
plain to my mind as the nose on your
face. I don't see how nnybody'd man
"T7iot is a lie, Jim Thorn."
age to go 'bout doubtln with all that
evidence ng'ln Slin. It's too plumb
plain tor doubtln."
'Tis so," agreed another. Then he
added, "My land, what you reckon
they'll do with Slin for ltV"
"Lord, they'll hang him, of course,"
some one replied. "They're shore to."
"I dunno," lllcks said. "If Sim done
It. he had a right smart cause for It,
an I guess mebby the court would Mud
some of them extenuatlu circumstances
to sorter help him out. Anyhow, Slin
ain't kctched yit, an ketchln comes
afore hangln."
"By Josh, Jake, that are a fact! Sim
ain't ketched ylt, au I bet he ain't
R-goin to be ketched nuther. No,
Blr-ee! lie's got clear plumb away
?fore this."
"Don't you go an fool yourse'f 'hont
that," Thorn Bald. "It takes a moughty
Bight smarter feller than Sim Hanks to
keep out of the way of the law, an If
he ain't ketched In less'n a week I'll be
pow'ful fooled."
"Waal, If they do ketch him," lllcks
remarked, "1 hope they won't do noth
ln much to htm."
"Oh, they Won't do notbln more than
hang him," Thorn observed, "an my
notion is they're most shore to do that.
Them kind of circumstances you spoke
of while ago ain't n-golu to cut much
Qggcr In Shu's case. Anyhow they'll
shorn send him up to prison for life at
the very best."
"(Josh, Jim Thorn," somebody said,
"you 'pear to be dead sot ag'ln Sim.
What mnkos you so plzen hard on
him?"
"I ain't. I'm Jest talkin facts."
"They're mls'nhlo blame hard facts,
then."
"I can't help that I didn't make
'em hard."
"Waal, I hope they won't never hang
old sim nohow. Gosh n-mlgbty, fel
lers, that'd Jest tie awful, wouldn't
It?"
"it would so." ilicks agreed, "an I
wouldn't have It done for a purty."
"Say," called Sam Morgan, "who you
all reckon that stranger was that come
'long over thnr In the woods today'/"
"Lord," Thorn exclaimed, "If I
hadn't gone an clear forgot nil 'bout
him! But I ain't no notion who be
was nohow."
"IIo 'pearod to lake a right smart
Intrust in the murder, didn't he?"
"Shore. 'Poured to think It was a
painful pity Melvln got killed."
"Did so. Acted like It made him
COnsld'able sorry. I bet he's pow'ful
tender hearted."
"Purty good sort or feller, t guess.
But, say, fellers, what yon reckon
Loucesy Banks thinks 'bout the way
things has t limed out V"
"I dunno. I'm shore." lllcks replied.
"Oitess mebby she don't know notbln
'bout it."
"Lord, If she does I reckon she en n't
feel none too good with her sweetheart
dead nn her husband n mnrderer."
"That Is a He, Jim Thorn?every
word a lie!"
They started and looked around, nnd
there among them stood Louisa, her
face white and drawn, her form trem
bling, but n look of dreadful earnest
ness In her eyes.
CIIAPTKIt XX.
r\T BAMI'SON AH A FRIEND.
"It'sin lie, a positive Hol" I-oulsa re
pented, with her gaze Mxed stendlly
on Jim'Thorn's face. "I don't care If
the whole world Bays ho did, and I
don't care\what proof there Is against
him, I Ray. Sim Hanks never commit
ted auch m crime as murdcrl"
"That's/what ho didn't, Loueesy,"
and Pap 'Sampson stepped to tho wo
man's aldo, thumped his cano firmly
against >the_grout!d and faced the oth
era defiantly. "I say it, .lim TUoru,
an I say It openly an nhovohoard, an
I'll continue to say It till the last day
In tin? CVOUlu, Slin Hanks never took
that roan's Hie."
Louisa turned a grateful look on the
old man, and the tears started to her
eyes.
"Thank you, Hap, with my whole
heart," she said. "It's n comfort to
know that Sim has one true friend In
all the world who will stand up In his
defense to the last."
"An l w ill Blond up for him, Loueesy.
As long as there's a breath of life In
my body I'll defend Sim Hanks against
nil the world, because I know he's an
Innocent man."
Jim Thorn stood with his bead bent
and his gaze fixed on tho ground. Ho
made no reply to anything Louisa or
Pap aald. Perhaps, lor all that, ho
may have beeil honest In his expressed
belief in Sim's guilt. There were oth
ers there w ho were. They could scarce
ly be blamed under the circumstances.
"You and I know Sim Is Innocent/'
Louisa said, laying her hand on Pap's
arm, "even If all the world believes
he's guilty."
"We do," Pap replied. "Put we are
not alone, Loueesy. That 's others here
who b'llovo Sim Is Innocent"
Louisa shook her head.
"Put thar Is." Pap Insisted. "Sam
Morgan, you bileve It. don't you7"
Sam's head dropped, and after hesi
tating a moment he turned and walked
slowly away. It needed no words to
tell w hat he thought. Pap was disap
pointed, but he said:
"Never mind, Loueesy. Sam Morgan
Is honest, and he can't help his opin
ions. That 's one here, * hough, I know
Is with us. Jason Roberts, you don't
b'llevo Sim Banks Is guilty, do you?"
Jason, too, dropped his head and hes
itated, but he replied:
"1 wish, Pap," he said In low tones,
"that you hadn't asked tae that. 1
don't want to tell you the truth, and I
can't tell yen a lie."
Pap said no more. Two such keen
disappointments were enough. Be
sides, If those two men were not
friendly to Sim, where should he lock
for one who was?
The action of Sam and Jasou cut
Louisa to the heart They had been
among Sim's nearest frlcuds, and if
anybody could believe in h.j Innocence
certainly tin y could.
"Come. l.otH'osy." Pup said. "This Is
not the place t"i you, Let me take yon
to my home You'll lind a true friend
in Mhandy. an mebby she'll do you
good.
Louisa took Pup's arm and walked
awnv with i in Por some time after
thej were hoth silent, but there was
KotneliiiSU' oeeupylug I'ap's mind.
There win ?"?nulluni; he wanted to
say. Inn I,. >\ n - ;it ;i hiss for words to
exp . In:. ?- II a- lie felt lie should. It
wns a mailt i i!.;ii tu him was very
delicate .ii. t to liroach il without glv
Ing nft'i use Koeiucd no easy task. Put
llnnllv he ventured io twgtn by saying
"Loueesy you know I'm your friend
an thai I waul to do everything for
you I can a;i Hint I wouldn't knowln'ly
do miry n thltig in hurt you for notbln
<>n earili. You h'llove that, don't you?"
"I do, Pup. I believe every word you
say. Im you know before Sim went
away he wrote m note and h it it for
me, and in that note he said. "If you
ever need a friotld, go to Pap SUinpSOU.'
lie said I could trust you and depend
on you."
"Lord! Did Sim write that a-way
'bout me?" and Pap's face fairly beam
ed with pleasure.
"lie di.l."
".My hind, ain't that qua I re, now?
Who'd ever 'a' thought of Sim writ In
like that "bout a old no 'count scrub
like me? Waal, wnnl!"
"Sim thought a great drr.l of you.
Pap. more than he thought ? >' anybody
else."
"Yon don't say so!"
"Yes, l do. And it's true too."
"Waal, w aal! Who'd 'a' thought rich
a thing? A old played out plug like me,
too my, my! Bui I nllus liked Sim. lie
was a pow'ful line feller, Sim was. an
a good, honest feller too. An Sim told
you to come to me? Waal, I swan!"
"Put I didn't have to come to you.
I did I? You came to me."
"That's qua Ire, too, ain't It? Put It's
nil right, an now we understand each
other, don't we?"
"I understand that Sim was rigid
about you."
"I hope so. Loueesy. I hope so. And
now I was Jest a thinkin 'bout some
thin that I sorter felt like I ort to men
tlon, but ylt I didn't know exactly."
"What Is It. Pap?"
"I dunno, Loueesy. I'm most afcord
I'll hurt your feelin's."
"\<>: speak out. I know you mean to
do that which Is right."
"Then It Is about Mclvin. Yon see.
we know all that 'bout you an him, nn
I thought - you see, I don't know, of
cose, nn 1 may be all in the wrong. huT
I kinder 'lowed tnehhy, on 'count of
what was atvv ixt you two. that nat'ral
ly you'd like to see him once more. I
jest sorter 'lowed it mought he that
a-wny, you know, nn I hope I ain't
said notbln to hurt you."
"No. you have not," she replied, "and
perhaps It's wrong, but I would like to
see him. I hope you won't think me
Wicked, Pap. for Cod knows I can't
help my feelings."
"1 don't, Loueesy. It ain't my place
to Judge, an I ain't hhiinln nobody for
nothlll. I know It's sad that you an
Sim couldn't git along, hut if you
couldn't you couldn't, an that's all thar
Is to It. Sim ain't never faulted you
for notliln, an Pin moughty shore I
ain't a goln to nuther. Whatever may
he said, I know one thing, Loueesy, an
that Is, no matter what you thought of
anybody else, you've always hecn a
true wife to Sim. Your conduct has
beeil right, an that's all the world has
got to do with. Your thoughts an your
feelin's Is atwixt you an your Ood."
"And Qod knows I never meant to do
wrong," Louisa said, "hut I did when 1
married Sim without loving him. Put
I didn't know, Pap; I didn't know. I
wns too young. I loved the other then,
hut I liked Sim, mid I wasn't sure. Oh,
love is so cruel, so cruel!"
"No, Loueesy, It ain't that. It's that
people ain't keerful enough of what
they're (loin when they marry. You
was too young to know your own
heart."
"I was, and tho consequence Is 1
have ruined Sim's life and made my
self miserable forever."
"No, no, Loueesy. Don't you go to
lookln at It that o-wny. Lord, thar's
many years nfore you. an thar's no
tellln what all may happen ylt. You
Jest keep up courage an he ns hopeful
us you can, nn some of these days
you'll lind that nil your pains an Btlf?
ferin'S has been left behind."
"Not in this life, Pap, It enn't ever
be In this bard, cold world."
"Hut It can, an It will. You'll see."
They walked on a little way In si
lence. They were both thinking, and,
though neither of them knew It, their
minds were on the same subject. Pres
ently Louisa sighed and, as If speaking
to herself, said:
"Poor 81m, poor Sim I"
Pap glanced quickly at her face,
while tho faint trace of n gmllo played
about, his lips. In that moment ho
gaw._f*rther utto tho tuture^han Lou
isa would Utlvi1 believed.
"An now about Melvln," bo said, "l
reckon you know wbut pooplu say an
tblnkV"
"No. but ? suppose thoy 111iIIIc im?
Wicked lUld say haul things about u10."
"Waal. Boino of 'oin do, Louoosy.
Yes; I'm al'card bouio of 'oiu do."
"I'm B?rry, but l can't help it."
"In co'bv. 1 uudersl tud all that. But,
si i ln as things are so, 1 'lowed you
wouldn't kocr 'bout glvln folks no
more room for savin things than you
can bolp. su 1 reckoned you'd ruthor go
to see Molviu win n ovcr'body wa'n't
Ihnr lo see vim."
"Yes: 1 would. But win l V"
"Shore. If you jest WO It till tonight.
when ovor'body's gone home, I'll toko
you thur. I'll OlT?Ugo it with Hicks
bo's you < :ui go In. That o-way no
body wou't kuow uothlu 'bout it, an
nobody wm't have uotbiu to say."
'Thank you. Pap. You are more
than thoughtful and kind."
"Lord, that ain't nothln. Even If I
didn't koer nothln for you I'd do that
much jest lo halk Mary Mann."
At the mention of that name Louisa
shuddered. Pop noticed It and said:
"I reckon you ain't got much more
love for that woman than 1 have."
"I desp.so her." Louisa replied.
"Most folks does. Lord, she made a
plumb fool of herself over Sim."
"And I accused blm of making lovo
lo her."
"Makln love to her! Sim Hanks
mokln love to Mary Mann! My Lord,
gal, what was you ever a thlnkln of?
Why, Sim hated her wussln pi/.cn."
"I know now that 1 was unjust."
"To be shore you was. Hut I reckon
somebody told you sou ethluV"
"Yes."
"That's tin- waj 1 Is tllllts some
body fairly spllttiu 'it .kins to git
to stir up trouble. Sich people ort to
have tbolr tongues split an their legs
run through 'em."
As Pop bad promised, Mrs. Sampson
proved a true friend to Louisa. She
received her kindly and made her feel
heartily welcome from the instant she
tillered the bouse. Like P?|?, she nei
ther Judged nor Ida.I, but rather
Bought to soothe and comfort. The
generous kindness of these two plain,
simple old people touched Louisa deep
ly, and she never forgot It.
That night Pup took Louisa to the
store to see for the last time all that
remained of the man she loved. He
felt that he was doiug right, and when
he spoke Of it to his wife she readily
agreed with him.
?I think It will be for the beat," she
said. may be a comfort to her.
an nujrwfif U can't do nobody no
ha rin.w
The fnme was dark, and there was
no one tfcere, but Pap had secured
from Htefca the key to the wareroom
"A'OUI J/Oll COM </o III."
where the body lay. leaving Louisa
on the outside, he opened the door and
went In and struck a light. Then he
came back to her ami whispered:
Now you euu go In, an I s'pose you'd
ruthor go oloneV"
"Yes," she replied.
Bho passed through the door, ami
Pap waited on the outside. What
transpired in that room no one save
Louisa ever knew. The door Blood
partially open, and Pup might have
looked In. but be would not have done
such a thing for tin; world.
A quarter of an hour passed, and
then Louisa oaino out. Pap saw that
she was very pale, but perfectly calm.
Without a word he put out the light
and closed the door, and in perfect
silence they walked back home.
CHAPTER XXI.
A I.itti.k nkioiiiioiu.y gossip.
One day Hi Jenkins ami Jonathan
Turner rode over to Beckett's Mill to
see about sidling some bogs. It was
one of the days when Hi's "nger"
was not working on him, so he was
In an approachable humor. Naturally
In the conversation that followed the
arrival of the two men the murder of
Mclvlll and the disappearance of Sim
Hanks formed the chief topic.
"I k no wed from the very fust," Tur
ner i t marked, "th t that feller wa'n't
down yore sincllln round fur no min
eral, an 1 kllOWCd thar was snincthin
back of him that he wa'n't keerin
'bout people know in. Hut, Lord n-IUOS
By, men. 1 never dreamed that he'd
gum- nn done sich a thing as murder.
Orent snakes an caterplllers, Jest think
of . . will you ?that feller stayln thar
In my house, n-sloopll) In my beds an
ncatin at my table when he'd done
tuck a feller critter's life! My land.
If I'd 'a' knoWCd I wouldn't 'a' had
him thar for a boss Why, don't you
know BCUCO he was thar It Jest seems
like ever' blame thing on the place is
got human blood on It- seems like it's
on tllO beds an the towels an tin? ( beers
an the dishes, an 'pears like 1 can taste
It In the VlttlCS. Lord a inassy, but It's
awful!"
"I bet you'd 'a' been skoercd of him.
too," Jason Roberts said, "If you'd V
knowed 'bout him lv 1111 it that feller."
"Orent possums an persimmons, I
reckon I shorcly would 'a' been skeer
ed. Why. Jest think?Hint feller mought
'a' got up some night an killed ever*
biomo one of us."
"An ho never cheeped a word to you
'bout nothln he'd done nor nothlnV"
"Nnry a word. If I'd been kinder
Inquisitive, like some folks, an had 'a*
pried Into blm, I mought 'a' found out
sometblu. Hut. End, I ain't no Hand
to ask questions, you know, an when
a feller nets like he don't want to tell
nothln I Jest let blm alone."
"Didn't you nsk him nothln?"
"Scarcely a thing. When he come
up thar fust that day, I sorter Hung out
one or two little questions, but I seo
right nwny he didn't want to nnswer
nothln, so I Jest quit Land, I ain't no
hand to try to make people* tell things
anyhow whether they want to or ndt."
There was nn oppressive silence after
this, a silence during which there was
much thinking. Hot Turner was bliss
fully Ignorant of the trend of thought
no did not even suspect It wheu ho
saw a snillo on more than one face.
"An 'bout that feller ovor to your
house, HI?" IHcks remarked queslion
lngly.
"Ho ain't thar no more," III roplled.
"Gonoaway?"
?Zfilj wejJiyistedy." J
'T.I MlV't."
"Yes; he ROt Ro'd ho didn't 'pear to he
?Atlslled no more, so ylstedy bo packed
)I> itll pllt otlt."
"Wtl'tl't satisfied with the 'couitucr
datloii you Rive blin?" Turner usked.
"T?eUl fellers mostly ain't satisfied
wltli notblu."
"Oh, it wa'n't that, I guess. Least
Wise be never made no fuss 'bout his
'conimerdnt Ions."
"What tilled him. then, yon reckon?" i
"I dunno. I'm shore, .lest seemed to
'a' got sorter restless an uneasy an
couldn't ho still itowhar. When he I
wa'n't asleep, ho was till the time mov- |
In ohotit, either trnpsln round over the
woods or else wnlkln baok'ards an for
'arils across (In- yard. I've seed liim
witlklii <>nt thar In the yard for hours,
Jost golll to nn fru, to an fro, till II
wore me clean out. it got bo's he done
It of nights jest tin- same, nn lots of
times I've waked up uns long towards
mornlu nn seed him at it. Then thar
was a hi"' <>f a Bkcered look in his
eyes, an at ever' little noise he'd Jump
mi look round like he'd been shot, l
UWer see llobody do like he done."
"By grab, it was funny, wa'n't It?"
"Looked that a way to me shore."
"What you reckon was the matter of
blm. HIV"
"l ulll't no notion, .hike."
"1 bet it was that murder done It,"
Sam Morgan said. "Don't you till reek
on it was?"
"Lord. 1 don't see how that murder
could 'a' had anything to do with It."
Li replied. "The murder wa'n't nothln
to him noway, nn he didn't know Mob
vln nor Sim Hunks nut her. CJuess he
never see nuther of 'em 'less he see
MelvlU that day he was lyln here a
eawpse."
"He did see him that day." Sam Bald,
"an he acted sorter quuirc too. I was
n-wiilchin him when he went up to
whar the eawpse lay, an, lor all he'd
been so cool out I bar in the woods, the
sec ond his eyes fell on that dead face
he turned right white an put his band
up to his heart, then looked round
right quick, like he wondered If liuy
body'd seen him. Cucss he must be
one of them kind of people that's easy
teched by anything like that."
"Must be if he done that a way," old
HI replied. "My skin, it don't make
no difference to me to look at a dead
feller, nn I'd Jest as soon tech 111 111 nt
not."
"Lord. Hi. not If he'd been killed-.-"
"Yes, sir, even if he'd been killed."
"Hy grab, I wouldn't. They say if
you teeh a feller that's been murdered
that a way he'll come to you three
nights hand ruunlti and stau' by your
bed an look at you."
"Wonder if that's BO?" JIlU Thorn
asked.
"By grab, they say it Is, shore, nil 1
can tell you right now I don't want no
dead fellers pesterln round mo of
nights."
"Lord, you bet I don't. 1 don't want
nothln to do with them hu'nts an llx
in's. an 1 ain't never goln to tech no
body that's been killed, you bet, even
If they never are teched."
"Shucks, you fellers don't know what
you're talkln 'bout. Say. you all Jest
wait till you've seed dead men as I've
seed 'em. lyln round on a battlefield
Je: t ever'whar." Thus spoke Ebeuezcr
Sparks, the warrior bold. "Lord
a mighty. I've lit Into many a battle
whar men were Jest a drnppln all
round me so thick that 1 couldn't move
'thout stoppln on n lot of 'em. My
land, 1 wa'n't Bkcered of techin 'em, an
they never come bju k of nights to pos
ter round ha'ntin of me, nuther."
"It wa'n't (bat ii-wny that time when
you went Into Hicks' cellar to wbup
the battle, was it, Ebonozer?" Jnsoii
Roberts asked.
Ebonczcr Hashed angry.
"Doggone It nil," he cried, "ain't 1
never goin to bear the last of that dad
burned old cellar? Ever' time I men
tion any a word 'bout when I lit into
I he war some blame fool has got to go
to work nn drag that dod blasted old
cellar in.*
"Waal, we want to show a Intrust In
your war record, Ebenezer, an that's
the only battle we ever see you light In.
so that's all we got to speak 'bout."
"Waal, you needn't pester 'bout
sho win no Intrust, then. I'd rutber
you wouldn't."
"Say," Sam Morgan called, "don't
you reckon Sim Hanks has ti hn'ut?"
"Of co'so he has," Thorn replied, "an,
say. fellers, 1 bet it pesters him Jest
awful."
"To be shore," Turner agreed.
"Speakin of Sim Hanks 'minds nie of
Bouiethln," 111 said. "Reckon ain't
none of you uns beam nothln of Sim
sence he went away?"
"Nary a word," Hicks answered.
"Quaire them ofllccrs don't Und out
Ever have them?
Then we can't
tell you any
thing about
them. You
know how dark
everything looks
how you are about
ready to give up. Some
how, you can't throw off
the terrible depression.
Are things really so
blue? Isn't it your nerves,
after all? That's where
the trouble is. Your
nerves are beingpoisoned
from the impurities in
your blood.
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This also accot ts for
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SI M a bold*. All drarflcts.
WrSto thm Doctor.
If Yon li.no any complaint whitonr
nnd anitlro tlio hot! medical adrioa 7011
can poatlbly ro.ulvo, write the doctor
frnely. You will recolvo a prompt ?
ply, without roit. A.lilrrm,
Du, J. 0. AYKii, Lowali, Mam. ?
?otuIii 'bout htm, tiin't it 7"
" "J is so. tJui'ss tbey'vo bunted rouiul
ull over over'wbur must an they ain't
fouud balr uor bide of him."
[ "S'nose bo must 'n' gone clean olT
so tue w bar."
"Looks like It. You know bo left a
note for his woman sayin he war a-go
tn away an wa'n't never coullo back no
more 7"
"I beam be did."
I "Hut she don't b'lleve It."
I "Don't she?"
"Not now, she don't. She b'lleved It I
ft right smart at fust, but Tap Samp
son kept a-talkin till lie gut ber to
change her mind."
"Pup still stan's out that Sim never
killed that teller?"
"La. yes, wussii ever."
"Qua I re he'd git that sorter notion,
ain't It?"
" "Tis, shore. Pap's gln'rally putty
level beaded, hut he got his nose p'lut
ed wrong this time shorely."
"He thinks Siiu'll come hack, does
he?"
".lest knows he will."
"Waal, he'll be hung or sent up to
prison if he does come."
"Pap's got a notion BODJCthln'll turn
up to clear Sim 'fore ht gits hack."
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"Don't see how he goes 'bout innkin
that out."
"I don't see nuthcr, but that's his
talk."
"How's Sim's woman ?-dolu?"
"Kinder porely, I guess. She ain't
llvln here no more."
"That so?"
"Yes; she loft the fust of the week."
"Whar'd she go7"
"Down to the county seat."
"What's she Mo win to do down thar?"
"Site reckoned she'd git Into some
work of some kind."
"An Jest 'hont manage to go through
cver'thlng she's got."
"She ain't got nothin."
"Ain't'.' Why. 1 been hearin Sim left
her all the land an cver'thlng."
"He did, hut she won't tech it."
"Won't? Why. say, what's the rea
".*?? 'lows It's hls'n DU she aln t no
rieh! to live It un. Says inebhy some
time he'll need It."
"Waal. I'll he smutched!"
"Then I guess she kinder wanted to
git away from here anyhow. That
'bout her an Melvln started a good hit
of talk, an I reckon she found It Wtt'n't
none too pleasant a stayln here."
"Nat'rally. Ilow'd she take it 'bout
Melvln beln killed? Did she carry on
much 7"
? .vary a hit that any of US neon.
Guess she behaved plumb nice."
"Did she come to see the cawpse?"
1 licks hesitated for an Instant. He
knew from 1'ap Sampson about that
night visit, but he had promised to
keep it a secret,
"Waal. 1 didn't see her come," he
said. "Any you fellers see her come?"
They nil shook their heads.
"Some folks 'lowed she'd take on a
heap over him an mehhy give Sim tits
, too."
"Lord, she tuck right off for Sim.
She jest acted for all the world like
she keered more for him than any
body."
"it would 'a' been a moughty good
thing If she'd 'a' tuck off for him soon
er 'stld of foolltl with that other feller,
a-glttllt him killed an put tin Sim into
this mess."
"1 reckon that's so, HI, but I ain't
never b'lleved Ixmccsy Banks aimed to
do nothin wrong. She was Jest sorter
thoughtless. I guess."
"No, sir; It's Jest like I've said time
an ng'ln, .lake. Whenever you go an
send a gal off to them doggone colleges
you Jest nat'rally spile her for all time
to come. By gosh, you jest as well
take her out an knock her In the head.
That's all in the world's the matter of
Louccsy Banks."
"No, 1 'low bcr an Sim Jest nat'rally
didn't suit."
"Co'80 they didn't attcr she'd gone
down thar an tuck up n lot of doggone
foul notions. They'd 'a' suited Well
enough if It hadn't been for that she
'lowed she'd got to have one of them
white shirt fellers or she couldn't nev
er he happy. It's that dad burn college
done It all."
"Still, Hi, cdlcatlon'8 a pow'ful good
thing."
"Not for a gal, It nln't."
"Why?"
"Wnnl, she ain't got no use for it, nn
It's Jest pi 11 ml? slime to make n fool of
In ]. Lord, n llian, even, don't, need so
awful blame much edlcatlon to git on
nil right."
"You think so?"
"I know It. Take myself, for In
stance. I nlll't never hnd no cdlonthm
to speak of, yIt sec how 1 sot on to that
jury that time. I managed 'bout run
nln that court Jest as well ns any of
them fellers down thar. If a feller's
got It In him. he can git up In the world
even If he ain't got no book I'nrnln."
"Lord n-nuissy," Turner exclaimed,
"speakln 'bout settln on to u Jury
'minds me of somethln."
"What Is It?" .InAon askod.
"Why, If Sim's ever ketcbed they'll
hnvo to git n jury to try bim, au I dun
no but likely enough I'll git A ohancu to
?et on It."
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f? i.V;." 1<"">V''"i< ,eava ?nmtor at 6.60 a.
m. 10.05 a. in. and 4:t?p. in.,timklngoonneotloi
oiiiVieiiton trft1"" U,tw"#n <?iSbtoanj
Traina leave Spartan burg via 8 V a r al
vision daily for?lendale. JTmesville. Unlonenl
Oolumula and iiitornio.iiKta points at ll 46 ?
m. und 11:16 p. in " *? *
I Train? letive l'ocooA, (Ja., for Kll"?rto i, (la.,
I Uatly 4:25 |>- m, except Sunday, 7:00 av m.
K?t 11 nil Ii K l'-iiva E!l>erton daily I':O0 a. in.
except Sund Ay, 3:15 p. m,, mitKtng ronnr?
lion at ToccoA with trnlna between Atlanta,
Ui ci'i;?.? i.'.<? itml iin> Kant.
Chean|>cnkfl Lina .sit<:nnora In dally sorvlo?
between Norfolk And liAltimore.
Nos. 117 And ltt?? "Washington an'l South
western Limited " Through Pullman sipop
Ing part between Now York And N'-vf.
Orii iinx, via Washington, Atlanta ?ud Montj
?emery, and Also netweon New torli and
MempMa, via Washington, Atlanta and Blr
mtnL,'liain. Alao ftlftgnnt PULLMAN I.iiiiiahI
OlisRll vation OAlMbotWOOn Atlanta and Saw
York KHrstoliiu i i i - ignfai " f>a<'li**i he>
twesn WAHhlngton and At lAnta Dining oAri
??rve all iim-hIh < n route. I'll Inuin sle?>i>tni
cam between rtreeneltoro And linl* gh. (;'<>?/
sonneotlon at Norfolk for Oi.it I'ointOimitokt,
{Uo Kt Atlanta with I'u'lnian D. It tleepei
ler (Hinti Anoi>xa and Otnolnnatl
r>o??. no and Wl?"Unltod mm?? Knut Mali" rum
?olid between Washington end New 'jtr'eane.
being composed of oonohos, tin k*? v- l,?
qhuiige for piiasongerM of all classes. Pullman
drawing room iteeptng earn bot whoh New York
?ltd New i.am. via Al lanta anil Montgomery
and between Birmingham ami Richmond.
Dining ''hi h servo all meals anrollte.
Nob. I?) end 114 ?' Atlanta and New Yorl
Bxpross," New loual train bot wann Atlanta
enu Cherlotta, oonnootlng at Charlotte wits
through trnlui of name numliora oarry
Ing Pullman sleeping ?eis between Charta*1?
an 1 Richmond, Norfolk. Washington aad N?>?
Y' rk. No Pullman oars on these trains'*
tv. een Atlanta and Chariot te. Leaving \Vn?>i
Ington oa<ih Monday, Wednesday and Prlrti ?
a tourist sleeping rnr will run threugh L,?
ttvoen Washington and San Kranclsoe without
(hange. Connection at Atlanta with thrours
Pullman drawing room xleeiung nar for Jaog
?on vi lie ; also Pullman sleeping oar for Brune
wick.
Oonneotton made at Hpartanburg wt?
through Pullman sleeper for Ashevllle, Km r
rule and Olnotnnarti also at Columbia for ha
rannah and Jacksonville.
FRANK B. GANNON, 8. X. HaHDWIOK,
Third V P. At Ueu. Mgr., Oen. Paaa Att.,
Washington, D. C. Washington. U. O.
W, H. TAYI.OB, <*. D. M<K?K?,
Aas'tUon'lPasa.Ai's., Pass ct? T'kt Agaat,
Atlanta, Of). UreenvUlet sV a
MONEY TO LOAN
On farmirt? landa. Knpy payments. No
coiniirianions charged. Borrower pay*, ao
mal coat Of perfecting loan. Interest 7 per
cent, up, according to nncurity.
jNO. H. palmer a 80n,
Columbia,. H. 0
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