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Princess Virginia
By C. N. and A. M. WILLIAMSON,
Authors of "?Vir l.itfhtninif Conductor, '"Rom
in.ii v In Search of ? Father," Etc. J* J?
COPYRIGHT) 1907, BY McCLURE. PHILLIPS C> CO.
ifcHAPTE? TILNd
first mill Bocouil
? dressing gongs had
sounded at Schloss
Lyndnlborg on tiio
evening of tho day
after ESgou von Brelt
stcin's visit to Iiis brother, and the
grand tluohcsfl W08 beginning to won
der uneaHlly what kept bop daughter
when ringed (Ingot's tapped on tho panel
of the door.
"Come in!" she answered, and Vir
ginia appeared, still In the white ten
nis dress she had worn that afternoon.
She stood for an Instant without speak
ing, her faee so radiantly beautiful'
that her mother thought It seemed Il
lumined from a Imhi within.
It had been on the lips of the grand
duchess to scold tho girl for her tardi
ness, Kineo to be Into was an unpardon
able offense With an imperial majesty
in the house. But ill that radiance the
words died.
"Virginia, what is it? You look?I
scarcely know how you look. But you
make mo feel that something has hap
pened."
Tho princess came slowly across the
room, smiling Boftly, with an air of
one who walks in sleep. Hardly con
scious of what she did, she sank down
In a big ??hair and sat resting her el
bows Oil her knees, her chin uestllllg
between her two palms, like a pink
white rose in Its calyx.
"You may go, Kniestlne," said the
grand duchess to her maid. "I'll ring
whon I want you again."
The elaborate process of waving and
dressing her still abundant hair had
fortunately come t<> a successful end,
and Kniest ine had just caused a dia
mond star to rlso abovo her forehead.
She was in a rohe de cluuuht'O, and the
rest of her toilet could wait till curios
ity was satisfied.
Hut Virginia still sat dreaming, her
happy eyes far away. The grand duch
ess had to speak t w iee before the girl
heard and started a little. "My daugh
ter, have you nuytlllllg to tell U10?"
TIlO princess roused herself. "Noth
ing, mother, really, except that I'm tho
happiest kI'I on earth."
"Why, w hat has ho Bald?"
"Not one word that anyone mightn't
have listened to. Hut I know, lie does
care. Ami I think ho will say some
thing before we part."
"There's only 0110 more day of Ids
visit here after tonight."
"One whole long, beautiful day to
get her."
"Hut, after all, dearest," argued her
mother, "what do you expect? If In
truth-you woro only Miss Mowbray,
Itiarrlilgo between you and the emperor
would be out of the question. You've
never uone into tho subject of your
feel lug* about this quite thoroughly
with me, and 1 do wish 1 knew pre
cisely what you hope for from 1dm,
what you will consider the-the key
stone of the situation."
"Only for him to say that he loves
me," Virginia confessed. "If I'm right,
it I've brought something new Into his
life, something which has shown him
Vtnt his heart's as important as his
head, then there will come a moment
w hen he can keep silence no longer,
w hen he'll be forced to say, 'I love you,
dear, and because WO can't belong to
encll other day is turned Into night fof
lne." Then when that moment comes
the tide of my fortune will be at its
Hood. 1 shall tell him that I love him,
too, and I shall tell him all the truth."
' You'll tell him who we really are?"
"Yes, and why I've been masquer
ading-- that it was because, ever since
I was a little girl, he'd lieen tho one
man In the world for me; because,
when our marriage was suggested
through Official channels, I made up
my mind that 1 must win him first
through love or live single all my
d i.vs."
"What If he should be vexed nt the
deception and refuse to forgive you?
V" l know, darling, we shall be In r
rather curious position when every
thing comes out, ns we have inndo all
our friends hero under tho name of
Mowbray. Of course the excuse for
what we did is that our real position
is n hundred times higher than tho
one we assumed, and all those to
whom WO'VO been Introduced would
be delighted to know us in our own
CharoCtOrS at the end. Hut Leopold is
n man, not a romantic girl, as you
are. IIu has always had a reputation
for pride and austerity, for being Just
before bo would let himself bo gener
ous, and It may Im> that to one of Ids
linturo a wild whim like yours"?
"Yon think of him as lie was befor?
wo mot, not as he is now, If you fancy
he could be hard with a woman lie
really loved," said Virginia eagerly.
"IIo'll forgive me, dear. I've no fenr
of him any more. Tonight I've no
fear of anything. He loves me?and -
I'm empress of tho world."
"Many women would lie satisfied
with Rhnetia," was tho practical re
sponse which Jumped Into tho mind
of tho grand duchess, but sho would
throw no more cold water upon the
rose flame of her daughter's exaltation.
8he kissed (he girl on tho forehead,
breathing a few words of motherly
sympathy, but when the princess had
flown off'to her own room to dress she
shook her diamond starred head doubt
fully.
Virginia's plan sounded poetical and
ns easy to carry out as to turn a
kaleidoscope and form a charming new
combination ?f color, or so It had
seemed while the young voice plead
ed, but when the happy face and
radiant eyes no longer Illumined the
path the way ahead seemed dark.
To he sure, the princess had so far
walked triumphantly along the high
road 10 success, hut It was not always
a good beginning which led to a good
end, and the grand ducbess fett as stie
rang for Ernestine that tier nerves
WOUld be strained to the breaking point
until matters were definitely settled
for better or for worse.
Virginia had never been lovelier than
she was that night at dinner, and Bgon
von Breltstclu'8 admiration for her
beauty had In It a fascinating new In
gredient, t'ntII yesterday ho had said
to himself, "If she be not fair to me,
what care I bow fair she be?" Hut
n<>w there was a vague Idea that she
might, after all, l>e for him, and be took
enormous pleasure In tho thought that
he was falling In love with a girl who
had captured tho emperor's heart.
Bgon glanced very often at Leopold,
contrasting his sovereign's appearance
unfavorably wHh his own. The em
peror was thin and dark, with a grave
east of feature, while Egon's face kept
the color ami youthfulness of the early
twenties. He was older than Leopold,
but ? he looked a boy. Alma-Tadema
would have wreathed him with vine
leaves, draiied him with tiger skins
and set him down on a marble bench
n gal list a burning sapphire sky, where
ho would have appeared more suitably
clad than In the stiff blue and silver
uniform of a crack lthnctian regiment.
Leopold, on the contrary, would nev
er be painted except as a soldier, and
it seemed to Bgon that no normal pclrl
could help thinking him a far hand
somer fellow than the emperor. For
the moment, of course, Miss Mowbray
(lid not notice him because his impe
rial majesty loomed large In the fore
ground of her Imagination, but the
chancellor bail evidently a plan in bis
head for removing that stately obsta
cle into the dim perspective.
Rgon had not her,rd Miss Mowbray
spoken of ns nn heiress. Therefore,
even had there been no emperor In tlie
way, lie would not have worshiped at
the shrine. Hut now behold the shrine,
attractive before, newly and alluring
ly decked! Egon wondered much over
Ills half brother's apparently Impulsive
offer and the contradictory command,
which had a little later enjoined watt
ing.
He was delighted, however, that be
had not been forbidden to make him
self agreeable, and his idea was as
so.in as dinner should lie over to And
a place at Miss Mowbrny's side before
any other man should have time to
take It. Hut, unluckily for this plan.
Huron von Lyndnl detained him for a
few moments with praise of a new
remedy which might cure the chan
cellor's gout, and when he escaped
from his host to loo.; for Miss Mow
bray In the white drawing room she
was not there.
From tho music room adjoining, how
ever, came sounds which drew bftn
toward the door. He knew Mtss Mow
bray's soft, coaxing touch on the pt
aim. She was there "playing In a
whisper," as he had heard ber call
It Perhaps she was going to sing, as
she had done once or twice liefere, and
would need some one to turn the pages
of her music. Egon thought that he
would much like to lie the some one
and was In the act of parting the white
velvet portieres that covered the door
way when his hostess smilingly beok
?ned him away.
"The emperor has Just asked Miss !
Mowbray to teach him some old fash
ioned Scotch or English air (I'm afraid
I don't quite know the difference) call- \
ed 'Annie Laurie,' " the bnroness ex
plained. "He was charmed with It
when she sang tho other evening, and
I've been assuring htm ttiat the song
would exactly suit his voice. We
mustn't disturb them while the lesson :
Is going on. Tell me?I've hardly bad
a moment to ask you?how did you '
find the chancellor?"
Chained to a forced allegiance, Bgon
mechanically answered the questions
of tho baroness without making absurd
mistakes, the while bis ears burned to
hear what was going on behind the
white curtains.
Everybody knew of the music les
son now and chatted In tones of tact
ful monotony, never speaking too
loudly to disturb the singers, never too
cautiously, lest they should seem to
listen. Once, and then again, the
creamy mezzo soprnno and tho rich
tenor that was almost a baritone
snug conscientiously througb the
verses of "Aunle Laurie" from begin
Hing to end. Then a few desultory
chords were struck on the piano, and
at last there was silence behind the
whlto curtains In the music room.
Were tho two still there? To Inter
rupt such a tete a-tete mod out of
tho question, tint not to know what
was happening Kgon found too bard to
bear, and the arrival of a telegram for
Lady Mowbray oamo as opportunely
I ns If Providence had had bis special
needs In mind.
Evidently it was not a pleasant tele
gram, for as she read It tho Dresden
chlnp lady showed plainly that she
was disconcerted. Her pretty face lost
its color; her eyes dilated n? If (die had
"Playing In a vhlspcr."
tasted a drop of belladonna on sugar;
siio patted her lips with her lace hand
kerchief and finally rose from her
chair, looking dazed and distressed.
"I've had rather had news," she ad
mitted to Baroness von Lyndal, who
was all solicitude?"oh, nothing really
serious, I trust, hut still disquieting.
It is from a dear friend. I think I had |
better go to my room and talk things
over With Helen. Would you he kind
enough to tell her when she comes In
that she's to follow me there? Don't
send for her till then; it's not neces
sary. Hut I shall want her by and
by."
It was clear that Lady Mowbray did
not wish her daughter to be disturbed.
Still, Kgou von Breltstoln thought ho
might fairly let his anxiety run away
With him, As the baroness accompa
nied her guest to the door ho took it
Upon himself to search for Miss Monv
bray, for now if the emperor should
curse him for a spoil-sport lie would
have the liest of excuses. Lady Mow
bray was In need of her daughter.
He lifted the white curtains and peep
ed through a small antechamber into
the music room beyond. It was empty, !
but one of the long windows leading
Into the rose garden was wide open.
The month of September was dying,
and away In the lthaetlan mountains
winter had begun. Yet In the lap of
the low country summer lingered. The
air was soft and sweet with the per
fume of roses?roses living and roses
dead in a potpourri of scattered petals
on the gross. It was a garden for lov
ers and a night for lovers.
Egon went to tho open window and
looked out, lint dared not let his feet
take the direction of ids eyes, though
he was sure that somewhere in the
garden Miss Mowbray and the emper
or wero to be found.
"They will come in again this way,"
he said to himself, "for they will want
people to think they have never left
the music room, and for that very rea
son they won't stop too long. They
must have some regard for the conven
tions. If I wait"?
He did not finish the sentence in his
mind. Nevertheless ho examined the
resources of the window niche with a
critical eye.
There was a deep inelosure between
tho window frame and tho long,
straight curtains of olive green satin
which matched the decoration of the i
music room. By drawing the curtains
a few inches farther forward one could
make a screen which would hide one
from observation by any person In the
room or outside in the garden. So
Egon did draw the curtain, and, framed
In his shelter like a saint in a niche, he
stood peering into the silver night.
The moon was rising over the lake,
and long, pale rays of level light were
stealing up the paths like tho fingers
of a blind child that caress gropingly
the features of a beloved face.
Egon could not see tlie whole gor
den or oil the paths among the roses.
Rut If the emperor and Iiis companion
came back by the way they had gone
he would know presently whether they
walked In the attitude of friends or
lovers. It was so necessary for his
plans to know this that he thought It
wortli while to exercise a little pa
tience in waiting. Of course. If they
wero lovers, goodby to his hopes, and
he would never have so good a chance
as this to niako sure.
All things In the garden that were
not white were gray as a dove's wings.
Even the shndows wore not black,
and tho sky was gray, with the soft
gray of velvet under a crust of dia
monds which flashed as tho spangles
on a woman's fan flash when it trem
bles in her hand.
White moths, happily Ignorant that
summer would come no more for them,
drifted out from (he shadows llko roso
petals blown by the Roft wind. On a
trellis a crowding sisterhood of palo
roses drooped their heads downward
In memento morl. It was a silver
night, a night of enchantment.
Leopold had meant to toko Virginia
out only to see tho moon rise over the
water, turning tho great smooth sheet
of Jet Into a silver shield, for there
had been clouds or spurts of rain on
other nights, and he had said to him
self that never ngaln perhaps would
they two stand together under the
WhltO spell of flie moon. He had
meant to keep her for five minutes, or
ten nt the most, and then to bring her
back, but they had walked down to
the path which girdled the cliff obove
the hike. The moon touched her gold
en hair and her pure face like a bene
diction. He dared not look nt her thus
for long, ond when there came a Slid
den quick rustling In the gras* at their
feet ho boot down, glad of any change
in the current of his thoughts.
Home tiny winged thing of the night
sought a lodging In a lndl shaped flow
er Whose blue color the moon hod
drunk, and as Leopold stooped the
some impulse made Virginia bend.
He stretched out ids hand to gather
the low growing branch of blossoms.
which be wouul give the girl ns" a
souvenir of this hour, and their fingers
met. Lake and garden swam before
tho eyes of tho princess as the em
peror's hand closed over hers.
Her great moment had come, yet
now that It was here, womanlike, she
wished It away, not gone forever?oh.
no-hut waiting just round the corner
of the future.
"The flowers are yours 1 -rive them
to you," she laughed, as If she fancied
It was in eagerness to grasp the dis
puted spray that he had pressed her
fingers.
"You are the one flower 1 wnnl
(lower of all the world," ho answered
in a choked voice, speaking words he
had not meant to speak. But lh? i< e
harriers that held back tho torrent of
which he had {old her had melted long
ago and now had been swept away.
Other barriers which ho bad built up
In their place?his con viel ions, Ids duly
as a man at the head of a nation
were gone too. "I love you." he stam
mered. "I love you far better than
my life, which you saved. I've loved
you ever since our first hour together
on Hie mountain, but every day my
love has grown a thousandfold until
now It's greater and higher than any
mountain. I can light against myself
no longer-. I thought I was strong,
but this love Is stronger than I am.
Say that you care for mo ? only say
that."
"I do care," Virginia whispered. She
had prayed for this, lived for (Ids, and
she was drowning in happiness. Vet
she had pictured a different scene, a
scene of storm and stress. Si, had
heard In fancy broket! words Of sor
row and noble renunciation on his lips,
and in anticipating his Buffering she
had felt the joy her revelation would
give. "I care?so much, so much! I low
hard it will lie to part!"
"If you care, then, we shall not be
parted," said Leopold.
The princess looked up at him In
wonder, holding back as he would '
have caught her in his arms, What
could he mean? What plan was in his
mind that, believing her to he Helen
Mowbray, yet made It possible for
him to reassure her so?
"I don't understand," she faltered.
"You are tho emperor, and I am no
more than"?
"You are my wife if you love me."
In the shook of her ecstatic surprise
she was helpless to resist him longer,
and he held her close and passionately,
his lips on her hair, her lace crushed
against his heart. She could hear It j
heating, feel it throb under her check.
His wife? Then he loved her enough
for that. Yet how was it possible for
him to stand ready for her sake to
override the laws of his own land?
"My darling my wife!" ho said
again. "To think that you love me!"
"I have loved you from the first,"
the princess confessed, "but I was
afraid you would feel, even if you
cared, that we must say goodby.
Now"? And In an instant the whole
truth would hove been out, hut tlie
word "goodby" stabbed him, and he
could not let It pass.
"We shall not say goodby, not for
an hour," he cried. "After (his 1 j
COUld not lose you. There's nothing to
prevent my being your husband, you
my wife. Would to Cod you were of
royal blood and you should be my em
press -the fairest empress (hat poet or
historian over saw but we're pris e:
ers of fate, you and I. We must lake
the goods the gods provide. My god
dess you will always be, but (he em
press of Rhaotln even my love isn't
powerful enough to make you. 11 I
am to you only half what you are to
me you'll be satisfied with the empire
of my heart."
Suddenly the warm blood of Vir
ginia's veins grew chill. Fl was as if
a wind had blown up front the dark
depths of the lake to strike like Ice i::
to her soul. An Instant more and ho
would have known (hat she was a
princess of the blood, and through his
whole life she could have gone on wor
shiping him because he had boon ready
(o break down all barriers for her
love before he guessed (here need ho
none to break. Now her warm im
pulse of gratitude wns fro/en by tho
biting blast of disillusionment, but
still there was hope left. It might
he that she misunderstood him. She
would not judge him yet.
"The empire of your heart!" she
echoed. "If that wen* mine I should
bo richer than with all the treasure i
of the earth. If you were Leo, the
chamois hunter, I would love you as 1
love you now, because In yourself you
aro the one man for me, and I'd go
with you to the end of the world as
your wife. Hut you're not the chamois
hunter; you are tho man I love, yet
yon are tho emperor. Being (he em
peror, had you talked of a hopeless
lovo and a promise not to forgot, hav
ing nothing else to give me because of
your high destiny and my humbler
one, I could still have been happy.
Yet you speak of more than that. You
speak of something I can't understand.
It aeems to me that what a royal man
offers the woman he loves should be
all or nothing."
"I do offer you all," said Leopold,
"all myself, my life, the heart and
soul of me all (hat's my own to give.
The rest belongs to RllQOtln."
"Then what do you mean by"
"Don't you understand, my Bwoet,
that I've asked you to he my wife?
What can a man ask more of a wom
an?"
"Your wife, but not the empress,
How can the two bo apart?"
lie tried to take her once more In
his arms, but when ho saw that she
would not have It so be hold his love
In check nnd waMed. He was sure
that ho would not need to wait long,
fAf ???t only had he laid his love at her
feet, but bad pledged himself lo a tre
mendous sacriflce on love's altar.
The step which In a moment of pas.
slon be had now resolved lOtakO would
create dissension among his people,
alienate one who had been h!s Second
father, rouse ?nginhd, America and
Qormnny to anger because of tho prin
cess whose name minor had already
coupled wltll his and ralso in every di
rection a storm of disapproval. When
this girl whom ho loved realized the
Immensity <>f the concession he was
, making because of his reverent love
for her Bho would give her lifo to him
now mid forever.
Tenderly lie took her hand and lifted
il io hla lip-. Then when Bho did not
draw it nwny, because lie was to have
his chance of explanation, he held It
between both his own as he talked on.
"Dearesl one." he said, "when I flrst
know I loved you loved you as I
; didn't dream I could love a woman?
j for your Bake and my own, I would
! have avoided meeting you too often.
I This I tell you frankly. I didn't see
how in honor such a love could end ex
cept in despair for me and sorrow even
for you if you should como to care.
Had you and I.ady Mowbray stayed
on at the hotel in Kronnurg I think I
could have held to my resolve. But
when Hnroncss von Lyndal suggested
your coming here my heart leaped up.
I sai l in my mind: 'At least I shall
linvo tho joy of seeing her every day
for a lime without doing anything to
darken her future. Afterward, when
she l as gone out of my life, I shall
have that radiance to remember. And
so no harm will lie done in the end,
except thai I shall have to pay by suf
fering;' S?ll I had no thought of the
future without a parting. I felt that ln?
evltnble. And the suffering came hand
in hand with (lie joy, for not a night
here ' yndnlbsrg have I slept. If I
bad been weak I should have groaned |
I aloud in the agony of renunciation.
"My rooms open on t\ lawn. More
than onco I've come out into the dark
ness when all the household was sleep
ing. Sometimes I have walked to this
"Ncvcrt" *7ic exclaimed.
very spot where you and I stand now
?-heart to heart for the first time, my
darling asking myself whether there
were any way out of labyrinth. It
was not until 1 brought you here and
saw you by my side, with the moon
rays for a crown, that a hash of blind
lug i> .lit. seemed to pierce the clouds.
Sud lenly I saw all things clearly, and,
though there will be difficulties, 1
COUIlt them as overcome."
"Still you haven't answered my ques
tion," said Virginia In a low, strained
Voice. ?
"I'm coming to that now. It was
best, that you should know first all
\ Hint's been troubling my heart and
brain during these few bittersweet
, days which have taught mo so much,
j You know men who have their place
at the bond of great nations can't think
fust of themselves or even of those
they love better than themselves. If
III h ipo to snatch at personal happl
no 3 they must take the one way open
to them and he thankful.
"Don't do me the horrible injustice
to believer that I wouldn't be proud to
show you to my subjects as their em
press, but instead I can offer only
what men of royal blood for hundreds
of years have offered to women whom
they honored as well us loved. You
must have heard even in England of
what Is called a morganatic marriage.
II is that I olfer you."
Willi a cry of pain?tho cruel pain of
Wounded, disappointed love?the prin
cess tore her hand from his.
? Never!" she exclaimed. "It's an in
I suit."
"An insult? No, a thousand times no.
I see that even now you don't under
stand."
"I 111 Ink that I understand very well,
loo well," said Virginia brokenly. Tho
beautiful fairy palace of happiness that
she had watched as It grew lay shat
tered, destroyed, in tho moment which
ought to have seen its triumphant coni
; pletlon.
"I tell you that you canuot under
stand or you wouldn't say?you
wouldn't dare to say, my love?that I'd
insulted you. Don't you see, don't you
.iv., that you would lie my wife in
1,10 sight of all men as well as In tho
t Iglll Of God."
"Your wife, you call it!" The prin
cess gave a hnrsll little laugh which
hurt as tears could not hurt. "You
Seem to have strange ideas of that
word, which has always been sacred
to me. A morganatic marriage! That
Is a mere pretense, a hypocrisy. I
would be 'your wife,' you say. I would
give you all my lovo, all my life. You
In return would glvo me?your left
hand. And you know well that in a
country which tolerates such a one
Sided travesty of marriage the laws
would hold you freo to marry another
W0inan?a royal woman, whom you
could make an empress? ns freo as if I
had no existence."
"Great hen von, that you should speak
sol" ho broke out. "What if the law
did hold me free? Can you dream?do
> on put mo so low as to dream that
my heart would hold mo free? My
soul would bo bound to you forever."
"So you may bellevo now. But the
knowledge (hat you could change
would be death to me?a death to die
dally. Yes, I tell you again, It was an
Insult to offer a lot so inlserahle, so
contemptible, to a woman you profess
to love. How could you do it? If only
you bad never spoken tlie hateful
words -If only you had left nie the
ideal I bad of you?noble, glorious,
above the whole world of men! But,
after all, you are selfish, cruel. If von
had said, 'I love you, yet wo must
port, for duty stands between us,' I
could? But, no; I can never tell you
now what 1 could have answered If
you had said that Instead of breaking
my heart."
Under the Ore of her reproach he
stood still, his Hps tight, Ids shoulders
braced, as If ho held his breast open
for tho knife.
"Hy heaven, it Is you who are cruel!"
he said Jit last. "How can 1 make you
see your Injustice?"
"In no way. There's nothing more
to be said between us two after this
except good by."
"It shall not ho goodby."
"It must. I wish II."
He bad caught her dress, as sho turn
ed to go, but HOW be released her.
"You wish It? It's not true that you
love me, then?"
"It was true. Everything?every
thing In my whole life?Is changed
from this hour. II would ho better
If I'd never seen you. Goodby."
(Continued.)
CHARLESTON AND WESTERN CARO
LINA RAILROAD.
Arrival and Departure of Trains, Laurens,
South Carolina.
EFFECTIVE JUNE 16, 1908.
WEST BOUND.
No. 1. Leave Augusta.10:10 a m
No. I. Leave Laurens.2::V2 p m
No. 1. Arrive Spartanburg.. 1 :().r> p m
No. 6. Leave Greenwood.... 6:60 n m
No. 6. Leave Laurens.7:66 a ni
No. f>. Arrive Spartanburg., 9.30 a in
No. 63. Leave Greenville.12:20 p m
No. 53. Arrive Laurens. 1 :4C p in
No.*S(i. Leave Greenvillo .... 1:30 p m
No.*8(5. Arrive Laurons. 6:25 p m
SOUTH BOUND.
No. 2. Leave Spartanburg . . .12:20 p m
No. 2. Leave Laurens. 2:32 p m
No. 2. Arrive Augusta. <>:ir> p in
No. 6. Leave Spartanburg ... .r):nu p m
No. Ii. Leave Laurens. 6:35 p m
No. (5. Arrive Greenwood .... 7:60 p m
No.'"87. Leave Laurens. X:lo a m
No."87. Arrive Greenville_10:20 a in
No. f>2. Leave Laurens. ?. :"? p m
No. .r>2. Arrive Greenville .... 4:00 p in
Trains *8(> and '87 daily except Sunday.
Tri-weekly through Pullman Parlor
Car service between Augusta and Asho
ville on trains Nos. 1 and 2; North
bound, Tuesdays, Sat urdays; Sout hbound
Mondays, Wednesdays and Priduyfi.
C. II. CASQUE, Agent,
Laurens, S. ('.
G. T. BUY AN, Gen. Agt.,
Greenville, S. C.
A.W. ANDERSON, Gen. Runt.
ERNEST WILLIAMS, G.P.A.,
Augusta, (la.
killtheccues^ i
and CURE the LUMG?S
w,th BrB King's
New Discovery
for J33t*.\
and all throat and lung troubles.
I GUARANTEED ATlSFACXO?Yj
MONEY REl'UHBFD.
Henry Clay
Flour
the best.
You can always lind good
Corn, Oats, Hay, Bran,
best Cotton Seed Meal,
fresh water-ground Meal,
good stock of Molasses
and Syrup, Green and
Roasted Coffee, Tobacco
of all grades, Heel Sweep
and other Farm Hard
ware and Implements,
and don't forget-all at
LOWEST PRICES,
J. H.
Sullivan