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The Great Secret ilovelized From the Metro Wonderplay Serial of the Same Name, in Whioh Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne Are Co-Stars, and Which Was Adapted and Directed by Wm. Chris ty Cabanne. BY J. M. LOUGHBOROUGH. Author of tho Novelization of Clyde Fiteh's play, "Iler Sister," "Illis Unck door Ioniance," and otlier short stories. What Has Gone Before. Tlio Secret Seven Is a iaid of wealthy anti brainy onspirators, ruleiL by it uper criminal kiown to e''li Great Master. Thomis Clarke, oie of their number, who Is at inulti-niillionaire, hecoies III aid de cides to leave 1is vealtli to is niece, Ilov erly Clarke, lustead of to 'The Secret Sov el, as lie hal sworn to do. 110 sumiliols Beverly, who is kidnaped by hiliehitigs of Tho Secret Sevei wliile on lier way to lils home, Iut Is rescued by WilliaiI Mont goiery Strong, a wealthy youmig cluhinan. Strong escorts Beverly to tie Clarke home aid there they receivo ia casket filled with treasure. This is itli prize Tho Sceret Sev en is after. At ieverlv's request, Strong carries the ca~sket to his hoine. I)eslpora does sent out by Thie Secret Seven kidnap Stron! ail steal tho casket. but the treas uro has beei saved by Strong's Chineso serviant, Wee See. Learning that Beverly has beemt again seized by the band, Strong, after being freed from the head' uarters of The Secret Seven under orders from The Great Master, starts out to timd her, wear ing the clotliIg of Chug, a desperado whiomii lie h)as ove-powered in his home. lIe attemds a masiunerade ball given by Tho Great Mistcr, thero learns that his flainleo, Euileo Morton, is false to i1m, anl finally trails 3everly to a rondezvous of tie gansters, lwhero Chug confronts hini. With Ciu:, are half a <lozen gang Stern. Strong, kniowing that the police are on their'way to the rendezvous, parries for tIme when Chug challenges him to a hand-to-hand combat. CH1AI'TEl V. 'riuE 'tnAP'. Outwardly the clumiani seemed cool and uiconcerned, but inwardly every nerve tingled, and111 his muscles were tense at the -rospect of a terrible bat tie. When lie had slowly removed Chug's coat. whlich lie wore, 11e began rolling up his sleves. imeantime survey 1ng the (lesperate band lie iaced. "if I whip tils fellow you men agree to keep back, do you?" lie demanded. "Tiat'll do!" ronred Chug. "You've said enough, you 'alasy!'" Iere he aimed a blow at SI rong's jn w. The clubiman evaded it by ducking and suimslied Chug with it str aight right haid jiich that sent hini onl his back. Instantly the other gangsters began piling in like a pack of timber wolves assailing a niountati lion. And Strong, tile d1ariling of Fifth Avenue society, was lIghtinlg like i mountain lioni. He bowled over three men. Another dived at his legs and dragged himt to the floor. Ills shirt was torn from his back. Ile wiis pounded, kieked and clawed. At last youth, determination, skill and vigor gave way to methods of bestial brutallit, and lie sank to the THE POLICE PREPARE floor uniconiseious. 'Thn they3 enaried him i to a r'oom, hii whlehl they locked himi. OIne of the hand stagger'ed tdown. stilrs, t oltd 10 Whn iliileni of thle ight anti asked whailt 01oter orders lie had. "Tsrlte ordters," said W'halen. "That girl won't tell whelCre tile 'swtag' fromi the ensket is. WVe've been giving her the 'third degree,' an' now we're goin' the limit. You get Tile 11yennI. Send him to iher room. Let her see just what lie's like. Let him tell 1her lhe's goin' to take her to 'tile room of last resort.', And then If she don't tell what we want let hime take her there an~d kill 11er, If lhe feels that way about it. 8ce?" 'Tile breathless gang ster unoddled and shuffled alway. Sitting near Whalen at the time was Wee See, his hat dlrawn down over his eyes anid appharenltly in a stupor. But within 1him1 amllthle w'ies of the Celes, til were working, ie saw the hy3ena go slinking to Ithe room where hieverly was being held, A fler a few minulltes The 1 flyenn mmppea red with Dieverly in his arms aiid eniteredl "the room of last resort" with her. WVee See had one keeni look at that iroom as thle door was Iilng open~i andt then slammed and locked. He wa'is covertly observing a du1mb waiter dloor .in one corner of the room where lhe silt, whieni Sutddenly tie whole house was jarred by a tremlenidous pouniding at the mai eintranice. A tremlinmg dru'ig fiendl ran thiroughl the hallways shrieking that tile police w~ere outside, and then came a terrible noise from upstairs, blows that sounlded like thundcrhioits. "it's the 'Willie boy' again!" yelled one of the desperadoes, and lie ati eight others bounded up the stairway. It was indeed the "Willie boy," but he was working with all the strength which mythology ascribes to the thun der god Thor, Hlaviug regainedi con seiousness and still filled with a des perate determination to save Beverly, ha hna torn a leg from a havy tna In his prison room and was battering town the door with it. Outside the gangsters awaited him. A few powerful blows shattered the door, and Strong, wielding the table log as a club, strode Into the hall. Again they leaped at him like wolves. le struck one and knocked him down the stairway. Ile was belaboring tile others when a wolf of the Underworld who carried the most formidable fang known to his pack, a blackjack, struck him with it, alid he toppled forward like a tree in a storm &hich has been struck by lightning, carrying a squirm Ing ma1ss of his assailants with him. Then all was silent upstairs, all save a mortally wounded gangster, who, squirming and cursing, drew a pistol, pointed it at Strong and pulled the trigger. It missed fire. The gangster was alining anew when, with a crash, the police swept into the building. Ackerton was at the head of a squad of detectives, and his share in the raid was to locate Beverly, while the men in uniform had orders to round up all hands in the resort. Wee See, when he sighted tile onrushing bluecoats, dived for the duibwalter .and deseended to the basement In it. At the silne time The Iyena, receiving warning of the danger, pressedi a spring iear the door, and slowly (lie room began to drop. Built by The Secret Seven for just such anll elliergoecy fis that presented 1- the 1)oliCC rald, it swung downward when certain imelcanlism 11 was set in motion, and IlI its former phace lip peared en lniocent looking conipart ment contuining a few chairs nod i table. Only the tristed confederates of The Secret Seven kiew of this c0i trivanne. Like soldliers trained to gierrilla war fare tihe polie charged through the lover part of tile bill(ing,", striking dowin (esipradoes, who flashed knives and pistols. Novxt a sqiuad of theill rushed upstairs. 'The dazed ganlgsters there began rallying for at Iast stand, and two bWave blueronts gave ui) their li ves iII the encointr. The police seize(l Strong, whllo, witih torn clothes it: d batItered feature,(s, wats mnistaken for a gallgster. "We'll let you sit in tile chair for this!" laltzed (1one of them. "I don't (-nre( what youl do," mum1 bled Strong. "I wint to fibd Beverly Clark. Get Ackerton! I i know where they carriedi her." Th,11e lagile 11111e of Ackert oIl had its effect. Sirong was taken before tile Chief of DIeetives, whom he led to the doorway of "tile room of last re sort." They hn'tered it down. It was Cilpty. "They couldn't have talken her here!" snapped Ackerton. "Where is she?" "I don't know," lolied William. "They carried her in here. We mllust ind her." "IIow. manu-how?" demanded the Chief of Detective.q. William matide i gesture of desiair. Ile looked blankly it Ackerton, who recolled from a gaze which seemed to have in it the hurstig forth of lunacy. O P I THIR TAP The gi"sto pr, . swee. tl Ir you man, rI"- An"d tie h voc trembled, and his head san1k down on1 his chest. .Aecrton had1( seen other men01 act in thait fashIon-men whlose emotions wiere in~spiredl by love for a woman. And, as al11 the world~ loves a lover, the Chief of Detectives loved Willfiam) Montgomery Strong for the love he had betrayed. "Ackerton," Bald Strong, "Beverly Clarke is the victimI of a vile conspira 0y. I (lid not realize3 that until these thugs began hounding me inl thleir ef forts to get (lie fortune she intrusted to me. I now can1 see whlat they are after. Th'ley believe she knows the whereabouts of that treasur'e. They have beeun torturing her, mn-tortur.. ing her-in t heir ((foris to miake her tell somletingt she doesn1't knowv. Th'inik of it! Anid herel( are you anid I, two strong men01, unnilble to help her. We must (10 something. I tell y'ou we miuist Have thant girl." Ackerton bowedf his hiendl. I Ie reaiiz 0(1 the t ruthi of wvhalt St ronig said, but ho was at his wvits' end1 as to fInding Beverly. "What. can we (10?" lie asked. "Do!'' cried1 Strong. "Do! We will".. Ihere he luneedi forward, weak from loss of blood and( the Stral Ilin rough which he had passed. The chief of' (detectives seized hhn11 anld, ithi a forced smile of conI~tdene,~ said: "We'll find( her. hut you're bunged up, boy-you're all bunged iup. 'rho doctor for yours." Yet as lie luttered those wor'ds two lunanswerable ques tions kept beatIng upon1 Ils brain. They were, "Where is Beverly Clarke?" and "Ihave they killed her?" Wee See alone of those who had manipulated the trap sprung in behalf of law and order know the answers. '(End C'hapter V,) ; I ) [i i ISI li'l1t0N N E W . * * .. ........... **..4 bishon, March 2.-Sinice these cv ry' dlay rainis haLve been inI pro~gress andi warml rals at thlat, we went far enough to examine the oats and clov cir, put ini with the Gautt dlistriitor and we find more clover thlan oats, say about half enough to stand. Some have bought oats and will sow them when the ground will do to plant. Wec remfemlber in 1 881 or 1 882, our father sowed oats the 19th of March and mnade good oats. 1-e sowed them In third year new groundl, v'ery tine land and at that day andl time we never heard of nitrate sodla to help the wheat and oats along-yet we made goodl crops of both, and the reason for that, they put in 40 to 5i0 acres in wheat and twice t hat much ini oats, and fol lowed with peas, after gathering the hea:l the whole tiIngs was t urnled un (der. That was the reason such crops could i.e made in shorter time, a mat - ier of cot'rse. The rains must come r t the plrope. 'me or the oats might be a complete I iiire. 1Iast fail we had an except ionlall1y good fall to gath1 cr our crops5, etc, andl we hlad no ralin to amount to anything. Our extreme follows anlothler, as5 we 5ee. if 2: re Theenber correctly, the year 1897, It commenced to rain Januartly 1st andl thle first furrowvs wVe run to put dlown our fertilizers wvas tihe 8thl of April and~ we madle a goodi crop, so y'ou see it is well enou~gh for us8 to content ourlhes~C. [fnie <has la.Iwarys iheen time enough to make a crop. The ground is wet but wp managed to get good rich earth and plant cabbage seed, also tomato seed, andl the yard coming up very nicely and we expect to plant spring turnIps as soon as the groun~d will do to plowv, prepare well and you will soon hav'e spring salad for your tahle. This is the first time .1 ~1 F R EFINEMV eviden Spring Footi as handsom arrived frorr Every corre, in our lines - reputation b LOW CI The new Coloni pers in beautiful cr ers; Colored Kid; F We've had so many ne ear that we are unable to At it will afford us the pring Styles to any woma koes. CLARDX BETTER SHOE in your' corre(slpondtent's lif toIha I all the winter collords and winter turnip s~al have beeni killed ifI my indi~ serves tme right. We arle glad that our nti lonatl Aov ('rnmen~tt at Wa.shinigton is taking the sltand shte has.- in tegard to thle whliskey' trill~e, andu not fatr inthe fui'tittre, we mtay enjoy realI lif a ifter' all. Mr. .iametis Hiolmtes: has I wo) saw ill s ottInt hi atiler's lilace, one ont the other' aide of little river aind otte near I thle flih londt. is fathetr has giveti up the tfarmi to himit andi~ he expects to have a great deal of' sawing, and in the meantimie expects to get in sonme very fine land for cotton atnd cornt. JTames Is a geood boy, andi we hope thtat he mnay succeed, bitt you nevetr beat' of a farmer retiritig, beennse he has made enoutgh in his lire time. Mtrs. Matry Milami and little Sabylla went dowtn to see fthier and gr'andl fathert int Lexligt on cou nty, -who is datngerously ill. 'IThey camtie 1home1 last Sat urtda-y, week aigo, and st ated that Mir. E'leaz'ier Is lherie, hutl a 'iutestlonl ot' time. Itr. Norwvjnod Mlatin ha si a severe at tack of appendiclitis last Sunday'. lie called in Dri. liillert and hte has beent get titng along fairly well sinee. .1. TI. A. lHalew has beetn down with br'onchit Is for Iwo weeks. WVe guess that his movie frietnds htave connnlO(ee to sptecuilate some as they have not seen him. W'e ktnow' that fat Willie iBrown has miissedl sotme of the shows as J. T. A. Hallow has failed in the last two weeks to drive by and call liilie Brownt's attetionbi to the fact that t ho best show ott record Is on this afternoon, but we hear' sotnebody saying that Mi'. Browtn is a butsiness tnan and knows a good thitng whent lhe sees it and is always on his job, we i think that Ia correct. Mr'. Bhrown can alwaya be founid looking idter' his i own affairs and severely letting other e people's alone. It is a pity that wye 3 have got so few of this kindt of citien ' Spring ashions [ENT and Good Style are very t in our display of Women's Year. Every new model looks and as fresh as if it had just a millinery store. t style of the season is shown rnd every shoe has a splendid ehind it. JT FOOTWEAR ils, umps, Sandalsalid Slip eat ons. Dul)..ofiright leath [andsomeiew white low cuts. w features in Women's Spring Foot describe them and do them justice, greatest pleasure to show the New mn interested in particularly choice [WILSON S AND BETTER SERVICE ESPONSIBILITY Responsible banking is the policy under which this institution has been managed since the day of its organization. That this policy is appreciated, is in dicated by the constant and gratifying growth in business. It is the desire of~ the officers of this bank to continue adding new accounts of those individuals dlesiring the p6st efficient service and responsible banl~ifrig. On our record o F'esponsibility yovur patronage is invited. BANK OF GREENWOOD Greenwood, South Carolina "Oldest and Strongest Bank in Greenwood County" .1. K. DU1RSTi, Prl en~il~t. . P. A\I1Y, C'ashier .J. C. S,10LF, Vice-President. Ii I H. 1iAI S, A sst. C'ash ier. J1. 1. TiOWV~N I) . Asistan1t ('ashier. A. ii. l'Tiiitil i(;, Asistant (Cashier. 1 L.aurens' county. hope that she will soon 1be up. Capt. 11. H1. Pasiey has returned to We were very much pained to learn ia home at Cold Point after spending of the death of Mr. J. J. Piuss. Our everal weeks sick, with his sisters sympathies go out to Mrs. Pluass in Irs. Milamn and Mr's. Puller. Mrs. F~ui- this sad hour. A good man has gono ar has benn very much Indisnnsed, Wn to his reward.