The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, November 05, 1919, Image 9
VOLUME XXXV. LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1919. NUMBER 16
BI'AINED GIAB8
PDU"3.- EB
MRILL CaPANY
vantage of a providential detall of two
of her brothers on the Nyassaland ex
peditionary force and accompany
thien, surrendering St. Gecrge's chapel
ft a quiet marriage in the colonies.
It was a blow, hIt the fact that the
eitire set of tapered allowances
would not start until the sacrificial
ceremony had taken place more than
offset the loss in pomp. Andrea st4art
ed for Africa escorted not only by the
aforementioned brotherq but by old
Aunty Gwen, hale and hearty at sev
enty in spite, or perhaps by reason, of
having been frightened out of many
yeari' growth. So 11prA they werA,
<
Please, Mr. Man, Take Me With You."
Aunty and she, on the point of part
ing with the two boys at the last pos
sible port up the coast and whoso in
habitants had seized upon the occasion
to give a grand ball in the mode of the
English, who have ever danced, courted
and loved best when on the eve of
battle.
t Andrea dIrew a long and quivering
sigh. Tomorrow the boys would
be gone. Tomorrow Aunty Gwen and
she would depart in state in [lie pri
vate car her afflanced, too busy to the
last for the soft preliminaries of love
had sent dIown from the high veldt
Tomorrow - tomorrow would indeet
mark the beginning of the end. "Tha
caed of wvhat?" criedl something withir
her-that same something that h~a
so often spurred her to momnentar:
-escape.
S She felt a great despondency, a ter
ror of f.he mnorrowv that wouldl brinj
the endl of nothing but that neverthe
less would mark the dleath of part 0:
SAndrea Pellor. .Then a more startlini
iemotion seized her. She realized, a]
'most with the sharpness of a recol
that she was on. the verge of becomz
r lag forever a wvoman without a his
y tory. She looked back and saw tha
jshe had never done one outre thing
. she looked forward and saw that sh
probably never would; she looke<
r, d (own and
-At her very feet was the coping tha
y edged the almost precipitous elifl
Upon the pale stretch of sandl was
:s far-away blur, a dark, wide-winge
3- blot. She concentrated her unbeliei
-. lng gazo upon it unitii she made It ou
p. beyond a doubt, It was an airplanl
1. Two midget figures moved around
3. busily.
m, Andrea watched the midgets droan
ly ily and thought of all the stories sh
~a had read abotit flying machine elop<
ir ments. As sh0 stood there her diapl
e anous second-best party dress and hI
k- loosened hait stirred by the spic<
n. laden breezes of an Indian ocean dawa
. and her eyes full of the still, fala
e- light of a tropic moon, the thing drj
Is
a Continued on last nage. this secti(:
AMT
HME,THROUGtI
I JOHN BOGA
TFTF1 B013150-MJ
CHAPTER I.
Andrea Pellor stood on the edge of
the cliff at the back of the Indian
Ocean hotel and gazed out across
twenty-five miles of moonlit bay. It
was not for lack of a partner that she
eteod alone. She had promised this
very extra to four insistent men, but
had excused herself to one after an
other of them, "Just for a moment.
Just while I powder my nose."
They had all seen her run, up the
stairs in the main hallway; they had
not seen her travel steadily on
through the length of the hotel and
come down the ladder-like exit into
the garden. Why had she done it?
That was a question that she herself
could not have answered but that did
not occur to her as a matter for solu
tion, so often had a similar impulsO
snatched her momentarily away from
a crowled world.
Andrea )ad a past, but very little
history. She was tho only daughter
of Lord Pellor of Pellor, a land-poor
baron who could distribute five ttles
among his five sons but very little
cash. As a result Andrea had lived
the life, if life you can call it, of tab
ulated mnpoverished English -gentle
women: Everything that the traffic
will bear for the men of the family
and for the girl just enough frocks at
her coming out to dissemble the bait
that clotlhes the hook that catches tho
man with millions.
Durng her first season offers had
come to her; not the m'easui'ed ad
vances of buyers in the marriage mar
ket, for about the )row of such bud<
ding maidenhood as had been hers
there hangs a guardian halo that
blinds the eyes of sane-aged men, but
the o'erleaping onslaughts of youth
maddened hearts.
It was in her fifth season that the
arbiters of her fate raised the shears
of destiny and clicked them. le who
fell to her lot was a man of humbh
origin who had reached the ripe age
of fifty-eight without ever having had
time to marry. His life, with a dif
ference, had been. just as narrow, hide
bound and conventional as had hers
The difference was that he had trav
eled the stereotyped Dick Whlittingto
trail to high finance rather than thi
social highway. le had started out ir
Africa with a pack of heapl) jewelry
an open mind and an easy conscience
and had emerged after twenty-fiv
years as one of the few Gentiles in th(
combine that controls the world's dia
nond output. His wealth was so greai
that an ultiinate peerage was almos
a matter of course. But, as usual, ni
arIstocratic marriage had to comn
first.
The contract was as cold-blooded a
any ever perpetrated by a royal hous(
Allowances, carefulily graded, wer
stipulated to b~e paid at fixed times t
Andrea's parents and to each of he
fivo brothers. She herself came in fo
a large and Intllienab~le marriage el
tiement and wvas ftirther secured I:
such detalsR as to where the town res
Idence was to be located as well as t
the niumber an'd nature of the countr
places whIch wvero to be maintained
When tihe dlocumenit wats finally con
pleted it was casually submitted t
And rea for a pproval . Nobody dIreamle
that she would doubt for a mnomner
that those in family authority wer
most able to (ldelwat wa~s best fc
her and nobody was rIght. She merel
ekimamed through the typewritte
pages of the prenuptial agreement, sat
isfied herself that a vast sum of mone
was dlestined to tihe upkeep of Peilo
and dreamy-eyed with sudden memi
ries, nodded her adorable head in coJ
sent.
All doubtless would have taken 1I
appointed course had not the Eur
pean war put in its mightily (11sc01
certing finger. Surprising tiings hal
pened in South Africa. Andrea's at
manced sailed on twenty-four hours' n
tice. The diam~onid mines closed dow
took a short nap, and then sudden
awakened to the fact that Amerih
alone was demnandinig as much of the
product as hadit the whole world b~efo
it turned its entire attentioa to man
lng munitions and paying for thei
Andrea's betrothed found himself ha
nessed to his job, poeqalbIy for the d
ration of the war. As a result it wi
decided in family conclave that It w
inenmbent nnon Andrea to take a
NOTICE OF ELECTION.
estate of South Carolina,
County of Laurenis.
Whereas, petitiols signed by a legal
iumber of the qualified electors and
'ree-holders ' residing in Youngs
ichool district No. G, aurnciis county,
South tCarolina, asking for an election
upion the question of voting an add
tional 6 mills tax upon the property
in said school district, to be used for
school iurioses, have been filed with
the county board of education, an clec
tion is hereby ordered upon said qies
tion, said election to be held on the
12th (lay of November, 1919, at Central
School bIilding, in said district, un
der the management of the trustees of
Said school district.
Our Buyer as j
Lots of Dresses, Sui
the entire lot.
Day
SU
One H
Jersey Clot
were Tailor
they last at
One H
high-class 'I
vertone Sui
Special whi
Fifty
I Black, Bros
I ~ Tw~o I
Children's
and offere
t
prices. Ev
t
r tV
Only such electors as return real o
or personal property for taxation and I
Who elibit l t 1e X C'CIax receis anl d reg- a
1str0ation certificates as recjilled in the
general election shall be allowed to I
vote.
Those favoring the 6 niill additional
tax shall vote a ballot containing the
Word "YliS" written or printed there
on. Those against the (; mill addi
tional tax shall vote a ballot contain- I
Ing tihe word "NO" written or printed a
thereonl. I'olls shall open at tie hour1 I
of 8 o'clock in the forenoon and shall (
renain open until the hour of 4
-o'clock ill the afternoon wheln they
shall be closed, and the ballots count
ed.
Tile trustees shall report. the result I
ust returned from New Yorl
ts and Coats at a Big Reduci
'is-Roper
JUST IN B1
undred Dresses
h. Every Dres.
'ed to sell for $
undred and Fift3
'ailored all-wool
ts made up to sq
le they last at
$4"j
all-wool Serge,
vn and Green.
Every Suit 1
-lundred all-wo
absolutely new
d to you at 0n<
ery Coat a dand
s-Rop
Laurens'
r Ili electio o1 the counly superi n
mident of eduienitioni and to the couity I
lditor Within tel days tleieafter. 1
I11'. . WIISON, Supt., i
5-2t, 1 "y order of County Board. I
FINAL SF'1"J'L I1 N'L'
Take notice that oil the 2nd day of
)eceniber, 1 0), I will render a finial
ecount of my acts and doings as Ad
liniistratrix of the estate of .1. II.
:u 11 innighaii, deceased, inl tihe olilee
if tihe .1ludg of I'robato of laur iis
o nllity, at 11 o'clock, a. im., anid oil the :
ailme day will apply for a Ilnal dis
harge from my trust is Administra
rix.
where he succeeded in t
ion, and we offer you exti
Compi
(EXPRESS
in all-wool Seri
a new one.
25.00. Your <
1.75
r New Style Co
Suits in Tpselt
.ll for $65.00
r.25
and Poplin Su
Very special
1.75
Vorth $27.75
ol Coats in V
bought at a b
~-third Less tha:
y good value.
r Coni
Best Store
Aly person ind ebuted to said estate
a notilled :tdre(Iiired Io inake pay
lillt oi that < :11 111 an ido ll p r .av
ng. clainm-, aist saidi estate will
wresent the-n onl or before said date,
Inily provenl (1r be foreve*r barred.
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)repared Syrup Tonic-Laxative for Habitual
lonstipation. It relieves promptly but
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to induce regular action. It Stimulates and
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per bottle.
uying the following
'a Special Values on
tny S
Sf~
re, Satin and
Dresses that
:hoice while
at Suits, all
one and Sil
and $75.00
its in Navy,
[omen's and
ig reduction
a- all former
ipany