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- -__ __ '4 VLUME'XXXVi 26 AUPA HIMETHQ0UGH JOHN BOGA (Continued from Last Week.) 01HKAPTER VII.-After a tedious tramp tbae5 bull elephatkis are atighted and An crhs t.ansfixed by the excitement of r chase. Overcome by the spectacle, V the killingf of two ale phaute Andreal sodenly fndsn herself in he warm em i~eof White Man. To her surprie aei by no means indignant. Andresa lskrnu that another white man is en cwnped near their craal. but when she elars she would like to see him White Man warns her she must never try toI Roe or communicate with the stranger. ~J refuses to give his reasons, and An-I orea resolves to meet the other man. Nothing could have served better to byak the tension. The man smiled. "hat was great," he said pleasantly. "You're like me-when in doubt, do something. Well," ho continued in his lighter tone, "I can answer the spirit of all your questions and I will answer them because I don't want you ever to ask them again. Stubborn pride is the root of the whole mystery. During thie first year of the war I was a flyer f6r the allies. I was on the way to a big name when my nerve went back on me. I couldn't believe IL I came dbwn here and brought a machine with m, working on my old theory of con tiast. You saw how I flow-how I landed. You took me for an amateur. That's all. Please leave it. It's the faw in my philosophy, the inevitable S in the clear amber of a reasonably lMrtp life." te suapped his cigar away, sending after it a long last puff of smoke. An. tme no longer watched him. Her eyes fxed - on the dying glow of the etsar butt. "I owe you several apolo gle," she said, quietly, "but I'm not to blame. I couldn't have guessed. I eft understand some of what you feel "Who Are You?" bemsuse I've heard of several cases Meyours-poor devils that look and well but find terror In the eyes of a world critical of anackers. But there was one.--- re. member his name. Rlobert Oddman 'breor, a Canadian." That was a name that M'sungo Entw best of all names in the world. it was his own. But even if Andrea Sbeen watching him It is doubtful hewould have read correctly the sndden tensity that shot through hi. flame. He turned on her a slanting glance. "What about Trevor)" he amed coolly. *SIt was he that really made a flyer est of my brother Harry," said An. drea. -"Harry was attached to the medical board that handled the case and he said that when the ranking M, 0. passed sentence In the nicest wa, l1 could, but told Trevor he'd have to -t~ke a long holiday and that he would meyer fly again, becauise he had lost $nerve Treotturned_ a bi. white, Af 4 eTAINEDGAB8 2DUii.-RTC It i uod very straight and said, .XoU lie''" "D- fool," commented M'sungo. "Perhaps," conceded Andrea. "But there must have been something in the way he did it that was deeper than I the words, because all those officers were ready on the spot to swear that what they had heard was, 'thank you, sir,' ansd Harry- Well, Harry has turned out a wonder, and he says it's because he always goes up on the hon. or of Trevor, the nerviest man that ever flew." Andrea looked at her companion and caught on his face a light of exalta. tion. "Why," she cried, outraged, "you haven't been listening I" "Oh, yes I have," he answered promptly, coming back to earth. "Every word. Good for Harry." Andrea studied his face, the shadow of a question in her own. "By the way," she said, "you are an Ameri. can?" "Sure thing," lie answered, meeting her eyes squarely. "Trevor was a Britisher, of course, But Canadians and Americans are a lot alike, aren't they?" He contemplated his answer with a quirk of humor on his lips. "Now-a. days," he said finally, "there's no rea son why we should blush over sayin4 'yes' to thatt1" CHAPTER VilI. On the day following M'sungo re ceived a message to the effect that his steamer had arrived and was already taking on the warehouse cargo and could do with three hundred tons more. Andrea had previously thought him a gourmand for work; now she discovered a maniac. "It's a cleanup," he declared. "In another month the rains will be here, there'll be no working in the forest, the game will scatter, the natives will want to plant. And what's more, with this cargo I'll pass the million-dollar wark% That doesn't mean anything to you but It's my stake-the stake I'd set my heart on." He took all hands off production and put them to baling and packing. From the reeds along the river he dragged to light a veritable fleet of scows. They were up-ended along the bank, scraped, calked and pitched. One after an. other they were floated out into waist high water and anchored. The days were no longer enough. Every woman In the camrr was set to making long, tightly bound palm-leaf torches and the pickanins from eight years up were organised into squads to light the night shift through the short hours of darkness. M'sungo took his sleep, if he took any, leaning against a tree near the nest of hand-pressure baling machines. All hands were kept steadily at work until it was completed. At its finish, when all the available material was stacked along the edge of the forest in great obbong piles that looked like newly cut timber, M'sungo gave a great spread. Te each ten men he allotted a tin of marmalade; to each twenty a box of crackers, a sack of flour, one lend of salt and a demijohn of cheap but sound wine. Andrea watched this wholesale depletion of the white man's stores and began to wonder. As she wondlered, her heart went way up and then way down. Was this the begin ning of another end? Was slhe sorry or was she glad? She looked back on the few days of her new life and they seemed already to have stretkhed into years. She was too young or too care less to have learned that time passes slowly only to those who are in a rut of daily routine, dragging tragically under the blows of sorrow and almost forgetting itself entirely when joys are val-ious. The day came when the last of the; barges, towing a little scow stacked with an overflow remnant of bales, I was dispatched and M'sungo could take a long breath and turn his at tention to putting the camp in order. This in itself was no small task. All bra'nches, chips, hark, refuse and other rubbish consequent upon the work in the forest was gathered and burned. Then, as squad after squad of labor (Continued on ae Trwo.) FINAL SETTLEMENT. Take notice that on the 11th day of Pebruary, 1920 1 will render a final a ccount of my acts and doings as 0xecutor of the estate of Lillian Ow- i ngs deceased, in the office of the udge of Probate of Laurens county, t 11 o'clock, a. m., and on the same lay 'will uply for a final discharge rom my trust as Executor. Any person indobted to said estate s notifled and required to make .pay- s1 ient on that date; and all persons inving claims againsL bald estate will s resent them on or before said date, B luly proven or be forever barred. J. A. SMITH, Executor. E an. 7, 19"0. 25-5t-A C ASSESSOR'S NOTICE 1920. si The auditor's office will be open rom the first day of January to the t< 0th day of February, 1920, to make eturns of personal property and all si ransfors of real estate, for taxation p For the convenience of taxpayers he Auditor or his deputy will attend si he following named places to receive eturns for said year, to wit: si Tuesday, Jan. 20, Seuffletown town The "TH THE trend of al neering points to the 'And good buying jud Oldsmobile. We aimed high pioneering the "eigl to produce one of and low maintenance ---that had the smoothness and of power ihe: 8-cylinder car. ---that cost as Iii and operate as ity of "sixes" 'fours."~ Palmetto P. 0. Box 21 lIp. J. S. Craig's Store. Tuesday, Jan. 20, Jacks township, S. . Dean's. Tuesday, Jan. 20, Jacks township, enno. Tuesday, Jan. 20, Hunter township, ountville. Tuesday, Jan. 20, Cross Hill town lip, Cross Hill. Tuesday, Jan. 20, Waerloo towi, lip, Waterloo. Tuesday, Jan. 20, Waterloo town 1lp, Jerry C. Martin's storo. Tuesday, Jan. 20, Dials township, Mahon's store. Tuesday, Jan. 20, Youngs township, tewart's store. Tuesday, Jan. 20, Youngs township, Dok's store. Wednesday, Jan. 21, Watorloo town lip, W. C. Thompson's. Wednesday, Jan. 21, 'Scuffletown wnship, Ora 9:00 a. m. to 2 p. m. Wednesday, Jan. 21, TAurens town lp, Watts 'Mills, 2:30 p. m. to 0:30 M. Wednesday, Jan. 21, Hunter town alp, Clinton. Wednesday, Jan. 21, Sullivan tow-n kip. T. T. Wood's. Wednesday, Jan. 21, Dials township, S E 2 DROBRED" 7 itomobile engi 8-cylinder car. gment points to er ,than simply t." We aimed enoderate price costs, flexibility, abundance 'ent in the tile to buy the major and many Auto& A Main Street, 1 7 D. D. Harris's. Thursday, Jan. 22, Hunter township, Clinton Cotton MILl. Thursday, .Jn. 22, Sullivan town Ship, Princeton. Thursday, Jan. 22, Dials township, Owings Station. Thursday, Jan. 22, Youngs town ship, W. P. Harris's. Friday, Jan. 23, hunter township, Lydia Cotton .1i:1. Friday, -Jan. 23, Sullivan township, W. .D. Sullivan, Sr. Friday, Jan. 23, Dials township, Gray Court. Friday, Jan. 2, Youngs township, Pleasant Mound. Saturday, Jan. 24, Youngs township, Lanford Sation. Saturday, Jan. 24, Hunter township, Groldville. Sturdany, J)an. 24, Dials townahip, L. A. Thompson's store Please make note that the appoint monts will be filled lust es advertisAd and to please come out and make re turns. One man usually makes the whole round and some may not under stand the notice this time, as I have divided up the territory in the several townships. 00 ?VTTHE PACE 2aYe'ar -passenger Tour -what would I tinctive, yet cally Oldsmt Our aim is "THOROBRED"-. priced "eight" in excellence is con riding comfort and body lines. Olderi the history-makern "TH-OROBRED" perpetuate the na: Descriptive Sent upon requesi tion gladly arrang CCeSSOry C .aurens, S. C. Pho, All male citizens between the agoes of 21 and 60 years on the first of Jan uary, except hose who are ineapable of earning a support from being maimed or from other caussca are deemed l)olls, Confederate veterans excepld. Also all male citizenu between the ages of 18 and 50 on the 1st day or January, 1921, are liable to a road tax of $1.50 and are required to make during the time above specified and their return of same to the Auditor shall pay to the County Troasurer at the same time other taxes are paid in lieu of wo)rking the roads, school trus tees, students and ministers are ex cepted from road tax. All taxpayers are reluired to give township and number of school dis tricts; also state 'whether property is situated in town or country. Mach 101, tract, or parcel of land must be en tered separately. After the 20th of February 5W per cent penaly will be attached for fail ure to make returns on personal prop erty and 20 per cent on transforo of real estate. J1. W. TH0%MPSON, 20-td County Auditor. ing Car >e smartly dis characteristi abile. attained in the -the only popular which mechanical ibined with rare 1 up-to-the-minute riobiles have, been of motordom; the is well worth to me. iterature will be , or a demonstra-I ed. ompany ne No. 200