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4ant VILtUMPB XXXV. LAURENS, sourim CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1920 29 GE0] AGP C o] ALOV6 - JOHN BOGASm TFE'B B5-M ( konuinued -Irom Last Week.) CIlAI'T-R IX.-Next <1ay Andrea is seized% with a violent attack of pernicious malaria and for three days White Man wages a desperate Ilght for her life. Ile succeeis and the incident results in the discovery of their love for each other. Andrea learns that her companion is Robert Oddiman Trevor, once famous flyer. victin of nervous shock and inca paclitated for work in the air. The trip to the coast. where he met Andrea, was undertaken through necessity, and he is afraid to risk her safety in another ascent. Thert wasi a dlist1u.t rattle of a dozen punting-poles C.rolpPed clroCSs the tlwarls, it spoikein word or two that (airried niarvelouw ly across the still niht, ) and then i h lng silence suid donly sliattored by n beollowing volc': "!Ship ah1ioy 1ShF1ow your poirt and atstt:r haard Mrits, d- you. How In t --- I'y ea f.nIrk I Daiko the Cluna nel'i, Andrea rose quickly and 'zad hr ear to a criack in Ilie door. II'r pule WAS bVeItini- fist, but She Was smilinlig. She eail TIevor come out aid pres ently he heard hin speak. Ills voice wits almost uinrecognizablie, it wias so cold and so *ncisive, like sharpened steel. In strange incongruity, the words he let fall were like drops of molte:' metal. "Hello, MacCloster, you dirty, drunk en brute! What's your price to go away from here tonight? I can offer - you-a tase-of Rois and all the kafir dogs ip the craal to see you off." The words and their manner as tounded Andrea; for a moment it seemed to her that these two men must be joking. Then site felt the imi pact of ain undercurrent of malevolence such as she had never In her life im agined, much less encountered. She quivered to the thought that here was Trevor absolutely without gloves at last, every word ant intentionally naked blow. "Trevor," said MacCloster In an oily voice that was strangely softened and indescribnbly aggravating, "I like you. I can't help Mkin' you; you're so d unbiblical. Not a whisper about a sanguinary fatted calf. You go right to my heart with a case of gin. I ac cept ; bring it out." "No," saId Trevor, "I'll send it up. I'll have.It waiting for you by the time you get back if you don't rot and fall apart on the way." "There you go," said MacCloster, pleasanti ly, "always cheerful, warn welcome on your tongue." Then, with a change that was like a thunder-clap "Send It up, you dunghill hantam I Why the h-- haven't you sent my musIc box ?" Andrea pressed her hands, her face andi her whole body against the door. She was trembling slightly, but she was not frightened ; her intelligence was -too busy. It had leaped to an un dlerstandling of TJrevor's part In what was going on outsIde. She forgot that she had ever thought it a mere battle of tongues. Sihe could Imagine this man, MacCloster, as a mountain of b~rawn and sinew agalnst whleh T1re vor was delIberately op~posing all the moral weight of the old fighting slo gan, "Bully a bully 1" More than that; she could now feel that the sulppressed hantredl shte had guessed at theIr wor-ds had come bmold ly into' the open and that It was in a sense labored anid forced only becautse its IntensIty was b~eyondl actulal ex pression. TIhese men were stripped to almiost unbelievable nakedness rapier and broadlswordl, lapping, thirst ing mightily for heart's blood aind nothing less. In comparison with her own little struggle with Trevor, the en counter assumed the proportions of a meeting of elements. "I didni't send It," saidl Trevor soft ly, "biecause I dlidn't want to remind myself you were still unburied. Be sides, it looks so clean-" "I kn how," interrupitedi MacCloster. Once miore his astonishingly flexible . voice changedI its tone to one of unl feigned calm. "I can ulnderstand, of course," lie r-emnarked conver'sational 1l', "yvou dlislike' the idlea O( carrioni in conjunction wIth the virgin polish of ai iiahloganiy box. W/eli, let's have a look at the thing." "I dlon't remember having seen you so sober before," said Trevor, in the anmo easy tone. and from its sound A IEW - R -v AINEDGIA ~DU3.-BETC RI2ILL COMPANY p she knew lie had turned toward his room. "Enforced, I can assure you," re plied MacCloster. "Been strapped on the wagon by lack of the neces-" The Sound of h1is volce was cut short by the closing of Trevor's door. Andrea opened her own, just a crack, and looked out. In the very center of the circular court squatted in it Was the Aria From Faust. a ring a dozen half-naked boat-boys. Their torsos were still glistening inl the moonlight from the sweat of thir labor. They all seemed dull of face but mighty of muscle. None, not One, of Trevor's people was In sight-a very surprising fact, for the African loves a gossip with the stranger with In his Walls. There was quite a long slience: then came the inufiled tones of the phono. itr'ioh-, 'fing hell-like through the night It' a ielinhing aria from "F'aust. u *1ddy the sound wavered, sweeve and fell to a wrangling of frightened notes as though som1 01ne hadi swept the Instrument from its banlan~ce. A second later Lhere was the thud of at heavy boot on Wod, Trevor's (leor flewv open and1 the stilt walling phono graph was~ hurled as from a catapult fifteen feet through the air. It fell to the hiardl-beaten ground of the patio with a terrific splintering crash, retied over on one side and was still. An drea's eyes had been watching it, fas cinattedl; now they swerved aind stop ped( almost with a click of the sudden ly arrested muscles. Between her and the door of Tre vor's hut stood the towering figure of a man in quarter profile. She could see his great shock of bushy red hair, a bIt of his shaggy beard, his enormous ly broad shoulders and the white gleam of his two hands hanging almost at his knees. IHe was hatless and dressed in faded blue dungarees many, sizes too smali for his bulk. As she watched himt lie raised hIs armas ini a widle still gesture and~ began to sing. At the first note, Quite uin coniselouis of action, she iet the (door swIng openi and1 steppedt out oni the verand~a. It wais the aria from "IFaust," the sa me aria, but ohii how different. The voice of this man was like a huge and1( glitterinig serpent of sound that wrIthled smoothly into the air, chal lenging the doime of heaven itself. If there wias one thing that Andrea knew better than another, It was theo aiccurate valuiat ion oft every operatie voice0 thait hadi~ sung ini E'urope (hiring the last dleciade. She had been taken to Covent Gardoe, regularly before she was out, as a matter of (educat ion, and no less regularly after her eIghteenth (Continued on .nnen two, this section.) ICENSE FEES FOl l[AWKERIS ANI) PEIDDImitS IN LAUlENS C OUN. TY, S. C. FOl TilE YEAR A. 1). 1920.1 4111c of South Curoffill], Counity of Lattre1Ils. ily virtue of an Act of the General ssemlibly of the State of South Caro ina, therefor providing: Be it resolved by the County Board If Coinniissioners of 1Laurens County, ;outh Carolina, inl regular annual neeting assembled: That the I lieense Fees to be paid by awkers and peddlers doing business vithin the said County for and (luring he year A. 1). 1920, be and the same Lre hiereby lixed in the following Liounts, to wit: For foot peddlers of goods, ware CA The contii and the A net cash I can better er basis b) Mon OUR Wel1 tind nIII(andise the s1tum1 of Fifteen )ollairs. For peddlers of goods. vares and it erchasl(l ill two-horse wagont, Or ruck, Fifty Dollars. Por. peddlers of goo(s, wares atnd nechandise in one-horse wagon, Thir y D)ollars. For peddlers of stoves or ranges, shall pay the sun1 of Seventy-Five Dol ars for the first wagon or truck, and for each additional wagon or truck )teratedl by the SaImie irnit the sum of Vifty Lollars. l'eddlers of clocks shall pay the sum Df Fifty Dollars for- the first wagon tr truck operated, and Thirty Dollars for each additional wagon or truck op erated by tle same firm. - Peddlets of lightnin g rods shaI pay iual rise in the iortening of wh ias forced us I - serve you and r adopting a stri Comn .day, f TERMS WILL ONE PRI( ntend to Make PAY Ltch for Page ol Laurens' the sum of 1'ifty )llar for te wagon b or truck, and h'll! rty-4i ve Iollars rot s (ach additional wagon or truck opler- n1 aIted by thlt same irm l'efddlers of spec tacles siall pay I 11lie sui of Tweity Dollars. t Peddlers of sewing machines shall Pay the sulm of lifty Dollars for lthe first wagon 'or truck, and Tirtli1y Dol-lI lars for Ieaclh additioial wag)n or I ruck operated by the same firm. 'eddlers of jan 01os or organs shall pay th' sum of One I lundlred and Thir ty-Five I)ollars for each and everyI wagon or truck operated. All licenses to be issued 1by Ithe Clerk of th e Court of said Couinty and o be of force and effect until ile ;Ist Ly of 1l)cmblir A. 1). 1920 as provid d by law; 'rovided: Thatl all lieIInseS mm price of all me olesale terms to i :o the conclusior hold prices dowr ctly one-price Cal iencing ebruar BE STRICTLY ( IE TO ALL it to Your Intere CASH F Prices Next We .oper Best Store sie( after the thirtetth ilay of June tall be for two-thirds of the abov am11ed rates. I)one aind ratifie( in regilar antnial cetinlg at lautens ('ott1111 ouse, S. C., its the 8th (11y of J.1anutary A. ). .JNO. ). \'W. \\ATTS, Stpervisor. t test Chairman. (lerk. 27-3t Habitual Constipation Cured in 14 to 21 Days LAX-FOS WITH PEPSIN" is a specially repared Syrup Tonic-Laxative for Habitual onstipation. It relieves promptly but hould be taken regularly for 14 to 21 days o induce regular action. It Stimulates and ?egulates . Very Pleasant to Take. 60c >cr bottle. IS rchandise )ractically k that we i to a fair sh System. 'y9 2ASH ist to hek. Co.