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VI)LUMB XXXV. LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY I, 1920 NUMBE 30 lii|2A'i'i Wl H0MEfl,THROUGlieq JOHN BO&TAI *5THiBOBB-MFJ (Continued from Last Week.) CHAPTER IX.-Next day Andrea is seized with a violent attack of pernicious malaria and for three days Whito Man wages a desperate fight for her life. He succeeds and the Incident results in the discovery of their love for each other. Andrea learns that her companion is Robert Oddman Trevor, once famous flyer, victim of nervous shock and inca pacitated 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 anothdr ascent. 5efore she could quite obey a rifle spoke, there was the "P'hut 1" of ai bul let as a patch of MacCloster's shirt leaped suddenly, weirdly, from his shoulder into the air. Instantly he leaned down and with one band picked up Andrea lightly and held her sus pended between himself and the shore. "One more, TrevorI you lousy ban tam I" he bellowed. "One more to save me the trouble of wringing the neck of your little chicken I" As he finished speaking, Trevor shot again. A look of vacant surprise passenw over the face of the punter nearest to Andrea. He crumpled up, sank as though ill his bones had sud denly inelted and fell, face down, to the bottom of the boat. His pole, re leased, slid with a swift swish mio the water.. MacCloster. jromPtly ,pikCad heidn the seat beside him and gave a calm order. to the remaining punteri, wkho had paused In terror. He stood up, took the tiller between the tremen1 dous calves of his legs and proceeded, to fill and light his pipe. "You see?" lie said, quietly. "He won't shoot again. How do I know? I'll tell you." He half seated himself, elbow on knee, the tiller under the crook of his leg. "A little brain work," he contin uld conversationally. "Trevor meant to kill a nigger, but not that one-not the one next to you. le was shooting at the bow-boy and he lilt the stroke oar! How do I know? Well, it's what any man would do, let alone one of the best shots that ever drew trigger. He would pick off the crew beginning farthest from the point where lie need. ed' all his nerve. Now the Bantam knows what he knew well enough be fore, only lie knows it a d-- sight better, and that is that no man living can shoot in moonlight and tell where the bullet will go. "le won't shoot again," he finished, turning to her with a ghastly smile, "So you're safe-safe with me. I don't ask you to love me for my looks-onl3 for myself V" Andrea looked anywhere lint at hii face. "You and I know," she said aftel a pause, "that I amt quito safe wvitl the man you once were." "Here," said MacCloster, his eyel narrowing. "It's too late to pull an; of that stuff. Why didn't you try I back there when I was reniy soft?' "When you were sincere," answerei Andrea, "I was sincere. You knew It but you wvoul'1n't have known it-I wouldln't have been true-if Ilhad take) the chance to save my skin." "That's so," conceded MacCloste thoughtfully. "But if you're not goln to lbe persuaded to love mel, willl yam please tell me where I get off? Whi are you good for, anyway? Do ye realize that I gave up a case of gi for you and that a case of gin in thei trould times is worth all of thrl pounds sterling?" Andreai winced. "So I'm really ni worth three pounds," she said halfi herself. MacCloater heard and took quli pity on the wistfulness in her voic "Well," lhe (4nid(, comnfortinigly, wouldn't say that. Where it was question of sentiment or a matter having somnethinlg pretty around tl house a man might go further. WVi even among the blacks-" Hie paused, looked calculatingly her and then went on: "01(1-timers w tell you that there are two qualit; that don't exist in Africa at all; one gratitude andl the other is affection. think they're right about the first, 13 about the second,. I know better. Th4 are cases where a black likes a part ular woman, aind wh'en that happe his facp is marked by a peculiar los I knowi It and every time I catch sij of it I'm two extra pounds in pocki "Why?" asked Andrea. "WVhat yQimeanil)? A II 0 at t] 7 T EIAIN4ED GLBS ~DUeS.- STC RILL C AIN f ti il "Why, my dear? Don't you know? v Didn't Trevor tell you that I'm-I'm ln trade?" "He said," answered Andrea, "that - you were engaged in some horrible business, but that he couldn't conceive I of any reason why he should tell me what it was. I was very curious then, but now I really don't care." "Finicking, crowing prude I" ex claimed MacCloster, his mind on Tre vor. "Why, it's the most legitimate hundred per cent little business that ever crawled out of a big brain. If it wasn't for me this whole back coun. try would run short of wives." "You mean you buy and sell wom en?" asked Andrea. "No, not exactly," answered Mac Closter. "I raise them. I'm the legal possessor of a hundred and eighty-two, or five, or six, wives. Can't just re member." "Oh I" gasped Andrea, crouching still farther into her corner. "There you go," said MacCloster, calmly. "Don't let .your imagination run away with you, my dear. I said I'm the legal possessor and I mean just that. But what's the use of talk. ing. You'll see." All through the night and well into the next day the boat traveled steado lly-tpstream. MacCloster yawned pro digiousi; three or four times, but never gave up the tiller to a "boy." In the early morning they entered a long reach of the stream flanked on both sides by flat plains. MacCloster stood erect and his eyes made the cir cuit of the horizon. "Nothing," he said. "If he could have beaten us to this our name would have been Den nis. Ile's given up his favorite little spotted hen. Flap your wings and say good-by." Andrea's heart, already low, sank a lot lower. Not once through the night had she closed her eyes and she knew now that she had been hoping and praying that the first gleam of morn ing would find Trevor, the avenger, on the bank. She could not know, as did MacCloster, that an impassable foresi of ibroken thorn stretched for mile. between the two camps. There wa just one open road to MacCloser's the river-and on that no other boal could equal the speed of his own. "Say," saild MacCloster, moved by I Sudden thotight, "Is there anyone tha wouild give a lot of money for you ?" Andrea's brows drew together it honest valuation of what was left o: her 01(1 sell'. "I don't know," she sat meekly. "Perhaps not now." "What would he give for you?" Mac Cioster asked, jerking his beard ove his shouldier. "lie said he wouldn't give thre Spounds," answeredi Andrea in a still tsmall voice. She began to cry. MacCioster's eyes grewv round witl I fright. "'Oh, come now," lie protested i "Ihere you've been hours without eve: t thinking of that d--d old trick. Stoj m It !" he roared suddenly. "Stop It 0 I'll mash your head in." g hier rapid progress ntuo the heart r U MacCluster's stron ~gholi had1 it ni et bleen for an incleint that revivifled a U her fear and repugnance toward tlh n man and whieh occurred as they ei 10 tered the ring court. MacCioster, stri te lng ahead of her, suddenly paused am his horribie face appjarently achievt t the linpossible h~y undlergoinlg a d to basing transformation. Ills eyes had fallen o.1 a group ~k carriers, newly arrive'd, and the cre e. of his freight hli. Tlhe negroes we "9 squatting in a circle guard, Waith a to make delivery to t heir master f various cases. Some of thema evider 10 ly contIa inedl (cloth, cut lery and knic 'Y knatcks dlear to, ie native heart, b onte, at least, birazenl'ty proclaimled at deepily burnt sitnellin. ;ts contents lil be gin. It was on I b simall squa 05 boxC that Mac&loster's 'eyes were r is etedl. .lie tirnedi and s '<e to Andr I in an oily toneo that Im' .mie xipi ilt ble reason froze her iit was re thbough he hadl so It tisumediP Ie* new and~ tiranige p' -anality up as which her twelve hour * brave int courso with him had no occasi ~ht to estabilishu its grn became dt Cniue."furhpr ti et AT (AY COURT o11an's 3lissionairy Society has Pleasant and Profilable Mession with Mrs. Alvin Curry. Gray Court, Feb. 9.--The Woman's issionary Society of Gray Court met Mrs. Alvin Curry's on Friday, Feb. I, for the Installation of oflicers. tie afternoon was a delightful one, )ent In iscussing plans for the en ing year. Our president, Mrs. Alvin Curry, ade a splendid talk on the pow ei our religion to change the life as o other religion can. A mission study class was organized mong the members with fourteen of ic ladies as a neucleus. The class Is y open the first Monday in -March and icet at the parsonage. You are In Ited, reader. The -book to be studied Is called: Money, the Acid Test." I Yo1 our ei this cc w price a times v ply. - It' to him ing be< always x We're clothei of qua anythi thing i NEA La in ton on ea Rev. C. W. Watson miade a talk on "Christ the fouidtion o tihe new Eirope". The church is called to give Feb. 13th as a day of fasting and prayer for the great evangelistic cam paign now on to win a million souls for Christ. by Eoaster. The pleasant social hour spent at the close of the p;rog"am, eVer the chicolate cup1)s, gave the ol)portunlity to welcome the new member, ir. Whittle, into the society. 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