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i 4 Thursday, January 21, 1932 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAR< PAGE NUMBER THREB MPMf BfYOND V ”7 C BO WELL KATtlARINf NfWLIN BU«T s= ‘ / . • FIFTH INSTALMENT Fresh Jocelyn I gown had so shinning a loveliness,; bent into this shape; not a pretty so proud a grace that the man’s one, I grant you. My life is bent. from a French convent, gi 0 ry in possession induced him to It took much pain of fire and ham- Harlowe returns to New Tort to her »acUUy-eieel mother'a take her out. to let the world of mer and great pincers to get me religious, ambitious woman. The other men gloat enviously at what here. To get me back would be girl is hurried into an engagement with the wealthy Felix Kent. Her father, Nick Sandal, surreptipusly enters the girl’s home one nignt. He tells her he used to call her Lynda Sandal. The girl is torn by her desire to see life in the raw and to become part of her mo ther’s society. Her father studies he LySda r0 ytei(te 18 her father in his 50 dee P. 50 lo y al and so lovely that dingy quarters. She finds four men for an instant the soul that was playing cards when she arrives, torpid in him came to painful life One of them, Jock Ayleward, her . . drnnnpd his p V o,; f ee iw father tells her, is like a son to him, ana ne aro PP ea nis e y es > ieeA ms but warns the girl he is a trifler. a warmth that was not possessive, Lynda pays a second visit to her not even passionate, cross his face, father and Jock takes her home, on he had so quickly, so easily, won. not only torture but death by In his great smooth-running lim- torture. You see, I give myself away ousine he carried her off, unchap eroned, to the theatre, to supper, danced with her. And Jocelyn re warded his open and most gentle seeming worship once with a look the way stopping with her at an underworld cabaret. Jock gets into a fight with a gangster who insists on dancing with Lynda. He then takes Lynda home. Later she mentions Felix’s name to Jock and Ayleward’s face displays his demoniac hatred of the millionaire. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY ‘‘How terribly you hate that man,” said Jocelyn. She spoke as easily, as lightly as she could.' “I wish you’d tell me Why. “Kent came from my town—Rap- Jocelyn came back that night happier than she had been since the first days of her engagement and profoundly reassured. In a mood of cafcn, of almost cold self-possession, she went two or three evenings later to bid her fa- to you. As to young Ayleward, if you fell in love with him—” He went on evenly, “—then I should be forced to free myself of you. Never of him. Never of nim. Now listen, the boy is gold. “You did not say that before, Nick. You said that he was not the man that Felix is. You said that he had a poor outlook on life and a character that might be call ed unstable. “You have an excellent memory.” “It’s one of the things they teach you in a convent.” “Well, all that is true. And of all possible husbands—” • | “But I should never dream—” “Of all possible husbands for Miss ther farewell. She had freed her- . self of any sentimentality toward Jocel y n Harlowe I can imagine Jock Ayleward, even of that senti- none worse - A man with a gradge mentality of an over emphasized against life is not a happy partner dislike. She had freed herself too for *** woman. Better for a man , . , _ from sentimentality toward Nick; who has g iven life a grudge against pel. In Illinois. My father was a not 0 j ^ er affection. The first him -” clergyman there. Kent was .en v,„ I "What does that mean? years older than I. When I got out of the school of mines—mining engineer was my original profes sion—he got me my first job. “Kent bad me sent down to in? spect a zinc mine.* I went over the mine with its owner, a man named Talley. Came back to Rappel with my report. It was a first-rate mine. A sure-fire investment. Everylhing the owner had showed me was O. K. I was optimistic and cocksure. Had no reason that I knew of not to be. I had made a straight re port on a good mine. I believe, Miss Sandal, that any other en gineer would have handed in just such a report as that was. Kent was forming a corporation to take over •this i&iagc Capitalized it at two million dollars. “He proposed to sell' this mine to his townspeople—my townspeople too—at par, that is, twb million dollars for the entire issue. I know now that Algernon Talley was willing to sell the mine to Kent for one million dollars. My report—you see my name, my father's name, was good—was printed and circuit ed. I was elected secretary of the corporation and consulting eng ineer. They gave me a small block •of stock. I fancied myself sud denly rather a big man. “It is necessary before a stock is actually sold. Miss Sandal, for an officer of such' a corporation to make an affidavit to the Secretary of the Commonwealth based on his personal knowledge and setting forth the exact value of the assets upon which the stock is issued. Kent got me to make this affidavit. I “Now, listen closely. The making of such an affidavit, falsely or heedlessly, subjects the maker to fine and to imprisonment. There was a gray shadow on this young man. Lynda drew back a lit tle in her chair. Something that had been mysterious in his aspect was explained to her. “That mine turned out to be no good, Miss Harlowe. The stockhol- <e frien vestment. I was prosecuted, found guilty and sentenced to three years in state’s prison.” Lynd^ spoke with a certain diffi culty: “I understand that you would naturafly be tempted to find some such explanation for your own ter rible mistake. But, since I know Mr. Kent very well, I find the whole story—as you tell it—perfectly pre posterous. Jock was looking at her carefully and coolly. He bowed. “I didn’t suppose you would be lieve me. i merely wanted 1 to ex plain to you my hatred of Felix Kent. I hoped that it might dam age him with you.” As he turned to leave he handed her a slip of paper. “Here is* Nick’s new address. He didn’t like your coming to that oth- place. You’ll come to see him?” “Yes.” Marcella and Felix both returned to town. On his first evening with Jocelyn, Felix proved a very enter taining lover. Jocelyn In & green deed of her release and her en richment would be Nick’s rescue. In this mood of fiery deliverance ‘did Jocelyn Harlowe in one of her own gdwns—for Lynda Sandal had been condemned to death—ap proach her father’s new abiding place. Nick was obviously ill at ease in “A man who has put his foot on the neck of life and thrashed the hide off it!” “You think that Felix Kent is such a man?” / “From what I know 6f him Felix Kent is such a man.” “It’s a cruel picture.” i z “I’m going to be fool enough to take you home,” asserted Jock. its stiff ugliness but also just as obviously proud to receive her in a room of respectable cleanness, newness and unsullied past. There was no sign of Ayleward’s presence. No cards anywhere. There wasn’t in fact so much as an ash try or a magazine on the shiny central table with its pink-parchment- shaded lamp, “Are you well again? Jock told me you’d been sick with pain and fever,” she asked him. “I’m all right again. In fact, I’ve planned a surprise for you. Let’s go out,” Nick said. In a taxicab which it cost Nick some torturing moments to enter Will Lynda forced herself to ask, Ayleward be there.” “I dare say.” “I wish,” she said with coolness, almost with nonchanance, “that re-riny townspeople, my father’s ° f ^ yl « ward ' P ay him lends, my frlends-lost their in-] 0 ” start a ? aln ” Nick, crouching painfully in his corner over a cane, squinted sidelong, mockingly.” “Perhaps. But a woman will and must follow such a master.” “You told me if I was afraid. . ” “Oh that! How little you know! A woman is never afraid of these big solid masters of life or of her self. She fears shadows and fail ures, uncertainties and broken men.” The “swell joint” was really rather pretentious though Jocelyn suspected it to be rarely frequented by people known to her mother or to Felix Kent. Lynda was of course enchanted. She wished for her green frock or her red one and her eyes began to glow. To one of the retired tables Nick led her. Here were already Jock Ayleward with two of the men Lynda had met on her first visit: James Drury and Gustav Lowe, looking extraordinarily sleek and solid and greeting her with a gooji deal of startled gallantry. Jock rose, looked her in the eyes, smiled U P | with his lips only and sat down- , again. Why so, gracious and gentle lady? ' “He has been in prison. He is a professional gambler. I hate to think that you are dependent upon his charity, that you live by what he steals.” A gambler doesn’t steal, Saint Almost immediately two other men joined them, young fellows in ) well-cut evening clothes, very slightly the worse for liquor, with the grace and the tang of gentle folk and the flexible frank faces of youth at revelry, predestined vie- Lynda. He eases people from their! tlms of the ancient game of Fox money only by their own consent, i and ° eese ’ Lynda was the only In other words, you are ashamed of ' woman at the table and these new - me, my friends and my condition? comers visibly reioiced ’ “No.” v A Jock rose and asked her to dance. “Then why try to change them? His expression dared her to refuse I’ve no intention of changing any- him - she hesitated, color deepening thing for the sake of Mrs. Felix in her face » then she stood up and Kent.” moved out into the room with him. “You make me angry. You hurt They danced together smoothly and me, Nick.” | hi silence. “Exactly. I have felt the same ! “You’ve learned,” said Jack pres- symptoms toward you.” ! ently, speaking close to her ear. In dismay the girl turned her “you’ve learned to bear the touch tilted eyes upon him beseechingly, of a jailbird. You can even let one “We mustn’t quarrel.” bold you in his arms.” “Ah, so you do love me a little! ^ “I’ve come here. I must go I’m not angry now, nor hurt. Only through with it. I do not enjoy this Lynda, don’t try to change me. I’m dance.” ' \ “I think you do.” “Really?” She looked straight up into his eyes. They were filled with a pained gamin laughter/ “Some of you enjoys it,” he went on in spite of her icy look. “We dance well together. We both love music. If you cbuld forget every thing you think you know about me, if you weren’t jealous of me—” she half stopped, “with Nick—” they went on, “and if you weren’t a little bit afraid—” As he spoke her very expert part ner made a misstep, glanced ; doubtfully down at her, recovered himself and almost with violence drove her, doubling the time of their rhythm and dancing like a dervish, away from that part of the room and before she knew it he had taken her out through one of the glass doors of the entrance. There she stopped above the sem icircular stairs, disengaged her self and saw that he was white and breathing hard. | i “What is the matter? Take me back to Nick.” “I’m going to be fool enough to take you home.” “Mr. Ayleward!” “Miss Sandal, you are not to go back into that room. Not if I have to carry you down the stairs. I have a good reason. Go ’down and get your wrap. I’ll try to signal to Nick. It’ll be all right. You must trust me.” “I can’t possibly trust you.” “Miss Sandal, if you force me to make a scene you will regret it more than anyone. Have you for gotten how angry you were with me once when I involved you in., a scene?” She had not forgotten. She flush ed at the memory; looking up at him she rea’d in his eyes a desper ate and curiously gentle determin ation and found herself obediently going down the stairs. Ayleward stood above the block her view of the glass doors; so she missed the rhythmic passing of Toni Padrona’s woman clenched in the arms of Felix Kent, her eyes blazing into his with something that looked like hunger and reproach. 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Igiiace Jan Paderewski, famous musician who was premier of Poland after the War, has returned for an other concert tour of the U S. OULAHAN— A few days ago the President of the United States took time off from his arduous duties to attend the funeral of a newspaper re porter. A hundred or more of the highest officials in Washington, members of the Cabinet, foreign diplomats, joined Mr. and Mrs. Hoover in paying a last tribute of respect to the memory of Richard Victor Oulahan. I think it is the only occasion on which a simple reporter of the news has been so honored. Dick Oulahan could have held al most any public office he might have aspired to, he could have been editor-in-chief of almost any great newspaper, but he preferred to remain a reporter in the city of his birth, writing every day for the New York Times the news of Washington so truthfully and in such a dignified manner that he won the respect of everybody in public life, while his personal charm and character made presi dents and ambassadors his person al friends. Dick Oulahan was my school mate fifty years ago. His life and .career were the model upon which many young newspaper men tried to shape their own. MURDERS— ' ' With all the publicity that New York and Chicago gang murders have got, the public has a notion that those cities must be dangerous places to live in. But an Alabama college professor who has been col lecting the facts about murder in the United States reports that there are 77 cities in which there are more murders in proportion to population than in New York, and 39 that have a higher per centage of murders than Chicago. There are more murders in Memphis, Tennessee, in proportion to popula tion, than in any other American city. There is no such thing in any Ameiican city as gangs of mur derers roaming at large and shoot ing total strangers because they don’t like the color of their neck ties, though some such impression of life in the big cities seems to be prevalent. \ I have knocked around this world a good deal, and as a news paper reporter have had to go in to some pretty tough districts at all hours of day and night, but I nev er found it necessary to go armed, nor have I ever known of a sober, peaceful citizen tending strictly to his own business being idlled ex cept by a lunatic. PROHIBITION— Anti-prohibitionists are . incur able optirfiists. Finland has just repealed its prohibition law v and American “wets” are jubilant: How little chance there is of any such action in this country is clearly indicated by a poll of the entire membership of both houses of Congress taken by International News Service. Only 155 members of the House of (Representatives were willing even to submit the question of repeal to a popular ref erendum. It takes 218 to make a majority in the lower, house of Congress. Thirty-two senators, or exactly one-third were in favor of a referendum. And the question of legalizing beer could muster only 125 representatives and 21 senators to its support. i I think that tha,t proportion is a fair reflection of public sentiment in the United States. The anti prohibitionists are indulging in what Emerson called “wishful thinking.” WAGES— The International Labor Office of the League of Nations set out to compare “real wages” in European industry with American wages. “Real wages” m^ans the actual purchasing power of the workers’ earnings in terms of commodities. As was expected, the investigators report that living costs in Euro pean cities are excessively high and that few European workers are able to buy more than the bare le- cessities of life even in the best of Umes. If this investigation results in in creasing wages and giving overseas workers a greater purchasing pow- jr it v;ili help a lot toward restor- f - > Auditor’s Notice I will be at the following places on dates named to take tax re turns for 1932, on all personal property, including monies, credits, etc., by owner, trustee, guardian, administrator, attorney, agent, dtc.: Office, January 1st to 18th. Joe J. Link’s, January 19th, 9 to 11 a. m. J. C. Talbert’s, January 19th, 3 to 5 p. m. R. T. Mayson’s, January 20th; 10 to 12 a. m. / Quarles’ Store, January 20th, 2 to 5 p. m. E. M. Morgan’s Store, * January 21st, 10 to 12 a. m. Farmer’s Supply, Company, Jan uary 21st, 2 to 4 p. m. Plum Branch, January 22nd, 2 to 5 p. m. Office, January 23rd to 25th. Willington, January 26th, 10 to 12 a. m. Mt. Carmel, January 26th, 1 to 4 p. m. Meriwether, January 27th, 10 to 12 a. m. Clark’s Hill, January 27th, 2 to 4 p. m. Modoc, January 28th, 10 to 12 a. m. Parksville, January 28th, 2 to 4 p. m. Bordeaux, January 29th, 10 to 12 a. m. Young’s School House, January 29th, 2 to 4 p. m. Office, January 30th to February 20th. After that date penalty will be charged to those that refused to make returns. All male persons from 21 to 55 years are liable for road tax. All from 21 to 60 years are liable for poll tax, and should make returns for road and poll. C. W. PENNAL, Auditor. McCormick County. TREASURER’S NOTICE 4 mills 2 mills 5 mills 2 mills The County Treasurer’s Office will be open for the purpose of re ceiving taxes from the 1st day of October, 1931, to the 15th day of March, 1932. All taxes shall be due and pay able between the 1st day of Octo ber, 1931 and December 31, 1931. That when taxes charged shall not be paid by December 31, 1931. the County Auditor shall proceed to add a penalty of one per cent for January, and if taxes are not S aid on or before February 1, 1932, le County Auditor will proceed to add Two Per Cent and Five Per Cent from the 1st of March to the 15th of March, after which time unpaid taxes will be collected by the Tax Collector. ' The tax levies for the year 1931 are as follows: For State Purposes 5 mills For County Purposes 14 mills For Bonds —^ 10 mills Constitutional School Tax 3 mills 6-0-1 Law Mt. Carmel School District No. 1 WHlington S. D. No. 2 Bordeaux S. D. No. 8 McCormick S. D. No. 4 and Bonds 24 mills Buffalo SD. No. 5 10 mills Bellvue S. D. No. 6 10 mills S. D. No. 7 00 mills Bethia S. D. No. 8 8 mills Bold Branch S. D. No. 9 „ 10 mills Young’s S. D. No. 10 2 mills Wideman’s S. D. No. 11 —_ 2 mffls Milway S. D. No. 13 8 mills Robinson S. D. No. 14 10 mills Dornville S. D. No. 15 8 mills Liberty Hill S. D. No. 16 __ Lyon’s S. D. No. 17 Hibler S. D. No. 18 Vernon S. D. No. 21 - Plum Branch S. D. No. 24 and Bonds 24 mills Consolidated S. D. No. 1, Parksville, Modoc and Clarks Hill, and Bonds __17 mills All male citizens between the ages of 21 and 60 years, except those exempt by law, are liable to* a poll tax of $1.00 each. The law prescribes that all male citizens between the ages of 21 and 55 years must pay $2.00 commuta tion tax or work six days on the public roads. v Commutation tax is included in. property tax receipt. T. J. PRICE, Treasurer, McCormick County. 8 mills 8 mills 8 mills 4 mills jMiss France \ Mile. Emilierihe Caisson de Souzac, daughter of an attorney at ’Nice, has been chosen “Miss France of 1932” ing economic prosperity in Europe, and that will help all the rest of the world. DAVIS— Several weeks ago in this column called attention to the public career of Norman H. Davis and sug gested that he was a good man to, keep an eye on. President Hoover has just appointed him. as one Z u'* merican delegates to the Gen-. eral Disarmament Conference to be held in Geneva, February 2nd. Mr. Davis is already a member of the Finance Committee of the League of Nations. Few Americans at e better informed on European af fairs and international finance. Mr. Davis is a Democrat, and if a Democrat should be elected Presi dent this year there is little doub; that he will hold, a high position In the next administration. i