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SIXTH INSTALMENT
Presh from a French convent,
Jqcelyn Harlowe returns to New
York to her socially-elect mother, a
religious, ambitious woman.
shone from the room.
Jocelyn came as far as this door.
She could see then that the leath
er entrance to her mother’s little
The sanctuary had not been closed, that
its curtain, too, had been pulled
girl is hurried into an engagement
father, Nick Sandal, surreptiously asi de. The two tall candles burned
enters the. girl’s home one night, steadily and a figure crouched be-
He tells her he used to call her f ore its altar, surely the figure of a
Lynda Sandal. The girl is torn by , w ... „ rtVlil1
her desire to see life in the raw s tran g er - With a chill upon her
and to become part of her mo- flesh Jocelyn then recognized Mar-
ther’s society. Her father studies cella.
he Lynd r a r °^r s i“ g her father in his Marcella spoke breathlessly and
dingy quarters. She finds four men harshly. “Go back to your own
playing cards when she arrives, room. What are you doing there?”
One of them, Jock Ayleward, her . f lator there came
father tells her, is like a son to him, A few moments later tnere car p e
but warns the girl he is a trifler. a knock at Jocelyn’s door. She
Lynda pays a second visit to her opened it and stood aside. She was
father and Jock takes her home, on -artYo orv_
the way stopping with her at an trembling. But the woman who en-
underworld cabaret. tered in a long red dressing gown
Jock gets into a fight with a was now Marcella, her usual self,
^tTL te y r nda Wh Ve S ,^n “takes ", perhaps, prepared to de-
home. Later she mentions Felix’s liver a reproof.
name to Jock and Ayleward’s face “Did you feel ill, Jocelyn?”
demoniac hatred of the . <No Mother j heard you moving
Jock tells Lynda that Felix caus- about. / I wondered who it could
ed him to be sent to jail unjustly be.”
Lynil in si^ P s^ doesn^t tSutvfhte ' J Y f u m ‘* h ‘ h “ v « kn » wn thatkt
story. She pays another visit to this time I should be at prayer. It s
her father and goes to a cabaret nearly morning. You disturbed me.”
who suddenly stopsfand teUs*her he ' M ° ther , I_I did n0t
is going to take her right home. He think that you were at your pray-
had seen Felix dancing with an- ers. You were holding something.
other woman.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
A few moments later she stood
-outside on the pavement with Jock.
He hailed a taxicab.
At the door of Nick’s lodging
house Jock let her in and in spite
of her repelling gesture, sort of in
stinctive protest against her own
confused submission, he mounted
with her.
As Jock turned to rejoin Nick,
Lynda approached him and offered
him her hand. It was an uncon
scious gesture of trust and forgive
ness. _ Over her hand, his fingers
closed strongly.
Lynda felt a rapture of body and
of blood. It was sweeter than
honey, more heady than red wine.
She felt his lips moving, she heard
him say, “I love ... I love . . .” •
And she was conscious of what
he said, of its meaning, of the
* havoc that it caused. She lifted
her eyes as though for help.
They met Nick’s eyes. He had fol
lowed them from the cafe instantly,
had come in, and had seen them
an^i now throwing himself in one
painful contortion across the room
set his tormented hands upon
Jock’s collar and, using all his
-•v-fltfPqi^h, jerked him up and back.
The young man half rose and was
I thought that you were ...”
“You must have been dreaming.
Perhaps you waked in your sleep.
I shall have to lock you in. Go to
bed now. You’re cold. If you hear
such sounds again you will know
better than to disturb me?”
Seeing the girl upon her pillow.
Marcella bent over her for one of
the dry kisses and went out.
Jocelyn lay broad awake. The
clock in the living-room chimed
crossv against its breast but within
it ablaze of jewels glamoured an
earthly spirit. Marcella and she
were strangers. No explanation
could move her toward the woman
who had crouched, greedily ab
sorbed, above those jewels.
The shock and the excitement of
the long night were suddenly too
much for her. She fell down and
wept in a sort of helpless spiritual
agony.
When Felix Kent came to see his
young fiancee the next morning
which was a Sunday, he found her
so white and heavy-eyed chat no.
only his pride of a possessor but
his lover’s tenderness was roused,
startled.
He suggested a day’s trip to the
seashore. So they drove down.
Felix proved so sympathetic that
Jocelyn was encouraged to ask him
if he had ever known a man named
Ayleward.
Felix turned his head to IbGk at
her more sharply than ever he had
turned or looked before. His con
descension which was so integral a
part of his really great desire for
her—the little innocent girl—was
momentarily shaken.
“What the dev—! Now where did
you ever dig up that name, child?”
For the first time, to keep Lyn
da’s secret, Jocelyn made use of an
invention:
“Cousin Sara Mullet once knew a
clergyman of that name . . . who
had a son.” '
“And who kicked the* son out and
changed his own name in order not
to share it with a convict. Wasn’t
that it? Yes.- I knew that unlucky
parson.”
Aspirin
BEWARE OF IMITATIONS
-UL,
“You dare to make love to my daughter,” shouted Nick,
forced fhto a chair by Nick, who five# chimed six. . “What did the son do to be sent
Jocelyn’s suspicion, her curiosity, to prison? A clergyman’s son—it
jshou^ed at him:
“You dare to take my daughter
here, to make love to her. My
daughter! Kiss her with your
mouth of a convict, touch her with
your hands of a card-sharper.’
Jock fairly cowered. tiis face
looked dazed. He quivered at the
two words as though Nick had
used a lash upon him. Then care
fully, not to hurt Nick’s hands, he
freed himself and went out into the
night. ^
Nick went over and laid down on
the couch, exhausted.
“You did wrong to come ’ to me,
groaned Nick. “No matter where I
live my life defiles your fingers.”
Speaking, he was caught by a
paroxysm of physical agony which
kept Lynda there in pitiful an^
sacred attendance until nearly
morning.
At last she was driven to sum
moning Jock Ayleward. Her father
had gasped out a number and al
most at once after she Had taken
down the receiver Jock answered.
“Nick’s suffering terribly. I have
to leave him.”
His reasonably cool voice an
swered instantly, “I’ve been expect
ing it. I’ll be there.”
In fifteen minutes Lynda admit-
ted him to Nlclt’s bedroom. He
nassed her and went to Nick. The
sick roan’s contorted face smUed
crookedly. Jock passed his arm
,mder the writhing body and seem-
?? at once to give it greater ease.
Neither Of them sdid bood-bye to
[rlda nor even seemed to notice
1 that she went away.
( When She cllmed in at her bed-
LT window she was scared by
L h „ brightening sky.
I th * , he sl ipped into her night-
^ she heard a movement some
Lyond the bedroom passage.
bllTand a falnt and golden light
had become a fever, pain that she
could not endure. Ghost-softly she
crept again out to the living room.
Almost instinctively her hand
rose to the velvet drapery behind
the altar. She lifted\it.
A small deep-set door with a lock,
the key still in it, lay behind that
altarpiece. Marcella had been start
led, had moved away quickly, had
left her key.
Jocelyn tightened her lips and
spoke to her uneasy conscience:
She will not let me know her se
crets. She will not love me'. I must
learn the truth of my own life by
my own efforts.
She turned the little key and
pulled open the thick small metal
door.
Behind it lay a leather box and
this she drew out and set upon the
top of the prie-dieu.
the lid.
seems so dreadful.”
“Clergymen’s sons are a proverb,
darling. This one took a bribe and
handed in a false report on a zinc
mine. I lost a good lot of money
myself through that report. Ayle
ward junior got away with his
profit all right, I guess, but I was
lucky enough to catch him out and
I had him sent up.
“I was sorry for his father and
his two sisters but if ever a man
deserved what he got it was that
fellow, the dirty trickster!”
“You don’t think there could
have been any mistake, that the
owner of the mine perhaps deceiv
ed him? I mean ... I feel so sorry
for that clergyman.”
“Be sorry for the clergyman by
all means but don’t waste your pity
LoOK for the name Bayer and the
word genuine on the package as pictured
above when you buy Aspirin. Then
you’lj know that you are getting the
genuine^ Bayer product that thousands
of physicians prescribe.
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of users have proved. It does not de
press the heart. No harmful after-effects
follow its use.
Bayer Aspirin is the universal anti
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Headaches Neuritis
Colds Neuralgia
Sore Throat Lumbago
Rheumatism Toothache
Genuine Bayer Aspirin is sold at
all druggists in boxes of 12 and in
bottles of 24 And 100.
Aspirin is the trade-mark of Bayer
manufacture of monoaceticacidester of
Bdicylicacid.
worst of his pain, had left him and
he lay still with a white racked face
and looked sanely at Jock. The
young man had not yet changed
from his evening clothes.
“You’d better go and get some
sleep,” Nick whispered. “Business
good last night?”
“Pretty fair. We lost Judson.”
Nick’s eyes began to beg.
“I’m a great one to call you a
convict and a card sharper, eh?
When I taught you most of the
game myself and live on what 4 you
make from it. Why don’t you chuck
me,- Ayleward?”
“Got the habit of holding on to
you.” ,
“Last night—when I^came in . . .
you and Lynda,?you know? I’d like
you to understand why I—why I—
flew out the way I did. When I
saw you making love to her I
thought of other women I’d seen
you with—and of myself—and—”
, Jock swore softly. “Why not shut
up?” he suggested. You were right
at that. Only It was a superfluous
exhibition of paternal chivalry. I
don’t love your daughter, Nick.”
“What were you doing, saying
then—on your confounded knees
. . . holding her hands?”
“I was teaching her something
about an automatic pistol. XI lost
my head for a second; but she
doesn’t lose hers. I tell you I don’t
love her.”
Nick looked at him hard but
could make nothing of the cool set
smiling face.
But, between them, they agreed
they must move and hide from the
girl, for her own good.
A few days later, spurred by an
impulse, Lynda hurried to he$ fa
ther’s home. She opened Nick’s
Auditor’s Notice
i
on the young one. I knew that
She raised J boy, knew him from the time he
was a kid. He was always a pretty
The glory that had lain hidden slick young customer. Queer how
there glittered across her eyes like it came out in him. He had a crafty
a mesh of living stars. Jewels as gift for sleight of hand. He could
rich as a queen’s. Rubies, emeralds, make a pack of cards do anything,
sapphires and white diamonds cut He’d pull coins out of the air. Got
into blazing angles and set in a a circus chap to show him how to
heavy intricacy of dark gold. The throw a knife. I got this little
barbaric Slavic splendor of this scar on my cheekbone letting Jock
ornament made even the ignorant practice knife-throwing on me. I
convent child catch at her breath, | certainly did trounce him for that,
it was so beautiful. Two long ear- j And his father gave him a bigger
rings to match were cradled at whipping afterward. The old man
door and found herself looking
down upon Jock Ayleward. In the
midst of a great confusion of
things, of scattered clothing, of
trunks and boxes, he knelt busy
with packing.
Lynda went weak and breathless.
“Is Nick here? I thought — I
thought—” she closed the door, fal
tered over to the old sofa and sat
down there as though her legs re
fused to hold her up.
‘ You thought we’d give you the
slip? We were foolish enough to
think so too.”
(CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.)
ROSENWALD—
Because a man named -Sears
proved that he could sell light
weight clothing by mail, a manu
facturer of summer clothes named
Julius Rosenwald invested $40,000
in the firm of Sears Roebuck and
Company. Mr. Rosenwald died a
few days ago, leaving, an estate
which may run to a hundred mil
lion dollars.
A ifhmber of years ago Mr. Ros
enwald personally took me on a
tour of inspection of the great
mail-order house of which he was
the head, and which now sells
nearly two hundred million dollars
worth of merchandise a year. He
asked me to guess what particular
line they sold most of. He knew I
would guess wrong, as everybody
does. The largest single item of
Sears Roebuck sales is shoes—or
was then.
Mr. Rosenwald was a great mer
chant, but he was more than that,
he was a great man. He had the
feeling that he was not the actual
owner of the profits from his busi
ness, but a trustee whose duty ft
was to return that money to the
public from which it came, in i;he
form of schools, hospitals and oth
er philanthropic endowments.
FRANKLIN—
I got a letter the other day from
an organization which calls itself
“The Benjamin Franklins.” Printed
on the letterheads were the names
of a hundred or so members, ev
ery one of .whom has the letters
“B. F.” as his first initials. Ben
jamin Franklin has been dead 142
years, but parents still nayne their
sons after him, and in America
they probably will continue to do
so till the end of time.
If I were asked to narne the one
man whose work, teachi/igs arid ex
ample have exercised the most en
during influence on tj.ie people of
the United States off America, , I
would have no hesitation in nam
ing Benjamin Franklin.
AIR— /
A firm of household furnace
manufacturers has put on the mar
ket an air-conditioning system for
use in individual homes. If it
works as promised, the home of the
future will never have any open
windows, but the air will always be
fresh, properly humidified and at a
comfortable temperature the year
round.
I fully expect that the # replace
ment of present heating and Ven
tilating methods by one or another
of the new air-conditioning sys
tems will be one of the biggest in
dustries in the United States /with
in two or three years. \ /
EXHIBITIONS—
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, etc.:
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
ars liable for poll tax, and should
make returns for road and poll.
C. W. PENNAL,
< Auditor. McCormick County.
TREASURER’S NOTICE
BATTERIES FOR
ALL LIGHT CARS
$6.65
WHITTLE BATTERY
either end of the old leather box
which was decorated with a worn
golden coronet. The value of these
jewels in such a setting must be
fabulous.
She returned them to their hid
ing place.
All other thoughts and fears were
obliterated by the shock of her dis
covery. She knew that she had in
deed been living with a stranger,
that she was motherless. She knew
that Marcella was a sombre unreal
ity in a black gown with a silver
was always trying to beat some
virtue into him.
“He was a no-account entry from
the starting post. Seemed to settle
down at college and came through
the mining school with honors. But
that yellow streak was there; and
when it came to riding life—he
didn’t put his spurs in straight and,
well—he bit the dust.”
Jocelyn schooled herself to be
lieve him.
By ten o’clock of that Sunday
morning Nick’s fever, with the
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AUGUSTA, GA.
A lot of fellows who take pride in
the fact that their word is as good
as their bond, will not hesitate to
lie to their wives whenever it is
absolutely necessary.
Labor inspectors in Germany
have noted a shortage of appren
tices in many industries due to the
decline in the birth rate during the
world war.
Next, year Chicago will have a
World’s Fair, the first in that city
for forty years, the first in Amer
ica since the rather inadequate
Sesquicentennial at Philadelphia in
1926. In Europe the tendency is
toward permanent exhibitions of
industries, science and art and, be
ginning this year, the city of Ber
lin is inaugurating a succession of
exhibitions which are expected to
draw hundreds of thousands of vis
itors from all parts of the world.
The modem' idea of an exhibition
is to show how things/are made,
with the machinery actually in mo
tion. Few permanent museums
can keep .that sort of an exhibit
up to date. That is why everybody
who can possibly do so ought to
begin planning now to go to Chi
cago next year, to see what prom
ises to be the most complete and
interesting exhibition that has ever
been held.
WASHINGTON—
Every time I go to Washington I
get a new thrill. I have known
Washington for more than fifty
years, since my parents took me
there to live in the spring of 1881.
It was a straggly, muddy, down-^t-
the-heels sort of a place, surround
ed by malarial swamps, fifty years
ago. The swamps have been filled
in, made into parks and beautiful
boulevards. The streets are the
most perfectly paved of any city in
the world. The buildings which
house the government’s activities
are among the most stately and
beautiful edifices on the face of the
earth. Instead of being one of the
most unattractive of cities, Wash-
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
paid on or before February 1, 1932,
the 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 19 mills
Constitutional School Tax 3 mills
6-0-1 Law 4 mills
Mt. Carmel School
District No. 1 2 mills
Willington S. D. No. 2 5 mills
Bordeaux S. D. No. 3 2 mills.
McCormick S. D. No. 4
and Bonds 24 mills
Buffalo S.D. No. 5 10
Bellvue S. D. No. 6 10 mi
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 mills
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 __ 8 mills
Lyon’s S. D. No. 17 8 mills
Hibler S. D. No. 18 8 mills
Vernon S. D. No. 21 4 mills
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.
Commutation tax is included in
property tax receipt.
T. J. PRICE,
Treasurer, McCormick County.
It is said that a man tried for
murder was freed the other day,
because the dead man could not
prove that he ever was alive.
x —
A lot of women would be happy,
if they could only look as they feel.
X —
The crying need of the hour i?
economy, but the only brakes the
majority of the people know how to
apply are the automobile brakes.
X
The oldest watches known today
date from about 1550, but it is be
lieved that watches were invented
some fifty years before that.
JXt
Elevated playgrounds about four
teen feet above the street level are
proposed for the use of children in
New York’s crowded tenement dis
tricts.
ington today is beyond any doubt
the most beautiful city in America.
CORRECTION—
By one of those slips of the pen
to which every writer is liable I
made Miss Mary Emma Woolley
president of Wellesley College, in
speaking of her appointment to the
International Disarmament Con
ference. Miss Woolley used to
teach at Wellesley, but she is presi
dent of Mount Holyoke, that high
ly esteemed college for women,
founded in 1837 by Mary Lyon.