The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, March 05, 1908, Image 2
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| By REX I
I -> Cuovricht, 19 0 3. I
From the tent came the voices of the j
Bight shift at table and the faint rattle
of dishes, while the canvas walls glowed
from the lights within like great
fireflies hidden in the grass. The fore- j
man, finishing his meal, appeared at
the door of the mess tent and. pausing
to accustom his eves to the gloom,
peered perfunctorily toward the creek.
The watchman detached himself from
^ the shadow, moving out Into plain
Bight and the boss turned back. The i
two men below were now working on
the sluices which lay close under the |
bank and were thus hidden from the ;
tent.
McNamara's description of Anvil
creek's riches had fired Helen Chester
with the desire to witness a cleanup,
o they had ridden out from town in
time for Bupper at the claim. She had
not known whither he led her, only
understanding that provision for her
entertainment would be made with
the super!ntendent'a wife. Upon rec
ognlxing the Midas she bad endeavor- i
ed to question him as to why ber
friends bad been dispossessed, and be
bad answered, as It seemed, straight
and true.
The ground was In dispute, be said
another man claimed It and while the
litigation pended be was In charge for
the court, to aee that neither party received
Injury. He a poke adroitly, and
It satisfied her te have the proposition
reeolved Into anch simplicity.
She bad come prepared te spend the
night and witness tbe early morning
operation, so the receiver made the
moat of bis opportunity. He showed
ber over the workings, explaining tbe
many things that were strange to her.
Not only was he In himself a fascinating
figure to any woman, but wherever
he went men regarded him deferentially,
nnd nothing affects a woman's
Judgment more promptly than this obvious
sign of power. He spent the
evening with her, talking of his early
dflv* and the things he had done In the |
west, his story matching the pictur- I
esqneness of her canvas walled quarters
with their rough furnishings of
skins and blankets. Being a keen observer
as well as a finished raconteur,
he had woven a spell of words about
the girl, leaving her In a state of tumult
and indecision when at last, toward
midnight, he retired to his own 1
tent. She knew to what end all this
was working and yet knew not what
her answer would be when the quesNtlQH
came which lay behind it ail. At
moments she felt the wonderful attraction
of the man. and still there
* - * - - ? cha
was some uisinm ui uim ?u
could not fathom. Again her thoughts
reverted to Glenlster, the Impetuous,
and she compared the two, so similar
!q pome ways, so utterly opposed In
others.
It was when she heard the night shift
at their meal that she threw a silken
thaw! about her head, stepped luto the
cool night and picked her way down
i^toward the roar of the creek. "A
fcreath of air and then to bed," she
thought. She 6aw the tall figure of
the watchman and made for him. He
eeemed oddly interested in her approach,
watching her very closely, almost
as though alarmed. It was donbtJew
because there were so few women
out her*, or possibly on account of the
lateness of the hour. Away with conventions!
This was the land of instinct
and impulse. She would talk to
him. The man drew his hat more
cloeely about his face and moved off
as she came up. Glenister had been
In her thoughts a moment since, and
he now noted that here was another
.with the same great, square shoulders
and erect head. Then she saw with &
start that this one was a negro. lie
carried a Winchester and seemed to
watch her carefully, yet with indecision.
Jo express her Interest and to break
the silence, she questioned him, but at
the sound of her voice he stepped toward
her and spoke roughly:
r amw
then be paused and stammered In a
strangely altered and unnatural voice:
"Yasa'm. I'm the watchman."
She noted two other darkles at work
below and was vaguely surprised, not
so much at their presence, as at the
manner In which they moved, for they
eemed under stress of some great
haste, running hither and yon. She
saw horses standing In the trail and
sensed something Indefinably odd and
alarming In the air. Tnrnlng to the
man she opened her mouth to speak,
when from the rank grass under her
:feet came a noise which set her a- j
tingle and at which her suspicions I
leaped full to the solution. It was the
(groan of a man. Again be gave voice
to his pain, and she knew that she
ia+Atri fipo tr? fnpA with somethirur sin
Jster. Tales of sluice robbers bad come
to ber and rumors of the daring raids
Into which inen were lured by the yell
v and yet this was Incredible.
t 11.in.men by within sound of her
\ vo S:v eau.J bear their laughter.
<ne whistling a popular refrain.
A iter mile away on every hand
> i*'. v cai'.ps. A scream from her
* i:*ui bri.ig th'*ui a!l. Nonsense, this ,
v . t;i? *.uke robbery, and then the
j n in the bushes t>elow inoaned for
t ' third time.
"V.'hnt is that?" she said.
W ft bout reply the negro lowered the
muzzle of hia ri'
joilers.
:. BEACH.
t>y Rex E. Deach.
\
il!I it covered her
breast, and at the sume time she heard
the double click of the hammer.
"Keep still and don't move,"' ne
warned. "We're desperate, and we
can't take any chances, miss."
"Oh. you are stealing the gold"
The was wildly frightened, yet stood
still while the lookout anxiously divided
his attention between her and
the tents above until his companions
signaled him that they were through
and the horses were loaded. Then he
spoke:
"I don't know what to do with you.
but 1 guess I'll tie you up."
"What?" she said.
"I'm going to tie and gag you so you
can't holler."
"Oh, don't you dare!" she cried fiercely.
"I'll stand right here till you've
gone, and I won't scream. I promise."
She looked up at him appealingly, at
which he dipped his head, so that she
caught only a glimpse of his face, and
then backed away.
"All right! Don't try it because I'll
be hidden in tboae buahea yonder at
the bend, and I'll keep you covered till
the others are gone." He leaj>ed down
the bank, ran to the cavalcade, mounted
quickly, and the three laehed their
homes Into a run, disappearing op the
trail aronnd the abarp curve. She
beard the blows of their qnlrts aa they
whipped the pack horses;
Tbey were long out of sight before
the girl moved or made sound, although
she knew that none of the three
had paused at-j the bend. Bhe on^y
stood and gaaed, for as they galloped
off she bad heard the scrap of a broken
sentence. It was but one excited
word sounding through the rattle of
hoofs her own name-'"Helen!" and
yet because of It she did not voice the
alarm, but ratber began to piece together
bit by bit the strange points of
this adventure. She recalled the outlines
of her captor with a wrinkle of
perplexity. Her fright disappeared entirely,
giving place to Intense excitement.
"No, no; It can't be! And yet I
wonder if It is!" she cried. "Oh, I
wonder if It could be!"
She opened her lips to cry aloud, then
hesitated. She started toward the
tents, then paused, and for mauy moments
after the hoof beats had died
out she stayed undecided. Surely she
wished to give the signal, to force the
fierce pursuit. What meant this robbery.
this defiance of the law, of her
uncle's edicts and*of McNnmnra? They
were, uoiuiuuii iuie\e?, vuiuiuaio, uur
laws, hese men, deserving punishment,
end yet she ^recalled a darker
night, when she herself had sobbed
and quivered with the terrors of pursuit
cud two men had shielded her
with thetr bodies.
She turned and sped toward the
tents, bursting in through the canvas
door. Instantly every man rose to his
feet at sight of her pallid face, her
flashing eyes and rumpled hair.
UOI-' tl 1-1 Kw.nfV
BJU1CV ruuwio; cur: vuru uiraiu
lessly. "Quick! A holdup! The watchman
is hurt!"
A roar sVook the night air, and the
men poured out past her, while the
day shift came tumbling forth from
every quarter in various stages of undress.
"Where? Who did it? Where did
they go?"
McNamara appeared among them,
fierce and commanding, seeming to
grasp the situation intuitively withoul
explauation from her.
"Come on, men. We'll run 'em down.
Get out the horses. Quick!"
He was mounted even as be spoke
and other joined him. Then, turning
he waved his long arm up the valley
toward the mountains. "Divide Into
squads of five and cover the hills!
Run down to Discovery, one of you,
and telephone to town for Voorhees
and a posse."
As they made ready to ride away
the girl cried:
"Stop! Not that way. They weni
down the gulch three negroes."
She pointed out of the valley toward
the dim glow on the southern horizon
and the cavalcade rode away Into the
i gloom.
CHAPTER X.
UP creek the three negroes fled
past other camps. to where the
stream branched. Here they
took to the right and urged
their horaes along a forsaken trail tc
- *- ? AU. 1U4U
tne neaawaiers 01 ui? umc uiuumi^
and over the low saddle. They had en
deavored to reach unfrequented path!
as soon as possible In >rder that thej
might pass unnoticed. Before quitting
the valley they baited their heaving
horses and, selecting a stagnant pool
scoured the grease paint from theli
features as best tbey could. Theh
ears were strained for sounds of pur
suit, but as the moments passed anc
none came the tension eased some
what, and they conversed guardedly
As the morning light spread thej
crossed the moss capped summit of tb<
range, but paused again, and. remov
lng two saddles, hid them among th<
rocks. Slapjack left the others hen
and rode southward down the Drj
Creek trail toward tcv^n, while tb?
partners shifted part of the weigh
from the overloaded pack mules to thi
remaining saddle animals and con
tinned eastwurd along the barrel
comb of hills on foot, leading the fiv
horses.
"It don't seem like we'll pet away
thi* easy." said Pox try. scanning the J
btr U trail. "If no do. I'll bp terrnfed n<
to follor the business rejr'lnr. This ^
grease naint ou my face makes me
D
smell like a minstrel man. 1 l?et we'll
got rne liully press not Pes tomor:
row." C(
"l noi del' what Helen wa? doing
i th re." <;ieitis?er answered i -.eiovar.'
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j Ij . 11?r lie Its'tl i'Cf ii > :>:ir" ! :>y 11
, his encounter with her than nt It:- part
| in i* it-1 ; ;he ;?ri?*. :.n : ' imind.
whir !i should have I con busied
! v. irh the flight. held nothing Imt p!oi
ftires < f her as site stood in the half
darkn' -' the fear of his Winchest.
If she ever lea rued
who ruffian was!" He
quaiknl 'lit. . k ;
' "Sav. dug to marry that
1 girl."
"I dun not." said Dextry.
"Bette. "nmap?-"
"What?" The . \>ped
and stare<l. "What do you m v ^
"Go on. Don't stop the boi>
ain't blind. I kin put two an' two to \
getber." |
"You'll never put those two together. L
Nonsense! Why. the man's a rascal. J
I wouldn't let him have her. Besides.
It couldn't be. She'll find him out. I ^
love her so much that oh. my feelings dii
are too big to talk about." He moved
his hands eloquently. "You can't un- th
derstand." p,3
'Tm-m! I s'pose not," grunted Dex- I wl
try. hut his eyes were level and held
the llglit of the past ^
"He may be n rascal," the old man ?
continued. after a little. "I'll put in
with you on that, but he's a handsome t*
devtl, and as for manners be makes
you look like a logger. He's a brave H
man too. Them three qualities are jj
trump eards and warranted to take
, most any queen hi the human deckred,
white or yellow."
"If be daree," growled Gleaister.
while hia thick brows ckme forward. E
and ngly Hnea hardened in his face.
In the gray of the early morning
they descended the fo^btlto into the
wide valley of the Name river and
lied out across the rolling country to
the river bluffs where, cleverly coi:- jg
cealed among the willows, was a _
rocker. This they set up, then pro- * '
oeeded to wash the dirt from the sacks
carefully, yet with the utmost speed. 1
for there was serious danger of discovery.
It was wonderful, this treasure
of the richest ground since the g|.
Jays of *49, and the men worked with CI
shining eyes and hands a-tremhle. The "
gold was coarse, and many ragged, yel <
low lumps, too large to pass through DE
the screen, rolled in the hopper, while
the aprons bellied with its weight. In C
the pans which they had provided there
grew a gleaming heap of wet. raw gold. ?
Shortly, by divergent routes, the part- Ph
ners rode unnoticed into town and into ^
the excitement of the holdup news,
while the tardy still lingered over ?
I their breakfasts. Far out in the road- ^
I stead lav the Roanoke, black smoke *H
pouring from her stack. A tug was re- J23
turning from its last trip to her.
Glenister forced his lathered horse
down to the beach and questioned the o,
longshoremen who hung about.
"No. It's too late to get aboardthe
last tender is on its way back,"
they informed him. "If you want to
go to the 'outside,' you'll have to wait
for the fleet. That only means another
week, and there 6he blows now."
A ribbon of white mingled with the
velvet frcin the steamer's funnel, and
there came a slow, throbbing, farewell I
blast.
Glenister's jaw clicked and squared. I
"Quick, you men!" he cried to the I
sailors, "l want tne ugntest dory on i
the beach and the strongest oarsmen ^
In the crowd. I'll be back In five min
utes. There's a hundred dollars In It
for you If we catch that ship."
He whirled and spurred up through
the mud of the streets. Bill Wheaton
was snoring luxuriously when wrench'
ed from his bed by a disheveled man
' who shook him into wakefulness and
Into a portion of his clothes, with a
storm of excite^ Instructions. The
lawyer had neither time nor oppor
tunlty for expostulation, for Glenister if
f snatched a valise and swept Into it a U
' litter of documents from the table. Ill
"Hurry up, man!" he yelled, as the
' lawyer dived frantically about his of'
flee In a rabbit-lika hunt for Items. Cr
1 "My hearens, are you dead? Wake .
1 up! The ship's leaving." With sleep
still in his eyes, Wheaton was dragged
down the street to the beach, where a
knot had assembled to witness the
race. As they tumbled Into the skiff.
willing bands ran It out Into the surf A
' on the crest of a roller. A few lifting
> heaves and they were over the bar
1 with the men at the oars bending the
white a9h at every swing.
"I guess I didn't forget anything," *
gnspod Wheaton as he put on his coat. X
"I got ready yesterday, but I couldn't
' find you Inst night, so I thought the
deal was off."
I Glenister stripped off his coat and, xL
? facing the bow, pusbed upon the oars _
' at every stroke, thus adding his
strength to that of the oarsmen. They
I crept rapidly out from the beach, eat- C
r lng up the two miles that lay toward
the ship. He urged the men with all
f his power till the sweat soaked
, through their clothes and, under their j8
chl*+a tVio mnorlcs Rtood OUt nli
Viiu^iu^ o"" '-v ' ---
r like iron. They had covered half the w
distance when Wheaton uttered a cry I
I and Glenlster desisted from Ms work
- with a curse. The Roanoke was mov.
ing slowly.
r The rowers rested, but the young
! man shouted at them to begin again G
- and, seizing a boat hook, stuck it into
? the arm of his coat He waved this
i on high while the men redoubled their
7 efforts. For many moments they bung IS
i in suspense, watching the black hull
t as it'gathered speed, and then, as they
i were about to cease their effort a puff
- of steam burst from Its whistle and
i the next moment a short toot of racog?
nltion reached them. Glenieter wiped
the. moisture from his brow and grin[Continued
on page 3.]
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New Trala Schedule.
The following schedule of the
?<v train from Lane to Florence,
hich went into effect .Monday,
ecember 17, has bren furnishl
us by Mr J P Taylor, the
mrteous and efficient agent of
ie Atlantic < oa*>t Line railroad
Kingstree:
North Pound Arrives
No. 80 7:37 A. M,
No. 46 11:42 A. M.
No. 50 6:36 P. M. *?
South Bound Arrives
No. 89 * 9:18 P. M
No. 47 5:46 P.M.
No. 51 10:52 A.M.
* Daidv Except Sunday.
Just received, our nice line of
ress Linen. People's Merc ante
Company. 1-30 tf
IfiruiiiC sm
I hare found a tried and tested cu for Rheoktisxo!
Not a remedy that will it .If hten the
(torted limbs of chronic cripples, nc turn bony
owths hack to flesh again. That is .inposslble.
it I can now surely kill the pains and pangs of
Is deplorable disease.
tn Germany with a Chemist in the City of
innstadt I found the last ingredient with
glchDr. Shoop'i Rheumatic Remedy was made
perfected, dependable prescription. Without
at last ingredient. I successfully treated many.
oeh dreaded disease. Those sand-like granular
Mtaa. found la Rheumatic Blood, seen to dissolve
4 pass away ta?der the actios of this remedy as
mly as dam sugar when added te pure water,
tdlhsa. when dUetflred. these polMncus wastes
Mty earn frees the MM. and *e caoss of
iiUSnMm is ?mm fastest. There is new ao
slhssd so acSml euccst Sc ruler Isuger with,
a help. We sell, sad In crnilSeers renamiasuii
Dr. Shoop's
theamatic Remedy
D. C. SCOTT.
See our new line of Laces and
mbroideries. Just to hand.
eople's Mercantile uo. J-au-ti
The Largest and Most r^mplete
Establishment South.
[0. S. DICKER I SON.
MANUFACTl'B IRS OFash,
Doors, Blinds
Eoulding and Building Material,
oish Weights and Cords
CHARLESTON. S. C.
Plfflll
r. L. Bam A. C. Hinds
BASS & HINDS,
Attorneys-at-law
KNGSTREE, S. C.
10-tf.
jus ram m
Lake City, S. C.
own and Bridge Work a Specialty.
ALL WORK
Guaranteed aa Represented.
W. L. BASS
attorney at Law
LAKE CITY. 8. 0.
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)r R J McCabe
Dentist
INSSTSEE, - S. C.
J. D. MOUZON'S
5ARBER SHOP
in the
Tan Kenren Hotel
equipped with up-to-date apiances.
Polite Service, c ompetent
orkmen.
5-0-08.
W. P, TENNENT
ARCHITl
eneral Contractor and Builder
OsiiuMfa vnnr business. Estimates
UViiv.w/ y *
cheerfully furnished on all
: ; kinds of work. : :
!6 Evans 'Phone 1962
FLORENCE, S. C.
ipervisorof construction New School
Building and Superintendent of work
on U. S. Post Office and of John McSween
O, stores Timmonsville and
Beulah and residence at National
Cemetery. : : : : :
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Doctor
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No sense in running from one
doctor to another. Select the
best one, then stand by him.
Do not delay, but consult him
in time when you are sick.
Ask his opinion of Ayer's
Cherry Pectoral for coughs
and colds. Then use it or
not, just as he says.
jM W# pablUh our formula*
yU m W? banlah alcohol
AJ from our modlolnot
flyers ^
Always keep a box of Ayer's Pills in the
I house. Just one pill at bedtime, now and
! then, will ward off many an attack of
biliousness, indigestion, sick headache.
: How many years has your doctor known
these pills? Ask him all about them.
Madabytta J. C. Ayr Oo.. LowU. Waaa
n ft mm ft it
GUTTM
-AND THE PR INI
TOBj
There -will be a number of si
Fall and we are ready to serv
splendid crop prospect we are r<
! enlarge our floor space, and rath
1 Queen Stoves and Ranges from \
price
2? JP03
I We bavejust received a csyl
fered at a low price. Remember
min Moore & Co's Paint. Also,
Cutlery and Razors. Tbe Robes
predate our friends' patronage 1
tmued confidence.
L,ake City h
LAKE C:
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is a dolh
Tjiere is no better way 1
dealing with
J. L. Stuckey, the ol<
man.
I have a splendid lineo
Dnirmoo U/ifrnri
Ullgpii), W Opil
that in view of the hard times
above cost.
A nice bunch of HORSES
at prices to suit.
J. L 5tuc
fA CAR
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lorses<
Nice drivers and
Come in and ge
uggies and
Harness
Give us a call
the rest.
Yours to
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