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An Episode Of Mexico Ey ESTHER VANDERVEER A girl sat sewing in her room in the City of Mexico. Hearing a footstep on the stairs, she started. A woman entered out of breath. "Inez!" she gasped. "Oh. Pepita! What is it?" "If you have anything to compromise you with the Constitutionalists get rid of it at once. This man Manuel Coral, whom you have trusted, is a spy of the dictator. He has informed upon you." "Then what use to get rid of evidence? The dictator does not need evidence to get rid of his victims." "Coral's brother. Enrique, came to me and said to me: *1 have just learned that Manuel is In the secret service of the dictator and has informed the tyrant that by searching Inez's room be will find papers revealing the plan of the revolutionists.' Enrique assurer! me that If no such papers are found you will not be troubled. If they are found it will go hard with you. even though you are a woman." Inez burst Into tears. The man she j loved had turned traitor to her. But her friend urged her to waste uo time . In getting rid of any compromising | documents she might possess. She did possess several Important ones, for her | brother was one of the revolutionary chiefs, aLd he was using her to lay plans for a rising against the dictator j In the Ci :y of Mexico. But Inez had ( received too terrible a blow in the treachery of her lover to keep her mind on what she was doing. After she had destroyed every document, as she supposed, she remembered one she bad not destroyed that gave a list of per eons in the city who could be relied tn Aocart tho rtlotstor and loin the I revolutionIsts as soon as fighting commenced. But this did not occur to her till the sound of heavy footsteps was beard on the staircase. She had only time to unlock a drawer, take out the paper and slip it under her dress at the neck when the door was thrown open and Manuel Coral with a man and a woman entered. "I am sorry to disturb you, senorita." be said to Inez, "but the government bas receh ed news that you are in possession of plans of the revolutionists, and I have been sent here to get them." "You mean," said Inez, whose indignation by this time had got the better of ber grief, "that yon have accused me." "What matters It7" Peplta broke in, "since you are innocent of the charge? Let them search the room." "I shall also be obliged to bare you searched," said CoraL "I have brought a woman for tbe purpose." rv?r*i *r?rt thA man he had brought with him began to search the room. Peplta asked permission to leave, and It was granted. Before doing so she embraced Inez and, slipping her thnmb and forefinger In under the neck of her dress, drew the paper hidden there Into the palm of her hand. Then she disengaged herself, but before doing so transferred the paper Into her sleeve. Then, with a few words of encouragement for her friend, she took ber departure. As soon as Peplta had gone Coral ordered the woman to take Inez into another room and make a thorough search of her person, promising the former a handsome reward if she found what they were looking for. Inez left with a mingled glance of defiance and contempt for the man she bad loved. She felt perfectly safe, Peplta having taken away the compromising document Coral showed no feeling whatever at her treatment In due time the two women returned, the searcher announcing that though she had made a careful Investigation of the senorlta's clothing and her hair, not a scrap of Information bad been found. Then Coral, making a ceremonious how to Inez, left her alone. Inez was moved by two conflicting emotions. She had saTed her brother and the cause be was engaged in from a serious setback, and, far more Important than that, many a man who would have been implicated and lost his life had not Pepita carried away a list of their names that had been saved. On the other hand, she had received a bitter tarust in the treatment of her lover. Her usefulness to the cause bad ended and she determined to slip away from the city of Mexico and rejoin her brother. She was engaged in getting together the things she would take with her when the door opened, and Manuel Coral entered. Placing his finger to his lips, he looked about him to satisfy himself that no one else was present. Inez looked at him wondering what he would do next Then he spoke hurriedly: "I found it necessary to deceive the dictator, whose confidence I have. He had received indirect information that you were here in the Interests of the revolutionists. I at once sent my brother to inform you that you were suspected and persuaded the dictator to permit me to make the search I knew you would be subjected to. I eaw Pepi'la take a paper from the neck of your dress. You think I have betrayed you. I have saved you. Heaven knows what would have become of you had I not warned you or had another conducted the search." Inez listened to these hurried words till the end, then, toppling, fell into her lover's arms. When she came to herself Manuel Ooral wap bending over her anxiously. "Go," he said, "while there is time I have more to do here or 1 would go with you.'' wSSSSSM The Millennium, No. 2. : Editor County Record:? The doctrine of the judgment is I no new doctrine; it was revealed to ! the prophets from the beginning. , Man was made accountable for his actions and capable of rendering acI count. The sentence of death being denounced against him in the Carden of Eden implied a judgment, so this is the first thing and no hint of a Millennium?not the slightest? from Genesis to Revelation. Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied: "Behold theSLord cometh with ten thnncnnd His saints." Enoch. Jude and[John were some 5,550 or 9,000Iyears apart,but compare their words inJ.Jude 14-15, Rev i,7: "Behold He cometh with clouds and every eye shall see Him." St Paul calls it a revelation of the righteous judgment^ of God?Rom ii,5?the judgments of God are always righteous but willfnot be fully revealed or made manifest against sin until the final day. Thus is fixed the purpose of God and none know it but God.^not even the angels know. Matt xxiv,30, Mark xiii,32, makes it very probable,at least,that in Christ, humiliation on the human side, although Himself Judge, it was hid, but as God He did or does know now. The just and faithful God has revealed to us the order of resurrection and judgment, if not the day. IsaiahJ saw it?xxv,28: "He will swallow up death in victory." Hosea saw it?xiii,14: "1 will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. 0, death,I will be thy plagues,O.grav^, I will be thy destruction. Repentance shall be hid from my eyes." St Paul had his eye on these Old Testament Scriptures when he wrote the 15th chapter of 1st Corinthians, [ verses|55, 56, 57 and 58. Some conjecture and worry about the end of time; it is right at hand; God says so: "Be ye also ready, for at such an hour as ye think not your Lord cometh." When we die the world will be at an end to us and we will be done with the world. No doubt of that fact. What a mercy it is that God has hid this day from us, as well as the day of our death. Let us work till Jesus comes. To serve Him here will please Him just as well as praising Him around the throne. I will close this by trying to write from memory Dr Adam Clark's words written in a lady's album thirty days before his death, if I am not mistaken: I have enjoyed the beauties of spring, I have passed through toils of summer, 1 have culled the fruit6 of autumn, [ter I am passing through the rigors of winI am neither forsaken of God nor abandoned by man. I see at no distant day an eternal spring coming to meet me. I haste to embrace it. Welcome, welcome, eternal spring! Hallelujah! Adam Clark. T E James. Rome, June 20, 1914. FOURTH OF JULY CHEAP EXCURSION ** -* - Rates Via theAtlantlc toast Line, the Standard Railroad oi the South. On account ol rourtn or juiy excursions round trip tickets will be sold at very low fares at all stations on the Atlantic Coast Line, on July 2, 3, and 4. to all points within a radius of about three hundred and twenty-five 1325) miles from the selling point, limited returning to reach original starting point prior to midnight of July 7, 1914. Rates are not made to points north of Washington. For full particulars^ regarding fares, schedules, ate. apply to W W Holliday, Ticket Agent, Kingstree, & C. ? W J Craig, T C White, 4 Pass Traf Mgr, Gen Pass Agt, Wilmington, N C. 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