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?MM X8? WEDNESDAY, OCT?BBB 22. 5* -- TWO SMS By Cap V CHARLES KDTG. ^Copyrighted by J. B. Lippincott Company, Pbi?a (ieipbia. and published through special arran^e . meat -with the American Press Association.] SYNOPSIS. a t.?la a recruiting office in the Kjue? (Sty" L?eut. Fred Lan* Uv S. A., re-??Tee two letters?one informing him of hb promotion to tbe rank of captainx tbe oa?er a brjief note from Mabel Vincent. ; ?a a 2.?Gordon Noel, a hettteoent?o Line's cavalry regiment, succeeds, through wheedling tbe wife of his colonel, io being appointed to the vacane7 caused by Lane's promotion. He is disliked by bis brother officers, als be has in tbe past - several times dodged active service in Indian campaigns. Chapter 3 ?Capt. Line is desperately in ]>?e with Mabel .Vincent. He prepares to tarn the recrumne over to bin successor. Chapter 4.?Lieut Ni el ?r.?T?d to take charge of the recruiting offirt. He is band Se toe and agreeable and succeeds in creating tbs impression that he was a very gallant o?icer and done bra ve service on the plains. It is discovered that a clerk named Taintor h&s embezzled some of the funds of tbe re cruiting office (forging Lane's name) and dec moed. Norl professes an enthusiastic friendship for Lane. Chapter 5.?Lane writes to Mabel's father ? asi ing permission to pay bis addressee to ber. This is granted. Vincent is on the brink of ? Stacciai disaster. Lane proffers his services, i CHAPTER VL "Miss Mahd saysjplease excuse pencil, In the titr?e- days that followed the transfer of funds and property at the re crrntmg rendezvous took place, and Mr. Noel stepped in, vice Lane, relieved and ordered to join his regiment. The for mer was having a delightful time. A of the wealthy Witherses could not be ? stranger within their gates to the-Queen cifdzsns, and every afternoon and evening found him enjoying hospi talities of the most cordial character. At the club he had already become hail-fel low with all the younger element, and had made himself decidedly popular among the elders, and every man who had not met that jolly Capt. Noel was eager to be presented to him. Ee was ready for pooC biffiards, bowling or a . drink the moment he got within the state ly doorway; and, as he sang, whistled, laughed, chatted and cracked innumera . ble jokes during the various games, was a capital mimic, and could personate Pat,' Hans or Crapaud with telling effect, his presence was pronounced by every one as better than a solid week of sunshine ?something ?he Queer. "City rarely, if ever, experienced. - i * : PooT/Lane,- on the contrary, was near ly worrying his heart out. He had gone to the^ Vincents' the very evening on which he had seen the father of the . _ family off for New York, and had nerved himself to put his fortune to the ~ test?to tell her of his deep and devoted love and to ask her to be his wife. That she well knew he loved her, without ' being told, he felt sure must be the case; -bat, beyond a belief that she Hked and trusted him, the captain had not the tarntest idea as to the nature of her feel ings towards him. He was a modest fellow, as has been said. His glass told him that, despite a pair of elearjpay ,"25?and a decidedly soldierly x,attohis matures, he was not what women called handsome man; and, what was more, there were little strands of gray just be ? gnm?ng to show about his broad fore head and* in the heavy moustache that shaded his mouth. Lano sighed as he remembered that he was in his 83th year. How could she care for him?fifteen years her senior? Lane rang tibe door bel that night aud felt once more that his heart was beating even as it did at 1 o'clock when he was ushered into the awful presence of hez father. "Miss Vincent has not left her room today, and is not well enough to come down to-night, sir," said the servant who came to the door, "and Mrs. Vincent begged to be excused because of Miss Mabel's needing her." ' "I?I am very, very sorry," stammered the captain. "Please say that Mr. Lane called** (they had known him so well for two months as Mr. Lane that he could not yet .refer to himself by his new title), "and?aud would call again to-morrow, hoping to hear Miss Vincent was much better.'' ? And then, dejected ancl miserable, and yet with something akin to the feeling one experiences when going to a dentist's j . to have a tooth drawn and the dreaded ! wielder of the forceps proves to be away, j Lane retreated down the broad stone j steps until he reached the walk, gazed j np at the dim light in the window which j he thought might be hers, anathematized himself for his lack of self possession in not having asked whether there wasn't something he could bring her?some thing she would like?for the simple hearted fellow would have tramped all night all over town to find and fetch it? and then a happy thought occurred to him: "Women always love flowers." He ran to the next street, boarded a west bound car, and was soon far down town c-t his favorite florist's. **Give me a big box of cut flowers? the handsomest you have," he said; and while they were being prepared he wrote a few fines on a card; tore it up, tried again on another, and similarly reduced that to fragments, and finally, though far from content, limited the expression of his emotions to the simple words: "Do get well by Saturday at latest. I cannot go without seeing you. F. L." "Where shall we send them, sir?" ask ed the florist,as became forward with the box in his hand. "Never mind; 111 take it myself," was the answer, as the captain popped in the little missive. And when he got back to the house the light was still burning in the window in the second story, and the doctor had just left, said the sympathetic Abigail, and had said it was nothing serious or alarm ing; Miss Mabel would have to keep quiet a day or two; that was all. Bet what hard luck for poor Lane, when the days of his stay were so very few! AU Thursday morning was spent at the rendezvous, counting over prop erty and comparing papers with NoeL Then, while that gentleman went to the club for luncheon the captain hastened fg |he Vincents' door to renew mqu?ri?s, ! and was measurably comforted by the j f news that Miss Mabel was much better, though still confined to her room. Would-be not come in? Mrs. Vincent was out, but she thought?did that most mtelHgent young woman, Mary Ann? j that perhaps there was a message for him: Like Mr. ^Toots, poor Lane, in his anxiety to put no one to any trouble, came within an ace of stammering-; "It's of no consequence,'' but checked him- j ! self in time, and stepped into the bright ; parlor in which he * had spent so' many f: delicious hours listening to her soft, rich voice as ?he .sang, or as. she. chatted blithely with him and her frequent guests. It was some time before Mary A" returned. Evidently, there was s message, for the girl's face was dimpled with smiles as she handed Mm a little i note. ?'Miss Mabel says please excuse ! pencil, sir; she had to write lying down. ! Miss Holton has just gone away, after ! spending most of the morning.'* j Excuse pencil! Lane could hardly I wai$ to read the precious lines. How he ? longed to give the girl a five dollar bill! : But this wasn't England, and he did not f know how Mary Ann would regard such a proffer. She promptly and discreetly retired, leaving the front door open for his exit, and the sweet June sunshine and the soit warm breath of early sum mer flowing in through the broad vesti bule. "How good you are to mer she wrote. "The flowers were?and are still?ex quisite. I shall be down stairs a little while to-morrow afternoon, if the doctor is good to me as you are. Then 1 can thank you. can I not? M. L. V." The hours dragged until Friday after noon came. He had to go to the Witn esses to dinner on Thursday evening, and a dreary, ostentatious, ponderous feast it was. Noel, in his full dress uni form, was the hero of the hour. He greeted Lane a trifle nervously. "I meant to have telephoned and begged you to bear me out, old man," said he. "but this thing was sprung on me after I got home. Cousin Mattie simply ordered me to appear in my war paint, and I had to do it. You are to go in to dinner with her by the way; and 1 wish you were en grande tenue instead of civilian spike tail. Here's Amos." And Amos marched him around to one guest after another?"self made men, sir"?heavy manufacturers and money makers, with their overdressed wives. Lane strove hard to be enter taining to his hostess, but. that lady's mind was totally engrossed in the prog ress of the feast and dread of possible catastrophe to style or service. Her eyes glanced nervously from <*r hus band to the butler and his assistants, and her lips perpetually framed inaudible in structions or warnings, and so it hap pened that the captain was enabled to chat a good deal with a slight, dark, eyed and decidedly intelligent girl who sat to his right, and who was totally ignored by the young cub who took her in?the eldest son of the house of With ers, a callow youth of 20. . "You did not hear my name. I know,'' she had said to him. "I am Miss Mar shall, a very distant connection of Mrs Withers', the teacher of her younger children, and the merest kind of an acci dent at this table. Miss Faulkner was compelled to send her excuses at the last moment, and so I was detailed?isn't that your soldier expression??to fill the gap." "And where did yon learn our army expressions, may I ask?" said Lane smil ingly. ! * "I had a cousin in the artillery some years ago, and visited his wife when they were stationed at the old barracks across the river. There's no one there now, I believe. listen to Captain Noel: he is teffing about Indian campaigns." Indeed,, pretty much everybody was listening already, for Noel, with much animation, was recounting the expe riences of the chase after the Chiricahua chieftain, Geronimo. He was an excel lent talker, ani most diplomatic and skillful in the avoidance of any direct reference to himself as the hero of the series of dramatic incidents which he so graphically told, and yet the impression conveyed?and intended to be conveyed ?was that no man had seen' more, en dured more or ridden harder, faster and farther, than the narrator. Flattered by the evident interest shown by those about him, and noting that conversation was brisk at Lane's end of the table, the lieutenant soon lost himself in the en thusiasm of his own descriptions, and was only suddenly recalled to earth by noting that now the whole table had ceased its dinner chat, and that, with the possible exception of the hostess, who was telegraphing signals to the but ler, every man and woman present was looking at him and listening. The color leaped to his race, and he turned tc ? wards Lane with a nervous laugh. 'Td no idea I was monopolizing the ? talk," he said. "Fred, old man, wasn't it Gr troop that tried to get across tao range from your command to ours when ' we neared the Guadalupe? Amos and [ Mr. Hawks had been asking me about j the chase after Geronimo." "Yes, it was G troop?Capt. Greene's," answered Lane. "You know that Capt Lane and I are of the same regiment, and, though not j actually together in the chase, wo were in the same campaign." said Noel, apolo getically, and then, quickly changing the subject: "By the way, Mr. Hawks, is Harry Hawks, of the artillery, a rela ? five of yours?" "A nephew, captain?my brother Hen ! ry's son. Did you know him?" ? "Know him? Why, he is one of the j warmest friends I have in the whole army?outside of my own regiment, : that is. We were constantly together one winter when I was on staff duty in Washington, and whenever he could get leave to run up from the barracks he made my quarters his home. If you rever write to him just ask him if he knows G?rden Noel?" "Do you know, Capt. Lane, that 1 have found your comrade captain a very interesting' man?" observed Miss Mar shall; and her eyes turned upon her next door neighbor in calm but keen scrutiny. "Noel is very entertaining," was the repfy; and the dark gray eyes looked un flinchingly into the challenge of the dark brown. j "Yes, I have listened to his tales of I the frontier at breakfast, dinner and I during the evening hours, since Sunday j last. They are full of vivacity and va I riety." j "One sees a gooi deal of strange coun I try and many strange people in the course of ten or a dozen years' service in the cavalry." "And must needs have a good mem ory to be able to tell of it all?especially when one recounts the same incident more than once." And Miss Marshall's lips were twitching at the corners in a manner suggestive of mischief and mer ! riment combined. Lane "paused for a reply." Hero was evidently a most observant young wo man. "There! I did not mean to tax your loyalty to a regimental comrade, captain: so you need not answer. Capt. Noel in teresta and entertains mo principally be cause of his intense individuality and his entire conviction that he carries his fasteners with him. 'Age cannot wither nor custom stale his infinite variety:' but there should not bo quite so much va riety in his descriptions of a single event. This is the fourth time I have heard him tell of the night ride from Carrizo's ranch to Canyon Diablo." "You have the advantage of me, Miss I Marshall," answered Lane, his eyes twinklmg with appreciation of her de mure but droll exposure of Noel's weak point. "It is the first time I ever heard his version of it" "It is the last time he will mention it in your presence, if he saw the expres sion in your face, Capt Lane." "Do those introspective eyes of yours look clear through and see out of the back of your head, Miss Marshan? Youi face was.turned towards him. You stop ped short in telling me of your cousin in the artillery and your visit to the bar racks, and bade me listen to something I diil not care half as much to hear a? your own impressions of garrison life. Never mind the quadruplex account o? the night ride. Tell me what you thought of the army." "Well, of course, the first thing a giri wants to know is what the shouldei straps mean; and I learned the, very first day that the blank strap meant a second lieutenant, a single silver bar a first lieutenant and two bars a captain that is, in the artillery. Now, why this provoking distinction in the cavalry: Here's a captain with only one bar, a captain whose letters from the war de partment come addressed to Lieut Gor don Noel!" "Noel never speaks of himself as cap fian, I'm sure," said Lane. . "Neither do you; and for a year past ever since I have known you by sight"? and here a quick blush mounted to her temples?"you occasionally came to our church, you know," she hastened to ex plain?"you have been referred to as Lieut. Lane or Mr. Lane; but we know you are a captain now, for we saw the promotion recorded in the Wellington despatches a fortnight ago. What was the date of Capt Noel's elevation to that grade? I confess I took him for your junior in the service and in years too." "Yes, Noel holds well to his youth/ answered Ivne, smilingly. "And about the captaincy?" "Well, he is so very near it, and it is 'so apt to come any day, that perhaps he thinks it just as well to let people get accustomed to calling him that Then he won't have to break them all in when the commission does come." "Then he is your junior, of course?" "Only by a file or so. He entered the service very soon after me." "But was not in your class at West Point?" "No; he was not in my class." "In the next one, then, I presume?" "Miss Marshall, is your first name Portia? I should hate to be a witness whom you had the privilege of cross ex amining. There are ladies 'learned in the law,'and I expect to read of you as called to the bar within a year or two." "Never mind, Capt. Lane. I will ask you notMng more about him." "Nq, Miss Marshall, I presume that my clumsiness has rendered it totally unnecessary." ? That night as the guests were dis persing, Lane did what most of them entirely omitted; he went over to the piano and bade Miss Marshall good night "Capt Lane," she said, "I beg youi pardon if I have been too inquisitive and too critical, as I know I have been; but you have taught me that you know how to guard a comrade's failings from the world. Will you not forgive a woman's weakness?" "There is nothing to forgive, Miss Marshall., I hope sincerely that we may meet again before I go back to the regi ment" And later, as Lane was walking home ward from ? final peep at che dim light in a certain window, he had time to think how intolerable that dinner would have seemed had it not been for the ac cident which placed that dark eyed governess by his side. [to bk continued j ?ggg?on??w?mmmmmm??? MASTER'S S?LE, - ?jr~? State of Sotith Carolina. COUNTY OF SUMTER. In the Court of Common Pleas. Mary Dozier Lee. Assignee?Plaintiff, against Walte? L. Wilson and Richard D. Lee?Defendants. BY VIRTUE of a decreti! order made in the abore stated case and dated March luth, 1890, I will sell at public auction in front of the Court House in the Citj of Sura ter, in said State, on Monday, November 3rd. 1890,?being Saleada??between the hours of 11 o'clock in the forenoon and 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the following premises, to wit . "All that plantation or tract of land, situate and being in Providence Township, in the Conn tv and State aforesaid, containing Pour Hundred and Eighty-Six and one-half acres, more or less, the same being on Rockey Bluff Swamp and corrrnoDty known as "the Corbetl place," bounded on the North by lands formerly of Col. George W. Lee, de ceased, and by unknown land over Rockey Bluff; East by unknown land and lands formerly of the estate of T. W. Lee, deceased : South by lands formerly of the estate of T. W. Lee, deceased, lands of J. Durant, Joseph Caldwell, and lands formerly of J. J. Knox and West by land formerly of J. J. Knox and of Col. George W. Lee, deceased. The said, plantation beiug fully shown on a plat thereof made and t rtified by J. D. Mcliwain, D. S., the 9th of November 1882 and recorded in the office of the Register of Wesne Conveyance for Suroter County in Book "Y" at page 316." Terms of Sale?Cash. Purchaser to pa for titles. JOHN S RICHARDSON, Oct. 7, 1890. Master for Sumter Co. MASTER'S SAL?T State of South Carolina, COUNTY OF SUMTER, In the Court of Common Pleas. John S. Richardson, as Master for Sumter County, in said State? Plaintiff, agaiiist Sarah J Smith Defendant. BY VIRTUE of a Decretal Order made in the above entitled cause and dated March 12th, 1890, I will sell at public auction in front of the Court House in the City of Sum ter in said State, on Monday, November 3rd, 1890,?being Salesday?between : the hours of 11 o'clock in the forenoon and 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the following parcel or tract of land, to wit: "All that piece, pircel or tract of land, ! containing one -hundred and fifteen acres, more or less, situate, being and lying in the said County and State, bounded on the North by land of Sarah J. Smith and by land of Mel vi Williams; on the East by land of A. P. Floyd ; on the South by land of - Scott, "and on the West by the public road leading from Bishopville to Lynchburg, sepa rating it from lande of Dr. C. L. 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Terras of sale?For a sura not less ? he amount of principal and interest calculated to the day of sale on the amounts of principal and interest now due and payable and to become due aad payable on the bond and mortgage sued on in this action, together with the costs arid expenses of this action and any amount that may be due on or against said mortgaged premises for taxes or tissess ments; Ihat ? much of the proceeds of said sale as may be sufficient to pay the said taxes or assessments, the costs and expenses of thi^ action and the amount now due atid payable on said bond and mortgnge with interest thereon from the date of said Report, be > a in cash, and the remainder of said proceeds of sale to be secured by the bond of the pur chaser or purchasers, to be executed and de livered to said Master payable at such limes and in such proportions as are set forth in the said Report, jn reference to the shares nod proportions of the bonds surd on which are not yet due and payable, with interest on such proportions respectively payable annually from the day of sale until the whole he paid ; the deferred payments to bp secured by the mortgage of the purchaser or purchasers of the premises sold. 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All we ask is for you to look through our stock and get our prices. In PLAIN AND FANCY GROCERIES we are the leaders. We sell nothing if not of the first qual ity and our prices are the lowest. Our stock is fresh and well selected. We have every kind of canned Meats, Vege tables and fruits, all fresh goods of this seasons' pack. We give special prices on can goods by the dozen. You will find oar salesmen pleasant and attentive to all customers?perfect ly wi?fing to sbow goods at all times. All goods delivered to an; part of the city promptly and free of charge. Fall weight G ear an teed. Eingman & Co. October 1_ TAX NOTICE. TREASURER OF SUM TER COUNTT gives notice that his books will be open from tbe PIPTEE8TB DAY OF OCTOBER. 1890 to the FIFTEENTH DAY OF DECEM BER, I860, for the collection of Tazes tor the Fiscal year commencing November 1st, 1889, in Sum:er County. Tbe following are tbe rates per centem of tbe levy : 1. For State purposes?five and one- foerth rills on every dolUr of tbe valve o? ail taxable property. 2. For County purposes?three and one half mills oo every dollar of eucb value, of wbicb tbe proceeds of three mills are to be applied to ordinary County expenses, and one half of one mill to paying tbe d?ficiences of tbe fecal year ertdiog October 31, 188$. 3. For tbe support of public schools?two mills on every dollar of sorb value. 4. One dollar on each taxable poll, (to wit, between tbe ages of 21 aod 50 years.) 5. May es ville, two mills extra levy for school par poses in tbe town of Mayesville. 6. Swimming Penos 2 a?Us extra levy for school purposes in tbe township. P. P. GAILLARD, County Treasurer. Sept. 13. TAX NOTICE. Tbe Treasurer of Sumter Cboety, hereby gives notice tbat bit Books will be open at bis office, in tbe city of Sumter from the 15th day of October to tbe 15ib ?ay of December, 1890, except on tbe follow rag named days, when be will attend at tbe places named, either in person or by deputy, for tbe collec tion of Taxes for tbe fiscal year 1889 and 7890: Oo Wednesday, Oct. 16, at Shilob. On Thursday, Oct. 26, at Lynch burg, from 8 o'clock a m. until 1 o'clock p. m , and at Magnolia from 2 until 6 o'clock p. m. Oo Friday, Oct. 17, at Bishopvflie. On Monday, Oct. 20, at Statebarg. On Tuesday. Oct. 21, at Rembert'e store, Rafting Creek. On Wednesday, Oct. 22, at Spring Hill. On Thursday, Oct. 23, at Scarbor ough's store, Providence township. On Friday, Oct. 24, at Wedgefield. On Monday, Oct. 27, at Tin dal, on C. S. k N. R. R. On Tuesday, Oct. 28, at Boesard postoffice. On Wednesday, Oct. 29, at Man ville. a Thursday, Oct. 30, at Heid'? store, Mt. Clio. On Friday, Oct. 31, at. Mayesville. On Tuesday, Nov. 4, at Gordon's Mill. P. P. GAILLARD, Sept. 17?Nov. 5 County Treasurer. A WANT SUPPLIED. We have opened at tbe well-known stand of Wm. J. Andrews, a Liberty Street, a GREEN GROC?R V, and will keep on band at all limes Fresh Meats and Sausages, Live and Dressed Poultry, Eggs, Fish, Oysters, Vegetables and Fruits in season, and will deliver goods anywhere in the city. Orders solicited and same attended to promptly. Best market prices paid for good Beeves, Pork, Poultry, Eggs and other country pro duce. Give us a call. WM J. ANDREWS, THOS. J. WILLIAMSON. Sept. 3 A. B. STCCKEY. JOHH T. GREEN. STUCKEY & GREEN. Attorneys at Law* SUMTER) S. C. March 26