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I?(GATE A STORY Or HY5TCRY. INVOLVING STARTLING COMPLICATIONS &? ADVCNTUR ty ANNA KXThCRtNE GREW ^S* LtAVCNWOHTII CAAfc, atMtHO CLOSE er CHAPTER XXVII. She Speaks. ZEN'S face was frightful Is see; the more so that physi? cal weakness contended with the outswssp of passion, so and overwhelming In Its power destructive fores that to the two srs It see med to spring front sources than ordinary Ufa and Amltra's eye was spellbound by It ?All ft dilated upon this vision of un? tie wrath and almost super ktion, her own sxquls ess lace Ailed with a reflected horror, es sannt squallng his la force and mean fMm> tflJ ths two awed spectators sow tm thes mom set of startled recognition OJWMfce ap-gathsring of two great na the oaeomlag of some hideous kx far which the many strange contradictory experiences of the few days had mot served to prs> words Hasan loosed out his keen cry of the wind running the house was his only an **Ye? hoarl" ho repeated, advancing end laylag a determined band upon mar arm. "You have mads a mock of on with your pretended deafness. It mean?Stop! no more ** ho fiercely admonished as her eyes assumed a look of la entry and wandered away curiosity to the papers scat Over the floor?"we bars had of that; you cannot deceive cannot dec si re mo twice, played at deefnsss?why? Be ?nitre mast ears some disability her from Georgian? Be* yon are not Anitra? Because are Georgian after all?" aal Ths word' foil like a into the hollow of that great cy. lssjsorn shivered and Harper's ward cheek changed . Hasen only stood unmoved, hit his grasp, the spirit behind that and rasp, Implacable and deter Their Influence was terrible; she succumbed to it against will and purpose, ths win ana, of a vsry strong woman. Her mwm rose In a painful and lingering sAnmwif to his face, then, with t mm drawn snd parched lips could mm suppress, she flashed them in ssnney on Hansom, sag ft is loog-tutfer man road In tnstn ths maddening Thsy wsrt his wife's eyes; the bsfoTt him was Indeed Goos? I" rang out ths voice 'of as Harper, realising from Rao? 's face what Ransom had Just from hers, stsppsd to ths aad slosed It Ths Urns to ; I have much, vsry much to da my seks. for ths sake of this . bused man, whom you allowed ' yon, speak out, tall ths truth Ton are Georgian." foil In almost an Inaudible from hsr Ups, "1 am Georg. as hs loosed his grasp from arm and shs wsa left standing alone, some Instinct of Isolation, realisation of ths mysterious pit " fell in an almost laaudlbls per. "1 am Georgian." she had dug for herself and possibly flsr others, In this avowal of her Iden? tity, wrought her brain Into momen? tary msdoess. and flinging up hsr arms shs fell on hsr knees before ss undsr ths stroks of soms ? thunderbolt "You made me say it," she cried. "On your head be the punishment, not 00 mine nor on bis." Then aa Hazen drew slowly back, touched in hia turn by some emotion to which neither his look nor gesturs gars any clew, she rose to her feet and fixing him with a look of Strangs defiance, added In milder but no leas determined tones: "A tongue unloosed talks long and loud. You have made me give up my secret, but I shall not stop at that 1 shall say more; tell sll my dreadful 1history; yours?mine. I will not bs thought wicked because I undertook so great a deception. 1 will not havs this good man's opinion of ms shak? en; not for a minute; what I did. 1 did l>r him and hs tatll Inow rfcftV -? husband?his love to me is priceless, and I will hold it gainst you?against the Cause?against Heaven?yes, and against Hell." i Here was truth. To Ransom It came like balm and a renewed life. Bound? ing across the room, he strove to seise her head and draw her to him? self. But Hasen would hot have it His anger, iadeterminate before, waa concentrated new, aad not the white pleading of her face, nor the warning feature of Baasem, could hold it beck. "Traitress!" ha erted, "traitrees ta ma aad ta the Ceoee. You thought ta escape what hi taeesapabie. Do you know what yew have done? Yaw here?" The reut huag m air. A sudden weakness had sot sad aim aad ha sank faltering teak Into a chair Harper pushed towards him, still denouncing her, however, with lifted head and ac? cusing eyea, the Image?though bo longer a speaking awe?of the Implaca? ble aad determined avenger. A draft of Heuer revived Hasen; ha looked up at Oeorgiaa. "I ballere yaw, so do theae men believe you. But yaw were not alone la this plot. Where la ?ultra? Where la the deaf aad soli? tary owa you dragged from the streets of New York to bolster up your plait Tall us aad Uli aa Quickly. Where 1? Aaltrar* "Anltrnt Do yea ask that?" erted Harper, roused to speak for the first time by hie boundless amasement aad Indignation. "You hare described the body la the pool?a description which fits either alster, and yet you would make thte woman tell ue what yaw hare aaaa with your owa eyea" He might as wall not hare spoken. Neither he nor she seemed to hear him. Certainly neither heeded. " Anltra T" she repeated softly aad with a strange Intonation. ~\ am Anltra. I am both Georgian aad Anl? tra. There hare never been two of us since I came Into this houesV* CHAPTER XXVIII. Fifteen Minutes. OHBRB have never been but one of us since I came Into this house." Monstrous assertion! or so it seemed to Ransom as the whirl of big thoughts settled and reason re? gained its sway. Only one! But ha bad himself seen two; so had Mrs. Deo and the maids; he could even relate the differences between them on that first night Yet had he ever aeon them together, or even the shad? ow of one at the same moment he saw the person of the other? No, and with euch an actress as she had shown herself to ba these last two days, such changes of appearance might be pos? sible, though why she should engage In such a deep, almost Incredible plot waa a mystery to make the hair rise, ?ahe^ the tender, exquisite, the be? loved woman of his dreams. She saa the maddening nature of bis confusion and, springing to him, fell on her knees with the Imploring cry: "Patience! Do hut try to think?t will tell you. It cat all be said in a word. I was bound to this brother of mine, to do his bidding, to follow his fortunes through life, and up to death, by promises and oaths to which those uttered by me at the marriage altar were but toys and empty air. Anltra, or the dream sister my misery took from the dead, was not so bound, so I strove to secure our Joy by the seem? ing death of Georgian and a new life as her twin. You do not understand; you cannot You have no measure with which to gauge such men as my brother. But It will be given you. There is no hope now. The weakness of a moment has undone us." Ransom must have heard her; after events proved that he did, but he gave no token of It. The visions that were whirling through his mind still held It engrossed. But Mr. Har? per, though surprised as he had nev ?r been before In all his professional career, lost himself in no such abyss. Fixing his keen gaze on Hazen, he observed very quietly, but with an un? derlying note of sarcasm: "If this lady Is your sister, Georgian Hansom, and there is no Anltra save the fast fading memory of the child commemorated In your family's monu? ment, then your statement as to the body you saw under the ledge was false?" The answer cane deliberately, un? affected both by the muuner of the accusation or by the accusation itself. "Perfectly so," said he, "I saw no body. Perhaps my description wo.Ud have been less vivid if I had. My in? tention you know. This woman had deceived me to the point of making me believe that she was iudeed Anitra, the twin, and not my millionaire sis? ter, aud Georgian's fortune being nec? essary to her heir, I wished to cut short the law's delay by an appar? ent Identification I never doubted from the moment this woman faced with such well-played ignorance the mark of great meaning we had placed upon her door, that Georgian was in the river, as you all believed. Why then not give her a positive resting place, since this would smooth out all difficulties and hasten the very end for which she had apparently sacri? ficed herself" If there wee any Irony In hie heart, hie tongue did not show it The die may with which Georgian followed hit worda grew as she listened, and reached its height as he added in final explanation: "The bag I did draw out of the pool, but only because I had taken it down there in my blouse front. Did you , think a man could see that or any thing else indeed in that maddening , swirl of water?" "But it was Mrs. Ransom's bag," came from Harper in ill-disguised 1 amazement. Even his sang-froid was I leaving him before these evidences of j g plot so deep as to awaken awe. i "Where did you get it? Not from Mrs. Hansom herself? Her own sur? prise is warranty for that." "No, I got it from the river, an? other reason why I credited her drowning. It was Ashed up from the sand, a little way from the Fall. My man found it; I had sent him there in a vain hope that he might find evi? dence of the tragedy which others had overlooked. He did, but he told no one but me. You flung the thing too far," he remarked to Georgian. ' "You should have dropped it nearer J the bank. Oniy such a prodder as my man Ives would ever hare discovered tt" Georgian shook her head, impatient at such banalities, In the face of the Important matters they had to dis? cuss. "To the point" she cried, "tell these maw what will clear me of everything but a wild attempt at freedom." "I have said what I had te say," re? turned her brother. Georgian's head fell. For a moment her courage seemed to fall her. Mr. Harper rose and locked the door. "We must hare no Intruders here,** said he, pausing with a certain sense of shock, as he noticed the faint smile, full of some sinister meaning, which for an Instant twisted Haxen's Hps at these words. But the delay was but momentary. With an odd sense of haste he rushed at once to the attack. Stepping in front of Hasen, he ob? served with force and unmistakable resolution: "Your devotion to the legatee Auch incloss cannot possibly be explained by any ordinary feeling of obligation. Your sister has mentioned a Cause. Can he by any possibility be the treasurer of that Cause?" But Hazen was as impervious to di? rect attack as he had been to a covert one. "Georgian will tell you," said he. ?'When a woman looks as she looks now, and Is so given over to her own personal longings that she forgets the most serious oaths, the most binding promises, nothing can hold back her speech. She will talk, and since this must be, let her talk now and in my presence. But let it be briefly," he admonished her, "and with discretion. An unnecessary word will weigh heav? ily in the end. You know in what scales. You shall have just fifteen minutes." He looked about for a clock, but seeing none drew out his watch from his vest pocket and laid it on the ta? ble. Then he settled himself again in his chair, with a" look and gesture of imperative command towards Georg? ian. Struck with dismay, she hesi? tated and he had time to add: "I shall not Interrupt unless yon pass the bounds where narrative ends and disclosure begins." And Harper and Ransom glancing up at this, wondered at his rigidity and the almost marble-like quiet into which his restless eye and frenzied movements hnd now subsided. Georg? ian seemed to wonder also, for she gave him a long and piercing look be? fore she spokei Hof ftrtt words set? tled one point Which hp to this mo? ment had disturbed Ransom greatly. "You muit forget Anitra's story. It Was suggested by facta in my own Ufa, but it was not true of me or mine in any of its particulars. Nor must you remember what the world knows, or what my relations say about my life. The open facts tell little of my real history, which from childhood to the day I believed my brother dead was indik'solubly bound up in his. Though our fathers were not the same, and he has old-world blood ia his veins, while I am of full Americaa < stock, we loved each other as dearly and shuied each other's life as inti? mately as if the bond between us had been one in blood ae it was in taste and habit This was when we were both young. Later, a change came. Some old papers of his father fell Into his hands. A new vision of life,?sym I pathies quite remote from those which had hitherto engrossed him, led him further and further into strange ways and among strange companions. Igno? rant of what it all meant, but more alive than ever to his influence, I blindly followed him, receiving his friends as ray friends and :;ub3criblng to such of their convictions as they thought wise to exprocs before me. Another year and he and 1 were living a life apart, owning no individual ex? istence but devoting brain, heart, all ? we had and all we were, to the ad? vancement and perpetuation of an j Idea. I have called this idea the Cause. Let that name suffice. I can give you no other." I Pausing, she waited for some look ; j of comprehension from the man she ! lought to enlighten. But he was yet I too dazed to respond to her mute ap? peal, and she was forced to continue without it. Indicating Hazen with a gesture, she said, with her eyes still fixed on those of her husband: "You see him now, as he came from under the barrow; but in those days? I must speak of you as you were, Al? fred he was a mau to draw all eyes ami win all hearts. Men loved him, j women adored him. Little as he cared for our sex, he had but to speak for the coldest breast to heave, the most indifferent eye to beam. I felt his power ait strong as the rest, only dif? ferently. No woman was more his slave Ihm I. but 1t was a sister's do votlon 1 felt, a devotion capable of being supplanted by another. But I did not know this. I thought him my whole world and let him engross ma in his plans and share his passions for subjects I did not even seek to under* stand. "I was only seventeen, he twenty five. It was for him to think, not me. And he did think, but to my eternal undoing. The CauBe needed a wom? an's help, a woman's enthusiasm. Without considering my motherles condition, my helplessness, the imma? turity of my mind, he drew me day by day into the secret meshes of his great scheme, a scheme which, as I failed to' understand till it had absorb? ed me, meant th6 unequivocal devo? tion of my whole life to the exclusion of every other hope or purpose. Fav? ored, he called it, favored to stand for liberty, the advancement of men, the right of every human being to an untrammeled existence. And favored I thought myself, till one awful day when my brother, coming suddenly into my room, found me making plani for an Innocent pleasure and told me such things wars no longer for ms, that a great and Immortal duty await? ed ms, one that had corns sooner than hs expected, but which my youth, beauty, and spirit eminently fitted ms tovparry on to triumph. "I was frightened For ths first time in my memory of him hs looked like his Italian father, ths man ws had all tried to forget Ones while rummaging amongst my mother's treasures I had corns across a minia? ture of Signer Toritti. Hs was a handsome man but there was some? thing terrible in his eye; something to make the ordinary heart stand still. Alfred's burned with the same mean? ing at this moment, and as I noted his manner, which was elevated, al? most godlike, I realised the difference in our heredity and how natural to him were ths sacrifices for which my mind and temper were as naturally unprepared. With difficulty I asked him to explain himself, and it was with terror that I listened when he ' did. He may have been made te ask, but I was not made to hear such words. He saw my inner rebellion and stopped In mid-harangue. He has never forgiven me the disappointment of that moment T have never forgiv? en him for making me sign away my Independence, my holdings, and my life to a Cause I did not thoroughly understand." "Tour life?" echoed Ransom, roused to involuntary expression by this word. "Surely not your life," echoed ths lawyer, with the slow credulity of ths matter-of-fact man. j "I have said it" she murmured, her head falling on her breast At which token of weakness, Hazen stirred and took the words from her mouth. 1<The organization," said he, "is a secret one and its code is self-sacrifice. To the) band of noble men and women, of whose integrity and far-reaching purpose you can Judge little from the whinings of a love-sick girl, life and all personal gratifications are as dust in the balance against the preserva? tion and advancement of universal happiness and the great Cause. I thought my sister, young as she was, sufficiently great-minded to compre? hend this and i u.fidently great-heart? ed to do the society's bidding with joy at the sacrifice. But I found her lack- 1 ing, and?" He stopped and almost lost himself again, but roused and cried with sudden fire, "Tell what I did, Georgian," ,fYou took my duty on yourself," she conceded, but coldly. "That was brotherly; that was noble, if you had not exacted a vow from me in return, destined to lay waste my whole life. Released from this one great duty, I was to hold myself ready to fulfil all others. At the lift of a hand?a finger ?I was to leave whatever held ms and go after the one who beckoned in the name of the Cause. No circum? stances were to be considered; no other human duty or affection. If it were to enter upon a fuller and mors adventurous life, well and good; If it were to encounter death and ths ces? sation of all earthly things, that was well too, and a good to be embraced with ardor. Obedience was all, and obedience at a mere signal! I took the oath and then?" "Yes, then?" emphasized Hazen In wavering but peremptory tones. "He told me what had led to all this micery. ThE.t as yet this com? pact was between us two, and us two only. That he had considered my youth, and in speaking of me to ths Chief had held back my name even while promising my assistance. That he should continue to consider it, by keeping my name in reserve till he had returned from his mission, and if that mission failed, or succeeded too well, and he did not return, I "Wretch! Had you no mercy?" might regard myself as freed from the Cause, unless my enlarging naturs led ine to attach myself to it of my own free will. That said, ha wen? and for a year I lived under the dread of his return and all the obligations that return would eutail. Then came tidings of his death, tidings for which he may not have been responsible, but which he never contradicted, and I thought myself free?free to enjoy life, and the fortune that had so un? expectedly come to me; free to love and, alas! free to marry. And that is why," she pursued, in all the anguish of a dreadful retrospect, "I recoiled In such horror and hung, a dead weight on yorr arm, when on turning from the altar, where we had Just pledged ourselves to mutual love and mutual life, I saw among the faces before me the changed but still recognizable one of my brother, and beheld him make the fatal sign which meant, 'You are wanted. Come at once.' " "Wretch!" issued from the frenzied lips of the half-maddened bridegroom, as his glance flashed on Hazen. "Had you no mercy? Have you no mercy now, that you should torture her young, creduloui soul with these fan? ciful obligations; obligations which no human being hss any right to Im? pose upon another, whatsoever the Cause, holy or unholy, he represents?" "Mercy? It is the weakness of the easy soul. There is no ease here," he cried, touching his breast with ao gen? tle head. "Thea you forget my money* sug? gested Georgian. "Can you expect mercy from a man who sees a million Just within his grasp? 1 know," she acknowledged, as Haxea lifted that same ungentle hand in haughty pre? test, "that it waa not for himself. I do not think Alfred would disturb a fly for his own comfort, but he would wreck a woman's hopes, a good man's happiness for the Cause. He admitted as much to me, and more, in the In? terview we held that afternoon at the St. Denis. I had to go to him at once, and I had to employ subterfuge in or? der to do so," she went on in rapid ex? planation, as she saw her husband's eye refill with doubt under a remem? brance of the shame and anguish of that unhappy afternoon. "1 had not the courage to leave you openly at the carriage door. Besides. I hoped to work on Alfred's pity in our interview together, or. If cot that, to buy my release and return to you a free wom? an. But the wound which had chang? ed his face for me had changed and r-ori* h??rd bi? hoort. He had other purposes for me than quiet llvng with a man who could have no real Inter* est in the Cause. The money I in j herlted, the rare and growing beauty which he declared me to have, were too valuable to the brethren for me to hope for any existence In which their interests were not paramount I might return to you, subject to the same authoritative beck and call which had put me In my present posi? tion, or I might leave you at once and forever. No half measures were pos? sible. Was I, a bride, loving and be? loved by my husband, to listen to either of these alternatives? I re? belled, and then the thunderbolt fell. "I was no longer on probation, no longer subject to his will alone. I was a fully affiliated member. That day my name had been sent to the Chief. This meant obedience on my part or a vengeance I felt It impossi? ble to consider. While I lived I need never hope again for freedom without penalty. "'While I lived'; the words rang In my ears. I did not need to weigh them; I knew that they were words of truth. There Is no power on earth so Inescapable as that exercised by a secret society, and this one has a ter? rible safeguard. None but he who keeps the list knows the members. You, Roger, might be one, and I never suspect It, unless you chose to give me the sign. Knowing this, I real? ized that my life was not worth the purchase if I sought to cross the will of my own brother. Nor yours, either. It was the last thought which held me. While I dutifully listened, ray mind was working out the deception which wcs to release me, and when I left Mm it was to take the first step in the complicated plot by which I hoped to recover my lost happiness. And I ncr.rly succeeded. You have seen what I have borne, what difficulties I have faced, what discoveries eluaed, but this last, this greatest ordeal, was too much. I could not listen unmoved to a description of my own drowned body. I, who had calculated on all, had not calculated on this. The hor? ror overcame me?I forgot?perhaps becaure God was weary of my many deceptions!" (To Be Continued.) FERTILIZER RATE QUESTION. MercliantM und Manufacturers Ask for Hearing. Columbia, Oct. 12.?Application has been made to the railroad commission for a reopening of the fertilizer rate matter, upon which a hearing was held hist Tuesday, the applicant be? ing the South Carolina Merchants and Manufacturers' Association, headed by Mayor W. B. Reamer, of Columbia. with Senator P. H. Weston, of Rich land, as general counsel, and Repre? sentative w. w. Dixon, of Falrfleld, as assistant general conusel. in Its letter the aesoc!ation,through its manager, begs that the railroad commission give a representative of the association a hearing before an? nouncing its decision, "It was my understanding." the letter says, "that the hearing held was intended to allow the roads to present arguments against your pre? vious decision, and not for complain? ants to be heard. The answer or argu? ment of the railroads was, in my opinion, so far as reported in the ? newspapers, deluding and diverting from the main issue." TWO EXHIBITIONS UNITED. Buffalo Bin's Wild West and Pawnee Bill's Far Eeast Have Combine*!. TIWO men of mravelou? achievements ha*? combined i.i ct?e enterprise c rdiibftiosS *? ?., 53, ,or nn,re i.iaa n qi?.*r.(.r of a century, have stood UMb tof pubapexpcctaiiosa Col. VT a. ??. Cjdy, l.'.o o .'.y and original 'Huttal? BiU,"sod M ^rOtsUonl/.iiUis*known to fame as "Pawru^e Bitf/'v ho ha <\ i t lricn.i!.- ji I ten previ.';u.-iy i.ier.u?.ed with two separate iiMtitetioaa of atxcnenip-nt. now direct a:*. l?V.^a _ org r.ization which ei'cocipaiita the pick und choice ?>f the fea? tures SS 1 attr.'.ct i'iitf > .?ich they, as individual managen previously presented. Through this al iiancc the r >.r l&ejfc and J : r VVtst am brought to Cether; the Orient and Occident contrih :testno:ie entertair.mcr.t, in o*e Sisns* Two bwiUnheita are contrasted In .?. series t-i tesficaand tvpesj se? thentically out rest anu historically accurate. The world's potst* tnen and the world's people ? re proupod in living represen? tations of he? roic ep< " i).;;tJ,c h istorie :>ast uves us in in vist is of a by? gone er.;. IS it3 ethnological ni'.'.'.ge the re.l.T. -.n of tlie prairies touches shoulders with I the denizens of i Boudan; reck- ? i less Cossacks from the Steppee of Russia, darin? i cowboys from the Westsrn plains, the Bedouin horsemen from t..e ?Sahara sod Oauahos from the South American pampas display their saddle expert nc-a in visual comparison. The observant and interested student finds ample food for thought, while the votaries of pure amusement are rewarded in abundance. There is novelty and diversion in every number from the time the mighty cavalcade of horsemen, led by the original and only Ool. Wn. 1?'. Cody, "Buffalo 1 Bui," enters the arena. The Indian Km:'- of I Summit ?prinfrs gives way to the Orient il Spec? tacle; the oucking hone and Indian pony of the plains retires in favor of the eleph-.nt and camei: Arabian acrobats. Whirling I>rv?*he3. Hindoo fakirs, and other strep* people from mao? rlimes are shown in a ro^elnas0-"* ""?n of brilliant scenes and strenuoua a/?ivSis* ^ '?' ? oth*r exhi? bition offers fh** ??.,,'?'-?;*v cf <!i< .<.'? the ?wilSSJ li?n an<1 U ?" . ?? ?'f?ovlcd BOARD BILL LAW. John Nelson, white, was lodged in jail Saturday on the charge of beat? ing a board bill, and will be brought up for trial before the magistrate early this week. The warrant was sworn out by N. Cannon, who claims that Nelson owed him something over sixteen dollars for board. The case is of some interest to the legal fraterni? ty of this city, in as much as it is the first case that has gone to trial in this county at least for this offense. The law against beating a boad bill was passed at the session of the legis? lature in 1908. The legislature in pas? sing the bill, seems to have forgotten itself to some extent, since it forgot to name a penalty for the offense. The statute simply describes the of? fense commonly known at "beating a board bill" and says that it shall be a misdemeanor, not naming any pen? alty for the guilty party. Hitherto, when the law has been brought into use for redress when persons running boarding houses or hotels had been defrauded out of money, the guilty parties have in? variably paid the prosecuting party the money, and the case was then and there withdrawn. Thus there ha.s newer been a case tried in this coun? ty for this offense. There may have been some tried in other counties, or it is not improbable that the case has never come up before a court. Now however, the defendant in the case will have a trial, and should he be convicted, the magistrate will be the first to impose sentence for the crime. What this sentence is, will be left entirely to his personal opinion of the gravity of the offense. The csse is watched with keen in? terest by all the members of the bar in this city. There is a difference of opinion among them as to whether the statute, in its present form, would be upheld by the Supreme Court were the case appealed. If Nelson is convicted of the crime of which be stands charged, it is not all improb? able that the case will be appealed. The decision of the Sessions Court and of the Supreme Court would both be watched with interest by the mem? bers of the bar in this neighborhood, since upon them rests the validity of this statute, which has been put to great use within the past few months for the collection of board bills.? Greenville News. ?Your cough annoys you. Keep on I hacking and tearing the delicate membranes of your throat if you want to be annoyed. But if you want re? lief, want to b<5 cured, take Chamber? lain's Ceugh Remedy. Sold by W. W. Sibert. The man who lives to please him ; self will find that he has a hard mas? ter.?Rams Horn. The Most Giveable Gifts, Most appropriate, most ap? preciated, are shown here in all their surpassing beauty. Ou; Cut Glass display is a worthy one?inclusive, ex? clusive. ; Kings?unique in designs, gem combinations wasteful and handsome, and all quali? ties ARK what they are re? presented. Then Hand Decorated China makes a dainty re? membrance. We show ef? fects a little out of the ordi I nar^. Call. We can interest you in gifts at very moderate prices. W. A. Thompson, Jeweler and Optician. ? S. Main Street - Sumter, S. C.