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The Lady OF THE Mount By FREDERIC S. ISHAM Arnika* ?/ "The Strollers" Inder The Rote ?x#?. - lUoarrutoaa k w/ortas "Pnrdl!" softly. "Here's 0d4 dares ?peak hit mind I "I speak plainly," In a ton? of au? thority, "and you would do well to "Perhaps." Interposing. "Wl at aay yon, comradee?" 9w* tsmilet Illumined evil faros; they, wfio had just been on the point of blows among themselves, row re? garded one another with common un? derstanding. One weighed tentatively that delicate weapon, a epontoon; a aecond atroked hit halberd, at liking to feel the smoothness of the shaft, while a third reached for a gleaming "Folard'e Partisan." And la the glare of the Are every Implement showed ?tgn It had been need that night. The point of the ? pontoon waa is steel crusted o'er; the ax of the halberd might have r? v.e from a boiicherle; the blade of the "Partisan" reiiembled a great Isaf at autumn-time. This last wavered perilously near the uncon? scious burden; had the man made a movement to resist, would have ?truck; but the black eyes, only, combated?held the blood-shot ones. Though not for long; again trie weap? on seemed about to dart fotth; the about to hurl himself and his bur? den desperstely aside, when, from above, came the sound of hoarse laughter snd singing, and simultane? ously a number of peasants, Bretons by their dress, burst Into Tie1?. ?Kb, cockatoo, whst now!" Many of these new ~omeis were liurt; few free from cuts; hut none thought of stanching their wounds. Their principal concern see ned foi art.Vies they 'carried?heavj, llf.hf; valuable, paltry?spoils from the high! Two staggered beneath a great chest ?tamped with the arms of the Mount and Its motto, and appeared azxlous to hurry?perchance toward th?? forest on the shore where they ml|;ht bury their treasure. Others had In their anna Imposing pieces of silver; vases and a massive surtout de table that had once belonged to the Cardinal Du hols. A woman, gaunt, toothless, wore a voluminous bonnet s I'Argui, left at the Mount by one of the ladles of the court; and wa'ed before her a fan, not with jewels. She It was who called out: "Eh. cockatoo!" shrilly. "Who would you be killing?'' "A selfish fallow thst reuses to share!" answered he of the halberd, aa If little pleased at the Interruption. "Refuses to share, does be?" she repeated, and, swaggering down, peered forward; only to stirt back. ?The Black Seigneur!" "The Black Belgneur!" Those who accompanied her?a rough rabble from field and forest? gaaed. not without lurprlse, 01 uncouth admiration, at ono whose n une and fame were well ktown on thtt north? ern coast; but these evidences of rough approval were not shared by the alien rogues. On my lady's linger the gem sp?rk1ed; held their ey<?s like a lure Hlark Belgmur. or not. they mu*'er*d sulUnly. what knew they of nor he had with him; wnose hsnd was , n >t that of clnder-wench or scullery maid* Let them look at ler face! 8he might be a great lady?she might be the Oovernors drughter terself! "The Oovemor's dsughte*!" All, alike, caught at the word. "And if she were!" fiercely the BU>k Belgneur confronted them. While, hesitating, they sought for a reply, quickly he went on. Who had a better right to her? The Black Seigneur! The Lady Elise! Harshly be laughed. Wis it not fslr spoil? His Excellency's enemy; his Excellency's daughter. uid th<y think treasure tweeter than revenge? Let them try to rob htm of It! As for the ring? Contemptuoutly be took it from my lady's hand; threw It smong them. A few tcrsmbled. others <vsre still for finishing the tragedy then. The people versus the lords snd their spswn "Kill at ence!" the Injunc? tion had gone forth frcm Paris. As he spoke, one of the fiercest put out his band; touched ray Isdy, when the fingers of the Black Seigneur gripped hard his throat; hurled him to violently back, be lay still. Com panlons sprang to his aid; certain of the peasants interfered. "Let him alone!"' "He spesks fair!" "Bah! Tonight all are equal." "Tour Hlark Seigneur Is no better then others!" "You lie!" In a hlsjb tone the worn an with the great lndy's hat broke in. "At them, mr rhlck?r..! Beat well these Paris rogue*, vho como only for the picking!" "Yes; beat them well!" But the runt?KStes of the great city were not gf a kind to submit lightly; curses and blown wer? exchanged; kalvet gleam* -1 i?nd sword.4 flanhed. Amif' a teen* of ronfiinlon. ? h?> aatlM of It ttayed not |o WltatSi th?? out come running down Iba ajopfftg way, toon found MsngoM 01 the gejidt; liag keeping to fl>?. shad iwi, passed around tho corner <>f Iba 1 all. "Here, Tor the time concealed was he safe; noue followed, and, leaning against the damp blocks of masonry, breath'ng hard, as a man weak from fatigue, loss of blood, he sought to recover his strength. It returned only too slowly; the passing lassitude an? noyed him; for the moment he forgot he had but recently come from the dungeon and the hardships that aap elasticity and vlgc*. He was Impa? tient to move on; looked at my lady? and a sudden fear smote him! How white she appeared! Had she? His band trembled at her heart; a blank dismay overcame him; then Joy? At that Instant he thought not of the gulf between hem; waa conscious only h/e held her?slender, beautiful?In his arms; that she seemed all his own. with her breath on his cheek, her soft Hps n close. Above sounded the mad? ness of the night; the crackling of flames; the intemperate voices! In the angle of the will, with darkness a blanke. around them, he pushed back the balr from her clear brow, bent over, closet*?suddenly straightened. "Pardi!" be muttered, a flush on his face. "Am I, then, like the others, pillagers, thieves?" Several moments be yet stood, breathing deep; then, starting away, ?ct himself to the task of crossing the vast stretch of beach between the Mount and the distant lights of a ship. The sandy plain had never seemed so Interminable; before him, his shad? ow and that of my lady danced ever Illusively away; behind, the great rock gave forth a hundred shooting flames, while, as emblematic of the demolition of so much that was beautiful, higher than saint with helpless sword on ca? thedral top, a cloud of smoke belched up; waved side wise like a monstrous funeral plume. A symbol, it seemed to fill the sky; to move and nod and flaunt Its ominous blackness from this majestic outpost of the land. Walk? ing In a vivid crimson glow, the Black Seigneur gazed only ahead, where now, on that monotonous desert, the rim of the sea on a sudden obtruded. As he advanced, sparkles red as rubles? laughing lights?leaped in the air; at the same time a seething murmur broke upon the stillness. Toward those leaping bright points and tbe source of that deep-sounding cadence, the young man stumbled for? ward more rapidly, less cautiously, also, U may be; for while he was yet some distance from the water's rim, bis feet fell on sand that gave way beneath them. He would have sprung back, but felt himself sinking; strove to get out, only to settle the deeper! The edge of the Use, with safety be? yond, well he could see, where the satin-like smoothness of the treacher? ous slough merged Into a welcome silk-like shimmering of the trustwor? thy sands. That verge, however, was remote; out of reach of effort of his to at ain; his very endeavors caused him to become the more firmly imbed? ded. Had he cast my lady aside, pos? sibly could he have extricated him? self; but with her, an additional weight, weighing him down? Loudly he called out; only the sea anaweud. Now w?re the clinging par? ticles at his waist; he lifted my lady higher; clear of them! Once more raised his voice?this time not in vain! "Mon capitalne! Where are you?" ??Here!" "We don't see you." "You won't soon, unless?" The end of a line struck the sand. The night had almost passed; Its last black hour, like a pall, lay over the tea, where, far from the Mount, a ship swayed and tossed. In the nar? row confines of her master's cabin, the faint glimmering of a lamp revealed a man bending over a paper, yellow and worn; the lines so fair and deli? cate, they seemed almost to escape him! How at tease, after all inset years, the sight of your handwriting'?anil now, to be writing* you' Yet Is It meet?to ?ar fafSWelll Kor that which you have heard mon and, In true I nm Kolnx to die. You ?ay. you heard I wan not We'd; I answer what r?'iillv you heunl; th?> question, mon srnl. iMuieath y.-ur words! . . . And. dylr,*. it 1h well with MS, I have VTTOnsed no soul on earth?except you, my friend, and yew fat gl re SM, ... I had hoped the years would efTaco that old memory. You my they hav?? not. ... It 1? wise you aro going away. Trie reader paused; listened to the sea; the moaning and slghiug, like voters on the wings of the storm. You speak In your lettor about "trick try"?used to estrange us! Think no RlOri of It, I beg you. What Is past. Is gone ns I. part of that past, when wo wen? boy and girl together?soon s^all be. And come not near the Mount. There can bi no meeting for us on earth. I send you my iCIoii Trom aTar. ... It H or.*./ I shadow that speaks . . . mon and. CHAPTER XXXIV. Some Time Later. The Iktle Norman islo, home of Pierre Laroche, so wild and bleak looking many months of the year, re rcmbles a flowering garden in the spring; then, its lap full of buds and blossoms, smiling, redolent, it lifts Itself from the broad bosom of the deep. And all the light embellish ments of the golden time it seta forth daintily; fringing lb* black cliffs with cluster* of sea campion, white and frothy ha tho rpray, trailing green Ivy fio::^ prsclpltoua height! to tho v? .. < of tho wooing waters, whoso waves I seal to creep up timorously, ix*cp into tho many caves, hr^ht with sea-anem ones, and retreat quickly, as awed by a IttddV 0 glimpse Of fairyland. Nogs the ontranoo of one. of thesr mngb:'l chambers. abloom with strange, icsntlesi Sowers, ha?, ? cef tall al ter noon In April, a man und n woman, Who, looking OOl Over the bin? sea, OOaVsrsod In desultory fashion. "rV*:u v hal your father tells me. Mistress Nanette," tho man, an aged pr.? l, ; sneaking, "tbe Belgneui r? irao 1b uid be bora today?" "My father bad a letter from him a few days ago to that effect," answered the young woman somewhat shortly. "Let me see," apparently the old man did not notice the change In hla companion's manner, "ho has been away now about a year? It was In July he brought the Governor's daugh? ter to the Island one day and sailed the next!" Nanette made a move? ment. "How time flies!" he llghed. "Let us hope it assuages grief, as they say! You think she is contented hero?" "The Lady Elise? Why not? At least, she seems so; has with her, her old nurse, my aunt, who fortu? nately escaped from the Mount?" "But the death of her father? It must have been a terrible blow?one not easy to forget!" "Of course," said Nanette slowly, "she has felt his loss." The old man gawd down. "I have | sometimes wondered what she knows about the causes of the enmity that i existed between his Excellency and I the Black Seigneur?" The other's eyes lifted keenly. "When last did you see her, Father?" "She comes often to my cottage to walk and?" "Talk?" "Well, yes!" The fine, spiritual face expressed a twinge of uneasiness. "About the past?" The priest shifted slightly. "Some? times! An old man lives much in the past and it is natural to wander on a bit aimlessly at times, and?" I TO BE OONTlNUaVUj Cltl Bcl>OOlS of Sumter. The public schools of the City of sumter were organised In I?89 with Mr. J. B. Duffle as superintendent, He served for six years and was succeed" ed by Mr. s. ii. Edmunds who is the present superintendent. The schools were op< ncd in a building now OCOUpled sine?- its reno? vation by Mr. Perry Moses. Since then three new school buildings have been erected tor the use of the white children of the community In UK fall of 1H9", the report for the first month of the white SCholS showed an enrollment of 188; on the tirst month of 1919 there ware over sou pupils in attendance. The school- of sum? ter have several unque features, one is the seggreatlon of the sexes through? out the schools. After the pupils reach the sixth year the girls go to the Hampton school building and the i?oys to the Calhoun school. Another feature la the military system in the Calhoun school with a regularly em? ployed commandant, This feature has proved v? ry benefb lal in every way. still another noticeable distinction is the large number of pupils in the hixh school, in the four years of the high school this year there are 2\\H students; ii- girls and boya in the fourth year of the high school there are 21 girls and 3't boys. Another distinctive feature Is the large percentage or students who, after completing the course in tie high school, go to college, a very gratifying feature is the at Rioapherc of cordial co-operation that pervades the schools, an absence of antogonlam between pupils and teach era end the presence of a cooperative relationship between teach, is ami parents. The following is the directory for If 11? 1 i 13 2 Hoard of Education, It. 1. Manning. .1. a. Mood. Nelll O'Donnell, a. i>. Harby, j. H. chan? dler, c. II? Hurst, Secretary and Treasurer. Superintendent of Schools. s. ii Edmunds. Principal of Boys' High School ami < ommamlanl. W, M. Scott. Director of Music, I.. (' Moise. Rupert Ising Principal Washington School. Miss B. W. McLean. |)ire<tor of Art. Miss ifarlon Batterwhlta Teachers. Primary School, Washington Build Ing; Miss a. i> Richardson, Miss a. m Graham, Miss Lilian Murray. MISS S. ii. Nelson. Miss m. (J. R?ndle? Miss l. l. Jennings, Ml?fl l II McNally. Elsa W, M. Wise. 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Seme time next summer or fail, no I exact date being specified, a vessel will pass what is now the Isthmus of Panama? which consequently must dis- , appear from the world's geography and by the same human agency, the western Hemisphere will he divided I into tWO continents. The vessel will not be the Oregon nor any other fa- j moua ship, but will be one (>f the : many small water craft in daily us< by the canal builders; and probably ! the only passenger will be Col, Qeo. ? *.v. Qoethals, who for tin- past eight yean has been carrying <?n the I greatest engineering work the world has ever seen, it will be later than that, anywhere from six months to a | yea? perhaps, before the formal open- i Ing of the waterway will take place and a naval licet headed by the fa? mous old Oregon will pass through into the western ocean, and the canal ! may be fairly said to bo open to J trade. These facts are not of official rec? ord as yet; the dato of January 1. 1915, still stands for the opening pre? dicted by Colonel GothalS. Hut tha: the opening will be anticipated to a great extent has been promised lo? th" canal builders in unofficial state? ments, and now comes a clear inti? mation of their purpose to advanc i the- opening date, in the annual re? port of the canal commission, just \ ubllshed. it is disclosed while th i completion "f the great locks by Jan? uary 1 next will not be possible, ow inv to contract delays, within six months thereafter the channel will bo finished), While to insure the safe passage of the locks, the contractor lias been called Upoij to finish the gates it: one flight tlrst, so that if the r< 9t of the work is in condition pa - tage of ships can be permitted with? out waiting for the completion of the other flights. This statement will be understood, when it is known that the locks ar?' being built in dupli? cate; Hide by side, n*d only to add to the capacity of the canal, but to in? sure its continuance |n operation in case of a serious accident to a ship i. one of the locks. The report shows a most satisfac? tory state of progress of the who].' great work, though in view of the fact that it is dated September 10, last, the figures regarding excava? tion; placing of concrete( erection of dams and locks and subsidiary works are not as recent as thow.ntained in the regular monthly reports. 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New York, Nov. 10,?"Gyp the Blood," "Lefty Louie," "Dago Frank" and "Whitey' Lewis killed Herman Rosenthal, the gambler ,at the insti? gation of Chas Becker) and must pay the penalty of death In the electric chair. The Jury w hich has been hear? ing the evidence against the four gun? men so declared today when it re? turned a verdict of murder in the first degree after but minutes cd" de j liberation. I The gunmen heard the verdict pro* nounced against them without show of emotion. They stood at the bar looking straight ahead as the foreman of the jury made known the result of their deliberations and they contin? ued to stare stolidly in front of them until the formalities of the proceed? ings were concluded. Remanded to their cells in the Tombs until tomorrow, when Justice Goff will fix the day for Imposing sen* , tence, they turned and filed out of I the court room with as firm steps as when they had entered. "Whitey" Lewis was the most dra? matic of the four, as when he testified on the witness stand. As they entered the door leading over the Bridge Of Si^bs "Gyp" said something to "Lefty" In a sullen undertone which none could hear. Outside "Lefty's" doll fa. ?d wife, "Lefty's Lillian," as she is called, wept on the should* i* of her husband's fattu r. who vainly tried to comfort her. "Gyp's wife, known as "Gyp's Lil? lian," received the news In the house of detention. The two Other gunmen are unmarried. Former Magistrate Charles F. Wahle, counsel for the gunmen, an nounced that he would appeal from the verdict and as In the case of Becker, months may rlatpse before their ultimate fate is determined. Meanwhile they will occupy cells near that of the f? rmer police lieu? tenant In the d ath house at Fing ^ing FORMF.ll sii. l i lt M AN KILLED. IV A. Sanders Suffer** Crushed Skull, in Being Thrown From Buggy. Was < onfedcl Ute Sohller. Greenwood, Nov. l*" P \. Knnders, an aged man, died at the city hos? pital here this morning as th. resull of Injuries received in being thrown from his bugg> yesterday, In n runa? way, ii s hors< took fright at som< dressed hogs hanging in his yard, ran uwa> and threw Mr Sanders out, hit head striking a reel and practicall) <; ishlug his ftkull. Mr Panders li.< ? b< twoon Greenwood and Corona^a. He came here from Sumter county about IS years ago. He served in the Confederate army. a member of the Second Louisiana regiment. He leav ? s a wife and m veral children. tristi:i/s sali:. I am offering the 13. B. Seymour place In Concord Township consisting of 340 3-4 acres for sale under division. For particulars, apply to B. D. Hodge, Trustee. Alcolu, S. C. What We DO' We Invest Money, Loan Money, Manage Estates and. as our name implies bold fmids in trust. If you desire any of the?-** services performed faithfully and accurately, it will bo to >our interest to communicate with us. SUMTER TRUST GO. N. 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