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Trade Here? I wave a full stock of Mill Feed, Chicken Feed, 1 Cobbler Seed Potatoes. Expect car of Melrose per barrel. I can save you money ciated. \ 1? n lV/lr>! " k X JLV/ McGregor Old Stand The Busy Corner ? If Your Heed. Legit within the he - tice, it will b And in pleased to h any husinesi you. Our only a Bank is t er; so consn THE FAR1V \ ruby, sou' T. H. BURCH, R. M. ] President. Our S ?vin|i- I TANL ' Has Brought the Unspeak; The Lives Give Ta nit To Hi Introduced into South Carolin ately into tremendous popularity edial value for ailments of the of unprecedented proportions h who buy more TANLAC when SOLD IN CH CHESTERFIELD "There's a Tanlac ! Champion E Parnell CIIESTEI LIBERT] Liberties and IV I have one LIBERT' I also have one MON ' NENTAL MOTOR, Both the* If you contem Will A. B. Rh > # ?Save Money Heavy and Fancy Groceries, Flour etc. Red Bliss and Irish Flour to arrive this week. $13 and your trade will be appreCREIGHT Ruby, S. C. Is imate, dp oi sound banking prac>e gladly met at thisBank. any event we shall be ave you call on us with s problem that confronts excuse for existence as lie Service we can render us always. 1ERS BANK rH CAROLINA NE1WSON1 M. L. RALEY, \ .-I"*? esl Jcnt Cashier. > :?ii 3s Intere.vtinj} 4 f>i THE MASTER j AL MEDICINE aole Joy of Good Health Into j of Thousands. I I ?c 7\ Qhance j ilp You | a live yxrarm af|0, II leaped immcdlr, hundred* attested to it* great remdigestive system, and a sales record as been built up by satisfied users their systems again need toning up. 1 II ESTERF1ELD BY | DRUG COMPANY Dealer in Your Town." I j tarred Rocks M ? My matings are far bet||ggl ter than ever. Hp EGGS $5 per 15 Special to Poultry Club Boys and Girls &2.5G Per Sitting. 1V/I 1 iTicciian (FIELD, S. C. - - M lonitors advanced on I\ Y that I can offer at the < IITOR, equipped with a which I can offer at the >e cars are Five Passeni plate buying or trading \ be glad to give demoi ^ers, Mt Dealer !l! Crooked ;i; f-ry .f :: " TrailS ;; ? :: and i: > Straight jj: < 4 > I < Qy I William MacLeod Raine ; I ' <? o??rri|n a w oiniDckuB ouipur <f CHAPTER IV. -I i ? Two Hats on a Rack. One Casual remark of Mackenzie had given Kate a clew. Even before 1 she had explained it, Curly caught the point and began to dig for the truth. ' For though he waa almost a boy, the ! others leaned on him with the ex- | ( pectation that In the absence of Ma- . loney he would take the lead. } , In the morning he and Kate had a ' ( talk with his uncle on the subject. : . Not content with this, he made the j whole party adjourn to the club , rooms so that he might see exactly ; where Luck had sat and the different I places the sheepmnn had stood from : . the time he entered uutll the poker ( players left. | Together Blllle Mackenzie and Alec ' Flandrau dramatized the scene for the young people. Mac personated the sheepman, came Into the room, hung up his hat, lounged over to the poker l table, said his little piece as well as 1 he could remember It, and passed into the next room. Flandrau, Senior, tak( Ing the role of Cuilison, presently got I up, lifted his hat from the rack, and went to the door. ! ?un excitement tremnung in ner ; voice, the girl asked an eager ques- j tlon. "Were their hats side by side | 1 like that on adjoining pegs?" "Thnt's how I remember It." "Both gray hats?" Curly cut In. "Can't he sure of that. Luck's was " gray all right." Curly looked at Kate and nodded. " "I reckon we know how Cass got Mr. Culllson'8 hat. It was left on the | rack." "How do you mean?" his uncle nsked. "Don't you see?" the girl explained, her eyes shining with excitement. "Father took the wrong hat. You know how absent-minded he Is sometimes." Mackenzie slapped his knee. "I'll 1 bet a stack of blues you've guessed It." "There's a way to make sure," Curly said. "Fendrlck couldn't wear Mr. Culllson's hat around without the risk of someone remembering It later. What would he do then?" Kate beamed. "Buy another at the nearest store." "That would he my guess. And the nearest store Is the New York emporium. We've got to find out whether ( he did buy one there on Tuesday some time after nine o'clock In the morning." The girl's eyes were sparkling. She hustled with businesslike energy. "I'll go and ask right away." "Don't you think we'd better let Uncle Alee find out? He's not so likely to stir up curiosity," Curly suggested. Within n quarter of an hour Alec Flandrau Joined the others at the hotel. "You kids are right at the head of the class In the detective game. Cass bought a brown hat, about 9:30 In the mo'nlng. Paid five dollars for f It. Wouldn't let them deliver the old t : one hut took It with hltn In a paper < suck." ? With her lieutenants flanking her ? ( Kate went straight to the office of the 1 sheriff. Bolt heard the story ont and considered It thoughtfully. "Yon Mn, Miss Culllson. You haven't proved Fendrlck caused your father's dlsappenrnuce by foul play, t and you haven't proved ho committed I the robbery. Point of fact I don't ? think he did either one. But It cer- i I talnly looks like he may possibly have ' n manufactured evidence." Curly snorted scornfully. "You're ' \ letting your friend down easy, Mr. ? Bolt. By his own story he was on n I the ground a minute after th? robbery ! took place. How do we know he : f wasn't there a minute before? For | If he didn't know the holdup was go- ( t Ing to occur why did he bring Mr. i \ U-A ?? a-. - vuumuu u uiu wiin nun punetureu so r ' neatly with bullet holes?" * "Hold your hawses a while, Flan drau, and look at this thing reason- ? hie. You're all prejudiced for Cullison and against Fendrlck. Talk about evidence! There's ten times us 1 much against your friend as there Is I gainst Cass." i "Then you'll not arrest Fendrlck?" t "When you give me good reason to do It," Bolt returned doggedly. t The four ndjourned meet at the I Del Mar for a discussion of ways and i ONITOR! I /larch 1 $100.00. 1 old price of $1845.00. RED SEAL CONTI\ old price of $1725.00.1 ?er Models, vrite or call me. nstration. . Croghan Tk > . mi* ' ft [leans. "We'll keep a watch on Fendrlck? ee where be goes, who he talks to, vhat he does. Maybe he'll make a >reak and give himself uway," Curly aid hopefully. "But my father?we must rescue dm first." "As soon as we find where he Is. tilling him wouldn't help Cass any, ?eeause you and Sam would prove up hi the claim. But If he could hold 'our father a prisoner and get hlro to Igu a relinquishment to him he would ie In a fine position." "If we could only have Fendrlck ar ested?" "What good would that do? If he's [ullty he wouldn't talk. And If he s holding your /athcr somewhere in he hills it would only he serving noIce that we were getting warm. No, 'm for a still hunt. Let Cass ride iround and meet his partners in this leal. We'll keep an eye on him, all 1ght." "Maybe you're right," Kate admitted vltli a sigh. Sheriff Bolt, though a politician, vas an honest man. It troubled him hat Culllson's friends believed him to ie a partisan in a matter of this sort, 'or which reason he met more than lalf way Curly's overtures. Young 'landrau was In the office of the sherff a good deal, because he wanted to teep Informed of any new developnents In the W. A S. robbery case. It was on one of those occasions hat Bolt tossed across to him a leter he hud Just opened. "I've been getting letters from tin 'tllage cutup or from some ervnk. I lon't know which. Here's n sample." The envelope, addressed evidently In i disguised hand, contained one sheet if paper. Upon this was lettered oughly, "I'LAY THE JACK OF HEARTS." Finndrau looked up with a suggesIon of eagerness In Ills eyes. "What iln vnn ponlrnn I* ..w.r.k. tsked. "Search me. Like br not It don't nenn n thing. The others had Just is much sense as that one. T chucked hem Intjf the waste-paper basket. One a me by the morning mall yesterday ind one by the afternoon. I'm ne nlnd reader, and I've got no time tr pies* fool puzzles." Curly emptied the basket on the loor and went over Its contents cHreully. lie found three communications ? ' ? V Went Over Its Contents Carefully. rom the unknown writer. Each of hem was printed by hand on a sheet >f cheap lined paper torn from a icratch pad. He smoothed thetu out tnd put them side by side on the t(U>le. This was what he read : "HEARTS ARE TRUMPS." 'WHEN IN DOUBT I'LAY THUMPS." "PLAY TRUMPS NOW." There was only the one line to euch nessage, and all of them were plainly n the same hand. He could make ouf mly one thing, that someone was tryng to give the sheriff information In i guarded way. lie was still puzzling over the thing vhen a hoy came with a special dellv ry letter Tor tlie stierin". Holt glanced it It and handed the note to Curly. "Another billy doo from my anxious rlend." This time the sender had been In 00 much of n hurry to print the vords. They were written In n stiff land by sonic uneducated person. THB JACK UK THUMPS. TODAY." "Mind If I keep these?" Curly tsked. "Tkke 'era along." Flaudrau strolled hack to town a Inn p El Mollno street and down Main. ll< ind Just crossed the obi Spanish plaza nrlieu his absorbed gaze fell on a sign hat brought him up short. In front oi 1 cigar store stretched across the side .valk a painted picture of a Jack ol learts. The suuie name was on tin vludow. Fifty yards behind him was the surer Dollar saloon, where Luck Culllson lad lust been seen on his way to tin [)el Mar one hundred and fifty yard? n front of him. Somewhere within hat distance of two hundred yards :he owner of the Circle C had van Rhed from the night of inen. Tin tvldence showed he hnd not reaches he hotel, for u cuttle buyer had beei ASPIRIN FOR COLDS Name "Bayer" is on Genuine Aspirin?say Bayer Insist on "Raver Tablets of Aspirin" a a "Bayer package," containing proper lireetions for CoTdn, Pain, llendache, Neuralgia, Lumbago, and Rheumatism. y'am*< "Bayer" means genuine Aspirin ireacribed by physician* for nineteen iraara. llandy tin boxen of 12 tablets jont few eenta. Aspirin ia trade mark ?f Bayer Manufacture of MonQftoet*Mldtttt o( ftalieylicacii, MBn " 5 OP HH I waiting there to tnlk with htm. His * testimony, as well us thut of the hotel i clerk, wiis positive. i I Could this little store, the Juck of ' | Ileurts. be the central point of the I mystery? In his search for Informa> tion Curly hud already been In It, had I bought a ctgar, and had stopped to talk with Mrs. Wylle, the proprietor. She was a washed-out little woman i who hud twice been pretty. She had i protested with ubsurd earnestness \ that she had seen nothing or Mr. Cul I llson. A single glance hud been enough to dismiss her from uny possible bus - piclon. Now Curly stepped In a second time. I The frightened ga/.e of Mrs. Wylle > fastened upon him Instantly, lie ohi served that her hand moved Instinctively to her heart. Beyond question , she was In fear. A flash of light clarl> tied his tuind. She was u conspirator, i but an unwilling one. Possibly she I might be the author of the anonymous warnings sent Bolt. I The young vuqtiero subscribed for a magazine and paid her the money. Tremblingly she tilled out the receipt ( lie glanced at the slip and handed it i hark. , "Just write below the signature V>f the Juck of Hearts,' so that I'll rei member where I paid the money If r the magazine doesn't come," lie "suggested. , She did so, and Curly put the receipt In hlR pocket carelessly. He sauntered leisurely to the hotel, but i ns Ronn as he could get Into a telephone booth his listlessncss vanished. Moloney had returned to town and he , telephoned him to get Mackenzie at [ once and watch the Jack of Hearts i In front and rear. Before he left the , booth Curly had compared the writing of Mrs. Wylle with that on the I sheet that had come by special delivery. Beyond question the same person had written both. Certainly Mrs. Wylle was not warning the sheriff against herself. Then , agnlnst whom? He must know her antecedents, and at once. Calling up . a local detective agency, he asked the manager to let him know within an I hour or two all that conld he found , out about the woman without alarming her. "Walt a moment. I think we have t her on file. Hold the 'phone." The detective presently returned. "Yes. We can give you the facts. Will you come to the oflice for them?" Fifteen minutes later Curly knew that Mrs. Wylle was the divorced wife of Lute Blackwell. He returned to the Del Mnr ami sent his name up to Miss Culllson. With Kate and Boh there was also In the room Alec Flandrau. The girl came forwurd lightly to meet him. "Have you heard some| thing?" she usked quickly. "Yes. Tell me, when did your father last meet Lute Blackwell so far as you know?" The owner of the Map of Texas answered the question of his nephew. I "He met him the other day. Let's see. It was right after the big poker game. We met him downstairs here. Luck had to straighten out some notions he hud got." "How?" Flandrau, Senior, told the story of ! what had occurred in the hotel lobby. "And you say he swore to get even?" "That's what he said. And he i looked like he meant it, too." | I "What Is It? What have you found out?" Kate implored. The young man told ahout the letters and Mrs. Wylle. "We've got to get a move on us." he concluded. "For If Lute Blackwell did this thing to your father It's mighty serious for him." Kate wus white to the lips, but in no danger of breaking down. "Yes, If 1 this man Is In it he would not stop at less than murder. But 1 don't bellve It. I know father Is alive. Cass Fendrick is the man we want. I'm sure of It." "First thing Is to search the Jack of Hearts and see what's there. Are ^uu wiiii mtr, uiiuiv rtitit'f "I sure am, Curly," und lie reached for his hat. Curly turned at the door with his warm smile. "Ry the way, I've ;?ot some news I forgot. I know where your futher got the money to pay his poker dehts. Mr. Jordan of the Cattlemen's National made him a personal loan. He figured It would not hurt the hank because the three men Luck paid It to would deposit It with the hank again." "Ry George, that's what we did, too. every Inst one of us," his uncle admitted. "Kvery little helps," Kate said, and her little double nod thanked Curly. Moloney met them in front of the Jack of Hearts. "Hick, you go with me Inside. Uncle Alec, will you keep guard outside?" ( "No, huh, I won't. I knew Luck before you were walking howlegged," the old caltlenintt answered brusquely. Cnrly grinned. "All right. I>un't blame me If you get shot up." Mrs. Wylle's starth d eves told tule when ?ho saw thr? three men, He> face was ashen. "I'm here to play trumps, Mr;t. Wy lie. \\ hat secret has the .lack of Hearts got hidden from us?" young | Flnndraii demanded, his hard eycr fastened to her timorous ones. "I?I?I don't know what you mean." "No use. We're lo re for business Dick, you stay with her. Pon't let her leave or shout a warning." , He passed Into the hack room, which was a kind of combination living room, kitchen and bedroom. A Uoor led from the rear into a hack yard littered with empty packing cases, garbage cans and waste paper. After taking n look around the yard he locked the back door noiselessly. There was no other apparent exit from the kltchen-hedrooni except the one by which he and Ids uncle had entered from the shop. Hut he knew the place must have a cellar, and Ids Inspection of the yard had showed no entrance there. He drew back tin1 Navajo rug that covered the floor and found one of the old-fashioned tniji doors some cheap houses have. Into this was Utted an Iron ring with which to lift It. From the darkness helow came mi sound, hut Citrly's imngtnn'lnn con Ruby-My-Tism is n great pain kill er. It relieves pain and coroner caused by Rheumatism, Neuralgia Sprains, Etc. !' 1 ^ P \ \M ! 3 v \ XSSI 4 V ^ ;;. | J ?S^ I ^,7 ^ ^m-v^-^q i From the Darko-^ Telov. Came No Set- ,!. CO I\ <'i| the phiee :i - 'Ull of sllllt.llu eyes ulariiu: up in i> ll. Any l.:ul tim*n down Hp re tiI? : had iIt. ilr< p <11 then. "I'll i'?fore : ?11(?>r Curly i. Ills allele male Imistake nf ilr.i Inj? ii wi'iipmi. "I'm eonillr_' do\? 'I Imy;" yoan l**l:i:i<Ii*:iii IIMin uiii'i'iI u ii ipi < ill'lll VII I'll, "Till' p! .'1 re Is St||'l'ull!l<! liy our friends and ,t w'on't <|.> \ m \\hnli* l it of ^'oiiil In shoot nil' I i. I'll II Ivise yoll IIOl to III' In I impulsive." Ill' Pl'VCI'lllll'll .((.J,. "jP like II Stone Wi'll 11. ; ;il! il i i i. i: reeordod. At his In- K .Mini' ih" nim i mil ii. ('inly s'lrui'U mated. found : >< electric liul!> ai>o\ IP' i . .,1 :u turill'll III!- III11 lull. ! 11>I;' 11:1 y 11n 1:11'! ni'ss wiis ?lri\? !? Irm th" n I!- r Tlii' I wo I I'liiilr: ! i i qn in : 111 > 11' In llii' room. I'm t .: nut- there vva a Inlili', :i col whirl . .id lirrn sh pi p. anil not nunlf up ual a couple n' roui.li rhnir-. T! had m win lloWS, Ii ii.r: Ii-- v !i' ': ll r\r pi throuith I lii ' i: p d'!"i*. ic' ilii'i'i' wi'iv ovhleliri" In III. I 11-i I il I III reeelitl.V horn !nh:diii'd IIa i i <1 cigars | littered -l - Iloor A park or ?nrd* lay ' in disorder "ll 11 ll 1 e. 'Ill Srlllilirl wllli tin' I in*' nf 11 it (lay lay toSSI'l) i in ii ooi'iit r. "Make nn.vl 1?8 r?tr mil of It?" the older I'M:iiidr:ill ask "d "lie's been here, hut they 've taken | ' him away. Will yon rover the tele- | phoii.n^.' Slave al. the rauehos noii, tied thai I.nek is In-inu taken into the i hills, sii ihey run pleket the trails." j "llnvv ?ln ynii know lie Is hein^ taken ; there?" "I doli't kliow. I l'I1i"-s. I'hlekWell I Is In it. lie knows every nook of the j hills. The party S ft hero not two ; holll's siliee. looks Ii' e." ( < "m l\ put the new simper In Ills pork- i et and led the way hark in the store. "The hirds hav e Mown, I hek. Made ' their ylnway throtr.h the alley lute ' ! tliis nfieiiinnii. proiiahlv Just :ift?-r It ' i;ot dark.'' lie turned to the woman. ' ! "Mrs. Wylie. murder is mint: to lie 1 done, I shouldn't wonder. And you're ' liable to ho hold guilty of it unless | you tell lis all you know." Sin* hejiiin to weep, helplessly, hut i with a sort of stubbornness, tno. j Frightened she et rial illy was, hut some i greater fear held her silent as to the | seeret. "I don't know anything about It," she repented over and over. Moloney had an inspiration. Ilo spoke in ii low voire to Curly. "I.-M's i tllke her to tile hotel. Miss Kate will ; | kl.ovv lloW to gel it out of her helier than we ran." wmgm s?<3i& T, ,/ rce 1!!'!'!!^ 7 *# ^ 7 play. in1 / m.i'W T v ? ?i/ s!!,i :!#7 WirCD ycu ill!# I. ;?? . J? sts how it jii*5 refreshes! I/ C The Flavor Lasts M ,f WRIGLEYS, I/ ? $X^JVyT1 III Twt PERFECT rSMl Vrfi'^ ' ' if'-nr^it rrMt- i1 n i Within WW Mrs. Wylle went with them quietly enough. She wus shaken with fears, hut still resolute not to speak. They might send Iter to prison. She would t< !l tliein nothing?nothltiK at all. For some one who had made terror the hahit ( ;' her life had put the fear of death llito her soul. CHAPTER V. A Message in Cipher. While Knte listened to what Curly had to tell her the dark eyes of the girl were fastened upon the trembling little woman standing near the door. "I)o voir mean that she Is going to let my fall or l> killed rather than tell \\lui* ih knows?" ller voleo was sharply Incredulous, touched with a mrnjr scnri'eij rea-liCU. **1?' don't Know anything nbait It." the harassed woman iteiiiled. "What's the use of saying thut when we kti ?\v you do? Ami you'll not get out of it liy sobbing. You've got to talk. You've got to tell?you've Just got to." Kate insisted. The little '.vouuin shrank before the energy of a passion so vital. No strength was in Iter to light. Hut she cotihl ami ?I ?I offer tin- passive reslstHttee of obstinate sileiiee. Curly had drawn from his pocket the newspap r found in the cellar. Ills eyes had searched lor the date line to ttse as cniiitilallve evidence, hut they had remained fastened to one story. Now lie spoke Itupcrntively. "Come here. Miss Kate. 1 believe this Is a message to us." "A message?" "I'rotn \our father, perhaps.'* "I! >w eotild it lie?" "I found the paper In the cellar where lie was. See how some of these words are seorcd. Done with a linger nail, looks like." This was ihe paragraph upon which his _a/.e had fastened, and the words and letters were scored sharply as shown he low. though in the case of s;n::lo letters the mark ran through tin in instead of underneath, evidently that no mistake might lie made as to vhich was meant : J. P. Kcllv of the ranger force reports over the telephone that by unexpected good luck he has succeeded in taking prisoner the notorious Jf?\c k Foster o 7"~STi r mosi 1! (i and the ljtincotis notoriety and if now bringing him to'Sag; (Continued on nc\t page) Tested Seeas For F:C<j jrd Ggr-<en <; oor f: i f at.dog v. 11 i tells i.i i ; i.i i . i. : s of uii'ilin ! for in-tio i . i li.itirtg and ai lit wh 1 : ! . <Is lo pl.ilil for u yi i 1 - .. t: ..I hay?which to IIV . :r;n i 'til t ?.slitrage. f\if fcX*)1 ."J8 ??375'SPTV>& If; '' of ii??- l:.?st varieties, "i -it .'ii'l ' t. ti ill- jp'Miiin.iliitii ' ' il 11< 1 'Wood's Crop ' ' i-iiM i> nfonnaUuli and u: i > r11 pi ;< < .d.difd free. LW. WOOD & SONS SEEDSMEN, CND, - - - - VfftQJNIA -Q BJEg W \ i# ? ?? J ' > { S ' 5 % ?n| tCvilwi < FX-J 2-L#!t> irs J ie Sw3d t;.r all X s??t work or i mI tired. /??!!&* M^- ::i M'< * +S ' ^ ^ - - 4.... y; ^':w i!?Lti/i/itf (S^ _ ssfe' Sealed tight3 Kept O* Richt JWa