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I Crooked ;| | Trails | and ::, | Straight jj, 4 William MacLeod Raine \ 11 O ^ 4 ? A Oopyrlgau M 8 IV Ullllaihto Company , , CHAPTER X. The Prodigal Son. They found the prodipil son with his sister nntl Lnurn London nt the Del Mar. Repentance was writ large all over his face and manner. From I ?nvis and from the girls he had heard the story of liow Soapy Stone had Intended to destroy him. Ills scheme of life had heen broken Into pieces and he was a badly shaken young scamp. When Luck ami Curly came Into the room he Jumped up, very white about the lips. "Father!" "My hoy!" Culllson had him by the hand, one arm around the shaking shoulders. "What?what??" Sam's question broke down, hut his father guessed It. "Soapy and Had ItlH were killed, Patch Is a prisoner, and Rlackwell escaped. All Spring Valley is out after him." The hoy shuddered and drew a long sobbing breath. "I've been a fool, father?and worse." "Forget It, son. We'll wipe the slate clean. I've been to blame, too." It was no place for outsiders. Curly heat a retreat Into the next room. The young women followed him. Roth of them were frankly weeping. Arms twined about each other's waists, they disappeared into an adjoining bedroom. "Don't go," Kate called to him over her shoulder. Curly sat down and waited. I'resonly Kate came back alone. Her shining eyes met his. "I never was so happy in all my life before. Tell me what happened? everything, please." As much as was good for her to know Curly told. Without saying a word she listened till he was through. At last she spoke in a low, sweet voice. "What can we do for you? First . you save father and then Sam. You risked everything for my brother?to j win him back to us, to save his life and 1 now his reputation. If you had been j killed people would always have he- j lioved you were one of the gang." "Sho! Thut's nonsense, Miss Kate." \ lie twisted his hat in his hand uncus- i il.v. "Honest, I enjoyed every hit of I It. And a fellow has to pay Ills debts." j "Was that why you did It?" she : asked softly. "Yes. I had to make good. I had to I show your father iiikI you that I had ' ' aSFu' sr?* ^1-CTTTlTin-f ITHTl I Hi* , j iviarc I 20 Pe 1 We bought o tion on these price ? MEN S DRESS SHOES, y?U J - MEN'S ARMY SHOES, Vain .LADIES DRESS SHOES, Val LADIES DRESS SHOES, Val ' LADIES DRESS SHOES, Val LADIES DRESS SHOES, Val LADIES DRES SHOES, Vali OLD LADIES' COMFORTS, I All Shoes on 25 cents GIGIIAMS AND CH. cents OUTINGS (Solids ai 45 emits PERCALES for. . . 40 cents BLEACHING for. . 45 cents BLEACHING for. . :ir, cents SEA ISLAND for. . Pont Miss I LTvi . . ' . . . I " I BBS not thrown away all yoar kindness. So I quit traveling that downhill road on which I had. got started." Tm glad-^I'm glad." She whispered It so low he could hardly hear. "There was one way to prove my- | self. .That was to stand between Sam J and trouble. So I butted In and spoiled i Soapy'8 gnme." "I wish I could tell you how fine fa- | ther thinks It was of you. He doesn't . speak of It much, but I know." "Nothing to what I did?nothing at i all." A wave of embarrassment had crept to the roots of his curly hair. : "Just because a fellow?oh, shucks!" i "That's all very well for you to say, but you can't help us thinking what we please." I "Hut that ain't right. I don't want you thinking things that ain't so, be- ; cause?" "Yes? Because??" She lifted her eyes and met his. Then she knew It hnd to come out, that the feeling banked in him would overflow in words. "Because you're the girl I love." He had not Intended to say it now, I lest he might 6eem to be urging his services as a claim upon her. But the words had slipped out In spite of him. She held out tier two hands to him with a little gesture of surrender. The light of love was in her starry eyes. And then? She <vas in his arms, and the kisses he had ilrenm'Ml anout were on his Hps. CHAPTER XI. Cutting Trail. Kate Culllson hud disappeared, had gone out riding one morning and al nightfall had not returned. As th? hours passed anxiety at the Circle C became greater. "Mebbe she got lost," Boh suggested Her father scouted this as absurd. "You don't reckon a cougar?" began Sweeney,,and stopped. Luck looked at his bandy-legged old rider with eyes In which little cold devils sparkled. "A human cougar, Iff &Lr\1 The Kisses He Had Dreamed About. I'll bet. This time I'll take Ills filile off ;ii / r Cent, off on ur Ginghams, Chambra s you will know the sav ip $8.50 Sale Pric? le $7.50 Sale Pric< ue $6.00 SALE PRIC1 ue 5.90 SALE PRIC] uc 4.90 SALE PRICI uc- 3.90 SALE PRIC] ue 3.50 SALE PRICI or. ? a i v ddin v (iiuu ?p i.*.*' . . a ivivj same basis, 1-5 A.MBRAY for .2 id Fancies) for .21 ' 34 32 3( 2t These Sale Pric this Opportu LEVA ^nc^^ynEch^ybJl^nSe^stilMlrfn^*^ "You thinking of FendrickT" naked Sam. "You've said it," Sweeney considered, rasping his stubbly chin. ' "I don't reckon Cass would do Miss Kate a meanness. He's n wlilte man, say the worst of him. But It might be Dlackwell.- When last seen he was heading Into the hills. If he met her?" A spasm of pain shot across Luck's face. "My God!" "By gum, there he Is now, Luck." Sweeney's finger pointed to an advancing rider. Culllson swung as on a pivot in time to see some one drop Into the dip In 1 the road, Just beyond the corrul. "Who ?Black well?" "No. Cass." Fendrlck reappeared presently and turned in at the lane. Culllson, standing on the porch at the head of the steps looked like a man who was passing through the Inferno. But he looked, too, a personified day of judgment unteinpered by mercy. I The sheepman spoke, looking straight at his foe. "I've Just heard the news. 1 was down at Yesler's ranch when you 'phoned asking If they had seen anything of Miss Culllson. I came up to ask you one question. When was she seen last?" "About ten o'clock this morning. Why?" "I saw her about noon. She was on Mesa Verde, headed for Blue canon, it looked like." "Close enough to speak to her?" Sniu asked. "Yes. We passed the time of day." "And then?" Luck cut back Into the conversation with a voice like a file. "She went on toward the gulch and I kept on to the ranch. The last 1 saw nf I.I.f ullO ?>tn? ?. .... O..V ....o t!H?l?ilH ?MI. ?? C U better travel over toward Mesa Verde, ho as to be ready to start at daybreak." Cullison's gaze bad never left him. It observed, weighed, appraised. "Good enough. We'll start." lie left Sweeney to answer the telephone while he was away. All of his other riders were already ont combing the hills under the supervision of ; Curly. Luck had waited with Sam : only to get some definite Information > before starting. Now he had his lead, j Fendrlck was either telling the truth ! or he was lying with some sinister purpose in view. The cattleman meant to know which. The party pushed up the gulch as rapidly as they could. The ashes of a camp fire halted them a few minutes later. Scattered ahout lay the feath- j ers and dismembered bones of some , birds. Cass stooped and picked up some of the feathers. "Quails, I reckon. Miss Culllson had three tied to her saddle horn when I met her." "Why did she come up here to cook them?" Sum asked. Luck was already ofT his horse, quartering over the ground to rend whut It might tell him. "She wasn't alone. There vi| a man with her. See these tracks?" It was Fendrlck who inude the next discovery. He had followed a draw for a short dlstunce and climbed to a little mesa above. Presently he called to Culllson. I Father and son hurried toward him. i The sheep owner was standing at the m th to i everything in * ys, Percales, White Go 'ing offered here is very s $6.80 MEN'S SINGLE S b $6.00 MEN S WORK SF ? $5.52 CHILDREN'S SK *4'72 CHILDREN'S SK 2 $3.92 E $3 12 CHILDREN'S SK S $2.80 CHILDREN'S SKI E $3.40 CHILDREN'S SKI off. 0 cent* 9 cent* 3 cent* ! cent* > cent* \ cent* ?es apply only to cash pi nity; Sale last* NSCC .IJ1 J'tWT H.'t.1. """ r edge of prospecrEol? polntlng~aow^= with his finger. A "Some one has been in that pit r?? cently, and he's been thera several days." "Then how did he get ootT* Sam asked. Fendrlek knelt on the edge of the pit and showed htm where a rope had been dragged ho heavily that It bad cot deeply Into the c'ny. "Some one pulled him out.** "Whvfc It mean uryhowt Kate wasn't In that hole, was she?" Cass shook his head. 'This Is my guess. Some one was coming along here In the dark and fell In. Suppose Miss Oilllson heard him calling as she came up the gulch. What would she do?" "Come up and help the fellow out-" "Sure she would. And If he was hungry?as he likely was?she would cook her quail for him." "And then? Why didn't she come . home?" Luck turned a gray agonized face on him. "Roy, don't you see? The mnu was Blnckwell." "And If you'll put yourself In Rlnckwell's place you'll see that he couldn't let her go home to tell where she had seen him," Fendrlck explained. "Then where Is she? What did he do with her?" "He may have shot her when he got a good eliance, but I don't think so. ite would keep her for a hosfuge ns long ns Jio could." "That's the way I figure It." agreed Culllson. "lie daren't hurt her. for he would know Arizona would hunt lilni down like n wolf If he did." "Then Where's he taking her?" Sam asked. "Somewhere Into the hills. Ills Idea will he to slip down and eut across the line Into Sonera. He's a rotten had lot, hut he won't do her any harm unless he's pushed to the wall. The fear of T.urk Culllson Ik In his heart." "That's nhout It." nodded Luck, "lie's somewhere In these hills unless ' he's broken through." I "There's a chance he'll make for one of my sheep camps to lay In a supply. Wouldn't It he a good Idea to . keep a man stationed at each one of them ?" "You're talking sense," Culllson approved. "Sam. ride hack and get In touch with Curly. Tell him to do that. Ami rouse the whole country over the wire. We'll run him down and feed him to the coyotes." (To be continued) SHERIFF'S SALE State of South Carolina, County of Chesterfield, G. W. Gregory Plaintiff vs K. J. Miller, Administrative, et al. Under and by virtue of authority contained in an execution issued in 'he above tated case and directed to me of the following real estate: All the lots of land in the town of Jefferson, belonging to the estate of Dr. R. I'. Miller, deceased, and will sell the same betWeen the legal hour of sale to the highest bidder before the Court House door at Chesterfield on the first Monday in April next, same being the 5th. Purchaser to pay for all necessary papers. D. P. Douglass, Sheriff. April our Store, inc ods, Etc. last Fall at pri attractive. Below w( OLE PLOW SHOES, Value $4.25 IOES, Value $3.90 UFFERS, Value $3.90 HA UFFERS, Value $3.50 SA UFFERS, Value $2.90 SA 'JFFERS, Value $ 2.50 S.^ JFFERS, Vulue $2.25 SA $2.25 OVERALLS, for $1.80 $2.50 OVERALLS, for $2.00 $1.25 WORK SHIRTS, for $1.00 $1.50 WORK SHIRTS, for ...$1.20 urchascs and only to pu \ two weeks. ). - JUDICIAL SALE i Pursuant to a decree of the Court I of Common Pleas for Chesterfield; County in the case of M. S. McKinnon and A. M. McNair, Co-partners in business under the lirm name of Yc-1 Kinnon & McNair, Plaintiffs, vs J. A. Poison, Defendant, I will sell at public auction before the Court House door at Chesterticld, S. C., within the legal hours of sale, on Monday, the 5th day of April, 1920, to thf4 highest bidder or bidders for cash, all that certain piece, parcel or tract of land lying and being in Chesterfield County, S. C., containing two hundred (200) acres, and bounded North by lands of J. A. Poison; East by lands of W. S. Huggins and W. J. Perry; South by lands of John Poison ; nd Frank Wilkes; and West and Northwest by lands of J. A. Poison.'March 11 1920. I. P. Mangum, Clerk of Court of Chesterfield County, S. C. BUY IT AT HOME If You Can fhv f CHICAGO''!x *t-j05**14 Borr's? HI Bt??0, ' if Wh Our SUPRI ammoniated 100 Packing House T V^?slj*^3 sive rains like or hYJwj&*2 soluble, insure cc preventing shed< Tankage in therr 'w^/5pS\ the soil, thus su] crops without ex in our Year Bool TlTt?L^!^ We use the , MDjgEfl BOND BRANI uous service. TiTiinTinTTTmnll '. SSI lF lOth eluding New S] ces much below to-day f 3 give you a few articles Sale Price $3.40 SHIRTS Sale Price $3.12 SHIRTS lLE PRICE $3.12 ROYS' _ Ilf ?v?' U.fc I'KK'K *2.80 HOYS i LE PRICE $2.32 ROYS' lLE PRICE $2.00 ROYS' LE PRICK $1.80 ROYS' E w<items lisl ular selli Ladic Ready rchases amounting to mi FRRI1S b Several good Farms for Rent. See i DOUGLASS RE W. J. DOUGLASS, I'lesidcnt. I). II. DOUGLAS BROKERAGE ar I represent only the best cc Oats, and Feed, Meat, Lard and and Stains; Lubricating and Mot< stones. Insurance that insures?I.if It" in need ol* any of (he jfoot you money to see me on the roa oflice every Saturday and MomUi me. Yours for Service, S. J. SE RU3\ * MANUFACTURERS OF one an0 tankage ft .nwni^Fi1 BRANCH CFTICE CL'A^TA jYuSl y Morris Brai Are Best ?ME and PACKING HOUSE ] ?% with the highest grades of g tankage and Blood, are not leachec dinary fertilizers. Their ammonia rnstant feeding of the plant till lai ling and promoting vigorous, licalt l is rich in potash and also liberate pplying the potash requirements :tra cost. Read what our customer c. same grade of Tankage and Blo< )S which insures'their high qua FOR SALE BY R. B. LANEY, Cheraw BENNETT BROS., Wade.boro, N. C. T.L.AUSTIN & CO., Marshville, N.C. W. C. SUTTON, Pageland, S. C. lllllllip i b jr-'trt "IJiTillTTn 'igjia iM?i, pring Goods no > market, and with a 20 > to show you the value and DRAWKliS, Value SI. and DRAWKKS, \*:.l i SUITS, Value $ 1 1 SUITS, Value $12.r,0 UJITS, Value $ 1.'{.HO SUITS, Value $1 1.W0 SUITS, Value $I7..*>0 SUITS, Value $18..>0 Jig line of Boys' f want to emphasize that everything ted below) is to be sold during these ing price. s Ready To Wear, previously mi Fo Wear and J. B. Stetson Hats no 3re than ftl.OO. April 10th is Chest OR SALE 1 sale. Also some for is for terms. ALESTATECo. C. DOUGLASS, Vice.-Pres. S, Secy.-Treas. id INSUSANCE mpanies and sol 1 Flour, Corn, Hog Products, Paints, Grease jr Oils; Monuments and Tombe, Health and Accident. ..... Is mentioned above it will save d or in my oHice. I am in the iy when in Ruby. Call and see LLERS \ S.C. 18 |jjj22 so. ^ Bs- [R BRANDS being: renuine old time jfyb^r\ 1 away by excestes, being1 slowly te maturity, thus > J hygrowth. The es idle potash in of ordinary field \f s say about them xl in our GOLD Cf/jr* lity and contin- ^ S| J lllllt lUllllf I _ ^Tryvr BMItaaai ~n isive >w in. 1 >er Cent, redue- 1 ol this reduction. | SALIC PRICE $1.00 ? SALE PRICK, >' ' > >1 SALE PRICK $).52 | SALE PRICK $10.00 | .... SALK PRICK $11.12 ? SALK PRICK $11.92 | SALK PRICK $14.00 J , . . . . SALK PRICK $14.SO Jants 1-5 off 1 m our store (except a tew ^ two weeks at 1-3 oft rey- -i irked clown, Ladies New 6 it included in this sale. 3 > last day. erfield . v