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X (Coniiautd from Uii w?ek> ' , I'At nrMtfai" ?" . v. uui morning everything paiiwd off at usual and /or any- < thing that Jeanle said or looked there r j- ' needn't have been any bench beside the shafthouse door and.'- the dreauf *" theory I bad been playing with might - - have been the sober fact. An hour later, after I had gone across tt> the mine, Bullerton came over-to dig me out. as before. . . . ^Forty thousand. thlf mlttmlng," he I announced as chipper as an English I _ sparrow over an unexpected heap* of street sweepings. "Say, Broughton. can you afford to let. your capital shrink at the rate of ten thousand dollars a day? If you should ask ?qe, 1' should say not." ~You never miss what yjip haven't, had," I shot back. "There are no , takers on the floor this- morning." '"Rlght-o; it'll be thirty thousand tomorrow, yo.u must remember. At that rate you'll bev owing me quite a chunk of money ^ "by this time next week. That's about, all I have to say?excepting tmd in'bre little, thing: No more ehlnny little .tete-a-tetes In the starlight,' old man,..or.4 shall be obliged to put the gad to you; the railroad gad. i-' . you know." It made me so boiling hot to have him admit, thus baldly, that he hud 5 been .spying upon Jeanle and me the . previous evening that I could scarcely see straight. ~ "That will be about enough!" .1 barked. "I told yon the other day . that there were limits, and you've/ walked .up and looked over the edge two or three times. You may.;thlnk' you have as many' lives as a cat. but I doubt It!" .. ; . 1 He laughed and threw.-haia-m. pel of his cost to show "nii? a regula- : tlon six-gun slung by a shoulder strap J under his left arm. ? "You pulled a hammer on me yesterday," he sold, letting the luugh* lapse into a grin that showed his fine mouthful of teeth, "and you probably didn't know that .you would have been a dead uiun before yoij could, swing It. ' Oh, yes; 1 could do It, and any. coroner's Jury In the Ited desert would acquit - me; dangerous lunatic?self-defense, you know. That's a word.to' the wts&, and it ought to be sufficient. But I have a better life-insurance policy than any that the six-gun could write me: you're In love with Jeante Twojyfjl^?^ < In spite of that girl back EasK ttnd because yod are] you are not going to make her a widow before-'the fact. You're not selling your mine for forty thousand?cold cash?this morning?*\ "Not this morning or^ any other morning." ~ "Good. I can afford to stick around I here a few days longer, I guess?at } the rate of ten thousand dollars a day. Bo long." And he picked his way out of the clutter of the shop and went across to the cabin?and Jeanle. Later, along in this same day, while 1 was standing.at the shaft mouth and"* staring down at the water that was keeping me out of my heritage. Dud- ' dy Hiram came up: "BUH a-puEclin' over it, Stannle?^' he asked, in the sympathetic tone thaV he always used when he spoke of the,. r\i --? ? uxni juion|(|NIIUllueN[, f I "There'a nothing to It, Daddy," I*" gloomed. "JBullerton baa me by the ' Deck, and he knows It." He tiptoed to the door and peei>ed out. You've heard 'em aay 'at curiosity killed a cat," he said, out of the coruer of lila mouth; "well, the cut's acotnln*. Skip out o' that other door, Stannle, and hit for the timber. ' I'll' ketch up with -you In a little spelt." I didn't know exactly- what he was driving at until after I got. clear. of the mine buildings and was climbing the slope of the mountain above. Then # He Wavid M? to a Seat, on a Pita of Brokon Rock. 1 looked back and uw Bullerton saun, taring aeroaa the damp head. He was evidently Wot on another little Job iff ef spying; either'that, or else he didn't p " want Daddy and me to get together by ourselves. Under cover of the forest I aat down and waited; and In a short time Daddy foteed me, making an as case for the deign nwny that didat mean anything ? - J*. MM 1 11 "as?? HORSE I iDOGj SSCRlBN^Jjfs^ONs'^5' along." he ^2nld. "Thought tnnybe yoj'i|j^1ke to mog nvor with me and take a look at her." ?! course, r said. 1'fl be delighted; jBo,"tve made' a detour around the Cln-. nabar, keeping out of sight from the cubln and shaft-house, and pushing on around the western slope for maybe half a mile unrcll we came to the gulch In which the abandoned claim lay. Worklmi antlrelv nl/Iml Unitiw t?o.w driven a tunnel possibly a hundred feef: deep stratghulnto the soMd ruck of the. mountain side, following; the thin vi'lu and hoping that It" would w|d??n into a "pay-streak." After.he had lisj lite' a few ydrds tnto'the tunnel, he waved' me to u seat t, n a pile of broken rock, and took one himself with his back against llie opposite wall. "1'in gettln' just nutyrujly so I hate a feosh-dumined crowd/' 'he remarked,switching sudilep^^fntii Ills talk of the abandoned claim.* ""Keel sometimes as If I'd like to H^'ap skins with' a cundummed goplicY ah'd'duck "plumb Into a hole." .... "Well," said l,"grlnryng^au?kln>, "yeu've dtft-ked, for"once In a way, and so have I. What about It?" , _ "Charley Bullerton," he spat oiit, . without further preface. "That slick- < tongued word artist sure doe's get outo j tgy nerves. Whut-all's he tryln' to do to yon, anyway. Stannle?" 1 didn't see any reason why he shouldn't- know, so I told him ull of It, from start to finish, offers, bully.lugs,..and threats>hut, of course, nothing about the Jetjjile factor. "Oreaf Moses he ejnculated, nt the end of the sorry fhle. "Why, gosli-toMethusaleli!?It's u hoUl-iip! Do* you kin cmtfMtyfhe Cinuahdr?" "Surest thing In the world. ., , So j ((ityiljd mr. or I, Ifj^^ had the rtiohey tp^(J?ive.f/i long dWiffnge tunnel* from the lower slope." . -;*"1 - tnrfn ""smoked along in thoughtful' Slllrfce for* a few minutes. , Tlien he said "'Bout that:there tunnel Job; somethin' like two lyin?htfteVhousniid. we flugerd thaC?^fcsf, with" no had luc^, , didn't . "Tinrt .^te^^^gnre." "AiiVIr ""ffpn^olf. X 'hurley Bullerton wu>v.wUl^vj.tjft give you fifty thousand for your rights?though now you say ltd?s shaved It down to forty. That'll jneiMM-aH investment of at least two hundred and fifty thousand; all u-goln' out at?d nothln* a-comln' In. %Let's see where that's fetch in' us to. 1 don't knowNwhut your gran'paw paid for the mine, hut it was* less'n half a million, and I reckon he paid ever' dollur it was worth, don't you?" J?oul>t?ss he did," I admitted. '""JfiMto'ere's where we land," lie went on speculatively. "Two hundred und fifty thousand tacked onto lialf a million gives her a capital xrt three-quarters of a million sunk in -her, first und last. Question Is:' Is s)ie worth it?" j I was 'begfrinl'ng to get his Idea at lust. He was wondering if a mine thnt had once sold at a top-notch price of. hqlf a million eould stand , the Inves^feent of a quarter of a million additional and still hope to be~ a paying proposition. "You mean t.hut Bullerton Is figuring upon spending a quarter of a mil- j lion more on Itf' I queried. "Nope; I reckon 1.can't. There's t?K> nigger in the woodpile, somewhere*, Stunnie, as surev*s-you're born." "Can you carry it any further?" "Nope; I reckon I can't.. There's too many darned things a-puz/.lln'.. me. . One of .'era is where in Sam Hill' did ! Charley Bullerton get all the money that he's flashln' around so peacocky?" j ., "I don't know where he got It, but he has-it, all right; carries it with him," I said sourly. "Yes; but see here, Stannle, son, I I'll bet a flee dog worth a hundred dol 1 Ijurs that it 'ain't his money." ' " '"'What makes you say that 7' "Well, for one thing, because I know Charley Bullerton ^ been knowln' hlui since Adam was "a little boy In kneebreeches. He can't keep any uioney of his own; just naturally alfe't bunt"' ttiat-away." ,'tflambles it?" I suggested. "Big gambles, yea; stocks, and. tbaf sort *>' trurk." tfo slr-ee; thesa-yellcrhacks he's a-tlashlrV around ain't hls'n, not by a long chalk, Jfttrh I'dM)et onr'it.' Somebody else Ur settln' "eui ,i|p; and llj tluit's so, Stannle, there'? ? reason for It." .. .j t 4"Sure," I conceded. Then: 'Could you make a long, high, running ^ump and guess at the reason, Daddy??' "Not so 's lt'd sh(Jd *ogethejj, I' reckon,"- he ftplled* dhblou?pj."- '.TJvit there's a few little notices' 'At wl'Ve. picked up from folks AitdTs fe*lilh? In this neck o* woods .tMtall afh-^iTeen her^ longer. The old Cinnuhar never was what you'd call a 'bonanza.' Plenty of. ore, to l>e sure, but'lnostly lowgrade, 'ceptlng them rlch~rftffe pockets now and then." * * "Those rich pockets," I put In. "A strike of one of them would b? about the right time to sell. Wouldn't lt^" He nodded. , . , > . "You're '.shouJW^nbw. v..IV rei^ten that's about "tttiw v?ey caught "your gran'pnw. Hut Jtuddy Fuller?JWs the Tropla telegraph opefa([oV and a sort o' half-way nephew 0'' mine?says there's more to It than that. 'I*oiik back couple o!-years.-'r so there was a copper strlkfMUiude in Dlttlq Cinnabar gulch, al?out four inlle west o' here, and, follerln* It there was a heap o* talk about the railroad runnln' a branch to It. That tlthrt* brunch, If It was huUt?'r when- It'a^ built, for It'a goln' to be, some day, to open theni copper rolne?7-that there branch 11 go *"***"? ' "" . ?trom the ore sheds Into the cars.'*" I be gab to see more crooking* In the sacrificial road over which Grand* father .Jasper .had been led; man/ more and mere, devious ones . **Tn that case, even the low-grade Cinnabar would come a bit nearer being a bonanza, wouldn't It?" I asked. "She sure would, Stunnle. That long, hard wagon haul to Tropin was what was puttln' the cuss In the cost o* haudlln'." "And with the railroad right at the j door, so to speak, It might even pay to recapitalize at three-quarteA of a million and drive that long drainage tunnel we have been figuring on?" "Soniethln* like that; yes. Can you see any furder info the millstone? I'll say I've got about to the end of my squiutln!." I refilled, my pt)fl?vand did a bit of cogitating. Supfoslag I bad been the boss figurer In'Vtae bunch that did ' Grandfather Jasper the .honor to bilk him; as conscienceless us that plrute, whoever he wus, and In the segtet of the conditions us Da'ddy had Just outJlned thym, what would I. have, done?" The misB'ur . ? ? ? ? ,.-p. ?.. w - vumiv mo I'm aa |UU please. With a railroad In prospect which would, .turn a small prptlt Into a big oni\. I should quite probably liuve shut tbe uiiue.dutfn to wqi.t until I could henr the whistle of thelocomo-. tlve. ' ^ This conclusion fed propaptly ,and . logically to dnothCi4.**Kupposlpg, at\h#/ moujgati Wbeft-i had Iftfclded upon thfc ^shut-down.- some doflflbrlng old gentleiiiuii hail come..;alujug*irt?d" offered to buy the. inlije?^4. Add, rtu a corollary, the supposition that the wuter problem \W?8 dhliy growing more Insistent, with ,th*?vultimate threat.?f flqod. As an or.dinhry, cnrdcn-variet^ mining sliark, what would 1 have done? ..That . answer cutnfe !jlat,* also. I should bnve taken the bid gentleman's money...trusting to ftie^risitlg flood to make 1dm sick of his-bargain In due | course of time ajjd Uius^willlng to sell out for anything he couhl get. "I believe f" hu've, It jlojped' out," 1 ;tohl Daddy a? "rite" end of tfte cogitating pajtpw; add then1'I passed the Inferences* a long to him. The lmtpedlate effect wnji. .to evoke a couple of Ids quaint substitutes t'or profanity. "Jelioiuchlm-io-brcukfast!" he excbfihied; "I'll be dlng-swizzled If I <lfHr*t believe you've struck the true Jead, Stannic, my son! If you have, here's* whht follers: Charley. Bullerton's here *to do the dlckerlu' for that same old hlgh-blmfirf'"Cinnabar outfit that did your gran'iWvf lip. They sold for half n million Vbo und now they're wlilln' to buy btyck-.rMr thirty or forty of fifty thousand., By Jezebel I I Just knew that slick;toiigued rooster wa? tryln* to work some skin game!" "Yet he Is going to nmrry your daughter," I put In grimly. At this the old man turned gloomyserlpqs.ln the hatting of an eye, drawing his mouth down at the corner and sucking hard at tlie pipe which had long since burned out. "That's been u-plnchln' me like a | tight hoot, Slannle," he admitted. "If you'd ast me afore he come, I'd.'a' told you she hadn't a morsel o' use' for that con-duuuped blo-fthard. But just you look at the way things are stuckln' up now! lie's snoopln' 'round her mighty near all the whole "time and she hain't never once give me the wink ' to send him a-kltln', like I'm Itchln* to!" lit? ioki mo to look. I hnd been looking until my eyes ached. The indications were nil "6nel way, tons of them; with only one little impulsive kiss to put In the other jittn of the scale. I didn't tell Daddy about the kiss; but I did tell him that Jennie had told me not to sell the Cinnabar. "So?" he commented, livening up a little. 'That brings on more tnlk. Reckon you cnn make out to hang onto the old cow's tall for a spell longer?" I took time to consider my ansyver. "I've been wondering if, nil things given their due footing, it were worth while to hang on, Daddy. As matters tftniul now, B'ullerton Is stuck unless I sell out to htm. If I should take my foot in my hand and walk out, he'd l?e left up in the air. But, on the other, hand, there's Jennie. If she's go- I Inp to marry Bullerton, why, that's a horse of another color. I'm not enough of a dog-in-the-manger to bite hor nose off to spite Bullerton's face." ^ "Uni," \Vns - the grunted response. Then, with a side swlj>e that I wasn't looking for: "(.'barley'Bullerton's been *. hiajln' ' round that you're tied up with ' a girl back. East. Is-tfcat"'sd??-or 1s it oa'y another, oiie.0* Ida frilly lfesT' I laughed. "I wish I knew, Daddy; I'd sure tell you If I would anybody. We were t really engrtge'd?the hack-East girl and , I: hut Vdon't tldnk we are now, and 1^don't thlhk-she'thinks so. Anyway, slfe called it all off wlfen we found out Mr thought we-fftfuftd out^tlwifc my igfandfnther hadn'flkft me anything In "his will. She's like Jennie gays she Is, you know: she's got to marry. . money." . "Jus' so," he said, with a rather j grim glint In the' fidld blue eyes. "All tilt4*same. If yftu'lind the old Cinnabar .lit slap up workln' or<l*j>, I resrkng jlouM . .have ?o go hack yonder AlftL marry 1**,. wouldn't, ye?" ' , j'T'dshe irt* honor bound fd ofrer to, ijp.y^SW.v." J':... don't sound much like you was carlo' a whole lot for her.'V.het, objected gravely. * * \* * * H(*d^l?alred In advance of ..making 1 lilrtf lAiderstiiiiil the Inolr <?f cimtlmoia In th* cast', ?>r the viewpoint * from j w^jch-nVy such condition could be considered^ as a human possibility. He wnn much too film pie-hearted. So 1 got rhl of the Llsette obstacle, or got ipound It. a?* best I could, i "She has been free for several weeks, j .ntaw; in all probability she Is wearing 'gome other fellow's ring by this time. Hut nbout the Cinnabar: assnnting , that my string of guesses Is hitched 'up to {he true state of affairs, what * would ? .?u advise me to do? Shall ! I hang on?with no prospect, that, I ! can see, of getting anywhere on my ~wn hook? Or shall i sill out to Rut* lerton and thus-let your daughter la for a wife's share of a possible fortune f . . "Oosh-all-hemlock I" be Rputtered, 'when you line It up that-away, I reckon I alnt the man to tell you what to'dol" Then, as upon a second and belated -thought: "Jeanle says for yon 1 no$ to eelT; If-she atftd that to ma, Td bang on till the cows corps home. I jrartdmi" "a-- ? "aiiJ that,* Pail<l v. Is precisely what i * I'm going to do," I said \ and the say- [ ^ frig of It ended the conference In the 1 abandoned tunnel of the "Little Jennie." ?5 S CHAPTER X. o 1 The Deep-Wells. <1 The next morning I turned out at Jl break of day, before anybody else was up, slipped Into my clothes, straight- ' ened up my hunk, and dropped through " the ladder hatchway to the main-deck. '' I bad told myself that the reason J' for the daybreak turn-out was a desire to see If the railroad people really had been sufficiently In earnest about the ^ proposed copper mine branch to make J' a survey for It; but the true underly- X Ing push was a biting reluctance to fl have anything more tq flo ^glth Hullerton< or eren to sit at tab & .with hi in. I " Tiptoeing through tht|gianinon rpom. n so as not to Make Dandy Hiram, I broke Into .fesnle'e klttyien arid raided 0 the cupboard for a bite of something o Raided the Cupboard for a Bite of t Something to Eat. t to eat. There was plenty, of bread, t and some eold fried ham, and cutting (< a couple' of generous sandwiches, I t hiked out to make my breakfast in . s the open. s The sandwiches disposed of, I began , to quarter The bench woodland back t and forth, searching for some indlca- . tions of the railroad survey. In due time I found one .of the 'location stakes, and from its facing and the markings on it, got the direction of the proposed line and was able to trace It for some distance along the bench. As Dad- ( dy hud said, it ran within a few hun- . dred yards of the Clnnabur claim, and a short sidetrack would make his sug- * gestion perfectly feasible; our ore . could be shot into the cars with but a Ingle handling. , * From tracing the railroad survey, I edged around to take another look at " the possibilities of the drainage tunnel J Daddy and I had figured on. Going ov*r the ground this second time, and with some better knowledge of the difficulties, it appeared that we must have ( ridiculously underestimated the prob- f able cost. Pacing the distances carefully, and guessing at the differences v In altitude by the helgbta of the trees, 1 saw that it wouldn't be safe U> count ' upon less than a mile of tunneling, and this. In the solid porphyry of Old Clnnabur, and in a situation remote ( from the nearest base of supplies, would run?no, it wouldn't run; it would fairly gallop Into money. " Was this what Bullerton meant fo do * lf*he could oust me? "that he was ut- * terly confident of his. ability to drain * the Cinnabar was evident. But how c U'flH It t n ho lllltio V \U1.1 ha a- hi- t .... > ?w -'-w wvaav f? WUIU UV| VI lllfl I backers, be willing tts spend a qiiarter of a million-or more, arid the better n part of a year's time, driving that d mile-long tunnel? . n Tlie longer I thought about It, the r lurger the conviction* grew that no s such'expensive exj**dlent wi}s..to. be n resorted to. JBullerton, *or ms blocker*,, .0 or. v^oth, khMfr 'home r dtffcr find far t cheaper and. /tiv?fp .expeditious;.way of v getting rid, of lb'?"- wfctQr. Sitting on "a f big rock that iuid lu sygie;fqnner earth f convulsion s<tuinblQd from the broken a cliffs, above the mine, I gave the me- t clwnnkal fraction of nfy brain (itf was * a snjull .-frottlot) 'and sadly unrter-develpped) frge reWi.'b- ' ^ Two possibilities. suggested themselves. A slphonc-n big pipe,, Storting at the bottom df tlfri" shaft and leading' _ out over the \np ami down the mountain to 'b polfit lower tljan the shaft 1 bottom, Wduld.* after *'lt wOs once sturtcd, irutomatlcklly discharge a 1 stream of Its ,o\yn bigness, whatever that should he. Hut IbQ -cost of Over I a inlie of such pipe was- beyond my | ineauH; aiu( If two six-Inch pumps j driven n'gttt 'and day had failed to , make any-' Impression itpon the flood, J what! could ki' expected' of" a siphon | which,, la the hatrire of firing*. couldn't J be ..iruah 4lggar than' an ordinary 1 street water main? The oklier possibility wax ev#n less ] -n ? J ? - 5 aviieiw.j. II was yie driving or a short tunnel* which fhuidy and 1 might undertake AvMhlut additional hely, from the letek of'Liie;hlgh bench straight in to hi) Intersection with th^ mine shaft. This, I estimated, might' tap the water at a point possibly twenty feet below ita. present Ipvel in the shaft. Its ?uecess. us I 'saw ,at once. ,wpuld depend entirely upon the location and volume of the underground lake which was supposed {0 he supplying the; flood. If ' this resepvott* were shsjldw and high In ,the mountain, the v short tunnel might-drain It. If it wete deep and I low,. notiilUg would be accomplished. The.-question was atfll hanging hopelessly ijp In the air when I made my way aropnd to thy mine buildings by the left-hand gulqh path, snenked in attd began 'to 'shuck myself into Daddy's extru .pair of overalls; Just for what, I hadn't the least Idea; only I needed to be. (Jo.ng something to keep me frqm going completely dotty In the guesAlng contest. By this time, as I knew, they would be getHiif np from breakfast in the . .. ? ? ^ V loibTcr?hl^e!unf^ ilghfprhttf Cigars and swaggering a b lit, as Jut always did In wiilklng. j ^ "Tills Is your thlrty-thousand-dollar C lay, R'roughton," lie tossed ut me as ^ 0011 as lie stepped over the threshold if the shaft house door; but I fancied could notice that, some way, he J lldn't seem quite so chipper and eareess as he had the day before. "See here," I ripped out; "what's he use? You can't buy this mine at ny price! It's not In the market and t Isn't going to he. Not In a thousand ears!" | "Rut see here; what's the use of 0 titling your head against a stone wall? ,, 'ou're stuck, world without end, and | ou know It. This flooded hole in the | round Is of no more use to you than j sl i pair of spentacleg to a blind man!" ( S "Perhaps not; ''tis a poor thing, hut 1 a nine own.' I guess I can keep it as j 0 souyenir If I feel like It. can't I?" ' f: "Oh. h?1!" he gritted, and turning m his heel went away. ^ After lie hftd gone I patted myself n the back a bit for not losing n.y emper and then, just to have an ex use for staying away from the cabin nd the Bullerton vicinity. I made fires ei inder the hollers and-got up steam. In '. be former pumping spasm. Daddy ami | s had operated only the. two-big cen- | j, rlfugnls, Ignoring the de&'p-weH pumps ; ^ eslgned to lift 'the whter from the1 uwer levels of the mine. Just to try sbinethlng tliut we hadn't 1 rled before, I got steam oh the deep relters," and soon found that the G nachlnery, which we hadn't takei own In the general overhauling, iceded tinkering before It would be nfe to run It. Banking the hoilet Ires, I went at the Job single-handed nd managed to wear out the livelong lay at It. It took me all the afternoon and J en some to get the machinery cleaned ind tinkered up and reassembled. In rawing over the supplies in the mine toreroom?stuff left by the former op rotors?we had found an acetylene tare torch and a can of carbide and 1 Igged the torch so that I could go on working after dark. It was along about nine o'clock when got the deep-wells ready to run and reshened up the tires and turned the . team on. In curious contrast to the are which had been taken to provide discharge outlet for the centrifugals, he Cornish pumps had merely an iron rough which ran to a ditch-lending _ lown to the bench below the mim tuildings. After n few minutes of the lanking and hanging, the water began o come. It was horribly smelling tuff, thick and discolored; evidences ufilcient that It was coining from the lottom of the mine. The two pumps ogether were lifting about an eight.neb stream, and it occurred to me at nice that If 1 could set the eentrifu fals going at tile same time, the mass ittack might accomplish what the dece-mcal assault couldn't. Throwing In the clutch that drove he hig rotaries, 1 ran up against what ? )addy would have called u "clrcuin I itance." There wasn't power enough o drive both sets of pumps coupled ? n together; at least, not with the (team pressure the boilers were curbing. Thinking to get more power by lushing the fires a bit harder, I went o the detached boiler room to stoke ip, leaving the deep wells clanging iway In the shafthouse. I had fired wo of the furnaces and was at work ?n the third when a series of griming crashes in the ninclilnopv c..? ..... ^ - J "V..I iiir 1 lying to find out what was going vrong. What was happening?what had already happened?was a plenty. As I mve said, the great Cornish waterlfters were driven through a train ?t gearing. When I reached the scene, he steam engine was still running imoothly, hut the pumps had stopped. The reason didn't have to be looked or with a microscope. The gear-truin ? vas a wreck. with orle of the wheels ^ smashed Into bits, and half of the ^ ogs stripped from Its mesh-mate. If hat's what you'd call It. Meehnp.!cn"y I stopped the engine ^ nd went to view the remains. The 13 eep-wells were done for?there was ^ 10 question about that; they'd never C un again until a new set of gears C hould he installed. That much deter- 1 nlned, I began to look for the cause j' f.the calamity. Naturally, I supposed j hat a cracked cog In One of the wheels nqd given way, and with this ? or a ytarter, ^the general smash would i ollow as a matter of course. But j k" carjfil and even nalnful scrutiny of ^ be wnwkuge failed to reveal the cog ^ rlth tbe anci<:ut fracture. Euch break Ii i ' (Continued on last page) (_ VOObTotf SUBSCRIPTION?The C Advertiser will accept wood in j C payment for subscriptiot. ! A ?? ? |S BBDPPOBBBDBBDv BB on 2 Indigestion g j B Many persons, otherwise O A M vigorous and healthy, are D 1 Q[ bothered occasionally with Q 1 Q Indigestion. The effects of e. g 'I disordered stomach on the I 2 system are dangerous, and t 2 prompt treatment of indigos- B C ?| tion la Important. "The only Q| I j medicine I hare seeded has n been something to aid dlgee- I ' B tion and clean the liver," QI i B writes Air. Fred Ashby, a M l McKinney, Texas, farmer. j / B "My medicine is S3 Thedford's S BLACK-DRAUGHT; B f?r Indigestion and stomach M i p5 trouble of any kind. I hare 5 ; i B never found anything that B , B touches the spot, like Black- M| mm; Draught I take It in broken 25 A H doses after meals. For a long B J B timp I tried pills, which grip- H f Bed and didn't give the goOd M ^ results.- Blaok-Draught liver H ' B ' medicine Is easy to take, easy Q ' to keep, inexpensive" m > 5 < Oet a package from your H C j druggist today?Ask for, and B | j B Insist upon Thedford's?the O ( 9 onlr gsnolna. v fll ' rTT ?*? tate of South Carolina, * louny of Chesterfield, lourt of Common Pleas, lank of Chesterfield, plaintiff. against ohn V. Brown, defendant. COPY SUMMONS FOR RELIEF To the Defendant above named: You are hereby summoned and reuircd to answer the complaint in lis action which is filed in the office f the Clerk of Court of Common leas, and to serve a copy of your nswer to the said Complaint on the ubscriber at his office in Chesterfield, outh Carolina, within twenty day? fter the service hereof; exclusive f the day of such service; and if you iil to answer the complaint within ic lime aforesaid, the plaintiff jn lis action will apply to the Court for ic relief demanded in th<) complaint. M. J. Hoygh, Plaintiff's''Attorney. To John V. Brown, the above namd defendant: Yoll will nlpaan - 11?1 11 ? ..? ,?-uv L?r\v iiuuve Liiui me ummons, Complaint and all other apers in the above case are on file i the offic$vof. the Clerk of Court, or Chesterfield County, South Carona. M. J. Hough, t-8 Plaintiff's Attorney L. H. TROTTI, Dental Surgeon Chesterfield, S. C. Office on second floor in Ross J. ARTHUR KNIGHT Attomey-at-L-aw Office in Courthouse Choeterheld. S. C. R. L. McMANUS Dentist Cheraw, S. C. At Chestereld, Monday A Pageland, Tuesday, .t Mt. Croghan, Wednesday morning Ruby, Wednesday afternoon Society Hill, Thursday Cheraw, Friday and Saturday THE UNIVERSAL CAR CARS, TRUCKS, TRACTORS SERVICE PARTS .UCAS AUTO CO. COUNTY TA State Ordinary County Roads Bridges otal '.VtOVOtrr ** larburg irange Hill ... 'uts Branch 'ee Dee *. uutTord tethel leuter Point . Ihesterfleld 'arker , . 'ine Grove Luby hiloh .now Hill tafford aughan Vamble Hill Hack Creek lenter lenter Grove .v.... Iross Roads it. Croghan luby Voxford Vinzo lion SufTulo >udley 'ive Forks langum 'ageland Mains lion ingelus lenter Grove /larks efferson dacedonia 'lains '. lay Springs Ireen Hill /eland liddendorf IcBee 'rovidence Igndyfitun Jnion lay Springs iear Creek iethesda uniper . liddendorf 'a trick 'ats Branch Branch ihiloh Itaiford Vhite Oak /at Pond uniper )u?ley 'atrick . Mttton iaiptu Fixing TV* BUme ^ There had been an affecting scene in the woodshed, at the conclusion of which Harry asked his father, between sobs: "Did your father whip you when you were little?" "He did?when I was naughty," said dad. "And did his father whip him when he was litle?" continued the culprit. "Yes, Ilarry." "And was he whiped when he was little?" "Yet," said dad. There was a momentary silence, and then Harry exclaimed: "Well, who started it, anyway?" DISCHARGE NOTICE On 15th March, 11)22, at 11 o'clock A. M., I will apply to the Probate Court for a discharge as Administrator of the^estate of E. C. AdamH, deceased. J. F. Campbell, Administrator. CITATION NOTICE The State of South Carolina, County of Chesterfield. By M.J. Hough, Probate Judge: Whereas R R * - ?. vi?jr mauc SUIt tU me to grant him Letters of Administration of the Estate and Effects of Mary Adaline Gay, deceased. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kindrod and creditors of the said Mary Adaline Gay, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Chesterfield, S. C., on March 7, next, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said administration should not be granted. Given under my hand this 20th day of February, Anno Domini 1922. M. J. Hough, Probate Judge. CITATION NOTICE The State of South Carolina, -e County of Chesterfield. By M. J. Hough, Probate Judge: Whereas, Cora E. Gardner made suit to me to grant her Letters of Administration of the Estate and effects of M. D. Gardner, deceased. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said M. D. Gardner, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Chesterlield, S. C., on Gth day of March next, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said administration should not be granted. Given under my hand this Gth day of February, Anno Domini 1922. , M. J. Hough, Probate Judge. X LEVY 1921 12 mills 6 mills 6 mills 1 mill 28 mills c/3 : i Tj. UJ F H g C O r> o o to o =r C n rm P O O ? to ? ? o ? ? m I " ~ w r la. g" i c o g 8 O ?11 g. ? * ? 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