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?. -- UND> ^W^FRANCIS (C**ll?u?d from Uit wnk) . r - 1 gnAPIM A 111. A Battle and a 8l?ps. i It wu Daddy Hiram who made the flrat break. I "Charley Bullerton, Where's my J ? daughter*" he rapped out, hurling the 1 question at the loafer on our doorstep l In a sort of deadly rage that you < wouldn't have thought possible in so i mild-mannered a man. i "You needn't worry .about her." was I the cool response. "Didn't you get the t note she left for you, saying that you < needn't ?" Then, as If be had Just seen I and recognized me: "Hello, Brough- < ton; we've missed a day, but I'll give I you the benefit of It and not dock you. i Are you selling the old water-logged ; Cinnabar for twenty thousand dollars : this fine morning? It'll probably save i you more or less trouble If you are." J He didn't get the kind of answer he i wanted; or any relating to the mine, i Unbuckling Jeanle's gun and handing < It to Daddy Hiram, I walked across to where he was sitting, keeping a wary I ye on the hand which would have to be the one to go after the weapon he had once showed me hanging under his left arm-pit. "lfr. Twombly has Just asked you where his daughter Is, and you haven't told him," I gritted. "You've got about teu seconds In which to tell him all you know, and after you've done It, I'm going to trim you I" He hud scrambled to his feet when he saw me coming, and. Just as I expected, that watched right hand flicked suddenly under his coat. At that I rushed him and we mixed It promptly. * I got hold of the guu hand before It iui iv me piHioi duic, ana at the clinch i we were all over the place, each grappling for the underhold, and neither of na paying much attention to the rules, Marquis of Queensberry or other. Bullerton was a heavyweight; he had probably fifteen pounds the advantage af me In that direction; but after I had got the thumb of my free hand upon a certain spot In his neck. It was all aver hut ifce funeral. i Jehu 1 how he swore when I <runv pled him, and took his gun away froa- 1 htm, and slammed him down on a bed ! ef broken stone and stuck a knee Into his breathing machinery. But he couldn't do anything? the thumb-Jab bad fixed him. His head was skewed (1 ever to one aide and he couldn't straighten It. I groped around until 1 J found that other paralyzing nerve ganglia?the one at the Joint of the third vertebra. "Listen to what he saja. Daddy !" I said to the old man who stood looking en with the face of a wooden Image. Then to Hullerton, vrtio was now merely a wad of flesh gone flaccid under U>e torturing touch: 'Tell what you know, and all you know; and tell It fuick and straight I" and I gave him Jehul How Ho Sworol no more little prod on the agony nerve. U'ltK ? ?I- - -?- '? -? " WW atM m inWDUlliat/ RliriVK 110 101 II at by littles, gasping between the words and phrases like a man ft the last stages of lockjaw. "We were going to Angels?to get married," he panted. "Ah?oh?I was to meet her at Atropla?she?she was afraid tf^rlde all the way with tn?? afraid?the old man?would cothe gunning I Oh, for God's sake, Broughton, take your thumb out of my back? you're killing me by Inches I" "You need a little killing worse than ^anybody I know," I told him. "Go on; <jrou were to overtake her at Atrqpla; <what thonf" "X didn't see her again!" he howled, don't know where she went!" X didn't believe much of what be eras saying, and I think Daddy Hiram didn't, though we had proved H true up to the point where they had separated on the Atropla road. I would 1 y have gone on, making him talk soma I more, hot the look that was creeping ; Into the >old man's eyes made dm let up. As I reed the look It meant that Daddy eooldn't aland It to see the ? third-depoe Stoat carried to its finish | se I got up and pulled Bnllerton to h> fMtke was pretty badly wrecked. lDOGj EVSHN ( rsSHBNijrtrswa^^ - ?... '"? ?*">*. ^ ^" perhaps "It "Wat. "This outfit la my property, and you've out-atayad your welcome r I mapped at him. "Climb your horse ind get off the map 1M Ho limped over to his horse and gathered the reins and tried to put a Foot {into the stirrup. When I saw that |he couldn't do oven that much, I grabbed him and heaved him Into the saddle; did this, and gave the horse a slap (to set him gdlng. I guess I shall always be able to recall the picture of that, brown-bearded pirate riding acro$? the Cinnabar dump head In the rarly morning sunshine, screwing hla body In the saddle?because he couldn't turn the stiff-necked head by Itself?to yell back at me with si*sling. curses, "I'll get you?I'll get you yet! D?n your eyes?do you think you ,can make a hobbling cripple of me gnd get away with it? I'll?" and then breaking It off short and kicking the fibs of his nag frantically for more speed when I made as If I were going to run after him. Throughout this bit of belligerent by-play, which hadn't used up more than a few minutes, all told, Daddy Hiram had stood aside, as I have said, taking the part of the Interested spectator. Now he remarked: "You can het all your old clothes, son, that we hain't seen the last o' Chprley Bullerton, not by a long chalk. You rtcollect r told you once he'd got a man, down , In one o* the camps on the Saguache? , Well, it was for a heap less than what { ypu done to htm a few minutes ago. Rut let's go eat." I passed through the cabin to the , out-kltchen and while I was kindling a Are In the stove I saw Daddy with an armful of hay and a peck measure of oats, tolling the little horse down the path back to the cabin to disappear wlvji It in the direction of the , gulch where the abandoned "Little Jeanle" claim lay. I had the coffee , made and the bacon fried by the time , he got back, and after we had eaten , he blossomed out In an entirely new role?thrff of commander In chief. , "This Is niovin' day, Stannle," he announced briefly. "If you'll dig up all the cliuck and canned stuff you , can And and tote it over to the shaftbouse, 1'U fetch the blankets and the ( cook In' tins." ( I obeyed blindly, and antlrely. with- , out nrsludlcs to a lively curiosity as , to wh*t this new move might mean. While I was emptying the kitchen and pantry the old man unearthed another rifle from the closet under the left lad. i der, and with It * box of ammunition; and 1 observed that thle second gun, j like tha one he had carried en our pilgrimage of the night, looked as If It had been freshly oiled and rubbed , up ev?*7 day since It had left the fae- , tory. "Teu'U have a lot of talking to do presently," I warned him. "You seem to forget that you haven't yet told me what's biting you." "Maybe there ain't nothln' bltln' me; maybe I'm just gettln* sort o' old and skeery. But It's thla-away, Stannte, son: Elver since your gran'paw gave ' me this hers watehln' Job, and since I heard tell how them Cripple Creek short-card artists socked It to him on this Cinnabar deal, I been lookln' for trouble. I hain't been easy about them Cripple Creek holdups nary a day since your gran'paw told me to stay here and hold the fort for Mm." "You thought perhaps the original owners might try to grab the property by forceT' Daddy looked up at me from under his bushy eyebrows. " 'Peers to me like you've got a mighty short Memory, seme way, StanDie. Have you done forget that bunch o' huskies wg saw campln' out In Antelope gulch as we come along by there at daybreak this raornln'T I didn't like the looks o' that camp much at the lime; and I liked It a whole lot lees after wa got here and found Charley BoUerton sunnin' himself 09 the doorstep. Made me sort o' perk up my ears." "But, see here. Daddy," I thrust 1^ "If he's got nay deed, or has destroyed It, why?" "Why. ha has as mood a rtrht to th? Cinnabar a* the next one that cornea along, la what you're goto' to say. I ain't dlsputln' yon for a minute. But afore he can have It, he's got to take It, hain't he? And we're got two mighty good 11T pieces of artillery that says he's goln' to have one Joyful old time a-takln' It; that is, if you're of the same mind that 1 am." By Jove! I wanted to put my arms around the old Spartan and hug him I As I've said, there were ten or a dozen men In that bunch we'd seen In the gulcb, and he was calmly proposing to stand up to them, as confidently as If It were all In the day's work. "I get you now. Daddy," I said, "and If there's a flgl* coming to us, your mind is mine. Wall give them the best we're got" I thought the two old-fashioned guns and Jeanie's pistol promised a poor chance for an effectlre defense; but Daddy Hiram proceeded to show me that we had at least one ether resource. In the mine stores left behind by the former operating company were two boxes of slxty-per-ceot dynamite, with fuse and caps, and Daddy pointed | out that there were good possibilities wrapped up In the greasy brown-paper cartridges if the enemy should come , sloes enough to let us use them. "I believe yon had this all doped est , In adrance, Daddy," I said, when he had s aeat little rew of the cartridges i - ? - ' " H 1 ' * "* * *' * T .7] 1 lAjpwr^wwpjWBiWHjpw^ rm you oar "Me and Jeanle," he said simply. *W**d 'a' done oar level beat; and the angels couldn't do no more than that." Here, unless the old man was sadly Btlgtaken In bis daughter, was another and wholly unsuspecter side of the blue yedi maiden displayed for me. 1 tried to Imagine Lisette helping her father, or me, -or any lone man, to defend a beleaguered mine against an armed attack. It was so funny that I shouted. "Do you mean to say that Jeanle would shut herself up In here and load the guns for you against a mob of mine Jumpers 7" . He looked up with a prldeful sparkle In his mild blue eyes. MYou don't half know that Utile girl o' mine, yet, Stannle, son," he said earnestly. And then: "She's the only boy I aver had, you see; and she hain't had gny mother since she can remember. Maybe I hadn't ort to taught her to ride hawsses and shoot, and them things; but it seemed Uke I had to." "You haven't made her one lota less womanly?or lovable," I hastened to say. Then I blurted out the thing that had been weighing on me ever since we had found Bullerton loafing on the door-step: "Do you suppose they could ?Is there any way they could have been married yesterday, Daddy?" "Uh-huh; I reckon there was. They might 'a' gone on down to Angels. There's a Justice o* the peace down there." It still lacked a full hour of noon when we got our preparations made and "were ready to stand a siege. Then we waited, and waited some more; and after a while I began to grin. What If WP hnil Htxmnpduil allrm.lvna nuarl. lessly? After all, the men we ha?l seen In the deep gulch might really have been trumps, and not a Bullerton army. Would the mining engineer, unprincipled as he doubtless was, go to the length of trying to dispossess us by force? The more I thought of it, the more unlikely It seemed. "I guess maybe we were scared of a shudow, after all, Daddy," I said. "Bullerton has had time enough to bring up his army, if he has one," "I ain't countjn* much on his backln* down," was the drawling rejoinder. "Ye see, 1 know Charley Bullerton of old; keen knowln' him ever since he tlrst bu'sted into the mlnln' game. That was over In the 8aganche. He's en all-'round cuss, but he's a stayer. Bolides, you roughed him up sort o' hurtful thlc mornin', and he's got that to make him spltey. We'll be heatin' from him as soon as be gets things yanked 'round Into shape to unit him." Still, as time passed and nothing happened, It looked less and leas likely that we were going to have to fight for our holding ground. ( don't know to this good day what made Bullerton 10 slow In bringing up his army, but t was high noon, and Daddy and I were eating a cold luncheon, with the shaft-house door^s!'.! for a seat, when we saw the army coming. It was a straggling gang of perhaps a dozen men; we couldn't count them accurately because the road on the bench wound In and out among the trees. They came up within easy rifle shot md pitched their camp, if you could call it that, In a little glade. At that distance we could see that they were rmeti. hut. ef course, we couldn't tell what kind ef guns they had. After they had taken possession of the small open apace, two of them set to work to build a cooking fire. At the halt in the glade one of the party?Bullerton, we guessed It was? broke a branch from a pine, atrlpped the twigs from it. and made it a flagstaff for his white handkerchief. Under this flag of truce he and two of his Daddy and I War* Eating Whan Wa Saw tha Army Coming* men came on, leaving their guns behind. There was a climb of about thirty feet, maybe, coming ap from the bench to the mn-.n ?ht?h tha mine buildings stood, so we got a fairly good look at the peace party before It came within talking distance. Bullerton still bad a slight touch of the wry-neck, and the devil-may-care Jauntlness which had been his chief characteristic as a guest of the Twomblys had been wiped from his face and manner like a picture from a blackboard. As the thrpe of them topped the rise in the ore rood I reached behind me and got one of theMVinchesters. "That's near enough I" I called out "Do your talking from there, If you've anything to say." The delegation halted and Bullerton took a paper from his pocket. "I'm serving legal notice upon you, Rroughton," he said, waving the paper at me, "and I have two witnesses here, as the law requires. I represent the Cinnabar Mining company of Cripple Creek. Ton are trespassing on our property and I am making a formal demand -for possession." *80 that's the new wrinkle, is It!" I laughed. "I was hoping you might spring something a little more original. Bow are yon going to prove ownership!" "The burden of proof isn't en us; It's 00 yeor he ripped out. "Tee . . A . % , ? 4Tt|s a forgery; a clumsy, childish 1 forgery that wouldn't Impose upon a I ( blind man t We can send you to the I ' rock pile on the strength of It If we I want to 1" Since he had stolen the deed out of . my pocket, I thought, of course, that he was Just bluffing about Its being a , forgery. Me must have known per- . fectly well that It wasn't. But Daddy waB whispering In my ear as he sat behind me. Something like this: ' "Oosh-all-Friday, Stannle, he's got you goin'l He's made a copy o' the deed and throwed the 'rlglnal away?burnt It up, *r somethln' !" "You have It all your own way, Bullerton?or you think you have," I told him; and If I didn't get all of the self- 1 confidence Into the words that I tried ' to, 1 am persuaded that he didn't know the difference. "I might even concede _ that you have everything but the mine Itself. If you want that, you may 1 come and take It; but you'll permtt me to say that when you break Into this shaft-house there will be fewer people alive on Cinnabar mountain than there are at the present moment I shall quite possibly be one of the dead ones, but before I go out I shall do my best ( to make you another." J "All right" be snapped back; * "you're speaking for yourself, and that's your privilege, e: But J?ow about you, Twombly? This la no qnarrei of youre. Suppose you gotover yonder to your cabin and stay out of the fight. Nobody wauls to hurt you." That put It pretty squarely up to ( me, too, so I turned to the old man at my side. "It's good advice, Daddy," I said; "and this Isn't your quarrel. You'd better duck while you can." rt?#),( ? . ?- ?- -* 1 ....j uiioiu umuo uu rvyiy ll ail to me; didn't pay any attention to me. Instead, he stood np on the door-sin and shook his fist at Bullerton. "I been lookln' for you and your kind o a crowd for a year back, Charley Bullerton, and drawln' pay . fox doln' It I" he shrilled. "Stannle, here, says If you want this mine yen can coine and take It, and, by yuramies, I say them same Identical words 1" "All right," said Bullerton again, "But It's only fair to say that we outnumber you six to one, and we've got the law, and a few deputy sheriffs, oq our side. You two haven't as much show as a cat In hell without claws, and when the circus Is over, you'll both go to jail, If there's enough left of you to stand the trip." Then, as he was turning to go he flipped the deed Into the air so that It fell at our feet. "You may have that," he sneered. > "We'd like nothing better than to have you produce It In court." It didn't seem Just fitting to let him have the last word, so I pitched a small ultimatum of my own after him as he herded his two scoundrelly looking "witnesses" Into the downward roud. "One thing more. Bullerton," I called out. "Your flag of truce holds only until you get back to your army. If you or any of your men are In sight of Cinnabar property ten minutes after you reach your camp, we open fire." Since the truce was thus definitely ended, we retired Into our fortress and put up the bars. As we were closing the door? ?*"! rr?oHnjr ?vervthlng snug I asked Daddy what kind of human timber Bullerton was likely to have In his army, and if there were any chance that his boast about having deputy sheriffs In the crowd was to be taken at Its face value. "There's nothln' to the deputy brag. Ike Beasley Is the chief deputy for this end o' the county, and he'd be here himself If that was a posse commytaters down yonder. As for what he has got, there's no tellln*. Most likely he's picked up a fistful o' toughs and out-o'-works down In Angels. There's always plenty o' drift o' that kind hangln' 'round a mlnin' camp." "Fighters?" I queried. "Oh, yes; I reckon so?If fightln' i ivuica euaivr intu WorKlQ ." I With the doom shut and barred I \ climbed up on our breastwork to bring t my ayes on a level with one of the high ] window holes. The ten-minute ultima- i turn Interval had come ta an end, but < the raiders were making no move to t vacate the premises. On the contrary, < their cooking fire was now burning < briskly and they were apparently mak- i lng leisurely preparations to eat. It \ fairly made me schoolboy furious to < see those fellows calmly getting their ( noon meal ready and Ignoring my warning. i "Hand me up one of those dynamite y cartridges!" I barked at Daddy HI- \ ram; and when he complied, I lighted i a match and stuck It to the split end | of the fuse. There was a fizz, a cloud ] of acrid smoke to make me turn my fuce away and cough, and then a frenzied yell from the old man. "Throw It ? good-gosh-to-Frlday ? throw It 1" I * - ?- -- - - i luuiiivtrij hi k*?i ? our mrougn the window opening In some way, and lost my balance on the earth bags doing It, "Throw Itl Good-Goah-to. Friday I : Thro^ltl" PockJd*^rTh^',cra8hTl>f au Explosion tliat was stlil echoing from the cliffs af the mountain above when the sour fumes of the dynamite rose to float In at the window holes. "G-good gizzards!' stuttered Daddy illratu. "did you reckon I cut them fuses long enough so *t you could hold em In your hands and watch 'em Sum?" "What do I know about fuses:" I lsked, grinning at htm. Then I mountsd the breastwork agnln and looked >ut, prepared to see the entire landicape blown Into shreds. Aside from a few sheets of corrurated Iron torn from the roof of the uljacent ore shed, the landscape ap eared to be fairly intact and still vlth us. But down on the bench beow, the lately kindled cooking fire vns burning In solitary confinement. Hie raiders, to a man, had disap>eared. CHAPTER XIV. Applied Hydraulics. "They've skipped." I reported to >addy, as I climbed down 'from the arth sncks. "and that showr us the lunllty of the humanity stuff we have o deal with. Bullerton will never get hat bunch to rush us In the open." "That's something gained, anyway." sahl the old man; "and ever' 1IT bit helps. But If they ain't goln' to take it standin' up, we got to look out for Inlln J-'-'- - " " uviua; me snaKe-in-the-grass? triad. Charley Bullerton ain't goto' to quit none so easy," Nerertheless, (or an hour or more, It looked as if the jumpers had quit, to due time the cooking fire in the little glade burned out, and no one came to rekindle it. Aronnd and about the solemn silence of the mountain wilderness ringed us In, and it was hard to realize that the siege had not Seen abandoned?though we knew well enough It hadn't We put In the time as best we could, tinkering up our defenses and trying to provide for all the contingencies. For one thing, Daddy found a big auger and used It to bore loopholes at rarlous places through the wall, by neans of which we could command the approaches to the shaft-house on two )f the three exposed sides. Eastwardy, the blacksmith shop Intervened between us and the boiler shed?It was >ullt as a lean-to against that side of the shaft-house?and In that direction ve were necessarily blind. The fourth ?lde, as I have snW, faced an abrupt 'liff of the mountain, a rocky wall Islng to maybe twice the height of the buildings and almost overhanging them. At Its summit this clifT npered off Into a steep upward slope. )are of timber; hence we were comparatively secure from attack In that luarter. As to provisioning we were not so padly off. Daddy Hiram, well used In lis long experience as a prospector to lgurlng upon the longevity of "grubstakes," estimated that, what with the aimed stuff, part of a sack of flour, ind another of cornmeal, we could live 'or a week, though the cooking was colng to he rather Inconvenient. For t fire we should have to resort to the 'orge In the blacksmith shop, and the ihop was nothing hut an open-crnckod ihed, as I have described it entirely ndefenslble If the raiders siiiiiiiii conclude to rush It. In the fulness of time the period of suspense came to an end, and we were jlven audible proof that Bullerton bad Inally made his "dispositions," as an trmy man would say. The announcement came In the form of a rifle bullet ripping through the roof of the shaftlouse as If the stoat Iron roofing had >een so much paper. "The fun's a-beglnnln'," said Daddy; tnd the words were hardly out of his month before another bullet came, this time from the opposite direction, and It, al^o, tore through the roof. "Got u? surrounded," Daddy grlmtced, when a third shot came from still mother point of the compass; and vlthln the next fifteen minutes Bullerlon's demonstration was made complete. The shots, fired one at a time, ind at Intervals of a minute or so, ame from all three of the exposed fides of the building, and the time dapalng between the ripping crashes ?n the roof and the crack of the guns ;old us that the marksmen were all srell beyond the range of our Winchesters, even If we could have seeu iiem?which we couldn't. Bullerton had evidently .given his men orders to aim at the roof, for It aras only a stray bullet now and then chat came through the walls. After a :lme the purpose of the bombardment >ecame obvious. Bullerton seemed to lave absorbed the Idea that he could (Continued on last page) 8 Tired | kw "I was weak and run-down," Wk M relates Mrs. Eula Burnett, ot 4 A Dal ton, Qa. "I was thin and 9 just felt tired, all the time, 9 9 t didn't rest well. I wasnt U fA erer hungry. J know, by N 9 this, X needed a tonic, and 9 9 as there Is none better than? Rj SCARDUI! | The Woman's Tonic I ^ . 1 began using Cardul," *M continues Mrs. Burnett R "After my first bottle, I slept U jA better and ate better. I took Bd 9 four bottlea Now I'm well, R 9 feel Just fine, eat and sleep, R II my skin Is clear and I hare M fip gained and sure feel that A* S Cardul la the best tonic erer ^ Wt Thousands of other women || Jm hare found Oardui Just as R 9 Mrs. Burnett did. Xt should R V At all druggists. 9 I 11 'V > PERTINENCES If a hen lays for you she doesn't moan any harm by It. Silence "gives" consent Is an old saying, Jut It generally means dissent. To grow old gracefully, a man has to keep as sharp an eye on his clothes as ever. The fellow who thinks the world owes him a living usuully has a hard time collecting. One man's loss is another man's gain. Brown lost his temper and Green gained an enemy. "Man Is the only animal that blushes ?and the only one that has occasion to blush."?Mark Twain. What Is the most useful artlcft on the farm? Now all together, we mjght as well admit It: "Baling wire." v DIDN'T SEE END OF INCIDENT Qap Johnson Had More Important Thing to Attond to Than Witnessing a Hanging. "While I was In Tumllnvllle yesterday," relates Gap Johnson of Rumpus Ridge, Ark., "a mob came r'arln' around a corner hauling along a gent with a rope around his neck, and flung the end of It over a limb within forty feet of me." "Did (hey hong him?" interestedly asked an acquaintance. "Dogged If I know I You see, Just then n feller buntered me for a hoss swap and drug me off to look at his nag, and I didn't leurn how the anecdote cnnie out." "What lmd the gent done?" "Well, I heered somebody say that he'd either been sclllug,boue dry llcker to the mob ok else ne'd refused to do so; 1 to ask which."?Kansas City Star. HIS BATHS COSTLY AFFAIRS Marine Sergeant Major Evidently an Excellent Patron of the Jewelry Store. "Doggone the luck!" said the gob as he flopped Into a chair In the lobby of the Y. M. C. A. "What's the matter?" Inquired the marine sergeant major who was ?fijoylng his afternoon smoke. "I was taking a bath this morning over at the Waldorf-Astoria, and I left my ring In the bathroom. Of course, when I went back for It, the darn ring had disappeared." "Tough luck!" said the sergeant ma- 1 Jor. "Tough luck! You know I leave I a ring In the but broom every time I take a bath. I lost 14 of 'etn In the last eoupla weeks."?The Leutherneck. EGGS?Golden laced Wyandottes, White Wyandottes $1.50 per set- , ting of 15 eggs. ( ltp J. H. Rivers, Chesterfield 4 COUNTY TA> State Ordinary County Roads Bridges Total Cheraw Marburg Orange Hill : Pats Branch Pee Dee Stafford Bethel | Center Point Chestertkdd Parker . i Pine Grove ltuby hiloh Snow Hill Stafford * Vaughan Wamble Hill Black Creek Center Center Grove Cross Roads Mt. Croghan Rubv Wexford Winzo Zion Buffalo Dudley Five Forks Mangum Pageland Plains Zion Angelus Center Grove C larks Jefferson Macedonia Plains Bay Springs Green Hill Leland Middcndorf McBee Providence Sandy Run Union Bay Springs i Bear Creek i Belhesda | Juniper I Middendorf Patrick Pats Branch Branch Shiloh Stafford White Oak Cat Pond Juniper Ousley not r: ^ Friendly Traveler Meant Wall, but Ha Rather Mlaunderatood tha Claroyman'e Statement. There la a certain good minister of the gospel who does not make a parade of his piety or even mention bis calling unnecessarily, particularly where such an announcement might tend to dampen the spirits of a gathering. Recently. In the smoking compartment of a Pullman, he fell Into conversation with u friendly traveling man, who presently observed: "I'm In the hardware line. What's yours?" . J "Well," the minister responded with _ a twinkle In his eye, "I might say that I'rti In the spiritual line." The other looked about hastily, and laid a cautioning hand upon the minister's knee. "You know, I kind of suspected you were keeping something under cover," he said. "It's all right with me, of course, hut you want to be a little more careful with strangers, old man. Why, for all you knew, I might have been a federal agent."?Philadelphia Ledger. L. H. TROTTI, Dentil Surgeon Chesterfield, S. C. Office on second floor in Ross J. ARTHUR KNIGHT Attorney-at-Law Office in CoorthouM Chesterfield, 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 UNIV^ISAl CAR CARS, TRUCKS, TRACTORS SERVICE PARTS LUCAS AUTO CO. DISCHARGE NOTICE On 15th March, 1922, at 11 o'clock M., 1 will apply to the Probate . Hourt for a discharge as Administra.or of the estate of E. 0- Adams, de:eased. J. F. Campbell, Administrator. ( LEVY 1921 : 12 mills 6 mills 6 mills 1 mill 28 mills | w [ T7. o3 F H I o c* n o O , i & n zr zr n r* i J ' J? p o o ? p I ? ? o o ? ~ 1 t? 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