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CHAPTER I.
The Man Whom the Storm Haunted,
Near the northern end of L.ake
Michigan, where the bluff-bowed orecarriers
and the big, low-lying, wheatladen
steel freighters from l.ake Superior
push out from the Straits ol
Mackinac and dispute the right ot
way, in the island-divided chnnnel,
with the wlilte-and-gold, eleetrle-llghted,
wireless-equipped passenger steamers
bound for Detroit anil Buffalo,
there Is a copse of pine and hemlock
back from the shingly beach. From
this copse?dark, blue, primeval, silent
at most times as when the Great Manltou
ruled his Inland waters?then
oomes at time of storm a sound like
the booming of nn old Indian drum. {
This drum beat, so the tradition snys, 1
whenever the luke took a life; and,
as u sign perhnps that It Is still the
Munltou who rules the waters In spite
of all the commerce of the cities, the
drum still beats its roll for every ship
lost on tho lake, one boat for every !
life.
So?men say?they heard and count- J
ed the beatings of the drum to thlrtyflve
upon the hour when, as afterwnrd
they learned, the grent steel steamer
Wenota snnk with twenty-four of Its
crew and eleven passengers; so?men
, say?they heard the requiem of the
live who went down with the schooner
wain, uuu in wie seventeen lost with
the Susan II?rt; and so of n score of ,
ships more. Onee only. It Is told, hns
the drmn count<-d wrong.
At the height of the groat storm of
December, 18l).r?, the drum heut the
roll of n sinking ship. One, two,
three?the hearers counted the drum j
heats, time and again. in their intermittent
booming, to twenty-four. They
waited, therefore, for report of a ship
lost with twenty-four lives; no such
news came. The new steel freighter
Mlwukn, on her maiden trip during
the storm with twenty-five?not twenty-four?aboard
never made her port;
no news was ever heard from her; no
wreckage ever was found. Oh this account,
throughout the families whose ,
fathers, brothers and sons were the '
officers and crew of the Mlwukn. there
stirred for a time a desperate belief
that one of the men on the Miwnkn
was saved; thnt somewhere, somehow, j
he was alive and might return. The
day of the destruction of the Miwnkn '
was fixed as December 5 hy the time
at which she passed the government
lookout at the straits; the hour was
fixed as five o'clock In the morning
only by the sounding of the drum. ;
Storm?the stinging, frozen sleet
.t?nh ?/? --
Binnu ui iii?* reoruury nortner whittling
down the floe-Jammed length of
the lake?was assaulting Chicago. So
heavy was this frost on the panes of
the Fort Dearborn club?one of the i
stablest of the down-town clubs for
men?that the great log flr?>s blazing
on the open hearths added appreciable
light as well as warmth to the rooms. !
The few members present at this
hour of the afternoon showed by their I
lasy attitudes and the desultorlness J
of their conversation the dulling of
vitality which warmth and shelter
bring on a day of cold and storm. On
one, however, the storm had had a contrary
effect. With swift, uneven steps
he paced now one room, now another;
from time to time he stopped ub
ruptly by a window, scraped from It
with finger nail the frost, stared out j
for an Instant through the little open- j
lot he had made, then resumed as ah
iTfjtly his nervous pacing with a man- j
n4* so uneasy and distraught that, t
stLce his arrival at the club an hour \
before, none even among those who j
knew him best hud ventured to speak i
to him.
fPk? ? - - - -
*iic innii wnn whs pacing restlessly
and alone the rooms of the Fort Dearborn
club on this stormy afternoon
was the man who, to most people, bodled
forth the life underlying all other
commerce therenbouts but the least
known, the life of the lakes.
The lakes, which mark unmistakably
those who get their living from
them, had put their marks on him.
Though he was slight In frame with a
pare, almost ascetic leanness, he haul i
the wiry strength and endurance of
the man whose youth had been passed j
upon the water, lie was very close j
to sixty now, but his thick, straight ,
hair was still Jet hluck except for a
lash of pure white above one temple; .
his brows were black above his deep
blue eyes. Ills acquaintances, In explaining
him to strangers, said he had
lived too much by himself of late; he
and one man servant shared the great I
house which bad been unchanged?and
in which nnthlniF o ?????~-l i. 1 '
? ? -vtM.Mn M|?|MH* W?J i<? niivt?
needed replacing?since his wife left
him, suddenly and unaccountably,
shout twenty years before. People
eld he looked more French, referring
to his father who was known to have
heen a skin-hunter north of Lake Superior
In the 'ISO* hot who later married
an English girl at Mackinac and
settled down to become h trnder In the
Voods of the North peninsula, where
Benjamin Corvet was born.
1 During his boyhood men came to the
peninsula to cut timber; young Oorvet
worked with them and began building
shtps. Thirty-Are years ago he had
henti only, one of the hundreds with
his fortnns In ths fate of a single bottom!
hut today In Cleveland, In Dutath.
In Chicago, more than s score
?T mm* steamers unaer ths names of
? - - - ? - J)aTflriTl" Hill
Spearman.
He was u quiet, gentle-mannered
I innn. At times, however, he suffered
' from fits of Intense Irritability, and
1 these of lute had Increased In fre!
quency and violence. It hud been noticed
that these outbursts occurred
generally at times of storm upon the
lake, but the mere threat of financial
loss through the destruction of one or
even, more of his ships was not now
enough to cause them; It wilt; believed
that they were the result of some oh
Retire physical reaction to the stonn,
and that this had grown upon him ns
he grew older.
Today his Irritability waft so
marked, his uneasiness so much
greater than anyonfe had seen It before,
thnt the attendant whom Corvet
had sent, a half hour earlier, to reserve
his usual table for him In thd
grill?"The table by the second window"?had
sturted away without daring
to ask whether the table was to
be set for one or more. Corvet himself
had corrected the omission: "For
two," he had shot after the man.
The tables, at this hour, were all
unoccupied. Corvet crossed to the
one he had reserved and sat down;
he turned Immediately to the window
at his side and scraped on It a little
clear opening through which he could
see the storm outside. Ten minutes
later he looked up sharply but did not
rise, as the man he had been awaiting?Spearman,
the younger of his
two partners?came hi.
Spearman seated himself, his big,
powerful hands elasped on the tnble,
his gray eyes studying Corvet closely.
The waiter took the order and went
away.
When he returned, the two men were
obviously iti hitter quarrel. Curvet's
tone, low pitched hut violent, sounded
steadily In the room, though his words
were Inaudible. The waiter, as he set
the food upon the table, fell relief that
Corvet's outburst had fallen on other
shoulders than his.
For nearly an hour the quarrel continued
with intermitted truces of si
For Nearly an Hour the Quarrel Continued,
With Intermitted Truces of
9ilence.
lence. The waiter, listening, as waiters
always do, caught at times single
sentences.
"You have had that Idea for some
t'ine?" he heard from Corvct.
"We have had an understanding for
more than a month.''
"How definite?"
Snearmnn's answer wn? not ,hi,iiki/?
bat It inoro Intensely agitated C'orvet;
hi' dropped Ills fork mid. after that,
made no pretense of online.
The waiter, following this, caught
only single words. "SherrlM"?that,
of course, was the other partner. "Constance"?that
was ShorrllPs daughter.
The other names he heard were names
of ships. Hut. as the quarrel went on,
the manners of the two men changed;
Spearman, who at first hud been assailed
by Corvct. now was assailing
him. Corvet sat hack in his seat,
wlille Spearman pulled at Ids cigar und
now and then took it from Ills lips and
gestured with it between his lingers,
as he jerked some ejaculation ucroaa
the table.
Corvet leaned over to the frosted
window, us lie had done when alone,
und looked out. Spearman shot a comment
which made Corvet wince und
draw bark from the window; then
Speurniau rose. Corvet looked up at
him once and asked a question, to
which iSpeurman replied with a snap
of the burnt match down on the table;
he turned abruptly and strode from
the room. Corvet sat motionless.
The revulsion to self-control, sometimes
even to apology, which ordinarily
followed CorVet's hursts of Irritation
hud not come to him; his agitation
plainly had Increased. He pushed
from him Ids uneaten luncheon and
got up slowly. He went out to the
coat room, whore the attendant handed
him his coat ami hat.
He winced as he stepped out Into
the smarting, blinding swirl of sleet,
hut his shrinking was not physical; It
was mental, the unconscious reaction
to some thought the storm called up.
Tho hour was bsroly four o'clock, but
I boulevard, With headlight* burnibg,
, kept their signals clattering con(
stnntly to warn other drivers blinded
by the snow. The sleot-awept sidewalks
were almost deserted; here or
there, before a hotel or one of the
shops, a llmonslne came to the curb,
and the pnssengers dashed swiftly '
across the walk to shelter.
Corvet turned northward along
Michigan avenue, facing Into the gale.
The sleet beat upon his face and
lodged In the folds of his clothing
without his heeding It.
i He continued to go north. He had
not seemed, in the beginning, to have
made conscious choice of this direction;
but now he was following It purposely.
He stopped ouce at a shop
I which sold men's things to make a tel'
ephone call. He asked for Miss Sber'
rill when the number answered; but
( be did not wish to speak to her, he
said; he wanted merely to be sure she
I would be there If he stopped In to
1 see her In half an hour. Then?north
I again. He crossed the bridge. Now,
fifteen minutes later, he came In sight
of the lake once more.
1 Great houses, ihe Slierrlll house
! among them, here face the Drive, the
bridle path, the strip of park, and the
wide stone esptuuude which edges the
lllLr.. ? > -
v?/>iti ijipsssu 10 rnts. esplanade.
lie <1U1 not stop at the Sfherrill
house or look toward It, but wont on
fully a quarter of u nflle beyond It;
then he came buck, and with an oddly j
strained and queer expression and attitude,
he stood staring out Into the
j lake.
Suddenly he turned. Constance
ShcrriU, seeing him from a window of
her home, had caught a cape about her
and run out to him.
! "Cnde Benny!" she hailed him with
the affectionate name she hod used
with her father's partner slpce slio
was a baby. "Uncle Benny, aren't j
i you coming In?" (
"Yes," he snld vnguely. "Yes, of
> course." We made no move but remained
staring at her. "Connie!" he t
exclaimed suddenly, with strange re- S
preach to himself In his tone. "Con- #
nie! Dear little Connie!" f
"Why?" she asked him . "Uncle '
1
j Benny, what's the matter?
"lias Spearman been here today?" 1
I he asked, not looking at her.
I "To see father?''
! "No; to see you." J
I ,,No"
He seized her wrist. "Don't see (
him , when he comes!" he commanded. ^
I "Uncle Benny!" I
"Don't see him!" Corvet repented. e
"He's asked you to marry him, hasn't >
he?" I
Connie could not refuse the answer,
i "Yes."
"And you?" "
"Why?why, Uncle Benny, I haven't
answered him yet."
' "Then don't?don't, do you under- '
J stand, Connie?" 1
I <i
I Shu h?.ui,. J " 1
, ..... ... -Miuni, iiiKiuvuvii mr mm.
I "I'll?I'll tell you before I see him. If '
] you want me to, Untie Benny," she
granted.
! "But If you shouldn't he able to tell j,
me then, Connie; If you shouldn't? n
want to then?" The humility of his <t
i look perplexed her; if he had been
any other man?any man except Uncle [ v
, Bonny?she would have thought some ! k
shameful and terrifying threat hung ' p
over him; hut he broke off sharply, i I
"I must go home," he stild uncertainly. |
"I must go home; then I'll come back. I'
Connie, you won't give him an answer
till I come back, will you?" j ft
"No." He got her promise, half ! "
frightened, half bewildered; then ho
turned at once and went swiftly away ' .
from her. i .
She ran hack to the door of her fa- .j
ther's house. From there she saw hlin n
reach tlie corner and turn west to go o
to Astor street. He was walking rap- v
Idly and did not hesitate. j li
, How strangely he had acted! Con-' v
stance's uneasiness increased when ! e
| the afternoon and evening passed /
' without Ills coming back to sea her as ; \
1 he had proDilscd, hut she reflected he c
i had not set any definite time when j I
she was to expect him. Poring the t
! night her anxiety grew still greater;
: and In the morning she called his
jtouse up on the telephone, but the call
i was unanswered. An hour later, she
. called again; still getting uo result.
she called her'father at Ids otr.ee, and
i told him of her anxiety about Untie
Bonny, but without reuniting what
j Unela Benny had said tv> her t?r tha
I promise she had made to him. Her fa- (
' ther made light of her fears; Uncle
Benny, he reminded her, often acted
j qucerly in bad weather. Only partly
j reassured, she culled Uncle Benny's {
i house several more times (luring the j
morning, hut still got no rejvly; and ]
after luncheon she called her father t
again, to tcli him that she had re- <
solved to get some one to go over to t
the house with her. h
Her father, to her surprise, forbade e
( this rather sharply; his voice, she t
realized, was agitated and excited, and n
she asked him the reason; but Instead r
; of answering her, he made her repeat i
' to him her conversation of the after- \
noon l)efore with Uncle Benny, and s
j now he questioned her closely about It. j
I But when she, in her turn, trltsl to r
question him, he merely put her off r
; und told her not to worry.
In the late afternoon, as dusk was 1
1 drawing into dark, she stmxl tit the r
; window, with one of those delusive I
hopes which come during anxiety that, I
beenuse it was the time of day nt |
which she had seen Uncle Benpy walk- v
lug by the lake the day before, she J
might see him there again, when she "
saw her father's motor approaching, r
; It was coming from the north, not 1
rrom wie south as 11 wouiu nave oeen ?
If he was coming frotn lits office or his 1
club, nnd It had turned Info the Drive c
from the west. She knew, therefore, ?
that he was coming from Uncle Ben- f
, ny's house, nnd, ns the car swerved r
| and wheeled In, she rnn out Into the *
. hall to meet him.
He came In without taking off hat <;
; or coat; she could see that he was \
perturbed, greatly agitated. ?
"What la It, father?" she demanded. 1
"What has happened?" r
"I dQ not know, my dear." \
It la something?something that 1
li*a_ happensd to Uncle Bemyy ^ c
penVfl. or 1 VvoUld tell yofl."
Tie put his arm about her and drew
her Into n room opening off the hull?
Ids study. He tnade her repeat again
to him the conversation she had had
with Uncle Denny and tell hi in liow
he had acted; hut she saw that what
sl e told him did not help him.
Then he drew her toward him.
"Tell me, little .daughter. You
have been a great deal with Unele
Benny and have talked with him; I
She Thought. "No, Father."
want you to tblnk carefully. Did yon
>ver hear him speak of any one called
Man Conrad?"
She thought. "No, father."
"No reference either to any one
lying In Kansas, or a town there
?ullod Blue Itaplds?"
"No, father. Who la Alan Conrad?"
"I do not know, dear. I never heard
he name until to-day, and Harry
Spearman had never heard It. But It
ippears to he Intimately connected In
tome way with what was troubling
Jncle Benny yesterday. He wrote u
otter yesterday to Alan Conrad In
ilue Itaplds and mailed It himself;
md afterward he tried to get it oaek,
>ut It already had been taken up and
vas on Its way. I have not been able
o learn anything more about the letter
ban that. To-day that name, Alan
"onrnd, came to nie In quite another
vay, In a way which makes It certain
hat It Is closely connected with what>ver
has happened to Uncle Benny,
'mi are quite sure you never heard
dm mention It. dear?"
"Quite sure, father."
He released her and, st^l In his hat
ind coat, went swiftly Up the stairs,
die ran after him and found him
funding before a highboy In his dre-ssng
room, lie unlocked a drawer In
he highboy, and from within the
[rawer he took a key. Then, still dlsegarding
her, he hurried back downfall's.
As she followed him, she caught up
wrap and pulled It around her. He
iad told the chauffeur, she realized
inw, to wait; hut as he reached the
nor, he turned and stopped her.
"I would rather you did uot come
iTth me. little daughter. I do not
now at all what It Is that has hapened?I
wiil let you know as soon as
lind out."
The finality In his tone stopped her
roni argument. As the house door "and
hen the door of the limousine closed
fter hlni, she went hack toward the
dndow, slowly taking off the wrap,
or the moment she found It difficult
t think. Something had happened to
fncle Kenny, something terrible,
readful for those who loved him;
int was plain, though oiJy tho fact
nd not Its nature wne hnown U> her
r to her father; and that something
rus connected?intimately connected,
ier father had said?with a name
rhlch no one who knew Uncle Benny
ver heard before, with the name of
Linn Conrad of Blue ltaplds, Kansas.
Vho was this Alan Conrad, and what !
ouJd his connection be with Uncle
Jenny so to precipitate disaster upon
dm?
CHAPTER II
Who 16 Alan Conrad?
The recipient of the letter which
^Pnlntnin Hnrvfif *???*! o*wl
ater so excitedly attempted to relover,
was asking himself a question
vhlch was almost the same aw the
lUestloii which Constance Shorrlll had
isked. He was, the second morning
ater, waiting for the first of the two
lally easthotind trains which stopped
it the little Kansas town of Blue
taplds which he called home. As
ong as he could look back Into his life,
he question, who Is this person they
'all Alan Conrad, and what am I to
he man who writes from Chicago, had
teen the paramount enigma of existlice
for him. Since he was now
wenty-three, as nearly as he had been
ible to approximate It, anil as distinct
'ecol lection of Isolated, extraordinary
wents went hack to the time when he
vas five, It Was quite eighteen years
ilnce he luid first noticed the question
nit to the people who had him In
hnrge: "So this Is little Alan Uonad.
Who is he?"
Following the arrival of certain
etters, which were distinguished from
nost others arriving at the house by
laving no Ink writing on the envelope
mt Just a sort of purple or black
rioting like newspapers, Alan ln arinhly
received n dollar to spend
uRt ns he liked. To he suro, unless
"papa" took lilm to town, there wbh
lothing for hlra to spend It upon; so,
lkely enough, It went Into tho square
ron hank, of which the key wus lost;
nit quite often lie did spend It ac ordliiK
to plans agreed upon among
ill Ids friends and, In memory of these
cessions and In anticipation of the
text, "Alan's dollar" became a comnunity
Institution among the children.
"Who gives It to you, Alan?" was a
piestion more often asked, an time
vent an. The only answer Alan could
rive was, "It comes from Oncago."
Phe post-mark on the envelope, Alan
lotlced, was always Chicago; that
vas all he ever could And out about
ila dollar. He was about ten years
closed uiohey beaued.
Except for the loss of the dolltu &l
the end of every second month?a loss
much discussed by all the children
and not accepted as permanent nil
more than two years had passed?
, Alan felt no Immediate results from
i the cessation of the tetters from
j Chicago. I'ajMi and mama felt them
j when the fana hnd to he given up, and
the family moved to the town, and
papa went to work In the woolen mill
beside the river.
Papa and tnainn, at first surprised
and dismayed hy the stopping of the
, letters, still clung to the hope of the
familiar, typewriter-addressed envelope
appearing again; but when,
after two years, no more money came,
resentment which had been steadily
growing against tno person who had
sent the money began to turn against
Alan; and his "parents** told him all
they knew about him.
In 181)0 they hail noticed an advertisement
for persons to care for a
child; they had answered It to the
ofllce of the newspaper which printed
It. In response to the letter a man
called upon them and, after seeing
them and going around to see their
friends, had made arrangements with
them to take a hoy of three, who was
In good health and came of good
people. He paid In advance hoard for
a year and agreed to send n certain
amount every two months after that
time. The man brought tlio hoy;
whom he called AJan Conrad, and left
him. For seven years the money
agreed upon came; now it had ceased.
sinrl ntinn litwl ? .?? *** ?.%- ?
...... . i *.? ..*?,? <?l 1111*1111 VT I IK*
man?the name given by him appeared
to be fictitious, and lie had left no
address except "general delivery. Chicago"?I'apa
knew nothing more than
that. He had advertised In the Chicago
papers nfter the money stopped
coming, and he had communicated
with every one named Conrad In or
pear Chicago, hut lie had learned nothing.
Tims, at the age of thirteen,
Alan definitely knew that what he
already hud guessed?tlie fact that lie
belonged somewhere else than in tin*
little brown house?was all that any
one there could tell hint; and the
knowledge gave perslstenee to many
Internal questionings. Where did he
belong? Who was lie? Who was the
man who had brought him there? Had
the money ceased coming because the
person who sent It was dead? In
that case, connection of Alan with the
place where he belonged was permanently
broken. Or would some other
eoniintuiicatlon from that source reach
liita some time?If not money, then
something else? Would he he sent for
some day?
Kxternully, Alan's learning the little
that was known about himself made
no change In his way of living; he
went to the town school, which combined
grammar ami high schools
under one roof; and, it* he grew older,
he clerked In one of the town stores
during vacations and In the evenings
Alan always carried his money home
as part payment of those arrears which
had mounted up against Mm since the
letters ceased coming. At seventeen,
having finished high school, he was
clerking officially in Merrill's general
store, when the nert letter came.
It wtrs addressed this time not to
pnpa, hut to Alan Conrad. He seized
I it, tore It open, and a hank draft for
fifteen hundred dollars fell out. There
was no letter with the encJosure. no
word of communication ; Just the draft
to the order of Alan Conrad. Alan
; wrote the Chicago hank by which the
draft had heeu Issued; their reply
showed that the draft had been purchased
with currency, so there was no
record of the identity of the person
who had sent It. More than that
amount was due for arrears for the
seven years during which no money
was sent, even when the total which
Alan hnd earned was deducted. So
Alan merely endorsed the draft over
i<> miner ; ami that full Jim, Alan's
foster brother, went to college. Hut.
when Jim discovered that It not only
whs possible hut planned at tlio university
for a boy to work his way
through, Alan went also.
Four wonderful years followed. In
eonipnrilonslilp with educated people;
Ideas and manners came to him which
he could not have acquired at home;
athletics strulghtened and added bearing
to his muscular, well-formed
body; his pleasant, strong young face
acquired self-reliance and self control.
Life became filled with possibilities for
himself which It had never held before.
Rut on his day of graduation he
bad put away the enterprises he had
planned and the dreams he dreamed
nnd, conscious that his debt to father
and mother still remained unpaid, lie
had returned to care for them; for
WEAK, NERVOUS,
ALL RUN-DOWN
Missouri Lady Suffered Until She
Tried Cardul.?-Says " Result
Waa Surprising."-?Got Along
Fine, Became Normal
J U..tiL_
?UIU I1C4UUIJ.
Bprlngflold Mo.?"My back wan sc
weak. I could hardly atand up, and I
would have bearing-down pains and
was not well at any time," says Mrs
B. V. Williams, wife of a woll-knows
farmer on Route 6, this placo. "I
kept getting headaches and having to
go to bed," continues Mrs. WilUamt
describing the troubles from which
she obtained relief through tho uso ol
Cardnl. "My husband, having heard
of Cardul, proposed getting It for me
MI saw after taking some Cardul
... that I was improving. The result
was surprising. I felt lil^e a different
person.
"I^ater I suffered from weakness
apd weak back, and folt all run-down.
I did not rest well at night, I was so
nervous and cross. My husband said
he would get me some Cardul, which
he did. It strengthened me ... My
doctor said I got along fine. I was In
good healthy condition. f cannot
say too much for it"
Thousands of women hare suffered
as Mrs. Williams describes, until they
found relief (ran tho use of Cardul.
Since It hssb^ped 00 numy^joo
f??Tiicr*s health had failed and Sim, who
had opened a law office In Kansns
City. could do Nothing to hel|}.
No more money had followed the
draft from Chicago and there had
been no communication of any kind;
but the r?>colpt of so considerable a
sum had revived and intensified all
Alnn's speculations about himself. The
vague expectation of his childhood
that sometime. In some way, he would
he "sent for"; had grown during the
last six years to a definite belief.
And now?on the afternoon before?
the summons had come.
This time, as he tore open the envelope.
he saw that beside a check,
there was writing within?an uneven
and nervous-looking but plainly legible
communication in longhand. The
letter made no explanation. It told
him, rather than asked him, to come
to Chicago, gave minute instructions
for tli# Journey, and advised him to
telegraph when he started. The
check was for a hundred dollars to
pay Ills expenses. Check and letter
were signed by a name completely
strange to him.
He was a distinctly attractive looking
lad, as he stood now on the station
platform of the little town, while the
ensthound train rumbled In. and lie
fingered in his pocket the letter from
m, i.... ?
1" ? " >?"
On the train lie took the letter from
his pocket and for the dozenth time
reread It. Was Covert a relative? Was
he the man who had sent the remittances
when AJau was n little boy,
od the one who later had sent the
On the Train He Took the Letter
From His Pocket and for the Dozenth
Time Reread It.
fifteen hundred dollars? Or was he
merely a go-between^ perhaps a. ln\y(Continued
on last page)
IMTV TA
UUU1N 11 1 A
State
Ordinary County
Roads
Bridges
Total
Cheraw
Marburg
Orange Hill
Pats Branch
Pee Dee
Statrord
Bethel
Center Point
Chesterfield
Parker
Pine Grove
Ruby
hiloh
Snow Hill
Stafford
Vaughan
Wamble Hill
Black Creek
Center
Center Grove
Cross Roads
Mt. Croghan
Ruby
Wexford
Winzo
Zion
Buffalo
Dudley
Five Forks
Mangum
i).. i.... a
i u^tiaiiu <
Plains
Zion
Angelus
Center Grove
Clarks
Jefferson
Macedonia
Plains
Bay Springs
Green Hill
Leland
Middcndorf
McBeo
Providence
Sandy Run
Union
Bay Springs
Bear Creek
Bethcsda
Juniper
Middcndorf
Patrick
Pats Branch Branch
Shiloh
Stafford
White Oak
Cat Pond ,
J uniper
Ousley
Patrick
Linton
hHarris Creek
PENtfS
SPELLS
CHEWING
TOBACCO
Penn's spells quality.
Why?
Because?
Penn's is paciced air
tight in the patented
new container ? tha
quality is sealed in.
So Penn's is always fresh
? an entirely new idea for
chewing tobacco.
Have you ever really
chewed freah tobacco?
Buy Penn's the next time.
Try it. Notice the fine condition.
And after that, use fresh
chewing tobacco?Penn's.
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?Ax/ yr>H
L. H. TROTTI,
Dental Surgeon
Chesterfield, S. C.
Office on second floor in Rosa
the universal car
CARS, TRUCKS, TRACTORS
SERVICE
PARTS
LUAS AUTO CO.
X LEVY 1921
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G mills
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