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-v.. - .. < . . : ^mmmmmmmmaexsates i ^ U. *J* - Copyriqhf by Edwir\Balmer >? (ConiiaueJ from last week) CHAPTER XIV Old Burr of the Ferry. II was 1q late November and whll< the coal carrier Pontine, on which he was serving as lookout, was In Lake Superior that Alau first heard of Jim Burr. The name spoken among some other names In casual conversation by a member of the crew, stirred and excited him; the name James Bttrr, occurring on Benjamin Corvet's list, had borne opposite It the legend "AM disappeared ; no trace," and Alau, whose Investigations had accounted for all others whom the list contained, had been able regarding Burr only to verify the fact that at the address given uo one of this name was to be found. He questioned the oiler who had mentioned Burr. The man had met Burr one night In Manitowoc with other men, and something about the old man had Impressed both his name and Image on him; he knew no more than that. At Manitowoc!?the place from which Captain Stafford's watch had been sent to Constance Slierrlll and where Alan had sought for, but had failed to iind, tlie sender! Had Alan stumbled by chance upon the one whom Benjamin Corvet had boon unable to truce? Alan could not leave the Pontine and go ut once to Manitowoc to seek Burr; for he was needed where he was. It was fully a week later and after the Pontiac had been laden again and had repassed the length of Lake Superior that Alan left the vessel at Suult Ste. Marie and took the train for Munltowoo. The little lake port of Manitowoc, which he reached in the late afternoon, was turbulent with the lake season's approaching close. Alan inquired for the seamen's drinking place, where his Informant had met Jim Burr; following the directions lie i-e??etve?i he m,. way along the river bank until he fOUuu it. The proprietor know old Jim Burr? yes. Burr was a wheelsman on Carferry Number 25. lie was a lakoman, experienced and capable; that fact, lorae months before, had served as introduction for him to the frequenters of thlB place. When the ferry was in harbor and his dutied left him idle, Burr came up and waited tl\ere, occupying always the same chair. He never drank; he never spoke to others unless they spoke first to him, hut then he talked freely about old days n the lakes, about ships which had been lost and about men long dead. Alan decided that there could be no better place to Interview old Burr than here; he waited therefore, and In the early evenlug the old man came in. He was a slender but muscularly built man seeming about slrty-flve, but lie might be considerably younger or older than hQt IT 1C hole moo * u?q *<?*? v*aa wiii|ncit3l^r Willie , W? nose was thin nnd sensitive; his face was smoothly placid, emotionless, contented ; hla eyes were aueerly cloudad, deepset and Intent. Those whose names Alan hud found en Corvet's list had been of ail ages, young and old; but Burr might well have been a contemporary of Oorvet "You're From No. 25?" He Asked, to Draw Him Into Conversation. on the lakes. Alan moved over and took a seat beside t]ie old man. "You're from Number 25?" be asked, to draw him Into conversation. "Y es." "I've been working on tlie carrier Pontlac as lookout. Sbe's on ber way to tie up at Cleveland, so I left her and came on here. You don't know whether there's a chance for ine to get place through the winter on Number 25?" Old Burr reflocted. "One of our boys haa been talking of leaving. I don't know when he expects to go. You might ask." "Thank you; I will. My oaine'i Conrad?Alan Conrad." He saw no recognition of the nauw In Burr's reception of it; but he hat not expected that. None of those or Benjamin Corvet's list had had an; knowledge of Alan Conrad or hat heard the name before. Alan waa silent, watching the ow man; Burr, silent too, seemed Ustenlnj to the conversation which came t< a a v a n take's?" Alan Inquired. "Ail my life." h "Do you remember the MlwakaT" ? Old Burr turned abruptly aud studied 0 Alan with u alow scrutiny which t seemed to look him through and 0 1 through ; yet while his eves remained C 1 I Axed on Alan suddenly they grew t ! j blank, lie was not thinking now of * 1 ! Alan, but had turned his thoughts b ! within himself. "I remember her?yes. She was lost b In '05," he said. "Ip '05," he repeated. c "Did you know Benjamin Corvet?" o Alan asked. v Old Burr stared at him uncertainly. I "I know who he Is, of course." P "You never met him?" c "No." tl "Did you receive a communication s from him some time this year?a re- n quest to send some things to Miss Con- tl stance Sherrlll at Harbor Point?" tl, "1 never heurd of Miss Constance Sherrlll. To send what things?" hi I "Several things?among them a in i watch which had belonged to Cuptaln b 1 Stafford of the Miwaka." V Old Burr got up suddently and stood w gazing down at Alan. "A watch of b( Cuptaln Stafford's??no," he said ugl- ju tatedly. "No!" He moved away and left the place; p] and Alan sprang up and followed him. ,j( , He was not, It seemed probable to w Alan now, the James Burr of Corvet's list; at least Alan could not see how he could be tbnl one. Among the (x names of the crew of the Miwaka Alan had found thut of a Frank Burr, and |0 his inquiries had informed him that ^ this man was a nephew of the James ^ Burr who had lived near Port Corhay p, and had "disappeared" with all ids jj family. Old Burr had not lived at Port Corbay?at least, lie claimed not to rJ have lived there; lie gave another address and assigned to himself quite different connections. For every member of the crew of the Miwaka there had been a corresponding, but dlffereut name upon Corvet's list?the name of a close relative. If old Burr was not related to tho Burr on Corvet's list, what connection could he have with ve the Miwaka, and why should Alan's , questions have agitated hltu so? Alan would not lose sight of old Burr until ca lie had learned the reason for that. * t He followed, as tlie old man crossed the bridge and turned to his left among the buildings on the river front, of Burr's ligure, vague in the dusk, toi crossed the railroad yards and made ap( us whj- 10 wnere a nuge mack duik, which Alan recognized as lite ferry, foi loomed at tlie waterside, lie dlsup- shi poured ahourd It. Alan, following him, guzed about. A long, broad, black boat the ferry was, almost four hundred feet to the tall, bluff how. 3tAlan thrilled a little at his lnspec- ? tion of the vessel, lie had not seen close at hand before one of these great ? craft which, throughout the winter, ] brave ice and storm after all?or nearly all?other lake boats- are tied up. ^ He had not meant to apply there when j he questioned old Burr about a berth } on the ferry ; lie had used that merely ; as a means of getting Into conversaj tion with the old man. But now he I meant to apply; for it would enable him to And out more about old Burr. No berth on the ferry was vacant yet hut one soon would be, und Alan was accepted in lieu of the man who was about to leave; his wages would not begin until the other man left, but in the meantime he could remain aboard. All that was known definitely about old Burr on the ferry, it appeared, was that he had Joined the vesael In the early spring. Before that?they did not know; he might be an old lakeman who, after spending years ushore, had returned to the lakes for a livelihood. The next morning, Alan approached old Burr In the crew's quarters and tried to draw blm into conversation again about himself; but Burr onlv g Tired I |1 was weak and run-down," Wjt M relates Mrs. Enla Burnett, of A A Dalton, Oa. "I was thin and ^ S Just felt tired, all the time. 9 v 1 didn't rest well. I wasn't ad r4 erer hungry. I knew, by M A this, I needed a tonic, and 9 A as there Is none better than? SGARDUII B Tho Woman's Tonic | > 0 . , I began using Cardut," g5 continues Mrs. Burnett. "After my first bottle, I slept U better and ate better. I took M m four bottles. Now I'm well, 9 al feel Just fine, eat and sleep, K j N my skin Is clear and I have M ^ gained and sure feel that A Cardul la the beat tonic ever A i made." jj WM Thousands of other women M A hare found Cardul Just as A 9 Mrs. Burnett did. It should R , H help yom. Oil tared Whim with "his Inlahtfihd 633 y Introspective eyes and would no alk upon this subject. A week pnesed ilan, established as a lookout now 01 lumber 20 and carrying on his duties aw Burr dally and almost every hour ila watch coincided with Burr's watel t the wheel?they went on duty ant /ere relieved together. Yet bettei equaintance did not make the oh Ian more communicative; a score ol lines Alan attempted to get him t< ell more about himself, but he evadet dan's questions and, If Alan persisted e avoided him. On deck, one night, listening while Id Burr talked, excitement suddenly elr.ed Alan. Burr cluimed to be at ingllshman born In Liverpool. He hat een, he said, a seaman In the Brltlsl avy; he had been present at thi helling of Alexandria; later, because f some difficulty, which he glosset ver, he had deserted and had come tt the States;" he had been first a deck iand, then the mate of a tramp schoon r on the lakes. Alan, gazing at the >ld man, felt exultation leaping ani hrobblng within him. This life whlcl Id Burr was rehearsing to him as hh iwn, was the actual life of Munrt lurkhalter, one of the men on Cor et's list regarding whom Alan hat een able to obtain full Information! Alnn sped below, when he was re leved from watch, and got out tin lipping* left by Corvet and the notes f what he himself had learned In Ills lslts to the homes of these people, lis excitement grew greater as h< ored over them; he found that h? ould account, with their aid, for all hat old Burr had told him. Old Burr's torles vere not, of course, true; yel either were they fictitious. They? heir Incidents, at least?were nctuall e*. They were w+ven from the lives ! those upon Corvet's list I Alan felt s skin prickling and the blood beatg fast In big temples. How could urr have known these Incidents? 'ho could he be to know them nil? To hat man, but 0110, could all of them j known? Was old Burr . . . Benimln Corvet? Alan telegraphed that day to Sher11; but when the message had gone >ubt seized him. Benjamin Corvet, hen he went away, had tried to leave s place and power among lakenien > Alan; Alan, refusing to accept what arvet had left until Corvet's reason lould be known, had felt obliged also i refuse friendship with the Sherrllls. 'hen revelation came, would It make issible Alan's acceptance of the place ?rvet had prepared for him, or would leave him whore he was? Would It lug him nearer to Constance Sher11, <?r would It set him forever uway 0111 her? (To be continued next week) DIVERSITY OF S. C. ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS Entrance examinations to the Unirsity of South Carolina will be held the County Superintendent of Euution at the County Court House :d;?v. July t?, 1922, at 9 a. m. The University offers varied courses study in science, literature, hisry, law and business. The expenses e moderate and many oportunities r solf-snnnorf nv<> ips are available. For particulars write to President W. S. Currcll, University of South Carolina, 24 Columbia, S. C. ) ?% Cure? Malaria, Chills, |l%|% Fever, Bilious Fever ' W Colas anu LaGrippc. 37 r I For Ten D ; Cents r tied in believing tha ? going farther in tir< r ever has gone or com r Naturally he apprc V ity of USCO. That \ f long ago. r lt is till fresh in 1 r USCO led the nati< V into the $10.90 pric< f * * ? The makers of U. i y always intended the \ 3V2 USCO to he the h p est value in its field. y At $10.90 if creates V a new classification y of money's worth. jjf v United States Tires j r tn Good Tires A r . J&wW&i r Copyright \ \ [United i r United States V Fifty three The Old w i tee tor let Rmbb>e t)rgei r WH 9 Where C. A. Edn? I you can Gri^ Brc jjrjp v - - RECENT SCANDALS OF HARDING ADMINISTRATION 1 - ' 1 V At the rate of w'.Vh they are j breaking, the scandals of the Harding j! Administration promi: e -o outnumber r ! those of all his Repu'd an predecesJ i sors for a generation. } | The Daughterty-Feldi . -Morse scan] | dal, thoroughly exploited by the daily press, can be properly classified as one of the scandals of the Republis an administration. Attorney Gener1 al Daugherty was the personal seleci tion of President Harding and was ' Senator Harding's pve-convention 1 campaign manager. In recalling the New! orry scandal I it will be remembered that Senator , Newberry was a personal friend and . social favorite of President Harding; . that the two men indicted with News berry were appointent by President 1 Harding to be United States district ' attorneys in Michigan; that the ap1 pointment of the notorious Nat Gold1 stein was made in the face of. general J public knowledge of his connection with the Lowden primary slush fund; that President Harding in the public l prints endorsed the leasing of the I last naval oil reserves to subsidiaries i j of the Standard Oil trr. t, although these leases were made -.ecretly and I had to be ferreted out by the vigilant 1 John B. Kendrick, Senator from Wyoming; that President Harding has never yet explained his wholesale discharge of age and trusted employees in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, nor h::s he done anything to lift the cloud he placed upon the lives of these men and women who had won preferment in the govornment service by long and efficient service. The foregoing takes no account of the manner in which the President has trampled upon the principle and policy of the Civil Service, nor of his many bad minor appointments. LOST?I male Walker fox hound, white and brown spotted with tan head and ears. This dog came front Bennettsville 16th, he is proha'.ly trying to get back. Finder please notify J. Luke Smith, Chesterfield, S. C. 2tp-22 TOWN ORDINANCE State of South Carolina, County of Chesterfield, Town of Chesterfield. Be it ordained by the Town Council ; <of the town of Chesterfield, S. C., in Council assembled this May 23, 1922. Section 1. That for each and every calendar year commencing with the ; year 1922 there shall ho levied upon all the taxable prope-'y returned f<?taxation in Chesterfield, S. C-, the 1 sum of thirty-live mil'- per dollar, and that the Town Treasurer is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to make and collect said levy. That twenty of asid mills sh-.l lbe for the ; purpose of paying the interst on waterworks and sewerage bonds of said town; that fifteen of said mills shall be to meet the ordinary expenses of said town. That the Town Treasurer shall keep separate accounts between these two funds and shall keep the moneys separate. 2. That the time for payment of l taxes for said town shall be between October 15 and November 30th of each and every year?that is to say, ollars and Nim his 30 x 3?iUsa 2 tire situation it this? i who buys an $10.90 is justiit his money is ; value than it ^ \d go before. ciates the qual* ivas established lis mind that y-1 anal market States Tlr^^ ^ Rubber Company Vif and Jjjrgeit Two hundrtd and tuition in the World thirty-fin Branch4% iworth, Ruby S. C. Nisbet 6 Will Ruby S. G. W. M. Panke J. 0. Taylor, Mt. Grotfba* S Rene\ by pi syi I The purified a are nausealess> as Calotabs act Beware of inrii sold only in "ch packages beari 'Calotabs." Family O Cf Package that the Treasurer of said town shall open the tax books for collection of taxes on October 15, of each year and close the same on November ^ 30th of each year. That on December; 1, of each and every year the Town' Treasurer shall add a penalty of ten; per cent, on all unpaid taxes and shall ( collect said penalty in addition to the j regular taxes. That on the following, January 1st, the Town Treasurer shall j issue executions directed to the Chief -of Police of said town for delinquent taxes and penalties on that date. Done and ratified this May 23, 1922. T. R. Eddins, C. L. Hunley, Clerk of council. Intendant.j Official Seal. I 1 *3 j m' i s j | S| t \i s ? j s \ p SpF I! p 3o*3% ? s USOO I a i " ch&yg&l j ! s! ~ _ ^ g( I Win ??.jl Wfc, l:x W fc w son, Chesterfield S. C. I Ji y, Patrick S. C I ? 2mm, Li fPWSHPKBPtSPBSMBPHM in m iMMseaaftaiinMii rwi v your li irifying; stem wii \y&" 1 nd refined calomel safe and cure. No sa like calomel and sal itations! 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