13 SYNOPSIS. The scene at the opening of i os story is | ald In the library of an 1d worn-out southern plantation, known yr the Bar- ony. The place is to be sold, and Its | history and that of the owners, the | Quintards, is the subject of discussion by Jonathan Crenshaw, a business man, & stranger known as Bladen, and Bob Yancy, a farmer, when Hannibal Wayne Hazard, a mysterious child of the old ithern family, makes his pearance Fan. y tells how he adopted the Roy. Na- haniel Ferris buys the Barony, but Lh Quintards deny any knowledge of thé boy. Yancy to keep Hannibal Murrell, a friend of 1 { arrin a1 and Han: their tra of I nize aside down a fresh sur first publle appearanc engaged well had ight have resol m ite and with tha colored his howed ful chars . but contents | of his white y: through the judge did gally, snatch of song, now to Mabafly, replying w turbed cheerfulness. Last clapped his dingy beaver on giving it an $0 ably slant, and stepped to the door “Well, wish luck, Solomo off —<¢ Hannibal!” he s=aid At} rished small hope of | seeing Betly, ad he [elt an interview might pr on reaching Be Plain, nibal were shown into by It w than the Care since he a house, gon! sublimated hatteared Stes grin “You Price he artfully Ks where rifts inz-w they leather, 1 rm he 80 in the his now listening ith of his hes a homming now lescril yo eart he che vantages rove is AS However, Han parior | years rememt he and the cool lie little St a8 Immore judge had put eve or inside su grandeur yn ever “i oceaal one from he fixed ince that ne ttle | the that Ju cor pliments and condoler Miss Malroy-—have | you grt that straight Jou pinch soot?’ he luded a»flably. Little | Steve, impressed alike by the judge's | air of condescension and his easy | flow of words, signified that he had “You may also say that Judge Price's | ward, young Master Hazard, presents | his compliments and condolences What more the fudge might have said | was interrupted by «he entrance of Betty, herself. “My dear young lady—" the judge | bowed, then he advanced toward her with the solemnity ot carriage and | couFtenance he deemed suitable to | the occasion, and her extended hand | was engulfed between his two plump palms. He rolled his eyes heaven | ward. “it's the Lord's to deal with ua | as his own inscrutable wisdom dic | tates,” he murmured with plous resig | nation. “We are all poorer, ma'am, that he has dled—just as we were | richer while he lived!” The rich| cadence of the judge's speech [fell] sonorously on the sllence, and that | look of horror which had never quite | left Betty's eyes since they saw! Charley Norton fall, rose out of their clear depths again. The judge, in| stantly stricken with a sense of the igadequacy of his words, doubled on | his spiritual tracks, “In a round about way, ma'am, we're bound to be Hleve In the omnipresence of FProvi | dence—we must think it—though a body might be disposed to hold that | west Tennesseo had got out of the! ifne of divine supervision recently. | Let me lead you to a chalr, ma'am!” Hannibal had slipped to Betty's side and placed his hand In hers. The judge regarded the palr with great benevolence of expression. are ige Slocum ‘ro ¢ presents sees 10 of eon “He would come, heart to forbid it. service to you, ma'am either in ly—1 trust command you will not hesitate to me—" The judge backed the door. “Did you walk out, Judge asked Betty kindly: “Nothing more than a healthful ex- se—but we will not detaln you, the pleasure of seeing you is something we had not reckoned on!’ ech thick and us with good He wished Mahafly might there the reserve dignity ent judge's spe Wis ' ing. hay “ and fo bean 0 note deport you must let me order lunch- At least was good »O1 you," said Bett this que man to Han: " tionable old {bal I think of it, ma'am—" “You'll have a glass of wine, then, Betty he For the be had lost sight of what t ige’s besetting sin ig 3} 2 » + 5 ised abruptly He couldn't pitably mo- Was judge pai mizing Of age Ang my physici gout, restriction does modera i alter meals or between the The rivet an ripen {dea tas udge "This g the dogs sicked ¢ manner toward Bet ost fatherly. Poor and »golate of its seemed to was much n ty De YOUng JUKE EF or--he surrep all t iittle Steve himself presented $ » ee “ uring whisky you rr) think you must Judge Price,” said Betty etained the wall bad thrust into mail gets in nave reason to be su hers eastern and 1 today, % £1 wii I } 11% ne Duis ional correspondence Judge had the comm sede \ahafly’ 8 status, it: an bat liter already agaist ary rather cliott res peared whicn be Aring WAS & decanter Since you insist, ma'am, drink, "my best the § himself a res profo willing, Hannibal indly Miss | Bowen, who has been here—since—" her voice broke suddenly. “I understand, ma'am,” sald judge soothingly. He gave her glance of great concern and turned and do exactly When quiet and obedient, as Miss Malroy says? come for him, ma'am?” “I'll send him to you ready to go home. [ am visiting my friends in lina, and I should like to have him spend as much time as possible with before | start for the east” occurred to Betty that nothing for this would be hes last when he 18 thinking of North Caro me It had had done Iittie or probably opportunit The was such that of mind ! drink of should b the with he poured whisky; and no doubt the act was sald again, "My bowed glass, ot ite of st aglaborate ab ST hat second ha a inadvertence ma'gm,” and fo ge n the g down door one of rd the hesitate any not can be of 1 will upon if 3 you, ma'am-—a here without a moment's delay rather disappointed yn made to his easor yet In ) mir dan gerous eminen WAR that 16d correctly ignorance somewhat had achieved as the champion of he relied {annibal, in gerve ne, , the judge gracelu 1 int, and a few moments late Belle Plain behind a oated baye, with a neg con ation Mahafty away from f leak He of Was exalt alyre tempor had f apoke of ig to North This was fe—broad acres and gers— prin acipally trot after Of a rrr returnia to Hiqu with wood if an have when » like to ch a taste in my mouth [ come to dla and probably she has barrels of 1t!’ sighel deeply, and hed words with oe he Bari describe that fly But why not do more than paraiyze would be pleasant but profitable. The Kiy to the vexed desired io to vv I'S +43 ot HOon § or SOM not prob of his ire 1 striking ourtesy expeiien ortality. an early mu He display of Miss He knew that his cing the pangs of he was not makes s8OnN Malroy's 1it it credit was sens! / : : { tive, yet for some days he had been sensible of the fact that what he called the commercial class was view- ing him with open disfavor; but he must hang on In Raleigh a little long er—for him it had become the abode The Judge considered the matter. At least he could let people something of that decent respect with which Miss Malroy treated him They were entering Raleigh now, and he ordered the coachman to pull his horses down to a walk He had decided to make of the Belle Pi turnout In creating an atn phere of lence and trus tr fo ti end he spent t of an hour Interviewing It 10 meeling of use ain confi clally iis best creditors. 16 the par amounted f the adult no almost male pop- had favorites wn in & general way looking up » him: quarter he did not ir sid here goated e, and the In Mins Was, he miger These peop what did It : 18t a ttle decent considerati what of ideas for them! seemed the corpse of eliows and § , the knowledge of the ms wn minds would do Wha breathed in thle associatis in 4 Ba had Cred again, and the judge and fmmediately embarked upon celebration Early making a the gray they were doors them be Cate and Oued ana CHAPTER XVII, Betty Leaves Belle Plain. Hannil devoled himsel! loy the judge's glorification, and ‘heard all about the letter, the of the candies and the re rd of five thousand dollars, it vast reased the child's sense of im- ytizfaction when he had known nothing © ers until he told her of ii had wered she these ts them Why get so much asked, greatly He won't have tu get Miss Het Mr. Mahaffy says he don’t reckon who wrote the Ha Price she where would Judge mi Hannibal? astonished. ey it, ty; no one will ever tell lotter--he ‘lows man who done that will keep pretty mum-—-he just derassont tell!” the boy explained “No, | suppose not-—" and Betty saw that perhaps, after all, the judge had not assumed any very great finan. cial responsibility “He can't be a coward, though, Han- niball” she added, for she under stood that the risk of personal vio lence which he ran was genuine. She had formed her own unsympathetic estimate of him that day at Boggs’ racetrack; Mahaffy in his blackest hour could have added nothing to it. Twice since then she had met him in Raleigh, which had only served to fix that first Impression. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Bank of England Employes. There are about 1060 persons on the staff of the Bank of England, of whom S40 are at the head office In London and the remainder In the branches throughout the country. Five hundred porters and mechanics are also employ The bank prints ita own notes and ‘Indian rupee notes, together with all postal orders and old-age pension orders; this work is done at the head office. Royalty Saored In Austria, A woman In Vienna has been sent to prison for three months for speak. ing disrespectfuily Marla Theresa, who bas been dead 131 years. In Austrian law royalty ls protected from criticism, written or spoken, for 200 years after death the Fe ON CONDITIONS IN HARVESTER WORKS. Admits But Roosevelt's Financial Backer Employes Are Imposed on Throws Responsibility on Government. The facts made public by the alate factory Investigating committee, re garding labor conditions in the mille of the Harvester company at Auburn N.Y, are of a character which would seem to invite immediate and indig nant comment 3 the candidate of the Progressive party. It was admit ted, in the superintendent's test! mony, that 150 women were working at night on ten-hour shift; that some of the working rooms were dark, even in daytime; that wom- en workers had haul thelr ma chines piles of hemp weighing 160 pounds, and that, rary to law, no exhausts were operated the atmosphere of the dust with it irged Such conditions are unhappily too familiar in certain man. ufacturing of niry. but to Mr Roosevelt, =» an ia a the to to cont to clear which was chi centers the cou this nem onnorty Op yas 4h vied gut orders as to { jitimately testified ditions emas fF AL Ban pany ard of directors of the m3 TY nd the Progress neral While is cand! own nmittes’s re ng that the ire such to in cause.” ungelfisl the want merely are habit after descr oliesguasa Life Hievholders on York tha Dic ‘ » New 600 of Mr added prac ment ought to it is not feal party's executive « f8 ready terrible axan legislation to e the Post Roosevelt's that this bad tice evoeery cheerful as the necessitates misdoings of York Evening 0 0 pose ap Minky which the 3 ple irh interests’ New Deserting the Third Termer. It is really distressing how the pred. ators 8 are deserting the Bull Moose standard ¥ Handanna vide L.1 thin complaint "One of ! tures of the interest “rom the col onel utters in 8 recent most present the in all the big all the corporation lawyers representing big trusts and every public man who now 1epresants or has representad the of reaction and privilege in life have rallied to the defense sent administration's meth ing the antitrust law, and approved of the position Taft, Mr. Edmunds, Mr Rockefellrr and all other trust mag: nates and ‘rust lawyers, that no fur ther legisintion is needed.” Bo George Perkins has rallied to the defense of the administration? Shame on you, George! Bo Doss Flinn has rallied to the de fense of the administration? There's gratitude for you 80 Cece Lyon, interview {flcant in iets the slg fon. situation which way tri Cause public of the pre od of anfore admirvingly held by My the Big Boss of | the administration? 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