SYNOPSIS. * at the s library antation, opening of the story of an old worn-out known as the place is to be sold, and that of the owners, he subject of discussion a business man, Bladen, and I en Hann us child of the i iakes his appearance y ‘he adopted d the boy. ys the y, any keep lend of questions abe t Scratch Hill wd by Dave Blo € agent, Yancy yives him a thrashing Yancy appears before charged with « Betty Maliroy, a has an encounter rell, who forces his att id 18 rescued by Bruce C sets ot for her Tennesse rington takes the and Hannibal the 114 ail of Judg ob wy awakes from in board the raft rtiing discover Charley Ch NrRSyn Pentre 1 In a stroll B they meet I} Boss a oversesr, wi counsels Betty CHARTER XIX (Continued). As they mbled forward through thick I he continued his rsonal revelations, the present en rise having roused whatever there of sentiment slumbering in his At last they came out on a dayou; a white mist hu on the low shore were dripping with the night Keeping close to the water's yssen led the way to a point gxiff was drawn up on the it, add branch dews Si a edge wi bank, Step in, mga’am.” launched 2. I will go no sesperation tering fear nown lay ere he sald, when he bad farther!” sald in She [leit as uni Slosson swu For a plercing cry for help. about on his heel and seized her a moment she struggled but the man's big hand pinloned her “No more ¢ he warned, then he recovered himself and laughed “You could yell till you was black in the face ma'am, and there'd be no one to hear you” “Where are you taking Betty's voice faltered between sudden sobs that choked her Just across to George Hicks's."” For what purpose? “You'll in to yf that!” and the mea? ie Know planty of time.” nd Slosson \rRness lannibal Is to go with me?” Betty tremulously ‘SBure!” agreed Slosson affably “Your nigger, too—quite a party.’ Betty stepped into the skiff felt ing of Bessa, tives, She would wish ever since the very striven to psevent had happened. Slosson seated himself and took the oars, BunXer followed with Han- nibal and they pushed off. No word wag gpoken until they disembarked on the opposite shore, when Slosson ad- dressed Bunker. “I reckon I can manage that young rip-staver; you go back after Sherrod and the nigger,” he sald. He conducled hls captives up the bank and they entered a clearing Looking across this Betty saw where a cabin window framed a single square of light. They advanced to ward this and presently the dark out. line of the cabinet itself became dis- tinguishable A moment later Slos- son paused, a door ylelded to his band, and Betty and the boy were thrust into the room where Murrell had held his conference with Fentress and Ware. The two women were now its only occupants, and the mother, gross and shapeless, turned ay ex pressionless face on the Intruders; but the daughter shrank into the shadow, her burning glance fixed on Betty, “Here's yo' guests, old lady!” said Mr, Slosson. Mrs. Hicks rose from the three-legged stool on which she was sitting. “Hand me the candle, Bess,” ordered. At one side of the room was a steep flight of stairs which gave access to the loft overhead. Mrs. Hicks, by a gesture, signified that Betty and Han. nibal were to ascend these stairs.’ they did so and found themselves on a parrow landing inclosed by a par tition of rough planks; this partition 2% VAUGHAN KESTER. NE an By D Mecvies Poet BOABS M2 08:4 1 COmBRNY i 1 was door Mrs plerced { Hicks, who their ty In yonder!” she ding toward Walt!” cried *No,” ay tt most masculine si got nothing 1 to say She into the attic, and, closing fastened it with a stout Beyond that door, have closed on every he tallow dip aloft, and by tain and Sickering The contained two a stool; there in the but a plece piank was spiked before it Miss Betty, don't you be sc whispered Hannibal. “When the ju hears we're gone, and Mr. Ma- haffy try They'll go right off to Bell e judge 1s | always wanting to that, only Mr Mahafly never lets mim-—but now he { won't be able to stop him. { “Oh, Hannibal, Hannibal, what can i he do there—what can any one do there?’ And a dead pallor over spread the girl's face To speak of the blind groping of friends but served to fix the horror of thelr situ ation in her mind “I don't know, Miss Betty, but the {| judge is always thinking of things to do; seems like they was mostly things no one else would ever think of.” { Betty had placed the candle on the { stool and seated hersell on one of the | beds There was the murmur of | volcea in the room below; she won | dered if her fate was under considera. i tlon and what that fate was to be. Hannibal, who had been examining the window, returned to her side i “Miss Betty, If we could just get out of this loft we could steal their skiff and row down to the river; | reckon they got just the one boat; the only way they could get to us would be %0 swim out, and if they done that we could pound ‘em over the head with the oars—the least iit tle thing sinks you when you're in the water.” But this murderous fancy of his falled to Interest Betty by a low had folio handed the ¢ wed close heels, andle to Het sald briefly, nod- the door ¥ In a whisper woman with an al I2att Lett @ shed the wooden them door, bar pus hope, Betty held its uncer ignt sur prison briefest glance suf The | beds an shakedown rool was of heavy ared, him find us Plain do will to -the her Bunker come up from the shore with George. Slosson joined them and there was a brief discussion, then an interval of sllence, and the sound of voices again as the three white men moved back across the fleld in the direction of the bayou. There suc ceeded a period of utter stillness, both in the cabin and in the clear ing, a somber hush that plunged Het ty yet deeper in despair. Wild thoughts assailed her, thoughts against which she struggled with ail the strength of her will. 1 that hour of stress Hannibal was gustained by his faith In the judge. He saw his patron's powerful and pleturesque intelligenco appiled to solving the mystery of thelr disap sacrance from Belle Plain; it was in- i 3 conceivable that this could otherwise than disastrous to Mr Slos-| son, and he endeavored to share the confidence he was feeling with Hetty, but there was something so forced and unnatural in the girl's voice and manner when she discussed his con- Jectures that he quickly fell into an awed sllend At last and It must have been some time after midnight, troubled slumbers claimed him No { moment of forgetfulness came to Bet ' ty She was waiting for what-——she i did not know! The candle burnt low- | er and lower and finally went out and she was in but again she was conscious of ds from the room word or prove © left darkness, soun At first ft a sentence ien the gu aided Ame A ¥ monoto into ti 1 1 es n ant below was only a speech bed { that ran de ally this she heard ceased gobs CHAPTER XX, Murrell Shows His Hand. length points of light began to | show through chinks in the logs. Han- nibal roused and sat up, rubbing his | eyes with the backs of his hands ! “Wasn't you able to sleep none?” he | inquired. Betty shook her head. He looked at her with an expression or | troubled concern. “How soon do you | reckon the judge will know?’ he! raked, ‘Very soon now, dear.” Hannibal | was greatly consoled by this opinion. | “Miss Betty, he will love to find | us w— “Hark! What was that?” for Betty | had caught the distant splash of oars. | Hannibal found a chink in the logs | through which by dint of much squint. | ing he secured a partial view of the | bayou. “They're fetching up a keel boat to | the shore, Miss Betty—it's a whoop- | er!” he announced. Betty's heart | sank; she never doubted the purpose | for which that boat was brought into | the bayou, or that it nearly concerned | herself, Half an hour later Mrs. Hicks ap | peared with their breakfast. It was | in vain that Betty attempted to en- | gage her in conversation. Either she | cherished some personal feeling of | dislike for her prisoner, or else the | situation .In which she herself was placed had little to recommend it, even to her dull mind, and her dis satisfaction was expressed in ner at titude toward the girl, h Betty passed the long hours of morning in ‘dreary speculation con- cerning what was happening at Belle Plain. In the end she realized that the day could go by and her absence oceasion no alarm. Steve might rea. sonably suppose George had driven her into Raleigh or to the Bowens’ and that she had kept the carriage. Finally all her hope centered on Judge Price. He would expect Hannibal dar. ing the morning: perhaps when the boy did not arrive he would be tempt. ed to go out to Belle Plain to dls tover the reason of his pnon-appear L At “a, Zr i i Lr oi Boa Bl TE Pr] Py pe cog il a Ron ne pe 2 She wondered offer the mind, of that in the laughter carried ance would genious what theories mselves to his in for she sensed some indomital energy rebuffs and k of le which of him into the face thic every At the sensation noon Mrs morning She ha rcely q uilien a as in thelr din iftted the loft plerced the sl the clearing. and the two go from the f an hour elapsed, audiite the doorya Some room below and be ascend the narrow , And fingers « ivuisively Hannibal's "his was neither Hicks nor Hic) em xn A shrill ica that above WAS lwice peated, wonien were 1GAT( to Perhaj step Decame cabin on ked earth the rd ne entered the gan to ty's Tr IT'S nor was A brief vas reached n tary; bar, the was throw pent, and Its framed the figure of a man, It hn Mu was I're regarded Bet eated fire glo sense of {ery him ty In wed pos his his un. even his trous r the for bh h I'he raging through | throbbed blood love 5 doubtedly ich WAR, feit rant Bian mons feht of bh inspiration eward for whic ord fell soltly the 4 4 Rip aid 80 Fr with a } swift, in. mind which logic of events, acluslons, aied as Norton's 1 read her thot _ is, in his degenerate the common judg- nderstanding of them him That Bet seemed Inconse- & memory to his her was the the with co Perhaps he had lived until ments or the longer existed loved rion even it AWRY passion back of unleashed find some come for Betty? length softly thing of entreaty Then it was we brought thanked God had it was to he fea x1 this man's love and Murrell laughed. think I'd give you up? 1 with a halter about my for your sake-—who'd love of you? He with savage pride and took a step to no for ty had No quential Was the he watch be swept by force of greater So od smilingly, but the smile impu word he asked with {one Tom Bhe been red as the imneanace of ise wols at some Can't you of me a i i sti in his not here!” still who iid Tom, ¥You-~ had Cot have whose hat she 0 not fear: and all riak as much for ed expand Was 80, geem 10 that this her Don’t Her eyes " cried Betty. looked at near me! and she come blazed, with loathing “You'll learn to be kinder,” he ex. uited. “You wouldn't see me at Belle Plain; what was left for me but to have you brought here?” While Murrell was speaking the sig nal that had told of his own presence on the opposite shore of the bayou was heard again. This served to ar rest his attention. A look of uncer then he made an impatient gesture as If he dismissed some thought that had forced itself upon him, and turned Betty, “You don’t ask what my where you are concerned; you have no curiosity on that score?” She en- deavored to meet his glance with a glance as resolute, then her eyes the boy's upturned face. “I am going to send you down river, Bet. ty. Later 1 shall join you in New On leans, and when | leave the country you shall go with me--" “Never!” gasped Betty. “As my wife, or however you choose to eall it. I'll teach you what a man's love Is like,” he boasted, and extend ed his hand. Betty shrank from him, and his hand fell at his side. He looked at her steadily out of his deep purpose is his passion, and as he looked, her face paled and flushed by turns. “You may learn to be kind to me, Betty,” he sald. “You may find it will be worth your while.” answer, closer to her side. what [| have to offer, Betty?” shrank from him, but the madness of his mood was In the ascendant. He gelzed her and drew her to him. She struggled to free herself, but his fin. gers tightened about her. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Cubans Fond of Raisins. The life of Cuba is largely sustained by raisins, its people consuming the frult more generally than any other of the Spanish-American colonies. | | DEFEAT IN 1910, McCumber Repeats Silly Paper Duty Statement, on Which His Party Should Be Silent. Benator McCumber has again repeat ed the silly statement that the division In the Republican party was due to the fallure of congress to remove the duty on print of which a large Can newspapers party, denou law and elect t paper, in part of the Republi ed against their the Payne-Aldrich Democrats consequences turn need tc allowed the he present heisa sentatives This is a libel or newspapers The the present tariff them, and the is a mere Incident will read the party adopted therein vision, wi the Re P* bl dissatisfaction iICAD with by ting paper McCumber own cated aut his years ago he will find a promise of tariff res $y 0x ¢ iia dif and implication higher than ETE duties shou ferences Corin abroad justified We need not stop andard of be pri able he reports of here to duties the tarifr that It {8 ne But what here is the last public vention ed it { 8 promise that derstood to deen expedient to WAR niversally tarill ld nvention mean promise if th Fhat wor been made } iy Facognized the ful sent had not clear there was a power the Di =n party it rv : In ngley and be the ICCGRs : a ist made he party would into electio with Here deep Opp extreme IT fon which had no nore than list fulfill of platform gether wi loct , defeat ir 91 But In regar is worth hope of s mentary evidence of pread ition to referen the duties to any other & the The Payne the plain tarify item In fr did RRs Aldrich tari not and obvious meaning the revision pre ise in the yn and th resent ment other cau them occasioned the Reg here bug and leans on tl pulp duties w= months by a cor Bpeaker Cannon members were Republicans The vesligations that the $2 a ton and that certain and other pulp bear tioned to that reco: With this report of vestigation be dictation of Senator Aldrich to the du on make it $8. The intervent ident Taft caused compromise be tween the two h on $2.75. not quite twice as high as the duty a Re publican special investigating mittee reported wo requirements tem In think Re Pe call the tariff tectionists longed in mendat ion dul) a Re fore it the nder proposed paper and fon of Pres nate Hse increase ty B Ou ses Com- all the ive 1ld meet of the protect #YE of this McCumber and be h ion to the ' by bmn in the Pay view Mr iblicans public paper duty record should other we all would careful not to scandal ne-Aldrich attent of Taft's Steel The president is distinctly spectful to the house of tives in vetoing the ground that in the port from the tariff board, it did not have enough information for action The house has the constitutional right to initiate revenue legislation, and there is no provision in the constitu tion for a tariff board, and congress fs under no obligations to exercise its functions only in accordance with the recommendations of such a body. Con gresaman Redfield and Professor Taussig of Harvard University have thoroughly riddled the reports of the board, though it has undoubtedly done some useful work. But even if its work were of the most conclusive sort, the ways and means committees is not unfamiliar with the subject of steel duties, nor is the house incompe- tent to act upon its own judgment Bill Veto disre- representa- the absence of a re steel bill on ly as a protectionist in vetoing the bill, and he was probably making a bid for the support of the protection. ists whom Mr. Roosevelt is trying to draw away from the Republican party The hous was entirely justified In promptly passing the bill over the veto.——Philadelphia Record. 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