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.
Tari Revision First,
The tariff is the issue and If the
Democrats s%eep the country, as they
sion nex! spring. and revision of the
| Payne law will be begun
| ton Star
Easily “Cheered Up.”
A dispatch to the Washington Star
{from New York says ghe Republican
national committee whks “cheered up”
by the reports from Missouri that
conditions had “brightened up” for
the Republican ticket It doesn't take
much, evidently, to “cheer up” the
Republican national committees,
——-
And again, speaking of complete re
versals of form, just compare his con:
fession of faith with his record as
president Indianapolis News,
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