SYNOPSIS. he scene at the opening of the story Is Inid in the library of an old worn-out | southern plantation, known as the Bar- ony The place is to be sold, and (ts history and that of the owners, the Quintards, is the subject of discussion by | Jonathan Crenshaw, a business man, a | stranger known as Bladen, and Bob Yancy, a farmer, when Hannibal Wayne | Huzard, a mysterious child of the old Southern family, makes his appearance Yancy telis how he adopted the boy, Ni thaniel Ferris buys the Barony, but Git ards deny any knowledge of boy Yancy to keep Hannibal, Captain | irrell, a friend of the Quintards, ap- | Pears and asks questions about the Bar. on Trouble at Scratch Hill, when Han- | nibal Is kidnaped by Dave Blount, Cap tain Murrell's agent. Yancy overtakes Blount, gives him a thrashing and se res Yancy appears before Squire | and is discharged with costs for if Betty Malroy, a friend has an encounter with Cap ho forces his attentions is rescusd by Bruce Carrir sats out for her Tennessee ton takes the same stage. Hannibal disappear, with Murrell tr trail. Hanr bal arrives at th 11ge Slodum Price. y. Judge in the bov. the grandson of friend Murrell . {ie aver i of on 4 i & E = a hee ry ECan =E for t agian red CHAPTER XXiil. (Centinued,) And General Quintard never mr~gever manifested any interest Rim?” the words came slowly Iudge's li he seemed to gulp aomethis that in his “Poor and Poo Never once, sir ved to keep him ou all wondered, fo’ ggers will wmilk. was we couldn't figure general had she had been dead have Saw i in th from again, told his Know the sight. you thou the 1 ve to ght Quin out how but one chil fo’ years Leen hers no-how some Kili never i couldn't sy paused Fhe judge d desk What pridz!” he mm hand i © oof, he that spanned impli what and Atsorbed was busy h¥% thoughts the ¢f years Years that seemed to glide before him £3 each bitter memories of shame and defeat. Then the smoke of these lost battles emerged the lonely figure of the child him that June night arm stiffened where it restud on the desk, he straightened up | in his chair and his face assumed its customary expression of battered dig- nity, while a smile at once wistful and | tender hovered about his lips “Ouae other question,” he said til thiz man appeared bad ao trouble with Bladen? He coatgnt that you should keep ehild~--your right Hannibal never challenged?” Never, sir. All my troubles began about that time.” J “Murrell belongs In these sald the judge “I'd admire Yancey quietly be judge grinned ; ‘1 place my professional services at your disposal,” he said. “Yours is 8s! clear case of felonious assault.” “Nao, it ain’t, gir] look at it this-a- | ways; it's a clear case of my giving | him the damndest sort of a body beat- | tng!” “Str,” said the fudge, “I'll Hid your | bat while you are about it!” Hicks had taken his tu®¥ In re. | sponding to the judge's summons, but | now his step sounded in tEs ball and | throwing open the door he entered | the room. Whether consciously or not he had acquired something of that surly, forbidding manner which was | characteristic of his employer. A curt | nod of the head was his only greet. | ing. ! “Will you sit down?’ asked the | judges. Hicks signified by another! movement of the head that he would | not. “This 18 a very dreadful busi. ness!” began the judge softly. “Aln't 1?” agreed Hicks. you got to say to mo?” petalantly. “Have you started to drag the bayou?" asked the judge. Hicks nodded. "That was your idea?” sug gested the judge swept across | wirh wasie ‘uview, wish its hideous from as ke bad seen i ponderous “Une | Murrell you | was the to was parts,” | fo’ to meet Bim.” said | “What he added lerusrrarrons By D MeLviLy NO bjected Hicks ibe had been plumb distracted Norte shot arching plainly julckly tin’ said like she wa gince Charley fi gO i the ju yw 7" inquired his eyebrows. Hicks turbed by the « "Sort of out of her it ih, ige Was dis {ue Mr. Ware Leen Coe" “He spoke of It” “Yes, sir gether Ihe i on intently issed it regarded Hicks long and His magnifi- If Betty had not teveea vv iy $0138 é i judge and In silence mind v $ 1 1 # No straught h cent been di observed any sign of Ware true mental this time to go I suppose Mr ft hie is i v were better inf rme state why had } y Mem; ET ov o ' . Ware Aas 3 0 while he you an eve on Miss Ma! ay from home?” said the judge. i drift of his I = I~ to contin i1spicious of made no an told the house servants he: observation? ued the ju “I don't ioning wer pose i You Keen them that I didn’t.” The sudden and hurried entrance of big Steve brought the judge's exams ination of Mr. Hicks to a standstill “Mas'r, you know dat ‘ar coachman wife, Is carryin’ on home'!™” Steve tense excitement, but presence of the dressed himself to Slocum “Well, what of that?” he overseer ignored and Price ad- “Thar warn't no George, mind you, but dar was his team in de stable this mo'ning and lookin' mighty nigh done up with hard driving.”- “Yes,” interrupted Hicks uneasily; “put a pair lines In a niggers hands and he'll run any team off its of “An' the kerriage all bein’ thrashed bushes,” added Steve “There's a nigger for you!” sald Hicka. “She took the rascal out of the fleld, dressed him like he was a gentleman and pampered him up, and now firgt chance he gets he runs off!” “Ah!” sald the judge softly. "Then you knew this?” “Of course | knew--wa'n't it my business to know? [1 reckon he was off skylarking, and when he'd seen the mess he'd made, the trifling fool took to the woods. Well, he catches it when 1 lay hands on him!” “Do you know when and under what circumstances the team was stabled, Mr. Hicks?” inquired the Indge, “No. 1 don’t, but I reckon it must have been long after dark,” sald Hicks unwillingly. “I seen to the feeding scratched through np the ¢ tl 3 3 safed to And 1 it ficksa . Mi OOK His head ing the afternoon?” ae Den of ahoo No—maybe think gers ain't enough to keep a mat ring?” said Hicks uneasily and = scowl, The Judge noticed # and the scowl imagine they would ory every m your time, ks,” he agreed affably A man's got to be a hog for bold a like mine,” sald sourly You both ineasine: ' “1 should Oat ’ oment of Hicks But it came to your notice that mental state ever since Mr. Norton's Mr. Hicks, because your experience ia 20 entirely at variance with my own. i It was my privilege to ses and speak with her yesterday afternoon: § nese and composure” The Judge smiled, then he leaned forward across the desk. here early this morning--hasn’t a hog for work like you got any business of his own at that hour? The Judge's tone was suddenly offensive { i i 2 For no discernible reason Mr. Cav. “Mr. Hicks,” said the judge, urbane and gracious, “I believe In frankness.” “Bure,” agreed Hicks, mollified by the judge's altered tone “Therefore 1 do not hesitate to say that | consider you a damned scoun- drel!” concluded the judge Mr, Cavendish, accepting the judge's ultimatum as something which must debar Hicks from all further consid- eration, and being, as he was, exceed. ingly active and energetic by nature, if one passed over the various forms of gainful Industry, uttered a loud whoop and threw himself on the over. seer. There was a brief struggle and Hicks went down with the Earl of Lambeth astride of him; then from his boot leg that knightly soul flashed a horn-handled tickler of formidable dimensions. - The judge, Yancy and Mahafly, sprang from their chairs. Mr. Ma haffy was plainly shocked at the spec tacle of Mr. Cavendish's lawless vio lance Yancy was disturbed, too, but not by the moral aspects of the cade; he was doubtful as to how his friend's act would appeal the judge He need not have been distressed on that score, since the judge's one idea was to profit by it. With his hands on his knees he now hending above the two men "What judge?” his to to WAS do want to know, cried Cavendish, panting frem this parrot you exertions “T'il talk “Hicks” learn samy 0 Ip said power to tell the “it Is In things we Hicks looked face and closed “Mr Cavendish, the point of that he'll feel it judge your few are Us a find out.” here to up iuto his lips kindiv lat udge's grimly him have he i iarge knife where most. rdered the judge aAvendisi, *Talk—or what's “Talk quick aid « with CHAPTER XXIV. Fentress forgotten had hae went ness for r idiing-—prin aor we the Coiore i his Mr. to the the host ‘ seen In Charley ipal. ber--prin- ghost, other preserved as 4 a now a rt I hil to white en with his pounded on ioudly an in figure end echoed ize. and spare goon the 3 the hall “"[Nho “1 ge Pr Fentress.” incertainly. and stil advancing ‘1 had must have Judge “1 think 1 pausing now “He thinks he has!” judge under his breath “Will you come In?’ it was more a question than an Invitation. “If you are at liberty.” The colonel bowed “Allow me.” the judge con tinued “Colonel Pentress— Mr. Ma hafty, Mr. Yancy and Mr. Cavendish.” Again the colonel bowed “WH you step Into the Hbrary?” ‘Very good,” and the judge followed the colonel briskly down the ball (TO BE CONTINUED.) i ——————— TE fiattered heard that sald myself of me” you the eald have,” Fentress, muttered the Women Win High Honors. Once more women have triumphed at the Royal academy. For the seo ond time in three years the gold medal has been won by a female student, while of the fourtess prizes offered no less than ten have been carried off by women. In presenting these | and congratulating Miss Margaret Wil. | liams on her brilliant achievement the | president of the Royal academy pail high tribute to the perseverance and | the talent of women artists; but again. | we ask, why Js It not recognized by the Royal Academy of Arts in the ob vious way? In every way women show thelr fitness to compete with men for the honor of admission to as soclateshlp and to eleetion among the forty, yet still they stand without the gate ~Lady's Pictorial, Existence of Departments Tends to Decrease of Incendiarism BUT FOUR SUITS BROUGHT Fear of Detection and Punishment a Mar. of Preventive of Arson—State Baldwin Effect shal Confident of New Plan. Harrisburg DUrg 4 Marshal, says that tne ry eXx- (Bpe« ia: Harr State istence prevent fires and detect fires has re ulted in : i diari not Areog but bullding: fire oniy nave 1 marshal’ operation about one ial ele i N Rifle Practice Keen Na- {M en are hard ing up thei; can be forwarded smeral of Rifle every Prac reg prac- of his ‘ractically f amiall-arms € making the round organizations, looking up the work that and urging the completion of practice. Under the law Guard must qualify at the ranges, from the gen the privates, and in rivalry is very shoots tice ig now is Ded aone every member of the erals down to many organizations the regimental and battalion held keen being Pave Way for Big Park. 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