"ATTORNEYS P. FORYVEY D. SCARED GIRL mr PRODI Al % id Li “ig ie i A% When Man She Accused Told ra VALTER ~ IR His Story Four Were Jailed ATTORNEY ATAAW ’ : 3 vey BRLLEPONTA, 88 JUDGE A (Jy VAUGHAN KESTER, lezusrrarons By BD Mrecviek tiomenont 1vi, Te BORas Meoon i Conammy Pe BW. High Sweet. AB Jeoiitional businam Jesaptiy stiaded 4 mm a W. 5. Sih jb. ome Ive. J. Bowen Cra, BOWER & EERBY ATTORNEYS AT LAW Esora BLOB BELLEFONTR Ps. #ooessors to Onvis, Bowne 4 Oxvny Consultation in Englsh snd German FOR ARSCN AND ROBBERY Rosa Barnes, Her Brother William, and Two Other Men Arrested on Charge of Burglary—8Store Was Set Afire. TE B. B. SPANGLER ATTORNEY AT-LAW BELLEFONTRY 5 Practioss tn all the courts Osumitatien I English sad German. Ofos, Sxigare Mastanyl Building. SYNOPSIS. pushed open by Betty and the boy and again he called to them to escape | , | nate privilege to sustain the onslaught | point of view she had a frank of the Earl of Lambeth, { for handsome, itking Waynesboro A i BACK 10 | stalwart men. Caven- | frightened girl's added by the skiff. The fret of the current| The light from the Cavendish | dish was neither, but none knew bet- the ar t of Ro) ybinson those had grown steadlly and from beneath | hearth continued to brighten the | ter than Polly that where he was most the young the wide-flung branches of the trees | scene, for Polly was recklessly sac- lacking in appearance he wae richest brother which here met above his head, Car-| rificing her best straw tick. Indeed | in substance. He carried scars hon- macher, on rington caught sight of the star-| her behavior was In every way worthy | orably earned in those differences he specked arch of the heavens beyond. | of the noble alllance she had formed. | had been prone to cultivate with less They were issuing from the bayou. | Her cob-plpe was not suffered to go | generous natures; for his scheme He felt the river snatch at the keel! out and with Connie's help she kept) life did not embrace the millennium The scene at the opening of the story Is laid in the library of an old worn-out southern plantation, known as 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, & business man, & stranger known as Bladen, and Bob Yancy. a farmer, when Hannibal Wayne Hazard, a mysterious child of the old southern family, makes his appearance. re Will awa charg irglarizing 4 ¢ sw ¥ Bro ore, Of Arson in 25d hat deed out the Frieden connection with 1 have beg Robins Rosa CLEMENT DALR flames ATTORNEY -AT-LAW of claims to iten when y 13, Yancy tells how he adopted the boy. Na- thaniel Fe rris buys the Barony, but the Quintards deny any knowledge of the boy. Yancy to keep Hannibal, Captain Murrell, a Triend of the Quintards, ap- pears and asks questions about the Bar- ony. 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 secures the boy. Yancy appears before Bquire Balaam, and is discharged with costs for the plaintiff Betty Malroy, a friend of the Ferrises, has an encounter with Cap- tain Murrell, her, and is rescued by Bruce Carrington. Betty sets out for her Tennessee home. Carrington takes the same stage, Yancy and Hannibal disappear, with Murrell on Hie ir trail. Hannibal arrives at the home tf Judge Slocum Price. The Judge reco Se in the boy, the grandson of an © a ime friend. Murrell arrives at Judge's home. Cavendish family on raft rescue Yancy, who Is apparen ty dead. Price breaks jal! Betty and C arrington arrive at Belle Plain. Hannibal's rifle discloses yme startling things to the i Betty meet again Bella Plain. Is pila cy awakes from lon 1 board the raft. Judge Price discoveries In looking up Norton, a young the judge, Is mys- rma Car- to marry More Bnd in has prom ise is myst eriously »il's pl ot. Ho Judge Price, w and she In a stro they meet overseer, 3 and counsels at once s’ advice, and e is st pped b sr, and a confe inibal are made taken to. Hicks’ cabin, essible spot, and there and reveals his part } Betty th 18 intery Wars, i crime he abdt iction, plans takes charge f h for the nt her Jetty on n an Mur- the iiasing ones | | i ning enraged, La gl of whisky into the face and a duel is arrange i Mu rested for negro stealing ar his The Judge and Ma coming duel Carrin search for Betty and makes frantic boy CHAPTER XXVIill.—~(Continued.) ‘What have we between here and the river?” inquired the latter. best, he felt, not to give Slosson opportunity to ask questions “It narrows considerably, but it's a straight course,” son. “Black in yonder, ain't 1t7?” added, nodding ahead The shores drew rapidly They were leaving the panse behind. In the the rustling of the heard th ita bank ly *1 reckon sald “Better some sleep,” Pp. iake-llke ex- trees, Slosson yawned prodigious you ain't needing me?” he bow and arrington, loath, go up in the advised C Slosson, nothing down from the gtumbled forward The ceasel ing the ing get and clambered root of the cabin and S88 mur in drew mur of the the stilin as nearer the hurry- flood, and the beat of the 8 pulse quickened. Would raft there? He glanced the way they had ranks of the forest clearing, but across the water a dim point of light was visible. He fixed its position as somewhere near the head of the bayou. Apparently it was a lantern, but as he looked a ruddy glow crept up against the sky- Hine, From serving this Suddenly he gon, who had fallen asleep. arn-keeper sprang to his feet Bunker pointed without speaking rush waters grew oss keel boat : , Yellow ucklian the Kent he find back The dark off the over come walled the gingular son, addressing himself to rifle. “That's what I'm trying out,” answered Qarrington, “Hell!” cried BSlosson, and his gun to his shoulder. What wind Iifted a stray ton's halr, but his pistol answered Blosson in the same second. He fired at the huddle of men in the bow of the boat and one of them pitched for- ward with his arms outspread. “Keep back, you!” he sald, dropped off the cabin roof. His promptness had bred a momen- tary panic, then Slosson's bull-like voice began to roar commands: but in that brief instant of surprise and shock Carrington had found and with drawn the wooden peg that fastened the cabin door. He had scarcely done this when Slosson came tramping aft supported by the three men. Calling to Betty and Hannibal to es. cape in the skiff which was towing astern the Kentuckian rushed towara the bow. At his back he heard the door creak on fits hinges as it was and boat, the buffeting of some swift eddy, and saw the blunt bow swing off the south as they the black shore shadows, But what he did not see was a bIg out of the impenetrable gloom and incident with this there arose a shrill. “Sho'—1 bet it's him! cle Bob's nevvy! Sho’ ‘em! Sho’, they're Sho'!"” Carrington the direction of these sounds. There the boat and the the dim outline of a raft was taking shape, It was now canopied by a wealth pale gray that faded from be fore his as the darkness [ifted. The nereased. From the stone hearth of raft ascended a tall column of flame which visible six pigmy figures, vocal, at the huge sweeps than this Sho’ you can shootin’ guns! between shore smoke eyes light | the ing like mad light showed a lady presence smoking the from It showed two bark shanties, between them decorated ish wash perched more it fed fire 1+ showed a rooster the very act of crowing lustily Hannibal, who had climbed roof of the cabin, and Betty added her voice to his. “All right, Nevvy!"” reply, as Yancy side of the Slosson Bob! to over the pled with “Uncle Hannibal. Slosson uttered a cry of terror boat and grap Uncle Bob!” eried He even with the Scratch Hiller's big bands gripping his throat, he could not rid himself the belief that this was the ghost a murdered man “You'll take a dog's me, neighbor,” been saving it Meanwhile Mr. Cavendish proud spirit never greatly him to the practice of peace, pared for battle. Springing knocked his heels together “Whoop! I'm a man as down a thorny locust gcratched!” he equivalent to than lan with enthusiasm fight. It Mr of of fo’ you!” whose inclined had pre aloft he can slide and never shouted This was getting his triggers; inched himself! nimbly an nto the thick lunker's unfortu- he of was the six small Cavendishes from risk-| ing life and limb in the keel boat, to ward which they were powerfully Despite these activities she found time to call to Betty and Han- nibal on the cabin roof “Jump down here; that ain't no fit- tin’ place for you-all to stop in with them gentlemen fightin'!” An instant later Betty and Hanni- gtood on the raft with the little Cavendishes flocking about them. Mr Yancy's quest of his nevvy had taken enduring hold on thelr lmagina For weeks it had constituted thelr one vital tople, and the tight be came merely a satisfying background for this interesting restoration “S8ho’, they'd got him! he wa’'n't no bigger than Richard! Sho'!’ “Oh!” cried Betty, with a fearful glance toward the keel boat. Can't you stop them?” “What fo'?’ asked Polly, opening her black eyes very wide. “Bless yo tender heart!—you don't need to wor ry none, we got them strange gentle men licked like they was a passel of children! Connie, you-all mind that Bret? She accur of the fight. than that had Sho’ ately judged The boat was littie bet- a shambles with the havoc been wrought there when and Carrington dropped over its side the raft. Cavendish fol lowed them, whooping his triumph as the outcome to CHAPTER XXIiX. The Raft Again. Yancy and Cavendish threw them. selves on the sweeps and worked the raft clear of the keel boat, then the turbulent current seized the smaller craft and whirled it away into the | night: as its black bulk receded from | before his eyes the Earl of Lambeth | spoke with the voice of authority and | experience “It was a good fight and them fel lows done well, but not near weil | enough.” A conclusion that could | not be gainsald. He added, "No one ain't hurt but them that had ought to have got hurt. Mr. Yancy’'s all right, and 80'S Mr Carrington—who's | nighty welcome here.” ‘Mr. Carrington’s kin to Iv,” explained Yancy to Mrs dish. His voice was far from for Hannibal had been gathered into his arms and had all but wrecked the ealm with which the Scratch was seeking to guard his emo me, Pol Caven- steady, gtole Hille dimg at the mantic | : ed Trained to a 71 “Thank God, you got did!” said Carrington “We was some pushed fo done iL.” responded the estly He added, “What now? make a landing?” “No—-unless it interferes plans not to I want to get the next bend before we tie up we'll all go back Can 1 you?" “You shorely here as soci here when you time, but mod- we we eari do with your around Later count on I consider this able a neighborhood as 1 ever struck It pleases n well. Folks are up and doing hereabout.” Carrington looked eagerly around in search of Betty. She sitting on an upturned tub, a pathetic enough figure as she drooped against the wall of the sh with all her courage quite gon from her He made his way « kly to her side “Lal ‘olly in Chilis and Fever's ear. “If that ng thing yonder be ause ent she gels I ever seen geen it In can ie WAS one of aunties * whis pore yo keeps idow it won't be of any , starting up as “Oh. Bruce, oome—you She accepted his presence ‘arrington api 80 glad are not hurt?” without question “We are none of he took ig hurt her Betty," hand whe be sald gently, as that uring the hours had and in her ed a shuddering con- sciousness of the unchecked savagery of those last moments on the Keel boat: she was still hearing the oaths of the men as they struggled together, sound of blows, and dreadful silences that had followed them. She turned from the relief of tears “There, Betty the danger is over and you were so brave while It lasted. 1 can’t bear to have you cry!” “I was wild with fear-—all that time on the boat, * she faltered be tween her sobs. “lI didn’t kno but they would find you out. I could only walt and and pray!” “lI was no danger, dear he gir was to lance of a man Slosson He never doubted that man until a must have head of the “Where Not the w glanced he keel boa He saw the suffering undergone I left its rec tired face She retal: her the and there came him, Bruce- w 14 hope in tell Didn't take the WARE expect that | was lght-—a sigoal It on the shore at the Le betrayed you | been ¥ § Eh] - Dayou me we going ’ they went into the black t had me are now, Iiruce Betty where the ay out =X firs but atream thing 1s “No. no back up the best Bates’ pi #O0N AL YO Plain, There by the o« steering oar as Caven raft out toward the thought of Charley ton’s murder rested on Carrington like a pall Scarcely a week had elapsed since he quitted Thicket Point, and in that the hand death had dealt them impartially, and to what we rant an't get the s current, KE against the to land at he we 68 wo antation below able sald Carrington interval sweep of 1 Are Belle WAS an broken only Ereat xed the channel The ~casional the dish coa Nor ¢ Oi into a division of as space. They were themselves the past with its blight of tragic ter He turned and glanced at Betty. spite of the bounds beyond which he would not let his Imagination carry him, the future, enriched with sudden promise, unfolded itself. The deep sense of recovered hope stirred with- fn him. hiz love, and she would listen. “It's best we should land at Bates’ place-—we can get teams there,” he went on to explain. “And, Betty, wherever we go we'll go together, dear. Cavendish doesn’t look as If he had any very urgent busitass of his of Yancy, so I am going to keep them with us. There are some points to be cleared up when we reach Belle Plain ~~gome folks who'll have a lot to ex: plain or else quit this part of the state! And I intend to see that you are not left alone until—-uutil I have the right to take care of you for good and all-that's what you want me to do one of these days, isn't it, dar Hing?’ and his eyes, glowing and in finitely tender, dwelt on her upturnea face. (TO BE CONYINUED.) entrance, tris a slore gon cont and rearr: Saved by Swift Runs. Coatesville mpany made run the Penn- Yat aged Boy Vic Shamokin tim of Meningitis. Robert Weir, 14 returned home school five days ago and laid on a lounge, apparently falling asleep. His parents could not ke him nor could a number of phys fcians. He remained comatose until he died from spinal meningitis, Years, from ! Deer Break Their Necks, Stroudsburg. — Three deer crossed the golf links in front of William Ei- lenberger’s residence, to William H. Truslow’s hen | when chased by dogs, two of | broke their necks by the wire fence. | Argument, Blows and Arrest. Chester ber of the police department in Po | land, was before Alderman | charged with assault on Anthony Pry- | an argument. Dyche was held in $300, Women Shoplifters Jailed. 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