in A ——————— AA The Call of the | Cumberlands | With Illustrations from Photographs of Scenes in the Play 1913. by W. J. Wan SYNOPSIS. (Copyrigha 5 Xl—Continued, —— not appear at weeks after think that, going there embarrass the girl who had been it were better to remain away “1 don't belong here,” he told self, bitterly “1 reckon everybody that knows me New York, except the lLescotts is laughing me bind my back. He worked his work suc came out again ness of stroke vigor of nodded his passed on to having left relentless he said: CHAPTER Samson cott house He had did for begun the that. if his to wo to ’ vient gave ment in at fiercely, and threw and energy converted and h fire that into bold- almost sav: drawing The structor head over the the n t an easel, xt student pupil the that South way ele man draws "8 not wer, He's elemen a th f he goes on, the hé will be won't merely t char and you know He lips : 108€8, DU thing a por painter draw and virtues igh th nem And moldering acter Samsot n a 12 down polar and the live wings IOW where With far wild | id ring and that woul mi sta it water fowl that Farbish drop vith marching orders, and Samson yearning to be away where there gratious it was Georg wen skies, packed play truant from business for a day or two, and wished to see Bamson comfortably ensconced and introduced. The first day Farbish and Samson had the place to themselves, but the next morning would bring others. The next day, while the mountain } to leave that same night While he was packing, the telephone ang, and Samson heard Adrienne’s at the other end of the wire, “Where have you been hiding?” she demanded, “I'll have to send a truant sficer after you.” “1 ve been very busy,” said the man, and 1 reckon, after all, civilize a wolf. Vm afraid I've wasting your time.’ Possibly, the miserable tone of the voice told the girl more than the words. “You are Laving a season with the plue devils,” she announced. “You've jen cooped up too much. This wind ought to bring the ducks, and" “I'm leaving tonight.” her, ‘It would have been very nice of you to have run up to say goodby.” she reproved. “But I'll lorgive you, if you call me up by long distance. You will get there early in the morn: ing. Tomorrow, I'm going to Philadel phia over night, The next night, 1 ghall be at the theater. Cuil me up after the theater, and teil me how you like it.” It was the same old frankzess and friendliness of voice, and the same old note like the music of a reed in. strument. Samson felt so comforted and reassured that he lnughed through the telephone. “I've been keeping away from you,” he volunteered, “because I've had a apse into savagery, and haven't been fit to talk to you. When 1 get back, I'm coming up to explain, And in the meantime, 1'Hl telephone.” 70ice been to discover that, after all, he had Mr. William Farbieh for a traveling com papion, That gentleman explained that he had found an opportunity to total of six, for in pursuance of | carefully arranged plans of Mr. | Mr. Bradburn had succeeded | inducing Wilfred llorton to run | down for a day or two of the sport he loved. When Horton arrived that he found his usually eve n | bits of maliciously broached gossip, until his resentment | Samson South had been He did not know that South also was at the club, | and he did not that afternoon go out | to the blinds, but far departed | his usual custom as git for several hours in the 80 to permit | And yet, as is often the case in care- | signed affairs, the one element | made powerfully for the | Farbish's scheme was pure The Hy that success of most arefn arrang ’ iwoen the 1 Passion whom other lied to mens South, 3 all the were men closely a cal and financial ele had been making war ed willing to forget that had been a breach, | was equally Just now, he feeling such bitterns for the tuckian that the foes less SO Stil Hn uf since | they for the seem time there Was Ken- | per SO o¢ 88 of a In point of fact, Wilfred Horton had | gpent a very bad day. The final straw | had broken the back of his usually | unruffled temper, when had found in his room on reaching the Kenmore a copy of a certain New York weekly and had read a page, chanced to be lying face up (a chance prearranged). It was an item of which Farbish had known, in ad vance of publication, but Wilfred would never have that t not oeen wrefull attention. There strange infatuation he which | seen 80 « y were which a} to certain wou teriain young an en for a partially had m the ger who adhe p his hair biblical character of The supper at sntioned, and place jectiona able the the the Wi im ins character of Horton ¢it this ob directly judged EWE intimat tod ble innuendo was "e's £11 oR i Adrienn the mou trace to ntaineer mountaineer ding “Don’t You See That This Thing Is a FrameUp?™ that Horton would not listen to his confidences. The delegated spokes man , warned Wilfred that Samson South had spoken pointedly of him, and advised cautious conduct, in a fashion calculated to inflame Samson, it was falsely alleged, accused him things in his absence, which he would hardly venture to repeat in his pres ence, In short, it was put to Horton to announce his opinion openly, or eat the erow of cowardice. That evening, when Samson went to his room, Farbish joined him. “I've been greatly annoyed to find,” he sald, seating himsell on Samson's bed, “that Horton arrived today.” “1 reckon that's all right,” said Sam- son. "He's a member, lan’t he?” Farbish appeared dubious. “} don't want to appear in the guise of a prophet of trouble,” he said, "but you are my guest here, and | must warn you, Horton thinks of you as a ‘gun fighter’ and a dangerous man. with you. If there 13 a clash, it will be serious, Hie doesn't often drink, but today he's doing it, and may be ugly. Avold an altercation if you can, but if it comes" He broke off and added seri. had ously: * “fou will have to get him, or he will get you. Are you armed?” The Kentuckian laughed. “1 reckon 1 don't need to be armed amongst gentlemen.” Farbish drew from magazine pistol. I'm going to ve that friend. . Don't you see that this thing 8 1 a damned frame-up? . Don't you see that | was brought hers to murder you?” “Why did you insist on my putting | "Samson took out | " he insisted For an instant, the mountaineer gtood looking at his host and with eyes that bored deep, his mind as he made that he kept to himself. At last, he took | the magazine pistol, turned it over in his hand, and put Jt into his pocket “Mr. Farbish,” he said, “I've places before now where men scrutiny excited about will think you are this thing. If anything starts, he start ir.” At the Samson Bouth introduced, dinner table, wero the briefest and most formal During the course of the meal, though seated side by side, each ig nored the presence the other. Sain perhaps, no more silent than Always, he was the listener ex cept when a question put but with of owWaR on Wis, usual tet wi 70d ah and the the man at his si When the coffés had been and the wuts had manuer of one n opportunity, cars lighted, withdrawn, Hortor who had been turned slightly and gazed insolently at Bid “ chair, tuckian South still the though in reality no ing storm had esd the Samson semed other's detall of the brew- aped him, He other faces around the and what he saw in ‘hem ap peared to occupy him. Wilfred Hor dull unconscious of existence was ye sh, with and his eyes were narrow unveiled dislike Suddenly a silence fell the party, and, as the men sat puffing their cigars, Horton turned toward the Kentuckian. For a he glared in then 1 an impetuous exclamation ust he here an on flence, wit! announced . South, I wan if I'd understood sou were ere 1 wouldn't pleased me to 1 {0 Se “x You that it my opinior and now person.” have ome exp ber of neo ¥ ress a num doesn’t mad Mr. Horton t happen datory?”’ Yes DArrowing Kentuckian MIT Owl sald didn commen i ing with orto 3 steady host iy nto Sar prefer generally « i to tell you i the SAVARS on’'s eves 3 xpre rather aged that you are a damned tr decent society rigid and a trifle fis mouth set itself in a straight but, as Wilfred Horton came to his fest with the the moun remained seated went the with suddenly augmenting passion, “what 1 said 1 still believe to be true and repeat in your presence. At another time and place, | shall be even more explicit. 1 shall ask you to explain—certain things.” “Mr. Horton,” suggested Sameon in an ominously quiet voice, “1 reckon you're a little drunk. If 1 were you, I'd sit down” Wilfred's face went from red white, and his shoulders stiffened. He leaned forward, and for the instant no one moved. The tick of the clock was plainly audible, “South,” fn labored se” Samson still sat motionless. “Against what?" he Inguired, “Against that!” mountain hia open hand, commotion shufffing feet, mingled with a chorus of inarticulate protest, risen, and, for a second, his face had become a thing of unspeakable pas sion. toward his pocket—and stopped half way He stood by his overturned chair, gazing into the eyes of his as sallant, with an effort at sell-mastery which gave his chest and arms the appearance of a man writhing and stiffening under electrocution. Then, he forced both hands to his back and gripped them there. For a moment, the tableau was held, then the man fron: the mountains began speaking, slowly and in a tone of dead-level monotony, Bach syllable was portent. ously distinet and clear clipped. “Maybe you know why I don’t kill you. . . » Maybe you don’t. . . . I don’t give a damn whether you do or not, . .. That's the first blow I've over passed. . . . 1 ain't going to hit back. . . . You need a friend pretty bad just gow, . . . For certain reasons, n's face grew ale last words, taineer And.” fuspiag on New Yorker excitement, “defend your front of shivered a why did meant in gtruck and wine-glags—"and me that this man Wilfred, where half-filled you to kil oul of a barbarian and a I a rat savage, but if it's dead encugh.” there was calm. Wilfred discarded in bewildered tion, then his face distressing mortification “Any time you want Samson had turned and was gti quiet may be 1 can sme For instant ind hushed picked up the looked at it an woapon stupefac- slowly amed with to fight me” face 1 again to | in his tonight been vic © find me I've without hitting got to be | “I'm Ready Either to Fight or Shake Handa.” I fight i, not for a bunch of da Just now, When That 1 a lear startled He knew! countenar He ha Yang dre ng from eXac whic h he With a panther Kentuckian leaped w an ied Samson like forward, weapon, which spat Supp and struck one in Ther aying r which the the Then, hack shoulders digsarranged « up the effective a bullet inte the rafters nlary crash » oO Was mom gcuflle bodies and a table gre of glasa and china congpirator’s body until it stretched on the and the white with purple veins swelling on the forehead, stared up between two brown hands that gripped its, throat, “Swallow tl taineer, For just an instant, stood dumfounded, then a strained unnatural voice broke the silence “Stop him, he's golug to kill unde aned amid the the slowly, at bent waist, # wer face, hat!” ordered the moun- the The odds were four to two, and with a sudden rally to the support of Samson South The dammed-up wrath that had been smoldering dur ing these last days was having a tem pestuous outlet. He had found men who, In a gentlemen's elub to which But use him as & catspaw and murderer. As they assaulted him, en masse, he seized a chair, and swung it flail like about his head For a few mo: and china, and a clatter of furniture and a chaos of struggle Samson South stood for a moment panting in a scene of wreckoge and disorder. The table was littered with shivered glasses and decanters and chinaware. The furniture was scat tered and overturned. Furbish was weakly leaning to one side in the seat to which he had made his way. The men who had gone dovn under the heavy blows of the chuir lay quietly where they had fallen. Wilfred Horton stogd waiting. The whole affair had travapired with such celerity and speed tliat he had hardly understood it, and Yad taken wo part, But, ag he met se gage of the dis. ordered figure acres the wreckage of a dinneriable, lv realized that vow, with the > preliminaries settied, he who had struck Samson in the face must give satisfaction for the blow. Horton was sober, as cold sober as though he he was not in the least afrald. he was mortified, and, had apology at such a time been possible, would have made it. He knew that he had misjudged his man: he saw the outlines of the plot as plainly SBamson had seen them, though more tardily Samson's touched the which had dropped from and he contemptoously kick fide Hi came as pistol Farbish ed it Loe ne back te place Mr the who stood Horton,” he said to looking “if youre accomod: “Now, man about with a dazed expre game mind, 1 led gaion, still of the Can Ou when SLEEP WAS NOT FOR HER What Consolation She of Forego Reward tile One Got C Out ised ing Prom JIG hmicalis ng over ould to GUS Slew pw 14 never do So when the wi sleeping, daugh . ts nberously Uh-hul in But her mo CEBARC Of Conving was offered Time but always it was began to Bguirm her bed ing. 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