FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1935 ppjil SYNOPSIS Ben Elliott—from "Yonder"— makes his entry Into the lumbering town of Tlncup, bringing along an old man, Don Stuart, who had been eager to reach Tlncup. Elliott de feats Bull Duval, "king of the river," and town bully, In a log-Mrllng con tact. Nicholas Brandon, the town's leading cltlxen, resents Stuart's pres , ence, trying to force hlra to leave town and Elliott, resenting the act, knocks him down. Elliott Is arrest ed, but finds a friend in Judge Able Armltage. The Judge hires him to ran the one lumber camp, the Hoot Owl, that Brandon has not been able to grab. This belongs to Dawn Mc- Manus, daughter of Brandon's old partner, who has disappeared with a murder charge hanging over his head. Brandon sends his bully, Du val, to beat up Ben. CHAPTER lll—Continued Bird-Eye fell back, clinging to the poker, his lips moving. It was Elli ott's fight. Indeed. He had seen many men fight before, had Bird- Eye Blaine; born to a rough life, he bad lived It fully. He had seen «ountless battles but never had he witnessed such a fury as Ben Elli ott loosed then. He drove out with both fists, heedless of defense, blind to Du val's counter offensive. He shouted as be struck. He used a knee to break another hold, be bit when Duval tried to throttle him with the grip of both hands. He danced as the Bull sought to trample his feet with his river calks, and all the time be was striking. Again and again Ms hard knuckles found their mark. A bench went over as they waltzed Into It Their combined weight crashing against the bunks as Du val tried desperately to clinch again, smashed an upright and sent men In the upper deck scurrying. Dnst rose thickly. The sink was ripped from Its place as Ben drove the Bull Into It with a body blow, and a chair was wrecked as Duval, caught by another punch, went over It backward with a crash. Ben stood still, spread legged, breathing hard, hands swinging In a qwift rhythm of rage. "Get up!" he panted. "Get up! I've only started!" Duval rolled over, his back to El liott, and shoved himself to his feet. Not until he bad risen and faced about did the other move. Then he closed with another of those flying rushes, with one pinned Duval against the wall, iitth another sent his head crashing against the window frame. The Bull gave a bubbling roar apd tried to grapple. His hands were struck down. He swung mightily, slowly, and missed, and as he went by, off balance, a chop ping stroke on the back of the head floored him. Again Elliott waited. "Get up!" he cried thickly. "Get up, Duval, and take the rest!" The other started to move, look ing over his shoulder with one eye that remained open. He Baw a tall, supple young man, hair awry, shirt ripped open from neck to belt, cheek bleeding, Jaws set stand there swinging one flst as though the knuckles were wild to strike again. He sank back to the floor, shudder ing. On that -Elliott relaxed and moved close. "Enough?" he asked, sharply, prodding the Bull with a toe of his pac. Duval moaned and shook his head. He made as If to rise again and Ben stepped back, giving him every chance. / The Bull did not get to his feet He started to, drew one knee be neath him, heaved and then sank back to a hip. He swore heavily and hung his head, propping his torso by both great bands spread wl4e on the floor. "Through, Duval?" Ben asked and It seemed as though his bruised and battered face tried to twist In a grin. The other gave no Intimation of having heard. "There's more on tap. Or have you got enough?" And then, when no reply came Elliott stooped, grasped the Bull's shirt in his lands and half lifted him. "Let go!" the man blurted. "Let go or I'll—" He tried to twist away, tried to strike Ben's legs, but his strength was gone, beaten from his great body. He was dragged across the floor, river boots trailing over the boards, straight to the doorway. With one foot Elliott kicked open the portal and with a heave flung Duval, the lineup terror, Into the trampled snow outside. A half hour later Bull Duval, who had washed his bleeding head and face In the horse trough against the shonted protests of Bird-Eye Blaine that it would be unfit thereafter for hls teams to drink from, shoved himself erect and wiped trembling hands on his mackinaw. The door of the van opened and Elliott emerged. He walked straight to the bully and examined his vis ible injuries critically. "Fair Job," he said, as though to himself, and grinned. "A fair Job, Duval. But remember this: if you ever set one of your feet in this camp again, or on any operation where I'm In charge, I'll give you a licking you'lf remember! Now, Du val, why'd you come out here this morning? Who sent you?" Duval looked away. "Nobody," he said weakly. "I got drunk. But . . . but if you're need in' a man, I can work for a better man than I am." Ben shook his head. "No use, chum. You're going to tell me why you came and who sent ycu. Was it Brandon?" "No"—evasively. "Sure? How much did he give you to come here? Or are you on the payroll to do such chores?" "H—l, he didn't—" "You're a worse liar than you are a fighter by a mile or two, Duval. Mine was a gcod guess, wasn't it? What were his orders?" "Well, he said If I didn't that he'd—" "Good I That's all I want to know. There's the road. And you can take this little message with you to Brandon: Tell him that he needs to send more and better men here the next time. And as for you: 1 hire no men who can be hired to fight another man's battles. Make tracks, Duval!" / It was a week later. Old Don Stuart, propped on pil lows in the narrow, cell-like room of Joe Piette's hotel, listened to the colorful account that Bird-Eye Blaine, with many gestures and con "Get . . . Paper." slderable profanity, rendered for him of what had transpired at Hoot Owl since Ben Elliott had taken charge of the operation. ". . . 'ndso he's got th' mill crew a-wurrkln' their blessld heads of! for him 'nd's got thut ragged-pants gang av beet-weeders 'nd hay pitchers thut passes fer a loggln* crew doln' more'n they've evir done In their lazy lolves before!" "Good," gasped Stuart feebly and tried to smile. "Good boy. But . . . he's young and . . . alone against Brandon. It'll be . . . that hard nut he . . . was, lookln' for." "Harrd?" Bird-Eye glared at him. "Harrdl Th* harrder they come, th' better pleased he Is! Sure 'nd he's a glutten fer work, Donny I 'Nd th' saints, they have a finger Into ut, too, him a-comln' Just whin they'd got pore owld Able licked. It'll be a tough foigh#cr I'm a bad guesser, but d —n me eyes, whut a folghter th' Jad is!" A restless light appeared in Don's eyes and his thin old hands fidgeted nervously with the blankets. "A tough fight . . . Oh, he don't know . . . Bird-Eye, what he's up against" He struggled to sit erect and his eyes shone brightly with an odd sort of desperation. "If Bran don can't ... drive him out ... one way or another . . . he'll kill him." He gasped and swallowed, evident ly making a great effort to talk rapidly. "I'm a coward, Bird-Eye. . , . Been a d—n coward ... for years. I've been . . . afraid to tell . . . while I lived. Now . . . I'm afraid to die with It ... on my 80Ul !" He panted and Blaine looked in alariji at his friend as these last words took on significance for him. "Lay /back, Donny. Dawn't gtt yerself excited, b'y. ... Coward? Naw, ye're no coward!" THE ROCKY MOUNT HERALD He grasped the sick man by the shoulders and tried gently to force him back on the pillows but the old fellow resisted. "Can't die. . . . Can't . . . with It on . . . my soul!" he gasped and lifted a face stamped with strange appeal to the little man. Bird-Eye stood back, solemn and worried, scratching his head. The other made a feeble gesture with one hand. "A man's got ... to fight fire with . . . fire. Brandon'll get him . . . unless he . / . unless . . ." He put a hand to his throat and moved his uplifted chin from side to side as though strangling. "Want to write ... a letter, Bird-Eye. Get . . . paper. Fight . . . fire with Are 1" This wns obviously no whim of a sick man. His necessity was not clear to Blaine but the other knew old Don was gripped by a burning conviction. He hurried down the stairs, se cured writing materials and, from the table In the little office picked up a mall-order-house catalogue. With these he ascended to the sick room again, taking the steps two at a time. "Here ye are I Book to wrolte on, paper, envllope, pencil, . . . I'll sit by ye, Donny." Stuart did not start to write at once. He sat staring straight before him in quandary, and then lifted his gaze to the little man who stood at his bedside. "I'd like to be . . . alone, Bird- Eye," he said in a faint whisper. "I've been alone ... with It so long ... I think better alone." The other shrugged. "Ave course, Donny," he ac quiesced. "Ave course. 01*11 come back when ye're finished." He went downstairs, rubbers thumping on the treads, but he stood at the bottom a long -interval, shaking his head in misgiving and muttering to himself. Then he turned about and crept back as softly as a cat On the upper land ing he seated himself leaning against the thin partition of matched boards which separated him from the sick man. A- half hour, perhaps, Bird-Eye sat there growing cramped and chilly in the draughty hallway. Then he leaped to his feet with a little cry. From within had come a long, retching gasp, a sharp creak of bed springs, a thud on the floor. Blaine burst into the room. The catalogue was beside the bed. Old Don lay half doubled forward, face in the blankets, one limp hand swaying slightly as it dangled over the edge. "Donny I Donny, b'y, what's up?" He raised the limp figure, laid it back, stared hard at the face which now seemed so peaceful and then ran excitedly down the stairway In frenzied search of Joe Plette. In the room was confusion after Doctor Sweet answered the hasty summons. The doctor felt vainly for a pulse, touched the shrunken breast of the old cruiser and then turned away with a significant shake of his head. The usual things were said and then Bird-Eye and the physician were alone in the room. The little Irishman's eyes brimmed with tears but behind these wa3 an Intent look as of one who impatiently awaits opportunity to pursue a specific purpose, and when the others trooped down the stairway he closed the door and returned hastily to the bedside. "Sure 'nd where is ut?"he asked beneath his breath, riffling the leaves of the bulky catalogue, shak ing folds out of the rumpled blan kets. "What are you after, Bird-Eye?" the doctor asked. "Ah 1 Here ut be P On his hands and knees, peering beneath the bed, he uttered that ejaculation and, reaching far un der, rose to his knees with a sealed envelope in his hands. Across the face was a scrawl, written with an indelible pencil Blaine scowled as he tried to make out the words, got to his feet, and moved across the room to hold the envelope closer to the light Doc tor Sweet bent over it beside him. "Ben Elliott," the latter read aloud. "Open this when the nut gets too hard to crack." The doctor scratched his mus tache. He turned his face to meet Bird-Eye's startled gaze. "It's somethln'. Doctor, thut he didn'-t dare die with on his soul I Somethln' he was fearful to tell If he lived, as well. . . . Somethln' . . ." His hand holding the letter trembled sharply. "Brandon for sure I" Bird-Eye whispered hoarsely. " 'Twas Bran don kept Donny out av Tlncup fer years, wa'n't it? 'Twas Brandon tuk him when he was hlttin' th' booze years back 'nd made a slave av him, he did! It's Brandon who's be'n comln' here ivery night, not loike you or I'd come, but loike a masther 'd come to watch a slave . . . a slave he was a-scared to have around. . . . "Why was a rich man loike Nick Brandon afraid av 'n owld bum like Donny?" he demanded, shaking the letter almost accusingly close In the other's face. "Who was't with Fax son when he died? Who was 't put Faxson's murder on McManus?" He gesticulated gravely toward the bed. "Him. . . . Him, Nick Bran don's slave, who wance was a man, who wlnt to hell with booze, who's truckled to Brandon evlr since un til his pore owld heart broke 1" "By George, Bird-Eye, It does look as though It might—" The doc tor i ed.t ten lent «• Ell Ml k b'y •Nt les: Ab owl T get! belli Imp olas A eme the ope« ter froi Pie hai Br: on $ sec too abl nln t the tra* voli bit won ity," row fie wa Rei wot Ing low no* mf> ed D * wli qui or HI&U JU .tIUUIUUU, lAC . , didn't visit with anyone did he?" A queer hesitancy crept Into his manner on this as though be shrank from knowing the reply and Doc tor Sweet turned to Bird-Eye Blaine Inquiringly. But Bird-Eye did not look at the doctor. He was staring at Brandon und as that individual's gaze, following the doctor's, en countered his, the Irishman's lips twitched Into a bitter smile. "So you're after wonderln' whut pore owld Donny said on his death bed, are ye?" he demanded, an J with that challenge stepped down from the stairway and crossed the floor slowly toward Brandon. "So ye're worryin', now, over whut he molght 've said, eh?" "Worrying?' Brandon countered steadily. "You're either drunk or crazy, Blaine!" "Mebby I"—with a sharp nod. "Mebbe both. But old Donny wa'o't ... He didn't do talkln', Misther Brandon. Rid yer molnd av that worry. Sure, *nd he didn't talk to a soul av what was on his molnd whin he knowed he lay dyln'. ... No talk I No talk fer somebody to re pate 'nd git twisted up *nd lave out things thut shuld 've be'n told. ... He wrote utl That's whut he done, Brandon I"—voice mounting. "He wrote utl 'Nd he wrote ut fer one who'll make ut so hot that ye'll wish ye was slzzlln' In hell!" With a sweeping gesture he thrust the envelope close to Brandon's face, so close that the man jerked his head backward sharply. "He wrote utl" Bird-Eye cried triumphantly. • " 'Nd may th' saints speed th' day whin Misther Elliott puts to use th' thing owld Donny had to tell!" Grimly he poised an Instant be fore the larger man. Then he thrust the letter Into his shirt pocket, but toned his Jacket tightly across It, slapped his chest decisively, almost boastfully, and without another word strode to the door and let him self out Into the street It was late when Bird-Eye stepped Into the darkness of the tiny office where Ben Elliott slept at Hoot Owl, struck a match, lifted It high above his head and spoke: "HI! Misther Elliott 1" Ben roused himself and squinted at the flick ering match. "Get up! Rouse upt I got big news for ye!" They lighted a lantern, and by Its glow Ben read the Inscription on the letter which Don Stuart had left him as Bird-Eye hastily and ex citedly explained. , "There's somethln' In ut Donny'd carried secrut fer long!" he whis pered hoarsely. "Ut's to do with Brandon, with flghtln' flre with flre, or I'm th' worst guesser in th* woods!" "Poor old beggar" Ben said gen tly. "Tough to die that way. And I never got In to see him again!" Bird-Eye nodded. "Yes. But mebby he's done ye as great a favor as anny man evlr done! The's some thin* in ut about Sam Faxson 'nd McManus. I'd bet me last shirt 1" " Ben shrugged and turned tjie en velope over. Then he rose, yawned and slipped It Into the drawer of the plain table that did service for an office desk. "Ain't ye goln' to read ut event" Bird-Eye demanded in extreme amazement i (TO BE CONTINUED.) Strongest Will Rul* Seemingly, the only law possible between nations is the rule of the stronger. ,TH CAROLINA ocommon Sense ) By JOHN'BLAKE g). Bell Syndicate—WNU Service L he thing that may count most •ust young people hunting Jobs is slovenly speech. Slovenly There can be no Sneech sound objection to slang, if it is smart sf and used in moderation, ut bad grammar, and the con t use of expressions which are rtantly employed by young men I women who are trying to be jht, are a positive handicap, t Is easy to say that you Inher -1 your speech from parents who I no chance to get an education, It Is nonsense. bme of the ablest and most bril £ men and women of the time e from parents who spoke Eng j very lamely; others from parents b spoke with foreign accents. po not try to speak elaborately, to use big words. Speak directly, clearly and forci 7. fCnow the exact meaning of every •rd you use. Associate as much as Is possible h people who use correct speech, id books by writers who know r to use good English. • •••••• Vlake It a practice to read the ;.'tionary. By that I do not mean to begin Ith A and end with Z. U mean to study pronunciation d meanings, and to make sure it you will remember them. \Vhenever you are In doubt about word look It up. Otherwise you are going to he .barrassed some time when you Under through a sentence and aken the smiles of those who ar you. Good talkers always start with advantage. But they must be od talkers, not merely glib talk s. ,They must know what they are talking about, and where to find the words to do It • •••••• As for slang, It Is often effective, but It must be used with great in telligence. The person who employs the same slang phrase over and over again is going to weary those with or to whom he speaks before long, and be put down for a hopeless bore. If possible learn another lan guage. It will help you with your own tongue. A foundation In Latin Is good, but by no means necessary. Your own language Is quite suffi cient for all the necessities of con versation and for many of the orna ments. Read and listen. Read and listen. Over and over again. • •••*•• Pity the person who Is not an adventurer. The cautious person may be safe, but He is rarely happy. Adventure The mtle bov> running away for the first time feels a thrill that he may never know again. "For to admire and for to see," Is one of the real objects in life. Never having had the opportu nity to run away to sea, I am not sure If that is a pleasant and profit able undertaking. But I shall always regret that it was not numbered among my ex periences. I often wonder why people who live near high mountains are not continually scaling them. I notice that those who have climbed mountains, climb them again and again when they have a chance. • •••••• A relative of mine, whose busi ness Is rather a dreary one, takes two weeks off every year and spends them In climbing the tall peaks of Oregon and California. Not long ago, having no new mountains to scale In his own sec tion of the country he made a trip to Switzerland and climbed some of the steepest of the Alps. The last time 1 saw him he was regretting that he was too old to try to cross the Himalayas In a plane. Most of us are adventurers at heart and It is too bad that we all do not have the courage or the op portunity to go forth now and then and take quite unnecessary chances. Ours Is a race that craves excite ment of some sort or other. To be timid Is to be miserable. I would not advise young men to take up the business of lion-tapiing, or of "stunt" flying, but I would advise them. If they are living hum drum lives to go out and find a little excitement every so often, to search for adventures that hold some sort of a thrill, and which they will re member happily for all their days. • ••••'•• I am sure that it Is more the ex citement of the game than the de sire to get money and still more money which leads so many men to the stock market • A memory that Is filled with ad venture and experience Is the kind of a memory I should love to have. This is a world that it well worth seeing. Travel is worth many timet itt cost. Roman Soldiers Brought , Harp Back From Britain The Irish claim to have origi nated the harp. Undoubtedly the oriental harps were earlier, though the Iloman legions brought the Irish harp bark from Britain, asserts a writer In the Washington Post i The bid Irish harp had three rows of strings. The old laws of Wales mention the use of the harp as one of three points that distinguished the freeman from the slave, and pretenders were often discovered by their unskillful use of it Only the king, his musicians, and the gentlemen of the realm could own a harp; and slaves were forbidden even to touch the instrument. For a time the popularity of the harp was threatened by ' the guitar, when a troupe of Spanish players toured England. But when humble people began to buy guitars, fashionable people gave up plans for learning It, and contiqued to buy harps. The orchestral harp has 50 strings. The frame rests on the pedestal, which contains the pedals, the large hollow body or back ris ing from this, with the soundboard at Its upper face. The strings are attached with the pins by which - they are tuned. The harp has seven pedals, onch double-acting, and so contrived that certain strings can be shortened and their pitch raised a semitone or a tone. The instrument may thus be set In any desired key. Harp music is written for two hands, on two staffs similar to pi ano music. Flat keys sound best, because then most of the strings are open, vibrating at full length. Clarinet Is Most Useful of Instruments in Band The clarinet, like other members of the wood-wind fairlly, goes back to those Instruments . sed by Tan, when nymphs and fauns danced to the gay music of pipes in the woods. Since those early woodland days, says an authority In the Washing ton Post, the. pipe has undergone many changes. The mouthpiece was given a double reed for the oboe, the English horn and the bas soons, but In the clarinet only a single reed Is used. Much as the clarinet resembles the oboe, It does not taper, and Is of equal thickness until the end, where It flares into a bell. Of all the wood-wind Instru ments, the clarinet is the most use i ful because of Its wide range, Its ease of playing and the great va riety of tone. Clarinets are made In different keys and pitches. The ones In B flat and A are most commonly In use, although some of the scores call for clarinets In C, E flat and D. Occasionally an alto clarinet Is em ployed. and, more frequently, a bass CLEANINGandDYING CLOTHES REPAIRED SUITS AND DRESSES Phone 909 Progress Cleaners 163 S. WASHINGTON ST. LEVI POWELL. Mgr J. E. WINSTEAD : BLACKSMITH : M We repair everything for the Farm." UOl COKEY RD. DRY CLEANING If It's Dry Cleaning Call CASEY'S CLOTHES MADE TO MEASURE Phone 685 906 Falls Road ! ROCKY MOUNT COTTAGE Carolina Beach write MRS. M. C. BONHAM Carolina Beach I MAY & GORHAM #> Druggists #> FIVE POINTS PHONE 200 WE INVITE YOVR PATRONAGE PAGE THREE clarinet, which Is the largest and deepest pitched Instrument of this family. It has a crook for the mouthpiece, and a large bell. It sounds an octave below the B flat clarinet. The clarinet was the last Instru ment to enter the classical orphes tra. Mozart was the first composer to bring out Its chief possibilities. Big Bertha's Long Range Outclassed Other Guns Typical artillery of the World war, writes John A. Menaugh, in the Chicago Tribune, were the fol lowing British guns: The 14-inch gun, with a range of 20 miles; the 12-Inch gun, with a range of 19 miles; the 0.2-inch jiun, tiring a shell 15 miles; the 0-inch gun, with a range of 10 miles; the 12-inch howitzer, hurling a shell 8 miles; the 60-pounder rifle, with a range of more than 7 miles; the 0.2-Inch howitzer, shooting 7 miles; the 18- pounder field piece, with a range of about 9,400 yards;' the 4.5-lnch howitzer, with a range of 7,000 yards; and the 3.7-Inch howitzer, shooting r>,Boo yards. The maximum range of the huge German 42-centimpter howitzers that were used against the forts at Antwerp was 10,300 yards. The German 6.69-Inch trench mortar threw a shell 1,250 yards. The Ger man Minenwerfer was capable of throwing a 50-pound trench bomb 450 yards. 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