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PAGE SIX THE STORY SO FAR: Nancy Gordo** trades herself in marriage for fifteen thousand dollars?the price of her family honor-and the freedom of her brother, Roddy, who stole for a woman thaf amount, from the hank in which he works. Nancy, desperately in love with young- Page Roemer, nevertheless agrees to a secret elopement with Dr. Richard Morgan, and with the money he loans her prevents Roddy's arrest. Dr. Morgan is loved by Helena Haddon, a young married woman, but he adores Nancy ar.d hopes to win her after marriage. In Washington they are married. Nancy is Richard's Bride?and afraid of him. V?... n.. U'i?h Oio 4tnrv NINTH INSTALMENT "I don't call hiir. a decent man now, Sarah I thought he was. It's not decent, it's not honest to take advantage 01 a wild girl beside herself with with brief about her brotner. I'd? well. I'll tell him what 1 think cf him!" "Nancy did it herself, Papa." Nancy had lost her mioct?he's a doctor and he hadn't!" "He's in love with her: when a xnar.'s in love The door opened abruptly and AmancUVs round black head came in. Dec tub Morgan is ter sec yo sua" Mr. Gordon's eye gleamed. "Tel! him to come in here, Maady." Mis. Gordon half rose from hei seat. She wanted to run. but if she did- ? She had never seen' her husband like this before and she had swot and horrid visions of murder and sudden death. She cast a startlcc glance at his drawn face and stoppei crying. The hall door opened quietly foi Richard Morgan. T ore was a moment of terrible 3i Icnc At a glance he Look in th< situation. Perhaps his own heart searching had prepared him for it He glanced at Mrs. Gordon but h< faced her husband. He spoke appar entiy with some effort. "T_see that Nancy has told you, sir that we were married yesterday u Washington." "My daughter has told me that yoi bought and paid for her--yes! Whu T wan? rr> know is?hnw v*-m ?1arv?( to take advantage of a young gir iti suck distress as she was? How di< you dare to marry tier?" I married her because I loved her Mr. Gordon. I've asked her to marr uefore. I've fovea her for" a~~ion; time. That was my only reason." "FiddlesticksI" roared Mr. Gordor "How can you love a girl and le her do a thing like that? She doesn' love you?she told me that she hate you " "Oh. Papa!" protested his wift don't!" Richard Movgan said nothing; h turned deathly white. Mr. Gordo stared at him like an infuriated bul falo about to charge. "Do you happen to know why sh wanted that money?" he demande fiercely. Mrs. Gordon half rose from he chair. "Oh. Papa, don't?don't tell! > : 1 <- -II iii^uanu iguurcu utir. u? Richard. "She didn't tell me, I didn't askI don't want to know." Mr. Gordon stopped long enoug to loosen his collar button, and the: went cn furiously. "I'll tell you all about it. My son' in the Grcenough Trust Company i New York. You know it? He's gc the get-rich-quick fever and he picke up a handful, fifteen thousand do lars ? and spent it in five months. He' a promising boy at spending " "William Gordon. I'll leave you i you don't stop!" his wife wailed. "Ycu hush iip, Muther, it's th truth, isn't it? Well, he took it an he was in danger of going to jail. H came here instead--ran away an came home, and we're all broken u] You see. we've always loved the boy ?Mr. Gordon choked a little?"he an Nancy, as kids, were as thick as pea: It broke her up altogether. She war ted to save her brother, to give hii another chance. She went out like madwoman and went to you. And yo ?by the Lord Harry, sir, I'd like yo So explain yourself. How dared yo to take a gift like that?at her wot ?and tie her up! You're?you're He didn't finish. Mrs. Gordon trembling hand was over hi3 moutl "He's crazy, Richard!" she sobbe clinging to her husband. "I'm suj he's going to have a stroke!" Richard turned and looked at M Gordon and then at his wife, and h Q Iaav was astonishingly full of ligl Iand beauty. "X trusted to the pow< of my own love for Nancy?I thougl I could make her love me, if on< she was my wife. I think so still." Mr. Gordon still stared at him. E began to understand that this ma loved Nancy deeply, irrevocably, bi it did not stop his heartburn and h shame. "You'll get it back?every cent vt| Imlay ^aylor^ j US. AUTCCASlSk 5Eavice-.*eO?? I it." he said, "you cannot put me under this obligation. I won't endure it." Richard.- mouth shut hard He did not answer this, he ignored it. "You say that Nancy toid you she hated me'.'" he said slowly, turning to Mr. Gordon Mr. Gordon nodded. Richard's shoulders seemed to square themselves like those of a mar: who had resisted a heavy blow. "I've already put it up to her." he said, with forced quietness. "I've told her we needn't announce it if she wishes a quiet release. Of course, !t " he was speechless a moment and tile/: added: T"*.- 1j i,.... pyftr since she was i a child, 1 think. I'll put it all up to her again, I?" words were seemingly difficult "?may I see her now?" Mr. Gordon rose and went to the door, opened it, and called up tlie ! stairs. There was no answer. Mrs Gor* ; don stumbled out of her rocker. "I'll go up. Papa, she?perhaps she | doesn't hear you." Xancy Virginia," bawled lier fa; ther. ' The kitchen door opened and Amanda's black face appeared. She was showing the whites of her eyes pro! digiously: she had heard all the racket and knew as much as they did. "Miss Xancy ain't in. suh. She done [ | gone down ter de river. She was crying." "Oh. Papa, you you broke her v! heart!" wailed Mrs. Gordon, care-' . less of Amanda's ears, * she's--she's 1 gone to kill herself." Mr. Gordon's flushed face grew 11 pale, his eyes started ?j "I he snatched his hat off the 1 rack in the hall and made for tlie r | door. But Richard Morgan was before . 1 him Without a word to either of ? tnem, he flung the door open and . j started down the garden path. \mti ^ * * * 2 Nancy fled from the house when . i her husband entered. Her father had : painted a convincing picture. She saw . herself a brazen creature, offering to -j * Tuiifry a man tor a price?without ex| euse. a Where the river was little wider ? j than a stream a heavy log spanned j j it, laid from boulder to boulder at .j! tne torn. Nancy crossed on it. She j had gone that way a thousand times with Roddy. It was one of their child. ! ish feats. Nancy sat down, took off ' j her hat and let the spring wind blow 0. j her soft hair about. ? j At her feet, in a sunny nook, t j bloomed the first wild violets. She 11 looked jdown at .them in dull misery. 11 Page always picked the first violets (1 for her; no doubt there were some folded into the letter she had in hei k handbag. She had found it in hei room. e Now she remembered, took it out n and opened it. She was right, the firsi wild violets of the season fell out oi it. She looked at them vacantly. II c was a moment befors she began tc d! read. i "Dear Nancy Virginia: Why could r n't you come down to see me? Thai ,, headache wasn't excuse enough?I be j lieve you know what I bad to sa> then, and I can't wait any longer, ] must say it now. Nancy Virginia will you marry me? I'm' coming to! " ; mguv iui my answer. n i Tonight? She looked at the date and he had written it the day she s I was married. The crumpled paper fell n i in her lap and she sat and stared al >f it for awhile. Then, very slowly, she J picked up the drooping little violet; 1 and kissed them. She sat there for e 3 long time without moving; then, the wind blowing from that direction d she heard her father's voice and Am anda's in their garden, and, nearer al e hand, the crackling of twigs. In ar j instant she divined the situation, the] . were looking for her, ber father, an< j her husband! This rmght be Richare 2 himself in the brush across the river She rose, trembling, and ran up thi d path. She knew her way here as u< 5 one else knew it. She slipped behinc L'_ some cedars, climbed a steep rock and came out, by a short cut, on thi a main street, below MacDougall's druf u store. She crossed Main Street an( y went down Meadow Lane. ,u At the end of it was an old orchard d no or.c would find her there! Shi ??? only wanted to be alone. g She strayed along under the bar tv, trees of the old orchard. The shor id | tun was soil ana green ana gave un re I der her feet. The wind was wonder fully fresh and keen, and it was th r. only thing that revived her. She fel is alive when it blew in her face. Bu it she did not know what to do. Wha >t could she do? She had married Rich it ard Morgan and?according to he ie father?even Richard would despis her for it. It was true then what he [e father said, he did not want her! tn She went on wandering under th it trees, sure that they could not fin is her there. She wanted to hide, oh hid so that no one would ever find her af Least of ali, Richard. Yet, all th WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EVE! * Blue Eagle Exercises j c<k1c coloring a Bine Eagle on vacation, Miss Dorothy Ford of New i orK <aw>ycj wno is *" .-uss i>iw\ or the V. S. A.*' felfc free to express herself in the way she liked best on' the Bermuda beaches, as the photo shows. Mis.* Ford, model for the best- known illustrators of feminine beauty, was chosen "NIis? NBA" last fall, while, she felt his ring: hard and cold on her finder. It felt heavy there, bui she dared not take it off. In the lonely orchard Nancy's face burned with .shame. She had asked him for fifteen thousand dollars. She had set a price on herself! The sun had set long ago and s mist was rising over the meadows It ran along the edges in circling wreaths like smoke. 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To PATRICIA DOW e Watauga Democrat Pattern Dept , 115 5th Ave?Brooklyn, N. Y. " I C| tY THURSDAY?BOONE, N. C. lark. On the opposite side ol the street were some snail old-fashioned houses given up to lawyers and their cleri:s. In one of these Page Reenter do had his rooms. He lived there in two pi: rooms tehind Mis lav: ofiice, ami the; windows were lighted new. j ed Was Page getting ready to go tor. a his answer? A wave of emotion swept over her. and intense longing tor se sympathy, for kindness. Page ioved th lie;-: The temptation was too keen to resist, the longing to see him. to 01 r speak to him. to tell him her trou- ar hies. Perhaps he would hate her, too, nI then, and it would make it easier for him. ni She turned, went into the narrow " hail and ascended the stairs. The dour at the top stood open and she stopped, 5 leaning: against it. and looking into the room beyond, herself unseen. It was an office, plainly and simply fur- 111 jiishea. As she looked the inner door a< opened and Pago Roomer came in, wont to his desk and sat down, tak- i1 j ing up his telephone. v>ue COJIiU SCC aUD JUttUJlV , iiC ?; already dressed, and he had some of c the wild violets on his ccat. The light from the green shaded lamp fell on 3, the handsome arch of his young head. He was younger than Richard Mor- p gan, better looking, more pliable, and gifted with a grace of manner. ?$ What would he think of her? What of her coming here at this hour? The wave of emotion that had borne her t up the stairs to his threshold, swept p back upon her and submerged her. c She turned softly, felt for the banis- e ters with a groping gesture and tried c . to escape unseen. But he had just i hung up the receiver and in the en- r , suing stillness, he heard the rustic of her garments. He turned quickly, try! ing to look out of the lighted room into the dim hall beyond. She had to 'r cross his vision to reach the head of the stairs, and he saw a woman where t ?.s a rule no one hut men appeared at 1 this hour. His curiosity took him to j the door. Page took a step forward and turn. ed up the old fashioned gas-jet in the hail. As he did so she turned her head away, but he had already recognized her. "Nancy! Good heavens, Nancy!" he - cried, "what is it?" He caught her in his arms and lifted her like a child, carrying her into his office. But she disengaged herself, pushing him off with both hands, her white lips shaking. "Don't touch me." she cried wildly. "Don't touch me!" He stood dumfounded, looking at her, almost as pale as she was. (CONTINUED NEXT WEEK) EXAMINE SEED GRAIN BEFORE HKl'L-AN i'LTV li 11.>115 Repeated cold snaps during the past month have severely damaged all kinds of small grain in North Carolina, according to field reports gathered by E. C. Blair, extension agronomist at State College. However, he said, a top dressing of soluble nitrogenous fertilizer applied at the rate of 50 to 100 pounds to the acre during the first two weeks of March will do much to revive the plants. Although the fields may appear to be killed entirely, he continued, a close inspection will reveal that in most cases there is still a good stand of wheat, rye and barley even though the plants are alive for less than one inch above the ground. Some fields of oats have been killed | to the ground, but the plants are still green just under the surface and faint tinges of green will show, in most cases, at the surface. Where indications are that 75 per cent of the stand is alive, the field should be left to grow, Blair said. Where the stand is from 25 to 75 per cent alive, more seed may be drilled onto that planted without additional preparation of the soil, a- If the oats drilled in do not ripen ig with the oats sown last fall, the field >n should be cut for hay when the fall dl oats are in the dough stage, he said. 10 Fields in which the stand is below 25 per cent should ibc disced and re's cown outright to spring oats. A topit. dressing as described above for rye, ie wheat, and barley will also help oats. ie so Home grown Irish potatoes will be is tested for seed is Tadkin County n again this season against Maine seed. The diffcmece in yield, time of maturity and other characteristics will ill be observed. >u hc NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE in Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain deed of trust executed to Jason Moretz, trusr" tee. for J. E. Luther Sr. by A. F. 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