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' CHAPTER XVI. -
THE *V* OF BATTLE. '' "j
OK the following morning Blount,
| found a telegram on his desk.
It bore the vice president's j
name, and the date line wasj
Twin Canyon City. It directed him to,
go to a remote portion of the state be- ;
yond the Lost Klver mountains to ex-,
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PORTION or THE STATB.
amine the papers in a right of way
cose which was coming up for .trial
at the next term of court
This was in Klttredge's department,
and Blount called up the superin
tendent on the phone. Klttredge was
in his office, and he evidently knew
about the vice president's telegram;
also ho seemed very anxious to have
the dlvlalon cpunsel go to Lewlston at
once, so anxious that he offered hia
own service car to be run as a special
train.
Blount saw no way to evade a posi
tive order from his chief, but he was
more than suspicious that Gantry or
Klttredge or possibly both of them
were conspiring to get him away from
the capital at the critical moment
What did not occur to him at the time
was the fact that Mr. McVickar'a tel
egram might have originated In Klt
tredge's office.
Asking the superintendent to hava
the service car made ready immedi
ately, he packed his band bag, left a
note for Patricia and began the useless
Journey. » „
In all bis traveling up and down the
state he bad never found anything
to equal the slowness of the special*
train. Four mortal hoars were lost
on the lonely siding. There was no
station, and Blount could not tele
graph. So far as he knew, the serv
ice car might stay there for a day or.
a week. It was all to no purpose that
he quarreled with his conductor. The
train crew had orders to wait for
westbound 17, and there was nothing
to do but to keep on waiting.
Late in the afternoon train 17 or
some other train came along, and the
■pedal was once more set in motion
eastward, but at dinner time it was
again sidetracked, eighty odd miles
from its destination, and once more
at a blind aiding, where there waa no
telegraph office. The car waa still
standing on the siding when Blount
went to bed. But in the morning it
Was in motion again, Jogging sow on
Its leisurely way up the branch line. I
At Lewis ton, the town at the end of
the branch where the right of way
trouble bad originated, Bloant fooad
more delay, carefully planned for, as
be had now come firmly to belle**
The plaintiffs in the right of way owe
were out of town, and their lawyers
had gone to the capital Blount aaw
that he might wait a week without ac
complishing anything; bence be Imm*
dlately instructed his conductor to get
orders for the return.
After having been gone a leisurely
half hour the conductor came back
to the service car to aay that the single
telegraph wire connecting Lewiston
wtth the outer world waa down and
that the orders for the return Jour
ney could not be obtained until the
telegraph connection was restored. At
that point Blount took matters Into
hla owa hands.
There was a mining company having
Its headquarters la the isolated town.
urtlEnt had BMt the MMI« «*•
to the capital—met him In a social way
land had been able *0 ahow htm some
illttie attention. Hiring a backboard «t
Ithe one llrery stable In the place, be
drove out to the little Mary mine
'and lucidly found Blatchford, the
friendly manager. It did not take orer
a minute to renew the pleasant ac
quaintance and to state his dilemma.
"I'm hong up here with my special
train, the wires are down, and I can't
get out," waa hie statement of tile
crude fact "Didn't you taQ ma that
Son owned a motorcarT*
I "I did," was the prompt reply. -Want
r borrow it?"
"Ton beat me to it," aald Blount
jlaugbing. "%bat was precisely what J
Honorable
Senator
Sagebrush
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was w> oegror—tne loan: or" your
car. I believe yon told me that you
had driven it from here to the capital."
"Oh, yea, several times. You ought
to make It in six boars and a half or
Even at the most Drive me down to
e burg and I'll put you in posses
jn."
A little later Blount found himself
handling the levers of a very service
able knockabout car equipped for hard
work on country roads. When he was
ready to go he drove down to the rail
road yard and bunted up bis conductor.
] "After you have had your vacation
70U may get orders from Mr. Klt
tredge and take his car back to the
capital," he told the man. "When you
do yon may give him my compli
ments and tell, blm that I preferred to
■run my own special train.">
t The conductor grinned and made no
(reply, and he was still grinning when
be sauntered into the railroad trie
graph office and spoke to the operator,
j '1 dunno whafs up," he said, "but,
whatever it ,was, the string's broke.
Old Dave Sagebrush's son has bor
rowed him an automobeel and gone
back to town on his own hook. Goeaa
you'd better call up the division dis
patcher and tell blm the broken wire
igag didn't work. Oet a move on. We
Ih ain't got nothing to stay here for
now."
I Tbe traffic manager bad left his office
for the day, but Blonnt found him at
the railway club.
"Just a word, Dick," he began when
he bad overtaken Klttredge's accom
plice In the grill room corridor. "Klt
tredge put up a Job on me, and I think
you helped him. I had to borrow an
! automobile to come back In from
Lewis ton."
"Confound you!" aald Gantry hearth
I But that was all that he bad a
chance to say, since Blount bad turn
ed abruptly and waa already leaving
the club to go on to the hotel.
81nce the election waa now no moro
than three days distant the Inter-
Mountain lobby waa filled with groups
of caucusing politicians. Notwith
«tanding the position he had taken
and the open eyed fearlessness with
which he had discussed the political
altuatlon publicly In every considera
ble town In the state, Evan 'Blonnt
Iwas still a puzzle to those whose waya
;were, by need and the force of cir
'cumstance, the reverse of straightfor
ward.
! Blount was halted half a dozen
Itimes before he could make his way
|to the elevator, and the pumping
[process to which he waa subjected at
each fresh halting space amused him.
lit waa plainly evident that In spite of
all he had said and don* a consider
able majority of th* politicians were
still regarding him aa in some sense
jhia father's lieutenant. Somewbat to
his disappointment bo found that Pa-
Mela had con* ont with his father
'and his father's wife to dinner; bene*
he was forced to sit at a table In the
cafe with three of the caucusing pol
iticians and waa obliged to find his
moderate pleasure In trying to make
their very evident perplexity lose noth
ing of Its acuteneea during the table
hour.
When be reached his offlce on Sat
urday morning, after an early and
solitary breakfast at the hotel, the
young reformer scored, or thought he
had scored, his first small victory.
Among the envelopes on his desk was
one bearing the imprint of the traffic
offlce. It inclosed a carbon copy of
the notice required by law of a pro
posed change In freight rates.
Hastily comparing the figures with
the memorandum In his pocket book.
Blount felt the tension relaxing for
the first time In weeks. At the long
last Gantry or his superiors bad sur
rendered. The rates on lumber, elec
trical supplies and other commodities
which had been given Illegal preferen
tlals were to be reduced to the figures
given to the favored corporations.
1 Blount passed a busy Saturday, put
ting In most of bis time at his desk.
Calling up the hotel in the afternoon,
he found that his Cither bad taken
Patricia and Honoris for a drive la
the roadster, and at dinner time the
automobile party had not yet return
ed. Blount went back to hie office
after a hasty dinner and worked late
Into the alght The eve of battle had
arrived, aad be was striving to clinch
the nail of argument as well as he
could by writing many tetters to the
political friends be had made la going
up and down the state.
I The Sunday proved to be a very
! quiet day, though the lobby of the In
ter-Mountain was still the assembling
place for the gathering dsns of poli
ticians. Blount went to church In the
morning bscauee Patricia Insisted
upon It, and Ms appearance In the pew
as a member of the Honorable David's
family would have caused iresh com
ment If there bad been any church
goers among the visiting polltfdaaa.
| After luncheon be hot towed the
'loadstar and took Patricia for a drive.
'The day was perfect, and the reads
i were in good condition. When be
'had put distance between them and
the Sunday quiet of the city streets
he told Patricia of bis experience with
Klttredgs's special train.
-Do you thlnk it was Intended rebel
asked when be bad fiatebed bis story. I
*1 haven't the slightest doubt of It
now. More than that, I think the
telegram bearing Mr. McVlckafs.
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GRAHAM, N.C., THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1911.
bringing them "to "time," he went on,
exulting over his one small victory.
"There is to be an evening up of
freight rates, and one more room of
the railroad house will be clean. I
believe Mr. McVicknr bns meant to be
fair all 'along, but tho overzcnlorus
subordinate is always the hardest man
lo handle."
"I am glad," she said. And in tho
sunshine of her approval tho young
man spent a very happy afternoon.
At breakfast Monday morning Evan
Blount again made the senator's party
of threo a party of four and at table
found a puzzling surprise lying in wait
for him.
The critical day of days in the cam
paign bad arrived, and It was sup
posable on every hypothesis that tho
eommander of an army would choose
any other day rather than this to be
absent from his post But at tho
breakfast table he heard his father an
nounce calmly that he was going to
drive out to Wartrace, for no better
stated reason than a purely routine
purpose of having a talk with bis
ranch manager about the shipment of
a trainload of beef cattle.
While Blonnt sat In open eyed as
tonishment tho day was planned for
there and then. The arrangement
made was one that left Patricia free
to keep an engagement at tho Weath
erfords' while the senator drove to
Wartrace in tho roadster. Tho little
«ar, which Patricia had been told to
call her Own, was to be left at tho
garage, and she was to drive out in
the afternoon, bringing Evan with her
If he cared to come.
It was Mrs. Honorla who made this
arrangement, and in the midst of his
astonishment Blount acknowledged a
warm kindling of gratitude. If the
little lady whom he was trying so con
sistently to dislike had seemed to do
her best to keep him and Patricia
apart during the early part of tho
girl's visit she now appeared to bo
doing what she could to atone. Blonnt
ventured one question and one only,
aa It was addressed to his father.
| "Do you happen to remember that
this la the final day ■before election?"
he aaked.
"Bo it Is; so It la, aon," was the even
toped reply.
"I thought maybe you had forgotten
It," said Evan quietly.
"I have In a measure," smiled the
boaa, "and If you'll take my advice
you'll forget It too. The political spell
binder who hasn't said his say and
done his do before sunrlso this morn
ing needn't expect that lie's going to
be able to dig the tree up by Its roots
between now and tomorrow morning."
It was not until the younger man
was leaving the table, excusing lilm
aelf on tho plea of business, that the
aenator'a wife clinched tho arrange
ment for tho afternoon.
"You'll come out with Patricia,
won't yon?" she said, putting It fairly
up to him to consent or refuse.
"Of course," he stammered. "I shall
be delighted."
"You don't say it quite as If yon
meant It," laughed the one Who was
to drive him out to Wartrace, "but I'll
be charitable and give you the benefit
of the doubt. Where can I pick you
up, say, between 1 and 2 o'clock? Mrs.
Weatherford's" luncheon 1» to bo really
a French dejeuner, and I shall be
able to get away early."
"If it wouldn't be too mnch trouble
for you to stop by for mo at the Tem
ple court," Blount began, and when
she nodded her acquiescence he went
away, still wondering at his father's
calm Indifference on the very hour
striking eve of the great battle.
CHAPTER XVII.
THIS ROORBACK.
IT was on thin game Monday morn
ing, day of preparations for polit
ical battles, that Mr. Ulcbard
Gantry, answering a telephone
call on the long distance line, hastily
closed bis desk and left hi* office to
make hi* way by quiet side streets to
the Hallway club garage. Klttredge's
car was In Its place over one of the
pits, and the chauffeur was polishing
the brass. *
"Get her In commission In about
three shakes of u dead lamb's tail.
Ilaberstro," said the traffic manager
briefly. "I've got to go somewhere In
* hurry. Do you want an order from
your boss?"
The chauffeur shook his head. "No;
I guess It's all tight. If you say so, Mr.
Gantry," he replied. And a little later
be bad taken on bis supply of gaso
line and the 'motor was whirring mer
rily under the hood.
"Where to?" be asked when Gantry
climbed to the mechanician's seat be
side him.
"Out of town to the north by the
quietest streets you can find. Then
take the Qnaretaro county road. We
are dug at Cllffcrest Inn Just about
fifteen minutes sooner than we can
gst there."
No mors than a quarter of an hour
was consumed before the car bad
wotnd Ha way to the summit of the
msaa tad was wheeling to a bait be
fore •>>« entrance of a small summer
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resort hotel "perched among tue pines
at the edge of the canyon cliff. There
were no guests on the hotel verandas,
and Gantry knew that the inn's sea
son had closed two weeks earlier.
Yet he sprang from the car and went
In ns if he expected to find the place
open and occupied.
It was open, and in the coxy guests'
writing room at one of the tablet
draWn up before a cheerful wood fire
sat the vice president of tho Trans
continental seemingly In solitary state.
But in the room beyond a battery of
telegraph Instruments clicked' busily,
and a close observer would have re
marked that the small table before
the fire was fitted with a row of elec
tric call buttons.
Cllffcrest inn, deserted of guests,
had been transformed into the hidden
headquarters In the field of the com
mander In chief.
"Well!" said the great man, looking
up quickly when Gantry entered. "You
took your time about getting here.
Whose car is that!"
"It is Klttredge's," said the traffic
man.
"Botter tell him to got one that will
make time," was tbe Impatient com
ment. Then: "Sit down and bring tho
situation up to date, and talli fast
Timo is precious today."
Gantry drew up a chair and gave a
hasty resume of the political situation.
Everything had been done that could
be done, and so far as the traffic man
ager knew tho railroad forces were
ready to meet tho issue at tho polls.
At one point, and only one, tbe de
fenses were weak. "It's that Gryson
deal," he explained. 'lt has been rath
er awkwardly handled, and If Evan
Blount should happen to stumble upon
it any time during tbe day I shouldn't
like to answer for the consequences.'*
"You ought to have made sure by
getting him safely out of the way,"
was the rasping comment of the great
man. "You are Just common bunglers
—you and Klttredge—both & 700." _
Gantry's gesture was of humorous
despair.
"Thero's a limit, Mr. MeVlckar. We
couldn't very well garrote him and
carry him off to a dtmgeon. tVSe have
tried every way we could to muzzle
him. So far as I know, be hasn't been
doing anything incendiary since you
were hero last woek, but I had to put
one across on him about tho equalizing
of the freight rates."
"What did you do?" snapped tho vice
president
"I mailed him what purported to bo
a carbon copy of the legal notice of a
reduction. He doesn't know yet that
ho has the only copy—that the notice
hasn't been posted In onr stations, as
the law directs. I'm hoping that ho
won't find It out until after tomorrow,
when it'won't make any especial dif
ference." •
Mr. MeVlckar frowned again.
"Your expedients have all been pret
ty crude, Gantry. You seem to per
sistently forget that you are dealing
with a mighty sharp, shrewd young
lawyer; that tho chances are ten to
one that young Blount discovered your
pious fraud at once. Go back to the
city and think up some scheme that
will keep him busy today, too lusy to
smell out tho facts In tbe Gryson
matter."
Oantry got up and atood with his
back to the fire.
"I'm all In. Mr. MeVlckar, and that's
the humiliating fact. There Isn't an
other Idea left In mo," ho confessed
despairingly. "Can't you help us out a
little, Mr. MeVlckar?"
Being thus put face to face with the
inventive test, the vice president did
not besltato a moment
"Tr course," he grated, "If I have to
do your thinking for you. Go back
and get into communication with Gry
son. Tell blm the time has come to
play the same game on young Blount
that he played four years ago on
Hetbercdge. the speaker of the hotiie.
He'll understand."
But now Gantry was shaking his
bead dubiously. 'Til do what you
aay and do It quickly. But candidly,
Mr. McVlckfr, I'm afraid of Oryson.
If Blount should happen to go at blm
Just right there might be consequences
of another sort Gryson Is pretty sore
as it is."
"Never mind about the consequences.
Go and do as I tell you to. Then go
around to the telephone exchange and
tell the muuager that I want a special
operator—a man if he's got" one—put
on this long distance wire; that you
want the connection broken between
the capital and David Blount's coun
try house and that my wire is to be
kept open to you and to Klttredge all
day. lias Klttredge got his linemen
oat guarding the telegraph wires up
here?"
"Yes; all the way out from the cut-in
at Grand canyon."
"All right. That's all. Now make
that boy of yours burn the road get
ting back."
"It was only a little after 0 o'clock
when this conference was held In the
guest deserted mountain resort bouse
at the bead of Hbonobo canyon. At
11 o'clock Blount, wbo was dictating
to three stenographers In succession
In his offices in the Temple court, had
a caller.
"Ifs that fellow Gryson," said Col
lins, wbo bad gone to answer the ante
room bell. "He says he's got to see
you whether you want to see him or
not" .......... " _ .
"Send him In," said Blount briefly.
And a moment later the ex-bad man
of the mining camps entered snd care
fully closed the door behind blm.
"Well, what Is It?" queried Blount
snapplngly when Gryson drew up a
chair and aat down. -
"111 tell yon first what It ain't," said
the ward boss sullenly. "I ain't here
to beg for wo rakeoff. I've been given
the double cross, and I'm sore."
Blounfs smile was contemptuous.
"You doubtless got what was coming
to you." he said coolly. "But go on
and tell It out and don't waste time.
Tbls Is another-of my busy days."
"I want to get hold of a newspaper
man," aald Oryson; "that's what 1
want If they're going to throw me
down 111 squeal. It ain't too late
yet Money talks with me every time.
Your boss, McVickar, thought be had
me coopered up in a barrel, but the
other side saw his bid and raised It"
"What other side?" queried Blount j
"There ain't but one other side In this '
■tat* when your daddy gets Into the
ring and pulls off bis coat" said, the
bribe taker, with an evil leer. "You
ain't been fighting' round here a couple
of months without finding that out!"
"Go on," was the terse command. f
"As I was a-suylng, money talks, and
right now, -vhen everything is ready to
pull off, Slieehan turns up and says the
barrel's run dry. There ain't nothing
left in it for me. By crlpes, I'll show
him!" ,
Blount went Into a reflective trance
with half closed eyes. Slieehan was
the machine orgnnlzer for the capital—
the "pay boss," some called {ilrn. I>a
vld Blount's son saw the door to a
chamber of bidden facta slowly open
ing before him. For some reason Gry
son, the twice bought and sold, had
been dropped, and his actuating motlvo
now was plain revenge.
"Tell it out and tell it straight, Ory
■on," he resumed at the end of the
hesitant pause.
"It's in the registration lists in four
wards of this town. They've been
cooked up two to one. I've got the
lists of the crooked names right here in
my pocket Sbechnn knows, 'the com
mlttee of six' knows, and the senator
knows. But I'm the man that can
swing In them extra votes, and, more
than that, by grabs, I'm the only man!
When I told Shechan that a little while
ago ho Invited mo to go to U—l. I'll
show him."
Blount's brain wns In a whirl, nnd
his heart wns pounding like that of a
man who finds h|mself looking over
the verge of a bottomless chasm.
"What Ir It that you want to do,
Qryson?" he asked when ho could
control his voice sufficiently.
"I want to glvo Sheeban and his
machine crowd what's coming to 'em."
"Will you make affidavits to tho
fact of the false registration?"
"111 do anything to get square with
that crowd of throw-backs!"
"Your affidavit Isn't much better
than your unsupported word," aald
Blount coldly. "Can you get any one
else to swear to tho facts with you?"
"Sure I can. I can get a half dozen
of the boys In my own gang that'll
do it"
It was up to Blount fairly and
squarely to say tho word which would
preclpltato tho greatest election senn
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"BT CRIFW, I'LL SHOW Hl* I"
dal-that had ever disturbed tho peace
of Uio Sagebrush State, and the ceutral
flguro around -which the story of cor
ruption and bribery would center
would bo his fathcrl For flvo long
minutes he Hat In grim alienee, frown
ing at tho miserable traitor, who was
shifting uneasily In his chair under
tho cold Rlate of the hereditary Itlount
eye*. But when all was over tho trai
tor bad gained his point.
"Go to it," aald lilount sharply.
"Bwear out your own affidavit nnd get
■s many moro as you can to back it
up. Bring the papers here to me be
tween 1 and 2 o'clock this afternoon.
That's all! Now go before I am
tempted to throw you out neck and
heels. If somebody doesn't kill you
for this piece of treachery you will
bo playing In big luck."
When (Jryson was gone lilount put
on his bat and went straight to tho
editorial rooms of tho Dally Capital.
Blenklnsop, the thin faced, long haired
editor, was humped In his chair over
his desk blue penciling copy like a
man running a race against time.
"In Just a minute," ho said when
Blount stood beside him. And then,
sticking tho copy on tho hook, "Now
I'm with you."
Blount had marked the unusual
daytime activities In tho newspaper
office and had Instantly put two and
two together.
"You're at work pretty early for a
morning paper fone, aren't you,
Blenklnsop?" he asked.
"Ifou bet we are!" wus the quick re
ply.
"What is tho matter?" queried
Blount
"Haven't you heard?" said the ed
itor. "Homobody—heaven only knows
who—has been gathering up a lot ot>
false registration evidence Involving
half a dozen of tho principal towns in
the state. The stuff came to ua by a
sort of underground route, but it's re
liable all right. Ifs a corker. There'll
be 10,000 repeaters challenged in this
state at the polls tomorrow, and no
man living can tell what the outcome
will be."
Blount mw a (Treat light, which mid
den)? grew to clarifying brightness.
"Whom l(xn the scandal involve,
BienklnaopT" bo aakod ijulctly.
At tbU the long haired alitor grew
curiously embarrassed. "You're with
a*. Blount, thnt I know.- But ymt are
ado your father's There are only
one machine and out.' losa til the Sago
bruxh State."
Blount nodded dumbly. Then.
"When will you go to press with the
flmt edition of the paper?"
"At 3 a. m. uliarp," waa the reply.
Blount turned to go. "I may have
another hilf column or so for you be
fore that time." be? Raid, "but you
needn't bold the forms open for me.
J'll call you over the phono if 1 bare
any thing to nay."
Ci'u'-e In the tireet. Blount went
straight (o the bank where ho bad
rented the safely IKII. Fire minutes
In the privacy of the vault anteroom,
with the unlocked bog before him,
confirmed bis suapicions. The packet
which he had so carefully secured waa
made up of blank papers folded to ap
pear like the originals, and it became
convincingly evident that his office
safe had not been dynamited lor ngOf
The matter which would appear un
der flaring: scare heads the next morn
ing would be the evidence which be
himself had collected, carefully edit
ed no doubt,' so that it would leave
out all that might Incriminate any
body but the machine and the ma
chine's boss—his father.
With a muttered threat of vgngeance
directed at bis traitorous office force,
Blount went slowly back to the Tem
ple court and snt down to wait for
Gryson's return, giving Collins orders
to deny him to everybody else.
Once again in the history of the race
it had become the duty of a son to be
tray a father. Blount saw his way
lying clearly deflned before Mm. He
must take the affidavits which Or
son would bring and, lay them before
Judge Hemingway, the one man in the
capital, If not In the entire state, who
would have the courage of his convic
tions and tho high sense of duty to
act, and act promptly.
Blount saw the dreadful conse
quences marshaling themselves In
readiness. His father would be im
plicated beyond any possibility or hope
of exculpation, and the people of the
state—stirred as they would be by the
widespread story of fraud which be
himself bad gathered—would show lit
tle mercy to the chief instigator of the
frauds.
During the last half hour of waiting
Blount could no longer sit still, and he
was pacing the floor of the private of
fice, ten steps and a turn, monotonous,
ly, when Oryson was faltered in.
"I've got 'cm, a full dozen of 'em!**
growled the bribe taker, throwing a
thick pocket of papers on Blount's
desk. "Now. then, what do I get ont
of It?"
Blount stopped short and whirled aa
If tho demand bad been a blow.
"You'll get Just what any other
criminal gets when he turns state's
evidence," he rasped. "You won't be
prosecuted and sent to tho peniten
tiary, as you deserve to be. Now get
out of here, and don't let me have to
tell you twice!"
Oryson mado a move aa if he would
repossess himself of the packet of af
fidavits, but Blount came between
with the danger signals flaming in bis
eyes.
"No, you don't!" he said sharply. "X
told you to go—do It!" And, aa once
before, tho bribe taker went out mut
tering curses.
When the corridor door had closed
behind the traitor Blount put the affi
davits In his pocket and passed oat
quickly through the anteroom.
"I.don't know when I shall be back,"
he said to Collins, with a hand on the
door of egress. "Has any one called
slnco noon?"
"No. Bouio lady sent a boy up to
ask for you. but 1 sent word that you
wore not in, as you told mp to."
Evan realized' that ho bad unthink
ingly barred l'atrlcla out with all the
others. And now she would drive to
Wartrace Hall without him, and the
terrible thing that must bo done must
bo dono before ho should see her face
again. ■ • *.
[ |TO BK OOBTIWUKP.I ,
Not to Be Forgotten.
| "I say, do you think much of Black?"
I "1 do unfortunately; he owes me e
Itn spot."
THE BLARNEY' STONE."""
Corkonlsns Seem to Have a Good Rea
son For Not Kissing It.
The bet known trip from Cork ia
the ono to the blarney stone, which
you will find at tho very top of the
120 foot castle nine miles out from
Cork. A fino old castld it is, too,
onco a stronghold of the McOtr
thys. The country all about it ia
beautiful, notably on tho way out,
around the pretty st. Anno Shan
don church, where for a sixpence or
n shilling to tho sexton yon can hew
ngiiin
Tha belt* of fllinndon that sound so (rand
on
Th« pleaaant watara of tha rlvar Lea.
Now, to kiss the blarney stone
you should be of a thin, wiry build.
Stout people find some difficulty be
cause of tho bending required,
which is why ono well known pastor
over in South Boston admitted to
his congregation that the best he
could do was to put tho handle of
his umbrella to the stone and then
kiss tho umbrcll*. You should first
remove your coat and jacket and
anything that is likely to fall from
your pockets when you are held up
side down (women seldom attempt
tho feat), because if you do not they
will drop down to tho moat below.
And bo careful of your movements,
for they will show you even now the
treo that broko tho fall (and the
head) of tho last man who slipped.
If you should fall, of course it
nieans death.
Two fellow tourists will grab yon
by" your ankles; then you will lit
back liko a woman washing a third
story window on the outside and
bend down, clutching two parallel
iron bars set in the granite, until
your head is hanging as low as it
can hang. Your head by then
should be in tho embrasure the top
stono of which ia tho bjarney (tone.
You will forget, if you can, what
will happen to you if you slip, while
you apply yonr lips to tho top atone.
Then your sing out and your tourist
friends will pull you back by your
ankles.
From then on you aro qualified to
hand out tho blarney, for into yonr
speech in future will come a beguil
ing quality that waa not th
fore.
But do the Corkoniana ldaa the
blarney atone? I pat the question
to ono man there. A 1 twinklo came
into hia eyes.
"Sure," aaid he, "what ia tha
good at all to be kissing an owld
gray atone when Cork is full of
pretty girls waiting to be kissed?"
Something in that, too, we
thought as we hurried for the tain
that waa to take us to EjUaraey.—
Thomas G. ConncJtj in Boat on
iTravakr,
NO. 16
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Cashier Short ia His fl imH
Suicide
A dispatch from Raleigh says
that R. M. Spruill, cashier of the
Merchants and Fanner's Bank at
Columbia, Tyrrell county, and
also superintendent of schools Cor . J
Tyrrell, committed suioide Tues
day night. An examination last
April showed the bank's attain in
unsatisfactory condition. Mon
day a special auditor want to
work to check np tho bank rec
ords and Spruill disappeared.
Search was made for him and Ida
dead body was found In the woods
with a bullet hole in the tiSipls. v
A note by his side requestedUa
wife to pay his mother SIOO aid
1 lay wood Swann S4OO and gare
some instructions about his in
surance policy. He added that
the suicide was on aoootmtat tha
two men whose names he aava
but they are withheld. Tha
amount of the shortage la not
known.
A High tirade Bleed Parttefw
Go to Alamanee Pharmacy and
buy a bottle of B. B. B. (Botanic
Blood Balm. It will purify aad
enrich your blood and build ap
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Rheumatism, .
Ulcere, Eating Sores,
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Itching Humors,
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Bone Pains, - ' Jjj
Pimples, Old Sores,
Scrofula or Kernels,
Suppurating Sores, Bolls. Car
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blood troubles by ktfflag thlt
poison humor and expelling
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per largo bottle, with dixasttoaa
for home cure. Sample free by
writing Blood Balm Co., Atlanta,
Ga.
Monday afternoon Dallaa Bell,
a young man of New Bene, triad
to kill himself at PrinesHa, a
small town 12 miles westof Goids
boro. He walked into a pilrate
room of a Mr. Duncan and shot
himself In the breast, just bslow
the heart, but the hall atvnska
rib, which may aara Bell's lite.
C ASTOR IA
for Infants aad flUUna.
nil KM Yn Mm Ahnp iHfftl
Jo. Went*, a pwpil of the Char
lotto graded school, While at a
pieuifr on the Catawba river wtfh
a number of ootnpaniooa, at
tempted to make a long-distsnsa
swim and was drowned.