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VOL. XL AN OLD ADAGE QAVQ - "A light parse to a heavy amV Sickness make* a Ugbt paras. The LIVER is the seat at atm tenths of all disease. Tott's Pills go to the root of the whole mat ter, thoroughly, quickly safely and restore the action of the LIVER to normal condition. Give tone to the system and solid flesh to the body. Take No SubstiWte.— .* v . . \ PROFESSIONAL CARDS J\ S. GOOK, Attorney - at- Law, GRAHAM, N. C. OOloa Patterson Building Haoond Fleor DAMERON & LONG AU«B9S4IXaw 8. W. DAMBHON, 1. ADOLPB LONG Phone MO, 'Phone 1008 Piedmont Building, Holt-Nicholson Bldg. Burlington, N.C. Graham, N.,0. UK. WILLS.LOHG.JK. . . DENTIST .. . ' Graham - - - - North Carallaa OFFICE IN SIMMONS BPILPINb .ACOB A. LONG. J. ELMER LONG LONG ft LONG, Attorney! and OoonnkMatXi w GRAHAM, H. *\ JOHN H. VERNON Attorney and Connaelor-at-JLaw POKES—Offlee 68J Hesldenee 33T BURLINGTON, N. C. Dr. J. J. Barefoot OFFICE OVER HADLEL'S STORE Leave Messages M Alamance Phar macy 'Phone*tri ru«iQence 'Phone 382 Office Hours 2-4 p. m. and by Appointment. s* SUBSCRIBE FOR THE GLEANER 11.00 A YEAR -IN ADVANCB.- THE ALAMANCE GLEANER. I—The1 —The Secret j j of i: Lonesome Cove!; BW Samuel Hopkins Adams ; « » , • - - i | i i ' Copyright, 1912, bj the Bobbf Merrill \ | Company ' ' ♦ til! IttHHHHIHHIH • The body ot an unknown .luumn partly handcuf'td la found at Lonesome Cove. Chester Kent, a scientist, investigates the wystery. , He meets Artist Sedgwick, an old friend. Who is suspected ot killing her and plans to help him. Sedgwick tells of meeting a beautiful young woman, name unknown, with whom be has fallen in love. Kent and Sedgwick go to the Inquest upon the woman's body and engage Adam Batn as Sedgwick's lawyer. Sheriff Schlager and Coroner Breed sud denly withdraw the body from publlo view. Gansett Jim, an Indiah, accuses Sedgwick of murder. Kent secuj-es an embroidered silver star found on.top of the cliff above Lonesome Cove the night the woman died. Kent believes the woman was hand cuffed to a man who wore the star. He meets Alexander Blair, who acts In a sus picious manner. Oanßett Jim. thinking Sedgwick murder ed the woman, tries to kill him. Kent hears of Wilfrid Blair, Alexander's scape [ grace son. I .Wilfrid—Blair has died suddenly, and Coroner Breed is helping Alexander Blair to suppress the news. Kent and Sedgwick discover an 1810 pic ture, which Is like the dead woman of the beach. Kent spies upon Wilfrid Blair's funeral. Kent and Sedgwick dig up Wilfrid Blair's body ahd are caufclit at work by Sheriff Schlatter snd Alexander Blair. CHAPTER Xvm. The Astrologer's Tsls. MIDNIGHT found Kent in his hotel room. A knock brought him to the door. . "Letter for you." announc-. Ed the messenger boy. What Prestbn Jttx had to say was. first In the form of * very brief note: second. In the shave of a formidable looking document. The note began "Esteemed sir," concluded "Tours re morsefully" and set forth in somewhat exotic language that the writer, fear ing ft lapse of courage that might con fuse Ms narrative when he ahontd cornier to give It bad "taken pen In hand" to commit it to writing and would the" recipient "kindly pardon haste?" Therewith twenty rone typed The ALAMANCE Fair lSOTfoL..fcJpK»j»,.» " ' •-'* tin's' tHrni ' i - •> ' , •jJ.ftr') ii\ }; .. 'j'f »'•/»:?'"" .a.*!,-!!.' Irt. St),'.' ,».• •( ~ . ' " " . ?-• ' ■* ' Will Be Held This Year Sept. 29 - 30, Oct. 1-2, 1914 i saS ,JH *s&*? i ?. '• * _ *' r ; rwifa'w#*. •;. F ' # ■ 1 —^ Largest Number Of Special Premiums Ever—Worth Competing. Send For The List. 250 People--- 10 Carloads Paraphernalia with The LIBERTY SHOWS Which have been book for FAIR WEEK. Come to it, bring the children and have a Good Time. Send Postal Card to Sec'y R. A. Freeman, Burlington, for Premium List. - ,H .r/' v .' 1 w • «"• . * . - , ' r*v, i ' , , " ' ' t ' ' > , 1 i ' 'IKI - " ' J GRAHAM, N. C., THURS "Qolte enough,'' said Chester Kent and dived Intp the turbid flood of words. And behold! As be turned, no to speak, the corner of the narrative the current because suddenly clear. The reader ran through It with In creasing sbsorptlen. Preston Jaa, whose real name was John Preston, had. after a rebellious boyhood, run away to sea, lived two years before the mast picked up a smHtterlng of education, been assistant mid capper for a magnetic healer and hud flunlly formulated a system of ustrologlcal prophecy that won blm a slow but In creasing renown. "This Astraea uffalr looked good from the flrst" So began Preeton Jax's confession, as beheaded and stripped down by Its editor. "It looked like one of the best. You could smell money In It with half a nose. Hur first letter came In on a Monday. I recollect Irene, my assistant had put the red pencil on It when she sorted out the mall to show It wss something special. But don't get her Into tills. Professor Kent If you do It's all off. Jewels and all. Irene hag always been for the straight star business and forecast game and no extras or side lines. Be sides, we were married last week. "She quoted poetry, swell poetry. First off she signed hersi If 'An Adept' I gave her the Personal No. 3 and fol lowed It up with the Special Friendly No. 5. Irene never liked that No. !>. She says It's spoony. Just tlifc same, it fetches them—but not tills one. ."13 lie began to get personal and warm heart ed, all right, and answered up with the kindred soul racket. Put come to Boston? Not a move! Said she couldn't Tbere were reusons. It look ed like the old game—flitter headed wife and Jealous husband. Nothing in that game unless you go in for the straight holdup. And blackmail was always too strong for my taste. So I did the natural thing—gave ber special readings and doubled on the price. She paid like a lamb. "Then, blame If It didn't slip out she wasn't married at all! I lost tljat letter. It was kind of endearing. Irene put np a bowl. It was getting too personal for ber taste. I told ber I would cut It out Then 1 gave my swell lady another address and wrote her for a picture. Nothing doing. But she began to hint around at a meeting.' One day a letter came with a hundred dollar bin In It. Loose, too, just like you or me might send a two cent stamp. 'For expenses,' she wrote, and I was to come at once. Our souls bud returned to recognize and Join each other, she said. Here is the only part of tbfe letter-1 could dig up from the wastebasket." Here a page was pasted u|K>n tbe document " 'You have pointed out to me that our stars, swinging In mighty circles, are rushlug on to a Joint climax. To gether w» may force ojieu the doors I to tbe I"- 4 ""1 sway tbe world as we "And so on and cetera," continued the narrative. "Well, ot course, she wsa nutty—that is. about the star busl ness. But that don't prove anything. The dlppiest star chaser I ever worked waa the head of a department In one of the big stores, snd the fiercest little business woman in business hours you ever knew. That was the letter she flrst called me Hermann in and signed Astraea to. Saki there was no use pre tending to conceal her identity any longer from me. Seemed to think I knew all about It jarred me some. And. with the clutnge of writ ing in the signature, It all looked pret ty queer. You remember the last let ter with the copperplate writing name st the bottom? Well, they all came tbst way after this; the body of the letter very bold and careless; signature written in an entirely different hand. "But hundred dollar bills loose In let ters mesn a big stake. I wrote her 1 would come, and I signed it 'Her mann,' Just to play up to her lead. Irene got on and threw s flt She said her woman's Intuition told her there Was danger In it Truth Is, she was stuck oh me herself, and I was on her. but we did not find It out until after the crash. So I was all for prying Astraea loose from her money If I had to marry her to-do It. Bhe wrote some slush about the one desperate plunge together and then the glory that was to be ours. Tlutl looked like marriage to me. "You saw the litKt letter. It bud me rattleiT. but' not rattled enough to quit. There wss a map in It of the place for the meeting. That was plain enough. But the HMtr' and 'we* business In It bothered me. it looked a lilt like n third person. I had not heard any thing about any third person. What Is more. I did not bnvj any use for a third person in tills business. The stars forbnde It. 1 wr«te%nd told her so and said If there was any outsider rung In the stellar courses would have a sudden change of heart. Then I put my best rube In a hag and bought a ticket for Cnrr's Junction. You can believe thnt while I was going through the woods I was keeping a bright eye out for any third party. Well, he was not there, not when I arrived anyway. Where lie was all the time 1 do not know. I never saw him. But 1 heard him later, i can heur him yet til night. God help me! "She was leaning against a little tfee at the edge of the thicket when I flrst saw her. There was plenty of light from the moon, and It sifted down through the trees and fell across her bead and neck. 1 noticed a queer clr eiet around her neck Tbe stones were like soft pink fires. 1 bad not ever seen any like them before, and I stood there trying to figure whether tliey were rubles and bow much they might be worth. While 1 wus wondering about It she half turned, and 1 got my fll'st look at ber face DAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1914. ••»ne was younger thnn I had reckon ed on aud not bud to look st but queer, queer! Something about ber struck me all wrong—gave me a sort of ugly shiver. Another thing struck me all right, though. That was that she had jewels on pretty much all ber Angers. In one of uiy letters to ber I gave her a bint about that—told her that gems gave the stars a strouger bold on the \vearer, and she had taken it all In. She- certainly was au eusy subject. "A bundle dune up In puper %as on the grouud near her. 1 ducked back, very still, and got into uiy robe. The arrangement In her letter wus for me to whistle when I got there. I whis tled. Shu straightened up. " 'Come,' she suld, 'I am wulting.' * "Ilcr voice was rather deep and soft Rut It wasn't u pleasant softness. Some wuy 1 did not like it any better than 1 liked ber looks. I stepped out Into the opeu and gave ber tho grand bow. ""The master of the stars, at your command,' I suld. '"You are not us I expected to see you,' she suld. » "Tbut was a sticker. It might menu most anything. I took a chance.. "' 'Oh, ivell,' I said, 'we all change.' "It went 'We change as life changes,' she said. 'They never found you, did they?' "From the way she said It I suw she expected mo to say 'No.' So 1 said 'No.' "'Tbut wus left for me to return and do,' she weut on with u kind of queer Joy that gave me tho shivers again. The Instant I saw your state ment In the newspaper 1 knew it was your soul calling to mine across the ages, "Our bout is at the shore."' "In that last letter she mentioned a ship. And, now, here wns this boat business. (Afterward I looked for a sign of either, but could not And any. I thought perhaps It would expluln the other pnrt of the 'we' and 'our') If I was going to elope by sea I wunt ed to know It, and I said as much. " "Aro you stendfust?' she asked. "Well, there was only one answer to that 1 said 1 wns. 'She opened tier package and took out a coll of rope. It was this gray-white rope, sort of clothesline, and it looked strong. "'What now?" I asked ber. " 'To bind us together,' she said. 'Close, close together, and Iben the plunge! This time tbero shall be no failure. They shall not find one of us without the other. You are not afraid?* "Afraid! My neck wus bristling. " 'Go slow,' I said, thinking mighty bard. '1 don't quite see tbo point of this.' "Didn't I curse myself for not re memberlng what 1 Imd written her' No clew, except that the poor soul wag plumb dippy—too dippy for mo to mar ry at any price. It wouldn't buve held In the courts. Yet there might have been $5,000 of diamonds on Iter. 1 suppose she felt me weakening. " 'Vnii fUi*/. tn lvr«nlr nnr unci? she says In n volee like a woman on the, stage. Then she changed and spoke very gently. 'You are looking st these gewgaws,' she said and took a dia mond circlet from her finger. 'Wbut do these count for?' And she put It in my bund. Another rtug dropped at my feet, illlnd. she was giving them to me. 'These are as uothlng compar ed to wbut we shall have.' she went on. 'after the pluuge. Waltf "She hud dropped the rope, and now she went Into her paper parcel again, kneeing at my side. I hud stooped to look for the fallen ring when I felt ber hand slide up uiy wrist and then a quick little snap of something cold and close. A bracelet. I thought And It w;is a bracelet! '""Forever: Together? she said and stood up beside tue. chained to me by the hnndi'un's she had slipped on my right wrist and her left. "'How iniicli to let me off?' I asked as soou as I could get breath. You see. It Hashed on me that II wus a |K> lice trap Her next words put me on. " 'The stars! The stars!' she whisper ed. 'See ours-liow they light our path way across the sea. the sea that uwalts us!" "More breath came buck to me. It wasn't a trap, then. She was only a crazy woman that I hud to get rid of. I looked down at the handcuff. It wus of Iron itiil litid dull rusted edges. A hammer would have iiuide short work of 11. but 1 did not lure any hammer 1 did not even JIII ve a "t ope:" There would lie stones land beyond the thicket I thought I saw » way. " 'Yes. tot's I said "We "ct out At tiie edge- of the thicket was a llnltlsli rock with small stones near It Here I pretended to slip. I fell with my right wrist across li risk and caught up a cobblestone with my left hand. At the first crack of Hie stone on the handcuff I could feel the old Iron weaken I got no chance for a second blow. Her bands were at my throat. They hit In. Then I knew It wits a light for my life. "The ui xl ihiug 1 rxuivioUor dearly she was quiet on the ground and 1 was hammering, hammering, liiiinineiing at my wrist with a blood-stained stone I do not know if II was Iter blood or mine. Both, maybe, for my wrist was like pulp when the Iron finally cracked open aud I was free. I caught a glimpse of blood on ber temple. 1 suppose I had lilt her there with the stone. She looked dead. "All I wanted was to think-to think —to tbluk. I wns pretty much dotty. I guess. I wns trying to think she came alive. She wns on her feet bo fore I knew It mid off at a dead run. Tbe broken handcuff went Jerking and Jumping arouul ber as she ran. That was au awful night full of awful thlugs. But tbe one worst sight of all worse evm thnn tho finding of ber ufterward—wns that mad figure leap !ng over the broken ground toward toe cliff's edge. I beld my breath to 11atea for ber ■cream wben abe went over. I never beard It, "But I beard something elae. I heard a man'* voice. It waa clear-and strong and high. There waa death In It, I tell you, Mr. Kent Living hor ror gripped at the throat that gave that cry. Then there waa a rnah of little atonaa and gravel down the face of the cliff. That waa all. "Beyond me the ground rose. I ran op on it It gave me a clear view of the cliff top. I thought aure 1 would see the man who had cried out from there. Not a eight of blml Nothing moved In the moonlight I thought he muat have gone over the cliff too. 1 threw myaelf down and buried my face. "How long I lay on the ground I do not know. A wlap of cloud had blot ted out the woman'! atar, now, and by that I knew abe waa dead. Bat the moon waa ahlnlng high. It gave me ilgbt enough to aee my way Into tbe gully, and 1 atumbled and alld down through to the beach. "1 found ber body right away. It lay with the head against a rock. But there waa no sign of the man'a body, the man who had yelled. 1 felt that beforo I went away from there I moat conceal the CIIUHO of her death and everything about It tbnt I could. It It waa known bow ahe waa killed they would be more likely to auapcct me. went back and got tbo rope. I got an old grating from the ahore. I dragged the body Into the aea and let It sonk,. I Dished It to the grating. I stripped the Jewelry from her, but 1 could not take It That would have made me a murderer. "Tbero la a rock In the gully that 1 marked. Nobody elso would ever no tice It Under It I hid the Jewelry. 1 can take you to It and I will. "I got on my coat and aunk my roba In a creek and got myaelf to the rail road station for a morning train. And when I got home I married Irene; and I am through with the crooked work forever. Thla la the whole tmth. If any human being knowa more about the death of Astraea it muat be the man who shouted a* she fell from the cliff and who went away and did not come back. "(Signed) PRESTON JAX. B-M." CHAPTER XIX In the White Ream. •• i NNAUKA. July IS.-To Hotel /\ Eyrie, Mnrtlndale Center: / l>u»t 671 aud send up aeven elm Int. Chester Kent" "Now, 1 wonder what tbnt might mean?" mused the day clerk of the Eyrie as he read the telegram through for the secouil time. 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