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THE CAROLINA WATCBpMAN, SALISBURY, N. C. cSulR AND BOWELS MY JAY Just Once! Try "Dodson's Liver Tone" When Bilious, Consti pated, Headachy Don't Lose a Day's Work. SMITH FINDS A LOVE AFFAIR BREWING AND IT MAKES HIM UNCOMFORTABLE HE IS WARNED TO PRO TECT HIMSELF FROM VIOLENCE Synopsis. J. Montague Smith, cashier of Lawrenceville Bank and Trust company, society bachelor engaged to marry Verda Richlander, heiress, knocks his employer, Watrous Dunham, senseless, leaves him for dead and flees the state when Dunham accuses Smith 5f dishon esty and wants him to take the blame for embezzlement actually com mitted by Dunham. Several weeks later, Smith appears as a tramp at a town in the Rocky mountains and gets a laboring job In an irriga tion ditch construction camp. His. intelligence draws the attention of Williams, the superintendent, who thinks he can use the tramp, John Smith, in a moie important place. The ditch company is in hard lines financially because Eastern financial, interests are 'working to under mine the local crowd headed by Colonel Baldwin and take over valu able property. Smith finally accepts appointment as financial sec retary of Baldwin's company. He has already struck up a. pleasant acquaintance with Corona Baldwin, the colonel's winsome daughter. As plans for financing the new company materialize, Smith makes good at his ew job, but his past history bobs up to trouble him. CHAPTER XI Continued. 9 It had been a day of nagging1 distrac tions. A rumor had been sent afoot by Stanton, as Smith made no doubt hinting that the new dam would be un safe when it shoold be completed ; that Its breaking, with the reservoir behind It, V'ould carry . death and destruction to the lowlands and even to the city. Timid stockholders, seeing colossal damage suits in the bare possibility, had taken the alarm, 'and Smith had spent the greater part of the day in trying to calm their fears. For this cause, and some others, he was on the ragged edge when Baldwin dropped in on his way home from the dam and protested. "Look here, John; you're overdoing this thing world without end! You break it off short, right now, and go home with me and get your dinner and good night's rest. Get your coat and hat and come along, or I'll rope you down and hog-tie you." For once in a way, Smith found that there was no fight left in him, and he yielded, telling himself that another acceptance of the Baldwin hospitality, ,"You Broken-Down Samson." more or less, could make no difference. Bat no sooner was the colonel's gray roadster headed for the bridge across the Timanyoni than the exhilarating reaction set in. In a twinkling the business cares, and the deeper worries as well, fled away, and in their place heart-hunger was loosed. After dinner, a meal at which he ate little and was well content to satisfy the hunger of his soul by the road of the eye, Smith went out to the portico to smoke. The most gorgeous of moun tain sunsets was painting itself upon the sky over the western Timanyonis, but he had no eyes 1 for natural grandeurs, and no ears for any sound save one the footstep he was listen ing for. It came at length, and he tried to look as tired as he had been when the colonel made him close his desk and leave the office ; tried and apparently succeeded, I Ton poor, broken-down Samson, parrying all the brazen gates of the ijnoney-Phllistines on your shoulders ! Tfou had to come to us at last, didn't .you? Let me be your Delilah and fix tjiat chair so that it will be really com fortable." She said it only half tnoclc inglyt and he forgave the sarcasm when she arranged some of the ham mock pillows in the easiest of the porch chairs and made him bury him self luxuriously in them. . Still holding the idea, brought over from that afternoon of the name ques tioning that she had In some way dis covered - his true identity, Smith was watching narrowly for danger-signals when he thaaked her and said ; Ton say it just as it is. I had to come.' Bat you could never be any body's Delilah, could you? She was a betrayer, if ydu recollect." He made the' suggestion purposely, but it was wholly ignored, and there was no guile in the slate-gray eyes. "You mean that you didn't want' to come?" "No ; not that. I have wanted to come every time your father has asked me. But there are reasons good rea sons why I shouldn't be here." If-she knew any of the reasons she made no sign. She was sitting In the hammock and touching one slippered toe to the flagstones for the swinging push. From Smith's point of view she had for a background the gorgeous sunset, but he could not see the more distant glories. "We owe you much, and we are go ing to owe you more," she said. "You mustn't think that we don't appreciate you at your -full value. Colonel-daddy thinks you are the most wonderful somebody that ever lived, and so do a' lot of the others." "And you?" he couldn't resist saying. v "I'm just plain ashamed for the way I treated you when you were here before. I've been eating humble-pie ever since." Smith breathed freer. Nobody but a most consummate actress could have simulated her frank sincerity. He had junipod too quickly to the small sum- ; in-nddirion conclusion. She did not j know the story of the absconding bank cashier. , "I don't', know why you should feel that way," he said, eager, now, to run where he had before been afraid 'to walk. . "I do. And I believe you tinted to shame me. I believe vou gnvo up your place at the dam and toi.U hold with daddy more to show me whnt m incon sequent little idiot I was than for any other reason. Didn't you, really?" He laughed in quiet ecstasy at this newest and most adorable of the moods. "Honest confession is good for the soul : I did," he boasted. "Now beat that for frankness, if you can." "I can't," she admitted, laughing back at him. "But now you've accom plished your purpose, I hope you are not going to give up. That would, be a little hard on colonel-daddy." "Oh, no; I'm not going to give up until I have to." "Does that mean more than it says?" "Yes, I'm afraid it does." She was silent for the length of time that it took the flaming crimson in the western sky to fade to salmon. The colonel had mounted the steps and was coming toward them. The young wom an, slipped from the hammock and stood up. "Don't go," said Smith, feeling as if he were losing an opportunity and leaving much unsaid that ought to be said. But the answer was a quiet "good night" and she was gone. Smith -went back to town with the colonel the next morning physically rested, to be sure, but in a frame of mind bordering again upon the sar donic. One thing stood out, clearly: he was most unmistakably in love with Corona Baldwin. Hence there was another high re solve,not to go to Hillcrest again until lie could go as a free man; a resolve which, it is perhaps needless to say, was broken thereafter as often as the colonel asked him to go: Why, in the last resort, Smith should have finally chosen a confidant in the person of William Starbuck, the reformed cow puncher, he scarcely knew. , But it was to Starbuck that he appealed for ad vice when the sentimental situation had growa fairly desperate. Tve fbld you enough so that you can understand the vise-nin of it. Billy," he said to Starbuck one night when he had dragged the mine owner up to the bathroom suite in the Hophra House, and had told him-just a little, enough to merely hint at his condition. "You see how it stacks up. I'm in a fair way to come out of this the big gest scoundrel alive the piker who takes advantage of the innocence of a good girl. I'm not the man she things I am. I am standing over, a volcano pit every minute of the day. If it blows up, I'm gone,' obliterated, wiped. out" . "Is it aiming to blow sp?" asked Starbuck sagely. T don't, know any more about that than you do. It is the kind that usual ly does blow up sooner or later. I've prepared for it as well as I can. What Colonel Baldwin and the rest of you needed was a financial manager, and Timanyoni High Line has its fighting chance which was more than Timan yoni Ditch had when I took hold. If I should drop out now, you and Maxwell i and theolonef and Kinzie could go on and make the-fight; but that doetn't help out in this other matter." 4 fig Starbuck smoked in silence fesrf a long minute or two before he safaris there another woman in it, John?' "xes; bur not in the way mean.". . , "Corry's a mighty fine little John," said Starbuck slowly, one of a dozen fellows I could would give all their old shoes to sw.ap chances with you." "That isn't exactly the kind of vice I'm needing," was the sober;? re joinder. . " m?; "No; but it was the kind you vffre wanting, when you tolled me offup here," laughed the ex-co wpuncher jl "I know the symptoms. Had 'em myfelf for about two years so bad that I co&l'd wake up in the middle of the night uhd taste 'em. Go in and win.- Maybe the great big stumbling-block you're wor rying about wouldn't mean anything aj; all to an open-minded young wonian like Corona; most likely it wouldn't." "If she could know the whole trJtli and believe jt," said Smith musingly. "You tell her the truth, and she'll take care of the believing part off it, all right. You needn't lose any steep about that." ' j " 1 5 Smith drew a long breath and re moved his pipe to say: "I haven't 'he nerve, Billy, .and that's the plain Suet. I have already told her a' little of f it. She knows that I " ". Starbuck broke in,, with a laufch. "Yes; it's a shouting pity about yoiir nerve! You've been putting up such-: a blooming scary fight in this irrigation business that we all know you haven't any nerve. If I had your job in thftC I'd be going around here toting tjfq guns and wondering if I couldn't mfeke room in the holster for another." .i Smith shook his head. "I was safe enough so long as Stan ton thought I was the resident mana ger and promoter ipr a new bunjjhvof big money in the background. But lia has ha'd.me shadowed and tracked tfn til now I guess he is pretty well con vinced that I actually had the audacity to play a lone hand ; and a Trtuffimrj nana, at that, That makes a differ- i ence, of course, Two davs after I had climbed into the saddle here, he sejifa couple of his strikers after me. I l&ij't know just what their orders. werebni they seemed to want to fight andjhey got it. It 'was in Blue Peters dogfpfy up at the camp." f-V "Guns?" queried Starbuck. "Theirs ; not mine, because I dlgjjt have any. I managed to get the Jbjoof-ing-irons away from them beforeLvr had mixed very far." ' I "You're just about the bigget.Tonf eared, stiff -backed, stubborn illdn?) of the wallows that was ever let Uso5 in a half-reformed gun countv grumbled the ex-cowman. '"You'r'fl? ing to get yourself all killed up, SndrJ Haven't you sense enough to see these rustlers will rub you out infj twitches of a dead lamb's tail-if thejK& made up their minds that you arJrtlfc High Line main guy and the only one?' "Of course," said the wild ass effeil i "If they cbuld lay me up for a m&nfw: or two" VT."- "Lay up, nothing!" retorted S?j& buck. "Lay you down, about six fjigt underground, is whatSf mean !" Z "Pshaw!" exclaimed the one wnofls fears ran in a far different chaft&oH from any that could be dug by ffiew corporation violence. "This is AtrieiF ica, in the twentieth century. We dn. kill our business competitors ndijhv days." ' jA "Don't we?" snorted Starbuck. "fhf will be all right, too. We'll suppX, just for the sake of argument, tliaf 8n$ respected and respectable da (Wy-3 fit- law, or whatever other silk-hattYd money-bags happens to be payljh Crawford Stanton's salary and coning i sion, wouldn't send out an order;! fcr have you killed off. Maybe StanifLr himself, wouldn't stand for it if ycsTt' put it that barefaced. But daddy-Sj& law, and Stanton, and all the otheSr? hire blacklegs and -Sharpers and gthi- men and thugs. And. every once inOn while somebody takes a wink for a nodjl and bang ! goes a gun.'' "Well, what's the answer? Pete Simms.' JfW 1 Ml "Tote an arsenal, yourself, and 9 ready afterward rnn live nefioenKlv to. shoot first and ask questtoffej uatK 01 tne wl"e-Pen iranKiy que- . That's the only way ytm, uonmS eyes; a wise little soul lying in lX7if"ll eilVi rrkrin Kj wait behind its joef enses : prudent, all- Jake Boogerfleld and Lanterby anH nwing, deceived neither by its own Simms." prepossessions or prejudices, nor by Smith trot out of his chair nnd iLka? . ot the masqueradings of other a turn up and down tlw length of tIfsouls room. When he came back to stafiKl before, Starbuck, he said; "I did ths(, Billy. I've been carrying a gun for week and more; not for these ditcij pirates, but for somebody , else. Tls& other night, when I was mi &lHild crest, Corona happened to see it. Iwi not going to tell you what she saidT but when 'I came back to. town the ne?i1 morning, I chucked the gun into a dei&3 drawer. And I hope I'm going to man enough not to wear it again." 5 Starbuck dropped the subject ruptly and looked at his watch. 'You liked to have done it, pull me off up here,' he remarked. "I'm dif' "Jenkins claimed that I insulted to be at the train to moot Mrs. riltfing" "Did you give any satisfaction?" and I've got just about three minute guess so. He ponnded me until So long." ;;ius tired." Smith changed his' street, clothes leisurely after Starbuck had gone, and when he went downstairs stopped at the desk to toss his room key to the clerk. t The hotel register was lying open on the counter, and from force of habfrt he ran his eye down the list of late ar rivals. At the end of the list, in sprawling characters upon which the ink was yet fresh, he read his sen tence, and for the first time in his life knew the meaning of panic fear. The newest entry was: "Josiah Richlander and daughter, Chicago." ' Smith was not misled by the place name. There , was only one "Josiah Richlander'in the world for him, and he knew that the Lawrenceville mag nate, in. registering from Chicago, was only following the example of those who, for good reasons or no reason use the name of their latest stopping place for a registry address. , CHAPTER XII. A Reprieve. Smith's blood ran cold and there wat a momentary attack of shocked con sternation, comparable to nothing that any past experience had! to offer. But Inhere was no time to waste in curious speculations as to tne wny ana where fores. Present safety was the prime consideration. With Josiah Richland er and his . daughter in Brewster, and guests under the same roof with him, discovery, identification, disgrace were knocking at the door. He could har bor no doubt as to what Josiah Rich lander would do if discovery came. For so long a time as should be consumed in telegraphing between Brewster and Lawrenceville, Smith might venture to call himself a free man. But that was the limit. One minute later he had hailed a passing autocab at the hotel entrance, and the four miles between the city and Colonel Baldwin's ranch had been tossed to the rear before he remem bered thatjje had expressly declined a dinner invitation for that same eve- nIn at Hillcrest, pleading business to rlrs- Baldwin in person when she had called at the office with her daughter. iiappny, tne small social offense went unremarked, or at least unre buked. Smith found his welcome at the ranch that of a man who has the privilege of dropping in unannounced. The colonel was jocosely hospitable, as he always was ; Mrs. Baldwin was gra ciously lenient was good enough, in deed, to thank the eleventh-hour guest for reconsidering at the last moment; and Corona Notwithstanding all that had come to pass ; notwithstanding, also, that his footing in the Baldwin household had come to be that of a family friend. Smith cbuld never be quite sure of the bewitchingly winsome younj woman who called her father "colonel-daddy. Her pose, if it were a pose, was the at titude of the entirely unspoiled child of nature and the wide horizons. When he was-with her she made him think of all-the words expressive of trans parency and absolute and utter uncon cealment. Yet there were moments when, he fancied he could get passing glimpses of a subtler personality at th ' m Himffllfil I'm Not the Man She Thinks I An, I Am Standing Over a Volcano" Smith has three devils to plague him just now: His past in Lawrenceville; his growing fondness for Corona; and the enemies of the company for whose success he is working night and day. Important de velopments come in the next in stallment. (TO BE CONTINUED.) i.. 1 . Liven up your sluggish liver! Feel fine and cheerful; make your work a pleasure; be vigorous and full of am bition. But take no nasty, danger ous calomel, because it makes yotf sick and you may lose a day's work. Calomel Is mercury or quicksilver, which causes necrosis of the bones. Calomel crashes into sour bile like dynamjte, breaking it up. That's when ybu feel that awful nausea and cramping. . v 1 Listen to me! 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