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PAGE EIGHT I The I RED ; LAMP |l I 1 j! ▼ \l ; ' MARY ROBERTS RINEHART ;j; Copyright by Geo. H. Dor** Comp**? WNU Serrice SYNOPSIS Events of the story, from June to September, as set forth tn the journal of William A. Porter, professor of Eng lish literature: JUNE—The professor’s uncle, Horace Porter, died under somewhat mysteri ous circumstances at his home. Twin Hollows, which Is now Professor Por ter’s property. Jane, the professors wife, has psychic qualities. She insists Uncle Horace, then dead for a year, was at his class reunion, and a snap shot she takes seems to prove her right Cameron, a fellow professor of Porter’s and president of the Society for Psychical Research, inclines to the idea of psychic photography. Mrs. Porter shows a pronounced disinclina tion to spend the summer vacation at Twin Hollows. A letter Horace Porter had been writing at the time of his sudden death, reveals he had been in terested in spiritualism and makes mention of some implied “danger.” and of the “enormity of an idea.” A ‘small red lamp” is also mentioned. Mrs. Porter’s reluctance to live at Twin Hol lows cannot be overcome, and, with Edith, Porter’s niece, they take up their residence in the Lodge house of the estate. Warren Halliday, in love with Edith, comes to live in a boat .house near the Lodge. A reference Pro fessor Porter had once made to a cer tain cabalistic design returns to plague him. He finds In the village a super stition that there is something mys terious about the red lamp. There are mysterious happenings, and Mrs. Por ter is sure Uncle Horace’s spirit is hov ering about them. A number of sheen are killed in the vicinity, by some un known person. JULY—The sheep slayer leaves at the scene of the killings the cabalistic design about which Professor Porter had joked. Greenougb. a detective, ar rives. and Porter has an uneasy feeling that he is under suspicion. Twin Hol lows is rented to an elderly, partially paralyzed man. Bethel, who, with his secretary. Gordon, takes possession. A youth. Carroway. on watch for the sheep killer, disappears. Porter has the red lamp hidden in a room of which he alone has the key. but many people, including the professor himself, be lieve they have seen its reflection at Twin Hollows. Halliday is attacked and seriously injured, the attacker es caping. Carroway is found In the bay, murdered. Maggie Morrison, cook em ployed by the Porters, disappears. A neighbor. Mrs. Livingstone, shows an unexplained Interest in Mr. Bethel. Gordon. Bethel’s secretary, is found by Porter in the grounds of Twin Hol lows, unconscious from a blow on the head. Hallldav throws himself into an Investigation of the mvsterv. August 1. An incendiary fire was started be* dmtli the boathouse laat night, or rather toward morning. An atsort* meat of what was apparently oil soaked waste was placed in one of the palls from the sloop,, and a candle lighted and placed ie it. Over this was laid such lumber as was left from the repair of the pier. Had Halliday been asleep the entire building might have burned. As it happened, he had been in the woods near where we found the boat, on a chance that fts proprietor might pay it a visit. He discovered the fire from some- distance and by hard running, reached! it invtime to extinguish it. He notified:- Greenough early this morning? stit the gentleman was ex tremely noncommittal. He stood with his hands in his pockets, kicking over the ashes Os the fire. “What’s the big idea, Mr. Haiti day?*’ he Inquired. “I don’t get that,” said Halliday, belligerently. “Don’t you?” said’ Greenougb, and after kicking the ashes once more, took an unruffled departure. The best we can make of that Is that the detective believes the whole thing a clumsy but concerted plan, on Haliiday’s part and! mine; that we have endeavoredi to show that, al though his watchers would- be able to testify that I had.' not left the house last night, the unknown ie still- at work. Nor can. I entirely blame him' for that. Whoever built the fire knew that Halliday was out at the time. But Halliday could not 90 state with out; betraying his knowledge of the boat, a matter he wishes to keep to himself as long as possible. A new month begins today, and like Pepys, It behooves me to take stock of myself. In spite of my best endeavors, some of my anxiety has crept into this record during the last month; and not always anxiety for myself. Alone, I could take off my coat and fight this thing out, but I am handicapped by Edith and Jane. Edith will not go and leave Halli day ; June will not consider abandon ing me here, although she has no idea of the true situation. f have, I feel, a responsibility I can not evade. The responsibility to my tenant. I have, by a reduced rent and an alluring advertisement, brought here an elderly paralytic and his young secretary. And, evade the is sue as I may, the fact remains that the last two acts of violence have been on my property. From the be ginning, indeed, the most casual sur vey of the situation shows me that Twin Hollows has been a sort of focal point It was on this property that js’ylie saw the sheep-killer hunt sanc tuary ; not on it, but adjacent to it, is still bidden the boat, and it was from my own float that he first es caped from Carroway and later killed him; it \Viu» mcu very posMoiy ui» flashlight that Halliday saw, the night of his arrival when, finding the boat house occupied, he worked his way through the salt marsh toward the sea. More recently the radius of his ac tivity has been narowed to the prop erty itself. The secretary sees him outside a window; he enters the house and attacks him from within. And a few' days later, possibly having overseen Haliiday’s discovery of his boat, he attempts to drive him away by setting fire to the boathouse. . . . I am tempted to ask Mr. Bethel to cancel his lease; to return him his money, entire, and relieve me of re sponsibility. What w'ould he say, I wonder? August 2. I have been reading Mrs. Living stone’s books, and a pretty lot of non sense I find them. If there is any thing in this question of survival, surely we cannot expect to find it in physical phenomena. Why not better accept that the nervous force which actuates the body may, in certain In dividuals, extend beyond the, periphery of that body? Nevertheless, It Is as well that I brought away from the other house the book I found there on the desk, on “Eugenia Riggs and the Oakville Phenomena.” It Is no reading for Mr. Bethel, under the circumstances. One finds, for instance, that the small paneled room which we call the den was used for her seances. That paneling in itself sounds suspicious. But stop! It was not paneled at that time; I recall when poor old Horace found that oak paneling and gleefully installed It in what had bjeen the old kitchen of the original farm house. An investigation, made just now, has supplemented my memory. The photograph (Note: Plate I, “Eugenia Riggs and the Oakville Phenomena”) shows a plastered wall, and one or two crude w-ater colors on it. Pos sibly the spirit paintings of the text. It also shows that the cabinet, so called, was not a cabinet at all, but a dark curtain on a heavy pole, which extends across a blank corner. In the picture these curtains are thrown back, showing a small stand on which are the stage properties of “George,” a bell, a pan of something, a glass, and a small bunch of flowers. On the floor, ready for his ghostly hand, Is a guitar. The wall is certainly plastered. An inset shows the pan, set on its edge to allow photography, and with the title: “Imprint of hand in putty. Dec. 2nd, 1902. Notice lack of usual whorls and ridges.” But In spite of this rather militant caption* I find I am unimpressed. Rather am I won dering whether somewhere In the background there was not a Mr. Riggs, with a short broad thumb and a bent little finger, who was not ig norant of the lack of the usual whorls and ridges in a pair of rubber gloves. But, considering that plastered wall, the entire evidence in the book, gath ered together, forms a surprising whole. One must take off one’s bat to the Riggs family, provided there were two of them, or to whomsoever assisted the lady. Especially stnce the windows were “shuttered and bolt ed, and small strings of bells, which would ring at the slightest touch, were hung across them.” August t. Halliduy. who is an early riser, burst in on os this morning at the breakfast table, fairly bristling with excitement “Good morning, everybody!” he sang out “What, do I receive for a piece of very cheering news ?•,-•■ Greenough’s gone. Benclifey came over yesterday and threw him off the case. At least, that’s what they say at the post office. Thirteen days he’s been fooling around, and he couldn’t get over the hump.” “If only he had stayed a little longer,” Edith said regretfully, “and somebody had killed him! It’s rotten bad luck, that’s all.” The conversation had little or no meaning for Jane. She was, I could see, puzzled by our excitement and unable to understand our relief. “Sure ly they have left somebody,” she said. “W r e ought not to be left without pro tection. W'ho knows when something will break out again, and then where are we?” “Where Indeed?” said Halliday. The move is a totally unexpected one. Yesterday, as Halliday said, the sheriff came over to the hotel and wa» closeted for an hour or two with Greenougb. A bellboy reports that, on carrying some cracked ice to the room, he found Greenough sitting mo rosely by a table, and Denchley at the window, staring out. Half an hour later the sheriff left, passing out of the hotel without so much as a nod to anyone, and within the hour Green ough was paying his bill in the lobby and ordering a car to take him to the train. Our own relief Is enormous, but there is much grumbling among the summer folk as well as the natives. Star* is the usual variety of small town constable, and It seems extraor dinary that the case should be left in his care. It is of course possible that another man is to be sent in Green ough’s place, but if so we have no in timation of it. . . . The immediate result of Greenough’s departure has been rather to revive the Interest in the situation than other wise. I dare say as long as the po lice were on the case the people more or less lay back and depended on them; now they are thrown once more onto their own resources, and a va riety of opinions and even of clews are being exchanged at that centra! clearing house, the post office. Thus: This morning the cows of a man named Vaughan were found huddled THE CHATHAM RECORD- PITTSBOKO, N. C. in a corner of the field, giving every , evidence of having been run to death during the night. (To the common sense suggestion of a dog being the culprit, pitying glances.) A stranger three days ago tried to buy a la*e knife in the hardware store. (Later shown to be the Living stone’s new butler seeking a carving knife.) The second keeper at the lighthouse has resigned, declaring the tower Is haunted. (This is true, so far as the resigna tion goes. He has, it appears, asked to be transferred. But Ward says there has been no repetition of the strange affair the night of the storm.) A car driven recklessly and without lights has been seen twice near the Hilburn road, both times after mid night. (There seems a certain authenticity in this; the car, however, shows its lights until fairly close to another car, when it shuts tliem off entirely There may be, of course, some defect in the dimmers.) . . . My owu relief is beyond words. Looking In my shaving mirror today. lam startled at the change In me the last few weeks. The Lears are coming out to dinner tonight. More power to them. August 4. The party last night was a great success. Lear had brought me out a bottle of claret, and with caudles on * / A Edith and Halliday for the Boathouat and a Cano*. the table and six wine glasses, hastily borrowed from Anuie Cochran* at the main house, we took on quite a> fes tive air. We divided after the- meal, Jane and Helena to talk, Edith- and! Haili day for the boathouse and a canoe and Lear and I te pace the drive with our clgare. Lear’s quiet face and* general de pendabllity, and perhaps the need of a fresh mind on the conditions here impelled me to telt my story, to which he listened without Interruption. His opinion ia that we have to do with a homicidal maniac, and that the sheep-killing was preliminary to the rest, “a propitiation,” he puts It. The supernatural angle- of the case be put aside wftb a> gesture. “I won’t even argue- it,” he said. “There may f be something to. it; I’m not denying that.. 'Btlt it’s not stuff to be meddled with;; when the Lord means to open that veil he will do it. And I am no> peeping Tom.” He said further that Helena has taken up the ouija board, and sits for hours “with anyone she can en trap,” getting absurd messages which sound well and mean nothing. “In your place,” he said, “I would forget it. If you get really to the point where yon think you have some thing, send for Cameron and let him. look into ft. But keep out of it your self* Porter. It’s bad medicine.” I took them to the eleven o’clock train* and have only just returned. But 1 think it would amuse Lear; in spite of his hands-off attitude, to. know that as I drove into- the garage and; shut off the lights and the en gine, in the very act of getting out of the car I heard once more that peculiar dry cough, the faint slow footfall and smelled again that curL ous herbal odor which I shall, all the days of my life, associate with my Uncle Horace. So unexpected was it, coining on top of the happiest evening of the summer, that I stood for a moment immovable. Then I leaped from the terrifying darkness of the garage out into the moonlight, and there con fronted young Gordon, standing out side and quietly smoking. “Hello!” I said, when I could speak. “Out again, I see.” “Yes. That place gets my goat,” he replied. “I guess I’m jumpy, since the other night ...” He looked bad, and I asked him if he cared to sit down before starting back. But be refused. “I’ll get h —ll if he finds I’ve left the house,” he said elegantly. I turned and walked back with him toward the house, and seeing him se cretly amused about something, asked him what it was, whereupon he said ' that he was thinking of the way I! had shot out of the garage. “Put something over on you there, didn’t I?” ’ j "You startled me. What do you mean?” ] “I guess you know,” he said, with his aide-long glance, “That cough.” “You mean, the lighthouse story V He fell again into one of his secret convulsions of mirth. “No, I don’t mean the lighthouse,” he said, and turning abruptly, struck off through the trees. I can take from this as much or as little as I will. Is It possible that Gordon lias heard the cough in the house, and associates it with the other sounds of which he has complained to Annie Cochran? Or has he merely been told of it, and with his per verted idea of humor, been deliberate ly alarmiug me with it? August 5. Annie Cochran declares that young Gordon has been in the habit of slip ping out of the house at night; that lie commenced to do it shortly after his arrival, and has done it ever since; that, indeed, he was not sit ting on the kitchen steps before he was attacked, but had been out in the car, and was trying to get back into the house. She also believes that Mr. Bethel suspects it, and has been on the alert, especially since the night of the at tack. “There’s been bad blood between them, ever since that night,” she said. “They talk a bit when I’m in the dining room, but once I’m out of it, they’re as glum as oysters.” She also suspects Mr. Bethel of being afraid of Gordon. On the nights when she assisted him upstairs, while the secretary was still invalided, she always heard him bolt his door as soon as he was inside. “And the nights he stayed down.” she added, “he had me bring down that revolver of his. He laid it to the fellow who got in by the gun room window, but I’ve got my own ideas about it.” “Wliat makes you think Gordon had been off the place, the night lie was hurt?” “He said he couldn’t sleep, didn’t he? And he got up and went down stairs to get something to eat, and then went outside?” “So he said.” “Well, as far as I can make out, he was dressed from top to toe. He didn’t need to do that to get down to the pantry.” And we had missed that! Hayward. Greenough and I had checked up that story, according to our several abil ities, and had’ never noticed that dis crepancy. “I sent his clothes to- be cleaned the next day,” she said, “and I noticed it then.” But her real contribution, if I may call it that, lay in the garage, and after tip-toeing to the hall and listen ing to the sound' of Mr. Bethel’s dicta tion from within, she drew me out side. “So far a* I know,” she said; “that car’s only been, out twice since they came, and* that was to take Thomas home ong time, and me aaotbgf, rfght sis the storm. But it’s been out. just the same-.” “Wouldn’t the old man hear it-?? “He might and. he mightn't. Suppose It was roiled along the lane- and started? He- wouldn’t hear it there, would he?” To support her contention she showed me- a< number of marks in. the • lane* certainly suspicious but by no mean* evidential. It is nothing un usual for motorists- to strike into- the woodland! along the lane; under the impression- that it Is a public road, and to* be brought up all standing at the house: But against all: this, at least as » • v * f.” . V . tainting to young Gordon’ as our pos sible criminal, is what is to- me an insupprbble^obstacle? v/, We know that the crimes are connected with the killing of the sheep. It is not possible to> doubt this. And the sheep were killed and the altar built before Mr. Bethel brought Gordon iuto the neigh borhood. Annie Cochran has a certain support for her contention, but not enough. And she dislikes the boy extremely. Probably she unwittingly revealed the reason for her attack on him just before I left. “There’s something wrong about him,” she said. “When a man’s dis honest he thinks everybody else is. “He’s taken to locking his room and carrying the key about with him. I never took a thing of anybody else’s in my life.” As Halliday went to town early to day, taking the scrap of paper with the cipher to an expert he knows there, I have not been able to dis cuss this new angle with him. Quite aside from the discrepancy In dates, however, Gordon not arriving until after the reign of terror was well under way, the chief stumbling block is the attack on the boy himselt . . . Suppose the boy does slip out at night, and take the car? He is young and l imagine pretty much a prisoner all day. He takes dictation all morn ing, types after luncheon while Mr. Bethel sleeps* and at four o’clock again is ready with his book and pen cil. The few moments he has spent with Edith now and then are plainly stolen. (CONTINUED NEXT WEEK) Hidden Dogs Peei large, even potatoes and with an apple corer make a channel through each the long wa yof the potato. If the frankfurters are smal two channels may be made. Draw into each cavity a frankfurter, which has been skinned. Place the tiled potatoes in a deep dish, baste with butter or other cooking fat and water, and bake in a hot oven until the potatoes are tender and well browned. Time in making, 45 minutes. Temperature, 450 degrees. 1 1-4 cups flour, 3-4 cup bran, 1 teaspoon salt, 4 teaspoons baking powder, 3 tablespoons brown sugar, i 1-4 cup raisins (seedless), 2 table spoons shortening, 3-4 cup milk. Sift dry ingredients until thor oughly blended. Work in the short ening with the tips of the fingers. Add the raisins, add the milk slowly. When mixed, roll the dough to 1-2 inch thickness and cut in very small biscuits if you would please the child ren. Bake in hot oven 12 to 15 minutes. Serve these when a day old. $ You'll Like Carrot# Thi# Way Cook one quart of carots and use 2 cups carrot puree to 1-4 cup bread crumbs, 2 eggs, 1-4 cup milk, 1 ts. chopped parsley and seasoning. Mix carrots, crumbs and seasoning with beaten eggs, add milk, blend and fill buttered pudding” cups with the mix ture. Set cups in pan of hot water and bake in moderate oven until firm. Unmold and serve with cream sauce. A compound 300 times as sweet as sugar has been evolved from corn cobs. ___ NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of an order of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Chatham County, North Carolina, in the proceeding entitled “K. J. Smith against Mrs. M. A. Smith and husband* Manley Smith” the under signed commissioner will, on the 31st day of July, 1929, offer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the fol lowing described real estate, to-wit: NORTH CAROLINA CHATHAM: COUNTY: I, G. W. Blair, sheriff of the county of Chatham, do hereby certify that the following described real estate in; said county and state, to wit: 38 acres in Matthews Town ship was, on the third day of Octo ber, 1927, duly sold by me, in the manner provided by law, for delin quent taxes of M. A. Smith for the year 1926, amounting to $25.34, in cluding interest and penalty thereon and the cost allowed by law, when and where K. J. Smith purchased said real estate at the price of $25.34 Dollars, he’being the highest and best bidder for the same. And I further certify that unless redemption is made of said real estate in the man ner provided by law, the said K. J. Smith, his heirs or assigns shall have the right of foreclosure of this cer tificate of sale by civil action at the expiration of one year from the date of sale. In witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and seal this the 4th day of October, 1927. G~ W. BLAIR, Sheriff It being the lands on which the said Manley Smith now. resides, lo cated near Route 90 of the State Highway leading from Pittsboro, to Siler City. Place of Sale: Courthouse door at Pittsboro, N. C. Time of Sale: 12 o’clock noon. Terms of Sale: Clash. This the 29th day of June, 1929. W. P. HORTON, Commissioner NOTICE OF SCHOOL ELECTION NORTH CAROLINA: CHATHAM COUNTY: OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, JUNE 3, 1929. Ihi accordance witlb the petition duly, filed, as provided* by law, and as more specifically provided by Arti cle 17 of the Codification of the School Laws of North Carolina, wherein one-third, or twenty-five, of the qualified voters, who have re sided at least 5 twelve-months in the proposed school district, have pe titioned the Board of Education of Chatham County, to request ; ; the Board of County Commissioners of Chatham County to call a special election for the purpose herein men tioned, and an election is hereby called to be held at the residence of C. P. Teague in the- district here inafter described cwi Saturday the 3rd day of August, 1929, for the purpose of voting a special school ta>x* not to exceed twenty cents on the one-hundred dol lars valuation of the property in said district, to supplement the public school funds which may be appor tioned by the County Board of Edu cation in case such special tax is voted, in the following described ter ritory, to-wit: BEGINNING in the Randolph County line near Staley in the public road leading from Staley by (not in cluding) L. C. Siler’s and C. C. Cooper’s, thence east along the north boundary of Staley local tax district in Chatham County (formerly Woodsdale district) to the bridge at the head! of Albright’s mill pond, thence east with the courses of Rocky River (including) the lands of Luther Bridges and Harvey Cotner to the west boundary of the Garfield Swain lands, thence along the east boundary of Harvey Cotner’s lands to the east boundary of (including) R. D. Teague’s land, thence north along the west boundary of (not in cluding) W. J. Thompson’s land to the (including) A. J. Clarke lands* thence north along the east bound ary of lands of A. J. Clarke lands (including) the Cotner heirs, W. B. Teague, the Widow Thomas, to the Alamance County line; thence west with Alamance County line to Ran dolph County line, thence south along Randolph County line to the be ginning. At said election of the qualified voters in said territory who shall have registered shall be entitled to vote, those who are in favor of the levy and collection of said tax or taxes, shall vote a ballot on which shall be written or printed the words “For Special Tax,” and those who are against the levy and collection of said special tax or taxes shall vote a ballot on which shall be written 1 or printed the words “Against Spe- < cial Tax.” For the purpose of carry ing out said election C. P. Teague is hereby appointed registrar, who shall keep hia books open from Saturday,, THURSDAY, JULY 11. ifryq the - 29th day of June, 1929, until Saturday,, the 27th day of July, 1929 both dates inclusive, for the registra’ tion of the voters within said district or territory, and a new registration is hereby ordered; the registration and the election shall be conducted ui pun jopirn ajqtssod sc accordance wfth the General Election Laws for the election to the General Assembly. David Lashley and C. R Thompson are hereby appointed poll! holders to aid to said election. After closing the polls on election day the registrar and poll-holders shall proceed to count the votes for and against said election, declare the results of the same 1 , and certify the same to the Board' of County Com missioners of Chatham County, i This the 3rd day of June, 1929 R. J.. JOHNSON, Chairman, Board of County Commissioners, Chatham Countv CL C. POE, Clerk ex-Officio to said Board of Chatham County Commissioners. (June 27, July 4, 11) FORECLOSURE SALE UNDER ~ DEED OF TRUST UNDER AND BY r VIRTUE of the power of sale contained in that cer tain de*d of trust executed by Alli ance Manufacturing Company, to the undersigned Trustee, dated' Feb ruary 9th, 1929, and recorded in the Registry of Chatham County m Book GU, pages 119-20, and default hav ing been: made in the payment of the indebtedness therein secured and demand having been made upon the undersigned Trustee to foreclose for the satisfaction of said indebtedness; the undersigned will on Saturday the 20th day of July; 1929, at twelve (12) o’clock noon-in front of the Courthouse door at Pittsboro, North Carolina, offer far sale to the. highest bidder for cash, the following described property: BEGINNING at an iron corner 50 feet from center of Southern Railway tract, M. F. Morris corner; thence sou ids 47 degrees west, his line, 18 poles to an iron in Cheek’s line; thence-South with Cheek’s line 8 poles to a stone, I. P. Coggins' corner; thence east with Coggins’ line 19 poles to stone and pointers; thence north 47 degrees east 13 poles to an iron Southern Railway right of way; thence with said right of way -21 poles to the BEGINNING, con taining 2 -acres, more or less, and being the lot of land conveyed to the party of the first part by J. W. Emerson, and to J. W. Emerson by S. J. Emerson estate, it being the same lot of land upon which is now located the Gin property of the party of the first part. Also all the gin, presses, machinery, motive power, beltings, shaftings, tools, etc., used with and in connection with the operation of the cotton gin located’ upon said lot; whether the same ba fixed to the real estate or not. This the 18th day of June, 1929. WADE BARBER, Trustee- NOTICE OF SALE. Under and by virtue of a certain* decree made and entered in that spe cial proceeding now pending in the superior court of Chatham county,. North Carolina, entitled “James L» Griffin, Administrator of J. J. Brooka versus Mrs. Sallie Brooks, et als," the undersigned commissioner will on Saturday tk*» 13th day of July, 1929; at 12 o'clockc noon, in front of the Courthouse door at Pittsboro, North Carolina, offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, all that certain lot or parcel of land lying and being in Center Township, adjoining the lands of T. M. Bland estate and others, and bounded as follows, viz:. On the north by the lands of T. M. Bland; on the east by the right of-way of the Pittsboro Railroad; o R ' the south by the Jenks land* and on the west by the Newman lands, con taining 35 acres, more or less, and being more fully described and de fined in the title deeds which he held the same* SAVE AND EXCEPT, HOWEVER, from this tract of land flhe dower interest of Mrs. Sallie Brooks in and to the following: BEGINNING at the southwest corner o£ the J. J. Brooks lands, Jenks line and running thence abo* east 163* yards; thence about n 160 yards to a cedar tree in gr thence about west 180 yards; the about south 190 yards to the be ginning. This the 10th day of June, 1929. $ W T ADE BARBER, Commissioner Siler & Barber, Attys. FORECLOSURE SALE UNDER DEED OF TRUST Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in that certain deed of trust executed by H. G. Goldston and wife, Gola Goldston, to the? undersigned Trustees, dated June 23rd, 1928, and recorded in the Reg istry of Chatham County in Book HA, page 621, and default having been made in the payment of the in debtedness therein secured and de mand having been made upon the undersigned Trustees to foreclose f° r the satisfaction of said indebtedness' the undersigned will on Saturday the 20th day of July, 1929, twelve o’clock noon in front of the Courthouse door at Pittsboro, Nortn Carolina, offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, the following de scribed real estate: BEGINNING at a stake in the fork of the west and east prong o£ Indian Creek; thence up west prong of Indian Creek its various courses 41 poles to an ash on said creek; thence about north with hedgerow 112 poles to a stone in Cleve Gunrers line (formerly W. L. Goldston line)! thence about east with said Gunter s line 62 poles to a sweet gum on the east bank on the east prong of Indian Creek; thence down said creek it- s various courses to the beginning, con taining thirty three (33) acres niora or less. This the 17th day of June, 1929. WALTER D. SILER & WADE BARBER- Trustee-* 1
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