fe-
4 lOatlon
. . «ta»«*le4
diuty street
■rlirr isrtedUiit 'ottsimota
bMhe door ot the
* yoan* i(»a syjear-
op the road toward
•tatloeu He was tall and
WB«4, bat without the
bentdn, desert d rl e d
He had an arrogant noee
%rido'in erery line of It.
nice gray eyes, elear and
and a pleasant, ftnbly
month, earioosly at war
*he j>rldetnl nose. He
i .. . sight of a shabby anto-
^orer by the station, and
twltehed at the cor-
.■V ^ 1^1* month. He was won-
Avfas what some people of his
ilntance would say if they
came to Marston and had to
■et by that "car.
“3tt looks like an old hobo,”
yeflected, “but Petry loves It
» a Baby. , . . Ouess I'll go
■r and wait there."
strolled on down the dusty
It was by no means a
•wwded street but the few peo-
r- he met all seemed to know
Mb. Their greeUngs were frlend-
^ although perhaps not so
I , •eator as they might have been,
-‘^"^aay to Boone Petry, who work-
ai for "him, or to Jim Bagley who
■■ft the general store, or any of
tta lew scattered ranch owners
•who occasionally came in for
aapfltes. He seemed. In a way,
JnS a little apart from their
awryday familiar Interests. On
ly when he passed the deserted
estate office his face dark-
slightly. The forlorn little
Banding, slackly revealing Us
aasMsness to any scornful eye,
was undoubtedly- a long standing
to him.
Out of the shimmering dlst-
a dark blob bad appeared.
At the station a few loungers
to life for one of the major
of Marston’s day. Boone
■Mzy. propped contentedly
against the weathered boarding
ia^fsw feet away, awoke to a m'ld
t. The operator grinned
ly.
•TEtteptin' company?”
“Some stuff for the boss.”
"Be 'gets, a lot of stuff, don't
Itef Must have some real money
Ba spend."
Petry blinked at the glinting
tracks and apparently forgot to
answer. The operator took an
other tack.
“Jim Bagley aays he hears
Duane’s out 'most every day,
pokin’ the old Junipero full of
holes. Barry’s a nice fella, but If
he' keeps on like that he’ll end
up the same way his uncle did.”
"Maybe, and maybe not I
ain’t Inquired bis destination,
but wherever Barry alms to go,
he most generally arrives at.”
The conversation seemed un
profitable, but the operator was
a hard man to down.
“Speakln* of destinations, I
saw the whole Simpson tribe
headin’ out of town this morn-
in’, bag and baggage. If they’d
of piled anything more on that
fllwer It would of laid down and
died. They’re movin’ over to the
county seat.”
Petry grinned. The Simpsons’
nearest neighbor — a trifling
matter of five or six miles—was
Barry Duane, and It could not be
denied that there had been no
great amount of neighborly vis
iting between Eagle’s Perch and
the little ranch where the Simp
son family dribbled out Its hap-
py-go-lucky existence.
“What’s happened?” he In
quired mildly. “Somebody leave
Sim ten dollars or did he just
get too exhausted to work?”
“Don’t talk about a triflin’
ten dollars to ’Lonzo. He’s sold
uis place, and from the general
excitement In the Simpson fam
ily I’d say It must’ve been a
pretty good cash payment.”
The jar of the two-thlrty-elght
closed the conversation abruptly.
Number Twelve clanked to a
stop with a long sigh. Petry look
ed along the line of dusty coach
es, nodded familiarly to the
brakeman, gallantly laden •with
somebody’s suitcases, and start
ed toward the forward end. Then
he'"- stopped, as abruptly as
though he had been jerked at
the end of a halter.
Silken ankles and beautifully
shod feet were coming down the
gritty steps of old Number
Twelve. Petry loked up dizzily at
a slim young woman clad trimly
in blue. She was appealingly
young and she had the loveliest
skin that Boone had ever seen
and an engaging little month
which looked rather sober just
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now bat would surely-show love
ly teeth when she smiled, and
lustrous big eyes with a growing
dikmay in them as they looked
tieyond the ugly little station to-
vrard the forlorn straggle of
bouses which constituted the
town of Marston. That was Mar-
Bton’s first glimpse of Anne
Cushing as she stepped from the
two-thlrty-elght directly Into the
path of Boone Petry, ex-cowman,
ex-ranchman and general facto
tum to Barry Duane.
Involuntarily he swept off his
battered hat, showing a grizzled
head, a skin weathered to a lea
thery brown and light blue eyes
which gave him a deceptively in
nocent air. The girl smiled at
him. Some of the dismay re
treated.
“You are Mr. Simpson, aren’t
you? I am Anne Cushing.”
“Why, no ma’am.” Petry gulp
ed visibly. “My name Is Petry,
Boone Petry. If you’re lookin’
for Lon Simpson, he—he’s mov
ed away from hero. He sold his
place Just recent.”
"Yes, I know. I bought It. But
I thought he might be here to—
well, to show me the place, I
suppose. I’m afraid that was a
rather silly Idea.”
“No ma’am,” said Petry help
lessly. The dismayed look was
hovering In her eyes again. He
shifted his weight from one foot
to another, and thought earnest
ly of things he would like to’ do
to the departed Simpson.
"I guess Sim’s' kind of care
less that ■way,” he added apolo
getically. “But don’t let that
bother you, ma’am. If there’s
anything I can do, or the boss
either, we’d sure be pleased to."
The local groaned In all its
length and gathered Its com
plaining joints into motion
again, leaving them standing
there. At a little distance. Just
beyond the platform,. the young
man who had come over from
t-o postoffice stood and watch-
eu them with puzzled curiosity.
The few dawdling loungers had
frankly turned their heads In
the same direction.
The girl’s eyes were sweeping
the sun-warped platform and the
hot road beyond. They hesitat
ed for an Instant as they caught
the unobstruslvG scrutiny of the
brown young man, and then
passed on composedly. They
came back to Boone Petry.
“It’s awfully kind of you to
take so much trouble. If you
could just tell me where I can
get a stage or rent a car, I think
I can manage all right.”
"It ain’t a bit of trouble, but
there ain’t any stage, because
there ain’t any place in particu
lar for a stage to go. And there
ain’t any garage, either, not for
hirin’ cars. But that needn’t
matter a bit, because our place
is just a spell beyond yours, and
we can give you a lift easy. Any
time you like.”
Petry rubbed his_ chin nerv
ously with a mahogany paw.
Here was a situation calling for
diplonvtcy, and diplomacy, be
felt, had never been one of his
stronger points. He sent a hunt
ed look around, caught the eye
of the watching young man and
signaled him with a furtive
thumb. The girl was thanking
him.
“That would be splendid, but
I hate to be such a nuisance.”
“Not a-tall, ma’am.” The
young man was at his elbow
now, looking Interes’.ed. Looking
more than interested. “Miss
Cushing, meet my boss, Mr. Bar
ry Duane. Barry this lady’s just
bought the Simpson place, and
Sim’s lit. I’ve told her it’s right
on our way and we can take her
out any time she wants to go.”
“Of course we can. Very glad
to.” Not a single blink betrayed
that the Simpson place was out
of their homeward way by some
miles of singularly bad road.
“It’s awfully good of both of
you. I dtda’t expect to be a
charge on the community as soon
as I arrived.” ,
“The community,” said Barry
Duane, “considers. itself in luck.
Now about this new place of
yours. When do you get pos
session?”
“I've got it now.”
“Yesr—of course." He hesitat
ed, and caught Petry’s nervona
eye. Petry cleared hie throat
"I Vas thinkln'," he ventured,
“se^Bf there’s nobody out there
now, maybe the-lady migltt like
put up at the hotel here, an-
til her folks ooraet"
“But yoa see, thete Isn’t any
one else to come.” Anne C^uhlng
leached, for the flwt_ tlnvn>*'4l
three long weeks and sfdrry Dn-
ane thought it .was the loveliest
laagip be had ever heard.
“You really mustn’t he
ried about me,” she said In
:^Bgat ,ts* '
for the'rhBChr €■!■ i 4o
Barry
yon no
advertise la. Hiis side of
county seat. At least thera'i
printed one. The nnofflclaT^a:
Is to mention whatever yon want
over at Jim Begley’s general
store, and then wait for the re
turns to come In. Any other sug
gestions, Petry? How , about
Martha Larraboe?”
"First rate!” Petry cheered
visibly. “Martha ain’t exactly a
man and wife, but she’s pretty
near as good."
He bent over and picked up a
fat suitcase. Barney did the
same.
“And now,” he said, “for Mar
tha Larrabee and . the general
store.”
"This,’’ said Anne Cushing to
herself, “is a funny dream. Pret
ty soon I shall wake up and find
that It isn’t BO at ^I.”
Her spirits had soared unac
countably. She wanted to laugh
as she was politely herded to
ward the shabby car. It was less
than five minutes since sbe had
stepped from the train and here
she was, trotting confidently
along with two perfect strangers
who had taken herself, her lug
gage and apparently all her
problems -Into their capable
hands.
At the far end of the strag
gling street a wooden cottage,
better kept than most,, sat a lit
tle back in a yard where neat
borders of glowers had been en
couraged to grow. They stopped.
Petry went In. He was gone five
minutes. Anne began to wonder
what was happening. Suppose
the efficient Mrs. Larrabee
should decline to come?
The front door opened and a
woman came out. She was tall
and comfortably plump, with
greyed brown hair and an air of
practical competence. Her face
■was strong and shrewd, and not
without humor. Petry came out
behind her, with an uncertain
grin on his homely face. Evident
ly the redoubtable Martha had
declined to commit herself.
“This Is the lady, Martha. Miss
Cushing, this Is Mis’ Larrabee.”
“I hope you can come, Mrs.
Larrabee. I really don’t know
what there Is to be done yet.. .’’
Martha looked at the girl In
the car, a small and slightly
anxious face.
"I’ll come,” she said briefly,
and ^permitted herself a grim
quirk of a smile as she nodded
to the car’s owner She went on
briskly, calmly talking the situ
ation In hand.
“You wait here for me, and
I’ll go with you to the store. It
won't take me two minntes."
She went back Into the house.
Such trifling matters as wages,
duties and hcura had evidently
not entered Into her decision at
all.
“Passed with honors!” said
Barry Duane. “Martha came out
to look you over, and If she
hadn’t liked your looks you
couldn’t have argued her "^Into
coming at any price..
She laughed and sobered,
looking out at the endless waste
that went on and on into the
hazy distance.
“I knew 1 was under Inspec
tion. I was so afraid I wouldn’t
pass muster I scarcely dared
breathe. She looks so—depend
able.”
“Martha’s pure gold — and
here she comes. Now, for the
store and your supplies. Anoth
er half hour and we’ll be on our
way.”
They were off In much less
time than that, thanks to Martha
Larrabee’s brisk supervision.
Marston's brief sensation was
over, at least for the time being,
but the repercussions still echo
ed. All Marston knew it now. A
pretty young thing with a soft
voice and delicate hands had
bo'ught the Simpson ranch, thir
ty miles out across the Junipero,
and expected to run it. Male
Marston admired, but shook its
head. Female Marston sniffed.
“Looks like she had money,”
said Jim Bagley hopefully. “She
sure Is pretty.”
"She’s too pretty,” said his
wife tartly. “Girls who look like
that and wear clothes like that
don’t go streakin’ off to ont-of-
the-way places unless there's
somethin’ queer back of It
The loungers around tho store
preserved a polite silence.
“And what's more," said the
ladY heatedly, “that suit she
wears is handsome, lost' hand
some, but when she took the coat
off, while she was waltia’ lor
Barry Dnane to come baek AMh
Duane sat with Asse in
. Hr- n
Beat — .
Blaring” unijght beat down,
and a' long plume of dust waved
and wavered In their wake. The
road ran on ahead of them, mile
after mile, with Nothing to Im
pede their view. There not
a house In sl?l>t, notUng mov
ing. In the'opulent flare of snn-
shlne distance took on strange
colors, taming to purple In the
folds' of those feudden hills.
“Yon are In the Junipero Val
ley now," Dnane told her. “You
must remember that, because it
Is your next-door neighbor. A
few thnsand years ago there was
a river here, but It has been dry
a long time. I suppose it looks
pretty ugly to you, but It has Its
points, and after tl^e rains It will
be streaked with purple and
gold.”
"Purple and gold.” She nar
rowed thoughtful eyes and star
ed at It, half dreaming.
"No, I don’t think It iq ngly.
It's fascinating. It’s empty and
brooding and rather terrible, but
It beckons you. It keeps promis
ing you sometbing, and yon
want to go on and on until you
find It."
The grey eyes warmed. They
almost blazed. She had a quick
feeling that somewhere _ behind
this pleasant, brown young man
there, was an eager little boy,
rather pathetically anxious to
have someone admire a thing he
loved, but with all a little boy’s
sensitiveness to rebuff. That was
curious, when in other ways he
seemed so completely poised and
assured, quite as much so as any
man she knew. She wondered
wbat had happened, to make hinf
feel like that.
(Continued next wsek)
ITnder and bv virt
power aod autkqritF
in that certeffr Mott:
executed by Mark
term allegedly wrote an indecent
■ f T - ^ -mtermmA Aaw «
note. id 9
lA remitting the fine and costs
agains^’'71oyd, A. Sasser, teacher
of l^e school at Canadian, Okla.,
Qotisrnor Hurray said:
“In the performance of his
.function as school teacher, Jto
tralii the PapH and to correct
had habits, the teacher was
obliged to pnnish with e switch.
It Ifl the only method by which to
teach an Incorrigible or semi-in-
corrigible being.”
RICHARD DIX MAKES
BRIDE OF SECRETARY
Jersey City, N. J., June 29-—
Five feet, three, with blue eyes
and chestnut brown hair, Virgin
ia Webster resigned today as sec
retary to Richard Dlx, the movie
star, to become his bride.
For “purely romantic reasons,”
said Dlx, they came here, where
Miss Webster’s parents were wed
25 years ago, and Interrupted
the lunch of Judge Edward J.
Makley to be married.
Six months ago the diminutive
Miss Webster was Just one of
600 girls who sought the job of
answering Dix’s fan mall, taking
his dictation, and attending to
general secretarial' duties.
Dix’s uncle ’ narrowed the list
to rix, and the actor himself In
terviewed these applicants, se
lecting Miss Webster on a basis
of ability and back-ground.
The bridegroom, who was
married under his real name, Er-
jiest C. Brlnmer, said the ro
mance had come about through
a “grand friendship."
Shy and reticent, Mrs. Dlx said
she 'Wants a home and -children.
She Is 24, a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Warren L. Webster, of Los
Angeles. Dlx Is 39, and was mar
ried once previously.
No Advances'Allowed
Secretary: "May I have next
week’s salary! I’m broke.”
Boss: "No, my wife made me
promise not to make any advanc
es to you.”
Ten* Lady Tdls How
Kadi-Drauglit Lax^ive
All Her Family
Ban’s bow Black-Draught ffito
the needs of a family laxative In
the borne of kba. J. 8. Stoker, Fort
Worth, Texas: “Tbo grown-ups
In my family," she writes, "have
always taken powdei^ Thedford's
Black-Draught for biliousness,
headaches ar.d other ailments (due
to constipation) and found It a re
liable remedy. I was Very pleased
when I saw Syrup of Black-
Ikaught advertls^ I bought tt
and gave It to my little daughter^
ages 8 and 4. Tbey needed some
thing to cleanse their systems a»v
Syrup of Black-Draught acted
well." ,.. Your druggist sells this
reliable laxative in both' forms,
''Children like the Syrup.”
NOTICE OP SALE
Nudist Pair Are Wedded
smile
Chicago.—^Dressed in a
and—the bride at least, a wed
ding ring—an Amarillo girl and
a Milwaukee bridegroom were
pronounced man. and wife today
in strictly nudist ceremony at
the world’s fair they call “A Cen
tury of Progress.”
The bride was Jean May, 23,
of Amarillo, Texas, and her hus
band, Charles Mueller, ?4, of
Milwaukee.
Of the wedding party ot nine,
only the minister deigned to
wear clothing. He was dressed
In a goat skin, and walked about
gingerly In bare feet, stubbing
his toe now and then.
The nudists had selected as a
‘oackground for their ceremony
the setting of dinosaurs, tricera-
tops, brontosaurus and other
denizens of the “world a million
years ago” at the world’s ?alr
Cameramen and reporters fur
nished the necessary^ blushes,
site.
wafching the bridal party atep
into a 'boat to glldh down a
“lost river,” disrobe behind -the
scenee and’ then reappear proper
ly dressed for the wedding.
U. S. PAYS DEPCMITS
OF CLOSED BANK
Washington—TV fedwal-gov
erpmeni on Monday wlU makS
dance around her, I Ipoked la- j^e depoelta of the tlftt
side of It te see where It como*?i„i, t»ii under Its deposit in-
JovglY=volfB. “I’:
a WO
Plying
fromf and the ^ ihad hesn
■^ripped off! That don’t look
any accident to me."
Fortnutedy for her pesiea of
mind, the girl who celled her
self Aduie (luahtu; had no sn-
splcion of the fgo, eager- eye
which bad foun^r that evtdenee
Ue^ity in her |
n fiftalntly
of a
1^0 ibfcd
bank to fall under Its deposit in-
smranee plan, when -!t h^aa.i&
psy off depositors of the'’WMi’-DU' -
Lae State Bank ofSI
HI., Leo T. Crowley,
of the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporatfpn, said today.
By virtue of the authority con
tained In a certain deed of trust
executed on- the 1st day ot De
cember, 1922, by (jomodore
Hutchens to Southern Tri’st
Company, Trustee, and recorded
in book 123, page 229, of the of
fice of the Register of Deeds for
Wilkes county, N. C., default
having’ been made In the condi
tions of said deed of trust, the
undersigned Trustee will, on the
23rd day of July, 1934, at l-2;00
o’clock noon, at the Court House
door of Wilkes county, N. C., of
fer for sale at public auction to
the highest bidder for cash, the
following described property:
All those certain lands con
taining 78 1-2 acres, more or
less, situated on the Congo Road,
about 6 miles; from the town of
Wllkesboro, In Reddies River
Township, Wilkes county, N. C.
and adjoining the lands ot Jef
ferson Parsons, W. B. Parsons,
James Bumgarner and others,
and beginning on a forked red
oak, now a stone and black gnni
pointers by the side of the pub
lic road, and runs with an
agreed line of marked trees as
follows: S. 41 degrees W. 3
poles, S. 32 degrees W. 5 1-2
poles, S. 35 degrees W. 5 poles;
S. 39 degrees W, 10 1-2 poles
in all 24 poles to a small black
oak, W. E. Parsons’ corner:
then with same agreed line as
follows: S. 33 degrees W. 11
poles, S. 26 degrees W. 8 poles;
S. 36 .degrees W. 8 poles, S. 85
degrees W. 18 poles, S. 47 de
grees W. 12 poles, in all 57 poles
to an apple tree, now down:
thence S. 41 degrees W. 10 poles
to a persimmon tree by the road;
thence S. 34 degrees W. 8 poles
to a pine stnmp; thence S. 43 1-2
degrees W. 24 1-2 poles to a
black gum on the top of the hill;
thence with an agreed line ot
marked trees as follows: S. 62
degrees W. 37 poles; S. 4.8 de
grees W. 31 poles, In all 68
poles to a stake In the center of
Brown’s Roadf thence with sale
road as It now runs, general
bearing as follows; N. .46 de
grees W. 21 poles, N. 28 degrees
W. 13 poles, N. 17 degrees W.
31 polos, N. 48 degrees W. 20
poles, N. 26 degrees W. 10 poles
in all 95 poles to a stone on th-
eashjodge of said road, corner of
the' church lot; thence with the
line of said church lot M, 61 dfr
grees E. 34 poles to a stone,
comer of said church lot; thence
S. 37 degrees E. 6 poles and 8
links to a stone; thence N. 68 1-2
degrees B. 26 3-4 poles to r
stone: thence N. 37 degrees W.
12 poles and 8 links to a stone;
thence N. i degrees B. 12 poles
to a stake in the mouth of . s
ditch In Baker’s Branch: thence
with the center of said ditch N.
21 degrees B. 'll poles; thenc'
N. 88 degrees B. 108 poles:
thence S. 66 1-2 degrees B 30
poles to the beginning- This be
ing part of the tract of land
veyvri to Coinodort-- HuteMna;,
W. A. BlriwP'»B* wtt*. *
Bishop. Jsy deed Ai
19«. an4-seaHnd.|B
of. De^ of
WIBkaa GWi^ ia Book PM!
51*;’ refe»M»'Aff-V8th dekd 4
signed on the 17th day ol-j
1930, and recorded in
later of Deeds OfDee t
Connty In Book 156, Fam-
and default having be«
In the payment of the Inds
ness therein secured, I wSl afT
the 23rd day of July, 1934, itt-
JlrOO a, m., at'the Courthouse
C„ otter ■
Door, Wllkes^ro,. K.
for sale, at pnbUc aocUaa.
the highest biddOt io.r cash,
the prfrpose of satiafyiAa.^' tr
.?aid Indebtedness); the to
described property, viz:
Beginning on a poplar in
comer line; then west to a guii
and maple in Garfield Plerson'i
line; then a South course to t
Black gum In said Pierson's
.then an east course to
Brown’s line;- -then north
the said Mark Brown’s line; .
the beginning. Crmtalnlng fou;!
(j; '’-ri’s, m-r?
This 20th day of 1934.
LOu LAWIII;Av/£, .
7-16-4t. Mortgagee. ’
L. M. Abernethy.
Granite Falls, N. C.
ton AM K.1ND OJ'
RADIATOR or WELDING
job seo the oI2 reliable
WiHiaiss 'Veldiag
& Radiator Shop
(JAS- F. WILLIAMS)
Now located one mile 'wpst of
North Wilkesboro on Boon
Trail Highway.
We also do all kinds of Body
and Feniicr Work arid General
Automobile Repairing.
DO NOT BE mSLEDl
PHONE 334-W
WXKEUPYOW i
And YouH Jump Out of Bed m
the Morning Rarin’ to Go
It you feet (oor and rank and the worid
look! punk, don't evallow n lot ot nlta, min-
erml water, oil, lazntiire cudy or cbewloz zum
end exp^ them to mtkt you raddeoly iweet
end biioyenVend luU of ranahine.
For they enn’t do it. They only moye the
bowdi and a mere movement doesn't (et at
the esuee. The rcaeon for your down-xnd-out
ledin; ie ^our liver. It tbouid pour out two
pounu of liquid bile into your Doweli daily.
If this bile le not Sowing freely, your food
doeen't digest. It just deesys in the buw^
Gas bloaU up your stomach. You hsve'a^
thick, bed teste end your brteth is foul,
■kin often breska out in blemishes. Your hmd
Sebea end you feel down end out. Your whole
■yitem is poisoned.
It tekes those food, old CAKTEH'S
LITTLE LIVEB FILLS to fot these two
pomide ol bile Sowing freely end make you
(Ml “up end up.” They eontein wonderful,
liirmlw gentle vafstaUs extreefx. emaxing
whan it comas to making the bile Sow freely.
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