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Barry felt mored to a relactent conrpassion. Q 6 He couldn’t stand It any lon«- er. He «aa golng^own to Ttafl^' Eniii « UMIIfg Fifteenth- Installment A- ‘Paula, don't be frightened! ■ >, Don’t scream. It Is Xaney. I’re . ^ *ome to warn you. Jim is here. Paula, don’t you know me?” "No, no, Nancy’s dead! She’s under the water—I see her all the time—and It washes over her eyes. Oh, God!” She screamed again. The pounding horses were at the top of the slope, and Barry flung himself off and raced down, with Gage running heavily after him. A slim figure was backing away, turning, running, but Paula Gage was huddled in a terrified heap at the foot of a tree. Barry bent over her and jerk ed his head up again. Nancy was just disappearing. She had look ed at him, for one long, steady moment, and had turned her back on him. As though they were two hostile strangers. Knowledge crashed and clamor ed In his brain. He bent reluct antly over the huddled woman, but Gage was beside him now. “John, Nancy’s down there! She came out of the water! I can’t go—I’m afraid! I only ask ed her to go away! I didn’t mean her to die! And Jim—Jim—’’ Overstrained emotions crack ed. Paula fainted. "We’d better take her into the house,” said Barry constrained ly. He wanted to go after Nancy. Those incredible revelations were clamoring in his head; they were accusing him. Now he .saw Pe- try’s long legs ha-teuing toward them. “Petry, help Mrs. Gage up to the ’uouse. PU be back as soon as I can.” His nervous stride quickened to a run. Gage looked heavily after him. Barry ran along the edge of the lake, his eyes darting anx iously. Toward the back of the house he swerved and caught sight of a flitting figure. “Nancy, wait! Just for a min ute!” She paused in mid flight, look ed back Just once and went on again. The light figure vanished around the edge of an outbuild ing. Long before he reached It Barry heard the scurry of hoofs and saw a piebald streak flash across an open space. Nancy had gone. He took it standing, but his face whitened. Nancy had made it pretty plain that she didn’t want to see him. Just the set of her chin as she had flashed across that patch of light had been enough to tell him that. He set his Jaw and went back to the house. Back of him Jim Kennedy edged cautiously around toward the smaller corral, where two saddled horses, left to them selves, had wandered back to wait patiently. In the house Barry found that Paula had regained conscious ness. Petry had just and Gage was standing a away from her. ‘‘.She’s gone.’’ said Barry brief you or the beaich bungalow, Nancy.” “I—1 met him. I'd sent a tele gram to Nancy. I thought It would be better If she saw him— he always liked Nancy. But she didn’t get the telegram In time. -4nd I went down myself. I had some money for him. He’d said he’d tell you about the divorce —and I didn’t dare let him do that! John—It was because I loved you so.” “And who—who shot Ken nedy?” "I did.” It was a mere thread of sound. “I didn’t mean to. I was afraid of him, because he was so angry with me. I took the gun with me to frighten him. And—he Just laughed and tried to take It from me, and it went off.” A deep shudder ran over her. “He looked so queer, and Nancy came running down the beach and snatched the gun and told me to go back to the house. And I did. I didn’t know what was happening until Nancy came back an told me that you had found her there and that you thought she was—Jim’s wife. And I begged her to go away, so that you couldn’t question her and more, and it needn’t ever come out that either of us had seen Jim that night, and if it did it w'asn’t murder, it was self- defense. I made her take the edged out. bmught for Jim little X Bind. la "I.- Williams Auto & Radiator Shop Phone 334-J — N. Wilkesboro Route 60 Radiator Repairing, Body Re building, Motor Blocks Rebored, Extensions Welded in Truck Frames, General Repair Work a Specialty. T. H. WILLIAMS, Owner. in ca.se she went away—and she ran out. I heard the car start. . . . -■^nd the next morning . . . they told me that she’d driv en it over a cliff—down on the rocks—with the tide in.” Ga.gfc’s mouth was a thin line, but he drove his hands down In to his pockets and looked away from her. He turned u heavy stare on Bar-1 ”I-suppose I’d better tell you ry. "I’d like a few words with the rest, as far as I know it. I’d my wife in private.’’ ■ upstate on a business trip "I'm staying. We’ll :inish it i—drove myself—-and found that here. It's my business as well as I could get back late that night. Was U--really Narcy?” Pau- raised herself on one hand, she alive? I didn’t kill-her? . . . I mean —I—” She broke off I with a frightened whimper. | "We’ll finish this—presently.” 1 was all the reply he gave her. yours. Nancy is my wife—and I I heard something that sounded IF YOUR BREATH HAS. A SMELL YOU €ANT FEEL WELL yon can keep your spur and your | like n shot, down toward the damned money, but 1 want to. beach. I have a beach bungalow know what you've all been doing j there, hut the main house is to her.” i back, up on the hill. I knew the When w,e cat too much, our food decays In our bdwela. Our friends smell this decay coming out of our mouth and call it bad breath. We feel the poison of this decay all over our body. It makes us gloomy, grouchy and no good for anything. What makes the food decay in the bowels? Well, wnen we eat too much, our bila juice can't digest it. What is the bile juice? Jt is the most vital digestive juice in our body. Unless 2 pints of it are flowing from ' ~ 'our liver into our bowels every day, our movements get hard and constipated and or ■— food decays in onr 28 feet of ''w.‘!s. 'i h's decay sends poison all over '. . .iy c’.'e.y six minute*. Gage glared at him. “And what liave you been doing to her? The girl I saw out there is Mrs, Gage's sister, who is supposed to .nave lieen drowned five months ago, and if she is your wife wh\ isn't .she in your hou.se, instead of wandering around in the woods like a demented woman?” Barry whitened. ‘Tm begin ning to think that she has had enough to drive anybody insane. I’ve done my own share, and I'm ! p.vying tor it. But the jam that v.i.'re ill now i.s dne to some thing that happened before I met her—it's due to you, or one of you . . . A.id that damned Ken nedy—'’ He bit it off suddenlly, but Gage caught the name up. bungalow was closed, but I caught sight of Nancy’s roadster with nobody in it, so I thought I'd better investigate. I reached the bungalow Just in time to find Nancy leaning over some man on the ground, with a gun in her hand. I saw him try to lift himself and heard him give a nasty laugh and say! ‘Just a little present from my loving wife!’ and drop back again. “It looked pretty bad. I shot ’Kennedy! It always comes _ friends snull our bad breath j liack to this Kennedy.’’ He turn- ,t V C don't) and we feel like a whipped . ),nck tO Paula. . ...uv, don't use a mouthwash or taae a ■ . , , . ,, ,, laxative Get at the cause. Take Carters! "You d better tell US all 01 P‘‘-'«Liver_ Pills_which^g«^^^ (io flow''of“yow bile juice. But if '‘something t ,• t- j om better” is offered you. don t buy it, for|vr^N., J^now about JlIU Kenneny? “fie was my husband. I’d di- In many people. Ask for Carte-'s Untie vere j him a vear before I met Liver Pills by name and get v bat you _ ,, uk for—25. 01934. C.M.Co. • ' - a question or two at Nancy, but she Just stared at me and look ed down again at the man and said ye.s, he was her husband. Nobody else seemed to have heard the shot, so I told her that because she was Paula’s .sister I'd do what I could to hush it j A hovering ihadow ih the rear hall resolved Itself into Petry. He looked nervous—for Petry, ‘Thought you ought to know that somebody’s been aronnd here. There’s a ditched car a piece do'wn the road and one of the horses Is gone, the big roan Mr. Gage was rldln’. I know the car license. It belongs to a fella who’s been stayin’ at the hotel in Marston. Kind of . a daredevil lookin’ bird, dark complected.” Kennedy! Barry felt a little chin at the thought of Nancy, somewhere along the lonely road, and this man with his dark grudges roaming loose. There was a sound behind him. Gage come back. There was an envelope In his hand. He had started to open it, but he put It, back In his pocket. "What’s the matter?” "Kennedy’s around. He has Just gone off with one of the horses. Wrecked his car down the road. I’m starting for Trail’s End.” “I’m going with you.” At the end of the passage lead ing to the kitchen Martha ap peared. Her mouth was set prim ly, but her eyes had a snapping brightness. "Ling says there’s a kind of funny pounding going on in the garage. Who’s out there, Boone?” "My gosh!” Boone swallowed hastily. "I plumb forgot the la dy! Miss Cleo—she rode In with me.” "What the devil is she doing in the garage?” “Well you see, Barry, cornin’ back up the road I heard some body scream, and I Just shot the car straight into the garage and bolted out to see if I could do anything, and I plumb forgot everything else. I musta been so excited that I give the door a slam after me, and that bar drops awful easy. Gets klnda second nature to shut that door. Martha, you let the lady out, won’t you?” "I guess I’d better, Boone.” The car roared down to Trail’s Bud. There was no one there. Gage said little, but his deliber ate gaze roamed curiously around; this shabby little place where Paula's sister had come to hide. He read his letter, looked grim over it. ' -At the end of an hour Barry was nervously tramping the floor. They started back again, and met Petry on the way. “I’ve been scoutin’ a little. Somebody rode pretty reckless for a ways. I found this, but whoever lost it was headin’ the other way. North.” i It was a man’s felt hat and the j initials Inside were J. M. K. I Why had Kennedy been riding away from the one road which would take him back to town, unless he had been following Nancy? And why had Nancy gone that way, when Trail’s End lay in the opposite direction? “If we follow him,” Barry muttered, “we may find Nancy, or least pick up her trail.” They could do little until day- flol? ahirlver got Mm liow, with hit Ifg broken and her as sick as! she is, I don’t know. Boone, yon' straight ^r the doctor as fast *BS you can go.” jw Barry strode in through the open door, with Gage and Mar tha at his heels. In the living room, on the bnilt-in eoucb which he had made for Nancy, Jim Kennedy lay, his lips tight with pain. He looked from Bar ry to Gage, and a lip curled with a fair imitation of his reckless grin. "Regular family party, Isn’t It? Well, I’m down, ^ what are you going to do?” - “Yes, you’re down,” said Bar ry between his teeth, "and that's all that saves you from being thrashed clear off your feet. I’ll talk to you later.” , He went on, toward a partly open door. "Nancy!” At the sound, of voices outside a slim figure had stirred sudden ly, pushing away the Jilanket which Martha had tucked around her. She struggled up, her bare feet found the floor and she swayed on them, talking In a husky whisper. "Must get away; Hurry! I can't go back.” "Nancy, it’s all right now! Everything Is all right. It’s Bar ry, darling. Please." He caught her as she slipped down, but she fought him with surprising strength. “You’re not—Barry! Go away! Won’t go back.’’ A capable hand thrust him aside. “There, It's all right. Miss Anne. It’s U'ust Martha. Yon know Martha, don’t you? You get In bed now, and have a nice rest.” "Yes, know Martha.’’ Resist ance wilted, but she clung to Martha’s sleeve. "Make him—go away. He’ll tell Barry I’m here. Barry hates me. . . . Never go back. Never!” "You needn’t do anything you don’t want to. You just lie down. . . .” Martha coaxed and soothed. Barry drew back, white lipped, and the dark head , on the pillow tosL' d and muttered. "John! Mustn’t let John see me. . . . Paula screamed . . . everything’s—ruined. . . . Got to get home—get ihome—can’t let him—die.’’ (Continued next week) it^itice To Votere NorthlYilkesbcro, WHkesbtMro,: beny and Union ToiynsliiiH; * Whereas, the State Board . of J^tecttpiu of North Carolina on September 1st, 1934, ordered the County Board of Elections of .Wilkes county to divide North Wilkesboro ’Township, Mulberry Township and Wilkesboro Town ship into two precincts and to order new registration of all qualified legal voters in the above townships; and whereas the State Board of Elections further order ed that the registration books in all the other townships and pre cincts be transcribed into new hooks, _____ And whereas, the Board of Elections met dtrectioB County In the city hall on September 19, 1934, at the hour of 10 a. m., after giving notice In the local news papers that this meeting would be held for the purpose of noti fying all interested parties that the board would divide and make additional precincts In North Wilkesboro, Mulberry and Wil kesboro Townships, at which time various parties were present and discussed the division of these townships, and whereas, the Board of Elections of Wilkes county met at the city hall In the town of North Wilkesboro on September 20th, 1934, and upon motion duly made and carried, ordered the following townships to be divided Into precincts as follows: ing anTfiiternly Ashe and Alleghany comity to an Intersection of tb« eftalj llahed Une of Walnnt Oro Township; thence in a sont wardly direction with the Wa^ nut Grove Township line as established to the point of beg nlng in the road at the top the mountain known as the Yel low Banks. All on the no? side of the line to be MuUi Precinct No. 1; all on the Bdat| side of the line to be Mulberr Precinct No. 2'. It Is further ordered that thoj polling place for North WHS boro Precinct No. 1 shall >o In^J at or near the building kmfcj'' Tm.ji the Call Hotel BuildintT Street; that the polling place^ North Wilkesboro Precinct Nq 2 shall be in, at or near ti ^ building known as Blair’s Storii] on B Street. That the polling place for WlW kesboro Precinct No. 1 shall be in, at or near the gounty court* house building; that the polling place for Wilkesboro Precinct' No. 2 shall be in, at or near the school building known as the Straw Schoolhouse near Straw postoffice. be in, at or near p«Hx >ll’s store; that the pollfng place for NORTH WILKESBORO Beginning on the Mulberry road In Mulberry line, running south with Highway No. 18 to fork of road at A. A. Cashion’s filling station; thence with Eliza beth street to the Trogdon road and with the Trogdon road south j to where same crosses branch i and thence with the branch to D ! street; thence east with D street to intersection of Sixth street; thence south with Sixth street to Ice plant; thence a straight- line i south to Yadkin River. West of line to be North Wilkesboro No. 1, east of the line to be North |' Wilkesboro No. 2. | WILKESBORO , Bc.ginnir.g on .sout’n Yadkin River where Mulberry Precinct No. 2, shall be In, at or near Sulphur Springs schoolhouse. * near Felix Hall's store. ** It is further ordered that ail names on the registration books of the aforementioned townships shall be stricken off. except those who have registered under the absentee law or those legally en titled to remain upon the book.s as provided by law. and that all voters who are le.gally entitled to register and qualify (o vote in the coming November election and in primaries and elections here inafter held shall present them selves to the Registrar of the re spective precincts on the days provided by law for t!ie registqt ion of voters, at wbicii time a*' place, if found quaiiMed, t'-iey ! will be entitled to register ifn- side of j tier the order of the new Yegistra- Southern : tion which is herein called: that Power Company’s power crosses Yadkin River near line ! the County Board of Elections the ! wants it specifically understood Gertie: "Well, I found out where my hubby has been spend ing his evenings.” Myrtle; "Gosh, blonde or bru nette?” Gertie; "No, I simply stayed home last night and there he was.’’ i'rld.ge in east end of North Wil kesboro; thence with said line south to top of Bftishy Mountain to Brushy Mountain Township line; thence In easterly direction with Brushy .Mountain Township line to Lovelace Township line; thence in northeastwardly direc-athe days provided by law and are 666 vs. MALARIA 606 Liquid or Tablets Checks Malaria in Three Days. Sure Preventative. 9-13-8t NOTICE in up, and I didn’t want Paula any way mixed up in it.” John Gage’s strong face twitched. “She didn’t say much, poor kid, but she looked sort of light came. Barry fumed over lost lime and occupied some of it by having Petry Wrlve to Trail’s End again and leave Maltha there, while he took Cap* By virtue of a power of ator- ney and for te phiirpoae of dis tributing the proceeds among the signers of said power of attorney executed to the undersigned by de.sperato, and she stayed until I' tain and followed the short cut. KiSTiTil Ruskin 'Go on.’’ hp said curtly. “I was p'.vfiilly young when I married him. We were poor and lived, in a little town. He was there only a few days, and when ho went I'd married him. .And then I found out that he was had made sure the fellow was load and the’i she marched away 'vithoiit a word. “It looked like murder to me, and all I was interested in just then was in getting the evidence as far away as possible. I got him into the back of my car and drove like the devil, and left him on the outskirts of a town miles j;:st a gambler, and we began j away. I still thought he was i traveling all over the country ■ dead. Anyway, when I got back have been smoklnglOc cigars now enjoy a John Raskin, because the Havw ana tobacco used is the choicest grown. Also 'an extrtmth Mild Panetela tkaP0ftymmt m*m. AH Havana Filled John RntHn hsnA icJtfm«H«i foe J aS'HT Coroii Cigar Co., I Point, ? . C . nistriUnfor and—I left him and got the di vorce. I never saw him again un til last May. .And then I got a let ter from him, from Tia Juana. Ke said the divorce wasn’t legal —and I was so frightened, be cause that meant that I wasn’t really married to you. But it wasn’t true at all—I found it out later.” Gage’s Jaw muscles ridged vis ibly at the mention of illegal di vorce, biil he went on implacab ly. “Which one of you met him at home Nar.cy wa.s gone and the papers were full of the accident. They .said it was the fog. I al ways thought it was suicide.” He paused and added gruffly: “She’d done some good bits on the stage. Working herself up. .And she’s just landed a contract out in Hollywood, a pretty good one for a newcomer. She was to sign the next day. Chucked It all up.” There was a shuddering sound from the couch. Paula looked drearily up and dropped again. There was no sign of Nancy. Barr.v went back to wait for daylight. It was still dark when Ling put breakfast before them. Pe- Mrs. Ella Ogilvie and others, tte undersigned will, on October 20, 1934. at 2:30 o’clock p. m., at the garage of J. T. Finley, deceased, Absher’s storejN^enim on the north side of C street, in North Wilkesboro, N. C., in close proximity to the new post office building, sell to the highest bid der upon the following terms: One-fourth cash, one-fourth in i three months, one-fourth in six branch, south of the home months, and the remainder In try, who had already eaten, came nine months, subject to the con- on a bait out of the darkness run. “The roan’s back. Klnda limps.” "That means that Kennedy Is o'h foot and probably lost.” Bar ry moved impatient shoulders. “It’s Nancy that I’m worried about. I’m going to take one more run down to Trail’s End.” Barry slid Into the driver’s seat. The. greying darkness reeled past them. They drew up at Trail’s End. Martha came run ning out, her placid control shaken. “Martha, Is she here?” Martha nodded Jerkily. “She’s here, and she’s sick. She’s out of her head. She came in an hour ago, staggerin’ along besides firmation of the undersigned, the said garage and lot upon which it stands, being lots 17 and 19, In Block 44, map of North Wilkes boro, having a frontage on C street of 50 feet and running back 140 feet to an alley, con- I tainlng 7,000 square feet, sub ject to a party wall agreement with Isaac H. McNeill contained In deed to him recorded In of fice of register of deeds of Wilkes county, in Book 147, page 501. For full and complete . dc ;rlp- tion of the lands herein to be sold, see deed from Winston Land & Improvement to J. T. Finley, recorded in office of reg ister of dedes of Wilkes county in Book 18, page 266. This 20th day of Sept. 1934. J. R. FINLTY, 1-16-41 By Power of Attorney. ’.ion to Antioch Township line; thence in a northwardly direction with Antioch Township line to the Yadkin River; thence up and with the Yadkin River to the be ginning. East of the Southern Bower Company’s line to he Wil kesboro Precinct No. 2; west of the Southern Power Company’s line to be Wilkesboro Precinct No. 1. Ml’LBEBRY Beginning in the Walnut Grove Township line at the Yellow Banks In the public road, and running with the public road in a southwardly direction, by the way of the home of Uriah Myers to the intersection of the Hay Meadow road near the home of L. B. Myers; thence running in a westwardly direction with the Hay Meadow road passing the home of Ben Hayes to M. F. through the farm of M. F. Absher in a westwardly direction, running south of the home of M..F. Ab sher and old Franklin Absher home to Mulberry Creek; thence up said creek to the mouth of a of Eugene Sebastian; thence in a westernly direction with said branch, passing the spring of Dock Kilby to the source of said branch; thence in a westernly direction to the top of the moun tain; thence with the top of the mountain to the northern boun dary line of the lands known as Floyd Absher and Billie Brown lands; thence with the northern- ly boundary lines of said lands of Floyd Absher and Billie Brown to the old Mountain road that runs from Mulberry to the Union Township line; thence in a north- westernly direction with said old thence in a northernly direction with the Union Township line, as has divided the township of Union and Mulberry Townships to the top of the mountain at the Ashe county Une; thence follow- that all voters who have hereto fore registered in North Wilkes boro, Wilke.sboro .'ind Mirlbvrry Townships will not be entitled to vote in the coming Xovenmer election unless they nresont themselves to the Registrar on found qualified to register, except those who are legally entitled to remain upon the books as pro vided by law It is further ord»rod that a new registration be had in Union_*»^- township. Wilkes County, ; i'"' all names on the rcgistrn:i_^ ^ books of said tbwnship shall be stricken off, except those l^ally entitled to remain upon said books, as provided by law. and all voters desiring to register in said township shall present them selves to the Registrar on days provided by law for the regi.s- tration of voters; that this order is made tor the reason that there are a large number of voters in Union Township and that part of Union was at one time a part of Ashe county and the bonks have never been properly revised. It is further ordered that in all . precincts and townships other than those four specifically nam ed above that the names in the registration boohs of said town ships and precincts be transcrib ed into new books. It is further ordered that a copy of this order be posted in three public places in Wilkes county, and at the courthouse door In 'Wilkesboro, N. C.. and _ advertised in a local newspapet^"”?* It Is further ordered that aW registration books shall be open in all townships and precincts in Wilkes co.unty on the day. time and place as provided by law for the registration of voters, and that the first day for the registration of voters shall be October 13, 1934. Done by order of the Board of County Elections, this the 20th day of September. 1934. R. M. BRAME, JR., Chairman Wilkes County Board of Elections. Attest: J. C. GRAYSON, Secretary Wilkes County of Elections. MR. BROAD OF WALL STREET By Charles McManus .there is MR Divvyl THE MiLLlONAlRE - I I V.'ISH I COULD GETj ^ IN WITH HIM crzjc^ fO^EAT HEAN/EHS' H/S ScfJ HAS FALLEN IKl THE RivJER I’LL Sane HIM them I’LL get >ki Good an/d j—
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