Barry felt mored to a relactent
conrpassion. Q 6
He couldn’t stand It any lon«-
er. He «aa golng^own to Ttafl^'
Eniii
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UMIIfg
Fifteenth- Installment
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‘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.
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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
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