TEN
CHAPTER II?Hi* father*! death
brings Will back to the Valley, bul
he returns to Augusta, still unconsclous
of Jenny's womanhood, and
love. Neighbors of the Pierces ar<
Bart and Amy Carey, brother and
sister. Bart, unmarried and something
of a ne'er-do-well. Is attracted
by Jenny, but the girl repulses hln
definitely. learning that will is coming
home. Jenny, exulting, sets hit
long-empty house "to rights." and
has dinner ready for him. He comet
?bringing his wife. Huldy. Th?
girl's world collapses.
And when supper was on th<
table Jenny bade them both gooc
night, in strong steady tones, ant
took herself away. Out through th<
barn, down the orchard slope, dowr
the steep trail to the stream.
She went blundering through the
dark woods, her eyes hot and dry
with tears that would not flow,
CHAPTER lit
WHEN Jenny, struggling througi
the deep woods, her eyes bum
ing for the anodyne of tears,
emerged at last into the open
meadow land and saw the dim bulk
of the barn ahead, she ran stum'
bllngly. In haste to come home to
Marm Pierce and the old woman's
understanding arms. She rounded
the barn and saw a light In the
kitchen; but she saw too a team
here In the yard, and so was warned
that her grandmother was not alone,
and had time to steady herself before
she came to the kitchen door,
Bart was here. He had been in
Liberty village when Will drove
through, had hailed Will and heard
an answering call; but Will did not
halt, so Bart had not seen Huldy.
Yet he had seen, dimly, the form
of a woman in the seat beside Will;
and before Jenny arrived now, he
had told this much to old Marm
Pierce, sitting by the stove before
the open oven door.
"Brought some one to keep house
for him, like as not," was the opinion
he hazarded; but Marm Pierce
knew misgivings, even before Jenny
appeared. Jenny came in composedly
enough, but her countenance
was a haggard mask, eloquent
of torment and of pain; and
Marm Pierce rose quickly and came
between the girl and Bart, to shield
Jenny from his eyes.
"He come finally, did he, Jen?"
she asked. "Yo're late enough."
"He only Just got there," Jenny
explained. "I stayed to put the supper
on."
Marm Pierce nodded, and she told
Jenny: "Bart see Will go through
the village. He says as how there
was a woman with him In the car."
Jenny said in husky tones, "Yes
Granny. It's his wife. Will's got
married."
Her voice was terribly steady, as
ngiu us sicci. .uuiuj riwtc vrus
shocked motionless; and even Bart
could in this moment read Jenny's
secret in her eyes. Before the old
woman could move, he stood up and
came toward the girl.
"Why, Jen," he said warmly, "I
guessed you liked Will pretty well
yore own self, didn't you?" He
chuckled, yet not in a fashion to
cause her any pain. "I always had
a notion you did," he confessed. "I
knew with him around there wa'n't
a chance for me, but when he went
away, I kind of tnought . ,
And he urged: "Don't you grieve
for Will, Jen! There's men enough,
not as fine as him maybe, but . .
Marm Pierce said harshly: "Bart,
you shut your mouth. Let the child
alone!"
"They're over there, the both of
them, drunk on Bart's cider," Amy
explained. "And making such a
noise and tother you can't sleep In
the honse. I thought maybe you
could give me a bed here. I'll go
back in the morning and cook up
some breakfast for them."
Marm Pierce made her welcome,
and Amy slept on the couch In the
dining room. "But if you had any
gizzard in you," the old woman told
her briskly, "you'd roll the both of
them out of doors to sleep it off."
Amy smiled wistfully. "Bart's all
right, the most of the time," she
said. "Only thing Is, I keep out of
his way when he's drunk a lot of
cider. He gits to be noisy." And
she said with a glance at Jenny:
"Win Haven was saying that Jenny
here has got to be a grown woman
all of a sudden. You have, too, Jenny.
I hain't seen you for a spell."
"Why shouldn't she?' Marm
Pierce demanded. "She's nigh on to
twenty. Time she was growing up,
if she's ever going to."
Bnt the change in Jenny was In
fact much more than a matter of
years; for this is a part of the alchemy
which first love may work in
a woman child. She had come to
wear a rich bloom apparent to the
dullest eye. Marm Pierce, watching
the girl sometimes when Jenny
( I did not know, thought that If Will
t ! were here, even he must see the
[ | beauty In her now. Some time
> | later, when Bart Carey came over
! I one day on a manufactured errand,
I < the old woman was uneasy. She
[ ! had known this young man since he
i was a boy, and she was not in the
j I least persuaded of his virtues. The
I fact that, instead of farming with
j the diligence that was hereabouts
j J the rule, he derived the major por[
I tion of his income from taking flshII
ermen as boarders, prejudiced her
, i against him. Thrift and Industry
j J were to her mind cardinal virtues;
the neglect of them was a taint on
(1 any man.
J Yet Bart could not be blamed for
i his courses. His father before him
| had been shrewd enough to perceive
the possibilities of profit in
the big trout in Carey's brook; he
! had even at one time run a small
1 advertisement in one of the sport"
| lng journals, and neglected his
I farm to attend the customers who
1 j came to fish. Bart had always been
' a fisherman. His younger brother
"| Wilfred preferred farming; and he
1 had tilled and toiled, made a gar'
den, cut the hay, picked the apples.
1 When the elder Carey died, he left
1 j the farm to Wilfred, the house to
1. Bart and Amy.
' "That way, Wilfred can run the
1 farm, do what he wants, and Bart
' | can fish if he's a mind," he said,
when he wrote the will.
' | But lives have a way of shaping
their own destinies. Wilfred moved
!1 to Liberty, and married, and found
' 1 a farm of his own; and Bart?
with his sister to keep house for
him?stayed on here, and did only
enough farming for his personal
needs.
He and old Win Haven had always
found a certain ribald bond
i between them. Bart, though he was
1! three or four years older than Will
i Ferrln, had never married; Marm
'! Pierce felt critically that he was not
likely to. She thought him a roisterer,
but she was careful to say nothing
against him to Jenny, with a
wise understanding that barriers
are in the eyes of youth a challenge,
' and that the forbidden object becomes
infinitely more desirable
from the very fact that It is forbidden.
Yet she was ready if the
need arose to lend a hand.
The need did not arise. Jenny,
In her wanderings afield alone,
more than once encountered Bart.
These encounters seemed to her ac11
cldent; but Marm Pierce thought
I otherwise. Bart, the old woman
guessed, preferred to see Jenny
1 without subjecting -himself to her
grandmother's watchful vigilance.
It was true that he came sometimes
to sit in the kitchen, his hat
between his knees, and talk with
them both together; true that when
he fetched dry groceries from the
store in Liberty he might stop for
a while in the dining room where
the warm lamp burned. But he seldom
came openly and frankly to
see Jenny. Rather he met her casu1
ally by the brook, or on the road,
or in the woods.
There was in the lower reaches
of the brook just above the bog a
long pool with a sandy bottom and
deep water at the head; and Jenny,
' on a hot summer day, used some'I
times to go there to bathe. She
;i could not swim; but she liked to
j gather her skirts about her thighs
and wade in the cool clear water,
or even sometimes remove all her
! clothes except a white shift and immerse
herself completely in the refreshing
flood. The place was remote
and solitary, and none but the
most ardent fishermen ever went
so far; so she was not likely to
be surprised there.
But one day when she was wading
into the foot of the pool, the
sand soft between her toes, her
| skirts high, she saw or felt or
heard a movement on the bank
; above her and looked up and discovered
Bart standing smiling there.
She dropped her skirts into the
water, heedless of the fact that
thus they were wetted along the
I hem, and faced him steadily; and
he called, raising his voice to be
heard above the song of the small
ripple at the head of the pool:
"Water's cold, ain't it?"
She shook her head. "Feels good,
a hot day," she said. She was not
confused or embarrassed, not even
resentful. He had a right to be
' there if he chose.
He slapped a mosquito on his
cheek. "Give you the rheumatism."
he predicted. "Me, I wear rubber
boots when I go to wade. You better
come out of there."
Jenny asked: "Fishing?" Then
! realized that he had no rod.
"Just looking over the brook," he
explained. "Couple of men coming
to fish tomorrow, and I wanted to
I see where the trout was lying. Wa
llKe unit, ruumug wuu iu luc wuuua
around, I'd ..." And he told, with
a senile and fatuous unction, what
he would do.
Jenny went home, but she said
nothing about Bart. It was weeks
later before Marm Pierce remarked
one evening: "Wonder why Bart
don't ever stop In, the way he used
to? What's got Into him, Jenny?"
Jenny told her, then, about that
encounter by the brook; and the
Md woman chuckled with apprecl-,
ation and contentment, snre that
Bart need worry her no more.
That was an open winter in the
Valley, with little snow, and deep j
frost; and the mud in the spring j
was worse than usual. It was midMay
before a plow could be put in
the ground, June before the clods
could be broken. But in the last
week of May Jenny heard that Will
Ferrta was^ coming home. __ !
THE STATE PORT Pll
ter's kind or low.15
"Guess I've scared them. If there
was any in here," she said.
He grinned. "Sho," he said flatteringly,
"no trout wouldn't ever be
She Saw or Felt or Heard a Movement
on the Bank Above Her.
afraid of you. Wonder to me they
ain't nibbling at yore toes."
She looked down at her bare feet,
and realized that she was standing
here with her wet skirt drabbled
about her knees. So she came
ashore, and wrung out the hem of
her skirt, and sat down with her
back to him to pull on her stockings
and shoes. He stood behind
her, coming no nearer, speaking of
i casual things, till she rose to face
! him again.
He asked then: "In a hurry, are |
1 you?"
j "Granny'll be wondering where ]
I've went to."
"Set and talk," he urged. "I
| want to talk to you, Jenny."
"Walk along with me, then," she !
' ?an-4 rMAVAH l?AOnllltnll7 An
| prupuacu, auu mvitu *vovju?,?j vu \
I her way.
But as she passed him, he caught !
1 her arm. Deep silent wood lay all j
i about them, and the shadows were
j cooL "You don't ever give me a j
j chance to talk to you, Jenny," he i
f protested.
"What about, Bart?" she asked j
! gravely.
He laughed. "Sho, there's aplenty
of things for a fellow and a j
girl to talk about, Jenny. High [
time you got on to that."
She stood, her head a little I
bowed, thinking of Will. "I do
know that, Bart," she said. "But?
j not you and me."
"What's the matter with me?" he
asked, half angrily.
"Why, yo're all right," she said
honestly. "You've been mighty good
| to Granny and me, fetching things
from the village, and helping with
the hay, and the farming, and all.
But?not the sort of thing you
mean, Bart."
"How do you know?" he chalI
lenged, curiously abashed by her j
| calm serenity. "You can't telL You !
might git to . .
She shook her head. "Not you,
Bart," she said simply. His clasp ;
J on her arm relaxed, and she moved i
quietly away from him. There was j
: in the move nothing in the least J
I dramatic; and yet Bart perceived |
| that there was in It nevertheless i
1 finality. He stared after her,
j baffled, rebuffed; he did not follow,
stood where she had left him.
And when she was gone he said
only:
"Well, I'll be . .
He did not say what he would j
be; but later, on his way up the]
brook to his home, he grinned at j
his own discomfiture.
Win Haven was at the farm when |
*-V? Ann ntid Dirt rtAnfftOOA/1 !
| IIC gUl HICiC| UUU UliU tUUlCOOUl I
the Incident. The older man de-1
manded Impatiently: "Shucks, I
why'n't you just grab on to her?
: Any woman, she has to be rushed, j
Bart. Took off her feet before she
knows what's going on."
Bart shook his head. "Jenny
knowed well enough what I wanted,"
he said In amused discomfiture.
"Knowed before I did. Yes, sir, j
she was way out In front of me. j
I couldn't see nothing but her
heels." And he urged: "You step
In and have a glass of cider. How
come you're around here again, anyway?
I thought you'd gone."
"Got me a Job in Liberty," Win J
explained. "But I can handle a
glass of cider. Sure." He added
boastfully: "Just the same. If I
was a young one, and a ripe gal j
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LOT, SOUTHPORT, NORTH
1 7~
Jenny, though she had said nothing
to the older woman, had been
expecting word of him; he had told
j her, on that day of his father's funj
eral, that he would return this year,
j It did not occur to her that Will
might change his mind, that he
might do less than he had planned.
Through the long month of May she
slipped away at brief intervals, and
threaded the wood toward the
brook?her feet had begun to mark
there a permanent trail ? and
climbed to the Ferrin farm to see
whether he had come. Day by day
the house stood shuttered and
empty, and she returned to the
long weariness of waiting. Yet
the ripeness of spring made longing
fill her heart, and one day she
came home to Marm Pierce with
shining eyes.
The old woman had long since
guessed where Jenny went on these
excursions; she saw the girl's face
now, and chuckled, and asked
shrewdly:
"Will home, is he?"
Jenny looked startled; then the
deep color flooded her cheeks. "No,
Granny," she said. "But Pat Prentice
was plowing the lower field,
and he told me Will had wrote and
i hired him to do it Said Will
| 'lowed to get here Monday."
Marm Pierce sniffed scornfully.
"Guess Will's worked for day
i wages so long he thinks money's
I easy come by. Hiring work done
that he might full as well do his
I own self. Guess he could've come
j this week If he had a mind."
Jenny laughed at her. There was
a bubbling happiness in the girl
that would not be downed. "Yo're
J just talking to make me argue about
it, but I won't," she said; and she j
cried: "I don't care if he never |
does a lick of work, long's he does I
come home, Granny." And sud- I
denly there were deep tears in her I
eyes and her voice was husky. She |
fV*A /?M ti'Anin n "T nront I
tuiug iv uic v/ivi nvuiaui * nuui, :
to see him," she whispered. "I j
want to awful," she cried. "Seems i
like he's been gone so long."
XIarm Pierce felt quick misgiving j
in her. "Dunno why you should be j
so worked up about it," sh? pro- i
tested. "Like as not he won't only
stay long enough to do his farming I
and get out again."
"He will. He will stay," Jenny I
Insisted happily. "You wait and
see."
And during the intervening days,
Jenny rode on a flood of anticipation.
Will was to arrive on Monday.
Jenny took broom and mop
and dust cloth and departed to I
make Will's house ready for him.
Marm Pierce made some mild remonstrance.
"No need of that," she protested.
"Like as not he's already hired it
done." Her tone was mild with
scorn.
"A man wouldn't think of that,"
Jenny urged. "He'll come home expecting
to roll up in blankets the
first night; and the blankets, they'll j
be damp, give him a cold. I'm going [
over and clean up, and air every- j
thing, and get flres going in the |
stoves and have everything ready
for him . . ."
"House is locked up," Mirm
Pierce insisted. "You can't get in!" j
Jenny cried joyously: "Yes I can! I
The lock's broken on the window
in the side room. I've climbed in
through that before now."
"Like as not he'll put you In Jail
for housebreaking," the old woman
predicted, yet she let Jenny go.
It was dusk before the girl came
home, tired and happy. "It's done,
Granny," she said. "Every room
swept, and everything dusted, and
the kitchen floor scrubbed, and the
bed made. I found the window curtains
put away in the bureau.
They're kind of creased, but I'm
going to press them out tomorrow."
"You've got smut on your face,"
Marm Pierce retorted.
Jenny laughed softly. "I cleaned
out the stove," she said. "It was
terrible full of soot, so's you
couldn't make it draw. And I aired
the sheets and blankets in the sun,
and had flres going all day?there's
plenty wood lu the shed?and tomorrow
I'm going to take over some
milk and eggs and biscuits and
doughnuts and butter and every- (
thing, and have supper ready for ^
him."
The older woman was tenderly
amused. "How do you know he
won't get here for noonday dinner?"
"I'll have dinner ready, too, in ]
case," Jenny decided. "I'll take a
fowl, and make a stew and some
dumplings. He'll like coming home j
to a house that's all ready for him,
Granny ..." ,
"Waat I should come over and i
help you?" the old woman offered; j
and Jenny hesitated, uncomfortable,
ill at ease.
"If s a long walk for you, Granny."
Marm Pierce chuckled. "Go along 1
with you, then. Like as not you'll i
stay and clean up after supper, 1
too!"
And Jenny nodded wisely, happily;
there was an audacious triumph
in her. Suddenly she hugged
the old woman close.
"I might," she said. "I might
as though a henry foot had stepped
upon the light mesh.
Will turned back into the room.
Be passed Huldy silently; but she
caught his arm.
"Where you going?"
"After him," said Will, In thick
tones strange to his own ears.
"Why?" she challenged.
He shook loose, freed himself
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from her, moved toward the kitchen.
She said, behind him, in a rls- j
Ing, defensive fury:
'Ton work all day and sleep all i
night. What do you look for me to I <
do?" ;
He swung to face her, and t^ere; J
was death In his eyes. "I'll be back
to 'tend to you," he said; and with I J
no further word burst through the
kitchen and away. ,
She came, with one of her rare <
quick movements, after him as far ,
as the kitchen door; she called <
mockingly:
"Go on, then! But time yo're done <
with Seth, there's a-plenty more 1"
Will, If he heard, made no sign; <
he went plunging through the barn (
and down through the orchard. Huldy
stayed In the kitchen door, and J
the sun struck her pleasantly, and
she smiled, standing there alone. If *
she had riny regret, It was only that <
she would not be at hand to see ?
Will and Seth when they came to- <
gether. (
But Seth Humphreys, when he <
slipped away from the house, was J
more disturbed by the situation. He
had a lively respect for Will's phy- I
slcal powers; and he leaped into i
the truck and let It coast silently I
down the hill. Also, he stopped at j
Bart Carey's farm, beyond the
bridge, and there tried to make his 1
tone and his demeanor usual, and I
stayed a while, talking of the flsh- r
lng, or of the weather. But while
he talked, he looked back along the
road, expecting to see Will approaching;
he stayed here In order 1
to have Bart at his back If Will i
should come. f
But Will had spent no energy In
vain direct pursuit. He had cut 11
straight for the steam mill down |i
the Valley, to wait for Seth there; j
and Humphreys after a while
guessed this. He said to Bart, him- *
self reluctantly preparing to depart:
"Bart, you got a gun In the j
house? There's a wild bull in the I
woods down where we're working, 1
been bothering the men. I'm a mind f
to shoot him." 1
Bart said: "I've got an old re- *
volver that throws a heavy slug, If r
you can hold It straight. You get
near enough and you could kill an 1
elephant with it." }C
"Let me have that," Seth pro- j
posed. "This bull, he comes right G
up around the mill. I can get near ^
enough to him without no trouble G
at all."
c
So Bart produced the revolver, an c
ancient model, In a heavy holster j g
stained by years of use. "Got quite ^
a history, that gun has," he said c
proudly. "Fellow out in Denver |
found a dead man in a gulch in
the mountains one day, with this *
gun on him and a bullet through j
his head. He sent the gun to me.
Trigger's mighty light. Single ac-' j.
tion. You have to cock it."
Seth hefted the weapon, sighted F
it, made sure it was loaded. "Much F
obliged," he said. "I'll fetch it back
to you." I;
And he got into the truck, and j
laid the pistol on the seat beside I
him, and went on his way. j
The man was afraid! He was as I
big as Will Ferrin; not quite so tall, j
but heavier. Nevertheless, just as a
dog lights best in its own yard, so 11
does a man in the wrong fight poorly.
Seth wanted no fight with Will 1
Ferrin; and his very fears gave I
htm a false courage, a pseudo-feroc- 1
ity. He gritted his teeth and shook ii
his head and vowed that Will had r
better not try to lay a hand on him.
He drove down the Valley road 1
and turned into the rough wood i,
track that led to the clearing where J
the steam mill was set beside a
spring brook that furnished water jJ
for the boilers. The mill was work- j
ing, the mill crew gathered In the
shed.
But Seth did not see Will any- J
where about, and knew a deep re- j
lief. There was at one side a shed E
of rough boards, roofed with tar pa- j
per, with a dirt floor, In which the J
truck was customarily stored against j
the weather. Its doors were swung j
wide, and Seth turned the truck Into J
this shed. j
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home 13.25 j,
3abson, S. K? 17 acres New
TJ
Home 11.49 *
Babson, Mrs. S. K. 2 acres j<
Formy Duval 1.55
3abson, W. A., 4% acres home.
500 acres Horespen, lL acre ?
Babson. 18 acres W. M. Smith 16.37 "
Babson, W. R? 2 acres home .. 9.06
Babson, \V. W? 2 acres M. F. J
Babson 8.36 f
Baines, G. W., 1 acre woods, L
1 acre R. Babson woods 4.56 T
Bear, Mrs. H. C. 210 acres wds. 11.69 L
Bellamy, Mrs. Ethlind, 41 acres T
home. Bear land 14.85 L
Bennett, Mrs. G. A., 100 acres r
home 11.31 L
3ennett, G. F., 30 acres home- 11.45 .
Bennett, H. C? 52 acres Bay ~
and woods 9.13 ^
Bennett, J. Marion, 14 acres ^
home. 22 acres S. J. Bennett 16.25 T
3ennett, N. B., est. 30 acres L
home, 30 acres bay 22.72
3ennett. S. \V., 12 acres Bell L
Swamp 5.05
Benton, Dolly, 50 acres woods.. 4.90 L
3est. Mrs. Kate 15 acres woods 2.56
3rady, B. L. & Bros., 20 acres Jwoods
? 2.87 L
3rady. B. Leroy, 91 acres home,
100 acres woods 19.30
3rady, E. P., 75 acres woods.. 8.02 J3rady,
H. G? 91 acres home.. 21.70 L
3rady, P. E., 75 acres woods- 13.26
Brady, Mrs. R. A. 20 acres
woods 2.25 L
3rock, Mrs. Joe, 16 acres
woods ? 2.49 L
3rooks, J. W., 50 acres Horespen
Bay, 1 acre G. W. B. L
and Store site, 213-16 acres
Chas. Babson, 520 acres W.
A Long 58.96 L
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Duller. J- 0. ,Jl
cSSS"*? rawJ4".
Carlisle, Mre- Aoa, ; acres
4 acres Old 5 ',2 [ j
3 J" ''13 ' acres 'hom'e '.. 7.34 i
Carlisle. Dan 13 ** home.. 7.30!
Carlisle. D. V" 15 a0res home.. 6.4.1
Carlisle. J. l.. w est. 12 acres
Carlisle. John w. <= 6.30
home ?gi acres home.. 186S ! i
Carlisle. M. t-. Reedy Bran- .
Clayton. J- -RMifAfd Bay .... 43?9 |
ch,. 156 a-cjres a(.reg home .. 1.4 h .
Clewis, Butler, home .... 5.51
3$ MrsBB.B.) acres home. I
"15-8 acres V?a?re's""home ? 4 64 1 [
2MJ* D. 334 acres home.... 8.00
Cliff. Mrs- "Winnie, 2? acres 4.78 11
"W. M. SJ?'' r" X, 33 acres 1
Coleman. Mrs. a. acres
woods, A. p- e Ljttlefield .. 7.77 Atkins,
2% acre home, .
Coleman. A. D.. 6 acre^ H,89 3
22 6-10 acres ol acrea
Coleman. Mrs. A. ? 4 96 }
home ?vT'"r 22* acres home.. I6.44
? tB% cSSan"^ 7.65 3
-res? J- ,
Coleman estate rM A. P. .
Coleman, K. a., Coleman s
Coleman. 47 acres ^ 1612
ind Coleman - 2j" acre9 3
Coleman, Mrs. s>- u-__" 2.44
woods n??" acres home 3.03 3
Coleman, V. G..^ ___ 18.01
^ox, J- **; p 45 acres home.. 14.97
SSS Mrs%ana. 13 acres J
^n?Vacrilve?UCl 34.81
res home. 85 acres swamp 2.08 3
Sdwards. Miss C. L., 40 acres 2 g?
Cd^ar^B^Mate. W5 acres ^ ?
13,8 3
Cdwards, J. F.. ? acres home. 1Q J
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'facres k- Edwards. 17ac- |
Ces Alligator. 60 acres Ward.
3vans, A. a.. esl" .... 10.86' 3
w?? iETcTjC 23" acres
jS D:"A.."w'"acres woods. I?
,vansaCrMrsh0ae ?ET& acres *
home 20 acres woods ----- 7-75 I P
-vans,' Mrs. Emma, 50 acres <12 p
woods ... -- acres "home, 1 r,
Ivans, E. E., 50 acres 13 94 p
9 4-10 acres ^"^/es woo'ds.. 4.81
Ivan!! J W" 17 7-10 acres home ^ ^
-?LsaCl!onnr 2 acres" home:::'. 11.50
Ivans'. TT 18 acres home. *
2 acres wooas ..
Ivans. S. R "ml -- 30.101
50 acres old homeg 86 P
'ormy Duval.' Mrs. Blantie. 22 I*
S?uvaei."6'.""P.r58 acres
*r?my Duval,"p.-d:;' 8 acres |R
'ormy6 Duval, T. P."."75 acres g gg 1 p
oreerBOVG.. 62 acres home. 100 p
acres Skipper. 17 acres P.erce. p
1 acre S. House p
.ore Charlie 25 acres home MM B
''horned acres Mrs E. R B. 9.33 R
lore, Hattle and Louise, 25 a.c- ^ gg p
lore X??R. 14 acres woods .. 4-34
lore', W. P.. estate. 10 acres ^ Rl> s
;o?e!eTouth.""47 acrerhome"X 14.10 |
Iray, J. B.. 60 acres home. 4
acres C. Sorsen, 7 acres Best 35.91
[rice. P. G.. 4 acres home. 6 r =>
,0^.^ L.~X "ii Xcres ' Si
Horsepen. 2114 acres home. 5.00 g|
lewett. Mrs. L. H.. 18 acres 2 40
28 70 a
'ST 15^a^cres^Brooks w?ods 13.48 ?
\Zhutl I. PM..6035aacTeshhomer. "if! 31
[ughes, L. H. 11 acres M.
Coleman, 5 acres B. C. Cole- Si
man, 7 acres home ? 15.92
nman, Austin 15 acres home, Si
bal ? ? 6.69
nman, D. L? 36 acres home .. 16.25 Si
nman, H. B., 7% acres J. A.
I. home 16.18
nman, John A., 15 acres home 8.47 Si
nman, Mrs. J. A., 11 acres. Rabbit
Field _ ? 3.65 Si
nman, Jarvis B., 4 acres
woods 4.63 Si
nman, Jesse L., 12 acres farm, Si
17 acres woods, 13% acres
J. R. estate 14.26 Si
nman, J. O. estate, 262 acres
home 27.58 Si
nman, L. J., 10 acres home 11.41 Si
nman, L. N. 6 acres, J. I. Si
estate 4.16
nman. Miss Rosie E.. 20 acres Si
R. F. Inman 2.25 Si
nman, Stephens A., 8 acres
wood? 2.00
nman," Mrs. Velma B., 13 acres
M. E. S. estate 1.41 Si
nman, W. H., 18 acres Inman 2.12
nman, W. I,.. 125 acres home- 24.66
nman, W. T., 3 acres Point
Field 1.71 Si
enrette, C. H., 100 acres I.
Jenrette _ 17.73
enrette, Isaac. 25 acres home t Si
and woods, 3 acres Long, 357 j Si
acres Overflow, 47 acres farm j
and woods 41.46 I Si
enrette, John, 100 acres home,
200 acres Overflow 32.421 Si
enrette, Mrs. John, 100 acres j Si
Ivans, 50 acres West Ash 35.01 i Si
enrette, J. L, 81 acres home.. 27.771
enrette, W. R., 75 acres home 22.351 Si
enrette, W. Kimball, 100 acres
Overflow 5.40 Si
ones. G. E. and G. O., 67%
acres home - 1 14.52
ones, L. F.. and J. P., 10 acres Si
home, 3 acres swamp 9.04 Si
ones, M. J.. 4 9-10 acres home 8.58
lelly, Mrs. J. L? 20 acres wds. 2.56
ling, C. H., 3 acres home, 3 Si
acres John Evans, 24 acres Si
woods. 3 acres B. Simmons 15.38!
ling, D. Fred, 3 9-16 acres C. j SI
B. Inman 5.06 |
ling, Elroy, 1 acre home 8.65 SI
ling. Jack. 4 acres home, 10 SI
acres Inman 8.33
ling, J. B.. 180 acres home, SI
30 acres woods 27.33
ling, J. D., 51-8 acres home. I SI
50 acres Dead River, 1-8 acres
Artesian Well, 50 acres Buz- SI
zard Bay 36.41 SI
ling, J. F., est., 25 acres Jen- - SI
nis 1.78 SI
ling, Jas. W? 56 acres home.
35 acres Milligan 21.90 SI
ling, M. K? 35 acres J. W. S<
King estate, % acre D. F.
King home 23.59 Ti
ling, N. M., 188 acres home.. 17.00
ling, W. H., % acre home, 8 M
acres farm and woods 7.54 ai
ling. Wm. M., 6 acres home.. 14.10 11
ling, Z. H., 4 acres home 4.54
little, Mrs. Annie, 44 acres ! H
woods 3.53 I "VI
.lttle, Mrs. A. J? est., 100
acres home 9.90 | "lit
little. A. V., 441-9 acres R.
Little estate 2 87 1 W
ittle, B? 228 acres home, 75
acres Myrtle Head 29.59 "W
ittle, Carson P.. 60 acres home 13.59 W
little, C. P., 15 acres Benton 6.29
little, Ezekiel est, 270 acres
woods 13.64 W
Ittle, J. Batie. 70 acres home.
60 acres woods 16.65 B
little. Miss Nellie, 44 acres R.
Little 4.28 B
little, Phenle, 44 acres, Rufus
Little 3.74
ong, B. F.. 74 acres S. Long 11.26 Bi
ong, D. B.. 23 acres home, 15
acres Long, 27 acres, W. R.
Coleman, 250 acres Old home, 38.16 K
ong, E. V., 8 acres home 5.05
ong, G. C., 85 acres home, 30
acres Overflow, 30 acres A. M
S. estate 21.23
ong, H. H., 58 acres home, 6
acres woods 14.00 M
ong, Henry P., 27% acres _ P>
home ? ?_ 11.63
ong, J. B.. 97% acres farm,
2 acres Jenrette, 20 acres J. _ ? St
W. Long ? 15 25 W
ong, J. M? 79 acres home _ 12.58
ESP AY, AUGUST ?i ,
Long, J. 0., 10 acres
Long, J. P., estate
Bretty Bay a'-t?s ^B
Long, Marshall, :;?, ao,L B -.
Ridge " -a E I. ^B
Long. O. \\?
Long, R. I.. or, acres :
acres woods _ * S
..ong, IV. A.. 1 r,^^B
..ong, AV. P... li acres VI ^^B
50 acres J. I'. Long. k..' ^^B
Overflow 4 ' *
Ludlum, Albert, 10 acre."ITT
Ludlum, Mrs. Alice,
home ** '^B
Ludlum. Mrs. A. m., , .
old home 11 "* ^^^B
Ludlum. Ben. 100 acrWr
home ^^B
.udlum, J. K., 115 acre, v. - 2^^B
ludlum, Jesse I.., 22 acres hrs
20 acres Harrell ' "* ^^B
judlum, J. R., 30 acres hVi '*^^1
.udlum. Mrs. l.tla, 50 a?'""
home ? ^B
,fcArthur, J. H., SO acres >1 *^^B
King -..
.lcCumbee, Hamilton, 20 sr? '^^B
old home
.IcCumbee. Mrs. M. I., in~.,
res home, 36 acres E. D w ^^B
liken
IcCumbee, AA. A., 3'.,
home ?... ,^B
IcCumbee, AA. R., 20 i.;L
home ,^B
IcKeithan, AA'. C., 9 acres, H.
A. Coleman _
IcKeithan, H. AV.. 91.3 ac^
woods - ,^B
IcKeithan, .1. A.. 14 acres t '^^B
Mllllgan, 3 acres Mrs. .A ^B
Simmons a^^B
IcKeithan, J. D.. 21a acres Ots.^^H
flow >^B
lilliken, Elda. 47 acres home j^^B
lilliken, E. D., 33 acres hotri
lilliken, M. C? 20 acres hi?, i^B
lilliken, Mrs. R. S.. 4 a'res
home ?, |^B
lilliken, Mrs. Ioxie, 92 acres
farm and woods ?
lilliken. AA'. S., 16 acres hi?,
lintz. Claudius, 24 acres hone
160 acres Alligator, 13 acres ^B
B. J. Mintz t^B
lintz, F- B.. 61 acres M & M. |^B
lintz, G. AA'allace, 25 acres ^^B
home ? ? ti^B
lintz and Mintz, 6_acres woods. ^^^^B
104 acres Bear, 50 acres Bij ^^B
Keck 330 acres Alligator .. ;^^B
lintz, ' M. N., "'4L acres hw, jj^B
lintz, O. R? 33 acres home. 15 ^^B
acres M. & >' - - - C^B
arker. M. G., 101 acres hone. ^B
15 acres McMamus l^B
help? A E.. Estate.. 59 acre,?
A P. estate - ? I^^B
helps. M. A.. 30 acres hww. B
ni acres woods
is"er R. C? 4JA6 acres tarn ^^B
and woods. 42 acres home IU ^B
teres R- V". Andrews, V, ^B
acre Church site, 10 acres ^B
swamp ... " ,.,
one. Mrs. E. F., -- aci> UH
" e Bee, 5U acres home.
414' acres J. R- ".?? ?"-?
5 acres J. A. Inm.,n est"" tfli
ruitt. n. >[.. 23 acres home""
ruitt. O. D.. 23 ac res home" uS
ruitt, O. L.. 7:i acres home
av, Mrs. Bessie, 30 acre?"
home
,ay, Seymour, 33 acres B.~J
Jenrette. ion n
eeves, W. H., 100 acres Oeerflow
oss, David, 1 acre home, i)ai"
oss, S. C.. 17 acres home 12
acres swamp
.uss, A. J., S3 acres home .
uss, C. G., 27 '6 acres wood*
uss, J. J? 50 acres farm ar.4 |
woods. 48 acres home
ussell, O. V.. 482 acres Deep
N'eck Woods
cott, Robt. Jl., 1 acre G.
Swamp _
everine, Frank, 8 acres home
immons, B. G. 301.. ac res home
23 acres R. K Flynn I^B
immons, G. C.. 11 acres home. J
immons, G. \V. V., 10 acres J
home. 6 acres Inman ii^^J
immons. J. V? 32 acres home. 1
175 acres Whaley
immons, Lon R. 20 acres k
immons, Mrs. Maggie Long I
20 acres farm and woods .
immons, R. M., 18 acres home I
16 acres !
Immons, R. P.. 16 acres home
immons, W. V., 11 acres home
1004 acres H. Smith ? mlth,
A. J., 7'i acres home
18% acres A. D. S. est. _
mith, Mrs. Bessie, 1': acres
home ? ??
mith, B. L? 21 acres old home I
81 acres W. W. Smith. 121
acres woods and Overflow _
mith. Cordie. 9 acres M. E
S estate ..
mith, Dorcey" C-. 47 acres home^^B
68 acres woods mith,
E. B.. 8'i acres home .
mith, E. C.. est. 60 acres Overflow,
50 acres Rhodes
mith. E. D.. 43 acres J. B.
Ludlum - -
mlth. E. G.. Jr.. 11 acres wds. H
mith E. L.. 22 acres home
mith. F. M. 30 acres home
and woods, 10 acres old hem
mith, Grady, 18 acres homemith.
G. V.. 60 acres W. A I
Long. 15 acres Home, 50acrts H
J. R. Smith, 6 acres WUliamson,
80 acres Overflow
mith. H. W? 12 acres home. M
12 acres Old Bay. 25 acres
woods, 103 acres Nap Ban
90 acres Polly Fridge n
mith. J. G? 9 acres home. .
acre Hickman, 3 9-10 acres B
Smith estate ?-"r* gH
mith. Lacy. 28'i acres home
mith, Miss Lovie, 9 acres
E. S. estate .? V 1
mith, M. B.. 17 acres M h
S. land ..._ r:?" jH
mith. Olen. 12 acres horn
38: SreVM^-1
mitim S." L.. "50 acres home 1{H
118 acres land. 30 acres ^
mlth. T. R.. 96 acres od ho H
11 acres woods, o0 acre ^
iJllthl tT' S.. "11 acres home .
mith. Wm. A.. Sr.. ''pTc
home, 50 acres Sheep rU
acres woods unmc
mith. Winson. 9 acres _ -y
mith! W. D.. IS acres homaj'j*
acres woods ..... hontf.
r^vgwi
S &. vi. ju ~W
2a?nle>-rj.
100 acres Overflow ^ J
lanley, Mrs. M. r.. ____
Edwards acres hoi* ,
lanley, O. L. ;aer home
.anley, W. D., - r.. - hom<
:anley. W. D.. Jr} 9 .facrW
levens, Mrs. L. J Ij^^H
home j acres l"11"
lout. Mrs. R. L 8 a arreJ
immersett, Sam e. .
home ?;Xo""ocre? 0ver- I(B
ally, W. M.. 100 o.-nley ?'1
rard'' Geo. R. 80 acres '?? 9
37'6 acres BUT horr.eftts.
M- B. i ^ *1
farm , acre
and' woods ' 280 acres h^ -tH
'right. H L? l?0 acr35 acr? M
"acres woods - ^
Miun, ..
ACCAMAW Tmv.VkHIP
REAL ESTATE M
rown. J. R? and L. H. Mar,
lowe, 120 acres Wash Evan.rovi-n.
J. R. 21 acres home. -5
acres A. J. Marlowe, 2 acres
R. F. Rabson ?
ow-ens, Henry. 2H'. ac. home- >
imes, Mrs. Bessie "2 acres old
home. ^ ^B
ing. Lewis, 6 acres home.
acrw Formy Duval. 45 acres
arloue, Thos., est. 57 acres
Thos. M. estate j^B
arshburn. Frank, II acres " j^B
arshburn. D. J., 13 acres # ^B
gford. Cary, 101 acres home H
3 acres old home. 6 acres "0! ,|^B
50 acres woods ..... t^B
anley. N. A., 50 acres home
ashington. Henry, 2 acres a??THE
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