FOUR ^ Mi Bwppnii ' Her heart swelled with the quick perception that this was Will. He tame at speed, his hands clenched nd pounding at his sides, his head forward as though reaching out to fill his lungs with air; and she | thought he came to seek her, and ?hns thinkincr she rose to her feet | and stood waiting In a tender readl- I, ness to receive and comfort him. | But he emerged from the spruce I wood, and without pause swung to |( the left and disappeared again. She understood, after a moment, ! that he had gone toward the steam I mill down the Valley; and he was ( in such a haste of passion that I ten from this distance she seemed to feel the fury in the man. L It would not be fear that drove t trim! Will would not thus run In tear. It must be anger, then; and f swift conjecture lashed her with j t jtotlng strokes, while she went slow- I ( jljr, like one dazed, across the open 18 jto the house, and into the kitchen j a 'khere. id Marm Pierce, at her coming,j t looked up, and saw her countenance, t that's the mstter, Jenr she f naked sharply. "What's wrong with | Tout" it "Will," the girl whispered. "He ? -came running along the path, and went down toward the steam mllL Running, like he was awful mad." ' ij Silence for a long moment, and } Marm Pierce nodded In slow com- y prehension. "Well, It was bound t to come," she said, half to herself. "He's found out, somehow, about z Beth Humphreys." s "But Granny," Jenny cried. "I! b ." i | Marm Pierce shook her head.; li "Nought to do, child," she said jv jently. "Nought but set and wait I {Will's found out he's made a bad b trade; but he's the only one can li pet him out of it" t And she came to the girl, and t put her arm around Jenny's shoul- c der. "Rest you, Jen," she said. ' i "It's the hard part a woman has, j 1 to stay quiet while her man's In j danger; but there's no other way!" ,s jt CHAPTER IV jJ J ~ It IT WOULD be a long time before j Jenny knew the fun tale of that! x day's events. The latter part of the J j 'drama she witnessed, and had In it a part; but the beginning was hid- ( den from her for the time. If during these months since he j .brought Huldy home, his wife and i, become a by-word In the Valley and J in the wide region roundabout, Will ?as Is apt to be the case?was the last to know this. Tet he was { at wholly In Ignorance. He might * not admit even to himself doubt or 1 'misgiving, for there was in this ( laaan a fine loyalty; nevertheless he y jwas not witless, nor wholly blind, ' [nor could any man loving Huldy as ' (intensely as he did be unconscious 1 of those withdrawals and evasions j and scornful mockeries which she {offered him behind the screen of her 1 arrogantly yielding smile. ! He never even shaped doubt of iher In his thoughts; yet just as one 1 {walking alone through a deep wood ! ;may be conscious of a movement , behind him, so Will was conscious of many things that happened Just ! beyond his sight or ken. He was thus in some degree prepared for what occurred this day. j | It was not that he had known anything before; but rather that with a sixth sense he felt certain things, and was brought into a frame of mind where full comprehension and belief were made easy, where it i ; needed no more than one tangible ! peg In order for him to pick up and I hang upon it the whole web of his (wife's deceptions. He had been all the long summer i rery busy about the farm, and dusk ' each day found him bone-tired, so I that he might nod at the supper table, and presently thereafter go quick and heavily to bed, and sleep till dawn. He loved Huldy; but after the first rapture of possession passed, ihe loved also this farm of his father's, and with an almost equal ardor, serving it with the full measure of his strength and energy. At night he was hungry only for sleep, and rose to work again at dawn. No one spoke; but Jenny felt the Hood drain out of her lips. "I like handsome men," said Huldy, drawling. "And even if he don't tike me, he's handsome as they rome!" Zeke's eyes were black with anger. She laughed at his rage, and she said in soft tones: "You can see he don't like me, WH1. I'll have to make him like me before I go." Zeke cried, in choking exasperation: "You've got one man outside! How many ..." / Huldy looked over her shoulder, then back ?? Zeke again. "You jo aak j, ' ^ diu t I . can go?' si said. "Tell him I'm through with him!" And when he hesitated: "He's just a little man," she urged, lerisively cajoling. "You've no call to be afraid!" Zeke appealed to Will with a fiance; and Will spoke wearily. "Go ihead, Zeke," he said, submitting. This here's Huldy's home. If she's i mind to stay." Huldy took off her hat and laid t aside; she touched her hair with ler hands. Jenny stood up and noved toward the door; but Huldy laid softly: "Don't you go! There's oom enough for both of us. I don't vant your Will!" Will protested heavily; "Huldy, t you stay here, you'll have to neud your ways!" Huldy was suddenly vicious, dan;erous. "Don't talk to me!" she reorted. "After fetching her in here he minute I was gone. I aim to itay; and If you try to boss me iround, I'll howl her name up and lown the Vfclley till people hold heir noses when they see her I Ton letter mend your own ways, Will I'errln I" Zeke touched Will's arm. "Let me hrow her out, Will," he protested. Don't you go and take her In." "I have to, Zeke," Will confessed. Zeke stared at the other man, iot, scornful, furious. "All right," le said then contemptuously. "If oVe that kind, I'm quitting I You'll lave to get on without meP But Huldy moved' slowly to Seke'B side. "Don't you quit" she aid, and touched his hand. "You'll e glad you stayed." Zeke seemed choking; he said at ash grudgingly; "HI finish out the reek, I reckon." And Huldy smiled contentedly; >ut Jenny could bear no more. Movng slowly, she went out through ; he shed and the barn and down ' he orchard path to the brook; she : a me through the deep woods home. Ls she opened the kitchen door, Jarm Pierce looked up Inquiringly. And then, in quick alarm at what he saw, she rose to her feet; but here was no need of a question, fenny spoke. "Hnldy's back," she said through , rembllng lips. "She's come home!" , Marm Pierce exclaimed, In quick eassurance: "Don't you grieve, ( rennyl She'll never stay!" Jenny shook her head, almost , imlllng, pitifully. "She didn't aim :o. She Just come to fetch her :lothes," she said. "But she saw 5eke Dace. And?now she's going ._ .1. HI ;u stay: * From Huldy's return until Jim Saladlne came at last to Hostile Falley, two years Intervened; and luring this period, though her heart vas his forever, Jenny saw Will not it all. Tn the country as In the :lty, It Is possible to go for years vithout glimpsing your next-door neighbor. - Accident might have nrought them face to face; but neither the girl nor Will would design an encounter. Jenny loved ilm deeply and completely; and the rery fact that they did not see one mother served In some fashion to intensify the girl's devotion. This love of hers for Will, springing out jf the years of her childhood, growing in stature and in depth as she i became a woman, seemed to feed on denial Lacking the man himself, she kept his remembered Image In her heart and was wistfully contented so. It sometimes seemed to Marm Pierce that Jenny's love for Will must communicate itself to him In silent ways; and at first she blamed him for that he did not throw Huldy headlong out of his home and his life, so that he might turn to Jenny; and she spoke this thought to Jenny. But the gitl shook her head. "Not Will," she said. "He's not the kind to. Long as she lives, he'll stand by her." Marm Pierce indignantly Insisted: "There's nothing so dumb as a good man that's got mixed up with a bad woman; and I've a mind to go tell Will so." Jenny smiled wisely. "You'll not," she said. "You never will." And Marm Pierce, perceiving In the girl a wisdom greater than her own, never did. In the weeks after Huldy's return, Amy Carey fell more and more into the habit of coming through the woods to see the old woman and the girl who dwelt here in this j house divided. Win Haven's side of the house fell nowadays more and more into disrepair. It would not be long, unless measures of repair were taken, till that half of the house sagged weakly downward' into a collapsed ruin. Once Jenny proposed taking tar paper and like material to proof the other side of the walls against moisture; but the old woman would not consent. !I wouldn't give Win the satis MSMSlLfi THE STATE I ! faction," she declared. When Amy came to stop a while ! with these two, In the warm kltch| en, she could not fall to remark the I Increasing disrepair; and she urged ! harm her. And Bart, you keep your tongue off her, If yo're good friend ! to me." I And Jenny, listening, loved him more and more. | In the matter of Seth's death. I Will was held blameless. None had seen the beginning of the encounter ' between them; but the mill men had seen and could testify that Seth shot Will, and tried to shoot him again; and Bart could testify that Seth had borrowed the gun, as though the thing were premeditated. So, though Will had to answer to the law, he was presently free ) again; and when he had learned the use of a peg leg, he went back to the farm on the hill. He dwelt there alone that winter, and Bart daily tramped up the steep t 1 road from his farm to take the heavier chores off the cripple's hands; but by February, Will had become almost as nimble on his peg as he had used to be on his sound foot Only the work indoors he slighted, as a man will; and Jenny sometimes went to catch up loose ends. Between them during these winter months a bond began to form, and no longer on Jenny's side alone. Will never spoke his mind nor his heart to her, nor she to him; yet to them both the thing was clear. To him it was a trouble and deep concern. From Huldy he had had no word; yet to her he still was bound, and would remain so if she chose. He told Jenny this one day. They approached the subject guardedly, by long Indirection, naming Huldy not at all; until at last Will said, soberly : "Jen, no use our dodging around the thing. Here's my look at it A ) man might want to say a woman i wa'n't his wife, If she'd acted wrong. , But I don't see it so. The way I < see It, I'm bound?any man's bound < ?long as he's give his word." 1 And he said: "It looks to me, the 1 worse a woman Is, the more like she 1 is to come to a time when she needs 1 a husband to stand by her, and j look out for her. A man, if his . wife ever come to him, no matter i what she'd done, and said he'd got to help her, why it looks to me he'd have to." (Continued next week) r i Lespedeza growers wno are planning to produce seed on a ' commercial scale have been busy In August mowing weeds in their fields. Colored Child Struck By Auto A colored child was struck by an automobile driven by Clay Smith Saturday but was not seriously injured. Eye witnesses said the accident which occurred near the water tower was unavoidable. At first the child appeared to be badly injured but examination revealed the fact that his wounds consisted chiefly of bruises and cuts. BUSINESS TRIP R. I. Mintz and S. B. Frink were in Durham and St. Paul Monday and Tuesday of this week on business. LOOKING OVER THE HEADLINES (Continued from sage 1.) Monday A d o 1 p h Hitler's Reichstag, stung by the criticism of a New York Magistrate of the Nazi emblem, voted Monday to adopt the swastika as the official flag of Germany ... A committee from the League of Nations working on peace plans which they hope will settle the trouble between Italy and Ethiopia probably will announce their peace plan at an early date . . . Meanwhile, unthinking Ethiopians pleaded with the Emporor for war . . . Major Alexander P. Deservesky of Farmindale, N. Y. set a new speed record Sunday for amphibian planes when he traveled 230.03 miles per hour . . . The bodies of two navy fliers were found Sunday by CCC workers near Beacon, N. Y. The men later were identified as Lieutenant Lincoln C. Denton and Mechanic C. Hart. Sunday William Gibbs McAdoo, 71-yearold Senator from California, was married yesterday to Miss Doris I. Chase, 26 . . . The state of Louisiana was in a political whirlwind during the week-end as Huey Long's henchmen watched each other jealously to see who would be first to assume their leader's mantle ... A general coal strike appeared inevitable today as United Mine Workers flatly refused a compromise offered them in wage and hours by Assistant Secretary of Labor Edjward P- McGrady . . . The war i news for the day found Italy defying the world to stop her in preparations for war on Ethiopia . Funeral rites were held *ORT PILOT, SOUTHPORT, today for Colonel Wade H. Harris, 77-year-old editor of The Charlotte Observer . . . There was a general tear yesterday that (thousands of local projects might jbe scrapped in the revision plans I of President Roosevelt in his work relief program. Saturday investigators were busy yesterday working on the Evelyn Hoey murder case though there were some who still clung to the theory that the glamorous singer killed herself . . . Colonel Wade H. Harris, editor of The Charlotte Observer, died early Saturday morning at his home following a lingering illness . . . Another special session of the Louisiana legislature appeared as a possibility as political followers' of Huey Long still were undecided ] who should be elevated to first in command . . Two armed rob- J bers forced their way into the apartment of June Knight, pretty j Broadway actress Saturday and escaped with $5,000 ... If this was a publicity stunt it surely I was expensive. Friday Adding her bit to the warlike I preparations of Europe, France j lined up yesterday with the Lea-1 gue of Nations . . . Premier Laval said "our obligations are inscribed in the covenant" . . . General Hugh S. Johnson will quit his post as relief administrator in New York the first of | October . . . Tobacco exports from Wilmington have been heavy this year, 16,090 hogsheads had been shipped from that port through yesterday . . . Fred Perry, world's ranking amateur tennis player, was married yesterday to Helen Vinson, movie actress , . . Mrs. Carl Austin Weiss, widow of the man who fatally wounied Huey Long, denied Thursday that her husband had entered into any conspiracy to kill the Kingfish , . . The peak of the Public Works Administration program probably will be reached by June, according to statements issued yesterday. T hursday Relations between England and Italy were further strained Wednesday when Britain's representaV : . - : #,? A > - - - ? ? V ! r *7la* lift THE THE Ford Motor Cot always built a car to quirements of the man o The 1935 Ford V-8 do greater degree than evei spite of greater power, performance, in spite of ty, comfort and roomin I-orc trt nufti nnrl ntiPrnt, IbJJ *.?? V- 8 than any Ford ever I Precision-built, of fir materials, the 1935 For stand up under years of h Willetts ] BOLIVL ON THE A!R ?Fred W?rlng, Tt - Tt N. C. would support the covenant of th would support to covenant of th League of Nations in its entirety It was announced that Italy con sidered October 10 as the start ing date of the war ... On (deputy was killed and three oth ers were seriously wounded Wed Jnesday night when gunplay tool I place on the floor of the Mexicai J chamber of deputies . . . . R. L J Cochran, governor of Nebraska (refused Wednesday to appear 01 ! the same program with Governo; iTalmadge of Georgia and refusec to invite the Georgian to tak< jpart in a celebration in his stab because of Talmadge's attitud< toward the administration. I CRl J w i Tuesdc 1 ^r^a* f most mm ntf ttuCtitAiti npany has Examine the n suit the re- ture by feature ant n the farm. is the biggest doll: es this to a offered. Buy r before. In afford toown and i smoother us about a plan ths "new beau- * own WW Fori for it out of your i ess it costs We can offer you e this For a on yOUf used cat ?uilt before. when crops come test quality drive the Ford V-1 d V-8 will find that you cat ardservice. V-8 for the farm. Motor Comt NORTH CAROLINA lesday Evenings?-Columbia Network?-Dally E le FoH F-nday Evening Hour will be resumed! WE ??????? NOTICE e SECTION 34-A:?That Section 34 r of Chapter 4 be and same is amended I as follows, viz: "ERASE the figure 12 in line six of said Ordinance and insert in lieu thereof the figure "11" | e and erase the figure "6" in line six! " of said Ordinance rfnd Insert in lieu . thereof the figure "4". Add after the period in line six and * i before the word "any" in line seven i 1 the following: "And each and every place, room, ' or store situated in the Citv of | Southport, N. C? where any of the j ' above enumerated drinks are sold, or 1 offered for sale, shall not be opened r earlier than 4 o'clock A. M. and shall , be closed not later than 11 o'clock 1 P. M. on each and every other day." i 2 This ordinance to take effect on , and after 3rd day of October, A. D? ; } 1936. ? This 12th day of September. 1935. J. D. ERIKSEN, Mayor. E. R. WEEKS, City Clerk. 9-18c | -FIRST SALE ATJTCHF1EI AREHOU! VHITEVILLE, N. 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