Hart set t > lies t ite "I
j couldn't tind a dry one anywhere,"
i he declared. "The rain has wet
them all!"
She protested Irritably: "Land
sakes, I sh'd think you could find
a dry one somewhere! You come
along of me!" And she said to
Jim, pointing toward the stove:
"Let that boil up good, and then
set It to cool. I'll be back in a
minute to try it on her."
He nodded, and she went out
through the shed with Bart on her
heels; and Saladine was left wondering
why old Marin Pierce was
so bent on finding feathers to burn
under Huldy's nose, if there was
in fact no chance that the hurt
woman could revive. Then suddenly
his hair prickled faintly; for
it seemed to him there was a low
murmur in the dining room.
And a chair toppled over, somewhere.
The sound was loud and
startling. Saladine came to his feet,
half-crouching, ready for any apj
narltion; hut nothing did appear,
j nor did he hear any further scund.
The pot on the stove boiled, and
as he lifted it, Marm Pierce and
j Bart returned, and the old woman
j had a tuft of feathers in her hands.
"Men are all blind as bats!" she
exclaimed irascibly. She saw the
boillne not "Now we'll try if there's
FOUR
PROLOGUE.?At a gathering of
cronies in the village of Liberty,
Maine. Jim Saladine listens to the
history of the neighboring Hostile
Valley?its past tragedies, its superb
fishing streams, and. above all. the
mysterious, enticing "Huldy." wife
of Will Ferrin. Interested, he drives
to the Valley for a day's fishing,
though admitting to himself his
chief desire is to see the reputedly
glamorous Huldy Ferrln.
CHAPTER VI?Amy Carey commits
suicide. Before Huldy's return
Zeke Dace had been showing her attention,
and his defection (he has
succumbed completely to Huldy's
wiles) Is believed to have led Amy
to take her life. Saladlne comes to
the valley. Bad roads cause him to
stop at the Ferrln farm, where he
meets Huldy. She endeavors to detain
him, but remembering what he
has heard of the woman, he Is uneasy.
and leaves her. to flsh an adjacent
stream.
And at once she did so; but that
Instant was for Jenny an eternity, In
which she had time to comprehend,
and to consider, and desperately
plan. When she whirled to face
them, she was already resolved that
this d..rk secret none but herself
should ever know; yet her own
countenance might betray her to the
old woman's shrewdly understanding
eye.
Nevertheless she must face them;
and she whirled toward the door,
standing with her arms spread as J
though to hide this behind her, as J
though half fearful that even now j
Huldy would speak again. And she |
sought desperately some expedient |
to divert their eyes from her, their 1
minds from her, lest her secret be j
too desperately plain.
For?secret it must be! Though
this hour must shadow and distort
her whole life hereafter, yet none
should ever know.
The door opened and Marm!
Pierce came in, came toward her;
but the old woman's eyes and mind j
were on Huldy, and Jenny made i
way for her to come to the dead
woman's side. Yet she felt Saladine's
glance upon her, and fought
desperately for composure; and
then Marm Pierce said soberly:
"No use now!"
Bart asked huskily. "She's dead?"
"Certain, she's dead."
Bart spoke to the girl, in a j
quick whisper. "Jenny, did she come
to at all?" he asked.
Jenny wetted her lips; but she
could not speak. She could only
move her head in desperate denial;
and there was a dreadful, shaken
terror in her. Then Marm Pierce 1
demanded irritably:
"Well, Jen! What you goggling,
for? Folks have died before!"
So Jenny found an expedient to !
turn this scrutiny away from her- !
self. She remembered that toppling i
chair.
"There's someone in the Win-side !
the house," she said; and with a j
vast surge of relief saw their
glances swing that way.
When Jennv had closed the door
shutting herself into the dining
room where Huldy lay, Marm i
Pierce said insistently to Bart:
"You go along and fetch Will.
Not that hurrying can help her; but
Will had ought to know."
"I might do some help here," Bart
still protested.
Marm Pierce spoke to Saladine.
"Set down, you," she bade him.
'Till I can rub that ankle of yours."
And then, over her shoulder, to
Bart still lingering:
"Well then, go out in the hen
pen and get me some feathers."
"Feathers?" he echoed.
"I'll burn 'em under her nose. J
Might make her gasp and gag and
start breathing. Don't stand there
arguing. Go along with you 1"
So Bart went out through the shed,
and Saladine said gravely: !
"Ma'am, this ankle of mine can
wait, if you can be doing anything
for her."
"There's nought to do for Huldy
Ferrin now," she told him in slow
tones, and tossed her head. "And I
dunno as I'd do It If there was!
But Til have to wait till the pot
boils, anyhow. Might as well be doing'this
as setting here."
He suggested: "You sent Carey
to get some feathers. If there's no
chance, why . .
She retorted: "1 got fidgety with
him hanging around." And after a
silent moment she looked toward
the dining room, as though her
thoughts turned that way.
Saladine asked: "How do you
reckon Mis* Ferrin come to fall?"
"I want to know," said old Marm
Pierce, and Jim stirred in quick
attention. The phrase was usual
enough, as an expression of surprise
and interest and wonder; yet
Saladine thought her accent and
her intonation had not been usual.
There was a ste?p in the shed, and
Bart returned. She looked over
her shoulder, saw him empty-handed.
"Where's them feathers?" she
demanded.
anything to do I" And she went directly
to the door between kitchen
and dining room. "Jenny, I'm opening
the door," she called, and waited
a moment and then made good
her word.
So they came Into the dining
room, and learned that Huldy was
dead; and when Jenny said there
was some one In the WIn-side of the
house, Saladine remembered that
sound of a falling chair; and there
seemed to him something hideous In
the thought that anyone should
prowl through those molderlng and
empty rooms while a woman here
was dying. But Bart said reassuringly
:
"That's likely Win, Granny. He
stayed at my place last night. He
set out to go to Liberty this morning,
but he might stop by here!"
The old woman assented scornfully:
"He would If he was drunk
enough! You go ahead, Bart, and
fetch Will, and don't waste no time."
So Bart at last departed; but
Saladine paid no particular attention
to his going. He was watching
Jenny, puzzled by something in her
eyes he could not read He had seen I
in her a while ago deep terror, un- I
mistakable; yet now It was gone.
She had put on composure, and a j
steady courage; and he wondered, '
and wished to read her mind.
There was nothing to keep Sala- j
dine here; yet he stayed, and with a j
sense of waiting, an acute expectan- '
cy. He thought more and more of
Jenny, remembering her terror at
the sight of death, and the shadow i
in her eyes. Life for her must in '
the end center about some man. Bart
Carey, perhaps? Bart stood straight,
and his eye was bold and strong. It
was suddenly strange to Saladine
that Bart and Jenny were not mar- I
ried long ago. They were neighbors, !
of a like age, both comely with the
splendor of youth, their interests j
akin. Between them no obstacle ap- j
peared.
Unless old Marm Pierce were an j
obstacle? Yet Saladine thought she !
had met Bart kindly today, treated
him with courtesy. This might be j
guile; she might, while appear'ng to |
approve, nevertheless checl in 1
every possible way the tendency of |
these two lives to flow together. In- j
consequently, Saladine recalled the
heavy footstock of the water lily, I
which Jenny had fetched that morn- !
ing from the brook. Some shadow j
of a forgotten memory stirred in
him, and was gon? without recognition;
yet this mensiry would recur.
It was one of the Intangibles which
made the whole of this day like a
disordered dream.
The root itself was tangible
enough; yet there were implications
in It, just as there were Implications
in that peg leg Will Ferrin
wore, and the cowboy hat so jauntily
set atop the bowed and humble
head of Zeke Dace, and the knotted
rope that held Huldy Ferrln's
garment close about her, and the
boot prints on the fisherman's trail
beside the brook, which had somehow
ended without Saladine's re- |
marking where they turned aside.
But most of all he thought of
Huldy, and wondered how she came
to fall to her death this day.
Then suddenly the dining room
| door opened, and Jenny came out
Into the kitchen, the old woman
following her. "I'd best go myself,*'
Jenny insisted; and Saladine saw
a sort of stubborn haste In her eyes.
Marm Pierce protested: "Like
enough Will and Bart will remember
to bring something."
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"Not Will," Jenny retorted. Her
voice was gentle as she spoke the
name. "A man wouldn't think of
It And It Isn't for men t<? do, anyway.
Rummaging through her
things." She took down a heavy olli
skin coat from behind the kitchen
door. "I'll go myself," she said. "If
I meet Will, I'll have him come on
! here, case you need anything. I'll
get what's wanted and fetch It."
Then she was gone. ,
CHAPTER VIII
WHEN Jenny, thus departing,
left Saladine and Marm Pierce '
j alone, the old woman seemed for a
moment almost embarrassed. She
' looked at Jim with her small bright
I eyes.
"I'll boil up a cup of tea," she decided.
"It's past dinner time, and
j I'm hungry. 'Low you could eat a
bit your own self." She filled the
I kettle at the pump in the sink and
clapped it on the stove. Bread from
| the pantry, Jam, butter from the
I cellar, and a bit of salt pork and !
j some cold boiled potatoes to slice
i and fry In the sweet fat.
"Jenny's a fine girl," Saladine sugI
gested presently. "It's a wonder she
; ain't married."
Marm Pierce looked at him with
I eyes suddenly shrewd. "You said
j Huldy Ferrin showed you the path
I rinwn to the brook." she remem- |
bered. "Go bark to the house when
you left her, did she?"
"1 don't know." he replied. "I
| looked up. from down below, and
saw her still there."
tlenn.v told me," she said, "that
you claimed somebody had fished
I down brook ahead of you."
"I saw tracks in the trail," he
I assented.
Rain began to drive against the
1 windows, against the glass panel in
[the door. She said: "Well, everyi
thing's ready. You can set down!"
I He perceived In her the pent gar- '
I rulity of a lonely old woman who ?
too seldom has an audience; and ?
while they ate. he encouraged her, <
skillfully, to speech. Marm Pierce, i
I at first guardedly and then warming i
| to her theme, told him about Jenny <
j and Will. Once she was well start- J
ed, he listened without interruption, 1
finding in what she said the ex- t
planation of much that he had seen *
today.
"She didn't know the meaning of *
it, first off," the old woman con- t
eluded. "Didn't know what was
happening to her. She wa'n't but <
a girl then." And added: "But ?
Jenny's growed to be a woman t
now ..." i
She broke off, seemed to listen; t
and he asked softly: "Hear something?"
c
"Nothing, likely," she said after
a moment. "Seemed like I heard i
some one in the barn. Like as not "
it was that no-good brother of mine."
And she talked on and on; and c
rose at last and began to scrape the
dishes clean and pile them in a pan I
in the sink. She chunked the fire, t
noisily. t
Then suddenly the old woman replaced
the lid on the stove with a
clatter, and crossed as quiet as a "
mouse, to the shed door. Jim came *
to her side. i
"Seemed like 1 did hear some one,"
she whiSDered. c
He touched the latch and swung
the shed door wide, to reveal?noth- \
lng. c
"Don't see anything i" he said
doubtfully. t
But Mann Pierce pointed to the t
floor. Here were wet, muddy traces 1
where booted feet had stood, where 1
soaked garments had dripped upon
the boards. a
"It's that Win," Marm Pierce de- s
elded scornfully. "He's forever pry- I
lng around!" She shut the door
with a slam. . t
"I should think you'd be nervous, I
you and Jenny, living here alone," a
he suggested.
"The Valley gets some folks," she t
agreed. "Folks that don't know how i
to be alone without being lonely, c
You've got to know how to be com- t
pany for yourself, to get along 5
around here!" And she added with *
a wry chuckle: "Just the same, I'm c
full as well pleased to have you
'round." t
"You mean?on account of your f
brother?" t
"Land, no!" she said scornfully. (,
"No, I don't pay no heed to him. t
He comes and goes. But I'd as soon 5
have a man In the house right now, r
for all that!" a
He watched her curiously, but be- g
fore she could answer his unspoken
question, there was a step on the 1
porch outside the door; and they
turned to see Bart appear. He t
leaned a steel rod beside the door \
before he came In. He had changed t
into dry clothes' coat and overalls.
"Where's Will?" Marm Pierce de- t
manded. j
"He wa'n't around, Bart ex- ,
plained. "Nor Zeke either. I figured a
they'd heard about Huldy and come
over here." He looked around.
"Where's Jenny?" he asked.
"Gone to fetch Huldy's clothes,"
Marm Pierce told him. "It's a won- v
[ der you didn't meet her."
I Bart shook his head. Saladine s
[ saw a broad leather belt about j
his waist, with a bait attached, j
and to which a holster hung. 8
"Hullo," he said. "You pack a
gun?" t
"Sure," Bart assented, and produced
It. Saladine took the weap- ,
on In his hands. It was an old
model, the front sight gone, of 3
1 heavy caliber; and when Jim, hold
ing back the hammer, gingerly j
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tried the trigger, be found that the
pull was feather light.
"I always carry it when I go
fishing," Bart explained. "You
never know when yon run into a
moose down here in the woods, or
a wildcat."
Marm Pierce was in the dining
room, and Bart lowered his tones.
"That's the gun Seth shot Will
Ferrin with," he said.
Marin Pierce returned, and Jim
handed the weapon back to Bart.
The old woman was putting on
an oilskin coat. "Bart, you see
anybody fishing down brook this
morning?" she inquired. "I heard
there was tracks along the bank."
"Win likely went that way," Bart
reminded her. "I noticed tracks
my own self, when T came down
along. Figured it was him."
Marm Pierce pulled an oilskin
hat over her white hair. "I get
strangled for air, when I stay indoors
the whole day." she declared,
and went out As she closed the
door, they heard something slither
and fall, and saw her stoop
down.
"Knocked your rod over, Bart,"
she called.
"Can't hurt that rod," he assured
her cheerfully. She stepped down
off the porch and disappeared toward
the barn.
"I met Will Ferrin. and Mis*
Ferrin. and Zeke Pace, this morning."
Saladine said. "I was on my
way to your place, till I run Into
the washout; so I hacked up and
left my car in Will's yard."
"I see It there a while ago,"
Bart nssented.
"Zeke looked like a sick man,
to me." Saladine suggested.
Bart grinned as though abashed.' '
"He's failed a lot." he said. "But J
he was an able man. two years
ago. He worked me over, proper,
one day. The Valley will whittle
a man down." And he added: i
Some, like Marm Pierce and
fenny here, they're always the
tame, and Will's always the same, '
>r would be If it wa'n't for j '
o gee some ciotnes to dress her,"
he said gently. "You'd best come
iack to the house with me, show me
ler things."
He accepted this without speech; '
jid he and Jenny climbed the j
teep grade side by side. In Will's .
larnyard Jenny saw a car standing,
,nd so remembered Saladlne. "That J
oan, he's over t'the house," she
old Will. "I guess he wouldn't
aind If we drove his car over. He'll
rant It, and that way we can keep ]
luldy's things dry."
"Over there, Is he?" Will echoed,
pith haunted eyes. "Last time I
ee Huldy," he said, "she was takng
him off down to the ledge. Said n
he'd show him the brook tralL"
And his brow furrowed. "I want
o talk to him," he said, ominously, ft
"He left her on the ledge," Jenny ^
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"Child, she's dead; and Will, he'll
be coming soon. Nought now to
keep him away from you. . . ."
Jenny's pulse failed and the blood
drained from her lips. "Don't,
Granny," she protested softly.
"With her lying there. Not now."
And she urged: "We'd ought to
dress her In dry clothes. Will, he
hadn't ought to see her so."
Marm Pierce nodded. Jenny's
thoughts were plunging now. There
was in her a blind desperate hunger
to see Will, to comfort him. to
assure him of her loyalty and silence
and deep understanding and
forgiveness too. She wished on
any count to see him, to be with
him now. Yet it vas some time before
she devised that errand Involving
Huldy's clothes.
Even when she proposed this |
errand, Marm Pierce at first de- j
murred; but longing to be with I
Will, Jenny would not be restrained.
In a sort of breathless j
rush, she overbore her grandmoth- |
er's remonstrances, and so was
away.
She took by habit the path to- (
ward the woods; and her lips
shaped unspoken words of tenderness
and comforting. But when
she came to the dark border of I
the wood, the girl paused, shrink- j
ing, reluctant to plunge into the 1,
shadows. This path would take j.
her by the foot of the ledge, by
the very spot where Huldy a while ;
ago had fallen to her death; and I
Jenny could not endure the pros- !
pect. So she retraced her way and |,
turned aside toward Carey's. And I
halfway up the hill she saw ahead i
of her a figure, tremendous in the 11
dim rain, familiar, beloved. Will, j;
coming toward her. She stood ' <
weak and shaken by the sight of
him* cot when he came near lest i
he might think she shrnnk from t
him. she took one step forward j i
to meet him steadily.
Will looked down at her for a
long moment In silence. He said at
last, heavily:
"Jenny, where you going In this
rain?"
"To find you, Will." she told him. j
"I'm on my way to Bart's," he ex- j
plained. "To see If maybe Huldy's
there 1" , j
Jenny felt her spine chill. "She s
pot there, Will," she said. "She's at
iur house." J
He frowned In a deep bewilder- j
nent "Tour house?"
"Will," she told him gravely,
Huldy's dead 1"
The man stood huge above her;
irlnd whipped his hat brim, rain
ashed his cheek and struck his face
"Huldy's Dead!"
ind filled his eyes. He wiped his
>yes with his hand, shook the water
iff his hand, wiped It on the side of
lis coat. A storm, visibly, swept
icross his countenance and left a
shadow there.
Yet she thought he was not surmised;
and she spoke quickly, to
spare him need of speech. "She
ell off the ledge down back of your
louse," she said. "Bart found her,
ind fetched her over to our place,
:ase Granny could do her any good.
Jut she died."
He asked, after a long moment, j
lumbly: "Bart know how she come
o fall?"
Jenny steadied her tones, made
hem all reassurance. "No one will
wer know that, Will," she said;
ind she added: "We did all could
>e done !"
'1 guess you would," he agreed,
lis shoulders bowed as though unler
a crushing load; and after a
noment he said heavily: "Well, Til
;o on over."
But Jenny checked him. "I have
I4UV1 IV tuv V?U1 VVUJ UCJ VUUi -* uai o
hers. I mostly slep' up attic." He
opened a door beside the stove, and
she heard him climb the narrow
stairs.
She selected what she required;
ind then on impulse, she made Hul- a
ly's bed. Huldy's nightgown she a
out away; and when she was done, '
the room was In immaculate order. a
It pleased her to leave all things
is Huldy would have wished to "
eave them.
When she had packed the suit:ase,
she came back to the kitchen. 0
ind called up the attic stairs: "I'm ?
eady. Will." 11
He answered her, after a mo- i81
nent "I'm coming, Jenny." j?
When they were in Saladine's car, j '
iVill said: "The road looked to me
ike we could get through down to c
Carey's, Jenny. We'd save a lot of a
ime that way."
She made no comment, trusting w
inch matters to bis Judgment; and ej
le turned the car down the hill and j,
lrove on across the bridge, past f(
Jart's, out to the Valley road, and ?
hus In toward Marm Pierce's farm, j
In the yard they stopped, and Will 01
ook the suitcase from the back of ^
he car. Saladine and Bart were on o;
he porch to meet them; but If Will ^
lad known a passing doubt of Sala- u
line, It was forgotten now. He n
aid to the other man:
(Continued next week) ! ri
? tl
Dentist?Now, open wide! I'm s|
ot going to hurt you. h
New Patient?Cut out the pro:ssional
guff, old man. I'm a g
u:
entist myself.
/ I
' y 1
iuiay. sne's?twisrea mm, turneu
ilm wrong ways." His brow cloud- 1
kL "I wouldn't blame him for
mythlng he was to do. If I was
Ylll, I'd have. . . He changed 1
his. "If she was mine, I'd have '
mown how to handle her!"
Rain, rain, rain; the lash of i 1
vhlps against this little house, ; *
he pelt of bullets.
Bart looked thoughtfully at the i ]
loor into the dining room; and
aid huskily, with a nod toward j
he other room: "You see her this 1
nornlng, you said. What did you 1
hink of her?" 1
"She was a queer one," Saladine
lonfessed.
Bart leaned forward with a deep
ntentness. "Saladine," he said.
'How would she come to fall?"
"Got dizzy, maybe? Or tripped
iver something?"
"She wa'n't the sort to get dizzy,"
lart protested. "And?the ledge is
ill smooth, and it's good footing
liere."
'Ton mean to say she Jumped?"
Bart grinned almost In derision.
'She look to you like one that
vould kill herself, did she?" he denanded.
"No," Saladine admitted. "No, she
lldn't"
"Then put a name on it," Bart
vhispered. "If she didn't fall, and
lldn't Jump. . . ."
But Saladine was always inclined
o think twice before he spoke, and
here was matter enough for thought
lere today. He shook his head, siently.
i
Bart?though they were quite
done?whispered: "There ain't a
toul around here would blame
Vill!" i
But Saladine stared silently at
he stove, and Bart did not repeat
lis sinister suggestion; and a little j
ifter, Mhrm Pierce came briskly in. }
"Well, you've let the fire go out,
tetween you!" she said sharply.
Mils was almost true. She whisked
iff a lid of the stove and thrust a
fillet in, scolding them impartially. ,
Ihe hung up her coat and hat ^
'Wet to the knees, I am. Got to go (
ihange." ?
She left them, departing through
he dining room; and Bart's glance j
llckered after her through the open
loor, as though his eyes were 1 ^
Irawn irresistibly that way. Then t
he two men sat alone a while, till
Saladine heard a familiar sound, t
emotely, coming near. He rose
md moved to the door, Bart at his ?
ihoulder.
"It's Will Ferrln," Saladine re- j
narked. "And Jenny. In my car." j
And Bart said In a low, surprised ^
one: "So 'tis! I didn't know but
?? - ? _ *
vui would ve got out or tne coun- g
ry by now!"
Saladlne, to avoid reply, opened t
he door and stepped out on the g
>orch. Then Will and Jenny, Will j.
vlth an old suitcase In his hand, j.
.lighted from the car and cdme to- .
card them here. ! B
? I g
When Huldy, with that bfcack ao- j
usation on her lips, died, Jenny a
ras at first left desperate; till E
[Uick loyalty brought her strength t
igaln, and resolution too. Marm r
'lerce, seeing without understand- v
ng the girl's deep distress, as soon j
is they were alone asked gently:
"Jenny, you all right? I'm trou- v
(led about you." g
"Seeing her die upset me," Jenny j
vhlspered. "That was all, Granny.". s
Marm Pierce, only half convinced,
'et forebore to question further, j,
'Well, she's dead," she said. She
ouched Jenny's arm reassuringly.
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*WEPNES
Two Good Picture
Carolina Th
3t
"O'Shaughnessey's Boy," an i
honest-to-goodness circus picture!
starring Jackie Cooper and Wallace
Beery, is the feature attraction
at the Carolina theatre in
Wilmington Thursday, Friday and
Saturday of this week.
For the first time, the spirit of
the circus with all its thrills, ex-,
citement and color has been
brought to the screen. It is sup- j
erb entertainment for every age..
Comedy, pathos, spectacle and
a dramatically powerful story are
deftly blended into a picture that
wins new honors of its co-stars ,
?Wallace Beery and Jackie |
Cooper.
The picture is a fitting successor
to "The Champ" and "Treas-1
ure Island," which so firmly established
Beery and Cooper as one j
of the screen's greatest partnerships.
Not only is it a fitting sue-1
cessor, it is surpasses both in the !
eloquence of its human heart in-1
terest story and the brilliance of
its circus setting.
Beery is given every opportunity
to reach new dramatic heights i
as "Windy," a swaggering, easygoing
animal trainer. Jackie, too, j
has one of his finest roles as j
"Stubby," Beery's son in the pic-11
ture, and both give performances'
that will long stand as standards .
of excellence.
The animal scenes are the mostj
spectacular ever seen on the ,
screen, particularly those of i'
Beery wrestling with a huge Ben-1
gal tiger. It is a thriller, as are ]
the sequences showing Beery i
breaking in a dangerous tiger-11
elephant act, which has never be- ,
fore been accomplished, on or off; i
the screen.
Next Week | j
Greta Garbo is the star of I,
'Anna Karenina" the feature at-! <
traction at the Carolina the first J
three days of next week. <
Her performance as Anna Ka- j jj
renina places her at the very top J i
}f her long starring career. It re- j j
veals her as a greater actress j 1
than she has ever been before, \
ind more beautiful than she has f
ever been in her former pictures, j
Apparently, Metro - Goldwyn- s
Mayer studios have spared no *
pains to make Garbo's Tenth An- 1
liversary picture her greatest J
>ne. <
As her fifteenth lover of the ,
screen, she has been given such i'
in admirable romantic actor as |'
Frederic March, who is co-starred J
with her.
As her stern husband, the diplomat
Karenin, they have given <
ler Basil Rathbone, who so recently
scored in the role of the
nerciless Murdstone in "David
Hopper-field."
As her little son, they have given
her Freddie Bartholomew, one
>f the greatest child actors of
lie screen, whose first appearince
was, also, in "David Copserfield."
The story, one of the great
'immortals" of the past century, j
s Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" a
presented against a background f
>f imperialistic Russia of fifty s
rears ago?the story of a woman j
;orn between the clandestine love s
'or Count Vronsky, a romantic i1
routh, and duty to her stern hus- j
>and, Karenin. | g
; A
urged. "He never see Fer, after." ^
They went indoors. "Now you get j ?
some dry clothes onto you," she ?
bade him. "I'll pack the things n
we'll need for her. Where are they, J
Will?"
He looked at her in a sort of
shame. "In there," he said, and A
pointed through the dining-room r
rlr?r?r* fn fho Hnrlrnnm
DAY, OCTOBER 23. ion.
s Billed FoT"5^
eatre, Wilmingtot
! commission k u
REA1, ES I A I K F
In accordance with the tu,i
heretofore rendered ..n the O !'
of October, A. D.. 1M3, j?
port Building and Loan Assocuju
vs. Maud McKeithun, et ;ds.,
dersigned having been appointed Ct?
missioner to make sale in said ?.
wilt offer for sale at public
to the highest bidder for ra-h at ?.
court house door in the Citv
Southport. North Carolina, cm 0
Sat., the 23rd day of Nov.. \. p ...
at 12 o'clock noon, as per direct^
in the above named judgment, -i,
following describeil lot. tract,
or parcel of land lying and heintrv
County of Brunswick. Town (>?
Township, State of North Caroliri
bounded and described as follows, ,,
wit:
Beginning at a two-inch iron rfc
lettered "M'K" same being on it
east side of State Highway No ?
in the Town of Bolivia, and' being o
north corner of B. H. Page's adjwt(
ing tract of land, and runs them
south 58 degrees 15' east 155 {?
and four and one-half inches to at
Other iron pipe lettered "Mckthenee
northward 38 degrees 30' ^
210 feet to another iron pi],e lettere
"McK." same being the c-.tst come
of J. IV. Brooks' adjoining tract 0
land, thence north ."8 degrees 43' eat
185 feet and seven inches to anofte
iron pipe lettered "McK" in the afors
said Highway No. >, thence som
38 degrees west with said Highws
210 feet to the beginning point, sami
being the north corner of B. P., Paj
e's land aforesaid, and being til
same land conveyed to Maud Me
Keithan by J. IV. Brooks as a;>?an
in Book 38. at page 8. Records o
Brunswick county, to which reference
is hereby especially made
Dated and posted.^ this 23rd day o(
October. A. P.. 193o.
ROBERT \V. DAVIS,
ll-'O-c Commissioner.
NOTICE OF FOKF.I 1,081 KF.
Under and by virtue of a power ti
Hue container! in a certain i
Seed executed bv C coK^l
to A T.' Mi-Keith.'uu on
12th day of February. 13": dub- j
sorded in Book No. 43 at PW *9
121. records of Brunswick countv \1
C.. to secure payment of ,?mij
notes therein recited, and thereafrJ
July assigned to Peoples United Bri
ind default having been marie 13
payment of said notes, the underdo]
sd assignee of the mortgagee, will J
Monday. November S.ith. 1M,{ 1
it twelve o'clock, noon, at the iron
nouse door in Brunswick count* "\
C., offer for sale to the highe t 4
ler for cash, a certain tract of :a
n Smithville Township. Brunswir
.ounty, N. C? bounder! and desrib
>d as follows, viz: Beginning at
gate in Southern line of said par
ame being old Thomas Drew li?
now C. G. Chamblee; runs thcis
north 27 east 330 feet with the ?
:er of said road leading through tl
'ield to a canal: thence south 60 de
frees 15 minutes east 410 feet to
stake on said canal .on the soct
side of a small island: thence rem
11 degrees east 724 feet to .ninth
gate on the north side of said fiel
same being E. B. Hesvett's corns
hence south 82 east 090 feet to
stake: thence south 11 degrees we
1240 feet to a stake on the souther
ine of said tract; thence north
legrees west 1200 feet to beginnln
ontaining 22K acres, more or les
Dated and posted, this Ortobi
.'2nd, 1935.
PEOPLES UNITED BANK.
Assignee of A. T. McKeithan, Mrr
gagee.
T. W. Ruark, Attorney. Southp-r
N. C. 11-*
NOTICE OF SUMMONS
State of North Carolina,
bounty of Brunswick:?
In The Superior Court
.Nelle Vaughm Dellenev
vs.
T. E. Dellenev
The defendant. T. E. Delleney. *
ake notice that an action entitles
tbove has been commenced in t
Superior Court of Brunswick rout"
forth Carolina, by the plaintiff, t
ibsolute divorce upon the gro'inih
wo years separation, as provided
aw of the State of N?rth Cam in
aid defendant will further take nri'
hat he is required to appear at t
iff ice of the Clerk of the Supen
fourt of said countv at the c?
ouse in Southnort. N. C.. on or I
ore the 17th day of N?vem.;er. .
ind answer or demur to the
daint In said action, or the Pj?'
rill apply for relief demanded
aid complaint.
M. B. WATKINS. Assi.?tant
Clerk Superior Court
I. B. Frink. Attorney For Han
1-13-* .
A DM IN 1ST It M'dlt'w MITK1
The undersigned bovine u-c.
s administrator of ?h. .
f. Todd (deceased)
ice to all persons indebted t_
state to make immediate ,a?w
,nd all persons holdi:u ar> "
gainst said estate t" '."'"'i. ..
or payment duly yen: <
lonths from this d
ill he pleaded in bar of ?
overy.
Thiu October 21st. 1 ' ... ?
G. C. LOXG, Admiiusiraw - _
L. M. Todd estate.
tty.. R. e. Sen telle. U-W
:APTAIN TOMMI ESTI
GEORGE HAS SERVED|
MANY YEARS AS P!L<B
(Continued from page One?
le, together with Julius WeB
nd B. F. Newton, were out^B
t 1:00 o'clock in the momB
3 put Captain Calender XenB
board the schooner City I
'hiladelphia. The schooner B
Jet 12 miles from the bar B
ie pilot sailboat Grade andB
oarding skiff was lowered fl
arry Captain Newton to the B
el. The heavy sea washed B
ght boat into the path of B
ehooner and the skiff was roB
ver. Again Captain Tommie^M
>rced to cling for dear iifeB
ie boat bottom until he
icated and picked up by otbB
board the Grade three-quarlB
f an hour later.
The third major accident fjI
hich he escaped occurred ab^l
ight years ago when the
uno ran aground on the
>rt bar and sank with all^B
iron'
lembers or we wv...
Im Copeland was drowned^R
thera on board, including
tin J. i. Davis, ar,other rr.er^M
f the Cape Fear Pilots Asso^B
on, hung on to floating- deM
ntil they were picked
members of the Coast Guard.
Captain Tommie is an
ite pipe smoker and he
iat he must have a cup^B
teaming black coffee to
hn off ri<tht in the .norraa^K
? ? jj
Twenty-one Alamance po'^B
rowers are keeping flock rec^B
nder the supervision of the