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l,cnNESPAYt JANUARY B-tTTrTvTED? For Rawleigh Rtes of SM families. Reliable BL should start earning $25 B?>,- and increase rapidly. Re" today. Rawleigh, Dept. Kj.211-S.. Richmond, Va. 1-29* ^ CARS^ Kj0 repair or equip with new B and batteries on time payB, plan. We repair all makes terms to suit. Weekly, monR or crop time. BRAXTON L, SERVICE, Whiteville, N 1-24-c Br^ALE?Rebuilt Underwood B^riter. Good as new. Price Eo. C. ED TAYLOR, SouthR -V c- Uc ^KtojThATCHING: Use eggs HL your own flock to raise Br baby chicks. Eggs hatched B's2 50 per hundred. Eggs must Bdelivered, and chicks called B Booking orders now for Bing hatching. H. L. CLEMR.\-S, supply. N. C. 2-12-* B^X~TRE1 3 FOR SALE? Beffart and Schley budded paper Bell 'rees- Prices reasonable. DeRiy at my home in Whiteville Bn- Saturday. N. B. CHESRTT 2*6-c ite gals i ICS SALE OI' keai estate with the judgment I "ii the 3oth day ' D-. 1935, In Re: A v..:: Administrator, vs. Carrie ?t 'is. the undersignH pointed Commlssisale it said cause, will ^E. for sale at public auction to i highest bidder for cash at the ^Kr b u-e door in the City of ^ uN.n. North Carolina on srj day of February, ('< 1:0011. as per airecnous I u.ive named judgment the hjv-E described lot, tracts, pieces P-jatls of land, lying and being [tfce -urtv of Brunswick, State of Ltli Carolina, and bounded and E-'itd as follows, to-wit: Ers: Tract: Adjoining the lands of Hl Bennett. Isaac Bong and others, fed as follows, to-wit: Beginning |a slake in Agere Branch on the kic Road, runs up said branch pie mouth of a little drain of a Ik": about east of the line formerfhown as W. B. Beck's line; thence E W. B. Beck's line to a gum in |i run of Milliken's Branch, thence |n said Branch with the run to s Public Road, thence with said d to the beginning, containing 37 res. more or less fe-nnd Tract: Beginning on a gum H I Bennett's corner, runs south rest kl poles to a stake, thence ith SO east i!2 poles to a lightid stump; thence south 36 east 50 e to a pine; thence north 15 east fdes to a pine, thence north 40 it IS poles to a stake, thence i :i east 50 poles to a stake, m to the beginning, containing acres. be above two tracts being the ; two tracts of land described in fttubr filed in this cause. Krf and posted, this the 4th day ternary. 1936. ROBERT W. DAVIS. < Commissioner. NOTICE OK SAFE lill offer for sale to the highest ? for cash at the courthouse in the City of Southport, N. C? 15th of day Feb., A. D? 1936 . 16th day of Feb* A. D* 19S6, ie southport Fish Scrap & Oil vy, with all the machinery and sent therein, and the land upon 1 the said plant is located, con? of 3S5 acres, more or less, 1 in Smithville Township. * county, the boundaries and tiion of the said land will be at the said sale. sale will bo made subject to nation of the court and further t to to* liens. The successful Ix- required to deposit 10 the amount of his bid irmation of sale, i posted this the loth ary. 193S. iS E. CAUSE. Receiver sh Scrap &. Oil Company Davis. Attorney For The 2-12Cj T HOME NOTES illiams made a busi) Wilmington on Monpast week. On his rede a trip to the Supbringing Miss Lizzie :k from her visit to lie callers at the home j were Mrs. Agnes M. Robinson to see and Mrs. G. W. Kiris. Dora Arnold and i Tyndall and daughtG. W. Kirby, Jr. Satterfield and her held one of their best the home on Tuesday ' >. Johnson called Weduiing. It was her inhave the radio reguted by the end of the circumstances prevenisie Swan visited Mr. C. Williams on last Mrs. Wilbur Register, 0 Register and Mrs. ims a id son, Conrad, Mr. and Mrs. .he home Whel Fulwood, Arnold, Mrs. Mrs. Bcss:e Garvin and '-be highest refarmers of Graham ' R pt records last ijjte of Caswell county Peach trees now m as a demonstration "^nagement this sea 29, 1936 Lespedeza Is Valuable Crop Soon Will Be Time To Sow Lespedeza, According To Specialist, Who Says It Is Valuable Crop It will soon be time to sow lespedeza, E. C. Blair, extension agronomist at State College, reI minds North Carolina farmers. Lespedeza is one of the most (valuable crops that can be grown jon the farm, he stated, and it lean be grown under a wide variety of climatic and soil conditions. Lespedeza makes a good hay that is relished by stock and is high in proteins and carbohydra| tes. It also makes good grazing jin the hot summer and fall monjths when other pasturage is dormant Blair also pointed out its val!ue as a soil builder when plowled under at maturity. Even when (the crop is cut for hay, he added, jthe roots and the lower part of I the plant left in the field will improve the soil to some extent, j Eight tests with lespedeza | showed that on an average, | where corn was producing 21.3 bushels to the acre without lespedeza, the same land would produce 44.1 bushels to the acre afj ter a growth of lespedeza had (been turned under. Similar effects have been not(ed on small grains, cotton, soyabeans, and even weeds. Lespedeza grows on medium to heavy bottom lands, but on most up lands satisfactory yields can be obtained. Common, Tennessee 76, and Kobe varieties of lespedeza grow well in most parts of the State, but are hardly worth planting on coarse sandy soil. The Korean variety does not grow well on I poor or acid soils. Lespedeza should be sown in (February or March in most sections, as germination should be ilate enough to avoid freezes and early enough for the plants to become well established before hot, dry weather comes. Farm Questions Question: Can baby chicks be fed immediately after they are hatched? Answer: Nature has given the chick a balanced ration in the form of unabsorbed yolk which should maintain the chick for 72 hours. However, satisfactory results are obtained if feed and water are given the chicks as soon as they are placed under the hover, or in the starter bat| tery. The chicks usually go to eating in several hours and do J well under these conditions. If I the baby chicks are to be shipj ped, however, it is best not to be given any feed until they arrive at destination. Question: How should I arrange my garden plot to best advantage ? Answer: Much time and effort can be saved by arranging the various crops in units or sections. Two or three sections should be planted to the annual crops, one section to the quick-maturing spring crops such as garden peas, green onions, lettuce, mustard, iand spinach, and still another section planted to early cabbage, beets, carrots, and the first planting of snap beans, early corn, and early tomatoes. The main - summer crops such as summer j caDDage, lima Deans, cuuumucts, squash, okra, peppers, and sweet jcorn should also have a section. As soon as one -section is har| vested, it should be plowed up and prepared for later plantings. Question: When is the best time to plant a pasture in North Carolina? Answer: New pastures should be seeded in this state during the early fall or late winter. If the land selected is low or on a hillside, all bushes and briars I should be taken off in January [and the land prepared for seeding iby disking or coultering. The seed should be sown in February using about 40 pounds per acre of a mixture made up of grasses suitable to the section. Broadcast the seed and cover with a drag harrow or by dragging a heavy brush over the land. In the Middlewestern States, Mr. Shrader finds only about 5 per cent of the chicks sold by commercial hatcheries are sexed. Practically all the segregated cockerels are sold to customers who intend to raise them for broilers. Very few hatcheries in the South or the Atlantic Coast States did any scpcing during the 1935 season. In Anson county, 18000 cotton growers received $60,000 in parity checks in time for the Christmas holidays. Tenants and children shared in the happiness created. / mon. Flock records on 65,237 hens in Burke county for December show that each hen made a profit of 12 cents above feed cost during the month. i THE 5 /y ait THE STORY PROLOGUE.?At b gathering of j ronles In the village of LibertyI Maine, Jim Saladlne Uatene to the | history of the neighboring Hostile | Valley?Its past tragedies. Its superb Ashing streams, and. above all. the mysterious, enticing "Huldy." wife of Will Ferrln. Interested, he drives to the Valley for a day's Ashing, i though admitting to himself his j ohlef desire Is to see the reputedly glamorous Huldy Ferrln. CHAPTER 1?"Old Marm" Pierce and her nineteen-year-old granddaughter Jenny live In the Valley. Since little more than a child Jenny has at first admired and then deeply loved young Will Ferrln. neighboring farmer, older than she. and who regards her still as merely a child. Will leaves the farm?his father's ?and takes employment In nearby Augusta. Jenny, despite her grandmother's comforting. Is disconsolate. CHAPTER 11--H1S father's death brings Will bar!: to the Valley, but he returns to Augusta, still unconscious of Jenny's womanhood, and | love. Neighbors of the Pierces are Bart and Amy Carey, brother and i sister. Bart, unmarried and some- I i thing of a ne'er-do-well. Is attracted | by Jenny, but the girl repulses him definitely. Learn nc that Will Is com- i Ing home. Jenny, exulting, sets his long-empty house "to rights." and has dinner readv for him. He comes ?bringing his wife, Huldy. The girl's world collapses CHAPTER 111.?Huldy. at once perceiving Jenny's secret, mercilessly mocks her discomfiture. Huldy soon becomes the subject of unfavorable gossip In the Valley, though Will apparentlv -s blind to the fact. CHAPTER IV?Entering his home, unlooked for. Will has found seemingly damning evidence of his wife's unfaithfulness, as a man who he knows Is Seth Humphreys breaks from the house With the echo of his wife's derisive laughter In his ears. Will pursues Humphreys. He overtakes him, and after a struggle chokes him to death, though Humphreys shatters his leg. with a bullet. At Marm Pierces house the leg Is amputated. Jenny goes to ureaH ine news to nuiay. one nnas Bart Carey with the woman. When j : he leaves, Huldy makes a mock of Jenny's sympathy, declaring she has i no use for "half a man" and Is leav' Ing at once She does so. I CHAPTER V?Will is legally ex! onerated, and with a home-made artli flclal leg "carries on," hiring a help| er. Zeke Dace. He Is stubbornly j loyal to Huldy. as his wife, resenting all condemnation of her conduct. I Months later Huldy comes back. Will. 1 only warning her she must "mend her ways," accepts her presence as her right. Zeke and Bart engage , In a flst fight, the trouble arising. ; as all know, over Huldy. Jenny and Will never meet. CHAPTER VII?Saladine, caught j In heavy rain, takes refuge at Marm Pierce's. Bart Carey arrives, carrying Huldy, whom he claims has fallen from a ledge, and seemingly Is dead. Marm Pierce declares her dead. ; but while Huldy and Jenny are alone. I the woman, with her last breath. | asserts Will killed her. Horrified, Jenny decides to tell no one of the I accusation. She goes to the Ferrin I farm to notify Win. CHAPTER VIII?With him Jenny returns to Marm Pierce's. She has told him of Huldy's death, and he is j bewildered. Zeke Dace cannot be I found. Will has to go back to his I farm to feed the cattle. Jenny goes I with him, having the feeling that she Is In a manner protecting him. CHAPTER TX?Saladine Informs Sheriff Sohler, by phone, of Huldy's death. The sheriff comes to Marm j Pierce's farm Bart explains how he | found Huldy. after her fall. dead, as I he supposed. Will and Jenny, reJ turning, find the sheriff there, and J I Jenny's heart sinks. Her uneasiness betrays her to her grandmother, and I on the latter's insistence she reveals the fact that Huldy had accused Will [ ! of causing her death but she knows. in her heart, from Will's actions and | explanations, that he Is Innocent. I CHAPTER XIII t ? FOR a moment after Bart dlsap- j peared In this fashion so mys- j terious, the sheriff's bulky figure j was motionless beside the car; but Saladine scrambled to the ground, and tripped on the running board i and fell hard on hands and knees, ! his fingers digging deep into the J soft and spongy sod, and there was ' a wet chill of water on his shins. He was on his feet, instantly. J From the barn came, diminuendo, that rusty, creaking sound. They went forward at last like wooden soldiers, stiff kneed, on tipj toe, warily; till as they came close j to the barn, looking up they saw j 1 something dark and bulky swinging a little to and fro above their i j heads. In the peak of the roof I above them there was a projecting I beam from which the horse fork ! was rigged. It was from that beam I that this object was suspended. ! Blurred and foreshortened, it was j .vet unmistakable; and the sheriff I uttered a stammering exclamation. I and he went blundering Into the 'barn, groping here and there, lie stumbled over something, and Sale dine struck a match, and the sheriff ' demanded hoarsely: "A knife? (lot a knife? Quick."" As lie spoke, he looked up at 1 Saladlne and above him. Knludlne, very stiffly and warily, turned Ids - ' Ornf his | head to iihiis iii.ii _ shoulder, following flip sheriff's eyes, he saw a mini sitting cross-legged on a fimher. his hands hanging idl.v over his shins, his e.fes bright j as a cat's eyes in the dark, and I burning strangely. His grinning I teeth were white. It was ZeUe l?ace, with that big hat, its brim curled so jauntily, pushed far back on his head. iTATE PORT PILOT, SOUTH ??Liy&\ iamT^.5^JfJI j 1 d Zeke, above them, said in a t drawling tone: "Here's a knife! Help yourself!" And something a thumped on the barn floor. j, The sheriff found the knife even in the darkness, and twisted open ^ the blade, and Saladine heard steel . saw on hemp. Then a pulley n whirred, and something fell heavily j, on the ground outside the barn door. The sheriff was quick that way. ^ He became busy there, and he said ^ over his shoulder: "Find the lantern, Jim! One somewhere!" | Zeke spoke calmly. "It hangs e right here under me!" Saladine was a man not easily j daunted; but his hands were shak- I ^ ing now. He tried fruitlessly to j light the lantern, broke two or three ! ^ matches in an absurd futility before ' t Zeke dropped from his perch and I said: j "Here! Let me!" And he took the lantern and with | ctnnrlv hnnd had it lichterl tn stantly. j * So they turned to where Bart lay. i , The sheriff had Bart's wrists In his | t hands, pushing Bart's arms up and t baels and down to the ground above Bart's head; then heading the el-' .. bows, pressing the folded arms bard j j. home on Bart's chest. He repeated j ^ this in a rhythmic persistence. Zeke said at last. In tones which had a peculiar terror of their own: "I low you won't do him any good (j that way. mister. His neck's hroke!" He added contentedly: "Or if It D ain't, It ought to be!" p The sheriff relaxed his efforts, j, "It's all I know to do," be admitted 5 helplessly. He bent forward, exam- tI inlng the dead man. "I guess yo're j right," he said at last, and stood up y slowly. "You must be this Zeke Dace j, they tell about," he reflected. j? "That's so," Zeke assented. "That's who I be!" C( The sheriff looked down at Bart g there on the ground. "You done ? this to him, did you?" 0 "Guess I did," Zeke assented; and ? after a moment, he explained as I c though proud of his grim device: "I 'lowed he'd come to tend the ? critters in the barn hero, give him ^ time. So I run a fall through the j, tackle of the horse fork, and got y enough purchase with it to h'lst the j, grindstone into the upper mow. I didn't know as it'd be heavy enough ; j so I fastened some trace chains and such truck onto it. Then I balanced j, it up there on the edge, so's it'd tip jover easy, with one end of the fall j fast to it, and a running noose in "f t'other end. I fetched the noose end .. down here and waited; and when t, Bart come in, all I had to do was ^ drop the noose over his head and j y twitch the grindstone off Its perch." v The sheriff tipped back his hat, 1 f ran his fingers across his brow. "Well, we'd ought to get Bart in the ' v house," he decided. "Can't let him ^ lay out here!" And he said to Sal- | adine: "Take his feet, Jim, will you? I'll carry his head." g And he spoke to Zeke in a mat- f ter-of-fact tone. "You hold the lan- j tern," he directed. "Open the door j, for us." a So they carried Bart into the p kitchen, and laid him on the floor. Zeke closed the door, and he set ? the lantern on top of the cold stove; ^ and the sheriff mopped his brow ^ and turned to face this man. "You done this, you said?" Zeke seemed almost to chuckle 0 in assent "How come?" the sheriff protested. ' "Why, they don't hang for a kill- * ing in Maine," Zeke explained, in a ' saturnine satisfaction. "But it y looked to me that was what he ^ needed!" d "You mean to say," Sohier * prompted, "he was the one killed ^ Mis' Ferrin?" v "Certain!" "Know that for a fact, do you?" t "I 'low I do," said Zeke. without li vehemence; yet there was slow pas- | I sion in his tones. s The sheriff considered; and then h on a sudden thought he knelt down o to fumble at Bart's belt, feeling it k with his fingers. He looked up at a Saladine, nodding. i n "I! IS no IT S no il? il OUIIC ; lirr . i, said hoarsely. "The old woman hit t on It. finally! That was one thin.,' i a he couldn't lie out of, and that was ] enough to nail liitn!" He wagged his head. "He had a v cold nerve," he said, almost adntir- 1 ingly. "Stood up to her Rood, didn't he? Yon wouldn't ever have thoiiRht a he was l.vinx." And he derided: g "I'nt I Ri'ess he see he was done. | a Likely he aimed to dttck and run. 0 just now. If he eotild have Rot to p the ham. he cmild ro on throtiRh. | p and ent for it, and we wouldn't h have a chance to catch him. in the dark." v Saladlne was curiously pleased that old Marm Pierce had been D % - - ' - ----- ' . ' ... j \ > [PORT, N. C. ible to prove her case in the end. 3ut?that was over now, and Zeke vas here and must be dealt with. Saladine turned to him. "How do you know Bart did it?" ie asked. Before Zeke could speak, the heriff warned him gravely: "You lon't have to say a word, less'n o're a mind." Zeke stared at them in an abtracted fashion. "I've got no reason to hold hack." he said. He food with his shoulders against he door, his hands behind him, ind his eyes flickered from one of hem to the other as he spoke. "How come you didn't try to get way?" the sheriff asked. "Here ifter you'd finished him?" Zeke shook his head. "With Huldy lead," he said, "I hadn't no place o go, nor nothing to go for!" "I'm going to have to take you long to jail," the sheriff reminded dm; and Zeke said humbly: "Why. the way It Is now, Td ull as lief be in jail as anywheres." ind after a moment, when they did lot speak, he added: "Likely you ;now about Huldy and me. It ias kind Of desperate and dreadful or me, right from the start; like laving holt of a live wire when you an't let go." He stood tall in the dim lantern Ight; he went on, as though speech ased him. to tell all that remained low to be told. It fell to Saladine to repeat to Vill Ferrin and Marm Pierce and enny what Zeke told them now. Vhen half an hour later they reurned to the house divided, Will ind Jenny came to the door; but he sheriff stayed with Zeke and hat other in the car. "Jim. you go tell them what hap ened 1" he said. So Saladine alighted and came to the warm kitchen and while hey listened without question, he old the tale. "You were right, Marm Pierce," ie said. "It was Bart His belt was one-dry!" Will stirred, but Salaline added quickly, restraining the ither man: "But Bart's dead 1'ready, Will. Zeke killed him." And he related the manner of tat killing; then harked back. I Zeke was upset when Huldy took \ ie down to the brook," he exlained. "As soon as Will left him, e tried to find her at the ledge; [ ut she was gone. She must have ied to follow me." He hesitated, struck by the percepon that his own coming here today orl r\rxw>in!t-nt-oH nil thflt Pllfflied. Zeke didn't see her," he explained. But he traipsed down brook, and aught up with me, and he thought he was bound to meet me, somewhere; so he followed me till I got ver here. He was hiding outside when Bart come through the barn, arrying her. "Zeke was too far away to stop tart; but he knew it was Huldy by er dress, and he was wild; and e crawled Into the other side of he house, to try to bear what had appened to her." "It was him I heard in there?" enny whispered. Saladine nodded. "And it was lm in the shed, after that, Marm ierce," he said. He looked at enny. "Zeke heard Huldy tell you hat Will killed her," he explained, and he set out to find Will, ready o do for him! But on the way ome, he see Bart's tracks in the roods, and back-tracked Bart to .'here he picked Huldy up after she ell. "It had rained, but the ground ras all soft before the rain, and leke was tracker enough to make ut what had happened. Bart didn't I ome up from the brook to where ! he fell. There'd have been tracks , o show, if he had, but there wa'n't. tut his tracks was all plain where e'd come down from the ledge nd across to where Huldy was j lying." Marm Pierce interjected sharply: j There was tracks coming up from | he brook when I went over there, ' rhile you and Bart was here!" Saladine considered, admiring the Id woman's thoroughness, yet pereivlng an explanation of this mater, too. "Bart must have laid a j ake trail," he suggested. "On his ray back here from Will's. But ou see, Zeke got there before Bart ad a chance to do that after Huldy led." He added: "And if Bart told ! he truth, his rod and all would 1 ave been there then; but they I ra'n't!" And he explained: "Zeke went np o the ledge, and found enough to ?t him make out that Bart and itildy had had some kind of a cnflfle there; so he knowed Huldy ad lied about Will, and he raced I ver to Bart's house, meaning to ill hiin; but Bart wa'n't tliere: I nd Zeke come back here and ilssed Bart again; and he spent he rest of the day like a dog bpween rat holes, trying to find Bart nd to get at him in some way so tart couldn't use his gun." He concluded: "And he finally | .-aylaid him over at the barn! j 'hat's all!" Jenny clung fast to Will's arm; I nd Mnrm Pierce exclaimed: "Well, ood riddance!" There was never i ny sentimentality in that stout Id woman. "Htildy wa'n't worth t; but I'm right glad to know that j tart got his comeuppance! It was igh time." But Will said: "Pore Zeke. He ton't live long In jail!" "Pore fiddlesticks!" Marm Pierce rotested. "I sh'd sav vou didn't ..... lave any call to pity btmT' "I dunno," Will confessed. "I always was kind of sorry for Zeke. And It wa'n't his fault He tried to hold out against her. But Huldy, I guess she could outnumber most any man." Saladine felt himself an outsider ( here. "The sheriff's In a hurry," he 1 remembered. "We're taking Zeke? and Bart too?to town; so Til be moving on." And turned toward the door. "I'll come see you folks again, sometime," he promised. "Do so," Marm Pierce assented, and Will seconded the Invitation. So Saladine bade them all goodby, and went out Into the night where the sheriff and Zeke were waiting In the car, and began the long, wearisome drive to town. He forgot his rod and fish basket; but It would be long before he came to claim them. Zeke Dace, as Will had foreseen, did not live to face trial. He died In late August, In the jail on the hill above East Harbor. "He wa'n't sick," the sheriff told Saladine, stopping at Jim's farm on the Ridge above Fraternity one day. "He was always kind of thin and shaky, but no worse than always. | He just died, that's all!" They talked together of Zeke for j a little; and then Jim asked a word of the other folk In Hostile Valley, j "I was out there last week," the sheriff explained. "To tell 'em about Zeke. Marm Pierce had made It up with her brother. Win's living with her now, and fixing up his side of the house to keep the i weather out. He swears he's never i going to touch another drop of rum as long as he lives, prob'ly." Saladine asked for Will and Jenny. "They're fine," the sheriff assured him. "They're aiming to get married, here in a week or so!" "Not married yet?" Saladine exclaimed in surprise. Sohier shook his head. "You'd ought to go out and see 'em," he suggested. "They spoke kindly j about you." "I left my rod out there," Saladine recalled. "Forgot It, that night, ind I never did go to fetch It. May- ' >e I will!" | There was in him no immediate j ntentlon to do this. His first exlerlence of Hostile Valley had not )een of a sort to attract him to that jloomy place again; yet If Bart, ind Zeke and Huldy were gone.... j He thought of Jenny and Will and >f Marm Pierce with pleasure; and : ] shen the next day proved fine and fair, and the blue hills were beckoning, he yielded to sudden impulse, climbed into his old car, and ! set out along the remembered way. 1 Saladine turned into the farm- j yard, and stopped the car, and a man at work with an ax In the shed , reased bis labors and came to the I door. But this was not Zeke Dace! | Here was Will. He recognized Saladine and dropped the ax and came swiftly out Into the sun. His smile was broad, and there was welcome in his eye. Saladine looked at this tall blond giant with hair like flax, and steady eyes of a deep blue like the sky at dusk; and he slipped to the ground, and their hands clasped hard. "Come fishing again, did you?" Will asked, with a chuckle. "Don't see no rod!" "No, Just come to pass the time of day," Saladine told him. "How nMA nan millfi ?->???? JVU, VT 111 X 1U 1C UUCi "I am," said Will. "I am full j fine!" Then his eyes swung to one side, toward the house, and Saladine saw Jenny In the kitchen door. She had a plate and a dish towel in her hands, and contentment In i her countenance; and as they went toward her she smiled, and put the | plate and towel down and came swiftly to meet them. So these three stayed there together on the sunned step of the porch for a while. Saladine asked after Marm Pierce, and Jenny's eye twinkled, and Will said: "She's busy breaking Win to bridle now!" "I thought she got too much satisfaction out of her row with him . ever to make It up," Saladine suggested, amused. It was Jenny who explained, her eyes gentle. "She Just did it so's I could marry Will and not have to : worry about her." she confessed, i "She wouldn't hear to moving up j here; 'lowed If she was pulled up < by the roots she'd just wither and die. And she said new married i folks had ought to be by theircelves i fill they got broke to double har- i ness. anyway. P.nt I couldn't bear ! to think of her living there alone: |l so she sent for Uncle Win and ^ talked him into coming back there , to live, and now she's having as much fun nut of making him do her j; bidding as slip did before out of fighting with him 1" "I hear he's quit drinking." Sala- i dine suggested. Will guffawed; and Jenny nodded. laughing, softly too. "She put something into his rum," \ she said. "It made him terrible sick, and he let on that she'd killed him. and she said she'd kill or cure!" She added contentedly: "Uncle Win's pretty old. but he can do the chores, and she can manage the housework. It's better for them to be together so!" And she confessed, her cheek bright: "Of course, Pm still down there the most of the time. I just come op here to do Will's dishes, and sweep around, and cook him up some victuals every daj." _ . . - , SEVEN Saladine agked, smiling: "What does Marm Pierce think about yon and Will waiting so long?" Her eyes were quick to cling to Will's, tenderly; aDd Will said gravely: "We didn't want to put no slight on Huldy, by marrying; and Jenny and me, we're young. We don't have to hurry now. We've good time!" "But we're most through waiting," Jenny added. "It's not longnow." When Saladine presently moved to depart, Will urged that he stay and try for a trout in the big pools in the bog. "A day like this, yo're apt to get hold of an old rouncer, down there," he promised. "Might be worth your while!" But Saladine shook his head. "I can't, not today," he said. "But I'll stop and see Marm Pierce!" Jenny shook her head. "Granny's not to home," she said. "She and Uncle Win went to the village." "I'll come next spring, then." he promised. "I left my rod down here, last time I was here. I'll have to come and get that, and try the brook again." "She's kept the rod safe for you," Jenny told him; and Will urged hospitably: "You do! Come and stay with us. Jenny and me, we can put you np right here, long as yo're a mind!" So Saladine left messages for old Marm Pierce, and at last bade them good-by. When be drove away, they stood together, shoulders almost touching, to watch him go. He turned up the road toward the ridge again, and looked back and saw their hands lift in a gesture of farewell. Then they swung, side-by-side, toward the house that was to be their home. The farm was far below him: and beyond it lay the sweep and loveliness of Hostile Valley. It was not easy, on such a day as this to understand how the place had come by its harsh ancient name. When on that night In June, now months past, Saladine departed after his first coming here, he had gone at full speed, like one pursued. But today he drove slowly, reluctant to leave the pleasant scene and these s friendly folk behind. [THE END.] Bolivia News (By Jesse Lewis) The girls and boys basketball teams will journey to South;. .rt Friday night, January 31, to continue the schedule with a doubleheader with the teams of Southport. The locals took both ends of the first double bill. The boys won 27-13 and the girls 24-3. They hope to repeat the first scores. The boys have played four games, one with each school, and have come out victorious in all . four games. The girls have been playing some good basketball also, playing each time the boys played and losing only to Waccamaw by a small margin. Doctor Adkins Dr. C. B. Adkins, from Rowan county, is now located at Boli-J TT_ L. via. nc 19 iu upcii an umue iicre as soon as he finds a suitable place. The people of Bolivia and Brunswick county are very glad to have Dr. Adkins in this vicinity. Bolivia being located in the center of Brunswick county, is .a good field for a doctor. Friends of Mrs. Foster Mintz will be glad to learn that she is improving nicely. Mrs. Mintz has been confined to her bed for several weeks. Birthday Party Mrs. Hardy Clemmons entertained her son, Raeford Allen, at her home Saturday evening, January 25th. Refreshments were served and games were played. Those attending were: Raeford Allen, honoree, Mrs. Hardy Clemmons, hostess, Guy Mercer, Dallas Ray Mercer, Joan Mercer, Geneva Potter, Duck Potter, Listen Edwards, Jr., and May Edwards. Birth Announcement Mr. and Mrs. Labon Mercer, of Wilmington, announce the birth of a son, Roger Keith, on January 25, 1936. The Davidson Mutual Farm Exchange did $56,805 87 worth of business in 1935 which is an increase of $10,311.12 over that of 1934. ^auarrus iarmers are naving their Korean lespedeza seed recleaned and tested for the planting and marketing season. Use of peat moss on tobacco beds is receiving a careful tost this season ia all parts of the state. It is felt that the m 23 will aid in the control of blue mold. "Farmers are expectantly waging for some plan to be devised that will enable them to oat 1 production this year", says T. J. W. Broom of Union county. Following a talk made before the Tiyon Rotaiy Club by t . farm agent, a business concern gave SCO to be u-ed in t, a registered bull for use in the county. Fifteen self-feeders have been built in Eladen county s > Christmas and more than 1.000 hogs are to be put on feed .. fore spring, reports the fa 1 agent. Subscribe to The State Port Pilot?$1.50 year in advance. ?