The Legend of Hanging Rock
(Continued from last week.) i
For a long while she stood
looking at t'ie house and then at .
the ground. Later, in iter bed in
the littii' room next to the kit
chen, she lay lor long while her
thought., were numb and yet her
mind rated ai«und and around
the awful problem. In the rosy
dawn, v/:ien she stretched her
aching i»ody from the low bed,
she had come to the decision that
ail pioneer women in all matter?
must make. There was nothing,
exactly nothing, that any wo
man do anj live excepting
to accept fate in the will of her
men folk. Life was sweet to a
girl of eighteen; to die was all
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horrible; to live might bring,
might bring anything. She would
wait.
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Two day s passed, and three
l;a,i finished with the mending
which fo'lowed the Saturday bak
ing. In the time Ellen had not
left *' ,e house Several times in
the lounus of her duties she had
felt a pi est me, which never was
a pres-iice, but perhap 3 a
shadow fiittiiiy with the shadows
of a wvs'ering sun when the
noontime had passed. Though
her body ached with the tension,
and her soul sickened with the
sight ol Vincent at meal times,
resolutely she put from her mind
all thought, and existed as a
creatine bereft of all conscious
volitioh.
Saturday night brought deep
sleep, and Sunuay morning, day
of rest excepting for the cooking
of Iji -aklast anj the finishing of
the Sunday roast oi a beef the
Colon. 1 had ordered killed to fur
nish him an excuse for the long
trip back to Patrick to dispose of
the unused parts, finished at
noon up' n a note ol expectancy.
The brothers and Vincent had
{.:on>'; to their favorite swimming
hole to spend, she knew, the aft
ernoon a s was proper with young
bucks. The house was intolerable
to Elle.'s, and the immediate 1
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were little better after :
she had exhausted the possibili
ties of the setting hens and a :
new litter of kittens. The gar
den wouiu stand a bit of hoeing
perhaps, but it was the Sabbatli
. . . , and so Ellen found herselt 1
shortly in the cool shade beside j
the streamlet under the pine. I
And Wanataki was before her, a
quiet gladness in his eyes.
"You come, Princess?" he said j
simply. Earnestly his eyes peer-;
ed into hers.
"You are sad, Princess? On
the hill the young bear is feed- ;
tng." Mis eyes were suddenly
eager. Tears threatened in the
grey eyes. Hastily Ellen turned
her head and furtively rubbed
her hand across the offendin.;
members. When «he turned a
quiet smile played at the corner.*
of her mouth. Impulsively she
grasped his wrist, and point.*'.! .u
the great boulder which hun.i
over the valley.
"Wanataki," she said softly,
"take me there".
Wanataki wa g troubled. His
eyes, for the moment, clouded,
By E. CARL SINK
I and his face became even more
I
grave. He lifted his eyes to the
great stone, and dropped them
to the white haad upon hi 9 wrist. j
Ellen waited until his eyes re
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turned fully to hers. Inwardly
she sensed the struggle within
I
the youth, and, r.ot knowing its
I
import, yet thrilled womanlike as
she sensei 1 his capitulation to her
desire. For a long moment they j
stood face to face, and what
passed between the sou! of the
I
Indian vouth and the white
!
maiden only the good God who
made all humanity can know. j
"The Great Spirit." Wanataki
ar.d stopped. Ellen waited
a long minute.
| "The Great Spirit, Wanataki,"
she said simply. "I want to know
i
the Great Spirit. This day v/e
too set aside to worship our
I
Great Spirit.'
j Wanatrki peered long into the
depths of the grey eyes for the
I
truth b'hind her words.
"Com:-,' he said at last.
It was a long walk, tiring even
to the well exercised muscles of
the pioneer maiden. Tiiey cross
ed two streams and entered a
game path at the foot of the first
hill. A toilsome climb put them
on the brow they faced an
other accent across a pass.
Around cie side ol' the second
mountain they skirted whiie the
smoothness of the passage res;-
ed weary legs and relieved the
pressure on labeling lungs. Be
tween the seconj mountain and
the tliii'd there was a grassy
plane, beyonu wiufi towering
corroded granite marked the as
cent to the utmost peak which
was the abode of the Great Spirit.
I At the edge of the grassy plot,
anj around the first boulder
which had hidden the upward
path, Wanataki stepped so sud
denly that Ellen bumped into
him, and *gigg}'«,i, almost. 10.-.t
her foot.ig. The youth made no
effort to stay her fall, but waited
gravely until she stood, flushed,
! before Xm.
i "Wait here," he said briefly,
and waited only for the assent ir
i hei eye-s before turning up the
path.
I Ellen watched as his walk be
came a' doe-trot, the jog a
smooth-strided run until he stood
] outlined on the rim against the
■
I evening sun. Her breath caught
as the virility of his young bode
stood Q o revealed. Fascinated,.
she stared as his right arm lifted
toward the distant sky, and he
i stood motionless for a long in- j
i stant.
Then "iom the swelling muse'es
of his throat came the call thai
had thrilled her so often as sii"
I hea-d it in the mornings and at
night ' n the safety of the stone
house ar.d imagined it the wat •
cry of a monster panther on the
mountainside. It rose in crash
ing cresecndo, sc-emhg in reality
to mow.* the air to h r av»i, •.
i
' f»upi,Ucaiion which became a
mighty challenge to the forces of
earth with the sure promise of
. strength from above.
A 3 the sail finished, Ellen lean
i ed weakly against the boulder,
, I not having the strength to stand,
THE DANBURY REPORTER
and her mind and soul was given
to the youth who stood upon a
mountain top and sent out hw
call for the earth and f° r the I
heavens to hear. It was ">'n tcs'
before she gathered sufficient
strength to go forward when she
saw the youth, having approach
ed hi g God alone, now awaitad'
her coming.
Wanataki eibnt as the
girl approached and stood it lus j
side. His gaze was fixed out iiito j
the horizon, halfway between the j
heiveng and the dwelling places j
of his people below. He stood s«
a statue, rigid, scarcely breath
ing.
Ellen followed hi 8 gaze out
over the mountain top. but sne •
saw not'.iing beyond. She wan
trembling, not with the exertion,
of the !?te climb, but with the
force of her emotions which ham
mered at her chest, and tinglel
the t'Ps °f her breasts, and beat
at the base of her skull, anri
sent whirling streamers of hot
light through her brain. H»r
eye s fix-d suddenly on the swell
of his biceps a~ she stood at his '
side; her mind swooned, anj was
brought up sharply, fascinated at
the regular beating of a pulse in
the brown throat. As a marked
bird would follow the swaying of
a serpent's head, her head be: I
forward and back in cadence with
the beating of the pulse. Dimly
I
she wa 3 aware of a warming sir;
which poured all the strength 01
nature into her body; within her
self a flaming heat welled out
ward.
With a sudden motion she
stood before him, and her frantic
fingers l.uried themselves in th;
firm flesh of his upper arms.
Passionitely she forced hi s body
forward and his eyes down. But
hitj body was 1 igid, and his eyes
filled with a light which came,
she knew, from outside. Her in
stinct forced the fullness of her
womanhood into the struggle.
She measured her length
against his body, crushed har
breast s against his hard chest,
ner limbs against the stc-el
tendons which held him so up
! right. Her arms entwined and
locked behind his head. To the
force of her pull he relaxed
sJitfhtly, while the light in hid
eye s change! suddenly. With a
moan Ellen crushed her lips
against the stern lines of hi 3 own,
, and poured all of her maiden
strength :nto the caresg her blood
forced f v om her being.
; (To be continued next week.)
FoiwT Sail
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Hints For Motorists
By Joseph R. Rollins I
The Atlantic Refining Company
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it has been standing in the rain
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NOTICE
Having qualified a 3 the admin-'
istrator of L. L. Nann, late of |
the county of Stokes, this i s to
notify all persons holding claims
against said estate to present l
them to the undersigned on or i
before the 7th day of September, |
1940, or this notice will be plead j
in bar of their recocery. All j
persons indebted to said estate :
will make immediate settlement j,
with the undersigned.
This September 7, 1939.
ANDY H. NTJNN, Admr., I
of L. L. Nunn, Westfield, j
N. C„ Route 1.
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State of North Carolina,
! Stoke 3 County.
In the Superior Court :
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL i
PROPERTY
Stokes County (Board of County
Commissioners of Stokes County, j
North Carolina, J. R. Voss,
Auditor of Stoke a County.)
Vs.
IN Earl Wa'.l i- i
| Raynor V/all, Loi 3 Wall,
Brantley Wall, Eugenia
Wall and Anna Wall
By authority of an order made !
and entered on the 27th day oi
;September, 1939, in the above en-1
1 titled cause by J. Watt Tuttle, j
I Clerk of the Superior Court of |
j Stokes county, North Carolina, j
: the undersigned commissioner j
will expose for Bate for cash, at j
j the court house door In Danbury, ;
! North Carolina, to the highest]
bidder, at 12 o'clock noon on Fri- •
day, October 27th, 1939 the fol- I
lowing property:
| A trie' of land devised by J.
IT. Wall, to N. E. Wall, for life !
land remainder to his children, i
i the will of said J. T. Wall, being !
recorded in the office of thr !
Clerk of the Superior Court of j
jStoke s county, North Carolina, 
in Will Book No. 8 at page 414. |
Ito which reference is hereento |
made. The land being in Yadkin J
township is more particularly de- j
3crifced as follows: i ,
| "Beginning at a white oali.',
iruns north 20 chain s to a black ]
jgum; thence 10 chains to a black 
■oak; thence north 2 degrees east j
4 chains and IS links to a dog- j,
I wood; thence east on a new line ]
133 1-2 chains to a Spanish oak; !|
I thence south 15 chains and 60
(links to a cotton wood; thence
1 north 8S degrees west 17" and 3-4 1 .
! chains to a pine bush; thence ~
south 9 chain s to a stake; thence [1
i west 24 chains to a white oak. 1
 the beginning corner, containing
i 81.95 acres, more or- lessv*'
This the 27th day of Sep*.. *39.
A. J. EI.Ufif.TON,
j Commissioner.
M. 0. STEVENS
STORE
One Mile South of Lawsonville
PRIZES rJIVEN FREE SATURDAY,
OCTOBER 14TH, 3 P. M.
First prize $3 50 Permanent Wave.
Second Prize $2.00 in Cash.
Third Prizs One Bag Bran.
Fourth Prize 4 Pound Bucket Lard.
/ DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES
AT LOW PRICES.
Pinto Beans .. 7 C-
Pure Coffee 9 C jb.
Cranberry Bean?
Large White Beans (j c ,
ALSO VISIT OUB BEAUTY SHOP.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 19*9
N'OTICK
State of North Carolina,
Stoke g county.
Stokes County, plaintiff
j V 3.
Ovela Sockwell. and hus
band Sockwell, de
fendants.
I
j The defendants above named,
j will take notice, that an action
ent Mod as above, hag been com
mencei in the Superior Court of
Stokes County, North Carolina,
for the i urpose of foreclosing
past due t:'.:-:es on 19.10 acres of
land' located »a Beaver Island
township and evvrtej by the said
defendants, and i'he defendants
jwiir further take noti-e that they
are required to. appexr within
j thirty days from this and
j answer or demur to the complaint
in said actioa, or the plaintiff
wiir apply to the court for the re
lief demanded in said complaint.
This the 28th day of Sept., '39.
J. WATT TUTTLE,
Clerk Superior Court.
A. J. Ellington, Attorney for
plaintiff