Satan
Sanderson
By HALL1E ERMI.NIE RIVES.
Aath?x ml "Hntu Coure|?ou?," Lie.
Copyright, im the Bobba Merrill
J Comply.
gk Chapter 7
I WAURY SANDERSON as
? M he walked slowly back
frern a leu* ramhlo In
J I J B kniokerl**.Lets mud Nor
>=^5' folk Jacket over the hills
was Dot thinking of the
lights nuil sounds of the pleasant even
ing. He had tramped miles since sun
down and had returned as he set out,
gloomy, unrequited, a follower of baf
fled quest
Set back from the street la a wide
estate of trees and shrubbery stood a
great white porched house. Not a
light had twinkled from It for nearly a
year. The little city had wondered at
firet, then by degrees had grown Indif
ferent. The secret of that prolonged
honeymoon Harry Sanderson and the
bishop alone could hare told, for the
bishop knew of Hugh's criminal act.
He was named executor of the will
that lay In the Korean chest, aud him
David Stlres had written the truth.
Ills heart had gone out with pity for
Jessica, and understanding. The secret
he locked In his own breast, as did
Harry Sanderson, each thinUlng the
other Ignorant of it
Since that wedding day no shred of
news had come to either. Harry had
wished for none. To think of Jessica
was a recurrent pang, and yet the very
combination of the safe In his study
he had formed of the letters of her
name! In each memory of her he felt
the fresh assault of a new and tireless
foe?the love which he must deny.
Outcast and criminal as Hugh was,
castaway, who had stolen a bank's
money and a woman's love, he was
.till her husband. Hugh's wife! What
could sue be to him? And this fevered
conflict shot through with yet another
pang, for the waking smart of com
punction which had risen at Jessica's
bitter cry, "Yea helped to make him
what he has become!" would not down.
That cry had shown him in one clarify
ing Instant the follies and delinquencies
of his early career reduplicated as
through the facets of a crystal, and In
the polarized light of conscience Hugh
?loafer, gambler and thief?stood as
the type and sign of an enduring ac
cusation.
But If the recollection of that wed
ding day and its aftermath stalked al
ways with him?If that kiss had seemed
to cling again and again to his lips as
be sat in the quiet of his study?no one
guessed. He seldom played his violin
now, but he had shown no outward
sign. As time went on he had become
no less brilliant though more Inscruta
ble; not less popular, save perhaps to
the parish heresy hunter, for whom he
had never cared a straw. But beneath
the surface a great change bad come to
Harry Sanderson.
Tonight as he wended his way past
the house In the aspens, through the
clatter and commotion of the evening,
there was a kind of glaze over his
whole face?a shell of melancholy.
Tomorrow began Harry's summer
vacation, and be had planned a
month's pedestrian outing through the
wide ranch valleys and the farther
ranges, and this should set him up
again.
Now, however, as he walked along
be was bitterly absorbed In thoughts
other than his own needs. He passed
more than one acquaintance with a
stare of nonrecognition. One of these
was the bishop, who turned an Instant
to look after him. The bishop bad seen
that look frequently of late and had
wondered If It betokened physical Ill
ness or mental unquiet More than
once he had remembered, with a sigh,
the old whisper of Harry Sanderson's
early wildness. But he knew youth
and Its lapses, and he liked and re
spected him. Only two cays before,
on the second anniversary of Harry's
ordination, be had given him for bis
silken watch guard a little gold cross
engraved with his name and contain
ing the date.
At a crossing the sight of a knot of
people on the opposite side of the
street awoke Harry from his abstrac
tion. They had gathered around a per
ipatetic street preacher, who was hold
ing forth In a shrill voice. Beside him
on a short pole hung a dripping gaso
line flare, and the hissing flame lit his
bare bead, his thin features, his long
hair and his bony bands moving In
vehement gestures. A small melodeon
on four wheels stood beside him, and
on Its front was painted In glaring
white letters:
HALLELUJAH JONEa
Buffer me that I may speak, and
after that X have spoken mock on.
?Job xxl, 3.
From over the way Harry gated at
the tall, stooping figure pitilessly be-!
trayed by the thin alpaca coat, at the
ascetic face burned a brick red from
u Wot to them that art at ta*e in Zlon.
exDoeurt to wind aoU kd, *t tfc? flash-'
Injf tji*. tLe lmp'issfi>neti Mr-jeuiaeni
lie paused at tbe curb ami listened
curiously, for Hallelujah Jones with
bis evangelism mingled a sploa of 111*
seal of tbe socialist. Id bis thinking
the rich and the wicked were mingled
Inextricably in the great chastisement
lie was preachlug now from bis fa
vorite text: "Woe to tbem that are at
ease in J^Jon."
Harry smiled grimly. He had al
ways Ik'Oii "at ease in Zlon." He wor.
sumptuous clothes. The ruby In bis
ring would bring what this plodding
extiorter would call a fortune. At tbW
moment Hede. his dapper I'lnn chauf
fenr. was polishing the motor car for
him to take his pool evening spin. Thai
very afternoon he had put Into thf
little safe lu the chapel study S'J.OOn
In gold which he had drawn, a part fot
bis charities and quarterly payments
and a part to take with him for the
"ilijeocies ef bis trip. The street evan
fct-II?i utei I li-m pmui-bWiit piradlse
and perdition to the grinning yokels
often needed a square meal and was
lucky if he always knew where be
would sleep.
The thread of his thought broke
The bareheaded figure had ended bis
harangue. The eternal fires were bank
ed for a time, while, seated on a camp
stool at bis melodeon. he proceeded to
transport his audience tp the heavenly
meads of the New Jerusalem.
Two. three verses of an old fashioned
hymn be sang, and after each verse
more of the bystanders, some In real
?arnestness, some in Impious hilarity
shouted In the chorus:
"Palms of victory!
Crowns of glory!
Palms of victory 1 shall wear!"
Harry walked on in a brown study
the refrain ringing through his brain
At tbe chapel gate lounged bis cbauf
feur awaiting orders
"Bring the car round, tlede." said
Harry, "and I sha'n't need you after
that tonight. I'll drive her myself
You can meet me at the garage."
The study was pitch dark, and Rum
my halted on tbe threshold with a low,
ominous growl as Harry fumbled for
the Electric switch. As he found and
pressed it and the place flooded with
light, he 6aw a figure there, tbe figure
of a man who had been sitting alone,
beside the empty hearth, who rose,
shrinking back from the sudden bril
liancy.
It was Hugh Stires.
Chapter 8
?H" W ARRY SANDERSON
. I? stared at the appari
tion with a strange
( I'/'- ?3 feeling, like rising ^rom
VJLfcv^iJy the dead. The arlsto
cratlc features were
ravaged like a nicked blade. Dissipa
tion, exposure, shame and unbridled
passion bad each set its separate seal
upon the handsome countenance.
Hugh's clothes were shabby genteel
and the old slinking grace of wearing
them was gone. A thin beard covered j
his chin, and his shift; look, as he |
turned it first on Harry and then nerv- I
ously over bis shoulder, bad in it a
hunted dread, a dogging terror, con
stant and indefinable. From bad to
worse had been a swift descent for
Hugh Stires.
The wave of feeling ebbed. Harry j
drew the window curtains, swung a
shade before the light and motioned to
the chair.
"Sit down." he said.
Hugb looked his old friend in the
face a moment; then bis unsteady
glance fell to the white carnation In
his lapel as he said, "I suppose you
wonder why I have come here."
Harry did not answer the Implied
question, nis scrutiny was deliberate.
critical ana in
quiring. "What
have yon been
doing the last
year?" he asked
"A little of ev
erything," re
plied Hugh. "1
ran a bucket
shop with Mo
reau in Sacra
mento for
awhile. Then I
went over in the
mining country
I took up a
claim at Smokv
Mountain
That's wortl
something or
may be some
time."
"Why did you
" n ny aia you. leave leave It?"
Hugh touched
his parched lips with his tongue. Again
that nervous, sidelong look, that fear
ful glance over his shoulder.
"I had no money to work it I had
to live. Besides, I'm tired of the whole
thing."
The backward glance, the look of
dread, were tangible tokens. Harry
translated them.
"You are not telling the truth." he
said shortly. "Wiiat have you done?"
Hugh flinched, but he made sullen
answer: "Nothing. What should I
have d ine?"
"That Is what I am now inquirin?
of myself," said Harry. "Your face Is
a book for any one to read. I see thing*
written on It, Hugh?things that tel*
a story of wrongdoing. You arr
afraid."
Hugh shivered under the regard. Dli'
his face really tell so much?
"I don't care to be seen In town." h?
said. "You wouldn't either, probably
nnfler tne clrcumstnnte* ' ni? ?
dropped to his frav?Hl i-nnt slwvp li
his craven fear of soim-thln* thai h?
dared not name even to hl'-??elf '
In hi* wretched need he remember*1
a nt?;ht once hefnre when he had *ldl?"*
Into town drunken and soiled to a lu*
url'<iis room, a refreshing liath rlea"
Unci and a welcome
"You're the only one In the world I
d.ired come to," he said miserably
"I'Te walked ten mile* tndsy for I
haven't a red cent In mr p'uket not
even decent clothe*." he ended
"That can be partly remedied." said
Elarrv after a pause He took a dark
coat frotu Its hook and tossed It to
him. "Put that on." he said "Yon
needn't return It."
Hugh caught the garment In an
other moment he had evhtnced It fo>
the one he wore and was emptying th>
old coat's pockets.
"Don't sneak!" said Harry with sud
den contempt "Don't von suppose t
know a deck of cards when I see It?"
The thin scar on Hugh's hrow red
dened. He thrust Into his pocket the
pasteboards he had made an Instlnc
tlTe move to conceal and buttoned the
coat around blui It fitted sufficiently
"Look here, narry." he began, "you
were a good fellow In the old days
I'm sorry I never paid you the money
I borrowed. I would hare but for
what happened. But you won't go
back on me now, will you? I want to
get out of the country and begin over
again somewhere. Will you loan uie
the money to do It?"
Hugh was eager and voluble now
The man to whom he appealed was his
forlorn hope He had come with no
intention of throwing himself upou his
father's mercy, lie had wished to see
an.; body in the world lint him
"If you will, I'll never forget it. liar
ry!" he cried. "Never, the longest
day I live! I'll use every dollar of ii
Just as I say! I will, on my honor!"
"Honor!" he said "Have yon enough
to swear by? Yon are wli.it you are
because you are a bad egg You were
born a gentleman, but you choose to
be a rogue. Do you know the meaning
of the word honor or right or justice?
nave ymi a single purpose of mind
which Isn't crooked '"
"You're Just like the rest, then,"
Hugh retorted ".III i I'ecu use I did
tluil oi:e III.ug you'll ^ >e mo no more
cliium 1>I the U . . m I did with
'[lilt mono.- n;m ij s re myself. 1
pun] eve; j <1 !?t ol liouoi I had. That's
why I'tu in ilie hole now But I get
no credit for it. even from you. I wish
you could put yourself in my place."
Harry bad been looking sieadlly at
the sallow face with Its hoof print of
the satyr, uot seeing It, but hearing
his own voice say to Jessica: "I was
my brother's keeper. I see it now." j
And out of the distance. It seemed, his
voice answered:
"Put myself In your place! I wish I
could! I wish to God I could!"
The exclamation was Involuntary,
automatic, the cumulative expression
of every throe of conscience Harry
had endured since then, the voice of
that remorse that bad cried Insistently
for reparation, dinning In his ears the
fateful question that God asked of
Cain. Suddenly a whirl of rage seized
him, unmeasured, savage, malicious.
He had despised Hugh, now he hated
him?hated him because he was Jessi
ca's husband and. more than all, be
cause he was the symbol of his own
self abasement. A daredevil side of
the old oil tun Sanderson that he had
trained and barred rose up and took
him by the throat He struck the oak
wainscoting with his fist, feeling a red
mist grow before his eyes.
"So you paid every 'debt of honor'
you had, eh? You acknowledge n
gamester's honor, but not the obliga
tion of right action between man and
man! Very welL Give me that pack
of cards. You want money?here It
la!"
He swiftly turned the clicking com
bination of the safe, wrenched open
the door and took out two heavy can
vas bags. He snapped the cord from
the neck of one of these, and a ring
ing stream of double eagles swept
Jingling on the table. He dipped his
hand In the yellow pile. A thought
mad as the hoofs of runaway horses
was careening through his brain. Hp
felt an odd lightness of mind, a tense
tingling of every nerve and muscle.
"Here is two thousand dollars?yours
if you win it?for you shall play for It
you gambler, who pays his debts of
'honor" and no other! You Bhall play
fair and straight If you never play
again!"
Hugh gazed at Harry In a startled
way. This was not the ministerial
Harry Sanderson he had known?this
figure with the white, infuriate face,
the sparkling eyes and thp strange,
veiled look. This reminded him of the
reckless spirit of his college days, that
ho had patterned after and bad stood
in awe of.
"now can I play," be said, "when
you know very well I haven't a sou
markee?"
Harry stuffed the gold back Into the
bag. He snatched the cards from
Hugh's hand and a box of waxen en
velope wafers from his desk. There
was a strange light In his eye, a tremor
in his fingers.
"It Is I who play with money I" be
said. "My gold against your coun
ters! Each of those hundred red disks
represents a day of your life?a day,
do you undei-stand?a red day of your
sin! A day of yours against a double
eagle! What you win you keep. But
for every counter I win you shall pay
me one straight, white day, a clean
day, lived for decency and for the
right I"
Hugh's eyes were fastened on the
gold In Harry's fingers. Two thousand
dollars! If luck came bla way he could
go far on that?far enough to escape
the nameless terror that pursued him
In every shadow. Money against red
wafers? Why. It was plenty If be won.
and if be lost lie had staked nothing
Wti it :i fIM>I llitrry v |*!
Il.irry ku? i(m* shrewd. miculallui.
look that rauie to bis eye* lie ruu^.ii
hi* wrtxt
"Vol here'" tie said Hoarsely l!e
flung tt?- rbipi'l door eud pu*be<t
(kiln dkJiIv lit* seized one or the ultai
randies, tit it with u match and ?tm ?
It upright tu Its own wax on (be small
communion table (but stood Juki Iii
side the altar mil. with (be cards, the
re<l wafer* and the ba?M of colu He
dragged two chairs forward
"Now," be aatd lu a strained voice
"put up vour band?your right band
and nwear Iwfore this altar, on the
gambler's bouor you boast of. win or
lose, to abide by tbls jrame!"
Hugh shrank. Lie was superstitious
L- ??? -?a
"/ twcar I will/" he until
The cnlculntlng look had tied 11 >?
glanced half fearfully about him?ai
Hurry's whire face?at the hlKb altai
with Its vases of August lilies; nl til
great rose window, now a mass <>l
white, opaque blotches on which the
three black crosses stood out with
weird distinctness; at the lurking, un
lighted shadows it) the corners, lie
looked longingly at the gold, shining
yellow In the candle light. It fascinat
ed him.
He lifted his tin- 1. It was trembling.
"I swear 1 will!" he said. "I'll stand
by the cards, Harry, and for every day
you win I'll walk a chalk line, so help
me God!"
Harry Sanderson sat down. He emp
tied one of the bags at his elbow and
pushed the box of wafers across the
table. He shuffled the cards swiftly
and cut
"Your deal!" he said.
[If Chapter 9 4
W TjT ALLELLJJAII JONES
had finished his labor
' Et j |j tor the night. The
W"BV? I crowd had grown res
? tlve and finally melted
VN^"? away, and, his audience
gone, be folded the camp stool, turued
off the gasoline flare, Bhut down the
lid of his melodeuu and trundled it up
the street.
As he pushi'd up the street he came
to a great motor car standing at the
curb under the maples. There was no
one in it, but somewhere in Its interior
a muffled whirring throb beat evenly
like n double metallic heart. Ue
stopped and regarded It Inquisitively
A rich man's property, to be surel
He looked up. It was at the gate of
the chapel. No doubt It belonged to
the fashionable rector who had ben
pointed out to him on the street the
day before. He remembered the young,
handsome face, the stylish broadcloth.
Yet It was a beautiful edifice that
wealth had built there for Christ He
saw dimly the stoue angel standing In
the porch and. leaving his melodeoti
on the pavement, entered the gate to
examine It
He noticed now a dim flicker that lit
one corner of the great rose window
Moving softly over the cropped grass,
he approached, tilted one of the hinged
panels and peered in. Two men were
there, behind the altar railing, seated
at the communion table.
Hallelujah Jones started back. There
on the table was a bag of coin, cards
and counters. They were playing?he
heard the fall of the cards on the hard
- Im wood OflW tllP
gleam of a gold
piece, the smear
of melted wax
marring the pol
ished oak. Th?
reddish glow of
the candle was
reflected on the
players' faces
The.v were gam
bllngl At God's
holy altar and
on Christ's ta
ble I Who would
dare such a prof
anation?
He craned his
neck. Suddenly
be gave a smotb
ered cry. The
player facing
him he recog
ouuucTny tie gave a iiizecl?11 was TDO
smothered cry. rector himself!
lie bent forward, gazing with a tenso
and horrified curiosity.
Five times, ten time*, the cards had
changed bands, and with every deul
Harry lost. The gold disks bad slip
ped steadily across the table. But he
had seemed to be looking beyond thr
ebb and flow of the Jettons and th??
pale face opposite him that glontid
over Its yellow pile. Though that pile
grew larger and larger? UniTf'? fmn ?
hail never changed. lluuli i ?-m i: .
?baking tin ltd ?hi u he Uiranlpi h'-V ?
con vu Ned features when ft*
his dr.nv. the desperate anxiety when
for n moment fortune seemed to wMj g
ver. lie had never In his life had su<* ?
lurk! He swept his winnings Into bis
pockets with a discordant laugh as he
noted that of the contents of the
opened bag narry had but one double J
eagle remaining.
Harry paused an Instant He snap
ped the little gold cross he wore from ,
Its silken tether and set It upright tfy
him on the table.
His band won, and the next, and the
next Hugh hoarded his gold; Be "
staked the red wafers?each one a day*
He had won almost a thousand dollar^
but the secoud bag had not yet been
opened, and the vampire Intoxication'
waa running molten hoi In his reins.
The oateuched bag drew him aa the
magnet mountain drew the adreatur
oua Siadbad?he ceuld have snatched
It In bis eagerness.
But the tuck had changed. His red
counters diminished, melted. He would
soon havo to draw on bis real win
nings. Cold beads of sweat broke on
his forehead.
Neither saw the face pressed against
the aperture. Neither guessed the wild
and terrible thoughts that were raging
through the mind of the selltary
watcher as he peered and peered.
Scarce knowing what he did, he clos
td the panel softly and ran across the
chapel lawn. On the pavement outside
he met a man approaching. It was the
bishop. The excited evangelist did not
know the mnn, but bis eye caught the
ministerial dress, the plain, sturdy pi
ety of the face. In his zeal lie saw an
Instrument to bis hand. He grasped
the bishop's arm.
"Quick! Quick!" he gasped. "There's
devil work doing In there! Come and
sec!" He fairly pulled him Inside the
gate.
The puzzled bishop saw the Intense
excitement of the other's demeanor.
Ho saw the faint glow In the corner of
the rose window. Were there thieves
after the altar plate?
He shook off the eager baud that was
drawing him towrfra the window.
"Not there. Couie this way," ho said
and hurried toward the porch. He
tried the chapel door. It was fast. Ho
had a key to this In his pocket He In
serted It with caution, oi>eued the door
noiselessly and went In, the street
preacherAt his heels.
What the bishop saw was photo
graphed Instantaneously on his mind
In fiery, Indelible colors. It ato Into his
soul Uko hot Iron Into quivering flesh,
searing Itself upon his memory. The
evangelist of the pave had been horri
fied, shocked to word and action; the
bishop was frozen, Inarticulate, Im
paled. For any evil In Hugh Stlres ho
was prepared?since the forgery. Rut
Hugh's companion now was the man
whom he himself had ordained and
anointed by the laying on of hands
with the chrism of his holy ministry.
An lrrepresslblo exclamation burst
from bis lips.
With the sound both men at the ta
ble started to their feet. Hugh, with
a single glanco behind him, uttering a
wild laugh, leaped the railing, dashed
through the study and vanished Into
the night. Harry, as though suddenly
turned to stone, stood staring at the
accusatory figure, with the eager form
of the evangelist Iiehlnd It
To the bishop It seemed the attitude
of guilt detected.
What was Harry Sanderson thinking
as under that speechless regard he
harry stood staring at the accusatory
Jigure.
mechanically gathered the scattered
cards and lifted the little cross and the
unopened bag of double eagles from
the table? Where was the odd excite
ment, the strange exaltation, that had
possessed him? The spindles In his
brain had stilled, and an algid calm
had succeeded as abrupt as the quiet,
deadly assurance with which his mind
now saw the pit into which his own
feet had led him.
He blew out the candle, replaced it
carefully in its altar bracket, made
shift to wipe the wax from the table
and slowly, half blindly and without a
word, went into the study.
The bishop came forward, drew the
key from the inside of the study door,
closed It and locked it from the chapel
side. Harry did not turn, but he was
actually conscious of every sound.
He heard the door shut sharply, the
harsh grate of the key In the lock, and
the sound came to him like the last
sentence?the realization of a soul on
whom the gate of the good closes for
' ever.
in the dark silence of the chapel
Hallelujah Jones smote his thin hands
'together approvingly as he followed
the bishop to the outer door. There
the older man laid his hand on his
shoulder.
"Let him that thinketh he stand
eth," he said, "take heed ltst he fall!
Let not this knowledge be spread
abroad that It make the unrighteous
to blaspheme. When you pray for
your own seul tonight pray for the
?HHii of thJlt m?i? from woota
Something li? tin churchlCM ni?
K*H?t imwfe t? the voice of-?ccl?ifc?.
authority. ae went withe t a
won! I
Iu -i-irtiLif Hfirrv rm4em?n stood
K * iilpaw ni w|th the tads and the
wg lof io.ii i to, les In ?? hand, i M
ntllj "fpui (toe nrds and the caWM
bag mcAbodicaUy into the gafu and
ioee i iL;U irf i - (t by hla fofc
4H salt Cicirly and |lou !-to that
L'Wk. Inifer h . cibo of cofcsJoiuti. -irf If
hla ?ouiI ?
"u (J<ff -i <nr"iot know-*Yf thou &?t,
as has been said, ? seer of the fc?> i
thut Is In the bad, and of tlio I.--..I
if gowj. and "ftJo\i?J>f thum
both. Hut I know that I am |A *
JOrtmi^. ;;caiv no I^hgt a do
my labor consistently before the wfcM
and before thee. It I fiq defKentt It
mint bo b* soma wkf of thine fwz
? oncelw, 4df 1- caUO
help myself. Amen."
He roes to hla feet, mechanl<Bia
put on a coat that was lying o5tJ|
chair-Hugh's coat, but he did notMM
tlco this?and bareheaded passed Ml
to tjie street The. motor car sfiH
th?re.'_iaBf.Hl* IWWflcf Wthe^E
ward soat and threw on the powerfP/
BarlrtntfHjeeflj^ltjtHkx.iJte br^s
spaniel, (ore out of the gate, butpH
master <1U ^jot-atop.. The little fea
ture ,??*,?*1 :^nia<y' a
ed. and tlg> Lkf ar^re^'u htl .'fedc
and hurled hlfi to4fcc *wt?W^
Harry did not hear the sharp fejy
?f pa I ii. Uls hand was on the lev^^
pushing It IIS !n?t notchi
and the km ti^B%^jiv.rwiftfl8cfiog
*lth a leap, <^m>4 -iuwij, ^IHi
faster, through the night.
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NOTICE. K
The undersigned having qualified
Executrix on the estate of J. X?
J* rice deceased, hereby notitfift
all persons having claims against xSj
estate to present the same to me difr>
verified on or before the 80tbday of ()?P
ober l'.KJfl or thin notice will l>e pleadflT
iit 4>ar of their recovery; and a'l peraoSA
Indebted tx> said estate will make iJEf
mediate payment
This 28th day of Oct. 1908 \A
Mum. L. Jane PriJL
Executrfc?
TRUSTEE'S AUCTION SALE OF F*
T M
A valuable tract of land, in Johnston CoiAl
ty, N, C , containing 875 acres, more or leaL
npon which there is a heavy growth ottimtlR?
estimated at two million loot; the saM tr&y
ol laud is situated about Four miles North wil
Princeton, N. U,
By virtue of a deed of trust from Maud fc."
HeBwan. 4 hunliand, dated Jdth M a ft
1WJH and of record In the ofllce
the Hesister of Deeds for fald Countj
In llook C. No. 10. p. 264. default hav
Ing been made iu the payment of a part of
the debt therein secured, and being required
tht beaetlelary thereunder so to do, I snail b;
sell at public auction, on the premises, on
.,, MONDAY,DBCEMIIBK,2ist laon.
at 11 o clock a. m. i be said tract of laud, des
cribed In said deed of trust as follows: that
certain tract of land, in JohnBtion
Ooonty. N. 0.. adjoining ihe lands of waiter
Baker, Wm. Hoykin, Kllzaoeth Edwards, t
others, and bounded as tollows: beglnnlnirat
a stake in Wm. Boykln's corner In Ell/.inth
Edward ? line, and running thence 47 >* eW
B >4 poles to a siake in said Edwards'Corner,
thence with her line * W W. 54.1 4 poles to
2Si ifo*LU?f' (8a<,d Edwards' corner); thence
S7U >t h.9 4 poles to a pine stump, with
rerjimmon tree pointers; thence 8 22 ii W
108 poles to a Pine; thence 8 34 E. 50 poles
to a stake, with plno pointers; thence 82' W
? poles to a line; thence SIX3 W. no poles
to a stake, (Walter Baker's corner); thence
with iAi'ii1"5 '4 W-3i' Po.es lo a slake.
7i. ? V?"y pointers on the E.st Bank of
I>ltt.e Itiver; thence up the water course of
rIii1?ruto,.*8Uke'wlth Blaek Oum point
ers. (Kit Holt scorner); thence S8? E 90 k
" ?l"ke iu Holt's corner: thence
? ?> ?*?< poles to a Poplai, (said Holt's and
hIm'JL,1! uo.rn?;); thence with his line 8 80*
' . poles to the beginning; betnx the same
b?L?k '?>"?<?nveye<i to said Maud A. Me
iC*a" by H. F, Kdgerton, 4 wife, bv deed
??irt,H ? J""- I90B' and of record In
"'d Register's office In Book W. p. 481:
This sale will be made, however, subject
sMn?l?0Ii?i?it^"** de6d "ocuring a debt of
" ? ?with Interest thereon from the 10
November 10(JH until paid: said deed
m lto?u ?r000/d '2 the ?,Moe of 8ail1 Beglster
ioiSlS ? ?jP" ? aDd tho debt ther. :>y se
i'ru8 , 'i: on ?H'd 28th Mar. 1?08. by
?;L?:eTel;. TBi'M8: FOR CASH, as to thJ
expenses of executing this trust. Including
the commission allowed the trustee under
said deed of trust, anv taxes that mav be due
and to pay a note for $1000 00, with Interest
from Mar. 28th. IM08 to date of sale: tho resl
?>ue ?,^rodlt as follows: $1000.00 on the 28th
?2?S* i?08, wltl1 Interest thereon from tho
J8th. Mar. 1908, and JloOO.OO on the 28th. Mar.
)oS; w t,h Jnterest thereon from 28:h. Mar,
iw?<. and th> balance of the purchase price at
such time as shall be announced at the aay
ol "ale; the credit pa>ments to be sccured by
a deed of trust upon the said property.
A. K. Tno.MttH, Trustee.
NOTICE.
The undersigned having qualified as
Executor on the estate of Le .'in Cole, Sr.
deivased, hereby notifies all persons
having claims against said ettate to
present the same to me duly verified on
or before the 20 day of November l!)0tt,
or this notice will be pleaded In bar of
their recovery; and all persons inrebted
tj said estate will make immediate pay
ment.
This 14 day of November, 1908.
Eddie Coli,
Executor.
NOTICE.
The undersigned having qualified as
Administrator on tue estate of Henry
Holt deceased, hereby notifies all per
sona having claims against said estate
to present the same to me duty verified
on or btfore the 20 day of November
1009 or this notice will lie pleaded in
bar of their recovery; and all persona in
debted to said estate will make immed
iate payment.
Thia 17 day of November. 1908.
Chas. H. Holt,
Admr.
DR. G. /\. HOOD,
Trkasckkh or Johnston Count*,
Will be In his office at The Bank of
Smlthfield, every Saturday nntll 1:80
o'clock and every Jrst Monday and
Court Week. Partlee having bnstneaa
with him can get It attended to at
other times at The Bai.k of 8m!thl!el4.