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R\DDOr&CP \ AAROLD myjm The Carpet THe Place °f Honeymoons, m* Wf/UGHT 0Y TJtf DQB&l-rWWLL CQTIfHtIY W SYNOPSIS —Ifr" Varrtagton. an American adventurer, — i«aia. lila aarvant. with a raged par. Ml. H> trio known up and down tha Ir- MMttf aa Parrot * Co.. are bound for IH|M Klaa Chetwood, rich American •MtmrUt. aeea Warrington and aaka the iiaiPii to introduce her, He tell* l»«*r thai WMMntOB haa beaten a syndicate and HN Ma ail I claims for £»»,«». Warrington Ma Rajah. the parrot, through hla trlrka w Klaa and they paaa two golden day* m> tha river. In Rangoon. War- AMa fciterfrrea In a row over carda mmm&4 trr an enemy, Newell Oral* Ela* > —M>i J by Craig and ataba him with a Mlyln Warrington discovers Klsa on the '■MM" ateamer. He avoids her Craig M abnard and la warned by Warrington MM teaa»« to avoid Klaa. Craig atlra up wH —»lp Elaa tell* Warrington of the It*Uom harld.nl and he hunta up CralK. on aatkr bent. He flnda Itltn stretched out SiaM aa deck nnd turna the lioae on him. tt Pmnant: Mallow, who drova Warring- Ms f>«a hla pluntntlon when he learned Mi alary, romea aboard Warrington tella Maa ibat Mallow and Craig both will tell 4Mft fee spent money that did not belong MMai Met tha gambling table to Craig, aafl aaka her not to apeak to him again. Mw kalta Warrington, who keep* hla CHAPTER Xll—Continued. JBaa straightened her Hps with aome Mcdt) She possessed the enviable ttooeltjr tit Inatantly forming In her MM pictures of coming event*. The Mile availing velna In the colonel'a MM were aa plain to her mind's eye • fit really atood before her. "Have Ma Sake me In to dinner," ahe aug "AHI what I wan thinking of," de diw tha unauapectlng man. "If any mm mm draw out the colonel, II will be •TO do my beat." Klsa'a mind waa Ml af rollicking malice. CMdMDplatlvely he Raid: "So you've SMB MAG the Orient alone? You are ltta y out father In that way. He waa ■aaiai afraid of anything. Your men- Mi Makeup, too, I'll wager la like hla. Vtaaal van In the world." "Wasn't he? How I wlah he could kwra always been wlih me! Hut why M M. avaryone seems uppalled that I ahoaM travel over here without male MCMtT" "Tha answer Ilea In your mirror, la Your old nurse Martha It no naJ protection.'' "Are men ao bad, then?" They are leas restrained. The heat, Ma tmineudoua distances, the lack of Msaasaaenta, nre perhaps responsible By tha way, bere'a a packet of letters tor yaa." "Thank*." Elsa played with the pocket. somberly eying the superscrip tion. The old disorder came back In to her mind. Three of the letters *«r» from Arthur. She dreaded to «|M then. "I in nut be going, then. Ttai not sure of my tickets to Hong lang~ TQa straight to the German Lloyd ■Bus. 11l have my boy show you the '■W- Chong!" he called. A bright «re fenng Chinese came in quickly Thsw lady German Lloyd office All —■» telck." 1B the outer office she paused for a i ■osmt or so to look at the maga - hw sod weeklies from home. The : CMMM boy, grinning pleasantly, j |iw curiously at Elsu's beautiful ■ headn She heard someone enter, and \ snrie naturally glanced up. The new eraser was Mallow. He stared at her, ■ailed familiarly atid lifted his helmet. Xhn, with cold lyifllckering eyes, of "tssnd hit greeting no recognition what ever. The man felt that she was look- j log through him, Inside of him. search- j fclg oat all the dark corners of his •oal He dropped his gaze, confused Then Klsa calmly turned to the boy. "Game. Chong." There was something in the manner «f her exit that Infinitely puzzled him. 31 was the Insolence of the well bred, hat he did not know it. To offset his Chagrin and confusion, he put on his helmet and passed Into the private of- | he*. She was out of his range of un | Mallow was an American by birth v lag had grown up in the Orient, hard- c ifcr. la his youth he had been beaten | y •ad tnumpled upon, and now that he „ had become rich In copra (the dried i kernels of cocoanuts from which oil | Is made), he in his "turn beat and r nmmpted It was the only law he t !■■■- Ordinarily, when In Penang aud Ta—»orc. be behaved himself, drank ( eMvusspectly and shunned promlscu «sn companions. Hut when he did ( M heartily, he was a man to be- t Me hailed the consul general cordial- ( and offered him one of his really t •bote* cigars, which was accepted. , 1 say, who was that young woman | sshn Jast went out?" Ike consul general laid down the 4pr. The question Itself was harm- Jmm enough; it waa Mallow's way of ag It be resented. "Why?" be ■MM. "BheTs a stunner. Just curious If ( |M feaew her, that's aIL We came , Mara m the same boat. Hanged if I dssUi't like to meet her. Do you iHt her?" eagerly. V\ "t 4*- Mor ® than that, I have al waps known her. gffe is the daughter it the late General Chetwood, one of greatest civil engineers of our Wmm. When be died he left her sev anA MDhons. She is a remarkable ■gmm SWIII, a famous beauty, known MwsNf In KurooMho courts, and 1 can't begin to tell you bow many other accomplishments she baa." "Well, stump me!" returned Mallow. "Is she a free-thinker?" "What tbe devil la that? What do you mean?" "Only this, If ahe a all you say ahe Is, why does she pick out an absconder for a friend, a chap who dare not show his phlx In tbe states? I heard tbe tale from a man once employed In bla of fice back In New York. A beach-comb er, a dock-walloper, If there eve/ was one." "Mallow, you'll have to explain that Inatantly." "Hold your horses, my friend. What I'm telling you la on the level. She'a been hobnobbing with the fellow all the way down from the Irrawaddy, so I'm told. Never spoke to anyone else. Made blm alt at her side at table and Jabbered Italian at him, aa If ahe didn't want othera to know what sbe was talking about. I know tbe man. Plred him from my plantation, when I found out what he waa. Can't recall hla name Just now, but he la known out here aa Warrington; Parrot A Co." The conaul general waa genuinely allocked. "You can't blame me for thinking things," went on Mallow. "What man wouldn't? Aak her about Warrington. You'll And that I'm telling the truth, all right." "If you are, then ahe haa made one of thoae mistakes women make when alone; —1* shall sae her at tea and talk to her. But 1 do not ttr&'nk you, Mallow, for telling me this. A finer, loyalerheafited girl doesn't live She might have been kind out of sympathy," Mallow bit off the tip of hla cigar. "He's a handsome beggar, If you want to know." "I resent that tone. Fletter drop the subject before I lose my temper. I'll have your papers ready for you In the morning." The conaul general caught up hla pen savagely to Indicate that the Interview waa at an end. "All right," said Mallow good natu redly. "I meant no harm. Just nat urally curloua. Can't blame me." "I'm not blaming you. Hut It haa disturbed me, and 1 wlah to be alone to think It over." Mallow lounged out, rather pleased with hlmaelf. Hla greatest pleasure In life wua In making othera uncomfort able. The consul general bit the wooden end of hla pen and chewed the splin ters of cedar. He couldn't deny that "I Meant No Harm." It was like Elsa to pick up some dere lict for her benefactions. Women had no business to travel alone. It was all very well when they toured In parties of eight or ten; but for a charming young woman like Elsa, attended by a spinster companion who doubtless dared not offer advice. It was decided ly wrong. And thereupon he deter mined that her trip to Yokohama should And her well guarded. "I beg your pardon," said a pleas ant voice. The consul general had been BO deeply occupied by his worry that he had not noticed the entrance of the speaker. He turned impatiently. He saw a tall blond man, bearded and tanned, with fine clear blue eyes that met his with the equanimity of the fearless. CHAPTER XIII. After Ten Year*. The consul general saw before him an exquisite, as the ancient phrase goes, backed by no indifferent breed of manhood. He believed that here was a brief respite (as between acts) in which the little hypocrisies could be laid aside The pleasant ainlle on his high-bred face was all his own. "And what may 1 do for you, sir?" He expected to be presented with let ters of Introduction, and to while away a half hour in the agreeable discussion of mutual acquaintance. "I should like a few minutes' private talk vou." began the waU4res»«d A ' -T ' " - THE ENTERPRISE, WILLIAMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA. V *. .ranger. ' May 1 etoee the floor?" Yfce consul general, with a sense of diaap polntment, nodded. The blftsd man returned and sat down. "I don't know how to begin, but I want you to copy this cablegram and send It under your own name. Here It la; read It." So singular a request filled the con sul general with astonishment Rather mechanically be accepted the alip of paper, adjusted bla glaaaaa, and read— Ths Andes Construction company, N* w York: A former employe* of yours wishes to make a restitution of 18,000. with Inter eat to date. He dares not slvs his name to me. but he wishes to lesrn If this be lated restitution will lift the ban against his coming to America and resuming his dttsenshlp. Reply collect. "This Is an eztraordlnary request to make to me, sir." "Could I possibly offer that to the cable operator? Without name or ad dress? No; I could not do It without being subjected to a thousand ques tions, none of which I should care to answer. So 1 came to you. Passing through your hands, no one will ques tion It. Will you do this favor for a poor unfortunate devil?" Oddly enough, the other could not get away from his original Impression. The clothes, the way the man wore them, the clarity of his eyes, the abun dant health that was expressed by the tone of the skin, derided such a pos sibility as the cablegram made mani fest. He forced the smile back to his Hps. "Are you sure you're not hoaxing me?" "No. I am the victim of the hoax," enigmatically. "If one may call the quirks of fate by the name of hoax." the stranger added. "Will you send It?" The years he had spent In the con sular service had never brought before him a situation of this order. He dll not know exactly what to do. lie looked out of the wludow, Into the ho tel court, at the sky which presently would become overcast with the dally rain clouds. By and by be remem bered the man waiting patiently at hla elbowr— - • "What la your name?" "I'd rather not give that until 1 hear from New York. lam known out here by the name of Warrington." Warrington. The puzzlement van ished from the older man's face, and his eyes became alert, renewing from another angle their investigation of the stranger. Warrington. So this was the man? He could understand now. Who could blame a girl for mak ing a mistake when he. a seasoned vet eran, had been beguiled by the out ward appearance of the man? Mallow was right. He was a handsome b«K gar. "I promise to send this upon one condition." "I accept without question," readily. "It Is that you must keep away from Elsa Chetwood, now and hereafter. You made her acquaintance under false pretenses." "I deny that. Not under false pre tenses." How quickly things went about! "Let me tell you how I met her." The consul general listened; lie lis tened with wonder and Interest, and more, with conviction that the young man had been perfectly honest. But the knowledge only added to his grow ing alarm. It would not be difficult for such a man to win the regard of any young woman. "And you told her what you bad done?" "Yes." "Your first misstep?" touching tha cablegram. "My first and only misstep. I waa a careless, happy-go-lucky young fool." The sky outside also had attraction for Warrington. A thouaand times a fool! "How long ago did this happen?" "Ten years this coming April." "And now, after all this time, yon wish to go back?" "I have wished to go back many times, but never had money enough. I have plenty now. Oh, I made It hon estly," smiling. "In oil, at I'rome. Here's a cutting from a Rangoon pa per." The other read It carefully. It waa romance, romance such as he liked to read In his books, but which waa mighty bewildering to have at hla elbow in actuality. What a life the man must have led! And here he Was, with no more evidence of the conflict than might ba discerned In the manliness of his face and the broadth and depth of hla shoulders. He dropped the cutting. Impatiently. "Don't you believe It?" "Believe It? Oh, this? Y£s," an swered the consul general. "What 1 cannot believe is that 1 am awake. I cannot quite make two and two equal four. I cannot . . . Well, you do not look like a man who would rob hla employer of eight thousand dollara. . . . Parrot ft Co. It's odd, but I recollect that title. You were at Udalpur during the plague." Warrington brightened. "So that'a got about? I happened to be there, working on the prlnce'a railway." "I will send the cable at once. You will doubtless hear from New York In the morning. But you must not aee Miss Chetwood again." "You will let me bid her good-bp? I admire and respect her more than any other Voman. She does not know it, for aa yet her aoul Is asleep; but she Is one of those few women God put on earth for the courage and com fort of man. Only to say good-by to her. Here In this office. If you wlah." "1 agree to that." "Thank you again." Warrington man "i am genuinely aorry for you. they say no, what will you do?" "Go back Just the same, l have » other debt to tssMt" "Cell la the morning, rtl ct yec know what the charges are." T forgot Here are twenty ponnda You can return the balance when I call. lam very grateful." "By the way, there la a man hare by the name of Mallow," began the consul general. "Yea," Interrupted Warrington, with a smile which was grim and cruel. "I expect to call upon him. He owaa me something like fifty pounds, and I am going to collect It" Thea he went out The consul general dropped Mai loirs perfecto Into the wastcbasket and lighted hla pipe. Oaca more be read the cablegram. The Andes Con struction company. What a twist what an abaurd kink in tha sketa! Nearly all of Elaa's wealth lay bouad up In this enormous buslnees which Osneral Chetwood had founded thirty odd years before. And neither of them knew! "1 am not a bad man at heart," ha mused, "but I liked the young tban's expression alien I mentioned that bully Mallow." He Joined his family at five. Ha waved aside tea, and called for a lemon-aquash. "Elan. 1 am going to give you a lac tam." "Didn't I tell you?" cried Elsa to the wife. "I felt In my bones that he waa going to say this very thing." She turned to her old-time friend. "Oo on; lecture ma." "In the first place, you are too kind hearted." "That will be news to my friends. They say I have a heart of Ice." "And what you think Is Independ ence of sprit is sometimes Indiscre tion." "Ob," said Elsa. becoming aerloua. "A man came Into my office today. He la a rich copra grower from Pe nang. He spoke of you. You passed him on going out. If I bad been twen ty years younger I'd have punched his ugly head. His nsme Is Mallow, and he's not a ssvory chap." Elaa's cheeks burned,. She never would forget the look In that man's eyes. The look might have been In other men's eyes, but conventionality had always veiled It; she had never seen It before. "Oo on;" but her voice was ua steady. "Somewhere along the Irrawaddy you made the acquaintance of a young man who calls himself Warrington, fa miliarly known as Parrot & Co. 11l be generous. Not one woman in a thousand would have declined to ac cept the attentions of sach a man. He Is cultlvsted, undeniably good look ing, a strong man, mentally and physically." Elsa's expression was now enig matical. "There's not much veneer to him. He fooled me unintentionally. He was quite evidently born a gentleman, of a race of gentlemen. His is not an Iso lated case. One misstep, and the road to the devil." The consul general's wife sent a startled glance at Elsa. who spun her sunshade to lighten the tension of bar nerves. "He confessed frankly to me thla morning that he Is a fugitive from jus tice. He wishes to return to America, He recounted the circumstances of your meeting." "Uncle Jim. I have traveled pretty much over this world, and 1 never met a gentleman If Warrington is not one.* There was unconscious belligerency la her tone. "Ah, there's the difficulty which women will never be made to under stand. Every man can, at one time or another, put himself upon his good be havior. Underneath he may be a fine rascal." "Not this one," smiling. "He warned me against himself a dozen tlotes, but that served to mske me stubborn. Tha fault of my conduct," acidly, "was not In making thla pariah's acquaintance It lies In the fact that I hsd nothing ta do with the other passengers, from choice. Thst Is where 1 was Indiscreet But why should I put myself out to gain the good wishes of people for whom 1 have no liking; people I shall probably never see again when I leave this port?" "You forget that some ot them will be your fellow passengers all the way to San Francisco. My child, you know aa well as I do that there are soma laws which the Archangel Michael would have to obey, did he wlah to In habit this earth for a while." "Poor Michael! And if you do not obey these laws, people talk." "Exactly. There are two aets of man-made lawa. One governa the con duct of men and the other the conduct of women." (TO BE CONTINUED.) Conscloua Doers of Klndnese. The conscious doers of kindness are probably the most surprised people la the world. In the first place, they are almoet certain to feel that they don't get due credit that they are misunder stood. They are surely misunderstood by themselves. By others they are not likely to be misunderstood, particu larly by thoee they do good ta If. for example, the virtuous patronlxera of the poor could only know bow. In many Instancee, the poor felt toward them, they would at first be indignant and reeentfuL Then they would won der how they had escaped with therf Uvea. Fireproof Wood. To make, wood fireproof, alack a small quantltr of fresh lime and add water until it has the consistency of cream; stir well and add one pound ot alum, IX ouncea of commercial potaah and about one pound of aalt Stir again and apply while hot Two of three coats will keen wood Oraproa| for many months. GJtLOMEL WHEN BILIOUS? NO! STOP! JtCTS LIKE DYRAMITE ON LIVEH I Guarantee "Dodsons' Liver Tone" Will Give You the Best Uver and Bowel Cleansing You Ever Had—Doesn't Make You Sick! Stop using calomel! It aukea yon alck. Don't lom a day'a work. If m feel lazy, sluggish. bilious or consti pated. listen to me! Calomel la mercury or quicksilver which causes necrosis of the bones Calomel, when It cornea Into ooqtact with sour bile craahea Into It, breaking It up. Tkla la when yoa feel that aw ful nausea and cramping. If you feel "all knocked out," If your liver la tor pld and bowela constipated or you have headache, dlzzlneaa. coated tongue, If breath Is bad or stomach sour Just try a spoonful of harmless Dodson's Liver Tone. Here's my guarantee— Oo to aAy drug store or dealer and get a 60-cent bottle of Dodaon'a Liver Tone. Take a COUNTED PROFIT AND LOSS Country Storekeeper Well Advieed In Dlacontlnulng Business for That Day, st Leaat. The present generation Is scarcely awsre that at one time our one-dollar and two-dollar bills were marked with Roman Instead of Arabic numerals. Therefore, when the youth left tempo rarily In charge of the general store In a small country town was approached by a stranger and asked for change for an eleven-dollar bill, he looked curi ously at the greenback, but courteous ly acceded to the requeet. The owner of the store sauntered In some time later. "Well, Sam, any business*" "Nothln' 'cept changln" a 'leven-dol lar bill fer a drumtner," the boy an swered unconcernedly. The storekeeper started for the cash drawer, looked long and sorrowfully at the old two-dollar bill, tben said sadly: "Put up the shutters. Bam. We've done enough business for one day!"— Collier's Weekly. Newspaper stereotypera use Han ford's Balsam of Myrrh for rslief from splashing metal burns. Adv. How Experts Are Msds. In every generation there Is apt to spring up a body of men who, add ing to natural abilities and an uncom mon stock of assurance a certain amount of specialized knowledge, ter rorize the rest of the world under the guise of "experts." Thlnklag that they find something rotten In the state of Denmark, In capable of calm reflection, and eager | for notoriety, they hit upon a specific j for what Is amlsa, compared with j which all others are a«*urious Imita tions. Their field of interest may range from solar mythology to eugenics, but the threefold badge of the tribe Is an overweening belief in their own Infallibility coupled with a proportion ate contempt for ordinary human be ings, the command of a barbaroua Jar gon and an irrepressible desire to badger and bully their unfortunate fel low-creaturea. For the big and little burns In cook ing and baking, keep Ilanford'a Bal sam of Myrrh near for quick relief. Adv. The Limit. "I shall never speak to her again aa long as 1 live." "But you've said that often before." "I know, but what elae Is there to say when a person becomes as angry as she makes me?" —Detroit Free Press. On the Sight Track. "While you were captive of the can nibals, captain, why didn't you teach 'em not to eat people up?" "Well. I did have er try, youngster, but the best I c'u'd do waa to larn 'em not ter eat wlv their knives!" —Puck. 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I guarantee that one spoonful of Dodscn's Liver Tona will put your sluggiah liver to work and clean your bowela of that sour bile and consti pated waate which is clogging your system and making you feel miserable. I guarantee that a bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone will keep your entire fam ily feeling fine for months. Give it to your children. It is harmless; doesn't gripe and they like Its pleasant taste. PLAY NEVER REAL 'TRIUMPH'' Sheridan Knowlea' Widely Known Drama of "Vlrglnlae" la Open to Critlciam. Jamea Sheridan Knowlea. an Iriah achoolmaater, who had alao been an actor, whoae father wu Drat coualn to Richard Brinaley Sheridan, brought to Macready a tragedy called "Vir ginlua," widely proclaimed ma a re turn to truth and to nature aa against artificialities of the timea. "Vlrginlua" ia an admirable exam ple of the ordinary bourgeois drama, a bourgeola drama applied, unfortu nately, to Roman tragedy. Everyone knows, of courae, the atory of the aol dier Virglniua, who killed hla daugh ter rather than ahe abould tall Into the handa of Appiua. When Shakeapeare dealt with Ro man play a he made, it ia true, hla charactera Englishmen, but he made them of heroic mold. Brutua and Julius Caesar, Mark Anthony and the reat, are certainly not commonplace, even though one can hardly describe them as accurately drawn in accord ance with their Latin types. But of all the characters of Sheri dan Knowlea' play it can aafely be said that they are Just mediocre, bour geola, commonplace Engliahmen and Englishwomen of the times. Virginlua, for instance, is an excel lent father of the middle class, whom we could imagine going down to his city office every day and returning to the auburba In the evening. Virginia, the lovely heroine, is a simpering schoolgirl—a virtuous idiot. If this Is what a return to nature meant, it mUat He confessed that It la a kind of nature that we do not want perpetuated.—Exchange. To Drive Out Malaria And Build Up The System rata the Old Standard GROVE S TASTELESS chill TONIC. You know what yOu are taking, aa the formula ta printed oo every label, showing it ia Suinine and Iron in a astaiess form. The uinine drives out malaria, the Iron ouilda Up the system- fO cents. Adv. Have the Ring of Truth. "An artful angler, you aayf" "I never knew a man who waa more ao." "Pshaw! He never catchea any thing." "I know it, but 50 per cent of hia fishing yarns are believed." Willing to Help. "I don't aee anything the matter with you." aaid the doctor. "Well, I'm worried, doctor." "About what?" "My money." "Oh, well, I guess I can relieve you of that." For wire cut* use Hanford'a Balaam. Adv. Miss Laura M. White haa been doing miaalonary work in China for the laat 24 yeara.
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