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' T THE NEWS-RECORD, MARSHALL. N. C- THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1936 t M'OS Copyright by Bra Ante, Williams. CHAPTER XI Continued 19 Saladine, watching Bart, saw that under this accusing fusillade, the man's face congested with a rising fury. This old woman with the tongue of a termagant lashed him raw. What she said might or might not be true yet true or false, he could not retort with the buffet and the blow her words deserved. He must stand helpless while she flayed him: yet his dark cheek was purple now ! "You fetched me some dry groceries from Liberty village last night," the old woman continued bitterly, "and listened outside the door and beard me telling Jenny to go get me a lily root from the brook today. That's why you went down brook, Bart. You never went to fish at all. I don't believe yon ever even took your rod. You went to spy on Jenny! "And on the way back, I 'low you climbed up through the woods to see If you could get a sight of Huldy! Like as not you'd peeked at her before that, times when the hussy'd be sunning her self like a snake there on the ledge. 1 wouldn't wonder If that was why Zeke worked you over, that time. Like as not be caught you there. Anyway, my guess Is you found her there today, and she tormented you the way she al ways did, till you couldn't stand it, and you grabbed her! And she fit you, and set her finger nails In your cheek ; and at that, you went crazy mad, and you hit her so hard yo broke your own hand on her face! That's what happened! I'm as certain of It as if I'd been there and see!" The scratches on Bart's cheek were livid, but his lips twisted in a derisive grin! Then she turned to Sohier. "There It Is, Sheriff," she exclaimed, in a tone of finality. "There it is, if you've got enough brains to see!" But the big man after a moment wagged his head. "Why, I don't see as there's anything only your guess, ma'am," he protested. And Bart spoke, through stiff Hps, yet easily enough. "It's all right. Sher iff," he said. "Old women get fool idees !" And he said, calmly: "It couldn't be the way she says." He appealed to Huldy's husband. "Will, you know mighty well that Zeke was always somewhere around Huldy. If this had happened the way Granny says, Zeke he'd have been on my tail In no time at all. You know that. Will, as well as me!" Will, thus interrogated, nodded slow ly. "That's so, Bart," he admitted. But Marm Pierce turned to Bart In sistently. "Bart," she said, "I dunno as I can prove what you did to Huldy, but I'll make you admit yo're a liar! . You've made up this whole tale, since you killed Huldy. You never went down brook to fish. You never even had your rod with you. You picked it up at your house, on your way to get YVlH I" Bart chuckled patiently. "Ma'am, I can't help yo're thinking anything you've got a mind, but yo're wrong as can be." She cried triumphantly : "Your rod's outside, with a worm on the hook, all dried up and shriveled! You didn't fish with a dead worm, did yon?" Her tone was hot with scorn. "Why sho," he protested, "a worm will dry op mighty fast" Her eyes narrowed. "Too told me yon dug bait yest'day?" she challenged. He nodded. "Certain," be said. "Got your bait can on, ain't you?" she demanded. He touched his belt, In an assenting gesture. And she took one step toward him. "Hand It here I" she demanded In a rising triumph. "Let me have a loos at It! If there's any fresh-dug worms In your bait can, Bart, I'll take back every word I've had to say!" Saladine, turning to look at Bart, found his eye caught and held by an object on the table between them. That heavy sun which Bart bad laid .beside the lamp, a while ago. If was still there, black and deadly: The lamp was between It and Saladine; between It and Marm Pierce But whtro Bart stood, the batt of thf gun was not ten inches from his hand. CHAPTER XII There was something ludicrously ln rongruons, and by the sams . token the more horrifying. In the terms of Vara Pierce's challenge. - Thai tht question of whether a man wars guilty of marder should hinge on whether there were any fresh-dug worms la his .bait box had something hideous about It; and yet what Harm Pierce said was Ingeniously true. If Bart hSd In deed gone down Carey's brook this day to fish, as ha asserted, then he must bars been supplied with bait If he had Ho worms, then his statement that he Intended to fish was lie; and his other words were, doubtless lies as welL., If Bart had so worms In his bait -box. then be Med; end If he lied,, then-be bad killed Huldy 1 Thus sim ply the ine phrased Itself la Sala dlne's m!:. J. 3 :' An! ) i muscles .drew taut for ac t:n. ' 1. a h.lence in tils small room r '." t e '.v-e Into a storm of violence. CT1 LEnU&LL bi Ben Ames Bart stood under their doubting eyes, his fingers within easy reach of the butt of that heavy revolver on the table Just before him. His back was to the wall ; he could If he chose hold them at his mercy. Thirty seconds' span must answer all. Bart did not move till old Marm Pierce repeated, in triumphant Insist ence: "Let's see, Bart! Let's see If you've got any worms In that can at all !" Then he was suddenly at his ease; he smiled and shook his head. "Nary a worm, Granny I" he said cheerfully. She nodded In crisp satisfaction, swung to Sohier. "There, Sheriff!" she cried. Sohier looked uncomfortable. It was In fact an uncomfortable position in which he found himself. Bart was practically confessing to a murder but Bart had a gun under his band The sheriff stirred uneasily, and he gathered the tails of his coat over his knees as though to rise. But Bart said, chuckling: "That don't prove anything, though! I told you a while ago, when I came to pick Huldy up I took off my belt with the bait can and my gun and left It there on the ground. Time I got back fetch It, the bait can, the cover on It had come open, and the worms had all crawled away." Marm Pierce whirled on him in baffled fury. "You'd talk yourself out of your own grave, Bart!" she cried. Buc you won't talk yourself out of this. There's a dead worm dried on your hook on the rod outside the door ! I guess you wa'n't fishing with that ! And It didn't shrivel up the way It is Just sence you got through fishing, either. It's wet from rain, and slimy but It's been dead on that hook for days." Bart nodded. '"Sure It has," he as sented. "I forgot, when you asked me about that a while ago. But Just be fore Huldy screeched, I SBagged my book on a log and had to break it off. Didn't have any spare hooks with me, but I found this one In my overalls pocket I must have stuck It there some time and forgot it It had this dead worm on it; but I tied It on my line, and I was Just setting out to scrape the dead worm off with my knife when I heard Huldy yell 1" "That's a likely tale!" the old worn an exclaimed in a deep scorn. "You mean to tell me you'd put a hook with a worm on it In your pocket?" she demanded. "I guess you'd have to be drunk to do that, Bart" Bart grinned. "Well," he said, "mat ter of fact I did have quite an edge on, the last time I went fishing. It was along toward dark, here last Tuesday night. Ike Putney come by my place after supper, and we had a few drinks, and we 'lowed to try the trout and lid. But half the time, I didn't know whether I was fishing In the brook or in the pasture. Likely I put the hook In that pocket then." And he added persuasively: "Ike, he'll tell you the same." The old woman uttered a sound like a sniff of scorn. "Ike! I'd believe anything of him. If you told me he carried his worms In his mouth, Td believe It!" Bart's eyes widened. "By cracky!" he exclaimed. "I mind, now. Ike bad his store clothes on, and I lent him my overalls to wear when we went fishing 1 He put that hook In the pocket of 'em, m bet a nickel! Marm Pierce looked at the sheriff almost' apologetically, in a curious chagrin. "That might be the truth, Sheriff," she admitted ruefully. "Ike was In here Tuesday afternoon to get me to give him something for an ear ache I wrapped up a pinch of black pepper in some cotton, and dipped It In sweet oil and puf It In bis ear; and I told him to go on borne and pnt a bandage 'round his head to keep It warm. But he lowed he wished he bad a drink, and he se out to go over to Bart's. I mind be did have on his store' clothes, just like Bart says 1" There was a reluctant honesty la her tones; she faced Bart again. "But just the same," the Insisted, I donf swallow .the whole of your ten r She stood- frowning with the intensity of her though, searching for some crevice 1b. his armor. "Ton said a while ago you had stopped fish ing and wss on your way home when yon heard Huldy yell," she reminded him, seizing on .new point. "Bat now yon claim you'd just broke a hook off, and tied a new on on. : , How could you break a hook. If yon wa'n't nsh- ingr:.., -m". -vi-.."':"::'' y , Hs answered, ajmost mirthfully: "I stopped to try the deep hole there at the foot of the ledger. : - ... He had parried all ber thrusts so easily that there was a sort of mad- In the little eld woman now. She like a caged animal, coursing to fend fro In Its search for some avenue of escape. V '.' - ' ' ."WelL how come you to take, so long hunting them feathers I sent you after, before Huldy" died, and not finding any. whea the' hen' pes was full of i 'em?" she demanded. "Looks to me yos was afraid If I had tbem.rd get j Huldy to come to and she'd tell on you!" ; ' V"- A-: - .:; . - - 1 was figuring you' ask that, oy lUilliams and by," he assented frankly. "And I'll tell you how It was." He stood at ease now. "I set out to get you some feathers," he declared. "I didn't put any stock In it, with Huldy as good as dead, or maybe dead a'ready ; but long as you wanted 'em, I started out to get some. "But when I was going through the shed, I happened to look out the win dow on the back side, and I see some thing move, over In the alders. It looked to me like a man. I stayed there watching, but I didn't see him again; so after a spell, I come back In the house." "You never said nothing about that before!'' Marm Pierce exclaimed. "Soon as I come In, you Jumped me right out Into the barn again, went with me," he reminded her. "And when we come back with the feathers, Huldy was dead, and Jenny said there was somebody in the Win-side the house, so I knowed It was probably Win that I had see." The old woman considered this. "Maybe If Win was around here after Huldy died . . ." she began thought fully, but tnen she remembered. "But it wa'n't Win that you see," she pro tested quickly. "He was In Liberty village by then!" "Well, whoever it was," Bart said In a conciliating tone. They were all silent then a while, considering this suggestion that there had been some man, who was not Win Haven, near the house when Huldy died. But in the end Marm Pierce brushed this matter Impatiently aside. "Like as not It was a cow you see," she decided, returning to the attack. "Or maybe nothing at alL I think that's all a pack of lies, If you ask "Look Out, Grannyl That Thing Will Go Offl ine. And as she spoke she moved uncertainly toward the table. But this uncertainty was. It appeared, pretense; for suddenly her band licked out like snake's tongue, and she caught up the revolver and. backed away, holding It In both bands, ber finger on the trigger. She pointed It at Bart, and Bart protested amiably: Look out, Grannyl That thing will go oft!" it's likely to, the old woman as sured him. She appealed to the sheriff. There he Is, Sheriff 1" she cried. "You go ahead and put tbe handcuffs on him ! I've got his gun." But Sohier said in a baffled tone: Why ma'am. It looks to me like Carey here tells a pretty straight story, take It all the way through." Bart chuckled. "Granny, yo're a wonder," he said In an Ironic mirth. Her hands had sagged under the weight of that revolver, until the weapon bung now forgotten by her side. "Never mind about me," she retorted, ber tone abstracted, "ftn trying to see this straight Ton come on her, up to the ledge, and maybe grabbed her, and she raked your cheek. and that made you mad so you banged her In the face and she went back ward" off.- the ledger: WVi'iAM i She shook her heatt, staring at him. She whispered: "Man, I warrant you was scared enough for minute, then. Bold as you be right now." , i 'Sheriff, what do yon aim to dor she demanded la irascible shrill tones. "Ton going to set there all night ?1 This. Is your business, sot mine. Stir your stumps, man V . Sobler rose and turned to face Bart "Bart," he said. "I don't mean to say you had anything to do with this. But what If you and win was both to come along to town and talk It over with the county sttorney thereH'V'' .. His tone was as though he urged Bart to humor, old If arm Pierce thus far, and Bart answered agreeably enough.,. . .'-.' '.'"-'- "Why. it's foolishness. Sheriff," he protested. "But it it'll favor yon, til go. m have to stop by my place and pun down some hay and give tbe crit ters water. They aim been fed to night".. : "Shore," the big man assented. "We can -do that" He looked at 8aladlne. Jim, say you drive . me and: Bart round there first r he proposed, "Then , m WNTJ 8rlo. we can come back here and pick up Will." Saladine hesitantly agreed, since there seemed no better course. Huiay Ferrin was dead, and doubtless mur dered ; but if Rart were guilty, then he was an Incredibly shrewd and crafty man; and If he lied, then he was in orediblv ant at mendacity. Marm Pierce herself appeared to be unsatis fied, as though uneasily conscious that she had failed to prove her case. She stood with her hand at her mouth, her head bent; and her brow was fur rowed with perplexity. But she said no new word while the sheriff buttoned his overcoat, and Bart put his slicker on. Only then she exclaimed: "Sheriff, there ain't a mite of sense taking Will to East Harbor!" The sheriff hesitated; but Jenny cnme to her grandmother's side, touched the old woman's arm. "It's all right Granny," she said gently. "If there s any way he can help, Will he'd want to go." But Saladine suggested: "Sheriff, taking Will along Is going to leave these two women alone here. Sohier scratched his head. "That's so," he agreed ; ana ne saia reluctant ly: "Well, Will, maybe you'd best stay here tonight I'll be out again in tbe morning." 'Whatever you say. Sheriff," Will assented. Bart said in dry ill humor: "Looks like the pack of you was bound to lay this on me. Why sh'd I go, any more than Will? Huldy blamed It on him. Sheriff, you can't get around ber own say-so, it looks to me. " The sheriff was uncomfortable; but after a moment Bart In a returning good humor yielded the point "I can stand It though," be said. "And Will had ought to stay here with them, at that Zeke's around here somewhere. No telling what he might try to do; but Will can handle him." So It was decided. It did not occur to Saladine till somewhat later that a remembered fear of Zeke on his own account might have prompted Bart to this easy and surprising surrender. Yet Bart, as the event proved, might have been Justified in welcoming for while the protecting custody of the law. Bart and the sheriff stepped outside ; and Saladine, after a word of fare well, followed them to his car. They had taken the rear seat He cranked the engine, and climbed In and turned on the headlights. The kitchen door was open yonder, and Will and Jenny stood in silhouette against the light,, their shoulders touching. Saladine backed the car, preparing to turn; but In that last moment, old Marm Pierce came bursting through the door, brushing Will and Jenny out of her way, holding up both hands, calling something. Saladine waited, and she ran across tbe yard and drew close beside the car and shouted ever tbe engine's roar: "Sheriff! I've got ahold of the an swer to It now!" Her tone was ringing; her counte nance triumphant "Listen here!" she cried. "If Bart bad left bis gun belt with tbe bait can and tbe gun, there on the ground In all that rain while be fetched Huldy over here, the belt'd be soaked through and wet as a string; and there'd be rust on that gun! But there ain't a speck of rust, and his belt Is dry aa a bone!" Saladine bad not noticed whether Barfs gun were rusted or not; yet he perceived the justice of this argument and turned to hear what the sheriff would say. But Bart laughed, and he protested : "Maybe that belt looked dry to you. Granny, but It's wet enough I I can feel It right through my overalls. And the holster kep the gun dry." HS told Sohier: Til show you, when we get over to my place, Sheriff. You can see for yourself I". s Sohier sccepted this. "All right, ma am, he shouted to the old woman, over the engine's roar. "Til look at It, surer ... (TO BE CONTINUED) Raising the Hat . Raising the hat In deference to a lady Is still a mark of a gentleman. If she stops to speak with him. hs will remove his hat for the conversation, and carry it la his hand unless, be cause of his age or of Inclement weather, she requests him to replace It If so, be will again raise bis mat when she leaves. The fact that some young men In college Ignore the cour tesy doss not affect gentlemanly be havior. The origin of the courtesy Is speculative, - One version Is that It arose In the "days of chivalry when, ta deference to his superiors - sad to ladles, a knight removed his beadrear. literary Digest -! , 1 ' "'i'V5 Clever Reynard The nsme Reynard came from a Ger man book of animal stories published hundreds of years' ago. In that book the fox was called Begtn-hart, mean lng "strong In Counsel, because of the clever way In which he mastered the other animals, , Ever since the book came to this country we have spoken of Reynard the fox Reynard being our form of the 'German Eccln-hart i'gzr son's Weekly. ; - - , IMPROVED . UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL' SUNDAY I . chool Lesson By RSJV. r. B FiTSWATBR. D. D , ll.mbar of Faculty, Moody Blbla Inatltuu of Chleuo. C WMtarn Nowapapw- Union, Lesson for January 12 SIMEON'S PROPHECY LESSON TEXT Luks 1:15-15, 40. GOLDEN TEXT Mlno eyes have seen thy salvation, which thou hast prepared before the face of all people. Luke t:S0. 11. PRIMARY TOPIC When Simeon Saw Jesus. JUNIOR TOPIC Why Simeon Re. loiced. . . INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC What Jesua Can Do for the World. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC Jesus, the Hope of All Nations. The occasion which brought Simeon to recognize Jesus as the Messiah was his being offered to the Lord by Mary and Joseph. According to the Jewish custom (Lev. 12), at the age of eight days the male child was circumcised and thus made a member of the cov enant nation. In this case the child was given the name "Jesus" which lnT dlcated his mission (vv. 22-24). Then at the end of 40 days he was offered to the Lord on the basis of the original redemptive purpose, which was the priesthood of the first-born, and not ac cording to the Levltical order (Ezod. J3 :2 ; cf. 32 :26). Tbe offering In such case was a lamb for such as could af ford It, but for the poor a pair of tur tle doves or pigeons was adequate. The Savior thus came to tbe level of the poor. I. Simeon's Character (v. 25). 1. Upright He sustained a right re lation to his fellow men. He was "Just" 2. Devout. He was of such a char acter as to enjoy personal fellowship with God. 3. Waiting for the "consolation of Israel" Messiah. Waiting for the ful fillment of the divine purpose lb the coming of Messiah bad a blessed effect upon his life. Inducing righteousness aDd godliness. Waiting for tbe second coming of Christ Is set forth In the New Testament as having a salutary effect upon believers (I John 3:3; I Thess. 1 :9, 10). 4. Under the sway of the Holy Spirit. One thus enabled would be In a condition to recognize tbe Messiah. A spiritual mind Is absolutely essen tial In order to discern the divine pur pose (I Cor. 2:14). II. Simeon's Revelation (vv. 26-28). He was assured that he should not die until he had seen the Lord's Christ. When Christ was brought to the tem ple, the Holy Spirit upon Simeon en abled him to discern the babe as the. promised one. Happy Is the one whose character and spiritual experience is such that he can discern the presence of the Lord. Truly It Is In him that we live and move and have our being. To be In this state Is to practice the presence of God. So definitely was he led by the Spirit that when Mary and Joseph brought Jesus into the temple, he took him up in his arms and blessed God, Indicating his personal and af fectionate appropriation of tbe Mes siah as his Savior and Lord. III. Simeon's Song (vv. 29-32). This Is tbe song known as the "Nunc Dlmlttls," so named from the Latin words with which It begins. 1. He prays for a peaceable depar ture (v. 29). Perhaps it was more than a prayer; It was praise to God that now be Is having a blessed departure out of this life, having seen and ban died the , Savior. Truly blessed are the dead who died In the Lord. 2. He praises God for a world-wide salvation (vv. 30-32). The "Nunc Dl mlttls" is the universal song, thus wide ly differing from the "Magnificat In that it Is wider. than the Jewish hope. Simeon saw Christ as the Light to re veal salvation to tbe Gentiles. Tbls Is tbe true glory of Israel. It la In keeping with the divine purpose In call ing and disciplining this nation to make It the channel througV. which he might bless, sll tbe peoples of the world (Oen.'.Utl-S)'.-: r2.V: ' ' IV. Simeon Blessed Joseph and Mary. The revelation through Simeon caused them to marvel. To have such wonderful predictions made concerning their Babe filled them with amasement. His blessing contained wonderful and even dark words of prophecy. $ - 1. "This child Is set for the fall and rising again of many In Israel." This means that Christ was to be- a touch stonedestiny would be determined by the attitude of the people toward him. How definitely '.this has been fulfilled In tbe experience of that people I - V 2. - "A sign; which shall be spoken against" This had definite fulfillment In Israel and Is being fulfilled today among many peoples, ' 8. A sword wss to pierce Mary's soul.'. This perhaps refers to her suf fering as she entered Into Sympathy with bis unutterable suffering as he went to tht cross, and her desolation afterward. vC.' -. bjr- x , -.1 Day of Rati Cod" altar stands from Sunday to Sunday.- and the seventh day Is no more for religion than any other 1 la for rest The .whole seven are for religion,' and one of them tor rest for Instruction, for .social worship, for gaining strength for the other six' q.,W. Beeches. 1 ' One of the first steps to eentent Bent and happiness 1 to learn not to begrudge other people the things they have because you cannot have them. " r Rossian Children Are to . ' ' ' Build a Railway Tunnel ' -i ..' l;f V'V . ;: A railway tunnel,. 8.000 feet of line, and a station, complete In ev ery detail are to be built In (heir spare time by ' 500 children In ' the TlHla Park, of Culture and Best at' Moscow. ' .. These projects will be an exten sion of the famous Children's Kail-! way built In the park by tbe children themselves. It Is run entirely by Children and tins two stations and ' 1,200 feet of track. It was opened three months ago, and since then" 65,000 passengers have ridden In Its tiny train, driven by a child. Tbe work of building the railway was supervised by engineers of the Transcaucaslan railway. Montreal Herald. ' Engineers Will Move River to Create an Airdrome Site To move a river so that an aero drome can be built sounds a fantas tic task yet that Is what engineers are about to do near Nice. The mouth of the Var, a large river, there, Is to be completely diverted so that an aerodrome can be built where its waters have flowed out to the sea for countless centuries. For 'some years the mouth has been gradually silting up, and a del ta has been forming under the sur face of the water. Now it. is pro posed to move the river bed 200 yards to the west, so that the delta becomes dry land. On this will be built an important aerodrome. i Find From Your Doctor if the "Pain" Remedy You Take Is Safe. 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