23fl : rjc nirht epeak to 1" .nd threw J BKJiw nf?" be de li. TPU H" fci? in the too of " Pi'1, ,ct,.Tnl to make laker Lin Elliott !- Jeffen an- .. v. VThnt would ji What could I know L , itrrlus ind Tim- "... "Tell lis fd-u ngot- . ------ I-i your whole mame hnnil n fa Inst r.m to town last night. He L, Since. Mis leam where be left it i nere s . V . 1 .1 t.nra on Crtliij Mm out of the way. L to that man: to you, ffeirant Elliott r ling writhed. Ion, I EDOW uouuus Jod the sash ana cut me trttcnre from tbelr hearing k Old not know that his sharply as panic laid its Lj Mi back deliberately to Then, In frantic lunge. tbt telephone and rang the He Jail !" he wild exclted- Ittjali:" I growing, mounting roar it the voice of an approach- Then came a sharp shout; Then quick silence again !eri reasserted his leader demanded that they move anlL But thU order pre- brief moment In tli door; lt'i locked!" tried. "Take him until he up!" of Ice, cast In the street horw'i foot, now picked up itoutlj, crashed through an H : . wwtred as a yell of an- op, and pressed his face telephone. Art ! This Brandon 1 mob out here and" H It . The sheriff volv saw 'em come In. I don't bere, then, and be oulck Get down here and scatter waited for the readv ac- whlch always had come pen he had made, from offl- nw and Judges and nubile p.a cign nnd low. P there?" he demanded sh-rp- Jip came from the D . . oranuon. i bear yon but t what d'you expect me to I a mob alone' T" Wre sheriff, -on fool! law behind you!- Rrlnff owd,Sick! why, they're P. to the north. . ThwM . r-M. Tlipr'ro (r ... j - e.u mru auu 1 ion better get out the ton. "in th Brandon fiung the re- E as another window to fragments. Abandon Btterlng mob,, and bra Political career he had f Own hanrtst p. Kf he Ied out A I atn Were miv,i...., . . w ,u,u"s in a sign net trao m ... " L;J ta)Pio.vees. They "cited, and he saw lm. men , w A."'! befnro n u w"-nei the rear. A grim Ulffl to attempt flight I lttn vi. :.' Krl.fngchamber tot 1, w:: rew i He k p'i k beaose he k ath wfl. "! i rifle --eecu irJtt out : si, The men were having trouble with the sign post Be heard (he stair door tried and a voice called : "Hustle with that post!" Coming ! They were coming In ro get him! He could -not satisfy them! He did not know where Elliott was. Last Hs Could Not Satisfy Thm. night Delaney bad promised to try again but he had not come to report, though Brandon had waited late. And now the crowd was howling for El liott; lacking Elliott, they would take him. Be covered his face with his hands, tried to stop his ears. In those menac ing cries he heard the knell of this reign. For years he had ruled by the force of his will and now that force wag not enough. Bit by bit, Ben El liott bad caught the fancy of the coun try and now, with that group of stout men as a rallying point the entire town was setting up a demand for the missing Elliott They wanted Ben El liott Tbey would have Ben Elliott "Go home I" he screamed and waved his-arms, standing close to a broken wfndOwv "Clear out, you I ... Fair warning, I'm giving!" But bis words were drowned in a great yell. Men came luggtng that post across the street while Tim Jef fers hastened toward them with ges tures of protest "Hold your heads, now! Give us Hoot Owl boys a chance. We'll get what we come for or we'll take TIncup apart But no doe troy In' of property until everything else fails!" His will prevailed a moment. He lifted his face to Brandon. "We mean business. Will you come out and show us Ben or must we come and get you? Wt won't wait much longer." An opening, there, a chance to de lay, "Coming!" Brandon croaked. "I'm coming!" A gratified mutter went up from the crowd and burst Into shrill words. Coming? Like the devil, he would go! He was ransacking drawers, now, dumping their contenis on the floor In his frantic search for rifle cartridges that should be there. The noise outside Increased ; more people were coming to JoIb the crowd. It Seemed as though the whole town must be there. He sought a key for a locked trunk and could not find it He tried several but his bands shook so that he might have failed to make the proper one operate, even had he found It Again Jeffers' voice, demanding hla presence, came out of a strange silence.: "Coming!" he shouted thickly and seized a hammer and attacked the trunk - lock. Ammunition must be In there. The crowd milled, now, trampling the new snow, completely out of hand at this delay. Two or three aided Tim in his plea for at least temporary mod eration but others rebelled and fought to get the post which would batter down the stair door. These weaved to and fro there In the packed throng, a quarrel within a quarrel And then came a hush, a quick, spreading hush which swept the crowd like a shadow; like a swiftly speeding shadow, wiping out sound as a shadow wipes out sunlight breaking sentences in half. And then rose a quick pop ping of excited voices. "Elliott!" "Bere he is!" "Look!" "He's hurtr Bundled to the ears in a great over coat cap drawn low, supported on the one side by John Martin and on the other by Able Armltage, he came slow ly, painfully out of the side street He scarcely seemed to be aware of that throng; did not look either to the right 5? ibe left All his energy was bent Jajwring forward. ". . .-.-.V." He trained the middle ot the street In an Impressive hush. Then lie mur mured a word to AUe and they halted. He looked about at his men and smiled a trifle weak, but in his look was a quality which clearly Indicated that love whkli strong men have for their kind. , "It's all rijrht. boys,- he said and only thos iu ttie first raLkg C(j(jiJ bear, Ms voice was that light, "They didn't get me . . . badly. I tPl,re ciate this . . but want you to . get back to . . camp." He panted for breath and lifted kls face to the broken windows above. Far back in that room he caught a glimpse of a face watching him cocked as though striving to hear. "It's my fight" he went on. "Not youra . . . I don't waLf anv . . . of you hurt Go back. ..." will you go ... . back?" The crowd stirred. "You let we will, Ken!" a man called. .".Now that you're located if you ask it, we will r Tim Jeffera worked his way to Ben's side and put hand on his" shoulder, listening to what Able told him. "Qo home, hnyg!" Tim Jeffers called. "They knifed lien last nlgl't but he's well took care of. You teamsters, get out your horses; we've found what we come tor. To rump, every last I loot Owl hand,'" Men relaxed. The .ot that whs to lme bartered in Itrandnn's d'or was dropped. The mob was satisfied. Slowly Hen Elliott made his way buck to Pawn's home As Tim Jeffers took his place be side the sick man, Able Artnitr.ge drew Into the post ofllee entry to watch the mob disperse. Emory Sweet was standing there. "The king Is dead!" Able muttered solemnly, staring at those broken win dows. "Long live the king!" said Emory, l'ause. "Dead niea tell no tales." "No, but sometimes a corpse will kick back!" to the hunting CHAPTER XIII Furiously, Nicholas Brandon saw at the days passed the wreckage of his power pile up on a flood of public re sentment of . loosened . expressions of distrust and contempt and hatred which had grown and festered unobserved for years. The man who had replaced the glass In his office windows that Sunday aft ernoon worked slowly and silently where, In other days, he had done odd Jobs with swift efforts so that his la bor might give bis employer satisfac tion, and bad taken every opportunity to make talk with the town's great man. On Monday as Brandon walked along the street he saw faces leerlpg at him from windows, and men he passed averted their glances In a glee ful sort of embarrassment or looked at him with surly, defiant glares. In yard and mill he was conscious that his employees were thinking only of his fall. He discharged one man for loafing and the fellow only laughed at him. . . . Laughed! "There's plenty room at Hoot Owl for good hands," he said and laughed again. That mob yesterday had not wrecked the town as they had threatened but the rulnlhey left was of far' more con sequence. Their coming had strlpied Brandon of everything but his mate rial possessions and now these only mocked him in survival. Back in the office he paced the place like a caged animal. Mail arrived. He took the packet of letters and drank deeply from his bot tie again. He thumbed the letters absently, un til the script on one caught his eye. The envelope contained a single sheet of note paper and lie unfolded It with trembling fingers. On the sheet was written: "I never want to see you again, I know now what the whole country has known and been afraid to admit for years. I have thought you were my friend but now I know you are my worst enemy, as you are the sworn enemy of those I love most "DAWN." He stood for r. time staring at the paragraph; then read it again and drained his whisky bottle. Such a note, now, was to have been expected by an ordered mind, of course, but his fevered brain had not foreseen any necessity for abandoning tils, the most precious of his hopes. He trembled a bit and made a strange sound In his throat . A meticulous office man was Nich olas Brandon, and though he had suf fered the severest blow of his experi ence just now: he mechanically went about his habitual procedure He bad received and read a letter. It required no reply. The next step in orderly pro cedure was to file It In the outer ofllee were ranks and rows of letter files. But this letter did not belong there. In the great safe to which only he had combination and keys reposed two files side by side. He took both out and placed them on the desk. He opened one and a cruel smile twUched his Up. It contained letters on paper of varying size, color and quality. He riffled through these, stopping now and again to read a phrase, a sentence, a paragraph. . . . Pleas, these were ; a writing begging for help . . . and he smiled again. In the other file were more letters, some yellowed by age and these older ones had been written In the unformed script of a child. . . . "Dear Uncle Nick," they all began. Always that though the handwriting grew formed and mature until it was Identical with that on the single sheet be had lust red. These were Dawn McMabus' letter to him. saved since her child hood. He ran through tliem almost idlv, his senses dulled by whisky and the calam ity which had befallen him. A narrow slip of tablet paper fell out He looked at the penciled note on one 6ide. "lleet us at Autler Lodge this after noon. Dawn." Happier memories, that br.ught : of the rime Dawn had brought girls iio::!e with her from school for ThaU 'giving and hud taken them camp for a week-end. Brandon had gone with the puny and It was there that he had first re marked Dawn's emerging womanhood, that the desire for her had been kin dled In his blood; there In the camp where her father, as the whole coun try knew, had been with Sam Faxon on the night when Faxon fled to his death. But Dawn had nevr known that She had lhughed and been happy at Antler lodge. "Meet us at Antler Lodge Uls after noon. Dawn." He read It again. It bore no date It was unsoiled ; it betrayed no indi cation nf the time that had passed since Its iiiM-ripti ii The note bad been left ! hi .leek for him three years hef.nv lie leaned forwarj sharply hik! hi eyes narrowed. . . . After h iii 'ini'ii! he straightened and smiled oddly. A look like relief, al most like. ha;.'iiieKs spread over his face. Tine strength of body healed Ben Elliott's wound rapidly. By mid-week he was dressed and sitting before the fire with Dawn, talking of his return to Hoot Owl on the morrow. "It's been so good, even under the circumstances, to spend time with you," he said gravely. The girl flushed but made no reply. "And all the time I've been wonder ing. Dawn, wby yon wouldn't let me come. , . . You've been so kind, so generous, so ... so friendly. And yet, only a few days ago, you told me 1 must never come again. Why was it, Dawn? Why, when 1 Vove you so?" . "I on't P she begged In a light whls lcr. Tleuse !" "But It's beyond any power 1 have to keep still. I love you, Iawn,etrer than life. Can you believe that when I've seen so little of yon? Ixwk at me !" fiercely. "Don't you like It I wn. being loved?" ' Ab . . . Like It? It's wonderful. Hen. . . . It's too wonderful 1" She averted her face, "And loved by me?" "Yes, yes! It's all wonderful, it's too wonderful, Ben. Things like it Just can't tie !" "Why not? It's wouderful, you say, and yet . Can't you explain?" She was fighting for self-control, now. and wrested her hands from his, hacking away, white and shaken. (To Be Continued. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE On Monday, May 27th, 1935, at eleven o'clock A. M., at the court house door in the town of Waynes- vine, Haywood County, North Caro lina, 1 will sell to the highest bidder for cash, a: public outcry, the fol lowing lands and premises, lying and beinp in the town of Hazelwood, Haywood County, N. C, and more particularly described as follows: Being lot No. 7 of what is known as the Grimliall Park Addition, which said map, plat and subdivision is duly of lecord in the office of the Register of Deeds of Havwood County. N. C, in Map Book "B," Index "G," to which said map plat and subdivi tion reference is hereby made for a full and complete description of faid two lots, ind which said property is more particularly '-described as fol lows : ' BEGINNING at a stake standing in the center of the ' Southern Rail way trick, comer tc lots No, 6 and 7 of Block 4, as aforesaid, and runs thence N. l.T l.V E. 100 feet to a stake in the margin of Georgia Av enue; thence with the margin of Georgia Avenue N. 71' 45' W. 330 feet to a stake standing in the mar gin of Tin Street; thence with the margin of Pine Street S. 17 21' W. 100 feet to a stak- corner to lot No. 5; thence with the divisional Shoe Repairing line between lots Nos. 6 and 7. S37 feet to a stake, the BEGINNING corner. Being one of the lots of land conveyed by J. R. Morgan anil wife, Cora Ward Morgan, and F. W. Miller to C. A. Bltuk and wife, Leila M. Black, oy deed dated June 11. with the line of lot No. :47. V X' 34' iy2K, and recorded in Book ,,, page; E. chain. 44 links to a stake: thence runs thence with the line between sai4 tracts, S. 4 34' W. 10 chain?. 98 links to a stake; thence N. 85' 55' W. 4 chains, 2 links to a stake; thence with the line of lot Nos 38, N. 40 30' W. 4 chains, 24 links to a stake; thence 0, Record County. Saie made pursuant sale contained in that of trust executed by C. wife. Leila M. B'ack. 26, 1929, and revordec of Deeds of Haywood De to power on certain deed A. Black and dated March in Book 23. ed: prge 109, Record of of Havwood Countv. This 20th day of April. 193'. GEO. H. WARD. Trustee. No. 333 May 2-9-16-23. along the tout rem margin of a road way, S. 72' 25' E. 7 chains, 14 links to the BEGINNING, containing 7.68 acres, and being lots Nos. 35 and 36, of the R. A. L. Hyatt lands, as per survey and plat of Tarrell & Terrell, recorded in Man Rook "R " TmtpY H" of Trust office of the Register of Deeds of Hay wood I ountv, NOTICE OF TRUSTEE S SALE On Monday, May 20, 1935, at elev en o'clock A. M., at the court house door, in the town of Waynesvjlle, in Haywood County, North Carolina, I will sell at public outcsy, to the high est bidder for cash, the following lands 8i)d premises lying a an hiring in Hay wood Countv, North Carolina, and more particularly described and bounded as follows: BLG INNING on a haw bush at a cliff near the public road, and runs South lo'-s East 3 poles to the center of old road ;thence South 37 West Id-poles; South 2 East 15 1-3 poles to the division line between N. F. Owen and Morrow; thence with the divisional line North 09 West. 49 poles to the branch; thence with the branch 5 poles; thence North 43 East, 9 poles; North tU East, 15 poles to a stake in the edge of the bottom; thence up the ridge North 464 West 25 poles to a stake near the top of the ridge; thence North 50 East, 20 poles to a stake, Nelson-Ferguson Morrow corner; thence with the top of the ridge as it winds with Fergu son's line, to the BEGINNING, con taining 12 acres, mure or less, as per survey Of J. A. Darks, Surveyor, Sep tember, 1922, and being part of the D. A. Owen lands. Sale made pursuant to the power of sale contained in that certain deed of trust executed by U. 11. Ferguson, dated May 23rd, 1928, and recorded in Rook 29, at page J711, Record of Detids of Trust of Havwood ("ountv. This 19th ilav' of April, 1935. .1. R. MORGAN, Trustee. No. 330 Apr 25-May 2-9-lti Subject to the right- of-wa' for a roadway along the Northern margin of said lots for the adjoining lots, .tnd including the rights reserved over the Northern margin of adjoining lands for a roadway to the public road. Sale made pursuant to the power of sale contained in that certain deed of trust executed by R. K. Hall and wife, Ella Hall, dated April 10, 1927, and recored in Book l!f, page 237, Record of Deeds of Havwood County. This 12th dav of April, 1935. GEO. U. WARD. Trustee. No. 22u Apr. IS 25-May 2-9. It Matters Not How Badly Worn Your Shoes May We Can Fix 'em as good as New ; ':-': BRING THEM TO THE CHAMPION SHOE SHOP Next to Western Union NOTICE OF COMMISSIONER'S SALE STATE OF NOKT11 CAROLINA, COUNTY OF HAYWOOD. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT. I be Federal Land Bank of 1 Columbia, ' - Va. ' -Alden Howell, Sr., H. B. At- kins, Nora Swift Atkins i W. A. (Bill) Smathers I Will Spivey, Will Spicer, M. G, Stamey, Trustee, Citi- I ivna Bank & Trust Compa- , nk, Geo. H. Ward, Trustee, i W. W. Blackwell, Annie Dee 1 Chanselor, Walter G. j Chanselor, Mrs. L. C. Har beck, Mrs. R. H. Blackwell, I Haywood County, Lsabella j Ferguson, W. P. Underwood. 4 On Monday, the 13th day of May, 1935, at 12:00 o'clock M., at the court house in Waynesville, Haywood Coun ty, North Carolina, the undersigned Commissioner of the C ourt, will sell at public out-cry to the highest bid der for cash, the following described lands and premises, lying and be ing in Waynesville Township, Hayj wood County, North Carolina, to-wit: All that certain piece, parcel or tract of land containing 280 acres, more or (ess, situate, lying and being on the Balsam Road about 5 to 0 miles from Waynesville, N. ',, " in Waynesville Township, County of Haywood, State of North Carolina, having such shapes, metes, courses and distances as will more fully ap pear by reference to a plat thereof made by J. W. Seaver, Surveyor, made 1920, arid attached to the ab stract now on file with the Federal land Bank of Columbia, the same being -bounded on the North by. the lands of R. V. Welch estate, on the East by the lands of R. V. Welch estate and Will Spivey, on the SouOj by the lands of Will Spivey and the K. V. Welch estate, on the West by Jackson County, J. S. Mehaffey and R..V, Welch estate. This is the same tract of land heretofore conveyed to the said Alden Howell and H. B. Atkins by J. R. Morgan, Trustac, by deed dated January 27th, 3919, and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Haywood County, N. C, in Book 52, page 45 and also the same as described in a iudgrr.ent and de cree -registered in Book 52, page 11, Record of Deeds of Haywood County This sale is made pursuant to, un and hv virtue of the power of sale conferred upon my by order and indirment of Sunenor Court of wood Countv, North Carolina, bear ing date of April 8th, 1935, and ren dered in the above entitled ; action and wherein the undersigned was duly appointed Commissioner of the court to sell the above described lands to satisfy. 'the. judgment 'rendered' in this cause on a first note secured oy ueeo of trust 'taxes and insurance advanced by above named plaintiff. This the 8th day of April, 1935. A. T. WARD, Commissioner of the Court. No. 225 Apr. Jfi-25-May 2-9 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'E SALE On Monday, May 27, 1935, at eleven oMock, A. M., at the court house door in Wi. town of Waynesville, in Hay wioa county, Norm Carolina, 1 will .-e.i at public outcry, to the highest bidder lor cash, the lollowing lauds and premises: BEGINNING at an iron stake on the South side of Sycamore Lane or Main Street, iu liazelwood, N. C. Being the Northeast corner of Uu No. 2, Block "B," Brookwood Addition to Hazelwood, N. C, and runs South Ktf" 15' East with the margin of Main Street, 210 feet to a stake in center of State Highway No. 10; thenie South 41' 30 West about 428 feet to a stake in North margin of Kentucky Avenue; thence North 88" 15' Weal with margin of Kentucky Avenue, about 50 feet to a stake, corner of lot No. 30, in Block "B;" thence .North 22" 35' West with line of lots 30 and 2, about 358 feet to the BEGINNING, being the part of Block "A'' West of State Highway No. 10, in Brookwood. as per survey by J. W. Seaver. Sale made pursuant to power of sale conferred upon the' undersigned trustee by virtue of the power of sale contained in that certain deed of trust executed by John F. Bass and wife. Hallie V. Bjiss, dated October 27, 1931. and recorded in Rook 29, at page 163, Record of Deeds of Trust of Haywood County. This the 20th day of April, 1935. 1. L. COUNCIL, Trustee, No. 331 Apr. 25,-May 2-9-16. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE On Monday, May 13, 193.5, at -eleven, o'clock, A. M., et the court house door in the town of Waynesville, in Haywood County, North Carolina, J Will sell at public outcry to the high est bidder for cash, the following lands and premises, lying and being in the town of Waynesvilile, Hay wood County, North . Carolina, and more particularly described as fol lows: BEGINNING on a stake on tW bank of Richland Creek, at the South west pier of the old iron bridge acrae Richland Creek; thence up the crk 6. 30 E. 4 Mi poles to the mouth of the Shingle Cove Branch; thence up the branch N. 70 W. 8 poles to the old rock coiner; thence North 1 polr to the branch; thence along the old Shingle Cove Road N. 82 E. 8 poles to the end of the old i ion bridge abutt ment; thence S. 00" E. 2p oles to the BEGINNING, containing one-eighth (1-8) ef an acre, more or less. Being the same tract of land con veved by R. L. Gilmer, administrator of' M. 11. Love to AJ.len Howell aad Kimsey Howell, on the 27th day f October, 1886. EXCEPTING from the operation of this deed all lands taken by the Town of Waynesville for road through said lands up to this time. Being the same proiierty conveyed to the said John R, Carawell by Sho ford Howell and Wife, Annie Howell, "by 'deed dated the 13th day of Sep temlter, 1917, and duly recorded ha the office of the Register of Deeds hn Book 50, page 72, Record of eeds for Haywood County. Sale made pursuant to the power of sale contained in that certain deed of trust executed by J. R. Camwell and wife, Annie M. Carswell, dated June 24, 1929, and recorded in Book 23, page 131, Record of Deeds of Trust of Haywood County. This 12th day of April, 1935, GEO. II . WARD, 227 Apr 18-25-May 2-9 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE On Monday, May 13, 1935, at elev en o'clock, A. M., at the court house door in the town of Waynesville, in Haywood County, North Carolina, I will eell at public outcry to the high est bidder for cash, the following lands and premises, lying and being in Waynesville Township, Hay- awiH fountv. North Carolina, ana more particularly described as fol lows: " . . , . ." BEGINNING at a stane in tne Hyatt and Winchester line, corner between Tracts Nos. 34 and 35, and EXECUTOR'S NOTICE Having qualified as executors of the estate of C. E, Ray, deceased, late of Haywood County, North Carolina, thist is to notify all persons having claim against the estate of the said de ceased to exhibit them to the under signed at Waynesville, N. C, on or before the 4th of April, 1936, or thia notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make imme diate payment. This the 4th day of April, 1935. J. W. RAY, M.RS. MINNIE RAY, Executors of the Estate of C. E. Ray Deceased. No. 382 April 4-11-18-25-May 2-S. ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE Having qualified as administratrix of the estate of Kenneth E. Ferguson, deceased, late of Haywood County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned at Waynes ville, N. C, on or before the 17th Jay of April, 1936, or this notice will be pleaded in bar oi ineir recovery, mi persons indebted to said estate will please- make immediate payment This 17th day of April, 1935. JOSEPHINE C. FERGUSON, Administratrix of estate Of the de- No. 328 Apr. 18-25-May 2-9-16-M.