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THE GASTOXLV GAZETTE. FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1917. -The: Gastonia Gazette sibly two, spies should ft' "arrested be fore the night is overj: And the point about this that will interest you ladies Is that one uf these, the one whose or der,for arrest I have already given. Is a woman a very clever and pretty woman. I may add to make the story more interest big." "And the other, whose arrest may follow, is an accomplice of hers, I take It. general?" Woodhouse put the ques tion with easy Indifference. He was stirring bis coffee abstractedly. "Not only the accomplice, but the brains for both, captain a deucedly clever person. I'm frank to admit." "Ob. ieople. come and see the flag Ship, signaling to tbe rest of tbe fleet with its funny green and red lights!" i I. .Issued every Monday, Wednesday 1 1 nd Friday by The Gazette Publish, lax Company. Ip'OfrDllllpJIIIIII! KENNEDY'S FOR... BEST DRUG STORE GOODS and SERVICE FINEST ICE CREAM AND COLD DRINKS COOLED WITH ELECTRIC FANS J. W.ATKINS. BditMUdilf Admitted into the mails at the Poet Office af Gastonla. X. C, at the onnd rate of Postage, April 28, lies. - a " SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: a Om year $2.ou x-months 1.0 0 Three months 50 One month 20 s4 All subscriptions payable in ad- Can't Come Phone 84 eace and discontinued promptly eyoa expiration. PAGE FOUR. NT ESTABLISHED 1880. NO. "230 West Mala Avenue. PHOXE XO. 60. FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1917. Inside the Lines By EARL DERR BIGGERS VAND ROBERT WELLS RITCHIE Copyright 1916. by the Bobss-Mar- rlU Co. CHAPTER XIX. A Defiance. Off IOICES sounded In the hallway outside the double doors. Jal- mlhr ( Khan, a finger to bis lips, nodded as he whispered. Three-thirty at the Splendide." lie faded like a white wraith through the door to General Crandall'a room as the . doable doors opened and the mascu line faction of the dinner party en tered. Woodhouse rose from a Btoop Ing position at the telephone and faced them. To the general, whose sharp scrutiny stabbed like thin knives, he made plausible explanation. The beg gar who lost his bag wanted a com plete identification of it had run it down at Algeciras. T understand," Crandall grunted. When the cigars were lit General Crandall excused himself for a min ute, sat at bis desk and hurriedly scratched a note. Summoning Jalmibr, he ordered that the note be dispatched by orderly direct to Major Bishop and given to no other bands. Woodhouse. who overheard his superior officer's command, was filled with vague ap prehension. What Mrs Sherman bad said at table this hurried note to Bish op; there was but one interpretation to give to the affair Crandall's suspi cions were all alive again. Tet at SaO-at the Hotel SplendUe. But when Crandall came back to Join the circle of smokers he was all geniality. The women came In by way of Jane Gerson's room; they bad beeu taking a farewell peek at her dazzling stock of gowns, they said, before they vera packed for the steamer. ."There was one or two I just bad to see again.' Mrs. Sherman explained for the benefit of all "before I said good by to them." i "Well, don't get Into trouble with the minister, mother,'' Henry J. warned. "Borne of the French gowns I've seen on this trip certainly would stir things op in Kewanee." Jalmibr served the coffee. Wood bouse tried to maneuver Jane into a tete-a-tete In an angle of tbe massive fireplace, but she outgeneraled him, and the observant Mrs. Sherman cor nered him Inexorably. '."Tell me. Captain Woodhouse," she began In her friendly tunes, "you said awhile ago the general might mistake you for a spy. Dou't you have a great deal of trouble with spies in your army fa wartime? Everybody took us for spies in Germany, and in France they thought poor Henry was carrying bombs to blow up tbe Eiffel tower." "Perhaps I can answer that question better than Captain Woodhouse," the . general put in. rising and striding over to where Mrs. Sherman kept the cap tain prisoner. "Captain Woodhouse. you see, would not be so likely to come la touch with those troublesome per sona as one in command of a post, like myself.'' The most delicate irony barb ed this speech, lost to all but tbe one for whom It was meant "Oh, I know I'm going to hear some thing very exciting!" Mrs. Sherman chortled. "Kitty, you'd better hush up Willy Kimball for awhile and come over here. Tou can Improve your mind better listening to tbe generaL" Crandall coon was the center of a group. Be began, with sober direct- fWell, la the matter of spies In war time, Mrs. Sherman, one la struck by the fact, of their resemblance to the plague you never can tell when they're going te get you or whence they came. Now, here on the Bock I hare reason to believe we have one or snore spies busy this mlnnte." Jans Genoa, sitting where the light smote her face, drew back into the shadow with s swift movement of pro trctireness. Woodhouse, who balanced a dainty Eatsuma coffee cup on hla tree, kept hla eyas on hi superior's Lite with a. mildly Interested air. "Ja fact,1 Crandan continued evenly. "And the other is an accomplice of hers." It was Jane, who had suddenly risen and stood by tbe curtains screening tbe balcony windows. "They look like little flowers opening and shutting." The girl's diversion was sufficient to take interest momentarily from Gener al Crandall's revelation. When all had clustered around the windows conver sation skipped to the fleet, its power and the men wbo were ready to do battle behind Its hundreds of guns. Mrs. Sherman was disappointed that tbe ships did not send up rockets. She'd read somewhere that ships sent up rockets. ani she didn't see why these should prove the exception. In terruption came from Jalmihr Khan, who bore a message for Consul Reyn olds. Tbe fussy little man ripped open the envelope with an air of Importance. "Ah, listen, folks! Here we have tbe latest wireless from tbe Saxonia: 'Will anchor about 2 sail 0. Have all passengers aboard by 5:30.' " Excited gurgles from the refugees. "That means," Reynolds wound up with a flourish, "everybody at the docks by 5 o'clock. Be there myself to see you off. Must go now lot of fuss and feathers getting everybody fixed." He paused before Jane. "You're going home at last, young lady," be chirped. "That depends entirely on Miss Ger son herself." It was the general wbo spoke quietly, but emphatically. Reynolds looked at him, surprised. "Why, I understood it was all ar ranged" "I repeat. It depends entirely on Miss Gerson." Woodhouse caught the look of fear In Jane's eyes, and, as they fell for tbe Instant on bis, something else appeal He turned his head quickly. Lady Crandall saved the situation. "Oh, that's Just Borne more of George's eternal red tape. I'll snip it when the time comes." Tbe consul's departure was the sig nal for the others. They crowded around Lady Crandall and her husband with voluble praise for the American dinner and thanks for the courtesy they had found on the Rock. Wood bouse, after a last despairing effort to have a word of farewell with Jane, which she denied, turned to make his adieu to hi host and hostess. "No hurry, captain," Crandall caught blm up. " Expect Major Bishop in every minute small matter of official detail. You and be can go down the Rock together when be leaves." Woodhouse's mind leaped to the meaning behind his superior's careless words. The hastily dispatched note that was to summon Bishop to Govern ment House; Crandall's speech about the spies, and now this summary or der that he wait the arrival of Bishop. Would the arrest be here in this room? The man who carried a number from the Wilhelmstrasse felt the walls of the library slowly closing in to crush him. He could almost hear the whisper and mutter of tbe inexorable machine moving them closer closer. Be alone with tbe man whose word could send bullets into his heart! "A very pleasant dinner. Lady Cran dall's." Vodliouse began, eager to lighten the tenseness of the situation. "Yes. It seemed so." Crandall offered the younger man his cigarette case and, lighting a moke himself, straddled tbe hearth, his eves keenly observant of Woodhouse's face. "Rather odd. Americans, but Jolly nice." The captain laughed In rem iniscence of the unspoiled Shermans. "I thought so I married one." Cran dall retorted. The ear of Woodhouse's mind could hear more plainly now the grinding of the cogs: tbe Immutable power of fate lay there. "Oh er so you did. Very kind she has been to me. I got very little of this sort of thing at Wady Haifa." "By tbe way, Woodhouse" Crandall blew a contemplative puff toward the ceiling "strange Mrs. Sherman should have thought she saw you at Berlin." "Odd mistake, to be sure," Wood house admitted, struggling to. puf ease Into his voice. "Tbe lady seems to have a penchant, as her husband says for finding familiar faces." AT THE CORNER-ON THE SQUARE N. B. Read the latest telegraphic war news posted daily on our bulletin board. "Major Bishop!" Jalmihr Kahn an nounced at the double doors. Tbe ma jor In person followed immediately. Hla greeting to Woodhouse was con strained. "Woodhouse will wait for you to go down tbe Rock with him," Crandall explained to tbe newcomer. "Captain, excuse us for a minute while we go into my room and run over a little mat ter of fleet supplies. Must check up with the fleet before it sails in the morning." Woodhouse bowed his ac quiescence and saw the door to tbe general's room close behind tbe twain. He was not long alone. Noiselessly tbe double doors opened, and Jalmibr Khan entered. Woodhouse sprang to meet bim where he stood poised for flight Just inside the doors. "The woman's prattle of Berlin" the Indian whispered. "Yes; tbe general's suspicions are all aroused again." "Listen! I saw the note he sent to Bishop. Tbe major Is to be set to watch you tonight all night A false step and you will be under arrest" Jaimlbr's thin face was twisted in wrath. "One man's life will not stand in our way now." "No." Woodhouse affirmed. "Success Is veree near. When Bishop goes with you down the Rock" ?Yes. yes! What?" "The pistol screams, but the knife is dumb. Quick, cap-tain!" With a swift movement of his band the Indian pass ed a thin bladed dirk to the white man. The latter secreted tbe sheathed weap on in a iocket of bis dinner Jacket. IL nodded understanding. "One man's life nothing!" Jalmihr breathed. "It shall be done." Woodhouse whls pered. Jalmihr faded through the double doors like a spirit in a medium's cabl net He bad seen what the captain was slower to notice. Tbe door .from Jane Gerson's room was opening. Tbe girl stepped swiftly into the. room and was by Woodhouse's side almost be fore be bad seen ber. "I could not go away without without" "Miss Gerson Jane!"' He was beside ber instantly. His band sought and found one of hers and held It a willing prisoner. She was trembling, and ber eyes were deep jxwls, rltlled by con flic ting currents. Her words came breathlessly: "I was not myself. I tried to tell myself you were deceiving me Just Just as a part of this terrible mystery you are involved in. But when I heard General Crandall tell you to wait that and what he said about the spies I knew you were again in peril, and and" "And you have come to me to tell me as goodby you believe I am honest and that you care a little?" Wood house's voice trembled with yearning "When you think nie in danger then you - forget lnlits and maybe your heart" "Oh. I want to believe 1 want to!" sbe whispered assionately. "Every one here is against you. Tell me you are on the level with me. at least." "I am with you." "I I believe," she sighed, and her head feM near his shoulder so near that with alacrity Captain Woodhouse settled it there. "When this war is over, if I am alive," he was saying rapturously, "may I come to America for vou? Will vou wait?" 'Tertians." The door to General Crandall's room opened. They sprang apart Just as Crandall and Bishop entered the libra ry. The former was not blind to the situation. He darted a swift glance into the girl's face and read mucb there. "Ready, captain?" Bishop chirped, af fecting not to notice the momentary confusion of the man and the girl. Woodhouse gave Jane's hand a lin gering clasp. Mutely bis eyes adjured her to remember her plighted troth. In another minute be was gone. The general and his guest were alone. Jane Gerson was bidding him good nlgbt wben be interrupted, some what gruffly: "Well, young woman, have you made up your mindl Do you sail In the morning or not?" "I made up my mind to that long ago," she answered briskly. "Of course OFFICERS FOR HOSPITAL 10 DIRECT ORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTION Trustees in Meeting Here Select ON fleer for Ensuing Term Site Purchased, and Executive Commit tee Empowered to Act. At a recent meeting here of the board of trustees of the North Car olina Orthopaedic Hospital officers for the ensuing term were chosen as follows: President, R. B. Babington; secre tary, M. B. Speir; treasurer, J. Lee Robinson; chaplain, Rev. A. D. Wil cox. An executive committee con sisting of three members was elected as follows: R. R. Ray, chairman; M. B. Spier and R. B. Babington. The meeting of the board or trus tees was opened by prayer offered by Rev. A. D. Wilcox. Governor T. W. Bickett was elect ed ex-officio chairman and Hon. J. C. Harding chairman of the board or trustees. Trustees attending the meeting were as follows: R. B. Babington, Gastonia; Hon. J. C. Harding, Greenville; M. B. Spier, Charlotte; R. R. Ray, McAdenville; Geo. Blan ton, Shelby; J. Lee Robinson, Gasto nia; W. C. Bivqns, Wadesboro; Rev. A. D. Wilcox, Goldsboro. J. H. Giles, the only absent member, was detain ed on account of sickness. A committee on by-laws was ap pointed as follows: Hon. J. C. Hard ing, chairman; W. C. Bivens and R. B. Babington. The board of trustees purchased a site of 28 1-2 acres in Babington heights, one mile east of the city limits on the Charlotte-Atlanta high way, with the purpose and under standing that the executive commit tee, into whose hands the authority to act is placed, make up specifica tions, plans for construction or hos pital and laying off the grounds, as early as practicable. Actual work wIM be started as soon as these pre liminaries are arranged. Gaston county has subscribed to tnis work sio.uoo. it is necessary to have an additional $50,000 sub scribed in order to begin the work of building an institution to take care of the crippled children even in the beginning. Tbe board of trustees wants the 99 counties to contribute this amount which would not amount to a large sum for each county. . Hummer Complaint. During the hot weather of the summer months some member of al most every family is likely to be troubled with an unnatural loose ness of the bowels, and it is of the greatest importance that this be treated promptly, which can only be done when the medicine is kept at hand. Mrs. F. F. Scott, Scottsville, N. Y., states, "I first used Chamber lain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy as much as five years ago. At that time I had a severe attack of summer complaint and was suffering intense pain. One dose relieved me. Other members of my family have since used it with like results." Adv. Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pen Ought to be carried by every man in the army We have them $2.50 AND UP H. M. Van Sleen Jeweler Our Legal Responsibility to our customers insures the safeguarding of your funds in this Bank. Our Personal Responsibility gives each member of the bank a friendly interest in whatever business problem you may care to discuss with us. If we can help, Command Us. IDEAL THEATRE -TODAY: PLOTS OF FOREIGN SPIES DEFEATED BY "Might and the Man" McFadden la only a trainer in a sanatorium for flabby mus cled millionaires, but be renders a great patriotic service by sav ing the plans of our submarine destroyer from the agents of a foreign government. Elmo Lincoln The Modern Hercules, is the Man, and he is assisted by Carmel Myers As the daughter of a Munition Maker attacked by the Foreign Kmissary. licture of Twin Star Power, with Iliotous Comedy and Sen sational Plot. TOMORROW MOLLY KING in "MYSTKItY OF DOUBLE CROSS" XO. 12. 3-lleel Western and MACK SWAIX IX "HIS NAUGHT THOUGHT" Announcement! ON AND AFTER AUGUST 1ST. ALL PENNY ADS WILL BE STRICTLY CASH IN ADVANCE : : Except where the advertiser has a regular monthly ac count with us. Please do not ask us to charge them. 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C - Subscribe for The Gazette $2.00 Year Goes all Over Gaston 1 56 Times a Year "I shouldn't be surprised If one, pos I (Continued on page 5.) - r.---.-g v-.- f -- r-r--.- - 7
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