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Nanfcy Gordon trades herself in
marriage for fifteen thousand dol
lars —the- price of ► her. family honor
—and the ifydedqtntf pf j hey j brother,
Roddy, who stole, for a woman, that
amount from tfafc bferik ] ' whltfh he
works. Nancy, .desperately oh:' Idve
with young Pape Roemer, neverthe
less agrees to a'.-,;
with Dr. Richard Morgan, 'staid with
the money he loans her prevents
Roddy's arrest. Dr. Morgan is loved
by Helena Haddon, a sophisticated
young married woman, but he
adores Nancy and hopes to win her
after marriage. In Washington they
are married. Nancy ' is Richard's
bride —and afraid of him.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
He could keep her, he had a right
to keep her—. Then he saw her
■haUng like a leaf. By a kind of
violence then, blinding himself, he
had married a woman who did not
lore him, who shrank from him now
with terror and repulsion- He turned
away, without a word, n and began to
walk to and fro in the room.
If he looked at her he might yield
to the natural impulse of his own
love for her; he might take her to
his heart, and it would be against
her will. It would be actually an
act of violence rather than an em
brace for she was afraid of him; he
saw It! It moved him, perhaps,
more than anything else. Then the
tumult of his feeling drowned even
thought itself.
He crossed the room quickly. In a
moment his ariri was around her,
his hand on her shoulder.
'.Nancy," he said softly, „my
wife!"
She tried to answer him, but her
white lips refused to move. She
could not even lift her eyes to his.
He felt it, felt that she actually
shivered at his touch. He let her go,
his arms fell at his sides, and stood
still, regarding her. '•»
"I knew you didn't love me," he
said at last; "I gambled on the
chance that I could make you—God
forgive me, I took advantage of you,
I •" He turned away, and then at
last hurriedly: "I'm going to take
you home!" „
"You mean ?" her lips shook
"I mean I don't w&nt you to hate
me. Nancy this thing can't go on,
I see it! This marriage—,—" he stop
ped, unable to go on. , v! .,
"Richard—" she began , faintly,
taking a step toward him.
He looked around at her and their
eyes met. She was shaken again by
the power and passtori of his glance.
She had never really known the
man and now, in the depths of those
strange, green-brown eyes of his,
she saw love and pinion and rage,
not untouched, too, by cdmpassion.
the compassion a matt rttight feel
for a spoiled child. Nancy's face
burned suddenly. She Cartie nearer,
holding up her head. I " '
"Forgive me. Richard," she said
faintly, " and give me a little time."
His face softened w6hderfully.
"Nancy." he gathered hef trembling
hands into his, "you don't know
what love is, you child, you!" He
drew a little nearer; >'l Wonder if
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you've ever really been in love', iri
your whole life?". t
She winced with such a tremor of
feeling, -that the red blood mounted
from her bosom to her throat.
"I've married you," shie said ih* v
low voice, 'TH try to do my best—>l
will trulty-if. f you'U give me a-Ziffle
time, Richard."
"And you take no thought, 6i me?"
He laughed a strangely bitter laugh.
"You've married me and you forget
I'm a man like other linen*—l have
feelings, too, Nancy; I'm not a stone
—apd you tfan feel how I lbtfe you!"
"Oh!" she gasped, "W, TO
wrong to do it! I—you love me, and
I ." She wrenched one hand free
and reaching back behind her,
caught at the edge of a heavy ta
ble and leaned against it, weaker.
Her agony reached through even
his passionate emotion. She had re
coiled from him like a blow. 'He
let her hands drop with a gesture of
passionate rage.
"I don't want a wife who doesn't
love me!" he cried with sudden fury.
The moment was primal; the tor
nado of his passion and his revul
sion tore down to his very heart. -
She shrank before it, clinging—
white-faced—to the table against
which she leaned.
He did not heed it. "I'm going to
take you home. You —" he stopped
again, unable to go on, then, mas
tering himself—"you're free—if you
will, you can keep this marriage se
cret—it's no marriage except in
name. I'll take you home now—
tonight!"
She caught her breath, staring at
him wildly, but. instead of relief
she felt the sting of his rejection.
"You mean—her stiff lips re
fused to frame the words in hei
mind.
"I mean I don't want a woman
who can't love me, that's what I
mean!" he flung back at her like a
challenge.
She took it as such-and faced him,
quivering from head to foot.
"I—l didn't pretend I did!" she
said very low, her lips twitching
painfully with the effort to force
speech—"l—l didn't mean to cheat
you—l told you—l pledged myself,
I've kept that pledge—l've married
you."
"Oh. have yop?"' he mocked. '
He was shaking with fuity. All the
pentpent-up passion and misery of
the love he was crushing down to
spare her broke loose in his anger.
He caught one of her hands in his
again and kissed it passionately,
then, when he felt it lie there, un
resisting, as if she dared not take It
away, he flung it from him.
"I'm going to take you home—
there's a night train, or rather a
morning one, at half-past two. We'll
go on it. Meanwhile—" he swept the
space about them with his gesture
of disdainful courtesy—"thes>2 rooms
are yours. Lie down and rest, I'll
have you called in time. I'm going
out—good night until—the train
goes."
She did not answer, she stood
quite still, watching him with
startled eyes. She only half under
stood; she felt as if a great hot
whirlwind had blown past her. She
only half glimpsed the disappoint
ment, the wrath, the mortification
he felt.
Then, suddenly, he returned. He
flung himself on one knee beside
her chair; she fijlt his hands, hot
and shaking, close on her?, a,nd she
lifted her eyes and met the passion
ate pain in his.
"Listen to me, Nancy," his voice
passionate still, had softened, it
was shaken now by a new emotion
a deeper one, his tenderness for her'
Not even anger could drive it out
when he looked at her bowed head.
I love you—never dream but that
I love you. But I won't take a wife
who shrinks from nie—like a pesti
lence! I'm setting you free.'You can
say nothing of this marriage, if you
will. I've made no announcement.
HI make none without your sanc
tion. I've married you—l'm going to
try to win you now. Whfen you can
come back to me with love in your
heart—then, Nancy, my heart is
waiting for that day—until then—"
He caught her hands and kissed
them, pressing them itgaihst' ; his
breast. • i • -"
She felt his passionate lips upon
her two hands, she felt the tremor
that ran through him, and then
almost as quickly as it, reached her
he was gone. She was alone in the
strange room, alone and free— and
yet not free! u ~
When the train moved out of .the
station, Nancy knew that It was al
ready morning. Richard had had
her sleeping-berth made up and or
dered her to lie down and rest, with
adviwr aChed tone of a professional,
A sensation of relief qhot through
her, she drew her bt**th ' deeply!"
and then suddenly abruptly, she felt
the hard circle of the wedding-ring
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on her finger. She stared at It cur
iously, abhorrently. She was not
even now Quite clear as to what had
ha. pened. She had gone to Rich-
ard openly, brazenly, begging help
and pledging herself, she had mar
ried him and he " It seemed to
her that he must scorn her as tre
mendously as he seemed to love her.
And though she did not love him, It
shook her horribly—she had mar
ried him.
Her thoughts did not come in se
quence; she had glimpses of outside
things, and swift, poignant visions
—of her father—looking gray and
broken—and her mother, of Roddy
delivered from jail, pf AnyiejjPuller's
;spaniel;«jces. and f of Page Roemer.
The thought of him was like a
swordthrust, it. made her cringe
back and cover her face with her
shaking hands. Tyould she, have to
teli him she could ; not—site was
sure she could not!
Th# sun was jttdng .when, she got
up and dressed in a swift,' '!absent
minded way. r'She did not Kttow
where RichaM had gone. He, had
been merciful, he had left her aj|she.
She was very pale when he came
and, in his authoritative way, made
her go into the dining-car.
"You can't starve yourself," he
said grimly, and added in an under
tone; "don't hate me so much you
can't eat. Nancy!"
She raised her eyes suddenly and
looked full at him for the first time.
She was shocked at the change in
him in one night. He looked old. He
was ten years older than - he was,
five years older than Paye—he
might be fifty now in the crude
light of the swaying train. He was
looking at her and their glances
met, met with a shock of mutual
feeling. He put his hand out invol
untarily and took hers and felt it
icy cold.
"You poor child!" he exclaimed
softly. . • ,
Sitting opposite her in the dining
car, with the little white-covered
table between them he had another
change of heart. He could not give
her up! "She's mine!" he thought
cruelly; "she's mine—l'll never let
her go!" and then he was ashamed.
"Eat something, Nancy," he urged,
"you've got to."
She tried, choking down her food,
but her hands shook.
He saw it, saw that she would
not—or could not—even look at him
now, and choked down his own food
and took her back to her place in
the sleeper, and left her to herself.
"I think you want to be alone."
he said.
She assented without words and
they made the rest of the journey
apart.
It was late afternoon when they
finally got home. There were only a
few people at the station and Rich
ard and Nancy walked up the street
unmolested. They did not speak
until they reached his gate and
Richard stopped there.
-• "Won't you come in. Nancy?"
His very tone appealed. For an
instant his pride broke, there was
hunger and longing in his voice. She
gasped.
"I—l'd like to go home first—l
what do you mean, Richard."
He gave her a tense look. "I'm
human—God, I'm human?" he said,
"you know what I mean!"
, She hung her head, she did not
know what to do. but—unconscious
ly—she wrung her hands.
"Can I come home with you now,"
Kiohard pleaded, "and see your
father and mother—or am I to stay
here?"
"Oh, I must go!" she gasped, "I
must!"
"Oo? As you will, Nancy; see—l
keep my faith," and he stepped back
aside his own gate and stood there,
waiting to watch her.
She felt his eyes, gave one glance
back, whitened to her lips and fled.
Richard was a proud man and he
reddened under his tan. He had
seen the agony in her face when
she shivered at his touch, she, his
Wife—incredible! Then the flame of
passion leaped up again. "She's
mine—mine!"
He was startled at a voice.
"Richard, I've been waiting ever
so long for you!"
It was Helena Haddon standing at
his door.
He was taken aback without
reason, it was no unusual thing
for Helena to come. He was the
Haddon's physician and she came—
sometimes with bald excuses, some
times real need of something to
quiet her nerves, but today .
the trouble?" he asked.
Striving to be natural. "Nerves
again, Helena?"
"Oh, it's everything!" she smiled
At him. "It's nerves and King—and
the Spring weather."
' ''Principally the spring weather, I
fandy." he said reassuringly, open
ing the door for her.
He meant to take her into his of
fice, but she walked straight into the
library. He saw her mood and he
had begun sometimes to fear its
consequences; today he was think
ing hard: 'At least I don't have to
tell her now!"
- p h °Pe you haven't got the same
old headache, Helena?"
• "No. Its' not my headache." He
lena laughed, .looking around at
him, | opening her green eyes wide
and laughing at him. 'I see there's
been; a visitor here before me," she
added mockingly.
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NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND |
Under and by virtue of the power
of sale contained in a certain Deed
of Trust executed by A. M. Andrews
and wife, Virginia Andrews, date£
March 14, 1932, and recorded ih
Book 115. page 89. in the office of
the Register of Deeds for Surry
County, North Carolina, default
having been made in the payment
of the Indebtedness thereby se
cured, and demand having been
made for sale, the undersigned
Trustee will sell at public auction
to the highest bidder for cash, in
. front of the Post Office, Elkin,
North Carolina at 2:00 o'clock P. M.
on the 23rd day, of March 1934, the
following described property, lo
cated In Surry County, N. C., in EI
wPW® 0 -* y * ." v- r >
A certain tract or parcel of land
In Surry County, State of North
Caroling, adjoining the land# of J. S.
Gentry, Tom Calloway and the r El
kin «fe Alleghany Railroad on. west
side, and others,, and bounded as.
follows:
Beginning on a white oak, .J. 9,
Gentry's in Tom Calloway's line
and runs north 85 degrees west with
Tom Calloway's line 262 feet to the
railroad right of way; thence south
ward with the railroad 190 1-2 feet
to a rock on the east side of the
railroad; thence north 85 degrees
east 252 feet to a rock in Gentry's
line; thence North 9 degrees West
with Gentry's line 190 1-2 feet to
the beginning. Containing 1 acre
more or less.
Also a second parcel of land ad
joining the lands of Bill Douglass
on the north, Highway No. 26 on the
west, M. M. Hamby on the south
and the E. & A. Railroad on the
east, and bounded as follows;
Beginning on west side of R. R.
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Douglass' comer and runs south 68
degrees and ,30 minutes west 147
feet to a rook on east side of State
Highway, Douglass' corner; thence
southwardly with Highway No. 26,
90 1-2 feet to a rock; thence north
68 degrees and 30 minutes east 147
feet to a rock at the railroad: thence
northward with the railroad 90
/eet to the beginning. Containing
1-2 acre more or less.
This the 21st day of February,
1934.
HARRY H. BARKER, Trustee.
W. M. Allen, Attorney. 3-15
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE OF
... LAND
• Under an| by virtue of the power
of sale contained in a certain deed
of trust executed the 26th day of
January, 1933, by L. R. Key and M.
E. Key. his wife*, to W. R. Badgett,
Trustee, for J. A. Whitaker which
is recorded in Book No. 126, page No.
192, in the office of' the Register of
Deeds of Surry bounty, North Car
olina, default having been made in
the payment of the note therein se
cured and jpe holder thereof havitig
directed timt the deed of trust ' be
foreclosed. the undersigned Trustee
will sell fpr cash to the highest bid
der at public auction at Level Cross
Mills, in Rockford Township, Surry
County, North Carolina, on Tuesday,
the 27th day of March, 1934, at 1
o'clock P.'if., the following des
cribed real estate:
First Tract: Lying and being in
Rockford Township, adjoining the
lands of W. G. Whitaker, W. J.
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Olasses Kitted El kin National Bank Bld|.
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Brans, dec'd., lands and others, and
bounded as follows, to-wit, viz: Be
ginning on a small white oak (now
dead and down) In the old Pllaon
line runs South 32 chains and 50
links to pointers in Prank Whitaker's
line; thence E. with Whitaker's line
7 chains and 50 links to pointers,
Whitaker's corner; thence North 5
chains to pointers, his corner; t.hence
E. 18 chains to a white oak. said
Whitaker's corner; thence N. 7.50
chains to a stake; thence E. 19
chains to the Rockford Road; thence
with said road N. 7 deg. E. 4.50 shs.;
thence N. 11 deg. W. 11 chs.; thence
N. 16 deg. E. 5 chs. to a pine, S. M.
Patterson's and W. E. Key's corner,
thence W. with Key's-line 42.50 chs.
to the beginning, containing 110
acres, be it more or less.
Second Tract: Lying and being In
Siloam Township, adJ'dlning the
lands of Wess Pulk; J. A. Whitaker.
Woolsie Riijg and others, and bound-jj
ed as. follows, viz: Tract; isfi.'
10 of the property known as the .T.
W. Soles , farm situated about 3%
miles to the Southwest of Siloam,
North Carolina, as surveyed and
plotted by James A. Clark, C. E., and
for more particular description ref
erence is hereby made to Plot Re
cord In the Register of Deeds Office
of Surry County, Book No. 68, page
600. Tract No. 10 containing 38.74
acres, more or less. Sale made to
satisfy said debt, taxes, if any, and
costs of sale to add.
This 19th day of February, 1934.
W. R. BADOETT,
3-15 Trustee.