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SIX ^ ~ -v- -^r;_ ; -- . ------ -" ( 0/"Edisoi WHAT HAFPEXf:^ Dr. Lon^v ?'-1 - ??j&3& v;uH AIi-x? anu^r Pi ? * '"? a dcAf^tive. t&tlgifi*. \us projected iv;-? r.-.> S:>uthi*y V-Vwn-, Pk*rc<? advises him co ' his csjrps wi.-li ojv"" v. h"'" tHv?"4' -<V* ? >?* *r?.v j?i a train I>ri I.' :., is ;.;: a hy a jcn:;, who >atcr tuir.w. i?r. treats her. and looking inc.- h bag. is astounded to fffe.? _ BfefWd vc~ vc ver. lit. L'.-r.g moot- Ahmad Oaf. an. Oriental, v. Ik i hitv to Soiiti'iey Oo'.vn.s. whrfj otwts Mr. Souland '-is - o, Kr >- >--u'.h:. ... Mi. Haytv.'ir.i :.-ui his v.-:i Vis. aa:i thvti ' s.-nLino Svsthey. vi.ho is the sir) ). me; or. the train: Josephire tsiis iiiin th'i stdi-y . : South!-:-;.!). IV I S anil U< -riios:, wliich''i-s r : the gho.M i hansar. isMag let ni tiger. CilAl TKR ilt "My father u.v. I .--?me of :.-r va:rt-: went ?ut- : Krnes; and I were aUvays at s?,hoo!. Thev rouitint, see in the shrtd- .s?' my father Says that beyoud uH chance of doubt some living ere;-.U:ix* houndee thru the thickets in voni oi them. ?t nbght. have !.ov ;? .-a,:, or even a targe rioir. "A tx'Xy vvtek? a<io the details began to \. It \ a- at:< my fav!?er*s hid friend. Mr i aywe.rd :: : his s >ti cam* to vi;sit U:. But t -i me this first. tVf.ui-1 you say the yi.-ir..^ v Mr. Hay ward v. id 1> - ; lvuhleM with faulty, r.er vs'."" sad. hhv? yiimp : iu:.* v. hen the ><iw t. hooted." - 'Vv-n;r ?-r. !;< lias 1 early a month 121 this no Vfiev a month in it. yo;:-): jmiiji. t ! in:;.--. ii.-.-i oettir.arv oi .'ii- .: -. .ma. -rsra MM ' I Wm 4i$j5a ! u? "-in ill;. that Vilas ffa^wani hud lit K .SK'pbk him." . V IK I i- ' ?' m?& .. . * , u? < : i' \v i; ui a . i . - iu"rival, Vilas fflyw.- y?! .-aiK- la Hnnnr,w:th a ettrs.m io.;k BHWBbHHBr.' hfc; fyi'-t. 1,;e said: hfciV.ftil spoil SoJfflSjB}?.'' .loseph!?.i?'< <-y-" v full nutl isv Ivll'. upat); tf.il'.a-vl tht; ?lp| die.! ? ;?}. i!i" -1 ii'f.o vnt" :hv vast royn't wai. the kind he l:sreiu-vj to jrt remote. .kseits, iii the meantain rights. "Yes'l" 1 urged her. it. ir.r."t very pleasant, she warnI f, v.i. 1. .. ?Sg| i.oel. 1- has the right td know all the symptoms." "He said whoa he .'arse through the long Wall thai eiltis from thr drawing room something walked l>efore hint, it was in the shadows; ai^.i tn- . !i n.. jr i.'.att; ^Ke Baa wv...- - --rat ye"h > -Atwws u leaiic^sjRt.', wig us. Hi: hfctf v.coe . inrci the M hoi.Si i>?(? seme ei r?ntf.- .'OsejnMgl ; vp,s ... :,g ' .Va.s" dv&w n - SB?& >'M'- hcv$4 ST ' At tin t ! -W&4 !$$& ? at ?W?w .auri"'-. ?f? rem* mneeiYSg wvtr. wi-sir. . astounding fortune Vi'.fc :.no .S..-o..h;iie oiwayt [?!<.;? stemvu gSilu alone ??$?;thety it* via* :i br.fi'ihn'; 1 eouldtf.t think' ..{ jtiiv conscious in that uir-.'ttios! Vet s.eniiTorly now&rsrin < } ?: sky vvpre ui-vuys throw ins them * inipaii^Si "%, k:?:thei> E> v.-r^Jjfo.uki he oil the wn.n.ia t< -< tit- ,r. the n->xi. n ymrp oi u.- vou'ui ha ye ^andeVied; off, ami Vlk*. ; &? Jdsew*ouM-\'*i>e gSSlSS ", i a h ,u- mue'fi sit this carious k&Veiopment -was engim-area by To5ev;hi:;<- hi-r-^w. K pa''-ncv.'ur'y pfeaikfct thine* to think about Of ci'tu-ie. sriris in this ne*c have a right c.> play ail their cards V? wis the lore of a iles-irakic ir.as. ft wa.? al! legitimate?a!' fair. But sometime-. it seumt-i: to i'tio that she would have pivi'en-ed to >itay with the rest. |i us. hut tljar sooie inscrutable power, mysterious and irr.iimt able, denied it. That yetver whs either .Josephine's ag<-A -lather, the eider Hayresiai. uv both. llayward and 1 were having a good night eig.-.r together: My wrist watoh indicated a few minutes after ten. And then If ay ward saw a shadow Waver in the moonlight of the golf green. It was bard to see at first. Sonif living creature was advancing along the slope toward as?something that seemed dark and not very tall. We stood still and waited. There was nothing else to do. Then all at once the creature's form seemed to change. I can't describe it except to say that upon one instant it appealed to me as being low and rather long, and oil the next tali and narrow. The change was so abrupt that the creature seemed fairly to leap. Yet it easily could have been the effect of the moonlight or the shadows. It might have been simply a matter of perspective. At once we saw the advancing form that before had seemingly had the dimensions and outline of a huge dog " ~r Vuv $fi$LsK<?JMK fcWS&K*.i Aiai*sl:iall"'y - : > . ' i:be lorn iml a mm . But I htd bevn enougti ?)i the mountains. U> know that uiq moon thfdnffciiess an/: junkies play Strang tricks. on fancy and vision, p^l? ;* Ahrr? I !!" \va* . :iig in ir'om one of his UJsjfK walks. Hayw aril jgasped f chitul me. and as' 1 ojovjH- back the back of our hands : tOucbrd. Hayvt Whatever ' a? : ( h fancy and .wrong perspecI . . .v., vi. is: - . hi his hands, us it YiouX : have 1 . . Evidently it had he :. v- rain; playing strange trices \yjt.b it. Ahmad hov ed t > as h.e passed: "(mod Lord'" Haywatd breathed. "I wasn't Jookintf for that wretch." 'TJo was "just coming in from b.ne'j "i his walks." 'Those walks of his* \Yhv don't > f? bjid' era? I wi:! if he don't. IUI be damned If 1M1 hr.ve him walking through those jungles and creeping up on us this way?'" ' ("re". piup on us?'* I echoed. "What way?" "Besides, what would a mar. want to walk around in those ;uiigues for??* be went on. unheeding met "iell ir.e that?** Then his voice chanureci---drv>pp? d tone by tone until it was almost a whisper. "And teli me this, toe, I.cr.g?and tell me tiv truth." "VcS." "Di-J?did you see anything curic-in .about?about Amad's posture as he earr.v up the hi:.? Of c(?Ut'S?f, it was probably just tin nioeniijjht? ic-iStthifi? nuzzling i:." ooitf. .-- ' ..ii! /:"r viH< '-Tfiize him pites." "That ijie't it. That -.-n't fjttite it,: -. v'h. thi' iieV.fi: It's n&ifafense, unyvy ay.fi Vt. vjIm-.i up t? the verafi/fa fiini iVuiU-.i fc.i Mil ln.1' : .1-1 'M. ; tk>r ;i hirt k >xy v ti-.< marsh. Then has rhiy ar<nc,vdi?thc mc-ou thn* promised vain. AVv li^r^necl t$ the night ! irti- and the noise of the in\v-.?-hh iike tin- strum of a pah? .v- infinitely remote,; ub'V?_- the drear, gv:?y \vu>Ic.n. Then Havward touched my arm. "If you'd go in. Long, and look at Ahmad'- hands.'7 he told me, "you'd 1 find 'em with mud o:i 'cm." "Why. Mr. Hay ward?" ^Because he was cr;t\yJiag up that !. his hands and feet!/ Then his face grew into a scowl \ and he <?pteeed the house. 1 had a pipe by myself after ho had gone. Ar fust i thought about what fie hail said. But it didn't make particularly good sense. ft was true chat Hay ward didn't like the I-dian. yer this would have scarcely led to an acexisation to bid The ir.ve with which Hay-i card's eye? followed feint when the >c (Stain worked Spout the rooms was i-.ttie short of dea'dly?i had" observed t; te-o n-r.'.c tunes ? be'- mistaken. Orders he cave v.ei t uivays ir. the most Insulting lore. It seemed lv.e just aur.justified aver . >n. and the taste ::-o chii'.g as open tu ucpstion. f here Was a tl'nil-eess. t hea.;;h*s;. it? th-sviait. It vets obviousiv i Kin-.' com before cue of those bliittiins:. crio-hi rcr KKc-iite;:: thunder-. c.torr.ys. Kef v I thc.c.yhr ( !-.?<; bettor -.vain t'ne i-ncettr-r.n'.s ?| ihi house. There' lsusrnc be winds,v-;. to r.'io?e. ev other: pa; a! ' ' The library was empty: cat I k re.' <: voices "m the s?e:> ftitit '-pelted from it. And maybo it was a sign that already the atmosphere ei c'cuthley Downs ha? Sttstillcd poison into n?v nerves that: , I did r.ot rc-meuiber to stop and knock. With the memory o? that mysterious calm behind me. I hurried across the soil rut;. The door; opened softly beneath my touch. ! The scene in the candle-light was like a tableau. The light was so, yellow and soft. the shadows sol ' startling black, the actors stood so; motionless. With arms leaning up-! : oil the little mahogany table in the rente'- of the den stood Vilas Hay-, 1 ward: There was a drunken look: about, him: yet 1 knew it was notj from wine. His face was flushed.! intent. With the table between! them, as if for a shield, Josephine: faced him. "bion't come a step nearer,'-' she said as the door opened. Her face was white as the candle that burned between them, its lines were deep, and her dark eyes were' ! snriGulderin . The little silken week ; end bag 1 had seen on the train layI before her on the table, and her; j hand was lost in the lace oi its ! mouth. I There were wild, primal passions t at play in the room. One of them; v.as lust: and one Was the fury of murder. There is no use of mincing words. They were bared and uni masked before me. Vilas turned to me with an oath, i The girl slipped fainting to the floor. 1 answered him without restraint. ; and lifted the girl into my arms. I ctossed with her to the little sofa THE WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?E\ (lustrations by teUlFREHth at lb* side- >>:" the roc ir. where the c\vi had evvdc-iitly taep' sitting; then turned t? meet the mar.. He had fedioweti me the loom, and r."t six feel ivts : el ween ye. "I think. Long." Vilas cried, "that } >!*? v altogether too officiim?. You'd better keep Out of thie." I sr.'. not sure Joist -.vbni I answered him. Out primal passim:-, ban v. itkened in me. t'. o, and the word': were straight. Ho leaped a' tne. arid I met him with a blow. I! reeled, then caught at, the table. Ami hi? hand reached fat the sill..-: bag on the table. I km. v. that the- girl was creaming. The -.mmi rose- above the roi=e of the mi. I leaped for him. but h--- vvhi'led about the table be! i'i-.nit: ".-lU'h hire. I!; cor.? I' , pistol fv-.iv ".'..e I . g. It glittered ia his hand. I ha. r,o de'o-i-mr about what lie would do with The drawn fan . the smooldi I'sr-a eve.-, laid all t< > plainly. He . - toe far for nic ' leap fit hira. I struck out the candle. The .link fe . ovtn us. The stiund of the >torm obliterated his breath inir. I; was the truce of darkness? a truce i emonv r d from priim." da\ I don't know hew lone; it had contir.ued vvhon Hay wave! anil South lay came. Their forms suddenly appeared in the opfer. door; and each oi t'fi'ov. fraeri candies! Vila.- ?ii". he;-: vru pistol, and : i?learned it; the- candlelight. ** Vila si" his father called. "Pa; down r:;': thir.?r> He hast ;,ned abj lit th$ ruble, a: i m\ aged hjleaped t?; front of me. 1 tried r : hiio away; and his answer yeas a laugh-?< ne grim syllable of laughter;. ironical. "He v.-. ki ni " he said, "i the iror-se?that lays the go lilt-a I eggs. He woivt kill me." Vilas .-. : earned at us. T.ne mi dor-madness \v?? still on him. "'Hv -truck iiio. He's got io apolLi/? . He b .iu. hie vkh Joseph : v. and h< sti t-k us if I were a His fathei took the pistd\ fr rn His hand and put it iu his pock* t. Southley sighed a little, and plat ed his candle ort the tabic. The ri.so up b ind us. and 1 was ama/ed a: hei self-c* ntrol 1* had ail come hadk^tr H. lick me." Vila- said again and again What are yen going to do about it, Southley? \'ou*ve got jus: ?, n minutes to t ru hm; oor of this, house?or else Pli go instead.'* "Lot's forger it?" the old man answered with utter weariness. "FoiSfet nothing. SoutKiey ho "\claimed. "We've cot t. get to the bottom ef this, If my sou v.as struck he's gor to have satisfaction. I lived em.ugi on the continent that, and -so has he. Ana 1 so have you. I tisn't the way i:' <: - . over t.- .. . - > ^ . let 11 .1 :mhii - > : ur?. r: " c.iner ravs." "You-- -i n is aflfifisientK- able to take care of himself. ! h< rc." I suggested. ? "If Sjit-'iS taker, care of nimself, y.-i. : be laying under. vine tal !e MOW ?-with Sfoy> blood sjwiling a good Oriental rug?' older Hay ward answered with stawfKiig malice. "I'i.i hot sure bat that no t! . . ght to have liGiiS it. ! believe it's up to y-..-. Lorig. to give a satisfactory explanation." "1 have nothing to explain.'' Then I turned my back upon him, and faced the broker, tt.g>ive that was spy host. "Sir. if ih-.-n- is sy explanation to ho made if will have to come from your daughter-;-." It was a curious express . n that came to the old man's face. Its lines seemed to grow shirk. There was hopelessness in it. and the weakness or long years;, rhu above all things else, hopeless. u::.'r impotency. It seemed to me that the girl opened her lips to- speak. Hut before the words came, the elder Haywavd had answered for him. "What has this yoag pup to do with the relations between Josephine and my son?" he asked, querulously. "Thjy have already been settled. If that is the issue, it only makes it more certain what course remains. They can't pro on living here, quests in the same house, with this between them. Tel! liitn. South ley, that he has two choices. One is to aoiogize. The other is to leave the house." "Is that the truth?" I asked my host"'Teli him it is the truth," Hayward's idomitable words went on. The tone was of a threat?ominous, determined. The eyes of the two elder men met. "She had nothing to explain," Southley told me faiteringty. I looked at the girl, and no man can measure or describe the anguish that was in her eyes. But she didn't look straight at me. First she glanced at the strong, hull-dog figure of the elder Hayward. Then she searched for her father's time-dim ERY THURSDAY?BOOXE. N. C. moil ; yt?% ami hoi o she found he answer. "He's right. I'v. Long," she to! 1110 "You ntusi make your own ci ; piasjations." '",1 settles the (aids rae again: irt." t tola them sjujpliy- ''M j Southicv. I have only Bono what an Amevican man \VouM tai'e to do. an 1 car. ' and von'i njioioaiio ar.i one. I tiavc carried out the obligt ttois of a guest to his ho.-; in the v& my irisi incts told nit. Xothiug *.vi make n:c believe that I did w:ong. J is evident that you uphold what the? other rata say?and your d oughts upholds th.-iu. too. And if you vvi have my bag brought to me, 1 ui go al ot-.i.'e." The gir} clasped hor father lino. !-. A world of r iipea' was i her dark eyes. "lie can't go it: this storm," sh udii hen. "The rout! along the h.ve isn't safe. Tell htm he can't .to ti the storm is over." The eider Haywood chortled i'rbt be com: the table. "A good vetting might tench hit ... . .,-w t? IIM about it, Smithies?" The tone was insistent. and pei haps ir. had a scornfu! quality, tec ' Ol course, he vran't go until th rain is done, i won't semi out m ears on a night like thi.-:." The girl whiied to me. Appes was all over her. "You won't go till tomorrow? .-he pleaded. "Toll me, doctor. Yo won't go till the storm's over?'* "I can't very well, it* your fathe won't let his cars go out." I tried t speak bitterly; but even after he betrayal, the very look of her suiter i-d mv I round young South ley sittiu. before a little fire ih the library and he called to me as I passed, i suite of the warmth of the night, th little flame looked hospitable an kindly. "Heavens, what a night!" he on claimed. ' I suppose- you've near about the tiger?" ''Of I know the legend Anything Pew?" *4Hasn't old Hay ward I,obi y<tu Mo and my father have boon ou talking the servant . ? littl v.diiU ago. lie's quit- an bid bciisl you khpvv. Well, the colored p.edpl say he is walking again u night;" "Nice little thing to think ahou as I drop to sleep," 1 suggested. " "Isn't it? We have an old yard on?*r t Hat Wi call Mo so wa a h6r.se 'abbpt dcu'i; o'clocl Kathi-r U was s.-nuwhat hcioy : clet'.en. becau>t- aji^l 'the : nlue Hayv hvd uciv out-on The golf gvoe; f your la-.- eyoniug walk." "Go on," I urgfcd. "M--o wa vidin's hmne. 1 suppose la- saw th ghost-tiger floating through the uh r M = * ' 1 - - yv..?M..y>v "Xothtnjc quite so bizarre as that I'm sony to soy. Mayhe I tol lightly, iiut I'm feeling rather set' c.us. Lone. If our tiger ha;! don ! nothing except ride a lirbmr.. or fi\ I or something, it would have been good legend to jell our children-. 1 ami toast to itt good vintage. Bit unfortunately?ouv tiger took othe ways of manifesting himself. All h i did was frighten Mosc's horse? 1 and leave his t lit el; "n the earth." The man spokf. wholly withqu emotion. He smiled a little, too? rather wan. hopeless smite that ".a singularly unsettle-:: t-. the spirit. Hi; traelM 1 echoed. "Yo "He saw a great ytiliyw ar.d Wae : vat?almost as large as 6 por.y. liu 1 that isn't quite all. Muse kept hi head. He told him.-elf it was a d< lusior., just as yott a ltd i have tol ourselves many tiroes. Sr. he ecu j trolled his hovse tther. looked dew at the tV-dqii'it road. It was ret t 9sEB^ ' I JjLdgM m H0 lUlnflR^ 9 8BS^^^ Special This week we are some exceptional 1 in a number of ditioned used car The cars in this g bear the famous r< tag?which is yo antee that all un Q U A L I T J00NEI I : . ' !1-' ereti ?W dust, and be ceaM see wyj plainly. Ami he ivsw?just what I; a toui .veu," ! l- I spake very quietly. : ! "Truck*?" ;t his .<.- his two htutds-J r. deal ac-os*. tin rend. He v.anted! t<> take father and ifc? Haytvards ami tl t down to see LhtiiS; i think <" oi - it.* ercent father, wlv. :> rather Id i- '..for sttvh tfs:curs?e.*is. wevf iv-iag ? y o,:t siroetuiajr has aviiientiy directed It then;. They were to meet mi here:" !t; "i suppose the wi? has spoiled! e theia now.*' I "WVaJ.v'tei: them. anyway. Of U eot!ise,*the colored people are trrri-i i! Sm:. The night the iigvr first went i!.; v.u? Just on such a night at* 's thi ir the mitUIie of the storm. 1 !i! They >ay c-n such nights as these? ! r." kikes to come back fiitc the! ?, warm. ?ivy bouse. ai\d play hi thej e.j curtains." i; In a few minutes more we were j out where the rain eat upon us. n! The road Was already washed with [water. i. didn't seem possible thai, n: if there had really be eh mysterious ,t tracks k: the dust. that they could have endured the storpi; "I'm1 got some fine plans for to>. moyrbiy?if it just clears up," the c- youth trie: me joyously us we trampv eh up the rood. 1 think lu was trying t' divert his mind, as well as t! mine, from the business in hanch I'm sorry, Ernest," I roici him. 4Tm soing home tomorrow." ;i He stopped in his tracks, and I urged him on. j '.'Going; heme? Good Lord, why? (|1 I thought you'd stay to see us r through- Of course. I rank blame i- V,H? "I'ee got to make a living," 1 told him lightly- "It's time I went to . \vork:'T " " Hut you were going to stay a t[ full week?and you promised sis iast night that you would make 1 :?o. . days or two weeks-" "Did she tell you that?" 'Tell hie? I should say she did. j She danced a highland fling," It didn't make tie scene of the ^ hour before any nioio pleasant to reriiem'de:. She had seemed glad i ,\vhei I bad told her that I had post ppiied my dtjpartiue. And even now Ernest's words filled mo with r a -1range, snaring gladness thai I fried t;> fight off. She had prove d '' the houv before how much she ceuliy caved, she tfc longed to Vilas, hot * nv . pi spite of the fact that she had ? ? : nto kill him when I opened ta. clo??r . )' the den. 1 re nieiui'crcc <;Vvrv smile?each had been at c-pldVh - -every soilness in v SB T''fei-?@ {jflBaj 3$?J . SBSaSi I : JUST RECEI k A nice line of Livir 't, Rcom Suites, Kifcche: a Refrij E A S Y T F- R M ! ' ' "> ~ W C^fAVCYi ' VimJtT. j| ft WE GUARANTEE GOOD QUALITY; J*r Ecy*o*~i*cJ Trnntpert ySBBOBBBt Values This Week offering been inspected, worn jargains parts replaced by new recon- parts and that the car's s_ condition is honestly rep resented. Come in today roup all You are sure to find thecal d "OK" you have been looking foi ur guar- ?properly reconditioned its have and properly priced. Y AT LOW COS! :hevrolet company I n ne i her tjatl; eyes. v-rvy tremor of he:: * lips. We tramped through the downpour, and soon we I'ami- to the point thai the negro had described. Trier we began to search about with the lanterns. It must "have made a strange picture?the distant light., ning. the glowing lanterns. our own tail firmer. in the yoitow raincoats. The grc-ac house was dark behind as. (Continued Next Week) Every day intirear School days cr vacation days, a drink of Coca-Cola provides owe little minute that's always long enough for a bi?? rest. 4 Every bottle sterilized. Over 8 million a day IT HAD TO BE G O O D TO GET TKERH IT IS Coca-Cola Bottlling Co. BOONE, N. C. SCREEN YOUR HOUSE EARLY You might save money bv screening early and pi-eventing disease carried hy flies. You can also save money by seeing me for Serein Doors, Window Screen*. Door and Window Frames and Building Ma- Jk terial. 1 I can make your screens, deliver and put them in for you if you prefer. F. M. MALTBA I boone, n. c. VEDig Room Suites, Bed. n Cabinets and Alaska *erators 5 :f desired 3U_RONtY 7 El^r1 a 23ZS2; , FAIR TREATMENT LOW PRICES Km:^|K>;ap^; S^wJ SuVfu has been carefully checked as shown by V marks below )h?* Sultl No. Stock. No. W f } % V Motor v Radiator v Rear'Axle , v T ransmission v Starting 1 V Lighting v Ignition [ VBattery . vTires I v Upholstery vTop v Fenders v- Finish
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