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TWELFTH INSTALMENT
"VJBl! ;ay rot \7-.2: ;.nd you'!' do:
nothing," slip . aid in a voice that
silanred afflfive of her hearers. "You'
hare d-jvv - v ojrii. Joe Grant. Wo
areqaggByQflift sort. \W don't belong j
?I 'm n ?t .nntch?v.- u've:
been 'aughirg at me all this time.]
a ml I guess anyotw who understood)
what wa& v.: hug <n would laugh at.
me! :\ I ulcin*: be anything. I
wouldn't have u right even b> try to {
be idea!-?if 1 v. o&fbn't stick to ivy.
own folks' I don't care?Her eyes]
wen lea^irig. her le\e!. pitiless voice 1
bored through him?"J don't csre/f|
Said Maggie. rrembliiig. "wha: you;
think of us! My rathe.- and mother
belong to roc, and my sister does, [
and 1*!^ a> glad, doe/* she ended pas-1
sior.at.ely. tears spilling from her eyesj
now. but her mouth steady. ['nvyiwT
triad to be done with vou n> v??u are!
with me!" ^'he turned Mr. Merrill,!
\vh;-i had sai v.-ith a fan of big biUsj
open in his fingers, watching her
with a sort of breathless concentration.
it was almost as if he were,
afraid that she would dare say what}
she was so rapidly and furiously say-;
ir.g. and as if he liked to hear her.
She took three of the hills, to'bed
them, shut them into her ffal worn
fa p till? e.
"'Thai's thirty," she said to him.
with a nod. "I owe you thirty. Thank!
you. ft \yo!v!: he move than that.
=Bon't?" am.:, with a gSnee of utter.j
contemot toward Joe. she -dropped,
her voice to confidence?k c< ufider.eej
that George Merrill, under the eir-;
ruin.-' ant es, found infinitely touch- ;
ing. between his humblest iitt'e eui-j
ployec- and himself? "Dont* :et Joe
foil' Mr. Merrill/* said Mag-j
gie. VI mean it. I'm Tievei going* to!
see him again. I'm done!"
iBlinulv. swiftly, hijggingMvcr fu-|
ther tightly to her op one side, hold-"
ing h-r mother's hand tight r. the,
other. Maggie went with them froi.nl
the room. She reclaimed hei Shabby j
roar and the three vv<fflt through;
the ioyer of the big hotel and out I
into the coo's evening darkness to- j
grthev. Maggie signalled a taxicar,
and they all got in.
"Now it's all right, Ma." she said,
in a breathless, light voice. "Me'h l< i
I:iz out. ami she'i! stop running with!
Chess after this night's work- vm;*ll;
sec, und may pick up iometrne who's
worth something."
"Oil, dearie, I feyl |? awful that
fife and me tailored veu! But I'm
afraid you'd feel had. Maggie,'" her
father faltered.
The nightmare went on and on.
They were in a horrible smelly wide
place of benches and spittoons andj.
harsh lights, and her mother xyas j:
crying noisily, and Pop, pale and]
disheveled and very quiet, was askipg
her. for God's sake. 10 stop. Maggie
was. pleading with a clerk, asking
him to hurry a certain case, and good .
naruvvuly i-nough, Ho did h;:rry it, 1
and almost immediately a little door
at tho right opened, and 'Lizabeth ]
and Chess Rivers and another girl
and mar. came out.
The instant she saw her daring, j
pretty, independent sister frightened ,
^ and Sfeai'lfe arid white-!:* Ato?r_
gio's heart seemed to turn liquid,i
antl she '.-an acio;.- the cou ru*oori! j
$*8? ^n^''her aras, and 'Lizabeth j
caught i.er. and they cried together, j.
Aral when the Judge looked down j'
over his desk,' disapproving of this
confusion, Maggie. with her face wetj
ana v,ev this trenib'.iiffl and her little:
mm arm ttrilred tightin 'LizatctVs, was',
looking up. A policeman, j.
ranging the prisoners, loUi Magpie
to go bark atui sit down, hut Mag-j
gic oaiv burst oat the more impk-rHNi
''
"Oh, please?please Set my sistei
Isi."' come homel She's never run with this
kind of man before?she isn't like
js'/iyou think?my father anil mothcr'U
die if my .sister has to go to jail." i
v:' , Somebody rapped and Maggie was'
aE ; siient, and the murmuring and the J
V glancing at papers, v ent on between j
M the Judge and the rierk. And then,!
quite suddenly. His Honor looked |
down again at Maggie, utismilingly j
but very kindly, and Chess had tol
pay one hundred dollars' bail, and I
nobody else had to pay anything at J1
all, and the charge against Elizabeth!
. Johnson was dismissed.
Dismissed: !
They were blundering toward the!
hail and the street, between the al-j
most empty brown wdod benches, I
and the hinged brown wood o-ntoc 1
S and the spittoons, under the harsh
lights, when suddenly Joe Grant?
only he wasn't Joe Grant any more!
?came hurriedly in, with an import
i ani-of?police, and
L came up to them.
"Everything all right?" Joe said
anxiously and quickly, looking keenly
i at Maggie.
"Thank you, yes. It was a mistake.
We're just goin' home."
, ?. ^hQuite a fam'ly party," said Chess
Rivers sneeringly, coming up.
And then the nightmare began
again?Maggie could never remem'
ber exactly how. 'Lizabeth turned on
Chess and told him that never as
long as she lived would she go out
again with a man who was a bootV
logger, and blamed it on the girls
> who went with him, and Chess said
; something quick, and ugly about the
Johnsons . not being able to put on I
aim. with Maggie Johnson running
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aronmi the way she did with a mil
lion^rcs^'ChtSs had recognized Jot
that ver\ first day. at the cottage
because he used to see -Joe at tlw
boxing matches.
Then Chess was lying- on the dtrtj
m:u bh floor with hi >od on his face
and Joe wa looking 'quite tall an
calm and proud, but o lictle breath
ie*?s. with two policemen holding him
And as Chess, si ill shoatingv got this
feet, ?Joc jerked loose and sent
him siiljming again, and that
the policeman gripped doe again and
walked hiru away, arc) a third policeman
began to shovsg Chess rough
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the Johnsons out through a blggreafy
sw miring door, and they were in the
dark street ugavh.
All a nightmare- Ail a flight mare.
jUfnd yet. as the endless night wore
by. sho began to he afraid she would
nev'ci wake up.
'I hey got home, somehow?partly
walking. |ia'stty in a street ear. A?id
they iat in the kitchen, and Maggie
made tea.
"Maggie, for goodness* sake, how
did yog feel when you learned that
your friend was ready Joe Merrill?
I never v.ul get that straight/* said
Liv:.
"Oh. ail right."
"Maggie, it* you get him w* are
fixed for life/' Liv. said eagerly.
" I won't." she assured her sister.
"Mstggiv?wi.> do you art so tunny
about it? As far as my shaming
; tonight gbe-s", why, i didn't do
anything that -*.11 the girlr. of his
crowd aren't doing every day!" Liz
pleaded eagerly. "And if he makes
thai an i.xc.use Fbrjbreaking the oner;!'.
merit ?"
"I'll sue him. " said Ma heavily.
":! i in this kitchen he sat. last
Sunday afternoon, and fcole me with
hi v ~
"You don't have to sue Rim!* L?z
aid. 5'Hi' s ?. razy dipt ticV- isn't he,
Maggie?''
"I wasn't listening. Ma. I'm sorry}
i.ijg hut I'm gcing to Red."
I'm going to sit up with Ma."
>aid 'Lizaheth. Their topic was good
for several more hours of exclamation,
analysis and debate.
oi.r.>. coiaisun ana ner .oldest daughter
slept lute the next iWrhing. They
reached the kitchen together at about
ten o'clock, having had not wore
than five hours of rest, and began at
once on the leisurely bfg'akfap that
Maggie, as usual, had left to heatThere
were cups on the table, and
coffee in the pot, and bread was
sliced; there was a fat little bottle
jf cream, and Maggie had left half
the mixture of an omelette waiting
r. a yellow bowl
'Lizabeth was the one who first
found time to pick up the newspaper,
and her involuntary horrified
Oh, God!" caused her mother, startled,
to join her at.the stove. They
cad it together.
It was all there, Joseph Merrill's
Dictine, on the front page, was embellished,
in a rococo border, with
i sketch representing two silhouetted
youths fighting in a courtroom, with
horrified women fieeting in every direction
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Tt'll just about kill Maggie!" said
! .!7.'?hpUl
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"Go on Liz."
young Merrill, who, as fails
could ho ascertained, has been
inasqverading. since his departure
from college, as a day laborer, and
who, according to reports, has acquired
an enviable acquaintance with
!he city's underworld, was detained
without bail and spent the night in
the;- city jail. At an early hour this
morning, efforts to reach his father
at the country place at Elmingdale
were met with th* continued on page
four column three. . . 'Ljiabeth
read rapidly.
And suddenly, in their midst, vyas
Pop; Ho had come home for his early
Saturday lunch! he was as shocked
as themselves.
"Where's Maggie?" he asked apprehensively.
"Did she see the paper?"
"She's at the store, of course,"
Ma answered disapprovingly.
"The store was closed today. They
are pultin' in the automat. She must
of?" Pa said vaguely?"she must of
went out!"
"Maggie wouldn't never do anything?des-prit?'Lizabeth
was beginning,
when Maggie herself came
in. .
She came in quietly, through the
kitchen door, and stood looking a1
them as if she were surprised to fine
them all there together. Her plair
little new suit was brushed and trinr
?the homespun upon which Mag
(rio'c TioH hoon qpf - fflr WOCki
before she really dared to spend thi
necessary dollars or. it. Her cheek:
were red, but her beautiful eyes
looked tired and were set in delirati
shadows.
"Fewen's sakes, w'nere've yot
been? You had Ma and me worried,'
'Lizabeth said.
"Well," Maggie expanded quietly
"I went to see Mrs. Merrill."
"What'j' do that for?" dimande,
the mother.
"There was something I wanted ti
talk to her about. Ma," Maggie sail
wearily.
"What?" The question was shot
like a bullet.
".Toe," the girl said simply. Anc
she sat down at the table and leanei
THE WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EV
It is inadc of solid pore ^old and
was found by the >r . nqu< ruts
of what i-* now Colombia. South
America. Miss Lillian Birrisail is disviriz
ix for visitors to the HJnii
' I Pennsylvania Museum
| her forehead wearily on her hand,
j "You ivever had the gall to do that.
Maggie Johnson," 'Lizabcth whimpered
m:?)ressed.
"Oh, yes, I did. I told her where
Joe was, and they sent over to the
jail ,ahd Joe tame in while I was!
there. And him and his father and
mother and me talked It all over."
"Maggie! It was the older sister.
"Don't he like you any more?"
"He savs he loves me." she said,
dully.
"Oh. Magaie?few en's sakes! Joe
Merrill!"
"And because he loves me." Maggie
said deliberately, "he's going to
sail this morning for Japan. Ke sees;
that he'd only hurt ir.e and make it
harder heie." I
Her shamed, hopeless voice died;
away.
"So I guess I'd better do these
dishes," she said.
'"He'll forget you before he's past
the Heads 1" her mother predicted,
I in the awful silence that followed.
"You can't depend on them rich
people, dearie." her father, sorrowful
and sympathetic, said timidlv.
"Maggie, they just got him to sayhe'd
do that so's to break it off!"
:L''/abeth said indignantly.
Maggie looked at them all apathetically.
"I know aU that- I know
he loves me now. but that they're
going to kill it. if they can. I know
his ship pulls out in twenty minutesj
and that I'll never see him again,"
she said simply. "Bui--" she glancedi
r>r??-. I., llir. -'I.".- ju: I
, ?.?? WH..-1 ??I'.U l!UIIj$a
here1 like I hoy are," she said, "and
Miv like she is,, and Pa like ha is, and
you like you are, I-ia?what can I
do? I've worked, I've tried to make
myself look good, and I've gone to
night school, and I've lived the ideal
I life?hut it doesn't seem to work, for
nie. If Joe had been what 1 thought
he was, we could have climbed up
together. But he wasn't, and I guess
his mother's right?I guess the time
is coming when he'll think of me as
only a girl he knew whose mother
wasn't very strong, and whose father
was a postman, and whose sister ran
with a bootlegger that got us all
pretty nearly into jail!"
She did not cry, she spoke evenly
and gently, almost without expression.
But at the finish she reached up
suddenly to the shelf above the sink j
and snatched from its position the
ideal leaflet, with its crypaic mosmere
things when thy soul is re-,
ideal life is?to begin."
Maggie looked at it a minute, and j.
her face worked oddly. Then, quiteJ
quietly and composedly, she tore it!
into tiny setaps and fluttered them]
j into the wot -ir.k. Ami s>ftr?? Mw v.-kq!
I walked slowly from the room, and
I they heard her bedroom door close
j behind her.
CONTINUED NEXT WEEK
| WAS REVELATION
| TO HER, SHE SAYS
"After all the medicines I'd taken
without any real results, Sargon was
a revelation to me." stated Mrs. Emma
Duncan, 7 Morning Street, Rai
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MRS. EMMA DUNCAN
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leigh. "I suffered all the time with
i awful sick headaches and dizziness;!
' everything I ate soured and fermented;
and I felt so dull and drow,
sy I could hardly drag myself through
my housework. Sargon built up my
1 strength and appetite at once, and
the indigestion, dizzy spells and heady
aches disappeared entirely. Sargon
i Soft Mass Pills regulated me perfectly,
without the least discomfort
, or distress. I'm now enjoying splendid
health, and am brimful of energy
1 and strength."
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SRY THURSDAY?BOONE. N. C.
Corn Most Valuable
Live-at-Home Crop j ?
T
Xot only doe? a fail corn crib keep - "
the sheriff awav but it furnishes; * .
feed for all kinds: of livestock and *
food for the family. More should be
grown this sensor. rritrl acre yields ^
should be higher.
This is the opinion of C. K. Hudson.
veteran farm demonstiatioiri
worker at State College and a suc-i^.
cessfu1 corn grewer in his own right. V
Mr. Hudson believes: that every acre?
planted shouid be made to yieltl at ; J",
least 35 bushels and *50 is more prof-; J
itable. This can be done very easily 1
by following a few common-sense;
practices. Mr. Hudson says 80 farm-1
ers of Greer, e County grew an a
crags of 5- bushels ar, acre lest!
season at a cost of 39 cents a bushel.The
slayer produced was worth $19j
a ton lor feeding purposes and ill-!
lowing ?3 a ton for harvesting, the!
coin was still reduced to about lSj
cents a bushel in total cost of production.
The business-like way for a land-!
owner to prepare for growing corn is !
I..T 11-Vfn tifc. uro'inMn nnu/l 1? f?..' '
the entire year; figure hia probable]
yield per acre and then put in enougn;
acreage to produce the corn that will J
be needed for twelve months. Some
allowance should be made for a poor
season and for any increase in the
number of animals to be fed.
It ; best to grow the coin, following
a legume .crop turned under
but it' this is not possible this spring.'
the land should still be wed prepared,!
fertilizer used under the corn and arrangements
made for a suitable topdressing
of quickly available nitro-j
gen fertilizer. Small acre yields are J
not profitable ant! every grower in,
the State should set his mark for at
least M5 bu-heis an acre, says Mr.
Hudson.
Banner Elk Service Club
Holds Regular Meeting
Bnnr.c-r Elk.?The newly-organized:
Serv ice Club of the men ??f Bannei
Elk held its regular weekly meethig?
on THtnsday evening at half past
seven at the Banner Elk'Hotel: r?'up-:
per was served to the fifteen mem-;
hers present by .Mrs. R. I,. Lowe. At'
the regular meeting following, addresses
were made by members stating
the purposes and aims of thei
club and outlining plan? for the bet-: s
torment of the town and neighbor-!
hood. There was one visitor. Rev. P.
U Miller of Atlanta, Ga.
Tile president, Mr. Charles Zimmerman,
appointed the following*
committees: i
^ervTceV Edgar Tufts, chairman, '
Today, especially, it
carefully just what yo
you pay. Be certain 1
you buy represents tfe
motor car value. Qu
than it does in the nev
In the long run, qualil
cncc in the satiafaet
the money you spend
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ALSO DEALERS IN G
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C. I.r.we, George Whitehead; FS- I
ance> F. \V. Von Cannon, chair- No?
lan. Professor Carcwell. Dr. W. C. Citi
Membership, J. C. Schcil, chair- Dr.
tar.; Professor I,. K. Pritchett. C. E. fir#
aver." Fellowship, F. H. Sun.>un.; prahairman,
Rev. W. R. Smith, J. E.
chell; Ppograrn, Dr. R. H. Ilardi n.! gy
utirmar. I*'. II. Perry. D. L. Draughn. t(
agriculture, Professor E. T. Erick- si
>p. chairman, Ira Hodges. George| a
Whitehead. j ?
The meeting adj:?u: TtG'.l *vith the
ingiug of "Arjfjn.-a." On Tue.>eay. ^
larch 17th. the Banner Elk Club: e
?11 be host to twenty members of! a
loom- C'ivitan Club. gjftg ' e
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WE FEATURE CHICAGO'S j
MOST FAMOUS LINE Or
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ARTISTIC WALL PAPEI^
Spring is here, and with it
comes the thought t>f painting
and papering. Wall pare?
the cheapest it has hcen since
the World War?qrtaitty con*
r,id :ed. Tnere will fieyet b a
I ettei ' to do that little
jo* ?f pai ng and | aint n;r
that ; ii iiav'e been putting
'. ff rv v?vi time i<> time.
write me postal and
!l will bring a complete line
o! wall paper sample books
to select from. Of course,
thi will not obligate you to
buy paper v have work done.
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nsider what you
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u get fo. every dollar Sp?rt R'"'U"'r '
Phaeton, $510;
that the automobile r , c. ,
Coach or Slanda
te latest standard of $S45; Sport Cou
ality never coat less Five-Passenger C
r Chevrolet Six. And C-nbrioln, *615.
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F? Teun.t will be in the office of
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t MorHiy in c?i month for tiff
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V CHICKS THAT LIVE?i?l? peer
t of all chicks we have sold this
eason are alive and growing. Pqr
limited time we ate offering day
Id Barred and White Rocks, R. I.
eds and White Leghorns at $12.50
er hundred in lots of 1U0 or over
t the hatchery. Teti days old startd
chicks, 15c. Fine hatching eggs
i reasonable races, mines naicnry.
North Wilkesboro, N. C. 3 12
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Ices ? Roadster, |175;
with rumble ?mi, $-495;
Standard Coupe, $S&3;
rd Five-Windovr Coupe,
pc (rumble neat), $575;
!oupe, $595; Convertible
Standard Sedan, $635;
?r Convertible Landau
rices f. o. b. Flint, Mich,
at extra. Low delivered
nd easy terms.
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