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JANUARY 5, 1939 rf? : o by N1NTII INSTAIXMKNT 'You are probably right,' Felbi concluded "But my instinct is t< smash through, to break down thai conventional barrier of her wil against mine." "You would lose her." "Perhaps. But I like?" Feli> pondered cloudily, "sometimes T lik< to take chances, yoir know. There*:something of the gambler in me." Marcclla opened her eyes upon hiir suddenly in a fashion that iairl} frightened him. "If you were a gambler, Felix, i! I thought you were a gambler, yuii should not have her?not unless yoi killed me first." The cold gray woman had spokei 33 t'nougn fir? were at her heart arte Felix came to his feet. "Mv t'oai Mrs. Harlovve, I am not a gamble! in any evil or literal sense. We 3r< all gamblers in one way or another.' In a mood of calm, of almost cole self-possession Jocelyn went two o: three evenings later to see her fath er for farewell. Oh. .The would sc. him again and often certainly. Srn would tell her secret to Felix; ?n< does not keep secrets from one's hus valid; aha gee nis ?uiu syxnpa thy for (Nick. This visit would hi the last, one she would make it secret. She had freed herself, it is to b< seen, of any sentimentality t.owaix Jock Ayleward, even of that scnti mentality of an overemphasized dis like. She had freed herself too Iron sentimentality toward Nick: but no of her affection. She would curr: him away from Jock, from the de gradation and obscurity of this as social.ion. 'rom the m!sery of his nres ent humiliating circumstances. In this mood of fiery deliverance did Jocelyn Marlowe in one of hoi own gowns for T wild a Sandal ha< been condemned to death?approacl her father's new abiding place. \s; .'c' which she found Nick before; J drearily clean lodging, the set floor of what once had been a pri vate house downtown and far eve on the west side. Nick wos obviously ill ai case n its stiff usrlineas but also just a: Gt'viOuo!y" pivuti~Im receive her in I room of respectable cleanliness, new neas and unsullied past. Hi ere vva.no sign of Ayleward's presence. She had removed her hat and coa and Nick was staring at her. lnstea* of answering her question he scowl ed. "So you're Miss Jocelyn Har lowe tonight, arc you ?" "No," said Jocelyn quietiy. scent ing trouble in the air, "although yo\ once said you would like to see nn again with sleek hair and in an eve nir.g dress. But to you I am alway: Lynda Sandal." <*1 suppose you arv\ You woul< hardly, except by accident,; expos.' Miss Harlowe to contamination Isn't that it" t see you don't lik< the new apartment much better thai you did the old one. I'm at - aid, no dear, that living up to you 13 jUSt ? stretch beyond us." "Nick! I think this beautiful am much, much pleasanter. And neare for me, too. May I see your othe rooms?" Bent into the likeness of her firs fearful glimpse of him, he liobble< through double doors into a larg< bedroom and showed her a bath an< a dressing room beyond. "Are you well again? Jock tol< me you'd been sick with pain and fe ver." "I'm well. Come back and sit dowi and ask me about my symptoms an< my finances. Isn't that what thi Lady Bountiful does when she visit the poor?" "Father! You have no right to sa: "uvu a. li uci Llllllf; LU 111?_". "It's just exactly the right I have The dispensing of cruol truth is i parent's first privilege, my dear." 'I have had very little of the trutl from either of my parents!" crie< Lynda. "If it is your privilege to b cruel, then I might at least have th benefit of your honesty." At that his eyes, his face, his who! soul seemed to narrow itself. "Yoi have more or the truth in your tongu< 1 SAY, HAN I THINGS. IN THE I ITO OPEN HOUSE ?F HAZARDS j A|| By Mac Artl.ur j tare Tit KHTHRRME nEHILHI (than you've admitted. The shar truth, Lynda. 1 will ask you now t , j go back to Mrs. Hariowe. You ar< i j after all. her daughter. That is to t j remembered." Lynda started blindly for the doo She was opening ii when Nick flun : himself after her, caught her an i turned her about. ? "Aha." he triumphed, m&liciou laughing even while he winced wit i the pain of his impulsive move men r With osme extraordinary effort Y had changed his front, impelled by f sudden panic at really losing her. i i 4 I've broken down Miss Harlowe i j high mightiness, eh V Roughly Y ! pushed his hand to and fro over h< l j shining head until its repressed curl I j n\asses were wild enough to shame r j Fiji islander. "You came here to coi j descend to me, didn't you, my girl j Have I taken the condescension 01 ' lof you it little?*' I It vv3s the truth and she recogni: r ed it. "Gome. Lynda, let's go out. I'i i darned if I like the rooms mysel f*ve had a bid to join some of ti i cixnvd tonight at rather a swell join - Want to come? TheyUl like to loc ! ;.t von " 2! "Are you really well eiiougl i j Nick?" was her only protest. Rea j sui'cu roughly by being told to niir i! her own business, she went into h i bathroom to wash away her tears ar - 1 to restore passable order to her hai In a tnxicab which it cost Nic \ some torturing moments to cntc t Lynda forced herself to ask. "W , Ayleward be there?" "I dare say.'* - | ,4Niek. do you know has history' -j "A mat's history is the least \v j portent tiling about him, Lynda. Si i yes. I know it.*' r "And you believe his tale of pc-rs ! cut ion and of treachery? l>o you kito i whom he accuses?*' "Yes. Your young man.'* 11 Felix used him as a cat's-paw 1 1 pull ;i million out of a bad mine st - probably ho worse a start toward foi i tune than ihet of many another higl h respected millionaire: Havir l vvhrt he wants now, security, \yealt s ami you, he'll be a better husbar >_ rlliilj i> - para?-i^iifi/.tvjqt*iil Q?vl . ?jw?i - scrupulous man." , j -* rvxivjw mm well to di; believe Jock's story utterly. But it t not easy for me to meet Jock. The; 1 is a sort of disloyalty in my knovvir - him at all.'* "I wish," she said with c.oolnes ainiest with nonchalance, "that you - get rid of Ayleward, pay hini off an j start again." 2 "Why so, gracious and gent - lady?1' u "He. hits been in prison. He is professional gambler, 1 hate to thin 1 thai vnv are dependent upon h 2 charity, thai you live by what r i steals."' ? "A gambler doesn't steal. Sail i Lynda. He cases people from the r money only by their own consent, i i other words, you arc ashamed of m my life, my friends and my ootid i tiun?" r "No." r Then why try to change them I've no intention of changing am t thing for the sake of MIrs Pel 1 Kent." 2 "We mustn't quarrel." 1 "Ah, so you do love me a littl I'm not angry now, nor hurt. Onl 1 Lynda, don't try to change me. As 1 - young Ayleward, if you fell in lot with him? i "In love?with him!" I He went on evenly, "then I shou e be forced to free myself of yo s Never of him. Now listen, the b< is cokl M > "You did not say that befor N'ick. You said that ho was not tt i. niau that Felix is. You said that 1 i had a pool- outlook on life and character that might be called u i stable." i "Well, all that is true. And of s e possible husbands?" e "But I should never dream?" "Of all possible 'husbands for Mi e Jocelyn Harloive I can imagine noi J worse. A man with a grudge again e life is not a happy partner for ar JY MAM, WHILE YOU'RE F1X.IN& V~\ HY DON'T YOU GET THE ATTIC DOOR] ^ WATAUGA DEMOCRAT- EVERY ' [vond 1 j; BURT o (J : p; wo?..an. setter :ar a man who has o given life a grudge against him." i i'. j "What does that mean?" : "A man who has put his foot or. the neck of life and thrashed the hide ' r. off it!" g "You think that Felix Kent is such id a man ?" "From what 1 know of him Felix -3 s. ; Kent Is such a man." h i The "swell joint*' was really rather t | pretentious though Jocelyn suspected ie I it to be rarely frequented by people a | known to her mother or to Felix Kent. Through glass doors the sup's per it>om appeared, decorated quite ic | charmingly to look like a formal gar:r den with a narrow pool in the cen[y ; ter where a fountain played, a Lynda was of course enchanted. To i- cne of the retired tables Nick led ? her Here were already Jock Ayleit ward with two of the men Lvnria had : met on her first visit: James Drary i- j and Gustav ix>\ve, looking: extraor< dinarily sleek and solid and greeting: m | her with a good deal of startled galf ! lantry. ic Almost immediately two other men t. j joined them, young fellows in well>k nut evening clothes, very slightly ! the worse for iireer with the wr?f' j and tang of gentle folk and the fiexs-1 ible frank faces of youth at revelry id I They seemed to Lynda pre-lestined is victims of the ancient game of Pox id and Geese, two goslins ringed by the r. i hard-eyed three. Lynda was the only K , woman at the table and these newr.; comers visibly rejoiced. Ill j One on eacn side of her I hey sat j and made love pleasantly. They ! were not so far gone in wine that y? I they had lost their wit and geutlcrt-1 ness Lynda would have liked to j warn them; but this seemed not only j treacherous but an act of such peril c. | that her heart fluttered at the w I thought. And Jock already hated I her ? lie obviously wished her anywhere else. Why, she heard him ^^m^tter to Kick. hn<L^" brought the kv anu*?!sK<-u her s ; to dance. His expi siou dared her r_ | to refuse him The; danced toi j getiter smoothly and in silence. 1?> j You've learned." said Jock pres^jenily. speaking close to her ear, id I "y<nPvt- learned to bear the touch of : jailbird. You can even lot one hold i you in his arms." . ? >V^B AiviV. i go UlTOU^Il is j.with it. I do not enjoy this dance.^ 1 x.! "I think you do." jr 'Really?" She looked straight up \ into his eyes. < s "Sonic of you enjoys it," ho went \\ on in spite of her icy look. "We [ti dance well together. We both love music. If you could forget everyic j thing you think you know about me, if you weren't jcaious oi" me?f .she < a j halt" stopped, "with Nick " they ik.i\yent on- "and if you weren't n littte j 3 j bit afraid--" ,e j "You're wrong. I'hi not a bit ; afraid." Thin why don't you tell Mr. Farir, lelgh and Mr. Judson that they arc rn j the guests of some j>eculiarly adept c. \ gam biers and that before daylight j. ; they will certainly be sadder, wiser [and poorer gentlemen?" } As he spoke this word which rc? | called to Lynda her first use of Kent's \j- name in Jock's hearing, her very ex[x pes t partner made a misstep, glanced doubtfully down at her, recovered himself and almost with violence e; drove her, doubling the time of their y, rhythm and dancing iike devils, away to from that part of the room and bozo fore she knew it he had taken her out through one of the glass doors of the entrance. Id "What is the matter? Take me u. back to Nick." >y "I'm going to be fool enough to \ take you home." e, "Mr. Aylevvard!" xe "Toni Pardona's woman is in there ie dancing." a Ana you re ;uraid of Toni's fists V" n- ''Perhaps, though, as a matter of fact, I don't think Toni is present, ill Certainly it is not Toni who is dancing with her. But I believe Nick would want me to take you home." ss "I can't possibly trust you." ic '"Miss Sandal, if you force me to st make a scene you will regret it more iy than anyone. Have you forgotten i v ^1 CAN'1 rf^r' I L V FARTHER... ] I (f / |WIGGLE OUT niURSDAY?BOONE, N. C. low angry you were with me once ! vhen I involved you in a scene V' \ Ay Seward stood above to block her riew of the glass doors: so she missed -hv rhythmic passing of Toni PadNona's woman clenched in the arms of Kent. h?\r eyes blazing into his ; vith something that looked iike bunker and reproach. A few moments later she stood out- ; side on the pavement with Jock. He bailed a taxicab. "I'll send you home. Miss Sandal ?" No.' She spoke quickly. arrogantly. 'To Nick's rooms. I must see him again tonight." "But, Miss Sandal, I have to go Jiere now myself. at once." "I'll only be a minute.'* 'Please go back and ask Nick?*" "I'm not ready for him to leave. He'll hold 'he party together for me.'' In the taxi she asked, 'Shall I have Lo wait very long for Nick?" "No. As soon as I get back there \( I'll send him to you." At the door of Nick's lodging house . * Jock let her in and in spite of her? * repelling gesture he mounted with I' her. j: "I'm sorry. T must. get. some-!1 thing." ' The something was an automatic ' pistol. He took it, quite openlj- from the table drawer, examined it and dropped it into his coat pocket. Lynda said slowly, "Some day \ou j win sec- again the inside of that state's prison, I'm afraid. And that will break Nick's heart. He thinks you are - pure gold. "Please save me the gun I'll be alone here. QuayJe may find his way in.'* 4TCot a chance.'' But Jock's voice was low and uncertain. "He doesn't know this place." He took the blunt firearm and slowly, as though her eyes compelled ' him, lowered it and laid it on her open hand. And over this hand, gun and all, bus fingers strongly closed. "Lynda felt i rapture of body and of blood. It. was sweeter than honey, more heady than red wine. She sal still. Knowing herself possessed. She was not ashamed; nor afraid. And suddenly she knew why she had come back with him, why she had allowed him to accompany her. Jock came round the table edge, drew down her hand to the other in hor lap, fell to his knees and laid his forehead oh her hands. She felt bis lips moving. that it ar, though for help. They met Nick's eyes. He had .'olio we J them into tile cafe instantly. 1 had come in. bad seen lliem ami now 1 throwing himself in one painful con ' tortion across the room set bis tormented hands upon Jock's collar and, using all his strength, jerked him \ tip 1 arid bae!:. ''You dare to take my daughter * tiere, to make love to her. My (laugh- 1 Ler! Kiss her with your mouth of J i convict, touch her yith your hands ' :>1 a card-sharper." Jock fairly cowered. His face looked dazed He quivered at the two * words as though Nick had used a lash upon him. Then carefully, not to hurt Nick's hands, he freed himself and went toward the door He said nothing, did not tun to look * at Lynda. "Dorit be frightened, in He Lynda," she heard her father saving. ''He won't touch you again." She could not speak. "You did wrong to come to rue," groaned Nick. 'No matter where I live my life defies vcur fingers.' Speaking, he was caught by a paroxysm of physical agony which kept Lynda there in pitiful and scared attendance until nearly morning. At last she was driven to siinwnoiiing Jock Ayieward. Her father had gasped out a number and almost at once after she had taken down the receiver Jock answered. ".Nick's suffering terribly. 1 have to leave him." His reasonable cool voice answered instantly. "I've been expecting it. I'll be there." (Continued Next Week) CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our gratitude for the sympathy and kindness shown j by our neighbors and friends during the illness and death of our dear aged another. Also many thanks for the beautiful floral offerings. May God's richest blessings attend each one of you when trouble comes in your home. MR. & vMRS. JOHN SHERRILL MR. & MRS. GEO. U. SMERRILL MR. & MRS. LEE SWIFT. PULL ^ ' ^JCOULON OPEN ANV ! ? j^^RETAI) P; J /DO YOU EXPE (5 [A PERSON TO 1 "TMROL j THERE? 4 raRfeSlM - A-... iv -y^ THE DOCTOR Tells the Story By \V. E. Aughinftaugb, >8. I). MICROBES The records of prehistoric agcs ihow that disease is older than the irst man. and this fact is proven by lecayed teeth, spongy bones, rheu n a tic joints and abcesseu bores one of which recently exhume'' wa ; urge enough to hold more than a ; juart of pus)- which have been "ound and which belonged to orea I ures living in the reptilian age. Of course when men had merged rom their primitive status and for nany centuries thereafter it was commonly believed that disease was :aused by evil spirits. With the discovery of the micro scope, medicai men were quick to earn that the causes of most diseases were bacteria, and then there stepped into the picture the master mind of such scientists as Pasteur. Lister and Koch, who ascertained hat there was another world of which little was Known and that it was peopled by 3 population invisible to the naked eye a truly danserous and ''murderous population." Dr. Howard Haggard calls them. In addition there were also found various bacteria which were silently working in the interest of mankind --jtitmuiuo ?tue;auctors or nmnanuy. How iong can bacteria live is a question that has puzzle*:! scientists. Do they live weeks, months, years or btjiFxuirits T yVjumj t ?rG i?t"years ?t haZ been absolutely demonstrated that bacteria remain viable for long penads of time. Irs fact one may with propriety say that they live almost indefinitely, provided of course, t hat conditions arc favorable for their survival. For example. Dr. CT. R. fcipman of tin' University of California has shown that Jiving bacteria exists in coal taken from deep mines in Wales and also froni Pennsylvania In addition to this he learned that coil which had been sealed and kept immune from outside interferences for periods varying from twenty-five to sixty, five years, all contained living bacteria. Adobe bricks that is bricks made from clay and water >d dried in rial in the centor of these bricks living bacteria were found, and it is positively known that these bricks wore more than one hundred ana fifty years old. So despite the strenuous work on [he part of scientific men. it has not i'ot hem determined definitely, how ong bacteria can survive, but the. indications are that given the proper .xmdit-ions. they can exist for more hai: 2,5(H) years and yet remain liable. DATS ACREAGE SHOWS GAIN IN THIS STATE Good livestock feeders unanimousi\ I'AtlDI/triV j-\.? I CT no rttiA ?<" !*--? avjiilable feeds for livestock, and par. tioularly so for young- growing animals. The increasing: knowledge of the value of oats is evidenced by the fact that North Carolina farmers seeded for grain 30S.13S acres to this < rop in IS38, or ar. increase of 25 per cent over 1937. Oars are more bulky than any other of the cereal grains, but in comnion with theiii are deficient in prou.w. However, this deficiency onuses no worry to the southern farmer, says Earl H. Hostetler. professor of animal husbandry at State College, because he has available at. a reasonable price protein-rich supplements such as cottonseed meal, soybean meal and peanut meal. To obtain the most value from oaU in livestock rations, it is important to supplement them with these proteinrich feeds that contain nutrients which are lacking in oats. They are the safest grain for work stock anc young animals, and most useful ir starting cattle and sheep 011 feed. In the entire cotton belt more tliar 1,000,000 acres were seeded to oats ir 193S. Undoubtedly, this greater acreage is seeded in oats not only because of their value as grain but alsc because of their vainp -oi/vr?* or as a "nurse-' crop, for winter grazing and for hay. A suggested daily ration for idle horses and mules is: Oats, 2 pounds, cottonseed meal or cake, 2 pounds and hay or bundle stover, 12 pounds For animals at light work, the oatDEAR, *ACST WOMEN $-<3 Q T, BUT YOU, WHO HAVE \Jf % IED THE SlIAA FIGURE ?^TpCii ^ DON'T NEED ( III \ VTHAT DOOR ) GH J C OPEN ANY < ' j gg?> PACE SEVEN j arc increased to four pounds, tho hay cut to six. pounds, and six. ! pounds of cottonseed hulls arc add Oil. NOTICE OF SAUK OF REAL. ESTATE Under and by virtue of an prdcr of : the superior court of Catawba county. X C.. in a proceeding therein en| titled >lh". A. Abernethy, First Security Trust Comp&uy and others vs FIstelle Abernethy and others," tho undersigned receivers will, at 11 o'clock a. m., on Monday, January I1939, on the premises in Blowing I It-x'k, Watauga county, N. C.. offer I "or sale at public auction to the! ast and highest bidder for cash tho I following described lands: j Tliose certain lots belonging to the j \ S. Abernethy estate located on 'be highway which runs from Blowrig Kock to Boone, more fully described as foi'ows: First Tract: I Arts 1 and 2 in Block A, as per map of C. C. Babb, engineer for A. S. Abernethy, owner, surveyed August IT. 1925, and bounded j ns follows: cue a j.u?j'ci. IU cue tiWi.ern margin of a 3G-foot street. and he souUnvextern margin of the highv.-;y and rur.s with the street .south 52 degrees west 121 feet to a stake, nomer of lot No. 3; thence south fefif degrees 30 feet eaaijt 50 feet to the corner of tots 1 and 2; thence south. 77 degrees east 75 feet to the southwest corner of lot No. 2; thence north 0 degrees 25 feet east 95 feet to tho southwestern margin of the highway; thence with said margin north 53 de grees west 57 feet to the beginning. Second Tracty Th.at certain lot-? not far from the above described lot which was reserved by A. S. Abernethy at. the time of the first sale of any of the A he me thy lands, having a 100-ft. frontage by 152 feet by 398 feet by 356 feet anci more fully described an follows: Beginning on a lock south 75 rte! grees -40 feet east 100 feet, north 11 degrees oast 102 feet, north 87 west. 39S feet, south 63 40 east 200 feet to a rock, south i.5 degrees .30 went 356 feet to the point of beginning, adjoining the property of J. L Snyder and Mrs. C. B. Caivert. This the 3rd day of December. 1938 M. H. you XT, T. I? PRU1TT, FIRST SFCUR1TY TRUST CO,; 1 IMa; liBADE A PURE RAW MILK 1 j Our Milk is handled strictly under I state sanitary regulations It is j pure and wholesome. i j Phone 130-J Boone | i : Try BISMAREX for Acid Indigestion. Insist an Genuine Bismarex and refuse other so-called Antacid Powders recomnieniv, ended to be "just as | good." Bismarex is sold in ! Watauga county only at. BOONE DRUG CO. The REX ALL Store I Eyes Examined DR. L. E. WELLMAN Optometrist Specialist in the Examination of the Eyes and the Fitting of Glasses. Complete Modern Examination Room over Farmers State Bank Mountain City, Tcnn. ^ t j Office Days Wednesday and Thursday j j Each Week l PRICES MODERATE Glasses Fitted | Why OF COURSE... YOU'RE RlfcHTM DEAR .... 1 HADN'T 7HOU6HT J gtfer" _, . JBCBiiHrKSECaS" -r Slu. WJUIHTM WW?T(M??