RICHARD W>FFMANN COrywiQKT \y W whu scwict !; CHAPTER X Midweek Hal was heavily sick?lying in a bed?and heavily sad. His mouth was dry as cloth, and hli lips stuck. There was an impression of hav-l ing dreamed a lot o fhings, crow... ed close around him and very tir ing because of their constant de-, mand for effort. But he couldn't remember anything of what they were and it didn't matter. There was Barry to think of. Her image appeared quietly in his mind, walking toward him with that straight-legged, inquiring, un-1 self-conscious grace. Soon he would ? see her lovely face, her eyes lighted, { smiling. It was good to see her walk because last time he'd thought of her?last time, she'd been sitting on the edge of a bed. knees clasped hard in her arms, her head bowed, her eyes?strange, sullen, dark with Suddenly, before he knew what i it was. Hal yelled her name and; struggled against the tight-tucked j sheet acos shls chest and a dread-. ful avalanche tumbled memory and terror upon his beguilement. He had an arm free before the nurse could get to him. He was breaking the nurse's hold when a young man, in white up to the neck, appeared on the other side and forced him: back to the pillow. ?Listen, said tiai, commanamjj the attention of the man's blue eyes: "I'm not delirious; I'm not crazy; you've got to let me up? right away. I'll come back after ward, but you've got to let me up.! It's a matter of murder?murder?! and I've got to stop it. J swear to J you I know what I'm saying. Look in my eyes. I'm sane?sane as h?1. You've got to believe it." The young man said in law as surance, "I believe you .but?" 'Then in G?d's name"?Hal; struggled heedlessly against the, sharp, thorough pain that held his | ether arm: "minutes, minutes count. Let me up. I've got to?d?n you, | let me up or I'll?" "Mr. Ireland" the young man | said sharply. "Listen to me." Then, slowly and significantly. "You've! been here for twenty-four hours." j Hal knew it was significant even: as he wondered why it was said! so significantly. Then most ter-. ribly he saw; his shoulders fell i away from resistance and all hit breath went out in a broken cry of anguish and despair. On a swift shadow of hope he said^fi)3ut Ker rigan?Where's Kerrigan? The man! who was with me in the car. Please, you've got to find out. You will find out?quickly, quickly, and let me know. And another thing."; What was the other thing? Good G?d, he had to hold on till hej thought of it?something terrible.; Y&s! "Another thing." he said, ex-j hau^tion consuming the breath he needed to talk with: ~ a newspaper! ?one of the morning after my ac-! cidcnt. I've got to see it. I'll go: crazy?crazy?unless I know.' "Yes, all right," said the interne.' After a word to the nurse at the' door, he was gone and Ha, 1 oiled his he3d miserably, but in c min ute a white packet came between him and the wall, and a newspa-t per rustled. They held it over him while he searched the mess of the! front page: headlines about Japan divorce revelations, a single column I head reading, "Man Slain in S. M'ra i Blvd. Hotel Room?Seek Woma">l Companion of Martin Crack. Pre moter?Clutched Golf Ball Clew?"| ?Wheels of light spinning against blacknesa closed over the page, and their soft buzzing faded behind Kthick, deaf cushions at his ears. ? ?????? Spears, a vice president of the Old Man's correspondent bank in Los Angeles, gave Hal attention and incurious understanding. He came on unsolicited orders from New York, when Hal was finished with the delirious phanton of routed hope. Hal held out his hand and forced the sadness and fatigue out of his own smile. "Thank3 a lot. Spears," "Very glad of the chance to help," said Spears, as though he was "And what about your father? Shall I tell him anything?except that you're coming along well and will drop him a line any day now?" "Oh, yes," said Hal, and tried to think plainly about that too. 4 Tell him the guy who telegraphed him about me was a nut, that he had nothing on me. that the whole thing s put to bed. Tell him I'm writing him everything and there's absolutely nothing to worry about. Remind him that I never said that before." Then Spears was gone, and the nurse came in to see that Hal was comfortable. He told her he was Am too, he said to himself except for shock, slight concussion, com 1 pound fracture of arm, cut head, contusions of hip, d?n smell of ether, and ?Dear God, what were they to the bitter steady, excru-j, dating, and just punishment of his j soul? !( The events of his anguish had , occurred; they seemed sometimes;, unreal because hi? fancy couldn't ( compass a scene of vicious melo drama between the figure of , beauty he knew and loved and the ? gure of evil he knew and hated. , In the black, burning chaos of his delirom he had seen Barry stand- , ing in a room like the one in Saint ( George; a black automatic pistol, level in her hand, gogged to its own sharp spitting; and Crack stood be- ! fore her with his bemused smile, nodding sly approval as each invis- , ible bullet punched into him but1! never even made him drop his in-lj dolent golf ball. That was unreal, ^ fantastic even in delirium. And yet i ^ now, with the delirium behind?'] marking off his new loneliness from his old folly?Hal knew something, like that had happened. His father had told him he need-', ed to learn about life. He had!, learned something: he had learned |" that if you were a vain fool, life!, in one gesture could give you itsj| lesson and snatch away your most'j happy chance to apply it, could , mu'i'ate you for good in teaching juu to avoid mutilation. Did his , father know that? Did Gister j Aanastasia know that? Did Kerri- ( gan know that? Tad Kerrigan? ( O G?d, if Kerrigan were dead! , ? # ? ? ? ? ? I I Then there was another long,] haunted night maturing its crop of ? torment to roll Hal's head on the , hot pillow, and snatch him from fit- i ful sleep. And finally another morn ing came, with a new solidity of i hopeless conclusion. The one slimij sliver of recurrent hope, sharp andh so very fragile, was still that Ker-j, rtgah might be with Barry. And j yet if Kerrigan was well and free,', he wuold have come here to Hal, or] written, or something. Later Hal was dozing when he!] heard the nurse saying something , that sounded like. "It's your sister ( to see you." And the name Anasta- ] sia leaped into his mind like a cool | Jet of water. He turned his head ? so quickly that pain ran deep in his ( arm. "8how her in right away." j, "She's waiting downstairs." said ] the nurse. "Shell be up in a mo-! ment." |( She knew something about Barry. Hal fought that hope for his fear of disappointment. i] And suppose Barry were trying to] find her in Santa Barbara now?' An astasia must go back there quick- j ly, hire a fast car?and stay, stay close until Barry came to the one place in which she could count on asylum. The doer opened softly, and there was en Instant's whispering behind the screen beThre it closed again. Then, tense for the first look of Anastasia's white-framed face, Hal felt his blood's business stop, time sto:>, the day stop over the world outside. Even as ho whispered her name in the hush of the room, he knew it couldn't be Br.rry. Yet the clear blue-clad vision moved toward him, the clear eyes authentic in their solemn questioning of his look j She Cams Nearer, Looked Down at i His Mouth and Into His Eyes ! Again. of awe. She came nearer, looked down at his mouth and into his eyes'; again, a hopeful tenderness waking in her solemnity. Then he caught, her wrist. She bent Swiftly down | to him. His other wretchde, use-: less arm wouldn't stir, but the good, against him, his hand moving on| one was strong enough to bring her { rough real cloth over the firmness of her back. If it were a dream, the' pain he felt going through his tight- J strapped arm must wake him. And t didn't. She stayed there, her skin imooth and cool, her breathing igainst him slow and grateful, as f in fearless sleep after long wear ness. jntil their lips came together in the jentle beginning of belief; and then die soft, near shadow of her husky: vhisper said, "Poor, dear darling?1 ;hey haven't even let you"?she: aaused for the shadow of her soft chuckle too?"let you shave.'" Hal let her precious body free ;hen, long enough to take away the lat that kept her hair from shin-| ng over this improbable return ofj ill hope. "Kind heaven!" he .whispered My own dearest, don't you care what I've done? Are you taking1 me back ou tof the rotten empty leatli I made for myself? Barry, I you?" I "You've done nothing to me," she said against his speaking, her head nodding in a gentle negative: "ex cept be all the things I want you to t>e-except make me love you." And tier soft lips come back more closely. He said carefully, unanxiously, 'Barry, who knows where you are?" Her head moved a little, and she said, "No one, my darling." "You can stay hidden then?y lit tle while?till I can get my -dis charge or sneak out of this d?nj place, and we can get a boat for Japan. Australia, anywhere far away." "You should," she said in marvel ing softness. "You'd do that for me." There was reverence, an awed; humility in her slow kiss. Then she raised her head again to watch his J eyes, and she said. "I didn't kill him. I didn't have to." "Kerrigan!" said Hal with swift conviction, swift remorse at having forgotten him till now. "They haven't caught him." he stated slowly. "No," she said. "And they won't. He's gone somewhere: he wouldn't tell me. I said good-by to him last( night. I've got a letter for you from him." 1 v-i_ ? ne iiiuvcu no u?t? smooth brows, down the sure mod -; ?ling of her cheek to the full, hon orable lips. And all the time her tender eyes watched him as if he. were the thing so difficult to be lieve in all this* Inside Kerrigan's long fat enve- j lope were his letter, four or five; telegrams, and a folded document; Hal went first to the letter: "Sport, "Besides my ambition to kill a | man in the cool of the blood t which; Is satisfied and cured, let me tell you), I'vi wanted to play god to people I loved. It isn't going to be, so very godlike unless I get away with it. It was tough standing you in the corner so long. But the thing was no soap unless it em-, bodied the latest aerodynamic prin-; ciples. There wasn't much time to! read up on those during our slight buggy ride of the other night; and [ had a h?1 of a time getting your girl's unconditional promise to go | straight to you?before the fire works. "The police get my confession to day, as near a perfect example of the confessor's art as an old legal friend can make it. You're left out of everything entirely. They'll have to see Barry, I guess, but she knows her story (youd be surprised how tough it is sometimes to whip the truth into plausibility.) The thing may not be watertight, so I'll be watching in the bushes till it's over; and if anything blows up, I'll take care of it. You stay out of it. For Barry's sake, your father's, mine, anybody's. Do me that one holy favor, Hal. Don't go chivalrous on ns. It would wreck the works. "Enclosed please find documents, which hide under some lonely cob blestone till everything's in the bag, then burn. Here are telegrams about who you are and aren't, and that incrimination the late Martin Crack got from Barry's father. "Do this for me, too, sport, will you? The first three days of the next month after it's all over, run a Personal in the Chicago Tribune, addressed 'Colonel/ saying you're married, what town you're living in, and whether your father's N. Y. bank is a good place to write you congratulations. 'Some day we'll hoist a couple more, and I'll tell the kids about Wyoming, Hasta la vista; and good luck, you lucky guy but always be sure there's one old railroad man who believes you rate it. K." Hal looked up at Barry when he had finished. And quietly she ex plained: "He killed him, Hal, and then he went down to the street and stood there for an hour?to keep m from going in. It 'had taken me so long to?to find my courage." Her head was up, the grace of its carriage unoppressed by anything that had happened or nearly hap pened. invulnerable to shame and fear and femorse because the brav ery behind her eyes could not in vite those things. Whether it was more painfully beautiful to believe in the possession of her or to be lieve her a dream, Hal couldn't tell. He knew he would risk nothing of that beauty again?ever, in the smallest way. Iti might still be the boat for Australia. And in the meantime, in case the police? "Barry," Hal said in the crisp ness of immediate necessity, "the first thing you've got to do?" Her cool hand came against his mouth. "The first thing?" she said, her quiet eyes untouched by his con cern: "More important than any old unshaven thought of years?" She bent over in quick, supple grace and whispered at his ear, "Hal, do you love me?" (THE END.) Here, There and Everywhere Odd and Interesting Things Found in The News, Con densed For The Readers of The Independent By ELIZABETH SAUNDERS A Kansas law, still on the books, reads: "When two trains approach each other at a crossing, they shall both come to a full stop, and neither shall start up until the other has gone. Ben Jones, of Paris, Ark., spends, much of his time playing checkers! by correspondence with people all j over the world. He has had as many jas 400 games in progress at once. ! In 24 hours the Humane Society in St. Louis, responded to 147 heat prostration calls. Eleven were |horses, two were canaries, one was! la sparrow. Several white rats and rabbits also were curled up. The (rest were dogs. j The oldest triplets in . the United States, Abraham Linclon Moore, George Washington Moore a n d| Henry Clay Moore, recently celebrat ed their 80th birthday together. The stork deals in pairs to Mr. and Mrs. Dan Rader of Franklin Square, Ohio. He has just present ed them with their third set of twins. A South Carolina law requires every law-abiding man to take his gun to church on Sunday. And he' is not obliged to "park his gat" out-1 side, either. Bernard Zufall. of New York City, has committed the Manhattan tele phone directory. 1.117 pages, to memory. Electrically-heated vegetable beds; have been successful in boosting! garden production in Erfurt, Ger many. Wires 11 feet under the soil) speeded growth of radishes, lettuce, and tomatoes. 1 woman instructor in a Colorado college says the sons of the pioneers,' have lost the art of profanity. They i swear "too weakly." From other ji sources it is plain that in the greati open spaces quality of language has! been replaced by quantity. Once a week the prisoners in jail ' in Kulpmont. Pa., are justified in! shouting. "Let me outfi in the name' of the law." An old ordinance com-'i mands that nobody can be kept inn jail on Sunday ( In Streator, 111, Duchess, a French, bulldog owned by Mrs Fred Schef fler, has mothered a forlorn duck-j: ling found in a field Mrs Scheffler said when the two were separated/ they were inconsolable | In Washington. D. C., the Central High School has more floors below j the street level than it has above; the street. j A huge clock, 30 feet in diameter, is being countersunk into the ground at the Johannesburg's (Africa) Airport. Aviators will be able to tell the time from the clouds when they look at this new clock,, whose works will be contained in a' subterranean chamber. j After a month's search. Morris H. Clarke, of Durham. N. C., found two diamond rings which he had lost, in the toe of his shoe. | Traffic Officer Barry Clarfk al ways does his duty. When he saw his daughter, Faye, driving a car on a street in Lewiston, Idaho, with out the proper license, he took her into court. She was fined. In Rochester, N. Y.. his best girl told Lifeguard Derwood Brough that he would have to do something about his sunburned nose, or else ... So Brough startled bathers at one of Rochester's beaches on Lake On tario by wearing a nose awning, like a miniature horse's blinder. Now ether guards and bathers are tak ing up the idea. It's a crime to make ugly faces at a fellow citizen in Zion City, 111., as it is everywhere else. But Zion City has an ordinance prohibiting such conduct. Sometime ago Otto Jacbson hired himself out to work on Herbert Benike's farm near Rochester, Min.,( for a year at $30 a month. The ether day Jacobson received an offer for $35 a month, but his boss wouldnt let him go. Never giving up. Otto cut the tails off 20 of Benike's cows. Benike fired him and sued for $100. The last one of the prayer wheels of Christianity, a relic of the Mid-1 die Ages, hangs today in the church, in the village of Comfort, France.! When set rotating, like a wheel of| fortune, it is said to foretell the; answer to a prayer. In Chicago. John Smith. 49, was electrocuted when he hung a pair! of wet trousers on what he thought was a clothesline. The line was a "live'' high-tension wire. A "cheerfulness" tax is collected from workers in Portugal. It goes into a national fund for the promo tion of cheerfulness. The doctor ordered absolute quiet! for Mrs. S. G. Mason, seriously ill I at her home in Kirksville. Mo. Local police heard about it and established a detour to re-route traffic on a federal highway, which passes the Mason home. Of the 7,000-odd varieties of roses, not more than thirty are fragrant and only three contain enough oil to warrant their use in the making of attar of roses, a perfume that has, at times, been worth its weight in gold. -here were no entries when the announcer called a "fat women's race" at the outing of the Jefferson Club, of Somerville, Mass. "The next event" he continued, "will be the pleasiongly-plump ladies race." Six 200-pounders went to the post for' the race. I Fifteen towns and cities in the' United States are named "Nash ville." The largest is in Tennes see. CAROLINA 1 CREST HOTEL A Beachfront Hotel Just off Beachfront On Beanttfnl NORTH CAROLINA AVE. ATLANTIC CITY Serving a Tray Breakfast to your room any time up to 11 o'clock without any charge for breakfast or service. Every Room Has Private Bath and at least ( large windows Rates As Low As $2.50 and up Fairbairn, Inc. 1 HERBERT J ?RUPEEN^ YUAN HEE SEE LAUGHS ^ROHMER | A Great Story by a Great Writer ? ? ? Read it as it appears serially in this paper? Beginning Next Week in THE INDEPENDENT I EDUCATING THAT CHILD OF YOURS "The Child's First School Is the Family"?Froebel Issued by the National Kindergarten Association, 8 West 40th Street, New York City. These articles are appearing weekly In our Coi iimns. A FRIEND IN NEED * MRS. M. M. STURGIS "Just can't like that Jenny Rand," said my friend to me one day as we passed the child on the street. "Why, Kate Lorton!" I answered, "She appears to be such a nice little girl. I live too far away to see much of her, but I have thought her Just as nice as May, your other little i neighbor, to the left, but I have noticed you are much more cordial to May when you see her than to Jenny. May I ask why uou are so partial?" After a moment's thought, she re plied, "I am sure I don't know, unless it is because Jenny comes into my house without knocking. May never does that. She raps politely at the door, no matter how often she may |come during the day. It gives me a chance to receive her pleasantly, and jl am always more friendly to her I in consequence. My reason seems trivial, doesn't it?" ! I murmured something of little consequence. My friend continued, "I have an indefinite feeling that my sense of : privacy is being violated when I look up and see Jenny eyeing me at my work, when I have had no idea jthat she was there. Silly, I know. At other times she comes bouncing i in, always without even calling out to me first, and a little feeling of resentment arises in me; it is hard to conquer it and receive her civilly. I try to be as nice to her as I am to [May, for her mother is a very dear I friend, but in spite of that, I can not help liking May just a little better." And then my friend sighed and added, "I guess I am old-fash ioned, that's all.' { "I said. "No, Kate, you are right in your feeling that Jenny should be more courteous; I agree with you on that point most heartily. But I think you should do something to teach her not to come in like that." 1 She flushed and answered, "Oh, I | just couldn't do anything to hurt her feelings. You see, she really is a dear child, only thoughtless." I turned the matter over in my mind, and the next time I met Jen-1 ny I engaged her In conversation. She proved to be a very bright and responsive child. We walked along, together and after a while I men-1 tioned May, saying that my friend | Mrs. Lorton was very fond of herj partly on account of her courteous! manners, and I said that Mrs. Lorton had once told me how polite May; was with regard to rapping at the door before entering. "She always; remembers to do that, Mrs. Lorton said," I added. I could see that | Jenny was impressed, but I did not know the outcome until a few weeks later. j Then, happening to meet Kate at a tea. I asked her how she was get- | ting along with her little neighbor, Jenny. "Oh, Jane!" she answered beam ingly, "I don't know what has come over that child, but she has been the nicest little thing lately. She always raps politely before entering the house, now, and really I have begun' to like the child amazingly. Ab-1 surd to have such a little thing ef fect one so seriously, isn't it?" I smiled and said how pleased I was to hear of the happy way in which things had adjusted them selves, and then I turned to speak to my hostess, leaving Kate none the wiser as to my part In the little ; drama. SHEEP-STEALING The days of horse thieves and cattle-rustlers are virtually gone, 'but sheep-stealing still seems to be In vogue. Raymond Price and Lang ford White, both colored, are being, held in Currituck County for the theft of five blooded sheep, valued at from $50 to $60 each, from T. B. Elliott, county school superinten dent. Price also is involved in the theft of a calf. A $1,000,000,000 FIRE THAT HAS BURNED 50 YEARS Relating that the Government has been asked to put out the strange underground conflagration spread ing like a cencer through one of the nation's coal fields, menacing lives mines and countryside. One of the many interesting stories in the Aug ust 18 issue of The American Week ly, the big magazine which comes every week with the BALTIMORE SUNDAY AMERICAN.. On sale by all newsdealers.?adv. It. NOTIOC TO CRKDITORB In The United SUtei Dlitrlct Court, For Thi KaaUrn District of RorUi Carolina Eiuaooth Cltjr Civilian In Bankruptcy Ro. 263 In tha Matter of Clauuo Loun Zietler, Bank rupt. The :k til ion of Claude Louis Ziegler. of Klizaheth fity. North Carolina, for a full dis charge ill Bankruptcy, having turn fll.il in Mid Court, it is ordered b.v the Court that a hear ing lie hail oil September -'ml 11133. before lion. I. A|. Aieekins, Judge of said Court, at Washington, North Carolina, at 12 o'clock At., and that all known creditor* and other inter estej pern,ns may appear at said time and place and sliow just cause, if any they have why the prayer of said petition should not be grautvil. Fayctteville, X. t'? this August 1st, 1)133. It. W. 1IKIUUXG. cAgli-KWH-lSt. I". S. Iteferee in Bankruptcy. PASQUOTANK DRAINAOE DISTRICT NO. 1 I ORDER AND NOTICE OP ELECTION ' North Carolina In Tha S""->rtor Court. Pasquotank County. Boforo TIM Clark. It is ordered that an election be held at the Harney Jackson Mure, the same oeing within said Drainage District, on Monday. August 12. 1113.1, (n>m 7:30 A. M. to 0:30 11'. M. to rote for one member of the Board of Drainage Commissioners for l'asquotauk Drainage hist riot No. 1, to succeed J. K. Teui|?le whose term et'dres September 30, I 103.1. | Kaeh land owner within said District will, | lie qualiHed to vote at this "lection and each land owner shall he entitled to rast a nnin-1 her of rotes equalling the number of acre*1 ' 0wind by him and benefitted. as appear* by ' tlie Anal re|H>rt of the Iloanl of Viewers in the formation of said Drainage District No. 1. ! I The I'ourt hereby ai'lsiints Mullen Stall-1 ings, J. I'. Harris ami D. Temple as poll hosiers for aaiil election. i It is further ordered that a copy of this' order he posted at the Court liuuse door In 1-nsitootauk County and at Are eonspicioiM places within said IHstriet, and shall be pub lislitsl once a week for two cinsrctifire wn the l'.i .|4J ,,t Al, j . at 12:fMI delink MM, at I. , Idoor of Parqutank t'ounty, X i , "5* at public auction to the cash, the following di.wriix.l i ? All that certain inartt) ? ? i4.,.j , ., abetli t'itjr Township, l'a?q ;'iit:, *h? of July, ltlSo. tiit.\:i.\M w. itrix. c-Jy20-4t. Tni-'o ! 0R?" ?^U?L,"T,?" NORTH CAROLINA, In tht Super,* Cw. : CAMDEN COUNTY. MARY LIZZIE TURNER, Plaintiff 5 FRANK LEE TURNER, Defendant. I It appearing front the affidatit Hrt I.iaxie Turner. in tliin ?ti. t:?t Frank 1* | Turner, the defendant tlu-rcin, > ,* ? i# found in Camden County. ami .inn \ t ' due delijriire be tuund in tlie ? V r, | Carolina. and it furtS.-t awria; IW > nunc of action Ski-I* ail..ill?t li,. :? n!. I'm follow*. to-wit: For divorce a Vinculo Matritnonn ,? t> ground* of abandonment an.I .1, defendant from tlie j.l.?intirt" : r m< two yeara. ami that thi* i* 01 ? ?l i.,. , in which arrrlce of niiiiuion* i I publication. | IT IS TIIKRKKOIti:. onh-r-d tit, m ,bc served oil aaid Frank I.- Tirol . |c , ligation ami to that ami that n ' action be published otn e a '> k i -i ' if 'wetika in The ItnlexK-ndt m. * inuj ... .t , i |ed ill I'aaquotauk jf 'outi'y. xttm/ i title of the action'and n ? and rtuuiring tlie ibirmhiiit ??? t .? ? a [ office of tlie litrk of the Kai?r..n f-an*. ?! I'amden County, in tl? c.ntr it ?: n Connty. on tlie 21?t day s. ,;*r. "'J*, and anawet or demur to tin- cn,;.i. t '4 "at plaintiff. I Thia the 13th day of July. I'.'XV 1 I? 8. LIUIiY. | Clerk id tii. Sii. ? ra-r f ?? eRCnjylfl-ft - NOTICE NORTH OAROLINA. In The Sur<** CoiA CAMDEN COUNTY. MARY SAWYER, Plaintiff n. WOODFIN SIMMER, Defendant. The defendant ab->re name I * H take ti r e that an action itttiUcd a? nt?o. I.*> ?*?? commenced in the Kti|nrl J>. If Elizabeth City Iron Works & Supply Co.