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ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE
Having this day qualified as Ad
ministrator of the estate of Joseph H.
Overby, deceased, late of Chatham
County, North Carolina, I do hereby
notify all persons having claims a
gamst the estate to present them duly
pr° v en to the undersigned on or be
lore the 9th day of July, 1927, or
notice will be pleaded m bar of
their recovery.
All persons indebted to the estate,
are requested to- make immediate pay
ment.
Fiis the Bth day of July, 1926.
J. E. HUNEYCUTT,
203 S. Tryon St., Charlotte, N. C.
Administrator of the estate of
C-. Jones, Atty. for Administrator.
Joseph H. Oi erby, deceased.
NOTICE
. ving qualified this day as admin-
of the estate of Mary Rosa
7° nes > late of Chatham county, this
>tify all persons having claims
£ p: ;a - t said estate to present their
£‘ a p- : ' to the undersigned duly veri-
i e(i °n or before the. 23rd day of
August, 1927, or this notice will be
i' vua in bar of their recovery.
Persons owing said estate will please
f >me forward and make immediate
settlement.
This the 23rd day of August, 1926.
J. D. JONES,
Administrator.
” • P. Horton, Atty.
Se Pt. 2, 6tp.
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THE
; GIRL AT
SHEELEY’S
By HAROLD CARTER
(© by W. G. Chapman.)
BIG JIM TURNER had taken It
into his mind to come into Bal
boa. There was nothing par
ticularly admirable *about that
little East African coast settlement,
which consisted of two dance halls
and four gambling establishments, be
sides the administrator’s residence;
but the mining camp in the interior
did not possess apy of these advan
tages. Besides, Big Jim had just shot
and seriously wounded a thieving
partner of his, and he had concluded
that Balboa was the best place of tem
porary refuge.
He had counted the money in his
pockets. He had four hundred and
twelve pounds—nearly 7 two thousand
dollars. It had been his idea to spend
that in a month of riotous living, at
the end of which time, no doubt, his
partner having recovered, there would
be room for him at the mining camp
again.
Slowly he pulled a letter from his
pocket and read the writing by the
light of the lamp above Sheeley’s
saloon.
“My dear Sir James,” It ran.
“We herewith enclose you the sum
of one hundred pounds, which, as we
mentioned in our previous letter, was
left you by your father, the late
baronet. As you are aware, unfor
tunately Sir Edwin never relented in
his attitude toward you, and, though
the title has come to you, the estates,
which \vere not entailed, have passed
to your younger brother. If we may
take the liberty of saying so, there ex
ists no reason why you should not re
turn to England. While society, un
fortunately, is not apt to relent to
ward a man who Is a baronet without
an income, we have assurance that
the parties whom you have affronted
are anxious that the affair which led
you to expatriate yourself be forgot
ten.
“Kindly keep 11s advised as to your
circumstances, so that, in case there
should be a new heir, or in case of
your unfortunate demise, we may be
in a position to take measures accord
ingly.”
The letter was signed # by a firm of
London attorneys.
Big Jim laughed rather hollowly
and turned into Sheeley’s. The place
was packed with mining men and
Portuguese traders from the interior,
and all were exuberant. The crowd
had money to burn, for no poor man
could have had business In that part
of the coast on which Balboa was sit
uated.
“What the —!” Big Jim began, star
ing behind the bar. Mechanically his
hand went up to his head and came
away with his hat in it, a circum
stance which surprised him mightily.
Behind the bar stood a fair-haired,
ruddy-cheeked English girl, polishing
glasses, and evidently looking 1 with
horror and dread upon the motley
crew assembled In the resort, who, to
do them justice, appeared in no way
malevolently inclined, though one or
two of the Portuguese were eyeing her
in a passion which she might have
found the reverse of pleasant.
The barmaid was an institution all
along the East African littoral. Just
1 as in the home country; but the type
of woman who was to be found in
these places was strikingly the reverse
of the delicate, refined-looking girl who
was serving at Sheeley’s.
“Present me, Mr. Sheeley,” muttered
Big Jim with mock courtesy. But as
his eyes continued to dwell on the
girl’s face he recoiled a pace or two
and stared at her In dawning remem
brance, and he saw the answering rec
ognition in her own eyes.
“She’s my new attendant,” said
Sheeley, grinning. “Got her through
an advertisement in the London pa
pers. I didn’t tell you fellows —I want
ed It to be a surprise. I guess she
hasn’t seen much of the trade and
thought Balboa was a shade bigger
and quieter than it is. She —”
“I didn’t ask the lady’s history. I
want to know her name,” growled Big
Jim Turner.
“Now, Jim, don’t get ugly and I’ll
tell you,” answered the keeper.
But Big Jim pushed him away with
a sense of physical nausea. No need
to.ask further. He looked at the girl
again and saw that the recognition
was complete. Her face was deathly
white, and she was clinging to the
counter with both hands, whose
knuckles were whiter than her face.
“I suppose you wasn’t here when she
arrived,” said Sheeley. I thought I’d
got a rare ’un when I caught sight of
her pretty face, but she ain’t no sport
at all. I made a mistake, that’s all.
She drew some trade at' first,, hut she
thought she was coining out to be a
waitress in a nice, quiet family hotel.
Naturally she was surprised, and she’s
so standoffish—well, it’s just a matter
of letting her turn to and work out
her passage money before she goes.”
Big Jim heard the words only vague
ly. He had turned, and stridden out
of the plpce, and now, outside, he was
seeing the past six years of his life
in review before him. Behind him he
heard the voices of men he knew call
ing after him in invitation.
Six years before James Turner, the
eldest son of Sir Edwin Turner, ninth
baronet and a rich landed proprietor,
had befen one of the most sought-after
heirs in England. He had just come
home from the university; he was en
gaged to 1 Lady Mary Hamilton, v
charming girl, and the only daughter
of his father’s oldest friend, whose
estates adjoined his own. James
THE CHATHAM RECORD
■ Turner had never loved Lady Mary;
he haa drifted into the engagement
at his father’s wish, and thought him
self happy enough until Kitty Munroe
appeared upon the scene. Kitty was
a girl of good birth, reduced circum
stances; she was Lady Mary’s com
panion.
It was the old story of a love unhal
lowed by the sanction of church or
law, or of society. When the discov
ery came about Sir Edwin was furi
ous. He cut liis son out of his will,
except for a hundred pounds, “with
which to go to the devil,” as he tersely
expressed himself. James Turner
packed his belongings and started for
Capetown. He worked his way up the
coast, and there were few frontier set
tlements in that vast land that did not
know him either by sight or else by
reputation as a brawler and a ne’er-'
do-well.
; James Turner had “gone to the
devil,” indeed, but Kitty Munroe had
been a mighty factor in that event. He
had sought her everywhere before he
sailed. But the girl, cast off and dis
owned, like himself, and not wishing
to become a drag upon him, had hid
den herself from prying eyes. Nobody
knew what had become of her. She
had not become submerged, but she
had quietly effaced herself and set
herself to earn her living as a waitress
in a London restaurant. Bearing the
indelible stigma of her shame, but car
rying in her heart also the unforgotten
memory of her love, she had lived in
London alone until the lure of Shee
ley’s lying advertisement induced her
to venture in Balboa, which she imag
ined to be a flourishing and settled
town. Her tw6 weeks there had been
a terrible nightmare. But there was
no refuge for her until she had worked
out the passage money. .
A year after Jim’s departure Lady
Mary had married his younger brother,
and she now held rule over the estates
which should have been Jim’s.
Big Jim stood outside, remembering
mournfully the past. What an ass he
had made of himself! And now the
girl he had sought so long had stood
face to face with him once more, and
they had looked into each other’s eyes
again with shame and terror, and yet
not unforgetful of those days of pas
sion and self-sacrifice so long ago.
I A hideous tumult in the place be
hind him recalled Big Jim to his sur
roundings. A woman’s scream rang
out. He turned and hurried back. As
he entered the door he perceived one
of the Portuguese traders standing
with one arm around the waist of the
struggling girl, while with his free
hand he flourished an ugly-looking re
volver and defied qyery Englishman In
the place to take her from him.
They were easy-going, good-natured
men enough; they pitied the girl, but
nobody was going to risk his life to
save her from a Portuguese. The ideal
of womanhood was high among them,
as among all frontiersmen, but it con
cerned those nebulous and half-forgot
! ten women at home, not the kind that
came voluntarily out to Balboa.
As Big Jim strode in at the door
there was a sudden hush; they had
seen him look at the girl and realized
that if he had taken a fancy to her
Dom Pedro Dominguez would find his
match.
Jim strode up to the man and struck
him in the face, knocking the revolver
to the floor. Dominguez fell forward,
half 'stunned, but the trigger of the
falling weapon struck the corner of
the counter and exploded the charge.
Big Jim felt a stinging sensation in
| his shoulder. Next moment, with a
, wild cry, In which were contained ail
the hatreds and all the despair of the
past years, he had leaped forward into
the group of threatening Portuguese,
knocking their knives aside and deal
ing mighty blows with his big fists. A
general melee arose immediately.
Lamps were overturned and the strug
gling mob fought and hacked at each
other in the darkness until a smoldar
of smoke and the flicker of flames an
nounced the end of Sheeley’s.
It was pitch dark, save where the
lurid rays of the burning building cast
a glow upon the demon-like forms that
fought and battled. All the evil ele
ments in Balboa seemed to have
rushed to pluuder and destroy. Half
castes, - with swarthy, abominable
faces, crept In among the struggling
men, reaching out and dealing stealthy
blows. Big-Jim wAs in the thick of it,
j but he no longer knew friend from foe.
He was bleeding from three knife
wounds, he was stunned and reeling
back against a door, and they were
leaping at him like hounds at a noble ;
stag. Suddenly'The door opened be
hind him. A soft hand reached out ;
and groped for his. Jim plunged for
ward blindly into the darkness, and
the door slammed to behind him.
The girl’s hand was in Lis. “Come
this way!” she was whispering. She
led him through a narrow passage,
along a path among a maze of out
buildings, until at last rtliey found
themselves in the darkness under the
palms, with the scrub brush of the
impenetrable forests not fifty feet
away and the plashing sea near by.
There they stopped. He could just
see her face in the starlight.
“Jim !” she whispered.
!” he answered, hoarsely.
“What is it to be?”
“I don’t know,” she cried, passion
ately. “Let me go, Jim.”
“Back there?” he exclaimed. “Kit
ty Kitty, you are mine now. Our
lives must never part again. Wher- (
ever .we go you are mine always.”
Their lips met in the darkness; he
drew her into his arms a moment, and
then, together, they plunged into the j
mighty forest.
Worse arid Worse
Sinnick—Men ate so deceitful now
adays that you can’t trust your best
friends.
Sinnieker —And what’s far worse,
you can’t get your best friends to trust
you.
SEARCH OF FOURTEEN
YEARS BRINGS GOLD
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Pncspector Stakes Out the
Stanislaus River Bed,
J Oakland, Calif.—Lee Silver and
! Bert Warrington hold the secret. Lee
[ is a hard-bitten prospector who wan-
I dered around 14 years before he could
; get anyone to listen to his story. Old
legends clustered about him. The tale
of the Mexicans’ mine was ascribed
to him. Chinese cooks in the gold
country who had walked with Bret
Harte and fed Mark Twain shook j
their ancient heads in honorable dis- I
dain.
Bert Warrington of this city took
a chance. Craftily, cannily, he .md
Silver made their survey. Now the 1
whole region of Brightman’s fiats j
! bristles with their claim stakes. They
t believe there is gold in the Stanis- j
laus river gravel. They have posted
their notices and filed their papers.
Even now the shafts are being sunk
that will tell them if their dreams are
to come true.
How He Discovered It.
Silver says It all started 14 years
ago. He was wandering around in
the Higli Sierra of Tuolumne county
when there came a call for help from
his brother in San Jose. Silver and
his partner started out immediately..
Down the Stanislaus river they
went, along the trail that leads over
Sonora pass, to Brightman’s flats, 50
miles east of Sonora. Here they
camped for the night. While the
partner was saddling the pack mules
in the morning Silver, in true pros
pector fashion, panned a little gravel
in the river bed. Tiny and scattered 1
but unmistakable was the gleam of
gold. Silver’s great dream w 7 as born.
He pushed on to San Jose, helped
his brother and started back for the
gold country. To his dismay, there
was none to believe him. He knew
that gold could be wrested from that
'river bed, but the experts smiled.
Engineer Takes a Chance.
Warrington, a civil with
some knowledge of mining, finally de
cided to ri.«k it. Painfully, almost
inch b., Inch, they w ? ent over the terri
tory, digging and panning. They pros
pected the side streams, Eagle creek.
Cow creek, Niagara creek, and others, /
but found no gold. It existed only in
the main valley of the Stanislaus.
After months of labor, they filed their
claims in Sonora.
Graybeards of the gold country link
their venture with the legend of the
Mexicans’ mine. The story comes
down from the days when the jumping
frog of Calaveras was still a gay
young blade and had never tasted
buckshot In his life.
Two lowly Mexican sheep herders
wandered into Sonora one morning
with nuggets valued at $15,000. Peo
ple tried to vain to solve the mystery
of where they had discovered them. ,
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ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE j
-pu su payipcnb Aup spil Suiabtt !
1 ministrator of the estate of
ADELAIDE THRAILKILL,
deceased, late of Chatham county, N. i
C., I hereby notify all persons hav- j
i ing claims against the estate to pre- !
sent them duly proven to the under- j
signed on or before the 11th day of ;
August, 1927, or this notice will be ;
pleaded in bar of their recovery.
All persons indebted to the estate
are requested to make immediate pay
ment. -
This the 11th day of August, 192 b.
L. F. THRAILKILL, Administrator.
W. P. Horton, Attorney.
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