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THE I
WOLF AND THE
LAMS
By GERALD MONTAGUE ,
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(© by W. G. Chapman.)
r /-V TT OU will find no woman wttt
** y ing to stand for a life in a
f shepherd’s hart,” his friends f
told Larry thven, when he j
announced his intention of getting j
married and retaining tits job.
Larry smiled, and When his friends
saw his bride they changed their opin
ion. Dorothy was a mite of a thing,
just like a little gray unwise —Welsh, ,
like Larry, and a girl whom he had
tbeen engaged to before he went to
Montana to work on tfee sheep
iranges.
Larry did not intend to keep Doro
ithy in seclusion upon the hills for
ever. Just as the seaman lias thoughts
of a quiet farm where he can spend
the latter years of his life, so Larry
had always dreamed of a snug little
country place with an orchard, bees,
and chickens, and no sign of a sheep
within a hundred miles. He was an
expert farmer, besides being a shep
herd, and he had twelve hundred dob
lars stored snugly away almost
enough to start the farm.
There was a certain orange farm
In a California county on which he
had his eye for some months. How
Dorothy would love the life there, the
warm companionship of the westerner
beyond the ranges, the sun, the ease.
He had paid a flying trip there six
months before. But he said nothing
of this to Dorothy.
A man should take his wife into his
confidence. As a rule the surprise
element does not work out satisfac
torily. Rather it is the man who gets
the surprises.
This case was no exception. Doro
thy soon began to weary of the eter
nal hills. They had been married six
months when Larry discovered that
she was running a hill at the nearest
town for clothes, far in excess of what
he had planned for Jier.
“Well, I’m just sick of the monotony
here,” she said defiantly. “I can’t
'live here forever, seeing nothing but
the sheep. Won’t you get another
job?”
The Welsh girl was homesick for
the old friendly society. She longed
•for the faces she had known; she felt
that she had stepped into a vast, per- '
petual prison.
It has been said a man and woman
cannot live in utter seclusion and re
tain their love for each other. In
spite of their love of a dozen years,
dating back to boy and girl times,
they began to drift apart.
Where there are sheep the wolf
comes. It was no exception here.
Jim Collins was six feet one, flashy \
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and prices that yon may compare them with others. We’ll let them do the talking for us.
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Men’s Good Heavy Union Suits, 98 cents each;
Men’s Heavy 220 Overalls, $1.35 a pair;
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Boy’s Union Suits, 50 and 75 cents each;
Boy’s Worsted Pants, SI.OO to $1.95 a pair;
Men’s Dress Pants, - - $3.50 a pair;
Sweaters of all kinds for any member of the family very reasonably
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The latest Drop-Tip Hat in the Etchiscn Line for Young or Old;
Men’s Suits $15.00 to $25.00
Men’s Good Half-Hose in all colors 10 cts. a pr.
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• I I Blair Hotel Bldg. o Pittsboro, N. C.
i and "taking” with women, r.e nan a
sinister reputation among the folks df
the district. But he was the man for
whom Larry was working. He had
not often paid a Visit to fLe range,
preferring to gamble away lus money
in the city, -where he had a string of
i racers and two or three automobiles.
He had the patronage of the county,
too. Many women had given their
love to Gbfims. They had dived to
regret it—bnt Dorothy only saw in
him a big, good-natured man, longing
for sympathy and to be understood.
Once Larry, returning from the
range sooner than iiad been expected,
! found Collins in the hut, bending over
j Dorothy as she made tea. He looked
j up brazenly and laughed. Larry said
! nothing then. Later he taxed has wife
with caring .for Collins. That was a
mistake. A man should hold his-peace
until the time comes to strike. But
ail Larry’s wounded soul, all the suf
fering lie had endured during -those
d&ys of estrangement came to his lips
in a flood of bitterness.
Next morning he went to work with
out a word having Keen spoken. When
be was gone Dorothy slipped out of
the hut. An hour later she stepped
into an automobile that was waiting
for her below the hill.
When Larry came home that night,
his heart overflowing with contrition,
he found the hut empty. A little note
was pinned to the dresser.
“I don’t love Jim Collins,” it read,
“hut he can give me something better
than sheep. We leave for California
on the night train and you will never
see me again. But you won’t want to,
as long as you have your sheep.”
Larry stood staring at the note for
a long time, and into his mind came
the picture of Dorothy as he had seen
her in Wales, the innocent girl in the
big sunbonnet whom lie find loved.
What had he done? How had this
thing come between them?
He saddled his horse and rode five
miles to his nearest neighbor.
“Keep charge of my sheep a day or
two,” he said. “I’m going to the city.”
“Something wrong with the wife?”
asked the neighbor sympathetically.
“Yes,” answered Larry, riding away.
However, he had no intention of going
to the city. He knew that the night
train stopped to take on water at a
siding a few miles down the valley.
He could catch her if he rode harfl.
And once aboard—well, Larry lmd a
revolver in his coat.
Yet his object was less to he re
venged upon Collins than to preserve
Dorothy’s good name, to save her from
herself.
lie rode hard. The moon came up
I and lit the mountain wiry. Time and
again, he thought he heard the train
snorting up the incline in the distance,
but always the sound proved imag
inary. And now he was nearing the
railroad Hack, which ran. *a narrow
edged ribbon, beneath him. He
spurred ids horse down the mountain
way.
> At last he dismounted and. turning
tho hpe.st ndrift to waited he-
THE CHATHAM RECORD
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me the rails. Terrible 'tonights as
sailetTifmi as he waited there. What
If, instead of killing Collins, he were
to pla«e one of the huge fallen firs
across ;ffc«e rails, dislodging the engine
from the metals as it came swinging
round 'the curve? He could destroy
Collins and a hundred others, sending
them do their death among the ‘bowl
ders far below the grade, atfdiescape
unknown in the confusion.
Was'Dorothy worth the sacrifice *of
his own‘life in retribution?
The temptation grew stronger, luntll
the man shook with the agony that
assailed lwm. At last he went -toward
| the tallest of the firs, a giant tree as
I hard as c*hon.v, which lay with vita
trunk projecting only a few inches
from the rails. With the exercise of
all his strength he could shift tt a
few inches down the incline. He fcneiw
: that just where It lay the curve 'was
the most dangerous. He stopped.
Then, in the distance, he heard (febe
puffing of the engine as she forced
her way up to the summit before de
scending on the grade that led to tt»«
siding. There was just time.
But the sight of the fiery eyes of
the monster above him paralyzed his
mind, and he could not turn his mus
cles to the accomplishment of the
task. And now the engine was de
scending the grade, lumbering and
©creaming asrshe made her w T ay toward
the siding. Larry stood still. It waa
too late now. But it was not too late
to carry out his original purpose.
Suddenly the moving mass seemed
to stand still. She swerved, reared,
and then, with a scream of escaping
steam, the engine left the metals and
toppled upon its side, followed by half
the cars, yet clinging almost miracu
lously to the mountain side.
Flames hurst out among the wreck
age. The screams of the injured
reached Larry’s ears plainly. Fntlre
ly forgetful of his purpose, the man
ran at full speed toward the scene of
the accident. Men and women lay
half buried beneath the wreckage.
Larry ran along the sitle of the over
turned cars, searching for Dorothy.
And ho found her. She was unin
jured. and, on her knees, she crouched
beside a man with a ghastly wound
across his breast. Larry knew Col
lins, though the face had been bat
tered almost out of recognition. He
must have been killed instantly.
He touched Dorothy upon the arm.
“There is nothing to do,” he said. "It
is too late.”
“Yes,” she answered, rising to her
feet in a mechanical manner and mov
ing away. She seemed stunned by
the catastrophe. She hardly realized
where she was.
Larry devoted hour after hour to
aiding the injured, until the hospital
train that was rushed out from the
next station came up. Then he found
Dorothy again. She was standing near
the body of her companion, looking
uncertainly about her.
j “What are you going to do?” asked
Larry.
‘ “I don’t know,” she answered calm-
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Good Grade Outing, all colors, 15 cts a yd.;
Spool Thread 4 cents a spool;
Dress Bingham, fast colors, 15 to 25 cts. a yd.
Apron Gingham 10 cts. a yd.
Fast-Color Dress Prints only '25 cts a yd.
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We have the La-Porte line in all Tweeds and Colors of all qualities;
Shirtings, Domestic, Denims, and White Cloths of all kinds;
Oil Cloth only 25 cents a yard.
ly. She seemed to nave utsi all power
of feeling. “Co on to California, I sup- |
pose. You see, I have my ticket.”
“But what will you do there?”
“What does that matter to- you
! Anything?”
! “Dorothy, you said you did not love
that man,” said Larry.
“Well?” she returned.
“Dorothy, in the old days I used to
love a little girl in Wales. She was
highstrung and willful sometimes, but
j she was never bad. Nobody could
have said that of her. And one day,
after a quarrel —she didn’t know I
took it, hut I took a vow. It was that
I would always protect her, against
herself even. And though that was
long ago, and she is married now, do
you suppose that makes any differ
ence? Dorothy, I am never going back.
I am going to California, too. Is It
to be together?”
I And suddenly she was weeping upon
his neck in an agony of shame.
Old English Statutes
| Still Actually Laws
SEwery English woman is a law
breaker unless she wears flannel, be
cause the ancient laws regulating
dress im ithat country have not been
repealed. Numerous other English
laws are broken by practically every
one in She country. An act of Edward
VI forbade the consumption of meat
on Wednesday. Every person engag
ing in any commercial pursuit on Sun
day is a lawbreaker and even the eat
ing of sweets that day is an offense.
Wives who disobey their husbands
may be whipped under a statute of
Henry VIII. Witchcraft, an illegal
practice, includes pretending to tell
fortunes and pretending to discover
stolen or hidden goods by crafty
science, says London Tit-Bits. Actors
and actresses are still “rogues and
vagabonds” and a “common informer”
who imparts information upon enter
ing a parish is entitled to a reward of
$lO.
| SALE OF LANDS
Under and by virtue of an order in
a special proceeding entitled “A. L.
Blake et als Ex Parte” pending be
fore the Clerk of the Superior Court
of Chatham County, N. C., the under
signed Commissioner will sell at pub
lic auction to the highest bidder for
cash on the premises in Baldwin
Township, Chatham County, N. C.,
&nd just off the Pittsboro-Chapel Hill
Highway the following described tract
of land:
Being the lands allotted as dower
to Mrs. Minerva Blake out cf ihe
lands of her husband the late J. C.
Blake and bounded on the North by
W. C. Cole, on the East by W. E.
Oldham; on the South by J. C. Blake, 1
Jr., and on the West by J. M. Pear- J
son the same containing 36 acres more
or less and being just off the Chapel
Hill Pittsboro Highway about 5 miles
South from Chapel Hill. N. C.
Place of Sale: Premises in Bald
win Township, Chatham County, N. C.
Terms of Sale: Cash.
, Time of Sale: Monday October 25,
1926 at 12 o’clock noon.
* This September 22nd, 1926.
V. E. JOHNSON,
Commissioner.
IWRENN BROTHERS COMPANvi
SILER CITY * !
E. R. Wrenn, Mgr., Furniture Dept. j
Home Furnishings
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Groceriies.
Tomatoes 10 cents a can;
Octagon Soap 4 1-6 cts. a cake;
Ivory Soap : 8 1-3 cts. a cake;
Palm Olive Soap 5 cts. a cake;
Arbuckle’s Coffee, 35 cts. a lb; o lbs. $1.00;
Brown Mule Tobacco, 15 cents a plug;
Apple, Sun Cured and Beam Willis, 17 1-2 cts a lb.
Snuff, 10-ct. Bals., 8 1-3 cts. in lots of three;
Snuff, 30-cent bals., 25 cents;
All 5-cent packages, 6 for 25 cents;
All 10-cent packages, 8 1-3 cts. in lots of six;
SUGAR 7 CENTS A POUND.
Thursday, October 21 i->
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