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RLACKSHEEP! Meredith Nicholson OOPYKIOHT CHARLBS SCRIBNERS SONS - RELEASED THRU T'UBLISHERS A.UTOCASTER SERVICE The Governor quickly recovered spirits and with characteristic en | rli.isinsm began putting the new 'aunch through its paces. When he t.und that Putney was skilled in • > handling of such craft he cheer . i Lilly turned the launch over to him. I You take it and run up to Cal vitnille, where you'd better get sup - IjjLr. Pick up the Heart O' Dreams and bring it back to Huddles : •». and meet us on the wharf at irhtfall. We've got a heavy night's • k ahead of us. Archie and I are ina - aboard the tug to study your Withers case carefully. You may rely i on us to extricate him from his e .barrassments." they boarded the Arthur B. r For colds, grip and flu take f&lotabs TRADF MARX REG. I Relieves the congestion, | prevents complications. * and hastens recovery. MONEY TO LOAN ; / v 10 and 12 years repayment REASONABLE RATES QUICK SERVICE " OWN YOUR HOME 4. B. TABER Res. phone 46-J Office Phone 137 Forest City, N. C. Rutherfordton Shelby suggestion to parents with youngsters * away at school. . . . Next to seeing' them in p.erson P there is nothing so utterly sat isfying as hearing the voices of the youngsters who are awav at school. And the young people, too, are ch,eered and encouraged after a chat with the folks at home. % [Thoughtful parents arrange to have ' > their son or daughter call home, say once or twice a week, using the cheaper station-to-station s.ervice, and reversing the charges. Ask the long distance operator to give you the night station to-station rate to th,e town in which the school is lo cated. It is sure to be less than you expect. * SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY, (Incorporated) ( Grover the Governor bade Archie , follow him to the bow where Eli j phalet was moodily gazing into the water. i Mr. Congdon," the Governor be 'gan, "as a mere looker-on at the passing show I'm much out of life." "What I do or do not do," cried the old man, "is none of your in fernal business." "An error of considerable mag nitude. lam qualified to offer you excellent advice based on exact in formation as to your intimate do mestic affairs. You're a meddle some person, Mr. Congdon, with a slight element of cruelty in your makeup, and morally you are skid ding. As a result of your miserly ways and your selfishness you've just about ruined your life. The penitentiary yawns for you. But in spite of your cowardly conduct I'm right disposed to pull you out of the hole." "I'll make you a proposition. I've heard that you make a habit of carrying your will around in that umbrella. Give me the thing!" Eliphalet hesitated, but the Gov ernor gently pried it from the old man's fingers. It was a heavy, bulgy, disreputable-looking umbrella with a battered curved handle. The Gov ernor opened it, shook out a number of manilla envelopes, all carefully sealed, and flung the umbrella from him. As it struck the water it spread open and the wind seized it and bore it gaily away. The Governor watch ed it for a moment—then began op- ening the envelopes and scanning the contents. "It's evident from the dates of these wills that you've been steadily cutting down the amount of your bequest to your son," the Governor was saying. "Watch me, Archie, so you can bear witness to the destruc tion of these things; they're all going to feed the fishes except this earliest one, which divides the property in generous lumps between Putney Congdon and his children, with a handsome personal recognition of Mrs. Congdon. That shall be preserv ed." "Now, Mr. Congdon, if you will promise me never to make another will without consulting me, but will let this one stand, and if you agree not to interfere any further with your son's family or his wife or his children, I'll guarantee that in due season you'll leave this tug a free man." "I promise," said the old man steadily. And his face expressed THE FOREST CITY COURIER, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1928 infinite relief. The pathos of the weazened little figure now stripped of its arrogance, and the asser tion of a long-latent kindliness in his countenance, encouraged the hope that happier times were in store for all the Congdons. The Governor and Archie were waiting on the Huddleston wharf when Putney and Leary returned from Calderville, bringing two sacks of Heart O' Dreams mail. "That's fine," said the Governor. "Archie, you and Leary take the launch and carry the mail over to Heart O' Dreams. At twelve o'clock meet me about a quarter of a mile this side of Carey's barricade; Leary's got the place spotted so he can find it in the dark." "I have a surprise for you," said Ruth, when Archie handed over the mail. "If you will step to the door, bear left ten yards and stop by a bench under oar tallest pine, some one you pretend to like rather particularly may appear." "Isabel!" he exclaimed, as she came toward him out of the sha dows and paused by the bench. "I haven't yet had the opportun ity to say how happy I am that you are able to be up. I'm grateful for this glimpse of you. It's always just glimpses. But those glimpses do funny things to my heart." "That heart of yours! How did it ever manage to survive the strain and excitement of last night?" "Oh, it functioned splendidly. But it was at work in a good cause. I love you Isabel, I love you!" he said softly. "You must never say that to me again," she said slowly and de terminedly. "After my stupid, cruel thoughtlessness you must hate me. I've had time to do a good deal of thinking, and my opinion of myself isn't very high. Out of sheer con trariness that night in Washington I teased you into doing things that led you into danger—and the danger is still about us. I'm sorry; with all my heart I'm sorry! If anything should happen to you it would be my fault —my very grievous sin! And maybe are other men that I may have said similar things to — oh, you were not the first!" she laughed forlornly. "They, too, may have plunged into the same pit I dug for you. Oh, how foolish I've been!" "I want you to promise," she was saying, v "that you won't in any way interfere with my cousin here. I can't have you taking- further risks." • "You would have us run just as the game grows interesting. Of course we're not going to quit the field and leave that fellow here to annoy you! He's a dangerous charac ter and we're going to get rid of him." She was depressed, much as Ruth had been a few hours earlier, and his efforts to win her to a happier frame of mind were unavailing. She jumped up quickly and hur ried away, her head bowed. He watch ed her until she was swallowed up in the darkness. Shortly before midnight Archie and Learly left the Arthur B. Grover and paddled cautiously toward the point fixed by the Governor for their rendezvous. They were fortified with a rifle, a shotgun, -and several pack ets of rockets for signaling the tug. Leary, restless because he couldn't smoke, was silent. He managed his paddle so deftly that there was hard ly a drip that could announce their proximity to any one lying in wait on the bay. Several minutes before Archie caught the listless wash of J calm waters on a beach, Leary heard it and paused, peering at the opaque curtain of the woodland beyond the lighter shadow of the shore. "We struck it right," he announc j ed, returning from an examination i of the shore markings. They carried the canoe into the wood and lay down beside it, communicating in whispers. An instant later the Governor threw himself on the ground be side them. He rested for a few mo ments—then jumped up. "Well, boys, everything's ready!*' One by one his little army as sembled, rasing from the ground like spectres. Leary was already deploying the men. The Governor laid his hand on Archie's shoulder. In the contact something passed between them, such a communication as does not often pass from the heart of one man to another. "If it comes to the worst for my, you and Isabel will look out for Ruth. I needn't ask you that. Use the tug quickly to clear things up here; there must be nothing left to tell the tale. See old man Congdon keeps his promise. That will of his is in my blue serge coat in the closet of my room. If I die, bury me on the spot; no foolishness about that. I died to the world seven years tonight, so a second departure will call for no flowers!" When they reached l the little stream that defined the boundary of Heart 0' Dreams territory the Gov ernor, Archie and Leary got in readiness for their dash across the bridge and over the barricade. The purl of water eager for its entrance into the bay struck upon Archie's ear with a spiteful insistence. There was not a sound from the further side of the stream. They crawled across the bridge and Archie ran his hand over the frame of logs against which stones had been heaped in a rough wall, as the Governor explain ed to him. Archie had determined to lead the assault, but while he was seeking a footing in tho crevices the Governor swung himself to the top His foot struck a stone perched on the edge and it rolled down into the camp with a great clatter. As though it had touched a trig ger a sh|ot-gun boomed upon the night, indicating that Carey had not been caught napping. Orders given in a shrill voice and answering shouts proclaimed the marshaling of his forces. Archie and Leary reached the Governor as he was crawling over the stones. Some one threw a shovel ful of coals upon a heap of wood that evidently had been soaked in in flammable oil, for the flames rose with a roar It may have been that Carey had grown wary of lhurder as a means of gaining his end after the esca pade of the previous night, for the first move of his men was to at tempt to drive out the invaders with rifles swung as clubs. Carey scream ed at them hysterically, urging them to greater efforts. The great bonfire kept the belli gerents constantly in sight of each other, sulking, dodging, engaging in individual encounters poorly calcu lated to bring victory to either side. One of Carey's men lay near the bar ricade, insensible from a crack over the head from a rifle butt. His plight was causing uneasiness among his comrades, who began drawing back toward the shadows. Carey, see ing that their pluck was ebbing, cursed them. "We ain't gettin' anywhere!" growled Leary at the end of a third inconclusive hand-to-hand struggle with only a few battered heads as the result. (To Be Continued) ADMINISTRATRIX'S NOTICE Notice is hereby given that I have qualified as Administratrix of the estate of A. W. Falvey, deceased, late of Rutherford County, N. C., and all persons indebted to said estate will make immediate payment to the un dersigned. All persons having claims against said estate will present them to me properly proven for payment on or before December Bth, 1928, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. This December Bth, 1927. DORCAS M. FALVEY, Administratrix of A. W. Falvey, Deceased. 16-4t. Nell: "Say, does Harold know how to drive?" MJell: "Does he? Say, he hit a deputy sheriff this afternoon that everybody else has been trying* to hit for months with succeeding." Home Made Candy Get a box and you will know its quality Watch Our Windows Ice Cream, Fruits, Cand ies, Nuts. 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