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RAOUL OBJECTED:
•’But why did you sav your name
was Antonine?”
“It was you who said it.”
"I said it?”
“Yes . . . you called me Antonine
• . . and it was you who told me of
her visit to you earlier in the day.
the visit you thought I had made.
Tou mistook me for her.”
“But why didn’t, you tell me of my
mistake, Clara? That’s what I can’t
•ndorstand.”
"I know,” she agreed. "But don’t
forget I had broken into a flat, at
night. You had surprised me there.
Wasn’t it natural to let you believe
I was another woman? I never
dreamed I should ever see you
•gain.”
“But you did see me, and you
could have told me then. Why didn’t
you explain that there were two of
yon — Antonine and Clara?”
Clara flushed.
“I know. But when T saw you
again that night at the Blue Casino,
you had saved my life, saved me
from Valthex, from the,police, and T
felt you were my only friend. . . .”
“But that should have led you to
confide in me.”
“But, don’t you see. T thought it
was the other girl you wanted to
help, who Interested you, not me.
The little country girl, all fresh and
Innocent. It was not I, with my
chequered life, whom you wanted to
befriend. . . . For you. Antonine and
Clara were the same woman: Clara
was Antonine!"
Raoul did not argue with her, hut
•aid thoughtfully:
“How strange, though, that 1
should have mixed you both up!”
“Not so very strange, really,” said
Clara. “As a matter of fact, you
had only seen Antonine once, in yonr
Sat, and the same evening you saw
me, Clara, in very different circum
stances! After that you only saw
Antonine once again, at the chateau
•t Volnic, and then you didn't look
closely at her. It was not so very
odd that you could not distinguish
us apart, since you really only saw
<n«. And 1 was very careful. 1
s&ked you lots of questions, so that
afterwards I could speak of Volnic
as though I had really been there
and knew all about it! And I took
great pains to dress just as Antonine
had on the day she arrived in Paris.”
Raoul said slowly:
“Yes, you’re right . . . It’s not
Strange, really : and added after a
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rntyment’s r®flertlon in whim n« re
viewed the whole adventure: “Any
one might have been deceived . . .
why, Gorgeret himself, at the station,
mistook Antonine for you, and the
day before yesterday he arrested her
thinking it was you.
Clara began to tremble as though
with ague.
“What? Has Antonine been ar
rested ?”
“Didn’t you know?” cried Raoul in
astonishment. “Oh, I keep forget
ting you know nothing of what’s
been happening. Well, half an hour
after you went off, Antonine arrived
on the Quai, doubtless intending to
go to the marquis’ flat. Flamant
saw her. and turned her over to Gor
geret who took her to headquarters
where he has been putting her
through the third degree. You see,
Georgeret still thinks she’s Clara.”
Clara knelt up on the bed. Her
color faded, leaving her face deathly
pale. Trembling violently she stam
mered:
“She’s been arrested by mistake for
me? Do you mean she’s in prison?”
“Well, what of it?” said Raoul
gaily. “You're not going to make
yourself Hi oyer her?”
Jumping to her feet, Clara started
smoothing her dress and putting on
her hat with feverish haste.
“What are you going to do?” asked
Raonl. "Where are you going?"
“I’m going straight there.”
“Where ?’
“Where she la. She never stabbed
Valthex, I did. . . . She’s not Blonde
Clara, I am. Do you imagine I’d let
that girl suffer instead of me, he sen
tenced for a crime she didn’t com
mit?”
"Sentenced for a crime?”
Racul was again convulsed with
mirth. Laughing heartily, he made
Clara take off her hat and coat, say
ing:
"You’re priceless! Do you realiy
imagine they’ll keep her there?
Don’t lie a little idiot! She’s quite
capable of looking after herself, she
can explain everything and produce
an alibi; she can send for the mar
quis. . . . However much of a fool
Gorgeret is, he’ll have to end by
realizing the mistake.”
“I must go,” said Clara obstinate
ly. •
“All right. Let's go. I'll come
with you. After all, it’ll look rather
noble. ‘Monsieur Gorgeret, we are
the ones. We did it. We’ve come
1o take that poor girl’s place.’ And
,vou can almost hear Gorgeret re-
HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11,1934
plying’. “The girl’s gone home.
There was a mistake. But since
you’re both here, come along in,
dear friends/ “
Clara let Raoul overrule her. He
made her lie down again, rocking
her gently like a child, until, utterly
worn out, she fell asleep, saying as
she dropped off:
“Why didn’t she clear herself and
explain at once? . . . She must have
had some reason.”
While she slept. Raoul dozed off in
the armchair, and he too wondered
when he woke, while sounds outside
proclaimed the advent of a new day:
“Yes, why hasn’t Antonine spoken?
It would have been so easy for her
to clear things up. She must know
by now that there’s another woman
who resembles her like a twin sis
ter, and that I'm associated with
that woman. ... It looks as though
she hadn’t even protested against
her unjust arrest. What can she b»
waiting for?”
And he thought with somethfogt
like compunction of the little coun
try mouse, so gentle and appealing,
who would not speak. . . .
At eight, Raoul telephoned Ms
friend in the He Saint Louis.
“Any news?”
“Yes, the clerk from the criminal
investigation is here. He’ll be able
to communicate with the prisoner
this morning?”
“Good. Now, just write this not*
in as good an imitation of my writ,
ing as you can manage:
“Mademoiselle, I thank you for
having kept silent. No doubt
Gorgeret told you I was in prison
and Big Paul was dead. A pack
of lies. Everything is O. K. in
your own interests, you must
speak now, and get released as
soon as possible. I beg you not
to forget our rendezvous for
July 3. Respectfully yours. R.
“Got that?”
Completely mystified, his friend re
plied at the other end:
“Yes, but ”
“Disband the boys. Everything**
settled, and I’m just off somewhere
with Clara. Restore Zozotte to her
abode, with all precautions as be
fore. Goodby!”
He hung up, and called Courville
to him.
“Get out the big car, pack, and
remove all papers. Things are warm
ing up. As soon as the girl’s awake
we must all clear out of here!”
•TO h£ CONTINUED)
Higher Prices Here Will Not
Invite Foreign-Grown
Staple, Is Claim
College Station, Raleigh, Jan. 11—
An increased price for cotton in the
United States is not liable to bring
competition from foreign-grown cot
ton, according to information furnish
ed Charles A. Sheffield, of N. C. State
College, by the United States Depart
ment. of Agriculture.
Prices would have to go above the
pre-war level, he said, before the pro
duction of foreign cotton would be
increased enough to compete serious>-
lv with nome-grown lint.
In India, he pointed out, much of
the land is desert or semi-desert. Most
of the cotton is grown there by small
farmers who are interested primar
ily in the production of food and
whose holdings are not large enough
to allow a large increase in non-food
/crops. Until large areas there are
brought under irrigation and prices
rncz'cased far above the present level,
India is not likely to show much in
crease in cotton output, Sheffield em
phasized.
The situation in China is similar to
that in India, he continued. The need
to produce sufficient food for the
tremendous population holds down
the production of other crops. In ad
dition, the handicap of inadequate
transportation tends to prevent, the
growing of non-food crops for export
and the importation of food.
Egypt’s cotton acreage fluctuates
widely, Sheffield said, but the present
cotton area of 2,000,000 acres seems to
be near the maximum until the ir
rigation and drainage system of the
country is expanded. Labor shortage
and the competition of other crops
limits cotton production in Turkey
and Syria, while lack of water and
other unfavorable growing conditions
limit the production in Iraq. It would
require several years to materially
increase the production in any of
these countries, he declared.
The possibility of Russia’s increas
ing her cotton-producing area will de
pend largely upon the success of her
industrial and agricultural program.
It appears, however, Sheffield said,
that Russia’s potential cotton acreage
has ibeen overestimated. Climatic
conditions and high transportation
costs will prevent a large part of the
so-called cotton area from being
brought under cotton.
In the western hemisphere, Brazil,
Mexico, Peru, and Argentina are tne
chief foreign cotton growing coun
tries. All these countries have latent
possibilities, but are now limited when
it comes to developing their area. In
sufficient labor and transportation
facilities add their hapicap to any
formidable increase in cotton produc
tion in these countries, Sheffield point
ed out.
Production of cotton in the Anglo-
Egyptian Sudan has apparently reach
ed its maximum for the present, ao
cording to reports secured by govern
ment economists who have visited the
region.
There are possibilities of future ex
pansion in other central and western
African areas fro rn.the standpoint of
soil and growing conditions, but. the
limitations of inadequate transporta
tion, lack of cotton varieties suited to
the area, and uncontrolled insects and
siisease will retard the expansion for
years to come, it was indicated.
NATION’S LAWMAKERS EAT
FROM TAR HEEL LINENS
Washington, Jan 11—The nation’s
lawmakers eat from North Carolina
linen.
Tn the house restaurant in the cap
it.ol building the tables are spread
with linen stamped with the mark so
the Rosemary Manufacturing com
pany, Roeanoke Rapids, N. C.
The fact that Representative Lind
say Warren is chairman of the house
committee on accounts, which ope
rates the restaurant, may have some
thing to do with this.
AGENCYFOR
Parker’s Drug Store
The Rexnll Store
FORECLOSURE SALE.
By virtue of the power contained in
a Deed in Trust executed by P. D.
Gupton and his wife Sarah B. Gupton
recorded in the office of the Register
of Deeds of Vance County in Book
169, at Page 42, default having been
made in the payment of the debt
therein secured, on request of the
holder of the same, I shall sell for cash
by public auction, at the Court House
door in Henderson, N. C., to the
highest bidder, on the 22nd day of
January 1934, the following described
property:
Begin at a stake J. T. Marrow’s
corner on the South East Side of
Zene Street, one hundred and forty
feet South-West from Lassister’s old
corner, later Bass and the Hospital
Corner, now the Robert Henry Hotel
lot, and run thence along Zene Street
Eighty-one and 7-100 feet to C. A.
Lewis corner, Thence along Lewis
line, parallel with Tan Yard land Two
Hundred and ten feet to a stake in
Lewis line. Thence in a North East
erly direction along Lewis line Seventy
seven tenths feet to a stake in Mar
row’s line. Thence with Marrow’s line
in a North Westerly direction Two
Hundred and Eight feet to the be
ginning. Being the lot conveyed to
E. M. and P. D. Gupton by deed of
Dr. V. E. Turner and wife dated Jan
uary 4th, 1913 and registered in the
office of Register of Deeds Vance
County in Book 62 page 130, and from
E. M. Gupton to P. D. Gupton by
deed dated March 1, 1919, and regis
tered in Book 89 page 140.
JASPER B. HICKS, Trustee.
Henderson, N. C.;
December 21st 1933.
Records Burned
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Walter F. Brown
Testimony that records and corre
spondence of former Postmaster
General Walter F. Brown were
burned just before Hoover adminis*
tration left office was given before
Senate Committee investigating air
mail contracts in Washington.
Witness said letters concerning
contracts were destroyed.
fflentral Press)
Office of Parole
Is Step-Child of
State Activities
Daily Dispatch Bure, u
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY C. BASKKRVII.Ij.
Raleigh, Jan. 11—The office of
Commissioner of Parole Edwin M.
Gill is the red headed step child of
all the State departments, despite its
importance, for it has no appropria
tion for its maintenance. This is be
cause the 1933 general assembly fail
ed to make any appropriation for the
office, largely as a result of the un
popularity of Commissioner Gill’s pre
decessor, who was designated as Exe
cutive Counsel instead of Commission
er of Paroles. The 1933 general as
sembly lost little time in abolishing
the office of Executive Counsel. And
while it created in its place the of
fice of Commissioner of Paroles, it
neglected to make any appropriation
for this office. As a result, all funds
for its operation, aside from the sal
ary of the Commissioner, come from
the operating funds of the Governor’s
office.
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OUNCTUALITY is an important part of trie
training that your carrier boy is undergoing.
Both in his school work and in his task of deliver
your daily paper legularily is emphasized and
required. This boy is one of 588,000 boys in
this country who are engaged in the sale and dis
t\ tributton of newspapers. Their task requires less
/aT than an hour and a half a day, but in it they are
\eceiving t?*aining in the fundamentals of business.
o'li newspaper boy of today is receiving an edu
r~~re cation plus. His task and his school work go hand
in hand, supplementing each other and developing
Jj“ f n 10 "? *? lines «! a t will be most beneficial to
sells them at retail. His 111111 in * ,a ® future.* It has been found that the close #
Z rn ! n n depmd * nClTtl y co ‘°peration which now exists between newspaper
help him 'by 3 paying him a ?,? e ducationa] authorities is a. most efficient and
promptly each wec± .. eitective means of producing boys of the highest
character and intelligent ,
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As a result of the extreme scarcity
of funds, Commissioner Gill has not
been able to get the name on the door
changed yet from “Executive Coun
sel” to that of “Commissioner of Pa
roles,” despite the fact that the of
fice of Executive Counsel was abol
ished almost a year ago. Neither
have funds been available to ex
punge from another door to his of
fice the words “Salary and Wage
Commission” which was abolished by
the general assembly some four years
ago and which ceased to function
after the close of the administration
of former Governor A. W. McLean.
The office of the Commissioner of
CHARTER NO. 13,636 RESERVE DTSTRICT NO. f>
REPORT OF CONDITION OF THE
FIRST NATIONAL BANK IN HENDERSON
InThe State of North Carolina, At The Close of Business on Dec. 30, 1933
ASSETS
Loans and Discounts $331,827.54
United States Government securities owned 103,300.00
Other bonds, stocks, and securities owned 135,600.00
Banking house, $55,000.00 Furniture and fixtures, $5000.00 60,000.00
Reserve with Federal Reserve Bank 33,632.10
Cash in vault and balances with other hanks 185,689.13
Outside checks and other cash items 2,447.72
Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer and due from U. S. Treasurer 5,000.00
Other assets 694.27
Total $858,190.76
LIABILITIES
Demand deposits, except U. S. Government deposits, public funds
and deposits of other banks $253,500 83
Time deposits, except, postal savings, public funds and deposits
of other banks 237,942.24
Public funds of State, counties, school districts, or other subdivi
sions or municipalities 57,779.19
United States Government and postal savings deposits 40,090.71
Deposits of other banks, including certified and cashiers’ checks
outstanding 19,711.18
Circulating notes outstanding 100,000.00
Interest, taxes, and other expenses accrued and unpaid 3,063.15
Common stock, 1000 shares, par SIOO.OO per share $100,000.00
Surplus ..', 20,000.00
Undivided profits net 15,743.55
Reserves for contingencies 10,359.61 146,103.16
Total, Including Capital Account $858,190.76
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA:
COUNTY OF VANCE, ss:
I, F. B. Robards, Cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that,
the above statement is true to the best, of my knowledge and belief.
F. B. ROBARDS, Cashier.
Correct —Attest:
JASPER B. HICKS,
SCOTT P. PARHAM,
R. G. HARRISON,
Directors.
Subscribed and sworn before me this 10 day of January, 1934.
NETTIE CLOFTCN AO/EN, Notary Public.
Paroles is also decidedly lacking j n
filing facilities, frequently requested
by Mr. Gill and preceding incumb
ents, but so far not obtained. As a re
sult, important files of correspond
ence pertaining to pardon and parole
requests have to lie stacked about in
corner* n paper envelopes that might
he easily lost or destroyed.
But Commissioner Gill is a patient
and optimistic soul, who despite
these drawbacks continues to go
ahead and do the best he can, hop
ing that some day the Budget Bureau
will experience a wave of liberality
and provide the facilities for his of
i fice that are needed.