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Hundreds of Bargain Hunters are Being Made Happy by the Gisfantic January CLEAkAN CE SALE Now Going On at THE L. G. SHELL'S COMPANY'S Stores Many Special Saturday Bargains Offered To-Morrow Goods you need and are bound to have at prices Lower than you've ever paid before - Dry Goods Clothing - Notions Furniture. Sale Closes February 1 - Shoe Hurry ! tJl4 h Uf heU6o.Jn ft, uiny The Broken Coin Continued from en 3 j felt at his back the impa.-t of another I man. The three ptntcKloil furiously, j "Quick! Shoot him'" panted Sachlo. j "Kill him! I cannot last'" j "I am not armed,'- cried Ladlslaw. "Let me search." Frederick felt the hands of his new enemy feeling at his pockets, search- j tng for some wenpon, and rejoiced that he also at the moment was unarmed, j At least the conflict would be more : even now. ' But they were more than a match for him. Count Frederick felt an arm throttle him. felt his eyes almost start froi-n his head, fc't his breath leaving him. Slowly slipping, inch by inch, he felt himself Impelled toward the open door. Strive ns best he could, he found himself unable to re- : sist the joint attack of these two ties- ; perate men. A moment later he heard the heavy clang of the door behind him. He was alone. He had proved the Tictim of the plan which he had formed, lie was lo ken m the torture chamber of CretziiotTen. tli.it place of ; horror which he had reserved for his enemy. He had tailed. He had lost all all! He had hn the cause, per- , haps, of the ruin of his country' in in CHAPTER XLIX. Le Roi S'Amuse. It was not often in his muddled life that Michael bad .-o full warrant to give rein to his impulses. He had not noted the absence of S.uhio or I.adis law. After a time, his attendants, hesitating, told him that a woman was waiting to be admitted Her name was one which came to his brain now above all others. "Admit her at once, yeswhy do you delay?" She came before him now, pala, downcast, almost trembling. Heavy enough had been the burden of anx iety she long had carried. She had come to the king, but she sought not this weak king's comforting. No. she had come hither In search of the man on whom even the king must rely. "Ah, mademoiselle," he began, half maudlin, "you have come to us at last. Why were you so absurdly long? We have grieved for you, and who would grieve the king?" "Your majesty," said Kitty Gray, and half shuddered u she gave the title, gating as she ui.i up..n th. Moat ed face of this man who cuimtd to be a king. "Your majesty, you are more than kind to remember so unimpor tant a person." 'Tuimportant! Do not say that word. Unimportant when all we have thought of was yourself. What has kept you away? though I am aure you came as soon as you could." j "Yes. your majesty, as soon as I j could." j "And because you have heard of : what we have done today, of how we j have routed the army of yonder King i Cortislaw It was cleverly done. ! mademoiselle, though I do say it." ! "And what of him who was with you. your majesty?" "Whom do you meau? Count Sa chlo?" : "Count Sac-hio Was he here, your majesty? 1 meant another." j "Ah, always you mean that other. Always he seeks to come between his ' king and his king's desire." said he, i complalningly. "And what Is It that your majesty ; desires ?" j "Why, my majesty desires a many i things, my dear," he replied. In vinous liberty. "My majesty desired, a while ago, an extra bottle of Beloc, and n i majesty sent a man. Count Sachio: yonder to bring tt. My majesty d' ires " "Sachlo here!" "Yes, here. You have said thai! twice. He was here, twice or once ' I know not how many times. But now you are hero, mademoiselle, and thai la enough. My majesty desires" He advanced toward her. The leei upon his puffed face gave her swift disgust as well as terror. With nc purpose whatever, as he stumbled for ward she fled from the room, fled she knew not where. Without much plan, Kitty turned toward the Interior of the palace, and down the long ball which before that time the had explored. Something told her that Frederick, It he were here In the palace now, bad passed that way. The torture chamber that dread spot! Must she go there to look for him? She sped on rapidly along these passageways which she had learned before. Through the last deep sunken tunnel which led to the door of the torture chamber itself she passed alone, trembling with tear, and, yt t i fix- 1- He Heard the Deep Voice of Sachio. so! ed The dovr was looked. She turned to see the Key upon the wall. As she turned there came to her a faint sound Someone was knocking at the door The blood stopped at her heart. She fi it her face go cold. Had the dead indeed come to life? Was It In deed true that some hand from beyond the i' rave alone could point out the hiding place ()f this treasure? What could It mean .' Hut the knocking at tho door grew bolder She heard a voice a faint voice through the steel facing of the inner cavern. Trembling, she fitted the key. gave one great push to open the door, which yielded the more quickly to a power exerted within. She saw the faint gleam of a light added to those of her own candle; saw the face of the man she had sought! "You"" she cried. "It is you?" She heard him answer calmly, slow ly, without agitation, as though all the tiaie he had been convinced she would come. "It Is ended." said Count Frederick at last, slowly. "Never again will I doubt ! 1 prayed for you. prayed that you should understand before I died Lint It was niesnt for you to tome for nie, that 1 might know know as much as tiny who are here, who have been my fellows and my friends. Mademoi selle 1 had said good by to every thing exc epting one. Thue was that left which no man should die without their own kingdom, leaving behind them the befuddled monarch who had no Idea that ha had enUrtalnad such vipers. They never r-acbed th confines of tirahoffen kingdom; Instead they met the army of Cortislaw already afield and well across the neutral lands. "Look!" cried Sachlo. "Con law Is afoot! By the Lord! Tooder comes a real king." "What! Sachlo." he tald, as h grimly regarded that nobleman. "You have failed agsln?" "No, your majesty. I have not failed. I bring you succeM, at last" He opened the palm which he raised before the eyes of his king. In It lay the broken half of the Oretthoffen coin. It was even so. Soon they were among the advance guards, the skir mishers of the main force, which were advancing. In time they were brought to the bodyguard ct the king himself, for Cortislaw marched with his men, after the fashion of monarch! of old. I He had put all hit fortunes to the test that Cay. "No, your majesty, that was explora tion fit for your majesty's hands alone. I did not search for It. Rather. I has tened to bring your majesty here In your own person." "We soon shall know," said Cortis law. and signaled the advance. The sound of hoofs and trampling feet Oiled the streets of Qretzhoffen. The army of Gretzhoffen, In close for mation, marched forward under the summons of the buglers. Quickly pass ing down the main avenue which led to the palace, they spread out by col umns right and left, covering the Ml front of that edifice, which lay before them hidden In Hi screen of shrub bery. "Look, your majesty," said Sachlo. and pointed. Through a little break In the screen ing wall of green he saw the plume of a horseman, who sat motionless as though waiting. "One of their guards!" exclaimed Cortislaw. "Oo take him. Stop for nothing. Press on Into the palace Itself." The front ranks broke forward, each eager to be the first to take captive the foeman thus discovered. Not one man, but many hundreds, met their coming the forces of Gretz hoffen In ambush. In the first front the picked men of the guard had been stationed under the screening shrub bery by the actual commander in chief of the Gretzhoffen forces that day none less than Count Frederick him self. In such brief time as had been al lowed him. he had made his arrange ments and posted his forces In what he conceived to be ths only feasible strategy. Now the Jaws were sprung Whether trap or victim should prove the stronger was later to be known. The bugles of Oretthoffen, high and tlear, sounded the counter-charge. The advancing forces of Grahoffen were met full In the face by a level sleet of CLARK & CLARK1 Attorues M Lw Roanoke Rapids, N. C. Rom Nn. d. rpatMira n Kink building T W MASON J. A. WORItEl. l,ry i.i tin,-. N.C. H ch .ur. , N.C. W . 1.. U M . R.noV.' Kny.ii. N. t... MASON, WORRELL & !0.V Attorneys at Law Offices: Roanoke Rspids, N. C-, and J.cU.on, N. C. THOS. M. 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"Ths torture chamber the treasure!" "It lies In the northeast corner of the palace, deep under the walls," said Sachlo. "Come, let us march steadily, toward the unsuspecting city of Grets hoffen, governed by an addled king too far gone In his cups to suspect danger of any sort a king neer strong, and now weaker than his wont at a time when all the forces of a real king were needed." They met no resistance at the walla of Oretthoffen Itself. sgslnet line, the two detachments met In the shock of arms. (TO BE CO.VTINUF.Dj ' The Motion Pictures of The Broken Coin are shown at the Peoples Theatre and Rosemary Theatre. A. L. CLARK INSURANCE animinn -irmi experience wnun only j King Michael were not In evidence, makes l ie worth l,ing. 1 have dread I Th iwnla nf nnnhnltun ran title I must ed all things, but now I hope I shall hope!" He stooped toward her now. and for the moment each was careless of the i strange surroundings In which they stood Tor a half moment the heart of Kitty Cray was on the point of sur-! render. J "Monsieur le conite, for that we have no time now," said she gently "It I was but chance which brought me here." 1 "Chance? Yes, If fate, if the hand of heaven mean chance, I shall call It chance, not otherwise. I say that It was the plan of fate long ago that you should come to me, now and here " "Wo have come cIobb to the secret." said Kitty Gray slowly. "Rut we have come closer to perils." "True, more than you know." "What do you mean?" "Sachlo was her" it was he and his man who thrust me in here, where I had planned to place him. They know It all all that we do now. made moiselle. Sachlo himself has gone to carry his news to his king We are undone, mademoiselle! There will be war " "If wsr. then why do we wait here?" she demanded of him. "War Is whst we have sought to avoid for this king dom by our own knowledge of the coin. If It be too late why, then, we must fight. Ah, how I wish I were a man, that I might fight aa well." "You have fought well for all of us, mademoiselle," said Frederick. "We have rctulaed our enemies. Would you rep .lse your friend?" She made no answer, but was away before him in the dark passageway. Life, Fire, Tornado, Hail, Burglar, Boiler The armlet ot 1 Liability, Health and Accident, PUle Clats, Parcel Post and Registered Mail. Automobile etc way and that, leaderless. "Where are LET ME WRITE YOUR BOND our forces?" they demanded. "Where i nAriTlrn is the army? Where ,. ,h, klngT T)R. H. B. FOSTER tt oere is luuui r reuonca ; To these demands came no present answer. Ths forces ot the enemy ad vanced along the avenues "Yonder It lies, your majesty," eald Cotmt fiarhio. pointing to the castle DENTIST Office Hours 9 to 5. 7 to 8 p. m. 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