RUBY M.AYRES
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Fourth Installment
WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE
GU?* Chitteuhaui, distressed over the
?nicid* of hla jroanger half-brother Rod
acy, return* to Jiurope from America,
whert he had made an unhappy marriage.
Eodmay lud killed himaelf because a no
nriooa woman, Jule Farrow, threw him
??W. Gilts ia introduced to Julie Farrow
?w hit friend Lombard, in Switzerland.
He resolves to make her fall in love with
Mm, then throw her over as she threw
Rodney. She tells him she has made a
bet with her friend "Bim'' Lennox that
db? can drive her car to the top of the
St. Bernard Pasa and back. Giles chal
lenge! her to take htm with her and she
acoepts. They start out in the face of a
gathering snowstorm.
Chittenhani1'ditcovei a, to his amazement,
that the girl beside him in the car appeals
to him no other woman hat ever ap
pealed. And something intangible con
vinces him that 'her feeling toward him
i$ aimilar to his own toward her. "Do
you believe in love at first sight?" he
?aka her, as the car toila up tiie mountain
toward the hotel.
At the hotel, after refreshment, Chitten
bam and Julie found their mutual attraction
to strong as to be irresittible. In the morn
ing they returned to the town below, Julie
apparently jubilantly happy. Lombard tells
otittenham that he has made a mistake, that
Oils Julie Farrow it not the one who ruined
Rodney, but her cousin of the same name.
Chittenham is horrified. He calls at Julie's
hotel and confesses that he had tried to win
htr love for purposes of revenge, believing
her to be the other Julie.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY.
"I know it sounds a damnable insult
. . . but you inusn't forget who I
thought you were. A notorious
woman?a woman who counted one
man more or less as nothing. I
wanted to make you more?to see if
I could make you care for me and
th?n treat you as you had treated
my brother. You told me you had
Mver really cared for any man and
10 . . . last night ..."
He felt her sway beneath his hands
"You mean ... it was all just a
game?" ?he asked dazedly. Her eyes
never left hit flushed, agitated face.
Chittcoham watched her, white
faced, tense.
Suddenly he found himself beside
her, holding her unresponsive hand,
pleading with her.
"Forgive me. For God's sake, say
you forgive nie. I shall never for
give myself. I'd give ten years of
my life to wipe out the ghastly mis
take. But it wa?n't altogether my
fault. Lombard?"
She turned her head and looked
at him.
"Can you blame Mr. Lombard be
cause you wished to behave like a
cad to a woman who had ?never done
you any harm?" ?*"
Suddenly she spoke; she felt as if
she were choking.
"Please -go away."
"Not like this. I can't go like this.
Julie, there must be some way out.
I'll do anything . . . anything. . .
She laughed with white lips.
"What can you do ? I suppose you'll
say that you are unhappily married,
and ask me to be sorry for you ? Per
Iiaps you will even offer to divorce
her?"
"She would be as glad of her free
dom as I should,'' Chittenham said
curtly.
Julie laughed in his face.
"Julie. . He caught hold of her
so roughly that she cried out "Do
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it we can go on -somewhere else,"
But Mrs. Ardron adored it, and told
him so every few minutes during the
evening with varied extravagance.
Presently she saw some people she
knew.
"Darling 1 you simply must be intro
duced t They're such sweet people.
Doris Gardener is the girl?no, the
one in the black frock and the scarlet
shoes. She's twenty-two, and she's
just got divorced from her husband."
Giles looked at the girl with the
scarlet shoes.
"Do you dance, Mr. Chittenham?"
Doris asked.
"Yes. May I have the pleasure
?"
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'?'I wish I cou-d kill you! I wish I cc ild kill you!'
you think you're going to he the only 11.ev went away together through
one to suffer?" he asked savagely. |the pillared partition to the room
"Do you think it doesn't rebound on whe e the jazz band played. A sud
ine too? Do you think I wanted to den scream rose shrilly above the
eare for you, or for any woman? I
set a trap for you and I've been caught
in it myself."
She flung back her head and looked
at him with blazing eyes.
"I wish I could kill you. I wish
I could kill you," she panted desper
atelv and was gone.
* * *
Giles Chittenham s mother leaned
ack in her chair and applied an absurd
lace handkerchief to her eyes.
Giles frowned and moved restlessly
nois \ followed by a burst of hysterical
laug iter and the ciatter of breaking
glas..
"What on earth?" Chittenham
begn.i.
D ris Gardener laughed.
"I 's only Julie barrow. I don't
kno\. wh.tf's happened to her lately.
She was quite drunk here the other
nigl I wonder they didn't turn her
out." )
"J ;lic Farrow!" I'hittenhani's voice
was ?? calm and indifferent, but he felt
over to the window. as ii some one had tugged at his
He had all a man's dislike for a heat \
scene, and for the past three days he! "Yes, do you know her? She used
had been treated to one every time he ' to be rather a friend of mine, but one
was in his mother's presence. has to draw the line somewhere.
Chittenham flushed crimson.
"She sent my brother to his death.
I had a right to make her pay."
"Yotir brother was as much of a
coward as you are." The very still
ness of her voice was like a knife
cut. "Brave gentlemen both of you!
The one to die and leave the stigma
of his death upon a woman who
never wanted him and had often told
him so and the other to break- a
woman's whole life in order to satisfy
his petty pride and the thing I sup
pose he calls his honour. . .
Julie!" Chittenham sr.id passion
ately.
And then somehow, without either
of them being conscious of having
moved, she was in his arms sobbing,
her face buried on his shoulder, her
arms about his neck.
"Oh, say you love me . . . say you
really love me?" she pleaded wildly.
"Oh, do you really love me after all:"
Chittenham answered between clenched
teeth:
"I do, God help me."
It was the trutlv; a truth of which
he had never dreamed.
He turned her face up to him and
kissed her lips.
"I love you?whatever happens, al
ways remember that I love you?" he
said hoarsely.
She freed herself from his arms,
wiped her eyes, and pushed back her
hair.
"I hope nothing else is go-going
to happen," she said, half sobbing still. J
"I think I've had enough for one day.
I'm not used to crying ... it doesn't
suit me. ..
He caught her hand, holding her
fast.
"Wait . . . Julie, there's something
else; something . .
He drew her into his arms again,
holding her fast for yet another mo
ment, then he gently released her.
"I love you with all my heart and
soul?" he said hoarsely. "But you
will hate me when you know all the
truth?hate me more than I can ever
hate myself, Julie . . . My dear, I?
I ulie, I'm not free to marry you.
Julie . . . I?"
Then lulie said?at least her lips
said it, for no sound seemed to pass
them: "You mean . . . you're married
already?" ?
"Yes."
Suddenly she began to laugh; help
Joss hysterical laugnter which she tried
in vain to check or control.
"Julie . . ." Chittenham said.
But she went on laughing.
It was so funny, so intensely funny
: hat she of all pfople, who had never
ared immoderately for any one, and
who had always dreaded caring, should
suddenly have been plunged into
this tragedy.
Two day? ago she and Chittenham
had never met, and now a whole life
i :me of events bound them together,
'hey had auarreled, loved, quarreled
ain, then kissed and been happy, and
w the end had come. .. .
, He found himself remembering the
I barely-furnished room at the hotel on
; the heights of St. Bernard?the
' isolated top-of-the-world room in
] which he had held Julij: in his arms.
Ill- had been forced to leave Switzer
land without s?eii<R her again, al
j though he had i> ade several attempts.
| He had wired Sadie the name of the
[hotel at which hi intended to stay, and
the day following h: ? arrival a letter
came from her.:, ?>
S!ie did not ev^n s!;jn her name, and
Chittcnham burnt the letter as soon as
he had read it.
A thousand tin.es since he left Swit
zerland he had thought <>J asking Sadie
to divorce him, !?ut Chittcnham knew
her well enough to guess that if she
thought he wished to get rid of her
she would never allow him to do so.
All these th sights were passing
through his min.l as his mother went
on wailing and complaining.
Gibs turned :ound.
"1 thought you were too miserable
to wish to go anywhere," he said
harshly. "I'm lunged if I know what
the devil you do Want?" Then as
.he burst into tears he repented, and
apologised remorsefully.
His mother dried her eyes and
smiled faintly.
"I daresay you will be shocked," she
said almost co;'uettishly. "But I
should love to go out to dinner and
then to a dance somewhere."
"Very well, we'll go out to dinner
and a dance," he agreed. "Where
w tuld you like to 40? The Savoy . , ."
I "Oh, no! . . ." She was looking
I quite eager. "T> a night club. I've
never been to a aight club, Giles, not
to a real one th.it is open all night,
and where you cat eggs and bacon at
three o'clock in the morning. It \vould
be quite all right with you, wouldn't
it?"
"It would be quite all right any
way," h; answered amusedly. "These
places are only .vhat you choose to
make th m. Very well, what time do
we start ?"
"What time is it now?"
"Seven o'clock."
"Call for me at nine."
So he arrived i.i the dull, highly ex
pensive street where his mother lived,
punctually at nine o'clock.
The door opened behind him, and
hi* .fnother came in.
"I haven't kept you waiting, have
I?" she asked gaily.
Giles turned round, then he rose
slowly to his feet. He felt as if he
was in the presence of a perfect
stranger.
"It's . . . well, it's amazing!" he
said at last. "You don't look a day
more than thirty-five."
"You dear thing!" She stood on
tip-toe and kissed him gratefully. "So
you won't mind dancing with your
old mother to-night, Giles?"
"And where are we going?" Mrs.
Ardron asked, as they drove away.
"I'm to'd the Funn Is the place to
go to," Giles said. "If you don't like
Just lately she seems to have taken
? leave of her senses."
Chittenham's eyes were straining
i across the room in the direction from
j which the noise had arisen, but there
| was too much of a crowd for him to
distinguish any one face.
"You mean the famous Julie Farrow,
I suppose," he submitted laconically.
Doris ;;lanccd across the room.
"There she, is?" she said. "In the
green lrocki 'No?over the oiher
side, sitting on the arm of the chair
laughing. . . . That's wb it I call a
cocktail laugh. Come- along. I'm
sure Essen and your moth./ are bored
to tears wil,< one another by this
time." -'?
liut Chittenharfi did not move. He
wai looking at the girl in the green
frock?a green frock of which there
seemed to be so very little*vith which
to cover her white neck and arms.
Her lips were painted a vivid red, and
she was laughing noisily?immoder
ately?laughter which died away sud
denly as she met his gaze across the
room, and it was his Julie?the woman
who had said she loved him, and with
whom he had spent that never to be
orgotten night on the top of the world.
Doris Gardener tugged at Giles '3hit
tenham's arm.
"Come along! If Julie sees me she'll
want to join our party and I'm not
anxious to have her. Oh, damn?I
knew it would happen?"
She shrugged her shoulders resign
edly as Julie suddenly detached herself
from the noisy group she was with
and threaded her way across the room.
Doris "glanced at Chittenham. "Do
you know Mr. Chittenham, Julie?"
She made the introduction with ob
vious reluctance.
Julie had returned Chittenham's for
mal bow with a careless nod.
"How are you? I've heard of you,"
she said casually. "Rodney Ardron'i
half brother, arfcn't you? Delighted
to meet you."
Chittenham's face hardened beneath
its pallor. He felt as if he were in
the pre .'nee of a stranger who yet
looked at hint with well-beloved eyes.
"I think we have tret before," he said
with cool deliverance.
Julie raised her brows.
"Have we? Oh, surely not. I'm
so good at remembering fai js. Per
haps you * are mistaking me for my
:ousin?the other Julie I" She laughed
insolently. "That does happen some
times I assure you," he said, turn
ing to Doris. "Julie probably wouldn't
be flaticrul if she knew, but all thd
anie it happens occasionally. You
may not believe ine, Mr. Chittenham,
if you know my cousin that is?but
a man once kissed me in the most im
passioned manner thinking I was th#
uther Julie 1 So very awkward, espe
cially as he was a man whom I very
much dislike." *
"A disappointment to the man also
perhaps," Chittenham said bitterly, but
she only laughed.
CONTINUED NEXT WEEK
NOTES FROM OULLOWHEE
GRADED SCHOOL
Dr. A. J. Piungle of the State
Board of Health who has come to
Jackson county for six weeks of
work in the various schools is spend
ing this week in the Cullowhee
Graded School. All children under
twelve years of age may take ad
vantage of this opportunity to hav?
thair teeth cleaned, filled, pulled or
treated. Since Dr. Pringle has only
one week J'or this school he will only |
pet to about 10 pupils. The teachcrs
have had many expressions of grati
tude from parents in regard to this
work.
1 The Chapel hour this week will he
; conducted by Rev. Stafford, pastor
j of the Baptist church. Mr. Riley
' Scott, tse Vagabond Poet will also
give a number of his poems.s Mr.
I Stillwell, professor of History at
W. C. T. C. will have charge nett
week giving us a talk on "Consti
| tution of the U. S."
Intramural athletics has been M
i eluded in the schedule of work tbis
, year the the High School.
j Every pupil takes part in [some
1 game all of which are supervised
I bv teachers. The games beiiig played
, now are: Tag football, volley ball,
I basket ball, play ground base ball,
| horseshoes, croquet and boxing.
To the Memory of the Hon. George
Sutton f Sylva, N. C.
From the People of Cowarts, N. C.
Resolutions
Whereas, It has pleased^ the Al
mighty to remove from our midst,
by <feath, our esteemed friend and
brother, George Sutton, who has' for
many years occupied a prominent
rank in our midst, maintaining
under all circumstances a character
j untarnished, and a reputation above
reproach. I
Therefore, Resolved, That in the
death of. Mr. Sutton, we have sus
' tvined the loss of a friend whose fel
lowship it was an honor and a
' pleasure to enjoy; that we bear will
ing testimony to his many virtues,
to his unquestioned probity and
stainless life; that we offer to hit
bereaved family and mourning
friends, over whom sorrow has hung
her sable mantle, our heart felt con
dolence, and pray that Infinite
Goodness may bring speedy relief
to their burdened hearts and 'inspire
them with the consolations that hope
in fururity and- faith in God g'ive
even in the shadow of the tomb.
Resolved, That a copy of these
resolutions be presented to the fam
ily of our deceased friend.
Committee:
A. Finlev Arlington,
Coot Wood
T. D. Hooper,
S. L. Parker.
OVER 15,000 DAILY
DEMAND SARGON
Vast Growing Army of Sargon Users
Marching Single File, Would En
circle Globe in Only Few
Years Time
(By Richard L. Simms)
Atlanta, Ga.,?More like u tale
from the Arabian Nights of old than
a record of modern business achieve
ment reads "the story of the marvel
ous growth and depelopment of Sar j
gon, the New Scientific Comj>ound
which has become the sensation of
the drlg trade throughout the Unit
ed States, Canada and other coun
tries. 4* Ml
The old illustration of the pebble
dropped into the pool best describes
I lie phenomenal and unprcccd?t?d
demand and its fame is rapidly
spreading over the entire America
Continent like a great tidal wave.
Recently compiled figures reveal
! that approximately 10,0(1(1 men and
women are marching into the drug
stores daily for Saigon and Sar
gon Soft Mass PPills, the marvelous
new treatment (that is restoring
health to countless thousands by
new and remarkable methods un
dreamed of only a few years ago.
Already more than 5,000,000 suf
fering men and women have put it
to the test and have told other mil
lions what it has done for theui.
Marching in regulation C. S. Ar
my fashion ? single file ? this vast
army of Sargon users would reach
from New York,1 to San Francisc^
and at the present rate of sale ?
would, in a few years time, encircle
the entire globe.
The only explanation of Sargon 's
triumph in the Medical World is
Saigon's true worth. Back of its
triumph in the drug stores is its
triumph in the homes and it is the
grateful endorsement of its millions
of users that has made it the most
widely talked of medicine in ,the
world today.
Sargon is extensively advertised,
it is true, but no preparation, no
matter how extensively ..advertised,
could possibly meet with siujh phe
omenal success unless it possessed ab
solute merit and extraordinary pow
j ers as a medicine.
j There can be but one possible ex
planation for Saigon's amazing suc
? cess and il can he told I.i one word?
MERIT!
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"It took me, five years to find out
what to take to get rid of the bilious
ness and indigestion I used to suffer
because my liver didn't seem to be
functioning. I know now," says H.
W. Seely of 1048 Rigsby St., in San
Antonio. "It's Herbine. I only have
to take a teaspoonful of it in a little
water whenever I feel that my stom
ach and bowels need help, and I'm
never troubled with indigestion, sick
headache, sour stomach or gas any
more."
Herbine is a vegetable liquid which
does nothing more than help the
stomach and bowels take care of the
food you eat. By keeping them ac
tive, your food nourishes you, in
stead of souring and turning to acid.
Get Herbine from your druggist and
see why many people would not think
of punishing their systems by taking
tursh salts, oil or mineral cathartics.
SYLVA PHARMACY, Agents
STOMACH
JUST a tasteless dose of Phillips Milk
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the standard antacid for 50 years. One
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times its volume in acid. It is the right
way, the quick, pleasant and efficient
way to kill the excess acid. The sloinach
becomes sweet, the pain departs. You
are happy again in five minutes.
But aon't depend on crude methods,
try the best way yet evolved m all the
years of searching. That is Phillips
Milk of Magnesia.
Be sure to get the genuine Phillips
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physicians prescribe.
''Milk of Magnesia" has been the
U. S. Registered Trade Mark of The
Charles H. Phillips Chemical Company
and its predecessor Charles H. Phillips
since l&Jfc
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