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Nineteenth Installment THE STORY SO FAR Nancy Gordon, loving Page Roemer, ?eils herself in marriage to Or. Richard Morgan for fifteen thousand dollars, the ?mount her brother Roddy stole to give to a woman. Helena II addon, sophisticated married woman, in love with Richard, does her best to make trouble for Nency, although she knows nothing of the secret marriage. Mr. Gordon sells his home to repay Richard. Nancy permits Page to Continue making love to her, but when ?he finds that he wants her to run away with him she recoils from him in horror. Taking shelter in the hovel of a poor woman whose baby is dying, Nancy real ises that Richard is the best man after all, and sends for him. Although he saves the baby's life, he repudiates the help of his wife. Helena, finding that they have spem I the night together in the miserable hovel, I spreads the scandal about town. Angic ! duller, Roddy's childhood sweetheart, and J niece of Major Lomax, tries tc stop the j ?candal. Just then Roddy returns home ? ' druntc. His mother believes him crazy and - ?ends for Dr. Morgan, who takes Koddy'j borne with him. Nancy goes to Richard's ti | lee her brother. "Rod." she says, "have fou been doing it again ? stealing?" Now go on with the story. Her lips were dry. "Stealing? j "No!" he snapped, then his hand clenched on the edge of the bed and I hj choked back a sob. She took thai money? the money I stole to save he old father from jad? and bought . trousseau - and - got married - an went to Europe!" He staggered t his feet, shaking his fist at space "Went to Europe! he shouted, he* old father was all a blooming he? sh; went to Europe with the man she ?. been engaged to for two years ! Nancy, sitting alone on the edge of the bed now. gasped with relief 1 n. so glad," she cried, "so glad! Roddy stopped in his furious out burst to glare at her. "Money 1 She wanted money ! n? raved "a woman who uses a man j love for her? to get money? Ik stopped, choking, "there's nothing bat enough for a woman like that! ht cried, "nothing! ? tI "I've got nothing to live for, Koa dy went on, "the world's rotten? I n. , twenty-three and I've drained life t?, j to the dregs! I've thrown up my job. ?to. I couldn't face it any longer? I'd. i lied enough for her. I resigned. "Rod, you didn't-^ou didn't owe ; anything, did you?' ?/ "No I Not a dam' cent? what do J want with money? The whole world Uke a rotten apple, the inside's ready j i to come out! I went on a spree, Nance, the biggest spree I ever had in my life. 1 drank up all I had I '? he sank down in a chair op j anu icstea nis neaa on nis clenched fists? "I'm a darned loafer ! I ought to be shot. I've disgraced you ail. I've stolen. I ^ out of work. Why don't you shoot me, Nance? His sister did not answer him ; she ^ was choked with her own misery Ii i had been no use, no use in the world ; ,he had not saved Roddy, she had onl> jnade him worse! . .. . D , "Oh, Roddy! she gasped, oh, Hod I dy, I wish I were dead!" ] Roddy stared at her, his jaw drop ping; suddenly the selfishness of hi* own anguish was penetrated. Nancy s forlorn cry went to his heart. "Nancy, I'm a rotter!" he groaned, "I'm no good on earth!" "Neither am I !" Nancy's voice was ?mothered, "I'm? I'm just as bad! It's I my fault? I? I've made everything worse !? I? it's all gone for nothing!" she cried. "It hasn't? listen !" he came over and seized her by the shoulder, almost shaking her, "it hasn't gone for noth ing ? if you mean that confounded i money ? I paid it all in? they never { said a word about it; I've thought, j sometimes, that old Beaver knew t but he's only watched me, that s all. i And now ? well, they don't need to worry about me any more ? I quit. "Roddy, we thought you'd try to i make good!" He crimsoned with shame. It seemed Jo take the high tragedy out of it. Nancy, watching him, saw how he felt. She got up slowly from her seat on his bed an<i went to him. "Come home soon, Roddy," she whispered, "please come home ? we all love you ~all of us ! Don't hurt us any more !" Nancy shut the door softly and went downstairs. Richard was standing with his back to his own door when she came down. "Thank you for Roddy," she said with stiff lips, "please send him home." , "Nancy," said Richard hoarsely, "you're unhappy, I see it. I won't hold you against your will. You caji get a divorce. I ? you want it, don t ?JM you ? She turned her face away, refusing to look at him. "The sooner the better !" she cfied, and ran past him out of the house. ? ? ? The task of telling Mr. Gordon about Roddy fell to Nancy; her moth er would not face it. Mr. Gordon's face worked. "Give liiip another chance. Papa! Poor Rod." ' ^ Mr. Gordon passed his other hand NOTICE OF SALE ! OF HEAL ESTATE j North Carolina, County of Jackson. x Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in that cer tain deed of trust, executed by T. W. McLaughlin and wife, Minnie M. Mc Laughlin, and C. A. Bird and wife, B. E. Bird, to The Raleigh Savings Bank and Trust Company, trustee, which said deed of trust is dated \ over his face, then he let it fall heavily on his daughter's shoulder. "My poor girl! You ruined your life for that ? that young scalawag!" "Roddy, we thought you would try to make good." She did not trust herself to look ! "'"Nancy Virginia," her father said at last, slowly, "1 wont have this secret kei>t any longer ? you ve Rot to get .. divorce. I'll? make that fellow give >t to VOl! 1 . Tt Nancy rose slowly to her feet. says I can have it,' she told him moving away from him. He doesn t want me, that's all." she added with a little gasp. . . . . She ran upstairs and shut hersell in her own room. Dropping on the edge of the bed, she stared out of the window with unseeing eyes. In her pocket was a letter from Page Roe mer ; in it he sued tor forgiveness pleading his lov*. / "Forgive me, trust me, I only want to serve you " ; ? . . Nancy tore it in little pieces, just as Page Roemer had torn her love for him in little pieces and trampled it | in the mire? when he asked her to run away with him. Roddy, tramping in grass had eottci to the bottom of his, misery. 'Tretty white to treat a poor , devil like me so well!" he mused bit-, terly, with that rush of friendship for Richard that comes to a man at the end of his tether". No one had told him that he owed his freedom to Richard. . . ... Roddy, in the rush of his friendship and gratitude to Richard, did not know how much he owed. He was tramping up and down the ^ river meadow in the dusk when he came suddenly upon old Major Lomax. "Eh, there !" he shouted. Roddy stumbled. He knew the voice and it brought a rush of mem ory. . ' "It's only Rod Gordon, Major," lit said in a choked voice. The old man set down his lantcri and held out his hand. "Come and shake hands then, sir,' he said sharply, "drat it, I thought I'd caught my chicken thief !" Red in the face, Roddy came up and shook hands. The old man swung the lantern in his face. "Been drinking?" he asked grimly. "You look fishy, but come in? Angie hears your voice." Roddy wanted to escape. Then he looked up and saw the girl in the lighted doorway. Before he knew it, lie was holding her soft cool hands in his. "Come in, come in," said the major testily, "I'm playing chess tonight with Haddon, but you and Angie can talk if you've a mind to." The major, hanging his lantern on a hook by the door, surveyed him. "Beaver says you've given up," he re marked sharply, "going to turn into a foot -pad, young man, or a toe-dancer .?which r "Uncle Robert I" gasped Angie. Roddy swallowed hard. "I'm going to work here," he answered thickly, "I'm looking for a job near home j this time ? I'm done with New York." "New York's done with you," cor rected the major grimly. "I'll give you a job," he said flatly, "got one in the insurance office now ? twenty dollars a week to start? and no fool ing. Take it, Rod?" Roddy gasped. "I'd ? I'd like to think about it, sir." The major laughed shortly. Then he heard their maid-of-all-work ad mitting a visitor. "There's I laddon 1 Did you set out the chess table, Angle? All right, then, you take this young firebrand in hand and talk sense to him." He started down the hail to meet Had don, but threw a word back over his I'ebruary 1, 1027, and recorded in Hook 102, Pa?je 181, of the Jackson County Hojjist ry, default having' been made in the payment ol" the indebt. edness thereby secured and in the conditions therein secured, tile un,( dersigned substituted trustee by in striuneent recorded in Rook 11C, Pu^o 1 (?S, Jack so iii County Registry, will on Monday, May 14, 1934, at or j'bout twelve o'clock noon), ati the courthouse door at Svlva, North Car ! olina, offer tor sale and sell to the J * V. ) t i snoulder, "Uetter (alee it, Rod, ttnT&i ?you want to jockcy for Poles tar." Roddy said notliing. ' ' , "Won't you sit down, Rod?" He swung around and found her, sitting in her corner, just as she used to sit. "Angie, I'm not fit to lace your boots I" he cried impetuously. She was startled. "I'm so sorry uncle was rude " she faltered, "please don't mind it, Roddy. He he means to be kind." "No one could be dreadful enough to me," said Roddy flinging himself on a low stool at her feet. She was shocked, but her heart be gan to beat in her throat. He was always impetuous. He had come back to tell her ? he was sorry then I "I've done awful things," he went on, in a passion of self abnegation, "do you remember ? when I was here last? I didn't come to see you." "Yes, I know. I saw you go by ? I thought you'd forgotten." "I had," said .Roddy, "I , was ashamed to remember. I'm a rotter, Angie. I'd been stealing to help a ?i.mI woman out of trouble." The girl shrank back into her cor ner. It was a long while before she could speak. "I ? can't believe it, Rod dy, you're ? why, you're a Gordon!" He turned crimson. She had touched iic tenderest spot about him. "I stole fifteen thousand dollars from the trust company, Angie. I ought to be in jail," he went on, pour ing it all out in a molten stream of passionate regret and repentance. "My sister helped me. Nancy borrowed the :::oney and kept me out of jail 1 A iirl, Angiel I'm a lout ? I let her do i " Angle's quick gasp escaped him. He was too much wrapped up in himself to perceive that he had given a key to a mystery. Richard had money ? could Nancy have gone to him? "I ? I'm so glad you didn't go ? to jail !" she gasped, and then : "Rod, you ought to have gone. We ought to pay for what we do? ourselves." He caught her hand and held it feverishly ; he had forgotten his hatred of the sex. "You don't despise me ? for it?" he asked huskily. . She shook her head. Then, sudden ly, without warning, she burst, into tears. Her tears melted Roddy; he felt a rush of sell pity as great as her pity for 'him. "OJi(.Ro(|dy !" si;; lied the girl melt ingly, and before she knew it her soft fingers touched his brown hair with shy fondness. "Oh, Rod, there was a woman, you said "I hate her!" he vowed, "I was a fool, Angie. She fooled me. She begged for help for her old father? oh. a touching story ? and she said she'd return it, I? 1 thought I could myself. Then I funul out she was married," be blazed. Angie dried her tears angrily. "She ought to have gone to jail!" J ' - * ! | "New York's done with you" cor rected the Major grimly. "That's what Nance thinks," he ad mitted a little sheepishly, then, abrupt ly, he kissed Aii|?ie's hand. "Roddy, you're K"i"K to work here? You'll ? she hesitated ? "you'll take Uncle Robert's offer?" He rose slowly and beffhn to walk up and down, with the same pictur esque melancholy. "I think I ? I'll ask Richard, you see Richard took me in ? drunk ? and took care of me," Rod dy's voice choked, "pretty white, was n't it? I'm grateful to Richard." "Grateful?" Angie sprang up, her face crimson, "you've 110 reason to be grateful to Richard Morgan!" she cried impetuously, "no reason in the world !" Roddy caught the change in her tone, and he saw the anger in her face. He stood still, with a shock of surprise. "What do you mean, Angie ?" /'Don't be grateful to that man!" she answered furiously, "that's all ? I can't tell you why, but? let him alone. Rod!" "Richard Morgan? 1 Why? I don't understand ? tell me, Angie." She drew back at that, she saw the look 011 his face and suddenly remem bered. If she told Nancy's brother the story that was going the rounds, the story that linked Nancy's name with Morgan's, Roddy would go to Richard and demand satisfaction. He would have to go? and it would mean death ! The girl began to tremble ; ? she had been a fool, what could she say? Continued Next Week highest bidder for cash the folldwinjj described property: All those certain pieces, parcels or tracts of land, being three separate tracts or deeds and adjoining eeah other, containing in the aggregate seventy nine (79) acres, more or less, situate, lying and being within 300 yards of the_Shoal Creek Highway, about two (2) miles North of the Town of Whittier, Qualla Township. Jackson County, North Carolina, hav ing such shapes, metes, courses nid We have fine, peppy Baby Chicks, every week? FARMER'S FEDERA TION HATCHERY, Mrs. John R. Jones, Manager. ? distances as will more fully by reference to a plat, thereof, made by H. R- Queen, Surveyor, on 'ho 12th day of January, 1927, and attached to the abstract now on file with the Atlantic Joint Stock Land Hank of Raleigh, the same being bounded on the Nokh^by the lands of C. A. Bird, and W. E/B?4^ onthe East by ?J-he lands of Andy Mih:tin, K. Howell, on the South by j the lands of C. A. Bird, W Ji^yi rd and Andy Martin, om the West by the lands of C. A. Bird and W. E. Bird, and being the identical tracts of land conveyed by C. A. Bird and wife to T. W. McLaughlin and wife, by deed dated August 23, 1919, and recorded in I book No. 79 at page 310 and by deed from W. E. Bird and wife to T. W. McLaughlin and wife, dated March 29, 192(1, and recorded in Rook 99, at Page 277, and by deed from C. M. Hughes and wife and others to T. W. McLaughlin and wife, dated Septein. ber 25, 1916, and recorded in Hook No. 71, Page 545, all in the Office of Register of Deeds for Jackson Coun ty, Norht Carolina, to which refer ence is made for more complete dc_ script ion of said lands. Terms of sale cash aiid trustee will rehuire deposit of 10 per cent of the amount ol the bid as evidence of ;?ood faith. This the 13th day of April, 1934. JOSEPH L. COCKER HAM, ! Substituted Trustee. r Robert Weinstriii and Victor W. Thompson., Attorneys, ? Raleigh, N. C. 4 19 4ts NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE ?? * Under by virtue of the powe? of sai;< contained in that eertaiJ: Deed of Trust executi d by .1. C. Cannon and Wife, Rosa Cannon, to Cnm i:erc:al National Rank, 1 1.t<rri Point, NT. ('., Trnstee, under date ol February 15, 1928, securing the in debtedness therein described, said l)crd of Trust being1 recorded in tin* office of the Register of Deeds foi Jackson County in Book 10*2, ai Page 540, default having Ikmmi made in the p-iymc.nt of said indebtedness and at the request of the holder oi holders thereof, the undersigned Trustee will, oil the 11th day of June, 1934, at 12 o'clock noon, at the Courthouse door in Jacksw County, North Carol im, ?>f f?*r f ?s ale, for cash, to the higlic..! bidd.-i the following described to ?vit : A ccrtavi lot or parcel of land i>' m near the c'tv or town pP'Diilsboro County of Jackson, Township Dills boro, and nioiv particularly ?! . s'ciibei1 is follows: REG INNING o:i a sJ ??!??? at tin South margin of Haywood Street am' '.fate Highway No. 10 -rid runs with ??aid margin N. 80 E. 70 feel to r ":ike; coener of tlv M lv Sou'! "'hrrcli lot; thence wi'b the line <>t -i id liii a:d the Rapti:! Chinch l?? S. 10 K. 115 f -et to n silk in R. S '[a rsh's l'ne; tlienc" with s;ii<l lin< ,S. 8? W. .18.75 feet to a slake ?vid Marsh's corner; tlvnee still with Marsh's line S. 10 E. 1.1 feet to a tiike; thence S. 80 W. 31.25 f.et to ? stake corner of the \V. A. Dills '?eirs lot; thence with the line of said '')t N. 10 W. 128 fe.et to the begin ning, same being known as the Sallie Messer lot. This the 7th day of May. 1934. COMMERCIAL NATIONAL RANK, HIGH POINT, N. C. TRUSTEE Ry JOHN D. BIGGS, RECEIVER Ry JOHNSON, ROLLINS & FZZELL ATTORNEYS NOTICE OP SALE OF LAND North Carolina Jackson County. Under and by virtue of the auihoi ity conferred by deed of trust exe cuted by. A. M. Hcn60n and wif* . Nellie Henson dated August 1, 1932; and recorded in Rook 116, at Page 46, in the office of the Register of Deeds for Jackson County, Dan K. Moore, Trustee, will, at twelve o' clock, noon, Monday May ihe I4th 1934, at the Court House door of Jackso?v county, in Sylva North Car olina, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the following property, to-wit : Beginning at a stake at the inter section of the A. M. Henson Road and the North side of No. 10 High way, and runs North 100 feet to a stake; thence West 125 feet to a stake, thence South 100 feet to High way No. 10; thence with Highway No 10, East, 125 ft. to the beginning running so as to include new filling station property now operated by A. If. Henson. This sale is made on. account of default in the payment of the indebt edness secured by said deed of trust. This the *llth day of April, 1934. DAN K. MOORE, Trustee 4 12 4ts DKM V' . v. :> ? ! ) POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR JUDGE SUPERIOR COURT I am a candidate for Judjje of the Superior Court, 20th Judicial District subjcct to the wishes of the Demo cratic voters, in the primary to Ik* held June 2, and will appreciate yon support and influence. 0 rover C. Davis. FOR JUDGE SUPERIOR COURT I announce mv candidacy for th?> nomination to succeed myself sis Judge of the Superior Court of Ihcj Twentieth Judicial District. I refer my friends to my forty years of sen ice to the Democratic Party, and my record of fifteen months on the Bcnch all of v/hich I submit to the judjr ment of the people of the District. Felix E. Alley. FOR CLERK SUPERIOR COURT I hereby announce my candidacy for the office of Clerk Superior Cour: of Jackon county, subject to the ac J tion of the Democratic, primary. I \*II appreciate your support. Ed Hooper. FOR FINANCE COMMISSIONER I hereby announce invself as a can didate for the office of Finance Com nissioner and Chairman of the Hoard' of Commissioners of Jackson County, subject to the action of the Democrat ic primary. J. D. Cowan. FOR BOARD OF EDUCATION I * . ? ? ? ? I wish to announce mv eandidaex for County Hoard of Education sub ject to will of the Democratic Parly. .1. IT. I/)X(J FOR SHERIFF T have announced ?ny eandidacv for the office of Sheriff of Jacknon County, subject to the action of tli< Democratic primary. C. ('. MASON* FOR COMMISSIONER 1 hereby announce my ? ;i to succeed myscli as ;i Hh I, t?.p 0| the board of county ?mhuu: . nm.,^ subject to tin- Dcnmeratic ]. in,;?v \Y. Norton TOR REGISTER OF DEFins Subject to the Demon. tijc prj. mnrv I hereby announce in-, candi. <lacy for the office of I,V -i (1^ Deeds for .lack-on coiinlv. 1 ? !i .,p preeiate the support <>! a.i ? units in the primary. Margaret Sin rrill FOR REGISTER OF lHV.DS ] hereby nniioniice m> . date for tin- office 01 |;, ()1 Deeds for .laek-;oii couii; ilijwt to the action of (lie I l.-sn.,. mary. frank I). Urvsni,. FOR SHER1F! ? ili ot |?ri I hereby announce t for Sheriff of .lackson ' <> ject to t he I )em<n-r;ii i,- i ' i:. i. w li. ? t:irv . iili. FOR FINANCE COMMISSIONER I wish to annoi [if ; ... lnhu'V for Finance Tummi -in',. , .. ft> the Democratic ! i,ihi;h y. il 1 ? 'nhibl be defeated, b* oppoi.i < , i It ;i vo no more eiillm-i i lie ? ' ihan myself. U II. (H.I \ I i; UNAKA LODGE NO. 2f.fi A F.&A.M, Meet- 'Jin| :iln! I'll Moiida ni'jh' - jy. H. I'. Sulion, V. . M. < . . . . i / \ ' i m i u / y /// \'// Siei'iiity Visit ins Itrei li?? .\h\.\ * WARNING to EXPECTANT MOTHERS If you have ever been a patient in any hospital, you are probably familiar with the advantages of a liquid laxative. 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