Sixth Installment SYNOPSIS Three weeks after a cream coiori-u roadster had been found wrecked in the sea at the foot "f a cliff, a girl calling herself Anne Cushing appears it the desert town Murston. She ha< bought, sight unseen, a ranch located^ thirty miles away. Barry Duane, her nearest neighbor and his man Boone I Petry procure a reliable woman f"r I her and In Barry's car, loaded clown ? with supplies, they start across the desert. In Alarston her reticence has ? roused suspicion. Barry and Anne become more than neighbors, and when Anne is lost in the hills and rescued by Barry, each realises that 1 something more than friendship exists between them. A quiet mood seemed to have descended on Barry. When the coffee was finished lie smoked for a few moments in silence, his eye* coming back every few seconds to the clear little profile turned toward him. Anne felt that restless scrutiny. "Weren't you," , she asked sud denly, "going to tell me about the town of Duane?" "So I was." lie shifted his posi tion. "It's just the story of a'man who wanted to turn a "icsert into a garden. He was my uncle, Robert Duane. He worked like a giant tor it. and died broken and ridiculed, and discrediteJ." His face was black as he ?taud down at the lake. "He loved this country. He came here from the Fast years ago, and he came across this lake and took over a big tract of land: He saw that this lake was the biggest body of water in mile-;, but useless to those dry plains down there, and be began dreaming of the things that could be done.' "I see." said Anne softly. 'It wus a big dreanl." "Yes, it was big. It was par ticularly big for one man to swinj. He built this place, and after that I came and lived with him every summer." ' ) He stopped, frowning remini scent Iv. "When they actually starti <1 work on the dam. people began to take serious notice. They remem bered what was being: done in ti e Imperial Valley. 9 \Kaglc Lake swarmed with workers, and the dam grew. "And then tfie big day came. * '? "It was a great day. No matter what came of it, it can never l>e anything less than that. The signal was given and the water rushed down the sluiceways to make tits wilderness blo>som. Everybody cheered, and Uncle Bob gripped my shoulder and said, 'Barry,, you and j I believed in this when other people laughed. When I go, this is to be yours." Barry looked at her with a twisted grin. "So this is my inheritance, and anybody down in Marston would tell you that it's 110 better thiili junk. For after the first big mo ment, the tragedy came. The irri gation was there, but it didn't ir rigate. The valley was fuli of gravel sinks that no one bad suspected, and the water drained off as fast *? it was run in. It was a .complete, smashing failure." "Oh, how dreadful!" It was all that she found herself able to say. Barry threw away a half-con sumed cigarette and arose. "The Finos isn't the only stretch I of arid land around here. There's the Junipero, bigger and better, and with a soil ? it isn't really tand ? that will give its very heart to you for a steady supply of water. I want to use this dam to irrigate the Junipero." He ran a brown l and through his hair and laughed abruptly. "I suppose you think I'm chasing an elusive rainbow?" "Why shouldn't -you, if you've found one that's wopth chasing?" , "You darling!" His eyes kindled. ? "For these kind words. . . " ( She jumped up and ?ave him a prim little marionette's bow. "Conic on, lazy, I want to go dowh by the lake again." He arose obligingly and followed her, overtaking her in two strides. They went down side by side, and where the pitch was steep he caught her arm in his. Within a few yards of the water's edge he spread out his coat for her to sit on and dropped down beside |jer. "Anne, will you marry me?" "You're a sudden person, Barry." She hedged for time. "Do you real ize that we'd never met until a few weeks ago? Just four " "I;our days was enough for me. Anne, darling, I don't want to rush you. but you know how I feel, don't you? I love you. I keep seeing you here all the tin??, every day, every hour. You and I together. . . Ann !" \\ urmth flooded over her; there was a sin^in^ tir;jile in her veins. >Why not? W'.o in that distant, outside world would ever know? Just the two of them, here in this NOTICE OF EXECUTION SALE 1 ( v NORTH CAROLINA, JACKSON COUNTY. THE BANK OF FRANKLIN vs W. C. CUNNINGHAM, J. A. PORT ER, S. L. FRANKS, and W. L. HIO DON. By virtue of an execution directed to the undersigned from the Super ior Court of Macon County in tho secluded place. Temptation tugged ?.t her. "Take your chance!" it whispered. "Take it! . . . " ^ And then recollection flooded hack, crawling over her like an oily )wave. "Anne, look at me!" Her throat felt stiff and dry. "Oh. Barry,' please1, We've been such good friends. Don't let s spoil it. "Oh ? spoil it!" The warmth died out of his face. He looked stung and hurt, and suddenly tight lipped. % "Sorry!" he said curtly. "I must have got the wrong idea. I thought ? well, it's been rather nice, going around like this, I had a feeling. . . a hope ... it was getting to mean something to you, too . . . my, con ceit. probably." The words came jerkily. Hi looked up suddenly. "See here, is it because of somebody else, or just because I'm myself?" She shook her head. "There isn't anybody el$e, And I hate to hear you talk like that. Harry, isn't it possible to like ? to be awfully fond of somebody without ? ? " "Not for you and me:" Marry looked at her moodily, softening be cause she really did look unhappy abopt it, and because she was so lovely ? so damnably lovely. "All right," he said, and forced a smile. "We won't let it/, spoil things. It's not your fault if I don't nuke a hit with you. Hut don't think" ? he reached out and laid a firm clasp on her wrist ? "don't think that I'll give up with out, an everlastingly good try." She Woiild not look at hint. Couldn't he see that he was tearing ly r heart out? "U's' rio u>e, Harry, 1 like you awfully, but? ? " "I don't want to be liked." he said savagely. "I'd want you to be ju>t as crazy about me as I am about you. I'd never be satisfied with ju?t possessing ? I want ?1> of you." All of her! She felt desolate and a little frightened. It occurred to her that no matter what came to her now? love, friendship, trouble ? she would always have something to hide. . A restless week crawled by. An other, flat and, uninteresting, trudged stolidly at its heels. 1 he day s were just days, one of them plodding stupidly alter another. Barry still Came down to Trail's Knd, but he seemed always to L?c 011 his way somewhere else. Playing around with Barry was dangerous, hut letting him go left a blank emptiness. Anne worked violently, indoors and out, but the zest had gone from it. Warmth and color had gone. The day had not been of the kind to encourage a stiff morale. A hot wind had been blowing in from the desert for hours. Anne sat for a while beside her tinkling little creek. ?'Miss Anne, are you out there?"* "Coming, Martha. Anything I can do?" "I wish you'd do up that package Boone's going to stop tor. I've left some paper on the table." Martha had left a sheet of news paper spread out for her. Anne looked down at it, idly. A heading caught her eye. It was a Lot Angeles paper, and it was two months old. She leaned over the spread-out sheet. Then she wa? very still. To Martha, out in the kitchen, tlu-re came the sharp sound of tearing paper. "Oh, Martha, I've torn this! Have y?? aajr more?" The win was careless, but her eyes were brilliant with ucitement as she came to the kitchen door. She tied the package up swiftly, and then vanished into her own room. The newspaper went also. Once behind a closed door she spread it out again with shaking fingers. She read again, more care fully this time, scanning each word for some hidden meaning. Relief was creeping all through her, warm and lovely. "Thank God," she whispered, "I don't have to be afreid of that!" The last words were shaky. . . . Mustn't get hysterical. When she came out a few mo ments later there was a lilt in her voice which Martha had not heard for days. "I'm going for a little run before supper," she called, and went out toward the corral. A few moments later pinto and girl flew past the kitchen window with a clear call and a scurry of hoofs. "Somethin's cheered her V up mighty quick," she commented. At 011c side of the room hung two of Anne's dresses, freshly ironed. Martha went into Anne's room to put them where they be longed. Then, arms akimbo, she looked around. On a chair, half concealed by an orange cushion lay a folded newspaper. Martha picked it tip. "I do wonder what started her off like that. Well, if it's in print it can't he any secret." Martha sat down to read. There were only two, sheets of it and the news would be stale, but she plodded through it carefully. There was political news, which slit skipped. Somebody had been brutally shot down in a hold-up. A bold headline featured the latest di vorce scandal, and a "mystery woman" who had vanished into the blue; a much smaller cne noted the death of a once prominent financier. Some young girl had been drowned ? and the body had not yet been re covered, anci a very rich man had offered a reward for it. A brief two inches of type said that the man found badly wounded in the out skirts of Ventura had been identi fied, but refused t name his as sailant. A screen luminary had just received his final decree of divorce. Martha read patiently. "Murders and suicides and di vorces!" she sniffed. "I don't see much in them to cheer anybody up. Hmp!" There was a spot on Barry's homeward way? or rather, out of his way ? wh.re Trail's Knd was in full view. He detoured until lie* reached it and pulled up. half ? tempted to turn ami ride down. ( hit from the modest group of low buildings a dancing speck came, a girl and a pinto horse. IIow Anne did love to ride! The pinto was sweeping on glori ously. They would pass almost beneath him. He turned Captain about. '*( >!d man. if we go around '>>? the trail it will take half an hour at your prettiest, but if we take the old slide we can join the lady pronti i." < I 'n mto was a word that Captain I understood. He took the steep [plunge Valiantly 51ml without a pause. / "Hello. Any objection if I ride along?" "Reckless cowboy, aren't you: Do you usually slide down hiilf a mountainside to meet your friends?" ,, ".\*o, this is. something special. Movie stuff." he added. dr;r? vat inglv. half ashamed at his di <-.111.1 tic plunge. 1 "It. -whs a real thr II. anyway, but | for the first few seconds you had i die well scared. Suppose Captain had stumbled, or a ything?" "Captain doesn't stumble or any- ( thing." "Comet doesn't stumble, either." Barry glanced UP with a quick frown. "Pinto, we can't let thesf two beat us, can we?" "Don't think of trying such a thing!" His voice was rough with anxiety. "You did it." "I've done it before," he said doggedly. "It's a fool trick anyway. One misstep, and you could be killed or crippled for * the rest of your life. And I'd always have to remember that it had come about through an act of mine." Barry swung close, Us finger* reaching for her hand. "You're precious to MC, Anne, whether you want to ll or not, Please promise that you won't try it. Not unless it's life or death." "I might promise that. I wasn't really going to anyway." She did not take her hand away, and he gathered up the other and held them together. "Is that all you can promise?" She looked slowly ap at him. "You won't ju*t be friend*, Barry ?" "No. There's nothaac to It. l'?? tried, but it won't ?mL" The hands seeOMi to snuggle down contentedly. "I've tried too, Barry, and it doesn't work at all." ! "Anne! Do you mean it?*' Anne looked at him. "Yon darling!" he said huskily, and gathered her into his arms. Time lost its meaning. She looked up and caught his eyes on her. "There isn't the least reason why we shouldn't be married right away, is there? How about ? tomorrow?" "Tomorrow!" Anne sat up straight at that. Indeed I won't I Do give me a minute to feel en gaged." "I nearly lost you once, and I'm not taking any more chances. Wednesday, then." "Just quietly. Barry? Without any fuss at all?" ? . "As, quietly as you like. That suits me. We'll have a honeymoon at the Perch and take a trip later." "I don't want a trip. I'd rather stay right here." "No trip? Maybe you'll change your mind. There's lots of time . . ."About that wedding day . . "Likes his own way, doesn't he? I'm taking an awfui chance . . . Monday?" "Monday. You know . . . it's going to be pretty nice, isn't it?" She nodded quickly. They sat there together like two children, suddenly shy. Continued Next - ' * """" above entitled action, I will, on Mon day, the '>th ak ?? ,te 1 :ult of White Rock Cr. oorner of Gr .it 603; then with the line ?* saidgrai.t E. i deg 30* E. 30 poles to a spruce pine the beginning corner of grant 603; then N. 7 W 78 poles to a black oak on top of a iWge; then X 88 E 32 poles to a stake and pointers at the intersection of the Quinlan-Zachan line with the Ed Cdggins line of Grant Xo. 610; then with the line Giant Xo. 610 X 23 deg. 30' E 149 poles to a spotted oak, eorner of grant 610; then S. 87 E 60 poles to a locust, a corner o? grant 610; then X 88E 115 2-5 poles to a stake anil pointers in the line of gjrant 880: then X 51 W 65 poles to a stone corner of grant 880; then with the line of grant 880 X 56 deg. 32' E 76 1-3 poles to a white oak; then S. 51 K 101 1-3 poles to a locust, a eorner ot' prant 880; then S 23 E 10 poles to a stake and pointers; then X 48 E 149 poles to a chestnut and hiekory in the Cherry Gap; then X 3 E 330 |K)les to a sassafras; then X. 87 W 72 pods to a chestnut . then S 3 W 54 poles to a stake; then X 72 W 102 | poles to a chestnut oak; then X 87 W MM 1-5 poles to a stake and pointers i then S 50 E 112 2-5 poles to a black | oak on top of Welch Ridge; then S I M W 124 2-5 |?oles to a stake and pointers; then S 87 E 16 poles to a black giun under a cliff in the road of a hollow; then S 39 W 131 to a stake and pointers; th/ii X 87 W 49 piles to a locust; then X 43 W 52 l*o'es to a white walnut ; then H 48 W 107 4-5 poles to a stake and hickory; then X 42 W 63 4-5 poles to a stake and pointers; then S 3 deg. 30' W 48 4-5 -poles to a stake in the l'lie of grant 661; then with said i grant line S 87 E 22*4 poles to a -take and pointer; then S 3 W with line of jrrant 661; 100 poles to a -tone and |>ointeis the beginning cor ner of grant 621 and the SE corner of the John II. Watson tract of grant fifil ; -then X 87 W 83 poles to a stake and pointers with the line of ?jrart 661. then X 3 E 50 po'es to a Htakr aid ];ciuttiK in the Jipe .of ?rra.nt 661 near the mouth of a small branch running into Flat Branch; then X 87 W with the branch 50 poles to a chestnut stump; then X. 89 W still with the branch lO*/* poles to a black {nun; then X 16 deg 30* K M0 poles to a chestnut, .now down with pointers, then X M9 deer. 30' E. IS poles to a chestnut; then X 15 deg :?(>' E 22'*? iioles to a mountain oak, now down with pointers; then X 3 W 9 poles to a stake, and po:nters in F.d Wilson's line, then Leaving Ed. Wilson's line X 87 W 34 poles to a stake and pointers, corner of grant 519, called in St. Grant 3 soiirwoods. then X 3 E 122 poles to a stake anH pointers at the intersection of the So. boundary lint1 of grant 405; thru S i (57 de?r. 3ft' W w'th the line of grant 405 164 3-4 poles to a stake and winters, comer of grant 405: then still with line of fjrant 405 N 2 deol.'-s to a stake and pointers in the line of said grant, also a eorner of grant -527, then N. 87 deg. W. 39 poles to a chestnut oak, a comer of grant 527, also Hoopre's comer, then N 3 E 102 poles to a stake and l>oiiiters, a corner of Caroline Mathis tract; then X 87 W 4 poles to a stake and pointers, L. Tilly's comer situated S 51 E 30 poles from n beech, old eorner of grant 883. then S 39 W 149*4 poles to a stake and pointer, in a field, the 3rd comer of grant 527 at 14 poles; then N. 51 W 66 poles to a stake and pointers on top of a ridge; then N 39 E 42 poles to a small hickory in a hollow; then N 77 W 14% poles to a stake in a clearing at the intersection of grant 26 with the line of grant 1990 Macon County; then S 3 W 20 3-4 poles to a large white oak on top of a ridge; then 8 30 deg). 30' 80 poles to a stake and pointers on top of Long Ridge; then S 2 deg. 30' W 89 poles to a stake and pointers in Andy Cove, the 8E corner of 1991 massing Long Ridge at 22 poles ; then 8 63 W 99 poles to a stake and *?- :w pointers standing 8 W 1 pole from a double ehestnat . in Heifer Pen Cove; then N 3 E 21 3-4 poles to a stake and pointers in a hollow in the check of Phillip Dills' line of grant 754; then S 88 deg. 30' W 136 poles to a Spanish oak; crossing Rett's Ridge at 72. poles, running with Dills' line the N-W comer of grant 522 and XE corner of grant 537, Wil son't 640 acre tract; then S 30 deg. 30' E 198 poles to a chestnut stump in the Thomas Gap, the beginning coi ner of Grant 537, Wilson's 640 acre traet; then X 67 deg. E 67i/2 poles to a stake inside of a field a co men of Brant 517; then S3W74 poles to a stake and pointers, comer of grant 529, also a corner of Gooden traet ; then with the line of the Goodei tract S 43 deg. 24' W 150 poles to * stake and pointer, the S corner of the Gooden tract passing a Black Gum corner of grant 529 and grant Xo. 9 at 26 poles; then X. 46 dtfg. 36' W 70 poles to a stake and point ers in a branch the SW comer of the Gooden traet; then X 87 W 361/. poles to a hickory a comer of grant 5; then S 3 W 50 poles to a stak<* and pointer, comer of grant 528, then X 87 W 35 poles to a stake and poini ers a comer of Grant 528; then X " deg. E 19 1-5 poles to a stake ami ;>ointer in the check line of Grant 537, running S 33 W at a rfistano, of 114*4 poles on said line; ther with said line of Grant 537 S 33 W I8V2 poles to a stake and pointers ir the Macon- Jackson County line; ther: still with line of grant 537 X 80 W 88 poles to a stake and pointers ii the line of Grant 537 at the inter section of the line of Grant 528 witl the line of Grant 537, then with tlx line of Grant 528 S 33 W 52?/2 pol? to a stake and pointers in the edg< of Hasket's field, comer of Gran; 528, then still with the line of saie Grant S 52 deg. 30' E 175 poles to a large chestnut the beginning come) of Grant 528, is the Moss Gap, then X 8 deg. 30' W 47 poles to a Whit. Oak on a cliff of rocks Hick's corner also a comer of grant 5 and Gran' 528; then with said H'ok's line nm' the line of Grant 5 S 75 E 130 1- ? poles to a stake in a clearing), a cor | ner of Grant So. 10, called in Graj; a small Spanish oak bush; then stil' with Hick's line S 8 W 150 poles t? a birch Hick 's comer also a cortu**" of grant 524, passing a comer o: Grant 10 at 122 poles; then X 58 deg. ?10' W 58 3-4 poles to a hickory be {Tinning comer of Grant 526 in th A\ild Cat Gap; then with the saif' Grant S 18 deg. 30' E 235 pole? to 1 Vake and pointers, a corner of Gran "?26. also Brv son's comer; then X 5' E 1/2 poles to a stake, corner 6' Grant 524. then with the lin.? o' Grant 524 X 3 E 120 34 noles to : stake corner of grant 524. also : ??orncr of Andrew .T. Brv son's Crook ed Oak Stump tract; then S 87 E fi: poles to a chestnut, passing a corne of gr.int 524 and Xo. 11 at 29 poles then S 3 \V 60 polos to the beginnin massing a Spanish oak, the boginnin eorner of grant No 11 at 52 jx>les. SECOND TRACT: Beginning on : chestnut on the Ea?t sido of the oh' road that loads from Cullowhoe ti Hamburg, runs S 55 W 35 polos to : flat took in the road, with po" liters: thenee N. 65 W 123 1-4 poles to a rook with 'White oak pointers: thenee S 137 poles to a black oak or top of the mountain Rol Moody '> line; thenco with his lino S 68 W 2? poles to a locust ; thence S 45 E Hv' poles to a white oak; thi-noe X 83 V 64 pole* fd a" black oak ; them ? >' 77 W 35 po'es to a b'roh at the hoar of the Deep Gap Branch, the begin ning corner oi the W. R. MoodyV tract; thenee with said Moody's lino N 83 W 149 poles to a stako an?' pointers; thenco S 19 W 157 jkiIo to a black oak in Moore's lino on th ' East slope of the Buck Knob (lap: thence with Moore's line and Perry Stiwintor's line North 42 V2 West 14-1 poles to a h:ekory, P*?ry St i winter corner; thence North 16'/2 East 100 poles to a spruce pine, said Stiwin tor's eorner; thnco North 72 3-4 East, still with W. R. Moody's lino 10' poles to a white oak, Zachary's cor ner; in the line of grant No. 14? then> with the line -of said bran' North 3V2 East 150V2 poles to heedwood and pointers; then South 87t/2 E 81 poles to a stake and joint ers, .John Bryson's corner on oast side of Boar Pen Ridge; then N 3 E 102 poles to a stake and pointers in Bry son's line; then E 10 1-4 poles to a spruce pine stump near the branch Tom Coggin's comer; then with said Coggins' line conveyed by Zaeharv to said Coggins S 20 E 5iy2 poles to two small chestnut oaks, both now down and pointers; then S 88 3-4 E 105 poles to a small chestnut oak on a bluff, now down with pointers; then N 22 W 43 poles to a stake in Cogging.' old line of grant 640; thence East with said line 111 polos to a stake and pointers; then SE cor ner of said grant 640; then N 3 y2 E 112 3-4 poles with line of said grant to a stake and pointers; then N 73 1-4 W 92 poles to a spruce pine, the be ginning eorner of grant 640; tken N 7 W 16 poles to a stake- an.' ? then X 70 E 20 , . .(j . ' '"r''trS; pointers in th<- !j, ; then S 22V., \\ , '* ?ri : - ?? pointers, the v<(>, .. ' H!;,i grant; th?*n mi|C T; ?* ii)' said grant N 7_': ; ,,! a stake and . . '? said grant; then ? to a stake and j,oi: ?, grant 602; tlu-i: said grant W IS j, . . corner of State Or;: the line of irrai.* ? 185 poles to a then N" S1V2 \V V.' . . spruce pine in a , E 164 poles to a ?? and pointers near a 4 K > . white oak, Stewart' ;,i ? withStPwart's line S " , , ? ?f* j t? ? to a hickory, now d?. . ? ,HI . . ers; then S 5'4 V. > >u;. chestnnt oak; then V =?: poLes to a white oak ' ' ' line; then N 2 K fi r ?? ? . . - . , . oak; said Moin<\ corner: 33 W 46 to a rock :n,<] jmih . then X 45 K 4S' (Miles to :i )ii< ! said Moore'* corner; then \ ? W 42V2 l*'1"- to the W'sriiminl the inde'i ? , thereby secured, the 1 - trustee will 011 Wednesday. ' .. 19 54, at or about twelvi :? I at the court lion4#' ibirtr . ' Xorth Caroling sell to the highest the following describe: First Tract: Iiogiiii.iiu white oak near 'the road at the beiM?' '? and the house i hat Brow: sold to Jenkins aiwl run- 1 visional line between ov,c lands are located ? ' waters of Prickly Ash Bran- !: ; i'1 Puekaaeipre River, it beiiifr a af a fifty acre tract entered name of IT. T>. Brown and <1 ? ? TToodrins;. and a part of a 1!; Iract granted in the name of - C. Shelton, and bein?r the latt'i vered to A. J. Waldrop liv from J. L. WaTdrop and wf<* Drcemln-r lfl, 1926 and n-i.i f i in Book 100 pape 519, Rejri-t' : ? : liWd* Office of Jackson Count v. This the 2nd day of July, 1P M. JOSEPH E. JOHNSON, In: > r s 4ts FHE JOURNAL, now 52 week 11.00 in Jackson County. Ail i. print. No patent inside. UNAKA LODGE NO. 268 A.F.&A M Meets 2nd and 4th Monday niphts R. U. Sutton, W. M. Raymond Glenn Secretary Visiting Brethren Always Welcouw