| , ' , ; ' . * ' ■ . v . ‘ ’ > ' ' - . V . ' x v at——»»BWniMrTjta—a—mx »■ m-unn-i: y~^rr»xurr,«.r''v -T"* nnHrwiiiT,w,~rTT^TmTfciimw—ift—wwn—tb——iMrnmiiiii—i—wi i~iuilim ^... - — - - -- - ..■ ... .... ... ■.. . ■■ ------- - . ■ - - ■ - - — — . . " 1 ■* w3Fwiiif«.KiijMii-aa—wwji^lu.i'j. ■At»w>g«ai:\ij>*r,»T.ttfgaBppwBi mm - vrueMpMRnMmaMH^ VOL. XXVii. _ YADKINVILLE, YADKIN CO., N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 10, mi N(). 9 i. w~—=== i Adventure - Romance i By George Agnew Chamberlain 4-r. ■ ------.— ■ *}. Copyright, The Bobbs-iiorriU Company SYNOPSIS. PART I.—Robert Hervey Randolph, young New York nmn-about-town, leaves the home of his sweetheart, Madge Van Tellier, chagrined because of her refusal of his proposal of marriage. His income, 110,000 a year, which he must surrender If a certain Miss Imogen Pamela Thorn ton (whom he has seen only as a small Cirl ten years before) is found, is not considered by the girl of his heart ade quate to modern needs. In a "don’t care” mood Randolph enters a taxi, unseen by the driver, and is driven to the stage door of a theater. A man he knows, Duke Beamer, induces a girl to enter the cab. Beamer, attempting to follow, is pushed back by Randolph and the cab moves on. His new acquaintance tells Randolph she is a chorus girl, and has lost her position. She is in distress, even hungry, and he takes her to his apart ment. There, after lunch, a chance re mark convinces him the girl is the miss ing Pamela Thornton. He does net tell her of her good fortune, but secures her promise to stay in the Hat until the morning, and leaves her. In a whimsical mood, also realizing that the girl’s reap pearance has left hiin practically penni less, he bribes the taxi driver to let him take his job, and leaving word with the legal representative of the Thornton es tate pass on to seven o’clock of the near Christmas evening when Mi«s rc*'—? ^ 1 i was moinontartij out of a cat) and strolling down the slope of the hump in West Fifty-seventh street A X mushy snow-rain had just begun to fj fa'l, giving anyone with the price a £ splendid excuse for taking a cab any gt where for anywhere. Before the portal ^ Of the Cl r^.Northern Lights squatted ^ four taxis ^n a line. In the driver’s seat of the rearmost of these, and eon p 8equently ttye last,on tfie rank, f Ian}?; g human being was buried in an enor mous turrmd-qp collar, roofed by a m chauffeur’s 'cap set ££ an ang)e of u slumber. b Pamela, the very moment her eyes & foil on the recumbent figure, felt that tg short quick leap of the blood in her III veins which- is ordinarily termed a j* “hunch.” She longed to step forward w and raise the. veiling headgear, but she ► dared not, for not pnly was the" 'hotel Starter on the job but also the' vim, wv j, .< $hades of the Poppy club i ext door *>\/Were stilk elevated by special request, gb owing to the slippery state ol' ihe side " walk In conjunction with the home t ward-hound stream of dress-models. • As n consequence, she was necessar o ny content with opening the car door »- for herself and stepping in. The starter . politely begged her to pass to the taxi at the lujad of the rank -and just as v politely she informed him that her feet were wet enough as it was. In the meantime, even her light weight on the running-board had startled the driver into wakefulness and, without going ihrough any motions, he had heard the unforgettable tones of her voice. : 1 The starter shrugged his shoulders, barked out an address in Fifty-ninth street and kindly offered to “turn her over 'or him.” The driver laid trem bling handsthef wheel and cautious ly drew himself up to a sitting posi •0 tion without disturbing the shielding angle of Ms cap. Far from his trou bled mind were thoughts of snow, the slush and skidding. He threw in his clutch, started her with a jerk, round ed the cab in front successfully, skid ded mightily thereafter, straightened her out. skidded again, and crashed, with a great splintering of spokes, IT She Lcngcd to Step Forward and Raise the Veiling Headgear. broadside front on the curb directly before the delighted windows of the Poppy club. Nothin." ’.voTsJd have happened to i Miss T’-omton had she 'been sitt'jjg | back in u ladylike manner, but at the ! moment of i i;■ - cab’s collision with the i Imperturbable curb, she was otherwise i occupied: n skort, the glass befog a bit frosted, she was standing up and trying to peck through the speaking i tl<;t,>A:- a <;o :,s< qa-eTK-e, when the door flew op1. : with the shock, she also tiew and volr ianed 1o a landing on hands and knees in the very middle of the very wide sidewalk. With a cry of, "Oh. miss!” the driver sprang toward her, but when, still or 1 arsis and fcpees, she.looked up and gas.s-i, “Oh, Itandy-^Sr. Ran dolph !” he turned and tied. down the hill. “HI 5 You Slim Hervey!” yelled the starter. “Come back here an’ sigh up for the junk!’’ In the meantime, which 'wasn’t much more than the twinkling of nn l eye, three perennial near-youths j dashed down the steps of the' Poppy | club to the assistance cf the-liveliest | trouble that had ever sent out an S. O. S. signal in the face of ready help to the falling. Individually and col lectively, they raised the ctfflj'-haired vision to its feet. , , i, '< r “It was Mr. Randolph,” gasped the maiden, in evident distress, “and I’ve been looking for him for weeks.” “Not Bobby!” exclaimed Mr. Near ton. “Not Herv !” ejaculated- Mr. Verries. “Not Randy!” interjected Mr. Berry Pamela nodded three tiinefc, but her eyes failed to show wonder. Nowadays everybody she ran/into seemed to know everybody she kronr l>v his first name. j “Excuse roe,'* said Mr. Nearton, in i'tent on getting there first with a re "mark—any remark; “does he owe you ttibney, too V . i The effect was electrical. Miss ! Thornton assumed a freezing .digrtlt?. She fixed Mr. i\ carton with steady eyes. . • “How mudi does Mr. Randolph owe . you?” she asked. he •>. Uejdv do ed * V , hie •]- s.mmn r. •, ; - .. : s ; e Pad g. • . .> . the hn s var ; ,• : • .... . r s iU : i'. ;.fi . • on ‘ • d e kaeulcn of }. ■ ■■ m. <•.;• • !;..>! in;; and V ’v."vr ;.uw vn eng h in for tilfld: ; i:1 o. i - ht h; a. U..liief of fen thousand i-oda-s a • year, un mod inerm e o.t. p,, cpf. tOO big {!{. ond down into the eh eye. ■•mi :• ’or al) iy eager five of ’ ' • five ;i',: > yv or. • mi her hands “afic hue. s, which it seemed unbeliever’ h bo had -nvo he'd in his arms, only th» «;"r-rtprated favorite poem of hr,=?~ pur-e : _ . I count net. love toga dear, s© much Lo\t*i I not honor trargf kept him, £roni fa|mg the avalanche of ridicule an 1 giyifflg the e; ernally searching biog^nefT??*Jth his lam -m a run for his money. As previmis'y stated, i( was not to be. • Mr. Ran dolph turned from the waiting unnfi of the sweetest temptation ever re niged by man and made his swift way to the sanctum of Mr. Tourke O’Shaughnessy, foreman-manager of the Village Cab company. “Tourke,” said Mr. Randolph, “I’m through. Smashed up the two off “Tcurke,” Said Mr. Randolph, "I'm Through." , * \ % wheels of my wagon on the curb In front of the Poppy 'club. Pock f me thirty, please, and make out inv miv cheek.” , "Through, Slim? Whadda ya mean?" said Mr. 0*Sh&ugkne'ssy. "Think I’m goin’ to sack you l'or a skid on a day like this? Pay for your fun, kid, but take another wagon.” Robert Raudotph, alias S’im Her vey, shook his head. “tfou don’t understand,” he said. “I—I’ve lost my nerve.” "Lost your nynv!” gasped Mr. O’- hauglmessy. “Whadda ya mean hy teiiin’ me a lie* like that? dome on. now; draw a map! Did ye kill the inside?” “Oh, nt it I mean, tl !r iy is very i;:*iofc all right," "I besir •*» >■ r^unnursd Toupty. 4 on trad:, - \-.T A look oA •!v ! hy on? ot loyalty <•: ‘ ( . \-amle is liUc pkiysn’ i,.- •:lek- o’ • : ri a;;it\ hut ' <; ,2 "ft eani.-i to to. ' . . o’ u'.l II:?.* i. i- yo::, .. n there's yo .. j ,:,j :■ ■ ' * tir.-t ter I t v. r hat* . . }T) on ' :-.-y ■ i : “T; ■ - - Mi: ! 1; h, j;>o ►hoofs ills ■.: t' s . “NpV.-, >■ * rS!.;\ • - ill* ■ J • ‘ b> Si r: • f.f, ;;;, >0 the lx,;. S lb re ;y> ' cun:.; in ilu' put ’• m (>i: In ih* •• -art. you >::n out for a :: 'kv-iib ' Sally Pain" »r ror.rd til? • ,(• yo*i ' t’i ’p , » • 1 • r '■own to u ■ ■ fre.-l;'! , do a mifje .ye ■■ . y,-l a !** v>ti so « *ek on the door, followed promptly by the rattle of the loose knob and be unceremonious entry >v ore hiidiike, bald-headed, dapper •'••••r; t.fioi lawyer and two corpuieut - i becioihes m*;n. ‘‘W; '. rc the—” exclsfihied the •-'i ■' ivshaughnessy. • i . a l ’ ht paid him no heed and '• '• •; t: yd .»• iasi-v. ’lung ttiim Her V- y with or rrtclieii band. ^ l d'-'-oft ! ' - e I bw.wingiy. “fly ' . i•: y. : r . . ro e you ' •1 "ib ' ■ d hand. Kb; . v . : . • , “The lit :de i"... 11 1.: V b ;. .! • 1:» serve pap. rs ' i yer w a ■ id r -V • an’ .»u take I . . . - ■■■■' ^ '■ ‘ . ^ ,.r li'L gu‘ g to **iP"'d.>n't v why!her tin y think p!li U yeti er n ■ rei mark, d air. O’.'in;a; uneasy, fixing nm.lgnant yyc s on t he two Ir'iwy flanking for ■ of th smart i vy< r. “I iwver .da! Pke tb • smell < fai.M keenly he roareffi “Hey! id vs;” ‘1 by two hub slaved into mnos-f pitaide pastures, ttjrhed. stepped iMJsiuguuessy. yw i, or aiun z i get the name correct?” “I beg your pardon, Tourke,” said Robert, “Mr. Borden Milyuns; Air. Tourke O’Skauglmvstsy.” He pro nminced it “O’Shoekenssy,” to the de light of the owner’s ears, long unuc <*u,strutted to the correct intonation oi *! •> exolT ■ ironvfn; I did t • ;■ £ . ' wil, , ’ '■ tg.shauglmessy,--asr l>e rose and tip toed from the room. *T leave you '.rents to your family affairlie add ed from the ddoc, this eyes drinking a last view of the (train king he had dared to call a runt; During .the next Ualfdiour. Mr. Mil vims delivered •‘himself of an ovsortet sol of special i>ten#Jce S.1iat i:e c.mic nave said on then-maarfcetalmost an? uy for'titty thtot npi ckdiary, bu i>< vie judge and his. oAom at ill sat •‘fwinr^tfrareajae putteed leg k : midair, - tho^tf&sajnnir.z aside tlh i valuable 'dreams ^r^^-ddm-vvords. ark I ■ uitintred puSlm rbore cigarette " or aipr '.'«r. (hnSv:- dightod from ill •utt of i;'-: prt h;-'/.vs .rl I “itVn'o 'use, *}:\itynhs.” said It -h I rt, n’t 'ish-t. *'Th*5 nth is. and yot ! mow it, that a ihef-.t'ng between ray if and :'am—- Thorn ion. a' tin ' ■.■..‘sent iU-Ve dish under ike exception [ al ce.)<3:irons, con!.f only briny aVsfl j .eiiiPileHtions• 1 >eyV-1• • I ihc capabiiity v i ’.ny one < f os vo handle. I! *:* pro - snl (hat shy divide- her in cm . • me is so absurd Ur >. 1 am t oe .<*-.\ a ■ imper—at your even mentioning it.” MV. U:?yuns wii d bis brov/ ipr tie iirnt tiii'e in many years. “I don’t mind you calling me ‘inn er linen!;’ Robert,” he said meekly ■‘f’-hih me anything you please. Only’ —and his voice rose gradually to t svrpris'ng volume—“don’t forget tliai I promised one'- of the dearest, niosi unspoiled, lovable. and wholly adur aide young persons that it’s ever beer 'ey privilege to assure of U;,» impo* le that I would bring you to her end. by the holy mackerel. I will—rh [ I have to hold yon by one ear will my teeth.” / 1 Mr. RamioipU took Ids latwr eiga re r e from his mouth during finds strict I ly illegal peroration, and allowed hia i lips to spread into a brood smile. “Mr. Milyuns,” he said, “I always did litre yon; now I’ve got a deeper feeling. They call it love. I adm.it , to 13)e human end of you ti’.at -,h© or.Iy thing that keeps me from rush ing straight away to call y you have so accurately d-wcribed is tv* fact that i haven't money ami sh-i h..-.'’ “But what about the .lob T offer I you?” interjected Mr. MdyunK “I was coruing to that,” said Sir. ■ ’ Iph. *Tm not keen on cl • fr. - you any more than from IS! Thornton, but—more than that—I wouldn’t bury myself in your stuffy oh] -kyscraper at any cash price known to man. In the first place, you boh : ft. most unoriginal of till pro f< and, in the second, you mr.ke money too slowly.” “ ‘Make money too slowlygasped Mr. Milyuns, forgetting Bobby and Pamela and their affairs for the first time in three weeks, and remember ing, for a change, and with a twinge of his hardened conscience, the size of his last retainer. “Ila!” But Mr. Randolph allowed him no time for indulgence in vocal mirth. “That’s what I said,” he continued, unmoved. “To meet Miss Thornton fa^e to face and unashamed, 1 feel j that I must have a capital of at least i a hundred thousand.” j Ke sank his head in thought for a | moment. When he raised it again, the widely placed blue eyes were there. So was the saddle of faint freckles across his nose: so was the ; guarantee of hones.y a we- - his gw i fee,., but superimposed ■•(•••• all w«> 1 & new look of sudden - o-. Continued on last page % “V-ss Jores in the -to use?** Lexington, Ky.—noc:r: ;;:r! was • not ]■.•'.when J- *»■ ■■, *•.• was ro i ported £ying, nil th"?u- in, lading | Tbo movies, nmst page people when the request is maih, U. S. BOYS C> ITALY Purs 5200,000 for Roma, Lsrrent Semi Rigid Aircraft in the World. | Washington.—Purchase of the Ttni | ian “blimp” airship Roma, believed tr be the largest semi-rigid ai^cra.'t I? j world, for approximately £20u.')d:». | v**ts announced by tJie War depart | aunt. , -t probably*, would.©ost $1,250,000 t duplicate the ship, the statement*said. The Kerr,a is of 1,200,000 cubic fee capacity, 410 feet iong, 82 feet^wid and 8;l-2 feet high. :md- equipped with, 32-cylinder enghaes of 400"horse! I a,v, r each. It had an-estimated speed of R; i hies an hour pnd a cruising ra ius at.ruil speed'of 8,300 miles and a ; cruising speed of 8,000, miles. i | Maj. John G., Thornhill has been or-; derod to Italy with an air service de tachment to biding the lloma to Amer - ica. SAYS JAZZ DEAD IN LONDON English Dancing Authority Predicts Fex Trot Will 3e Siand Losdon.—The “jazz" is dead in Lon don, says I*. J. S. Itichurdson, one of {.lie foremost Engiic* on ill - dances will be popularized tills year, bur the fox trot, one-step and tango, which have held hneraationai intereej for two or three seasons, will be stand ardized. “Previously persons taught the same dan cos by different teaches found themselves hopelessly at sea when they tried to dunce together,” he said. - "‘Through standardization! on which . the majority Of dancing uwors in . Leaden have now agre =d, a ••oirmreS framework 'n i:I. steps b ism ?d I without eh-uini.tiag.. ail <•!: • • • of in i trcd.ueifg iiv:.:.uo yerhr,; ■ .’re:, > . o'-h and vn'.yc ‘Ugh: gy; e: .die;’ , such ns v ..Lg: i% forms o* :\ve i::pidi. pus ig L".•. ' r, ■ r : - 0,i i 1 pl.u’ . bits • »rdii; J S«lf-DestrJction Record of Rrgv.iauc ■ Year ‘o B'^b.yunby More Than * 1,GCr’ b?.3D3. New Yl Srd cities in the «lrrji j '"rase-' dm g the year of 1020 nuin ’■ j '"er ■;! 0,17 . including 7:.J children. '! ’ “ Lie Save-a-Life leate.V | •- • '<> told here by T>r. H. M. Warrer •Vjii rf ti*a ?eeitte. ^Itib cXeeedeu use iigdi’eS o'f tin* «•»*:. - vions year by more, than 1,000 ca er , he said. During the year 2.GO 1 won en died through '^Tf-desfrucuon. VhL • js a large increase over the precede■. ’ ear. Tlie Increased percentage amoi •; ' omen was ascribed to their entry n •aumiereial and political life. The youngest suicide in the countr*. •fitting the last year was live years g \ while the oldest was 103. ■ an 400 soldiers have taken tiud rves since the termination of the W;n lie report stated. I Superior Coor! Casas | Superior Cimrt which con j veiled here ■; on day is still :a ; session. Up o bate. the follow I mg cases ha • b ••a disposed of. | joe Thomk , colored, manu i facouriog iicj . iol. pros, with i Herbert jasierp assault, nol. j pros, with k Charlie . •. k, assault, nol ! pros with lea e. Jira Brown c.-.L Walter Oma | rn, manufacturing liquor, not 11, uilty. j- C. L. Lovelao , assault, guilt/ ; i:o sentence. Arthur Burch, carrying con l cealed weapons, not guilty. Glenn Brow n and W. \V. Pin uix, assault, Pinnix lined $40 j arid cost. jNo sentence as to j Ioown. Lee Weatherman, driving au i to intoxicated, lined $100 and j cost. ! Spence. McNeil, Joe Ham and Bryant Whitaker, store breaking, each sentenced to not j more than 6 years nor less than | 6 years in state prison. I Ed Mason, colored, carrying ; concealed y. capons, judgment | suseer.dtd oi, p. \ ir.ent ot costs. L ili Myers, house breaking, 118 months on roads. I I p li i 7 £ i :; • ■ * x•• ■ r 3 \ v A ^ 1 * — i;: i J, .Ji ,.s u i Cl »• U' «i i6 jl >v i uz nrih •; j'cl. whose ngeNk is s-aiu io bo EH yc.n-s, cied at \ the home of her ton Mr D. E. Chi,j’pci ifCi- ‘ Er.i r List week. Ene was t;u: :ed.- at Lor glow’ll iH.u Rev. K. ' e.,*>:C:e. .ed I liiC i iiiiCi U S 4* ». • DEVICE FOR CLEANING Gf?A:ji South Dakota Man f-fes Invention for improving Grain Which Is Sim: pfe in donttrfiction. '* 1 '•*•■•<• 51 • V;tf The Rek'Mificr .VfnWonii iri flVnsVfSfc. u fns* dnA flc.'-'ri’ii;i^LVrr*’fiiv('MtH::d sf0^. * Metlier of ilonno. S:1 sjty^t3 ' 0 ' bills 'invention relates to ‘ ar*lfA-iee for <■!<*:mirj?_r. cooliny uffd drying by air blasts. T!:7 (pyjort is to, pzo dwe a device by v.lvarious y.'sifcs r~.—=r____-n i pgata.. r_ • y/ ; '' r re . vftrj* A Vertical LoRSii^cijgjy..Ss^ioRk^f^s - :' . r -• c^a%« -Vo* may bo cleans*!’vw&rdfled"mVflPcIh er\vi?e bhyVirreil. ^fSKfflTha constructfon,” on :•■? '$P*roH$ e5bn$r(ckr ries no raeellaSienf iHrTsCFo got but of ortlex, or rsauir^ iuforjeatints. _' :, - r, • •FOR Finsi*r8-LM^ Village ScheOimadtar, Victim of YVajv to Have—Government •'Y Shaft. ‘.TOtfe***. —* iToneher'ey,’r'i Ffeihh.'—A' eevA^b- 7 In honor of the first Frenchman ’v«]>- j I11 the war lias jtist been h'eTd •fii + it > Tittle village. The victim. ,T>' ^ Peugeot, was n schoolmaster ho ■’•.-•-» the war and joined the nr. < t < ;l corporal. Ho by a r’iiiar trol. 12 kbpfheters (about seven # I ’ 9 half Hu'et} ^ora {he" German '-m tier 34 hours before tint. SU^r,;V of vrfir. A monument to the school master erected here will soon h ft tested by the French governr,1*' Chimes visy a Kt -rn of □«?<•’> J^ort Wayne, Tn-f.— Few un««ns* ■ .{ why the nr- 'ram was chair-tOi - •(.< , Edward F. Vamelle gave a r- ;,^1 on the tipv mimes or- ted in tot* i>:• >--•• byterjau oh i«*h tower, hut a * -W.;*,.* e* messr'Cf. fr. ia the h^dsfde n d-.or 1 worn-;’- ■ ' ■:! •• -‘I’m , j*s- . . . } f Die No