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I ' RAILROAD SCHEDULE
|. t In Effect Nov. 29, 1925.
Northbound
No. 40 To New York 9 :28 P. XI
, No. 136 To Washington 5:05 A. XI.
| No. 36 To New York 10:25 A. M.
I « No. 34 To New York 4:43 P. XI
v - No. 46 To Danville 3:15 P. XI
No. 12 To Richmond 7 :10 P. XI
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. 1 No. 30 To New York 1:55 A. M.
B - Southbound
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- No. 85 To New Orleans 9:56 P. M
No. 29 To Birmingham 2 :35 A. M
No. 31 To Augusta 5:51 A. M
No. 33 To New Orleans 8:25 A. M
No. 11,To Charlotte 8 :05 A. M
No. 135 To Atlanta 8:35 P. M
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No. 37 To New Orleans 10:45 A. M
Train No. 34 will stop in Concord
to take on passengers going to Wash
ington and beyond.
Train No. 37 will stop here to dis
charge passengers coming from be
yond Washington.
All trains stop in Concord except
No. 38 northbound.
fXBIffiE^OUGHTf
I^^—FOR TODAY—I
1} Bible Thoughts memorised, will prove ft HI
[g! priceless heritftge in after years A
• A SAFE INVESTMENT:—He
f that hath pity upon the poop lendeth
S- untol the Lord, and that which he
\ hath given will he pay him again.*—
% - Proverb .19:17.
HOTEL INVESTMENT SEEMS A
GOOD ONE.
f , Those persons ill Concord and Ca
ll , - barrus County who subscribed gener
. ously during the campaign for a new
i, * hotel in this city, seem to have acted
J wisely. There is every reason to be
t „ lieve they will receive 6 per cent, on
their investment once the hostelry be
gins operat ion.
jf- t Officials of the hotel company have
leased the building to the William
Foor Operating Corporation, and be
lt fore officials of that company get any
profits they must pay stockholders of
g- 1 ; the hotel company 6 per cent, on their
H investment. The dividend is not guar
i *" anteed. but the fact that the operating
r company took the lease on a profit
t% sharing basis indicates that its offi
r. cials are confident of a steady, paying
patronage in Concord. The operat
ing company is to pay all expenses
incident to running the hotel and un-
I, , less they deemed the venture a rela
| , tively safe one it is hardly probable
I ''' that other terms in the contract would
i . have been agreeable to them.
- Os course there is the other side of
- the question. In addition to making a
good finuneial investment persons
subscribing to the fund have given
Concord what it needed most—* mod
- ern hotel. The business interests of
the city will feel the effects of the
~ hotel even if the hostelry never pays a
I niekle in dividends;
There is another thing to be said
Mp in this connection. The Foor inter-
I ests are running hotels in this and
other States and they are recognized
Y as hotel authorities. They tshouljd
P., make the local hotel a modern one. run
along modern lines. The fact is an
important one to be considered. We
‘ are going to have a handsome, inod-
Bf - ernl.v equipped structure and the ser-
P, - vice should be ip keeping with the
BP physical plant. We believe the Foor
w interests will give such service.
CERTAINLY, IT PAYS.
||fc E. L. Gunts. president of the ISulti-
K more Advertising dubs, says Balti
|H more is spending $100,900 a year in
RS|.' National advertising for the city and
Kp adds that since tlie city had been tlius
Igspreading the light about itself more
ifc.,. than $200,000,000 in new business had
K& been brought to Baltimore.
Ept* To which tlie Charlotte News re-
P marks that if "advertising a piece of
f goods pays, advertising a city would
I pay proportionately and in equal >a
jfc tio with the amount utilized for this
tty purpose.
tty “There is no quest : on any longer
R?„ about that. Tlie trouble we seem to
H be having around liere is not in com-
K ing into agreement with the wisdom
g or qtjwotieiic.v of this venture, but in
|| getting the money with which to make
■ft; the.njfirii; • i ■a ,».•••
py, * The Gastonia Gazette adds the
Wku thought thht ’’die a too unt of money
heceastU'y to put over a project of thin
Sort .will'be nothing coinjiared to the
K Jwturus that will accrue in the long
IjffylMWh ■ Look at Florida for instance.
a They have spent thoasands for adver
. tising but the returns have been
measured in millions. Cities and
towns all over the country have tome
. to the place where they know how ad
vertising pays, and they are fast fall
lng in line. Those who do not will
j soon be left behind.”
. Durham recently raised about $25,-
* 000 for advertising purposes, despite
the fact that its tobacco enterprises
make it one of the best known cities
in the world. However, business men
of the city realize that new business
means more business for all and they
are going to tey the world about the
things they have.
PARTY STRENGTH MAY DECIDE
IT.
The Senate has started the debate
on the tax reduction bill and in the
| final county party strength may decide
the matter.
While the tax bill sponsored by the
administration is described by Repub
licans as “non-partisan,” it's a fact
that it is not endorsed by Senate I>em
oerats although it received support
from some Democrats in a House com
mittee. Senator Simmons has a
measure he wants considered and when
he starts anything he usually makes
himself heard.
Chairman Smoot, of the Senate Fi
nance Committee, which is sponsor
ing tlie administration bill, hopes to
reach a vote not later than February
10th, while he makes allowance for
heated and lengthy debate, he feels
certain he can secure a vote by that
time.
Senator Simmons wants one im
portant change in the bill. He wants
the reductions to apply to the incomes |
of more people of moderate means.
The Republican bill gives everybody
some relief, but it pays more atten
t;on to the big tax payer than the
small tax payer. Senator Simmons
will fight for a schedule that is‘ more
partial to the masses than the classes.
FIRE DESTROYS BIG
ORPHANAGE DORXIITORY
Building Occupied by Boys at Thoin
asviile Orphanage in Ruins.
Thomasville, .Tan. 28.—The Watson
House, one of the boys' main dormi
tories at the Baptist orphanage, was
destroyed by first this afternoon about
3 o’clock. It was first discovered to
be afire in the roof but no definite
conclusion lias been readied as to
the origin, except that possibly it
was caused by a spark from the tall
smoke pipe going up through the
building.
The dining and cooking depart
ment was saved and also all the furni
ture of the lower floor, but the beds
of the upstairs where all the boys. 28
or 30 in number, slept, were de
stroyed.
The fire company of the city arrived
qhiekly following the alarm, but was
rfnabie to save any part of lire build
ing except the kitchen and dining
room. The boys’ best clothes were
destroyed, with their shoes and sleep
ing places.
Arrangements are being made for
sleeping in the central dining room,
cots and other furnishings being
placed this evening, all the dormitories
on the grounds being full.
T’iie building was ererted in 1885
by John Wilson, of Warrenton, who
furnished the means. It was re
modeled in 1906. The dining room
and kitchen were added about a year
ago.
The building was of brick. It will
be rebuilt immediately. Xlanager
Kesler gives the information that
there was only $2,500 insurance on
the building and furniture and that
it will take at least $7,000 to replace
the building as it was, and furnish
ings and all included might run it up
. to SB,OOO.
. SHOT AND ROBBED BY "
TWO UNKNOWN NEGROES
Claude Davis Sold His Case and Had
Purchase Money on His Person at
i the Time.
* High Point, Jan. 28.—Claude Dav
i is, young white man, was robbed and
. shot by two unknown negroes in a
f residential section of the city here to
. night. Police are searching for the
t highwaymen, who are said to have
made away with $450 stolen off the
I person of Davis.
lVounded by a bullet hole through
Iris left arm and knife marks on his
body, the young man was found by
Xlrs. Levi, graduate nurse of Guil
-1 ford General Hospital, about 7 o'clock
i tonight. His prostrate body xvaa In
i a diteh alongside Lindsay Street,
- haifway between Howell and Boule
. vard streets, when Xlrs. Levi found
. him. according to information. Ai
? though in a semi-conscious condition,
Davis gave those who attended him to
understand that he had an idea who
tlie highway men were. He described
one of the negroes as tall and slim.
Police were attempting to secure
bloodhounds tonight, with which to
- ruh down the negroes.
David today sold a case which he
, owned on Mallory Street and had the
I money on his person. The negroes
are believed to have known of the sale
s and waylaid Duvis in a dark section
p of Lindsay Street, whore there are no
l ' houses for several hundred yards in
either direction, this being the new
i- Jones residential section.
f .
r] Two Bound Over on Charge of Hofc
bery.
H Greensboro, Jan. 28.—John XV.
■ Shelton and E- 11. Brinson were
bound over today at a preliminary
hearing here oh charges of larceny
0 fVoin the. American Exchange N»-
l * tiomil Bank, being held in bond of
u $5,090 and SI,OOO respectively for
n the Guilford Superior court jury,
e Shelton on the stand implicated
Brinson, who was ail employe of the
bank hut the latter produced his
ancle to show an alibi to the effect
y that Brinson whs at honie in bed
* when Mheltnn MU the robbery ac
e furred. ■‘Also to the effect that Shel
g ton did not come borne until 3
», A o'clock the following Horning.
She
; She Won’t Take It Easy
i
j|S& ’fl IB • m
viary Scovell of Chicago likes to work. Two years ago' she went on'the
irage. Now her father has made a huge fortune in Florida real estate and
'as wired her to “come home and enjoy society.” But she sticks to tbo
itage, remarking, ,‘TU continue to dance, because you know the devil
finds lota of mock for idle h °"U-
The Cash Income of American
Farmers Averaged $5lO a Year
Kaleigh. X. (\. .Tan. rS.—(/P)—
The next eush iucome of American
farmers for the crop year 11)24*2r>
avt iaged only $5lO. plus an average !
consumption of food from the farm
valued at s&tl>. This return repre
sented. what farmer op«;;.;ors re
ceived for interest on an average in
vestment of $5,043 and as wages for ,
the lobar of themselves r.id their;
families.
figures represents the net in-!
rome. payments for interest, rent;
taxes, and money expenses having !
> been deducted.
► The estimate is made by the
I nited States Department of Agri
culture in a bulletin just received
here, and released for publication
tonight.
An allowance for the labor of the
farmer and hits family at average
i wages for hired farm laborers, the ;
; department says, in addition to what t
■ the farm supplies to the family living :
would leave no interest return what
[ ever on the operator’s capital,
t In fact, the average farm family
. during the past crop year would
. have lacked SIS 4 of having anything
. to apply a.s interest on their capital
. investment.
The figures are quoted , in eub
. stantiation of the department’s ar
gument that the land policy of the
| United States should be so recon
! structed as to check undue expansion !
of farm areas, as a means of as
j listing agriculture through the dis
) ficult readjustment process in which
the department says it is now ia
l volved.
» The department advocates a
policy of systematic direction of
l land eettleinent and land utilization. \
based on a classification of undevel
[ oped lands in both private and pub
lic ownership, and, a carvuliv form-'
ulared and thoroughly coordinated j
pli#n of development for agriculture 1
? and forestry. For such a system, it
is felt that the cooperation of both
* federal and >tate governments would 1
be. required- The proposals is made, j
sfiy.s the bulletin, from a realisation i
that unwise farming expansion in i
5 this cou n ry in the past lias been an
important cause of recurrent ugri
-1 cultural depressions.
* The comlifions illustrated by file
figures are chronic- in American agri
culture, it is asserted. It ife contend
i ed that certain historical force . j
i notably the pioneering tradition ami :
- the resulting over-expansion of farm |
e areas, have put agriculture on no in j
e come basis much below that of other 1
0 economic enterprises. Farmers. in I
other words, are not yet in a position j
Ij to obtain a reward for their labor
ami a return on their capital com
. mCnsunite with the wages and re
i \urns to capital and enterprise pte-
valent in industry.
n Although agriculture has passed
, out of tlie self-sufficing stage, into
Z the commercial, says th- d'qmrtment.
j it hiic not yet reached the ea|dta!istic
y stage. largely because excessive
, competition on sub-marginal lands
has prevented farmers from estab
n lashing reasonable income standards,
j As a partial remedy, it i« recom
mended that more care be exercised
£ iu the settlement of new lands,
o t... lju 1 . i "
e WINECOFF. ,
e / Mueh interest is being manifested I
is in the sewing c-Inb recently organized !
e by Miss Xlattie Lee i’ooiey. All the l
n girls of Wmecoff High School li.-tve
o joined tli* club ami they hope to do
n some good work\ Miss Cooley meets
w with them tw : ce a month. Miss
Xla ry Stallings is to be the leader in I
ease Miss Cooley finds it impossible to
»- attend.
The high school was very much on
thused over the, country gentleman
* eontest. In this, the Comets won over
y the Meteors and Rockets. The losers
y entertuined the winners last Friday
night with a tueky part's. <3«rvel Den
-11 i»y and Pauline Lewder received the
,r prizes for the “tackiest” persons. X T n-1
. rloas games, suck «■( fishing, upset
“ t'ng exeWfises, stunts arid others were
'Z j entered Into with much zest. Hot
chocolate with toasted cheese sand
al • wlobes made up the refreshments,
r-1 Tlie boys awl girls of the higli school
1-! art* divided into separate literary so
-3 I eirtFs. The girls’’ society i* called
(The Carpedien. Last Friday their
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THE CONOOftD DAILY TRIBUN6
Take It Easy
AKricnlture should be protected in
every possible way from the in
ftuenee of an unduly rapid rate of
! expansion of the agricultural, it is
declared. The ideal nought i« the
restriction of land aettlement to ite
normal o<*onomic limits.
Without attempting precisely to
define what these limits should be.
; the department sets up the principle
that in general new land should not
!be brought into use until it will
■earn a return for capital invested
|in improvements and for labor,
equivalent to the returns to capital
and labor in other branches of pro
duction, even though it is recognized
that there will always be persons
who may be induced to settle in new
regions on the basis of *ub normal
returns. Public bodies, while not
undertaking the restriction of free
dom of the individual, shouiir never
j theless, restrain this tendency by
! every legitimate means, it is main
tained.
And it is suggested that the fed
oral government modify its own
land polieit*. Tlie abandonment of
the homestead policy, termed "out
grown.” with ito stimulus to land
settlement, is mentioned a* one
phase of the needed reconstruction of
federal land policy. ' .
More prudence in reclamation
work is advised. Some of the depart
s ment.s s economists, the bulletin says,
have even raised the qucutiion
whether the government should en
gage in rec amation at all. Private
Capital has had to abandon reclama
tion because the returns from agri r ,
culture conducted us a whole on a
sub-normal agricultural basis, nave
| not sufficed to make reclamation
• pay. it is pointed out- The wisdom of
government reclamation work under
j "uneconomic conditions” is called iu
; question.
| New settlement in the future, it is
said, will occur largely in the cut
over regions and the great plains,
! where large scale reclamation work
is not required. Large ureas in these
; regions which ought to be aevoted to
; reforestation are lying idle, it is
averted. And the bulletin adds that
(large farming areas are developed on
j lands not well adapted for the pur- *
A remedy for the evils which these I
[mistaken polices bring in their train;!
says the department. w> sought in
[authority for public agencies to ap
: prove land settlement project* utter
1 careful investigation, to recommend
jto intending settlers the most de
sirable settlement projects, and to
j encourage or discourage expanr-igin
! hi accortlance with the economic out-:
1 [ look.
This poHejr, it is said, n«‘ed not
take the form of reprertsion or regu
lation. It would rather be devoted to
research and education. A system
whereby new settlers would be en
i cotirageti and accustomed to look for
disinterwtod advice and direction so
governmental authorities would, it is
declared, eliminate many of the evils
; of haphazard land settlement. In
fluent iso exerted, it is though,
. would make it. practicable to exert
- pressure oil private land settle me fit
i agencies to make them conform U»
. good settlement methods.
, i - >m,. n l9 m
I program was as follows:
Song Xo. 08.
Scripture reading and prayer—Myr
] \lc pownum.
} Recitation—Rthel F. Peck,
llano «>lo—BUisabeth Winecoff. j
Jokes—Ewtelte Furr.
<’horus—Verne t'lifte, Ola Mae
Barrier. Etnel F. Peck and
Winecoff .
Prophecy of Xifith Grade —Hazel
Goodman. >
Hong No. 74,
Friday afternoon the boys cut out
their society meeting and went down
to pimy Rocky River. They were
fcated.
Tl)e girls’ basketball team* will play
i Concord team at Concord Friday
night. T» Renters mr[ My oxcirtfl
over order 1 Bgj ttieir cluhh rings. Jitdg-'
ing Irma the s»mi>leH they wifi be verjr
preffy. ■ ’ v • j
Mr. R. O. ColdweH spent . Imuit.
Wednesday and Tlmrsdgg in L;nii-t4-
liurg wltli his Inofhrr, T)f. Wilton
CaMwett. . I
Mias Mary StalUnga and Mig.'
Y
Owrelfki IMS Tr.ne-r Bra. rwaaiM. (at. /
“Satan In Sables" with Lowell Sharman la a picturlzation of this novel
SYNOPSIS 1
Prince Michael Yervedoff, wealthy 1
Russian philanderer in Faria, be
;othrt interested tn Colette: pretty i
itreet dancer. Michael's younger 1
brother, Paul, whom he has always
shielded from e fast life, is vamped i
by Dolores, one of Michael's cast- t
offs, who sees in the innocent boy l
s tool for revenge against Michael, i
Colette finds the priceless Yerve- !
toss emerald accidentally entangled I
in her dress. She plans to return i
tt, but is thwarted by Emile, her \
Apache brother-in-law. who coerces i
her by threatening to take away
!rom her his motherless son Billy, .
who is the apple of "Aunt Colette's"
eye. ‘ i
CHAPTER 111—r Continued 1
“Bravo, Billy! See, Mr. Swan 13 I
coming back for more!” cried Co- 1
lette. While Billy continued to
leed the awan, seme iaufinct that
told Colette she was being watched i
made her turn—to find herself face •
to lace with Ninon and Freddy Er- 1
skin. i
With a contused little bow, OS- I
lette would have moved away but I
Freddy was not to be denied. 1
“Why, It’s Columbine!" he ex
claimed In pleased surprise. “I t
don’t believe .1 shall ever forget '
that wonderfdl dance we had to- I
gether, little one. Every bone in t
my body aches right now—with 1
the kind of ache that wants for <
more!” s
“We all enjoyed your dancing, £
Mademoiselle,” Ninon said with a
grudging smile. ”1 .hope you’ve re. <
covered from your little spoil of — <
er-r —indisposition.”
"Completely, thank you—and, I
oh! my good friends, a thousand •
pardons that 1 mad* suah a scene!”
Freddy held up a Uffhtly depre- 1
eating hand; as for\Ninon, her at
tention hid switched to Billy.
"What h pretty little boy! Is —
s he yours’’ - she purred, in tire
manner of » cat gingerly picking
She breathed c sigh of relief when
the emerald ires gr.ee again in her
'hands.
iti way across a shelf-full of thin
oocktall glasses.
Colette’s reply came brightly, in
tones of prideful ccmpd33|on: “No,
ha is my nephew. But oiace his
mother’s death I have been bring- <
lng him up—so I guess I can al
most say that he is mine.” / '
“Oh!" said Ntoon.
"Plucky little beggar!” enthused 1
Freddy, admiringly.
“I dbn’t know what I should do
without him." Colette went on sira- i
ply, “for he Is all of my happiness
j —ray life!”
| Ninon appraised Colette covertly,
recalling Michael’s theories about I
the pert “Columbine,” and wonder- •
lng whether thpt all-wise raan-of- I
the-world had read aright the so
olal situation Y>f the little dancer.
Ninon in that moment.had a vivid I
mental glimpse of Colette’s strug- I
gle lu life—her fight against odds.
Life to ahy girl without'Theahs in I
Paris was a hitter fight; and for I
one to bring up an orphaned child -
tn addition wasua voluntary addl- <
tion to the load—a gesture of self- 1
sacrifice—that Ninon could not un- t
derstand, but cduid appreciate. I
Suddenly Ninon felt her own shal- 1
lowness filled with a warm flood i
of admiration for the brave and big t
soul in the slender little girl that
stood before her.
And when Ninon bade Colette i
good-bye a moment later—after t
patting Billy’s applesktn cheeks i
and-placing in hit little fiat a gllst- I
•nlng two-franc place that Freddy i
had Impulsively dug out of hia 1
pocket—there was a genuine ring I
df cordiality aad sincerity tn . the
words and Bthile of the fashionably
girl that touched Colette, it
aaomad to the shabby little girl
I that Ninon, with feathers and
! poise as queenly as the stately ;
j swans upon the lake—and who, j
| donhUons, for the mere asking, had !
ervarytblng that women desire In
the world—sympathized with her,
and appreciated the grim battle i
that she had to put up for what I
little she attained.
’ iiH ’ i n,t
Ralph CdMwell spent Saturday in
Ckwlottc. •
■ CWtt Cahlwrtl has bees vary
fori.the past week but Ms condition
■eepiH to is- improved.
hss ill for
two has a bad Cold and
I the weather continues so severe that
; she is afra'd ’ , fo'jVestUbe back to
I -’.'EMsivofth well ngsih after
| suffering with *' sev«e case of bron
,’chßfc. I
home; when they arrived at theli
humble door, pitch darkness was
making its usual nightly mockery
of-the meagre and Impotent street .
lamps ot Paris’ poorer sections.
Colette’s heart pounded to find
that Emile was still sleeping
sounder, more abandoned, than be
fore. Trembling but resolute and
eager in her determination, Colette
lost no time In giving Billy his
bowl of bread and mdlk and bun
dling him off to bed wltb a tender
injunction to dream ot the awaas
and the cows and the green Helds,
where some day they—Billy and
Aunty—would live.
Then Colette alone was left
awake in the barren little flat, to
work out the desperate destiny of
her unwelcome connectiou with the
innocently acquired Yervedoff em
erald.
Tq,galn possession of the jewel,
which wag now locked in Emile’s
bureau, was Colette’s sole thought
After .vainly racking her brain, tbs
hopelessness- ot getting the' enter
aid, without rousing him and invok
ing the punishment of his brute
force upon her helpless head,
forced itself on her.
She decided that the "best and
only thing to do was to wait until
be went out with the gem fn hie
possession. She would follow, and
then, If her appeals were of ntj
avail,, sho would summon a gen
darme and have Smile arrested, lq
spite ot the aftermath that she
dreaded.
Sitting there It the semi-darkness
of poor gaslight, oho prayed that
this course,of final resort would
not be UQcessary, for she knew
that l'milo would wreak his ven
geance on her through little Billy
—knew, too. that her life hence
forth would boa veritable hell.
Was her prayer to he answered,
she wondered, when a sudden
knock came at -the door thaj
opened directly to Emile’s room
from the outside hallway landing
She crept silently to his lnqe?
ioor, and heard him answer sleep
ily. rt was an , Apache friend, en
joining him to come to the cornet
remedialqly a* one, Deehlne, was
swelling him there. Emile jumped
out of bed with an oath. A
seconds later, Colette saw him go
out on the hallway landing with
rat taking the emerald —beard
him go dowpstairs with his com
panioi, and out
Colette’s path was now clear!
flushing info Emile's room sho
tnogeS at the looted drawer, bnl j
without avail. FVaruicaliy, she
i-.rr.cnf-ed a hammer, and forced the
drawer open. She breathed a sigh
of relief when the emerald waa
once rigain in her hands.
Hastily, she. Kent out—pausidy
on her way downstairs to ask tho
women below to Took after Billy.
Gaining the street level hallway
at last, Colette opened the front
’obr cantionsly holding he*
broath- clutching tho emerald to
her thumping breast, until she
made sure that Eiptle and hie set
low Apaches Vere nowhere la
night. Then she quickly ran out
Into the street and was swallowed
by the blackness of the Paris night
cmapter four
Meanwhile, that “met*mg' after"
bad not ‘begun auspiciously so»
Michael. Upon Awakening he
asked. “What time Is it Sergiust”
■‘Eleven o’clock. Monsieur," th«
servant replied In his precise sash
ion as he commenced to lay out his
master's clothes.
“No sooner do I lay my head on
the pillow ijian it is time to get uj
again! Has ray brother arisen?”
“Yes. Monsieur, ho has had hit
breakfast and is in tho library.”
“Then I must hurry!”—and
Michael jumped out of bed.
As he made his toilet, events ol
the preceding night came to him
and upket his frame of mind. iHrst,
there was the sogjous loss of th(
Yorvadotf emerald to upset him
The priceless jawal had been In hli
family for many yerrs—now he was
the unlucky .one ordained to lose it
Examining his watch, he noticed
that the gold ring that attached it
to his fob was broken. Why. thee
—if the emerald had Just dropped
off—hadn’t it been fonud? Michael
given orders for the servants
to search everywhere, but their es
forts were unsuccessful. Much as
he dlallked the thought, everythin!
seemed to Indicate that it had bees
stolen.
But by whom?
Colette’s admiration for the, am
erald, and her questions about It,
came to him. True, he distinctly
remembered that *fce had given fl
back to- him after she had inspect
ed K. Still, that waa the only tint
he Bat taken the watch out of hli
pocket
HaA-‘'Colurabft»e" stolen ttt
Her falntlhg, her sudden disap
pearance, seemed to point out a
bad case against the little girl
Tet something In Michael’s hear!
made him try to doubt the legiti
mate suspicions raised by hit com,
mon sense.
"Was Ninon right after all?" h<
asked himself. ‘Was Colette just
an ordinary gamin—a thief? Well,
It so, my Judgment of human nature
has been sadly fooled for onooi”
-• (To he continued)
MV*. Ralph Caldwell entertained
Misses Mary Stallings. I.nia I'mber
*or and Sara None, of Concord, at
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hbnor of Miss Hillings’ birthday an
niversary. ! . • ' i *
, 11. 1,. Cmboi-ger. Jr., arid I.uther
Barnl,ardt, of Concord, spent the
Week-end Iti I tilt more
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