PAGE SIX £ Drama! j- H c _ ’%S&t‘ ; ''' ' * gHjferlcs A. Smith, star wit- Htss pagainst William V. accused of a gigantic Hloze conspiracy in New Hork, -was confronted byj Carroll in court. lid Bis asked if he had married jHid deserted her twelve years 80. She almost collapsed IHhen he answered ‘'No.” ——~ - H Just Received Bresh Shipment of HFinest Imported II Nuts I Mediterranean I Salted Almonds Large Selected ;'f Salted Pecans I Filberts Bersian Pistachios fZ (Love Nuts) ■ pearl drug It; co. ■ Phones 22 —722 Besqui-Centennial ■ Exposition I»iPHILADELPHIA. PA„ JBpune 1-November 30, 1926 HySpecial Excursion Fares Railway System on sale daily from all Railway stations up including September H)th, final return limit all tick- days including date Hi sale. permitted at Wash- and Baltimore in each within final limit of trains, excellent sched- Hwlpullman sleeping cars, and dining car information and sleeping car reserve-1 Hbns call on any Southern i agent or address: I H. H. GRAHAM, D. P. A. Charlotte. N. C Bt' PRIVATE CHAPEL affi&FORDS PRIVACY, H |: COMFORT .V ■i*> odprn fut "‘ ral cha P el provides privacy and comfort of a pri- IBflKjScnee plus every facility and •'"■llcij that the funeral director has & Kportwury is a beautiful and - Htt place that provides our pa- IISHP • ‘yP O and character of t B a»equall«i. ■sgL__ _ ~ UAPOTfI 'Cpn Tpxdbv) %>imTJx a jlappen advenhm on life highway’ Nobody tyUFEANY WELLS V Tint notional Picture* Inc. He furiously threatened to give her away to the civil engineer who was technical boss of the job when, dormitory space being alphabeti cally allotted, she had been given a cot in one barracks, he in an other. "You’ll be sent back to New York by the police,” he stormed. “No,” she insisted obstinately.. “I won’t You won’t tell on me.” For a fortnight Bravo worked with a drill crew. They ascertained that he possessed arithmetic and scrivener faculties. He was put to work as storekeeper in the dyna mite shack, a two-room structure built against the stockade which surrounded the mouth of the moun tain. “How do you like your dynamite job?” she asked him the day of his promotion. “Great,” he answered. “I’m used to dynamite by now.” He looked meaningly at her. No one protested when he sur rendered to Hej*. You! the extra room at his disposition for use as sleeping quarters. The rest of the camp seemed to share his liking Tor the little son-of-a-gun, who took disparaging references to his sissy face and hands so good-naturedly that they lost all their point, and who could beat any one in camp at (he after-supper tournaments with the horseshoes. "If you can’t eat meat eat each other. Dog eat dog! Obey this or der. The Committee of Spartan Knights." n She managed to outwit Nemesis. She ducked the mandatory show er bath without getting caught. The men joshed unmercifully about klley, but she grinned, and they Snajly made the cat mascot of the tamp. She managed ablutions several midnights in the locked took shed, with a kettle of warm water, a chunk of laundry soap and t clean dish cloth. The night before her removal to Ihe relative comfort and privacy of the collapsible cot in the store shed the overheard a sinister tale, half whispered into the dark by two drill men. “Someone in this outfit . . . town girl . . . one hell of a thing to do.’’ “I’ll say.” “ . . . named Lily. Kept it to herself a week . . . mailman told me she wrote the whole story out to the minister . . . devil to pay.” “Does she know who done it?” “ . . . she wrote ... fat guy . . one of those hobo slobs. I’ll bet M Thus, for the first time, Barbara learned of the submerged hostilities which ruled between the indus trious,. unionised day laborers who were, in, this camp, in the majority, and the hobo element that had seeped in, attracted by reports of | the excellence of this grub provided ; by Fritz. Later she saw the enmity come to the p»sJface in brief but san guinary encounters between men of the two-elements. Into the economic dls-sympathy separating denimed workman from identically denimed tramp wedged the mutters about Lily, the girl of Sparta, whispered about the camp until, by the increase of telling, it became a Russ folk tale of villainy. Sparta was in an uproar over the itilri ‘lt was rumored a vigilante committee was forming to seek out and punish the defiler. . The ghost of Judge Lynch haunted the valley.’ Barbara asked Bravo to give tier details. He looked disturbed, re graded her steadily, and said: “The engineers don’t know It, bot there's a volcano in that mountain they're tunneling .. . .God, I wish you were safely out of here!” W amino “TVK never beaten a woman,” said Bravo furiously, “bat I swear. If yon don’t do as 1 say, rn wallop some common sense Into you.” psrbiirA gaoared off. “Start something!” aim MM) i *“Look here ” He whirled as sn exclamation of wrath, matt despair, to Frttft t^ U <£ok sluS*' rushed In. menjeeregleaning over sent tor an emergency supply of frozen beet They had come back with battered heads. Fritz waved a frying pan frantically and ad dressed himself to Bravo as if he could key the mystery tor him. "They snitched my meat—all my meat!” The distracted cook shoved a sfteet of paper into Bravo's hand. He perceived it to be the butcher's voucher for the five sides of heel the men had gone for. He turned it over. On the back of the sheet was scrawled in hand-printed chai^ “No member of Peck’s Mountain Camp, West, will leave the en closure hereafter for any purpose whatsoever. In the South there’s one crime always punished by death. You’ve committed that crime. The next dog among you that ventures out of the kennels will get his! Don’t come to Sparta for y&-* supplies. If you can’t eat meat, eat each other. Dog eat dogl OBEY THIS ORDER! “The Committee of Spartan Knights." Bravo stood silent a moment, then left and proceeded rapidly to the oflice of the engineer in charge. Mr. Pettingill was distinctly an noyed. Bravo stood in the living room of the small square cottage assigned in upper camp to the en gineer and his wife. A tew min utes’ conversation with Pettingill convinced Bravo that he was a theorist, with no capacity for deal ing with human problems. When the drills ran into a stratum of yellow clay in the heart of the mountain, Pettingill knew what to do. Now that events,had probed to a stratum of yellow in the hearts of men, the engineer was helpless— and very much annoyed. His first suggestion when Bravo had stated the facts was that he phone at ones to the local police. “No,” said Bravo decisively. “We’ve got to handle this thing ourselves." There was a third man in the room—a tubby little chap whose eyes, imbedded in folds of fat, didn’t quite open wide. His small feet at the end of short legs didn’t quite touch the floor. His pudgy ecclesiastical hands didn’t quite clasp over his prominent vest. The Rev. William Partridge, rec tor of the little church In Sparta, hoisted himself out of the deep fireside chair and buttoned his coat. “If you can keep the men from leaving camp,” he said, fumbling with his gloves, “we may be able to avert trouble. I can only say, about the whole affair, that we must all deeply regret tjiat the rail road company, ever brought these hoboes into the country.” “Only one of them is guilty.” sug gested Bravo. “I fear,” said the rector, with his Sunday school sigh, “that they’re all godless vagrants— wolves on the outskirts of civiliza tion.” “I’m one of them, you know," re torted Bravo. “Permit me to doubt that,” inter rupted Pettingill. “I should take you for a man of education; of col lege education, I might say. But that has nothing to do with the present matter. This poor girl Lily ” “Regrettable,” sighed the rector. "Most regrettable!” “I must Inform you," said Bravo, "that all sorts of regrettable things are happening all the time. And wa’ll have cause for great regret if we don’t take prompt steps to avert trouble.” “I believe in the efficacy of pray er," said Mr. Partridge. “And I know the efficacy of sin.” answered Bravo. “It’s true. Isn’t it. that Lily is dying?” Pettingill rose Impatiently. “The efficacy of prayer! The efficacy of sin!” He blew his nose vehemently. “Consider for a mo ment, gentlemen, the efficacy ot tunnels.” ’ “But don’t you know ” “All I know is that the affairs of some unfortunate girl known as Lily have, for some not very cogent reason, threatened the successful termination ot my work on the tunnnel!” A wave of disgust swept over Had they assembled, them to squabble over their various pet theories? Os what use were the pastor’s theology and the englneer’a science to meet the brewing .storm of elemental passions? He per ceived clearly that the harden ot decision would be his. The pdstor departed with melan choly mien. When he was gone, Pettingill said: '“I dare say we’ve all exaggerat ed the situation a bit, eh? 1 don’t imagine there’ll' be any trouble.” “There’ll be serious trouble,” said Bravo. ‘Tm going back to camp. I’ll get the mien together. .They’ve, got to stay away \ from Sparta. 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