INTRODUCTION Archibald Bennett, wealthy bachelor, travels con stantly in the interest of his health. He meets Isa bel Perry, who recommends a life of crime, adven ture, romance and excitement as a cure for his nerves. Archie goes to Bailey Harbor to investigate a summer house for his sister. A heavy storm for • ces him to spend the night there. During the night he is awakened by footsteps and in an encounter with the intruder, who sees Archie’s figure reflect ed in the mirror and shoots. Archie fires in return, wounding the intruder, who makes his escape. Archie plans flights to evade publicity. He starts cross-country afoot in the night. At dawn he is stopped on a lonely country road by “The Gover nor”, master-mind criminal who mistakes him for a fellow criminal. Archie, fleeing, is afraid to tell the truth—falls in with “The Governor,” is Wbisk * ed across country in a stolen car. Sees story in newspapers of killing at Bailey Harbor and, fright ened, he decides to say nothing but stick with his strange friend and await developments. Now read on: AN UNEXPECTED MEETING "No Mrs. Congdon has registered here within a week, I’m sure. Will you leave any message?” Archie paused by the desk, staring open mouthed at the young woman who was ask ing for Mrs. Congdon. If he was still pos sessed of his senses the girl was Isabel Per hj ry. She glanced carelessly in his direction } as the clerk, addressing him as Mr. Comly, asked if there was anything he wanted. Archie promptly raised his hat, only to be met with a reluctant nod and a look of dis pleasure with connotations of alarm. She1 was walking toward the door as though anxious to escape from him. , j A taxi drew up and Isabel stepped into it, but Archie, resolved to risk another snubi before allowing her to slip away ignorant of the vast change that had been wrought in him since their meeting n Washington,! jumped in beside her. “This is unpardonable!’’ she exclaimed angrily. “May I ask just what you are do-! ing here under an assumed name?” J “Really!” he exclaimed, “isn’t it perfectly, jolly that we’ve met in this way ? You know, l^e added, “you told me to throw a brick at the world and I’ve been following your ad Having dramatized himself as appearing before her, a splendid heroic figure, this re ception was all but the last straw to his spirit. Her frowning silence moved him to further frantic efforts to impress her with ■4 the fact that he was a dare-devil, wicked £( person—the man she would have him be. if “You were asking for Mrs. Congdon. Well, I certainly could tell you a story if you would give me time. If I had known Mrs. * Congdon was a friend of yours I soould •f have acted differently, very differently, in-J * deed.” ■ S '» “1 think, she said, sweeping nun wun a f look of scorn, “that you’ve been following | me or were put here to watch me! You went ' .# to Bailey Harbor to look at a cottage, didn’t S, you ?” Putney Congdon was there, wasn’t |1 he?” «, “That’s the scream of it, you know!” | Archie cried. ‘I don’t know for the life of * i; me whether it was Putney Congdon I shot at i the Congdon House or Hoky, the burglar. ^ And it’s so deliciously funny that you should 1 be looking for Mrs. Congdon, who may be a widow for all I know!” “A Widow!” Isabel, with her hand clutch ing the door, swung upon him with conster nation and fear clearly depicted in her face. f “Oh, that’s the mystery just at present, j whether poor old Putney is dead or not! No great loss, I imagine! But where do you suppose Mrs. Congdon went to hide her chil-, dren from the brute?” : “That’s exactly what I suspected!” she; * exclaimed furiously. “You are waiting here! to find that out. How can you play the spy' for him! You talk about shooting a man! Why, you haven’t the moral courage to kill ’ a flea! The kindest interpretation I can put * ~ iipon your actions is to assume that you are1 hopelessly mad.” They had reached the station; she jumped, out and, snatched her bag. He tossed a bill to I the driver and dashed across the platform, I after her, only to see her vanish into the ves tibule of a Boston train just as it was draw ing out. He walked to the water front, firmly re solved to drown himself, but his courage failing, he yielded himself luxuriously to melancholy reflections. Congdon was a name of evil omen. What business could Isabel have with Mrs. Cong don ? Why should she think him capable of spying her movements? Why was she in Portsmouth when she had told him she was leaving immediately for her girl’s camp in Michigan ? He had been wholly stupid and tactless in pouncing upon her with what he realized under the calming influence of the brisk air, must have struck her as the vaporings of a dangerous lunatic. He had never been clev er; he smarted now under the revelation that all things considered he was an immiti gable ass. He went back to the hotel, bitter but for tified bv a resolution that nothing should check him in his desperate career. He had quarreled with the inspiration of his new life, but in the end Isabel should have rea son to know how unjust she had been. Af ter all, it was something to have seen her, perplexed anxious though she had been. He would bear his martyrdom manfully, keep ing the humiliating interview carefully from the Governor. ' Isabel was still the most wonderful girl he had ever met! Chapter V. The next morning the Governor announc ed Cornford as their next stopping point, a town, he explained, whose history thrust far back into Colonial times. When they were seated in the parlor car he drew a small volume from his pocket. Archie saw that it was really a volume of the Horatian odes. The Govrnor was utterly beyond him and he stared moodily at the flying landscape. The Cornford Inn proved to be a quaint old tavern, and after a leisurely luncheon they took their coffee in a pleasant garden on one side of the house. Two men came into the garden and seat ed themselves at a table on the other side of a screen of shrubbery. They ordered coffee and one of them remarked, in a low tone: “You oughtn’t to have carried that cash up here. The old man is a fool or he would not have suggested such a thing.” The Governor nodded to Archie to keep on talking, while he played the role of eaves dropper. “Well, he wrote that he was coming here to spend a week and said if I wanted the stock I could bring the currency here and close the transaction. The Congdons are all a lot of cranks, you know. This old curmud geon carries a small fortune around all the time, and never accepts a check in any trans action.” * “Let’s stroll about a little,” said the Gov ernor. He led the way through the garden to the street, and bade Archie proceed slow ly to the post office while he walked toward the main entrance of the inn. When he joined Archie, he informed him that the two gentlemen were Seebrook and Walters, and that they had rooms on the floor below them. “You don’t think they’ve got any consid erable sum of money with them, do you?” Archie asked breathlessly. “That remains to be seen.” When they reached the green, which the town’s growth had left to one side, he ss down on a bench and directed attention to a church whose history he read impressive ly from the book. “And in the cellar of that simple edifice where the early colonists used to hide from predatory Indians, is hidden fifty thousand dollars. It must be saved from destruction. We can’t fail Leary”. They found half a dozen visitors roaming through the church, and while Archie courteously answered a question ! asked him by a stout lady, the Gov ernor disappeared, j When he reappeared he called out in a cheery voice: “If you want |to see the cellar, don’t tumble down 11he steps as I did, it’s an abomi nable hole!” He blushed the dust from his knees and mopped his face until the voices below receded. “All safe and sound. Stuck It out through a back window into a lilac bush, and we’ll pick it up at our leisure. It’s a very decent suit case and you can hand it to a bell hop and bid him fly with it to your [room. You were a little short of linen and made a few purchases— I the thing explains itself.” When they reached thexhotel, Archie, following the Governor’s 'instruction, gave the suitcase to a bell hop, and shortly after, they L.)flowed the suitcase upstairs, i where the Governor unlocked it [with an implement that looked like [a nut pick. Archie .picked up sev leral bundles of the bills and turn ed them over, reflecting that to his i other crimes he had now added the l receipt and concealment of stolen ; money. | “Dinner in an hour, Archie,” re [ marked the Governor, “meanwhile, I wish you would look in at Bar | clay & Peddling’s garage, just 'around the corner and ask if a [car has been left there for Mr. | Reginald H. Saulsbury. You need not be afraid of getting pinched, for the machine was. acquired by !purchase. I am merely borrowing it from Abe Collins, alias Slippery Abe. We’ll leave here like honest men, with the landlord bowing us away from the door.” When he returned the Governor was dressing and manifested . no surprise that the car awaited his pleasure. “Yes, of course,” he remarked absently. “You can always rely on Abe. It’s time for you to dress, and we must look our prettiest. 1 caught a glimpse of Mr. Seebrook’s daughter a bit ago. It may be nec essary for you to cultivate her a trifle.” When Archie reached the par lors half an hour later he found the governor engaged in lively conversation with a gentleman he introduced immediately as Mr. See “And Mr. Walters, Mr. Comly, and—” ; “Mr. Saulsbury and Mr. Comly, my daughter, Miss Seebi'ook.” Seebrook and Walters wore un doubtedly enjoying the Governor, proof of which was immediately forthcoming when Seebrook sug gested that they should all dine to gether. “You do us much honor,” said the Governor. “Mr. Comly and 1 shall be pleased, I’m sure.” CHAPTER VI Dinner over, they continued their talk over coffee served in the gar den. Wlhen the music began, See brook and Walters recalled a bridge engagement and the Governor an jnounced that he must look up an old friend who lived in Cornford. “I shall be back shortly,” he said as they separated in the of fice. Archie and Miss Seelbrook joined the considerable company that were I already dancing. After several [dances Miss Seebrook thought it would be fine to take a breath of air, and gathering up her cloak they went into the garden for an ice. Miss Seebrook was speaking of music, and reciting the list of operas she loved best when - Ar chie’s gaze was caught and held by a shadow thata fitted along an iron fire escape- that zig-zagged [down from the fourth to the first story of the long rambling inn. “You seem very dreamy,” she remarked. “I know how that is for I can dream for hours and hours.” “Yes; reverie; just floating on clouds, on and on,” Archie re plied, though the shadow moving on and on along the side of the inn was troubling him not a little. He had surmised that the Gov ernor’s declared purpose to call on Z. Nursing Record Id Two Continents Hard to Equal Nurse Waite of New Brighton writes: "After fifty-five years of tireless labor nursing mankind, I am now retiring. WhilenursinginNewYork.inmy early twenties, I was poisoned by food, my sis ter nurse recommended your wonderful CARTER’S LITTLE LIVER PILLS. The doctor told me that I would have died had I not taken the pills. i I am never without them and have prescribed them for thousands of my patients who were suffering with indi gestion, gas and sour stomach, bilious ness, sick headache and constipation. These pills are indeed a wondeiful lax ative, being purely vegetable, small and easy to take, children, as well as older people can swallow them easily. ’ CARTER’S LITTLE LIVER' PILLS All druggists—25c and 75c red pkgs. an old friend was merely to cover his withdrawal from the party, but that he could have meditated a predatroy excursion through the I inn had not entered into Archie’s I speculations as to his friend’s ab sence. There was no mistaking the j figure that had moved swiftly down [the ladder. He was now creeping along the little balcony at the third [floor. He paused a moment and then vanished into an open win Idow. The Governor had said that Seebrook’s party had rooms just under their own, but— Ihey danced again, and in the handclapping that * followed . the first number he turned to find th-.i Governor calm, and with no marks of his escapade upon him. At midnight Seebrook and Wal ters came in from their card game, and after a few pleasant words, the [party broke up. in Archie s room the Governor hummed one of his favorite bal lads as he slipped out of his coat and picked a speck from his snowy waistcoat. “It is evident,” he re marked good-humoredly, “that you are perturbed, anxious, and have slight symptoms of paralysis a itans. Pray be seated and I will do my best to restore your peace of mind.” But Archie was not to bo thwarted in his purpose to learn just what the Governor meant by endangering their security so reck lessly. He slammed the transom itight and drew down the shades. “Tou needlessly exposed your self to observation by sneaking klown the fire escape of this ho tel—I know that!” ! ‘My dear boy, I was merely gathering a few blossoms of the crimson rambler from the ancient walls of the inn. You may have noted that I wore a spray of buds in my lapel when I joined you in the ball room. Now seat yourself on the bed and *1*11 tell you the whole story. When I left you I hastened into the drugstore and bought a stick of shaving soap. Then I bought a few cigars in a tobacconist's. In each place I con versed with the clerk, thus laying ample grounds for an alibi. Hurry ing back to the- inn, I avoided ob servation by entering by the side door, skipped up to our rooms— and there you are! I exchanged our new bank notes for sixty well-worn one-ithousand dollar gold certifi cates negotiable in all parts of the republic. That means a net Jfain of ten thousand dollars to Red Leaiiy.” My God,” moaned Archie. “You don’t think you can get away with this!” “I think,” returned the Governor imperturbably, ‘‘that we must and will get away with it.” His em phasis on the plural pronoun caus ed Archie to cringe. “You’re getting me in pretty deep,” mumbled Archie dejectedly. “How about those blood stains on the sidewalk at Bailey Harbor?” asked the Governor in his bland est tones. “When yop speak of get ting in deep you forget that some one besides Hoky was shot back yonder. You came to me red-hand ed from a deed of violence, and I took you in hand became your pro tector, asking no questions. It‘s the basest ingratitude for you to be gin to whimper over a small lar ceny when you have adebd as sault or murder to the liabilities of our partnership! But don’t for get for a moment that we’re pals and pledged to see each other Ihe reference to the blood stains reported by the Bailey Harbor po lice threw Archie back instantly upon the Governor’s mercy. Com plicity in the robbery of Seebrook was as nothing: compared with the haunting: fear that the man he had shot in the Congdon house had died of the wound. Unable to de termine this question he was floun dering in a veritable sea of crime. The Governor was undressing with provoking indifference to his com panion’s perturbation. “Sleep, lad, sleep! You may be sure that nothing will harm us to night, and I have faith that more stirring adventures are ahead of us. I forgive you for your qualms and quavers, the pardonable mani festations of youth and inexperi ence. We walk in slippery places but we shall not stumble, at least not while the Governor keeps his head!’” Nothing appealed to Archie as of greater importance than the re tention by his companion of the head that now lay chastely upon A TONIC GROVE’S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC restores Energy and Vi tality by Purifying and Enriching the Blood. When you feel its strengthening, invigorating effect, see how it brings color to the cheeks and how it improves the appetite, you will then appreciate its true tonic value. GOc. Liver Pills A package of Grove's Liver Pills is en closed with everv bottle of GROVE’S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC for those who wish to take a Laxative in connection with the Tonic. a snowy pillow. A handsome well- i formed head, a head suggestive of « family and the pride of race, ^ though filled' with the most com- ' plicated mental machinery with which a human being had ever i been endowed. “Put cut the lights and get out to your couch!” the Governor mut tered drowsily. The man certainly wore his crimes lightly. Pie was sound asleep before Archie had got into his pa jamas. Archie in his preoccupation with Miss Seebrook was murmurnig. < “I have chosen a star for you,” the Governor’s strange perform ance, was so slow to respond that Miss Seebrook, thinking that he was deliberating as to which star he should bestow upon her in re turn generously broadened the scope of her offer. But something very unlike a star—more like the glimmer of a match in a room on the third floor held his fascinated gaze— “We must go back, I suppose,” said Miss Seebrook with a sigh. To be continued next Friday) NOTICE OF SALE By virtue of the authority con tained in a certain mortgage deed executed by ('. (’. Weaver and wife Lorna Weaver to Fannie Langston, and duly recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds of Johnston county in Book 191, page 21, the undersigned will on Saturday, Feb ruary 11, 192X at 12 o’clock noon, n front of the courthouse door in ohnston county, offer for sale to hd highest bidder for cash the ollowing described t**nct of land, o-wit: Bounded on the north by the un of Mill Creek, on the east by he lands of Lonnie Weaver, on he south by Bass’ line, on the vest by the lands of F.(! Wise the ame containing 106 acres, and be ng the lands conveyed from Silas .Veaver to C. C. Weaver, May 13, 90S, and recorded in Book W No. 0, page 410, Registry of Johnston ounty, and being the identical land onveyed to said C. C. Weaver by L G. Stevens, commissioner, un ler judgment of the Superior court >f Johnston county in the special proceeding had for the sale of the and of C. W. WTeavre am nog his leirs at law. This January 11, 1928. FANNIE LANGSTON, Mortgagee. \. M. 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