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SYNOPSIS. Howard Jeffries, banker's son, under the evil Influence of Robert Underwood, a fellow-student at Tale, leads a life of dissipation, marries the dsujrhter of a gambler who died In prison, and Is dis owned by his father. He tries to get work and fails. A former college chum makee a business proposition to Howard which requires IXOOO cash, aad Howard Is broke. CHAPTER ll.—Continued. "You know I wouldn't, Annie," he raid earnestly. "Not one second have I ever regretted marrying you—that's honest to God!" A faint flush of pleasure lit up the young wife's face. For all her as sumed lightheadedness she was badly In need of this reassurance. If she thought Howard nourished socrot re grets it would break her heart. She could stand anything, any hardship, but not that She would leave him at once. In a way «he held herself respon sible for his present predicament. Sho bad felt a deep sense of guilt ever since that afternoon in New Haven when, listening to Howard's Impor tunities and obeying an impulse she was powerless to resist, she had flung aside her waitress' apron, furtively left the restaurant and hurried with him to the minister who declared them men and wife. Their marriage was a mistake, of course. Howard was in no position to marry. They should have waited. They both realised their folly now. Bat what was done could not be un done. She realized, too, that it was worso for Howard than it was fc-r her. It had ruined his prospects »t tho outset of his career and threat ened to be an irreparable blight on his entire life. She realised that she was largely to blame. She had done wrong to marry him and at times she reproached herself bitterly. There were days when their union assumed In her eyes the enormity of a crime, fiho should have seen what a social gulf lay between them. All these taunts and lnsulta from his family which she now endured she had fool ishly brought upon her own head. But tho had not been able to resist the temptation. Howard came into her llfo when the outlook was dreary and hopeless. He had offered to her what seemed a haven against the cruelty and selfishness of the world. Happi ness for the first time In her life seemed within reach and sho had not tho moral courage to say "No." If Annie had no education she was not without brains. She had sense enough to realise that her bringing up or the lack of It was an unsurmount able barrier to her ever being ad mitted to the inner ctrcle of Howard's family. If her husband's father had not married again the breach might have been crossed in time, but bis new wife was a prominent member of the smart set, a woman full of aristo cratic notions, who Recoiled with hor ror at having anything to do with a girl guilty of the enormity of earning hor own living. Individual merit. In herent nobility of character, amiabili ty of disposition, and a personal repu tation untouched by scandal—all this went for nothing—because unaccom panied by wealth or social position. Annie had neither wealth nor position. Sho had not even education. They considered her common, impossible. Tbey were ever ready to lend an ear to certain ugly stories regarding her past, none of which were true. After their marrlcge, Mr. Jeffries, Sr., and his wife absolutely refused to receive her or have any communication with her whatsoever. As long, therefore, as Howard remained faithful to her, the breach with his family could never be healed. "Have some more stew, dear," she ■aid, extending her hand for her hus band's plate. Howard shook bis head and threw down his knife and fork. "I've had enough," he aald despond ently. "1 haven't much appetite." She looked at him with concern. "Poor boy, you're tired oat!" As she noted how pale and delected he appeared, her eyes filled with sympathetic tears. She forgot the appalling number of cigarettes he smoked a day, nor did she realize how abuse of alcohol had spoiled his stomach for solid food. "I wish I knew where to go and gst that $*,000," mattered Howard, his mind still preoocupled with Coxs's proposition. Lighting another ciga rette. he leaned back In bis chair and lapsed into silence. Annie sat and watched him, wish ing she could suggest some way to solve the problem that troubled him. She loved her husband with all her heart aad sooL His very weakness of character endeared him the more to her. Sho was not blind to his faults, but she excused them. His rices, his drinking, cigarette smoking and general shlftlessness were, she argued, the result of bad associates. / AWT 1 THIDD DDGPEC KLEIN V ARTHUR HORNBLOW Y ILLUSTRATIONS BY RAY \VAJLT£PS COrrwsnT, IM», mr aw. DULINCHAM comjtr He was self-Indulgent He mad* many good resolutions and broke them. But he was not really vicious. He had a good heart. With some one to watch him and keep him In the straight path he would still give a good account of himself to the world. Sho was con fident of that. She recognised many excellent qualities in him. They only wanted fostering and bringing out. That was why she married him. Sho was a few years his senior; she felt that she was the stronger mentally. She considered It was her duty to devote her life to him. to protect him from himself and make a man of him. It was not her fault, she mused. If she was not a lady. Literally brought up in the gutter, what advantages had she had? Her mother died In child birth and her father, a professional J gambler, abandoned the little girl to the tender mercies of an indifferent neighbor. When she was about eight years old her father was arrested. He refused to pay police blackmail, was Indicted, Railroaded to prison and died soon a{ter in convict stripes. There was no provision for Annie's main tenance, so at the age of nine she found herself tolling In a factory, a helpless victim of the brutalizing sys tem of child slavery, which in spite of prohibiting laws still disgraces the United States. Ever since that time •he had earned her own living. The road had often been hard, there were times when sho thought she would have to give up the fight; other girls she had met had hinted at an easier way of earning one's living, but she had kept her courage, refused to listen to evil counsel and always managed to keep her name unsullied. Sho left the factory to work behind the coun ter In a New York dry goods store. Then about a year ago she drifted to New Haven and took the position of waitress at the restaurant which the collego boys patronized. Robert Underwood was among the students who came almost every day. He made love to her from the start, and one day attempted liberties which she was prompt to resent In a way he did not relish. After that he let her alone. She never liked the man. She know him to be unprincipled au well as vicious. One night he brought Howard Jeffries to the restaurant. They seemed the closest of cronies and she was sorry to see what bad influence the elder sophomore had over the young freshman, to whom she was at. once attracted. Every time they came she watched them and she noticed how under hla mentor Howard became more hardened. He drank more and more and became a reckless gambler. Underwood seemed to exercise a baneful spell over him. Bhe saw that he would soon be ruined with such a man as Underwood for a constant companion. Her interest in the young student grew. They be came acquainted and Howard, not realising that she was older than he, was Immediately captivated by her vivacious charm and her common sense views. They saw each other more frequently and their friendship grew until one day Howard asked her to marry him. While she ?emetlmes blamed her self for having listened too willingly to Howard's pleadings, she did not altogether regret the step she had taken. It was most unfortunate that I I I "Not On* tocond Hm I RagratUd Marrying Y«a—'Thtt'a Hcr.est to CMI* there must be this rupture with his family, yet something within told her that she was doing God's work—sav ing a man's soul. Without her, Hcftr ard would have gone swiftly to ruin, thero was little doubt of that. His af fection for her had partly, If not wholly, redeemed him and was keep ing him straight He had been good to her ever since their marriage and done everything to make her com fortable. Once he took a position as guard on the elevated rosd, but caught cold and was forced to give It up. She wanted to go to work again, but he angrily refused. That alone showed that ho was not entirely devoid of character. He was un fortunate at present and they were poor, but by dint of perseverance he would win out and make a position for himself without father's help. These were their darkest days, but light was ahead. As long as they loved each other and had their health what morn was necessary? "Say, Annie, I have an idea," sud denly blurted out Howard. "What Is it, dear?" she asked, her reveries thus abruptly interrupted. "I mean regarding that $2,000. You know all about that $250 which I once lent Underwood. I never got it back, although I've been after him many times for it. He's a slippery customer. •But under the clrcunpstancos I think It's worth another determined effort. | He seems to be better fixed now than he ever was. He's living at the As truria, making a social splurge and all that sort of thing. He must have money. I'll try to borrow the $2,000 from him." "He certainly appears to be pros perous," replied Annio. "I see his name in the newspapers all the time. There is hardly an affair at which he is not present." "Yes," growled Howard; "I don't see bow he does It. He travels on his cheek, principally, I guess. His name was among those present at my step mother's muslcalo the other night." Bitterly he added: "That's how the world gfoes. There la no place for me under my father's roof, but that blackguard is welcomed with open arma!" "I thought your father was such a proud man," Interrupted Annie. "How does he come to associate with peo ple like Underwood?" "Oh, pater's an old dolt!" exclaimed Howard impatiently. "There's no fool like an old fool. Of course, he's sen sible enough In business matters. He wouldn't be where he Is to-day If he weren't But when it conies to the woman question he's as blind as a bat "What right had a man of his age to go and marry a woman 20 years his Junior? Of course she only married him for his money. Every body knows that except he. People laugh at him behind his back, instead of enjoying a quiet, peaceful home In the declining years of his life, he is compelled to keep open house and en tertain people who are personally ob noxious to him, simply because that sort of life pleases his young wife." "Who was she, anyway, before their marriage?" Interrupted Annie. "Oh, a nobody," he replied. "She was very attractive looking, dressed well and was clever enough to get In troductions to good people. She nian to mak« heravU popular In Oto mart sot aad aho needed money to carty out har aoctil ambition*. Dad— wealthy along aad tbo caught him la her net. that's all!" Annie listened with Interest. She tu human enqugh to (Ml a certain aense of aatlafaction in hearing that this woman who treated her with suoh contempt was herself something of an intriguer. "How did your stepmother come to know Robert Underwood?" she asked. "He was never in society." "No," replied Howard with a grin. "It was my stepmother who gave him the entree. You know she was once engaged to him, but broke It off so she could marry dad. He felt very sore over it at the time, but after her marriage he was seemingly as friendly with her as ever —to serve his own ends, of course. It Is simply wonderful what Influence he ha* with her. Ho exercises over her tho same fascination that ho did over me at college. He has sort of hypnotized her. 1 don't think It's a case of love or anything like that, but he simply holds her under his thumb and gets bor to do anything he wants. She invites him to her house, Introduces him right and left, got people to take him up. Everybody laughs about it in society. Underwood is known as Mrs. Howard Jeffries' pet. Such a thing soon gets talked about. That is the secret of his successful career in New York. An far as I know, she's as much infatuated with him as ever." A look of surprise came into An nie's face. To this young woman, whoso ono Idea of matrimony was steadfast loyalty to tho man whose life she shared and whose name she bore, thero was somothlng repellent and nauseating in a woman permit, ting herself (o be talked about in that way. "Doesn't your father object?" she asked "Pshaw!" laughed Howard. "He doesn't see what's going on under his very nose. He's too proud a man, too sure of his own good Judgment, to be lieve for a moment that the woman to whom he gave his name would bo guilty of the slightest Indiscretion of that kind." Annie was silent for a minute. Then sho said' "What makes you think that Un derwood would let you have the money?"* "Beenuae 1 think he's got It. I obliged him once in the same way myself. I would explain to him what I want it for. He will see at once that It Is a good thing. I'll offer him a good rate of interest, and be might be very glad to let me have It, Any how, there's no harm trying." Annie said nothing. She did not entirely approve this Idea of her hus band trying to borrow money of a man in whom his stepmother was bo much Interested. On the other hand starvation stared them In the face. If Howard could get hold of this $2,000 and start in tho brokerage business it might be the beginning of a new life for them. "Well, do as you like, dear," she said. "When will you go to blm?" "The best time to catch him would be In the evening," replied Howard. "Well, then, go to-night," she sug gested. Howard shook his head. "No, not tonight. I don't think I should find him In. He's out every night somewhere. Tonight there's an other big reception at my father's house. He'll probably be there. I think I'll wait till to-morrow night I'm nearly sure to catch him at home then." Annie rose and began to remove the dishes from the table. Howard non chalantly lighted another cigarette and, leaving tho table, took up the evening newspaper. Sitting down comfortably In a rocker by the win dow, he blew a cloud of blue smoke up in tho air and said: ' "Yes, that's It—l'll go to-morrow, night to tho Astrurla and strike Dob Underwood for that $2 000." (TO BE CONTINUED.) Smugglers' Ruse. An ingenious method of smuggling saccharin has been detected at Bre geuz, Australia, where seven men were arrested for importinglarge quan tities of contraband When the Geneva- Munlcb express arrived at Bregenz the rtntlon master bad a coach containing seven travelers uncoupled from the expre«s and detained for examination. H" had been warned by telegraph from Zurich that seven smugglers of Geneva were In the train with a large quantity of saccharin After an ex haustive search t'ie officials failed to find any contraband and were about to apologize to the seven travelers for their detention when one customs In spector accidentally kicked a hot water pipe In a first class compart ment and the secret was revealed. All the hot water pipes In the carriage were In duplicate, differing In no de tail as to length, breadth and color, but one set was of metal and the other set made of papier mache con taining saccharin, which Is about nine times as expensive In Austria at In Switzerland. For the Scandalmonger. The Orleans museum bas just been enriched with a curious relic of the past whlcb some workmen In making excavations in the city came across. It is a stone representing a grinning figure, showing the teeth, the coun tensnce being repellent enough. In thlp way the loquacious woman, the scandalmonger, was brought to her senses The stone, suspended by • chain, was placed round ber neck, and so sccoutred (he wss compelled to walk round the town in which she lived. The stone is supposed to date about the sixteenth century. A VERY HARD TASK FACES TRUSTEES CELECTION OF SITE FOR NORTH CAROLINA BCHOOL FOR FEEBLE-MINDED. i • - DECIDE AT KINSTON JUNE 22 Kinston, Washington, Lenoir, Lllllnfc ton, Raleigh, Greensboro, Durham, Fayetteville, and Possibly Other Towns Will Make Proposala. Ilaleigh—The trustees of the pro posed North Carolina school for feeble-minded took recoss to June 22, when there will be a meeting In Kins ton. By June 21 all bids must be in slid the location will be definitely settled at the Kinston meeting. In the meantime the trustees will per sonally Inspect the locations offered. Kinston offers one tract of 600 or another of 370 acres. Washington urged the board to pay the town n visit and guaranteed adequate in ducements. The town of Lenoir offer ed 1,000 acres of land and abundant supply of best water-works water for IHc years without cost. Lillliigton offered SIO,OOO cash, 1,000 acres of land and a Bpur track from she Ral eigh & Southport railroad, much of this being guaranteed by President John A. Mills of the railroad company. There ure yet to be definitely pre sented proposals from Raleigh, Greensboro, Durham, Fayetteville and possibly other towns. The board heard reports from the special committee that visited insti tutions for the feeble-minded iu Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts und other Eastern states, the committee consisting of Dr. Kent, Dr. Hardy, W. A. Thomp son and Dr. iMcßrayer. The board has investigated condi tions In this state to the extent that it is estimated that there are about live hundred persons in alms houses and Jailß that ought to bo In tho school for the feeble-minded; then there are hundreds of others that should be gathered from homes In all parts of the state. The Institution is to be planned so that thore can be proper classifica tion of Inmates. The board has In hand plans for buildings and after the site 1b chosen the actual building will begin speedily. The board of trustees consists of J. Y. Joyner, chairman ex-oflielo; Dr. Ira M. Hardy, secretary; W. A. Thompson, Aurora; Mark Majettc, Columbia; Senator J. It. Bagett, Lil llngton; Dr. L. B. iMcßrayer, Ashe ville; K. E, Austin, Albemarle. WILL CONTINUE BUSINESS Dealers Will Take Out U. S. License and Hold Ncar-Bcer Stands. Internal revenue officers sny that tho near-beer dealers at Raleigh and throughout the state for that mat ter, are preparing to take out liquor licenses attain Juno 30, tho plan be ing for their places to go right on alter July 1, when the act. of the last legislature prohibiting near-beer sa loons goes Into effect all over the state. The leading dealers are free to admit that, they do not expect to close out their business at all. They will take out the government license to relieve themselves from the sur veillance of tho revenue officers and then they will sell brands of drinks that will eliminate tho beer idea. The liquid may and will probably very much resemble beer, they say, but there will be no beer or near beer brands and the bottlea will be different. The applications for re newal of government llcen.-es are al ready coming In lu anticipation of the expiration of the present licenses July I. Tho change of the size of the bottles and the brands they bear, it is said, will constitute the princi pal changes that will tako place in the near-beer saloons and their ser vice. The near-beer men insist that they will comply with tho law and they will be relieved of the state and l6eal tax they have h:id to pay here tofore. Enormous Propirty Losa by Fire. Every community and individual in North Carolina should look out for and remove conditions llktly to causo fires, declared State .Commis sioner of Insurance James R. Young. He says the official report? nhow that firo waste In America . rijig May aggregated $21,422,001), u „aiii over May of 1910 of $2,598,50 i). He finds that tho' lire waste for the first five months of 1911 round up $105,599,800, or an increase of $22,904,500 over tho losses for the corresponding months of 1910. Where the Hookworm Fight Begins. Dr. John A. Eerrell who lui3 charge of the hook worm campaign In North Carolina, announces that the opera tion of the hospital tent fcr the treat ment of hookworm patients Is to start within a very short time in ono cf the southeastern counties. There will also be In the same section of the state a number of hookworm dis pensaries provided In counties that will co-operate by bearing small part of the expense. Among the first work cf this sort Is expected to begin In Pender county. SELECTING SCHOOL BOOKS SUU Text Book Commission HM Hard Task to Perform—Agents Big Publishing Houses Raleigh.—When the State Text Book commission met to canvass tho bids which had been submitted and to check up the exhibits it waa found there was no dearth of companies de siring to supply the youth of North Carolina with text booka for the next five years. In all there were some thing over 30 bldiiers, many of whom are asking to furnish the entire outfit for the Bchoola. The adoption ex tends only through the seventh grade. For quite a while Raleigh will be a mecca for book agents, practically every large publishing house having some of its star men on the Job. A Joint session of tho State Text Book commission was held, with the members of the sub-commission, when points in regard to examining the text bookß submitted were out lined. This sub-commission, composed of six men who are engaged in teach ing or superintending, will hold public hearings in the capitol building and will continue in session from day to day until all the subjects are gone over and all the agents had their say. Then they will make their recommen dations to the text book commission. Tho members of this sub-commis sion are, Prof. N. W. Walker, of the Department of Education of tho Uni versity of North Carolina; County Superintendent A. C. Reynolds, of Buncombe; E. T. Atkinson, of Wayne; 7A. V. Judd, of Wake; K. J. Cocflran of Moeklenburg, and City Superinten dent N. C. Newbold, of Washington. Leaf Tobacco Sales In May. Sales of leaf tobacco on the North Carolina markets during May were 157,778 pounds compared with 1,- 3(10,893 pounds during May. 1910. Winston-Salem lod again with 107,- 031" pounds, only seven of Jie mar kets having any sales at all during (he month. The other aix were: Keidsvllle, 27,166; Durham, 11,446; Madison, 4,565; Stoneville, 2,940; Mebane, 2,038; Mount Airy, 2,003. Will be no Championship Shoot It is officially stated that all prob ability of any contest involving tho recent championship rifle range shoot here by tho teams from the three companies of the North Carolina Guard that made the highest scoreß in tho regimental shoots at Raleigh, Goldsboro and Gastonia is past. There had been exceptions to men shoot ing whose enlistments had oxplred and not been renewed, but it was found that this was the case with all three of the teams that partici pated. So the Dupont trophy cup that was won in the regimental shoots by the Raleigh company and generously put up again for a championship shoot here, will go to the Lumber Bridge company. Important Ruling on Land Titles. Assistant Attorney General G. L. Jones has just made a ruling for the department of education as to tho reversion of property that has been condemned for school purposes and the right of the uchool authorities to deed this property in fee simple to parlies other than the owner from whom it was taken by condemnation. He holds that good title can he given for the reason that, tho law provides that where condemnation has to bo resorted to the school trustees get title in fee simple and any property so held can be conveyed. This ques tion has arisen in Gates county, but is one that may develop in most any part of the state under the'pres ent activities in consolidation and changes of school districts. July 4 Highway Day in Wake. The Wake Board of County commis sioners passed a resolution setting July 4lh ( as Central lll'ghvnv Day In Wake county. The resolution provid ed further that during the week fol lowing all citizens along the proposed highway in Wake county he urged to go to work and construct this county's portion of the highway, or it' th>y can r.ct donate their time to donate an equivalent amount of money. Tho chairman of tho board is to appoint thu uuperviaorn of the work. Elizabeth City.—Tho outlcofc lor the Irish potato crop In Pasin': tank coun ty is not very promising. Trustees Tuberculosis Sanitarium. Governor Kltchin Issue*] cemmis sions to Dr. I. E. G--cn, Weldon; J. V.- Daws. Elizabeth o!t.v, .m:l W. E. Brecse, Jr., Ilrevard, as members of tho beard of trustees for tho North Carolina Tuberculosis sanitarium. Postal Bank for Raleigh. Raleigh is to have a Port 1 Havings bank Ecmn time about July first. This information was conveyed to Senator Overman at the pestoHVe depart ment, where he called to confer about -other matters.— • Two Dictrlctc Vote foeclal T?.x. Stato Superlntf a'!ent J V. Joyner has received notification c' roi'n.i of special tax In two T ta; r:»w Bertie .cf • 'nd tho 'ether in the Scut'i M ! 1 trict in I Camden county. Part e„ t»r money from the St nth Mills ais-lri t will bo used to construct a $l'\CDO achocl building. The Corporation ccnvi is-lon hub issued a call for a state -.it of th® condition of state baahr. -a; th* close of "ottriiiv3o Juus 7.
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