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7 SERIAL \ ;L STORY J STANTON 0 WINS n By Chaser M. Isfrasi Author of "The Game and tha Candle," "The Flying Mercury." ate. AhMM ia rratek Thsnkargk Copyright tsu Tha »a»» MerrtU Oomaaaj BYNOPBIS. tAt tha beginning of great automobile ice the mechanician of the Mercury, anton'a machine, drops dead. Strange youth, Jeaae Floyd, volunteers, and la ac cepted. In the reat during the twenty four hour race Stanton meeta a stranger, Mlas Carllale, who Introduces herself. The Mercury wins race. Stanton receives flowers from Miss Carlisle, which he Ig nores. Stanton meeta Miss Carllale on a train. They alight to take walk, and train leaves. Stanton and Mlas Carlisle follow in auto. Accident by which Stan ton la hurt la mysterious. Floyd, at lunch with Stanton, tells of his boyhood. Stan ton again: meeta Mlsa Carllale and thev dine together. Stanton comes to track sick, but makea race. They have acci dent. Floyd hurt, but not aerlously. At dinner Floyd tells Stanton of his twin sister, Jessica. Stanton becomes very ill and losea consciousness. On reoovery, at his hotel Stanton receives Invitation and visits Jessica. They go to theater togeth er. and meet Miss Carlisle. Stanton and Floyd meet again and talk business. They agree to operate automobile factory aa partners. Floyd becomes auspicious of Mlaa Carlisle. CHAPTER IX—(Continued). "Jessica has the right to a chance," he agreed. "I'm not goin' to meddle with things beyond my understands'. An' I'd rather have her your wife than have anything else in the world. Only —you've seen her Just once—you can't tell if you want her, yet." Stanton shot bim one straight, ex pressive glance. "She is like you." slipped from him Involuntarily; then, furious at his be trayal of sentiment, he dropped the other's hand. "We had better go, or we'll miss the train," he bruskly re minded. "Oh, she is like me." confirmed Floyd; he turned to look again at the factory. "We are pretty close chuma. Tes, you an' I had better be get tin' to the train." They walked back to the nearest trolley line, both silent. The subject was not touched again, until the following morning, when they left the train in New York. "When shall I see you?" Stanton questioned, as they exchanged fare wells in the noisy depot. "To-mor row?" "I'm going to be out of town for the next two weeks, Mr. Oreen tells me," Floyd replied. want me at the Mercury factory, and there are some other trips, too, I believe. Jessica is going to be rather deserted; if you happen to look her up, no doubt she would be glad to speak to some one besides her nurse." "Thank you," accepted Stanton, aa carelessly. "Take care of yourself." He had not reached the exit when Floyd overtook him. "Here are the entries for the Cup race," he panted, thrusting a folded newspaper into Stanton's hand. "There are two Atalanta cars to run against ua. It's you who need to take care of yourself, until afterward." "Floyd, wait! What do you mean? Do you really think—" But hia mechanician evaded the question. "Some people are hoodoos," he laughed. "Keep away from them, please. Qood-by." He had not spoken Valerie Carlisle's name, yet Stanton knew against whom he warned. And the melodramatic absurdity of the idea did not prevent an odd .thrill of discomfort and inse curity, from which he took his usual refuge in roughness. "I'm not in the habit of hiding from people, hoodoos or not. Good-by. n "Oh, very well," acquiesced Fioyd oddly. "But if you won't take care of yourself, Stanton —" "Well, what?" "Never mind." CHAPTER X. An Interval. It *u on the second day after hi* arrival In New Tork that Stanton called upon Jessica Floyd. Thia time he wont more confidently up the stairs of the quiet apartment houae, aure of hja right. As before, the little old Irishwoman clad In black allk wa« waiting to ad mit him; aa before. Be could have cried out in the of seeing thia girl who turned Floyd\s candid faoe to him and amiled with Floyd's gray •yea. Only, thia afternoon Jeealcla did not riae from the plaao aeat to greet him, but from a chair near a window. "Jea la away again*" ahe regretted, giving him her hand. ~I came to aee you, by hia permis sion," Stanton returned. The lioh color fluahed under her marveloua akin, that waa like no other woman'* he had ever aeen. Floyd dif fered there, man from girl, hie com plexion being much darker and leea trana lucent "It la too early to give you tea and cake," ahe told him, with a playful tieee "But if you will talk to it will be after four o'clock and I can offer you hos pitality . "What shall 1 talk to you about?" he doubted. "I am better at listening. I think." "Oh, anything, everything. Suppose 1 were Jea; I like what he llkea, rac ing. factories, motor-cars." Although the season was early, a fire burned in the tiny hearth, on either side of which they were seated, facing each othfer. In the ruddy light Stanton contemplated the amlling girl. In her pale-blue gown with its lace ruffles foaming around her full young threat and foiling low acrosa her hands. "Your brother has told' you of the business partnership that we plan for tfeib winter, Mias Floyd?" She nodded her bronse-crowned head. "Yes: I am very glad." "Did he." a audden fancy prompted the question, "did he tell you that I was coming here to see you. If I might?" "Did he know of It?" she aaked in counter-question. Floyd had kept the confldenoe given him, then although no formal re straint hbeen made. The expres sion that crossed Stanton's dark face waa warm and very gentle. "He knew, yes. I wish I could have met your brother years ago; I might have been leaa hard a man, more fit to know him, and you, now." "You hard!" "Has lie not taught you that I am so?" In her earnestness she leaned for ward. her eyes fearlessly on his. "Never. Do not imagine he thinks you that, do not so wrong his memory of your kindness. A rough word —what is it? The first gentleness cancels it; what is a friend worth who does not understand?" Stanton bent his head, looking at the fire. "I have not had much gentleness shown me," be said. "My mother died when I w *s born; when I was thirteen my father married again. My step mother was a good woman, whom I loved as well as my father did. But within the second year after the mar riage, the horses they were driving ran away, dragging the carriage over an embankment, and my parents died within a few moments of each other while being taken to the hospital. Have I said that my father was wealthy? He was so. He had made his will, a year before, leaving every thing to his wife; well knewing that she In her turn would pass all on to me. She was much younger than he, almost certain to outlive him, and entirely to be trusted. But she had never made a will, delayed by chance or forgetfulness, I suppose. When he died five minutes before her, all his fortune passed to his wife; then, upon her death without a will, again legally passed on to her relatives. I was left with no share or claim." "But It was yours by every right! Surely, surely, your step-mother's rel atives did not take It?" "They took every penny and every inch, Miss Floyd. And I, at fifteen, was sent out Into the world, a beggar ed orphan. They had no Interest in -Will You Sing It to Ms NowT" me, and I waa old enough to aupport myself. One of them offered to get me a position aa office boy." "Oh! You—" "I —lived," he grimly answered. "I asked them for nothing. What per-" sonal trinkets belonged to me, I sold, for the flrat needs; then I aet to work. My father had wlahed me to be a mechanical engineer, and I meant to fulfil his plan. Perfect health I did have —for alz yeara I regularly worked twenty houra out of each twenty-four, until I was graduated from college. For six years I waa alwaya tired, oc casionally hungry, and took Juat one recreation: every night I walked through the avenue where my former home stood, and looked at It I aaw the people who had robbed me go handsomely clad and aleek, I aaw their carriages and servants pass and r«paaa. I watched, and I concluded that there was just one thing in life worth while." The girl shivered Slightly, her gaae OB hit Bra profile with Its HUM of re lentless strength. "You meant to punish them," she faltered. • "Revenge? No; It «M not worth taking. I will not deny t thought of that aa a boy; aa a man I was too practical to waste my time. What I decided to ha*e was money. I found In my aptitude for this automobile racing my best and quickest way to secure a starting capital. If I killed myself In doing it. very good; that WM better than poverty. I waa poor for six years; poor (or a lifetime I will not be." "No, you will not be," she'agreed, her voice quite low and agitated. "You were born to bend circumstance, for good or ill." "Circumatance bent me, when it set your brother In my path," he cor rected. "I never before had a friend, or cared—" He shook his head impa tiently, turning fully to her. "Bah, what dead history am I boring you with! Forgive me; I only meant to Bay there might be some small excuse for my savagery. It is after four o'clock, I was promised tea." Jessica rose to cross to the little tea-table, but lingered for an Instant "Jes once told me that he had been guilty of the impertinence of saying his driver had the best disposition and the worst temper he had ever seen. I think that If he were here, he would apologise for the last part." "Perhaps he may yet retract the first," he warned lightly, yet touched. When she summoned him to take his cup, Stanton looked at the brown beverage, then in quizslcal aurprlse at his hoateas. "Yes," she laughed, coloring. "With three lumps of sugar in It Jes told me that whenever he was out with you, you drank chocolate syrup and sweet. I thought It was only girls who liked sweet, syrupy things." "And do you always give people what they like?" he asked, amused and oddly pleased. "I would like to," she retorted. "Then I would like very much to have you go to the theater with me, to-night." "As you like," she conceded, her heavy lashes sweeping her cheeks. The first step was made. For the next two weeks they saw each other frequently. Twice Stanton brought one of the Mercury cars and took Jes sica for sedate afternoon drives. S«v eral rainy days she gave him sweet chocolate and sat opposite him before the bright little hearth, listening or talking with the equable sunnlness so like Floyd's. Indepd, Stanton soon cgme to feel with her the sense of companionship and certainty of being understood that he felt with her broth er. But he never was rough to Jes sica. During that Interval he did not meet Floyd. Jo* was busy thirty miles up the Hudson valley, at the Mercury factory, Jessica said, and as Stanton of course knew from his mechanician's own statement. Only It impressed him as rather strange that Floyd could not get away even once or twice to see his sister. Meanwhile the Cup race was ap proaching. On the laat evening before Stanton went out to the Long Island coarse, he called on Jeaalca. "It Is possible to come Into New York, of course," he said to her. "But I shall stay out there until after the rice. After that, after Floyd and I come back, shall I see as much of you? Or won't you want me around when you have him?" Startled, she met his eyes, then turned away hurriedly to the piano. (TO BE CONTINUED.) ' Woman Bootblaek. London is to have its first woman bootblack. A woman baa juat com pleted arrangements to set up a boot blacking stand at one of the busiest corners in the West End. She be lieves herself to be the pioneer woman bootblack in England and declares that the men in the business need not fear ber competition, since she In tends to devote herself exclusively to polishing the footwear of women sad children. GOVERNOR GULLS SPECIAL SESSION \ - • MR. CRAIG ISSUES PROCLAMA TION SETTING THE DATE A 8 SEPTEMBER 24. HAS A TWO FOLD PURPOSE / —_ The Extra Session of the General As sembly Will Consider the Rate Problem as Well As Proposed Con stitutional Amendments. Raleigh—A proclamation was Issued by Governor Craig for the general as sembly to convene In extraordinary session September 24, the session, having a constitutional limitation of 20 days. The proclamation de clares the special session to be for the following specific purposes: "Prist, to provide for the people of North Carolina just transportation rates and adjust the relations and obligations betweeu the state of North Carolina and the railroads op erating within the territory of the 1 state." "Second, to receive the report of the constitutional commission and to consider the submission to the people of amendments to the constitution." Speaking of the call for the legisla ture. Governor Craig said: "The last legislature passed a reso lution proving for an extra session of the general assembly In order that amendments to the constitution might be submitted to the people. The gen eral assembly created a commission to prepare such amendments and re port them to the governor. This commission has completed its work. An extra session of the legislature Is therefore necessary. "The negotiations net ween the rep resentatives of the railroads and cor poration commission have not, in any opinion, resulted in any understanding sufficiently definite to delay the call for the extra session. These negotia tions will not be Interfered with by this call, and before the meeting of the general assembly September 124 there is ample time In which to ar rive at an agreement. I earnestly hope that there will be an amicable adjustment of our dlfferenceß*wlth the railroads. "1 cannot do otherwise than sub mit these questions so vitally affecting the people of North Carolina to their chosen representatives." Franklin County Good Roads. The good roads of Franklin county are fast coming to be recognized as the best in the state. People from va rious sections of the country come to inspect them and study at first hand their plan of construction. A large party from Goldsboro, consisting of George C. Royall, ('apt. N. O'Berry, P. K. Barden, John M. Grantham, G. A. Norwood and John Borden, who compose the board of trustees ap pointed to build 25 tnileß of good roads In the Goldsboro township of Wayne county spent a day In going over the roads. Qovsrnor Grants Three Pardons. Governor Craig granted three par dons. John Whitaker of Wilson coun ty, who has served since 1897 on a 30- year sentence for second degree mur der and Is now 60 years old, Is pardon ed on recommendation of Judge W. 8. O'B. Robinson, who tried the case. "Babe" Robinson of New Hanover county is pardoned for the remainder of a ohe-year sentence for highway robbery, the judge and other court officers recoihmendlng the pardon. "Bud" Davis of Durham county is par doned from the remainder of an 18- months' sentence for retailing. Test Efficiency of Sand Clay Roads. The county commissioners are about to test the efficiency of the sand clay roads in Mecklenburg for they have blocked off the stretch of road between the Mount Holly road and the Rozzell's Ferry road tfnd this is now in the hands of the road-builders. The cost of building is about $1,200 a mile cheaper for the sand-clay roaa Road Work In Rowan County. An order has been passed by the Rowan county commissioners to have the public road leading from Salis bury to the Piedmont toll bridge thor oughly repaired. A force of men will be set to work at once and the thor oughfare will be placed In tip-top con dition. The old road-bed Is to be removed, a new dressing given the macadam and sand-ctay used where adylsattle. '"This stretch of road is perhaps used more men who pay more taxes fian any road of the same length In North Carolina. Only Two Towns Hreard From, The trustees for the erection of the North Carolina Home for Wives and Widows of Confederate Veterans, Col Ashley Home, chairman, opened bids from towns for the location of the In stitution and find that only Durham and Fayettevllle have made proposals. The Durham and the Fayettevllle sites are to be inspected soon. Fayette vllle offers the choice of two sites and $3,060 In money to be added to the SIO,OOO appropriated by the state. Durham offers one stte and $1,750 in cask. STATE OPTICIANS ADJOURN Will Hold Their Ne*» Meeting in New Bern.—Officers Elected For Ensu ing Year. Durham.—The State Optical Soci ety spent another Interesting day in Durham and passed a number of im portant resolutions before adjourning. One of the most important of these resolutions was one condemning the general practice of selling glasses by mail. The United States postofflce department has recently prosecuted two St. Louis men 'or using the mails In thiß way, especially proaecuting those who advertise gold-filled glasses at a dollar a pair. The North Caro lina society's resolutions approved and commended the action of the de partment. The following new ofllcera were elected at this meetjng: President, €. H. Hanessee, of Ashe vllle. Frank M. Jolley, of Raleigh, sec retary-treasurer. Nathan Rosnsteln, Durham, first vice president. R. W. W'alker, of Winston-Salem, second vice president. After the transaction of the regu lar business the members of the so ciety were the guests of the Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company, and made a tour of their plant In Durham, it took something like an hour for the visitors to go over the plant, and they found It most Interesting. They were shown the various processes through which the tobacco Is carried from the warehouse floor till It Is packed in to the tobacco sacks as smoking to bacco or rolled Into the tinfoil pack ages as cigarettes. The last work of the society was the selection of a place for next year's meeting. There was some sug gestions that the society meet in the western part of the state, but this was overruled on account of the meeting of the State Jewelers' Associa tion there next year. A number of the members are also jewelers and for this reason an eastern town was se lected. The association will meet at New Bern next year. Buncombe Delegation Named. President E. C. Chambers of the Good Roads Association of Ashevlfle and Buncombe county, has named the following delegates to represent the local organization at the approaching meeting of the North Carolina Good Roads Association, which is to be held July 30 and 31 and August 1, at Morehead City: Gov. Locke Craig; Dr. Chas, P. Ambler, Mayor J. E. Rankin, Frank R. Hewitt, Fergus Stikeleather, Fred L. Seely, Dr. S. Westray Battle, Dr. M. H. Fletcher, Ben M. Jones, Charles A. Webb, Dr. E. B. Glenn, Frank M. Weaver, W. F. Randolph, Harry W. Plummer, Dr. Reynolds, E, C. Sawyer and Mark Brown. Two Women Killed by Train. Two women, about 30 and 35 years old, whose bodies now await identi fication at a local undertaking estab lishment at Asheville were instantly killed by Southern railway passenger train No. 102 due in Asheville from Morrlstown, Tenn., at 10:55. Reports state that the women, who were man gled almost beyond recognition, were walking on the western track near Riv erside Park, this city, when they crossed to the opposite track to avoid a freight train coming behind them. They were caught by the eastbound passenger train which passed over them. „ , Officers Capture Another Still, Chief of Police Harden and Deputy Justice, receiving Information which confirmed their suspicions that a blockade still was at work In the rl cinlty of Rutherford, made a raid, capturing a 50-gallon liquor-making outfit, which did not seem to have been In operation for some time. How ever It is thought that no small part or the ardent which has been coming Into Rutherford at intervals duced by this plant. North Carolina Postnoaaters. North Carolina postmasters recent ly commissioned are Joseph H. Lane, Leaksvllle; Pies J. Caudell, St. Paul; Otho K. Holding, Wake Forest; Jos, H Bowen, West Durham, and Lizzie Galloway, Supply. William C. Tucker has been made carrier for Route No. 1 out of Thersasville. State Builders' Exchange. The Builders' Exchange of North Carolina will meet in semi-annual ses sion in Charlotte next May. An invi tation was recently extended by C. C. Hook, president of the Greater Char lotte Club and by Mr. J. A. Jones, a leading contractor here. The decision to accept the Invitation was unani mous. This will bring to Charlotte next summer the leading contractors and builders of the state. The recent meeting was held at Wrightsville. Mr. J. A. Jones is president of the organ ization. Given Sixty Yeara at Hard Labor. Pleading guilty to 4wo charges of murder in the second degree. Jack Burton, alias Jack Berry, colored, charged with killing two women of his race in a dance hall on South French Broad avenue, Ashevllle, was sentenced to serve a term of sixty years at hard labor In the state peni tentiary, by Judge Frank Carter. There were two sentences of thirty yeara each Imposed by the court. In passing u/pon the case, the court held that the trial docket of the superior court ta quite congested with criminal cases. IKE STATE GROCERS m C '• END THEIR ANNUAL CONVEN TION. ADMINISTRATION WARMLY COMMENDED. MEET IN CHARLESTON NEXT Charlotte It Highly Praleod. —Tho Next Annual Convention To Bo Hold at the Isle of Palma When Big At tendance la Expected. Charlotte.—"l unhesitatingly affirm and I am confident that every whole sale grocer, manufacturer and manu facturers' salesman will bear me out In the statement, that the twenty-aec ond annual convention of the South ern Wholesale Grocers' Association held in Charlotte haa been the best, In unity of effort, and co-operative spirit manifested, that the organiza tion has ever known, certainly In my experience"—President J. H. McLau rln, of Jacksonville, Fla., head of the organization. "Charleston and the Charleston grocers, Jobbers and salesmen are go ing to do all in their power to give the twenty-third annual convention a roy al reception and entertainment. I can say no more than this: We will give you as nearly as we are able as good a time as Charlotte has done"— Mr. J. Koster of Charleston, the man who Induced the association to hold its next annual meeting at the Isle of Palms, Charleston. These two expressions will give some Idea of the manner in which Charlotte has entertained the several hundred delegates and visitors here for the annual convention of the Southern Wholesale Grocers' Associa tion, which adjourned recently after electing "officers for the ensuing year and selecting the Isle of Palms, Char leston, S. C., for the next place of meeting. Those elected were Mr. J. H. McLaurin of Jacksonville, president; Mr. J. D. Faucette, of Bristol, Tenn., first vice president; Mr. W. T. Reeves, of Tupelo, Miss., second vice presi dent, and Mr. C. VV. Bartleson of Jack sonville, Fla., treasurer. The office of secretary Is filled by the directors, the present secretary, who will doubt less be re-elected, being Mr. Robert Moore of Jacksonville. The re-election of Mr. McLaurin was the occasion of a vast outpouring of commendation. Home Coming Day In Bertie County. Windsor. —The first Thursday In August for the past twenty years has been a great day In the life of the people of Bertie county. That Is "Old Soldiers' Day" and on It In Windsor is held a reunion of the Confederate veterans. An Immense crowd alwayß attends. This year unusual efforts have been made to have a larger cele bration and gathering than usual. A "home coming" day has been added and much interest has been arousod by the large number of letters receiv ed from absent Bert:e people who say they are going to pay the old home a visit. Old Lady Killed by Train, Lumberton. —While crossing the track at the Cotton Mills, two miles above here, Mrs. Delia Blackburn, 65 years old, was struck by the first section of Seaboard train No. 14, being injured so badly that she died an hour later. The train was composed of Pullmans carrying peo ple from Birmingham and Atlanta to Wrlghtsvllle, and, although running at high speed, was stopped by the time It ran half Its length. The aged lady was wearing a sun-bonnet and started to cross the track without look ing up. North Carolina Niw Enterprises. Raleigh.—Charterp were Issued for the Graham Water Company, capital SIO,OOO subscribed by E. L. Henderson and others for supplying water to the town of Graham; the Park View Hos pital, incorporated, Rocky Mount, cap ital $60,000 authorized, and $25,000 subscribed by R. H. Speight and oth ers, and the Matt Slaughter Company, Klnston, capital SIOO,OOO, subscribed by Matt Slaughter and others for musical Instrument and mercantile business. Good Roads in Durham. Durham —The county road force has completed that part of the central highway in Durham county and when Orange oounty connects with this road leading out of West Durham there will be a good road from this city to Greensboro. One gang of the convict force is now working on the Durham end of the Quebec and Miami road, which is known as the Oxford road. It will take something like three months to get a four-mile gap in this road, put into the proper condition for travel. Held On Serious Charge. Greensboro —W. C. Tise, a Winston- Salem business man. and his stenog rapher, Miss Lillle Teas, are under bonds of |4OO to appear in police court and answer to charges of Im morality. Some time ago the woman came to Greensboro and took apart ments and to her a child was born. After the birth, man, woman and child left In an autotnobile. The child was lett with a woman in the suburbs of Winston-Salem, where it died. Inves tigation when a burial certificate was requested furnished the clue.
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