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STANTON
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Clesasr N. I strata
Author at "The Game
and the Candle," "The
Flying Mercury," etc.
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Frederic Tberafcarfh
Copyright MIX The Bubbe-MerriU Ouiapujr
IS
BYNOPBIB.
At the beginning of great automobile
race, the mechanician of the Mercury,
Stanton's machine, drops dead. Strange
youth. Jease Floyd, Volunteers, and Is ac
cepted. In the rest during the twenty
four J hour race Stanton meets a stranger.
Miss Carlisle, who Introduces herself. The
Mercury wins race. Stanton receives
flowers from Miss Carlisle, which he Ig
nores. Stanton meets Mis Carlisle on a
train. They alight to take walk, and
train leaves. Stanton and Miss Carlisle
follow In auto. Accident by which Stan
ton is hurt Is mysterious.. Floyd, at lunch
with StaHt'on, tells of his boyhood. Stan
ton again meets Miss Carlisle and-they
dine together. Stanton comes to track
sick, but makes race. They have acci
dent. Floyd hurt, but not seriously. At
dinner Floyd tells Stanton of his twin
alster, Jessica. Stanton becomes very 111
and loses consciousness. On recovery, at
his hotel Btanton receives Invitation and
visits Jessica. They go to theater togeth
er. and meet Miss Carlisle. Stanton and
Floyd meet again and talk buatneaa.
They agree to operate automobile factory
as partners. Floyd becomes suspicious of
Miss Carlisle. Stanton again visits Jes
sica. and they become fast friends. Stan
ton becomes suspicious of Miss Carlisle.
Just before Important race tires needed
for Stanton's care are delayed Floyd
traces the tires and brings them to camp.
During race Stanton deliberately wrecks
his car to save machine in track. Stan
ton and Floyd thrown out and lose con
sciousness. Two weeks later Sainton
awakes, nnd believes Floyd dead. Miss
Carlisle admits she was responsible for
accident to Stanton and for nls previous
Illness. They part. Stanton visits Jes
sica. and much of mystery is unraveled.
CHAPTER Xll.—(Continued.)
The acute question pierced deep.
Out of Stanton's suffering leaped the
truth in a cry of- vehement passion
and force.
"I do not know! Jessica, Jessica, I
do not know! I want both. I love
you, I want you for my wife; left with
him, I would have missed you. If I
cared for you because you were like
him, if I see blm now in you, what
matter? I tell you I want you, but I
shall want him all my life. I want the
one who rode beside me, the one who
stood with me through rough or
•mooth, the one who knew me and I
him—l want my comrade, Jes Floyd."
The naked strength of pain, the
•"fierce outcry of savage bereavement
left the atmosphere swept to primi
tive clarity, free of all small things.
The girl drew herself erect, even her
lips colorlegs In her absolute pallor
but her eyes meeting him on his own
ground of desperate honesty, and
raised her hands tQ her head.
Stanton saw her lace sleeves fall
back, and a zigzag scar start Into
view on her slender left arm. Like
bands of silk ribbon she unwound the
heavy braids of hair and flung them
" aside, letting a mass of short, boyish,
bronze curls tumble about her fore
head.
There was no mistake possible, ever
again. He did not know that he spoke,
yet his cry reached the street below.
"Floyd! Floyd!"
"I am Floyd."
"You—"
"I am Jessica."
The room reeled giddily, his vision
blurred. And as his composure went
down in chaoe, her courage rose up to
aid his need. « -■
"You're goin' to take it hard," com
passloned her earnest voice. "I've
been ifoln' wrong to you, while I
thought I was only hurtln' myself. I'm
sorry."
The lisp, the soft excitement-born
accent so blent with memories of
splendid peril and comrade risk, fell
on ready ears.
"God!" breathed Stanton, and sank
nto a chair, • dropping his face upon
his arm as it rested on the little tes
table.
"You've got to bear it; there's only
me. But that's the only way I've de
ceived you, Btanton." The rustle of
isr dress came strangely with his
name in those clear tones. "All that
I told you of my life is true, except
Jes. My father had to have a son, an'
he made me one. At first, when I was
dttle. it was for fun he called me Jes
when I had my boy-clothes on, an'
played there were two of us. But
when we found thft all the country
side, all the factory bsnds, every one
except my nurse believed Jes snd
Jessica twins, we let It go on. It
msde It essier for him in trsinln' me '
to be his partner. For he said I was 1
'nan-fit for that 8o Jes studied an' !
raced an' worked with him all day; In 1
the evenin' Jessica wore frocks and 1
frills. We lived alone in the big :
house; it was so easy. I used to dark- 1
en my skin a hit; that was all. You're 1
not listenln' —you want time to think 3
tt out—"
He neither moved nor contradicted. 1
Time for readjustment be did need,
for realization of thlf and himself. "
Standing, a slim, upright figure, she
gat* if to him, waiting while the little *
Swiss 61ock on the mantle chattered 1
through tasny minutes.
"When father died." she r* '
sumed, st last, "sfter I foond out Wat 1
I wasn't goin to Ate, too. I saw Jes c
was able to ewrti. his llvin' while Jes- 1
sica was liable to starve. I had It In b
my blood to love that work, I suppose;
I told 70a onoe that the very smell of
exhaust (is drove me out. of myself
with speed-fever. Every racer knows
It, you know It, that feelln*. So 1 got
a place In the Mercury factory; an'
that way I met you. 1 don't know how
to make you understand!"
He Interrupted her ruthlessly, al
most roughly, as he might once have
spoken to Floyd; not looking up.
"What of all that? You are you,
now. You've let me think you dead
for two months —you left me In hell."
"No, no!" she denied in swift de
fense. "Not that. I never guessed that
you could believe me dead; I thought
you must know me—Jessica."
"How should 1 know? You never
came near me. The Floyd I knew
would have come." the bitterness of
those desolate nights and days choked
speech.
There was a ppuse, filled with some
strange significance beyond his fath
oming.
"I couldn't come," she deprecated,
her low voice broken. "You're makin'
this hard. When I was picked up
stunned, an' taken to the hospital, aft
er we went off the bridge, they found
I wasn't Jes. They talked of me —the
newspapers printed stories about Stan
ton's mechanician —they said, they
said you knew I was a woman when
we went West—"
The movement that brought Stanton
to his feet was galvanic. He under
stood, finally, in one blinding flash of
full comprehension; understood the
doctor, the his fellow-drivers'
embarrassed reticence, and Miss Car
lisle. Understood, too, that here had
been a suffering acute as his own. And
in the man's hot outrush of protection
Jes and Jessica were fused into one.
"They'll talk to me." he grimly as
sured. "I'm not shut In a hospital,
now. Why didn't you send them to
me? You knew I'd come to you—"
His sentence broke, as his eyes
caught and held hers; Floyd's eyes,
straight and true In spite of the girl's
scarlet shame burning In either check.
"I knew, yes, you are that kind. But
how could I tell you would want to
come? How can I tell It now? You'd
see me through safely, anyhow. I'm
rememberln' that you dismissed Floyd
for one falsehood, an' I've tricked you
for weeks."
He drew a step nearer her; the
pulse which had commenced to beat
through him the day they started for
Indianapolis and which had ceased two
months ago, suddenly woke anew with
a long steady stroke. The old rich
sense of life ran warm along his veins
"What of you?" he put the question.
"Brute enough I've been to Floyd. Per
haps he had too much of me for you
to want more?"
She gasped before the challenge,
then abruptly flared out, powder to
spark, defiance to mastery, as so often
on track or course.
"You're mockin' me, Ralph Btanton!
An' I won't bear it. I've told you too
often that I cared, trustln' you'd never
know the rest. I ought to have kept
away from you, an' I couldn't do It.
I never meant you to know I was any
one but Jes Floyd, I meant, to be your
partner an' mechanician all my life. I
hated beln' a girl. But you came here
"You're Going to Marry M« Today.**
an' found Jessica when I wasn't ex
pectin' you. When you asked me If
you might marry my sister, there at
the Comet factory, you almost killed
me. For then I did want to be a girl,
your girl. Yes, I'm sayin' it, an' I
won't marry you, I won't. I gave Jes
sica I chance, an' you dMn't love her,
you loved Jet. I couldn't be happy
any more, either way. I'm tired of
wlshln' the Mercury had fallen on me
—you'd better go; I'm never goin* to
see you again."
"You're going to see me," corrected
Stanton, slowly defeat*, "forever.
You're going to marry me u*Say."
She lifted her face to htm as he
stood over her, the girl's piteous
beauty of It, the boy-comrade's direct
candor, the mechanician's unmurmur
ing obedience, and he saw Jher tjmta
bling whose courage matched &Fs own.
"Don't make me unless you want
me, truly," she whispered. "We're
playin' square, now."
His reply was Inarticulate, the •**
presslon which leaped into his eyes
was that with which be once had
looked at Floyd across the cups of
chocolate. Only now it cams with the
fierce movement that crushed her sup
ple figure in an embrace blending ev
ery passion to be spent on man or
woman.
"Jess, Jess—comrade Jess, love
Jess!"
After a while, she made the last
essay.
"You're sure, Ralph?"
"Hush."
"You've lost your racln' mechani
cian."
"I'm not going to race; we're going
to Buffalo to open the Comet automo
bile factory."
"I've known you every minute; you
didn't all know either Jes or Jessica."
For the first time since the Mercury
car changed tires on the Cup race
course, Stanton's blue-black eyes
laughed into the gray ones.
"Perhaps not, but I know Jess Stan
ton. Get your hat and furs and come
sign your contract; we're team-mated
for the long run, my girl."
- THE END.
THRIFT OF OZARK COUPLE
Took Matter of Presents Into Their
Own Hands on Silver Wedding
Anniversary.
Everyone who has got several gifts
exactly alike will appreciate the
shrewdness of this Ozark couple who.
In the matter of presents, took things
into their own hands.
"Speakin' of being thrifty," said Hi
Buck, "reckon Cy Wasson and his
wife, that came here from lowa, about
take the prize."
"How's that?" asked the stranger
who was waiting in front of the black
smith shop while tils horse was being
shod.
"Well, you see Cy and Mlrandy
wanted to celebrate their sliver wed
ding. They had never celebrated any
anniversary before because, as Mlran
dy told my wife, the silver wedding
was the first one where the presents
would be worth more than the
victuals.
"Even then they worried a good deal
for fear everybody would bring pickle
forks or butter knives. But after a
while they hit on an idea that worked
first rate.
"They wrote at the bottom of ths
Invitations, asking the folks not to buy
presents until they got there, Tor the
Jeweler from Buckeye Bridge would
be in the* yard with a full line of sil
verware, and no two pieces alike."
"That was clever," said the stran
ger. "Picked out their own presents,
you might say."
"Yes," said HI, "but that wasn't the
best part of it. We learned afterward
they dickered with the Jeweler and got
him to give them 20 per cent, on all
he sold."—Youth's Companion.
An Expert Name Manufacturer.
At a dinner In New York William
Ray Gardiner, the advertising expert.
■cored neatly off an advertising fad
that has of late been rather overdone.
"A young couple," h« began, "had
been blessed with the advent of a
little son, and tbe wife, at dinner on#
evening, said:
" 'What shall we name our darling.
Jim?'
"Jim wrinkled his brow and r»
plied:
" 'Well, I submit Childa, Flrstbornlo,
Thebol, Aliours, Sunne, Ourown, Our
ownson—'
"But at this point his wife shut him
up. He could, of course, have kept on
Indefinitely. You see, he was one of
those advertisement writers who In
vent new names for breakfast foods,
tinned soups and patent medl&lnes."
Optimistic,
it is better to be picked too young
than canned too late. —Judge.
MtLUON AND HALF
FOR STATE BANKS
CHARLOTTE WILL GET GOOD
PORTION OF DEPOSITS FOR
MOVING COTTON CROP.
SECURITY FOR THE LOANS
Amendment to Currency Bill Would
Psrmit of ■ Use of Agricultural
Staples.—Objsct of Hypothecating
Cotton Is to Hold For Higher Prices
Raleigh.—A special from Washing
ton states that one million five hun
dred dollars is to be deposited In
North Carolina banks by the Treasury
Department to help move the cotton
crop.
Charlotte will get $400,000 of this
money; Raleigh, $400,000; Wilmington,
$500,000, and Greensboro $200,000, ac
cording to H. C! McQueen, president
of the Murchison National Bank of
Wilmington, who talked with Secre
tary M( Adoo.
- Mr. McQueen announced that the
first deposit of $300,000 In his bank
would be made In a few days. He was
here to arrange for the deposit of
Government and local bonds required
by th'i Treasury ans security for the
deposits.
Asked how ths money would be cir
culated Mr. McQueen said: "We loan
It to our correspondents in the inter
ior, enjoining upon them .the same
promise we were required to give the
Government, that these funds shall
be used to move the crop and not for
speculation or any other purposes."
"Will you charge these banks an
advance in Interest rates?" he wuf
asked.
"Of course. We cannot put up the
amount of our own securities that
will be required and voluntarily givt
all the benefit to our oustomers."
Asked whether ho approved the
suggestion of permitting cotton ware
house certificates to be accepted a?
securities for circulating notes under
the new currency bill, Mr. McQuder
Bald he saw many difficulties in the
way.
"Banks must have their securities
in liquid state and such as are quicklV
convertible." He said the object of
hypothecating cotton would be f
hold it for higher prices.
Odd Fellows Elect Officers.
The grand encampment Independen
Order of Odd Fellows In annual se.'
slon at Shelby, elected (he following
officers for the ensuing year: E. I?
Stradley, Ashevllle, grand patriot; E
W. Chadwlck, Klnston, grand high
priest; Z. Kendall, Shelby, grand sen
ior warden; R. H. Ramsey, Charlotte
grand scribe; John E. Wood, Wllining
ton, grand treasurer; W. B. Bagwell,
Durham, grand junior warden; David
Gaster, Fayettevllie, grand representa
tive; S. H. Mlchalove, Ashevllle, grand
marshall; H. T. Greenleaf, Elizabeth
C'lty, grand inside sentinel; R. Cox,
Klnston, grand outside sentinel.
Movement For Sand Clay Road.
A movement has been started at
Lexington for the building of a first
class sand-clay road from Asheboro to
Salisbury, via Denton and Farmer or
Bombay, Healing Springs and South
mont, with a road from Southmont tc
Lexington. W. C. Hammer, Arthur
Ross and others of Asheboro, G. Dan
Morgan, J. Frank Cameron and others
of Denton, H. B. Varner of this city
and many others are interested in the
road and are going to put it through,
if the County Commissioners of I)a
vidson can be interested In the pro
ject.
Acquitted of Abduction Charge.
Joe Love, who was tried at Halifax
on a charge of abducting a 13-year
old girl from her home in Roanoke
Rapids a few weeks ago, was acquitted
of the charge several days ago, after
the jury had deliberated for several
hours. Love was defended by A. Paul
Kltchin, of Scotland N'eck. The girl
Is a daughter of a widow lady at Roa
noke Rapids and Love ts a married
man with six children.
North Carolina New Enterprise*.
The Reynolds Brothers Lumber
company with paid up capital of $7,-
000 and authorized to $50,00.0, was
chartered. The home office will be in
Franklin, North Carolina, 'but several
of the leading stockholders live in
Georgia. J. W. Reynolds, C. H. Stone
and G. W. Beebe are the Incorpora
tors. The Roseman Improvement
company begins work with SI,OOO of
its authorized $125,000 capital, Ros
man, N. C., being the headquarters.
The charterers are A. M. White, A. M.
Paxton, R. M. Powell and others.
Just Freight Rate Association.
At a largely attended meeting at
Troy the Montgomery County branch
of the State Just Freight Rate Asso
ciation was formed with J. C. Beck
with as president, M. Myrick. vice'
president and O. B. Deaton, secretary
and treasurer. Great interest was
shown in the meeting, at which State
Secretary Hubert Ramsaur discussed
the problems which the associatlou
hopes to solve. Many of the loca'
merchants are protesting on account
of the rates on fall merchandise ship
ped from Baltimore. I
TO IMPROVE COUNTRY LIFE
Series of Farmers' Meetings to Be
Conducted By Experts of U. 8.
Dept. of Agriculture.
Raleigh.—A special from Washing
ton states that a series of farmers'
meetings are to be held in Seven
Haigh and Rob MobNeill. These
meetings will begin August 26th. Some
of the dates and places of meeting are
as follows:
Swain Quartor, for Hyde county,
Monday, September Ist.
Washington, for Beaufort county,
September 2nd.
\ jreenville, for Pitt county, Wed
nesday, September 3rd.
Williamsburg, for Martin county,
Thursday, September 4th.
Plymouth, for Washington county,
Friday, September sth.
Columbia, for Tyrrell county, Sat
urday, September 6th.
It is planned to make these meet
ings Interesting and unique In the
subjects discussed, in the speakers
and in the manner of presentation.
Prof. JT. M. Johnson, of the Bureau
of Farm Management, United States
Department of Agriculture, will dis
cuss better farming. His lecture will
present the essential features of good
farming from a new viewpoint.
Dr. William Hart Dexter, of the
Farmers' Co-operative Demonstration
Work, will make what has been char
acterized as an "uplift talk." He will
talk about those things which make
for the betterment of country life. He
will discuss the home, the farm and
the community.
Surgeon Charles W.# Stiles, of the
United States Public Health Service,
will discuss rural sanitation and pre
ventable diseases, and will lllustsrate
iiis talk with charts and steroptlcan
views.
Suregon Stiles will tell in a clear,
simple manner how the home may be
mad® sanitary, and how malaria and
fever and other preventable diseases
may be easily controlled.
In conclusion there will be a series
of moving pictures prepared by the
new Bureau of Rural Organibotion, of
the Department of Agriculture. These
pictures will portray la a graphic way
Home of the results better methods
!n country life.
Bring in Vordlct of Manslaughter.
The case of state against Jameß
Underhlll and Joe Tisdale, charged
with the murder of Carlisle Heath on
the night of June 21, was concluded
at Kinaton. Three hours later a ver
ilct of guilty of manslaughter as to
Underhlll and not guilty as to Tis
dale was returned. The case occu
pled nearly three days In Superior
Court. The defense built up case
uround statement of defendants tha;
Underhlll was shooting at negroes
with whom they had had an alterca
tion, while the state contended that
Underhlll mistook Heath in the dark
nesß for Thomas Askew, with whom
he had had trouble a week before.
Cotton Crop Not Encouraging.
Reports on the condition of the cot
ton crop In Mount Olive's territorj
just now is by no means encouraging
It is said that rain now would un
doubtedly do much good. But it it
also said that the damage done the
crop by the heavy rains during June
und the early.part of July becomes
more distinctly apparent every day,
some farmers asserting that they will
not harvest more than a half crop,
and some not that much.
Many Institutes in This Btate
Twenty-seven county institutes for
public school teachers have been held
this season under the direction of
l'rof. E. E. Same, Superintnedent of
Teacher Training for the State De
partment of Education and there re
main one institute to be held. It
opens at Wilmington Monday, Sep
tember 1. The institutes this season
have been especially successful in at
tendance and In the amount and char
acter of work accomplished.
Wheat Crop in Chatham Good.
The wheat crop in Chatham is the
best that has been In 30 years, most
farmers making over 20 bushels to
one sowed and in some instances 50
to one. The corn and cotton crops
are said to be much better than they
have been in a number of years.
"fr'iah Jimmy" Gets Eight Years.
William L. Dunn, alias "Irish Jim
my," was judged guilty of cracking
the safe of the .McAdensville Cotton
MIU» office some years ago and sen
tenced- to eight years hard labor in
the state pen. The prisoner's wife,
who came here from New York City
to be present at ti.o trial, was In the
court room. Dunn says he does not
care to his own account, but
feels the keenest sorrow for his wife.
The jury was out about an hour and
a half. The case ha 3 attraccted muc..
attention at Gastonia.
Mecklenburg Teachers' Institute.
The institutes for the Mecklenburg
County teachers which has recently
been conducted at Davidson College,
came to an end when the examina
tions were completed. One day was
taken up in making the teats for cer
tificates of various grades and a large
number of the 150 teachers in attend
ance took these examinations. The
superintnedent of education, Mr. Wil
liam McCluskey, stated that the In
stitute had been very successful In
deed. The teachers expressed satis
faction with their progress.
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