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'f sr. J .5 V THE POLK COUNTY NEWS, SALUDA; K? 0. r - - 1 V.'. ' ' b 7V." ', fA-'.'- r ', V-' 2Si ."0 -J'I'S , r Wi'mfi ' a V " '- "' BUT-.' ' " " :' f Aj Tr REVJM,Es ' 1L! I V iffU f'ii, Ill 1 V t X . ! fl fl , - Vtl I I 1 1 I'll 1. Tv 1 -JdWTA WA --S-t BOBB5,-MEPPlLLCO.) Fran arrives at : riamllton Oregpry.J . home in Littlebursr, but finds nim absent,-, conducting the choir at a camp, meeting. Sh repairs thither in search of f .htm,u lnucrha rfnT-1r.tr thn HArvlCe and 18 aSKeQ XO)t leave. Abbott Aehton. superintendent of schools, escorts Fran from the tent. tells her Gregory - is a wealthy man. deeply interested In chanty work, ana a THIlar nr fh rhnrrn. ABliwn uvvv".- nf hAw fireeorv marriea a youiis Sn4nirrl0l1 nhUa ftttfndiriK COllef v,An aaAta 1 Kfir itVfln 1r trie CI f:reatiy interested in ran ana wuuc ng leave of her. holds her hand and is seen by Sapphira Clinton, sister of .Rob ert Clinton, chairman of the school boara. Fran tells Gregory she wants a home with him. Grace Nolr. Gregory's private secretary, takes a violent dislike to jran and advises her to go away at once. Fran hints at a twenty-year-old secret, and Gregory in agitation asks Grace to ft, re ana llld of 1 that marriage. Gregory had marriea m preni wuc unco j c' vw.w -- . of Fran's mother. - Fran takes a liking to Mrs. Gregory. Gregory explains that Fran is the daughter of a very dear friend who is dead. Fran agrees to the tory. Mrs. Gregory. insists an her making her home with them and takes her to her arms. Fran declares the secretary must go. Grace begins nagging tactics in an effort to drive Fran from the Gregory horn. Abbott, while taking a walk alone at midnight, finds Fran on a bridge tell ing her fortune by cards. She tells Ab bott that she is the famous lion tamer. Fran Nonpareil. She tired of circus life and . sought a home. Grace tells of see ing Fran come home after midnight with a man. She guesses part of the story and surprises the rest from Abbott. She decides to ask Bob Clinton to go to Springfield to investigate Fran's story. Fran enlists Abbott in her battle against Grace. Fran offers her services to Greg ory as secretary during the temporary absence of Grace. The latter, hearing of Fran's purpose, returns and interrupts a touching scene between father and daughter. Grace tells Gregory she In tends to marry Clinton and quit his serv ice. He declares that he cannot continue his work without her. Carried away by passion, he takes her in his arms. Fran walks in on them, and declares that Grace must leave the house at once. To Gregory's consternation he learns of Clinton's mission to Springfield. Clinton returns from Springfield and, at Fran's re quest, Ashton urgest him not to disclose what he has learned. . . ' CHAPTER XVII. Continued. It was impossible for Abbott to re ceive all this as a whole; he took up the revelations one at a time. "Is It possible that Fran is Mr. Gregory's daughter?" "Oh, she's his. all' right, only child of his only legal wife that's why she came, thinking her father would do the right thing, him that's always praying to be guided aright, and balk ing whenever the halter's pulled straight" Then," Abbott stammered, "Mrs. Gregory is . . "Tap; is with a question mark. But there's one thing she isn't; sho isn't the legal wife of this pirate what's wwojb tt-yiejrmg upuu iue consciences of folks that thinks they're worse than him." "As for Mr. Gregory," Abbott began sternly Robert pursued the name with a vigorous expletive, and growled, "One thing, Mr. Gregory has done for me, he opened the flood-gates that have been so long dammed yes, I say dammed I say " "Bob," Abbott exclaimed, "don't you understand Fran's pbject in keeping the secret? It's on account of" Mrs. Gregory. If she finds It out that she's not legally, married don't you see? Of course it: would be to Fran's In terests bless her heart! .What a what a Nonpareil!" " Tain't natural," returned Clinton, "for any girl to consult the interests of a woman that's supplanted her mother. No, Fran's afraid to have it ing but the sticks. Think of her be lieving in that jelly pulp, that steej engraving in a Family Bible! No, 1 mean to open . her eyes, and get her out of his spider's web." . "I see your point of view." s "You do if you have eyes. Think of, that perfect angel but just say Grace Noir and you've called all the virtues. And her in his house! " "You still believe in angels ?" In quired Abbott gravely. tv "Yap; and devils with long sort-of-curly hair, and pretty, womanish faces, and voices like molasses;" "But Fran wants Mrs. Gregory spared " -' -' ": : ;-- ;; ' ' ' "Abbott, when I think of Grace Noir spending one more night under, the roof of that burrowing mole, that croc odile with tears Jn his eyes and the rest of him nothing but bone and gristle" "Bob, if I assure you that Miss Noir will never spend another day under his roof, will you agree to keep this discovery to yourself?" "You ean't make no such assurance. If she ain't put wise to what branch of the animal kingdom he twigs to, she'll not leave his roof." "Bob, if be leaves that house in the morning, for ever, won't you agree to silence, for Mrs. Gregory's sake and because Fran asks it?" "Fran's another angel, bless her heart! But you can't work it." "Leave it to me, Bob. I'll be guided by the spur of the moment" "I need a bookkeeper at my store," Robert said, ruminating. "I promise you that Miss Noir will soon be open to offers." "See here, Abbott, I can't afford to lose any chances on this thing. I'm going to see the feathers fly. No I don't want Mrs. Gregory to learn about it,, any more than you. on, Fran; but I'll limit the thing to Grace" "She'd tell Mrs. Gregory." "Don't you say anything against Grace Nqlr, Abbott for though you are my friend " "I say nothing against her; I. say only that she's a woman." ' "Well," Clinton reluctantly agreed, I reckon she is. Ill tell you what 111 do. Ill go with you into, that wolf's den, and I'll let you do all the talking; and if you can manage things n half an. hour just thirty minutes by my watch so that Grace leaves there tomorrow, I'll leave you to Eteer things and it's mum for keeps. But I'm going to be v present though I don't. want to say one word to that that rBut if he don't crawl out of his wool far enough to suit the purpose, in short, If he don't cafve, and in half an hour" ; ''Half an hour will do the business," said Abbott stoutly. "Come!. "Be sure to call for Mr. Gregory by himself," said Robert as they walked swiftly back to the Gregory residence. If Grace comes Into the room while we're talking, or Mrs. Gregory " "If they do," Abbott said quickly, "you are not to utter one word, not one, about . springneld you under stand? It's a bargain, and I shall hold you to your word of honor." "For half an hour I won't say a word," Clinton declared, "unless it's some word 'just drawn out of my bo som by the sight of that villain. Come!" ! It Posilblt That Fran Is Gregory's Daughter?" Mr. tojd for fear she'd be injured by your -cut-glass paragon, your religion-stuffed 'pillow that calls Itself a man." "Fran afraid ? That's a joke ! I tell 0 you, she's thinking only of Mr. Greg ory." :;:') : . ' ' . "I'm sorry for Mrs. Gregory," Rob- 'ert allowed, "but Grace Noir is more to me than any other woman on earthJ You don't see the point When I think of a girl like Grace. Noir living under 1 the same roof with thatthat " , "Mr. Gregory," Abbott supplied. 11 - 'i M V.IV - . r-Ana .Bne so puie, bu ui&u, bo mucn . above us. V V It makes me crazy And. all the time she's been breathing the same air, she's thought him Hose to tbe Wilderness, and us noth the last hour had come, he sought his wife, reeling like a sick man as he descended the hall stairs. . : . Mrs. Gregory was softly playing an old hymn) when ' he ' discovered her presence in the brilliantly; lighted par lor. Grace was expecting a visit from Clinton and had made the room cheer ful for his coming,. and Mrs. Gregory, looking in and finding no one present, had sunk- upon the stool . before the piano. She did not see her husband, for her face was bent low as she feel ingly played, "I Need Thee Every Hour.".; : V j ".; ' --h:. vt"-: Gregory, well-nigh overwhelmed with the realization of what he meant to do, grasped the door for support Presently he spoke, brokenly, -"Lucy, how true that is we do, indeed, need Him every hour." She did not start at his voice; though his, presence had been unsuspected. She raised her serious eyes, and ob served his haggard face. "Mr. Greg ory, you are 111." ' :, -' -1, "No the light hurts my eyes. He CHAPTER XVIII. Just Thirty Minutes. During the week spent , by Robert Clinton in. search of Fran's life-secret, a consciousness of his absence and its cause was like a hot' iron branding Gregory's brain. What a mocking fa tality, that it should have been Grace to send Robert on his terrible errand an errand which must result lin ruin! Mrs. Gregory would be pitied when it became known how she had been de ceived ; Fran would be pitied because she was a disowned daughter; Grace would be pitied for trusting in vhe in tegrity of her employer but Gregory, who 'of all men needed pity most, would be utterly despised. He did not think of himself alone, but of his works of charity they, too, woiild fall," in his disgrace, and Walnut ' Street : church- even religion itself would ; be dis credited because of an. exposure that could avail .nothing. ; . ' Gregory had been too long proclaim Ing the living God not to feel Him as a Presence,, and in this Presence he felt a shuddering fear that could sug gest no relief but propitiation. He as well as Abbott Ashton had kept him self informed of Robert's movements as far as they . were ; known to Miss Sapphira, hence the day of Robert's return found his. thought of atonement at its most frenzied stage As evening. wore on, he made up his mind to, the fatal step, .? -. Before Robert could Gregory would - confess oppose bim. 'My God! Then Somebody Has Told You About' Springfield. It Was Fran!" turned off the lights and drew a chair near her. The room was partly re vealed by an electric arc that swung at the street corner its mellowed beams entered the open window. "Lucy, I have something very Impor tant to say to you." Her fingers continued r to wander among the keys, making the hymn barely audible, then letting" it die away, only to be revived. ? "Lucy, I have never spoken of this before, but it has seemed to me for a long time that we hare wandered rather far apart yes, very far apart We sit close together, alone, our hands could touch, but our souls live in dif-way?" She ceased playing abruptly, and ferent worlds. Do you ever feel that answered almost in a whisper, "Yes." Perhaps it is my fault," said Greg ory, "although I know that If you had taken more interest in what interests me, if you had been true to the Faith as I have tried to be " "I .have been true to you," said Mrs. Gregory. - "Of course of course there is no question of. our being true to each other. I feel that I am not wholly to blame. Lucy, it has beenN my fault and it has been your fault that - is how I look at it." There was silence, then she said, "There seems nothing to be done." "How do you mean? You speak as if our love were dead and buried" , She rose abruptly, saying, "And its grave unmarked." :;. "Sit down, Lucy I haven't told you what I came to tell you must listen and try: to see It as I see it. Let us be reasonable and discuss the future in a in a sensible and matter-of-fact way. If you will agree " "I will not agree to it," she answered firmly. "Let me go, Mr.' Gregory, there is no need ever to bring up that subject" - ' C;' ' ;: il - '' '' He had risen, and now blank amazement he stared at hex, repeat ing, "You will not agree tc. it? To what? You are unreasonable. What subject have I brought up?" ; "It Is very true that we ha e drifted too far apart to be as we were in the beginning. But ' there is still : some thing left to me, and this something. I shall cling to as long as I can. I mean to avoid the publicity, the open expos ure, the ?" shame of of a neglected wife." y-y::. v'r; "My God!" whispered Gregory, fall ing back; "then somebody has told you about Springfield i was Fran!" -.. "I don' know' what you mean,, she returned, apparently without emotion What I mean Is, that "I shall never "A divorce? are you. mad? Now .that consent to a divorce." Good heavens, Lucy, Do you think I want a separation because you disown the church ? What have P ever done to make you imagine such an absurdity?" She answered gently, ','Yes. it seems I misunderstood. But you" said you wanted me to discuss the future' in a matter-of-fact way and I . couldn't think of the luture as having ny other matter-of-fact solution." ' Gregory was hotly indignant "Lucy If that vis meant : as an insinuation agaUlSt" ': - t" i :A f Mrs. Gregory raised' her hand com pellingly. "Do "not speak any name." she said; looking at him steadily. .T can endure much, she went on, in a milder tone, finding him silent; T often wonder if many women could en dure as silently but there must never be a name mentioned between us.", . Her manner was so unwontedly final, that he stood looking at her, not knowing how . to resume the. pressing subject of his past They Vwere In that same silent attitude when Grace Noir came in. from; thehall. r; r ' Grace turned up the lights, and then - "Oh ! " It was impossible to prevent an unpleasant compression of the mouth at 'discovering Gregory so near his. wife. "Am I in the way? I am looking for company, and I heard .the doorbell please excuse me!" she add ed, biting off, the words.. ; . '. . , "Of course you are not in the Way," Gregory returned desperately. "Com pany, you say? And you heard the doorbell is Bob Clinton" ; He grew white.- '.'My eyes are bad, for some reason," he; muttered, and switched off the lights again. v ' "How very dark you . have it in here!" said Grace reprovingly. ' "Of course Mr. Clinton has been shown the back-parlor, where it Is light ' I will ! go to him there, and leave you twor-" she, paused C Irresolutely, but neither spoke. Grace had no sooner gone" than Greg ory .with an effort found his voice. "Lucy,, my conscience has tormented me until it will not let me rest about you. It's right to know, something more about mj life than I have ever told 'V v' :. ,v "Right in there," said the maid's voice, from the hall, and Afttott Ash ton and Robert Clinton entered the half-lightr : , - . .: ; V'.-'-V-'-Whlle Robert was greeting Mrs. Gregory with exaggerated pleasure, ln order to escape facing her husband, Abbott spoke to the other with an odd sense of meanness, as if be partook, by mere nearness, of the other's co arflice. "I wish to speak to you for a few minutes,, Mr; Gregory;" ' 1 Gregory, like an animal brought to bay, said, "I suppose you've some ex cuse abouf playing cards with Fran." "More important than playing cards," Abbott returned. Gregory ; fo'ught off the inevitable ; "If you refer to. losing your position at the public school " "No, Clinton has come home from Springfield, and we have a matter " "It's pressing business," spoke up Robert who all' this time had been asking Mrs. Gregory if her mother was well,' if Simon Jefferson was no worse, if Fran was hearty,' if Grace Noir was at home "and private business." . ! have no business," Mr. Gregory - exclaimed, in fear "that my wife need; not, know.". - "This Is" cried Robert1 - ;Then . re membering, ' be struck the. keys , a re-' jounding, chord. s - j v ' ;. V ; ; 'Mrs. Gregory was about to leave, the room. ; r : v T.-v. v "No, no!, exclaimed Mr.: Gregory, starting to the door to intercept her, "I want you to stay. I'll have, no se-: crets from you, Lucy. I want you to. hear - what 1 these gentlemen ; have to say." He glared at Abbott as if daring him to speak the-words that must de stroy his wife's last feeble hold Ion her position. , - - 'Ti-:- :-V'- '- " "I hope Mrs. Gregory will ' excuse us,": said Abbotts smiling: at her as cheerfully 'as he could, but she knows that there are matters of business that 'women don't ; understand, or care to learn. This is something that ref lates merely to you, Mr. Gregory. anoS ourselves." : ",; "Of course I understand you, AV. bott," said Mrs. Gregory; gently, "and Mr. Gregory Is wrong to insist on! my .intemipting women are always in the way'' : She smiled, and, slipping around Gregory; had reached the doct; when she , caTue face - to'face with Grace Noir; entering. At sight of' hr for Grace did not pause, but weft over to the pfrno Mrs. . Gregory ap parently reconsidered, and4stepped to. her husband's side. , v t' -! "So you did come," Grace said, smiV ing at Robert "Shall We go into the" other room?" - - '. 'i:' Robert reveled in her beauty and ta that extent his anger against Gregory flamed higher. "Pretty soon," he Ud, "pretty soon. Miss Grace in fjst twenty minutes " he looked ai -his watch, the at Abbott . t " " "I must tell you, Mr. Gregory," Ab bott began rapidly, - "that I had jf at thirty minutes to consummate tbs matter with' you just half ari hour when we came here, and ten minutea are already gone. Only twenty min utes are left" - " 'r:'v:r fWhat do you mean by your twenty minutes being left?" Gregory - blus tered, ;-r '.. v.v- , in.t :yi i Abbott spoke carefully, at the sams time drawing a little farther away from the man he despised: "Bob ha been to Springeld about that matter, you understand." . ' ;v "No. I don't" cried Gregory. "Or It I do tell it outfall, of It" v lr "He nas been to Springfield,". Atf bott went on, "and he ' got on tho in side of the business, and the interect are determined that that they will retaliate on you for your successes Iji the past; and at the same -time be . a help , to : Bob.". - b . A rph; . "1 don't understand," Gregory gasped, blankly.. v: ; ' ;. . C , ?:; y ,-- "Me neither," muttered Robert "It's I very simple,"- Abbott ; main?, tained. "The Springfield interests want to give you a blow, and give Bob a helping hand. ; Therefore, you are to transfer your secretary to his store, where a bookkeeper is needed." "Oh, Indeed," interposed Grace Noir icily. .' "l am a mere pawn, I presume,' to be sent where I am wanted.- But 1 would like ; to ask Mr. CSlntoa. If ' be found out anything about Frafis, whll he was in ( Springfield?" . 4 "Fran is all she claims to be," Roll ert declared bluntly. (TO BE CONTINUED.) MUCH VIRTUE IN GOOD YAWN Beneficial Exercise, Though It Might Be Well for One to Select the . - Time and Place. " Yawning may be' rude especially in company but it is a good . thing for you to do. - ; . v For one thing, it ventilates the lungs. When you take an ordinary breath . the lungs are not completely filled, nor, are they thoroughly emptied by an ordinary respiration. There is a certain quantity of air left In the lungs always, which physiologists call "residual air." . - y-$ - This air in time r becomes foul and affects the . blood, and I through the blood the . nervous centers. .Certain nerves get tickled, as it . were, antf the result fs a yawn, stretching the lungs to their fullest, extent, filling them with, clean, fresh air and driving the foul -air out. , That's one reason why it fs good , to yawn. ' For another, . yawning opens and stretches and) ventilates all the various passages. leading to the lungs. You " will perhaps be' surprised ' to know that yawning is even beneficial to your hearing. J- The Vcracking sound which you so often hear when giving an .extra,, big yawn is due to the stretching and opening ! of , the eustachian U&ea. These tubes communicate between the ear and 'the back of the throat, . If they are 'congested, which happen when you have a bad cold in the he'ad. people complain of deafness. . If you feel inclined to yawn, then ao so. t is Nature'B way of. cleaning out yqur lungs and air passages.- i y Savior nrlBt to the coutea- the other r. ic lament ures witness the J 'J'2 turned J InT Thets. 1:9, 10 fnom. idols to serve the living God: . arid tn XA3I tnm. I.' i,vII,.The difficulty 0f nvk illustrated in the drowsinesrj disciples in Gethsemane 1 ;ye ..not. watch with me one Q jxiniiAv.tv). ine spirit wast f but the flesh was w eak, a m i. It!" "" . oji. inuigB quite as likely in the iwf of spiritual truh, if one may p byj; the frequent appeals to ChilJ iiQ . awane out of sleep, see ft 5; 14;; Rota. 13.: 11, 12; I Cor. l Thess. 5:6. There are few i who are not aware of this fronuri experience, alas! As in thepha so an- the spiritual sense, the 1 "we '.have to watch' the more dif ) si task It becomes. t III... The danger pf not watctsi1 seen in our LK)rds warning to a church at Sardis "If therefore H ehalt?not watch, I will come to ts as-a thief" (Rer. 3:3.) "The til cometh not but for to steal, am! kill,"., and to destroy" (John M Jhis last figure is partly interpret ;b.- another in which Christ a; "I?ut and if that evil servant shall lit , his : heart, my Lord delayetl coming; and shall begin to smitt fellov.. servants, and to eat and fc rwith " the drunken ; the Lord of ti servant shall come in a day looketh:.vAb,t-f or him, and in ante that he is not aware of, and shald bim 'asunder,' and appoint him his w don with the hypocrites: therein De : weeping ana guasums m ' (Matt ( 24:8-51). iV. I The accompaniments of faa It g are: (J) Prayer (Mark 13:33) Tort arigbf-is to watch, but surely M hot watching who is not prays Hence; "men ought always to pa (Luke?l:I. Not that we mustrt be-in the .external attitude of m as', when the Pharisees loved to n 'standing at the corners of the sWJ buV that -.our inward hahit snooia i one of daily communion with God, he. heareth us always. i2iService "loins girded rT.wi9.9K' fipfi I Kings & 91 1 7 10 Tt. is the Biotq sewantwho is not watching, 'i 'busy "servant may not have the pj uiar xnougnt oi ms WcwtaHiv nrpRpTit to his mm, w is nevertheless the underlying of ha' nptivitv. 3 (9 Tostimnnv-"vOUr lights irx'trV . IT nlra 1 9 5 Z H P WhO iS H Ing for. his Lord s return is asYHghtsr in the world; holding H tho wa;i f Hf" r Phil. 2:li), iU' thersvmiy see the way of life Ijtlv&The rewards of watching -1 hat vp ma i ihgst-that shall come to pass i ; 21x36V - ComDare tne couw - parallel; passages with II Thess. iTlottfnwnl nf divine ' s -Vfir-" nhOfl J -ft - - ,iUAHn r, r,-r ' 11.1. " " Knew His Work "well. Some years ago an ass was emoloW ed in the Isle of Wight in drawing water by a large, wheel from a very? deep- well.;-, When the keeper wanted' water, he woulday to the ass, vTouj7 my boy, I want water,, get. Into the' wheel, my good lad." which Thomai immediately performed with, prompt ness thatwould. have done credit to a nobler animal; and no 7 doubt" h knew the preefse num ber of times ; nec; essary for the wheel to go around W its axis,, to complete bis labnrbecause every time he' bf ought- th;Kicketvto. the surface of the well, he constantly storjped ;and turned bis.honest head to Observe themomunt wh eiv his mas' ter laid hold of the , bucket to draw it' towards, him, : because he en Lhad. jub. uue more turn 10 make to .bring.. the, rope x to the top. ' It ;was rpleasing ? to observe "with what steadiness anf regularity, the poor aaliaal'piformei: bis labor, - , 6ur Lord's language implies j tatipn. Deyona cur ... --J a-au- Lord when he comem ing;':verily I say unto you, shalFgird himself, and maKe i sit aown so meat, ai "J" jf and'Serye them" (bue ,.j ot'coUTse, impossibl- t appi tii-o'Miseu - neaning ' of " this f lsaiah 64:4) ; we Sll' l3) Increase of power .nity.Who then is a cwiSe servant whom made ruler over his now - them meat in due seasr u. be cometh shall find so doing- i Aii hall, the Coming Son o ki-r&.He'a Coming .back ag" VHe' Coming in the Clou-ls Uo'o minir haCK a4" v,H. vcas hefl - iRinriPra whose sins ar :-WNor- left:a single sU,Jn' u, yL . - Go. hail, the Advent t- - n! iK He's Coming back to res, rv '-'- r- tribe- Free of Creation's P'!1- w m Aloud 'Acclaim ' Hir V " . IBeholding Him once ;r XWe'll tee the rolling do J , 'V-He's Coming back to re
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