Show r lars" TO pieces It Is Each Man’s Double and comes Harmless When PKOPIGAL JUDGE 1 Conquered kUGHAIt KESTER jiy zU'STQvars DlMzivzz By faswafJn fcrJsu JSsm SYNOPSIS n at the opening of the Btorjr Th t laid in the library of an old known a the Barouthern plantation ony The place la to be sold and Itf the and that of the owner hlatory by Quintarda Is the subject of discussion a business man a Jonathan Crenshaw and stranger known as Bladen when Hannibal Wayne Yancy a farmer old the child of a Hazard mysterious makes Ills appearance southern family Yancy tell how he adopted the boy Nathaniel Ferris buys the Barony but the of the tjuintards deny any knowledge Captain boy Yancy to keep Hannibal apMurrell a friend of the Qulntarda pears and asks questions about the Barony Trouble at Scratch Hill when Hannibal Is kidnaped by Dave Blount Capovertakes Yancy tain Murrell's agent Blount gives him a thrashing and secures the boy Yancy appears before Squire Bnlaam and Is discharged with costs for a friend of Malroy the plalntlfT Betty the Kineses has an encounter with Captain Murrell who forces Ills attentions on her and Is rescued by Bruce Carrington Betty sets out for her Tennessee homo Yancy Carrington takes the samewithstage Murrell on and Hannibal disappear their trail Hannibal arrives at the home of Judge Slocum Price The Judge recognizes In the boy a grandson of an olds time friend Murrell arrives at Judge home Cavendish family on raft rescue “rice dead apparently Ysncy who breaks Jail Betty and Carrington arrive Hannibal's rifle dlsrloses at Belle Plain some startling things to the Judge Han ar nlbal aqd Betty ameet again Murrell bl rives In Belle Plain Is playing for stakes Yancy awakes from long dreanv less sleep on board the raft Judga Price makes startling discoveries In looking up a young Norton land titles Charley the Is mysJudge planter who assistsNorton Informs Carteriously assaulted rington that Betty has promised to marry him Norton Is mysteriously shot More light on Murrell's plot He plans T!prili Ing of negroes Judge Price with th visits Betty and she ky8 as a companion In a stroll Betty takns hicks with Hannibal they meet Be who warns daughter of the overseer her to Hetty of danger and oncecounsels Betty terrileave Belle Plain at their on and advice on Bess’ fied acts their carriage Is stopped hv blosson the tnvern keeper and a confederate ana are made prisoner Bettv and Hannibal an In cabin The pair are taken to Hicks almost Inaccessible spot and ‘here Murrell visits Betty and reveals hi part in 8P“rl the plot and his object the Betty Interview ls his proffered love and ended bv the arrival of Ware terrified the crime " u acat possible outcome of’ price hearing of the abduction plana the charge of ones tion The Judge takes ‘he missing situation and Bearch for In Instituted Carrington visits the JudR® Price and allies are discovered whereJudge meets he Colonel Fentress visits enraged Yancy and Cavendish ofBecoming whisky Into th Price dashes a glass colonel's face anti a duel Is arranged CHAPTER XXV (Continued) “Hues!" cried Murrell In astonishhim (or the man confronting was the Clan’s messenger who should bavs been speeding across the state "Toss up your hands Murrell” said j' Ceutunr was a foregone conclusion but the sidered signaling Bess to return he bad planned was at must be told of Murrell’s arrest Insurrection an end Hues had dealt Its death but be was sick with apprehension law the blow some trap might have been prepared though Moreover for him he could not know and the might be Impotent to deal with Murrell be could not hope to escape the impulse to act forsook him He emote his hands together In a vengeance of the powerful class he had plotted to destroy he would have beaten gesture And Murhopeless rell had gone weak — with hla own to quit the country Ware gloated In Thank — eyes he had Been It Murrell— whom this Idea of craven flight he believed without fear! He felt that God be had seen the last of him! In But as always bis thoughts came he had been grievously betrayed Slosson would wait at back to Betty his trust and a hot rage poured him At last he climbed in- Hlcki' place for the man Murrell had through mesto the saddle and swaying like s promised him and falling the drunken man galloped off senger for the signal Are but there When he reached the river road would be neither and Slosson would he paused and scanned its dusty sur- bs left to determine bis own course of face Hues and bis party had turned action Ware felt certain that be south when they Issued from the wood would wait through the night but as No doubt Murrell was being sure as the morning broke If no word path taken to Memphis Wars laughed had reached blm be would send one The outlaw would be free of hla men across the bayou who must harshly before another dawn broke learn of Murrell's arrest escape flight three mind these He had halted near where Jim had —for In Ware's associated turned his team the previous night events were indissolubly after Betty and Hannibal had left the The planter’s teeth knocked together the marks of the wheels He was having a terrible acquaintcarriage were as plainly distinguishable as the ance with fear Its very depths had more recent trail left by the four men swallowed him up it was a black pit and as he grasped the significance of In which he sank from horror to horthat wide half pircle his sense of !i ror He had lost all faith In the Cla a dozen He which had terrorized half him Jury overwhelmed again and murstates which had robbed hoped to live to see Murrell hanged! He was so completely lost in his dered with apparent Immunity which bitter reflections that he had been un- had marketed Its hundreds of stolen aware of a mounted man who was slaves He had utterly collapsed at the first blow dealt the organlzhtlon coming toward him at a swift gallop but now he beard the steady pounding but he was still seeing Murrell pallid of hoofs and startled by the sound and shaken A step sounded In the hall and an looked up A moment later the horseman drew rein at his side Instant later Hicks entered the room knocking formality of without the "Ware!” he cried "How are you Carrington?" said Ware recognized his presence withnota but did the planter glance of Indifference slouched to his employbe"You are wanted at Belle Plain" speak Hicks gan Carrington and seemed to hesi- er’s side and handed him a note which Ware tate proved to be from Fentress "Yes — yes I am going there at once read and tossed It aside —now — ” stammered "If he wants to see me why don’t Ware and gathhe come growled reins with a here?” ered up his he shaking hand “I reckon that old fellow they call "You’ve heard I take It?” said Carsomething Judge Price has sprung rington slowly "Yes” answered Ware In a hoarse sudden on the colonel” said Hicks' “My God Carrington I’m "He was out here the first thing this whisper he have heart sick she has been like a daugh- - morning thought you’d ment Hues quietly One of the other men spoke “You are under arrest!” Arrest!” "You are wanted for Still Murrell did said the man not seem to comprehend He looked nt Hues In dull wonder "What ere you doing here?” he ' asked “Waiting to arrest you— ain't that lain?” said Hues with a grim smile The outlaw’e hands dropped at his side limp and helpless With some Idea that he might attempt to draw a weapon one of the men took hold to of him but Murrell was nerveless his touch his face had gone a ghastly white and was streaked with the markings of terror “Well by thunder!" cried the man In utter amazement Murrell looked into Hues' face ' “You— you— ” and the words thickened on his tongue becoming an In- articulate murmur "It's all up John” said Hues “No" said Murrell recovering himself "You may as well turn me loose — you can’t arrest me!” "I've done It” answered Hues 'Tve been on your track for six months” “How about this fellow?" asked the man whose plBtol still covered Ware Hues glanced toward the planter and shook his head "Where are you going to take me?" Murrell quickly Again Hues laughed “You’ll find that out In plenty of time and then your friends can pass now the word around If they like you’ll come with me” Ware neither moved nor spoke as Hues and his prisoner passed back The Planter's Knees along the path Hues with his hand on Murrell's shoulder and one of his ter to me — I — ” he fell silent mopclce at his heels while ping his face companions the third man led off the outlaw’s "I think 1 understand your feeling” horse a level said Carrington giving him of glance the distant clatter Presently hoofs was borne to Ware's ears — only ‘Then you’ll excuse me” and the hat the miracle of courage and dar- - planter clapped spurs to his horse g he had half expected had not hap- Once he looked back over bis shoulpened Murrell for all his wild boasthad not der he saw that Carrington ing was like other men like himself moved from the spot where they had His bloodshot eyes slid around In met found his Plain Ware their sockets There across the sunAt Belle lit stretch of water was Betty — the neighbors In possession of the place thought of her brought him to quick They greeted him quietly and spoke The whole fabric of in subdued tones of their sympathy choking terrors When he could he shut himself In crime by which he had been benefited In the past or had expected to profit his room lie had experienced a day in the future seemed toppling In upon of maddening he had not anxiety Mm but his mind clutched one Itn- - slept at all the previous night in If knew he ol mind and body he was worn out and portent fact Hues connow he was (lunged Into the thick of Hetty’s dHnprearance did not nect Murrell with Jt Ware sucked In this sensation He must keep control between his twitching llpn of himself No one would He sought to forecast the happenRtea'ing niggers'! Murrell’s thPt ho a planter had a hart in ings of the next few hours that rrd frr a brief Instant he con friends would break Jail for him that asked Knocked Together Belle owned Plain There was a couple of strangers with him and be had me In and fired questions at me then he hiked off for half an hour up to The Oaks” "Murrell’s been arrested" said Ware In a dull level voice Hicks gave him a glance of unmixed astonishment "No!” “Yes by God!" ' “Who’d risk It?” “Risk It? Man he almost fainted dead away — a damned coward Hell!” do “How asked you know this?” Hicks appalled “I was with him when he was taken — It was Hues — the man he trusted more than any ether!” Ware gave the overseer a ghastly grin and was silent but In that silence he heard the drumming of his own heart He went on "I tell you to save himself John Murrell will Implicate the rest of us we’ve got to get him free end then by hell — we ought to knock him In the head be Isn't fit to live!” Be- "The jail ain’t built that’ll hold him!” muttered Hicks he can’t be held” "Of course "And he’ll never be sgreed Ware brought to trial no lawyer will dare appear against him no Jury will dare to And blm guilty but there’s Hnes The what about him?" He paused two men looked at each other for a long moment "Where did they carry the captain?” "I don’t know" "It looks like the Clan was In a hole— but shucks! What will be easier than to fix Hues?— aad while they’re filing folks they’d better not overlook that old fellow Prloe He's got aome notion about Fentress and the boy" Mr Hicks did not consider it necessary to explain that he was himself largely responsible for this "How do you know that?" demanded Ware “He as good as said so" Hicks looked uneasily at the planter He knew himself to be compromised The stranger named Cavendish had forced an admissionfrom him that Murrell would not condone If It came to his He had also acquired a knowledge very proper and wholesome fear of Judge Slocum Price 9® stepped dose to Ware’s side "What'll come of the girl Tom? Can you figure that out?” he questioned sinking his voice almost to a whisper But Ware was capable of speech again his terrors "I him overwhelmed completely reckon you’ll another have to find overseer I’m going to strike out for Texas” said Hicks Ware’s eyes met his for an instant He had thought of flight too (was still thinking of It but greed was as much a part of his nature as fear Belle Plain was a prize not to be lightly cast aside and It was almost his He lurched across the room to the window If he were going to act the sooner he did so the better and gain The road a respite from hla fears down the coast slid away before his each turn be marked heavy eyes then a palsy of fear shook him hie heart beat against his ribs and he stood gnawing his lips while he gazed up at the sun I "Do you get what I eay Tom? am going to quit these parts” said Hicks Ware turned slowly from the window You mean you Hicks ’’AH right want me to settle with you Is that It?” he asked “Yes I’m going to leave while I can maybe 1 can't later on” said He added: “I am goHicks stolidly ing to start down the coast as soon as It turns dark and before it's day again I’ll bave put the good miles me and these parts” down the coast?” "You’re going of the and Ware was again conscious quickened beating of his heart Hicks nodded "See you don’t meet up with John Murrell" said War It seems a ‘Til take that chance heap better to me than staying here” Ware looked from the window The across the shadows were lengthening lawn "Better start now Hicks” he advised "I’ll wait until It turn dark" “You’H need a horse” "I was going to help myself to one This ain’t no time to stand on cere mony” said Hicks shortly "SloBson shouldn't be left In the lurch like this— or your brother's folk—’’ "They’H have to figure It out for same as me" rejoined themselves Hicks "You can Btop there as you go by" "I never did be"No” said Hicks lieve In this damn foolishness about the girl and I won’t go near George’s By ALTON EDWARDS Nobody except the Governor knew that he had a double— not even the Governor’s wife who knew him perhaps better than anybody else The two men resembled each other so completely that It would have been impossible for their most Intimate acquaintances to distinguish them It there was any distinction It was that the of character and sincerity expression upon the face of the state's chief executive was replaced upon the face of man the other by a certain furtive cunning From his earliest years Governor Haines had been engaged In a constant fight against this man He had intruded Into his life had placed him in invidious positions had In general committed actions which bad'needed all the governor’s ability tq nullify And he had followed him even to the executive chamber blackmailing him threatening offering compromises The executive mansion was totally unguarded In that sleepy lltle capital town formalities had not come Into The double strolled quietly favor across the lawn entered the mansion and made his way to the Governor’s office His secretary nodding at his desk bowed to him unconscious that this coqld be anybody but the Governor Haines he knew “Mr Searles has telephoned that he will be here in half an hour sir" said he said “May I tear this mw and throw them Into youi It was strange the extraordinary revulsion that came over the double He had his enemy at his mercy thlq Governor Haines who had hated him since their boyhood and on whom h could now take effective revenge he felt that his whole mental atHe thought of titude was changing the man bravely and silently fighting down the scandal of his past life of his uncompromising battle fo purer He stretched out his hand! politics and took his pen and in impulsively large letters wrote' at the bottom of the bill ’vetoed’ He held It out toward Searles Searles seemed completely nonFor a whole minute he plussed stared at the vetoed bill Then he got up and stretched out Jiis hand "Governor Haines” be said “I think the world of you You have won the fight and I’m man enough to recognize it You’ll have the people on your side now — and I don’t kick against the You’veahested me and you’ll pricks have the efitlre Searles organization with you when we offer you the nomination" He shook Haines by the hand and walked slowly out of the office shakThe double dt the desk ing his head was even more disconcerted however than Searles Why had he done this whole life had been whose he thing dominated by hatred of his enemy? He must have dozed for some minutes later when he looked up he saw Governor his enemy before him Haines was looking steadily at him Aut he evinced no surprise out rlgftt "Let’s fight this thing now” he said "I’ve finished with you never I shall temporize with you and I have compromised again feared you henceforward it Is war between us for ever" "If you had told me that years ago I should never have troubled you at all" answered the double humbly rising Haines did not answer Governor him but watched him leave the room The sleepy secretary outside did not Nor would he have notice him pass seen him even had he looked for him tach man has his double his worse ature But when he has conquered him the double becomes a harmless wraith transparent as a breath of marsh air that Is dispersed In the sunlight by W (Copyright LOVER OF GRACE G Chapman) DARLINQ Giles of Ipswich Eng Once But Courted Famous She “Wouldn’t Leave Daddy” Jimmy Jimmy Giles of Ipswich Eng who nearly 60 years was dock and assistant engineer is a link with the past Inasmuch as be was the sweetheart of Grace Darling Listen to the following conversation with the old seaman and lire over again the memories of that brave near Longstone Lighthouse that made immortal history: "When a young man I took a cargo of salt from Ipswich to Sunderland While there I left my brig and was made coxswain of a coble that supplied Longstone Lighthouse with provisions "This was In 1839 and as Grace’s great deed took place the previous year I was anxious to meet the famous girl On my first trip In the coble I saw her standing at the lighthouse door but although I tried to drew her attention she got behind the door “The next time I visited the lighthouse I took a ellk handkerchief full of grapes and gave the lot to Grace yhen I saw her She thanked me and we got on well "Grace was not handsome but she was passable with dark eyes and hair and a face bronzed by the sea air and conveying a sense of purity and innocence that I have never beheld in any for “I've Finished With You" the secretary The double nodded passed into the executive chamber and Bat down at his desk That he had an Intimate knowledge of all the Governor’s business was evident for he began scrutinizing papers and emptying pigeon holes and readBut he was awaiting memoranda ing the arrival of Searles the state boss with impatience He knew that the man was interested In the proposed street railroad franhe had been pestering Govchise that ernor Haines for weeks to sign the hill And he now awaiting his decision had not omitted to threaten It meant the Governor’s political future the dewas which cision impending “Mr looked In The secretary Searles Is waiting to see you Blr" he said The state boss entered He was evidently ill at ease for he held his hat tightly and sat down nervously In the chair which the double offered him The double swung round in his own chair and faced his visitor "You have called with regard to that railroad franchise bill?” he asked Searles cleared his throat and nodThen placing his hat down on ded the Governor’s desk he began: Haines we hare "Now Governor threshed this matter out among others for a long time I have tried to ally you with the better Interests of the state but I have failed I have — pointed out to you that I may speak other "She wore very short skirts and a dark blue Scotch cap which suited her' well She was as good as any sailor and could set a sail or pull an oar with the best of them "Her father an old man nigh 70 Was a very man (Cnd aland ways wore drab buckled ’shoes" with a sparrow-tal- l plainly?’ big waistcoat and a round skull"Surely” answered the double smil- coat trimmed with fur He didn’t think ing and something In the double’s ex- cap with her my carryings-opression sent new hope into Searles’ much of showed me her presents In"She heart hitherto he had always been A scarlet moup against an impermeable barrier of cluding a gold slipped in Now — this rocco case which the Czar of Russia character and rectitude man seemed almost to cringe before sent her She was often asked to go ’1 don’t ask yon to go there you him Searles had not ruled men for to London but she wouldn’t leave the can give them the signal from And although I became her years for nothing He knew 'Daddy All I want Is for thirty head Of the bayou that this was the moment to terrorize sweetheart that was the reason she you to stop and light a fire on the —to bully These means would sucgave me for not marrying and so we shore They’ll know what that means drifted apart" — Stray Stories ceed where others had failed I’ll give you a horse and fifty dol- - “You got my letter Governor?” he lars for the Job" No Damages for Uncaught Fish asked his lips parting in a wolfish he but Hicks’ eyes sparkled only smile "Well it amounts to this A suit for damages for the loss of fish If said: you don’t sign that bill you won’t have one might have caught was before the “Make It twice that and maybe we the renomlnatlon next year That of courts of Maine In an Injunction ac' can deal” for course goes without saying But rm tion against a canning company Ware hesiRacked and tortured dumping Into ' to do more than that I’m going unlawfully going was Into sun tated but the slipping bay a lot of decayed sardines to drive you out of public life altohis windows blazed with the west years go when In cans They had been swept by the gether the hot light you were a young man you were In- tides Into the plaintiff’s weir and pre(TO BE CONTINUED) You know what vented fish from getting Into it until volved In a scandal the refuse matter was removed The I mean The people of this state won’t Their Romance kind in supreme court awarded him damages "He lovea me he loves me not" stand for anything of that their chief magistrate Will you sign for injury to his nets and for the exsaid Maud Muller as slid went through pense of hiring men to remove the the garden picking potato huge off the the bill or will you be exposed?” "The man who waB Involved In that dead sardines to permit live fish to enpotato plants scandal was not I It was a double of ter the weir but gave him nothing "He loves me" mine” thought the double but of for the fish he might have caught In She picked a potato bug course It was not to his interest to be- the meantime "He loves me not” tray himself He merely looked at She gathered another potato bug Bilklna Flop And Searles with a faint smile "A thrifty girl forsooth” declared "Here ds Bllklns a Republican all that smile “Instead of playing that Searles understood the Judge “Let us come to the point Gove- his life as his father and grandfather game with daisy petals she plays It “It’s no use shilly- were before him turns Democrat In rnor” he said with potato bugs" He proposed they were married shallying or beating about the bush” the hope that he’s going to get a apointment" and If the recall does not go Into He drew a paper from his pocket bear"Yes he has sold hla birthright for "This is effect they will doubtless live happily ing the Governor’s signature for five thousand dol a mess of postage"— Buffalo Express your obligation V |