Show tt r x c trl Cti Wli t r l f SERIAL n > STORY 4 t THE LITTLE BROWN JUG i t I I ATc = = J 1 I IILDARE I 1 i BI e i t 1 1 j i yt hy s + I MEREDITH NICHOLSON 1 ti I Illiiitrallona IU HAY WALTERS i V I w j Copyright 1903 bj The IlobbnMorrill Oumpanr 12 SYNOPSIS s Tliomaa Ardmore bored millionaire and Henry Malno irlHurnld proffwsor In tho UnlvcrBlty of Virginia tnkc trains out of Atlanta Orlswold to his college Ardmoro In pursuit of n girl who Imd winked at him MlHtakon for Gov Oflbnrno of South Carolina QrlH f woldn life IH threatened Ho goes to t meets Ilnrl warn tho governor nnd OHLOrnocrArdmor 1 meets Unrlmra OHborno Ardmoro learns that his winking lady In I tho daughter of aov Diingrurnold of North Carolina Hn follows her to Italeleh and on the way la given a brown Jug I a l nt Klldaro In Raleigh ho discovers i that tho jug heart a mcflftiKa threaten Jf log DanRcrllrld unless ApplawclBht a criminal Is allowed to go free Anl more becomes allloO with Jerry Dan Kordeld In running the affairs of tho + Btato In tho absence of tho governor A scathing telegram Is Bent to Qov Oflbnrnc qrlswold becomes adviser to x Harbnra Osborne who Is I attending to i her fathers duties In Houth Carolina Orders arc sent to the sheriff to cap j lure Applewelght Valuable papers aro mlHHliiK from Qov Oshornen onice Grlswold places tho theft at tho door 1l 4 of the attorney general CHAPTER VIIIContinued Ho had opened an atlas and was ys poring over It with a magnifying Class tj9 Its positively funny ho murmured k1 mur-mured laughing a llttlo to himself j but I know something about this r country over hero Heros Ardsley f In i the far corner of Dllwoll county nnd 5 heros Kildare h Yes I understand maps Dllwell 1 is green nnd theroa lie state line anti that Ugly watery sort of yollow IsMlngo county South Carolina and Turner Court House I ls the county seat of It Thoso llttlo black marks arc hills on the border and Its right there that these Applowolght people live nnd dance on the state lino as though it wero a slclpptng rope Thats exactly It Now what wo want to do is to arrest Applowolght and put him In Jail in South Carolina which relieves tho governor of North Carolina your honored father of nil 1 embarrassment She snatched tho papercutter nnd look possession of tho map for a mo mout then pointed with a happy lit tlo laugh Why that will be only too easy You ace theres Azbell county whore the militia Is encamped Just three I i zountles nway from Dllwoll and If wo I needed the soldiers it wouldnt hurt tho troops to march that far would It f Hurt them nothing exclaimed l Ardmoro It will bo good for them You have to give orders to tho adjutant > t adju-tant general and being engaged to him ho would be afraid not to obey your orders even If you told him togo to-go In balloons y Well of course Id send him nn 1 olllclal order nnd If ho was disobedient disobedi-ent I could break our engagement 4 It would have Interested Ardmoro to know the m totnl of Miss Danger 1 fleldd engagements but tho tlmo did t rof seem propitious for such Inquiries Inquir-ies nnd moreover his eve of her na a young person of great determination A t determina-tion and force of characlor Increased A s Well theres tho map and there I that Insulting telegram what are you going to do about It asked Jerry s I Sho seemed to be honestly Inviting r 2 1 suggestions and the very thought of this affected him like wine Ho deliberated de-liberated for several minutes while r1 she watched him A delicious country julet lay upon the old statehouse I In the tranquil park outside the birds whistled their high disdain of law and precedent A governor ho began Is always t dignified person who doesnt bother nls head about little things like this unless everybody else has gone to sleep Now whos the chief of police in n county like Dllwoll what do you call him Do you mean the sheriff Mr Ard more 1 1 Certainly Now give me those telegraph blanks and Ill drop him n h few lines to let him know that the + government at Raleigh still lives It Is In tho telegram alone that we t Americans approach style Our great commanders did much to form it our I business strategists took the key from t thom Telegrams were however with Jlr Thomas Ardmore something moro than a form of communication or a mere literary exercise Letter wilting seemed to him the most formidable of human undertakings but with a pad of telegraph blanks tinder his hand his spirit soared free All untrammeled by tho horror of the day tariff whose steep slopes hnvo 1 wrought so much confusion and error t among the economical IIP gave to the i + wires and the wlrejess what ho never sI would have confided to u htamp Ilu wroto end submitted to Miss Jrrry angerCl 11 tIO following r Fr dar d-ar eY r To the Bhrrlff of Dllwcll County Kildare N Cc What Is I this I hear about your Inability Inabil-ity to catch ApplcwcUht and the rest of his bunch Tour Inattention to your duties du-ties Is t a matter of common scandal and If you dont get anxious pretty soon I hall remove you from your job and then oinij I shall be down soon to leo whether wheth-er you are pitching quoits nt the blacksmith black-smith shop or fishing for lobsters In Ilea coon creek Instead of attending to your knitting Your conduct has annoyed me until 1 am somtithlng more than vexed by your behavior The eyes of tho great North State urn upon you Wire mo at length just what you propose doing or not doing In this matter WHUAM DANanilFJCLD Governor of North Carolina What do you think of that be asked his pride falling as she scanned the paper carefully Isnt It pretty expensive Jerry Inquired i counting the words to ten and then roughly computing the rest Ill take care of that Miss Danger field What I want to know Is whether wheth-er you think that will make the sheriff sher-iff i sit up Well heres what father sent him only about a week ago I found It In his private letter book and Its marked confidential In red Ink She rend Act cautiously In Applewelght case In ilklincnt by grand jury Is undoubtedly faulty and Foster threatens trouble In disc parties era arrested And theres more like that Papa never Intended to do nnythlng thats as plain as daylight Mr Foster thq treasurer comes from that county Ho thought papa was going to have to do something so hos holding back the payment of the state bonds Just to frighten papa You see the state owes the Bronx Loan and Trust Company Com-pany that 250000 and If it Isnt paid Juno first the state will be everlastingly ever-lastingly disgraced Oh yes Id forgotten about that I dont see how you could forget l about It That must be almost as much money as there Is In the world Weve got to raise It anyhow oven It we go to the pawnshop I pawned my watch onco when I was In college col-lege l and Ullllngs ho was my guardian guard-ian had shut mo off Grlssy hes my friend Qrlssy says pawnbroklng Is only a more vulgar form of bankIng bank-Ing l agI I think your telegram to the sheriff sher-iff i Is all right said Jerry reading 1 It again If youll go to the door and whistle for the messenger well got It I off Ardmoro addressed himself one more to the map It was clear that the Applowelght gang was powerful 1 enough to topple great states upon their foundations It had to Ard mores own knowledge driven a gov I ernor nto exile and through tho wretched Foster who was their friend I the credit of UJ0 sUtpwit gravely menaced Ill wait for the sheriffs answer and If ho shows no signs of life Ill go down there this afternoon Then you will undoubtedly bo shot Jerry declared as though nn I nonnclng a prospect not wholly do plorabln That has Us disagreeable side but a great many people have to bo shot every year to keep up tho average aver-age nnd It the statistics need mo I wont duck Ill call up my man on tho telephone this forenoon and tell him to put my forester nt Ardsley to work Hes a big fellow who served In the German army and If hes afraid of anything I havent heard of It If wo can drive the gang Into South Carolina right along here you see and Miss Dangerfleld bent her pretty head over the map and suwIC wo w d I 1 r i rr A rla 4A a t O per He Deliberated for Several Minutes can pass tile chief outlaw on to Gov Osborne then so much the bettor and i I tints what wo will try to donut do-nut youre only the private secretary secre-tary and you cant assume too much authority I shall have to go to Kll dare to visit my aunt who is a nice old lady that lives there The fried I corn mush and syrup at her house is tho best I ever tasted and If papa should come when he sees that something some-thing la being done quite different from what he Intended then I should be there to explain It you should bo killed Mr Ardmoro no one would be there to Identify you and I have always al-ways thought It the saddest thing In the world for any one to die away from home It would bo sad but I hope you would bo sorry I should regret your death and Jd make thorn give you n perfectly beautiful beau-tiful military funeral with Chopins funeral march and your boots tied to the saddle of your horse But I dont lot them fuss about pullIng pull-Ing off the boots Alias Dan erlleld If I die with them on It would bo all right for you to visit your aunt but I shouldnt do It If I were you I once visited my aunt Sirs Covlngton Bums at Newport for n week I It was a deep game to get me to marry my aunts husbands niece whose father had ot his money and the girl was beginning to bore my aunt Was she n pretty girl asked Jerry She was a whole basket of peaches and I might have married her to getaway get-away from my aunt If It wore not that I have made It a lifelong rule never to marry tho orphaned nieces of the husbands of my aunts Its been n good rule to me and has saved mo no end of trouble hut If my sister sis-ter doesnt change her mind and If she really comes through Raleigh today to-day In her car with those friends of hers h sine will bo delighted to have you Join her for a visit at Ardsley And then you would bo near at hand In i case some special edict from the governor seemed necessary But wouldnt your sister think it strange Not In the least Miss Dangerflcld Nothing Is strangn to my sister And besides you are the daughter of the governor of a grad state She refuses re-fuses to meet senators because you can never bo sure they are respectable respect-able but she rather prides herself on knowing governors Governors are very different Since I read tho constitution con-stitution I can see very plainly that governors are much nearer the people peo-ple but I guess the senators are nearer near-er the banks Well I have some shopping to do and Its ten oclock It would bo hospitable hos-pitable to ask you to luncheon but mamma cries so much becauso shed she-d esnt know where papa Is that our meals at the executive mansion are not exactly cheerful functions And besides be-sides and she eyed Ardmoro severely severe-ly as she rose and accepted her parasol para-sol from him = and besides you know our relations aro purely official You have never been Introduced to me and socially you are not known to us CHAPTER IX The Land of the Little Brown Jug Caboose 01SG with three box cars and a locomotive attached lay In the southeastern yards at Raleigh late In tho evening of the same day In the observatory sat Mr Thomas Ardmore chatting with the conductor while they waited for the right of way Mr Ardmores pockets were filled with papers and ho held halt a dozen telegrams tele-grams In his hand The freight cars behind him were locked and scaled and n number of men lounging near appeared to bo watching them The reply of the sheriff of Dllwoll t county had precipitated the crisis That official succinctly replied to Ardmores message Bo Rood and acquire grace While this dictum had aroused Miss Dangerflelds wrath and Indignation 1 It calmed her follow conspirator and for hours Ardmoro had poured forth by telegraph and telephone No such messages as his had ever before re dinted from Raleigh The tolls would have bankrupted the commonwealth If i Ardmoro had not cared for them out of his prlvato purse His forester with an armed posse from Ardsley was already following the streams and beating tho brush In search of f Applewelght One car of Ardniores special train contained a machine gun and a supply of rifles another abundant abun-dant ammunition and commissary supplies sup-plies and the third cots and bags The men who loafed about the train were a detail of strikebreakers from a detective agency borrowed for the occasion Cooke the conductor of the train had formerly been In the gov ernment secret service nnd knew the Carolina hill country as he know the palm of his hand Ardmoro had warned his manager nnd the housekeeper house-keeper on his estate to prepare for the arrival of Mrs Atchison whose private car had come nnd gone carrying car-rying Miss Geraldine Dangerfleld onto on-to Ardsley Ardmore had Just received re-ceived a message from his sister at some way station reporting all well and containing these sentences She Is rather different and I do not quite make her out She has our noble brother 1n law a good deal bewildered bewil-dered Cooke ran forward for a colloquy with the engineer over their orders the guards climbed into one of tho box cars and tho train moved slowly out of the Raleigh yards to the mainline main-line nnd rattled away toward Klldnrt with Mr Ardmore pipe In mouth perched In tho caboose cupola Not Capt Kldd nor another of the dark brotherhood sailed forth with keener zest for battle than Mr Ard more Indeed tho trailing smoke of the locomotive suggested a black flag red the thought of It tickled his fancy Above bent the bluest sky In the world fields of corn and cotton the brilliant crimson of German clover clo-ver and long stretches of mixed forest for-est held him with enchantment And when night came after the long mystical twilight the train passed now and then great cotton factories that blazed out from their thousand windows like huge steamships TO nn CONTINUED |