Show 4 IMP T r f The h Famous 1 UHAN KESTER 6 Copyright iou 1911 The Bobbi Bobbt Company nr I I CHAPTER XVI The Tie Portal of ot Hope p.- p. t ilu hi was wall ca thil i 1 i the pi- pi C for me They tm frn sir ir a pros pros- topIc and a patriotic people i nt d 10 lose o e of at country I Id I'd Idan 4 an ane nt v t mv m bin t shingle bingle Je here bere and aDd law nd nde c and In Mr Ir wert in iii the woods wood between 11 Bogs Bogs' Po tI tIit it at Ieh flitt tU had carried Hanni Hanni- to io to nd Mn-nd nd the night at Belle Delle Solomon Solomon UIO the lye VI opportunity 1 I feel eat Ent 0 ot mv own own c daas la all al have ha it t the nai Will Vill von stroll into th nit me Solomon t lie he Then let et hook hi hw hi head hrad Vera erl follow me mc for I 1 Im I'm m m off jud p. p him bim to toof too toof walk wak o of th the df dr tavern where h hp he r. r PI loe d reet Tf the colored boy hov who was Va font h hia s bar To lo the judge Sown Own his hia need eed paid aid Mr 1 to lot ate are voul urge it pir ir and 1 base C er consideration the h the hon e in town rover vonder it belongs to E 1 NOrI Norton nUt at M Va Mr pointed out mall frame building it stood 0 ii tho tret with a narrow a IBS ai the site front a a. shed adai- adai t bark back The 1 The lude quickened location an and 1 what a fortunate t Mr Wa the owner oct dc tenement Ho lie him at onre orne As Aa he be turned 2 and ana learn to th he street I h what road Thicket Hit lIt be Norton a an n lo to the Milage Catching the he bc in his himself from the sad sad- a hoping sir air I mi might ht find h C Should h have f echoed had 1 1 Sro To ro of ot it responded tho the thoI theet II I was wall about to tn do myself tho et wait trait upon you 1 0 at your ur planT plan plan- T 1 have 0 saved Ou a It Ion long longI id Norton 11 Ho lie 0 surveyed the tho I oTher h. h her hut i listened n heM M a l h he explained the busl- busl t. t I would have ha taken him to rol Point at jouse is iR quite quit I at nt your service o nid at length rent nt J began begon tho the judge jude Mr Er Norton wit with h n a q not tobe to o his Iia ill own entreated him he be rent TIle The house houe had harl come conte comeI I boot hoot in a II trade It had bail l been dr b bv a doctor and n a la lawyer W d bo- bo temen had earn eAch 1 WO fl diu dasa 11 In debt nt the nd especially the d 11 t thus l b handsomely did 1111 irl CharI Char Char- I M-d M t n acquit elf of the tho ml mis- mis 81 undertaken at B Hetty tty Mal Mai- Dl 11 1 t and Ware ama Tom Torn were Crp seated in tho Belied building at fit Hello flour Plain the former I 3 the of lice ic t of Ii hi hit time lime when not in in tho the n tir ur muter ster docan doesn't t like me m Tom Torn is isrell s mind this morning n n fl our rell wa M saving I it worth orth mv ins while and nOlI I II 11 lur and Murrell off our hands hand k sullen stare him with ith ft a n. n Ihrl brief silence during JUD itt JUDD D his friend friends friend's a face IN I poke it 1 was wn to tn tO lt live give o the cona coni con con- i a n. ur new direction she hI he bring brine the boy here huo last Jut rt with rith him paw flAW iw ou vou drive off I t Ih mill makes a It regular pet Iet of ot tho the th the ho boy going to stay at Hello Belle inquired Murrell notion bun hasn't t trick struck k her ber yet eard Arti 11 her say at nt breakfast that t. Jake like iko him binl to to Raleigh h this after after- t hs h's 11 th the bo hot hot- hotI I J traveled nil all the dg North orth Carolina arolina to get tt for Pent Pent- fl you nil mi dun t t II T f cried what do you ou know about bout the what do tIn you vOn know continued himself a ri h planter lived InA in A Ar i. i Mv h father met him himie ie 1 WM wu in in n and got him t. t IT PS H in land here re They Thea- had bud some on foot toot this this was wan iQ Q ot twenty years CArI ago but ago but noth t no ie e of or it Lt Quintard lott lost interest land land ta e held on en to that tIt I h hu has n bID been dead two tw years nan i i l bark back vonder onder In North ort C Caro Caro- ro ty T told me he left nothing but butin in plantation The boy lived It ip to the tune time of Quintard's tea I but what relation he was eras to the then n a no un one knew Offhand Tom bv by getting hold of the boy boys s lecta to get hold of the ami 1 t a sil Ware are then thena 0 a sudden idea be he i flu rau going to take lake all the rl risks kt 1 Mum him pocket the cash cah If it its it's a ij 1 he n after the big bigo o 0 di ic n a have hae the whole thin and j I Im I'm plating iIi tag for s a his friend dire at him in Im I ng liek a k specula specula- 0 shape will cause me Inc to Ac while hie theres there's H a white 1 S in the th Mississippi heart rd what it- it did didt I t let Ct the riku don iton t t YOU Ou I with lh them p m l Ware He Its po profound belief m in Murrell r lie knew how the latter hitter had roII hC uneasy population that fore il 1 on the edgr or ti ih tion to and thai tat who when he lie had haded ed the t IlSo lao had he nine an tion and flex i will k Ic here what do oi ou think 1 tt eon n working for for to to steal a few That ui us with money can push the trade too hard bard rI The planters are uneasy n ngot got to teal deal A blow ut itt if Between here gulf ho h. made a wide sweep sweep- ure with hi I 1 Am spot spot- count coun iv with nith my men there ill thousand active tive Workers on th the the he Clan and as many more like you on Tom Toni and and on Fentres on whose c friendship I can ean r rel lv Sure bur as Ool John Murrell you yoa ar art ar overreaching our yourself lf Your white i men nen arc alj aU 12 ri right bt they they've ye f got ot to tik by y you oU jf jt they dont don't t they 11 know w it its it's N II only a Ii qu question tion of time until they tny get et eta It a knife driven into their ribs but ribs but nig- nig there left there in t an any real fi fight ht In J a ager uig- uig tor ger er if there was as they wouldn't be he beIter 1 Iter here wre Yet you vou c couldn't t have C made th the whites i in in Hove believe that said Mid I Murrell Mirrell with witha a sinister smile Ware feeling fellin the tb entire entire- u I n o of I ar uttered n a string of imprecations ons and then fell silent W Well how bow about the girl Tom 11 I asked Murrell at length lenth Listen J to Die mt e. e Tom I II take her hu huay i way hway and anil Belle Helle Plain Iain is ill yours land yours land stock and oi nig nig- nig I gets er said Murrell Ware shifted ami twisted in his scat Do Io Do von s-on want ant the land laud and the Ule nig I gers 1 t reckon vou you'll Ml II have bavo to take tako t them lem whether you vou wa want ant n I. I them or no IIO riot for or Im I'm I n going to have ha the girl tirl To be hI continued |