Show 59 ill v ca I 1 ay 45 01 IGA k ir T by desm arza BY A JW re r e roia 1 SYNOPSIS the scene at the th opening of tho the story w laid in the library of an old worn out southern plantation known as the barony the place la in to be sold and tta its history and that of 0 the owners t the b u in tards Is the subject ot of discussion b by jonathan on a t ban crenshaw a business buil ness man a ara li known as an Di bladen adien and nob bob yancy a farmer when 11 n abal wayne batard a yater lous child 0 of f the old louthern ta nilly makes his appearance yancy tells how he be adopted the he boy Y nathaniel ferris buys the barony BaL rony but the Quin tards deny any knowledg of the tha 1 boy y an cy t to 0 kee keep hannibal captain b murrell 1 1 fri friend e nd 0 of the Quin tards appears and asks questions 1 ions about the tha barony trouble at scratch itch JIM hill when ilan iian nebal li Is by dave blount captain murrells Mur reUs agent yancy overtakes mount blount gives him a thrashing and secures the boy yancy a appears pears before squire balaam and Is discharged with costs tor for th the plaintiff betty malroy a friend ot of th the er rises h has as an encounter with captain murrell who forces his atten attentions tons on her and Is rescued by bruce carrington Carrl bet betty sets seta out for her tennessee home camington takes the same stage yancy and hannibal disappear with murrell on their trail hannibal arrives at the home of judge slocum price the tha judge recognizes in tho the boy the grandson at 6 an oll time friend murrell arrives at judges hume cavendish family on raft rescue yancy who I 1 Is apparently dead P price rice ark breaks ifill all betty and carrington arrive at belle plain cannibals Hanni bals rifle disc discloses lolles some startling things to the judge ilan iian anibal and betl betty y meet again murrell arrive in belle plain Is playing g tor for big stakes yency awakes from lot long g dreamless sleep on board the tha raft J judge ge price makes st startling discoveries in looking up land t alel CHAPTER XII continued so your slater sister like me tom on on your mind this morning Is it murrell was saying make it worth my while ind and ill take her off your hands and murrell laughed tom favored him with a sullen stare there was a brief silence during w which aich murrell studied his rr arl ie enda lace face when he spoke it was to give the conversa conversation tiou a now direction did she bring the boy hero here last night 7 I 1 saw you drive off with him in the carriage yea esie ahei makes a regular pet ot of tha little ragamuffin ls Is the tha boy going to stay at belle plain inquired murroll that notion haan hahnl struck her yet tor for I 1 heard board her say at breakfast that shed take him to raleigh this afternoon the boy I 1 traveled all the way to north carolina to get for or fentress Fen treas eh you dont say cried ware tom what do you know about the Q quintard lard lands what do you know abduli bau quintard himself von continued tinned murrell lie ile was a rich planter lived in north carolina my aly lather father met him when ho he was in congress and got him to invest in land here they had bad some colonization scheme on toot foot this was upward ot of twenty years ago but nothing came cama or of it IL quintard lost interest and the land oh lob ha be held on to that Quintard has been dead two years tom and back yonder in north carolina they told me he be lett left nothing but the home plantation the boy lived there up to the time of Quin tards death but what relation he be was to the old man no one know knew offhand tom id say that by getting hold or of the boy fentress expects to got get hold bold of the quintard land likely said ware then struck by a sudden idea he be added are you going to take all the risks and lot let him pocket the cash if its the land hes after the stakes big enough to divide 1 ile ha can have the whole thing and welcome im playing for a bigger atalig ills ilia friend stared at him in astonishment im licking a speculation into shape that will cause causa me to be remembered while theres a white while man alive in the mississippi valley rave have you heard what the alguera old did at hayti you let the biggers alone dont you tamper with them said ware ile he possessed a profound belief in murrells capacity look here what do you think I 1 have been working for to steal a few biggers nig gers that furnishes us with monsy but you can push the trade too bard and too far the planters are uneasy the clans got to deal a counter blow or go out ot of business between here and the gulf guif lie be made a wide sweeping gesture with his arm 11 1 am spotting the country rith alth my men there are two thousand active workers on an the rolls of the clan and as many more like you tom and pentress Feil ress tress on whose friendship I 1 can rely sure as aa god john murrell you are overreaching tl ft your white men aro are all right got to stick by you ir if they dont they know we its only a question of time until they get a knife driven into their ribs but guy euy real fight in a bigger it if there as aa they be here hera yet you have hav mado made the whites in believe that said ald Bluy murrell roll with a sinister istir smile ware feal faelli fe elli lur the th entire lot 0 argument uttered a string of 0 imprecations 1 and then fell silent well bow about the girl tom T asked murrell at length listen to me ina tom ill tako take hor her away and belle plain la Is yours land stock and biggers I 1 said murrell ware shifted and twisted in his ale seat do you want the land and the nig gers gera I 1 reckon have to take taha them whether you want them or not mt for im going to have the girl CHAPTER XIII bob yancy fancy finds himself mr yancy awoke from a long dreamless dream lets sleep heavy beavy lidded his eyes slid sill open for a moment he struggled with the odds odda and ends ol of memory then he be recalled the tight light at the tavern the sudden murderous attack the fierce blows blosson fi losson had bad dealt him the knife thrust which had bad ended the struggle therefore the bandages that now swathed his head bond and shoulders therefore the need that he should bo be up and doing for tor where was hannibal suddenly a shadow fell obliquely across the foot of hla his narrow bed and cavendish bending his bis long body some somewhat phat thrust his head in nt at the tha opening lie ile found himself loo liang into a pair ot of eyes that for the first time in many a long day held the light of consciousness how flow are you stran stranger gerl we he demanded in a soft drawl where am 17 I 1 the words were a whisper on jancys bearded lips well sir air you are in the tha tonnes see river to fo certain polly you jest step here beret dut but polly had heard cavendish speak end and the murmur ot of jancys Yancy fl 2 0 0 his face went white and the book slipped from hit fengers Fl nger voice in reply now her head appeared beside her bar hus husbands husban bandis dB la you are some better aint you air sherried she cried stuffing smiling down donnon on him ila been right hiriart of 0 a spell too yes yea air youve laid like you was dead and not to fo a matter of hours either but days daya low how long well nigh on to three weeks they saw eyed widen with a look of dumb horror and you dont know nothing about my levvy you aint seen or heard beard vt of him nieam ni yn aam faltered yancy polly her head regretfully ten or thereabouts maam life ho wore were a heap ot of comfort to me and the whisper on lips was wonderfully der tully fully tender nd wistful ile J lo closed hla bla eyes and presently bulled by the toft ripple that bore them company felt into a restful sleep ahn raft drifted on into the days heat beat and when at last yancy awoke it was wan to find henry and keppol keppel sent ed ad beside him each solacing him with a small moist hand mrs Cay indish appeared bringing jancys breakfast in her wake came connie with the baby and the three little brothers who wore were to be accorded the cherished privilege ot of seeing the poor gentleman eat cavendish presented himself at the opening that did duty as a door I 1 this looks loohs like bein alive strang or er ho he commented genially you all aint told me yo name yet said yancy itis cavendish richard koppel keppol cavendish my names yancy boll bob yancy mr air cavendish exchanged glances ly with ith mrs biro cavendish stranger what im a coln to tell you take as bein said man to man he bo began with the th impre impressive save airoff air of one who had a secret of great moment to impart ever hear tell ot of lords no yancy was quick to notice the look ot of disappoint disappointment men t on the faces of his bis now fr friends lends are you ever heard of royalty and cavendish fixed tho the lav invalids allds wandering glanco glance you moan mean kings T 1 I shore do yancy made a mighty mental effort theres them dible dlela kings ho he ventured at length mr air cavendish his bis head rhems sacred kings are you familiar with any ot of the tha profane kings mr yancy well taking them as they come them bible kings seemed to average pretty profane yancy was disposed to defend this point you must a heard board ot of the kings of england sho she want any of yo folks in the war agin him id plumb forgot why my daddy fit all through the wart warl exclaimed yancy the Caven dishes were wera immensely relieved now you all keep still said bald cavendish end lah 1 I want mr yancy should get the straight of this berot beret the vay ous oua orders or of royalty aro are kings dukes earls and lords lorda earls earis Is it tho the third from the top of 0 the heap but lorda aint no slouch dick had ought to know to fo hes bes an earl himself cried polly exultantly sho she richard keppel cavendish earl of lambeth t she bho that was what ho he wital wasl and some booie transient feeling of awe stamped itself upon their small faced facea as athey they viewed the long and limber figure of their parent these here titles go 90 to tho the eldest son ile he begins by hew both a viscount continued challa and fever it was my lay great grandfather come over here from Engl england anlo his namo name was rich ard koppel keppel cavendish clims bamo aa mine jr IR he lived back conler on the caro llna coast and delitto we litto rai miln tobacco ive heard beard my cay grandfather toll all about it my grandfather maid he never w knowel a man with the same aversion t agin labor as his father uada folks put it down to laziness but they ther misjudged him as come out later ye yet he never let on then one day ho he got his bis hands oa a paper that hod had come acront in A 13 ship from england all at once ha lit ift on something in the paper and ho he started up and let out a yell like hedl hea N been shot by gum eum im the tha barcol pt Lamb ethl he be says bay and took out t the nearest tavern and got bolln tuu 1 afterward he showed cm am the paper and they seen with their own eyes where richard koppel keppel cavendish earl of lambeth haddley hadd had died leA in london my great grandfather told em cm that was hla his uncle that when lie he left home hoin a there was waa several cousins but up and died so BO the title COMO coma to him ile he never dona don a lick of woric a iter after that J 2 im an orphan man of t title itic now 4 a and its been my dream to take pally and the children and go back to jang ang land and seo see the king about my title k dont you reckon hoa hes got the kotlou j tho the Caven dishes has petered out butr IM mr air yancy considered thin likely the furious shrieking of a MOM j packets whistle broke in upon them its ano another ther ot of them haaga want in all the diverl said mr air cavendish 0 and fled to tho the steering oar CHAPTER XV xiv the he judge sees a ghost charley nortons Nor tons good did not end when ho he had furnished audgo price with a house tor for betty required Ired ot of him that ho he should s supply ly that ge gentleman eitleman fit leman legal business as aa well thus it happe happened fied that JU judge dge price before ho he had been three days la haleigh Hal elgh received a civil noto note from 41 mr air norton akong asking to Q bearth tha f iima to aa a tract ia 45 ri one joseph auald the audgo power ower i fully excited told I 1 AIa Ala haffy he was be f ing understood and appreciated the immediate result of nortons Nor tons communication had been to send bend the judge up the street to the tha court house lie would show his ble client that ho ha could be punctual and painstaking g entering the court house he found himself in a narrow hall ball lie ho onto rod A the county cle clerics rits office lie he wua was all ready known to this official chos name naino was saul and he be now gre etc him H A little matter ot of business brin me here sir began the judge a swelling chest and mellow accenti accent ac centa ai I 1 am in some haste hasto to look up a title for my client mr norton air arl saul scrambled up out ot of the depths of hla his chair and exerted him self sef in the judges behalf QS this is s what you want str sir better talfe take the ledger to the window the light in here aint much lie he drew forward a chair as he be spoke and the judge seating beating himself pagan began to polish his spectacles with great deliberation youve sot act on the bench sir suggested air saul in one of the eastern counties but nty my inclination has never been toward the judiciary ile he was turning tho the leaves of the ledger as he spoke bud denly the movement of his hand was arre arrested sted aro found und it asked mr saul hut but the judge gave him no ar awer he was staring down at the open pages I 1 ot of the book found the entry repeated 0 4 mr saul eh that no ho he appeared to hesitate who Is this pa fcc man quintard lies the owner of a hundred thou sand acre tract in this and abutting counties said mr air saul who has baa charge of the land colonel fentress he was old general wares law partner ive heard it va ale the general who got this man quintard to make tho the investment but that was before my iny time the judge lapsed into silence lence st A step bounded in the narrow hall ball an instant later the door was pushed open and grateful for any interruption that would serve to take mr sauls saula attention from himself tho judge abruptly turned his bis back on the clerk and bejan began to examine a the record before him insensibly however the cold level tones of the voice that was addressing itself to mr air saul quickened the beat of hla his pulse tho the of hta his heart and struck bade back through the years to a day from which be reckoned time ile he turned slowly as it in dread what ho sa saw w was a man verging merging on sixty lean end and dark with ilta altagen aaben cheeks of a bulah cast above the jaw jav and a strongly nily aquiline profile file long black looks locks swept the collar of hla his coat coiet while hla his tail spare figure was babeta in sleek broadcloth arld and spotless linen F adi at a moment ina the judco seemed to glo with doubt then his bla face went white and the boote fro arora m ats ills liec a to dow dle lagi W tabe TO ae E |