Show ERI L STORY y LITTLE WAL 41 JUG AT S 4 by illustrations by RAY t dmd by the labbs merrill a FAr ardmore dmore n end and llena maine I 1 tu unable bi u to hen the tile i mot at 0 f north anil and bout south a anlin t arted ite d to hoe guarr arr orlia clr its with 0 09 of the gobernor goer nor south I 1 T while kidmore th the ia jerry 1 dauk liter of 0 11 sorell carolina laro llna tl TI cue eme ins ladies 11 are aning to fill till the tile it their fati ere while ime the latt latter r loth staten atre in a tur 1 one an tat oat ap e 11 f ohp other p atlon both oriso Or lewold d more met 0 it to mike the other L is apple Applew e exit gi t N valuable ble paper papers ight ae as arc are missing from ld i a e ant nn 1 Or lewold th a theft at tl it e door of 0 the attorn a general ardmore Ar ilmore 0 c aboode and starts for the 6 plan pa t n the arkeat ot of applew ight bellile meanwhile ean an while I 1 to a guest at ardsley I 1 1 aft so beater bH ATER IX continued rhey IP tak they sought a lonely siding sitting fr i belated passenger train to ie conductor brewed cortee and Wo upper i and ardmore called in and trainmen the ia kit knowing real people whose hose were so novel and him afresh with ditl rid these men bald said much in few tb the detectives chatted chaffed ot oli covertly iw ertly about some adventure rl bad had been jointly asso w W 0 va thought they d get the lead that business in mis tits a regular mine to cooke and er glanced deprecatingly at ard w fill th oc 0 little joker all right ere I 1 i 51 a 1 thill him remarked the vj SIve ive seen it tried train started the detect aes aed back into their car and yr drow out some blankets them a bench for ardmore down without ado abeld 4 to his post oat in the to ton R the lookout in a crow is im victot rh air swept sept more cool coot ed the hills and the Boal ikle brakeman came down it 49 from the sky from his eyes and rind igei armed iti I 1 a IS lota 0 Ard mores s cigars oil be mater part of tho night ea a free track and 1 ire te lathe rails at a lively clip 1 inin after midnight ardmore lublow rind went to sleep at called him ill abe le 0 jonni 0 t he switch nt at kildare it kounien your you our men nien t la is here waiting for pr 4 all t he e german forester was 8 13 a nd ardmore made his toilet cekol lIlU f water while listening to w a fellows fellow g is report cooke to 10 injia at h conversation and aid i t ratified 1 to see that the inget in 1 m et 1 on common ground in 1 I 1 t the v local geography the i c I 1 apic i abod d in clear straight t 66 L english just abat he lie had find Ile hejhal bad distributed his men vughn he hills and they were hinted as pickets on oil points fa to is 15 p effar r observation they had seel the streams four wide hid d stills and these were being 01 apaul paul I raul drew a small map llort 0 mes of the most ac Pit timbers of the applew eight ie as had Ardmore indicated all thesy these I 1 aas sarly as possible on the tile orso ho he had hod brought with him film IS de 1 I ra I 1 oll creek and my m Y bellu cal rd d ru runs n right through there ther U here 4 ian t it paul paull I 1 a al did Mil isiler the creek because I 1 ica name so much I 1 tire ight mr tr ardmore Ard inore the ali rau hive UPS ties along there T ir land er crosses 09 th north car I 1 i idary into south carolina letherea ko 0 re Therea mingo county you see ill dashes lashes me excl exal almed lev 0 lo 10 ang the table with mith his eria 11 it vor knew one state irom from aa b ty you all must bo be right sa Sopo pool eltive tive ot of it mr air ardmore I 1 i n has been II 11 ins ing there pic 1 protect your timber abow p outlaw a ki have haie been cut hoggood bog awood good id e t 14 to mo me 1 I remember the coiT beWs a log house hanging banging 0 Bf ir creek ook you took me by it vr v it iltner Il entered my head 1 line was mas so close I 1 through the house 0 o ate years ago blazed the ti t a here go it Is very easy her IN k you alep from one elate state a t my man left there re wr to stay any longer weight people thought he t pitied py Tied ed posted a notice on hie his him to leave go so I 1 shift be e other end of the ea es he ja did sou on see the sheriff nt at kit dare I 1 ament hai ell t seen him ben hen I 1 asked for him yesterday I 1 found ho he had left town and gone to greensboro to see hie his sick uncle ardmore laughed ani ant slapped stopped his knee who ho takes care of ot the dungeon while bile has away 1 h re are no prisoners in the kit dare jail the sheriff a afraid to keep any and hee he a like the rest of the people around here tho the all live in terror of Apple weight I 1 appleb eight Is a pom powerful erful charac charne ter in these parts bald said cooke pour ing the coffae he had halt been making and handing a tin cupful to ardmore hi III a tolerable veil off and could mike money honestly if it ht hl didn dian t op erate still stills rob country stores ni mix I 1 x up in politics and steal horses when bc h and his fronds need them I 1 guess ho he has never molested ua us any haa his he paup paull asked ardmore not liot a little ashamed of bis his Igno ignorance ranco of his own business A few of our cows stray avay amay sometimes and never come back and for two years we me have lost the coia out of the crib aft ay over here near tho the doer deer park we don t want to lose our right to the and we me must get out of this 1 before the whole community comes to take a look at us said cooke swing ing out of the caboose ardmore talked frankly to the for eater having constant recourse to the map ant paul sketched etched ek roughly a new chart making roads and path paths so far as he knew thain and ing clearly where the ardsley boun d irlea tries extended then arda ore took a blue pencil and drew a straight line we me get Appie weight wo want to hurry him from ellwell coun court i ty north carolina into mingo county I 1 bouth south carolina we will go to the county town there and put him in jail if the shariff of mingo Is weak I 1 kneed we will lock Applee leht up anyhow and telegraph the governor of south carolina that the joke la Is on him we will catch the man said paul gracely gra ely but we may have to kill him dad or aliceo he a got to be caught eald said ardmore cooke came out of the station and signaled the engineer to go ahead well pull down damn here about five miles to an 4 old spur where the corn pany used to load wood there a a little valley there where we can be hidden all we please so far as the 1 ardmore was scrutinizing the jug C cally main line Is concerned and it might not be a bad idea to ea establish tallish head quarters there we haye have the tools for rutting cutting in lit on the telegraph and wo no can con bo be as independent as we me please I 1 told the agent we me were car carrying ring company powder for a blasting job down the line and ho he suspects noth ing paul left the cabo caboose as the train started and rode away on horseback to visit hia bin pickets the train crept aaril aril over the spur into the old woodcutters gimp where as on cooke had forecast they were quite shut in from the main line by hills and wood mood land and now mr tir ardmore if you would lokelo like lo 10 see firewater spring out of the earth as freely as springwater come with me ine for a little stroll tho the thirsty of ellwell county know the way to these places as city topers know the way nay to a bar we are now nom in the lard laid of tho the little brown bromn jug and whilo while these hos bos get breakfast pee if th people in this region have changed their habits 11 it m djs as not yet se on as they struck off into the forest beside the cheerful little brook that came cime down singing from the hills ardmore had rarely before in his ilav been abroad so to early and ho he kicked the lev ler from the griss in the cheer fullest imaginable cooke had bad not been in thia this region for seven kirs airs and arid et ho he never but walked steadily on fol lowing the little brook presently he bent oy ovar lr the bink and gathered up tip a brownish substance thit that footed on the water nater lifted a little of it in his pilm p ilm and sniffed it that said cooke holding it to ardmore a nose I 1 Is ii corn mash that a what make their liquor of the still Is probably away amay up yonder on that hillside lie ile cm ed the stream on a log climbed tho the bink on ib th opposite shore and scanned tho the ur land scope for a few minutes then he pointed to an all old alamp over which I 1 vines had bad grown in wild profusion I 1 if it you m will ill walk to that stun p mr ardmore and feel under the vines on the right hand side your angel a will very likely touch something and cool ardmore obeyed instructions ile thrust hia his hand band into the timia at cooke directly directed thrust again a little deeper and laughed aloud as be he drew dro out a tittle little brown broan jug cooke nodded approvingly e ere re all right the revenue canue men come in lit here occasionally and smash the stills and arrest a it nun bui bill the little brown jug continues conti nuts to dc business at the tho same old land stand 11 ou on hove a dollar handy slip it under the so they if 11 know wore cre not sting ardmore ana us scrutinizing the jug critically the re nil till alike mike guld sold cooke but that pece of calico ie is a new ono just a fancy touch for an extra fine arttelt of liquor be eliot it I 1 I 1 haunt to F ai t peen seen that calico before said ardmore and he lie pat sat down on a boulder and drew out the stop stopper pr while lille cooke matcha hire hin with interest the bit of twine was aaa the same that I 1 e had unwound before in lila its room at the guilford house an annl the cob parted in his tits fingers exactly as before on a piece of I 1 rown ro n paper that had apen part t f a tobacco wrapper was scra scrawled led thi this ain t re ne bight mr aelmore ar imore ahers hie the gunner ot of Ca rAInal that a new one on lie me laughed cooke IOU ou see they know ever thing mind find reading isn t in it with them ahey etow who aho we me are and w what hat we me have come for NN hats the I 1 boint about the governor go oh oil the Roer norB all right re piled plied ardmore carelessly lie ile mould nt bother his head about a lit tie tle matter like this tho tile poeira re served to the states by the cons titu tion ghe a governor goNer nor plenty of va work ork without acting as policeman of the jungle thale that a tho the reason I 1 said sald to r bov oi dingerfield governor I 1 said dont don t worry orry about thia this business time is 1 hf havy avy on my handa hands I 1 bald said you stay in haleigh raleigh and up hold the dignity of your office and I 1 iiii take care of the trouble in dil m well ell and you cant understand cooke how lioa hia his face fice brightened at my word being the brave man he li 1 you would naturally expect him to come down doun here in person and rind seize these scoundrels with his tits own hands hand I 1 had the hardest time of my life to get him to stay at home it almost broan his heart not to come and as an they retraced their steps to the caboose it was mas ardmore who led stepping briskly along nad d blithely swinging the jug CHAPTER X prof griswold take takes the field birbara arbara Il and griswold stopped at the telegraph office on their way may back to the executive mansion and were met with mith news that the sheriff of mingo had refused to receive gris wolds message his life private lines of communication with alth the tho capital are doubtless well es said kriewold Gri Ori ewold and ilos ban worth probably warned him but it ian t of great importance it a just aa all well ell for and his friends hah a and low to show their hands hen they were more again a 0 the ver anda griswold lingered lingL red or a moment with no valid excuse for delay beyond the loveliness of the night and bis life keen delight in flar Il arbara baras s voice and her tier occasional low imn hugh li tighter ter abl which h was mas so pleasant to hear that he held their talk to a light key that he ight eke it the more IOU ou hane done all that could be asked of ion ou mr griswold and I 1 can not permit you to remain longer fi 1 thor ther will certainly be here tomor to mor toor row rom oh oil but houi father ian lent t absent he ile Is officially present and in the sod die caughel Gri griswold I 1 YOL must i not admit even to me that he is not here in full charge of his life office and ag as for my leaving the field I 1 have not the slightest intention of going back to virginia irgin la until the ghost in 1 laid the gover governor of north carolina brought to confusion and the governor of south carolina vis bly present and tind thundering kring hia his edicts again BO so to speak t ix x cathedra my afy own on affairs can wilt ailt misa nilsa osborne rile joy of having a hund hand in a little affair like till and of being behig able to tell my illy frield rommy ardmore about it after mord would mould bp b ard more will reer sp ik to me tile h aln for not nolting him to a share in tho th game ganie TO I 1 11 I 1 11 1 |