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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2«, 1924.
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: sane. His voice showed It, as did the
! blood rising to his face, the little knot
of veins upon his temples and the un
natural glint which showed now In his
reddened eyeballs.
He started to his feet and she with
him. He was staring now at the
place where her eyes had been—4he
| folds “'Come of that high velvet curtain.
out of there!” he cried in a
1 hoarse voice “From behind that car
taint I see you,” he said with a
- ' mouthful
of foul epithets.
; And at that the. curtain mo-red—
J very slightly, but still visibly.
“Nam, no!” cried the false Ade
laide Rutherford, pushing at hijn with
• all her might. She saw now what she
I had done She had brought this on*
j fortunate frlender man—this resem er and be
whose name she ai d not eve*
know—In here to be mordereti. “Nor
! | she erlqd hysterically; and she was
Pushing at the unyielding body «t the
‘ man beside her as he deed.
He fired; the curtains shook and
: fell apart. And on the floor, protrufl
in -rHj*
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On die floor vr
appeared the upper body f u
and face of—Jasper Haig!
ing from them, appeared the upper
body and face of Jasper H aig ! __
The new Adelaide Rutherford
crouched for the moment, covering her
white face with her Woodless hands.
She heard the heavy footsteps of the
man who had been with her pass
across the room to the body upon the
floor—the body with the white face
and the smile—still that oblique smile
of the celebrated and wonderfully
astute lawyer, the manager of the
Gorgam Trust.
And as she looked up, she knew
with terror that he must be dead, for
she saw the great brute who now
stood over him, lift him and drop him
back.
“You!" he said, and added a hide
ous name. You again!” He was
clearly now a thing entirely out of
any semblance of self-control.
“You couldn’t keep away, could
you? he asked deliberately, and
quite deliberately kicked him in that
I still oblique smile, for which so long
the face of Jasper Haig had been
famous.
Then suddenly he stopped and lis
tened. And Mary Manchester listened
with him. Outside the door, back in
the hallway of the house, there was a
low sound of a dog growling, nnd of
whispering. The servants were there
beyond that fastened door, waiting,
no doubt wondering what to do—and
ns yet doing nothing!
And now another change came over
the speaker—his voice nnd manner
hardening.
“Don’t come in,” he said calmly, ad
dressing the closed door and holding
his revolver at attention. “It’ll be bud
for you.
“Why bring them?” he asked, now
reasoning with Mary Manchester.
“Rank outsiders I Innocent 1 It’s got
us. You and roe—and this,” he said,
alluding to Jokeph Haig, “and the one
that’s coming. It’s got us—it was
certain to from the first—it planned
' to. You can’t help tljst you can’t
stop It,” said the speaker. And now,
his mind turning in a new direction,
' he started cursing the Gorgam Trust.
The girl was surprised as she listened.
| Me was addressing it, this legal fic
tion, like a living creature, a monstrous
thing of flesh and blood which*hated
and pursued him.
"They make them,” he cried, his wild
Imagination taking now a curious form,
"they make them, to do what thev
want done. All the big dirty work ol
the world I Rotten-hearted—evil to th«
corn And you did this I" He broke off
in a grotesque aside to the dead lawyet
on the floor. "And In the end they gel
loose from you—fhey get too strong
They get you finally, the way this on<
Mary Manchester could see now
quite certainly that the Trust, that im
material thing, had grown more real
and tnore terrible in the immaterial re
glon where this wiki imagination lived
now than any actual breathing thing—
a great enemy, stalking him, which he
feared and hated as nothing else. »
"It gets ns. It’s moved us around/'
he asserted, you and me and all the
rest. Just where It wants to. First to it's
that," he said, In brief allusion the
figure on the floor again. "Next it w^J
be him!" he explained, and glanced
with pleasure aad expectation toward
the deor into the private entrance
facing which they now stood waiting
‘‘Then it wUl be your turn—and ther
rninfe! *
“Bat there’s this one thing, too—
you may not see," he went on, lowering
his voice now to a more confidential
pitch—as if the Gtergam Trust stood
there behind them somewhere In th«
room. "When it’s done—it’s done, wit)
as; when we go out, it goes out tooJ"
He spoke now in a voice tonched bj
a kind of ecstasy—the voice Of one
who stands oh a pinnacle af high emo
tions, of Intense thought, with all the
petty motives of life put behind him.
And Mary Manchester, watoblng him,
debated what she should do—could do.
Could Bhe, If she wepld, convey t*
those outside the cumbrous explana
tion of the one thing which must be
done—how to prevent the entrance of
this man she and the other watcher
now expected? Could she do this before
the man prevented her; and should
she, if she could, draw them tote this
danger of almost certain death? Bui
tkenji sjjjdden light can^e Into her eyes.
She heard the louder growling of the
angry dog*behind the deor thoaghtsfthe into the tall.
In spite of her hurrying
girt herself sat perfectly s8«st—stiH
apparently unresisting, wetting for the
execution of her plan, the thing she
had definitely decided would be host
for her to do now. Certainly, she rea
soned; having brought this man here te
help her, ahe cod no on« els* was re
sponsible—and should take the risk!
The least that she now could do was
to prevent his sswder. Bhe waited, lis
tening—to the growing pnseled murmur
outside the hallway door, the eecasion
at protests of the dog, the sound of
the heavy, even breathing of the man
beside her. Then all at once the eae
particular seand that she waited for
came. Hie heard the sound of some
°ue moving behind the side deor—the
door of the personal entrance of eld
Oaaiel Gorgam to his study. At last,
she knew, It wss time for her te act.
There are certain advantages which
women have, even in a time of vio
lence. She was lighter, quicker-sensed,
more responsive to her nervous im
pulses, one might say, than this great
brute beside her. She beard first; she
moved first; and when the key was
turning In the lock of old Daniel Gor
garn’s private door, on the other side
a girl with disheveled hair and fright
ened voice was beating on the panels,
and crying out in wild warning:
“Keep out—keep out—keep out! He
will kill you! He will kill you! He
will kill you!”
CHAPTER XU
Was Jt pure accident which at the
last moment held back Stanford Gor
gam from the appointment for which
he had waited impatiently all day—a
prisoner first of a broken crank-shaft
in the infirm old taxicab he had sum
monod, and again of the iaiv in the
second cab, which he had finally ob
tained and in which he waited, de
tained inexorably a mile away from
his destination by the inflexible maj
esty of a traffic officer affronted by
speeding? He thought so certainly at
the time. He thought so again, with
sharp regret and apprehension, as he
stood turning the key in the inside
door of the passageway to his dead
uncle’s study.
The sound of a woman screaming
warning, pounding upon the opposite
side of a door is—in spite of its obvi
ous purpose—not really calculated to
stay for long its operrthg—especially
with the sudden ceasing of the out
cries immediately following the other
most suggestive sound of a body
thrown violently upon the floor. 'The
door opened quickly, and through the
entrance came Stanford Gorgam.
“Stand still! said a voice which,
though strained to an unnatural pitch,
he still recognized.
He stood still—rigidly staring 1 ? into
the muzzle of the revolver In the hands
of his old ill-wisher Hasbrouck Ruther
ford. Behind the latter, at one side
upon the floor, lay the body of the
young woman lie had come to meet
—apparently unconscious.
“What is this? asked Stanford Gor
gam sharply.
He had noticed with hope a certain
unsteadiness in the weapon aimed at
such close range at his own body. He
caught, he thought, the condition of
the man’s mind and nerves. He was
not a bad wrestler, and there are cer
tain advantages, as he knew, before
a physical struggle of any kind, in
the catching and diverting of atten
tion—the holding of eyes of your op
ponent. If the other man did not shoot
at first, that was something I
“What Is this?" demanded Stanford
Gorgam—and waited.
“The end!” said Hasbrouck Ruther
ford rather slowly. “The end ef the
Gorgam Trust It will stop here—
and everything that is in it—er that
has touched it It’s committing sui
cide," he added Jocularly, “tonight!
"Keep ontl" he broke off to cry. “If
you know what’s good for you!" For
now the servants—or whoever was ia
the hall—evidently had decided It was
time to do something, to break in.
•’Yes," said Stanford Gorgam, second
ing him, ‘‘keep out” For he felt—
by instinct as well as by reason—
that he would have a longer and a
better chance to manipulate this thing
GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
If left a lobe.
“What Is It you want." he asked
the man whose eye he held. And he
saw with growing satisfaction the hand
holding the revolver now somewhat
lowered—held for support more closely
to the body of the other. “A little
more!" he thought, as the other was
discoursing.
"You I” replied Hasbrouc^ Ruther
ford/Simply, with a glenni of high sat
isfaction In his eye, “You first! You
thought you’d get It, didn’t you? Yen
thought by this move now you’d take
over all the Gorgam money as residu
ary legatee? You won’t. Not now—
or ever!”
It was soon clear to Stanford Gor
gam that it was not his old acquain
tance's purpose to act before he talked
—and at considerable length. He could
see, he rhoaght, that the pleasure to
which this Uiiin looked forward In
settling old scores by murdering him
(To be continued)
Fanners in Butts
County to Plant
Large Cover Crop
Jackson, Sept. 26.—From the
number of orders for seed already
placed and to be placed within the
next few days it is believed that
farmers of Butts county will this
season plant between 1,200 and 1,500
acres in winter cover and grazing
crops.
County Agent Henry G. Wiley
has been busy for several days as
sisting farmers in securing seed for
fall and winter planting. The seed
are being bought on a co-operative
basis aad at a considerable saving
to the farmers.
Hairy vetch seems to be the mest
popular winter legume. There will
be at least 500 acres planted in
vetch in Butts county this season.
• Healthy Sleep
•ften sleeplessness to accompanied
by cold fee*. The coldness Is dee te
clogging the blood-streius; and this
clogging te usually cussed by wrong
foods and drinks. When once the
bleed becomes pure and clean and
strong, we ore three-quarters of the
way towards securing healthy sleep.
it Find the Man”
More than half the time when a
iceman betrays a secret some man Is
it the bottom of It—Exchange.
Life’t Cornerstone
The dutifulness of children is the
foundation of all virtues.—Cicero.
SANITARY FISH
AND OYSTER
MARKET
SALT WATER TROUT
FRESH WATER TROUT
SHRIMP, CRABS AND
ALL KINDS OF
MIXED FISH
Sanitary Fish and
Oyster Market
N. BOLDE, Prop.
112 W. Broad St. Phone 811
FOR SALE
Residence, West Taylor 3t
Residence, South Hill St.
Residence, South Sixth St.
Several well located V-lots.
100-acre farm, 1% miles out.
24%-acre farm, close in.
1% million feet saw timber.
FOR RENT
One store building.
FIRE INSURANCE
We are prepared to help you pro
tect your property against loss and
if you are thinking of an additional
policy consult the undersigned. You
will not regret it.
e. s. McDowell
Real Estate and Insurance
CITATION
GEORGIA—Spalding County.
Ordinary’s Office, Sept. 2, 1924.
Augustus H. Frye, Guardian of
Vivian Gray Frye Saunders nee
Vivian Gray Frye, has applied to me
for a discharge from his Guardian
ship of aforesaid Vivian Gray Frye,
tUp !•» therefore, .to notify all pet
sons concerned, to file their objee
tions, if any they have, on or before
the first Monday in October next,
else Augustus H. Frye will be dis
charged from his Guardianship as
applied for. D. R. CUMMING,
Ordinary, Spalding Gounty.
CITATION
GEORGIA—Spalding Ordinary's County.
Office, Sept. 2, 1924.
Whereas, Augustus H. Frye, ad
ministrator of estate of S. B. Frye,
represents to the Court in his peti
tion, duly filed and entered on record,
that he has fully administered the
said estate. This is, therefore, to
cite all persons concerned, kindred
and creditors, to show cause, if any
they can, why said Administrator
Bhould not be discharged from his
administration and receive letters of
dismission, on the first Monday ia
October, 1924. D. R. CUMMING,
Ordinary.
CITATION
Court of Ordinary, Sept. 2, 1924.
GEORGIA—Spalding County.
To All Whom It May Concern:
- W. Z. Gardner, as administrator of
the estate of Mrs. Caroline M. Gard
ner, deceased, having applied to me
by petition for leave to sell the real
estate of said deceased, this is to
notify the creditors and kindred that
said application will he passed upon
at the October term, 1924, of the
Court of Ordinary of said county,
and that unless cause is then shown
to the contrary, said leave will be
granted.
This 3rd day of September, 1924.
D. R. CUMMING, Ordinary.
CITATION
GEORGIA—Spalding County.
To All Whom It May Concern:
A. K. Maddox, as administrator of
the estate of Julia P. Maddox,
deceased, having applied to me by
petition for leave to sell the real es
tate of said deceased, this is to no
tify the creditors and kindred that
said application will be passed upon
at the October term, 1924, of the
Court of Ordinary of said county,
and that unless cause is then shown
to the contrary said leave will be
granted.
This 11th day of September, 1924.
D. R. CUMMING, Ordinary.
CITATION
Court of Ordinary.
GEORGIA—Spalding County.
To All Whom It May Concern:
R. A. Redding and F. A. Quillian,
as executors of the will of R. J.
Redding, deceased, having applied to
me by petition for leave to sell the
real estate of said deceased, this is
to notify the creditors and kindred
that said application will be passed
upon at the October Term, 1924, of
the Court of Ordinary of said coun
ty, and that unless cause is then
shown to the contrary said leave will
be granted.
This the 3rd day of September,
1924. D. R. CUMMING, Ordinary.
NOTICE OF SALE
The undersigned, as administrator
of the estate of Mary Greene, by
virtue of an order from the Court of
Ordinary of Spalding County, Geor
gia/wflT sell at public outcry, on the
first Tuesday in October, 1924, at!
the courthouse door in said county,
between the legal hours of sale the
following described land, and per
sonal property.
One house and lot in the City of
Griffin, Spalding County, Georgia,
located on South Ninth Street, No.
543; together with certain other per
sonal property, consisting principally
of household and kitchen furniture.
This September 3rd, 1924.
B. M. SHERARD, Admr.
Speeders in one city in the mid
dle west must serve for a stated
time as assistants to a traffic offi
cer, so that they may learn why it
is necessary to obey - the traffic
laws.
SADDLES AND
TIRES
$20.00 Army Saddle at $5.69
30x3% Cord Tires........$8.00
30x3% Fabric Tires......$7.00
Come and See Them
DIXIE ARMY STORE
Next to Johnson Drag Co.
FOR SALE
1 two story granite building
on N. Hill street with three
fronts on Hill street.
1 10-room house on S. Hill
Street. . ,,,— fhlS the fin
One 01
est homes in Griffin, with
east front.
2 Bungalows on Oak st.
3 houses on Raymond st.
1 house on south Eighth st
Phone 303 and 1028
T. EZRA MANN
104 >4 S. HU] St.
Railroad Schedule
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RY.
Arrival and Departure of Passenger
Trains at GrifiBn, Ga.
The schedules are published as infor
mation and are not guaranteed:
Noath South
2:29 p.m. Altanta-Sav’h 11:06 p.m.
4:30 a.m. Atlanta-Sav’h 9:07 a.m.
5:47 a.m. Chigo-Cin-Jax 11:55 p.m.
6:53 ami. Chigo-St. L.-Jax 8:42 p.m.
9:01 a.m. Atlanta-Macon 5:20 p.m.
12:25 p.m. Atlanta-Macon 2:17 p.m.
6:57, p.m. Atlanta-Albany 12:19 a.m.
Chattanooga Division
From: For:
2:36 p.n. Chattanooga 9:45 a.m.
8:16 a.m. Cedartown 5:25 p.m.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
From: Far:
Atlanta points—
5:58 p.m. East—West 14:62 a.m
14:02 a.m. CeHms-Ft.Valley 6:58 pm
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Lodge Directory
WARREN LODGE
No. 20, I. O. 0. F., meets every
Monday night at 7:30 at Warren
Lodge Hall. Visiting brothers cor
dially invited.
EX R- A. PF.EL, Secretary.
W. T. ATKINSON, N. G.
MERIDIAN SUN LODGE
No. 26, P. A. M. &
Regular meeting Tuesday night,
October 7th, 7 o’clock. Note change
in hour. Visitors welcome.
C. H. Scales, W. M. Bill Wells, Sec.
w. o. w.
Meets every Thursday, 7:30 p. m.
Sovereigns, your camp needs your
presence. You will find your Clerk
all times at Slaton Powell Clo. Co.
Visiting Sovereigns welcome. Come.
L. J. SAULEY, C. C.
C. C. STANLEY, Clerk.
Pythagoras -No. Chapter,
10, R. A. M.
Regular meeting, Seoond and Fourth
Thursday, 7:30 p, m. Viaitors wel
come. WM. T. ATKINSON, H. P.
Rft-L^WELLS, Secretary.
Ben Barrow Lodge
No. 687 F. & A. M.
East Griffin, meets first and third
Thursday nights in each month at 7
o’clock. Visiting brothers welcome.
L. B. GUEST, W. M.
CLIFFORD GRUBBS, Seety.
Funeral Directory
HASTEN BRGsTcO.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
AND EMBALMER9
Griffin and Senoia, Georgia
Office Phone 575. Res. Phone 48
FRANK S. PITTMAN
Funeral Director
and Erabalmer
Office Phone 822. Res. Phone 6ft
E. D. FLETCHER
Embalmer and Funeral Director
With
Griffin Mercantile Co.
Office Phone 4'74 Res. Phone 4&i
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