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by Irwin Myers
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"You’ve got to let me go now,* she
said, aroused, seeing he would never
take her seriously. ‘Tm going ta leave
here—stop this farce of pretending to
be what I am not—go away. And if
I’ve done this wrong,” she said, for
that was almost her obsession now, T
want to come out and take my punish
ment.”
"And do what, then?” he asked her
smiling. "Go where?”
T don’t know yet”
"Then how can you goV
T shall. 1 must,” she Insisted.
"Oh, what’s the hurry?” he asked
her, He refused entirely, It seemed,
to take her seriously.
"There you go again," he said, "rais
ing my temperature—opposing me. You
wait I can’t have you doing thl
yet”
It was a surprise to her. In a way
all very different from what she had
expected. She saw very clearly new
what must be done by her. She must
confess publicly, show who she was.
take whatever punishment there was
for her act; end this Trust and turn
the great fortune over to its rightful
owner. All that was necessary w»<*
for him to consent—to help her sho v
the situation, who she really was. An 1
this she had supposed he would do
most readily. She was therefore most
surprised at his attitude. He might
not care. It seemed to her, to keep
the Gorgam Trust alive, but he cer
tainly had no haste about ending it
“What do you take me for?” he
asked her with an approach to seri
ousness when she kept urging him. “Do
you think I’ll let you do what you are
talking about? Drag this thing through
courts—and incidentally yourself? Get
smeared with publicity like a common
criminal?”
“Why shouldn't I be? I am one.”
“There seems to be,” he said, “a
difference of opinion upon that point
between you and me. And besides.”
he said with a rather masterful and
peremptory way he seemed to be tak
ing with her at times lately, “I-don’t
propose you shall! You are not strong
enough—well enough, for one thing;
and you know it.”
But she insisted that she was, and
that she would go in some way. And
he must let her. Finally he mentioned
the possibility of a compromise.
"I’ll tell you what Twill do, though,”
he conceded. “I believe that between
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“I believe
that between
vis we can work
out a compromise. »YW
us we can work out a compromise.
Just wait. Be patient.”
It was some little .time—after he
was able finally to be driven out to
take care of business matters to some
extent—before be brought out, one
night when they were together in ttie
smallest and most homelike of the
great downstairs rooms, the compro
mise which he had been working out.
Lately she had been more and more
Insistent on having matters settled,
more and more determined to get away
from her false position—and In a way,
from him, the man whom she had
conspired to injure and keep from his
rights.
“I'll tell it all to you In order,” he
■aid. “—my scheme for a compromise.
I’ve been working on it for some little
time.”
"Go on, please,” she said,
"In the first place,” he told her, "I
have done this: It was necessary, you
see,” he said, explaining, “that some
one be appointed to the position of
Jasper Haig as active manager of the
Trust”
‘Yes,” she said, waiting.
"So I had myself appointed. You
don’t object?" he asked her when she
did not answer but sat looking at
him.
"Object, no!” she said. ’’Why
should I? .It’s all yours, anyway—not
giine. Yet I d" ' understand it,” she
aduU soiaew*.-. suspiciously. It
seemed to her that it might he another
scheme of evaaton or delay on - his
part—to keep her from doing what she
attended to.
“I thought," h« said, “that perhaps
you might thank me for It! But you
will you’ll understand it later. That’s
the first point. Now the 'second point
In my scheme: I’ve arranged it now,
what you wasted, so that you are no
longer Adelaide Rwtberfsrd—that is,
you will not have the unpleasant fea
tures of her I I’ve fixed It so you will
be no longer under that cloud of being
legally insane."
"That does not Change the real sit
uation about Adelaide Rutherford.” she
objected, "—the one thing that would
be almost Impossible to bear."
“What?”
“He* reputation of having been In
aane.v
"Her rep w t a t to a ," be said, "—with
whose?”
She of oanrse did net know dlraptiy.
"I guess yen don't,” he said. "You
Innocent 1 Do yen imagine that the
Gorgam fatally ever let that he knewn?
Is it customary to advertise family
skeletons? Not half a dozen people In
the world knew tt; and they, yeu may
be sure, always have been and will
be strangely sHeat."
"Even tt they are,” said Mary Man
chester, still obstinate, “lbat will make
no difference In my plana I’m not
Adelaide Rutherford. Pm Mary Man
chester and I won’t he Adelaide Ruth
erford much longer,” she said, C Hush
ing, growing « little angry.
just •That's K. The fat.” third be m I (f tog) “that's
mrr cem
promise H
"Our compromise?” she echoed after
him.
"Don’t yen know?” be asked, and
caught her hand—but not yet her eye*.
"No,” gke said with somewhat 'ques
tionable truthfulness.
T want you to be—let us say—Mrs.
Gorgam," ho explained with'his hajf
mocktng Itrat now comparatively B eri
"Wlll you agree—to my
compromise?”
He was greatly surprised by her
next action.
"No,” she said, springing to her feet.
"No,” she said vehemently. "No—
no I I won't have it so. Pm Mary
Manchester. TVe never been Adelaide
Rfitheriord, and I won’t—I won’t—I
won’t ! I’m going back to be declared
what I am tegally.
"Another thing,” she said, still find
ing objections, "is that money. It
doesn’t belong to me. It belongs to
you. Why keep up this force," she
asked, -this awful farce of a Trust
for me, when you know just who I
am?”
‘I thought,” he said with a some
what less certain smile, “that was one
of the fine points of my scheme. If
I controlled that, the Trust, I would
control all the money and incidentally
►you!’’
But she was obstinate, he found—
surprisingly so for so frail a creature.
it I’ve done wrong,’’ she Insisted, 'I
know it And I’ll take.roy punishment.
I’m going to be Mary Manchester again
some way. And then Pm going as far
away as I can—away from here and
this and you.” And she tried now des
perately to wrench herself free......
“So you - don’t like my compromise?”
he said, releasing her at last with a
rather wry smile. He was clearly both
surprised and disappointed.
"No,” she answered, “it is neither
right nor honest—nor anything.”
“Listen!” be said, catching her hand
and holding her.' 1 He lookecLAown Into
her flqphed face. "Listen,” he said
sternly, “you young criminal! I want
to talk to you—and I shall. Let us
go back,” he proposed, "and take the
old method Jasper Haig always used
to use. Let’s work out the theory of
a possible case. *
“Suppose,” he said, when she found
herself unable to get away, but still
did not answer, “a case where a young
woman—who is incidentally, I may say,
very good to look at—save’s a man’s
life at the very great risk of her own.”
She tried to speak then, but he would
not permit her.
“And suppose she had a crazy Idea
that she had done wrong, and must go
through and take her punishment—
and straighten everything out public
ly, in spite of all reason and common
sense. Calling herself a criminal!”
She tried again in vain to get away
from him.
“And then suppose the man, whose
life she had saved, and who was also
for other good and sufficient reasons
absolutely determined to marry her,
offered ‘her a most reasonable compro
mise— by which, as his wife, he would
have control both of her and of her
money—and that she deliberately re
fuses—because she feels he would
have too great control over her,” he
added, smiling just the mere fraction
of a teasing smile.
“It’s nothing of the kind,” she an
swered him, speaking for the first
time, “and you know it.”
"And supposing," he went on, disre
garding her remark, “that nnder the
law he had absolute control over her
legally already. What would he do, *•
he asked, "especially when he saw that
-She was worrying herself sick over
matters? What could he do,” he
asked when she did not answer, "ex
cept try again—offer one more - com
promise—which will be an ultima
tum?”
"What?” asked Mary Manchester un
guardedly.
“This,” he said quickly, taking ad
vantage of her question: "Mary, will
yon marry me?”
“No,” she answered again more ve
hemently than waa necessary.
“Walt I” he commanded her. "That’*
only half of my plan—the new com
promise. If,” he said, bringing out
the other half, *1 will let you after
ward go to court, publish yourself a
criminal, smash thlq Gorgam Trust to
GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
a miinon p.eces— u o anythn* you want
to?”
"Shall 1 be Mary Manchester
again?” demanded his opponent grimly.
"Not for very long. You’ll have to
marry me beforehand, while I’ve still
got you. You’ve got to marry roe be
forehand. And then well finish up
that legal dragon of Jasper Haig's—
together!
•'What do you sayr asked the offer
■er of the compromise. There was no
answer; both stopped speaking for the
time being. But this last etunpromise,
It appeared, was finally accepted.
It was finally, through this comptw
raise. It seems, long before the coming
of this matter into court, that the wide-
1y famous termination and dissolution
of the Gorgnin Trnst was brought |
about—concerning which the reader na |
doubt has long ago learned the row*
familiar features through the puWk
press -
[THE END.t
Gone Where Burglar* 04
Mil, the burglar, tried to crack
A safe protected through the back;
The Jet-loose voltage wasn't elow.
And Bill’s gone where the burglars #•.
The Wrong Article
that’s your complaint against this
saleslady?”
“She doesn't understand her busi
ness.”
“Explain, please.”
"3 asked for attention and she
shewed Indifference.”
Powerful Enough
"Are you sure these glasses are high
power?” asked the potential lady cus
tomer.
“Madame,” replied the ambitious
salesman, “when you use these glasses
to look at anything less than ten miles
away « looks like It’s behind you."
Reaolvingly Speaking
Oo--®«nember when we first met
in the revolving door at the post of
fice?
She—But that wasn’t the first time
we met
He—Well, that’s when we started
going around together, wasn’t it?
A Correction
"She's bad five husbands already,
hasn’t She?”
“Oh, no! That would look as if she
were temperamental and regarded the
marriage vew lightly. As a matter of
fact she has only had four husbands.”
Potting Mother
Mrs. Upstart—On this invitation to
the highbrow’s affair I see *‘R. S. V. I*.”
I wonder wbat that means?
Daughter—Wby, you silly thing; I
suppose they are going to have a
radio concert from that station!
K. O.
r* f It.
*7 WL
"That hooch we had last flight was
perfectly good. Why did Jones say
there were knockout drops in It?”
“His wife beat him up for drinking
when he got home.”
Full Circle
The Jonesee have a saxophone;
The Jenkinses a radio own;
A phonograph beguiles the Flyns;
Revenge is sweet. We have twins!
The Mean/Thing
She—You said you were going to
give me a present of some kind. Last
night I dreamt of a pearl necklace.
He—Then I’ll give you a dreambook
•o you can see what that means.
Knew What Wat Coming
Wife—It isn't the size of the gift,
but the spirit that goes with It that
counts
Hub—Who is going to get a 79-cent
present from us now?
INTERESTING—.* TRUE
The horse has no eyebrows and,
consequently, doesn’t have to carry
an eyebrow pencil.
It takes 100 liver* to make pne gal
lon of cod liver oil, but this knowledge
won’t make it taste a bit better.
The thickness of n razor edge Is
about a millionth of an inch, but that’s
enough to get a lot of people Into
scrapes.
Saturday is an unlucky day in the
British royal family. It’s a good day
for the prince of Wales to stay off
his horse.
The Chinese can stand changes of
climate better than any other race,
whlch may account for their- not loa
lng their temper.
In Persia tear* shed for the dead
are preserved In bottles. In order to
make a good showing the weeping ia
done before the will is read.—Ex
change.
HOME TOWN PHILOSO
PHY
to If bo alway» caught makes looklnl a at map photograph fee) cheap
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Connected With
tt Long Distance *»
By ANNA ROBESON BURR
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I® by OoaWfdjy, P«av a Co.)
'T'HE A children had kept me up Billy
wa8 fretfu ,_ poor , itt|e ^pj
he had been every night since that day
when the house was flPed with white
flowers and people in black. The older
ones, too. were restless and hard to
satisfy. Their world had been upaet
Somehow they couldn’t aeem to u nder
stand the absence of that peraon who
had never before willingly left them
**,) who, if. she did always came run
nLng up the nursery stafr. her voice
calling eagerly ahead of her to ask If
were well there. No wonder they
were troublesome, and I was long in
soothing them, and longer still after
wards quieting myself, till I fell Into a
grief-stricken sleep.
It was the telephone, struggling to
ring, that roused me. I sat up in bed
with an awful dread of some fresh mis
fortune catching at m.v heart The
bell couldn’t seem to ring, and the
thing just stood there, fighting to tell
me something, but horribly unable—
inarticulate, clicking and buzzing. I
pushed the hair out of my sticky eyes
and seized it called Into it
...
The night was unusually still; no
wind moved the trees. On the floor lay
bars of bright moonlight I looked at
them as I waggled the hook up and
down and tried to win some answer
out of the clicking and buzzing. For a
few minutes there was a hopeless
chaos of sounds and then the disturb
ance seemed to clear up and die away,
giving place all at once to that tense,
vibrating bum singing over the wires,
which always means a long-distance
call. Who could be calling me in the
middle of the night from such a long
distance?
Now feverishly awake and fright
ened, I oailed again, but only that soft
song of the wires answered me. My
imagination, as always, seemed to fol
low those wires where they hummed In
the night wind or shone in the moon
light—across towns and fields and
prairie, over mountains and rivers,
from far, so far away—beyond the
world, beyond space and from the
stars. ...
•« Hello who’s calling who Is
there?” I begged. Then, thin and faint
and far—far as the stars themselves—
came the Voice. A Voice I knew, and,
oh, marvel of Heaven! a Voice I ex
pected to hear.
“Nan—oh, Nan, is It you? Oh, Nan,
are you there?” So faint, so far, so
living, that Voice ... the horrible,
heavy beating of my heart leaped te
recognize it.
/ “Yes—I am here—tt is L Speak to
me! Ob, God, what miracle fas this?”
“Sly children—how are my children?
Nan, coo you hear? Tell me about my
children
So anguished, so faint, so far that
Voice!
‘My children—tell me about them!
Quick, quick; how are my children?"
1 pulled myself together. I wasted
no more time. Somehow I seemed to
know that only a moment would be
vouchsafed to ns and that I must make
haste. So I spoke into the telephone as
steadily as I could:
“The children are all well, deaf. I
am doing the best I can. Billy has
been a little fretful with his teeth, but
Flora’s cold is better. Helen went
back to school today; she wore her
sweater and warm cap. I talk to them
about you—every bed-time, I think. I
hope they will get used to it soon—,
they are so young! I shall not let them
forget. ... 1 am doing the best I can
and all Is well with them. Be comfort
ed, dear! ... Do you hear me? Are
you comforted? 11
No sound save that thrilling of the
wires, far, far beyond—beyond what?
I hungered to hear, and I called again
and again:
“The children are well—well, dear
est! Tell me you hear—can’t you
speak to me?”
No answer save the soft, humming
song from Infinite space . . . And
then—
“What number, please?”
That sharp voice recalled me to the
madness oi tfiy waiting and to my
tears. . . . For awhile they kept me
from speech. Then I looked out upon
the bars of clear moonlight and I was
suddenly quieted-and awed. . - .
“Hello! Are you still connected with
Long Distance—hello?”
The operator was persistently trying
to speak to me. So, before I hung up.
I answered the telephone, ‘Thank
you,” I Said. “I wus connected with
Long Distance, I believe; but It’s
ended.”
Bulltnake Good , 4 Mou*er ,f
If you don’t care to keep a Kansas
bullsnake upon the premises to keep
rats and mice away, get a bullfrog.
The mousing proclivities of a bull
frog are vouched for by Wade Father
oee, local sportsman, who captured a
giant hopper on a fishing trip, says a
Chlckasba (Ok)a.) dispatch to the In
dianapolls Stdj|
Instantly, the frog secured a safe
i and steady future at a time when he
j w »* headed for the frying pan.
Fatherbee tied the “critter” la the
j house awaiting execution. During the
n| C l ’t the frog broke loose, s
, “I could hear him hoofing about
the house nnd then hear hi* Jaw’S
pop and a mouse squeal. He kept
I but up throughout the night The
next morning he had the appearance
of a swelled-up frog. Now he hal
a home with me.” Fatherbee declares.
Fatherbee say* he wouldn’t trade
(lie frog for a flock of tomcat*.
i
POMONA NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. DeLas Miller and
Virginia and DeLas, Jr., of
were the guests of Mr. and
B. D. Spangler Sunday.
Mrs. W. L. Nott and Mrs. D. F.
have been confined to their
with severe colds the post
The Sewing Circle meets with Mrs.
R. Spangler Wednesday afternoon.
Miss Annie Smith has returned
from Atlanta.
Mrs. W. L. Nutt had as her guests
Monday Mrs. George Elder and Miss
Gay of Sunny Side, Mrs. Lynch
Griffin, and Mrs. S. R. Span&gler
Mrs. Mollie Griffin.
HOOF AND MOUTH
DISEASE WARNING
GIVEN LOUISIANA
Baton Rouge, La., Sept. 29,—The
Louisiana live stock stnitary board
today announced it had been advised
that the foot and mouth disease is
reported to exist among the cattle
in Harris county, Texas.
Immediately on receipt of the in
formation thej board declared that
a quarantine prohibiting the move
ment of shipments into Louisiana
from Texas of any livestock, cattle,
sheep, goats or other ruminants, and
swine would be issued. The diagno
sis of the disease was confirmed by
the United Stater bureau of animal
husbandry at Washington.
WOMAN’S WAY.
I"
U What is a good cure to absent
mindedness?” asked a man of his
doctor, friend.
II Why, are you absent minded? »»
the physician retorted, laughing at
the question.
44 No, ft said his friend, u It’s my
wife. 4* The poor dear makes the
strangest mistakes. I gave her a
$20 bill the other day with which
to buy me some shirts and she came
home with shoes and new gown for
herself. n
HARD TO PLEASE.
“I say, as your Husband, I don’t
approve of that dress—It’s too low
in the back. n
<< Oh, there’s no pleasing You
you.
used to complain about having to
hook me up the hack.”
FLATERY.
My dear woman, it is well known
that intellectual women are not good
looking. ft
44 And how would clasify me ? ”
44 Why you are not at all mtellec
tual.”
“Oh, you flatterer. tt
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Let us examine your car for you.
There may be something out of order
and with a little timely attention you
may save yourself much troubla. You
buy insurance to protect the home
folks, don’t you? Well, why not let
us examine your car and make cer
tain that as far as you are eon
cerned you have done everything
possible to make life safe for every
body who rides in your car. You
owe it to yourself and family.
N. Eighth St. Griffin, Ga.
PAGE
MERELY A MEMORY.
He: I’m sure I’ve seen you
before.
She: I wonder. You’re not the
who proposed to roe last evening
you?
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CLOSE FIGURING.
"Pete is the most close fisted chap
know." Vtf
** How so? i*
*1 He held hack his proposal to Ger
until the day before, her birth
and then gave her the engage
ment ring as a birthday present.”
Lodge Directory
WARREN LODGE
No. 20, t O. 0. F„
Monday night at 7:80 at Warren
Lodge Hall. Visiting brothers cor
dially invited.
B* A. PEEL, 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 Wtila, Sec.
W. 0. w.
Meets every Thursday, 7:80 p. m.
Sovereigns, your camp needs your
presence. You will find your Clerk
ell times nt Slaton Powell Clo. Co.
Visiting Sovereigns welcome. Come.
L. J. SAULEY, C. C.
C. C. STANLEY, Clerk.
Pythagoras No. R. Chapte r,
10, A M.
Regular meeting, Second and Fourth
Thursday, 7:30 p. m. Visitors wet
coma. WM. T. ATKINSON, H. P.
BIuL WELLS, Secretary.
Ben Barrow Lodge
No. 587 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, Secty.
E. D. FLETCHER
Embalmer and Funeral Director
With
Griffin Mercantile Co, '
Office Phone 474 Rea. Phone 481
P. E. ARNALL G. N. MURRAY
P. E. Arnall & Co.
Insurance of All Kinds
We Weak! Appreciate *~~
Your Business
J. C. BROOKS 0. S. TYUS
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Railroad Schedule
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RY. *!
Arrival and Departure of Passenger
Trains at Griffin, Ga.
The schedules are published as infor
mation and are not guaranteed:
North South
2:29 p.m. Altanta-SavTi 11:08 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 a.m. Chigo-St. L.-Jax 8:42 p.m.
9:01 a.m. Atfanta-Macon 5:20 p.m.
12:25 p.m. Atlanta-Macon 2:17 p.m.
5:57 p.m. Atlanta-Albany 12:19 a.m.
' Chattanooga
Division
From: For:
2:30 p.m. Chattanooga 9:45 a.m.
8:15 a.m. Cedartown 5:25 p.m.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
From: For:
Atlanta points— -
5:53 p.m. East—West 10:02 amt
30:02 a.m. Colhus-Ft-Valley 5:63 p.m.
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. This one of the fin
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 8. Hill St.