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Thursday, October .......... m** ! - Wg FJkgE.Phillips Oppenheitn Ilkriratiaiw by hu J MV . it Iwftta" * x ' v t % Copyright an .Littlo .BvowA-,«udl fulDTCO . ' F o*xtcvo i ^ w f satisfied with himself and the worid, ttje echo of a little buzz of congratulations still in his ears, Z m ° d ern rette before f!-f US calling nirn t0 f for ” a 11 taxi ? . to take hfm to his club. Visions of ■a whisky and soda—his throat was a little parched—and a rubber of easy-going bridge at tits favorite table, were always before his eyes. A woman who had followed him from the court touched him on the shoulder. “May I speak to you for a mo ment, Mr. Ledsam?” The barrister frowned slightly as he swung around to confront his questioner. It was such a familiar form of address. > I What do you want?’ he asked a little curtly. "A few minutes’ conversation with you,” was the calm reply. “The matter is important. M The woman’s tone and manner, notwithstanding her plain, incon spicuous clothes, commanded atten tion. Francis Ledsam was a little puzzled. Small things meant much to him in life, and he had been look ing forward almost with the zest of a schoolboy to that hour of re laxation at his club. He was im patient of even a brief delay, a sen- i j timent which he tried to express in hts response. H What do you want to speak to me about?” be repeated bluntly. ■ “I shall be in my rooms in the Tem ple tomorrow morning any time after eleven.” It is necessary for me to speak j to you now,” she insisted. “There is a tea-shop across the way. Please accompany me there.” Ledsam, a little surprised at the coolness of her request, subjected his accoster to a closer scrutiny. As he did so his irritation dimin ished. He shrugged his shoulders slightly. “if you really have business with me,” he said, “I will give you a few minutes." They crossed the street together, the woman self-possessed, negative, wholly without the embarrassment of one performing an unusual ac tion. Her companion felt the awakening of curiosity. Zealously though she had, to all appearance, endeavored to conceal the fact, she was without a doubt personable. Her voice and manner lacked noth Ing of refinement. Yet her at traction to Francis Ledsam, who, although a perfectly normal hu man being, was no seeker after promiscuous adventures, did not lie in these externals. As a bar rister whose success at the crim inal bar had been phenomenal, he had attained a certain knowledge of human nature. He was able, at any rate, to realize that this woman was no impostor. He knew that she had vital things to say. They passed into the tea-shop and found an empty corner. Ledsam hung up his hat and gave an order. The woman slowly began to remove her g loves. When she pushed back her veil, her vis-a-vis received al most a shock. She was quite as good-looking as he had imagined, but she was far younger—she was Indeed little more than a girl. Her eyes were a deep shade of hazel brown, her eyebrows were deli cately marked, her features and poise admirable. Yet her skin was entirely colorless. She was as pale as one whose eyes have been closed In death. Her lips, althmjgh in no way highly colored, were like streaks of scarlet,, blossom upon a marble image. The contrast be tween her appearance and that of her companion was curiously marked. Francis Ledsam con formed in mo-way to the accepted physical type of his profession. He was over six feet In height, broad ahouidered and powerfully made. His features were cast in a large mold, lie was of fair, almost sandy complexion, even his mouth was more humorous than incisive. His eyes alone, gray and exceedingly magnetic, suggested the gifts which lay behind his massive forehead. “I am anxious to avoid any pos slhle mistake,” she began. “Your name is Francis Ledsam?” “It ls.“ he admitted. “You are the very successful criminal barrister,” she continued, “who has Just been puid an extrav agant fee to defend Oliver Hit ditch. »♦ 1 mleht take exception to the «r?ed‘dry” V8 ^(S^S 8 your im formation appears to he singularly correct. I do not know whether you have heard the verdict. If not, you may be Interested to know that I succeeded in obtaining the man’s acquittal “I know that you did.” the won. an replied. “I was In the court when the verdict was brought in. It has since occurred to me that I should like you to understand ex actly what you have done, the rv sponslhillty you have Incurred. Ledsam raised his eyebrows. Responsibility?” he repeated. "What I have done is simple enough. I have earned a very large fee and won my case.” “He > Is bv^hli 1 time*« fra f r e J min' nan ; Now Vow I i am going to speak to , « you of that responsibility. I am going to gL*°" »’ £ B S^A5“ freedom to jour W elo- , h ° % was exactly twenty minute. tfter their entrance Into the tea- monologue, sne began to draw on her gloves again. Before them were two untasted cups of tea and an untouched plate of bread and butter . Prora a corner of the , roora the waitress was watching them cu riously “°°’ od God! ” Fran « s Ledsam ex claimed at last, suddenly realizing “ *66 , in f U> ? f y r x \K // >/ - Do You Mean to Affirm Solemnly That What You Have Been Tell ing Me Is the Truth?" his whereabouts. “Do you mean to affirm solemnly that what you have been telling nie is the truth? i» The woman continued to button her gloves. “It is the truth,” she said. Ledsam sat up and looked around him. He was a little dazed, He had almost the feeling of a man re covering from the influence of some anesthetic. Before his eyes were still passing visions of terrible deeds, of paked, ugly passion, of man’s unscrupulous savagery. Dur ing those few minutes he had been transported to New York and Paris, London and Rome, Crimes had been spoken of which made the mur der for which Oliver Hilditch had Just been tried seem like a trifling indiscretion. Hard though his men taltty, sternly matter-of-fact as was his outlook, he was still unable to fully believe in himself, his sur roundings, or in this woman who had dropped a veil over her ashen cheeks. Reason persisted in as serting itself. “But if you knew all this ” he demanded, “why on earth didn’t you come forward and give evidence?” “Because,” she answered calmly as she rose to her feet, I my evl dence would not have been admis sible. I am Oliver Hilditch’s wife.” Francis Ledsam arrived at his club, the Sheridan, an hour later than he had anticipated. He came face to face witf) fiTs fnosf intlmate friend, Andrew Wilmore. The lat ter, who had just hung up his coat and hat, greeted him with a growl of welcome. So you’ve brought it off again, Francis! “Touch and go,” the barrister re marked. “I managed to squeak home. This case has upset tne.” “Upset you?- But why the dick ens should it?” the other demand ed, in a puzzled tone. “It was quite in ordinary case, in its way, and fou won it. 1 won It,” Francis admitted. - Your defense was the most in genious thing I ever heard.” “Mostly suggested, now I come to think of it.” Francis rose to his feet, shook himself, and with his elbow rest ing upon the mantelpiece leaned down toward his friend. “I’ll tell you, Andrew. You’re about tlie only man in the world I could tell. I’ve gone crazy.” “I thought you looked as though youVI been seeing spooks." Wil more ‘have murmured sympathetically. “I seen a spook,” Francis rejoined, with almost passionate seriousness, “a spook who lifted an invisible curtain with invisible fingers, and pointed to such a drama of horrors as De Quincey, Poe and ■Sue combined could .never have im agined. (Oliver Hilditch was guilty, Andrew, He murdered the man *£^ a S~ Wdered hUn tn cold “ r “ Wis'd to bear that,” wa * somewhat puzzled rep y. of , » the e was "' n *' de ^ of 1,1,8 °“l! ^ ‘ P a rtner - bat ° f crimeB , nnd K bl ' utall * ie8 > I raa< ’ 1 wem on * „ Is a fiend In no . man f orm - If G,( ' re one ' and * have set lllm onoe rowre 10 P r ,% u j 1,in 8 ? c,aty Yau ’ re do “*; _ F ™ ncl8 . „ ,il ., * ’ , fr f nd d *J c , a ''f d l 1 I t0,d , •'P' 1 1 v y a8 c T, a y ~ ^ ' ’ the ^aperate , reply. So would , >’ ou be yoa d ‘.pposi e that ' v ' oman for balf afl bour > and heaH a,0! 7' M “What „ woman? , Wilmore , v(l de T’! ded ’, U “ un lnK /™J d *“ bi * , frlend wlth “ A wolnlul wbo met outBlde the court and told me the story of Qii ver HUditch’s Ufe** “A complete stranger to me. It trangplre( j tbat Bb e was his wife. »» .35T..S Igg" « when on. GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS *r ddetoT briMjtkW disbelieve,*’ Frafc- ! cl* answered. “One knows.” Wllmore a»dded. «« All the name, you’re crazy,” he declared. “Even If you did save the fertow from the gallows, you were only doing your Job, doing your duty to the heat of your abil ity. You had no reason to believe him guilty.’’ happened," "That’s just as it Francis pointed out. “I really didn’t care at the time whether he was or not. I had to proceed on of the assumption that he was not, course, but on the other hand I should have fought Just as hard for him If I had known him to be guilty." - “And you wouldn’t now—tomor row, say?” “Never again.” J" “Because of that woman’s story “Because of the woman.” ■ There was a short silence. Then Wllmore asked a very obvious ques tion. “What sort of a pe*on was she?” Francis' Ledsam was silent sev eral moments before he replied. The question was one, which he had been expecting, one which he had already asked himself many times, yet he was unprepared with any definite reply. drew,” “I wish his I friend coujd answer confessed. you, “As An a matter of fact, I can’t. I can only speak of the impression she left upon me. and you are about the only person breathing to whom I could speak of that.” Wllmore nodded sympathetically,. He knew that, man of the world though Francis Ledsam appeared, he was nevertheless a highly imag inative person, something of an Idealist as regards women, unwilling 1 I as a rule to discuss them, keeping | them, in a general way, outside his daily life. “Go ahead, old fellow,” he In vited. “You know I understand.” “She left the impression upon me,” Francis continued quietly, “of a woman who had ceased to live. She was young, she was beautiful, she had all the gifts—culture, poise and breeding—but she had celled to live. We sat with a marble table between us, and a few feet of oil-covered floor. Those few feet, Andrew, were like an impassable gulf. She spoke from the shores of another world. I listened and answered, spoke and listened again. And when she totd me her story, she went. I can’t shake off the ef fect she had upon me, Andrew. I feel as though I had taken a step to the right or to the left over the edge of the world." ■ Andrew Wilmore studied his friend thoughtfully. He was full of sympathy and understanding. His one desire at that moment was not to make a mistake. He decided to leave unasked the obvious ques tion. “I know,” he said simply. “Are you dining anywhere? M I thought of staying on here,” was the indifferent reply. “We won’t do anything of the sort.” Wilmore insisted. “There’s scarcely a soul in tonight, and the place is too humpy for a man who’s been seeing spooks. We’ll go to Claridge’s.” CHAPTER II T HE set against two, men the occupied wall. They a were, table in their way, an Interesting contrast physically, neither of them good looking, according to ordinary standards, but both with maay (To be continued) EXPECT ANOTHER VICTIM OE SHIP BLAST TO DIE Norfolk, Oct. 23.—(By the As sociated Press.)—Little hope was held today for the recovery of Thomas Howard Bailey, who was injured by Monday’s explosion aboard the cruiser Trenton, which cost fourteen lives and caused seri ous injuries to several others. Two others are said to have a fighting chance to live. A naval court inquiry is con tinuing the investigation of the blast cause. NEW PRESIDENT OF U. S. BANKERS IS EX-IMMIGRANT ";s .mm V.'' I m i: ■ - L. II : ■ ;X M X : / \ / <9 William Knox, president of the Bowery Savings Bank, New York City, Is the new president of the American Bankers’ Association. He came to this country from Ire land as an immigrant. TRY NEWS WANT ADS. V Widow and ‘ Other Woirtan” - On Tortuous Love Shoals Again •*r M. " " < _ . V 1 & y.< : >y 1M % >; - '-tt j vX •X m X;: X. X.' ■: : ; x ■/ •xxx I v:v: - sis i® K : : x wmM iX; wm By an ironical coincidence, both Mrs. Georgia Ham on Roll re r left), widow of Jake Hamon, slain Oklahoma oil magnate and olitical boss, and Hamon’s slayer, Clara Smith Hamon Gorman J. (right) " are airing ~ their latest love troubles at tke same time.* Mrs. Rohrer, n , , has just . obtained ... , a divorce fox the second time from . Rohrer, Chicago art collector, charging cruelty. The other woman, Clara Smith, charges the same tiling, cruelty, hi her suit, against Gorman, film director. 12*Year-QId Lad Waits Six Years To Stab Boy Who Shot His Eye Out , New York, <Odt. 23.—For six years Charlie Buntingaro, 12, winced daily at the taunt of cock-eye,” he told Justice Hoyt in juvenile court. > But a sudden, swift stab with his broken penknife has rid him forever pf the humiliation, his friends last night said. Eight years, ago Charlie and his chum, Leo Pepe, 13, were play ing in the latter’s room. Accidentally Shot. P® An air rifle in the hands of Leo went , off _ accidentally, .. A it was explained and the shot hit and blinded Charlie’s ;right eye. Two years later the boys enter ed public school and then some one, no one knows who, began calling the partly blinded Charlie (4 cock-eye. I) Leo also used to call him that, he said._____—----------— Dreamed of Revenge. For six years this continued, the-boy explained to Justice Hoyt, and- he dreamed day and night of wiping out the appellation. Last Friday his chance came, he told the justice. Seeing Pepe walking with Tony Tobuc on Hester street, he ran up behind him and drove the broken blade of his lyiife into his back. Not Much Hurt, lieo was nest much hurt but since then no ,one has called Charlie “cock-eye. ” Railroad Schedule CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RY Arrival and Dpeartaire of ger Trains At Griffin, Ga. The schedules are published information and not anteed: North :Sonth 2:29 pm Atlanta-Sav*h 11:06 4:30 am Atlanta-Sav’h 9:07 5:47 am Chgo-Cin-Jax 11:55 6:53 am Chgo-St. L.-Jax 8:42 9:01am Atlanta-Mac«n 5:20 12:25 pm Atlanta-Macon 2:17 5:57 pm Atlanta-Alb’ny 12:19 Chattanooga Division From For 2:30 pm Chattanooga 9:45 8:15 Cedartoown 5:25 SOUTHERN RAILWAY Atlanta Points—• 5:53*pm East—West 10:02 10:02 am Cfi-bus-Ft V’y 5:53 NOTICE First installment city taxes due and payable it office of manager. A . E. P. BRDIGES, City (I I had to do it,” he told Justice Hoyt. The justice paroled him in his mother’s care until October 23. Did You Know That Canadian v.neat crop is about 40 per cent ^ smaller „ than last year’s yield. Haiy crop in the United States last year had an estimated farm value of $1,391,000,000. A gallon of gasoline contains ehough energy to run a car 450 miles on a level. Planters in India depend on the j monsoon rains to prepare their otherwise dry soil, Use of fertilizer on cotton in this country has almost doubled in the last year. Mississippi and Texas lead in acreage of early commercial car rots. American motorists spent about $200,000,000 a year for automobile accessories. Georgia leads the states in growing sweet potatoes. Algerian wheat crop is but lit tle more t.’.an half its last year’s production. One New York hotel can serve 2,200 dinners at a time. Many snakes have rudimentary leg bones. In the old world there is no true species of cactus. England took 17,000 cars from the United State® and Canada in .the first half of 1923. Holland plans to increase im port duties on autos, motorcycles and junta. An island in Lake Superior is supposed to have about 1,800 moose on it. Fayal, Azores, and Emden, Ger many, are to be connected by cable. At the entrance to the zoological gardens a man approached a keep er. n Have you really got flying fish here?” “Yes. “HI have to see ’em. Which is the way to the bird-cages?” T MNMHMlMtil j*.'-. j ra mm IRVING By KING The bWMt Xitfffiv'bullnrd prosper bult Hlkffily of late. he li itrjShouse a«# and decorators fancy prices. A young mao Mowray, an interior decora had the bcfiqe dd'mJo If tke 5%>hnt mansion I’leas untie new. its attached estate, to practice artistic skill upon the spacious of the bouse. Now among other enterprises Amos had on hand was the of a husband for his Margaret. In this enter he was' assisted by his wife great took the ability. leftil In tMs fact, Mrs. in particu speculation. Margaret Atjst was their child. SJie marry not a fortune, but a fortune at to a yopng mal of a social higher by than Hit o*e hither occupied the Bullards. Margaret wus of an artistic turn mind and, was always hungiug watching the decorators at A harmless eccentricity, Mrs; Amos, and (lien, to he la art was, really, rather good form. The first that Mrs. suspected that something was wrong was when Tom Mow ray began to exhibit a great and grow ing profusion of daisies ih his dec orations. One of Mrs. Bullard’s friends calling, and being sliown the work In progress one day, re marked : “Wliat a lot of margue rites your decorator uses.” “What, the daisies?” asked Mrs. Amos, whose early education had been neglected. « “ Yes — marguerites, ' call them. Marguerites, Margaret," Mrs. Amos, who was a might; shrewd person; “and Margaret ways hanging about watching young man work 1” That night she said to her *« Amos, I suspect thing.” And she told him and “Nonsense,” said Amos. “Margie w-ith *, a mere ^® decorator. fa ll However p U buna , e hlm out o{ the bou8 * tomorrow. The impudent scmla wa K-’’ Let us call In Margie,” said Mrs. Amos, ‘’and find out right now how far this thing has gone.” Margaret was called in. She ac knowledged at once that she was In love with Tom Mowruy and was going to marry him, if he should ever ask her, and she rather thought he would. Margie was surprised. Heretofore hex will had been law to her rather and moth er. What did they mean by this undutiful conduct? But the rebellious parents car ried the day. Tom was discharged the next morning, and Margaret packed off to visit a great-aunt In Oswego. Amos was recounting to one of his business associates this little family Incident. “Tom Mowray!” cried Slater, the business associate aforesaid. “Why, are you sure he Is not a son of Old Tom Mowray? <Hd Tom had a son. who went in for art, and his name was the same as his father’s.” Amos gasped. Had he, After all,' made the great mistake of his life? Old Tom Mowray was that retired , capitalist, that possessor of great wealth, kaown all ever the world. To see Margie the wife of a son be ^ the rrownlng Tom Mowray of a successful would Indeed life for Amos. Amos was a man of action. Action, and prompt action accounted for his present wealth. | He took a West Shore train and went up the Hudson to where the feudal castle in which Old Tom Mowray had settled down towered above the woods and the swift running river. v Old Tom received him coldly, merely bowed and waited for his visitor to speak, glandlfig from time to time at the card which Amos had sent in. Amos was a little disconcerted; hut business was business. “I have come, sir,” said Amos, “to speak with you upon u matter which, I apprehend, con cerns both our families.” Tom motioned for ArnOS to take a chair. They both sat down. Amos told Old Tom of the young decorator, of his daughter, and of their hav ing fallen in love with each other. “Now, sir,” went on Amos, “I be lieve that this young man Is your son and namesake. I have been so informed. While undoubtedly your son and my daughter are very much in love with each other, I was loath to have the matter go any further without consulting you. Old Tom had watched Amos dosely as he told his tale. When It was ended the great capitalist said slowly: Mr, Bullard, you have been misinformed, I have ____ — only one son. He in much given to dabbling in art, it fa true. But his name is John, and he is at pres ent In Italy, Also he has been married two year*, The mingled emotions which surged and tum bled together in the breast of Amos caused his face to assume such a peculiar expression that Old Tom—for once in his life—really laughed. Then be said: “The young man you refer to is mv nephew. His fortune will be suffi cient, and he will make a Very suit able husband for your daughter. In fact, ttie young people fled to me nnd asked my advice. J have taken the liberty to havf them Joined in holy wedlock. Tom!” The door opened and 1n came young Tom nnd Margie—both .blushing, but happy. Amos gave them his bless ing—got busy with the long-dls lance, nnd had Mrs. Amos tele phone hers. The rebellious par ents hud surrendered, but as young Tom hud a couple of million com ing lo him, and was a nephew of Old Tom, they were glorious In (heir defeat. (Copyright, J JURY ACQUITS BRIDE WHO KILLED HUSBAND Spartanburg, S. C., Oct. Mrs. Agnes Johnson, bride of two months, was ac quitted by a jury here Wednesday of murdering her husband, Wesley Johnson, mill worker. 1 ' % --- ( CO! FOR RENT, my home E. College street. Call Mints. FOR RENT: Vab and roller mill (dour Apply to Mrs. Julia Drewry. FOR SALE: One mule farm tools. J, B. Wiles, 91 Solomon street, i ; FOR SALE: Crysantfci| 50 and 75c a dozen. Entmi 700 W. Poplar street. — ROOMS for rent. 205 E. 11 B street. Phone 340-W.— — THERE is a furnished rooi with adjoining bath, Also a gat age for rent reasonable at college street. Gall 774.—* m FOR SALE: Gas range in 3 condition. Cheap. Phone 1 WANTED, PECAN NUTS~ Highest market prices paid *1 •> ■ varieties. Send samples number of pounds. Jefferson Farms, Albany, Ga.— M WANTED: Position by man with 20 years experience, bank ing, commercial and automobile bookkeeping. P. O. Box 482.— - ........... - ........ . , ............................... — WANTED: Negro to teask cars. Apply to Watkins Garage, 128 W. Slaton Ave. POSITION WANTED: By perionced steno, A-l speller, Ed wena Smith, Zebulon, Ga.— LODGE DIRECTORY j WARREN LODGE * No. 20, I. 0. O, F., meet* evm Monday night at 7:30 at Warren Lodge Hall. Visiting brothers cor dially invited. R. A. Peel, Secre tary; W. T. Atkinson. N. G. MERIDIAN SUN LODGfe No. 26, F. & A. M. Regular •7 w ing Tuesday, Nov. 4th, Talk P Work in the degrees. P. M. E. H. Searcy, Jr., w. o. w. xSg Meets every Thursday, 7:80 Sovereigns, your camp needs presence. You will find your all times at Slaton-Powell < ing Co. Come. Visiting L. J. sovereigns Sauley, C. w come. C. C. Stanley, Clerk: PYTHAGORAS CHAPTER No. 10, R. A. M. Regular mm ing second and fourth welcome. Thursday Win 7:30 p. m. Visitors T. Atkinson, H. P.; Bill- Secretary. —**1 BEN BARROW LODGE No. 587, F. & A. M. Regular meetings first and third Thursday Visiting nights in each month. brothers invited. L. B. Guest, W. M.; Clifford Grubbs, Secretary, «■ Funeral Directory 3 HAISTEN BROS. FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS Griffin and Senoia, Ga. Office Phone 575. Rea. Phone 63 E. D. FLETCHER Funeral Director and Embalmer with Griffin Mercantile Co. Office Phone 474 Res. Phone 481 Frank S. Pittman Modern Funeral Home. 112 W. Taylor St. Office Phone 822. Res. Phone 68 W. C. MILES, M. D. General Practice and X-ray Office over Griffin Pharmacy. PHONE8: Residence. 511-J Office, 82 BANKRUPT NOTICE. In the District Court of the United States for the northern district __ 0 f Georgia, , n re A w W ’ Edward ®> bankrupt, ' No - 10416 * in bankruptcy, 1 A petition for discharge having been filed in conformity with law by above named v bankrupt onV _ ln . > and tb e court having ordered that the hearing up said petition had on November 22, 1924, at 10 o’clock, a. m., at the United States district crnirt room, in the city of Atlanra, Georgia, no tice is hereby given to all cred itors and other persons in inter est to appear at said time and place and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer of the bank rupt for discharge should not be granted. O. C. FULLER, Cleric. TRY NEWS WANT