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plum color and pale green, came
(noiselessly to the porch to announce
(luncheon. Tommy burst In, sturdy
brown Tommy, frantic with excite
ment at seeing his adored uncle and
•rmt again. He was with difficulty
persuaded to rush off and transfer
some of the dirt on his hands to
« towel, and returned with the
center lock of his bushy hair damp
ened and combed amid a tousled
mass that had not been touched.
Yet even In Tommy .Toe saw the
change that a great shadow brings
to even the children of a household.
He was all tenderness and devotion
with his father, and he had $ most
unchlldisli fashion of entering into
his mother’s mood. When the grass
under the oaks was barred with
straight lines of shadow from the
sinking sun, and a lingering twilight
fell flat and soft over the ocean,
Tommy, like the others, fell silent,
his dark head resting against Ills
father’s arm, a big book opened on
his kfiees. And when Ellen pres
ently called him. there was none of
the usual childish protest. He went
In, and they heard Ellen’s fingers
on the piano, and then the tones of
his violin.
“He plays wonderfully!” Lizzie
said, when the simple air died
away.
-1 He plays well for such a child,
Gibbs conceded, “And he loves It,
which is half the battle. I hope
Ellen will make a musician of I
him!”
Lizzie winced away from the
qnlet Intimation that Ellen alone
fboy”ealde 52 ; C s“ sroning “
CHAPTER XVIII
T WO or three days later Gibbs
proposed a beach luncheon. El
len, brightly Indifferent when he
|flrst suggested It, was fired with
'sudden enthusiasm and delight
when It transpired that he himself
{planned “Gibbs to go, too.
1 It won’t tire you 1”
“Tire me! Half a mile straight
downrhill 1"
“Oh, that’s splendid! And it’s
’Such a glorious rooming! And I’ve
‘chops—and I think he has a cake — 99
{Ellen where flashed she and off Lizzie to the kitchen,
;«otly in were pres
the full glory of packing.
iLlzzla heard her tell Adachi to
(half-past {bring the car down to the beach at
radiant three, but her face was
all the while.
“Oh, he is better!” she said over
.and over again, as she buttered
'bread and trimmed oiled paper.
They set off in a straggling line;
Tommy leaping ahead with his dog,
aad clrcl ]ng them as senselessly;
® lbbs an(i - Toe following, the latter
with his tiny daughter held safely
in his arms.
After them cam e Ellen with a
plaid and . an umbrella, Lizzie with
the r^ loaded e H™, 0 l basket. bC : ttles ’ and Pon S with
“I have never seen a man as In
fatnated with a tiny scrap of hu
____ Joe ls
Bllra wIth the baby Ion 1”
omtled. “Does It make y
Jealous, Lizzie?”
"° h ’ Lizxle fi aid, hor.
think p ? Aed - . he 1 did—what d!dn t realize—I don’t
going the baby was
to mean!” ghe added pres
ently. “The night she was bora
ril never forget his face! I had
know ’ aU the time,
? nd * bad thought sometimes that
,1 mlghtnt live, and that that was
the way it was all to end! And
came that fearful pain and—
bewilderment—”
I know l” Ellen nodded,
wben I suddenly came out
of * It all, and found there
ing but was noth
wrong, a sweet little girl
asleep In a crib, why, It all seemed
to clear Itself!" Lizzie explained.
I said to myself, Ellen. tHt t he
» aat was gone, I was Joe’s wife,
and Ellen’s mother, and the hap
piest woman In the world 1 If God
forgives us, sometimes I think It’s
a sin not to forgive ourselves. So
! t. e ver 1 flnd myself blue, I Just
think , that.” ^
“And the consequence Is, that
you don’t find yourself blue!” El
len said gayly.
Oh,Im to happy! Joe—” Lizzie
said. She gave Ellen a bride’s half
ahamed, half-mischievous smile—
“Joe Is an, angel! announced Liz
zie.
Then they were at the beach, and
the center of a Joyous activity
Gibbs was settled, with the plaid,
on a warm enrve of rockR, where
he pulled his cap over his eyes and
watched them all pltcldly. Lizzie
found another natural chair, where
4ne sank down with her baby, gaz
ing with dreamy content at the
guttering water, steeped in the
peace that the tugging, busy little
lips at her breast seemed to en
hance rather than interrupt. Then
little Ellen was settled oa the pil
low* under the umbrella, and Llz
«Ie gayly Joined the workera. A
hundred times, on this memorable
happy day, Ellen found herself
watching Lizzie’s little white fig
ure, her happy, youthful face. Llz
«ie was Just twenty; what might
have been her destiny at twenty?
Joe was trimming bamboo sticks
to serve as broilers. Enameled
caps were set out upon a smooth
rock. The deltclous smoke of a
driftwood fire began to rise In the
ttUI air. The U4& was falling, hut
Gibbs, dozing on Tne rocks, and a
sorrowful look filled them. I wish
I hadn’t hated her!" she said soft
ly
"You haven't much to regret!”
Joe assured her, rolling over for a
nap. They did not speak again un
til the car grated on the sandy
road a few feet above them.
*••*••*
They all saw that the day had
tired Gibbs. He was a little stiff
as Joe helped him to the car, and
there was an anxious look la Ellen’s
eyes until she had him established
In the spacious, pleasant order of
the porch again, and was personal
ly superintending his slow drink
ing of a glass of milk.
Her keen eyes saw the relief with
Which he lowered his long body
Into the softness and smoothness of
the couch, and a terror of self-re
proach smote her.
But he seemed to recover rapid
ly. Presently he was smiling and
listening again in his usual way,
and Ellen went off with Lizzie, to
Share the delight of preparing the
baby for bed, and to talk over little
Ellen's last meal for the day.
Tommy, in a glorious splashing
and spattering, was profusely wa
tering the garden, and Joe came
over to the couch and sat down by
Gibbs’ side.
"I’m afraid our descending on
you this way has been a good deal
of a tax,” Joe said rfyretfully.
Gibbs had been lying with closed
eyes, cad the sunken hollows about
them filled Joe with concern. But
now he opened them and ’smiled,
and stretched out a hand to clasp
Joe's fingers.
“Always welcome, at any time,
dear boy,” he said kindly. ‘‘But
more than ordinarily welcome now.
I had thought of sending for you—
but one puts things off—and there’s
always the danger of alarming El
len—”
Never had Joe felt the other
man’s extraordinary charm as he
felt it now, when Gibbs Josselyn, at
the end of a perfect September day,
confided to his care the things he
loved best In life.
It seemed to Joe that all the
world listened to the rich echo
of Gibbs’ old voice, for he was
speaking softly, and making no ef
fort to be heard. Joe had to bend
near to catch some of the words.
You see, old man, she’s going to
need you soon. And that Is why I
am glad you are really Interested
•in establishing yourselT tu Tms An
tonios. She’ll go away, for awjiile,
but she loves this place—and 1 ou
and Lizzie and a troop of children
are here—
Tommy was directing a strong
stream from his hose straight into
the low, spreading branches of nn
oak, the water surged and dripped
among the stiff, thick leaves. From
the soaking garden came a wave of
scent. Joe, thinking of this talk
afterward, always heard through It
the subdued rush and tumble of the
sea, and saw lines of sunset light
streaming through oaks and pepper
trees across a California garden.
“Yon and Lizzie will look out for
her,” Gibbs added, after a silence.
“And the baby will do more than
any one! And I think of her, with
books, and her garden, and Tommy,
and Tommy’s music— He’s an odd
child, but she understands him, and
his mistakes won’t be the ordinary
mistakes—”
He smiled at Joe, and somehow
J«e smiled back, although the
younger man felt tears hot behind
his eyes.
“Won’t be my mistakes,” Gibbs
said musingly. “It was all too easy
for me. It was always plain sail
ing, and that’s not—not exactly dis
ciplinary’, you know. I never cared
much about the other fellow’s trou
bles—Ellen’s the one for that—and
now, lying, here, Joe, for the past
few months, It’s come to me as a
sort of revelation that even in this
I’m having it easy. If I’ve never
had any particular pity for the fel
lows who haven’t enough money, or
had sick wives, or had to sit on an
office stool eight hours a day—I cer
tainly can't expect the world to
stand still with sympathy because
one man happens to be going out a
little ahead of time!”
Joe could find nothing to say, and
after a moment Gibbs spoke again,
more briskly:---------------------------
“Well! There was another thing
I wanted to say to you, and I’ll say
It, and then we needn’t take this
up again. George Lathrop was here
last summer, and we went Into this
a little. He seemed to feel that we
might be making too much of this,
and he sent a specialist down from
San Francisco—Ellen never knew
why he came; be happened to have
been In Williams with me, and his
wife came, and all that. But that’s
not the point: the thing Is that I
know how George feels about El
len; he’s always adored her. I
mean that he makes a sort of a lit
tle patron saint of her. Every other
woman in his life is Judged by El
len. Now, some day—She’li be
TMKStyr TommyTl need a man’s
hand, George will be his guardian,
anyway—some day, George will tell
her—he can’t help It—what she Is
to him! And that's where I want
you to use your own Judgment, Joe.
I can’t tell her this, of course. And
also there's a chance that she may
honestly not want to marry any
onel But If she lets any thought
of me—
You might tell her then, he
added. In a low tone, “that the
purest and best and sweetest thing
In my life was what she gave me—
that no man ever owed a woman
the debt I owe her 1”
The voice stopped., It was twi
light now; there was no more sun
light under the oaks, and Tommy
and his hose were gone.
’’Well!’’ Gibbs said briefly.
“That’s all.”
In the long sllenee Lizzie slipped
out and buried the glimmer of her
white gown In a wide porch chair.
“If this isn’t Heaven! she
breathed, contentedly'. A moment
later Tommy’s little twilight con
cert began. They could see a pool
of warm red light about the piano,
In the big sitting room, and Ellen’s
bent dark head and the little dark
head over her shoulder.
“There will be a splendid moon
tonight,” Gibbs told them.
• •*••••
He and Ellen watched It together,
hours later, when Tommy was long
In bed, and when Lizzie and Joe
had stumbled away, as happily tired
and Jnst aa sleepy as Tommy, the
child, was.
,
Occntmmiu . great wars ciuuva
bubbling through the rock*, and
caused a Joyous panic. Tommy
slipped and scrambled about, gath
ering starfish, sea-urchins, and
periwinkles to domicile In a pool.
The tireless, sweet green water
rose and fell; each wave formed
an emerald arch of Itself before It
broke with a long, splitting crash,
to rush In, level and Incredibly,
swift, flinging upward against im
peding rocks, and curving over the
white sand. Gibbs watched it, a
delicious lull of body and soul. So
much of it—such splendidly wasted
beauty and energy, year after year.
How pitiful was even the fullest,
even the longest human life, against
this glorious miracle that went on
year after year throughout the cen
turies, that had been as old as the
world when Padre Junlpera Serra
walked along these shores.
Joe clattered near him on the
rocks. Ha tilted the cap over his
eyes a trifle and glanced at the ab
sorbed group by the fire.
“Manage to speak to me alone a
minute, sometime, will you, Joe?”
Gibbs said.
Joe, not moving his eyes from the
defiant crab that had wedged his
little body tightly In a crevice of
rock, cleared his throat.
“Sure!” he answered gruffly.
***••*•
Ellen also had her word alone
with Joe. It was after luncheon,
when Lizzie" had curled up like a
child on a patch of warm sand, and
fallen asleep, and Gibbs was ap
parently dozing. Tommy was wad
*»» »»...
dlcatlng LlzzIe . Joe grinned with
pride.
“She’s awful ente, Lizzie, »» he
agreed. She’s smart, too; she’s
as good a cook ns AUnt Elsie ever
was—Auntie says so herself!”
“How does the old house seem
without Grandpa?” Ellen asked.
For the old captain had recently
started on a last cruise, under
sealed orders.
“About the same. Old Mrs. Cook
lives there now, she and Aunt Elsie
are pretty well Informed on village
topics,” Joe answered with a laugh.
“You knew Harriet and George
were here last summer, Joe?” El
len ventured. Do you ever see
Harriet now?”
“No,” he answered, Indifferently.
“She’s a queer sort of glriT What’s
she doing—collecting plates?”
“She has a remarkable china col
lection,” Ellen admitted, laughing
at his tone.
■ China collection! What’s that
for a woman to do 1” Joe stretched
comfortably In the sun. “Oh, well,”
he said leniently, “that’s all right.
If she likes It. Harriet’s nice
enough, but she’s spoiled by too
much money.”
“She’s entirely different from
Lizzie," Joe added seriously; “she
didn’t have a sensible upbringing,
to begin with.”
“Yet you liked her very much
once, Joe,” Ellen suggested, from
the depth of deep amusement and
satisfaction.
“Oh, yes—kid love 1 I never
renfly loved any one but Lizzie,”
said Joe. Ellen saw that he really
believed It, and with a great sigh
of thankfulness she laid one of
life’s ghosts to rest forever. “I’d
like to go down to Los Antonios
some day,” Joe mused, “and see
what sort of opening there might
he—well, for Instance, In starting
n paper there. I haven’t said any
thing to Lizzie, but I talked to
Gibbs about It. I’d like to live
here, and have a little bungalow,
and a bunch of kids, and I think
Llzzie’d go crazy 1 I’m seriously
thlaking about It. I could have a
little jitney and go back and
forth—”
"You could have a slice of Ar
cady," Ellen promised eagerly;
"we’ve twenty acres here, and there
are dozens of house-sites 1” _____
“We’ll see.” Joe yawned again,
blinking at the sun. “By the way,
Ellen,” he added, more animatedly.
“You knew that Lillian had remar
ried?"
“Just that, through George. Have
you heard anything more? It was
Lindsay Pepper, of course?”
“It was Lindsay Pepper, But
the strange tiling, young George
Lathrop told me, was that she
didn’t really want to do it. She
and the old lady don’t hit It off at
all well, and all his money comes
from his mother. Besides that, Lil
lian would rather have been a rich
widow, you know—at all events,
she did deliberately try to get out
of It.”
“But, Joe, I don't Bee why she
couldn’t!”
"Oh, he had a tremendous hold on
her. You see his name was mixed
up with hers In the whole business.
If she didn’t care for him, she never
should have been away from home
the night of the accident 1 I sup
pose he simply forced her hand.
Funny thing,” Joe added, reminis
cently. “When I first met her she
had all the cards: beauty, youth, a
rich man’s wife. Now she’s married
to a man four years younger than
herself, who Isn’t exactly n tee
totaler, yon know, and whom she
supports—well, that’s coming to
her.”
"They run about a good deal, and
have a speed car, and all that, but
it Isn't exactly enviable, somehow."
"Pqpj- LlUlaa!” Ellen said.
Her urea went to
GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
Then Ellen sat In her favorite
seat, a low hassock beside his
couch , so that her arms lightly
rested against him, and their
fingers were laced. They had no
light, and could look across the low,
broad rail of the porch, straight in
to the sleeping garden, and down
the sloping sides of the little can
yon to the sea.
Silver moonlight poured In a mys
terious flood over the rounded tops
of the oak trees, and lay like an
enchantment on the dewy roses and
wallflowers. The surface of the
horizon sea heave^. seemed softly. floating Its In far-flung ethereal
light.
“Et In Arcadia ego,” Ellen said.
“We’ve had more than one Ar
cady, Ellen,” her husband answered.
«« And this has seemed to me not
less perfect, somehow, because It Is
not to last!”
He heard the quick rise of her
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He Heard the Quick Rise of Her
Breast, and Felt a Faint Tlght
ening of Her Fingers.
breast, and felt a faint tightening
of her fingers.
It has seemed right, somehow, to
spend this year with you and Tom
my, here—hasn’t It been a perfect
year 1”
“I won’t allow you to talk so,
6 Said ’ determln0dly ’ but
unsteadlly unsteadily.
“Just this once!” he answered,
and she could tell hy his tone that
he was smiling. His wonderful
smile—the smile he had given little
snubbed Ellen Latimer, when he
drove her to New York In his car!
«x Not that. V°°.e For If y8 you ’ don </ b ?.\ t know 8a d -
what you are to me. Ellen what
Ive felt as you poured all your
goodness and sweetness and faith
With a sudden movement she laid
her face against his hand, tnd he
feI .L,^u at h cr eyeawere wat -
Gibbs, please—1 ,
“Well, I won’t. But there’s one
thing— I When Tommy’s older, tell
him the truth. There’s a time In a
boy’s life when It makes a lasting
impression on him to realize that
you—you can’t play with fire. You
pay, one way or another. Fm pay
Ing this way. There’s too much
else for a man to do, Ellen—too
many things need changing for any
sane man. or any woman to go right
on Into the thirties with the ego
tlsm of the teens. And that brings
me to the other thing. Some day,
if you feel like It, I wish you’d do
something for some kid who has
gotten himself In wrong with the
authorities—I don’t know exactly
how—I wonder, now lying here,
how I could ever have lived In a
big city, and not realized that there
are fellows who haven’t anything
like my natural advantages, and
who get up against misunderstand
ings and misinterpretations—”
“I thought,” Ellen said steadily,
“that when you are better, If we
ever go back, I’d go to Mary Cut
ter, because she Is interested In all
that sort of thing, and Just follow
the cases in some court. One
couldn’t do much, of course. But
there would always be something, a
visit to a mother, or perhaps a word
here or there—”
“What a little saint you are, El
len! Just a little Inspired' saint,
that’s all 1” Gibbs exclaimed. “That’s
Just what I mean. The law is all
right, of course. It must be what
It Is. But I tell you. Ellen, that It’s
enough to drive the decency and the
good out of any man. The coldness,
the carelessness, the smells, the
dirt—”
“You must forget all about It,”
she said. “You never did anything
to deserve a prison experience—it
was all a horrible mistake!”
"It was a mTsFake frOfir fl hu
man standpoint,” Glbtnr conceded
thoughtfully, "but I don’t know
about my record In a higher tri
bunal. I wonder how many of the
fellows serving life terms now ever
had an angel for a mother, and a
saint for a wife, clothes and friends
and warm food from the hour they
were born, always money to buy
prestige and service and prefer
ence— 1 Ellen, if I had my life to
live over again, do you know what
I think It would be? According to
the principle that until every man
had It, I didn’t want It, and until
every other child had It, I didn't
want my son to have It—whatever
It was, travel, clothes, education,
toys, everything!”
“I suppose that’s lorlng your
neighbor as yourself,” added Ellen’s
thoughtful voice.
“Well, you go to old George, and
lie and Mary Cutter will help you
flnd the cases you're after—” Gibbs
was beginning again. But she laid
her hand lightly over bis Ups.
“Don't talk that way—not as
If—!”
Her cheek was laid against his
hand again. He put his free hand
softly on her head. And even
through her thick, dark hair Ellen
felt the chill of his fingers.
[THE END]
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j Our Daily Stoty |
Forgot the Hiding
Place
By AUGUSTUS* SHERWIN
I had been the employee of a pri
vate detective agency for ten yean
when Dan Haley was released from
the penitentiary. I had been ad
vised of the day when he was to
be released.
The warden fixed a serious look
upon me. “See here, Blake,” he
said, “you have been a good man
in your line, and I wish I could give
you Haley. some suggestions regarding
Of course you, who made
his famous capture ten years since,
have never forgiven him for hiding
the booty and keeping it hid.”
“At least I know it Is hidden,” I
declared with positiveness. “I am
satisfied that when closely cor
nered, he disposed of his plunder
In some safe secret place.”
“That all sounds reasonable,”
nodded the warden. “The only thing
is, that while Haley has been not
only our best behaved convict and
close-mouthed as a clam during the
past year, he has changed.”
"How changed?” I asked.
"He has become queer. He shows
lapse of memory. It would be a
strange retribution, would It not,”
added tire tffflclal insinuatingly, “if
after all his cunning planning Haley
had forgotten where he concealed
that plunder--hey?”
“Zounds!” 1 could not refrain
from remarking—“that would up
set all my fr>nd calculations In
deed.”
They were feud, those same, for
a very superior reason, I was In
love. More triac that, I was In love
with the daughter of John Marsh,
and John Marsh was the then
wealthy mevehfrnt from whom
Haley had stolen a cool hundred
thousand dollars.
At the time of the deed the law
yer of Mr. MarsH paid me a five
hundred dollar reward for enptur
Ing the culprit At the same time
he advised rap that In case I re
covered the booty or any part of It,
twenty-five per cent of the same
*“***• At lh ® e “ d °* *
tb ' ,!? ave HP huntln year * tor *
At th G !. tb f n E. th yeap 1
g0 ,.„ JL ht out «_ l,,^f a a rs h l ? e v L at L no
’
longer „ a capitalist. - ont , T I found him 1
,n a VGry bumble way ; “«P
daughter/ Constance, 88 a music *
teacher *
u™***™*! 1? Wll r !1 , . f . ^ JSt , X
me balf of what
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.... th s „ P r0R P ec „ t of , a
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impelled me to perfect my plaw
wlth ronewed diligence £ and fervor e
It wae because j ad geen and now
worshiped Constance Marsh. I t
thInk x flr8t won her klndly attcn
n °n by my steadfastness of pur
pose In pursuing an apparently
hopeless case to the end
I had not seen Dan Haley since
he entered the penitentiary. I was
shocked at tys %ged appearance,
He seemed lost In his new environ
ment The free air, the bright sun
shine and varied crowds did not
Inspire him, they rather confused,
His first move with the money
the prison authorities had given
him was to board a train for the
town where he had formerly lived,
He was a widower. Haley proceed
ed to the site of the house where he
once lived. It was easy to shadow
him.
The house he expected to find
had been burned down for two
years. A new one was now In
course of construction. Finally, af
ter an hour, he turned from the
place.
My heart sank within me—Dan
Haley had forgotten!
I knew it surer than ever the
next day, when he left the little
lodging house he had pot up at,
with myself for a vigilant neighbor
(n the next room. He started out
to seek work. I was near to him
when he approached a carpenter
building a fence. The latter held
a board across a saw horse and
was Jnst turning It to mark where
It should be sawed with the pencil
in his hand, when I noticed a sud
den glow In Haley’s eyes. He ut
tered what was almost a scream.
He started from the spot on a dead
run.
Straight to the railroad depot
Haley proceeded, thence by train
to the prison town and then to the
very doors of the penitentiary he
had left less than twenty-four
hours previously.
I atn a detective and therefore
have to think. I mentally connect
ed the carpenter and the prison,
and when I heard Haley humbly
solicit the warden to :Ulow him to
revisit his former cell i nodded to
the latter and followed.
X)nce inside the celT HaTey
down and looked at the under sur
face of the bench riveted to the
wall. He transcribed some words
written there.
, 1 (hr Baily Story )
- Forgot the Hidmg
. - ._ Place V «
I By had Auoosms been the mploy egrwm o! I MI
‘vate detoctlvo agency for ten years
when Dan Haley was reloaded from
the penitentiary. I lud been at
vlud or the day when he was to
be released.
Tho warden fixed a outnu- look
upon mo. “See hero. Bloke.“ ho
sold. “you haN'bOQB-l nod an
In your flue, and l wish-1 marguro
you Haley: some or mandala no. I
.111! course; you. whom“!
famous capture ten you! m
have new: tom him for mm
the booty dud looping It hid.”
“At low I known l! MM” ‘ 1
declared 'wlth mutual. “I m
satisfied that when closely eon
nerod. he almond at his plunder
in some Into secret plan.” "
“that all "sound- with."
nodded the warden. “The onlytldug
to. that tune Haley has has not
only clone-mouthed our boat behaved tonne: N
past he has u a alumna.” m:.aum tho
year. chanted?”
‘ “How I new.
.
“Ho ho become quoer. Ho than
lnpoe of memory It: would be t
ntmngo retl‘lbutlon. would lt not.”
added tho ddlclal lullnuatlngly. “l!
otter all hln cunulus planning Haley
(that had forgotten when he concealed
“Zonnds!” plundeh-hoy?”
1 could not refrain
from remarking—“that would up
set all my thud calculation: lu
deed.”
They were mod. those same. for
a very supellol‘ reason. I was in
lwlth Ilow. the More daught‘er than that. of I John was Marsh. in love
{wealthy and John Marsh won the then
mwchfint from whom
Haley had stolen a cool hundred
thousand dollars.
At the time Of the deed the law
yer of Mr. Marsh paid me a five
hundred dollar reward for captur
lng the culprlt. At the same tlmo
he advised me that In case I re
covered the booty or any part of It.
twenty-five per cent of the same
I traced those tell-tale words
later. They were: “Under the
woodshed floor.” Then I was on his
trail again.
I took him In charge as he re
turned to his native town. Then 1
visited the shed. It was to recover
the long secreted plunder.
I refused any reward from the
delighted Mr. Marsh, the love of
Constance outweighed all sordid
considerations, Haley did not real
ize any particular disappointment,
for he forgot his recent discovery
In a day or two. Mr. Marsh found
him work and the ex-convict devel
oped into quite a respectable ar
tlsan.
(©. 1*24, Wrutfrn N«wopap«r Union.,
A WAY OUT.
Father: A wedding like you
want, my dear, will cost more
than I can afford.
Daughter: What is to be done?
Father: You will have to be
married without my consent.
"The monkeys seem cheerful.”
“Yes. Sometimes I suspect that
they get some good laughs out
of us people. »»
Clerk superior court, Spald
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COLDS, GRIPPE, DENGim.
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PETITION FOR CHARTER
STATE OF GEORGIA,
Spalding County.
To the superior court of said
county:
The petition of Jas. M. Brawn
er, Mrs. James M. Browner, W.
F. Ingram, Mra. W. F. Ingram,
Chas. If. Murray and Mrs. Chas.
H. Murray, all residents of said
state and county, respectfully
shows:
1. That petitioners desire for
themselves, their associates and
successors, to be incorporated and
made a body politic, under the
name and style of
HIGHLAND MILLS
for the period of twenty years,
with the privilege of renewal gt
the expiration of that time.
2. The principal office of said
company shall be in Spalding
county, Georgia, but petitioners
desire the right to establish
branch offices within this state
or elsewhere.
3. The object of said corpora
tion is pecuniary gain to itself
and shareholders.
4. The business te be carried on
by said corporation is to manu
facture, spin, weave, „ bleach, dye
and finish cotton and cotton
goods; to buy and sell cotton and
cotton goods; and to own and
operate a cotton mill for the man
ufacture and sale of all manner
of cotton products.
5. The capital stock of said cor
poration shall be five hundred
thousand ($600,000) dollars, with
the privilege of insreasing the
same to the sum of one million,
five hundred thousand ($1,500,
000) doMars by a majority vote
of the stockholders. Said capital
stock shall be divided into shares
of the par value of one hundred
($100.00) dollars each.
6. Petitioners desire the right
to issue common and preferred
stock in such proportions as the
shareholders may determine. The
terms and limitations of said pre
ferred stock, and the rights and
privileges of such preferred stock
over the common stock shall be
such as fixed in the by-laws or
the resolution authorizing the is
suance of such preferred stock,
and said corporation may, if it
sees fit, make classes of such
preferred stock, and retire the
same to any extent, provided the
total capital stock shall never be
less than the minimum herein
prescribed.
7. Petitioners desire the right
to have the subscriptions to said
capital stock paid in money ar
property to be taken at a fair val
uation.
8. Petitioners desire, the right
to sue and be sued; to plead and
be impleaded; to have and use a
common seal; to make all neces
sary by-laws and regulations, and
to do all other things' that may
be necessary for the* successful
carrying on of said business, in
cluding the right to buy, hold,
encumber and sell real estate and
personal property suitable to the
purposes of the corporation; to
execute notes and bonds as evi
dence of indebtedness incurred, or
which may be incurred in the con
duct of the affairs of the corpor
ation, aijd to secure the same by
mortgages, security deeds, trust
deeds, or other forms of liens.
Wherefore, petitioners pray to
be incorporated under the name
and style aforesaid, with all the
fTighta, powers, privileges and im
nanities herein set forth, and
such as are incident .to like incor
porations under the laws of the
state of Georgia.
Cleveland & Goodrich, >
Petitioners' Attorneys.
GEORGIA, Spalding county.
I, F. P. Lindsey, clerk of the
superior court of Spalding ceun
ty, Georgia, do hereby certify
that the above and foregoing is
a true and correct copy of the
application for charter of High
land Mills as it appears on file in
this office.
Given untter my tend rod seal
of office this 11th day af Decem
ber, 1924.
F. P.
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age.—(adv.)
11 WATER TO
HaP WASH OUT
If Your Back Hurts or Bladder
Bothers You, Begin
Taking Salts.
When your kidneys hurt and
your back feels sore don’t get
scared and proceed to load your
stomach with a lot of drugs that
excite the kidneys and irritate the
entire urinary tract. Keep your
kidneys clean like you keep your
bowels clean, by flushing them
with a mild, harmless salts which
helps to remove the body’s uri
nous waste and stimulates them
to their normal activity. The
function of the kidneys is to fil
ter the blood. In 24 hours they
strain from it 600 grains of acid
and waste, so we can readily un
derstand the vital importance
of keepin the kidneys active.
Drink lots of good water—you
can’t drink too much; also get
from any pharmacist about four,
ounces of Jad Salts; take a ta
blespoonful in a glass of water
before breakfast each morning
for a few days end your kidneyB
may then act fine. This famous
salts is made from the acid of
grapes and lemon juice, combined
with lithia, and has been used for
years to help clean and stimu
late clogged kidneys; also to neu
tralize the acids in the system so
they are no longer a source of
irritation, thus often relieving
bladder weakness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive; can
not injure; makes a delightful
effervescent lithia water drink,
which everyone should take now
and then to help keep their kid
neys clean and active. Try this;
also keep up the water drinking
and no doubt that you will won
der what became of your kidney
trouble and backache, By all
means have your physician ex
amine your kidneys at least twice
a year. —(adv.)
PROCLAMATION.
Griffin, Ga., Dec. 16, 1924.
By virtue of authority invested
in me by law, I hereby designate
the territory bounded as follows,
to-wit: Chapel street on north,
fourth street on the east, Poplar
street on the south and Eleventh
street on the west, within which
it shall be unlawful to shoot fire
works or any explosives or to
send up toy balloons or any rock
ets whatsoever. I further direct
all officers of the city of Grif
fin to strictly enforce the above
order, beginning with this pub
lication and extending through
Christmas holidays and immedi
ately arrest any and all persons
violating the same.
Witness my official signature
this 16th day of December, 1924.
J. a TYUS.
Chairman ef Board of Com
missioners, City of Grif
fin. psa