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CHAPTER I.
It was early afternoon and down in
the hollow which shielded the scramb
ling little town of Dominion the air
was warm and lazy with the friendli
ness of May.
A long, sleek, yellow racer came
to a stop beside the gas tank and
wheezed into silence. A young man
rose from his almost flat position in
the low-slung driver's seat, stretched
himself and started upward toward
the glaring white of Mount Talu
chen, the highest peak of the conti
nental backbone, frowning in the
coldness of snows that never depart
ed.
"Gas?’’
“Yep.” The young man stretched
again. “Fill up the tank —and b< t
ter give me half a gallon of oil.”
Young he was, almost boyish; yet
counterbalancing this was a serious
ness of expression that almost ap
proached somberness. The eyes were
dark with something that approached
sorrow, the lips had a tightness
about them which gave evidence of
the pressure of suffering, all form
ing an expression which seemed to
come upon him unaware. But in a
flash it was gone, and boyish again,
he had turned, laughing, to survey
the gas tender.
“Barry Houston, huh? Must be a
new make. I— ’’
"Camouflage,” laughed the young
man again. “That’s my name.”
“Oh, is it?’ and the villager
chu kied with him. “Youve got th’
plate right where th’ name o’ a car
is plastered usually, and it plum
fooled me. Where you headed for?”
"Over Hazard.’’
“Ain’t daft, are you?’
“I hope not. Its May, isn’t it?’
“Loop up there.’ The old man
pointed to the splotches of white,
thousands of feet above. “It may be
spring down here, boy, but it’s Janu
ary up there. They’s only been two
cars over Hazard since November
and they come through last week.
Both of ’em was old stagers. Both
of ’em came through here lookin’
like icicles an’ swearing t’ beat four
o’ a kind.”
A thrill shot through Barry Hous
ton. His life had been that of the
smooth spaces, of the easy ascent of
well paved grades, of streets and
comforts and of luxuries. The very
raggedness of the thing before him
lured him and drew him on.
“They've got me,’’ came quietly.
“I’m—l’m going to make the try!’
The gears meshed. A stream of
smoke from the new oil spat out for
a second. Then roaring and chort
ling with the beginning of battle,
the machine swept away toward the
slight turn that indicated the scrag
gly end of the little town of Domin
ion and the beginning of the first
grade.
“A six per cent grade if it’s ar.
inch!’’ he murmured. “And this is
only the beginning.”
He settled more firmly in his seat
and gripped hard at the steering
wheel. Gradually, the severity of
the grade had increased to ten, to
twelve and in short pitches to even
eighteen and twenty per cent!
A stop, while the red, hissing water
splattered from the * radiator cock,
and the lifted hood gave the machine
a chance to cool before replenish
ment came from the murky, dis
colored stream of melted snow water.
Panting and light-headed from the
altitude, Barry leaned against the
Healing Cream }
Stops Catarrh I
Clogged Air Passages Open at |
Once—Nose and Throat Clear. *
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If your nostrils are clogged and your
head stuffed because of catarrh or a
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nostrils and let it penetrate through
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How good it feels. Your head is
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RAILROAD SCHEDULES
(Central Time.)
Arrival and Departure of Passenrer
Trains, Americus, Ga.
The following schedule figures
published as information and not
guaranteed:
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RY.
Arrive Leave
11:65 pm Columbus-Chgo 3:40 am
10:38 pm Albany-Montg’y 5:14 am
7:25 pm Macon-Atlanta 6:37 am
7:15 pm Columbus *7:30 am
1:55 pm Albany-Montg’y 2:14 pm
2:14 pm Macon-Atlanta 1:55 pm
1:25 pm Columbus *3:30 pm
HO:00 am Columbua 12:30 pm
6:37 am Albany 7:25 pm
5:14 am Macon-Atlanta 10:38 pm
3:40 am Albany-Jaxville 11:55 pm
2:58 am Albany-Jaxville 12:37 am
12:37 am Chgo, St. L. Atla 2:58 am
1:68 am Cinti and Atlanta 1:58 am
(•) Daily; (!) Sunday.
/ _ ____
SEABOARD AIR LINE
Arrive! Leave#
5:15 pm Riehland-Col! 10:00 am
8:10 pm C rdele-Savh. 12:26 pm
18:31 pm Richland-M<mtg’y 8:10 pm
machine for a moment; something
touched his face and melted there—
snow!
An hour—and three more after
that—a last final, clattering journey
and Barry leaped from the seat with
something akin to enthusiasm.
Through the swirling snow which
sifted past the glare of his head,
lights, he could discern a sign which
told him he had reached the summit,
that he now stood at the literal top
of the world.
From now on he could progress
with the knowledge that his engine
at least need labor no longer. But
the dangers! Barry knew that they
had only begun. The descent would
be as steep as the climb he had just
made.
Again he started, the brake bands
squeaking and protesting, the ma
chine sloughing dangerously as now
and again its sheer weight forced
it forward at dangerous speeds.
He grasped desperately for the
emergency brake. For fixe minutes
there had come the strong odor of
burning rubber; the foot-brake lin
ings were gone; everything depended
upon the emergency now! Anl al
most with the first strain—
Careening, the car seemed to leap
beneath him. The brakes were gone,
the emergency had not eved lasted
through the first hill. Barry Hous
ton was now a prisoner of speed—
cramped in the seat of a runaway
car, clutching tight at the wheel,
leaning, white, tense-faced out into
the snow, as he struggled to nego
tiate the turns, to hold the great
piece of runaway machinery to the
road and check its speed from time
to time in the snowbanks.
One chance was left, and Barry
took it—the “burring” of the gears
in lieu of a brake. If the burred
gears could only hold the car for a
more or so more—
But a sudden, snapping crackle
ended his hope. The gears had
meshed, and meshing, had broken.
Again a wild, careening thing, the
car was speeding down the steepest
of grades like a human- thing de
termined upon self-destruction.
A skidding curve, then a straight
away, while Barry clung to the wheel
with fingers that were white with
the tightnc:.- of their grip. A sec
ond turn, while a wheel hung over
the edge a third and —
The awful, suspended agony of
space. A cry. A crash and a dull,
twisting moment of deadened suffer
ing. After that—blackness.
♦ S 3 *
Slowly, wearily, Barry Houston
opened his eyes.
It was the room of a mountain
cabin, with its skiis and snowshoes.
His eyes centered upon the form of a
girl standing beside the little win-
I dow.
Fair-hajred she was, though Barry
did not notice it. Small of build and
slight, yet vibrant with the health
and vigor that is typical of those
who live in the open places. Dark
blue eyes that snapped as she looked
out the window,, watching with evi
dent eagerness the approach of some
one Barry could not see. Barry felt
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the instinctive urge to call to her, to
raise himself—
He winced with a sudden pain, a
sharp, yet aching throb of agony
which involutarily closed his eyes
and clenched tight his teeth until it
should pass. When he looked again,
she was gone, and the opening of a
door in.* the next room told him
where. He sought to move an arm
—only again to desi t in pain. He |
tried t<- other, an 1 it responded.
The civers w.*\ ''.wered, ai.j
'dairy’s eyes stared down upon a ,
bandaged, splinted left arm. Broken. I
Ee turned his head at the sound of |
A second turn, while a wheel hung
over the edge, a third and—
a voice—hers—calling from the door
way to someone without.
“He’s getting along fine, Ba’tiste.”
Barry liked the enthusiastic man
ner.
Oui! Ileem no ver’ bad. He be all
right tomorrow.”
“That’s good. It frightened me,
for him to be unconscious so long.”
“Lemnie see. I fin’ him six
o'clock. Now —eet is the noon. Six
hour. M’sieu Thayer he come in the
minute. He say he think he know
heem.”
The eyes of Barry Houston sud
denly lost their curiosity. Thayer?
Barry had taken particular pains to
keep from him the information that
he was anywhere except the East.
For it had been Fred Thayer who
had caused Barry to travel across
country in his yellow speedster.
Thayer who—
“He say the M’sieu Houston, who
own the mill, had written him he
was coming.”
In the other room, Barry Houston
blinked rapidly and frowned. He
had written Thayer nothing of the
sort.
The names of two persons flashed
acorss his mind, one to be dismissed
immediately, the other—
“l’ll fire Jenkins the minute I get
back!” came vindictively. I’ll—”
He choked his words.
A moment later—
“ How’s the patient? It was
Thayer’s voice, the same Thayer
that he once had looked upon with
all the enthusiasm and pride of boy
hood, but whom he now viewed with
suspicion and distrust.
“Guess I’ll go in and stay with him
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i until he wakes up. He’s my boss,
you know —since the old man died.”
I Within the bedroom, Barry Hous
i ton gritted his teeth. Then, with a
' sudden resolve, he rested his head
i again on the pillow and closed his
; eyes. Barry could 1 feel that the man
I was bending oyer him, studying him.
There came a murmur.
"Wonder what the damn fool came
out here about? Wonder if he’s
j wise?”
CHAPTER II
It was with an effort that Houston
jgave no indication that he had heard.
I Before there had beeh only suspicions
I and he had not hoped to have from
I the lips of the man himself a con
; session that conditions were not right
‘ at the lumber mill of which Barry
J Houston was the executive head. But
! now—
r.tayer had turned away and evi
dently sought a chair at the other
side of the room. Barry remained
perfectly still. When at last he did
’ook up to the narrow, sunken face,
it was with eyes which carried in
them no light of recognition. Thay
er put forth a gnarled hand.
“I’m Thayer, you know—Thayer,
your manager at the Empire Lake
mill.”
‘Have I a manager?”
The thin man drew back at this
and stood for a moment staring
down at Houston.
Barry turned his head wearily.
“I don’t know what you are talk
l ing about.”
I “You—don’t—say, you’re Barry
Houston, aren’t you?”
HAVE DARK HAIR
AND LOOK YOUNG
Nobody canWTell when you
Darken Gray, Faded Hair
with Sage Tea.
Grandmother kept her hair beauti
fully darkened, glossy and attractive
with a brew of Sage Tea and Sulphur.
Whenever her hair took on that dull,
faded or streaked appearance, this sim
ple mixture was applied with wonder
ful effect. By asking at any drug
store for “Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur
Compound," you will get a large bot
tle of this old-time recipe, improved
by the addition of other ingredients, all
ready to use, at very little cost. This
simple mixture can be depended upon
to restore natural color and beauty to
he hair.
A well-known downtown druggist
lays everybody uses Wyeth’s Sage and
Sulphur Compound now because it
darkens so naturally and evenly that
nobody can tell it has been applied—
t’s so easy to use, too. You simply
iampen a comb or soft brush and
Iraw it through your hair, talcing one
itrand at a time. By morning the
tray hair disappears; after another
ippllcation or two, it is restored to its
natural color and looks glossy, soft
ind beautiful, v This preparation is a
lelightful toilet requisite. It is not in
tended for the cure, mitigation or pre
vention of disease.
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- $30.00
ft $32.00 - $35.00
•' '1 i' f Spring stock reveals the
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-M|| I i remar kable foundation of fabric
I reliability, tailoring superiority and ex -
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B-Mr get more fr° m y° ur Clothes here than
T° u ordinarily would expect.
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ANSLEY’S $15.00 $17.00 $20.00
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“I? Am I?”
“Well, then, who are you?”
‘I don’t know myself.”
Thayer turned and walked to the
door,
Twenty Million
Families
enjoyed delicious Karo last year
—on pancakes, biscuits and served
as a spread for children. Also
for cooking, baking and candy
making.
Remember Karo home-made
candy is best for children —and
here is a simple recipe to follow:
Peanut Brittle ’S’tr-a
1 cup Karo, Blue Label jL
1 cup Brown Sugar
2 teaspoons Mazola EMyfrir- 1 --
2 tablespoons Water IVh V'i&w
Lxwp Shelled Peanuts
Boil sugar, Karo and water until k fe r Sil*'
crisp when dropped in cold water. Just JT
'before taking from fire add Maxota and q ; J W
nuts. Pour into tin oiled with Masola. IRJy 1
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Over Turpin’s Garage—East Lamar St.
' “Ba’tiste.”
"Ah, oui!”
able to remember who he is.”
I “Mr. Houston doesn’t seem to be
(Continued in Our Next Ictue)
MONDAY. APRIL 24. 1922. .
THESTANUARD
Over Ten Thousand Yards Cotton
Dress Fabrics at 25c, 35c, 39c
48c and 50c Yard
I Just when most women are buying
Cotton Fabrics for summer ap
parel, not only for themselves
but for all the family, comes this
notable “Special” in all the most
wanted weaves; all perfect goods
White Dimities, Checked Voiles,
Light and Dark Floral Voiles,
Imported Tissue, Belfast Linens,,
Imported Organdies, etc.
Imported Dress
Linen at 98c Yard
Lowest price-since before the war
on Irish Linen of this quality. A
smooth, well finished texture,
sturdy enough for suits, as well
as dresses. New shades, a yard
wide, at 98c
Such Cretonnes Are
Wonderful at 25c Yard.
2,000 Yards of Cretonnes in a wide , ■
range of patterns and every yard
was made to sell at double our
price. Patterns include large arid
small floral designs, dark and
light colorings. Qualities are
suitable foT cushions, draperies
and furniture coverings; yard
wide, at Yard ... 25c
Finest Canton Crape Ir.
Years at $3.50
Rich, heavy, pebble back Canton
Crepe, as beautiful and durable
a silk as a woman could buy for
fine dresses. We have it in per
fect black and a dark blue; 40
inches wide, Yard . $3.50
A Thousand Yards of
Good Gingham at 9c Yard
For Monday and Tuesday we have
one thousand yards of good
grade Gingham to sell at 9c yard;
all fast colors and full width;
none will be sold to merchants;
it will make good, serviceable
dresses for summer wear. Mon
day and Tuesday, Yard 9c
Genuine Duplex Window Shades
7 Feet Long, SI.OO
Genuine Duplex Window Shades,
7 feet long, mounted on genuine
Hartshorn rollers; guaranteed
fur five years. Sold only on Mon
day and Tuesday for this
price SI.OO
The Best Sea Island Sheeting
10 Yards for 98c
For a special leader Monday and
Tuesday we will sell every cus
tomer 10 yards of our famous
Walker Sea Island; full 36 inches
wide, for 98c
5 Yards of the Best
Standard Bleaching for 69c
For Monday and Tuesday; only 5
yards of the best Standard Yard
Wide Bleaching; free from dress
ing, and as good as you see in
other stores at 25c yard, Monday
and Tuesday, 5 yards for ....-—69c
Standard Dry Goods Co.
Forsyth St. Next Bank of Commerce
AMERICUS, GA.