Newspaper Page Text
icd from Pas:e Six. ) !
paddle it ... , sent the canoe I
well out >rous thrust,
Two ! it to the middle |
the immediately the
of t tec little craft in jin
current and eped it smoothly
urg eTU 1 irrovv and eiglior
through moment more :and the
aiouth c ■fi norns was yawning for
them clean balance of an ex
*'a tl;
up. oemai*, Alan rose to IPs
peri instantaneous reconnois
feet ;• r.vard and astern. He
san< first, and groaned in his
loot Hi sharp prow of the
t /, ; > fli- a cut from the
banns, looked ahead and groaned
aloud. ■ rapids were a wilderness
of (;il0L waters, white and green,
worse anything- he had antiei
lte d or ever dreamed , of. ,
,.
1 was now no escaping that
But there
ord eal. The canoe was already spin
r, between walls where the water
jU niTdeep and fast with glassy I
a sur¬
face. instant it in the jaws;
The next was
an d the man settled down to work
v ith grim determination, pitting coup
,‘ ae an( i strength and. experience
againtit the ravening waters that tore
at the canoe on every hand, whose
mad clamor beat ba- k and forth be¬
tween !’••• walls of the gorge like vast
bellowings of infernal mirth.
He fought like one possessed.
There was never an instant’s grace
for judgment or execution; the one
must be synchronous with the other,
both instantaneous, or else—destruc¬
tion.
The canoe wove this way and that
like an insane shuttle threading some
sataniu loom. Now it hesitated, nuz¬
zling a gigantic boulder over which
the water wove a pale graen and
glistening hood, now in the space of
a heartbeat it shot forward twice its
length through a sea of creaming
waves, now plunged wildly toward
what promised instant annihilation
and cheated that only by the timely
plunge of a paddle, guided by luck or
instinct or both.
The one ray of hope in Alan’s mind,
when he surveyed before committing
himself and the woman he loved to
that hideoui gauntlet, sprang from
the fact th , however rough, the
rapids were 1 art. N >w, when he had
been in the grasp a minute, he
seemed to tu here hours,
His laborii tremendous, un¬
believable. inspired. In the end they
were all but successful. The goal of
safety was within thirty seconds’
more,of quick, hard work, when Alan’s
paddle broke and the canoe swung
broadside to a boulder, turned turtle
and pre 3 d both headlong " into
that sav
minutes passed he
was fighting tike lad thii
overwhelming od Then, of a sud
den, he found him df rejected, spewed
forth from the ca; ract and swimming
mechanically in t e smooth water of
a wide pool bo; ni the lowermost
eddy, the canoe ating bottom up
near by, and Ros supporting herself
with 0116 hand on it.
Her eyes met bis, clear with the
sanity of her adorable courage.
He floundered to her side, panted in¬
structions to transfer her hand to his
shoulder, and struck out for the
nearer shore. •
both found footing at the same
time and waded out, to collapse, ex¬
hausted, against the bank.
Then, with a sickening qualm, Alan
remembered the pursuit. He rose and
looked up the rapid just in time to
view the last swift quarter of the
canoe’s descent: Judith in the bow,
motionless, a rifle across her knees, in
the stern an Indian guide kneeling
and lighting the waters with scarcely
perceptible effort in contrast with
Alan's supreme struggles.
Like a living thing the canoe
seemed to gather itself together, to
poise, to leap with all its strength;
it hurdled the eddy in a bound, took
the still water with a mighty splash,
and shot downstream at diminished
speed, the Indian furiously backing
water.
As though that had been the one
moment ehe had lived for, Judith
lifted her rifle and brought it to bear
—upon her sister.
Hith a cry of horror, Alan flung
himself before Rose, a living shield,
aatiiupauag nothing but immediate
heath, ibis was not accorded him.
f or a breathless instant the woman ir
> aey Found a Footing.
canoe stared along the sights,
lowered her weapon and, turn
spoke indistinguishably to die
£*• v ulii instantly began to ply a
To :v
/.'t 1 1 ; Gme, Alan voiced his
>
xrn : i d amazement:
■ ; i 1 name of heaven!
Vhy
i ' e h-'i said dully: “Don't you
hn° ’ And when he shook bis head
.-'lerrrde told mine you had saved
1;( ’ ' ou the dam at Spirit Lake.
' do you see?’’
1 countenance was blank with
wonder: “Gratitude?” /
W < smiled wearily: “Not grati
' but something more ter-
1 ■ • • ” She rose and held
•
out her hard. “Not that I can blame
■ - Tit come; if we strike
mreumi Here we will, I think, pick up
?. M *H1 bring us to Black
L' t'a or settlement by dark."
CHAPTER IX.
Forewarned.
The thing was managed with an in
genuity that Alan termed devilish—it
was indisputably Machiavellian.
The lovers had come down from the
North in hot haste and the shadow of
death Two days of steady traveling
by canoe, by woods trail, by lake
steamer-—forty-eight hours of fatigue
and strain eased by not one instant’s
relr ation from the high tension of
:gi mice upon which their very lives
depi ivied — wore to a culmination
through this tedious afternoon on the
trai front Moosehead—a trap of phys¬
ical torment only made possible by
Alan’s luck in securing, through sheer
acci lent, two parlor-car reservations
tun ;d back at the last moment be¬
fore leaving Kineo station.
No matter—the longest afternoon
must have its evening: the pokiest of
trai- 3 comes' the more surely to its
deed ition; in another hour or two
they vould be in Portland—free at
last to draw breath of ease in a land
of law, order and sane living.
A: ii in answer to this thought, the
train slowed down with whistling
brakes to the last hill-station, and as
the .rucks groaned and moved anew,
a lout of a boy came galloping down
the aisle, brandishing two yellow en
velc cs and blatting like a stray calf:
“Mista Lawr! Mista Lawr! Tel’
grams for Mista Lawr!”
A :m had been expecting at every
station a prepaid reply to his wire for
reservations on the night express from
Portland to New York.
But why two envelopes superscribed
“Mr. A. Law, Kineo train southbound,
■Oakland Sta.?”
H tore one open, unfolded the in
closure, and grunted disgust with its
curt advice, opened the other and
caught his breath sharply as he with¬
drew—part 'way only—a playing card,
a trey of hearts.
Thrusting it back quickly, he clapped
both envelopes together, tore them
into a hundred fragments, and scat¬
tered them from the window. But
the fiendish wind whisked one small
scrap back—and only one!—into the
lap of the woman he loved.
Vainly he prayed that she might
be asleep. The silken lashes trembled
on her cheeks and lifted slightly, dis¬
closing the dark glimmer of question¬
ing eyes. And as she clipped the scrap
of cardboard between thumb and fore¬
finger he bent forward and silently
took it from her—one corner of the
trey of hearts, but inevitably a corner
bearing the figure “3” above a heart.
“The Pullman agent at Portland
wires no reservations available on any
New York train in the next thirty-six
hours,” he said with lowered voice.
“Couldn’t we possibly catch the New
York boat tonight?”
He shook a glum head. “No—I
look I that up first. It leaves before
we get in.”
She said, “Too bad,” abstractedly,
reclosed her eyes, and apparently
lapsed anew into semi-somnolence^
but without deceiving him who could
well guess what poignant anxiety
gnawed at her heart.
He could have ground his teeth in
exasperation—the impish insolence of
that v arning, timed- so precisely to set
their nerves on edge at the very mo-
He Could Have Ground His Teeth in
Exasperation.
ment when they were congratulating
themselves upon the approach of a
respite! insanity of the whole
The sheer
damnable business—!
1 TO BE CONTINUED, t
Hi: tjj T is STORY AND THEN GO
IT AT THE LYRIC.
! COUNGTON NEWS, WEI) N ESI) AY, DECEMBER 16, 1914.
ADMINISTRATORS SALE.
Georgia, Xe^vtou County:
Under auu by virtue of an order
granted by the Court of Ordinary of
■iasper 11 unity, i will sell at public out¬
cry on (he property lierinafter descri¬
bed on t lie first Tuesday in January
'915, the following described property
to-wit:
Those fifteen vacant lots as surveyed
by W. A. Adams recently in what is
known as the Nettie Miller property
belonging now to tin- estate of Cody (".
Bryant and bounded on the West by
Carrol steert., and on tin- South lty an
alley separating said property from the
Tony Baker property, on tin noi-.li by
lot of Oscar Hinton and oil the west
by several parties, names uni.novvii,
which several lots separate said prop¬
erty from West sirem.. L i -h of sHd
lots being seventy-five t\t £•• •iitmg on
Corrol streU and on a new street sur¬
veyed and marked out by said Adams
also:
One vacant lot sixty byone hundred
fronting on the street rmiying from
Carrol street to West street and lying
in the corner of said tract •and West
St ret, also:
One lot fronting on said street run¬
ning from Carol and West, being one
hundred and thirty-five feet front and
running back two hundred feet, the
the back line being one hundred and
twenty feet upon which is situated the
li use known as the Tony Baker
house.
Said sale will be had by the une.er
signed for the purpose of paying debts
of the estate of said Cody C. Bryant
Terms of sale, cash. This third day
of December, 1914.
WILLIE BRYANT. Admit of the ro¬
tate of Cody ('. Bryant, deceased.
DR. D. H. PARLIMENT
Physician and Surgeon
Special attention given to the eye,
ear, nose and throat.
Nurse furnished in all surgical cas¬
es; bed and room furnished when it
is needed.
Eyes examined and glasses fitted
with John L. Moore’s lens. Special
weekly or monthly rates.
Rooms 19, 21, 23 Star Bldg. Covington
Phones 42 and 47.
ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE.
State of Georgia, Newton County:
Under and by virtue of an order
granted by the court of Ordinary of
said county, wil be sold 1 etwen the le¬
gal hours of sale on the First Tues¬
day in January next. 1915, the Blow¬
ing described property, towit.
All that tract or parcel of land ly¬
ing and being in the 1513 Disk G. M.
of said. State and County, said to con¬
tain seventy seven (77) acres more or
less ami hounded ns folows:
On the North by lands of J. A. Grant
East by lands of rublie road leading,
from Covington to Monticello. Fa.
South by lands of -T. M. Lassiter; and
West by lands of A. .J. Parker and
Swann estate.
Said hinds sold as the property of
J. M. Barker late of said county, de¬
ceased. for the purpose of paying debts
and distribution among the heirs ;.t
law of said deceased.
Terms of sale cash.
This December 1 1914.
H. M. PARKER. Administrator of the
estate of J. M. Parker deceased,
APPLICATION FOR CHANGE OF
CHARTER.
State of Georgia, Newton County i
To the Superior Court of said coun¬
ty.
The Almand Supply Company, a cor¬
poration, brings this petition to the
court and shows:
That it was duly incorporated by
order of this Honorable C6urt grant¬
ed January 15th, 1905, for a term of
ten years, which term is soon to ex¬
pire, that at a meeting of the stock¬
holders duly held on the Sth day of
September 1914 the following resolu¬
tion was unanimously passed, towit:
lu view of the fact that the charter
of the Almand Supply Company will
expire in January 1915, therefore BE
IT RESOLVED that our attorney be
instructed and authorized to apply to
Superior Court of Newton County for
a renewal of said charter for another
term of ten years, said term of renew¬
al to begin with the expiration of the
old charter.
Wherefore petitioner prays the Comt
that an order be granted renewing said
charter for a term of ten years, giant
iug to petitioners all of like the corporations rights, pow-1 j
ers and privileges
according to the laws of this state.
IL W. MILNER, |
Petitioners Atty. j
I, John B. Davis. Clerk off the Su
i perior Court of Newton County, Ga., ]
| do hereby certify that the above and J
foregoing is a true copy of the petition j
,of the Almand Supply Company tiled in for J
j renewal of charter this day mv
' office.
j Witness my hand and official seal, j
: this Nov. 11th. 1914.
.1X0. B. DAVIS, Clerk of Superior [
Court of Newton County, Ga.
PAGE THREE
if
TILL HAD THE S7.85
Rastus was on trial charged with stealing
seven dollars and eighty-five cents, lie
pleaded not guilty, and, as he was un¬
able to hire an attorney, the judge ap¬
pointed Lawyer Clearem as counsel.
Clearem put up a strong plea in defense,
and Rastus was acquitted.
Counsel and client met a few minutes
after outside the court room.
, /
“Now, Rastus,” said Clearem, “you know
the court allows the counsel very little for
defendingthis kindofease. I worked hard
for you and got you clear. I am entitled to
much more pay than I am gettingfor my
valuable services, and you should give up
a good sized fee. Have you got any
money?”
"Yes, Boss,’’ said Rastus, “1 still d< ne got
datseben dollahs and eighty-five cents.”
We did not get the Chero-Cola like
Rastus got the $7.85 but we are still
making the same kind of Chero-Cola
we started to making last January, we
are also making that good Ginger
Ale called Gary’s Ginger Ale.
»
It is now nearby Christmas and times
have been too hard to order that gal¬
lon of rye or corn you looked forward
to having Xmas, so get you a case
of Chero-Cola, the whole family will
enjoy it and will not be hurt by its
use, try that Good Ginger Ale too,
you know ginger is another harmless
healthful drink, and when you want
either call for the kind with the label
on it.
We wish here and now to thank the
public in general for the loyal sup¬
port of our business during this , year
and wish for each and everyone
A Pleasant Christinas and a
Happy New Year and Don’t
forget to Drink Chero-Cola
and Garys Ginger Ale.
Chero-Cola Bottling Works
Joseph N. Gary, Mgr.
