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ll, young martinet father
r Ata Geronimo,
ion against tl>« old man for
tint* discipline
t on army
ny pc rponal feeling for his
writes a j letter to
lord „ Gateson) back and cost, his
m Drexrf He plana
to joift Jitm.
n the army and estab
in California, where
true h\s father again.
hAPTER [STEELE V
glanced at
[ ot officers his and office scouts at
hre [‘Gentlemen," him in
he said,
j ready and eager for
he knows that we are
L Unless you are anx
lasaacred, and all the
ehildrea hi this fort
h will restrain your
Is and realize that you
[against Idiana thousands of
with only your
[(Jeronimo [action, want* to
and he’ll stop
p start it But you
[him pared. that Understand?" chance until
I nodded, saluted and
and bring the passengers safely to
the fort That will be all, sir.”
• • •
Geronimo, tipped off as to the ar
rival of Mrs. Steele and Alice by
his good friend Gillespie, waited
crouched behind a clump of rocks
with his sub-chiefs, while they all
watched the coach approaching their
hiding place.
As it rounded a bend, Geronimo
raised his hand in signal, and a
stream of war-painted braves
streamed out of clefts on the rocks,
urging their horses to greatest
speed, heading directly for the
coach.
Inside the coach the two women,
the only passengers, cowered in ter
ror as the driver slashed his whip
viciously at the horses to make them
go faster, and the two guards rose
lo their feet and started returning
the fire of the Indians. In a return
burst of fire, the guard seated along
side the driver, threw up hia hands,
clutched his head and tumbled, dead,
to the ground. •
The guard at the back of the
coach raised his gun for a shot at
but Colonel White and
tedi- the men of the
gen- guard. The old
ived v::m man noticed the
ser," -.is drawn shades, and
ur : X ! v looked around as
ram if seeking the an
rom It- jj–v -■■-■x* swer in the faces
will im around dim. He
om- - ■
>est NS, glanced at White
the e- and Starrett. and
■
Ilia t, from their heart
:ort I f-- ■ sick. grief - filled
ray faces he read the
188 V : story. Slowly his
.
tnd band moved to the
of closed shade,
pse / m x * slowly he drew It
♦ : aside and
of I j; stepped
ids, i into the coach be
de- i f am e the body of
,
lr hta wile.
Re- i Ha pulled back
lit. -
■ It the sheet covering
lo." ■ I .. * the body, mur
ent mured “Elea
lad n o r e # s a Dii
Suddenly, .
al on both sides of the coach, appeared on horse- stepped out again
back. Two leaped onto the coach, and IQ the resisting driver “Where is the
I!?. and guard.
young lady?” he
Steele standing in the
f prill r 'v himself up rig .
N doing here, Mr.
the officers.”
Nuo you alone, sir.”
pietly, [i
Mrrassed slowly. “Yes," he
tone. "Been
P 10 you-meaning to
r®r-but never got
pat i s lt r.
Ra from the army,
P once.”
W. In his harrowed
f ear that his
l, ti. “Just as
stion?” we are
found out the
s! 1 begged for six
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tow ! You've made
And you might
thy moth 5 r and
their
! " be here today.
tL PPed T them er becaus But *
- it's
r* S' 1 tightly. -You are
lnsub ordination ”
ton win remain
rs." con
bls h «el and
“"cf ” walked
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'led * h3t Went on
*i hU 0Ur h °rse is
be Waitl «S for
* talked Quickly
quarter a.
I ' , sir?"
i Starrett
the east "There’* a
- Meet it
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ing of the State Supreme Court.
The high court affirmed a three
judge tribunal in Fulton Superior
Court, in action brought against
Chief Justice Reid by Monroe Ste
phens, Biue Ridge lawyer, and af
firmed also the ruling of Judge
Lee B. Wyatt, of the Coweta Cir
cuit, in a quo warranto proceeding
brought against Attorney General
Arnall by John Wood, of Canton,
former congressman
Governor Rivers claimed that the
election for these two offices, which
the Indians’ leader, but before he
could pull the trigger a shot rang
out from the other side of the road,
and he, too, tumbled to the ground.
Ttte driver, seeing that his only
hope lay tn speed, whipped his
horses frantically.
Mrs. Steele and Alice, in an agony
of terror, sat as if paralyzed while
an Indian raced up to the side of
the coach, took careful aim at the
older woman, and shot. Mrs. Steele
stiffened in her seat as the bullet
met its mark. A spot of red appeared
on her dress immediately over her
heart, and Alice looked on tn mute
horror as her body slumped to the
swaying floor of the coach. The In
dian, still riding alongside the coach,
raised bis rifle a second time, and
as he fired again, Alice’s hands
sprang to her head, she screamed
and fell to the floor on top of Mrs.
Steele’s body.
Suddenly, on both sides of the
coach, Indians appeared on horse
hack. Two leaped onto the coach,
grabbed the resisting driver and
s *’ung their tomahawks viciously
onto 1,is head. As he dropped to the
ground, the Indians seized the
drakes and the coach lumbered to
a stop. The Indians all made a dash
tor the coach, but at a signal from
ontmo, who PPinted to the trail
, behind ,
and shouted a command,
iney all wheeled and rode swiftly
way to hide behind the boulders at
the side of the road.
Jack Steele, riding like a demon
'oward the silent coach, pulled his
horse to * panting atop, Jumped
aboard the coach and recoiled In
an £Uish from the sight of
loved his two
ones lying still Mid bloody ou
The Covington Star, Est 1874.
Georgia Enterprise, Est. 1864.
he filled by appointment, did not
come up until the November elec
tion in 1940, and refused to put the
names of any candidates on the of
ficial ballot. Mr. Stephens and Mr.
Wood asked their friends to write in
their names. Out of more than 30 000
ballots casl. Mr Wood received 3,532
votes and Mr. Stephens 814.
Chief Justice Reid disqualified
himself in both cases, and Presid
ing Justice Samuel Atkinson dis
qualified himself in the Reid case.
Three Superior Court judges re
placed them.
the floor. So heartbroken was the
boy that he noticed neither the ar
rival of Starrett, Sneezer and a car
alry troop nor the hasty retreat
of the Indians. He turned at Star
rett’s sympathetic touch on his
shoulder and cried. “He wouldn't
let me meet them! I could have
saved tfonm! He wouldn’t let me save
my mother and Alice!”
Sneezer interrupted, gently, "The
girl’ll be all right, soon s I get this
bleeding stopped. Looks like it’s
only a scalp wound."
The three men left the coach and
mounted their horses. Jack’s face
showed his determination. Sudden
ly he wheeled and sped away in
the direction which Geronimo and
his Indians had taken!
As the coach pulled Into the court
yard of Fori Grant Starrett dis
mounted and made his way into
Genera! Steele’s office. He saluted
and Steele rose and accompanied
him outside. Steele glanced about
him. The strange, ominous silence
that colored the scene was height
ened by the strained attitudes of
asked.
"In the hospital, sir,” Starrett re
plied. 'Well know soon how badly
she’s hurt.”
"Where is my son?"
"Geronimo’s got him. sir. The In
dian we captured is boasting ot it."
"Captain," interrupted Steele,
"Geronimo’s attack was intended
for exactly what you want to do. But
we will not go into action until we
are prepared."
"But,” cried Starrett, forgetting
himself, “you can’t leave that boy—
your own son—to be tortured and
killed!”
Steele nodded. ‘‘I’ve told you be
fore that sentimentality has no
place In the army, i can't sacrifice
the lives of hundreds of people to
rescue one man." His voice faltered.
“Not even my own son," he con
cluded. brokenly.
"But you can’t . , begged Stan
rett.
“Those are orders," Steele said
with finality. He turned to Colonel
White, a true soldier, absolutely
right in his attitude toward his duty,
in his own judgment, yet a victim
of the very sentimentality which he
abhors. "Colonel," he said, “you
will order assembly, please, t want
—I want to hold services for my
wife.”
White nodded as he blinked away
a tear, “Yes, sir,” he replied, and
nodded to the bugler who stood wait
ing.
As General Steele turned and
walked slowly back to his office, the
first strains of the bugle rang out in
assembly call.
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Seriously III In
Savannah Hospital
SAVANNAH, Ga„ Dec. 12-Wil
]j am q sutlive, editor of the Sa
vannah Evening Press and one of
the state's best know columnists
writing under the name of ‘‘Bill
Biffem " who was stricken sudden
ly ill during the week-end is re
ported in a local hospital as re
sponding to treatment,
Mr. Sutlive may be in the hos
pital two weeks or more. His con
dition is such that no visitors are
permitted
Super Salesman
Gets Ten Dollars
For Match Stem
ELBERTON — Elberton
are keeping a wary eye upon ‘‘click
salesmen,” since one of their neigh
bors paid $10 for a burnt match. It
seems that one such salesman, go
ing on Bamum's assumption tha
"one is born every minute,’’ pre
sented a crowd of onlookers with
such a demonstration of smooth
tongued salestalk. that he had m
trougle at all in selling the empt?
boxes and other worthless article,
for considerable sums of money
The match trick was the super
salesman's final act before he spec
away in his high-powered machine
with a shower of rocks foilowin
him. The culprit first bought
match from a bystander for a
quarter and sold it immediately fo:
ten dollars.
Wild Life Ranger
Victim of Prank
DOUGLAS, Ga.. Dec. 12—Range:
Ernest Shaw doesn’t mind lookir,
after his job, but when it involve
everse phone calls, getting up it
the dark and massing a meal, h- I
has a right to complain.
That’s what a recent SOS cal!
from Carroll Wright Folkston Rang
er, cost him. Shaw got a call from
Wright warning him of a dove shoe
that would take place over a baiter
field and before the shooting hour:
near Blackshear.
He got up, drove 56 miles ano
vil’ir t;,s
the limit an tu
Not until he checked direct o
Charlie Elliott's license did he dis
cover Wright’s joke.
"I wouldn't have minded it—bit’
that reverse call, and before break
fact,’’ Shaw groaned
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One Vote Is Cast
In Dalton Election
DALTON—The easiest job in Dal
ton shouid be that of ballot counter
in county voting- When returns on
a ballots to deterfine whether mar
keting quotas for Burley tobacco
would be established in Whitfield
County in 1940 were tabulated, the
grand total was one. that in the
negative. Mr. Voter was J H
Shugart, of the Cohutta community
Extension Conference Suecess
The Extension conierence held
last week in Athens was definitely a
success Prominent agricultural a tr
thorities from ail over the country
brought inspiring and timely mes
sages to workers of the Agricultura
Extension Service— information tha:
can be passed on by them to Geor
gia farm people—data that should
aid our rural folks to enjoy a more
piosperous and happy farm life.
All Southern States Plan to
Coordinate Rate Parity Fight
Steps to press the advantage re
for freight rate parity will b? taken
at a meeting of the Southern Gov
ernors and Public Service Commis
sioners at 9:30 o'clock Thursday
morning. December 14th at the
Ansley Hotel. Walter R. McDonald
Chairman of the Georgia Public
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Saturday
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Southern Governors’ Conference,
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ritories in a move to present the
case of the South as a whole.
Mr. McDonald was appointed on
the class rate committee of the
Southern Public Service Commis
sioners at . a recent meeting in
Asheville, N. C., at which time Hugh
White, president of the Alabama
Public Service Commission, also was
appointed to the committee.
A division of opinion as to
ther the cases of the Southeast and
the Southwest should be
as a whole was ironed out at the
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Asheville meeting, Mr. McDonald
said, and the movement to name
Governor Rivers as coordinator of
the two territories is the result,
The leaders of the fight ..for
Southern rate parity have been
heartened immensely by the victory
already won before the Interstate
Commerce Commission and have
inspired to speed up their ef
forts in order to take advantage
of this opening wedge, Mr. McDon
aid said