MONDAY, MAY 15, 1916. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. PAGE 3. E NF.W WILL N. KARBEN Copyright, 1514. by Harper ) Brothers CHAPTER XVI. A TrcublsJ Conscience. iN the morning of' the Cay Fred Crf.ii; Lad fought with How ard at the post office be bad left his bed in the worst of k-Mlv tempers, lie bad Leon drinkiiiS Lea'x Uy u'glit before, and. to add to this, tbe jiesro woman wLu usually prepared bis mesL bad scut a little frirl to say tbat sbe was sick and -ou!d net come. Ue attempted to cook something for himself, but. owing to unsteady hauls and general lack of skill, be failed almost totally.- He cut bis finders and scalded Lis bands with tbe water be was boiling for coffee. Drinking copiously from a jug of moon.-hine whisky, bis temper grew worse. Carrying a loaded revolver in bis hip pocket and scarcely knowing what be was doing be shot at a faith ful dog because it rau barking across the yard and barely missed tbe ani mal. He was going to town, but re membered that he was to look at some work being done by Abe Fulton, a rouh. unlettered laborer with whom be had often bad disputes, in the field lHicl; of the' bouse. The work was the construction of a modern barbed wire fence to take the place cf a decayed rail one through which stray bogs re cently had been breaking. Craig walk ed unsteadily across tbe old furrows of the tkld to the spot where Fulton was at work. Intoricated as he was. be yet bad sense enough to see tbat the man had made a great mistake by the irregularity with which the wire had been nailed ujton the bard oak and hickory posts. The mistake meant tbe taking down and replacing of more than a hundred yards of the fence, and Craig was beside himself with rage. "I told you plainly tbat tbe wires were to stand six inches apart," b railed out at Fulton, with an abusive oath. '"Here they are ten, there fully twelve. What do you mean? I've a good mind to kick you out of this field! You want money by tonight, do you? You won't get a cent out o me. Set to work and do this all over." The laborer laid down bis tools, a dogged look of resentment hardening liis face. '"You was drunk when you told me to do it," be growled. "You don't; know what you said you never do. One minute yoy say a thing an' the next take it back. You say 1 won't be paid fer this. I say I will. Mca' iny wife need the money for grub,' an' I'm sroin' to have it!" j 'You'li have what I give you whin 1 give it to you, not a bit sooner." Craig blustered. "I say I will have it" Tbe glare in tbe eyes of the workman was tbat of a demon, and. stepping forward, be thrust bis hand into his pocket, as if to get a knife. "Take your hand out cf that pocket!" Craig yelled, drawing bis revolver and presenting it unsteadily. '"Take it out or 1 11 blow your bead off!"' Abe obeyed, a dull look of animal fear capturing his tluslied features. "Au-ha! you thought you would tac kle me, did you, you dirty puppy-" Craig growled. "Now set to work and do that over. You thought you'd jump on me. did you? I'm of a good mind to give you a thrashing tbat you won't forget in a long time. Thank your stars that I didn't send a ball through you. 1 will next time you dare to make a move like you did just now." Restoring his revolver to his pocket. Craig turned and staggered away to- "Take it out or I'll blow your head of!" ward his barn to get his horse. Abe was Murine aftcrbjmtandinsas still ,1 fme of the posts he had put into the ground. , Itidig home that night after his hu miiiatang encounter with Hcwvard. his bloated face smarting from the blows' GLARON M N the younger man had dealt, his brain J inflamed with whisky, bis mind full of plans for revenge, he gave no thought to the man with whom he had quarreled earlhrr in the day. At a mo ment like that a low hireling that de pended upon him for a living was not to be thought of. Howard was promi nent: Howard was educated; noward wiif) a man who bore the reputation of beiug afraid of no one and never tak ing an insult. The public would wait for the outcome. Tomorrow. Craig told himself, he "would go to town, meet his antagonist on the street and settle the whole matter. !t would be a duet to death. He would shoot the young upstart down as he would a dog. While these thoughts were hurtling through his befuddled brain, his horse was bearing him up to the front gate of his house. There was a clump of mulberry trees on the oppo site side of the road, and out of the shadow of this into the moonlight calmly stepped Abe Fulton, a revolver aimed steadily. -Hold up yore hands!" he snarled; Prepare to meet yore God. ef you got one, fer yore day is shore at a end!" Too much startled to move, Craig sat helpless in his saddle, but t's mount, with a quicker sense of danger, reared up and started to run. At this instant Abe fired with the deliberation of a man who had waited long and patient ly for his moment. Craig felt a sharp sting over the region of his heart. He made an effort to thrust his heels into tl e flanks of the horsi to keep from frdling. but his muscles failed to re spond to the demand. He had the feel ing of floating in the. air. and then all became dark. He slid from his plung ing horse as limply as a blanket and ley in a heap on the ground. Stepping farther into the moonlight. Abe saw the horse galloping off down the road and turned to look at Craig. One glance convinced him that the man was dead. Experimentally he I rodded the body with his rough shod foot, then turned and stalked into the woods. It was a rugged way over which he passed, and in a lonely spot where the thick branches of the trees met over bead and cut out tbe moonlight he paused to conceal the weapon, which .still had the faint odor of freshly burnt powder about it. - liaising a Cat .stone, he dug out a little receptacle in the earth and. depositing the revolver in it. he replaced the stone. Then, un der the growing sense of a vague ter ror -which he had never experienced before, he trudged on toward his cabin at the foot of tbe mountain. It was past midnight. He was seldom so late in returning, and yet he had not thought of what his wife might ask or what he might say in the way of ex planation. Somehow the deed, justifi able as it had seemed before accom plishment, now was demanding all his thought. As he approached the lonely log cab in, such as are given rent free to the lowest class of shiftless mountaineers by landowners and which are no whit better than the average stable, he saw that a fire was burning in the chimney and knew that his wife w-as still up. "Whar on earth ve you been all thi time?" she asked complainingly. "Lord, lord, I 'lowed you never would come." He hesitated for a second, then re plied: "Had to go to town." "What did you have to go to town fer?" He was trying to invent a plausible reason, perplexed by her unexpected demand, as he ducked his head to enter the low doorway, but his dull brain seemed unusually unproductive. They faced each other in tbe red fire light, tbe bare logs with their mud filled cracks behind them as a background, tbe plain, split roof boards between them and tbe sky. She was a gaunt, drab creature, with scant hair and sunken cheeks. She repeated her ques tion, and an excuse finally flitted into his mind. "I was lookin' fer -work," he said, averting his roving eyes. "We can't live on nothiu". I'm hungry half the time, and so are you. I've got to quit Craig, too I see that plain enough. He's full all tbe time, an' spends ever' cent he gits on liquor an never has none left to pay off hands with." "Ditln't he give you some today?" she asked, indignantly. "Nor a cent not a red cent. That's why I I say that" "You didn't ax im. I'll be bound you are too slow about sech things. Others git the'r money from 'im. even nigcers that pick cotton an plant corn, but you let 'im trample roughshod over you. Let me go to see 'im. He won't nut meofT the sramp' Flileli the fine gentleman a thing or two about hisse'f. They say be had a fight in town today with Howard Tinsley, an Howard beat 'im up purty bad. Did you see it?" "Xo, I didn't happen to be on hand." Abo said, his lip hanging loose, his stare reaching through the doorway out into the shadows of the young pines. 'I5ut I heard they had a row o' some sort at the postoffice. They've been at outs for some time '"Iidrougit you "another job?" she asked, anxiously. "What do you want to know that fer?" "Ilecause I'm dead tired o. livin' like a hawk or a hoot owl away out here ag'in these rocks among snakes an reptiles. I want to have neighbors. You or me could git sick an' die here actually rot in our beds an' nobody would know it till the smell called at tention to it. Did you git work? T want to Jinow. "No." He took a deep breath. His eyes still shrank from hers. "Every blessed place is full up. I'm I'm thinkin' about Alabama. They say big n ir ier ' KnJ - f i t I vi -j "c uau uu iuf- new rauroua down thar to all that kin swing a pick or lift a full shovel. Ef I could git the money to pay my fare I'd take a trip thar an" look the field over." "I'd like that." she said, as simply as a child speaking of an unhoped foi treat. "Anything ,but this here awful loneliness." She went to the fire and put a fresh piece of pine on the flames. It was full of resin, quickly ignited and a Mack rope of smoke curled like a serpent upward into the mud and stick flue. There was a sound of cracking twigs outside. lie started, leaned forward and fell to quaking. "What's that?" he muttered. "Somebody's cow." she sr:0. 'I seed "er grazin' thar before dark, ner bag was so full she could hardly waddle about I could "a' milked 'er an' had some fer yore coffee, but she wasn't mine, an' I let "er alone. I believe in doin' what's right. Abe. Ef a body lives up to that rule, meetin or no meetin', I think the Lord will see 'em through somehow. Got any tobacco, uarliu'? I'm clean, out o' snuff, an I'm mighty nigh crazy fer some'n'." Thrusting his hand into his pants pocket, he took out a piece of cheap plug tobacco and handed it to her. Twisting off a small portion, she put it into her mouth and began to chew it. "Now you want yore supper, I know." He had completely forgotten it, but he nodded dumbly. The stare in his eyes was almost pathetic in its sheer bewilderment. She picked up a short iron poker, lifted the lid of a three leg ged pot on the coals and disclosed the remains of a stewed chicken. "I swapped a pair o' cotton socks I knitted fer it to a peddler that was passin' with a coop,, of 'em,'", she in formed him. "He picked the smallest in the lot, but it is fat. I jest et the gizzard, neck an' wings an' left the (balance fer yo'. My, it smells good! An' it's so tender it falls to pieces when you lift a bone. Then the gravy! Sop bread in it, darlin. When a'body is hungry a diet like that can't be bet at a king's table. Ugh, it's good!" Ileaehing up to a crude shelf above the fireplace, she took down a cracked plate and a broken knife and fork. He sank into a chair, furtively glancing every now and then over his shoulder at the open door, against which th darkness was massed like a material substance. The plate rested insecure ly on his knees and almost fell as she tegan to fill it. N"lIold it still," she laughed. "You are a big baby. I'll have to feed yon next. I can't give you any coffee, hon ey. It's clean out. I was lay in' off to git some as soon as you got yore minTey out o' that "triflm scamp. I'm goin" to see 'im the fust thing after sun up. I am I am, I tell you." "Let 'im alone," Fulton muttered, his mouth full. "Why do you say that?" she demand ed sharply. "ltecause" slowly, his glance shift ing here and there "because it's my business not yore'n. I won't won't have a a woman dabblin' in my mat ters. Folks lafe at a feller that that lets his wife mix up in his doin's." '"Well, you see that you git it,' then. she yielded. "I don't care, jest so -we kin live in some sort o shape. He's a beast of a man carousin', card play i:f and ruin in' the property an his ma's nhe old home. I'd think her sperit 'u d ha'nt 'im, an sperits do hover about they do they shore do when thev ain't satisfied. I know a few things, ef other folks don't." Sbe prat Wed on in this wise while he gulped Ids food down, and when he had finished his meal she sighed wearily. Her husband heard little of what she was saying. From the insistent drone of her voice his mind was taking des perate flights. Over and over he saw himself, hot with passion, -waiting in the shadow of Jhe trees for his victim Over and over he felt his determined finger press the trigger of the weapon so relentlessly aimed. Over and over he saw the human form fall to the ground and lie limp in the thick dust of the road. Perhaps already some passer by had found the corpse or, at least, met the fleeing riderless horse which would lead to discovery. Abe's blood rau cold and sluggishly iii his veins flow could he meet the sensation that would surely stir the community tomorrow? Could he look men in the face and calmly talk about it as others would talk about it? Could he speak to hi3"wife about it as if it were a casual occur rence? (To Be Continued.)" For Sale. My carriage and furniture wagon for sale. Can be seen at the Parmele liv ery barn. M. Hild. WAKTFID. to hear from owner of good farm for sale. Send cash price and description. D. F. . Bush, Min neanolis. Minn. 3-16-2tw Mrs. Paul C. Morgan . and little daughter arrived this afternoon from Hay Springs, Nob., for a short visit hers with relatives and friends. Mrs. Frank Ronnie pf Madrid. Neb., who is here visiting her parents, Mr and Mrs. J. W. Seiyers, for a few days, was a passenger this morning for Omaha in eomDanv with Mrs. A. N F. Seybert, where the ladies willjvisit for t?ie day. Mrs. William Holly returned Satur day evening from Cre'ghton. Neb-, where she has been visiting at the home of her brother, Joseph Nejedley, and brought with her the little niece who she will keep at her home for a time. NOTICE TP CREDITORS. State of Nebraska I ss. Cass County 1 ' In County Court. In the matter of the estate of Fred erick Engelkemier, deceased. Notice is hereby givpn to the cred itors of said deceased that hearings will be had upon claims filed against raid estate, before me, County Judge of Cass County, Nsbraska, at the County Court room in Plattsmouth, in said county, on the 10th day of June, 1916, and on the 11th day of Decem ber, 1916, at 10 o'clock a. m. each day for examination, adjustment and al lowance. All claims must be filsd in said court on or before said last hour of hearing. Witness my hand and real of said County Court, at Plattsmouth, Ne braska, this 10th day of May, 1916. ALLEN J. BEESONr (Seal) County Judge. John M. Leyde, . .. Attorney for Administratrix. IN THE DISTRICT CO I' It T OF THE CO I XT) OF CASS, KUUKASU. Joanna Baxter. Plaintiff, vs. Clara E. Voung, also known as Clara Kllen lounR. et. al. Defendants. XOT1CK OF SI IT TO QUIET TITLE To t ie defendants Clara E. loung, also known as Clara Ellen Young: John Doe Yoiinir. first real name unknown. husband or widower of Clara E. Younfr, also known as Clara Ellen Young; Clara E. Youngr Doe, real name other than Clara E. loung unknown: John Doe, first and reeal name unknown, husband or widower of Clara E. Young Doe;the unknown heirs, devisees, lega tees, personal representatives and all other persons interested in the estate of Clara E. Young, also known as Clara Ellen Young, otherwise described as Clara E. Young .Doe, real name other than Clara E. Young unknown, deceas ed: the unknown heirs, devisees, leg atees, personal representatives and all other persons interested in Ihe estate of John hoe Young, first real name un known, deceased; the unknown heirs, devisees, legatees, personal represen tatives and all other persons interested in the estate of John Doe, first real name unknown, deceased : Samuel H. Jones, also known as S. II. Jones, Mrs. Samuel H. Jones, first real name un unknowh; the unknown heirs, devisees, legatees, personal representatives and all other persons interested in the es tate of Samuel li. Jones, also Known as S. H. Jones, deceased; the unknown heirs, devisees, legatees, personal rep resentatives and all other persons In terested in the estate of Mrs. Samuel H. Jones, first real name unknown, de ceased; Packard & Miller, a partner ship composed of Spencer Jackard and Jason G. Miller; Spencer Packard, El ecta Packard; the unknown heirs, de visees, legatees, personal representa tions and all other persons interested n .the estate of Spencer Packard, de ceased; the unknown heirs, devisees, legatees, personal representatives and all other persons interested in the es tate of Electa Packard, deceased; Jason (.3. Miller, Mary J'. Miller, the unknown heirs, devisees, legatees, pertoiuii rep resentatives and all other 'persons in terested in the estate of Jason O. Mil ler, deceased; the unknown heirs, de visees, legatees, personal representa tives and all other persons interested in the estate of Mary I. Miller, de ceased: John Jl. Clark; Amelia B. Clark; the unknown heirs, devisees, legatees. personal representatives and all other persons interested in the estate of John K. Clark, deceased; the unknown heirs. devisees, legatees, - personal represen tatives and all other persons interested in the estate of Amelia IV Clark, deceas ed; the unknown heirs, devisees, lega tees, personal representatives and all othr persons interested in the estate of Susanah Drake, deceased; Louis Jr. Cole, also Lewis F." Cole; Clara E. Cole; the unknown heirs, devisees legatees, personal representatives and all other r.ersons interested In the estate of Louis F. Cole, also known as Lewis F. Cole, deceased; the unknown heirs, de visees, legatees, personal representa tives and all other persons interested in the estate of Clara E. Cole, deceased; William L. Gray, Mary E. Moore, Isa belle Moore and the unknown owners and the unknown claimants of frac tional lots six 6 and seven (7), in the northeast quarter (N. E. 1-4) of the northwest quarter N.V. 1-4). of section twenty-four (24), township eleven (11), norm range tnirteert (13), east or the 6th I. M., in the County of Cass, Ne braska. You are hereby notified that on April 19th. A- D.. 1916. plaintiff filed her suit in the District Court of the County of Cass, Nebraska, to quiet plaintiff s title to the above described lands, to-wit: fractional lots six (6), and seven (7). in the northeast quarter N. E. 1-4) of the northwest quarter (Is. vv. 1-4) of section twenty-four (24), township ee ven (11), north range thirteen (13), east of the th I. M.. in the County of Cass, .Nebraska, because of her adverse pos session by herself and her grantors for more than ten years prior to the commencement Of said suit and to rn join each and all of you from hav'ng or claiming any right, title, lein or interest, either legal or equitable. In or to said lands or any part thereof: to require you to set forth your right, title, claim, lein or Interest therein, if any, either legal or equitable, and to have the same adjudged inferior to the line or piainiin: ana ior general equit able relief. This notice is made pur suant to the order of the Court. You are required to arswer said pe tition on or before Monday. May TZ, A. D., 1"M(, or your default will be auiy entered therein. JOANNA BAXTER, Plaintiff. W. A. ROBERTSON. Attorney. KOTirU TO ( KICUITOItS. State of Nebraska'." Cass county, ss. In County Court. In 'the matter of the estate or Loretta AuJt. deceased: Notice js her? by given to the cred itors of said deceased that ' hearings will be had upon claims filed against said estate, before me, county judge oi tass county. .Nebraska, at the connty court room in Plattsmouth. jn said county, on the 18th day of June 1916, and on the 16th day of December, 1916. at 10 o'clock a. m.. each day. for examination, adjustment nd allow ance. All claims must be filed in said court on or before said last hour of hearing. itness my hand apd seal of sad county court, at Plattsmouth, Aebras ha. this 15th day of May, 1916. ALLEN J. BEE SON, (Seal) ' ' County 'Judge. JOHN M. LEYDA. Attorney for Administrator. L. M. Ingwersen wells, hawka, Neb.t Phpne 61. Ne Mrs. Matt Spader and daughter, Miss Katie Shields, came down yes terday from Omaha to visit for the day1 with friends, and Mrs. Spader remained over to attend the funeral of William T. Scotton today. J. II. Thrasher" and T. W. Glenn departed this afternoon for Lexing ton. Neb., where they will attend the state encampment of the Qrand Army of "the Republic, representing the post of this city. r T 3SS Four-Cylinder Models Tovring Car, 7-pass. - $875 Roadster, 3-passenger - 850 Landau-Roadster 3-pass. 1150 Six- Cylinder Models' Touring Car, 7-pass. - $105 Roadster, 3-passenger 1060 Landau-Roadster, 3-pass 1350 Ccupe, 4-passecger - 1600 Sedan ...... 1675 Limousine, 7-p?ss. - - 2500 F. O. J3. Detroit j j J Local Agents: If interested call for demonstration. Garage Opposite Court House - Phone 58 Local News From Friday's Dally. Harry White came in this afternoon from Sicux City to visit for a few days with relatives and friends. Georpe M. Porter came in this af ternoon from Lincoln to look after the interests of the Omaha Bee in this city. Philip Stoehr of Cedar Creek was attending to some business matters in this, city yesterday and was a pleasant caller at this office. Stephen Jochim of Louisville was in the city today for a short time at tending to some business matters and visiting with friends. B. F. Crook departed this morning for Nelson, Nebraska, near where he will visit with a brother and son on their farms near that place. Giles Roman of Sioux City is here to attend the funeral of his sister, Mrs. Carl Holmberg, which will be held here tomorrow afternoon. L. G. Meisinger and wife drove in this morning from their home west of the city and accompanied by Miss Grace Nolting, were passengers for Omaha to visit there with Fritz Si moneit at the hospital in that city. From Saturday t Dally. Gus Carlson and wife of Havelock came in last evening and will enjoy a visit over Sunday with relatives and friends. J. G. Gabler, who has been visiting with his sister in Pierce county, came in last evening to spend a short time here with his mother. R. E. Andrews came in last evening from Council Bluffs to visit here for a short time with his wife and other relatives and friends. John Gauer of Cedar Creek was in the city for a few hours today looking after some matters of business and visiting with friends. Simon Clark was a passenger this morning for Qmaha to visit for the day there taking treatment for hi3 trouble with his ears. Adolph 'Koubek, .wife and children were among those going to Omaha this afternoon to -visit wjth friends there for a few hours. Charles Roman of Sioux City, Iowa, is here to be presentTat the funeral of his neice, Mrs. Carl Holmberg, which was held this afternoon. James Rishel was among the pas why $300 r .... Sixes on the l you must pay nearly doltos cf ts tte, no other SIX SundWj.ty; price such OW sk " r:rr eives more p--5-4-,. perfection ct p A oC design, more v pves excellence o a . pQ xnore? vv- to coro. in ana is going to 7JdcT--nd v.VU ee tbis new svua performance. y f pas sengers this morning for Omaha to consult a specialist there for a few hours in regard to his health. James NewascI; v.i.' among those going to Omaha this morning to spend a few hours in that city attend ing to some matters of ' business. C. F. Rhode of Waterloo, Iowa, is here today spending a short time vis iting his friends and looking after the interests of the Dutchess tiousers. Fritz Vallery came in this afternoon from his farm home and departed on the Burlington for Omaha to spend a few hours with friends in that city. Henry Herold, jr., journeyed to Omaha this morning to visit for a few hours in that city with friends and to look after some matters of import ance. C. E. Howe, wife and two children departed this morning for Council Bluffs, Iowa, where they will visit over Sunday there with relatives and firends in that city. Joe Warga of Havelock came down last evening and will spend Sunday in this city at the hme of his brother, Mike Warga, and family, as well as visiting other relatives and friends. Tom Mahoney, the painter, was among the passengers this morning IE i IEfP 1 OS, H GOOD TO O MAHA The cost of Bridge Tolls for Round Trip using our Commutation Books Auto and Driver, round Trip 50c Extra Passengers, each, 5c $10.00 Book, $5.00 $5.00 Book, ....,$2.50 Commutation Books Good any time and Transferable. PLATTSMOUTH Auto a, S!l m for Omaha to visit for a few" hours in that city attending to some mutters of business and visiting with friends. MAY FEST AT THE GERMAN HOME SAT URDAY EVENING On next Saturday evening the Plattsmouth Turn-Vcicin will give a May Fest at the German Ilor.c n Washington avenue which pioinisri to be a pleasant event to the member oi the society and their rio'.ds. A fplendid social time has been arrang er" for that will include dancing, sink ing and a number of entei tr ining games for the younger fol'-L.. -n-li gather to enjoy the event. The com n:'!tce in charge ci" the gathc-i:i.v are lnitking plans fo. a very plop ;ar.'; time, & uth as these good people akras c i joy when they are assembled together. Invitations to the entertainment a d dunce will be 'ssued in order ih:it the jYiends of the soc-cty may be i.b'.e to take part in i'nj pleasureab'e occasion. if te AUTO ROADS Wagon Bridge Co.