r ' l.V'JtrTW.ry,,.,,, T' 351. " ' g ' V'V" '" "v :igrr ''"'" (!" ' V-i"wMk''''iri ir1'''""'1 '-' ;;"-",w'mfy"'""-f'" '' -.-'' n,,l.-).. .m-n.f, .,,., ,i,' ,., r1i,',r .,,, "WlJ-fs Snr?r,vip My J. z iWl I'll I B f T- ". 8 . K! ft V- Vvl tfl A?- I iM I (ill m m I S4I Sf'f &(. -SB r ta I 1 6YN0PSI8. The scene t the opdnlnp of the story 1 Mid In tlio library of nn old worn-out outhcrn plantation, known ns tlie Unr pny. The place la to bo Mold, and Its history nnil that of tho owners, the Qulntnrds, Is tlm subject of dlscusalon by Jonalhnn Crenshaw, a business man, a Mtranxer known its Dlnrien, and Uob Yancy, n farninr. when Hannibal Wayne llasard, s, tnysicrlous child of tho old southern family, niuUcs his appearance. Ynney tells how he udopted tho boy. Na Hiaiilcl Ferris buys tho liarony, but the Qulntards deny any knowledge of tho my. Yancy to keep Hannibal. Captain Murrcll, a friend of the QuIntanK ap pears and nsks questions about tho liar ony. Trouble nt Hcratch Hill when Han nibal Is kidnaped by Dava Olount, Cap tain Murrcll's URnnt. Yanry overtakes Iilount, Klves him a thrashing and secures the boy, Yancy appeurs beforn Hqillre IJalanm, and Is dlscharKed with rosts for tho plaintiff. Detty Malroy, a friend of tho Fcrrlses, has nn encounter with Cap tain Murrell, who forcos his attentions on tier, and Is rescued by Uruce CarrltiRton. Betty sets out for her Tennessee home. Carrluirton take tho same stuo. Yancy Hnd Hannibal disappear, with Murrell on their trail. Hannlbul arrives nt tho home of Judge fllocum l'rlce. The Judgo recoi; nice In the boy, tho grandson of nn old time friend. Murrell arrives nt Judso's , home. Cavendish family on raft rescue Yancy, who Is apparently doud. Price breaks Jail. Hetty and Carrlngton arrive at Hello Plain. Hannibal's rlllo discloses aoma startling things to the judge. Han nibal and Hotty meet again. Murrell ar rive In nello Plain. In playing for big stakes. Yancy awakes from long dream less sleep on board tho raft. Judge Price tnnkes startling discoveries In looking up land titles. Charley Norton, a young planter, who assists the judgo. Is mys teriously assaulted. Norton Informs Car rlngton that Detty has promtued to mnrrv lilin. Norton Is mysteriously shot. More light on Murrcll's plot. Ho plnns upris ing of negroes. Judgo Price, with Hunnt bal, visits Uutty. nnd she keeps tho boy a a companion. In n stroll Hetty takes with Hannibal they meet Bnis Hicks, daughter of tho overseer, who warns Betty of danger nnd counsels her to leave Dclle Plain at onco. Hetty, terri fied, acts on Hess' advice, and on their way their carriage It stopped by Blosson. tho tavern keeper, nnd a confederate, and Hotty nnd Hannibal are mado prisoners. Tho pair are taken to Hicks' cabin, In an almost Inaccessible spot, and there Mur rell visits Hetty and reveals his part In the plot nnd his object. Hetty spurns nls proffered love and tho Interview Is ended by tho arrival of Ware, terrified at possible uutcomo of tho crime. Judgo Price, hearing of tho abduction, plans ue tlon. Tho Judgo takes charge of tho Ituatton, nnd search for tho missing ones Is Instituted. Carrtngton visits tho Judge and allies nre discovered. Judgo Prlro visits Colonel Fentress, where ho meets Yancy and Cavendish. CHAPTER XXIV. (Continued). When they entered the library Fen tresa turned and took stock of his KUOBts. Mahaffy he had seen beforo; Yancy and Cavendish were of courso strangers to him, but their appear ance explained them; last or all hla glance shifted to the Judge. He had heard something of those activities by means of which Slocutn Prlco had striven to distinguish himself, nnd ho had a certain curiosity respecting tho man. It was Immediately satisfied. The Judge bod reached a degreo or ahabblness seldom equaled, and but for his mellow, effulgent personality might well have passed for a common vagabond; and If his dress advortlsed the state or his finances, his face ex plained his habits. No misconception was possible about either. "May I offer you a glass or liquor?" asked Fentress, breaking tho silence. Ho stepped to the walnut center-table where there was a decanter and Rlassos. Dy a gesture the Judge de clined tho Invitation. Whereat tho colonel looked surprised, but not so surprised as Mahaffy. Thcro was an other silence. "I don't think we ever mot before?" observed Fentress, There was some thing in the fixed stare his visitor was bending upon him that ho round dis quieting, Just why, he could not have told. But that fixed stare of the Judge's continued. No, the man had not changed he had grown older certain ly, but age had not coma ungraceful ly; ho became the glossy broadcloth and spotless linen he wore. Here was a man who could command tho good things ot life, using them with a ra tional temperance. The room Itself waB In harmony with nU character; It was plain but rich In Its appoint ments, at once his library and his or flco, whilo the well-filled cases ranged about tho walls showed his tastes to bo In the main scholarly and Intel lectual. "How'' long have you lived hero?" asked the Judge abruptly. Fentress seemed to hesitate; but the Judge's glance, compelling and Insistent, de manded an answer. "Ten years." "You have known many men of all classes as a lawyer and a planter?" aid the Judge. Fentress Inclined his bead. The Judge took a step noaror blm. "People have a great trick of coming and golnir In thesn wnt..m statesman sorts of damned riffraff arm in ana out or these new lands." A deadly earnestness lifted the Judge's words above mere rudeness. Fen tress, cold and distant, made no reply. "For the past twenty years I have been looking ror a man by the name of Gatewood David Gatewood." Dis ciplined as he waa, the colonel start ed violently. "Ever beard of him, Fentress?" demanded the Judge with a savage scowl. "What's all this to me?" The words came with a gasp from Fentress' twitching lips. The Judge looked at blm moody and frowning. ( Coprt "I have reason to think this man Gntowood came to west TonnoBsee," ho snld. "if so, I have never hoard ot him." "Perhaps not under that name at any rate, you nro going to hear or blm now. This man Gatewood, who be tween ouraolvca wns a damned scoun drol" tho colonol winced "this man Gatewood had a friend who threw money and business in his way a plantor ho was, same as Gatewood. A Hort of partnership existed between tho pair. It proved an expensive en torpriso ror Gatewood's rriend, since ho enmo to truHt tho damned scoun drel moro nnd more as tlmo passed oven largo stuns or his money were In Gatewood's hands " Fentress' countenance wan like stone, da expres sionless nnd as rigid. Dy tho door stood Mahaffy with Yancy nnd Cavendish; they under stood that what was obscure and meaningless to thorn held a tragic slgnlllcanco to these two men. The Judge's heavy race, ordinarily battered and debauched, but Infinitely good natured, l)o ro now tho markings or deep passion, and tho Volco that rum bled forth from his capacious chest cumo to thoir cars llko distant thun der. "This trlend or Gatewood's had a wife " The Judge's voice broke, emo tion shook him llko a loar; he was tearing open bis wounds. Ho reached over and poured httnseir a drink, suck ing It down with greedy lips. "There was a wife" ho whirled about on his heol nnd faced Fentress again. "There wns a wife, Fentress" ho fixed Ken tress with his blazing eyes. "A wire nnd child. Well, ono day Qatowood and tho wire were missing. Under the circumstances Gatewood's trlend was well rid of tho pair he should have been grateful, but ho wasn't, tor bis wlfo took his child, a daughter; and Gatewood a trlfio or thirty thousand dollars his friend had Intrusted to him!" There was another silence. "At a later day I mot this man who bad been betrayed by his wife and robbed by his friond. He bad fallen out of tho race drink had done for him there was Just one thing be seemed to care about, and that was the fate of bio child, but maybe bo was only curious thero. He wondered It she had lived, and married" Once more the Judge paused. "What's all this to me?" asked Fen tress. "Are you euro It's nothing to you?" demanded the Judgo hoarsoly. "Un derstand this, Fentress, Gatewood's treachery brought ruin to at least two lives. It caused the woman's father to hide his faco from the world; It wasn't enough ror him that his friends bellovcd bis daughter dead; he knew differently, and the shame or that knowledge ate Into bis soul. It cost tho husband bis place In tho world, too in tho end it made or him a vagabond and a penniless wan derer." 'This Is nothing to me," said Ken tress. ' "Walt!" cried tho Judge. "About six years ago the woman was seen at her Ha TaaattJ tha Qiaat .na- THE PRODIGAL JUDGE &UGHAM KESTEl UVSTtyTWtS ByJXMUVU i9". fat Betas Mtfut Covnr father's home In North Carolina. 1 reckon Gntowood hnd cast her off. She didn't go back ompty-handed. She had run away rrom her husband with a child a girl; alter a lapso or twen ty years sho returned to' hor lather with a boy or two or throo. Thero aro two questions that must bo an swered when 1 find Gntowood: what beenmo of tho woman, and what be came or tho child; aro they living or dead; did tho daughter grow up and marry nnd havo a son? When I get ray answer It will bo time enough to think or Gatewood's punishment!" Tho Judge leaned forward across tho table, bringing his race close to Ken tress' race. "Look at mo do you know me now?" 'But Fentress' expression never al tered. Tho Judge fell back a step. "Fentress, I want tho boy," ho said quietly. "What boy?" "My grandson!" "You nro mad! What do I know of him or you?" Fentress was gain ing courago rrom tho sound ot his own voice. "You know who he Is and whero bo Is. Your business relations with this man Ware have put you on the track or tho Qulntard lands In this state. You Intend to uso tho boy to gather them in." "You're mad!" repeated Fentress. "Unless you bring him to mo inside or twenty-rour hours I'll smash you!" roared tho Judgo. "Your name isn't Fentress, It's Gatewood; you've stolen tho name or Fentress, Just as you hnvo Btolon other things. What's come ot Turborvlllo's money? Damn your soul! I want my grandson! I'll pull you down and leave you stripped and bare! I'll, tell tho world tho raise triend you've been tho thier you aro! I'll strip you nnd turn you ,out or these doors as naked as when you en tered the world!" The Judge seemed to tower above Fentress; the man bad shot up out of his deep debase ment. "Choose! Choose!" be thun dered, his shaggy brows bent In a menacing frown. "I know nothing about the boy," said Fentress slowly. "By God, you lie!" Btormed tho Judge. "I know nothing about tho boy." and Fentress took a step toward the door. "Stny where you are!" commanded the Judge. "It you attempt to leave this room to call your niggers I'll kill you on Its threshold!" But Yancy and CavcndUb bad that was evident, and Fentress' thin race cast Itself In boggard lines. He was feeling the Judge's terrible ca pacity, his unexpected ability to deal with a Bupremo situation. Even Ma haffy gazed at his friend In wonder. He bad only seen him spend himself on trifles, with no further object than stepped to tho door with an intention the next meal or tho next drink; be had believed that as ho knew him so he had always been, lax and loose ot tongue and deed, a noisy tavern bero, but now be saw that he was filling what must have been the measure of his manhood. ConUnta In Fantraaf Fata. ''jW 3n?3?- -AVS BH aw sT-L. 3 W?''i- as B MMDT, -j V -" H BJBJ KSJ "I tell you I had no band in carry ing off tho boy," said Fentress with a sardonic smllo. "I look to you to return blm. Stir yourself, Gatowood, or by God, I'll ,hold so flerco n reckoning with you" The sentenco remained unfinished, for FentrosH felt hla overwrought nerves snap, and, giving way to a sudden blind fury, struck at tho Judge. "Wo ure too old for rough and tum ble," said the Judge, who had dis played astonishing agility In avoiding tho blow. "Kurthormoro wo were onco gentlemen. At present I am what 1 am, whllo you nro r hound and a blackguard! Wo'll settle this as be comes our breeding," lie poured him self a second gluss or liquor rrom Kentress' decanter. "I wondor ir it Is possible to Insult you," and he tossed glass and enntonts in Kentress' face. Tho colonel's thin features were convulsed. The Judgo watched blm with a scornrul curling of the lips. "1 am tt eating you better than you de servo," he taunted. "Tomorrow morning at sun-up at Uoggs' race-track!" cried Kentress. The Judge bowed with splendid cour tesy. "Nothing could please mo hair so well," he declared. Ho turned to tho others. "Gentlemen, this Is a private matter. When I have met Colonel Fentress I shall mako a public an nouncement of why this appealed necessary to mo; until then I trust this matter will not be given pub licity. May I ask your Bllenco?" He bowed again, and nbruptly passed rrom the room. ' His three trlends followed in his steps, leaving Fentress standing by tho table, the ghost or a smile on his thin lips. As if the very place were evil, the Judgo burrled down tho drive toward tho road. At the gate he paused and turned on bis companions, but bis features woro a look of dignity that forbade comment or question. He held out bis band to Yancy. "Sir," be said, "if I could command the riches of the Indies, It would tax my resources to meet the fractional part of my obligations to you." "Think of that!" said Yancy, as much overwhelmed by the Judge's manner as by his words. "His Uncle Bob shall keep bis place In my grandson's lire! We'll watch blm grow Into manhood together." The Judge was visibly affected. A smile of deep content parted Mr. Yancy's lips as bis muscular fingers closed about tho Judge's band with crushing force. "Whoop!" cried CavendlBh, delight ed at this recognition of Yancy's tovo ror the boy, and ho gleefully uuioto the austere Mahaffy on the shoulder. But Mahnffy was dumb In the pres ence or the decencies; bo quite lacked an Interpreter. The Judge looked back at tho house. "Mine!" he muttered. "The clothes he Btands In tho rood be eats mino! Mine!" CHAPTER XXV. The Bubble Bursts. At about the same hour that tho Judge was burling threats and insults at Colonel Fentress, three men. were waiting ton miles away at the bead of the bayou which served to Isolate Hicks' cabin. Now no one ot these three bad ever beard of Judge Slocum Price; tho breath or bis fame bad never blown, however gently, in their direction, yet they wero preparing to thrust opportunity upon him. To this end tiey were lounging about the opening In the woods where the horses belonging to Ware and Murrell were tied. At length the dip or oars became audible in tho silence and one ot the trio stole down the path, a matter or fifty yards, to a point that overlooked tho bayou. He was gono but a mo ment, "It's Murrell all right!" be said In an eager whisper. "Him and anothor fellow the Hicks girl Is rowing them." Ho glanced from ono to ttp otbor of bis companions, who seemed to take firmer bold ot thomselvcs un der hla eya. "It'll be all right," ho protested lightly. "He'a as good as 'ours. Walt till I give you the word." And he led the way Into an adjacent thickot. Moantlme Ware and Murrell bad landed and wero coming along tho path, tho outlaw a step 'or two in ad vance of bis friend. Tbey reached the horses and wero untying them when the thicket suddenly disgorged the three mon; each beld a cocked pistol; two ot these pistols covered Murrell and tho third was leveled at Ware. (TO DB CONTINUED.) Heavy. "Speaking of the holy bonds of mat rtmony." "Speak on, I aa prepared to bear the worst" "Our friend lluffklaa says tbara art times wbaa they ma to blat Ilka log caalai." RIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA Mrsv Mary Ellaby of Ansloy was killed In a runaway near that place. The sixteenth annual fraternal pio nlc of Dlller will bo held August 1G. Mrs. Mary Chlvlngton, a territorial pioneer of Nebraska, is dead at Ne braska City. Polk celebrated tho sixth annlven sary of the founding ot the town Au gust 8 and 9, The Chautauqua Just closed at York' waB one of tho most successful ever held at that place Former residents of Indiana now liv ing In York county will hold a picnic In York, August 24, L. K. Holmes, who ,was struck by an automobllo near Lincoln a week ago, died as a result. . Lightning struck the steeplo of the Catholic church at Seward during the electric storm Tuesday night. Governor Aldrlch and J. II. Moro head were speakers at the ninth an mini street fair at Shubert, Just closed. Caroline 'Grainger, nged 5, of Eustis fell whllo playing, receiving lnjurlef which resulted In blood poisoning, causing her denth a few days later. Tho Hcv. A. Adams of Benson is ar ranging for the annual state confer ence of the Church of God, which Is to be held at Moorefleld, August 17-26. In a runnwny accident near Nystcd, Jncob Sorenson was Instantly killed, his wife seriously Injured and Beveral others In the party were badly shaken up. Arrangements aro In the making for a big tlmo In Harvard August 22 and 2:1, when tho Clay County Firemen's association holds Its annual tourna ment. J. E. Croft, aged 27, a farmer ot Mullen, Neb., died at an Omaha hos pital from blood poisoning, developing1 from the bite of a steer. He hnd been 111 four days. Boy scouts of Peru enjoyed n three day encampment on the banks of tho Missouri river near Brqwnvllle last week. Tho camp was under the direc tion of Prof. Smith. Govornor Aldrlch will deliver the principal address at tho tenth annual reunion ot the Pioneers' association o( Burt county, to be held in Folsom park at Tekamah, August 30. The West Point Milling company has abandoned all hopo of ever being enabled to restore the dam at West Point which was completely destroyed by the floods of last spring. Two hundred visitors from vnrioiiE parts of tho state witnessed tho clos ing exercises or the annual tourna ment or tho western division Tel. Jed. Sokol at Vavras park at Crete, Sun day. The residence of M. A. Berry of Bethany was struck by lightning Mon day morning. The chimney on the house was demolished and a hole made In the basement where tho bolt hit the ground. ' On the farm of Mrs. Pierce, four miles northeast of Clay Center, light ning struck Arthur Swanson, who was on a load of wheat bundles which ho was hauling to tho machine, killing blm instantly. Growers state that this has been the poorest Benson for sweet corn for many years. The flrBt planting proved nlmost a falluro because when the Btalks were fertilizing dry weather prevailed and many failed to bear an car. The annual reunion of the G. A. R. or the eastern district ot Nebraska, comprising the counties of Saunders, Cass, Lancaster, Otoe, Sarpy, Soward and Douglas, 1b In session at Ashland. The attendance is one of the largest In Its history. Mrs. Kllle Campbell, wife of E. W. Campbell ,a farmer living three miles northwest of Adams, sustained a broken arm and severe bruises about the body in a runaway. Her 12-year-old daughter, who was with her, es caped Injury. In going down a hill the neckyoke broke, frightening the team. Twisting the sheet of her bed about her neck, after fastening the loose end to the low post of the bed, Mrs. Emma Currier, aged thirty-three years, of Loup City, committed suicide at a Lin coln hospital. Mrs. Currier has been under treatment In the city for several days. A mental derangement was the cause. On account of a real shortage of harvest bands to care for the grain, alfalfa and hay crops which are now being cut, 800 Cheyenne county busi ness and professional men, clerks, county officers and stenographers, In cluding many pretty girls, will go into tho fields and donate ono day's work In order to save the largest crops ever J raised In Cheyenne county. Tne Sid ney board of trade will set a day for tho free labor. A freight car shortage ot more than 100.000 cars by Octobor is tho proph ecy of Omahu railroad men who have' been studying statistics and who know something of the big freight move ment' which is about to start. Ernest Rick, a farm band near Da kota City, was caught in a binder, when tho horses started to run away, and was drngged 100 feet. He was seriously cut about the back and badly brulBod. He was takon to a Sioux City hospital, and phyBlcrans believe that ho will recover. The threshing season started In Box Butte county, this weelr; and from now on until lato this fall the threshing outfits will be kept buBy. The acreage of fee small grain Is larger than usual and tbo yield will also be better than the general average. The excellent weather of last wees has developed the corn In Chase county very materially. Fall wheat Ii In shock and the spring wheat harvest will soon be over. Aa much aa 'thirty five bushels to the acre are claimed 1b some fields, tba average yield for th coanty being estimated at fifteen busa 4i par acrt. WERE NOT AT ALL DIVERTING Serious-Minded Quaker Saw Nothing to Smile at In the Lighter Poems of Whlttler. Tho Into Gertrude Whlttler Cart land, cousin of Whlttler. the Quaker poet, presented nn Ideal picture pt tho saintly nged Quakeress. Her weot, Bereno face, framed In Its tight little bonnet, semod to Bhlne with clear, spiritual rudlar.ee; to hear hor recite, In a voice of tranquil music, tho hymns and graver poems of her famous relative was always delight, ful. But she did not have her cousin's likely senBe of humor; and It waa bard to tell whether this lack lessen ed or Increased tho effect, when In exactly the same grave, even tones, nhe occasionally read aloud some of tho verse that ho wrote, not for pub lication, 'out for the pleasure of hla. Intlmato circle. That was nlwnyo light, frequently gay, sometimes fain ly rollicking. Her admiration for tho writer madu her try very hnrd to approclato hll fun; and she thought she did bo; yej mirth seemed Always as alien to ho tongue .ib a red rosette pinned upoil her dove-gray Bhoulder-shawl wouicf havo been to her costume. This 1m congrulty was fc!t, doubtless, by nnj other Friend, of even more scrlou mind than she, who once Bald to hcl reprovingly: , "Tho verses nro harmless, and 1 perceive they are Intended to ba diverting; but they do not divert mef Gertrude, and I do not think thejl really divert thee. Bo honest with) i.hyself; If thee rend them and did nof know thy cousin Grccnlenf wroW them, would theo not consider them extremely silly? Thee knows I mean 00 affront, and greatly admiro tba cousin Grccnlcaf. Surely ho Is a great poet; but a great poet may some' times write such silly Btuff. And sure ly this tlmo thy sousln hath done It. Reflect nnd thee will agree with me.'' She reflocted on the necessity ot caro In selecting an audience for a take. Youth's Companion. What He Bought. A Syracuse business man living in one of the suburbs docided to givo up his spacious back yard to the rais ing of currants as a profitablo slda Issue. So, wishing to absorb all the Information he could acquire on tho subject ot tho currant Industry ha went down town ono Saturday after noon recently and returned with bla arms full of books. "Well, Teddy," Inquired his enthusi astic spouse, as ho dumped tho vol umes on tho table, "did you succeed In getting what you wanted?" , "Sure, I did!" lib replied, proudly, pointing to the books. "I bought a wholo, year's edition of a standard work on current literature." Ex change. Unsatisfactory Transaction. 'Til admit," sold Erastus Pinkley, "dat de mule I dono traded off foh a bushel of oats warn't much good. But jus' do same I feels like I been cheated." "What aro do trouble?" inquired Miss Miami Brown. 1 "I traded de mule off for a bushel ol oats. While I had my back turned de mule done et de oats, an' I don' see how I's gwlnter break even." Washington Star. Lacks Originality. "Bllklns tells mo that ho has lately subscribed for a new thought maga zine." "I hope Its perusal will inspire blm with some now thoughts. Nobody talks about tho weather more than Bllklns docs." Business Practice. "The new actor In this company, certainly knows how' to act on poo pie's feelings with fine touches." "Yes; be used to bo a dentist." Courtship is less expensive than, marriage, according to the figures on gas bills. Trying to be a Christian on the In stallment plan is a waste of time. A Triumph Of Cookery Post Toasties Many delicious dishes have been made from Indian Corn by the skill and ingenuity of the ex pert cook. But none of these crea tions excels Post Toast- ' if in tempting the palate. "TOMtfes" are a lux. ury that make a delight ful hot -weather economy. The first package tells its own story. "TIm Memory Lingm" SeU by Ciocm. Ta Est fcr&.? m .. iM'dwttiiiimdH,i, jwavriiftoiimnii 'fw, jH . nafrife'ifc mm.. ..........i... .... -w.,.,wv.l.. .. . -,-i....,i ., -.. .V'-'fcH. 9t Jt 1!l . yj. V