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Tuesday, October 15, 1912. THE ASHEVILL2 GAZITTI-NZU3 Three, asa an esoteric -way, nrreeftiiJ Slasconsef to 'ques 'But you made one mistake, i Wisconsin 3 tioning at every pier and landing stage; making inquiry in every town and hamlet; but without a thimbleful she went on. "You should not have let that fisherman, Peter Johnson, go." Children Cry for Fletcher's At this I raised my head and regard-: of profit for our pains. As that black craft, with dimmed lights and muffled ed her with something like astonishment. 1 engines, had eluded our pursuit on VDII'Sii FORTDilE He was one of them," she explained the night of Cameron's disappearance, in a tone of conviction.

iw'Mr XCk-JJ "How can you say that?" I asked, I i I so for forty-eight hours succeeding she had baffled our quest. No one knew her; no one had seen her. J1 v. IS 3-SURE! As for that shaken, frayed, pallid a little nettled. It annoyed me that she should be so positive, knowing no more of the man than that which I had told her.

Freed From Pain, Weakness, Terrible Backache and De "I feel it," she answered. And that fisherman, Peter Johnson, he appeared below, rather than above, suspicion. If my knowledge of men went for anything he was too inferior both mentally and physically to be a par was all the reason she could give. spair by Lydia E. Pink- ham Compound.

Tho Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been In two for over 30 years, has borne the signature of If contemplating a trip to I had not expected to find such de velopment of intuition regarding world ticipant in any such plot as was here ana has been made under his Bonal supervision sine Its Infancy. Coloma. Wis. For three years 1 was involved. He seemed to me woefully Toledo or Detroit troubled with female weakness, irreg weak and wasted, and with as little brains as sinew.

So, with enough ularities, backache and bearing down 1 ly matters In one so young, and so fresh from conventual seclusion. And then her judgment seemed to keep pace with her auguries; for when I spoke of inviting the aid of detectives and the newspapers, she begged me to consider. "I am afraid for him," she pursued gravely. "Publicity might mean death. pains.

I saw an ad money for a new mast and sail, we had put htm and his dory ashore at our first landing, and had forthwith forgotten him. vertisement of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and MacLeod bad been inclined to con decided to try it. tinue the search, but I argued that After taking several any further efforts In that direction you naturally select the Big Four Route because of its splendid equipment, unsurpassed service and perfect road-bed. Three Splendid Trains Daily bottles I found it was would be only a waste of time.

The' If they discover they are being sought, they may murder him. Somehow, I feel he is still alive; and so we must do nothing that will incite them to helping me, and All Counterfeits, Imitations and "Just-as-good" are but Experiments that trifle with aud endanger the benJih Infants and ChUdren Experience against Experiment, What is CASTORIA Cnstoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare, gorfc, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It I Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Sureotlo substance. Its age is Its guarantee.

It destroys Warms and allays Pcverlshness. It cures Diarrhosa and AVhtd CoUc It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulate the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural slecp; The Children's Panacea Tho Mother's Friend. GENUINE ASTO I A ALWAYS craft we were looking for might have must say that 1 am come from any ore of a thousand further violence." perfectly well now and cannot thank places and returned to any one of a thousand more. Some more effective, "But," I returned, conscious of the force of her argument, yet failing to see how this caution could very well vou enough for what Lydia E.

Pink ham's Vegetable Compound has done for general and far-reaching steps must be taken, I held, and taken quickly. John Wentland, R.F.D., 0:40 p. m. 5:15 a. m.

be exercised, "we can't find him without seeking." Leave Cincinnati Arrive Toledo Arrive Detroit 8:35 b. m. 2:18 p.m. 4:05 p. m.

12:35 noon 6:42 p.m. 8:25 p. m. Indeed I felt now that to keep secret No. 3, Box 60, Coloma, Wis.

7:20 longer tho conspiracy, as Indicated in "No, but we can seek him In se Women who are suffering from those those mystic letters, would be little distressing ills peculiar to their sex cret. The newspapers must not tell the world." should not lose sight of these facts or short of criminal. The aid of the police and the press must be Invoked at once, and nothing left undone to trace Bears the Signature of "The police would of course tell the doubt the ability of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to restore their the crime to its source. health.

newspapers," I added. "We can do some things, without the police," was her next assertion. "There are some things that I can do; and there are more that you can do." There are probably hundreds of thou Bu' my first and most onerous task Toledo sleeper on 9:40 p.m. train 'may be occupied at Toledo until 7:30 a.m. Trains from the South make good connections in the same station in Cincinnati with these trains.

Coaches and parlor cars on day trains and electric lighted sleeping cars on night trains. Dining car for all meals. Tour local ticket agent will be glad to ticket you via this routs and obtain sleeping car reservations for you from Cincinnati, or on request we will give you complete information and assist you in making kll the arrangements for your trip. Address was to acquaint Evelyn Grayson with sands, perhaps millions of women in the United States who have been benefited the facts as I knew them. How I shrank from that duty is beyond any by this famous old remedy, which was produced from roots and herbs over 30 thing I can put into words.

I know She was thoughtful for a moment, and then: "I am so sorry about Peter Johnson! You should never have lost fi ji it would have been far easier for me years ago by a woman to relieve woman's suffering. If you are sick and need such a medicine, why don't you try it? to have carried her definite news of sight of him." her uncle's death. What I had to The Kind You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years TMC CCNTHtllt COMPANY, 77 MUllllilV STRICT. N'W OHK etTT. "We gave him money and God If you want special advice write to tell was horrible in its Btark obscurity.

And yet, if I could have foreseen just what was to follow, I might have O.L. MITCHELL General Southern Agent CHATTANOOGA, TENN. Lydia Plnkham Medicine Co. (confi dential) Lynn, Mass. Your letter will be opened, read and ans-wred by spared myself a goodly share of dls- tress.

woman and held in strict couuaenco. speed," I reminded her. "Captain MacLeod must go back there, where you left him. Where was it? Siasconset? He must trace him. His trail won't lead to Gloucester, I'm sure of that." My self-esteem was not being vigorously stimulated by the young lady at this juncture.

Indeed, I was being I imagined 1 knew Evelyn Grayson, time since 'the nlgbt of tile" strange before this. I thought I had sounded the profundities of her fortitude and catastrophe. With what heroic fortitude she heard the narrative may best be Indicated by the statement that courage on the night that I spread be' a It's a Saving of money to trade at fore her and read with her that third and last letter. But my fancy did her throughout it all she sat calmly atten made to feel more and more my strategics! Inferiority, cro Continued.) an- injustice. She was even more of a woman than I dreamed.

Store 0 and Cent Recently I chanced upon these lines 1 Lrtmil 25 by Thomas Dunn English, which must tive, but unquestioning, and with no sign of emotion beyond her continued pallor and a recurrent tensing of her small white hands. At the end I leaned forward and with left elbow on knee rested my forehead in my palm. She sat beside me on the same settee; and now she drew, closer, and laying her cool right hand over my own dis have been inspired by such a one as 11 The Store of Ten Thousand Bargains. sue: If you have young children you have perhaps noticed that disorders of the stomach are their most common ailment. To correct this you will find Chamberlain's Stomach and IJver Tablets excellent They are easy and pleasant to take, and mild and gentle In effect.

For sale by all dealers. Adv So much Is clear. 4y Former Stand of Bon Marche. 3 South Main St. Though little dangers they may fear.

when greater perils men environ. Then women show a front of Iron; And, gentle In thetr manner, they Do bold things In a quiet way. engaged one, began stroking my hair with her left. Tot full minute she said nothing. Then, in soothing ac Horace Hazeiiine "3 H.

SEIGLE Grocer Evelyn Grayson did a bold thing in a quiet way that morning. I have not cents: "I am glad you didn't find the boat Nothing, Just then. I waited. And Lowest prices and prompt That means he is on it. If you had found it, it would have been some ordinary thing having no connection With this affair, whatever." It was odd reasoning, but very, tm delivery.

white I was waiting I saw that black, spooky craft come out of the dark. 1 Fhoue 428 54 Woodfin St. and go skimming astern of us. little) after eight bells I came down from the bridge I stopped there for just a minute to have a word with Skin On Fire Brandon when he came up and then I went myself to look after Johnson WE BUY Sell and Exchange Furniture, Fixtures, etc. Asheville Furniture Co.

29 South Main St. Phone 1851 yet forgotten how marble white she was, and yet how bravely she came, with, springing step and lifted chin and fearless eyes. I bad waited her coming in the music room, with its score of reminders of happy evenings in which he had participated. The chair he usually chose, in the corner, near the great bow window against which the east wind was now driving the rain in gusty splashes, took on a pathos which moved me to weakness. The Baudelaire lyric, spread open-paged upon the music rack of the piano, stirred memories scarcely less harrowing.

A photograph, an ash tray, a paper knife, all commonplace objects of themselves, but so linked to him by association, became, suddenly, instruments of emotional and the man I'd set to watch him. The fisherman waa in a bunk sound asleep, and the man swore he had been lying there snoring, for the past two hours, 'Who was it came up the ladder twen Just the mild, simple wash, the well known D.D.D. Prescription for and the Itch is gone. A 25-cent bottle will prove it. We have sold other remedies for sltln trouble but none that we could guarantee as we can the D.D.D.

remedy. If the first repular size $1.00 bottle does not do exactly as we say, it will not cost you a cent. Smith's Drug Store, corner South Main street and Pack square. ty minutes I asked. He looked at me as if he thought I was gone J.

A. TILLMAN Jeweler, 17 North Main St. I carry a nice- line of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry, and make a specialty of repair work. Satisfaction guaranteed. suddenly loony.

'Before the watch changed?" he asked. I nodded. 'Not a soul came or he said, 'since been "And the boat without lights?" 8YNOPSI3. CHAPTER T. Robert Cameron, capitalist, consults Philip Clyde, newspaper publisher, regarding anonymous throalonlnir lettera has received.

The first promises sample of the writer's power on a certain day. On that day the head la mysteriously cut from a portrait of Cameron while the latter is In the room. has a theory that the portrait waa mutilated while the room was unoccupied and the head lafr removed by means of a unnoticed by Cameron, CHAPTER Grayson. Cameron's niece, with whom.CIyde la In love, finds the head of Cameron's portrait nailed to a tree, where hau been used as a target Clyde pledges Evelyn to secrecy. CHAPTER learns that a Chinese boy employed by Phlletus Murphy, an artist living nearby, bad borrowed rifle from Cameron' lodgekeeper.

CiTA'PTKR CryUe makes an excuse to call on Murphy and Is epulsed. Ho Jretends to be Investigating alleged In-ractlons of the game lawa and speaks of finding the bowl of an opium oipe under the tree where Cameron's portrait was found. The Chines boy Is found dead next morning. CHAPTER visiting Cameron in his dressing room a Null Gwynne mirror la mysterlou ly shuttered. CHAPTER VII.

Cameron becomes se. Ttously III as a result of the shock. The third letter appears mysteriously on Cameron's elck bed. It makea direct threats against the life of Cameron. Clyde tells Cameron tha envelope was empty.

He tells Evelyn everything and plans to take Cameron on a yacht trip. CHAPTER yacht picks up a fisherman found drifting helplessly In a boat. He (fives the name of Jiihnmin. Cameron disappears from yacht while Clyde's back Is turned. CHAPTER ir-A fruitless search Is made for a motor, boat seen by the captain just before Cameron disappeared.

you inquire about her? Who else saw her?" "I asked the lookouts; but well, Perfect Projection Pictures In this environment, under these Influences, I rose to meet her, wordless. Yet my expression and attitude must have spoken loudly enough to confirm the dread that was in her heart, for even before she spoke I was sure that she knew. And then she had taken my two outstretched hands Electric Chafing Dish Cooking Pleases Women Immensely Every Woman Should Enjoy This Convenience. Growing More Popular Daily. The electric chafing disli is daily gaininga firmer hold in every modern home.

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69. no, sir and that's very strange to me neither, of them saw her. I gave them both a rating. If they weren'; asleep I don't see bow they could The Palace in hers and raised her brave eyes to have missed her." The thing was growing more and more baffling. MacLeod was the last man to be accused of Imaginative fan' cies.

He wan oughly In earnest in Three. New Keels Ench Day. Open from ttfll p. in. what he had me; and yet for neither of his statements had he the mine, and low-voiced, but Bure and tremorless, was saying: "I feared it, Philip.

From the very first, I feared And when I told her all, to the smallest detail, it was as though she were the man and I the woman; for the recital had been for me a very painful confession of my own incompetence, and Its conclusion left me more -nervously unstrung than at any smallest corroboration. For my own part I was sure that, at the time he mentioned, no vessel of any descrip tion had passed anywhere near us, "What did you make the craft out to be?" "Well, sir, I couldn't say exactly, She was In sight only a minute; com' lug In ranee of our own lights. She My candor' seemed to rfillcveUtra. "Well, Mr. Clyde," be said, with looked more like a tug than anything eaual sincerity, "maybe I was out else; but she had more speed than the economical cooking fal DREAMLAND THE THEATRE BEAUTIFUL Dick Thompson Company with bin Irish llcnut.v, Maude Vinton, In "KHIX CiO IUIAGII." will be a decided hit Miss Vinton has a lii ll.

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"The Rose of the Island. any tug I ever saw. She hadn't the lines of a yacht." wasn't a pilot "Oh, no, sir. New York pilots don' cruise this far east, and the Boston pilots wouldn't be so far away from Cottolene is Well adapted for pastry-making because it produces light, delicate, flaky crust and is much more 1 home either. I offered the captain a cigar, which wholesome than either butter he declined, filling his pipe in preference.

When I lighted a cigar myself, EBX2 I asked "I suppose you have some theory, MacLeod. You don't seriously think or lard. Cottolene' is a vegetable product contains no animal fat It has more nutritive valueand food made with it It was suicide?" As usual he was slow to answer. After a thoughtful rfecond, he said: spoken, but I wanted to know what you'd say to the points that were puzzling me," "You did perfectly right," I told him. "As you have said, there must be no secrets between us." And then, as I resumed my seat, I asked: "What about the fisherman He hasn't evaded bis guard, has he?" MacLeod sat down again too.

"He's in where I put him, now," he answered with a shade of reluctance, "but I'm not sure; It's almost as mysterious as the other but I could have sworn I saw him come up that for'ard hatchway and go sneaking aft while I was on the bridge." "When was thatT" I pressed, eagerly. "About a quarter of twelve." "What m. tiu IMPORTANT TO MOTHERS A record of sixty-five years continues use of "Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Byrup" by mothers In all parts of the World. Is the hlgheM praise that any remedy for "children teething" ever received.

Every year the young mother follows In the footsteps of her mother and finds Mrs. Wlnslow's Boothtng Byrup to be the favorite, and so It has gone on for a period of six I'd be sorry to think that, Mr. c. di more readily than if you told me sdoui tne tnreai, ana uiauc uuiu uuiuu tau connecting that boat with It, It looks" and then be paused, thoughtful again. "It's not in possibility," he Cottolene is better and cheaper than lard, it costs Two- went on, after a second, "that they I about the DllCe Of lard.

i -Jl t.iM ft tf Ul Una I thirds of a pound of Cottolene will do the work of a full The Event of the State Fair ANNUAL FOOlriiALL GAME A. of North Carolina Georgetown University, The Biggest Football Game to be Played ill the State This Season RIDDICK ATHLETIC FIELD, RALEIGH, Thursday, October 17th, 1912 Game Cr.Ilcd 3:30 COUJU DBYV yiUCROU UIIU vu. biiu.iu'w But It that fellow I saw going aft Oh, Lord, no, sir! It's past me to see a way out. All the are keeping that craft in sight, and If we can only get thirty knots out of the Sibylla again, we'll find out what she If and what her business is, before morning." pound of butter or lard. Cottolaae Is never old in bulk si- CHAPTER ty-five years.

Millions of mothers I ways in tin pails, which P'o-tect it from dirt, dust and odors. It is always uniform and dependable. have used It for tholr children while teething with perfect success. It soothes the clilkl, softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind collo and Is tho best remsdy for diarrhoeas. A Woman of Intuition.

Ill tidings, always a hear burden, never weighed mors heavily on any on than on me that dismal, rainy Rnndnr mornlne. on hlch I stepped Sold hy druggists and medicine dealers from ihe Sibylla's launch to the stone 1 In all parts of the known worio. Twentv-flve cents a. bottle. trs H.

K. ft water steps of Ciagholt. For two days! Ua sure and for Mrs. Wlnslow's v.e h1 searched tb CV md from trovl'i'OWU Vi an I Ailv..

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