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ERSKINE 01 - "GENTLEMENVI SYNOPSIS.-To the Kentucky wilderness outpost commanded by Jerome Sanders, in the time ime diately preceding the levolution, comes a white boy fleeing from a tribe of Shawnees by whom he had been captured and adopted as a son of the chief Kahtoo. ie 1 'given shelter and attracts they favorable attention of Dave Yandell, a leader among the settlers. The boy warns his new friends of the coming of a Shawnee war party. The fort Is attacked, and only saved by the timely appearance of a party of Virginians. Tle leader of these is fatally wounded, but in his dying moments recognizes the fugitive youth as his son. At Red Oaks. - *plantation on the James river, Vir ginia, Colonel Dale's home, the boy appears with a message for th'e colonel, who after reading it intro duces the bearer to his daughter Barbara as her cousin, Erskine Dale. l'rakine meets two other cousins, Harry Dale and Hugh Wil loughby. Ilueling rapiers on a wall at RedkOaks attract Erskine's at tention. Hle takes his first fencing lesson from Hugh. Yandell visits Red Oaks. At the county fair at Williamsburg Erakine meets a youth, Dano Grey, and there at once arises a bitter antagonism be tween them. CHAPTER VI-Contnued. , -6 The bully rushed. Dave caught lilim around the neck with his left arn, his right swinglng low, the bully was lifted from the ground, crushed against Dave's breast, the wind went out of hlm With a grunt, and Dave with a smile began swinging hin to and fro as though he were putting a child to sleep. Tihe spectators yelled their laughter and the bully roared like a bull. Then Dave reached around with' his left hand, caught the bully's left wrist, pulled loose hIs hold, and with a leftward twist of his own body tossed his antagoinist soei several feet away. The bully turned once in the air and lighted 3'esotindingly on his back. le got up dazed andsullen, but breaking into a good-natured laugh, shook his head and held forth the buckles to Dave. "You won 'em," Dave said. "They're yours. I wasn't wraistling for theta. You challenged. We'll shakhe hniids." Then Mly Lord Dunmnore sent for Dave and asked himi where hie was "And dto you know thle Indian coun try onl this side of the Cutnnberland?" asked hils lordtslilp. "Very well." Ills lordship slled thoughtfully. "I may hive need of you." Dave bowed: "I aim in Amerleni, mly lord." Ills lor-dsipii llamtted, buht he conl * 'trolled hliiself. "You arte at least ani open enemy," hie saId, and1( gave orders to mocve on. The horse race was now otn, and Colonel Daule hntd giveni Hutgih permniS sfon to r'ide Flirelly, bitt whetn lhe saw~ ~the lad's conittion he peremnptoly3 re fused. "'And nobody else cenn ride him," he sanid, withI tucth dlisapointtmetnt. "Let tie try !" cied Erskine. "'You I" Colotnel Dalie started to ilaugh, but he caught D~ave's eye. "Su rely," stid Dave. The colonel ihesitated. "Very well-I wi'l." At once the three went to the hiortse, antd the negro groom rolled lis eyes hletn lhe leartned whitt his purp'iose ?was. "Dis hoss'll kill (lit boy," lie tmut .tered, but tihe horse hnid already sub milted his haughty heaid 1o the lad's hand tund was slainding quietly. Even 'Colonel Dale shiowedl ntitazemnent and 'coticertn thene the body Inusisted that ~the saddle he takeni off', as lhe waintedl 'to 'ide ha reback, undl agtint Dave overcatme his scruples with a wordl of uall contidetice. Thle body hadiu b~een ~riding p~ony3 races batrebnek, he ex ~plined, amtiong t he idhmts, as long ~is lie lhaid been aide to sit ia hiotrse, 'he astotnishmientt of thle crowvd when they samw Colotnel [Dale's favor'lie horse (enitr the course wvith a young .id nn igrnt'CiIly onl htim lbarehacik willl haive to be lamnine(d, bitt whien ;they recogn'zedl the ridet' as t he tad who had wvon the i'ace, I le bettinug thri'ough psychologleal per'vertshty was 'stronger than ever on F'ir'ely. Hugh 'even took an addlitlonal bet with lis JTriend~ Grey, who was .quite openly ticornful. * ~ "Youl bet on the horse now," he "On both," said IHtgh. It was a prletty and a close race be "tweetn Ireily and a whilte-starred hauy miare, and they came dlown the courise -iock and neck like twvo whlirlwinds. IA wvar-whoop so Indian-like and Tcurdling that it startled every old Itfrontier'sman who heard it catme suid dlenly frotm one of the rIders, Thent Firefly Stretched ahead mnch by3 Inch, -and antothei' triumnphant savage yell -hieraldedI victory as the black horse ,swept ov'er the line a length ahead, DIane Grey Swore quIte fearfully, fot' itwas a heCt that he could til algrd to lose. Hie wias talking with Barbara when the boy caine back to the Dales, SDALE-I By JOHN FOX, Jr. the girl color resentfully, and the lad heard her say shhirply: "He Is my cousin," and she turned away from the young gallant and gave the youthful winner a glad smile. Again Hugh and Dane Grey were missing when the party started back to the town-tiey were gone to bet on "Bacon's Thunderbolts" in a cock fight. That.night they still were mniss Ing when the party went to see the Virginia Comedians in i phiy by one Mr. Congreve--they were gaining that night-and next morning when the Kentucky lad rose, lie an(1 I)ve through his window saw the two young roisterers approaching the porch of the hotel--much disheveled and all but staggering with drink. "I don't like that young ua," said Dave, "and lie has a bad inlluence on Ilugh."' That morning news came from New England that set the town a-quiver. England's answer to the Boston ten party had been the closing of Boston harbor. lit the Ifouse of Burgesses, the news was met with a burst of indilgnation. The 1st of June was straightway set apart us a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer that God would avert the calamity threat ening the clvil rights of Amerlei. Ili the middle of the afternoon my lord's coach and six white hor; cs swung from his great yard and made for the capitol-ny lord sitting erect and haughty, his lips set with the resolu tion to crush the spirit of the rebel lion. It nimtt have been a notable scene, for Nicholts, Bland, Lee, liar risoni, Peindileton, Henry and Jeffer sonl, andl(1 periaps Washington, were there. And mny lord was far from popular. lie hlad hitherto girded him self with all the trapping. of etiquette, had a court herald prescribe rules for the guiduce of VirgInians in ap proaching his excellency, had enter tWined little and, unlike his prede cetssors, uale no effort to establish ('ordial relations with the people of the capital. The Burgesses were to give a great hall in his htonor that very night. and now lie was coMie to ,/ ~ ~I jjr . ~f The Two Backwoodsmen Had Been Daze ythe Brilliance of It All.* dissoive them. Antd dissolve them lit did. They bowed gravely and withI no protest. Shaiking withi anigetr imy lord stalked to lisa coach aiid six while they repaired to the Apoi troom to prohibit the use of tea and plropose a general (congress of the cot. onhes. And t hat ball en me to pass, Ilitaughty hosts received their haughmty guest with the finest andl gratvest courtesy, 'bent low over my lady's hand1(, (Inanced with her daughters, and~ wrung fronm my lord's reluctant 11ps the one grudging word of comment: "(lent hemen !" And the ladies of his family hohhell I heir heads sadly in contirmuat ion, foi time steel-like barrier bletween their was so palpable that It could have been touched that night, it seemed, by the hand. Tihe two backwoodsmaen had beerx (dazzled by3 the brilliance of It all, for the boy had stood with Blarbatra, who hiad been allowed to look on for r wiiile. Again my lordl hard summuoned Datve to him an'.1 atsked many qutes. lins about the wilderness beyond th( Cumuberlandl, andi lie even had the b)oy to come upl and shako hands, and asked hinm where he had learned t( Btefore lBarbara was Rent homt Hugh and D~ane Girey, dressed with greant care~, eame in, with an exaggerat lion of dignity anti politeness that fioole'd few' otheirs than themselves I lugh, catching lBarbara's sadl and re p~roac'hfuh glance, did( not dare go neari her, hus. Dmae miade st ra ight for hier side wh'ien lie entered thle room-and h~owed with great gallantry. To thu btoy lie paid1( no attention whatever andi the latter. tiredi with indhignatiota and hate, tumrned hastily away, But ir )IONEER Copyrighted by Charles Scribner's Sons a corner unseeri he could not withhold watching the two closely, and he felt vaguely thatt he was Watching a fright ened bird and a snake. The little girl's selfecomposure seemted quite to vanish. her face flushed, her eyes were downcast, and her whole attitude had a mature embarrassment that was far beyond her years. The lad wondered and was deeply disturbed. The half overlooking and wholly contemptuous glance that Gsrey had shot over hIs head had stung lim life a Inife-cut, so like an actual knife indeed that with out knowing it his right hand was then fumbling at his belt. Dave too was noticing and so was Barbara's mother and her father, w)o knew very well that this smooth, suave, bold young diaredevil was deliberately lead Ing Hugh into all the mischief he could find. Nor (d i he leave the girl's side until she was taken home. Ers kine, too, left then and went back to the tavern and up to his room. 'f.hen with his knife in his belt he went down againt and waited on the porch. Already guests were coming back from the party nd it was not long before lie saw Hugh and Dane Grey half stumbling up the steps. Erskine rose. Grey confronted the Ind dully for a moment and then straightened. "H ere's anuzzer one wants to fight," he said thickly. "My young friend, I will oblige you anywhere with any thing, at any time-except tonight. You must regard zhat as grent honor, for I am not accustomed to ight with savages'." And he waved the boy away with such an insolent gesture that the lad, inowing no other desire with an en emy than to kill imi in any way pos sible, snatclhed his knife from his belt. He heard a cry of surprise and hoiror from Hugh and a huge hand caught his upraised wrist. "Put it back '" aid Dave sternly. The dazed boy obeyed iand Dave led himi upstairs. Dave talked to the had nbout the enormity of his offense, but to Dave lie w s inclinied to defend himself and his action. Next morning, however, when the' party started back to te Onks, Erskine felt a difference in th( atmosphere that maide him uneasy Barbara alone seemed unchanged, an he wa', (uick to guess that she had no been told of the in(ldent. Hugh wa (istincIlV (istant and surly for an other reason as well. lie had wantet to ask young G rey to beeome one o: their party and his fat her 1ha(d ((e! sively forbidden him-for anotheir rea son, too, thilin his influence over Ihugh: Grey and his family were Tories iand in high favor with Lord Dunmore. As yet Dave haii mnade no explana. tion ol extise for his young friend, but lie soonl mad1te, up his mind that it wouli be wise to otfer the best exten'u at ion as soon1 s -POssible; wleh c was simpuly that the lad knew no bet Ier, hadl not ye't had( the chance to learn, aon th Ile rage of linilulse hac ineted just ias he would have dlone among the Indians, whose code aulone lhe knew. The matte r (came to a headi shortly afteor t heir ari vol at lied Oaks when 'olonel Dale,. liarry, Hugh and Dave were on thle front poreb. The hoy was stainding behind the box-hedge near thle steps nd Ibarba-s iid just up l)ea red ini the doorwany. "WVell, what was the trouble?' Colonel D~ale had just ausked. "I le i ed to stiab Grey unarmned anfd without warning," said1 1lugh shortly. At the moment the boy enught sight of Barbarn. I ler eyes, filled with1 scorn, met his ini one long, sad, withiering look, and she turned noiselessly back into the house. Noiselessly too lie mielted iiito the gardlen, slipped down' to the river hank, and1( dropped to thec ground, lHe knew at last w~hat lie hiad odoine. Nothlung was sald to hilm whet1 le came back to the house and t hat night he scarcely opiened his lips. Ii1 silence he went to bed( and1( next morn ing he. was gone. 'flhe mystery was explaiined whue1 IBarba ra told how the boy too must have over'hearid Hiugh. "HeT's hurt," said Dave, "and he's gone home." "On foot?" asked Colonel Dale in credulously. "lie can trot all (day3 and muauke al m~O. t as good time as a horse.' "N Vhy, he'll starve." "He could get there on roots n/ herb~s anod wild honey, but he'll have fresh meat every (1ay. Stlll, I'll hhve to try to overtake hIm. I must go, anyh~ow." .And lie asked for his horse and wvent to get readcy for the jour'ney. Ter minutes liater Hugh and H arry rushed joyously to his room. "We're going with you !" they ei'led, andi Dave was greatly pleased. An hour later all were ready, and at the liastmnit IFirefly was led in, sad did ndbidled, and with a heading halter airound1 his neck. "it make me laugh. I have no use. I give hole dam planta shun Barbara." ('TO BE CONTiNUED.) Always on Full Time, Mills may start and mills may atop, but the dlivorce mill runs on forever, --Boston Trenancipt, Divorced 26 Years, Decide to Remarry It took James itenry of ChICa go and his former wife, Mrs. l1ary Henry, nearly twenty-six years to reaize their divorce was all a mistake. Henry, now sixty-three years old, has taken out a second murriage license to wed his former wife, who is fif ty-fivo years old. The coup'e were first narriet in 1886. Teni years later Henry brought suit for divorce on the groumid of in compatibilit y of temper, n^ 'vss granted a divorce. CROWD SEES FLYER KILLED IN MIDAIR Stunt Aviator Cut to Pieces by Propeller, Leaping From Plane to Plane. Chiengo.-Swiging on a rope ladder (angling froin an aIrplane 100 feet in the air as he sought to thrill 5,000 iHomewood pilensure seekers, Louis James, natiolizIly known "boy avia tor," wais cut' to pieces by the pro peller of another paine. Ills body fell to the ground, almost at the feet of '1is fIlAnee, Miss Ruth TrIlssimu. sev Squarely Into the Propeller. nteen years old. J.aues, who was but Ighleen years (ll, was a prot ege of pJis 1uthI L"w. Thle cciension wn~s thle second daiy >f nn nierial celehrntlion uander the nusi gliees ofi the1 Amilerlenln L egion~ I"ost Of I Tomewood. A great thironig had gath ereud. A dioze.n plane wl'S ere whiirrinag throuigh thle atir, nlose dIIVes, tail splus11, t he othemr hair- -ra isers of' thle aerial art hldl~ the s1petaltors. Then&'l enme the feature of lie day. Jamiles was to( per formi thle stulnt madae faillous b~y Ibleut. (Oier ( . L~ockient-thiat of e'illing Twice before that day lie 1had tried it andl~ failed. Jntnies ellinhued to thle topl wing of one pluine, and, lying lhat up~on its suir foee grasp~ed two struts iand gave the signal to go nheind. Thue two ships1 took the ir iul slowly cilimbed to n height of 8(00 feet. Ti~ee the plilot In the ul)pper Phun brouight the dalngling ladder to witin a few inche4s of JTames' (Putlstre~tchled hn nds before lie was1 abl)11 to grasp it. lie wa~s seenl a se(cond liiter haingling free. Am1(1I lien The lihanes seemed 14) sheer toIget her for a miomient. Jamiles and (lie lidder werPe thrown squaire'ly into tihe propiel ier of thle lower 81111. Ja11ms' bodly wais seen to1CP rumilp. A mlomenilt lateor, miangled and( bileeding, lie dlropesd int o the cr'owd far below. Women~'1 (Pcereme an d finted. MIss TIrlisman san k to the ground unlon selouis. HURLED -OVER CLIFF; LIVES Forester, Legs Broken in Rock Slide, Swims Gorge 200 Feet Below. lied Pas~s Junctlon, fl. C., Canada. JT. Bedford Edwards, forest ranger, woITmdled inl thei Worldl war, was caught ini a rock slide Onl the brink of a 200-foot eliff', and wIth both legs broken was hurled into the swirling waters of the Fraser river below, while members of a section gang sloodl on the clitf powerless to help him:. By sqi~oei mracle Edwauirds suc celeded in paddling his way to a shallow spot in the river andl was hauled upi onto the cliff with a rop~e. iddwards, employed by the BritIsh ColumbIa forestry department, was 81urveyi ng thle territory devaistated b~y a forest tire when ('nulght in the slide. JTosephl McCoig, station operator at the June llon, heard the roar of the slide0 whIle strollIng nenrhly, and enlled th~e section crew when lie saw Edwards struggling in the river below. Ed wards was to have been married this week, and14 his bride had arrivm(i fro. UR ORIFFITH DIES IN DUBLIN 3RAINS OF THE IRISH FqIEE STATE IS VICTIM OF HEART ATTACK. .AGS ARE SET AT HALF MAST 'ew People in Dublin Knew That the President of Dail Eireann Had Been Sick. Dublin was shocked to learn of the mdden death of Arthur Griffith, pros, dent of the Dail Eireann, and every-' vhere it was commented on as one )f the most tragic and wholly unex )octed events in troubled Ireland. Death came at a nursing home, ap larently fromi a heart attack follow ng an operation a few days ago for onsilitis. Few people in Dublin even Cnew that the ardent worker for the ?ree State cause had been ill. Imme liately signs of mourning were die )layed, flags were at half mast on mildings and ships in the harbor. The first question on all sides was 6yhat effect the death of the leadet vould have on the solution of the )roblems before the provisional gov 3rnment. Ills colleague, Michael Col lins, recently devoted his attention x1most entirely to the military opera. Lions against the liregulars while the "ountry looked to Mr. Griffith to man 'ge the civil affairs until the rebellion was suppressed. Though president of the Dail EI, reann, Mr. Griffith held no ininisterial portfolio. William Cosgrove, minister of local government, actedL as head of the Irish government during Mr. Gi-Iffith's illness. The president's associates wora stunned by the news of his death. Not one of them was prepared to dis cuss its effects, but they all agro that Ireland had sustained a great loss. Ten Persons Killed in Wreck. Anadale, Minn.-Ten persons dead and mor than two score injured was the toll of a wreck on the Minneapoli. and Sault Ste Marie railroad here. when a westbound passenger train crashed into a truck and then ilowed into a freight. train standing on a 1de track. The wreck occurred when Fred La. mar, driver of the truck, falled to heed warnings of members of t he freight crew and drove on to Ihr track in front of the passenger. The truck was hit squarely and buried against the freight engine on a !de track. A switch stand was knocked down and three coaches of tlie pas. senger train swung over to the side. track into the freight ti-a in. ''he bag1 gage ca1rs were (le-ilied. Moat of the dead and injured were in the smloker-, which re-ar''l up intc the air and toppled over. Woman Goes Free. Atlanta, G'a. -- Mirs. I felon Avera. T7, who sihot and fatally wounded bei d1 iorced bu huband, Miillard StevensI), 3Z Sunday afiternoon. -July 9, when lie .1 allegedl to havl e ati em ptedi to forc-e is way ito her home to get possession of their six-year-oild daughter, war, fr-eedl after a prelim inar-y hearing he fore Rlecorder George E. Johnisoin. Th'le woman testified that Stevens w~ho died, had threatened her and that as her husband, Larry Avera. wvelterw-eight biox(er, was not there, she shotinself-defense. Baptists Gain More New Members. Shelby, N. C.- -Somethining over 4for, new member-s havo been added to the! -hurch rolls in the Kinugs Miount ain flaptist aso(-ittion ais a reOsul t of t h' evangelist Ic services being conduci(tedi durIng the moni hs of .Jiuly andii August in all of the churce's. -aeh ehur-h Is supplied with a finn evangelistic and gospel singer. Rev. 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