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M u _ Dr. Fowler’s Extract of Wild h'buryhthooflglnflnowal Ithas been med by thousandsfo: the-fly sixty yearsâ€"and we have yet bheeracomplahgt aboutitsacb‘on. Afewdoses have often cured when an othet remedies have failed. It: “33PM; Ramadan.) and ”actual. Dr. mgcr’s Wild Strawberry. Men Infanmm, Seasickness, and m kinds of Summer Com- giantmqulcklycnredby “I thought you had,” said Alan good My. “But go on.” “Well. she first read me a lecture that bad, empty, shallow men, whose m souls were damned by their past careers. Interfering with the pure 1m- ,nbes of younger men, and I’ll swear I felt Like crawling in a hole and pull- Ing the hole in after me. Well, I got through that in a fashion because she didn't wantme. to sealer real heart. “It was not due to you that I did get Interested," he said. “Do you know, 1 can’t think of it without getting hot all over with shame. To tell you the truth, there is one thing I have always been mi: about. I didn’t honestly think there was a man in Georgia that could give me any tips about investments, but I had to take backwater, and for a woman. Think of thatâ€"a woman knocked me 01? my perch as clean and any as she could stick a hairpin in a .811 of hair. I’m not unfair. When anybody teaches me any tricks, 1 ac- knowledge the corn and take ofl' my int» It was this way. I dropped in :10 see Miss Dolly the other evening. 1 'ucddentally disclosed two things in :- ofihand sort of way. I told her ”so! the views I gave you at the dance in regard to marriage and love and one thing and another, and then, In complimenting you most highly in other things, I confess I sort or poked m at your railroad idea.” Miller turned into his oflice, kicked a chair toward Alan and dropped into 1m creaking rocker. “It took me on! my feet,” smiled Alan. “You see, I never hoped to get you In- W in that scheme, and when I heard you were actually going to At- lanta about it I hardly knew what to make of it.” CHAPTER XIV. HE next morning Alan found Rayburn Miller standing in the door of his little office _._~‘1_. building waiting for him. “I reckon my message surprised you," Miller said tentatively as he shook hands. r2}? “Oh, come 03, Uncle Ab!” said Alan, and: a flush. “That’s going too far.” The old man whisked his bait gourd mad under his other arm. His eyes twinned and he chuckled. “’Tain’t guln' as fur as havin’ one on each knee an’ both pine blank alike an’ ex- 'nctly the same age. I’ve knowed that to happen in my day an’ time, when ABNER DANIEL 631' know as I’d object to trottin’ lane’n’ on my knee to sorter pass the than betwixt meals.” (Continued gram Page 3) Sol-lake it. 1" Wait to‘ bet'an" smolfé an’ chaw on yore front porch an' heel- is back in the kitchen fryin’ ham an’ eggs, an’ "â€"the old man winkedâ€"“I 3!. B. J. KENDALL 00., 81088036 FALLS, VT. Mao! Men report good oran- flornmltsrromns use. co “313101-35. gunmenuorhmibu-fltm A“ 88 no your at for Kendall's n 81 a; 'r on tho Horse." book (rec. PAGE FOUR GOOD FOR EVERYTHING. wasn’t even lookin’ fer a in- Yours very truly. lax-bus, happens just now to have some Idle capital on hand. Do ,0“ think'eyou couldbentfipacent?’ llamlttedthat Rwubwmbuummuul himlwasgolngtonbankandtako themght train back. The banks will stick you for a high rate of Interest} he said jealously. ‘They don't. do busi- ness for fun. while really our concern the matter beyond borrowing a little money on it. He asked me how long ImgoingtostaylnAtlanta. I told the land at $100,000. I told him I didn’t know. that I thought. it possible. but that just then I had no interest In “Well, the figures didn’t scare him a bit. for he finally came right out and asked me if it way my opinion that in use his company made the loan you would agree to give him the refusal of “A hundred thousand!" repeated Al- an, with a cheery laugh. “Yes, we’d let go at that.” “I can arrange the papers so that you are not liable {or any security outside of the land, and it would practically amount to a sale if you whhed it. but you don’t wish it. I finally told him that I had an idea that you would sell out for an even hundred thousand.” “Twenty-five thousand! On that land?" Alan cried. “It would tickle my father to death to sell it for that.” I put the amount at $25,000. I was taking a liberty, but I can easily get you out of it if you decide not to do it." Then he came right out. as I hoped he would. and asked me the amount you wanted to borrow on the property. I had to speak quick, and, remembering that you had sald the old gentleman had put in about $20,000 first and last, “The more I talked the more he was interested, till it was bubbling out all over him. He’s a New Englander, who thinks a country lawyer without a Harvard education belongs to an eirete civilization, and I let him think he was pumping me. I even left oi! my g’s and ignored my r’s. I let him think he had struck the softest thing of his life. Pretty soon he begun to want to know it you cared to sell, but I skirted that indifierently, as it I had no inter- est whatever in it. I told him your ta- ther. had bought the property to hold for an advance; that he had spent years of his life picking out the rich- est timber spots and buying them up. if I put myself in the light of a man with something to sell, he'd hurry away from me, but I didn’t. As a pretext I told him I had some clients up here who wanted to raise a consid- erable amount of money and that the security ofiered was fine timber land. You see that caught him; he was on his own ground. I saw that he was interested, and I boomed the property to the skies. “It may cost you a few years of the hardest work you ever bucked down to,” said Miller, “and some sleepless nights, but I really believe you have fallen on to a better thing than any I ever struck. I could make it whiz. I’ve already done something that will astonish you. I happen to know slight- ly Tillman Wilson, the president or the Southern Land and Timber company. Their offices are in Atlanta. I knew he was my man to tackle, so when I got to Atlanta yesterday I ran upon him just as if it were accidental. I invited him to lunch with me at the Capitol City club; you know I’m a nonresident member. You see, I knew “I’m awfully glad to hear you say all this,” said Alan, “for it is the only way out of our difliculty, and some- thing has to be done.” it she were not on your string, I’d make a dead set for her.. A wife like that would make a man complete. She’s in love with you, or thinks she is, but she hasn’t that will-o’-the-wisp glamour. She’s business from her toes 1tolieriimmrtins. Bxfleorze.1he- lleve she makes a business of her love affair. She seems to think she’ll settle it by a sum in algebra. But to get back to the railroad, for I’ve got lots to tell you. What do you reckon I found that day? You couldn’t guess in a thousand years. It was a prelimi- nary survey of a railroad once planned from Darley right through your fa~ ther’s purchase to Morganton, N. C. It was made just before the war by old Colonel Wade, who, in his day, was one or the most noted surveyors in the state. This end of the line was all I cared about, and that was almost as level as a floor along the river and down the valley into the north end of town. It’s a bonanza, my boy! Why that big bottle of timber land has nev- er been busted is a wonder to me. as many Yankees had been nosing about here. as there have been in other southern sections, it would have been snatched up long ago." ‘ send out cars to be loaded for ship- ment at competitive rates. By George. It was a corkerl I found out the next day that she was right, and that doing away with the rolling stock, shape and so forth would cut down the cost of your road more than half.” “That’s a fact,” exclaimed Alan. “and I had not thought of it.” . “She’s a stronger woman than I ever imagined," said Miller. “By George, engine, and wouldn’t have them as a free gift. She said it such a road were built as you plan these two main lines would simply fall over each other to am Léi'Bfi'iheu 'rolling stock. She said she knew one in the iron belt in Alabama that didn’t own a ear or an ikins, I never dreamed she could give me points, but she didâ€"she simply did. She looked me straight in the eye and stared at me like a national bank ex- aminer as she asked me to explain why that particular road could. not be built and why it would not be a bonanza for the owners of the timber land. I thought she was an easy fish at first. and I gave her plenty of line, but she kept peppering me with unanswerable questions till I lay down on the bank as weak as a mg. The first biiif she gave me was in wanting to know if there were not many branch roads that slid that fiélfied me. Th’en she took up the railroad scheme. You know I had hand that she advised her father in all his business matters; but, geewhflo “As soon as he told me that 1 knew he was our meat. Besides. I saw trade in his eye as big as an are light. To make-a long tale short, he is coming up here tonight, and it your father is willing to accept the loan he can get the money, giving only the land as se- curityâ€"provided we don’t 8111) up. Here’s the only thing I’m afraid of. When Wilson gets here, he may get to making inquiries around and drop on to the report .that your father is dis- gusted with his investment, end smell a mouse and null ottflWhat I want to can handle property as cheaply as we can. We happen to have I railroad about that length up in east Tennessee that has played out. and you see we could move it to where it would do some good! “He didn't seem to cal-e. ‘If It had been a deal of your own,’ he said, with a laugh, ‘you’d have been more prompt,’ and I managed to look guilty. Then he sat down. “ ‘Our directors are interested: he said confidentially. ‘The truth In, there is not another concern in Amer-1c: that dodged him.” “Dodged him?"echoedAlan. “Why"â€" Miller laughed. “You don’t suppose I’d let a big fish like that see me flirt- ing my'hook and pole about in open sunlight, do you? I saw by his man- ner that he was anxious to meet me, and that was enough. Besides, you can’t close a deal like that in a minute. and there are many slips. I went back to the club and threw myself on a lounge and began to smoke and read an afternoon paper. Presently he came in a cab. I heard him asking for me in the hall and buried my head in the paper. He came in to me, and I rose and looked stupid. I can do it when I try, if it is something God has failed at. and I began to apologize. One thing is certai â€"- Ayer’s Hair Vigor ma es the hair grow. This is because it is a hair food. 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He said she’d not do any tood.” “An' she wouldn’t.” put in Bishop grainy. “Thesishto’yon sn’ Manho- tore mes]! tbeflmehenonghtolhow 359 “10 in ’6' kgfigt't'er-t cry ’er eyes out. She n, comin' home, but '5. Uncle “You needn’t talk that a. a- Ab," sighed Mn. Bis} jest doin' it out o’ goodm We might as we]! face We've 8“ to step down; a. ,7 ___ _â€"-' v..- light burning in the house, and that was the little smoky lamp in the kitch- en, where the cook was washing the dishes. Bishop sat near his wife, his coat 0!! and vest nnbnttoned, his chair tilted back against the weatherboard~ lng. Abner Daniel, who had been try- ing ever since supper to cheer them up in regard to their financial misfortune, sat smoking in his favorite chair near the banisters, on top of which he now and then placed his stockinged feet. nu: ma gun: to, help you put It through. If your folks want the loan. bring them in in the morning. um! 11 are an manage our Yankee Just right we'll get the money." “ ‘I believe I'll take you up,’ he sold. ‘1 want to make that other Investment! So we closed. and I went at once to have the deed recorded before he had a chance to change his mlnd. Now. you see- I'm totem-ha :- ch. 9m...» “ ‘Well.’ I said, ‘how will fifteen hun- dred mund wheels strike you? “‘I don't really think Perkin. had anything to do with it.’ he said. ‘Thnt'l Just a report out about old man Bish- op's deal. I bought my land on my own Judgment! “ 'As much as you paid Abe Tomp- kins and Perkins? I said. with a grin. ‘Do you think you could possibly sell a piece or land for as much as those sharks? It you can, you'd better so in the real estate business. You'd coin money. Why, they yanked two thou- sand out of you, didn't they? “ ‘I thought.’ said he, ‘that I ought to get as much as I paid.’ “ ‘So do I.’ said I. sud watched him flirt about in the trying pan. Then I said, ‘What In the price you hold it at? “Ho kind 0’ blinked at that. but he said: ‘I’ve half a notion to sell. The truth is, I’ve got the finest investment open to me that I ever had. It I could afford to wait a few years, I could coin money out of this property, but I believe in turning money quick.’ “Well, Mosely, what do you lntend to do with your whlte elephant? You know it’s not Just the sort Barnum ll looking tor.’ I began to look around for some or that timber land. I didn’t have long to wait, for the only man that hold: much of it besides Colonel Barclayâ€" Peter Mosely, whom Perkins holed just as he did your fatherâ€"came in. He was laying for me. I saw it in his eye. The Lord had delivered him to me, and I was duly thankful. He was a morsel I liked to look at. He opened up himself. bless you, and bragged about his fine body of virgin timber. I looked bored, but let him run on till he was tired; then I said: “That’s all you know about It." Mll- ler laughed. “It the road is built, I'll make by it. This is another story. An soon as I saw you were right about putting a railroad into the mountain! “But you haven't anything in it.” ro- torted Alan wonderingly. "muer threw himself back in his chair and smiled significantly. “Do-I look like a man with nothing in it?" he asked. “He might.” Miller smlled, “If he didn’t want to move that railroad somewhere elee, and. besides. your 1» the: can keep the money in sultsble shape to pay of! the note In any emer- gency and tree himself.” “I don't know how to thank you. old man," answered Alan. “It you land been personally interested in this, you could not have done more." "V" v-â€" _- I: he come. straight to my once 1n the morning. the deal may he cloud. but it he lies around the hotel talking. Iomebody will spoil our plan. and Wilson will hangontomnkehlaown terms laterâ€"it he make- any nt all. It’s tickllah. but we may win." “It is a rather tickllah situation." ad- mitted Alan, “but even it we do get the loan on the property. don't you think Wilson may delay matters and hope to scoop the property in for the debt ?" course s good many things might in- terfene. We’d have to get a right of my end a charter before the road could be built, and I reckon they won‘t buy till they are sure of those things." '“No; it may take s long time and s lot of patience," said Miller. “but your father could siford to wait if he can get his money back by means of the loan. Itellyouthet’sthemsinthinz. It I had oflered to sell Wilson the .whole thing at $25,000 he never would have come up here. but he is sure now that the property is Just what he is looking for. Oh, we are not certain of him by a long jump! It all depends on whether he will insist on going over there or not. It he does, those moss- backs will bu’st the thing wide open. =eun‘t mu: that a-way. Brotho sighed Mn. Bishop. “Yo’ro In; I - TEE supper that evening the Bishops sat out on the veran- da to get the cool air before retiring. There was only on. CHAPTER XV. (hair. troubles ‘6 some form of "fond. com phint.” Nine cases methampmmmunut, Them In so my woman safer- inc from We, hecdacho, drag- ging puin in the loins, tad weary, yoga-out toplings, who uttribute all Dr. Pitchers Beckeche Kidney Tablets the lost 50* cessful Treatment of Kidney Ailments That J Cause Women Untold Suffering. “Fnther.” he said, “I’ve had a talk with Rayburn Miller about your land. He and l have lately been working on I little idea of mine. You know there are people who will lend money on real estate- How would it suit you to bor- Kidney“? roubles of Women. Mrs. Bishop rose wearily to order the cook to get his supper ready. and re- turned to the veranda just as Alan was coming from the stable. He sat down on the steps lashing the legs or his dusty trousers with his riding whip. It was plain that he had something of importance to say, and they all .waited in impatient silence. They heard a horse trotting down the road, and all bent their heads to listen. “lt’l Alan," said Abner. “I was thlnkln’ 1t was time he was showin' "I wouldn’t listen to that anther," .0! that purchase than anythinglntb declared Mrs. Bishop, “but not many world, ” said his son, with tech men would otter it." A." ., , .,- .,__x__._ “Huh!" snorted his brother-in-law. “Do you reckon I’d let as old a man no you are. an’ no blood kin, stake his llttle all to help me out or a hole that In glttin’ deeper nn’ wider all the time-â€" a hole I deliberately got myse’t into? .Well. not much!” “Supper’a ratdy. Mam Alan." :way ahead." “Huh. "' snorted his brother-1m] ‘ ‘ W11 mica-1W otBolo-I mm mumuwuuymamowormru'mw “uni-1mm tr- auma... 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He leaned [I8 : uninst the “all and closed his“ 3m :a-mimg to be calm. though hisllfl x ni‘r sun‘ that he was quiverinzhfi \ “5le “People have made fun of you layer old age. but if we can build them and you can get your hundredth:- sand dollars some of these folkswll laugh on the other side of their fm' “I’d rather see you make money «1 of that purchase than anythingtnM “You been doin' this to he’p meow] he gasped, “an’ I never so much I‘ axed yore opinion one way or moth"? While he talked Mrs. Bishop-g a figure cut from stone, mm leaned forward. his elbows u knees, his big face ln his but was as if a tornado of hope hm over him, shaking him mum flu'mwb. “Do you take me fer he asked. “When I m let to dabble in my b on you. Twenty-five: If I could exchange e fer enough to lift the n farm an’ keep a roof‘ I'd do it gladly. Pshaq There was another a Alan began to explain. i-ow moon on m7$ alone as security?" 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