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CHAPTER XVIII:
THEIR FIRST CAMP-MEETINC

Not trace of the lost horses had
been found. The search had been
long and thorough, but at last it had
been thought best by all concerned to
abandon it, because there seemed
nothing more to be done. Every pos
sible effort to find clew to the mystery
had been made, and the mystery was
more perplexing now than at the start.
eve hain't got nothin' to work on"
said Deacon Snyder. I wish we cd
find the critters, but We don't seem to
be permitted tu do so, an I s'pose It
was the Lords will that I sh'd lose
'em, so I dunno' s I sh'd grumble,
but"
But he could't help feeling that he
would hase planned things differently
had he been the Lord.
"Hope Of Porter III hev his STOLE"
Bill Green said more than once, smart.
ing over his disappointment at Dicks
escape. He felt as if it is safe to sup
pose bloodhound feels when cheated
of it's victim. 'It would sarve him
Just right to lose 'em, it would so, fer
stickin' up fer Dick Brayton.",
For Bill felt sure, all along, that II
Mr.. Porter knew nothing of how Dick
got away, he was glad that he was
gone.
And Bill was right about that.
After the search for the horses was
abandoned, sort of still hunt for Dick
began by those who believed that ne
might still be lurking in the neighbor-
hood. It was not systematic, but it
was kept up persistently for a time.
Dick had no trouble in eluding those
who sought for him. It is not an easy
matter to capture man in a wilder
ness when he knows that he is being
hunted. Knowing this, Dick could
govern his actions in such q manner
as to completely throw them off the
scent.
Bill Green and few of his cronies
held to the belief that Dick was
still in the vicinity of Brownsville, but
where they couldn't determine; but
they meant to find out, if possible.
Therefore they kept up their search
for at least week, but finding moth.
ing at the end of that time, they con-
cluded that it was not advisable to
neglect their teamwork longer, and
they, too, gave up the search in q
measure, though Bill said they'd all
keep their eyes peeled, for they
'smought run onto suthin' when they
want expectin' to-"
"I'm dead sure O. one thing" said
that astute individual, sam that is,
that he won't dare to show his face
insi'e the settlement. Fer he knows
eff he did, it'd be mark for somebody
to shoot at, the minnit they got
glimpse of it."
Two weeks went by, and then new
excitement took the place OF the old
one.
From secular matters the minds OF
the residents of Brownsville turned to
spiritual ones.
ITO be continued.
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convrieht by Robert Bonner's Sons.
CHAPTER XVI.
CONTINUED.

ct know she don't" said Samanthy.
'She feels awful about ye. Cries an
takes on the wust way, an blames her-
self like ev'rything. But do be goln
I git more narv'us ev'ry single minnlt.
T sha'n't draw decent breath till l
think ye've got to the corn-feld.
She lifted the pantry-window noise
lessly, and Dick crawled through 1t
and dropped lightly to the ground.
She watched him make his way to
the garden-fence, where he was lost IN
the shadows of night.
She stood by the window and walt
ed for some minutes. Nothing hap
pened.
"There, thank the Lord, he's safe
fer spell, I reckon!" she exclaimed
drawing a breath of relief. "Wonder
what they'll say in the mornin', when
they 60 to hang him an find he's
missin'?"
Then she went back to bed; but the
excitement of the night would not al
low her to sleep. Visions of escaping
men came to her, followed by visions
of men dangling from rope, and then
she would start up from the doze into
which she had fallen only to fall into
another doze, in which the same sights
were repeated. :,
"I hain't rested much" she said,
with grim smile, when daylight came.
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it seemed dishonor to all her happy
past not to have something special on
Thanksgiving; and so she had feel
ing of real pity for it, lying there
warm and snug in her palm, and so
soon to go tumbling into the heap Of
clashing, jingling coins tossed about
by the butchers greasy fingers, or
perhaps into the pocket Of that hor-
rible apron with blood-stains on it.
Miss Matte shuddered, but quickly
recovered herself to say, cheerfully:
"Oh, thank you, Mr.. Simmons; but
don't you think ducks are a sight of
trouble, what with the stufing and the
roasting and needing to be looked
after and basted regular? I made up
my mind 10 something simple, and I
don't know anything that's easier got
or more relishing than lamb chops.
Two lamb chops is about what I
thought of, Mr.. Simmons. You know
there's only me-"
Mr.. Simmons had not seen the five
cent piece, but he understood just as
well as if he had, and he began to cut
the chops at once, talking all the time
to relieve his own embarrassment and
assuring Miss Matte that eff folks
only knew it, there was nothing like
lamb chops to encourage your appe-
tite and strengthen you up all over"
"But you'll have to take three
chops" looking curiously atthe money
Miss Matte laid in his big hand, "or
I'll have to make change, and change
is scarcer than hens teeth tonight.
You might have company unexpected,
you know, and an extry chop would
come in handy"
Miss Matte laughed so genially
that the market man ventured to slip
a sweetbread and bunch of yellow
celery into the basket on the sly. He
would have loved to put in the duck,
but that would have looked as if he
suspected her reason for not buying
it, and, bless you, he knew better
than that. Some people have feel
ings, though their faces are red and
their hands coarse and greasy.
Miss Matte went very happily down
the street. She had lighted her lamp
before she went out, and a cheerful
little ray smiled encouragingly at her
as she came to the gate. All the
other windows in the weather-beaten
old house were black and empty and
looked to the lonesome little woman
as if all sorts of hobgoblins might be
peeping out at her from the gloom be-
hind them, for Miss Mattie's neigh
bors had gone away on Tar sgiv-
ing visit and taken the .lmily.
At least they said "the whole ta.-..iy,"
but at the very moment Miss Matte
came to the gate q member of the fam
lily was huddled up in corner of the
doorway, cold, hungry and much per-
picked to understand what had become
Of all his friends and why. in spite of
his pitiful plea, no one came to open
The door for him. He heard Miss
Matte and ran hopefully to meet her,
limping as he came, for he had stiff
leg.
why, Tommy Barnes" said Miss
Matte, stopping to pat his rough yel-
low head. "you don't mean to say |
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"Bless me-" said Miss Matte, eff
hadn't clean forgot you, and you half
starved, I dare say. There, get down.
Inever could abide cats around my
victuals." .,.
She put Tommy gently on the floor,
crumbled some bread into the bowl OF
broth, cooled it carefully and set it
down for him to eat.
cts pretty rich for me anyway"
she said, as she made out her supper
with toast and tea.
It was perhaps well for Tommy that
he took an early promenade next
morning around the back yards Of the
neighborhood, and secured several
valuable tid-bits, for Miss Matte had
very little to offer him. She baked
her delightful little puffs of biscuits,
and enjoyed them immensely, finding
them lighter and more digestible with
out butter. She read a Thanksgiving
psalm and went about trying to sing
in little chirrupy voice like a brown
sparrow. She brought in the small
basket and flushed over the unexpect-
ed treasuretrove, but took it kindly as
bit of neighborly goodwill. The
eetbread, white and plump and all
ready for cooking, reminded her OF old
Mrs. Morrison, just beginning to sit
up and watch the people go by the
window. What toothsome dainty
this would be for her, and what de-
light that she should be able to take
it to her as she went to church, yes,
and some of the celery, too, for rel
ish. The chops were transferred to q
plate on the shelf, the swee Thread
wrapped in a fine old napkin and laid
back in the basket with the best half
of the celery, and the biscuits Miss
Matte had saved for dinner.
"The cold bread will go just as we'll
with chops" she reflected, and pre-
pared for church with glow of hap
piness such as she had not known in q
long time.
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dear to Miss Mattie's heart. It was {
straw too much to have insult addet
to injury, and springing from he
chair, she cuffed Tommy in sucl
vigorous fashion that three or foul
hearty blows found their mark before
the astonished sinner could withdraw
his claws and bound out at the bacl
door, left ajar in the search for tht
chops. At that instant resoundine
knock on the front door sent Miss
Mattie's heart to her throat with &
sudden leap, as if justiLs were already
coming to take her in hand for unrea
sonable cruelty.
When Miss Matte was peacefully
pattering about, unconscious Of the
cruel trick fate and Tommy Barnes
had played her, Mrs. Deacon Giles
was surveying her husband with dis
turbed and fearful face. ..,.s.
"You don't mean to tell me-" she
repeated, "that the minister's folks
amt comm at all, and you and me
has got to eat this big dinner alonei
Here, stayed home from church to
tend to it. Oh, you needn't to look
as if you thought it was a Judgment.
Josiah I wouldn't be such hipper.
crit as to pretend to be thinkin' OF
spiritooal things when I was wonder.
in if Sarah Ellen would remember to
baste the turkey. Seems to me they
might let us know sooner"
"But T told ye, mother, it was a
telegram come just before church.
You can't regerlate kilograms like the
weekly newspaper, or stop folks from
dyin' unexpected"
"Then, why didn't you rush round
and get somebody else? Mercy sakes!
'Twon't seem like Thanksgiving at
Didn't seem to be anybody to ask
but old Mis- Morrison and Marthy
Ellison. I drove round by the Morri.
sons, but the old lady was just having
something relishing Miss Matte had
fetched in. They said they invited
her to dinner, but she had comp'ny;
one of them Barneses next door,"
"Fiddlesticks!" said the deacon's
wife, in avery disrespectful tone, "You
just drive straight back and bring
Marthy Ellison up here to dinner.
Tell her I don't take any excuse, and,
if she can't come otherways, she can
bring her comp'ny along, though the
way them shif'less harnesses impose
on her is a mortal shame"
Good Deacon Giles had learned
docility in many years of experience,
and the double knock at Miss Mattie's
door followed as quickly as could be
reasonably expected. Miss Matte at
tempted neither excuse nor hesitation,
but accepted her good providence with
radiant delight.
"Mother said to fetch your comp'ny
along" said the deacon, glancing
doubtfully about the small room. "We
heard you had one of the Barneses. 1
kinder hope faint the cross-eyed one
that stole my pears"
"Oh," said Miss Matte, laughing
into the little mirror, as she tied her
bonnet, "he's had his dinner and he's
gone OUT
She didn't say that he had eaten
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about the fellow" said Mamie, radi.
antly, her eyes so bright now that the
tears dried rapidly in them. ''Tell me
how you helped him to get away,
samanthy. I'm just dying to hear all
about it.
Samanthy took Mamie into her con.
fdence and told her what the reader
already knows.
"Tll see that the gun is taken down
to the hollow tree," Mamie said.
"And I'll take loaf of bread there
every night, too. Dear me, Samanthy"
with a sudden shiver and growing
pale at the thought-'I almost know
they'll catch him again if he stays
about the neighborhood. Why didn't
he 90 right away out of it?"
"He's got idees in his head" said
Samanthy, mysteriously. "Wait an
you'll see."
What the nature of those ideas might
be she did not think it best to explain
just then. It might be better to keep
the suspicion regarding Wayne in the
background Tor time.
After dark, Mamie took Dicks gun
to the hollow tree, along with a loaf
of bread that she had made that day
and taken especial pains with; also
some fresh, sweet butter and q gener-
GUS square of gingerbread.
"He likes gingerbread" she said to
herself, while tear fell on the paper
she was wrapping the eatables in.
"And he used to like me, too. Once
he told me he didn't know which was
sweeter, gingerbread or kisses, and I
thought it was an awful foolish speech
to make; but someway it don't seem so
now. Poor Dick T wish he knew
how sorry I am for having used him
so. Maybe he'll understand that when
he finds the gingerbread"
From which it will be understood
that Mamie was becoming sentimental
aswell as repentant.
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your folks have gone off to Thanks
giving and left you beeind. Well, if
I ever! How dreadful -thoughtless-
and you cripple besides!"
Tommy kept on crying, but he had
his eye on the door while Miss Matte
was fitting her key, and the minute it
opened he darted in.
"That's right, Tommy" said Miss
Matte; ''just make yourself at home.
You and I'll have our Thanksgiving
together. That extra chop will be
wanted after all, and I'm going to
make riz biscuits"
She put away her bonnet and shawl
and hung the basket on nail in the
back-room without even looking at the
contents, though Tommy Barnes
watched her keenly with a shrewd sus-
picion of something good, and a faint
hope which nothing in his past expe-
rience justified that he might come in
for share of it. Miss Matte was &C.
customed to being alone, and she
scarcely thought of Tommy, as she
trotted about, setting the sponge for
her biscuits in a pint bowl. putting a
little cup Of broth on the stove to
warm for her supper, making her tea,
toasting her bread, and at last sitting
down by the table in the little green
chair with a patchwork cushion. Up
to this point Tommy had sat quietly
by the fire, having learned by many
severe lessons that little folks should
be seen and not heard, but when Miss
Matte poured out the ssvory broth
the delicious odor was too much fol
his fortitude, and with one bound he
sprung into her lap.
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8 HEART, GIVE THANKS.

o heart, give thanks for strengt tords.
To walk, TO run, to work to play
For feasts OF eye; melod dfous sound; .lSs
Thy pulses easy, rhythmic bound;
Ten servants that thy win obey; sssss ";
A mind clear as the sunls, own ~: 4.
A life which has not passed its Ms 80 z Z
That all thy being thus ~ crowned sS;
0 heart, give thanksf 81 q Z q - ss
Feet helpless lie that once we're gay;
Eyes know but nights eternal gwayi 6
Souls dwell In silence, dread Ptofcpnds Il
Minds live with clouds encircltng Ypundt
In face OF these. thy blessings weight s;
Enmss I'D oxd
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On Desert Air.

Winthrop-'H Freddie is going to
spend Thanksgiving with his grand.
mother, perhaps you'd better buy him
that tin horn"
Mrs. Winthrop-'I spoke to him
about it, my dear, but he said it would
do no good to him, as grandmother is
deaf" Z
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A Sucking Pig For Thanksgiving.

There are some old-fashioned peo-
pie who prefer sucking pig to turkey
at Thanksgiving, and to have this dish
in perfection an old saying goes that
the small animal must be three weeks
under q moon"
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9T was growing
81 dark when Miss

L was growing
dark when Miss
Martie, with her
basket on her
arm, came into
the corner mar
ket to buy her
Tha n k 8 giving
dinner. T b Q
haskell was alb
surdly small, but
Miss Matte was
little herself,
and when she
set , it on tn Q
hi gh . counter
and stood blink
inc in the hripht
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The Kids Harvest.

Now he is as pleased as pleased can be,
And has no cause to sigh.
With all his heart he says: "To me
Thanksgiving time Is pie."
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The Turkey on the Wall.

,HE opening Of the ches:-
nut burs,
The leaves, yellow and
sere,
Told beyond a perad-
venture
That Thanksgiving Day
was near.
But, to my childish
fancy,
The surest sign Of all,
OF the nearness Of
Thanksgiving,
Was the turkey on
the wall.
It plainly told the story
That we had not long
to wait,
For the path from wall
to table
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Was very short and straight.
It hung all plump and golden
In the pantry near the door
For q day or two before the feast,
And then was seen no more.
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Brunswick social Notes.

Brunswick. Ga, July 10.-One of the
most pleasant affairs of social st. Simons
was a german rendered Wednesday even
ing by Mr.. Jack Clancy. in honor Of Miss
Bessie Fox. The guests of the occasion
were: Misses Fox Cain, Clark, Payne,
Morris. Crawford, Madden Lampkin, Bur-
bage, Lula Burbage, Dillon. Berrie, Whit
field, Wheatley, Cargyle, Coates, Essie
Whitfield. Mrs. B. T. Sinclair. Messrs.
Clarke, Dudley, Barnwell Stubs, Tup-
per, Mccall, D. w. Doughtie, Arson, Va
son, Oliver, r. Doughtie, Taylor Madden,
Young, Emanuel, Clancy Jackson, Whit
field, McCaskill. Martin Arlington, Risk
Raymond, Messrs. and Mesdames W. M
Upper, ]. L. Foster, c. II. Meldrim.
Miss Jeanette Colson is confined to her
home by illness.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roland Ellis of Macon
complimented their friends on ST. Simons
with a very enjoyable dinner Tuesday
evening. Their guests We're: Mrs. A. J.
Crovatt, Mrs. f. d. NJ Strachan, Misses
Elizabeth Wheatley, Ethel Downing and
Josephine duBignon, Messrs. A. ]. Gro
watt, F. d. Nj. Strachan, R. D. Meader,
Martin, Young and Wheatley.
Miss Annie Hine entertained Tuesday
evening, complimentary to Misses Moy-
nelo of Savannah and Morris of atlanta
Miss Dorothy Berrie has returned from
a very pleasant visit to Albany.
Mrs. A. F. Churchill is spending the
summer at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Miss Annie O'Connor is visiting friends
in Apalachicola.
Mrs. II. o. Haywood has gone to New
nan 10 spend the summer with her moth
er.
Miss Short, matron of the Telfair hos
pital, is at Asheville, where she will re-
main for a couple of weeks, and will then
go to Tennessee. Miss Burgess, head
nurse, is at Marietta for the summer. Miss
ACourt is spending the summer in Mon
treal Can. Miss King is at Adams Run,
S. c. Miss Ludington at Turnersville, Ga.
and Miss Hinson at Kenansville, n. c.
Miss Tapping will so 10 Baltimore, and
Mrs. Bordley will remain in the city.
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Messrs. w. W. Fretwel, Paul Bryan, f.
j. Hogan, James Luddy and T. J. Swee-
ney.
Miss Beatrice Cornell Of Augusta is the
charming guest Of the Misses Reynolds.
Miss Marie Adair entertained at lunch
con on Tuesday complimentary to the
Misses Marguerite and Beatrice Cornell
Of Augusta.
Mrs A. NJ. O'Donoghue. Mrs Fanny
Boggs and Miss Marie Adair leave on
Tuesday to spend while in Screven coun-
~ visiting relatives.
Mrs. II. T. Wilson is spending a few
days at Tybee. the guest of Mrs. F. W.
Storer
Miss Ece Reynolds has returned home,
after delightful visit to Misses Leo
Byrnes and Clyde Hoist on Sullivan's
Island.
Mrs. Henry Hohenstein and two sons
viii leave on Tuesday to spend the sum-
mer in the Catskill Mountains.
Miss Ted Clark and Messrs. Marion
Ridgcey and John Twiggs of Augusta,
have been guests of Miss Ida May the
past week, and were chaperoned by Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Yonge in a house party
at Wilmington Island.
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DEER HUNTING IN VERMONT.
Great Slaughter Expected This Fail
Under the New Law.

From the Burlington Free Press
Vermont has long been a favorite re-
sort with sportsmen. but the present sea-
son promises to see the Green mountains
the Mecca of the nimrods to an extent
unknown in the state for. at least, two
decades. This result viii be due to the
fact that during the month of October
shooting of deer will be legal throughout
the state the last legislature havins
passed an act making October an open
month for this game. The second secdon
Of the act in question provides that dees
having antlers may be hunted and taken
in this state during the month of Ocro-
Der each year, but no person can legally
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No Room for Doubt used to think, -
said the man with the melancholy mein,
that many of these gibes at messenger
boys were unjust But I'm afraid that
isn't the case" What has caused you 20
change your mind?" Eve seen one of
them practicing for hours every day this
month to learn to stand still without get
ting off his bicycle. "-Washington Star.
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Docs your husband sympathize with
the Greeks?" "He does, indeed he has
named two of our new pups Alpha and
Omega Chicago Record.
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