Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1910-08-10

bseu % kind about kefpfnx ~, tss
dare not turn to our oldest frends---
L have been afraid to trust fathers
friends at all since Mr. Bosworth act
ed SO traitorously."
MY time is entirely at your service,
Miss Osborne; but have a shameful
report to make OF myself. must tell
you how miserably / have failed, be.
fore you trust me any further. We
that is to say, the prosecuting attor.
ney OF this county and party he got
together OF Appleweight's enemies
caught the outlaw last night-took him
with the greatest ease-but he go,
away from US! 1t was all my fault
and I'm deeply Disguised with my
self"
He described the capture and the
subsequent mysterious disappearance
OF Appleweight, and confessed the
obvious necessity for great caution in
further attempts to take the outlaw,
now that he was on guard. Barbara
laughed reassuringly at the end of the
story.
Those men must have felt funny
when they went back to get the pris.
oner and found that he had gone up
Into the air. But there's a new fea-
ture OF the case that's more serious
than the loss of this man" and the
trouble again possessed her eyes She
drew from her purse a cutting from
a newspaper and handed it to him.
That's from last nights Golumb ia
Vidette, which is very hottie 50 my
father"
He was already running ovSr the
heavily loaded column that set eOcth
without equivocation the fact that
Gov. Osborne had not been in Colum
bia since he went to New Orleans. II
secuted the story that he was abroad
in the state on oficial business con.
nected with the App.@weight case
the yarn which Griswold had forced
upon the friendly reporter at the tele-
graph office In Columbia The gov.
ernor of state, the Vidette went on
to elaborate, could not vanish without
leaving some trace of himself, and a
Vfdette representative had traced the
steps OF Gov. Osborne from New Or
leans until he had again entered South
Carolina under cover of night and for
purposes which, for the honor OF the
state, the Vidette hesitated to dis
close.
The writer Of the article had ex.
hausted the possibilities OF gentle
suggestion and vague innuendo in an
effort to create an impression Of mys-
terry and to pique curiosity as to
further developments, which were
promised at any hour. Griswold's
wrath was aroused, not so much
against the newspaper, which he as.
sumed had some fire for it's smother
ed trifle OF smoke, but against the
governor OF South Carolina himself.
who was causing the finest and noblest
girl in the world infinite anxiety and
pain.
The thing Is preposterous," he said
lightly. THE idea that your father
would attempt to enter his own state
surreptitiously is uncomfortable In
these days when public men are de-
MED all privacy, and when it's any
mans right to deceive the press If he
finds it essential to his own comfort
and peace; but the intimation that
your father Is in South Carolina for
any dishonorable purpose is prepos-
ferrous. One thing, however. is GER
tain. Miss Osborne. and that is that
we must produce your father at the
earliest possible moment"
But'-and Barbara hesitated. and
her eyes, near tears as they were.
wrought great havoc In GriswoId's
soul-'but father must not be found
until this Appleweight matter is set.
tied. You understand without making
me speak the words-that he might
not exactly view the matter as we
do"
1t was painful subject; and the
fact that she was driven by sheer
force of circumstances to appeal to
him, stranger, to aid her to perform
a public service in her fathers nau.e
rallied all his good impulses to her
standard. 1t was too delicate mae
ter for discussion; 1t was thing IN
be ignored and he assumed At ones
a lighter tone.
Come! We must solve the riddls
OF the lost prisoner at once, ana your
rather VIII undoubtedly give su e1.
cellent account of himself when he
gets ready. Meanwhile the fiction
that he is personally carrying the
war into the Appleweight country
must be maintained, and I shall STEM
to the railway station and wire the
Columbia newspaper in his name that
he Is in Mingo county on the trail OF
the outlaws"
(To BE CON rTNUED)
To Start A Tight Screw.