The Huttig news., 1915-01-30

CHAPTER III--The shooting of Jesse Purvy breaks the truce in the Holman South feud.
 CHAPTER IV-Samson reproves Tama- rack Spicer for telling Sally that Jim Holman is on the trail with bloodhounds hunting the man who shot Purvy.
 CHAPTER V-The bloodhounds lose the trail at Spicer South's door. Lescott dis covers artistic ability in Samson While Tamaraek discovers Samson to a ieering crowd of mountaineers. Samson thrashes him and denounees him as the truce buster' who shot Purvy.
 CHAPTER VJ-Lescott tries to per suade Samson to go to New York with him and develop his talent. Sally, loyal but heartbroken, rurthers Lescotts efforts The dance at Vile McCager's threatens trouble to Samson and Lescott.
 tells the South clan he is going to ieav. the mountains Gescott goes home to New York. Samson bids Spicer and Sally farewell and follows.
 When I gifts back" he promised himself, you'll be one of the fust folks I'll look fer, Jim Asberry, damn ye! All I hopes is thet nobody else
 
 The sleeping car to which he was assigned after leaving Lexington was almost empty, but he felt upon him the interested gaze of those few eyes that were turned toward his entrance He engaged every pair with a pair very clear and steady and undropping, un- til somehow each lip that had started to twist in amusement strengthened and the twinkle that rose at first glance sobered at second Yet, for all his spacious seeming of unconcern Samson was waking to the fact that he was a scarecrow, and his sensitive pride made him cut his meals short in the dining car, where he was kept busy beating down inquisitive eyes with his defiant gaze He resolved after some thought upon definite pol icy. It was very old policy, but to him new-and discovery. He would change nothing in himself that in I vclved surrender of code or convic tion. But, wherever it could be done with honor. he would concede to GUS l tom.
 
 when he stepped from the train at Jer- sey City, to be engulfed in an un- imagined roar and congestion. Here 1t was impossible to hold his own against the unconcealed laughter of the many, and he stood for an instant glaring about like caged tiger, while three currents of humanity separated and flowed toward the three ferry exits. Then he saw the smiling face of Lescott and Lescotts extended hand. Even Lescott, immediately garbed and fur-coated, seemed almost a stranger. and the boys feeling of intimacy froze to inward constraint and difTidence. But Leseott knew nothing of that The stoic in Samson held true, mask ing his emotions
 50 you came" said the New Yorker. heartily, grasping the boys hand Where's your luggage? We'll just pick that up and make dash for the ferry"
 'Hyar hit is," replied Samson, who still carried his saddlebags. The painters eyes twinkled, but the mirth was so frank and friendly that the boy, instead of glaring in defiance, Srinned responsively
 Right, oh!" laughed Lescett T thought maybe you'd bring a trunk, but it's the wise man who travels light
 He followed Lescott out to the foot of Twenty-third street. and stepped with him into the tonneau of the painters waiting car Lescott lived with his family uptown, for it hap pened that, had his canvases pos sessed no value whatever, he would still have been in position to drive his motor and follow his impulses about the world If he did not take the boy to his home, it was because he understood that a life which must be not only full of early embarrass- ment but positively revolutionary, should be approached by easy stages. Consequently the car turned down Fifth avenue, passed under the arch and drew up before a door just off Washington square, where the land cSdPC pdiAlcI AdQ q oIuulO Sull. l ncE6 were sleeping rooms and such access sories as seemed to the boy unheard-of luxury, though Leseott regarded the place as makeshift annex to his home establishment.
 You'd better take your time in se- lecting permanent quarters was his careless fashion of explaining 10 Sam son. Its just as we'll not to hurry. You are to stay here with me. as long as you will"
 I'm obleeged ter ye," replied the boy. to whose training in apen-dcored hospitality the invitation seemed only natural. The evening meal was brought in from neighboring hotel. and the two men dined before an open fire, Samson eating in mountain si- lence, while his host chatted and asked questions.