The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1915-04-22
copyright. rO,s. by W. !. Watt q cOl
SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER Ion Misery creek, at me
foot OF q rock from which he has fallons
sally Miller finds George Lescott land
Bcape painter, unconscious, ana after ~
Viving him, goes for assistance.
CHAPTER V-The bloodhounds lose the
trail at spicer south's door. Lescot5 , as
covers artistic ability in Samson. While
sketching with Lescott on the mountain.
Tamarack discovers Samson to Jeerlng
crowd of mountaineers; Samson thEasnes
him and denounces him a. the uuc~
buster who shot Purvy.
CHAPTER vIII-In New York Samson
studies art and learns much of city ways.
Drennie Lescott persuades Wllfred Hor-
ton, her dilettante lover, to do mans
work In the world.
CHAPTER IX-Prompted by her love,
Sally teaches herself to write. Horton
throws himself into the business world
and becomes well hated by predatory
flnanciers and politicians At Bohemian
resort Samson meets william Barpisn,
sporty social parasite, and Horizons enc
my.
CHAPTER X-Farbish sees Samson and
Drennie dining together unchaperoned at
the Wigwam roadhouse. He conspires
with others to make Horton Jealous ana
succeeds
CHAPTER XI-Farbish brings Norton
and Samson together at the Kenmore
clubs shooting lodge, and forces an open
rupture. expecting Samson to Kill Horton
of the crusader. Samson exposes the plot
and thrashes the conspirators.
CHAPTER xIT-samson is advised by
his teachers to turn to portrait painting
Drennie commissions him to paint her
portrait. Sally goes to school. Samson
goes to Paris to study. Drennie finds In
his studio pictured evidence of his loyalty
to Sally.
CHAPTER XIII-Tamarack kills Jim
Asberry, is surrendered to the militia and
shot from ambush by a Holman. The
feud Is on again and the law helpless In
the face of murder. Sally sends for Sam
son.
pair of eaddlebags. They had long
lain there forgotten, but they held the
rusty clothes in which he had left
Misery. He threw them over his arm
and dropped them at Adriennes feet,
as he handed her the studio keys.
win you please have George look
after my things, and make the neces-
sary excuses to my sitters? He'll find
list of posing appointments in the
desk"
The girl nodded
what are those?" she asked, gaz-
ing at the great leather pockets as at
some relic unearthed from Pompeiian
excavations.
"Saddlebags, Drennie," he said,
land in them are homespun and jeans.
One can't lead his 'fluttered folk and
wild in cutaway coat"
Shortly they we're at the station,
and the man, standing at the side OF
the machine, took her hand.
"It's not good-by, you know" he
said, smiling. Just auf Wiedersehen'"
She nodded and smiled too, but as
she smiled she shivered, and turned
the car slowly. There was no need
to hurry now.
Samson had caught the fastest west
bound express on the schedule. In
thirty-six hours he would be at Hixon.
There we're many things which his
brain must attack and digest in these
hours He must arrange his plan OF
action to it's minutest detail, because
he would have as little time for rehec-
ton once he had reached his own
country as wildcat flung into pack
of hounds.
From the railroad station to his
home he must make his way-most
probably fight his way-through thirty
miles of hostile territory, where all
the trails we're watched And yet, for
the time, all that seemed too remotely
unreal to hold his thoughts. He was
seeing the coolly waving curtains OF
lowered chintz that stirred in the WIN
dows of his room at the Lescott
house and the crimson ramblers that
nodded against the sky. He was hear,
ing a knock on the door, and seeing
as it opened, the figure OF Adrlenne
Lescott and the look that had been IN
her eyes.
He took out Sally's letter, and read
q once more. He read it mechanically
and as a piece of news that mao
brought evil tidings. Then, suddenly
another aspect of it struck him-an as
meet to which the shock OF its recep'
ton had until this tardy momeh'
blinded him. The letter was pertectly
grammatical and penned in hand OF
conybook roundness and evenness
The address, the body of the missiVe
and the signature were all in one chi
Biography. She would not have intrust'
ed the writing of this letter to anyone
else.
Sally had learned to write.
Moreover, at the end were the
words. with love-" 1t was all plain
now. Sally had never repudlated mn
She was declaring herself true to mel
mission and her love. All that heart
break through which he had gone nao
been due to his own misconception
and in that misconception ne hao
drawn into himself and had stopped
writing to her. Even his occasiona
letters had for two years ceased te
brighten her heart-strangling lsola
tion-and she was still waiting.
She had sent no word of appeal unit
the moment had come Of which sh'
had promised to inform him. Sally
abandoned and alone, had been ngns