Through all these years the fight has heirs of it from getting full benefit of it. been kept up. The absence of the records Now, it seems to me, regard for him, if has made that possible. Lacking them, nothing else, ought to make you anxious neither claiman« can perfect his title to that he shall be properly approached, the case stated fairly to him and an effort By MARTHA M’CULLOOH WILLIAMS.' this great property. Fauntleroy got pos­ made to convince him of the error of his The Best Remedy I d the World—It session under bond after the first decree, but it profited him next to nothing. He ways. You were willing enough”----- Mikes People Well. [Copyright, 1894, by American Press Associa- j. lacked money to develop it, and nobody “Before I saw him or the land in dis- tion.] I pute, yes. Now I put myself in his |jad faith enough in him or his case to place, try to think how I would feel if, CHAPTER L risk a dollar in his hands. “Francis Overton swears to this day after all of these years of struggle, a “He’s the gallantest old fellow. It makes me fairly heartsick to know his that the night before his father’s death man came to me, saying in effect: ‘Sir, he—the son—read over deeds to all the your father was a thief and a scoundrel. case is hopeless. ” Mr. Hildreth said it, looking with iron land, duly attested as of record in -All the same, your persistent denial of it keeps me out of a fortune. If you will Is the One True Blood Purifier. All druggists; $1. compassionate eyes after his departing agree to admit it and thereby put $1,- client. His partner, Major Vance, half Wood’s Pills cure all Liver Ills. 25 cents. 000,000 in my poeket, I will see to it turned in his swivel chair, gave an ex­ that it is made worth your while. ’ I tra long pull «t his pipé and said over think, Hawkins, I should kick the mes­ Iowa almost from tbe date of its ad­ the top of “Greenleaf on Evidence:” senger very hard, all the harder if he mission has been called the “Hawkeye “Why let it be hopeless? Isn’t it your ! rang in anything about regard for my state.” Hawkeye was the name of a business and mine to persuade one very 1 I own interest.” noted Indian chief. bad man or twelve good and true ones ' “Then you won’t go to him?” that the right is always with our side?’ ’ “Not as you proposed, under an alias. The Elkhart (Ind ) Telephone Com­ ‘ ‘Certainly, but in this case I should But openly, in face of daylight, giving pany is retailing “hellos” at five cents have to persuade them to go against law : I my own name, I mean to see Major- Over- per day fur residences, and seven cents and fact in order to do what I believe to | i ton, and see also if there can possibly bo for business bouses. be right, ’ ’ Mr. Hildreth" said, making : ! found an honorable way out of all this VALUABLE FRANCHISE SECURED. himself horizontal by putting his heels j. j evil. ” upon his desk and tipping his chair as | Hawkins fell back a step, with eyes far back as possible. Again Major Vance i The franchise of easy digestion-one of the of amazed fury. After arnimite he said, most vainHbb* In the sift of medical science­ spoke through his blue veil. can be secur« d bv any. person wish enonuh to I with a slowly whitening face: “You “Tell me all about it. Your client use Hoste11er’s S o-nach B-t ers, either t<»sun- —will—go—to him—in—your — own press growing dyspei sia. or to nt*r<’O; it at ma- looked as though he came out of the ark. j tuiity. Bilious, rheumatic and fever and ague I name? Young man, you are—worse than There is one true speoifio for diseases sufferers, persons troubled with neryousnes®, Has he got a claim for damages against 1 I a lunatic. He would murder you at the I arising from impure blood and a de­ and tne constipated should also secuie the Noàh et al. ? Or is it a matter of line I health franchise by rhe same means. I sound of it. ’’ fences?” bilitated nervous system, and that is beside the corpse, the lad swore think not. He has not the assas- Paine’s celery oompound, so generally “Neither. You must have heard all i Kneeling to avenge and vindicate the dead man. I sin “ ’s I face. Pure lead has been found some thirty Do you know where he lives? 1 prescribed by pbysioisns. It is prob- feet under the grountd near Chester, about it. It’s one of our celebrated cases | the missing volume. By what treachery I want to do him the honor of seeking ! ably the most remarkable remedy that I Overton claim. ” Ill. A company has been organized to —the they were abstracted arid blank forms him in his own “What! Is that the man who has beep [ ] the scientific research ot _£feia country j mine it. left in their place nobody can even im ­ “Would youT®BtisK'it'?”"’Ha.wkins | has produced. a legal gold mine these last 50 years?” t Prof. Edward E. DEAFNE89 CANNOT BE CURED ! “The very same—Francis Overton, | agine, always supposing that such a spoke in an awei^isper. The other I Phelps, M. D., LL. D., of Dartmouth thing did occur, which I, for one, de­ laughed a’little, sayingl “Why not? I Esq. No better blood in the state. ” voutly believe. But few folk agree with can but fail. If I do, iftwill be failure ! college, first prescribed what is now By local applications, as they cannot reach the “ Tell me about the claim. Of course I diseased poiti n of tne ear. There Is only one ma Some of the overgood even sigh and between gentlemen, whijih, while it may j known the world over as Paine’s celery way to cure deafness, and tnat is by constitution­ I’ve heard of it nebulously. I’d like to lift their eyes, intimating that the elder ■ be unpleasant, surely caanot be danger- I compound, a positive cure for dys- al n-meoie-«. Deafness is mused by an inflamed I pepsia, biliousness, liver complaint, condition of th • muoons lining of Eustachian know the story of it with circumstantial | Overton was ‘struck down’ for false j OUS.” Tube. When this 'ubegeis inflamed you have exactness. ” | neuralgia, rheumatism, all nervous | swearing, as well as that some things in a rumbling sound of imperfect hearing and Hawkins ’ eyes dropped his face grew “It’s a pitiful one, and my father al- j I diseases and kidney troubles. For-1 when ir is entirely closed deafness is the result, the life of his son are ‘ a judgment ’ for i hard. He half turned awaj, saying over 1 the latter Paine's celery compound has I and unless the inflammation can be taken out ways insisted begun in a romance back I and this tube restored io it' normal co dition, in Carolina. He knew both the Over- I the assertion of an unjust claim, I his shoulder: “Oh, well, dd-as you like. lie-rhgvill be destroyed forever; nine cases “To me he is the most heroic, the Ridgeley, the Overton placed lies about I succeeded again and again where out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is tons and Fauntleroys there. The heirs | ! everything else has failed. most pathetic figure I ever knew. This nothing but an Inflamed condition of the of each house, it seems, fell in love with I 10 miles out of town, on the Blackwood mucous surfaces. struggle to set his father right has risen I road. But you are not surejof finding the same young woman — an heiress and We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that can great belle—who preferred young Over- from a duty to a religion--—one, too,, | the major at home except atbreakfast. Professor Vaughan olaims to have not be cure i by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send for ton. If the other man swore vengeance which, unlike most religions, comes be­ So I advise you to go early, if you will invented a telephone by which conver­ circulars free. F. J. CHENEY A CO., Toledo, O. sations can be carried on between New in spite of me, ” against his successful rival, nobody ever fore everything, anything else. ” Sold by Druggists, 76c. “Yet you say bis case is hopeless?” ‘ ‘Go I must and soon, ” the other said, York and London. heard of it, but everybody knew that Hull’s Family Pills are the best. “ Quite, save in two most impossible walking away. the warm friendship once existing be­ HOITT’S SCHOOL FOJR BOYS Hawkins looked after him and mut­ tween the two families was utterly dead. contingencies, ” The peat bogs of Great Britain and “What are they?" tered under his breath; “Him—of all Ireland are estimated to contain fuel In fact, it was felt to be a good thing At Burlingame, San Mateo County. Cal. i “ He must find the missing volume of is one of the most thorough, careful and when, a few years after his wedding, ■records or the man who made away ! tho men in the world. He cannot know equivalent in heat producing to 4,000,- i ^-not half a dozen do—all that lies un­ practical “Home Schools” to be found on young Overton moved with all his be­ with them and with his father’s deeds. ” der the sprfape pf the Overtoil claim.” 000,000 tons of coal. the Pacific coast. It prepares boys for any longings to middle Tennessee. university, technical school, or for active “Here he prospered amazingly. Com­ business; is accredited at tbe State and | CHAPTER IL MANUFACTURE OF CANES. Stanford Universi ies, and under tbe able i ing in when prWty well all the state lay [ continued .] Seventy years, full of trouble though management of Ex State Superintendent i virgin, he bought half a county of the Grown, Boiled, Warped, Fired, Pol­ Ira G Hoitt Ph. D.. ranks among the first richest land at a price that was next to 1 they were, sat lightly on Fra-ucis Over- ished and Ornamented. schools in the Uni’el States. Re-opens nothing. Besides he got possession of I ton. He walked away from his lawyer MIND YOUR EYE. August 4.— Mining and Scientific Press. The manufactures of canes reveals- the best ore banks in the state, and as j with a masterful step, though his head What You Should Avoid if You De* an interesting process connected with drooped a little, and his eyes w^-re full I never used so quick a cure as PIso’s soon as he had got a fair sized planta- ! sire to Preserve Your Sight. a growing Industry. There are sev­ Cure tor Consumption.—J. B. Palmer, Box tion open, set about building furnaces j of speculation-—so full indeed that he As nature lias endowed each one of eral large factories In Philadelphia took no'noteof two other men, who look ­ 1171, Seattle, Wash.; Nov. 25,1895. and making iron. He was essentially a | ed hard at him from an adjacent street | us with only one pail- of eyes and will and some in New York. 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