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and wealth were to be had for the
taking.
“You see!” said Jasper Haig.
“Yes,” said Mary Manchester, con¬
senting, bowing her head to her great
new fortune.
And yet strangely enough—so Jnse
cure tery is life that for all of us*— it was that j j
night Mary Manchester wns
found by chance wandering dazed,
stricken by the heat, and taken up
a singular good fortune by a
and very ■ famous physician, ami
brought into the great hospital in his
own limousine. And tfe next day,
never regaining consciousness, she
was dead.
Mary Manchester was dead—a num¬
ber, one of a million, a working-girl
whose very identity after death would
have been unknown but for a message
by mail—whbse origin he did not seem
to know—to her half-drunken stepfa¬
ther.
Mary Manchester was dead in Belle¬
vue. You will find it in the records
there today. Adelaide Rutherford, the
great heiress, by a fortunate turn in
her illness, though still delicate, was
evidently rallying from her recent des¬
perate iilnesa And the great Gorgam
Trust, unlike the despairing lover in
the ballad, had still something of Its
own to live for—-and lived on.
CHAPTER V
It is an unusual and striking sight,
to those who may never haw wit-!
nessed it before—the care and solid
tude that a really great trust fund of
some sixty millions will lavish upon '
the one sole object of its devotion. For
Adelaide Rutherford, recovering from
her almost fatal illness, such wonders
had been provided! Every luxury ad¬
missible, every appliance which led to
health and pleasure—for the Gorgam
Trust was obviously above all now de¬
termined that its mistress, once upon
the road to health, should not be al¬
lowed to slip back again. N# whim of
hers that was permissible of granting
was denied her; continued novelty was
supplied, of every kind—even, It may
be recorded, to an entire change of
servants through tlte house.
They watched and studied the wom¬
an of the trust fund, this new House¬
hold force, as servants will those
more fortunate beings who livb under
the same roof. You would not have
noticed anything about her, they all
agreed, except at certain times. Some
said that formerly there were always
one nr two trained nurses with her;
but now that she was recovering s<>
fast the nurses were all gone—except
perhaps with one exception, the wom¬
an who was her personal maid. But
of course the doctor called still—once
or twice a week—not very serious
calls you might say. mostly talk and
laughter. And of course it wns under¬
stood by her and by every one that
her condition did not allow her to
leave the house, except for that dally
morning ride out Riverside drive anil
the old Lafayette boulevard In her
limousine; and of course no callers
were permitted—generally speaking.
This was all the Instructions thri-e
were, unless the serlous-faced person¬
al woman of hers had others which no
one else would know about.
She seemed cheerful—she certainly
was not melancholy as her health im¬
proved.
She was very good, though, and a
very nice person to work for. she
made no fuss at all to speak of—and
never but once so far had made the
doorman any trouble by offering to go
out. And that was a curious thing all
through—all the servants discussed It;
but no one could ever quite make out
the right of it.
"Pardon me,” the doorman said, with
his hand upon the door when he came
darting toward It. ‘But the doctor’s
orders are that Madam is to leave the
house but once a day—as yet.”
And right away, remembering evi¬
dently, she stood back, But yet she
was still excited, he saw—and for a
most peculiar reason. She gave him
tW s order in a kind Of aliuky voice: .<
* , Go out,” she said, “and call In th
dog that is in front of the window’s.”
It was a rough, ragged*hnlmal that
had been hanging around the great
house lately and would not be driven
away; part Airedale, one would say, or
perhaps Irisli-terrier, a dog which took
life with a sense of humor just a little
less grim perhaps than does an Aire¬
dale. When the doorman called, he
would have none of him apparently;
but when the voice of Mrs. Rutherford
came through the door—a curious
thing to see—the dog came bounding
in at the first syllable; almost smoth¬
ered her with affection until the door¬
mat} felt that he should Interfere—
and was reproved for so doing, For
strangely enough the lady of.the house
seemed pleased by the dog’s roughness
and Insisted, in fact, upon keeping the
animal with her. Later Mr. Haig and
the doctor himself said It would be all
right.
“It will not do her one particle of
harm,” he said. "Very possibly It will
be of benefit.”
And in a way site did seem better,
more cheerful after that, after the
street-dog came. He Was with her al¬
ways now—a humorous-faced dog of
adventurous disposition—quite large,
not suited exactly, you would say, for
a house-dog. He was allowed to run
after the closed automobile at stated
limes and places.
A not unnatural desire for what
companionship was available had a
considerable influence upon Adelaide
Rutherford's final decision to call
again for the attendance of her very
famous physician. There had been a
change on his part the last few weeks,
lip had attended her less frequently of
late, owing to the apparently greatly
imp roved health of his patient. And
in a way this might perhaps be consid¬
ered a lapse of professional judgment
on his part. After all—as any cele¬
brated practitioner among women
knows—a doctor Is a human being,
often a very sociable one; and cases
are not entirely unknown to the medi
cal profession where women, not so
much desperately ill as lonely and de
spondent, have been brought a long dls
t;;nee on the way to health and happi
ss by the mere opportunity to talk
to display new gowns and hats for
t“e approval and criticism of a skilled
physician. This is, though not men¬
tioned in medical treatises, a condition
quite well known to fashionable doc
tors practicing among women of
wealth and unlimited power of dress¬
ing. but unable to go out to places
where gowns may be properly shown.
It is not to be stated ’definitely that
the rather sudden attack of Illness
which came to Mrs. Rutherford—un
fortunately just at the time that the
celebrated physician himself was ill—
was due entirely to this cause. Yet
certainly she was very lonely, and cer
tainly no call front so great a house
could be disregarded. And in his, stead
the trusted young doctor, who had his
practice temporarily, called at once at
the great Gorgam residence on Fifth
avenue.
His patient was apparently, however,
n,t desperately ill, it appeared—
s< emed indeed somewhat embarrassed
fit first by his coming. But the younger
doctor, himself n skilled practitioner
unong fashionable and wealthy worn
soi >n cii not unnatural^
tt ! n I yrstanding of condi
; v ! do so nltieh toward restor-
1 wnr.ienV health. Before he had
gone, she had in fact so far recovered
as to show Mm several of her newer
gowns. She seemed not seriously Hi;
nnd yet the younger physician returned
several times to attend her for reasons
of his own. Each time when he left
the-great front door, he appeared more
puzzled.
He wag speaking of the matter—not
many days after—to his very Intimate
friend, o ne so inti mate that profession¬
al etiquette could he disregarded—es¬
pecially in consideration of that
frioml'v wffdtmbted—interest and possi¬
ble ability to help solve a mystery
which the physician could not get out
of his mind.
“Tvf just run across a strange
tiling.”
"Strange!" said S*:: rfnrd Gorgam.
“Your cousin—the !. .ady of the Trust
Fund!”
“Yes said young Gorgam, watch
ing him.
“She is no more insane than I am.
“Not insane?”
“I said just that.” !>
“Iiow do you know?”
“The symptoms of that particular dis¬
ease are absolute. I never saw her in
my life before this time. But I know
this; she has not one of them!”
"Not insane!” said Stanford Gor
gam. 'Could she have recovered?”
“There is no recovery from that dis¬
ease," said the young doctor.
“No recovery!” said the other.
“Then what til
“I don’t know,” said the young doc
tor. But i do know this: Never, un¬
der any circumstances, are you to
speak to anyone on earth of what I’ve
Just to Id you. To anybody else, or to
me! From now I shall never recall
this conversation.”
“Certainly not,” said Stan Gorgam.
CHAPTER VI
If, in the hlrth of a trust fund, It is
devoted to the carp and protection of
one particular person, then too, tinder
the certain limits which alwnys govern
its existence, it can pass away and
leave its all to still another. If the
“use nnd enjoyment” of the great es :
(ate of Daniel Gorgam went to his
daughter for her life, and at her death
to her surviving offspring, then in case
she died and tlrire was no direct heir,
it xjonld be anjL in fact It was specified
it should pass to the next of kin—
son of my deceased brother,
Stanford Gorgam, who bears his fa¬
ther's name.”
It was, too, far from essential to the
happiness of the younger Gorgam that
this fortune should ever come to him.
was sufficient, many would have
said more than sufficient, already pro¬
vided for the use and enjoyment of
Stanford Gorgam In his own father’s
will—even though but a minor frac¬
of sixty millions.
It was, too, far from essential to
hfipplness of Jasper Haig, the
of the Trust, or of Has
Rutherford, the husband of
Gorgam, that he should ever
this property, or In fact have
named In the first place as the
legatee. Indeed, few things
Stan Gorgam’s eminently pleas
life and living were essential to
happiness of Hasbrouck Rutheff
Even when they were both lu
GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS AND SUN
Yale—both members of the university
football team—their disregard for one
another approached often to the verge
of physical disaster; in fact had done
so once, the disaster, as it happened,
occurring to ttic* heavier, and some
had thought, the stronger man, Hasfc
Rutherford—so well known in his
time as the great Yale center.
Always after that he had said, in
his blunt, downright way, that If there
were any pleasure In the world which
he craved especially, it was the at¬
tendance upon the funeral of Stan¬
ford ©organ). This old and carefully
nursed fire of resentment kept ever
burning in the heavy and substantial
temperament of his old Dutch ances¬
tors. It was not decreased in the
slightest after his very fortunate mar¬
riage with Adelaide, the cousin of his
enemt ; and then the creation, at the
di m of her great father, of the fa
ms Oorgara Trttst, quite evidently—
int.-.y persons were not slow in say¬
ing—t* keep the great power of his
fortune always out of the hands of
(To be continued)
BRUSHY NEWS.
The farmers are behind with their
cotton and peas owing to the recent
bad weather.
Mrs. Grady ,,Cochran is on the
lick list.
Wash Manley gave a chicken
stew to many of his friends Tues¬
day night.
Grady Cochran, Jim Phinazee,
George Goen and J. T. Cochran, Jr.,
motored to McDonough Wednesday.
Miss Bessie Ruth Foster spent j
Friday afternoon with Miss Nellie
Cochran,
Miss Lula Grant, of Griffin, spent
th ® week ' end Wlt h relatives here,
the musical entertainment given
Misses Georgia Mae, Mattie
Kate and Nellie Cochran Saturday
night was highly enjoyed by
present. Mrs. Eugene Foster play
ed the piano,
Miss Georgia Mae Cochran’s
friends are glad to kpow that she
is improving after hfer illness .of
several weeks.
Miss Thelma Foster is on the sick
list.
Mrs. F. D. Fold, who suffered a
burned foot some time ago, is un¬
improved,
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Cochran en
tertained several of their friends
at a turtle supper Friday night.
All enjoyed the many good things to
eat. The house was prettily dec-
1 orated with flowers. Games of sev
| »ral kinds were played after the
| supper, which was served by Mrs.
! j T. Cochran, and her guest, Mrs.
j I Eugene Foster.
i ENTERTAINS
RELATIVES AND
FRIENDS WITH BARBECUE
ON 66TH BIRTHDAY
Celebrating his 60th birthday an
niversary Sunday, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Moss, of West Griffin, en
tertained relatives and friends with
a barbecue.
.The, guests included.....Charlie and
Flora Moss, of Griffin, Lewis and
Harold Moss, of Atlanta; Ralph
Moss and family, Estelle, Mabelle
ihina and Robert, of McDonough;
Ben Raymond, Alice; Inez and Co¬
ra Lee Moss, of East Point; Alfred
Melvin and Mattie Mae Moss, of
Palmetto; Madge, Milton and Roy
Moss, of Manchester; Cleve Conger
and family, Dora, Nora, Rubby, Lu
cile, Woodrow, Wooten, Darsey, Ar
die and Marjorie, of Fairburn,
Floyd Conger and family, Leila,
Clomer, Cleve, Pearl, Bee and Ver
lie, of Griffin; A. J. Kirbow and
son, Albert, of Manchester; Mr. and
Mrs, Joseph Parker and family, of
Palmetto and Eugene Rodgers, of
Griffin.
Its Advantages
“Listenin’ to a s beech by radio jes'
shits me, said Uncle Eben. “If L
wants to go to sleep In de middle of
It 'tain' no offense to nobody.”
LIGHTING
FIXTURE SALE
NOW GOING ON
Drop in and see the ex¬
tremely low preies. Really
you will be surprised.
Sale closes Sept. 30th. Don’t
miss it.
J. E. Varner Electric
Company
Phone 666. 129 W. Taylor
mu
HumoiiQ and OIm
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NO NEWS
A whoop-it-up London newspaper
was complaining one after
fnat the day had brought forth
news.
•‘Well.’ said a member of parlia¬
who happened to be calling, “you
the old adage."
“What old adage?”
''No news is good news.”
•'Still.” declared the publisher, “It
good enough to call for an extra."
Gazette.
Dangerous Age
There is a time in the life of every
When—hut this illustrates it.
“How old is Gladys now?” Mrs.
Davis asked of Gladys' grandmother.
Grandmother smiled understanding
ly. “Gladys is jus! at the age where
her mother is afraid she will get mar¬
ried and Gladys Is niraid she Will hot."
Or Elsa It’s Yes, Dear
Candid Friend—You told me you at
ways had the last word with your wife
and all flic time I've been here she’s
been ordering you ubout.
Mr. Duhlight—'Veil, I do have the
lust word. .Didn't you hear me say,
“All right?”
REMINDING HIM
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His Father-in-Law—When 1 get
tround to it I'm going to give you and
knne a fifty-foot lot with a nice little
jungalow on it.
Mr. .Justwed—Fine! Rut reraent
>er. It’s deeds, not words, that count
The Brunt of the Fray
Not every word will be brought out
That’s known to lexicographer^.
Yet no one stops to think about
The overworked stenographers!
Wise Enough
Friend-—Why d<> you have such mls
ipelled and ungrammatical signs in
four front window?
Sharp Mcrclunr;-4‘euplc think Cm
1 dunce and come in to swindle me.
Trade's just.....hL>uiuin£,~j?rogressiye
Sroeer.
Rcsult of Explosions
“So Jim is teaching his wife to drive
;he car. How are they getting along? H
“Oh. pretty well; but f understand
It keeps him busy the rest of the day
ipologizing for the things he said to
her during the lesson." ——— -
The Question
The Colonel (to new member who
•has just broken the^record)—They sayt
•his club is haunted—a phantom golfer
goes round the links every night.
New Member (anxiously)—In bow
many?
Not Good if Detached
“Pat. my boy” said the politician
who had listened to the young Irish¬
man’s speech, “I wish I had your
tongue.”
"Shure, sor,” grinned Pat “it would
be no nse to yez without me brains."
A Good Russ
“Why do you borrow your neighbor’s
lawn mower? You have one of your
owp^n the basement."
him "I from know, using but It borrowing his keeps
about sun-up every
morning."
THE WAY IT GOES
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"Insect pest* are destroying vast
quantities of cotton."
“Yes; it’s feared the all-wool cloth
lng Industry will suffer severely.”
May Be Bilious
If *h« sigh* with half-cloied eyes,
The while her hand you press.
Don't think she fell, You never can
tell;
It may be biliousness.
He’ll Be Rich Then
First Lawyer—How did your client
take his sentence?
Second Lawyer—Not badly; It Just
fils In with the time when his 20
year endowment policy matures!
Nothing to Boast Of
Mrs. Borden Lodge—One thing I
can boast of, my boarders can’t find
a fly In my house.
Mr. Hungerford—Files can afford to
be particular about where they eat.
Road Said To Be
In Good Condition
Macon newspapers are all “het
over recent reports that travel
being diverted from their city
persons in Atlanta.
The Macon Telegraph published
following news item Sunday;
** Continued efforts to divert auto¬
traffic frpm Macon with the
that the roads are im¬
is heing made in Atlanta,
to Arnold L. Hart, Miami
man, who arrived here
on an automobile tour
Asheville, N. C., to Miami.
“Mr. Hart said that an official of
Dixie Coaches and a garage man
him to detour at Barnes
on his way south, saying that
would be practically impossible
him to reach Macon because of
poor condition of the highway
here and Barnesville.
M i I was surprised and delighted,’
Mr. Arnold said, ‘when I got on
road leaving Barnesville for in¬
stead of the impassable road that
had expected to find, there was
highway in excellent condition and
I found no trouble in traveling it
at 45 miles an hour. I came to
Macon from Atlanta in approxi¬
mately three hours.
<< | If the roads in good
are as
shape from here to Miami as they
are from Barnesville to Macon, I
will be quite satisfied.’
li Following recent in
Atlanta a story the
Constitution which declar
that the highway from Baraes
ville to Macon Was iff very poor
condition and which advised auto
mobile tourists to detour at Bames
ville, an automobil^ tour over the
route was made by members of the
Telegraph staff, revealing the road
between Macon and Barnesville to
be in excellent condition. f
IRENE CASTLE HAS
HER HUREY AURSSffi)
New York, Sept. 21.—Robert K.
Treman, who was the second hus¬
band of Irene Castle McLaughlin,
former dancer, was arrested last
night in Ithaca, N. Y., on a civil
night on a civil order obtained
Mrs. McLaughlin from
Court Justice Aaron J. Levy, it
learned today.
The order was requested on
ground that Treman had
t o retu rn to his former wife
$40,000 worth of securities
she had placed in his custody
to which she said she was
HOUR OLD BABE IS IN FIRE
Richmond, Ind., Sept.
hour af ter a baby was born to
Phillip Rowe a lamp exploded
the room. Mrs. Rowe was
burned but the baby. was.
STEALING KISS A BURGLARY
Leigh, Eng., Sept.
Cox entered Miss Jean Lowry’s
room and kissed her as she
He was arrested for burglary.
Mlanta-Barnesvilie Dixie
coaches
Leave For Atlanta
7:55 a.m.; 1:40 p.m.
Leave Atlanta For Griffin
10:00 a.m.; 5 p.m.
SAFE AND COMFORTABLE
EXPERT CLEANING -4
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£XPERT only Cleaning be done and by .Dyeing experi¬
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enced workmen and modern
equipment.
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Griffin Laundry and Dry Cleaning Company
Phone 267
PAGE SEVEN
Question
The dub golfer had made eight dls
tlnet efforts before be succeeded la
getting his mashle shot away. That
lie looked at the scarred earth and the
freshly cut divots lying around him
In reckless profusion. “I say, caddie,"
he remarked pensively, "will It be
quicker to replace the turf or to returf
the place?”—Boston Transcript.
Assertion Disproved
People sometimes assert that they
could die for their friends when their
dully selfishness or carelessness proves
that they do not care to take the trou
be to live for them.
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Lodge Directory
WARREN LODGE
No. 20, I. O. O. F., meets every
Monday night at 7:30 at Warren
Lodge Hall. Visiting brothers cor
diady :‘*>vited.
R. A. BFEL, Secretary.
W. T. ATKINSON, N. G.
MERIDIAN SUN LODGE
No. 26, F. & A. M.
Regular meeting Tuesday night,
October 7th, 7 o’clock. Note Change
in hour. Visitors welcome.
C. H. Scales, W. M. Bill Wells, Sec.
W. 0. w.
Meets every Thursday, 7:30 p. m.
Sovereigns, your camp needs your
presence. You will find your Clerk
all times at Slaton Powell Clo. Co.
Visiting Sovereigns welcome. Come.
L. J. SAULEY, C. C.
C. C. STANLEY, Clerk.
Pythagoras No. Chapter,
10, R. A. M.
Regular meeting, Second and Fourth
Thursday, 7:30 p. m. Visitors wel¬
come. WM. T. ATKINSON, H. P.
BIjvL WELLS, Secretary.
Ben Barrow Lodge
No. 587 F. & A. M.
East Griffin, meets first and third
Thursday nights in each month at 7
o’clock. Visiting brothers welcome.
L. B. GUEST, W. M.
CLIFFORD GRUBBS, Secty.
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Office Phone 474 Res. Phone 481
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FUNERAL DIRECTORS
AND EMBALMERS
Griffin and Senoia, Georgia
Office Phone 575. Res. Phone 63
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