Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 28, 1922, Page 2

e S :distressing communication to make: ' It 'was kmown that Mr. Drace and SYNOPSIS CHAPTER I—The time is the late '60s | or early 'i0s and the scene a steamboat on the’ Mississippl river. All the type of the period are present and the float ing palace js distinguished by merriment, | dancing and gallantry. There are the | customary. drinking and gambling also. Virgil Drace, & young northern man, is | on his way south on a mission of revenge. He meets an eccentric character in the | | n of one Liberty Shottle, who is ! constantly tempting the goddess of | chuc.. They form a singular compact. | CHAP’I‘ER fl .—Drace gets his mind off | his missioa by entering into deck sports in which he exhibits an unusual athletic | fro'e- Liberty Shottle 1s again un- | ucky at cards and -attempts a financial | negotiation with Drace. The latter, see- | ln‘ an opportunity to use Shottle, con- | fides to him that his mission is to find a certain ex-guerrilla, Stepho la Vitte, | had murdered Drace’'s father. It is his determination announced to his new | ‘chum, to hang La Vitte as high as| has become enamored of a m!luflous beauty aboard the boat. | : CHAPTER IIL—The steamer reaches | 'New Orleans, at that time In the 50 what ' turbulent throes of carpetb: emnment. Shottle becomes pos: two_tickets for the French ball, soclety event, and proposes that ce accompany him to the affair. The young . men attend and Drace unexpectedly meets ] the girl who had fired his heart aboard ! the steamer. She is accompanied by one Bp&: whose proprietary interest indi- ca that he is her flance. Through: stratagem Shottle learns that the name of the girl is Nadine la Vitte and that her companion of the evening is the man | who Is seeking to marry her. 'ER IV.—Drace passes an uneasy nl( ot by '(he_susibion that Nadine | e daughter of old Stepho la Vitte, Bow an’ admitted outlaw. " Now. more than ever, is he resolved to find where ! the girl.lives and to find Stepho. Drace and Shottle begin a search of the city. | In one of their nocturnal pilgrimages | they-come upon a mob intent upon hang- | ing & poor wretch from the limb of a | tree, It'is o typlcal carpetbag execution and aroused the resentment of an oppos- | ing.mob of citizens, Drace takes a hand | in the fight which starts and is Instru- | mental In preventing the execution. From ! & window opposite the scene, he catches | & glimpee of one he.ls sure is Nadine. . (Conumrd from last 1xsuae) % “Lib, Pm’ernshed.” announced Drace. Rut how does lt happen art drove over you too?” < “Nadine is'gone. The place 18 nnlled up.” “Thlt's .tough, all right. But what .re you golng to do about it? Are you going to come to your puritanic senses | and give the whole thing up, or do you expect—" “I expect to fulfill my sacred mla« sion. I must find Stepho la Vitte.” “Shottle got.up and shook hands with his friend. He swore that he would make' the search the aim of ‘his life. "Suppoue you hire me by the day,” he! suggested. “A man does better work | by the day. He always has fresh stim- ulus every time the xun rises.” “Very well—ten dollars a day.” “That's liberal, Virgll, and I'll, take | it. . And let's get Old Josh to help us. | He 18 more or less acquainted wuh‘, Stepho’s habits.” cHAF’TEH v ‘An hour later Dmce and Shottle re- turned to their hotel after a cere- monlous visit with Colounel Joshy The Colonel. knew of Stepho, had indeed met him once, and he promised to nmke discreet Inquirles that should without fall disclose the creole’s whereabouts. Hardly had Drace reached his room, however, before a visitor was shoven in—a_visitor who Introduced himself &8s an agent of the New Orleans po- lice-department and who had a most his friend had taken part in a recent riot. Mr. Drace was one of the lead- ers, had severely wounded more than one man, and without cause, belng from the North, just arrived, and hav- ing no possible Interest in the city. However, he was to be treated with more of lenity than would rhyme with his crime, for instead of punishment he was only to be banished, along with his frierid. A steamboat, the Bum- blebee, bound northward, would leave next ‘morninig. The chief of police would grieve if Mr. Drace and his friend falled to register among the passenigers. 1 With scarcely twelve houts left in which to find Stepho 1a Vitte, Drace paced the streets in an agony of anx- fety, making a hundred plans to find Stepho or to outwit the New Orlexmx| officials and prolong his stay, but all in vain. Colonel Josh did not appear, but he , seemed to have embarked upon the> quest, for when the distracted Drace called at his quarters about midnight the old fellow was still absent. Dawn brought Drace back again, for all his other endeavors had been unsuccess- | ful, and but twe hours remained before the Bumblebee's departure. Routed out of bed, the Colonel kept Drace walting a full half hour before he put In an appearance. Then, how- ever, he offered a_faint ray of hope. %} ILLUSTRATED =~ BY %24 RHLVINGSTONE | He had discovered that a certain Frenchman, a wine dealer, living at | an address he produced scrawled on paper, was reported to be an intimate | of Stepho. Possibly from him Mr. Drace might— Drace hurrledly explained the de- cree which had banished him; then he “presented” the Colonel with a check | on account, asked him to convey his | respects to Miss Lucy and took his | departure. On his way to the Frenchman's he stopped at the hotel, where he found Shottle strapping up their baggage— | and a police official paying an informa but suggestive call. desk, sent his baggage to the boat and then, summoning & cab, drove off with | Shottle to the house of the French- man. It proved to be a mean abode, | both wineshop and dwelling. Drace knocked eagerly. . A small man, his| mustache dyed, came’ to the door, { blinking. “I beg your pardon, sir, but I am a friend of Mr. la Vitte, and—" “Pardon, monsieur, but you do not | look like him, ze friend.” “But I am. And I came with word thas will be of advantage to him. The | police are after him—" “Aw, he know zat. - Monsieur would trouble himself for nothing. Good morning.” “Just a moment, please. You have no need to look.on me with suspicion. I am his friend—and—" “If you his friénd,” interrupted the man, “you know he gone—to Europe, on steamer to France.” Drace was about to abandon the ma n in despair when Shottle, who had been | | staring at a case of wine which stood | by the door ticketed and sealed for i shipment, suddenly interrupted. “Ah,” he cried, “can this be the NN PN S RS R WS St Ty | colonel -ml came out as a brigadier.” ALY An hour's grace | remained. Drace pald his score at the | i | { d80 Sl [} W PR SRR “But,” Drace sald. dublously, “he’s not my uncle, and I'm afraid it would be intruding somewhat on his hospi- tality to—" “Nothing of the sort,” averred Lib- erty, doubly welcome. You can't know much about the General.. Taming, now, but he used to be the most re- markable character, in a quiet way, along the river. And when I tell you -about him, Virgil, yow'll laugh. Before the war he was professor at Newsoime,’ | a little cbilege up ,in the scrub-oak | i country. «He. entered the army as a. I “I don't lee anything t l)qlw-n He derable 3 and at ti to come I to New Orlegns to enjoy him- “{iselli"7On “one occasfon he lost all his | monéy ‘at roulette.” | “Still nothing to laugh at.” ‘ “No? All the property he had with { him was a bodyservant, a’' Guinea ne- gro named Dip. So what does he do? He says to the proprietor of the gam- ! bling house: | gro, sir.” ‘AN right; I'll take off the | Umit and let you play him. How much | i 1s he worth? says the gambler. ‘I don’t want to play hls value in money, { but him, I tell you,' says the General. | ‘Say the word, and I'll bet him on one of these numbers. He had been los- | Ing every bet, and the proprietor knew hat it would be safe. So he says: ‘All right, go ahead.’ “The .General wasn't sober, o he alls the darky and says: ‘Dip, stand here with your forefingers on number twenty, right hefe. The darky did so, and they turned the wheel, everybody laughing. the owner! of the place turned pale!| | He knew that he’d,have to pay or close | | up his house. So he says: ‘All right,| get at his value, and I'll pay the bet.’ ‘Value!” cries the General. ‘I didn't bet his value, but him. I want thiety- five Guinea negroes. Size them up to him.” “What a farce!” commented Drace. “Was it? Well, I reckon not. They had to go out and buyy thirty-five Guinea negroes. It took quite a while, but the General waited. | And when they had all been sized up, the General went up the River, with his; (thirty-five Guinea negroes trailing after, him.” Now Drace could see the picture of it, and he laughed. This was the man he was going to visit! | The Bumblebee was jointly owned |- nnd operated by Major Pewitt and a young fellow named ‘William Hawkins. It was a fine steamer, but while it was | cunningly masked as a public carrier, Shottle was quick to discover that it was in truth a nomad gambler, profuse in entertainment that taxed not the giver. Bat the entertainment sought by this pelican, as the gamesters termed Shottle, was not of wine from | * “I'France, the fishegg from Russia -or: e fia “Zat Is Ze Prlvlla Stock,” He Snarled. famous Chateau Yquem?” And brush- ing past the Frenchman, he leaned ov- er as If to examine the bottle. With a cry, the wine merchant shoved him rudely away. “Zat s ze private stock,” he snarled. “He is not for sale. I am not yet open for business, sirs. Good morning.” Shottle grasped Drace’s arm and/ drew him away. A cart had halted | outside, and as they entered their cab they saw the carter shouldering the case of wine and bearing toward his vehicle. As they turned the corner, a deep- throated blast from the Bumblebee sounded a warning. _Shottle turned upon the disappointed Drace with a gleeful countenance. “Master,” sald, “T'll thank you for that money again, I've found him.” “Found him!” exclaimed Drace. | “How?" “That case of wine was nddressed t Stepho la Vitte at Farnum's' Lnndtng. Mississippi. That wine is golng''to| Stepho on the .Bumblebee. And so are we!” 1 An hour later Drace uat wl).h Sho(- tle on the deck of the Bumblebee, | watching the ever-changing panorama | of the Mississipp! and musing upon | the sudden shifting of his quest. “Liberty,” asked Drace presently, | “how far up is this Farnum'’s Landing? Do you recall it?” “Yes,” sald Liberty. “I know this river. Farnum’s Landing is—by gol- 1y ! he exclaimed, bresking off, “Far- num's Landing I8 the next stop below Bethpage's Landing! And Gen- eral Bethpage is my uncle! We'll go there.” he | | vehifon from America’s native; woods, but spades, hearts, diamonds and.clubs. | And while the Bee still lay at the wharf, breathing low and blubberously through her nostrils, Shottle had put in operation a quickly contrived “touch.” presenting himself to Major | Pewitt hefore he had taken the time to introduce his friend to that well- | kmm‘n character. (Continued in Next lssue) Qif, Lasts & Times as Loeg 25 Others. Saves Work. UT (LOTHES OST Our Dry Cleaning saves lyou the cost of new clothes, yet gives you vpractically new garments. Economize without sacrificing looh—see us. | Harléy-Davidson Line NEW AND REBUILT Oragr ¥our Parts From Us GENERAL REPA[R SHOP BEMIDII MINN. LEARN BARBERING Now is the time.~ Summer rates still in effect. Enroll now and save $25. Twin City Barber College, 204.Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis, { | Minn. “Any friend of mine would be ‘I wish to play this ne-| | Well, sir, if twenty didn’t ' ; win, the world is a puffball! 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