Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 10, 1911, Page 6

PAGE SIX AURURNDALE NEWS NOTES THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAK ELAND. FLA., NOV. 10, 1911, e me? down ‘the corridor. N0 lights had y& { the wall I saw you near the staircase. been lit, and objects were very dim. ' Crouching, I turned the mirror toward As I was putting my key fnto the door | you, thus giving you a reflection of of my room I felt a current of air and, | the corridor in which you stood. This, ( ! Auburadale, Nov. ¥.-—Frem pre- sent indications the coming tourist, season will be a record-brexker for Auburndale. The hotels and board-| ing houses ave filling up and there isn't an empty house in town that can be rented. Almost every pri- vate family is expecting either re- latives or friends from the North to. spend the winter. There has been; many inquires akout spare ground | on the lakes on which tent Louses | might be erected. Mr, and Mrs. A. W. Brainerd and son, Percy, of Lawrence, Mass., ar-| rived Saturday ang have opened their winter home on Lake Ariana. Mrs. 0. E. Dungon, son and daugh-| ter and two colored servants, all of | LaGrange,Ga., arvived Friday :md! are settled for the winter at Maning- side on Lake Ariana. Mr Dunson the trip by autor.obile, are expected and son, Preston, who are maklng‘ in a few days. | Miss Ella Minser, who has been a| guest at the Ariana for some time, feft Monday for Orlando. Messrs. Walter Ryall, John Pat- terson and Werner Jones were doing business in Bartow Thursday. Mr. Walter Bryant, manager of the Gapway groves, spent Sunday with friends in Plant City. A fine gasoline launch has been shipped in for Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Henderson, of New York city, who bought theOwens place on Lake Juli- ana and who are expected to arrive in about ten days and spend a long vacation on the lakes. Rev. and Mrs. Charles W. Preston, of Lincoln, Neb., are the guests of the Rev, and Mrs. J. K. Nutting, Mr. Preston occupied the pulpit at the Presbyterian church Suhday evening and left Monday for the East Coast, where he will join the McQuarrie missionary boat. Mr, A. (. Thorpe, Auburndale’s teading builder and contractor, was transacting business in Tampa Tues- Mr. and Mrs. G. White have moved | his palace, overcame his followers, but fnto the old postofice building and | could never capture him. The fox had ss confectionary | means of escape that enabled him to will open a first cla and ice cream parlor. Judge Preston, of Bartow, came up ! passing through exciting scenes such The Mysterious Lady It Was a Question Whether She Was a Ghost or Flesh and Blood. By F. A. MITCHEL Copyright by American Press Asso- ciation, 1911 the most Interesting {cfty in the world—at any rate, to Euro- Undoubtedly peans and Americans—is Rome. For twenty-five centuries she has been as have been but occasional with other cities. And her changes have beeu no less remarkable. There was the austere purity of the republic, the profligncy of the empire, her almoat obliteration following the many at- tacks of her enemies, the petty quar- rels and villainies of the middle ages. Perhaps the most despicable period at Rome was during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Within this period cvery head of a family inhabit- ed his tower or stronghold, in which he defended himself against every oth- er family. There were the Orsini, the Borglas, the Colonna and many other clans whose business it was to fight, slaughter or poison one another. Some of them grew rich through plunder— there was then no other way—and built enormous palaces, where they llved with their retainers in princely style. During a visit to Rome I occupied a room in one of these palazzios. The building is very long and has been cut up into sections by partition walls, Not that there Is any regularity in these partitions; they occur any and everywhere, and it {8 not easy to tell which ones were a part of the original palace and which have been bulit in l since. I was curious about the pile, for though I was then but twenty-five years old 1 had read much about medi- eval Italy, and I knew the history of the house from its bullding. It was erected by onc of the most villainous of the Roman family leaders that flourished in the fifteenth century. A number of times his enemies besieged g0 forth a free man, though every avenue of exit was carefully watched. My room was on the second story Sunday to shake hands with his bro-{on a corridor with apartments on el- ei, the Rev. C. W. Preston of Lin-|ther band and was near one extrem- coln, Neb., whom he hadn’t seen for ity. On the terminal wall was a mural eighteen yeara. Being Interested, as I have said, fn Mrs. A. Melin, of Akron, 0., who| the bullding, I one day questioned the has been here for some tim esuper-| maid who took care of my room intending the finishing of her bun-|@bout its construction. The only in- galow at Finona Park leaves short- gmm 1 elicited was that none of ly for New York, where she will be TOOMN beteomn ae ARA the Rest J end of the hall was occupled. This joined by her daughter, Mrs. Henry | may have been because the summer Camp. They will spend a week in| season was coming on, when travelers the city, then go on to Akron, re-|®eek more northerly climates. turning to Auburndale after the J’m’l‘e"‘"‘”}' """'““:‘l‘ °“|l°"“" ~ . 3 i s just In time to see & :«::.l;i:r)n for the remainder of the Jady advance from this unoccupied re- J glon. Perhaps it was the work of my Mr. and Mrs. G. 1. Linn, of Fair-| imagination, perhaps some arrange mont, W. Va., have rented the Ryall | tent of her costume borrowed from cottage on Lake avenue and will| $WO :; ::':e?h:tt“;:: I.gd(;n:;ell;nnt‘e:: " seem a spend the winter here. to medieval times. There may be an- Werner G. Jones has bought out| other reason why I should have thus the Knowles livery business. Felix | considered her, the fact that I had not Knowles has been engaged as man- | @Xpected her to come, so it seemed, out of the wall. For had mot the will be run in a manner to please m&m.&;mmx.m and accommedate the publie. However, 1 was o0 struck with the Recent arrivals at the Ariana ho- | vision of loveliness that swept by me brook, Lakeland; Miss Martha Deeso, rn:e‘:m"::' came “u"“’m" her e p ) 5 pled a compara small :el.' \‘, l!‘..s'mllings, Jr., T. K. Ilol. part of my thoughts pa gy .awtey, Fla; B, A, Bram, Tampa; I watched her till she reached the cen- C. L. Smith, Tampa; L. L. Barton, | ter of the corridor and passed down Winter Haven; Mr. and Mrs. Gelsen | the staircase. At that momeat the Linn, Fairmon, W. Va.;H. H. Git-|mald came along, with her brooms tord, New York. and bucket, and I asked her about Mr. J. 18 Dickey, of Citrus Hill, on ::‘""’;: :lh:ut:dn::‘?h?m Lake Arietta, was in town Monday to! Slipping a couple of lira into her meet his father, Mr. Joseph Dickey,| bands, I asked her to unlock them. of Toronto, Canada, who will spend | She opened every door, and there was nothing but the bare furniture in any one of them. Nor was there any open- | ing or stairway leading elsewhere. In ’other words, the end of the corridor | was a complete pocket. From whence had the lady come? T regretted that I had not followed her downstairs to see whither she went. It was but 9 o'clock in the morning, and it occurred to me that ager. which means that the business the winter here. French Woman's Hat. “The French woman never seems to put her hat on straight,” says an observing American who has lived for some years in France. “There is al | ways a coy little tilt; or, again, she | will wesr her clapeau at an alarm- tngly acute angle—but straight, never! One of ber notions just now is to line the hat throughout with black velvet, and then wear it at such \ a slant that, standing at her sida one sees the wearer's features com- | §0Ing about the city, hoping to meet pletely solhoutted against the soft | the mysterious lady, visiting every velvet, and the top of the hat itself gallery, ruln or subterrancam excava- not at all! Here, again, good looks tion in Rome. I did not happen to stand such an arrangement to per | Weet her. Ikept an eye for her in the fection, while even Irregularities of both In the cafe and other nose and chin are surprisingly soft- of the building where 1 would ened by this always becoming back- likely to meet her. My watchful- ground.” i avalled me nothing. ¥ ~*nerivae- the first floor for breakfast. and had doubtless gone out. For several days I spent all my time she might have gone to the cafe on | turning, caught a glimpse of the mys- terious lady going in the same direc- tion as before. 1 was then young, and superstitions that have a greater hold I think on youth than experienced age had not yet worn away. Somehow I was im- pressed with the belief that the mys- terious lady was one of those who had 2ahabited the palazzio several ceatu- les before. This feeling paralyzed me fust long enough to permit ber to es- cape me. Then, coming to my senses, I ran after her and down the stalr- case. I was too late. She had either passed on to the rooms at the other end of the corridor or had left the building. Probably she had entered some private apartment, for it was growing dark dnd too late for any lady, especially one young and beauti- ful, to be out on the street alone. The next morning at an hour when the most light made its way jpto the corridor, having Lribed the maid to lend me her pass key, I opened every door of those in the mysterious region and explored every room for some exit. I found none. Then I tapped the terminal wall, but got no sound indicating anything wooden or hollow. The mural painting was a landscape in which was a woman's figure in the dress of ancient Rome. The picture must have been very old, for the col- ors were much faded, and it had evi- dently been painted in the stiff style that had been in vogue when tho palazzio was bullt. My examinations led me to no discovery whatever. When it rains in Rome it rains hard. One afternoon when a torrent was pouring from the clouds and it was consequently very dark in the palazzio, going to my roow, I saw a marvelous sight. It seemed that the wall beyond my room had been removed and the corridor had been indefinitely extend- ed. There were a few dim lights about me, and the corridor in its whole length was lighted by similar ones. Owing to the dimness all this was barely perceptible. Then the exten- sion melted away, dnd there was only the 11l defined space at the end of the corridor to which I had been used. Thinking there must be something the mutter with my eyes, I put a fist against each of them and gave them a prolonged rubbing. When I took my fista away for another look there was the mysterious lady coming to- ward me. She smiled as she passed me. Pos- sibly my sensibilities were much over- wrought and my imagination exag- gerated everything, but it seemed to me that smile was the sweetest I had ever seen on & woman's face. . Agaln my superstitious {instincts caused me to stand stock still while I might have determined whether the vislon were ghost or flesh and blood by means of touch. But it seemed to me that I had been swung back to medieval times and this woman was moving within the palazzio as she had moved there neveral centuries before. When she had passed beyond me, in- stead of following her I crammed my fists again against my eyes to restore a normal sight. When I removed them the vision had disappeared. That was the Iast view I bad of the mysterious lady at the palazzio. In vain I waited for her to appear again, vowing that It she did I would seize her and detain her till I conld deter- mine whether she were flesh and blood. But after severa! weeks' pa- tient waiting, since she did not appear and I met her nowhere in Rome, 1 was forced to conclude that if she were a ghost she had been exorcized and if she were flesh and blood she had left the Eternal City. I made no effort to get an explanation, for in the first place I didn’t care to let any one know how superstitious or perhaps stupid I had been, and the secret was one that I preferred to keep down al the bottom of my heart. I left Rome still uncertain whether I had been be- witched by a medieval ghost or my charmer were a real person. Fate brought me a solution. Return- ing to America, a few days out from Southampton one morning on deck I |Q passed the mysterious lady sitting in | ¥ a steamer chair. I looked at her in amazement. burst into a laugh. “You and I don't need an introduc- tion,” she said. “We have met before. Be seated,” pointing to a vacant chair beside her, “and I will tell you all about it.” 8he I accepted the invitation, and she ; continued: “I occupied rooms in the compart- 3 ment next to yours in the palazeie. One who knew every nook and corner, every secret passage, in the building 1 knew, would cause the hall to ap- | pear to you continuous. Then when you covered your eyes | the reverse.” “What a fool I was!” I exclaimed. “I have been in doubt whether you { were an apparition of a medieval dame or flesh and blood.” “Have you?” she exclaimed, with de- light. “Had I known that how much more pleasure I should have derived from the freak.” “] presume,” I said musingly, “that the passage through the wall was built and used by the fox who first owned and occupied the palazzio?” “Yes. I was told that on one occa- sion it saved his life.” “He must have had skillful work- men to make it. I examined it care- fully, even knocking on it, but could find nothing more than a blank wall.” The next summer the mysterious lady and I made a wedding trip to Rome, stopped at the palazzio, and 1 made a very critical search for the spring that opened it. My wife was obliged to show me where it was. UTILITY ULSTER. 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