Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 18, 1911, Page 2

rAGE TWO THE BVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA., DEC. 18, 1911. —____—___—————__—_\—__———-—-—-———-—\ SROODOCOCTIOOOC OGO < SO D T S DI REMEMBER: Ot el el >, S = From H. C, SIE Having served you for the passed four years, studied each individual taste, I am ready to supply you with ai capable and obliging clerks to show you anything you desire for your Christmas Gifts this year. MY C00DS ARE GUARANTEED os aray st seuystyg Come in at once and make your selections. I have plenty of room to keep packages for you.” Mr. Chas. Connor, an Expert Engraver will devote his ENTIRE TIME this week to ENGRAVING MY GOODS FREE OF CHA e T e e e e e e e e e D : STUDY CAREFULLY THE GIFT LISTS BELOW OF ITEMS THAT YCU WILL FIND IN MY LARGE S"0CK SUITABLE FOR OOOGOO0O00A000O0CI00000VL GO0C0COVO00OOLEIDTL BROTHER Watch Scarf Pin Cuff Pins ave My Goods Free. olne: nfl%% HE club looked just the very thing Gerald Man- nersley was craving for —a sense of home. A few lines read “ac- cidentally in an out-of- date newspaper had made him restless with longing for the old scenes. And so he had traveled two days and nights in a’ sleeper, vaguely connecting his jour- ney's end with all the love and friend- | ship his starved nature was demand- | ing. i When he arrived at his old club on | a chill, grey Christmas morning, it | was only to find that fifteen vears' | silent absence had been too severe a test for triendship. The place was empty of all but servants, and they wore strange, unwelcoming faces. He stood at the club window, look- ifng out on the desolate, deserted street which he had always remem- bered as being thronged, and a great sadness swept over him, | This was not what he wanted. From | his pocket he drew out the scrap of paper which had really brought him ®0 many miles, and looked at it bit- terly. It was only a death announce- ment cut from a paper of a year ago, and ran in the usual way—"Michael Townley, at his residence,” etc. sweet-faced In fancy he maiden, who sought her hap- plness only In the eyes of the youth by her side. There were joy- bells there. too, as they left the church with the fragrance of mu- tual love about them. The bLells peal- ed on outside, and willing fancy led him still further into the realm of “might have been.” In an instant he made up his mind to visit once more the old-fashioned cottage not many miles away, to which he had hoped fifteen years be- fore to take a bride. He would go and see it. even if its neglected con- dition only added to his loneliness and pain. Two hours later he was striding through the crisp country air along a | winding path which led to a ram- | bling, ivy-covered cottage. . As the lagt turn brought him in saw a sight of the house he stopped in sur- prise. He had expected to see dirt, ruin, and decay, but instead he looked upon a trim, well-kept cottage, and a soft, crooning song, in a voice which reawakened the tender memories of long ago, came floating through the unlatched door. i Half believing that it must be fancy leading him still, he entered the house softly, and, following the voice, went into the inner room, and stcod in the glow of the warm firelight. The sweet, tired-faced, midd!e-aged singer turned as his shadow fell across the light, and then stood white and trembling. “Gerald!" she whispered. “Gerald! have you come to reproach me? Not today! Not today!™ The streng man’s voice broke as he held out his arms. “Nance!” he cried joyfully. In & moment she was crushed, sob- bing, to his breast. “Oh, Gerald! is it really you? God is very good. dead.” For several I thought you must be moments they stood thus, the strong man’s tears fall- ing on her grey- tinged hair. Then into a chair. “You are not alone?” he asked as his eyes caught sight of a little table laid for two, daintily spread with Christmas fare. “Yes,” she answered. 'l am quite alone. 1 have often come down here.” “ut vou are expecting somebody? he said, calling attention to the table She flushed prettily, looking almost as young as she had in his dreams of the morning, as she replied: “1 was expecting yon, Gerald.” He smiled happily at her: then the ¢ smile faded, and he sighed as he sank into a chair. This is all toolishness. Nance,” he said sadly. “You could not live here in the old days. yvou could do so less now. and 1 conld not live here on an- other man’s thousan A smiile hovered over the woman's face flitted here and there, busih ) things tor a meal Then d behind 2 chair, and leanitg over whispered with burning cheeks “Per < vou do not know, Gerald. that—that M. Townley's money goes back to his family if—if 1 marry again.” The wan sprang to his fest and took her into his strong arms again. “It is not too late.” he cried. “We are still young. Will you let me try to make you happy?” Her answer was drowned in the burst of Christmas bells that pealed from the village church close by. But he did not need her words; he could see her eyes. he gently put her | Beauty Pins Bracelets OO 2 i Fountain Pen Match Box Military Set Manicure Articles Shaving Sets o 2 Rings OO EOOOE My prices are the lowsst, I only ask that you compare them carefully with others before buy I Engw | after Philip’s marriage to pretty Lu [ outlook on the it LU Lak o] 4 ENS, $IQOOOOVOOOO0 ¢ THE BABY THE HOME 3 MOTHER s Clothes Brush 3 Rings. Cut Glass € Yat Pins Cameo Broaches 2 ’ o = i Chain Hat Brush 2 Neck Chains Siive e 2 Waist Sets Beauty Pins Charm Smoking Sets Locket Cross Waod ABiud s 3 Sat B ik Collar Buttons Waterman's Fountain g or Heart ) % i e i Cufi Buttons Pens, Spocns . P Silver Kuife Child Sets (.afing Dishes 2 ; a. . i Sierling Flat Ware HOOOO0 & b Vacuam Bottles 8 OO Neck Chain Chain Signet Ring Locket Tekb Lmblem Pin Crosses Droaches Mark onitis o " genuine, & Toilet Sets HAWKES & ::. No picce with- %’ out this Trade ' H. C. STEVENS Wi TEON. TR . T B AP RASSHUWRA marked to b The rrow i o'itlook was gloomy ’ “Never mind w: let us hold fast | éallta @laus to our courn said Mrs, Draper, trying to speak cheerfully, though there was an ombious quaver in her Treagure Hox wi'” o “Whit hurts me most is the VR HEEEREON thought that Christiuas Is 8o close | at hand and that there will be no Santa Claus for Bohby.” “Poor, little dear!™ said Mrs. Draper. RS DS Copyright, 911 was at ) jous glance about the room. “l won- d, and Philip Drs 4 der where that child can be? I haven't irore heart was heavy. ' goan him for at least two hours.” For a number of years .y ot he med. | dare say he had f""""“' 10 bel e is rummaging about in the cellar or the particular pet Ofl 006 or some out-of-the-way closet, ;“t'”'l"l"”:"'lk"\fl ‘:']‘Ii“:'lluul is wholly absorbed in his investi- BV s wiR SO0 | pations.” ”"‘. magic touch of Mr. Draper had hardly finished genius, and he was i oo pins when Bobby popped into the a fair way to .n‘(hinv voof, Held out . gfimy little fame and worldiy sue- cess when the first ot a serfes of calamities befell him. Soon cille Girard, his father failed in busi nesg and died within a month there- after, leaving nothing but a mass of debts as a legacey to his son PPhilip, who had just been taken into A parinership with his father. and Whose gng aq he opened the chubby fingers, d with d by ¢ was tn reveals L twenty-dollar gold piece 1y- the color of the rose. was ¢ ing on Lis upturned paim. this blow; but with a NOHEC sense T wyranen '™ gasped Philip. He snateb- of duty he set bi W othe mendous ed the coin and examined critically task of paying off the debts of the get What “Where dil you firm. To accomplish this he had noth- g0 5 nan ing to depend upon h'm the sale of b "' “1 fornid in the a " explained pletures: yot, year inand year out. poag,. «re are lots more there. he toiled on : ubbornly and uncom-¢oma . il show vou where.” plainingly, while he and Lucile and! ppo pest moment the father and mother, each grasping a hand of the _:"‘.,"(:;'\A, ) v (frightened youngster, were hastening 4 -;! 4 . lup the stairs. \When they reached the ) i { | |attic the whole astounding truth was aid bare to them rummaging, as usual rick in the cru i | ,big chimney, b Bobby had been Finding a loose 1bling masonry of the had pulied it out and ¥ T e :m;uh\ a start) discovery their little boy were deprived of many| 1 wanted to find out how Scua of the comforts of life that the bulk Claus e down the chimney, " said of his carnings might go to his credi|the boy f “1 didn't mean house in which they lived to do « 1 oexcl terrupted 1 reomy old mansion on the out of the city, left to Philip by ¢ aunt, who had passed away the bricks ¢ ith of his fath and thrust we the 1 into the since 0 which Lucille had persuad not drawn « all boxes, accom to seil. This house, by the w had panied by a she of vell coins icold Among them was a scrap of paper on e. which was writte “I have no heirs, no kith nor kin. 1ally belonged to an eceent n. Jeremiah Suggs by na who was & miser, and who lived and died a re This property goes to the finder. and reputed to be something ot cluse. Imay he enjoy it. It consists of $30.- The crowning calamity came to 000 in gold and @vernment bonds, Phillp Draper when the debt was all and twice that amount in gems. but cleared off. It was then he was “JEREMIAH SUGGS.” overtaken by a wasting illness, which| Bobby was the hero of the hour, kept him confined to his bed for al-'and the rejoicing that followed may most a year, and leaving him desti- better be imagined than described. tute. The butcher and the baker, Was it a merry Christmas for the threatened to deny him further Drapers? Ask Bobby, who firmly be credit, and he home was heavily I!':‘u be found Santa Claus’ treasure 7 L7 LRV T jand’s Exclusive | the latest designs in Standud Goceds, having a much larger stock than ever before and ccmpere; AS REFRESENTED and you HAVE FOUND MY GUARANTEE GOOD. which assures PROMPTNESS up to the LAST DAY. S MIOHIO0IO000 Electric Perceiators { vave Leen pleased at the MANY COMPLIMENTS cn my LOW PRUCES during tie jst iev Christmas,” he re- | . with a grim smile. | Suddenly she started up with an anx- | fist. | Z 7 eweler o 200000000 0000000000000 40 COVLIOCCBI ABOOOBIIIDOOD & SISTER it Bracelets Parasol OO s Manicure Sets QOO0 Mesh Bags Silver Noveltics. DO .o e Tl XA D X% 4 IR Our Christmas line of NORRIS' Exquisite Candics is for your inspection. Many ot the packages were dr: ablest craftmanship of Europe and America. 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