Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 22, 1911, Page 2

PAGE TWO :,,(, We have not put in a stock of Holiday Toy:, but we have many lines of useful and handsome articles, entirely suited for Christmas Presents, SO0 O Genuine Crystal Cut Glass Sure-Edge Carving Sets Rifles for the Boys Robson's Sure-Edge Guaranteed Pocket Knives See Our Window Display Above are merely a few suggestions from thousands of articles in our mammoth stock. THE S Miss Graham's Heroics By Carl Jenkins “It's the bay of a blood-hound!" al- most screamed Myra Graham as she came running around the corner of the house to where her father sat reading on the veranda. “Yes, it sounds like it,” was the in- different reply. “But it's a blood-hound after a pris- oner who has escaped from the chain- " “Very likely.” “And the poor fellow will be recap- tured and terribly punished! Father, father, why don’t you do something? It you don't, 1 will!” “Daughter, come up here and take 8 seat. Now, then, ever since those oconvicts from the state camp have been working on the big ditch you bave been all upset. You have been full of pity for what you call the ‘poor, fnnocent men,’ and you've been heard to hope that all of them might es-| cape. You are wasting your sympa-| thies. They deserve no pity. They | are a wicked lot, and you don’t want fo carry this fad too far.” “Some may be wicked and deserve thelr punishment,” admitted the gir! ! with molsture in her eyes, “but not all. | When I have been out in my electric 1 | bave seen—" | * “Qh, you have been looking the gang | over to find a martyr and a hero, have you?”" “Father, there is one man who can't possibly be guilty of any crime. He is born a gentleman. He has been edu- | cated. There are no hard lines in his face. No ope can make me belleve he is guilty.” % “But he was tried by a jury and sent there by a judge.” ! “Then they made an awful mis- “Well, don't you make another. Bet- | ter take some other road when you ride out. 1 shouldn’t think it would be a pleasant sight for a young lady to pass a chain-gang.” There was one man in the chain- | gang whose face almost haunted Myra @raham. le was what she had de- scribed to her father. This one con- vict stood out above all the others ' Bven the guards with their rifles who | bovered about seemed to pay him de- | ference. He had straightened up and | Jooked square into the girl's eyes three | different times as she passed, and she | had read shame, humility, appeal in | the look. Her sympathies had been touched. She had almost declded to appeal to her father to make an in- wvestigation and seek to secure a par- | later on. | There was a fervent wish that it was, ! R Tt =y - c | ! victed, and this was surely another In- stance. Miss Graham and Mr. Lee Benedict were not actually engaged, but as Aunt Linda, the colored cook of the Graham { household put it: “Dey’s shore gittin’ mighty clus to it!” Mr. Bennett was a frequent caller, and was welcomed by all. It was un- fortunate that he should appear on the afternoon of the blood-hound’s bay. He not only did, but he brought news of the escape and recapture of a pris- oner. He also had words of praise for the dog. He had recelved no hint of the feelings of Miss Myra in the mat- ter, and he even spoke of her hero to call him a desperado of the worse type, and to add that any one had but to glance at him to realize the fact. “I have glanced at him, and I beg your pardon,” was the stiff reply. “Why, the gang is distributed for half a mile along the highway.” “I am aware of the fact.” “And a young lady riding out alone “Has encountered nothing to offend, Mr. Bennett.” “But the hero you particularly men- tion—" “Let us not discuss the case fur- ther.” There was a difference—a misun- derstanding—almost a ruptura. Mr. Bennett rode away In a perplexed mood, and Miss Myra looked after him |and said to herself that it was such men as he, acting as jurors, who sent innocent men to the chain-gangs as carelessly as they shot quail. Her father had suggested that she take some other road when riding about, and she would heed the sugges- tion, but she found herself more in earnest about the gentlemanly convict that she cared to be. She was almost startled to find herself wondering if | she could not aid him to escape. For three days Miss Myra did not | ride out at all. Then the runabout traversed another road. The return might be made by the turnpike, on the side of which the convicts were working. She would decide that point At five miles from home the vehicle stopped that its owner might gather 2 bouquet of roscs. She was culling here and there, and no one was in sight up or down the road as far as she could see, when the baying of a blood-hound again reached her ears. ! That bay meant that another convict bad made a break for liberty. Was it the gentlemanly convict this time? and that he would succeed In making his escape. The baying was faint at first, but it came nearer and nearer.; Now and then there was a silence, showing that the hound had lost the trail, but he always picked it up again and came on. The girl stood facing the dense forest on her right, and was soon trembling. The fugitive must be coming her way. Crashing sounds under the trees, and LIS then a man—a convict—her her¢— broke cover not thirty feet away. As he sprang across the highway he caught sight of the girl and the ve- hicle and turned and came towards them. “Are you escaping? Is the hound after you?" cried Miss Myra. “Yes, yes—he's after me!” “Then jump in here, quick!"” She acted on impulse. Not a mo: ment was given to thought. She was away with the fugitive three min- utes before the hound broke cover and lost the trail at the highway and set up a howl of disappointment. The runabout was pushed to its highest speed. Not a word between the girl and the man. 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Explanation of Colors of Leaves In extremely mois color of the leaves nre 1 bright, as in Fnzland dry climates the leaves denly, and their skin, w thick to prevent the escn; ure, is not sufficiently 1 all®w the color to e e regions where the it most vivid we find that un u son produces the most ey Neither a very dry nor mer Will result in much b Just a Little Too Much A business man called Lis rapher and dictated as part «f tence “quas! public instit came to him in typewri “cross eyed public institu | has a new stenographer { bloodhound coming down away she slowed down a bit and turned to the convict to ask: “Where do you want to go? will you be safe?” “Keep going,” he ordered with a growl in his throat that startled her. “But 1 asked you--" “Shut up and keep up the speed or I'll twist that pretty neck of yours!” That from the gentlemanly convict! The girl had said there wasn't a hard line in his face. She turned to it now and saw a face that made her shudder. 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