Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 18, 1912, Page 6

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FOR RELIABLE INFORMATION SEE Ohlinger @ § Alfield . Miss Florence, Opposite New Depot, ! FLORIDA. it Mayes Grocery Company Wholesale Grocers HAYi: GRAIN : AND : FEED We sell all kinds of Crate Materal and Ship- ping Hampers. A few cars of Shingles at COST to close. IDEAL FERTILIZERS Always on Hand. We Solicit Orders From Nearby Merchants MAYES GROCERY COMPANY Lakeland. Florida THE EVENING (ELEGRAM 1 (Copyright, 1911, by Associated Literary Press) Lucy Desmore settled herself com- fortably in the hammock back of the arbor. She had many pleasant things to think about in case she cared to stay awake. summer winds in the maple boughs | and the sing song of bees among the i lowers soon soothed her to uncon- | sciousness. She awoke with a start 10 hear voices in the summer house. “Will you be seated here for a few minutes, Miss Tracy?' Aaron Stan- ley's unmistakable voice was saying. “l have something very special to say to you.” “To me, Mr. Stanley?" “Do not think me too abrupt, dear if 1 heg you to be- come my wife,” he continued without further preamble. “Every young man i should marry when he can maintain a4 home. And 1 have long felt stirring of love — Florence!” paused eloquently, “Will you,” he said, as the girl re mained silent, “be my wife?" “Oh, Mr, Stanley, you can have no idea how surprised I am. | never had such a thought! [, esteem you very highly and appreciate the honor you confer, but—truly, this is mpossi- ble!™ Lucey Desmore crouched among the cushions her hands erughed against her throat, too stunned to think of stirring. There was a momentary Then both occupants of the He silence. the arbor rose to their feet. “You have dealt most kindly with my presumption,” said Stanley gently. “Will this make any difference with our friendship, Miss Florence?" “I trust we may always be friends, said the girl. Lucy heard them walk away, as if in a dream. “How could he do it? he do it?” she thought over and over. | “l can never believe a man again!” Through her stunned mind passed a remembrance of the hours spent with him, of his devotion to her, of W reas Lucy Sat Up Suddenly. his fine strong lace that she learned to trust, of the strange happi- ness his presence brought her. She pressed her fingers over dry eyes to shut out the beauty of the afternoon. Presently she heard some one again approaching the summer house. Lucy ! crouched miserably in the hammock, lier | too shattered to attempt flight or to | chance encountering auny one. “Will you be seated here for a few minutes, Miss MacWayne? 1 have something very special to say to you." Lucy sat up suddenly rigidly, at the sound. Aaron and Mary Mac- Wayne! “To me—Aaron?" faltered the tonished young lady. “To you, my dear Mary! Do not think me too abrupt if | beg you to become my wife. KEvery young man should marry when he can afford to maintain a home, and 1 have long felt the stirrings of love!™ He paused eloquently. “Will you,” he finished sively, “be my wife®” *Oh, Aaron,” terically, “are you crazy? dreamed of such a thing. you cared for—" impres- I never I thought “Then you refuse me?" he inter- rupted gently but firmly. “Oh yes, yes!" she said, "and I'm 80 sorry, Aaron, if you are really sin- cere!” “You have dealt most kindly with my presumption, Mary," he said quietly. “Will this make any differ- ence with our friendship?” “l shall always want you for a friend,” answered the girl regaining her composure. “Then we will forget all about it, dear girl,” he concluded with unmis- takable relief in his voice. Lucy sat motionless long after they bad left the summer house. “Can he possibly have gone crazy?” she thought. When Lucy encountered Aaron Stanley on the hotel veranda after dinner that evening she studied him ! critically. His smooth serene and healthy. eyes looked into hers with a tender- tanned face pess that made her dizzy n spite of | LAKELAND, But the breathing of | How could | had | mocking | as- | wailed poor Mary hys- | tooked | His steady, sane | FLA., JANUARY 18, her overpowering fear and lnd(gnfll tion. “Lucy,” he said in his brief, com- pelling wiy, “come with me for a walk.” The girl rose reluctantly. “Not far,” she stipulated. “Only to the arbor,” he said. A sudden daring entered her heart. Would he ask her, too? It is rather an unusual experience to be proposed 10 in words as familiar as those in which this proposal would undoubt- edly be versed: “l may as well see it through,” she thought bitterly. In the fragrant twilight of the arbor he made her comfortable in silence, “There is to be a little variety this time,” she thought with strange hu- mor. “I am not asked to be seated that 1 may have something very spe- cial said to me. is going to vary the program with this vietim!"” “Laey,” cold little he said huskily, taking her ! hands in his big comfort- able ones, "I love you—! love you! It secms almost absurd to tell you | -0, because 1 have loved you so long, and it seems as if you must have known it, “l could not ask you to marry me ;: I had nothing to o before, dear, when offer you. | have just got the new pozition that I've been working for—| I've only been reasonably sure of for two hours, and now I can care of you, Will you marry me, darling? [ offer vou a clean record and as great a love as a man can give a woman."” “A clean reo rd!” cried Lucy nore, “Aaron . Des- atiley, 1 was in the ham- mock back of this arbor this after- noon; 1 heard .every word! vou come 1o me this evening with a tule of love? warry-—" “Wait!"” man sharply. commanded the “Do not say another { word, I beg you. You in the hammock, Laucy? Oh, good heavens!” He dropped her hands. “Only trust me a few minutes long: er, Lucy,” he pleaded at last. *l can | explain the whole accursed thing, ! black as it looks against me. Do not : say another word. Come!"” [ She followed him silently. “Stay here,” he whispered, seating her beside a window on the upper veranda. Then he tapped lightly on the win- dow and stepped inside. “MacGregor,” he said to the man seated at the low table, “you offered me that position on a peculiar condi- tion. You want a married man.” “I do, Stanley." “And, since | am neither married nor engaged, you stipulate that | am to propose to three eligible young la- | dies, the first two of whom are to re- | Ject me and the third to accept—that this is to be done without any explana- tion of any sort to the young ladies. Those are tffe conditions?" “You are right, my boy. Any young fellow who has the nerve to pull off a stunt of that sort is just the fellow | want.” “Very well, sir. At four this after- noon | proposed to Florence Tracey in the rose arbor. She refused me. At { 4:30 1 repeated the performance with Mary MacWayne as leading lady, with similar results. Half an hour ago,” his voice grew suddenly tender, "1 asked the dearest girl in the world 10 marry | me.” “And she accepted you?” “She is going to,” he anwered. “1 only wish,” said McGregor ad- miringly, “that she knew the sort of | !rellow she is getting! Come up in | the morning and we'll fix up the pa- “ I pers.” MacGregor's usually gruff voice | was very cordial, ‘ | Aaron Stanley stumbled through the i window, held out his hands entreating- !ly to the girl. She slipped her m\n‘ ! into them happily. | “Sweetheart, forgive me for ea\'lng’ you were going to accept me,” he‘ ‘hegged humbly. *I had to say that ‘\nr lose you—and 1 cannot lose you, | Laey.” He Took No Chances. A friend who was by way of becom- | ing a sociologist, went to Cleveland | ! to look over that city's model farm and | infirmary, and Fred C. Kelly took him | out there. | They were shown all over the place, fincluding the insane ward. Just as | they were leaving that ward a man lcarrying a big razor in his hand came fout of a door and started for them. ! Both Kelly and his friend ran | They stopped when they reached the office, panting, and the superiniend- | ent, who is a fat man, came lumber- | ing after them. “What's the matter with you?” | asked the superintendent | *“Did he cut anybody's throat?’ | chorused Kelly and his friend “Who?" “That big patient with the razor.” | Oh,” said the superintendent, “that was just an attendant who had been shaving some of the inmates. Come on back.” “Not on your life!” said Kelly. “He may only be imagining that he's an | attendant.”"—Saturday Evening Post. s *w:»c»oc»ooo‘ooooooooo odooaooooooooéooooooom:~>- . | Working From a Model. “It is doubtiul.” said the author o!} entertaining sea stories, “whether a man ought to attempt to write things outside of his personal observa-| tion.” “But take your own case. 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