Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 19, 1912, Page 2

rAGk TWO (Copyright, 1911, by Anocinud Lmnry l'ud “Tell me! You must!” Eldon said masterfully. “How can I? When I don't know?” Mavis answered hesitantly. They were on the lawn, in sight of the rest, but well out of earshot. Eldon shook himself impatiently. “Women are all alike,” he said. “They care only for the game, never think- ing how it hurts.” “l don't play games—none worse than tennis,” Mavis protested, with the least pout. Eldon looked at her, his mouth setting grimly. “Then—I am either blind or crazy,” he said. “You have played with me—played fast and loose, now for six months. The game has got to end.” “Oh! Has it?" Mavis asked saucily, as if she would leave him, but turn- ! ing back after the third step. He had made no move to follow— instead, stood with his hands clench- ed and hanging at his sides, his eyes blazing, and his mouth still set. “I wish 1 had a mirror you how ugly vou look right now,” the girl went on, drawing nearer and i looking at him. Finding him silent, she added, lLalf under breath, “l—I—| would tell you things—if I rightly could. But, indeed, I can’t! All | care about is to have good times—to be friends with you-—with Clem and all the rest—and keep you away | from the other girls.” “I see! You are a monopolist,” Eldon answered bitterly. “Otherwise a coquette, as heartless as yon are vain, the sort that kills & man’s f{aith | in womanhood-—and sends him out into the world, little more than a beast.” “Dear, dear! All this tragedy wast- ed on just me!” Mavis apostrophised. She was a bit frightened—there- fore she meant to carry things with a high hand. Very pretty, sadly spoil- ed, rich and willful, she had never had a serious moment, nor the shad- ow of a serious grief, Conquest came natural to her—she had been a coquette in the cradle. Truly she was o show | THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA, JANUARY 19, 1912. someliow she always gathered cour age. after the manner of spoiled chil- dren, in the warm, uncritical moth- erly presence. Allen was saying flor- | idly: “What can 1 do for you, Miss Nor- lmn’.’ Shall it be punch? Or a cup jof tea? Or a cushion for your feet? I'm ready to fetch or carry—any- thing.” “Then—go fetch back Frank Eldon. : 1 am just finding out I want him a while longer,” Mavis answered, her eyes wickeder than ever. Allen looked disconcerted. “I think Frank ought to suffer for his bad taste in leaving us,” he began, tenta- tively, but Mavis broke in impera- tively: “Never mind that. You go and bring him to me! Quick! It won't do to let his horse get too much the start of your car.” “D'ye mean that?" Allen demanded, pursing his lips. “Cross my heart!” Mavis answered, with her most ravishing smile. She did not in the least know why she was sending him upon such an errand i —only that it had suddenly come to; | her she hated the sight of him. Ten minutes later Allen was shout- ing to Eldon: *“Hi, there! You're wanted! Back at the tennis party!” “Who says so?" Eldon asked, not drawing rein—he had set his horse galloping as mun as he was on the |l' hway | Allen leered at him knowingly. “The queen herself said so-—she sent me—Queen Mavis, you know. Her! motto seems to me: ‘Let no attrac- tive man escape.’ Wise young per- son, taat—mighty wise! If we hook up in double harness I shall have the time of my life teaching her not to be 80 wise” “No doubt!” FEldon said, through his set teeth. He had but half heard. Words get tattered between gallop ing hoofs and the burring of a motor, “Go back and say § won't come—you | know you can’'t make me.” “Oh, I think I can!” Allen mut- tered, sending the car recklessly ahead. A hundred yards in front of Eldon, he turned squarely across the road, stopped and shouted: “Be good! You can't pass me--and your horse isn't up to jumping the fences. Go back and face the music—and the Mavis.” “I will—but not until I've thrashed you soundly,” Eldon said hoarsely, leaping from his saddle. Allen was alone; he had not waited to call his chauffeur. Before he could start the machine Eldon had wrench: ed him from his seat and was shaking him as a terrier shakes a rat. “I ought to kill you,” he said very low. “l would do it—only you are—just a catspaw. Fight now—defend your- self—if you're any part of a man I'll give you a man’'s chance, little as you deserve fit."” “Why, Frank! I—I—you know we've got no quarrel!” Allen sput tered ruefully. He was taller and heavier than Eldon, but gross of habit and in soft, ill condition. *I came after you all in fun. Queen Mavig—" “If you dare name her again I shall have to kill you,” Eldon interrupted, but turned away as he spoke. | tow. OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. County Officers, Clerk—A. B. Ferguson, Bartow. Supt. Public Instruction—T. B. Kirk, Bartow. Sherit—John Logan, Bartow. County Judge—W. S. Preston, Bartow. | Tax Collector—J. H. Lancaster, Bartow. | Tax Collector—F. M. Lanier, Bar- Treasurer—J. T. Harmon, Bartow County Commissioners.—E. s.| Whidden, Ch'm., Mulberry; A, J.! Lewis, Bartow; R. F. Langford, Ft. Meade; J. E, Bryant, Kathleen; 'l’.‘ F. Holbrook, Lakeland. i School Board.—R. W. Hnncock,! Ch'm., Fort Meade; W. J. J. Whid-| den, Bartow; J. A. Cox, Lakeland; I T. B. Kirk, Secretary, Bartow, | State Senator—D. H. Sloan, Lake- | land. l Members of House—A. J. Angle, Bartow; Geo. Fortner, Pierce. City Officers. | Mayor—S. L. A, Clonts. ' Clerk and Tax Collector, H. L | Swatts, Treasurer and Armistead. | Collector of Light and Water, c Assessor, A. (. | D. Clough, Marshal, W. H. Tillis. Night Watchman, F. L. Franklin. Municipal Judge, Gen. J. A. Cox. ity Attorney, Epps Tucker, Jr Keeper of Park, Neil McLeod. Members of Council-—Morris G, Munn, Chairman: W, P, Pillans, Vice-Chairman; Messrs, 0 M. Eaton, G. E. Southard, R. K. Svip-‘ per, W, ML Pagh, P B, Haynes, | The following standing rnm-‘L mittees for the y were appointed: | Finance and Fire, Messrs, Eaton, ! Pillans, Haynes, Light and Water, Messrs, Haynes, | Pillans and Southard. Strects, Messrs, Scipper, South- | ard, Haynes, ¢ Ordinance, Messgs, Southard, l‘u;.:hl and Scipper. Sanitary, Messrs,, Pugh, Eaton, Scipper. Public Improvement and Cemetery, Messrs. Pillans, Eaton, Pugh. State Officers. Governor—A. W. Gilchrist, Talla- hassee. Secretary of State—H. Clay Craw- ford, Tallahassee. Comptroller—A. C. Croom, Talla- hassee. Treasurer—\. V. Knot, Tallahas- m. ' Attorney-General—Park M. Tram- mell, Tallahassee. Commissioner of Agriculture—B. | K. McLin, Tallahasee, Supt. of Public Instruction—Wm M. Holloway, Tallahassee. Railroad Commissioners—R. Hud- son Burr, Chairman; Newton A. YES, we have them---one thousand in number. they are beautiful and the price is right. made to your measure for Yes, Nice suit $15.00 and up. Let us serve you for Men’s Furnishings in “THE (STORE OF QUALITY" | OUR NEW 1912 SUIT PATTERNS 1. . WOODS & C0. DRANE BUILDING o l‘ M. Futch. J. H. Gentry. Gentry Undertaking Co. Successors to Angle Undertaking Co. :: EMBALMERS AND FUNERAL DIRECTORS. 'Phones: day or night, 245. S. L. A, CLONTS|; DEALER IN Real [state CITY AND COUNTRY PROPERTY— SOME FINE BARGAINS. Office in Clonts’ Building. SOOOIPIOLQIOIQIQIOTOT QIO QIOIOIOI0 O o O o @ o O i-Q SOOI OO o» QSO Good Stock on Hand Lakeland Artificial Stone WOI‘I\S Near Electric Light Plant MAKES RED CEMENT PRESSED BRICK CALL AND SEE THEM. CAN SAVE YOU MONEY Crushed Rock, Sand and Cement for Sale BUILDING BLOCKS OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS 12 and 18 inch Drain Tile for Sidewalk, Gate Posts, Flow.: Mounds, Ete, WE Deliver Free of Chary» H. B. ZIMMERMAN. Proprietor. HRHOLOHOPMS SO TOLOPOLOTUIOIOIRIPICHHQING 20 0 VWA Clough Shoe Co. ..NOTHING BUT SHOES... We sell at regular prices and give a discount YOUR GAIN OUR LOS= l Only exclusive shoe store in Lakelaad. Very shortly they were on the Nor-| Blitch, Royal C. Dunn. W. C. \'on ton lawn again, standing a little dis-|Secretary. Al communications | tance from Miss Mavis, who beamed!should be addressed to Tallahassee. at the sight, Allen said subduedly: “You sce, | ‘JUST [A MINUTE! President of the Senate—Fred P.| S per cent. arn e da “You Had Taken the Sunshine With You.” 80 much in love with love, she thought she had never cared su premecly for any of her lovers. Eldon had come nearer than the others to getting inside her heart, she held him at a distance. ages. Why should she, when the whole world of pleasures lay entic- ingly open to her? “The curtain is falling. Good-by!" Eldon said, turning from her but not offering his hand. She caught it between both her soft palms, saying roguishly, “It shan’t forget its manners! No, indeed! Nice little boys always shake hands—but then nice little boys don't leave a party in the middle of things.” “l have nothing to do with nice little boys—I mean to have less to do ‘with nice little girls,” Eldon flung at her, snatching away his band. He was trembling—he did not mean Ma- vis should know it. She looked at him with wide, won- dering eyes. “Why! Are you really | 8 going? And going angry?” she ask- ed. “I thought you were only fool- ing—because you were a little bit vexed.” = “It is rather ‘vexing’” Eldon said tensely, “to stand by for two hours, getting hardly a look, and seeing the girl you love fiing herself at another fellow's head. You can't deny you've been doing that! And such a crea- ture! Clem Allen should not be per- mitted to come near a decent girl—" “J don’t care about him! Nor about you!” Mavis cried angrily, smapping her rosy fingers. “If you can do nothing better than insult me you had better go away.” “I shall not come back—until you | Eldon said, turning | send for me” away. Mavis laughed—her flash of temper was over. “Y¢ over her shoulder as she ran to join the others. Clem Allen stood watching her. As ghe came up to the group be tried o seat her apart irom the rest, but she evaded him and plumped down at her mother’s elbow. After a minute her eyes began to dance wickedly— Therefore | She did | not ean to marry anybody for— |’ s, you will!” she called | brought him,” but got no farther, Eldon had gone up to the girl and stood holding her hands and asking, “Why did you want me back?" “Oh, just because!™ Mavis answer ed, saucily, but moving apart from the rest. \Vhen there was no danger of eavesdropping she added softly, “Recause I found out all at once you | had taken the sunshine with you— ! and 1 wanted it back again.” | { | | | | | ———— i | Opium Smuggling. ! The infinite patience of the Chinese gavs a writer in the Wide World maga i zine, is well illustrated in a smug- gling story which 1 heard from an :im]vl’i;\l n.aritime customs official at :’m;‘ of the barriers on the Upper | Yangtse. The incident occurred sev. | eral years ago in an attemipt to avoid | duiy on a small amount of Szechuan i opium that was headed for Shangh: l.1 \n important article of down- rner trade,” said the official in q\l('=t|0n. “js the little belled and spangled cap worn by the Chinese children of from | two to six years of age. In passing a number of boxes of these in the spring of 1906, 1 chanced to notice that the tinkle from the little bell in the center of 1he cap 1 was examining was rather muffied. Forcing it open, purely out of curiosity, I was astonjshed to find a tiny pellet of opium, hardly a quar- ter of an inch in diameter, which bad been substituted for the clapper. Of course we had to search the whole lot, and our aggregate haul from about 5,000 caps—a couple of days' work for us—wae less than tem pounds of opium.” . Sleep arid Let Sleep. It was in the small hours of a muggy morning. From a seat near the Mud- ham docks, where he had spent the night, Pat watched the Merely Mary Ann as it loomed out of the fog. “Want a job?" asked the foreman, suddenly appearing. “Qhure, ‘it's only six o'clock,” con- tinued Pat. “Never mind that,” retorted the fore- | nun, “we want a man to help us un- load that ship.” \\ hat's lhe cargo?” asked Pat. eners,” said the foreman shortly. s . bedad!” exclaimed Pat, with his fiugers to his lips. “Shure, dan't O tell yes it was too soon o siurt work! We musin’t be wakin’ € up SO Iy in the mornin'!"=— Angers. (Cone, Lake City, ~r i Heir Apparent. Sald an up-town politician to his son: ! “Look at me! | began as an inspect- or of elections, and here [ am an al- derman-at-large; and what is my re- ward? Why, when [ die, my son will be the greatest rascal in the city.” To which the voung lLopeful replied: “Yes, dad, when you die— but not till then ™ 'ANew Meat Market on Florida Avenue Next Door t0G. 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