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O'NEILL Plumber and Sanitary Engineer Lakeland, . - Florida eTRrT HIS NEPHEW’S ERIDE By DOROTHY DOUGLAS Willis Granzer paused in the act | of lighting his cigar. Some one was }sniyapiug branches from the bush of bridal wreath behind the summer bouse. Granger was a philanthro- pist and it was distasteful to him to think that anyone would steal what he would willingly have wciven. He arose cautiously trom the ham- mock and peered through the vines. Surprise checked the sterm re- bike that would have sprung from his lips. He went softly around un- til his huge frame filled the grape- hung doorway. “Come here!” His volce was toned to a soft command. The girl turned a startled head and clutched the small cluster of bridal wreath spasmodically to her breast. She stood poised as if for flight. “Come here—please!”™ Granger's voice again commanded. She came slowly toward him. Her great gruy eves set in a wam little face held to his as if they fain would drag pardon from him. | “Sit down,” he said, when she was | within the summer house. He kne that her knees were trembling ana he held forth a wide low chair. She slipped down among the cushions ! gtill keeping her big eyes on Lim, “l would have given you 1ll the flowers you wanted"” Granger wsald “I—1 didn't know how to ask yon— for gome,” the girl faltered. &he went on swiftly, I am going to be married—to-morrow—and 1 just could: n't—without a few flowers ™ Granger repressed his amazemept. !Ile had supposed the girl to he not imore than fifteen at the outside. “How old are you, child?" he asked her. “Twenty,” she sald simply, *I {haven't any hairpins—for my bair; that's why I look so voung.” Granger looked ctosely at her. She certainly did look young with those o=y “Are you very much in love with the man to whom yov are giving yourself?” Now that the nervousness had left her Granger sat down heside her. She hesitated and a faint color stalned her skin. “l care for him—yes” she sald, “but I am marrying mostly because it seems as if I couldn’t live among those people any longer.” Upon questioning her Granger learned that the woman with whom she lived had taken her in after a The child had grown up without affection or care among the lower classes of the village. “Tom says I can have a new dress —after we are married,” the girl sald with a wistful glance at the rag: ged frock. “Tom! Granger. “Tom Anson—he drives a grocery wagon.” Granger had scarcely heard; he was thinking. This young girl with her trusting eyes was far too young to have her confidence In men shat- tered. Without ruining her trust he must in some way prevent her throw- Ing her lot with that of a man such a8 Anson and yet preserve for her an unmarred vision into the world. “Can you cook and mend and do all the things required of a poor man's wife?" he asked finally. Her startled eyes brought a smile to Granger's lips. “I can't do anything like that! I shiver all the time I am washing dishes and 1 can't stand dirt—it makes me squirm!"™ Granger again plunged into thought. Here was a startling example of a soul struggling against the sordid things of life yet powerless and drift. ing with the murky current. Granger absorbed himself in con- templation of her while she closed her eyes in momentary (fatigue. There was refinement in her voice, in her eyes and in her lips. The hopeless little gestures with which she had punctuated her story of life had in them the grace of culture. “Madge,” he used her name that he might keep her at her ease, “I am going to order tea and while we are having it I have a proposition to make to you.” He rang the bell at Tom who? demanded ed Granger ordered a tea that would most appeal to a tired little walif. Nor did the butler mention in the kitchen that the master was enter- taining a wonderful beggar-maid in the summer house. Granger's phil- anthropies were every day occur- rences. Madge showed no embarrassment when the tea tray was placed on the table beside her. Instead, she found | that her hands had naturally fallen on the handle of the little silver teapot and that she was asking Willls Gran- ger how he liked his tea. Surprise and amusement dawned in Granger's eyes. It suddenly oc curred to him that here was the very girl he would have selected as a wife for his nephew. With a year or two of good schooling she would be a lit: tle paragon of both beauty and charm. “Now listen carefully to what I am going to say,” he began, when she was comfortably eating an English muffin and sipping her tea, “I want you to postpone your marriage to Tom Anson for one year.” From the look in her eyes Madge | had forgotten for a moment that Tom his side and when his butler am»enr' Anson was a person. Granger did not | allow her to speak. “In that year 1 want to send you to a school of domestic economy. That means—" he answered the ques- ticn in her eyes—"that you will be prepared to take the management of | 4 home into your own hands.” “Where will 1 get the home?" she asked innocently but with a hint of mischief in her mow happy eyes. ' Granger did not answer at once. lie wondered if she were aware of er elfin beauty. Yes, he decided, e Carter was the very wife for rold. “Oh, | say—I beg your pardon!" Harold himself burst into the sum- mer house. Granger arose and introduced the two whom he had selected for mates. The boy was confused and a ques- tion was in his eyes. “] was gtealing some flowers from vour uncle's garden.” the girl said with an abashed glance at Granger. “He caught me, and in return he Is giving e tea. g I Harold sank into a chair and Willis Granger realized in the nature of a forerunner. I1is good looking young nephew and the beegar-maid seemed to have found the big thing in life in their first exchange of glances, ! During the months following, Madge | went through an abbreviated course | After that she | in domestic economy. was Intrusted to the tutelage of a paiden lady whose profession it was to | instruct those whosa education had been neglected. There Madge re- ceivad the little finishing and society touches so dear to the refined nature. During these lorg months of sep- laration Harold accepted gladly the [ position of envoy. At frequent inter- |vals he was sent for information to | the varfous schools. He returaed with {enthusiastic accounts of Madge's progress. Once only, during her abs:nce, had Willis Granger seen his pretege. On | medley of emotions. . She had received him in the little visitor's parlor of the boarding house. Harold had in a measure prepared him yet he was strangely at a loss for words ‘during the interview. He had hurrled away, whether in self- defense or a desire to hurry Harold toward the capture of Madge, he knew not, As Willls Granger drove up the shady drive and through the luxurious grounds to his home the memory of the comfortless boarding house he had left smote him. Wistful gray eyes floated before him and the cling- ing pressure of soft fingers sent an uncomfortable warmth up his arm. Inside the house he wrote a mnote asking or rather demanding thet his protege come at once for a two v ceks’ change. Granger thought of a house party but finally declded against the Hea. A house party would involve the neces- glty of young men who might in 2 measure jeopardize Harold's chance of winning Madge. Granger telt re- lleved over this decision and Madge became a part of the household un- der the amused chaperonage of Granger's sister. Things progressed. Willis Granger felt that he was rejoicing In the very evident success of his plans. He and his sister talked of a church wedding and afterward in the privacy of his den the philanthropist tried to visual- ize himeself In the act of placing the hand of his protege in that of his nephew. But instead, the eoft fingers of the girl clung to his own. Granger felt suddenly very warm. He took off his coat and went to the open window through which a young moon peeped. The mystical beauty of the night, his own deep unrest and a desire to be alone sent him out and toward the summer house. He paused in the act of lighting his cigar before cntering. A low, breathless sob as of a child tired with weeping, reached him. She was huddled up in his big smoking chair. He saw, by the pale light of tke moon, that Madge had re- sumer her tattered dress and that her coppery curls lay on the nape of her neck. “Madge!" “Why are you crying? clothes? Come here!™ She turned wide frightened eyes on him then jumped up as if she would have flown from the summer house. “Tell me all I have asked,” he com- manded, barring her way. “l was saying good-by—to the sum- mer house,” she faltered. Granger strove to steady his voice. “Good-by? You are not going back to marry—?" “I'm not going to marry anyone!” she burst out. “There are two more things to an- swer.” “I put these clothes on because they are all that belong to me,” she said and caught her breath quickly. “And why ‘were you erying? But, past all endurance, she made a dart toward the door. He caught her swiftly. The suddenness of the contact made them both silent until in the soft murmurings of lovers newly found they voiced the long felt want. Granger's voice shook. Why these A Secret Disclosed. “Are you aware of the fact that if every woman In this country were married there would be 2,691,879 men who would have to get along without wives, there being that many more males than females?” “Gee, no! I never knew that. No wonder our wives treat us as if it didn’t make any difference to them whether we liked their manners or not.” “Am I too late to have a cup?”| with oddly mixed | cnotiops that his own scheming had ' that occasion his had been a peculiar |- Fo SAL Timber, Turpentine, ¢ R Lands, Choice Tracts at Low Prices, Florida Homes and Groves (o Rolling Land, Situated on Beantiful Lakes, Paying « beary and Trucking Farms. Weguoarantee all prope: as represented by us. For reliable information sce : Opposite New Depot, LAKELAND, FLOn; BOOUIIDOD . TR, SOOTVOCOOC el [ ! ‘3 SOLOOOOTOUOOOUOONIT PO OO OO0 "L. W. 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