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

PAGE BIX THE EVENING e s { The Wager By Arthur W. Peach SESHRO R Z Y Press.) Graves was rehearsing candidates for his chorus in the musical show, for which Lee had written the music, and 30 thought he had a right to his opin- i lon. | “Yes, sir; I don't need to hear agirl ! sing to tell whether or not she will do, and I don't need any more than a glance to tell whether they can throw | their feet a little.” | up’interest | at this t ak The best way to secure a child against the future it so open a bank ways gets on my nerves; but take this I girl just coming in—what do you say?" Lee asked. Coming in from the wings, where suspense, was a slim girl dressed In brown; her eyes.to the two men site ting at the side of the s eemed | abnormally big. She gave he to | the pianist and stood ready to sing “She’ll never do; her voice will be as thin as a watered beer, and her figure thinner than that,” Graves an- nounced briskly. Lee leaned back and watched hoer | iis mind a slow decision tor he could only put one over on the girl looked to Lim f possibilities. The girl began to sing grunted and looked at Lee with arin, Her voice wus thin, [oe ted to himself, but something in it tracted him. When the song was finished, Graves asked her to dance a few steps She danced a few steps, lithely, gracefully, | but—Graves grunted again While the girl was waiting for their decision Graves leaned over. My boy, you're a mighty good music singer, but you can't Judge girls. He turned to her and waved her away. She seemed to sway and shiver a little, then start- xl for the wings, her face white leo said sharply: “Call her back, Graves, [ want to talk with her; and 2ccount in its name. Even a dollar at a time will. in a few years, provide a sum that helps the y:ungster in any misfortune that may befall. 5 When the child is able to carn mouey, it is bhut natural that he vt will add to the savings hims an account today. 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"Rildly, it a e , ‘| ! only s used to make the flour which| go b ! ! } Graves had halted her with a shap Y Y sees into var bread. And the Very | .al near the wings, and now her back. “Miss Reddon, this is 1) [ee, who wrote the shouting tor 1} | show. He wants to talk with you moment.” Lee drew her a lttle aside A sort of proposition—" He into her face, and what he saw t} made him jump-—starving. She | looked —"perhaps, if you are we'll go to the restaurant bhelow can talk better there, and Um deuced- ly hungry.” She did not demur, and soon they were hidden from eyes and out of reach of tongues in one of the boc Lee sent in an order that made hest methols only are employed to| a 1 produace both the flour and the bread. 1 have You'll iike the looks of our bread look: when you see it. You'll like its taste w still better when you try fit. ol g e S e R S e for a moment. doesn't keep up with me.” “I think I can,” she answered TELEGR Graves turned to Lee at his side, | 7S¢ Lee smiled. Your cocksureness al-| * the anxious candldates were kept in | “Son, you're | Wa | waiter, who knew hlm, look startled “I'm somewhat of a bhearty eater, Miss Reddon,” he sald, smiling, “and no one is a friend of mine who is a little un- or PICKLING TIME ame to him | -~to change king big wouldn’'t know her | st have been starving. it 8! buckled up a little. She went -+o the skirt chorus all right, but wlllen * wanted her to go into tights—nein! in! but she's made a hit right off the cel. Seeing she seemed to be a fa- -rite of yours, I gave her a little ne, and she made good all right. One * those swell college chaps with the 1 choo! choo! wanted to meet her— :>thing came of it. Here she is now— :ad, Billy, those eyes—I'll beat it!" Loe turned to see a girl in brown | -omirg to him. His quick eye told Lim that he had guessed right. Her che! still had the girlish oval that i d there; the lines of her form curved out—she was not only pret- but beautiful, and a few weeks would make her more beautiful. | oid him with shining eyes of | oyment of her work, and ex- 1 that she had gone into the for a big rest, and had done but eat and slep, + watched her that d's words danced w more ight the lightness foot and ankle terfly chorus, and 4 her stand- ngs, looking You don't dance | id not go on ittle way Lo color came slowly into her face. “No--1 don't want to wear tights— wa--all over; hut—if you say so—Lat- son said you decided it—I will.” the 1s on the stage and something rose in him that he had never felt be- fore: he looked down into the upturn- ed face of the girl beside him, and real- ized that he did not want her to. “No, I don't think it necessary,” he said qui- | etly He saw the great relief on her face “Now, after the show, will you stop with me in one of my haunts®" She looked up smilingly. “I lLave made it a practice to go straight home, but I will=with you." And she was gone, It was a happy hour they spent to- gether in the secluded corner of the restaurant where Lee made it his cus- tom to linger after the plays. He could hardly believe that the girl whose gen- tle brown eyes looked so winsomely and frankly into his was the girl he had aided such a short time before, When they left the restaurant, he suggested a cab;, and she added, “with a horse, not a motor,” and so they were soon rolling away over the smooth pavements. “Miss Reddon, there has been a: won- derful change in you,” he sald almost before he thought, his mind led by the picture she made in the soft dusk of the cab, Her volce: was tender with some- thing that stirred him, “Yes, I know, and honed there would be. When a girl here In this big city that isn't so half bad as some palnt it ~because—hecause there are mnoble men In {t—but she is lonesome—yes, | hungry, without a cent, and—and Is | fighting to save her—her self-respect, ind some one comes who, asking noth- ng, gives her opportunity and help— | <he has reason to change,” she sald, | ! turning her face to the window, So gentl o gravely did she say it,, | at for the moment Lee wondered if | jere was 2 hidden meaning that could imswer tha question in his heart For | s part, knew he loved her—of 1t he had come to Know there was | y doubt ‘[ do not dare to take what you v oas mine-—-" “Iat it is--" she turned shs Ifa reached over and put one hand on her right gloved one. “I have woa- ; Jdered what it was, Dorothy—" he faeit | Ler start—"that drew me to you that ! first time; [ bad faith fn you, some- | thing in your face, your voice—well, | | you have ‘made good,’ and the future {8 big before you, if you want to keep on—but I bave been dreaming tonight —wondering it you wouldn't take an- other position if [ offered it?* His volce wavered in spite of him- self, and be paused, knowing that here she could by silence or word give her decision. “What?™ she asked could hardly hear. h he 0 softly he lenty Spices all Kinds for Pickeling and Canning A few Drugs Left But They are Going Fag and ne Phone re not over- 233 Red g f the floor, and | o, son v clear and S' olf = it » tried to pat himself & ¢ Fruit Jar Rubbers 5¢ and 10c LAKE PHARMACY MAIN ST. 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Whatever you want in rea lestate. wa have it When the food was spread before | ¢or whom I can care—that means love. them he began to talk and eat, and she 1 can't offer you very much; Latson followed his example as far as the eat- | goyg in time you will star—it is for ing was concerned. you to say?’ he eaid tersely. “My proposition is this, Miss Red-| It is you | want—not money or don, and 1 hope, too, you will favor it: | tame, or anything else; something ia 1 am interested in another musical | the very gentleness of your eyes that show, in which they need a girl iike | gay when you saw I was—starving— you—somebody with brown hair, brown | made me love you, and it has bdeen eyes, and—well, you'll do, and I can | growing since—dear!™ give you the position; the wages will| When Lee, some time later, turned be the regular; you'll play once in|gver the mall on his table he found a the evening only. How about it?" letter from Graves: She was listening as If all her heart “Dear Bllly: I enclose $100. I went and soul were in the words he was | over one night to see, and there she saying. “Will I accept—O—I—Ido—I | was—say. she's a dream, and ought to do—" be in our show; bring her over” She stopped as If seeking to master | Lee growled and threw the letter | her feelings. Lee hed the conver- | into the basket. 8itting down he wrote sation onto other ge. for he un- | An answer: derstood. She hai been near the bor- derland, and was ealing to keep | check: the bet's off. She'll never star ‘n the ar. | for you; she's going to0 play with me the greatest play in the world ‘The Lee had | Game of Life’ and she's my star— ¢ of the show. | mine! Use this $100 for a wedding rway, see | present on the doi, and Fred sort | ~Yours, BILLY " “Dear Graves: I am returning the | Wherever there’s a Western Electric fan flies are ¢ spicuous by their absence. 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