Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, July 24, 1912, Page 6

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Let me show you some Lakeland Lomes I have built. Phone 267-Graen. FLORIDA Live Where You Will Like Your Neighbors We are exercising great care to sell our ROSEDALE lots only to the best class of people. Thus we give you desirable neighbors in addition to ROSEDALE'S other attratcions. Wide streets, shade trees, fertile sail, building restrictions. Inside the city, one block east from Jake Mor- ton. SMITH & STEITZ amd G, C. ROGAN Deen-Bryant Building. Whatever you want in rea lestste. wa have it. * —tacs— zines, e ot . w7 2 "We Always PLEASE Our Patrons We keep everything to be found in an up-to-date book store, and will be pleased to wait on you. Lakeland Souvenirs, the Latest Books, and All the Popular Maga- Lakeland Book Store | that Lily’s white, unemotional beauty ' falled in some way to meet his das, | his scattereq forces. se nd the [ Lily ’ By KATHERINE COOPE (Copyright, 1913, by Assoclated Literary Press.) Derek sank wearily into the big chair in whose ample arms there usually Jurked contentment and abiding peace. Not so tonight. In fact, Derek found himself inclined to hurl brief, unflattering epithets at himself and the world in general. had dressed with unusual care and had journeyed forth, with flowers and candy, to the home of Lily Ran- dolf. Once there, Vane had intended to take the fair, delicate lily within his arms and tell her that he could not live without her. But alas! when the moment of found tbat he could live very nicely without her. He realized, not with- out a sense of his own inferiority.; mands. He had, at times, during the con- tentmient of his evening with her, longed for something stirring to hap- pen. He wanted to feel active and vital and strong. Instead, Derek ex perienced a sense of monotony at the calm, unruffled hour. He recog- nized, with a sense of shame, that Rose Davenport would liven things up. So he had gone from Lily's pres- ence with a knowledge of his own unstable affections. “I am a vaclllating, blow-hot and blow-cold, cad,” he told himself, and felt slightly better and sufficiently at peace with the world to light his pipe. “After all—perbaps Rose is the girl for me,” Derek blew a cloud of smoke and in it he watched a face develop. It was a face that was framed in a tangle of red brown hair and the eyes that looked back at him were glowing with the lure of lite. Derek blew another cloud of smoke and the figure of Rose, vital and palpitating with the very joy of lving, danced before him. Derek watched the smoke float away in the distance and Ms vivid 0" “| Could Not Be Happy With Either.® Imagination pictured a lily becoming less than naught as it melted from sight. “Rose and the lily,” he smiled whimsically. “I will tell Rose of my love tomorrow evening.” And on the morrow he aguin went courting. Rose Davenport recelved im in a most ravishing costume of =scarlet Her eyes were sparkling and her red lips curled in smiles. Derek knew the moment he touched | her hand that it would not be hard to | | propose to Rose. She would, in fact, lead him on. | They had been together for perhaps | an hour when Vane was conscion a desire to escape. He felt i With her vital emotions : something that afforded a n rest to the nerves, Rese kept Lin forcefully awake. Derek lonu ! moment's respite in which to Nect With deep chagrin he knew that Lily would, with only a few word set his soul at rest, and bring tentment. But Rose was bef: [ ¢ Later in the evening when he sank | down into the soft depths of his big chalr it was with a sigh of relief. He| had not proposed to Rose. “I could not be happy with either Rose or the Lily, but with both” Derek smiled half despondently. “Perhaps if I toss a coln it will tell me which one I love.” TUnder the frivolity of the thought there was a strong veln of seriousness. Vane had looked for the right girl long and earnestly. He was not unusually hard to please, but he wanted the most that life could give; more especlally did he crave it iIn the marriage question. His association with Lily Randolf had always given him a semse of contentment. He felt now that with her he would have been moderately happy in sinking down into an un- eventful, prosaic existence. But into this dream of quiet happi had come the longing for the greater helg 'ts and depths of love. Rose Davenport could give him all |this. but could she give him the quiet i dawn of another day. A few hours before, Derek Vane| making the confession arrived, Derek | a' | one within. [S) moments o< well? No. That he had proven, She was the embodiment of energy and unrest. ‘ “Oh for the right woman!” } sighed with heartfelt regret. ‘ He dropped off to sleep then dream of the happy medium—the girl ’ who could combine all necessary\ to characteristics in a perfect whole. “I wonder if she exists?” was his waking thought when he arose to the He was on his way to the railway ctution to meet two chums from the west when he overtook Rose and the Lily walking arm in &rm. “And where ure the fairest of flow- ¢rs going?” he asked by way of To ;}.M' a still fairer flower,” they 1 him in unison. “Violet Gray, by I like the name,” laughed Vane. “You will like the girl even better,” Lily told him. “We call Violet ‘our happy me- " Iose informed him with an uate tug at Lily's arm. “She | ] - the things we lack.” “:he is coing to spend a week with me” “And a weck with me.” B T a1 A 2 i ol g “Perhaps [ may meet her,” laughed Derek. I am expecting Ted Wey- | burn anrd Jimmy Rogers on the three- thirty.” . | " “Lovely!™ chimed both girls. “I sec where I get left out,” sighed Derek “We have decided that you and Vio- let must fall in love,” Derek was {in- formed. When Violet Gray turned from her chums Derek was almost gullty of forgetting Ted and Jimmy. When he had greeted them he turned quick- ly to Violet Gray and took her light guitcase. “You people all know one another.” He addressed the amused quartette. “Miss Gray and I must get acquaint- ed.” Derek knew when he was walking for the first time beside the slim girl in Puritanical garb that he had found the right woman. Her eyes were not Puritanical nor were the soft curves of her lips, but her voice was soft and sweet and calm. “You have come just at the right moment."” Something underneath the banter made Violet look up at him. “The right moment? And what awful thing would have happened ft T had not come?" she inquired, assuming the gulse of mockery. “I would bave married the wrong girl,” Vane told her. Violet cast a quick glance at him; then her lashes fluttered down against the color that was creeping stealthily into her cheeks. “Yes,” went on Derek, while he gloried in the beauty of the third flower, “for the last five years I bave been seeking for the right girl.” “I judge,” Violet said, determined not to let this blg man overcome her at their first meeting, “that you have found—" “Yes." Vane's voice and eyes were serious. “She is a happy medium be- tween two girls whom I thought could make me happy. There is no one now #ho could make me happy but this one girl, and I am going to spend the next two weeks teaching her that she cannot live without me.” Derek fin- ished with a halt laugh, but Violet caught her breath. The laugh had only strengthened the man's words. “At the end of two weeks I am going to tell her I love her and ask her please to get together the thing called a trousseau.” Vane forced Violet's eves to meet his own. “Have you any idea as to whether or not she will want to?” Violet tried pot to look at him: tried to dispel the power by which he was claiming her, She only succeeded n saying half breathlessly. “It looks just a little as it the girl would do most anything you wanted her to.” | NO ATTRACTION TO BEHOLDER Appearance of Average English House Forbidding in the Extreme, Ac- cording to Writer, They do these things better in the new couuntries. They do not make a fetish of space or preserve it at any sacrifice. 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These English houses are very solid, of course: they stand in rigid blocks as if they coulld defy the centuries, and as if they did mean to defy every one who looked at them. Neither po-| sition nor means has much to do with it: the houses of the poor and of the very rich give the same Impression ot uncompromising ricidity. But if the frouu ' he houses is for- bidding, the back is simply inexpress- ibly dreary. the | i Always In The Lead That's What We Aim To Be Always in the lead, when T R e ] it comes to fresh, pure, tol- let articles, sundries, and all drug store merchan- full-strength drugs nected with oyr . Order Departmey: dise. 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