Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 2, 1912, Page 6

PAGY BIX THE EVENING TELXGR:M, A T 5 o l"—""“’ ! fian Sawtooth’ I Secret 1 1! By JUNE GAHAN A i - - : (Cepyright, m.. by Assoclated Literary Preas) ; “She's lived up here on Saw. tooth for six months, €ver since she § got her claim, and she says she'll 4! stick until she's ail proved up.” + Nick Alden squatted by the camp' G fire frying f{resh-cavcht rainhow trout. Morrissey swung bowl reflectively. The firelight cast fanta like palpable presences, friencly rar Sawtod oth, He felt a y¢ scifl Tived on Sawtooth, cy objected. When you feel like that ccme straight to this bank and open an account, It is the only cure. No matter how small the deposit it will be heartily welcomed. ; Then cut down your expeuses and start on road to fortune by adding to the account regularly. and over, and got iurned my trouble?” Nick burned some of reckl v, Leedlessly, FIRST NATIONAL BANK rissey’s huge shoulders OF LAKELAND Under Control of U. 8, Government read your mind.” “Seven hundred times. ae're a couple of hard-ugp Polk Coualy Real Estate & lnsurance 'Co. Office: Roem 7, Deen & Bryant Bnilling 2 ocooocod TALMLG o i H 4" P . OUR METHOD CF LAYING TIN ROOFING. makes your house absolutely water- proof. Leaks seldom occur when we do the work. Every: pquare Rin laid by our workmen is carcfully scldered and tested before the next is joined. See us if you want the best roofing for the least moncy. R NENRIR lakeland Ilardware & I’Iumbing Co. R. L. MARSHALL CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Will furnish plans and specifications or will follow any plans and specifications furnished. BUNGALOWS A SPECIALTY. the first time she ever letters for her in Racket all right. T took them tains, flowers growing even a few chickens. Let me show you some Lakeland homes I have buile sparks from the trains LAKELAND, Phone 267-Graen. FLORIDA Morrissey blinted at 1! “So they will some « ramped the whol 2 for twenty odd pector, then s boys call me ol don't they copt my own Live Where You Will Like S o decent, and ¢ there. I don't and G. c_ ROGAN | ponies were hiobbled. | saddled them, Morriss ,nv\ a piney knoll abo torrent of the moun { | trail was rocky and | Nick’s pony stumbled “Never mind picki breathed Morrissey. 1d communicative, a guest spent the nizht on| ar, ward even the old light Irish travper. The last threc : in the wilderncss had left Lim with a keen appetite for human compin- | fonship. And only the girl and l.im-! stie shapes | about—vast, grotesque forms seemed to dance back and ferth in| the shadows of the towering Nicl no place for a womaa,” It was! one booted foot to and fro and patted his pipe | which | pines K felt | Mer ifaven't 1 told her g0, Audy, over down for “Eh, lad; there’'s a way in the telling of it. Are you fond cf her?” the fish “Am 1? Say, does a fellow live up here in this forsaken hole in the hills for three years, then suddenly meet a girl like Lou Varney, and not get all the symptoms? 1'd drop over the edge of Sawtooth gulch for her.” “But have you told her so?” Mor- shook with D t. lay, gilent enjoyment. “The sex cannot She says claimers, rode down | to Why, today she was out brush by herself. Says she'll clear up the whole claim. She's afraid of fire starting the whole timber streteh going o ct, We are exercising great care to burning ti.e fish.” sell our ROSEDALE lots only to the “It fsn't burning. Thu bteat class of people. Thus we give Nick spraag to his ¢ you desirable neighbors in addition lifted, sniding like an ¢ to ROSEDALE'S other attratcions. night air. Above them of sky showing above the V. Stoers, Wb Wi, Shete ing tops of hemlocks and pi :atl, building restrictions, Inside the Jooked lurid and misty. On city, one block east from Jake Mor- there came the vague scent tco. ing timber. “Sawtooth's ablaze, And:! i Outside the circle of fire with kardly grub stakes between us, and she's too busy to get married.” “A lad with your muscle and a LAKW Eut 1 I'l ride you down it, | and girl, Hold back, | | 111 Jxad no - ...... 3| tundred and fifty acres on Sawtooth IF IT S :; can win the grubstakes., Look at an § «s old trapper tramp like mesell. I'm R E A L E S T A T E 2 (i you'va been too easy going | ; e e S L R S| with her” ‘E’ , % : Q| “You dou’t know, Andy. I've done You want, ecc us before you buy. We have it Ffmy besto 1 knew how it was going E anywhere and in any size tracts, and if it is 3 | 2 l? : INSURANCE 3 :;. N Q g You are needing we can give vou thebest on carth 3 and treat you right, Rackett, Whil Deen-Bryant Bullding. their own fire and (hiew i . Whatever you want in rea lestate. ‘ Nick led afterward in the deac ws have it | along the up-trail. The 1 | his footing, and 1 ~h\\wr o[’ stones rattled dov. 2 in the gully. g them up, lad,” The Trail Was Rocky and Dangerous. here on her pony, to ask would 1 mail | Would 17 I'd have taken them to—well, that's and the glad hand?” Her place is only thrce miles from | here. She’s tixed it up the way wom- en always do; muslin window cur- | ‘round, And work? | stacking | and | ., AUG, 2, 1912, Am' o mile 'md the ronr oll : came to them on the night The air was heavy with the mt suffocating smoke of bu.rn ing pine and spruce. Great rolling clouds of gray moved slowly over Sawtcoth's breast, Somewhere down in the heart of the pine forest was 5 little shack. f vou'll never make it, lad,” shout- « Morrissey. Ahead of them great 1 ...cs of fallen timber blocked the|: 1 il vil. The air was full of burning .uves and stray wind-blown branch- [he horscs had begun to fail, ears #nd jaws were dripping . : I whita foam. Nick halted, dcs- and excited. nust get through it to her” it a bit,” cautioned the old | t5 ner, rere used to be the old t..1 through the gulch. No man's’ « < but me own and the Indians 1 ve looked at it. Do you mind? T T L AT R T 2 SES r once on that terrible ride Nick questicn, Unerringly Andy cy led the way over the old i1 into the secret heart of Sa teoth’s wilderness, When they came to the rocky edge of the vast gul® | v left the penies behind, fast(ncd‘ to trees, out of the danger zone, i At a log bridge Nick stopped short, | his mountain trained eye measuring | sirength, but Andy strode ahead, There came a sickening crash, and| the zreat lumbering form went down | into the gorge. Over and over Nick shouted his| name, There was no response, and he stumbled ahead, secking a way to cross, Suddenly he heard a call, and saw Lou, her hair blowing in the! wind, her pony trailing after her, coming down the old trail. | “You?" she cried. “Nick, Nick, why did you come after me? There! isn't one chance in the world of getting out safely unless the wind should change.” ! “We'll go tozether, then,” Nick suid grimly as he took her close in| h' irms without resistance. “You ld come for you, didn't you,! oy $5 MRS ARG kA Wé:’d’ Pt RO 4 o duI not teil her of old Morrissey ’i k somewhere down in Sawtooth | ™% sulch., Hand in hand, like two chil-| 2 dren, the pony stealing after, they 3 made their way down the old for: ot | # fen trail, down oat of the smoke : nd wh 1 leaves into the cool groon |- 1 _llhs of the pulch., Suddenly lou | ™ d out in alirm, and dropped to ! l-x kuces, o upward where he | q fallen r the ledee of rock was Morri comfortably hung in spruce boushs hetween land and Leaning over {he odge of the trall Lou could sce him face up- lurhv d “And I'm not dead yer, Nick, lad,” he called fecbiy. “Me lep's hurting me, and me shoulder's snliv'ared, but I've tound me wuy down Sawtooth after ten years, and I've found me lost trail again.” He patted the ledge of rock beside him. “Litt me down from this tree, and I'll show you where the gold grows in nests like birds' eggs.” Nick climbed down and helped him back, little the worse for his fall, And he told them Sawtooth's secret. Ten years before, while hunting up through the gulch, he had stumbled on the gold, first in a few scattered pockets, then in broad, rich veins. “And T told no one, because 1 wanted to keep it—not to sell, but to steal down and look at now and then. And the curse was on me for a miser, so I lost me way, and never found the ledge again until just now.” | “Here | Andy chuckled feebly. ! “Here, on the girl's claim, and it | runs through to your own, adjoin- ing. Are you sorry now you gave poor old crazy Andy a warm blanket Nick's arm closed around the! | slender figure beside her. She lifted | hcr face to the rift of sky far above them. Nut Growing a National Industry, Dr. Robert T. Merris, president of the Northern Nut Growers' association, who has for some years been studying | the adaptation of world to our o proved v ones by cros time has ¢ orowing to t 1 o RAZe ¥ LEENRE L i bk O H A His Point of View. In spite of this, the old man loved his one glass o Leer each day, which he was never Known to*exceed. Ore day a small boy in the neigh- borhood asked him what he thought . (‘g a man who drank whisky until he runk. “He is a wicked man, my lad,” said | the old minister. «And what about the man that gets drunk on beer?” asked the lad with a | mischievous twinkle in his - ‘ . o L AT RN T 0""l ~Oh” sald the ol man, ‘L. is a| {hog. He 1s & hog"—Los Angeles | l'l‘l es. s We Won’t Sacrmce Quc.“ but we are always studying how t. Increase The Quantm We give the “most now but we are anxious more. Phone us and prove it. Best Butter, per pound . 35 Sugar, 16 pounds .... 100 Cottolene, 10 pound pails 185 Cottolene, 4-pound pails. 50 Snowdrift, 10-pounl pails. . . 115 4 cans family size Cream 2 7 cans baby size Cream. ........................... T 2 1-2 barrel best Flour. . 0 12 pounds best Flour....... Picnic Hams, per pound ... 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