Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 21, 1912, Page 6

A Lady Unafraid By LOUISE OLNEY (Copyright, 1912, Ly Associated Literary Press,) She was little enough and slight cnough and with 2 great enough bur- den upon her. Put she carried her- self with a gallant liftt of the head and squared shoulders. In boyhood her father had begun by hard work to make a fortune. If in old age he had suddenly lost it, his daughter thought she could begin at the foo! as he had done. Regina Frank was equipped with youth and health and her courage was even better than he: father's, because through her aris- tocratic mother she inherited a thor- oughbred strain. She was even thank- lful that the mother died just before the crash came, This hot morning she came to the toffice prepared for nothing but the usual routine which her year’s steady work had mastered. And the un- usual happened. Zant's real estate office was quiet enough and as vacations were on and business hopelessly dull, Jared Zant stayed at home that day and sent his son to the office. Junior would have preferred golf or dawdling about sum- mer verandas where pretty girls were to be found, but he knew that after an elaborate college education and several years abroad at dad's expense, it was necessary for him to do office duty on request. Therefore, he went, for the first time in two years. And he saw Regina. Regina was to all appearances almost oblivious to his gay presence. He could feel that her steady brown eyes marked his en- trance, took stock of him in general, and then attended to the day's corre- spondence, lifting for another look only when their owner heard herself addressed. She took a few unimportant let- ters for him, wrote a few important ones on her own initiative and got him to sign them, and generally minded her business with extreme | concentration. In which trait she was like her father, John Trant. 3 Every little bit helps. You can .al'ways spare “something” if yeu e just a little within your income. By adding a “trifle” ev- ery day you will, in time, have a fortune and jp any case provide agninst misfortune. Bring a “little bit” into this bank every day ATIONAL JBANK OF LAKELAND Under Control of U. 8. Govern:ment —-start now. FIRST N\ BOLOLOPOGGIY D 5 6 i SO DG T G G IF IT'S REAL ESTATE Just before luncheon young Zant wondered whether he dared try con- versation with her, and irritably de- You want, see us before vou buy, We have it anywhere and in any size tracts, and if it is * INSURANCE You are needing we can give you the bestjon carth and treat you right. Polk County Real Estate & Insurance "Co. Office: Room 7, Deen & Bryant Bnilling PODODDOFODOG QP i D @ & hath have room you haa us | equip in up-to-date style. Yon llon'l‘i show the old fashioned kind at all. If | | you have heen deterred from huving' | | imagined | vours modernized by the cxpense, have a talk with us. It may Pa net cost nearly so much as you dave ’9"‘. o been led to believe. Saw Regina Full Length and Face| Down Upon the Grass. | cided that he didn't know what to say to her. He meant to ask dad where he got her. He hadn't known that girls like that worked in offices His keen blue eyes followed her every line and color and movement with a sort of surprised approval. | She might have been a college queen | —and with that thought he dawdled out to lunch. R. L. MARSHALL CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Will tornish plane and specificetions or will follow any plans and | tried to smile, but it was hard work. | T want to get it—for you. You must Along the middle of the afternoon specifications furuished. came breezing into the office Maidie | Perkins, her fat mother and her| BUNGALOWS A SPECIALTY. fatter father. They had heard that | 4 a plcturesque, old-looking place on the lake was for sale--the old Trant place. Did Mr. Zant handle it? O Perkins thought so, and gave a sile | wise look of admiration at Ih l“’lzn made no sien n the Let me show you some Lakelond homes I have built. LAKELAND, Phone 267-Graen FLORIDA Bl voung for the dwny y helplossly, M tell v know,” l the lady here wi ed at Regina “We have the p! Have you looked at “The dearest grounds house so romantic lookira’ in yon let us gee {t? Does anv : know all about it™" They : Maidie. Jerry 7 Live Where You Will Like Your Neighbors We are exercising great care to sell our ROSEDALE lots only to the at Regina—but turned to Regina. “Could you go out with thme? vou know the place?” She gave a queer little emile. Did she know the place which her father had built for her, dear In every stone ‘n hrick, every nook and corner? “T know it well.” she said T will go If you like.” Her steady eves met voung Zant and all their deep heanty was for an instant his SMITH & STEITZ | ™ e e ea an b wnd G. C. ROGAN | bring her back” said Per daughter thinks she wants Deen-Bryant Bullding |and if it fen’t too steep Whatever you want in rea lestale |ste can have it—what we have it Do l Maidie began rav 2 eye on young Jared Zant best class of people. Thus we give you Jesirable neighbors in addition to ROSEDALE'S other aitratcions. Wide strects, shade treps, fertlis sall, bullding restrictions. Inside the 3y, ®ne block cast from Jake Mor- ton we can Ay he place my pile | for it?* John Zant. Ir. Regina and comsul 1< 2 logue she coolly nar Then she put on her ! and prepared to go. \® ¢ \ heard a little call. and waited 4 orders. A 3 “Miss— 1 gloves door she for THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA., AUG. 21, 1912, m T N S N tle bow, as If it were she dismissing him instead of he her. “Dv-—gravy!” he remarked when had gone. Then he repeated thei it ejuculation: “What's her ~and where did dad get her? it, my boy, or you are <one | " With which adjuration he | 1 over to the turther corner of : room for Walters to come to him. | Valters had been young a half ry ago, but was now withered 1 wrinkled, smug and dry-as. Walters was bald, and his lips were pursed, and & pen was over his ear, e faced his employer's young son. “What's her name?” asked that worthy, and at the old man's stare, added, “the young lady in the office here, 1 mean” “\iss Regina; Regina Trant,” he sumbitted solemnly. “Your father wo!d never 'a sent the gal out to sell her own old home, neither! I mu-t say that fer 'im!” “What?" submitted the man. “What do you mean?” “iler father, old John Trant, bullt that there place on the lake for Miss Recznu. She never speaks of it. He lost everything—guess you were at school. She was—east somewheres, and her ma died sudden and they gone. He was honest and paid his croditors, She supports him It'l make her feel had to show that silly gal around the place. If yom had of asked me—but she will make the sale all right—she's true blne— she ain't afraid.” “She's a lady—unafraid, all right,” breathed Zant, junior, his eyes and his imagination on fire. “I'l go richt out there—and—and—I will fix it up someway. You look after the office, Walters. Phone father if any- thing comes up and say I'm out on business that would not wait.” At the nearest garage the young man got a car and went spinning down the avenues and out the boule- vard to the lake, through the lesser, wandering roads to the old Trant place. As he reached the gate and! rot ont he met the Perkinses going to their own car. with them. “Where's your—guide?”’ he asked lightly, while Maidie's eyes suggested young Regina was not | assorted coquetries. The girl was pettish and enthusiastic, “She sald she wanted (o walk about by herself and would go in on the trolley. T have decided that 1 want the place. [ must say she seemed to know every corner of it and made it awfully interesting. I want it." | An inspirtion came to the young man. He was sorry for Maide, but burning with zeal to see her go. He| turned to her father. | “I'm sorry,” he sald, “but I was new in the office, and didn't know | that the place is no longer for sale. The Trants want it back-—they have the first right to it.” | “TI'Il give $500 more outright for ft.” began Perkins, but Zant was firm. | Finally, he mollified and got rid of | them on promise to show them an. other place the next day ! e turned in at the gatt of the big, homey old place and wandered down a garden path. The grass was tna. gled and uncut, the roses blooming in wild profusion. He heard a queer little sob like a child’'s, and turning a corner saw Regina full length and face down upon the grass under a tree. She had not heard hir. “Don’t.” he said awkwardly, kneel- ing beside her, “please don't.” In an instant she was on her feet, and he also rose. She stood facing him, her hands hanging straight at her side, the tears on her cheeks. She “T-" she began quietly, “T used to live here, and-—" “I was a brute!” he sald. “I didn't know. T met the Perkinses and told them the place is not for sale. T have some money from my grandmother. think T am insane, but I am not. 1 Intend to make you love me and come here and live with me some day, and vour father, too. T won't Insult you| by asking you mow. Rut—the place| shall never be sold again—I won't let dad do it Wil you wa'k about a hit and <how it to me” He picked up | hat and soothed her with com- wplace inguiries until forgot trouhla and was once mors her she v she murmured sin was low and they were! jeain at the gate. She would ot go ! tchine with him, but made *on the trolley. He left| ntly : remember—what T said” | i tnonsly. 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