Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 29, 1912, Page 6

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He'll think I went Elwood Pierce lay at full length I the motor with the Thompson's, ou the fallen leaves under a great 0°d they'll (hink I went with the Gid- tree in the September woods and won- 4ings’ Everything will be lovely ll:' dered whether, summer over, his law ti! they all turn up but the guest practice would not begin to pick uwpa honor! Cousin said we "n mad to | bit. The season was duli, and he had motor out here when we'd hvle ;: [ 50 little work that he would hardly rush to get dressed. Now -hl:' '”M | have recognized a real case if he had %ild' There's somebody she wan! ] met it 01 the street. The young man ' M€ 0 meet—he was to u:: -'h:d, tousled his smooth hair with an impa- to dinner. Poor Steve,” she sig Nov. 29 1912, 1y shoe? Its like this.” She thrust a patent-leather pump. l*muld he answered imperturb- ! bai 1 prefer staying here until | r- sure.” her, l | | | By JOANNA SINGLE. | ' Her anxiety suddenly & ! | “Oh, he’s gone now. He'd have to' B | tient hand, and decided that he would 8°d Elwood knew she meant the m' like to be counsel in a really interest. from whom she had M“';- mpt‘l,:; Ing case—something that would make Sleve—-(holll'h! he'd like o fi him sit up and take notice mentally, before then! You see, : g 44 Unusually enough, his father and his WAP the money balf as M: o grandfather had made the money —¥ants—me.” Her tone ;luw: ey question of secondary interest. What!| vaturally,” remarked Elw he wanted was to get on in his pro Conventional compliment. fession. The llflvllllda a llu'l'e saucy khe: From the lake came girl-voices in ';l h:.':',‘ n::n:r:l“t:rr‘ll:{:n ::.l::: 455 laughter—voices from which he had 1437 lolling o & [eoutheca rakchTand fled. Knowing his weakness and his aso Afae ¥ Bate CHAL oloat b determination not to be caught until l :(h 002 Tslend whoa most of the other ::orh:or? ::l:hn:n?:;y_:.um :: girls back there wouldn't need chas- ing!"” was soclally an unstable quantity, . though for his very elusiveness great- h“ kh qul'e;. 'nfl'im :' :&::‘: ly in demand. The latest was Mrs, (°'¢ Fofe, ruefully pulling tog great tear in her skirt. Wharton's note asking him to meet “Nancy,” she adjured herself, her cousin Nancy from “down south” |, °*: 4 'Y at a dinner. Therefore, to make good | *°!T® 40 impossible person! You hia“non At h; was out of | \°3F your clothes, and lose yourself { fm:a c"t thie from your own dinner party, and you ':;n Qe G s 0URUY T | it unchaperoned fn the woods with stran, n who litely Suddenly through the languid noises :,.i,,sr:ofioy::e': ull::cked and ‘:;red " of the woods came a brisk, steady |\ .04 laughed and drew her hand little patter, louder and clearer, and under his arm, a great snapping of twigs. He sat up “Come, Il counsel you—and ff and there flashed toward him a girl, youll lean on me we'll find your rosy. dark-halred, panting, her rose- | ' together, and if you really want colored frock gathered up about her. | © 5" e Y can get Fred She rushed almost upon him, breath- Hoily's motor in ten minutes and take less anxiety in her face, and erushed vou in. We might be late, but Mrs herself carefully behind his big tree '“-h“mm might forgive us—it—" before she saw hin: as he rose and “1's!" 3he said with belated and un- stood at attention, . rocessary hauteur, He stopped and, “Oh, hush!" she whispered, putting dropping her arm, took some papers out a hand and drawing him toward | {1, pis pocket. Finally he handed her. “Do please lie flat or something s b i her a monogramed envelope. S0 we won't be seen!” “Oh,” she sald, recognizing There was real distress in her voice hand, “oh!” and he obeyed promptly. The look of “That asks—Mr. Elwood Plerce her would have made a slave of any-| (o dinner for Miss \unoy—Some- thing masculine. She was breathing | t}ing—* hard, and he saw that she had lost “Nancy ‘Something!'" she said in- one small pump and stood on the dirnaptly. “In that case, what were other foot to spare her pink silk you—doing—out In the woods?" stocking and a tender sole. She clung “What were you doing? running to the tree in something like terror away?" he mused. “I'l—look after you,” he ventured “You—tried to—get away! You— in a low tone, lifting his head a bit | didn't want to meet me—and you— to look at her. She made a frantic| are punished,” she chanted joyously, little gesture which flattened him out starting briskly down the path. He again. corrected her, “Oh—hush!" she breathed again.| *I am—everlastingly—happy,” he “He Is coming!” She drew herself sald gravely. “If that happens— together in a sort of little bunch, her | which | intend to have happen.” He eyes wide and blue, bluer than eyes did not finish, but meeting his eyes have any business to be to go with | her own glance sought the ground. black hair. Indeed Elwood heard a “There's—my shoe!” she called joy- tremendous crackling, and in a mo-|ously. And as he put it on her foot ment a shout, a clear call. she said quietly, “Much—might de- “Whoo-ee-ee!” And then, “Where | pend on how fast you got me back to are you? Whoo-ee-ee!” With his cousin Mary's—and up her back khaki clothes, tannish fair hair, and | stairs. I could dress in ten minutes, recumbency, Elwood was practically | at & pinch. Could we make it?” Invisible at a distance, so he turned| He pulled out his watch. “I—be. his head a bit and from his knoll saw | lieve—it you'll trust my driving—that in the path below a square-set, dark-| even yet I can give you twenty min. eyed, determined looking man strid- | utes to make yourself unnecessarily ing along, and calling at every third | lovely In! Just wait on that bench stride, “Where are you, Annie?" under the tree. Back in a minute!!” The girl was motionless, save that He was off for Fred Holly's car. she poked out the pink-stockinged| Haste, and need and excitement foot and gave Elwood's arm a furtive | made the young man so inarticulate poke. Then she gave herself a little | that Holly hoped heaven would for- trembling shake. give him for letting him have the car. “It *he’d—only—pass us!” she whis. | He tore off, driving at indecent speed. pered. Her eagerness spread to the An hour later, just as dinner was young felléw on watch at her feet. announced, Miss Nancy Mason ap “He'd better!" he muttered in a peared. “Nancy,” sald that lady, “where tone between threat and petition. \ o 1 And—he passed, but not without a ot kg g s cursory glance in thelr direction Meantime, we are waiting, and this which only the protecting tree trunk is Elwood Plerce who. for his sins, is kept from seeing the girl. In a mo. to take you in." ve him a sidelon, ment he was crashing on in another ofN‘:::{ .?ee‘;neu'. "-40::.:..5,::.',35? | direction, his call becoming fainter, she asked, as if she had not seen him Elwood rose cautiously, and the girl 4 4 sank to the ground, her feet coiled before. “Not in the least,” he said gravely, ‘und;: ‘I:er skirt. - fih; spoke as she “the pleasure is—perfectly earned, migl ave to a brother, and Elwood you little hypocrite.” he added under decided that he would have preferred hie breath, as they filed to their her to be less friendly. He hoped he 1 t table ) did not look too “safe,” though, of' e 5 g v course, he wished her to have confl- Lo aabind .’.?,‘.',;r"é\-éfu‘&“?.'-"f it dence in him. - e “He might—-come back,” she warned anxiously—"and you're go tall! Do sit down!"™ “If he does, | should hardly permit him to eat you alive, vou wished it,” he snapped. “Everybody's cross,” she sighed. “But nobody's as cross now as Cousin the What Authors Earn. Many writers whose annual earn. ings today run into four figures could tell the time when their yearly take did not rise to $100. Sir A. Conan Doyle failed to reach that amount in his first year, yet for “Rodney Stone” he received $35,000 before it was writ- unless Mary will be when the—but there, | need a guardian, | think—or a law- ver! It's one of those ridiculous will things,” she explained, without en- lightening him, “where somebody dies and leaves you money if you man ry somebody you just won't marry! He can have auntie's money! | would rather work for a llvin;—lhnn— she flushed brilliantly. “Work—is self.re- specting, I suppose,” she #aid forlorn. ly, looking down at two beringed little hands which had obviously not even speaking acquaintance with workaday matters! “I'm a lawyer, it you need one,” commented Elwood a bit drily. “Qh, 1 could have him arrested for disturb ing the peace, It you like.” She caught the humor o his eyell and laughed outright, then clapped her hand over her mouth and list- ened. | “He—might come back! stand being—asked again!” looked entrancingly at the “You don't suppose you ten, remarks the Dundee Courier. Stevenson, too, found that his aver. age earnings during the first few years of literary work did not average $250, and George Meredith's record was probably even worse than that. 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