Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 14, 1913, Page 6

' PAGE GE SIX. . HE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAK FLA., JAN. 14, 1913 e Every dollar you deposi in this bank is protected by the Government. The most stringent financial laws in the world apply to National Banks. Government experts watch each transaction. That is why this Bank is so safe. FIRST NATIONAL BANK of Lakeland Long Life of Linen along with good laundry work is what you are looking for and that is just what we are giving. Try us. Lakeland :f}ea;;l Laundry Phone 130. West Main 8t. O Oe P OTOPORUBORIPO PO F OO An Ounce of PREVENTION Is worth a pound of cure. For that reason it Will. Pay Yot To Insure While Fire Insurance can't prevent the home from burning down It is the Source whence comes the means for the BUILDING OF IT UP I represent reliable companies. | am dealing ininsurance only. That is my sole business. - 208D OPPFOFOFQFCHFOPOPDFOPOPTICOTH 3 | of the diszuise@ WK OF DOLLY | Thrilling Encounter With Bandits Puts Pompous Italian Count to Rout. - By H. S. CANFIELD, JR. | Arnold was already beartily tired It was his nature to do all things openly and above board; and it irked him to have to stoop to subierfuge, even in the struggle for the hand of the woman he held above all. Desides, for a man who had vev- er answered to the call or the craze of the petrol, goggles, high-collared coat and bunglesome cap formed a discomfitting rampart behind which to hide teatures and form. With a growl- ing imprecation against stubborn fathers and fate, who kept him fight- ing for his share of the world's goods instead of endowing him with such at short notice, Arnold swept the big, rakish-looking car in a viclously short curve and brought it to a panting standstill before the Leonard mansion in the Upper Drive. To his associates and enemies alike on 'Change, “Old Bull" Leonard was the personification of what all good mothers warn their sons against grow- ing up into. He was just as merci- less and cruel as his rise to fortune was sudden and spectacular. The one soft spot in his heart was for Dolly, and her request for an imported car of fabulous horsepower and an in- structor in its ways and tricks of loco- motion, was granted readily. The rec- ognition of struggling young Arnold had been the one request against which the old broker had hardened his heart. The influence of a young man. well liked for his personal qualities, is somet:mes as far reaching as that of an old man well munitioned with gold, and Arnold had experienced no dift cuity in landing the place as instructor in auto driving to the beautiful Dolly T.eonard, Arnold had no chance to step from the car after it had stopped. His heart | warmed and his face flushed happily at the suddenness with which Dolly threw open the doors and almost ran to the curbing in response to the “honk. honk” of the horn. Dolly had wlmitted lier love for him when Ar- nold had first poured forth his story of his passion for her; and she was not ashamed to show that she had heen awaiting him just as eagerly as he had whisked the big car along over the boulevards. It was the lesson in love, all the hetter for the subterfuge and evaslfon of authority, which ap- pealed to the girl, not the dry, techni- cal explanations of this and that part of the steering gear, through the im- partation of which Arnold was sup- +o0sed o be earning the dollars of her father. Doily wag ravishing in her auto tog- gory. The carelessly drawn veil hid just enough of the pink ear nearest the begogzled Arnold to make him long to press his lips just below it, a desire which imperiled both ocecu- pants of the car as they sped along. Incidentally, Dolly learned that such a thing as a clutch existed somewhere about the brightly new machine and that certain twists of the wheel did certaln things: also tha* the gear box wasn't under the hood. She soon for- got even these vague intimations of mechanical knowledee uron the part of her lover. But the things she did not forget were the long. sweet gflences following short, half whispered sen- | tences as Arnold hrovght the machine to a snail's pace along the cool coun- try roads and slipred one arm around her waist and half un abont her shoui- der so that ghe mizht lean her head close to his Through the k mmer the rides | continned. It w not until in the |splonrlm witumn that the Count Rivoll put in his appearance, in search of eirl with whom dot ing of his family, With the adven the Italian, im- ol g QBOBOBOLQBOE DPTQTOF Suceessor to the Johnson Agency @ Room 7, Rayimondo Bldg. Phone 30 & LOPOPOPOFOTOROBOL OEOHOLGHO FOPOOBIHIEOIIETS WHEN WE FURNISH YOU @& LY. 1. 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It was { bad enough for him to know that it I\\"IS the Count Rivoli who almost | nightly enjoyed the hospitality of the T.eonard mansion vceupled a seat in a box beside t rming Dolly, without having i led to injury | by the presence of the Italian fortune | seeker as one of the motoring party. As the afternoons passed in speeding over the roads, with Arnold honnd by the restrictions which surround ordi- nary chauffeurs. while the Count gat snuggled up with Dolly and Insisted upon murmuring his tender speaches for her ears alone, the sitnation be- came almost unhearable to the Ameri- can. At times the muscles in hig shoulders became taut and strained against the power of his self regtraint as some few words of the Italian’s I reached his ears. Once, waen Rivoli took it upon him- self to g've the orders for the party in a tone and manner insulting to even the most regularly employeq chauffeur, it was a hurried. surreptitious touch on his arm from Dolly's slender fingers that kept him from striking out with his clinched hand and knocking the arrogantly sneering foreigner to the ground. He seldom caught g word with Dolly now since her titleg suitor, under parental sponsorship, had mo- nopolized her every leisure hoyr, Dolly cared not a whit for the Count; she i liked his comp:nionship even less; but i the workings of the young lady's mind were many and involved and she knew where was drawn the line over whieh | or to repair the | shie must not step in openly opposing the wishes of her father It was Count Rivo!i who proposed motoring to the inn far out along the lake shore, supping there and return- ng late by moonlight. To Dolly, psy- chologically, was conveyed the [tal- lan's intentlon to put his future happs- ness—or financlal standing—to the test; Arnold had become too grumpy and saturnine to be open even to the mest ovenly intimated purpose upon the part of his rival. Self aggrandize- ment was not the least important topic to which Rivoli devoted his musical voice and captivating accent. The Ital ‘an was a splendid talker, when his words reached only the ears of wom- en, and with an air of modesty cloak- ing his utterances, he contrived to dwell at length and at all times upon his heroic achievements. According to the Count Rivoli, the courage of the “'ount Rivoli knew no bounds; for Mees Doll-ee he would dare any dan- ger, go to any length to win a smile from her lips. So it was as the three, Dolly. the Count and Arnold, sped hack over the roads, white In the soft meonlight. Dolly had ceased to an- swer even in monosyllables, allowing the Ttalian to run on, building up the pedestal upon which he was to take his stand “l am glad that you have no bri- zands here, Mees Doll-ee.”” he was say- ing in a tone which promised remi- niscence. “But when one comes right Anwn to it, it is not good to have no opnortunities for excitement save for lodeing death in these terrible streets of «vours. .Just before I left my home in Ttaly, T myse!f escaped death or apture at the hands of what you call hollup men. Had [ not been 80 | vrompt and cool of action, shot onei man where he gtood and put the oth-| to flight, T would have—" i \ growling curse burst from Ar neld vinding force and Dolly and the|. ‘ot were abruptly huddled togeth- v by the gear-tearing stop of the car. ( word, Rivoli sprang up Sudd@nl)"| vith his face gone to a sickly pallor, | his jaw dropping till his mouth E"lf\f‘flz', oper he sank back weakly upon the ! hiens. i “Afphoah-ah— iribly, and then * he mumbhled unlntel-! sat in quaking 91-3 i “Come on there, the three of you—-! up with your paws!" came the rasp- ‘nz eommand. Three men, the weird wwoonlight maling their faces pale where they showed helow the masks, | stevped close to the wheels of the panting car. | Rivoll's hands went weakly trem- | bling above his head. Dolly in quiet fear. never taking her eyes from Ar- nold's profile, showing as he half turn- ! ' obediently raised her daintily " gloved hands. Arnold fumbled for a moment somewhere ahout the car, Innd then too shot up his arms. A terse order sent two of the men to the sides of Arnold and the Count. | The leader turned his attention to: Dolly. The gir! ohediently stripped | off her gloves. ¥or the first time she ' seemed to notice Rivoli and a glance of contempt was his share. The first bright ring came off with- out difficulty, but the second brought forth an oath and a cruel wrench. In-; voluntarfiv a little cry escaped from | between Dolly's clenchad teeth. Quick ar a flash Arnold's hand eame down; quicker &till he turned back to| where the leader tugged at the nirl'sl delicate fingers. The cry of wamlng’ from one of the men in the white rad came too late. The girl remem-| bered ever after the fierceness of the cold raze in.Arnold’s face. The heavy ! wrench fluched un hright in the moon- | light and then came crashing down : The leader sank dewn without alf groan. With a fecling of slck«nlm:l revuision Dolly heard the cry of al- most feminine terror that escaped Ri-! voll's lins | Arnell was out in the road now, grappling desperately. e tore him- golf free and sent one of his assall-| ants spinning to the macadam. As, the two fled, one <cd a moment in the shadows. There was a vielous re- | port and Arnold cintched weakly atl the air as he turned sick from the shoek. Then his knees buckled under him and he sank down in a huddled | heap. It was Dolly who hore the greater part of the burden of lifting the wour - ed man and propninz him up on the cushions in the tonneau. Iler hands!s were the nnes that held the wheel (n: { the mad ride back to the city. To po | ticemen who sienaled her to slow up !y the girl gave a sign’ficant nod toward | ¢ the unconscious man beside her in the | front seat and let out another notch. When Arnold awoke, he wondered | for a moment at his surronpdings. A pressure of something soft in his hand | and a suspicious wetness on the back of his fingers cleared away the clouds. | With a smile hiding the shooting pain in his shoulder, he turned his head till his eves could feast on Dolly. Nelither cared to speak. Arnold understood ! that she had brought him home, to her home. “A-a-ahem!" broke in the pompous, warning cough of “Old Bull” Looml'd.i Arnold tried to free his hand: but Dolly held to it with gentle firmness. Her father pretended not to see. “Something of a fighter: yes, some- thing of a fighter,” rumbled the vofce of Leonard pere, and he actually smiled down upon the astonished Apr nold. | “Young man, I am looking for fight- ers to aid me,” he rumbled on. '1I aesed young blood to brace up the old ja my strugzles. But, of course, you | will not be fit for some time. Take your time, my boy, take vour time” With an absence of his habitual ! trown, he ignored the creeping of De). ' ly’s other hand into Arnold’s free one | and walked quietly from the room. | (Copyright, 1812, by W. G. 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