Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 20, 1913, Page 7

isten! Big Cut in Maz- da Lamp Prices 15, 20 and 25 Watt were 50c now 40 40 Watt were 85¢ now 60 Watt were 75¢, now 100 Watt were $1.10, now 150 Watt were $1.60, now. .. $1.35 250 Watt were $2.60, now. .. §2.28 Bay Mazda lamps and reduce your light bill. For sale by orida Electric & Machinery Co. PHONE 46 DRANE BUILDING THE EVENING TELEGRAN, LAKELAND, FLA, FEB. 20, 1913. NEN OF ALL SOATS But Not of Conditions, and Hart- ridge Was the One Among Many. By H. M. EGBERT. Hartridge knew that he would be chosen, though there had been thirty- seven applicants. by the head nurse's count, in answer to the hospital’s brief advertisement. Thirty-six others! Hartridge had never realized before how low he had sunk, until he actual- ly found himself sitting in a line with them in the reception room. There were men of all sorts and ages, but not of conditions. The men rose awkwardly as the physician sauntered in, accompanied by the head nurse. He looked the men over as though they were ani- mals. “You can go—we don't want |sin He must refuse it. He must tell | the surgeon instantly. He tried to | speak to him. but there was an un- canny silence in the room which he did not dare disturb. Something had gone wrong with the lights, too, for | all had gone out except a tiny globe iin one corner. which burned with l: | strange sputtering sound that seemed i to keep time with the beating of his | ! beart. And all this sacrifice was vain, for he was seiling his soul—selling his | right to reparation for five hundred dollars. He must stop the operation !and make a new bargain. He found | his voice at last and shouted, but the ! light was roaring like a dynamo and | the sound drowned his cries. He ' wrenched his arm away and— “How are yon feeling?” asked (ho? purse | He opencd his eyes. He was back fn his bed and the daylight was streaming in through the open window near his head. He looked at her, as- tonished uncertain. ‘ “You fainted.” she explained. “Peo- ! ple generally do. But you'll be all you,” he said to the first. “Nor you,” ! right in a little while It's only ten | he added, to the next. The third man :mlnurns since they brought you back.” | looked more reputable, but when the | “RBut the operation--?" doctor approached he detected tho? “Perfectly successful * smell of spirits upon his breath. “Nor | ¢ gdidn't—do anything? Didn't I you—nor vour kind," he continued ghout or strugsle?” angrily. So he went down the llne.I Hartridge was silent for awhile, dismissing the majcrity at a glance. “Nurse,” he said presently, “do you He looked at Hartridge and passed | —do vou think she would see me be- PAGE SEVEXN | chance of”mnklng reparation for his You Fal? For nice meals, good homecooking and pleasant rooms, apply to MRS. HENRY BACON 211 South Tennessee Ave.—Miss Browning's Home 2 S OHOSITITEOHASIOH PO CITHCITICHINC-IDINNTIONT00E Are You Going to Build? 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A full line of Sash, Doors, Builders’ Hardware, all at prices which will Make it to your irterest to let us have 3 share of your trade. ilson Co. *as : i L $ ¢ ¢ : i L = logue until at last there remained only Hartridge and three others. “Now, men,” said the doctor, “it's between you four. You read the ad- vertisement; we want a healthy man for blood transfusion, to save a wom- an's life. It won't be a trifle, either. It’'s going to mean more than you es- timate, to lose a couple of quarts of blood. Don’t think you'll earn your five hundred easily. You may die. Now then, does anyone want to go?” There was a pause; then two men shuffled out awkwardly. Poor, broken- spirited creatures though they were; the love of life was strong in them. Dr. Briggs looked at the two who re- mained, and his choice fell upon Hart. ridge. He selected him. Two min. utes later he was taking down his pedigree. “You're willing to sign an agree- ment absolving us frome further re- sponsibility?” he asked, when the | “Dr. Briggs Has Spcken to Me About You.” | ! medical tests were ended. “Good! Have you any friends to be communi | cated with, in case the operation i3 | unsuecessful 2 | Hartridge knew what that meant. | “No, sir,” he answerrd. ! “But why do you want to risk your | life for five hundred dollars?” con- 'thmod Dr. Briggs. “Are you out of work?” “No,” answered Hartridge qulietly; | “out of prison.” The doctor looked at him keenly. “I was sent away ten months ago for forgery,” eaid IHartridge, in ex- planztion. “I was a bank clerk in the Merchants® and Oriental—underpaid wretchedly poor, and married. I wout- ed to play the market, and I lost, The Judge let me oif with a year as a first offender. My wife divorced me, Now I want the five hundred to go west.” | Half an hour later Hartridge, both- ! ed, clothed in a clean nightrobe, was lying in bed, waiting the summons to | the theater. His nurse enlightened ; him as to the process of the opera- | tion. Strapped in his stretcher, he was | carried to the operating room and | transferred there to the glass table On one side of this a flimsy screen of linen had been erected, and on the other side, g0 near that he could feel the screen tremble with every breath she took, was the patient. He felt a sudden dignity in his pos!- tion; the thought of the money made him wince now. He who had done so much harm and ruined one woman’s life—mizht he not have gratuitously given this much to save another? Aft. er an inappreciable Interval tha sur gan began his work. Hartridge felt the momentary sting of the lancet; l be saw the other doctor’s head over | the top of the screen as he perform«d the same service He felt comfortable. His mind, { more active than was its wont, re- | curred incessantly to the woman pnt { a cubit distant, so near that once his = | hand touched hers, with only the frail | linen barrier between them. {The | money had mnow become a hideous menace to hie peace of mind, rob bing him at once of his self-esteem, so much a8 was left of it, and of his Hartridge | wondered whether she were young or | old. Somehow he obtained the im- ' pression that she was a young woman. | “Why?" asked the nurse bluntly.: “That's never allowed. Mr. Hartridge. She wasn't allowed to see you on the , table—they threw a blanket over you. | i1t you'll think a little youll under | stand that that’s the only thing pos- sible.” “But it she wanted to—" bhe falt- ered. “Well, of course, in that case I sup- pose she could. But why do you want | to see her?” l “Because,” sald Hartridge slowly, “I want to thank her for doing some- | thing that she never dreamed of. She looks on me, no doubt, as you all | do—as a convenience, as a poor man , who has sold something which he pos- sessed for money. There can be no thought of obligations on either side, | of course. But I'm not going to take the money. I'm a jailbird. [I've just { come out of the penitentiary where 1 ! iserved a year's sentence for forgery. | She has given me back my self-re- spect. [ feel that I've done some | good In the world at last—I can't very well explain it, but T want to thank her. Won't you tell her at least?" | The nurse was looking at him very | strangely. “Yes, I'll tell her,” he ! heard her say, and he resigned hlm-‘ | [ ;solr to the fecling of intense wearl ness that was ereeping over him. Two days passed. Hartridge made th t he would not aceept the money. | There's a gentlonan coming to see v ot this morning” the nurse an- rouneed trinmohantly that day. “A gentleman?” repeated Hortrideo hoa puzzled frown. T don’t know vone. It must be a mistake. What + his name?” But the nurse would not tell Tlart- dee his name. At Lowever, the ward doors were thrown cpen to the stream of visitors who come to gec the patients. Hartridze, vho had been dozing, heard his nana poken and looked up. A man with very well remembered features was ctanding by his bed, | “Mr. Hartridee—my dear fellow—" Le began, somewhat nervously. ! “Mr. Cumming!” gasped the man in the bed and bowed his head wiser- ably. | The bank president sat down be- %: ride him and placed one hand on his | houlder. | | “I want to tell you,” he said, “that Dr. Briges has spoken with me about ' vou and made clear some things that | ;1 did not understand last year. If 1| Ihad realized your circumstances 1 might have been less harsh in exact- inz justice. None of us can afford to ! cxact that to the uttermost. They | 11 me you have refused compensa- t'on for your brave sacrifice. Hart- dre, we are starting a branch bank t Clifton. T want you to go there as | istant eaghier. Nobody will know f your past. ‘That is all atoned for. “on will go with our complete confl- denee—and at a salary adequate to sunport yourself and your wife coms | fortably * ! “My wife?” sald Hartridge bitterly. | “Perhaps you don’t know that—" | “Here’s somebhody come to see you and thank you for your—for her life,” eaid the nurse, coming up softly. Hart- ridze glanced up. A woman came ' «wiftly toward his bed and sank down beside him. She flung her arms round his neck and drew down his head to her breast and her tears, falling on ! him, washed his soul clean at last (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman) Return of the Sea Serpent. Capt. Ruser, who is now comman- | der of the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria {2nd has been designated to command | {the collassal Imperator, says in his log of July 5, 1912 (as quoted in An- | nalen der Hydrogaphie), that at 639 | #. m. of that day he, as well as his | | first officer and an Elbe pilot who was ' on board, saw a ®ea serpent in the water close alongside the shin th:en o Prawle point. The ereatire was twenty feet long and appeared to b ¢nzaged in combat with some oticr marine animal, as it was lashing the sca violently with its tail. Its color | was grayish blue on the back and whitish under the belly. The body | | was between a foot and a foot and & ' half In diameter. Capt. Ruser says | that the whole length of the animal | was visible, and there could be mo | mistake about its reptilian form. ! | | | twelve o'clock, | | from all its bitter memories. ‘ i RPUPTH . « VFQPQPQ*0N We can save you money on your paint bill and guarantee sat- isfaction. 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