Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 6, 1913, Page 2

PAGE TWO. TRE EVENING TELEURAM, LAKFELAND, FLA.,, MARCH 6, 1913, D;;t you know me, Mr. Kno Alvin” | Knowles stammered in embarrass- l | | { FullWeight CleanGoods JORN ALVIN, PARIAH To All Except His Mother, Whose Love Endured All His Trials, BY HAROLD CARTER. Ten years in prison take a good Alvin,” he muttered. “Let me seo— you've been away quite a while, haven't you?” “Yes, but I've come back,” answered | Alvin. “Mr. Howell has promised me a position with the bank again, but .he's moved, hasn't he? Where is he ||mnr' “On the corner of Main street,” fal- i Chase & Sanborn’s t of a man's life new i BUIk COffee :::l.r“h replaced or made '::‘mll“l: | ered the other. “I—positively I have | § E0ld goods. See us for your diamond. Our lmporler?'ni“mn A and when John Alvin found the gates |20 engagement” And bo shambled |3 increase will soon be made in diamon®s. See yg b 3 of the state penitentiary barred Dbe | 2W2Y, casting back frightened glances vance {s made. n‘ fi o hind bim instead of {n front of him, |3t the ex-convict as he walked. 2 R he felt acutely the gap that had to be| That was all Alvin wanted to know. 5 bridged between the Alvin of 1902, | He guessed that Howell occupled one | - C o L E 0 H U LL of those new white frame structures | * . 2 ] the young bank cashier who had fi his fixm's money into the bottomless | that be could see in the distance, pit of speculation, and the Alvin of | very pretty in their groves of shade 1913, prematurely bowed, embittered |trees. If he hadn't been a fool he by brooding over his planned revenge, | 2nd Isabel might have occupled one of and walking with the lar gait|them A now. Isabel! He had nmot which made bim the ob; of suspi- | thought of ber, but now, in his desper- clon to every passing policeman. ate temper, he resolved to make her He had a new suit of fairly good blue | suffer just a little. He would not hurt serge, a new hat, a new pair of shoes, | her much, of course; she was almost and fifty-one dollars in his pocket, be- | beneath his notice. sides a ticket for Cranston, And Jeabel was seated on the lawn, But Alvin was not going to Crans- | right at the edge of the lawn, under a ton. He was going to Myrtle, two hun- | tree, watching the passers-by in her dred miles in the opposite direction, | foolish, empty-headed way, and rock- and he had asked for a free ticket to | Ing. As he approached he saw that a Cranston to blind the sples of Howell, | boy some seven years old was stand- his enemy. He meant to kill Howell, | ing by her side and that another and thus to wipe out the disgrace |sprawled at her feet. Her children, which he had brought upon bhim.|evidently! He stopped; and sudden- What happened after that he did not | ly the veil that obscured his mind was care. There was no one to whom he | lifted, and with & sob. he turned away. mattered. His mother might have | She had not recognized him. cared, but Alvin was confident that| He knew that Knowles . would she was dead. It was ten years since | spread the story of his return all over 650 bad seen or written to him—in | the town. What a fool he had been to | o= briet, since be entered the peniten: | betray himself! He might bave gone tiary. And a mother's anger seldom | to the bank and accomplished his pur- lasts ten years. pose; now he would have to wait till All the way in the train to Myrtle, | dark and fire through Howell's dining Alvin was busy bridging over the|room window. As he meditated on hiatus in his life. He had been just | his revenge he noticed that, automati- an ordinary clerk in the bank in his | cally, his feet were leading him in the home town, engaged to an ordinary | direction of his father's home, two girl who, nevertheless, seemed very | blocks away. It was a street he had extraordinary in his eyes. He was|trodden a thousand times. He halted Just a weak, foolish boy who, believ- | and looked up at the little house. It ing that he saw a short cut to wealth, | was unchanged. But the shades were had played with the bank’s money and | down and evidently it was unoccu: lost. Howell, the director, had prose- | pled. cuted, and, having considerable influ- | It had grown dark when Alvin final- ence, had obtained for Alvin the sen- ||y turned toward his enemy’'s house. I1e passed the little place of his birth. A light was burning in the parlor. Then it was occupied, after all. But he did not gpeculate as to its inmates. He passed swiftly along the empty street to Howell's residence. Once, as he walked, he thought he heard steps behind him and hastened, for that which he was to do had to be done ! quickly and there was no time to tem. porize. Yet, when at last he crouched outside the room and saw Howell, his feet in slippers, stretched out in a chalr, reading, he forbore to fire. His hatred needed the sight of the man to enkindle it. At last, almost reluc- tantly, he raised the revolver. Just then his arm was caught trom behind--not that which held the revol- ver, invisible in the darkness; never- theless he lowered it and swung round to look into the face of a little elderly lady. His mother stood there at his side. “John!" she whispered, clinging to him. “You've come home, John! 1 knew you would. Father is waiting for you. He is bedridden now, but he hcs forgiven you. “He wouldn't let me write or see you for years, John, but his illness " has softened him. He sald you would . come home. He made me promise to Almost Reluctantly He Ralsed the Re- | Walt for you. We have a light in your volver. room every night, John.” Then the mists lifted entirely, and tence which he had heard with dismay ' guddenly he understood that the most g and terror. Ten years to expiate for | precious love in all the world was his; | « the theft of ten thousand dollars! and, having that, what did he care for Why, he was not getting a thousand | others? 8 year in those far-off days when he| 1q felt his eyes blinded with tears was engaged to Isabel! as he slipped the pistol into his pocket But Alvin was not golng to kil { and clasped his mother in his arms. Howell for that. He was going to kill w. apman.) Rim because he had afterward married| 0 C e 2 T G Ch Isabel. That was the barb, that the secret of his incredible vindictive ness! He had never suspected a rival “We are vor » Yy sorry,” eecid the in the smooth, plausible bank direc- |Trust, as it forced & rompetitor out tor. And Isabel, her foolish little head 'op pusiness. “We have nothing turned by the opportunity of a great |against you personally. It {s merely match, had promptly married him. 'y matter of principle. We are firm That was eight years ago. Nobody |nelievers in the closed shop.” had wasted any sympathy upon Al-: REEIS vin, | - mo e s e S0 Remedy Ends Catarrh Miseriss difficulty since that day. His father, Gives Instant Relief, Cures and Pre- 25¢.pound Pure Food Store W. P. Pillans & . PHONE 93 ' J. J. DAVIS & CO. Successors to D. Fulghum 218 fand 220 South Florida Avenue Heavy and Fancy Groceries Hay, Grain, and | Feeds a Specialty 3 Phon_e 334 e Prompt Delivery GEO. H. STOWE 4{‘ E. V. BURGESS ! Brizk, Cement and Wooden Buildings Largeand Small STOWE & BURGESS CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS Lakeland. Florida First-class work at reasonable prices. Satisfaction guaran- teed..x Drop us a postal card. Box 188 SOPOTQPQIOE IO OPOSOIQEIFAEOBOHIHO FOTOFOPOHOFOFOSOF — e s Naturally, Where Can You Get Them? Here at this drug store. If the doctor says you need a certain®instrument or appliance come right to this store— we have it. the faithful old cashier with the Glass company, had, he knew, forbidden his name to be mentioned again. His mother was evidently dead. Nobody came near him; nobody had written to him. He was a pariah. Even now, for one helping hand he would have | vents Catarrh and Cold in . |4 | turned aside from his project: but the Head. » 4 { none was extended. He changed' The quickest, best and safest way |& tralns at Lowell and, during the inter. to cure catarrh or a cold in the head | 'l.ll:hvurclllsed a revolver. | is by using a remedy that will “touch | § e ' o ed.d:':'lo::htth::o ‘:’r'fl::';:;:::::the spot” and do its work quickly 2 y vithout leaving any bad effects. |5 ,. . become a monomania with hi Be R A Engaged C le:— Phone 89 bY QII'Ck Delivery felt exiled from humanity: m': ":: Ely’s Cream alm, which is applied to | g 2 et iy ' something fantastic and alien. He did | the nostrils or rubbed on the throat g What a pleasure to plan the furnishing of you not look upon the uninterested, hurry- | OF chest gets right at the root of the 5 T R RS | \ng passengers as fellow-beings of his, | trouble and instantly relieves even [& gether! You will want all your fur niture to b S0S0SASTI0SOI0SVEOSOIDSAA 702 0504 H:tllved Ina wo;ld of phantoms. { the worst case of catarrh or cold. A |2 . 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Pack, and vou feel like a different ig i . . 1as : . nized the dapper young bank clerk in person. < PRICES that are honest auu % A i 3 E °n by Ak o . 4 i (4 \)lho h':\‘o‘ bfi‘l;}"l ;1]?)1(!)1{1‘\11011:0; !.Tl‘ll :n I years, and § |the gray-haired man who strolled up Ely's Cream Dalm cleances, heais|@ : i who never il DOWS or fanled to give satisfaction. | the high street, though Alvin knew .+q strenzthens the inflamel mem- ake your happinecss complete. ; s .x\ll cla~‘~<"~ of hmlshn.;zs n'nntr:u_-u-nl for The many fine | several of them. There was Joe Mil pprqnes takes away that i l‘ i a b b residences built by this firm are evidgnces of their abilityto & | ler. the banker—unchanged; Schmidt, feellip & ‘d,'" P sl § ¥ make good. {the butcher—unchanged: and that C. 1§g :_md 5 pn‘xfln S A e stout man with the paunch who hun ' 3 i i and sto 3 N f :) H ) R MARSHALL & SANDERS § i o mos " "cu, i vy chmr viih 1 e 3 [t Vi 80 oy ¥ ;’melos—unchang@d! 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