Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 21, 1913, Page 2

CLEAN GOODS fR[SII STOCK 35¢ HER FRST STORY -5 it Was Simple and Common- place, More Than and Won a Husband. S8Y FLORENCE LILLIAN HENDER- SON. Anchovies, Glars Imported Cherries, Glass Imported Crab Meat, Tin Imported Clams Pine Apple Cheese Dried Herring, dozen Horse Radish, Glass Pure Food Store W. P. Pillans & @. PHONE 93 “Come to bed, dear. It is late and you look all tired out.” “1 couldn't sleep a wink, mother, un- t1 I have my work done. Youm' tomorrow is a holiday, and I want to get everything out of the way to give all my time (o you, dear,” replied Eva Dorrance brightly. “Always thinking of me,” sighed Mrs. Dorrance, a widow and an fin- valid; but her eyes were humid with gentle affection. “Oh, dear! I wish I was not such a burden. I know I could manage, it you went back to work at your old po- sition.” “Not a step!” cried Eva positively. “My duty is right here with you, and 1 shall not leave you alone until you are perfectly strong and well.” Mrs. Dorrance kissed ber loyal, thoughtful daughter, and left Eva alone. 8he looked out upon the de- serted city street. The snow-drifted midnight was burning like day, and the trees seemed to have stripped themselves like athletes to battle the wintry storm forces. Eva shivered slightly as she thought of the long un- certain frost-bound months before her, for fuel and clothing were hard to provide, with her small wage earn- J. J. DAVIS & CO. Successors to D. Fulghum 218fand§2207 South Florida Avenue “Ob, it will all come right,” she de- clared buoyantly. “I must get more extra work.” Eva had been compelled to give up & steady position so she could nurse her mother. This had made it neces- sary for her to obtain copying to do at bhome. She had found a public stenographer who did considerable oo casional work for writers and lawyers. Eva’s pleasantest copying was that of some stories written by one Denzil Worthington, One day, while Eva was waliting for work at the office, she had been introduced to him by the man- Heavy and Fancy Groceries Hay, Grain, and Feeds a Specialty Phone 33444 ™ Prompt Delivery GEO. H. STOWE ! E. V. BURGESS Brick, Cement and Wooden Buildings Largeand Small STOWE & BURGESS CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS Lakeland, Florida First-class work at reasonable prices. Satisfaction guaran- teed. Drop us a postal card. Box 188 Her Visitor Stammered and Seemed Confused. ager. They had quite a chat. She was pleased to thus really know a story writer, her ideal of human intel- ligence, and he was interested in the brave, struggling, working girl. Once he had come to the Dorrance apartment. He had a hurry call for a special article and dictated it while Eva wrote, and thelr acqualntance ripened. The fair typist soon had the two brief manuscripts before her com- pleted. Bhe placed them aside, opened & drawer, and took from it one-halt dozen sheets of paper. Eva read them over. “Oh, dear!” she murmured, “I am a dismal failure. I guess I had better | 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. Red Cross Pharmacy Phone 80 Quick Delivery Wood A Uissle paint now wil) [ ] than twice the quantity later when the Paint-bare with IF YOU; AREZTHINKING OF BUILDING, SEE MARSHALL & SANDERS The0ld Reliable Contractors Who have been building houses in Lakeland for: who never “FELL DOWN" or failed to give satisfaction. QAll classes of buildings contracted for .The many fine residences built by this firm are evidgnces of their ability to ‘make good. MARSHALL & SANDERS - Phone 228 Blue Dateh Boy Painter Trade-Mork) and pare linsecd oil, and have them mized on the premises. White lead paint tects the wood years, and g~ P WILSON Co. { (celved was—was ! her with a protecting arm, “it is to be | give up my foolish ambition to be. | love, bope, work—together!” come an authoress. When I compare ! these with Mr. Worthington's ltorlel,l of your house becomes spreads the best, pm- y and lasts longer than impure paint possibly can. May be tinted any coler you desire. Canebu for your paint supplies and Ankforoc?nntmg Points < and many m THE JACKSON & THE EVENING TELEURAM, LAKELAND, FLA., VARCH 21, 1913; 1 see that 1 have a long road to travel betmlmmndmmlpm [ E 'llm.loltory was simple and commonplace, but was more than creditable for an amateur. Almost un- consciously she had selected a heroine in an uncertain city environment like her own self. Unconsciously, too, she had her hero a model of her ideal, the author of the stories she had just copled. Her story, partly done, had one page not completed. It was where her heroine had written a let- ter to the man she loved. It ran: “lI am going away because I love you, and I tell you this only because I um sure we shall never meet again. EASTER JEWELRY We are receiving daily the latest creations in Easter jowy ry See our north window for solid gold and diamond g0ods. “A pleasure to show goods.” COLE & HULL | * Jewelers and Optomelrists Phone.173 Lakelang, y, § SRR e ] But it will be sweet solace for me in the dreary future, to know that per haps this knowledge may bring a passing thought in your mind of a girl far below you in social and intellect- ual position, but able fully to under stand your noble soul, and knowing that your genius will some day bring you great fame, which she would be too lowly to share, save as a hin- drance to your career.” “Densil” wrote Eva at the top of the letter. Then she blushed. But why not make her hero “Denzil?” It was an odd name, a musical name, to her —she fluttered as she realized it—e dear name. Just then Eva noticed some writing on the back of the manuscripts she had copied: “Must have these by ten o'clock tomorrow. Don't fail. D. W,” “Why,” exclaimed Eva, “I did mot see that direction before. What can I do. The office will be closed. Mr. Worthington must have the storiea. I have bis address. I will send them to him personally in the morning.” Eva got the scattered pages togeth- er in the morning, she hired a neigh- bor’s boy to carry the stories to their author. . That afternoon she sat down to rest. Her mother was asleep. Sud- e denly there was a knock at the door. 2 Eva answered the summons. It was : Mr. Worthington. Eva's face bright- % & ened. Then It became puzzied. Thers o ¢ was something in the fervent way in . which the author shook hands with her, an excited challenging eye glance 2 that puzsled her. 2 “l hope you found the' stories » Barber Shop Q Makes a Specialty ‘in mered and seemed confused. “Surely, ’ H Miss Dorrance, you are not going to c""dren S "alr Clmlflfl 3 leave the city?” 9 laeave the clty?” repeated Eva, be | go000000000000000900¢ VLAOIAIIOPOIOLOROC wildered. “I had not thought of it ”:OO‘: i R/ “Then—then—" Worthington was | == acting strangely—"then the note I re- not—" and he fanciful hero, to the fanciful “Denzill® “Oh, Mr. Worthington!" In a flash Eva understood it all— her precious secret amateur page had | got mixed in with the stories. She! | flushed crimson. | “I see it all—what a stupid pre Eumptuous dolt I have been!” spoke sisted on seeing the unfinished story. “I am glad I came, foolish as I must appear to you,” he said, when he had looked over the manuscript. “Miss Dorrance, you need not hesitate to go (o on as you have begun. You are a long way ahead of the first story ef-| fort. I shall be pleased to plm it tor mmmommmmmmw right, Mr. Worthington?” said Eva, as stopped dead short, and drew from his Worthington, arising. “Please forgive you, when it is completed.” Then his 3 BAsE B ALL | G Everybody Orders OUR ICE CREAM If they have ever tasted itEbefore. Many will go;| blocks to reach the LAKE PHARMACY (,0 O 4-O4-O > DL | & “Oh, yes—that is—I did not look ! over them,” and her vilitor stam- LAKELAND MARBLE AND GRANITE WORKS, Located on East Lake Morton, John Edmunds. Pros Eva's story, the letter—the letter 5 written by the fanciful heroine to the Eva, half crying, explained. Worth. ington gravely but with interest in- Solicits the Orders of All Re viring in This Line New Lilg of Tomhmm‘md they were seated. pocket—the unfinished page of poor me. 1 thought, I hoped—" face fell again, and he added: "And it would have made me happier still, it what I had eo fondly wished, so truly hoped—" “It was & mistake, sending that sheet,” faltered Eva, “but—oh, do not miscontrue me, but—cannot you unm- derstand?” | “That it might be true—that the! dream of perfect happiness that brought me here might be true? Oh, Miss Dorrance—Eva—can you not see how much I love you!” Her swimming eyes, her blushing face, her outstretched trembling nnd-. answered John Worthington. “Then,” he said proudly, enfolding (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman) |9 ! | Fans! Fans! Fans! We. don't sell fans, but fans and players buy their baseball supplies from the store that dells the progerly authorized goods. 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