Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 9, 1913, Page 2

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MARSHALL CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Wi ‘urmik plans and speeifications or will folicw any plans and specifleations farnished. BUNGLLOWS A SPECIALTY. Lot mo show you some Iakelond homes I have baily, LAKELAND, Phone 267-Greea. rioama g L) the end in the second row was, well— | ferred not to the tawdry splendor of | { quite pretty,” he ventured. ber garb, but to the days, so mnyl of course,” she replied, acridly. “As jon the quiet river and gathered the | for myself, [ haven't seen ever a pass- }COI'IWI lilies on its banks. g cile on her part was impatient and the slight form and carried heg to a & |self. It was all my fault,” he repeated. i _—m & WHEN WE FURNISH YOU [ ) ; home. Y more than boy and | bank in the deep shade of the over | theilr erimson coloring resplendent e . TEV RO 4 6 ' TLAND, FLA., APRIL 9, 1913, gether that summer afternoon of the long ago. He wondered idly if the girl on the stage remembered. ! ; | The ballet had swung far to the left, ' And His Reverie Took Him Back almost below his box. Suddenly Ce i to a Far-Away Country l' Home. | cile’s white face grew even whiter, she | swayed and fell in a little heap. The ' line of dancers swung around and | passed her, away to the senter of the stage. Too well trained were they to | allow even for an instant anything to | e | break the flawless mechanism of mtr! It was a full half hour after the cur- | execution. Somebody from the wings : taln rose when Travis saw her, Even | would drag out the girl who had' thea he was doubtful. In the maze |fallen; the play must go on. pretty girls who weaved through | intricate and bewildering combina- dances and marches on the | the could not be certain that the | Bending for an instant over the By RICHARD POST. F2 i .Si‘ g : “A very common-place chorus,” Miss | “Ceclle, Ceclle,” he whispered, “my Davis commented to her escort, as the | dear little tiger-lily. ’ curtain fell. And the girl opening her eyes, smil- | “I thought that little brunette near | Ing wistfully, understood that he re- | Miss Lorene Davis glanced at him | Weary weeks and months and years sharply. “It's all a matter of opinion | before when they had drifted together Ilbl] good-looking woman on the stage | “I was so tired,” she murmured. tonight.” “And now you've come, Ralph, and it's But Ralph Davis was paying scant | 81l right.” attention to her remarks. For a mo-{ “Starved herself, the poor little ment memory held him. Was it Cecile | thing,” the motherly wardrobe wom- Raymond? Could it be she? an explained in a low voice. “She “Why not?" he asked himself bit- | Wouldn't do like many of the girls, terly. “Who knows where she went or | the woman motioned toward the stage how far may have fallen since she m':h'h::l ‘:l':.:: p:mhu‘:wml:: r two|as the ef slipped away from Lancaste g8 “Ghe vie pelt oo Shim week and had to provide her own clothes. The chick hasn't had a square meal in a month. No wonder she years ago? Then Ceclle wished to be & grand opera star.” He smiled with & synicism beyond his years. “They 80 often end up in the chorus—it may be after all,” he concluded. fainted dead away.” “If she—" and then his honesty of | “It was all a mistake, just a misun- thought drove back the reproaches he ' derstanding,” Travis said in a low volce started to heap upon Cecile. “No, it (and the woman noaded with compre- was my fault, just mine,” he admitted. | hension. “But it will be all right now, “I was too ambitious, I didn’t dare to ' just as she said.” With the tender- ask her when I had little to offer. Ce. ! ness of a3 woman the young man lifted couch. Meanwhile in the theater Edgerton unconscious that he spoke aloud, Green hud taken Travis' place at Miss “What's your fault?” Miss Davis ask- ' Davis' side. When Ralph thought of ed, turning a wondering glance upon the woman he had left alone in the him, | box he regretted his unavoidable rude. Ralph came out of his reverie sud- [ hess. She was welcome to think of denly. “That I didn’t bring a box of ' him as a cad or however else she candy for you,” he replied with quick | pleased. For he had Ceclle, he had self-possession. He hailed a boy and ‘ found again his little girl of the tiger- bought an expensive two-pound pack- ' lilles, and amid his happiness noth- age. 1 ing else of this world mattered. For an Instant Travis' eyes rested (Copyright, 1913, by the MeClure News- on the woman at his side. Superbly ‘ paper Syndicate.) sowned, Miss Davis possessed a regu- | lar it somewhat colorless beauty. Her i WERE good breeding showed itself in every | line of her face and if there was a Rufus’ certaln hardness In her features, too went away to make a name for her COMRADES AT DINNER Claim MQT-A;qualnkancethlp With British General Had ‘Actual much of a stecly glitter in the pale | Foundation, blue eyes, the amount of her futhvr'ng — fortune atoned for any deficiencies. After peace was declared in the Certainly, Travis, two years before a nobody and now only a rising young man, perhaps undeservedly ecredited with two enginecring triumphs, should thank his stars of foriune that it was he who was favored to sit at Miss Divis® side. Travis knew well that fn the next box was Edgerton Green, contender for the hand of the girl who that eve ning favored Ralph with her smiles. To be in his place the young man doubted not that Green would have given all he possessed. “Certainly,” Traviz reflected, “I should consider myself lucky.” But strangely enough he was dis- War of 1812, Rufus Brown, a lank Vermonter, was waiting with the United States troops at Niagara Falls for orders to return home. Anxious to try a double-barreled gun he had Just bought, Rufus obtained permis- sion to cross over into Canada for a day’s shooting. But game was shy, and late in the afternoon, with his gun still untried, as he was returning disgustedly, a crow perched on a tree top not far from British headquarters, tempted him, and he brought it down with one barrel. The shot brought out a Pritih general, who, as Rufus stooped to pick up the crow, said: “That's a fine gun; will you let me satisfied The girl was probably not gee it?" Cecile. Even if she were, what was Rufus handed him the gun, when she to him? the general, with sudden fire In his Two years on the stage, in the bal- eye, said: let! With his somewhat austere train. “You scoundrel, you have shot my ing he shuddered to think what her pet crow, and now you've got to eat life must have been. No; if the dancer {¢” should prove to be Cecile, she held Rufus explained, then stormed, then no interest for him. begged, but the general was mad, Yet, when the curtain rose, he for. | clear through, and would not let him got the woman beside him and with off until three mouthfuls of raw crow an unconscious eagerness leaned for- had been gulped down. ward in his seat, his eyes strained to “There.” he said, handing back the catch the first sight of the diminu- gun, “that will teach you a wholesome tive figure, third from the end—secona lesson.” row. | Rufus walked away The pretty conceit of the second act , wheeled sharply around, and leveling was the appearance of the “Tiger-Lil- 8is gun at the general's head, said: fes.” The ballet, a few minutes before ; “Eat the rest of that crow.” gowned in dainty white, now appeared | The general. in turn, blustered and In flaming crimson, their heads crown. | pleaded. but in vain; he had to finish ed with scarlet and yellow caps, fash- the unsavory meal. foned in the shape of a lily. Then Nt Next day Rufus was called to Amer was that Travis knew the one whom fcan headquarters. There he con- his eyes sought was indeed Cecile Ray- tronted the angry British general. mond. The gorgeousness of her cos | “Rufus,” sald his commanding offi- tume only accentuated the pallor of cer, “this is General Forsythe; do you | her cheeks, the feverish luster of het know him?” large, brown eyes, the dead blacknegs | “Well.” drawled Rufus, with a of her massed hair. twinkle in his eve, “we are sort of ac- Cecile knew him. He read that in quainted. We dined together yester- , the first glance. Despite stage de day.” { corum her eyes continually wandered ! toward his box. She executed the live Miss Helen and the Tourists, ly, rollicking dance mechanically, keep. One day Miss Helen Taft was met ! Ing time and step with the skill of by two tourists as che left the White { long habit. Dut the man, leaning for House grourds. With that charming | { ward in his scat, unconscious of the and inexpiicable gift for garrulity | stately girl at his side, of the multi which tourists develop, they stcpprd’ !tude of men and women about him, her, and. not knowing that she wasl knew intuitivcl t Cecile’s thoughts yhe precident’s danshter, asked her a' s were with her. ot of questions about the “'Mte! le fancy took him back poyse. Miss Taft submitted and | once more on a peiceful river in the pointed out all the varicus interesting | far-away country of home—Ceeile’s things ahout the grounde. whore the | They were er, hardly apartments of the president ang his | . in a canoe family were situated, and otler I:N»:’ drifting slowly down the streury The mate deta’ls. month was August, the sun agiisten “You seem to know a lot about it | on the swiftly fowing water of mig- my dear™ £2'd one of the women. { channel, but they coasted along the ‘Oh.” replied Miss Taft laugtinely. | “you gee, I am one of the assistants to the chief cook.” As she walked away she heard one of the tourists declare: “Quite refined looking for a domes- tie."—Popular M, ~o CHOPOPOPAFTIAIOPOITSOPOP hanging trees. And there, at the edge of the bushes, tall tigerlilies grew, against the background of green. To | gether they had picked the | In the instant something happened. :I E. 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