Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 5, 1913, Page 6

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Sorrow had been her's, | come one came up the steps. It was | grief and disappointment, but she had | borne her troubles patiently. love for others, and no one knew that she cherished a memory that had kept at bay numerous suitors for her hand. afresh at her present startling discov- ¢BE EVENING TELEURAM. LAR ELAND, FLA., MAY 6, 1913 ter one of these boys left here,” ez- plained Muriel. “Ah, indeed,” muttered the tramp. “Valuable, ma'am?” «1 will pay for its return.” “Mebbe I'll find it,” said the man, the Man She' Loved Turned to Good Account. BY WALTER JOSEPH DELANEY. “The letters! They are gone.” Muriel Gray gave a great gasp, was wind had blown it away among the rubbish at the rear of the lot. “Oh, Aunt Muriel,” eaid Willle, as they reached home, “I just remem- bered! The man I gave the letter to looked a good deal like that photo- graph I noticed in your desk.” Muriel flushed, with a new pang at | her heart at the allusion. She tried | ! to hope that one letter was lost and She was thirty years of age, but still | ;¢ the other would be tossed aside | unread. She sat on the porch that| evening, trying to forget the distress- | ing incident and Ranald Dyer, when the tramp she had met that day. “About that letter now,” he began with a leer. “What will you give for it?” “Have you found it?” inquired Mu-! riel eagerly. “I will gladly pay you ten dollars.” “Why, ma'am,” derided the tramp, ery. A hidden package of letters was | «jn these days of sensations any news- missing from her desk. They were the paper would give one hundred dol- | history of her brief but happy ac-)j.rgs, just to show its readers how a, quaintance with Ranald Dyer, rudely | rcq1 genuine love letter reads, don'ti disturbed and broken in a single twen- | you see?” ty-four hours. Why, she had mever | Tpg sovert insinuation appalled Mu- ' known, and she had never seen hlm‘ riel, Not that the letters ¢:¢mtainedI L ! anything but the most respectful and : The letters she had preserved, even | :smmonplace sentiments of love. She | a8 she had retained the memory of the o}\rank from the thought of others per- | blissful period when life had been | yging these treasured epistles, sacred | filled to the brim with golden sun-|, per as the heart breathings of & shine, Now they were gone. Muriel| )3, ghe had loved devotedly. She had continued to exhale gentleness and The old secret wound was torn open 1 am looking for a letter, an old let- NO PUZZLE FOR HER and Muriel left the place hoping the | eee—————— ously after the retreating figure of the stenographer. that girl,” he eaid. whether to fire her or raise her sal- ary. 1 don't know what to make of her. She is the quintessence of either innocence or deceit, I can’t figure out | which. Any way, she's got me into & pretty pickle. guided member of a certain benevolent ! society sent me two tickets for a char~ ity ball. I was surprised to get those tickets, for I supposed everybody who knew me knew my sentiments in re- gard to charity. lleve in giving things away. Ihave to town that I8 nOW growlng gy, of my hard-earned money.” Thought He Liked Fiap,, | One of the wittlest occupant, i udicial beneh in Englang { Rentoul, the North-country | who presides at the famoy, known as Old Balley., Ty, has just been telling anothe story against himself. Once }, on a political mission to Wy, tell the voters what to do. H,, first, and 'in English. All tp, | quent speakers, however, ugeg; as the medium of their thougy, a matter of policy he gy S8 strongly whenever there wjg , 4 among the audience, alth, could not understand a sing) 34 that was said. “Ilearned aftery, i said Judge Rentoul, “that ever applauded & speaker it was y had paid a strong personal ment, either to myself or (¥ speech.” By ALLIE YOUNGER. The sharp-nosed man looked dubl- “I'm in & quandary what to do with “] don’t know “About two months ago some mis- “I don't believe in it. I don’t be Speaking Literally, A famous sculptor was sea dinner next to a fair but f young lady, and it was soon that he was not very favora pressed by her idle chatter. “What kind of a figure do yo admire in a woman,” she i, with the air of one angling for;§ pliment, ) “Almost any kind, as long not a figure of speech,” he n briefly.—Judge. work for every cent I have and I ex- [N pect other people to do the same thing. To my mind these folks that dance for charity and sing for charity and cut all eorts of didoes for benev- olent purposes are only degrading the masses they are supposed to benefit, I had expressed this opinion so often that 1 was amazed that anybody should ask me to countenance & benevolent scheme by buying tickets for & ball. Naturally, I hastened to send the tickets back. I put them into an envelope and handed them to the stenographer. Not Crazy. Friend—“Well, Aunt Alics, I sank to & chair and tried to think. “It's a hundred or nothing,” added Had her aunt incidentally removed!ihe tramp mecnacingly. them? Had the maid, dusting and set- “Not a cent,” interrupted a ringing “‘Here, Miss Drew,’ I sald, ‘you know what to do with these.’ “Yes, sir, she said. ‘Thank you.’ your old man getting along? Alice (whose husband s an ing the Soldiers’ Home)—“Po'ly, ting things to rights, stowed them i yoice that thrilled Muriel through and some new receptacle? Hardly, Muriel hrough, ; told herself, for neither to her knowl- And then the tramp was seized by edge ever disturbed the desk. [ the collar by a vigorous hand, was Just then Jolly, ringing, boylsh pyjjeq over the porch railing, arrest volces broke upon her hearing. Ro8Y- tnreatencd, the letter demanied and | cheeked, bright-eyed, full of juvenile proquced, and the blackmailer sent vim and excitement, two little lads yeaqlong into tlie road. barst into her presence. They were | g ready captor returned to the pet- | the children of her sister, who came yifieq Murel. He lifted’ his hat cour- regularly once a week for a visit—Wil- ' {a5usly, but very gravely. "9‘ and Paul Emory. “There {8 the letter that man had, | ‘Oh, Aunt Muriel, we have had such rare sport,” breathlessly announced the latter, the elder of the pair. “1 should say so,” echoed his broth- ' er. “We always have lots of fun here.” | Despite a vague pain at her heart and her worry over the missing let- ters, Muriel smiled indulgently. “What have you been up to now?” she asked. i “Playing postman,” proclaimed Paul | exultingly. “We went right up the| steps of the houses just like real post- day, ‘passing out letters,” e called it.” | “Ranald—Ranald Dyer,” muiinured | Muriel weakly. “Yes, it is I,” replied her lover of | the past. “I came to visit the old town after my long absence. You seem to have thought enough of those old let- ters of mine to preserve them.” utter a word. It was a strained situ- ation. “If 8o, why then,” proceeded Ranald, seven years ago?” riel quickly. And then: *“He was not | your friend—I gee it all now!” had left the town with no word of ex- planation. Edward Ross had proposed to her, and had been rejected a month later. He was dead now, and she did not wish to prove his falseness. It came out reluctantly—the story. “Muriel,” said Ranald, leaning closer to that pleadine longing, beautiful and never regrets it. Is it, somebody else's fault that we parted? you have thought of me as of old?” “Would I have treasured these let- ters otherwise?” asked Muriel softly, | and the next momcent she was clasped | in his arms. (Copyright, 1913, by W, G. Chapman.) MODERN CITY OF DIAMONDS | Doubtless Few Have Adecquate ldea of the Wealth of Glittering | said. hero is one a little boy handed me to- | Her head sank low, she could not | “did you not make some reply when 1 | sent word by my friend, Edward Ross, “I—I never recelved it,” spoke Mu- | { She recalled how suddenly Ranald She remembered, too, how | | girl seemed so sweet and innocent and face, “a true man tells his love once, | then, | Can it be possible that all these years | Stones in New York. “It's a Hundred, or Nothing.” Importers of precious stones are frank to say that there are more dia- monds owned and worn in New York than in any other city in the world. men. We didn't ring any bells, but we put letters under doormats, and on | “It struck me then that there was no occasion for her to thank me for requesting her to perform her regular routine of duties, but I didn't give the matter a second thought until three Friend—“Why, he is not crazy, weeks later, when a representative of | Aunt Alice?” Aunt Alice—“Ny, the benevolent society called to col-| he is not crazy; he's just don lect $10 for the ball tickets. lan’ lost his min’"—Judge. “‘But I didn't use the tickets’ I ‘I don’t believe in charity.’ | Not a Mistake. “ 1 beg your pardon,’ he said. ‘They | “That judge made a mistaks were used. Here are the numbers | he married us.” sent you and here are the tickets | —«“That so?” i bearing the same number which were ' vyeg He ended the ceremony taken in at the door. If you didn't'‘And may God have mercy o f§ want them you ought to have returned ' goul.'” i them to us at once, as requested in| “Heg knew what he was alo] our communication to you.' right He's married himself” § “<But I did return them,’ I argued. : Then ! called i (e sleloBraBlir. | Gbjested to Chasisers ‘Miss Drew,’ I sald, ‘didn’t I give A } A young man named Duto you two ball tickets some time ago ety to be returned to the benevolent so- ing an actlon agalnst Lis » clety? at Marsellles, France, becaus “‘Why, no, she £ala, ‘you didn’t say :::e': &l: ;:::t::r being late anything about returning them. You 5 simply said 1 knew what to do with po'ly. The only way they ca him in the hospital 18 by py Mother Hubbard on him He wants to wander an’ wander them.’ | “‘And what did you do with them? Friendship In Adverm'y. 1 asked. Friendship, of itself a holy 4 1 ! made more sacred by adversity “‘] went to the ball, said she. 4, thought that was what you meant. “I was furious, but I saw the benev- olent soclety had the drop on me, and I paid the $10. The worst of it is the What's a Friend? propos itude, a prod sorry that T haven't had the courage | pofitlclm ‘:t.‘:;i \;15” d‘p“ either to discharge her or deduct the gmyging deflnition of a fri money from her salary. I can’t make | friend,” he sald, “1s & man vl up my mind to this day whether she! your part against all your & really thought I meant to make her @ gticks to you through all your present or whether she notified the' slties, lends you his last d society to send me the tickets and ' out security—and then, w then deliberately worked me for & gmiles on you at last, good time. But, whatever her motive, ! take a back seat and ke there is one c! ition in ' way» SEOBFOEACHEEOE WE ARE. PROUD? 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Faint and distressed, she summoned all her power of control, “Come with me,” she said promptly to the two boys. “Now then, Willie, and you, Paul, go instantly over the route you took, and get back those let- Indeed, our metrcpolis seems to be & second Golconda, that city of south- ern India where, from before the birth of Christ down through the cen- turies to the 17th, the major portion of the earth’s diamonds were assem- bled, guarded, cut and polished for New York appears to stand out pre- eminent as a “dlamond-wearing” city, and only those whose social or busi- ness status permits them to come in close touch with the facts can have an adequate idea of the volume or variety of the dlamond and precious stone adornments of some of its peo- ple. 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At the end of |18 TOre cautious (and precavtion is ters.” three blocks ten were back in her pos- ! Sooisy. 10 ticee dhys ot well-laldi hold-up plans) leave for the opera or | function devoild of Jewels. | Closely following them, however, in | session. No one seemed to have no- ticed them on the various porches whers they had been deposited. | “There are two more,” said the any- another motor or carriage, are strong- fous Muriel, 1 armed guardians with “Yes, ma'am,” replied Willle, “I jewels, which are turned over upon hanilbd 6ng 5 8 AR * 7 arriving at their destination, and “Oh dear—dear,” cried Muriel, within some protected room the gems wringing her hands in distress, ,are donned. Homeward beund, they “And T left one on the porch of the have the same escort. 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