Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 26, 1913, Page 6

THE EVENIN LR 4 THE SUMMER WHITE HOUSE By A. W, BEER. clearly a case for spooks. explanation was that the fever which weeks still dominated my brain. Wearying at length of the problem, I placed the delicate bit of cambric and lace beneath my pillow and again re- signed myself to sleep. A year later I was in California, os- tensibly on a vacation, but also with a view of absorbing color for a novel of pioneer days which I was planning to write. I was at dinner one evening in San Francisco with my friend Maxfield, a newspaper man, when I caught sight ot a familiar face at one of the restaurant tables. “That's sigular!” I exclaimed pres- ently. “What's singular?” queried Maxfield. “It you have reference to the fair creature at whom you are gazing so intently, I may say that while she is certainly single, I do not know that she is looked upon as singular.” “The fact is,” I returned, “that for the moment I fmagined that'I had met the young woman somewhere before, but I am probably mistaken.” Harlakenden House, Winston Churchill's estate near Cornish, N. H,, Bas been chosen by President Wilson as the “Summer White House.” Har lakenden House overlooks the Conmecticut river and the Green mountains. The president has surrounded himself with literary and artistic neighbors in selecting his summer home. The top plcture shows the south front and the bottom one the north front. - HIGHEST GRADE. the literary papers, perhaps,” suggest- ed Maxfleld. “Rhat's Enid B, Merry- weather, who is coming to the front as & writer of some rather fetching verse.” h “Then her initials are ‘E. B. M.?'* “Correct,” replied Maxwell. “You got it right the very first time. But why get so excited over a bunch of initials?” “Maxfield,” I retorted, “you ought to line, so why attempt it? like to know is whether or not you have the honor of Miss Merryweath- to present me.” “Nothing easier, old man,” he re- plied promptly. There are some persons one meets to whom an introduction seems almost superfluous. You somehow feel that you have know them always. " Thus it was with Enid and me. We met, not as stranger, but as old' friends who for a time had been sepa- . rated in body, but never in spirit, But one evening Enid said: , “Do you know that I worried about you a great deal when you were ill last winter?” “Foolish girl!"” I replied. never met me.” “And yet I seem always to have known you,” she murmured. “You had 0 (ELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA., MAY 26, 1913, e | S ] MYSTERIOUS ROMANCE _“ Had it not been for the handker chief I would have said that it was the Society for Psychical Research and have washed my hands of it. But though to be sure a filmy enough object, the handker- chief, with the initials “B. B, M.” daintily embroidered in one corner, was of a tangible nature, and in no way to be fitted into any theory of And yet the whole thing was absurd on the face of it. No doubt the simple had possessed my body for many weary “You've seen her portrait in some of “Enid B. Merryweather!"” said I.| know that the facetious is not your | What I'd er's acquaintance; if so, I want you| METHOD AND A MAID By TROY ALLISON. He finally managed to get his cigar to working satisfactorily, and stretch- ed himself comfortably on the grass. She leaned back against the tree trunk and watched a squirrel busy on a neighboring branch. Harrington noticed that she seemed to have entirely forgotten his presence —he could not decide whether the sit- uation interested him or piqued his masculine vanity. “When you have satisfactorily ex- amined the trees, the squirrel, the wa- ter falling over those stone, and have formed your opinion concerning the entrancing horizon,” he said in a slightly injured tone, “wouldn't you like to talk to me some?” “None of these things are more in- teresting to me, Diogones, than the study of you, I assure you,” her [lips curled with a teasing smile, and there was a touch of fun in her eyes. “Sometimes I almost conclude that I positively dislike you,” he sald, ami. ably, taking long puffs at his cigar, “I never cared much for women—but in this case there is a stronger ele- ment, 1 believe it almost approaches being dislike. She wriggled her blond head into a more comfortable pose against the tree trunk and beamed upon. him as if he had said something truly grati fying. “It's an achievement Diogones to have inspired you with a strong feel- ing of any description—I'm proud of myself."” | “You have such a confounded way of pouncing upon a fellow’s thoughts , and holding them up to ridicule—you can analyze a man as easily as a chem« ist can analyze a patent medicine. | Didn’t you know, Miss Burton, that women ought to make themselves —er—attractive—it's uncanny for them to go in for psychology, analysis —er—vivisection.” “Attractive? O Diogones—you are awfully lacking in manners—I was | taking solid comfort and content in the belief that the powers that be had made me—attractive-—and was amus- ing myself with your so-called vivisec- tlon—merely as a side issue. 1 see, my dear philosopher, that you are not fitted for the gentle ways of polite so- ciety—if it didn't sound slangy, I'd say: ‘Back to your tub.’ It was a tub that Diogones enjoyed so thoroughly, wasn't it?” He was, by degrees, working him- self into an exceedingly bad temper. “Miss Burton, did you know that blond women had always enjoyed the reputation of being fools—more or! less?” he asked, scathingly. “All of which leads to—" she ine terrupted with elaborate innocence “The fact that it's time you de- cided whether you are going to mar ry that idiot Darrell or me, we've both been dangling around you the whole summer.” “Your climaxes are strong,” she smiled, admiringly, “that idiot Dar rell or—you—Don't you recognize LY certain similarity to Pope in the way If you will “rackle’ our fishing tackle you'll land any fish that “Enid,” I sald presently, “there is something queer I want to tell you in connection with that illness of mine. It seems utterly unreasonable, but there are some things beyond our un- derstanding. “I had been dwelling for weeks in a strange, fantastic world, when one nightJ awoke calm and rational, and I saw bending dver me one who seem- | ed the very embodiment of my heart's desire. I closed my eyes again for a| second, doubting the reality of what I saw, and when I opened them again the lovely vision had faded. “I can’t explain it, but it was you | who came to me that night; and, more wonderful still, here is the proof!"” I took from over my heart the handker chief which I had found resting lightly on the counterpane after the disappearance of my mysterious visi- tor. She took the handkerchief and ex- amined it, “Yes, it 18 mine,” she said presently. 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I told him that you were a very dear friend, but that for personal reasons I did not want you to know of my presence in New York. There was no fear of that, however, as for a long time you knew no one, “At length one evening when I had called to inquire aboat you and had been admitted to your bedside as us- ual, you looked at me with rational eyes. To avoid discovery I fled from the room, and this handkerchief I sup. pose was dropped in my confusion. “Now, then,” she concluded, “does not ‘hat destroy all your pretty and my» crious romance?” But T think the answer I gave her couvinced her that it did not. Write or print name and address plainly to avoid errors. Illustrations are one-half actual size. i b Make money in spare y Licitin .orden for these necessities. Splendid proposition for men, women and young folks. ‘lf interpezt‘fg in agent’s pro lon, write for full particulars when you order, J. P. Roquemore, City. IF YOU ARE THINKING OF BUILDING. 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That afternoon Harrington lay, halt asleep, his magazine over his face, in the shade of the bushes that grew back of the summer house. “Virginia—you are acting shameful. ly,” he heard Darrell's voice, Virginia evidently enjoyed the idea of acting shamefully—for he heard a little ripple of merriment. “But you know, Jack, he really does need some of the conceit taken out of him—women have spoiled him 80." “I think you have tormented him enough,” Darrell insisted, “and you have carried on with me outrageously, I feel party to a fraud. You can't keep it up much longer, for when find out that I've been engaged to your sister all along. Why not put him out of his misery? You know you like him.” “Of course I do—and I'm going to marry him—but he needs a little train. ing first.” Darrell rose and started towards the | house. “I'm going to finish my letter | to Eleanor,” he said. “I'l leave you | here to finish your book. Shall I tell Eleanor that we'll make it a double wedding in November?” “I think he'll make an awfully hand. some bridegroom,” she said, softly. Darrell laughed delightfully. “Fyrst time I ever saw you with a real attack, Virginia. 1 don't see, to save my soul, how he's failed to find out that you care. But as for handsome bride- grooms—I'll have you remember that I'll be there, myself," and he walked down the path whistling. Harrington sat up, let his magazine fall unnoticed to the ground, and brushed his coat carefully. His gray eyes were twinkling, as he crept quietly into the summer house. He caught the startled girl in his arms. “A man has a perfect right to kiss the girl he's going to marry in November—I'm so glad you acknowl- edge that I'll look pictaresque at the wedding.” “You wretch! You heard what | said!"” she gasped. Harrington held her fast. “Just so—exactly so—and nothing has ever added so much to my coaceit, Virginia mine.” (Copyright, by Daily Story Pub. 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