Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 5, 1913, Page 2

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HIGHEST GRADE 1f you will “tackle” our fishing tackle you'll land any fsh that tackles yoor ba!t Our lines are new and fresh and strong; our reels are not rusty. Whenever the thought of hardware eaters your mind, also Jet tn the thought that our store is the place to buy reliable hardware. Tinning and Plumbinga Specialty The Model Hardware Co. [F YOU ARE THINKING OF BUILDING. SEE MARSHALL & SANDERS The 0ld Rellable Contractors Who have been building houses in Lakeland for, yea who never “FELL DOWN" or failed to give ntmfictn?!; and All classes of buildings contracted for. .The many flno ::ll‘t:encel built by this firm are evidgnces of their abilityto MARSHALL & SANDERS Phone ;228 Blue DA% FEITTEDIISETSDNOIDITEREY | “Tottering in her dotage on the She Had Called Him the Debu- tante’s First Discipline and | Other Names. 4‘ | | By 1ZOLA FORRESTER. | | “You've easked Captain Wallace | bere! Barbara, I t.hmk it's simply— | simply fendieh of you.” | Barbara turned ber head and bit the | end of ber penholder vervously to gain | time. Up from the mass of pillows in | | the hammock had risen a towseled | |head and shocked, indignant face i “He'll only stay over the week-end, | dear, and Duffy likes him. Of course | 1 couldn't expect—you wouldn't want| | me to explain Lhmxs to Duffy, would | your~ “] don't care who you explatn things | to,” relorted her sister haughtily, des perately. “You may tell everybody in the place, but 1 will not stay here and meet Jack Wallace for any considers tion.” “You can't go to the eity, and stay at a hotel, dear, ard every one 's out of town, you know, anybow. You peedn't see him alone. I'l get Lilian to be uice to him.” “That old widow. He wouldn't look 8t bher twice. Why, everybody knows she's thirty if she's a day.” brink of her grave,” laughed Barbara “Wait till you see Jack when the lifts those long lashes at bhim, and asks what his ambition in life it. She never | has to talk to men. Ske just drags out the pet secrets of their bearts, and they adore her. Don't you worry a bit, Mona. He shan't bother you. You can stay up in your room if you like and I'll say you have a headache.” Mona tumbled out of the hammock. and bunched up her mass of russet| curls into a protesting topnot. Two or three loose rings fell about her face. She looked like an excited, scrappy kiddie, in her pink middy blouse and short linen ekirt “If you think I'm going to be made s | prisoner to accommodate Lillian Mor | ris &nd Captain Wallace, Bab, you're very much mistaken Didn't mamma teil you why ebe sent me out here for & month?” “She said you were ailing,” bara tactfully. Mona smiled for the first time “Do | look it? Have ] acted like an invalid since 1 came? Now, listen, Bab, the only earthly reason why mam- ma made me come here was to get me cut of Captain Wallace's way. 1 bope you’ll respect my confidence.” “Mona, dear!” reproachfully. “What | else” Was be really serious? Did he know how old you are? 1 “I suppose you're trying to make me uncomfortable, Bab, but you can't. I ! told bim the very first night I'd be! eighteen in October.” “Did he propose?” “He did. That same night. He said | be'd never believed in love before, real { love, 1 mean, Bab, and he said he }hoped I'd always remember the hour {as he did. And he said he'd never met & woman in all his life before who | seemed to understand him.” “What else”™ “Waen't that enough?” with wide | eves of surprise. “] told him | simply | couldn't marry him for a year at least, | but 1'd give him a chance.” “Mona Whitmore, you said Bar dido't say i that?" , “Well, it only seemed falr, he was 80 | cut up, Bab." Mrs. Hemmersley leaned back ber| { pretty bead and broke into a peal of | | merriment. { f “You silly kiddie. Don't you know | that Juck Wallace bas said exactly | | the same thing to every like debu- tante for ten years. No wonder mam- | | ma sent you to me, if you took Jack | seriouely.” “l didn't | only gave him a chance.” “So kind of you Did he live up ml 14 aof ' Before Mona could answer, the tele | phone bell rang in the hall and Bar | bara answered it It was Clpulnl Wellace { Her face grew grave as she listened. | He was pleading an excuse for the| week-end trip, and in the midst of his ‘ business excuses, Barbara cut in. “We can't possibly let you go, chk.' | Lenore is coming down. Yes, you know | ber of course, and we'll be one short | auyway, as my little sister is return- | ing to mamma's. What? Yes, Mona. | Yes, it was rather sudden, but she | felt bomesick, and is going today. | Walt just a moment.” She turned her | head, but Mona bad fled down the garden walk. “It was on account of | Mona, you say, Jack, that you were | not coming? 1 don't undestand.” Her tone was just a wee bit haughty, and gave warning over the wire to the 'm at the other end. Even though | Mona had perhaps worn her heart for a shoulder decoration in girlish fash- {fon, Mrs. Hammersley was averse to having such a thing discussed, Every | debutante caught her first whiff of the society whirl from Jack Wallace if he happened to be In town from one of globe trotting trips. Most of them had been wise enough to accept a few lessons in flirting. and drit away! heart-whole. It seemed Mona, fresh | from California ranch life, had taken' the captain at his face value, and be lUeved in him Point blank over the | wire came the captain’s fire “Do you think she really careg™ “I have pot noticed any sigas of pl.: ing, Jack”™ with a little laugh of amusement. And face down (n the ! warm scented grass st the end of the | pergola lay Mona sobbing. . “T think, that you and Lenore will be left quite free and happy.” The efaculation from the ecaptain was smothered but audible. He added that he would be out oa the §:45 traln. | ¥ o | any girl in your set who hasn't told me | early. | Mona.” | train.” | Mona found her voice. |ets” | &ll of the blame for my mistake.” | told me that Jack Wallace was a debu- “Qf course, dear, if you really !ael r yo.: want to go to mamma, Wby £0." idly, efter she had | belped Mona to puck her suit | . *] will send Briges in with l you, and if you don't find mamma | bome, go right through to Lakewood, | and wzke Briggs vmh you I'm B0 sob ry have to go.” s, you are!™ retorted Mozna, 'h.l & swift flash of sisterly resentment “You know 1 detest Lepore Morris, | and ] won't meet Jack Wallace.” “Powder your nose, dear. It's quite ghiny from emotion,” teased Barbara. “You gimply must stop this fireworks exhibition, Mona. It's 80 conspicuocus, boney. What has Jack done to deserve “Well, if you must know—" Mona | watched Briggs gathering up her lug- gege. The runabout was waiting. “I've found him out He has been tacitly engaged to about 20 different girls. 1 don't think I've spoken about bim to Jack Wallace made love better than | any man ehe ever met” f “But, dear, that doesn't imply lhey were all engaged to him.” Mona's wide basel eyes blazed vlth indignation. “] don't suppose it does down hen in your horrid old New York Out | west when a man kisses a girl ud, world, she knows he's straight and | Barbara smiled and kissed the flush- | ed, lovely face. Secretly she felt proud | of her. She kpew just how keea the This is the most complete hardware | store in this community. We supply the needs and requirements of everybody. And we are determined that every cus tomer who enters our store shall be com- | pletely satisfied or we refund their money. The best thing about us however, is our prices. We buy in car load lots—take the : smallest possible profit on each article we f sell-- and depend on our volume of sales for what proft we make. We invite you to call and inspect our stock and prices. tells ber he loves her best in all the meszns it, or she wouldn't permit bim | to do it. That's why I don't like your Captain Wallace, Bab.” “Have you told him all this?” ! “l wrote to him yesterday, aed I told him 1 fully realized what a little donkey 1 had made of myself. Yes, || explained it all, fully. 1don’t think be can misunderstand.” thrust had been to the captain. “Don't miss your train, dear, 8t 6:02," she said. { The runabout drew up on the rhldy i gide of the little stone station. Mona | went into the waiting room. She was | 1t seemed almost deserted, and | then suddenly sbe saw Jack Wallace. He had been waiting. She saw that at a glance. Probably it was for Le pore, she decidrd, and prepared to cut | him. Put the captain understood mil | ftary tictics. Straight towards ber he came, and he was pot smiling. “You must not take that traim, The note of authority struck Monaz oddly. He gave her no chance | to argue or protest. PBriggs came to wards them. “Teke Miss Whitmore's | luggage buck,” he said. “She bas changed her mind about taking this “You do nothing of the sort, Briges,” “Buy the uck. “Briggs, go out and talk to the chauffeur for a moment.” Bland, mld~ dle-aged Briggs beamed on the cap tain, and retired. “Now, dear,” he turned and took Mona's hands in his, *] have just come from your mother.” “1 suppose you explained everything satisfactory.” Mona's tone was still | peppery. “You need not have troubled. | { told her, and Barbara, too, and took | | “What mistake? Mora was eilent. He knew well | encugh what she meant—that she had Joved him with the first, sweet, bo‘ Immg love of a girl untaught in social | | ways or wiles, and because he had sent her flowers, spoken tenderly to | her, singled ber out from the others | for weeks, she had given him the same trust as i he had been a westerner Instead of a New York squire of dames. “What do you mean?” he persisted. “1 mean that | mistock a carpet knight for a real man.” she flung back cruelly. “Every girl 1 have met has tante's first discipline. 1 didn't know that kind of & game.” “If you were anywhere but a rail- | way station, I would take you in my |2 arms and crush you until you took that | § | back,” said Wallace between his teeth. “1 have come directly from your moth- er with her permission to say this to you. Will you be my wife, Mona?" “I think my train is about due,” said Moua, calmly “1 shall lift you and carry you out | to that car if you do not come will An Endless Variety Of the Best Brands HAMS--With that ricl., spicy flavor, : : BACON--That strezk of lean and streak of fatkind e Mgk g g T i:‘;':::‘ § SAUSAGES--Most any kind to your liking. ‘Jack, I love you'" S i w13 Potted Meats Canned[Meats Pickled Meats did that before. you kissed me. [ don't go back on my | A different kind]for every day in the month 40 word. 1 wonder if Briggs bought the | & tickets.” Wallace glanced about. There were five or six people waiting out on the (¥ platform. The ticket seller was busy at the telegraph desk. The side door Best Butter, per pound of the station stood open, and just be- Sugar, 17 pounds ..... . SRR e yond was the runabout Before Miss c Whitmore realized his intention, het ottolene, 10 pound pails......................... . 123 had picked her up easily, and carried | § Cottolene, 4- i o Ry g Loy g .c pound p-n.:. ........................ 50 Briggs, deaf, dumb, and blind to all Snovdnft, lo-pcnml pllll. PO Vo ERER Sk SRRy 1.13 proceedings, and the chauffeur was cans lm.\'.]] : talking to the expressman. ; 8 fi size Cream..... v o s s 23 “Change seats, Briggs,” ordered the 6 cans baby size Cream...... SO A SO vees B9 captain briefly. “Your mistress is a little faint. I will sit with her. ' -2 barrel best Flour ... sieusier Ry iR g 3.10 Leroux.” 13 pounds best Flo He placed Mona on the seat, and R g A stepped “,h beside her. Very dellba(ely Ochgon Soap BT v v SEeNe . . 25 B | he took her hand and drew off the - r glove. As the car turned the ex'm:er1 (:l::nnfl Ouffon. per pound .. .. i3 e B s IR R e R RS 80 | towards home he slipped on the nar row ring with its diamond cntchlng' the sparkle of the sunset. still, her face a trifle white. “Take back that carpet-knight re- mark” be sald. “Will you be my wife, | § Mona?™ “l suppose I shall have to,” said ROUSLOCSITSDI0N0 Mona, “if you're going to be so—so conspicuous.” (Copyright, 1913, by the McClure News- paper Syndicate.) Mona sat ! Auditing Accounting Systemati D. M. WOODWARD TAMPA ..cveccccctcsncccssssnsesesssscossassassnsoass o¥ It is almost as easy to give advice & not to take it