Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 24, 1913, Page 2

MACON JELKS’ BRICK | am the State distri butor for this superior line of brick--Pacing, Fire, Com mon, Pressed and Rough tex- ture brick. A Southern Product, near Home, Quick Deliveries and Cheap Transportation, | handle LEGG'S fancy Faced Brick—BIBB'S Sew- er Pipe and Flues. State Agent For Portland Atlas Cement “The Standard by W hich All Others Are Measured.” Crushed Rock in any quantities—Granite Curbing, Sand, Lime, Mortor, Beav er Boards & etc. WIRE ME AT MY EXPENSE FOR PRICES DELIVERED TO ANY POINT IN THE STAT® For materials in buil ding and construction work | can saye you time, troubl e and money. LOCAL AND LONG DISTANCE PHONES 207-208. |: || Offices, Salesrooms, Wharves, Track- “ cr Hendry & Knight Terminals Tampa i age and Yards Florida HER SEVENTH ANSWE By FRANK H, MELOON, “You've certainly transformed the room,” I said to Edith, opening the door and walking in, in response to her bidding. It had originally been an attic. Tapestry hangings now hid the face of timbers rough-hewn in the days when Washington was young and Fourth of Julys like any other day, for the house itself was of colonial antiquity, and there were wide divans on which one was allowed to sit smong dozens of cushions done in colors to the rainbow unknown, There was a writing desk of odd design in one corner, and a desk from the depths of which a much-used type- writer was apt to half emerge, like & Jack-in-the-box, if one walked about with a heavy step. There was the us- ual array of brass articles used for ornamentation. “Now,” she went on, “very much ot what I've been able to do has been owing to your kindness. O courae I thank you, Robert.” “I shall receive my reward some day,” I reminded her. “So the Good Book says.” “Oh, I am speaking of temporal things.” “Your mind should be above them,” she admonished. “You are as near an approach to divinity as I care for at present,” I insisted. “You should be ashamed to say so. What is any one cf us after all? What are our little loves, our half- formed fancies but things of a day— shadows that cross the face of the great sun of fame?” “But my love is not a little love, neither is it the thing of a day,” I contradicted, hotly. Edith blushed. “You think—" “1 know—" “Very well,” this with resignation. On the table lay a sheet of Edith’s work, done in a masculine chiro- graphy popular of late years, “What is this a map of?"I asked, Innocently, “It's not a map. It's the start of a THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAK LLAND, FLA, JUNE 24, 1913 ltory" “Where's the rest of it?” “Oh, I haven't thought it all out yet,” with a sigh. “Do you know what the title is to be?"” “I haven't decided on one.” “Will you let me suggest & title for 1t?” “But you don't know what the story Is about.” “Is there any connection,” I asked, meekly, “between a story and fits title?"” “Certainly,” sniffed Edith, indig- nantly. “Then there's & missing link to some,” I declared. “Those are by inferior authors.” “To change the subject, have you sold any stories of late?” I asked. “No, Robert, you are more partial to me than the editors are.” “Confound them; I've half a mind to call on two or three of them and let 'em know what I think of their Judgment!” I exclaimed, viciously, @ “If I can’t win by merit, I don't want to win,” she declared stoutly. “Edith,” I asked, tenderly, “why | couldn’t you write just the same after we were married?” “Ot all the impudence! I've mnot said we were going to be yet, have I? And, besides, marriage is said to be an impediment to a literary career.” “Aren't so-and-so married?” I asked, naming over a half dozen of the best- known feminine authors of the day. [ didn't know whether they were or oot, but spun them off at random. “I suppose 80,” she admitted, doubt- tully, I pursued my unscrupulously gained advantage. “Tor the seventh time, Edith” I warned, “1 am going to ask you to marry me.” “And for the seventh time—" she began, mockingly. “Now, Edith,” I interposed. “I am only human and I can't go on this way forever. I have here”—and I showed it to her—*"a ticket to Havana. ‘shlll I buy another, or go alone '.o-' morrow ?” Edith looked me squarely in tho face. Her own was rather white, She hesitated. “The seventh time,” I sald quietly, taking up my hat. “That was the title I was going to suggest for your story.” There was a long silence. Edith's face was half averted, but what I could see led me to hope, “You are going?”’ she asked in & voice intended to be quite steady, but still looking away from me, “If you tell me to,” I replied. Another silence. “Can't you get the tickets for @ week from tomorrow?’ she asked. And that was Edith's seventh an- swWer. Below ‘appea_rs the list of contestants according to their standing last night: Mrs M. Chapman .. .. ... Mrs, £, C. Bankston .. .... .. Mrs. M. L. Bradley .. .. .... Mrs. S. T. Fletcher .. .. .... ...8,825 Mrs. F. W, Eaton .. .. ..... 185 8,630 Mrs. F. A, McDonald ....... 145 8,540 Mrs. R. H. Rutherford ...... 130 < Mrs. C. O. Moore «ocevveees 126 4,850 Mrs. J. D, O'Hern .....cvvee 10 Mrs, Wm, Steitz.. .. ...... 2,725 Mrs. B. Tucker, Jr. «.couen.. 50 Mrs. R. E. Wilkins ........ .1,886 Mrs. Walter Bates ...... e 40 Mrs, T. 1. Woods .......... 1,440 Mrs. T. Waring «..ocevves 80 Mrs. G. W. Friend ........ 930 Mrs. J. Patterson .......... 20 Mrs. A. Blewers . ........... 40t Mrs. W. D, McRae .......... 20 Mrs. F. Laramore ..... e 0 Mrs. B. 8, Knighton ........ %0 Mrs. Bevis .......... Shassee 20 Mrs. Garwood ....cco00000 . 885 Mre. L. WHHARBOR: ooviivss 20 Mrs. R. W. Hardakor.. .. ....525 Mrs. C. C. Hendrix ......... 10 Mrs.J Jones....cocvivnnns 286 Mrs. H. 8. Melellainfe ....... 10 Mrs. B. F. Hines ....... ... 246 Mrs. Washborne ..... ceveven 10 See Sylvia Summers and Compan In a Repertoire of One Act Comedies Special Prices P e BELOW WE GIVE A FEW OF OUR PRICES WITH MANY OTHER GOODS OF EQUAL QUALITY AND PRICE. QUALITY OF GOODS IS THE FIRST THING WE LOOK AFTER AND THEN THE PRICE T0 MEET YOUR APPROVAL WITH A GUAR- ANTEE THAT EVERYTHING WILL BE AS REPRESENNED. 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