Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 1, 1913, Page 7

SO WILL SING FOR YOUI bill alt $he other world-famous sing- ‘you have a VICTROLA, g exclusive agents for the Victor f Talking Machines. $15,00 and up, br Easy Payments. LAND BOOK STORE Benford & Steitz 2 Will Never Be Satisfied we have your Optical Work. Dr. . Hull, Graduate Optometrist, has e of this Department. No charge xaminations, OLE & HULL B YRLEGRAM, LAK ELAND, FLA., AUG. 1, 1918. TUNER OF NERIE Professional Adjuster and Regu- lator of Things ,That Rattle Human Beings. "tively. “Marcells, why didn’t you tell! me you were engaged to Tony?” “l am not—now,” returned Marcella, slowly. “I broke the engagement the morning after Miss Raleigh left wus. The stateroom was mine, and the jew- elry was found in my pillow, mumsie. You may as well know the truth, Tony told me himself, The diamond pendant was mine. Tony gave it to me instead of a ring the night he asked me to be ‘his wife. It belonged to his mother, | and she was ‘quite, willing I should (Copyright, ":’:’","gfl“:fuz‘“f'm News | have it. Can you imagine what it “What's her name?’ Marcella de-: Meant to me to be suddenly confront- manded. She even turned from the ©d With this horrible evidence in my| mirror to stare after the new acquisi- 9Wn stateroom? The rings and dia- tion to her stepmother's household 'Monds were sewn into the pillow itself with curlosity. among the feathers in a chamios skin : ch” ‘Anne Raleigh, professional adjuster | o “I have the pouch,” gsald Anne and regulator of shattered nerves,. g households going to the little bow-| ;l;he:;; ‘:‘“ l: é’k’“ cut "_"fl m‘d°:“:| Wows, or.any earthly thing that rattles mp 2 w.ltho ° 0'19;; tw ‘Q'l an '?"h i and disturbs the human system. Rell-lne v ‘1 snap like & .g °;"l th. ly, dear, I should have died last season | b t:::np”;z.r:n% Y';adw::p::vednm; g:‘p::’::nze:“,h:‘fc:;‘:; 05:: 5:;: | the antique shop in New York. It fits| father's little ways couldn’t upset.” ;’e‘}_‘::::‘l{m::: :;1;?;‘::::.:‘!‘:‘0:: o : m;‘: i?uy:zn;‘:t.gl:f persons ““i the first case I had ever tried, donm’t Anne. You fall heir to them. She was: YOU know? Mr. Dimmick did not want giving Rose Ashton mental* punches | :"e’ profe:nl:t::l h‘:l:- He ';‘; it t‘;" one day after Rose had simply gone all | : ase O“h 0 °b° r';‘:;’ he °M;’ to pleces over Rolly’s departure for | l:"l’:’l': t‘h': (;:ar::r her: 7;':': ‘lv!o .: da." 3 Ne“'};eadldn't get a divorce. He never | :ndNMH A:l::on. tMr.hAn‘Mn tl:n intended to. He only went for & few .:'d l:tvhi: :fle tn;l‘:: t:: t:l:r:k:::o b: By CORA A. DOLSEN. rs and Optometrists Phome 173 Lakeland, Fla. | Plecsure To Show Goods” ranch there.” “Just exactly when Anne told her, and she proved it, and put Rose on her feet in two days. I heard her explain- ing the whole affair to Rose that day, when my own heart was nearly broken —why do you laugh, Marcella? “Because, mumsie, you're delicious- ly funny. Your heart is made of nice soft malleable rubber. It just couldn’t break. The reason I asked about Miss Raleigh is this: I saw her on the Dim- mick yacht, and she was emphatically not a professional adjuster then.” B s R S P e O GO TN =St just after Anne has tuned them.” Mrs. Bertrand drew her pink silk kimono closer around her ample shoul- ders and shivered. She eyed Marcella expectantly, but Marcella went calmly on rejuvenating herself. Four weeks on the Dimmick yacht to the canal and back had not helped matters, either in regard to matrimonial possibilities, or complexion. It vaguely irritated Mrs. Bertrand to have Marcella take both contigencies so serenely. “She has been in town in two weeks, though.” “She left the yacht at Charleston on the way south.” “T can't imagine Anne being in any trouble with persons like Tony Dim- yblsce wil slone ' ‘ : #h ; ( é Kt;.:na his crowd. She Is above Tony one night out on deck after the rest of us had gone down to play bridge, and Tony told her he simply couldn’t stand it any longer, and she would have to leave the yacht at Charleston.” Marcella paused. In the mirror she caught sight of a figure standing in the doorway. It was Anne, quite unper- turbed by what she had heard, and smiling. She was tall, with gray eyes, & lot of reddieh gold hair, and the cor- ners of her lips turned upward with provoking optimism. “I think 1 dropped my handkerchiet under the table,” she said lightly, “And it's a pet one. If you don't mind—" 8he recovered the lace edge bit of linen, and smiled down at Marcella. “I think we met on the yacht three weeks ago, Miss Bertrand,” she said. “Did you all have a pleasant trip?” A perfectly natural flush slowly crept over Marcella's smooth tace. “Very pleasant,” she answered. “Mum- sle, I must leave you—" “Just a minute, Miss Bertrand,” said Anne. “Did you find your diamond pendant?””’ “Marcella has no diamond pendant, Anne,” protested Mrs. Bertrand in dds- tress. “I do hope this isn't anything unpleasant.” “While we were on the yacht, Miss Bertrand said she had lost a valuable diamond pendant, and Mr. Dimmick asked me to try and recover it. I may say now that I was In the party in a sort of professional capacity, although apparently a guest. While the yacht lay in New York harbor Mr. Dimmick lost several pleces of jewelry from his stateroom. His mother missed two rings+one a very unique Florentine an- tique. There were only three mem- bers of his party on board then. You were one, Miss Bertrand.” “I remember Tony's mentioning it,” said Marcella, her face a trifle pale as she met the other girl's eyes. pluin, common horse-sense ou ght to teach ever man thar n was absolutely right, just as sure as two ani wo make . Crodiors cannot insult you, nor can Want press you if you pared for them by having something in the bank; besides, aey is SAFE in the bank, not only from fire or burglars, D yOUT OWD ‘extravagamce. | Do Your Banking With Us st National Bank OF LAKELAND ong Life of Linen with good luundry work {5 wha! you are looking for and vkt e gving. Try w. ‘keland \) team Laundry Phons 136 West Main 6. “We located the Florentine ring. It i had been sold to a well known antique shop for about half its value just be- fore the boat sailed. A colored maid was the go-between.” . ‘How perfectly dreadful!” exclaimed Mrs, Bertrand. “Did Tony suspect any- one?” “Not until I went on the yacht. Have you told your mother of your engage- ment, Miss Bertrand?” Anne asked the question coolly, mildly. Marcella simply shook her head, and their glances were like crossed swords. “Then perhaps I am intruding. At any rate Mr. Dimmick told me that you had promised to be his wife. That was the night I agreed to leave the yacht at Charleston. er's gold chatelaine bag and a diamond ring secreted in a pillow in one of the For Fire Insurance SEE—/——— MANN & DEEN Room 7, Raymondo Bldg. weeks' fun hunting on the Rmult'l, “Don’t you dare upset my nerves | I had found his moth- | ing. cause he was very jealous of Tony ; Dimmick. And the chamois pouch was one he used to carry a silver mounted | automatie revolver in.” ‘But you said, Anne, the things were sold at the antique shop by a colored i maid,” put in Mrs. Bertrand. “You can’t think that Rose would do such a ! thing?” | Anne raised her eyebrows musingly (and leaned on the little mahogany ta ble before her. . “A half sick, neurotic woman will do many foolish things that she does not realize the significance nor danger of,” she answered. “Rose was desperate and Rolly shut off her credit when he left. She needed plain every day cash, and she bribed her colored maid to take the ring and the pendant and sell them for her. We have the girl, and {+Rose herself confessed to me yester ! day. I wired for her husband, and she is going west to join him on a trip |sround the world. Mr. Dimmick re- | fuses to press the case against them. They are young and went the pace too fast without money to float them, but | Rose is good at heart, and I know { everything will come right.” She hesitated, and watched Marcel la’s face. “Tony Dimmick {s down in the re- ' ception room. Will you see him?” “Why were those things put in my | stateroom to incriminate me, and why did he half believe that I was guilty?” demanded Marcella, hotly. “It spolled my trip, and almost my life.” “Won't you just go downstairs now, and scold Tony?” Anne suggested, smilingly. “He would love to have you say anything you like. I can say, though, that the pouch was hidden in ' your room as the safest place from discovery. The mald told that. She was very friendly with your own maid, Della, and rather enjoyed putting any ; possible suspicion on you after it was | known that Tony cared for you.” | “Do you know what [ thought? . asked Marcella, with a sudden smile. At the door she hesitated on her way ' down to tbny. “I used to see you talk- | ing to Tony every now and then away | from the rest, and so earnestly and | confidentially. And then I saw you| both that night before you left the yacht, and I was certain you were an old sweetheart that still held him in leash. I'm s0 sorry, Anne. May I call you Anne, too?” . Anne laughed, and stretched out both her slim white capable hands. “You may call me anything you like, preledrinnal adfuster of anything from nerves to household acisruts, and I'm doing very well at it, too, thac' you.” “Anne,” said Mrs, Bertrand, with . sigh of relief, when they were alone, | “you are a wonder. Did you get back the diamond pendant, too?” “Tony has it for her now, with a nice | new ring, Mrs. Bertrand,” smiled Anne. ‘I think I adjusted the affair rather neatly. Poor little Mrs. Ashton wont know she has such things as nerves by the time she has roughed all over the world with that tall, stub- | born youngster of a husband. They | don't belong down here in New York, Mrs. Bertrand. You've got to have a good grip on yourself before you try the long stroke here. There's too strong an undertow.” Mrs. Bertrand barely heard her. She was at her writing desk, turning over the calendar leaves. ‘They can be married in September, and Tony has not less than forty thou- sand a year from his grandfather, be- sides the tin mines, or something they get out of mines, up in Canada. And Marcella’s twenty-seven. [ think she'’s very fortunate, don’t you, Anne, hon- estly now? Just for an instant the flicker of a shadow passed over Anne’s bright face as she dréw on her long suede gloves. If things had been different, if per haps, she had been Marcella Bertrand, those gorgeous moonlis nights on the little yacht bearing to southern seas, she knew what she would have told Tony Dimmick when he came a'court But it had been quite different. Pro- fessional adjusters have no rights in berths, the lower berth, Miss Bertrand. | the courts of love. They belong in the When I told him whose stateroom | Judges’ box. Anne nodded her head. they were found in, he told me to drop the case, and I suggested returning to New York to avold embarrassment, as he was badly cut up over the discov- L “But, Anne dear, why disturb us tearfully over this affair of the Dim- micks?” asked Mrs. Bertrand, plain- c ‘Very fortunate,” she said. Force of Habit. “Is your wife in?” asked the friend of the druggist. “No,” replied the druggist absent mindedly, “but I can show you n.l thing just as good."—Puck. T8 L I . We have installed a large Double Glass Sanitary Delicatessen Re- frigerator. 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