Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 30, 1913, Page 2

1he pen is mightior than lhe SWQ/'c/ V77 7% /))foufi(/ ve \/oney i ourBank Ii a good business chance came your way, in the shape of a piece cf property or a share in a thriving business, it would be If sickness or very nice to write out a check for the amount fire invaded your home, it would be nice to have money in the bank. It would be nice to have money in the bank, no matter what might happen, because it is a safe'guard against possible old age or sickness and POVERTY. Do Your Banking With Us First National Bank OF LAKELAND Long Life of Linen alung with good lanadry werk s what you aie leeking for ané tase i juss what we are givixs. Try w, Lakeland Steam Laundry Phone 136. West Main 8t “LUCK IN CHOOSING GLASSES is something you don't want to trust to. Never buy them without having your eyes tested. Have it done by us and it will be done thoroughly and accurately. There will be nothing ‘“‘chancey” about it. m glasses any other way is like taking medicine in the dark. It's dangerous. & H UL L Lakeland, Fla. Z COL Jewelers and Qptometrists Phone 173 E De REE STEAM PRESSING CLUB 2, Pressing and Alteration. Ladies Work a Specialty. Work tor and Delivered. Prompt Service . Satisfaction Guaran- J M. WELLES Manager tneky Ave. Phone 287 Bowyer Building RO BOHCHORONOHCHONCRCRCEORCHCHCHHHOD) OO OSSR DO G0 0600 W. K. Jackson-assocutes- W, K, MCRaeE Owner and Manufac- Real turers’ Agent Estate Brokerage--Real Estate TelljUs What You Have to Sell, We Will Try to Find a Buyer Tell Us What You Wantto Buy; We Will Try to Find a Seller Rooms 6 and 7, DEEN & BRYANT Building Lakeland L o Florida .0 : -t 'A}UT;R “DAWN OF THE T ORNING” ETC. v A ol ILLUSTRATIQNS 5 CHAPTER X. “My father died when I was only a young girl. We had not much money, and my mother's older brother took | us to his home to live. My mother was his 'youngest sister, and he loved her more than any one else living. There was another sister, a half-sis- ter, much older than my mother, and she had one son. He was a sulky, handsome boy, with a selfish, cruel nature. He seemed to be happy only when he was tormenting some one. He used to come to Uncle’s to visit when I was there, and he delighted in an- noying me. He stretched barbed wire where he knew I was going to pass in the dark, to throw me down and tear my clothes. He threw a quantity of burrs in my hair, and once he led me into a hornet’s nest. After we went to live at my uncle’s, Richard was not there so much., He had displeased my uncle, and he sent him away to school; but at vacation times he came again, and kept the house in discom- fort. He seemed always to have a special spite against me. Once he broke a rare Dresden vase that Uncle prized, and told him I had done it. Mother did not live long after Fa. ther died, and after she was gone, I had no one to stand between me and Richard. Sometimes I had to tell my Uncle, but oftener I tried to bear it, because I knew Richard was already a great distress to him, “At last Richard was expelled from college, and Uncle was so angry with him that he told him he would do nothing more for him. He must go to work. Richard’s father and mother had not much money, and there were other children to support. Richard threatened me with all sorts of awful things if I did not coax Uncle to take him back into his good graces again. I told him I would not say a word to Uncle. He was very angry and swore at me. When I tried to leave the room he locked the door and would not let me go until I screamed for help. Then he almost choked me, but when he heard Uncle coming he jump- ed out of the window. The next day he forged a check in my Uncle's name, and tried to throw suspicion on me, but he was discovered, and my uncle disinherited him. Uncle had intended to educate Richard and start him well in life, but now he would have nothing further to do with him. It seemed to work upon my uncle’s health, all the disgrace to the family name, although no one ever thought of my uncle in connection with blame. As he paid Richard’s debts, it was not known what the boy had done, except by the banker, who was a personal friend. “We went abroad then, and every- where Uncle amused himself by ‘put- ting me under the best music masters, and giving me all possible advantages in languages, literature, and art. Three years ago he died at Carlsbad, and after his death [ went back to my music studies, following his wishes in the matter, and staying with a dear old lady in Vienna, who had been kind to us when we were there before. “As soon 8 my uncle's death was known at home, Richard wrote the most pathetic letter to me, professing deep contrition, and saying he could never forgive himself for having quar- reled with his dear uncle. He had a sad tale of how the business that he had started had failed and left him with debts. If he had only a few hun- dred dollars, he could go on with it and pay off everything. He said I had inherited all that would have been his it he had done right, and he recog- nized the justice of it, but begged that I would lend him a small sum until he could get on his feet, when he would repay me. “I had little faith in his reformation, but felt as if I could not refuse him when I was enjoying what might have been his, so [ sent him all the money I had at hand. As I was not yet of age, I could not control all the prop- erty, but my allowance was liberal. Richard continued to send me volum- inous letters, telling of his changed life, and finally asked me to marry him. I declined emphatically, but he continued to write for money, always ending with a statement of his undy- ing affection. In disgust, I at last offered to send him a certain sum of money regularly if he would stop writing to me on this subject, and fin- ally succeeded in reducing our corre- spondence to a check account. This' has been going on for three years, ex- ! cept that he has been constantly ask- | ing for larger sums, and whenever I would say that I could not spare more just then he would begin telling me how much he cared for me, and | how hard it was for him to be separat- | ed from me. I began to feel desperate ' about him, and made up my mind that ' when I received the inheritance I should ask the lawyers to make some ! arrangement with him by which I should no longer be annoyed. “It was necessary for me to return to America when I came of age, in order to sign certain papers and take full charge of the property. Richard knew this, He seems to have had some ' way of finding out everything my Uncle did. i “He wrote telling me of a dear friend of his mother, who was soon to pass_through Yigona, apd . wbe bx ! | | | l \ [ W R Grace Livingston fiil of “IARCIA SCHUYLER, “PHOLEE DEAN COPYRIGHT 19/2, i & pretty bit of coutr; 1 Lutz | fi" 9 . TCAY WALTRS By o/ B, LIFPINCOTT COMPAMP some misfortune had been deprived of a position as companion and chaper}(;n to a young girl who was travellng, e said it had occurred to him that per- haps he could serve us both hy' sug- gesting to me that she be my trauvzlmf,t companion on the voyage. He l\rllev» 1 would not want to travel alone, and he sent her address an credentials, with a mes mother that she would safe about me if I wen an’s guardianship. “I really did need a traveling com- panion, of course, having failed to get my dear old lady to undertake the voyage, so I thought it could do no sage from his feel perfectly | Found Out That He Was a Physician, harm. 1 went to see her, and found her pretty and frail and sad. She made a piteous appeal to me, and though [ *was not greatly taken with her, I de- cided she would do as well as any one for a companion. “She did not bother me during the voyage, but fluttered about and was quite popular on board, especially with a tall, disagreeable man with a cruel jaw and small eyes, who always made me feel as if he would gloat over any one in his power. I found out that he was a physician, a specialist in mental diseases, so Mrs. Chambray told me, and she talked a great deal about his skill and insight into such maladies. “At New York my cousin Richard met us and literally took possession of us. Without my knowledge, the cruel-looking doctor was included In the party. I did not discover it until we were on the train, bound, as I sup posed, for my old home just beyond Buffalo. It was some time since I had been in New York, and I naturally did not notice much which way we were going. The fact was, every plan was anticipated, and I was told that all arrangements had been made. Mrs, Chambray began to treat me like a little child and say: ‘You see, we are going to take good care of you, dear, 80 don't worry about a thing.” “I had taken the drawing-room com- partment, not so much because I had a headache, as I told them, as because I wanted to get away from their so- ciety. My cousin’s marked devotion became painful to me. Then, too, the attentions and constant watchfulness of the disagreeable aoctor became most distasteful, “We had been sitting on the ob- servation platform, and it was late in the afternoon, when I said I was going to lie down, and the two men got up to g0 into the smoker. In spite of my protests, Mrs. Chambray insisted UDO;I following me in, to see that I was per- fectly comfortable. She fussed around me, covering me up and offering smell. ing salts and eau de cologne for my head. I let her fuss, thinking that was the quickest way to get rid of her. 1 closed my eyes, and she said she would go out to the observation plat- form. I lay still for awhile, thinking about her and how much I wanted to get rid of her. She acted as if she had been engaged to stay with me for. ever, and it suddenly became very plain to me that I ought to have a talk with her and tell her that I should need her services no longer after this Journey was over. It might make a difference to her if she knew it at once, and perhaps now would be as good a time to talk as any, for she was probably alone out on the platform. 1 got up and made a few little changes in my dress, for it would soon be time 1o go into the dining-car. Then I went out to the observation platform, but she was not there. The chairs were all empty, 80 I chose the one next to the railing, away from the car door, and sat down to wait for her, t.hlnk: ing we would soon be back. “We were goin: so fast, through and restful out t}« st s and closed my heard voices app rumble of tho 1 around the dcorw bray, Richard, on s. Presently I hing, above the and, peeplng saw Mrs. Cham. doctor coming & sot.quietahop { d all sorts of | t in this wom- | *, 80 I leaned back ! ~v would not come out, and they They settled down near the 5 nd ordered the porter to put i lo for them to play cards. vain began to slow down, and halt for a longer time waiting for another I heard Richard ask Mrs. Chambray Isaid : ingly that T was safely asleep. 1;1‘:5.;]1‘} bvfore I realized it, they bisnn to talk about me. 1t happened there were no other passengers in t.het cl;r. Richard asked Mrs. Cpambray if she thought I had any suspicion that I wz.ls | not on the right train, and she sad i | ‘Not the slightest,” and then by de- ‘ grees there floated to me tl.lrough the r the most diabolical plot I | had ever heard of. 1 gathered from llt | that we were on the way to Philadel- lphiaA would reach there in & little I while, and would then proceed to a place near Washington, where the doc- tor had a private insane asylum, and where I was to be shut up. They were going to administer some drug, that would make me unconscious when I was taken off the train. If they could not get me to take it for the headache I had talked about, Mrs. Chambray was to manage to get it into my food i hen asleep. Mrs. t fizally came to he on a gidetrack, train to pass. where [ was. [ | open doo repairs, gy, get most for yoyr oy satisfactory work py ), CEMER Cement COnStructjy ung out repairs, Wk ote.—glves you best 3 and on that really o eventually, ' -@et our estimate o0 plan. | | | | | | or give it tf’ me W e | Chambray, it seems, had no L i the entire plot before leaving Europe, akeland An ! and this was their first chance of tell- " St(m \Y ing her. They thought I was safely in e ‘ e S————— artment, asleep, and she had gone into the other car to give the sig- nal as soon as she thought she had me where I would not get up again for a my comp: H. B. Zimmery fiey had arranged every detall. Richard had been using as models the letters I had written him for the last three years, and had constructed a set of love letters from me to him, in per- fect imitation of my handwriting. They compared the letters and read " ’LI:E[ \ snatches of the sentences aloud. The| | i N AR * letters referred constantly to our be- MA b i ing married as soon as I should return from abroad, and some of them spoke of the money as belonging to us both, and that now it would come to its own without any further trouble. “They even exhibited a marriage certificate, which, from what they said, must have been made out with our names, and Mrs, Chambray and the | doctor signed their names as witness- es. As nearly as I could make out, they were going to use this as evi- dence that Richard was my husband, that he had the right to administer my cstate during the time that I was incapable. They had even arranged that a young woman who was hope- | lessly insane should take my place when the executors of the estate came to see me, if they took the trouble to do that. As it was some years since either of them had seen me, they could easily have been decelved. And for their help Mrs. Chambray and the doc- tor were to receive a handsome sum. “I could scarcely believe my ears at first. It seemed to me that I must be mistaken, that they could not be talk- ing about me. But my name was men- tioned again and again, and as each link in the horrible plot was made plain to me, my terror grew 80 great that I was on the verge of rushing into the car and calling for the con- ductor and porter to help me. But something held me still, and I heard Richard say that he had just inform- ed the trainmen that I was insane, and that they need not be surprised it I had to be restrained. He had told them that I was comparatively harm- less, but he had no doubt that the conductor had whispered it to our fel- low-passengers in the car, which ex- plained their prolonged absence in the smoker. Then they all laughed, and it seemed to me that the cover of the bottomless pit was open and that I was falling in, (Continued on Page 7.) 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