Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, September 2, 1913, Page 2

h 8 i 1 A Naticnal bank mustoperate under STRONG RESTRICTIONS for safety. laid down by the Government at Washington. Before the U, [ S. Government granted us a charter todo a banking business, they satisf ed themselves that there was both money and character behind our bank. They wanted tv INSURE the safety of our depositors. Do Your Banking With Us First National Bank OF LAKELAND aoreg with good lsuwdey work in what yeu are lesking fer and N Ghe MYS LY. - watched them. Long Life of Linen r oF MAR & Grace LivingstonITill Lufz AUTHOR ¢ “IIA[XCIA SCHUYLER,” “PHOLCE DEANE™ @ “DAWNOF THE I ORNING” ETC. @ ILLUSTRATIQNS $~ TXAY WALT:RS e COPYRICHT, 19/2, BY o/. 5. LIFFPINCOTT The mutron had gone upstalrs 0 ) vac him " the linen closet and left the girl with! ywyen the solemn words were the discontented upper lip in charge| ;o en that bound them together in the office. The latter watched the | 4., 0h Jife, and they had thanked elegant lady in the rich furs come| eyr king friends and were once more down the hall from the elevator, and | ;.4 iy the carriage, Tryon sald: wondered who she was and why she| up, vou know you haven’t told me had been upstairs. Probably to visit your real name yet?" some poor protegee, she thought. The She laughed happily as the carriage girl caught the lovelight in the eyes| ..itoq on its way, and answered, of Tryon Dunham as he rose to meet “Why, it is Mary!” his bride, and she recognized him as As the carriage rounded the first cor- the same man who had been in close | pop peyond the church, two breathless converse with the cheaply dressed girl | i jividuals hurried up from the other In the parlor an hour before, and| girection, One was short and baggy, sneered as she wondered what the fine | and the sole of one rubber flopped dis- lady in furs would think if she knew mally as he struggled to keep up with about the other girl. Then they went ) pq glert strides of the other man, who out to the carrlage, past the DagRY, wag glim and angry. They had been | rubbered man, who shrank back sud- goigineq by an altercation with the denly behind a stone column and puirop of the Y. W. C. A. building, . and puzzled by the story of the plain- ly dressed girl who had taken the room, and the fine lady who had left the building in company with a gentle- man, until it was settled by the eleva- tor boy, who declared the two women to be one and the same. A moment later a man in citizen's clothing, who had keen eyes, and who was riding a motorcycle, rounded the corner and puffed placidly along near the two. He appeared to be looking at the numbers on the other side of the street, but he heard every word they said as they caught sight of the disappearing carriage and hurried after it. He had been standing in the entrance of the Y. W. C. A. building, an apparently careless observer, while the elevator boy gave his evidence. The motorcycle shot ahead a few rods, passed the carriage, and discov- | ered by a keen glance who were the | occupants. Then it rounded the block and came almost up to the two pur- | suers again, | When the carriage stopped at the | As Dunham shut the door, he looked back just in time to see a slight man, with dark eyes and hair, hurry up and side entrance of a hotel the man on the motoreycle was ahcad of the pur- | | suers and discovered it first, long! enough to see the two get out and go up the marble steps. , so you'd better keep oy vut of the way.” Then Mary Dunham's voice, clear end penetrating, rang through the Tryon, Tryon! Come quick! Help! Help!” Ay if in answer to her call, the ele- vator shot up to the second floor, and Tryon Dunham stepped out in time to coe the two men snatch Mary’s hands ~galn and attempt to bind them behind her back. In an instant Le had seized Richard by the collar and landed him on the hall carpet, while a well directed blow sent the flabby Irishman sprawling at the feet of the detective, who prompt- ly sat on him and pinioned his arms behind him. How dare you lay a finger upon this lady?" sald Tryon .Dunham, as he stepped to the side of his wife and put 4 strong arm about her, where she stood white and frightened in the doorway. No one had noticed the bell boy had come to the head of the stairs and re- relved 8 quiet order from the detec- tive. In sudden fear, the discomfited Rich- ard arose and attempted to bluff the stranger who had so unwarrantly in- ter.ered just as his fingers were about 1 | I j i I — ‘l | It Was All Over in a Few Minutes. to close over the golden treasure of his' cousin’s forrune, “Indeed, sir, you wholly misunder-| stand the situation,” he said to Dun-| ham, with an air of injured innocencs, | Toai o juey what we arg glvias, m L) Two Breathless Individuals Hurried Up. touch the baggy man on the shoulder. One glimpse the pursuers ' blamed. This irl | A ed. girl is an escaped luna- their prey as the elovator shot uD-{ 10 "o oo Poey searching for her ward. They managed to evade the for days, an hotel authorities and get up the wid ve, and have just traced her. It Had et “though perhaps you can scarcely be | Lalzeland };;;I;I Laundry one 188 West Main Bt “LUCK IN CHOOSING GLASSES is something you doa't want to trust to. Never buy them witheut having your eyes tested. Iave it done by us and it will be done thoroughly and accurately. There e will be nothing “chancey” about it. o /"/L‘:l Buying glasses any other way Is 11k O"',?’fl‘;_v uying glasses any othe y is like St ~C taking medicine in the dark. It's 2R dangerous. COLE & HULL Jewelers and Qptometrists Phone 173 Lakeland, Fia, De Rt SICAM PRESSING CLUB %, Pressing and Alteration. Ladies Work a Speclalty. Work L for and Delivered. Prompt Service . Satisfaction Guaran- J M. WELLES : : : : Manager; § % Phone 257 Bowyer Building CROSE00 JO00COXIGOURDITONOND0N YRISDSEN EOGBEOSOFOPIROS & e ‘tucky Ave. FEY Yol SaR N RS o Wb R TR Tt R At e ——————————————————— W. K. 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Filled with ilie joy that had come to | her and feeling entirely safe now in | The latter pointed toward thelr car riage. “See!” sald Dunham. “I believe those are the men who were hovering around the house last night.” The girl leaned forward to look, and then drew back with an exclamation of horror &8 the carriage started. “Oh, that man is my cousin Rich- ard,” ahe cried. “Are you sure?” he asked, and a look of determination settled into his face. “Perfectly,” she answered, looking out again. “Do you suppose he has|the protection of her husband, Mary seen me?” Dunham opened the door. She sup- “I suppose he has, but we'll soon | Posed, of course, it was the bellboy with a pitcher of ice water, for which | she had just rung. “Ah, here you are at last, my pretty cousin!” It was the voice of Richard that menaced her, with all the stored: | up wrath of his long bafMed search. At that moment the man from the motorcycle stepped softly up the top stair and slid unseen into the shad- turn the tobles.” Ie leaned out and spoke a word to the driver, who drew up around the next corner in front of a telephone pay station. “Come with me for just a minute, dear. I'll telephone to 2 detective bu- reau where they know me and I have that man watched. He is unsafe to have at large.” e helped her out and drew her arm firmly within his own. “Don’t be afraid any more. I will take care of you.” He telephoned a careful description of the two men and their whereabouts, and before he had hung up the re- :fi:‘if.n“l}_mg_h;\lfi lx):l?]r(;;;:lgfwosthaste 198 controlled herself, m'xd faced her tor- | Then Tryon Dunham put the girl mentor with unflinching gaze. Though tenderly into the carriage, and to di- | her s}rongth hafl dosertp? her at first, vert her attention he opened the box | every faculty \\nq:now keen, and ool- of flowers and put a great sheaf of | lected. £ As l,f nothing unusual were white roses and lilies-of-the-valley into | happening. £he put out her cold, trem- ows of the hall. For an instant it seemed to Mary | Dunham that she was going to faint, and in one swift flash of thought she saw herself overpowered and carried into hiding before her husband should return. But with a supreme effort she tho little gloved hands. Then, taking | Plin8 fingers, and laid them firmly her in his arms for the first time, ho | OVr the electric button on the wall. | | kissed her. Ilo noticed the shabby | Then “m'\ new strength coming from ' gloves, and, putting his hand in his | the certainty that some one would breast pocket, drew out the white | S00R come to her aid, she opened her Eglm’es she had worn before, saying, | lips to speak. “See! I have carried them there ever| W batare you doinghere, Richard?” since you eent them back! My sister | “I've come aiter you, my lady. A never asked for them. I kept them RTlce chase vou've led me, but you for your sake.” | shall pay for it now.” The minister met them at the doorl The cruelty in his face eclipsed any | ! with a welcoming smile and hang. ' 1ines of beauty which might have been chake, and led them forward. As the | there. | music hushed for the words of the cer-| “I 8hall never go anywhere with emony, he leaned forward to the young YOU,” she answered steadily. man and whispered: He seized her delicate wrist rough- | | “I neglected to ask you her pame, ' ly, twisting it with the old wrench | Tryon.” | with which he had tormented her in 1 “Oh, yes.” The young man paused their childnood days. None of them ! {In his dilemma and looked for an in- saw the stranger who was quietly ! stant at the sweet face of the girl be- Walking down the hall toward them. | side him. But he could not let his' “WIill you go peaceably, or shall I | friend see that he did not know the have to gag and bind you?” said Rich. | name of his wife-to-be, and with quick ard. “Choose cuickly. I'm in no mood | thought he answered, “Mary!"” to trifle with you any longer.” | | The ceremony proceeded, and the Althouszh he hurt ier wrist cruelly, minister's voice sounded out solmenly &he threw herself back from him and in the empty church: “Do you, Tryon, With her cther hand pressod still hard. take this woman whom you hold by er against the electric button. the hand to be your lawful wedded “Catch that other hand, Mike,” com. | wite?” manded Richard, “and stuff this in her | The young man's fingers held the mouth, while I tie ler hands behind timid hand of the woman firmly as he her back.” answered, “I do.” It was then that Ifary screamed. ‘ “Do you, Mary, take this man? The man in tho wow stepped up came the next question, and the girl behind ¢nd s- ¢ low voice; | looked up with clear eyes and said, “T “What mean?” | do.” The tv iropped th i Then the minister’s wite, who knew girl's b2 t W?Th': | and prized Tryon Dunhom's friendship, Richar: | sald to herself: “It's all right. She terfere: | means t! | the way and tripping up the scoundrel | help discover the whereabouts of an | ' was walked off to the patrol | without further ceremony. | a8 her head lay upon his breast, and B; |18 our business to take her back at once. Her friends are in great dis- tress about her. Moreover, she 1s dan. gerous and a menace to every guest in this house. She has several times attempted to murder—" “Stop!” roared Dunham, in a thun- derous voice of righteous anger. “She! {8 my wife. And you are her cousin. I krow all about your plot to shut her up in an insane asylum and steal her fortune. I have found you sooner than I expected, and I intend to see that the law takes its full course with you,” Two policemen now arrived on the scene, with a number of eager bell boys and porters in their wake, ready| to take part in the excitement. Richard had turned deadly white at | the words, “She is my wife!” It was the death knell of his hopes of secur ing the fortune for which he had not hesitated to sacrifice every particle of moral principle. When he turned and saw impending retribution in the shape of the two stalwart representa- tives of the law, a look of cunning came into his face, and with one swift motion he turned to flee up the stair case close at hand. “Not much you don't,” said an en- terprising bellboy, flinging himself in in his flight. The policemen were upon him and had him handcuffed in an instant. The | Irishman now began to protest that he was but an innocent tool, hired to escaped lunatie, as he supposed. He wagon | sl = we're senc to take Ber back. o pooytipnl® He laid his lips against hers, « = he said; “it is beautiful, and | best.” It was very still in the room g moment while she nestled clgg him and his eyes drank in the ness of her face. ‘See,” sald he, taking a tiny “fl i I case from his pocket and touchiy ¥ spring that apened it. “I have i myself finding a mate to your m.fl‘ thought perhaps you would e 5% wear your ring always, whily t8° wear mine.” st He lifted the jewel from {ts \aah velvet bed and showed her u,fi scription inside: “Mary, from Tr. & Then he slipped it on her nnwu guard the wedding ring he had ¢} her at the church. His arm tlm‘_* circled her clasped her left wrl.;“ the two diamonds flashed side by 9 The last gleam of hhe setting sunggs it vanished behind the tall buil on the west, glanced in and blaze; gems into tangled beams of M darting out in many colored pris light the vision of the future o man and the woman. He bent kissed her again, and their eyn." like other jewels, in which gle:8' the glory of their love and trust 1@* THE END. 18% Ity - - retmea l“’ Poor Sticking. ’:"' Sticking to a poor purpos: -{fi] meny a poor stick Pure, rich, sterlized creanil) from cows inspected and passeigp ment. Manufactured unde g 8 ! by the City Pure Food Depart ithe most modera and per!: -:‘m conditions. ALL {ingred..uiet fve MUST be the standard of | Tt There is nd ‘tve Cusal ity and quality. diffcrence in n that go to make our cre.cy]l | “Frozen 3 4 learn to say b tards” and POINSETTIA m'_‘; JOR SALE BY ; Lake Pharmacys LAKELAND — - —= Surgical Goods, ;’! Household an ¢ t Sick Room Sup o plles go to :,j ac Lake Pharmac= Bryan’s Drug Store We wil! send them up | you and will_try totre‘ you right, " PHONE 42 It was all over in a few minutes. ' The elevator carried off the detective, | the policemen and their two prisoners, | the door closed behind Dunham and his bride, and the curious guests who had peered out, alarmed by the up-‘I roar, saw nothing but a few bellboys | standing in the hall, describing to one another the scene as they had wit nessed it. Dunham drew the trembling girl into his arms and tried to soothe her. The tears rained down the white cheeks he kissed them away. “Ob!" she sobbed, shuddering, “If| you had not come! It was terrible, terrible! I believe he would have killed me rather than have let me g0 again.” Gradually his tender ministrations calmed her, but she turned troubled eyes to his face, “You do not know yet that I am all I say. You have nothing to prove it. Of course, by and by, when I can get to my guardians, and with your help perhaps make them understand, you wili know, but I don't see how you can | trust me till then.” l For answer he brought his hand up in front of her face and turned the! flashing diamond—her diamond—so that its glory caught the single ray of setting sun that filtered into the hotel window. “See, darling,” he sald. “It 1s your. ring. I have worn it ever since lzom outward sign that I trusted you.” | “You are taking me on trust, though, in spite of all you eay, and it | The * o T Our Display of watches, lockets, chains, ri Srooehes, ete.,, is notieeable for verfect taste as well as seli-evié good quality. The Jewelry we handle is the kind that eesf ae8 tu give satisfaction no |how long it is worn. If you di to give sometihng of permanexs ™ our case will supply it. ll. C. Steven: