Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, September 17, 1913, Page 2

b 4 W, g 41 i o PAGE TWO X THH EVENING TEL&GRAM, LA ELAND, Fla., bl 1h e Being the Story CHAPTER II. The Game Played in the Usual Way. The road on which they advanced into the mountains was well made and well kept up. The canon through the foothills was not very deep—l’orI Colorado—and the ascent was gentle. Naturally it wound in every direction, | following the devious course of the river, which it frequently crossed from | one side to the other on rude log bridges. A brisk gallop of half a mile or 50 on a convenient stretch of com- paratively level going put the two in the lead far ahead of the lumbering wagon and out of sight of those others of the party who had elected to go a horseback. There was perhaps a tacit agreement among the latter not to break in upon this growing friendship, or, more frankly, not to interfere in & developing love affair. The canon broadened here and there at long intervals and ranch houses were found in every clearing, but these were few and far between and for the most part Armstrong and Enid Maitland rode practically alone save for the passage of an occasional lumber wagon. “You can't think,” began the man, as they drew rein after a splendid gallop and the somewhat tired horses readily subsided into a walk, “how I hate to go back and leave you.” “And you can’t think how loath I am to have you return,” the girl flashed out at him with a sidelong glance from her bright blue eves and a witching smile from her scarlet lips, “Enid Maitlund,” said the man, “vou know | just worship vou. [I'd ke to sweep vou ont of yvour saddle, lift vou to the bow of mine and ride away with yvou. I can’'t Leep my hands off you, !—" Before she realized what he would be about he swerved his horse towan her, his arm went around her denly. Taken completely off her guard she could make no resistance, indeed she scarcely knew what to expect un- til he crushed her to him and Kissed her, almost roughly, full on the lips. “How dare y cried the girl, her face aflame, {1 ng hersell at last, and swinging her own horse almost to the edge of the road which here ran on an excavation some fifty feet above the river. *“How dare 17" laughed the auda- clons man, apparently no whit abashed by her indignation. “When 1 think of my opportunity I am amazed at my moderation.” “Your opportunity; tion?” “Yes, when I had you helpless I took but one kiss; I might have held you longer and taken a hundred.” “And by what right did you take that one?” haughtily demanded the outraged young woman, looking at him beneath level brows while the oolor slowly receded from her face. She had never been kissed by a man other than a blood relition in her life—remember, suspicious reader, that she was trom Philadelphia,—and she resented this sudden and unau- thorized caress with every atom and Instinct of her still somewhat conven- tlonal being. “But aren’t you half way engaged to me?" he pleaded in justiication, see- ing the unwontcd se ness with which she had received his impudent your modera- advance. idn't you agree to give me a chance?” “I did say that I lked you very much,” she admitted, “no man better, and that 1 thought that you might—" “Well, then—" he hesa But she would no interrupted “I did not mean th:t you should en- | Joy all the privile of a conquest be- fore you h: will thank you not to do that acain, =ir.” “It seems to have had a very dit- terent effect yvou than it does upon me,” loved you before, but now, have kissed you, I worship you.” “It hasn't affected me that way,” re- torted the girl promptly, her face still frowning and indignant. “Not at all, won tue I upon and—" “Forgive me, Enid,” pleaded the other. “I just couldn’t help it. You were so beautiful I had to. I took the chance. You are not accustomed to our ways.” “Is this your habit in your love af- falrs?” asked the girl swiftly and not without a spice of feminine malice. “l mever had any love affair be fore,” he replied with a ready mascu- lne mendacity, “at least none worth mentioning. But you see this is the west; we have gained what we have by demanding every inch that nature offers, and then claiming the all. That's the way we play the game out here and that's the way we win.” “But I have not yet les d to play the ‘game,’ as you call it, by any such rules,” returr ing woman de- terminedly, “and it way to win me if I am the “What is t asked the man anxiously. “Show me and I'll take it no matter what its difficulty.” “Ab, for _me to point oy 1 the ¥ not the > Chalice of. Who Drank of it a/nd Cgp\q replied the man coolly. “I| since I | back. I'll wait for your return (0 Denver, and then—" “That’s best,” answered the girl. She stretched out her hand to him, | leaning backward. If he had been a | different kind of a man he would have | kissed it; as it was he took it in his own hand and almost crushed it with a flerce grip. “We'll shake on that, little girl,” he said, and then without a backward glance he put spurs to his horse and galloped furiously down the road. No, she decided then and there, she did not love him, not yet. Whether she ever would she could not tell. And yet she was half bound to him. The recollection of his kiss was not al- together a pleasant memory; he had not done himself any good by that bold assault upon her modesty, that reckless attempt to rifle the treasure of her lips. No man had ever really touched her heart, although many had engaged her interest. Her experience therefore was not deflnitive or con- clusive. If she had truly loved James Armstrong, in spite of all that she might have said, she would have thrilled to the remembrance of that wild caress. The chances, therefore, Cortain Persons would 'bé" to play traitor to myself” she answered, relenting and relaxing a little before his devoted wooing. | “You must find it without assistance. I can only tell you one thing.” “And what is that?” “You do not advance toward the goal by such actions as those of a moment since."” “Look here,” said the other sudden- ly. “I am not ashamed of what I did, and I'm not going to pretend that I am, either.” “You ought to be,” severely. “Well, maybe so, but I'm not; I couldn't help it any more than I could help loving you the minute I saw you. Put yourself in my place.” “But I am not in your place, and I can’t put myself there. I do not wish to. If it be true, as you say, that you have grown to—care so much for me and so quickly—" “If it be true?” came the sharp in- terruption as the man bent toward her, fairly devouring her with his bold, ardent gaze. “Well, since it is true,” she admit- ed under the compulsion of his pro- test. “That fact {8 the only possible excuse for your action.” “You find some justitication tor me, then?” “No, only a possibility, but whether it be true or not, 1 do not feel that way—yet."” were somewhat heavily against him that morning as he rode down the trail alone. His experiences in love affairs were She was by much greater than hers. There was a saving grace in that last word, which gove him a little heart. He would bave spoken, but | she suffered no interraption, saying: “I have beer wooed hefore, but—" | “True, wnloss the lan race has | He Crushed Her to Him and Kissed become suddenly Blind,” he said softly ’ Her. . under his hreath | no means the first woman he had | :.““' never i such ungentle Ways | peged —remember, suspiclous reader, ‘L osuppose you Lave never run up fypay pe was not frem Philadelphia— ! against a real red-hlooded man like have not. Yet there are men that 1 have met that would not need to apol- ogize for their qualities even to you, Mr. James Armstrong.” i “Don't say that. KEvidently I make but poor progress in my wooing. Never have 1 met with a woman quite like you"—and in that indeed lay some of her charm, and she might have replied in exactly the same lan- he fairly enough represented the aver- age; but surely fate had something better in store for such a superb wom- an. A girl of such attainments and such infinite possibilities, she must mate higher thau with the average man. Perhaps there was a subcon- sciousness of this in her mind as she silently waited to be overtaken by the rest of the party glmg»: and \',!lh .:wu'lly the same There were curious glances and meaning to him-—"1 am no longer & | gyrange spoculations in that little boy. | must be titteen years older compan!” as they saw her sitting her horse alone. A few moments before James Armstrong had passed them at a gallop, he had waved his hand as he dashed by and had smiled at them, hope giving him a certain assurance, althongh his confidence was scarcely warranied by the facts His demeanor was not in consonance than you are, for | am thirty-five.” The difference hetween their years was not quite =0 great as he declared, but womanlike the girl let the state- ment pass unchallenged. i “And 1| wouldn’t insult your intel- ligence by saying vou are the only woman that I have ever made love to, but there is a vast difference between making love 0 4 worian and loving one. | have just found that out for the first time. | marvel at the past, and I am ashamed ol it, but 1 thank God that 1 have heen saved for this op- portunity. | want to win you, and 1 am going to do it, too. In many things I don’t maich up with the peo- ple with whom you irain. 1 was born out here, and I've made myself. There are things that have happened in the making that 1 am not especially proud of, and 1 am not at all satistied with the results, since 1 have what troubled present aspect. She threw off her preoccupation instantly {ly enough in the merry conversation of the way. has said, had known him from a boy. There were things in his career ot which Maitland did not and could not approve. but they were of the past, he reflected, and Armstrong was after all a pretty good sort. Mr., Maitland's ‘ standards were not at all those of his i especially Philadelphia brother, but they were { met you. The beiter 1 know you the | very high. His experiences of men | | less pleased | win with Jim Arm-| had been different; le thought that | strong, but there are possibilities in| Armstrong, having certainly by this | i me, [ rather believe, and with you for| tine reached years of discretion, could ingpiration, God! the man flung oul | be safely entrusted with the pred ious | | his hand with a fine gesture of do-| treasure of the young who had | termination "hey that the east | been committed to hi and for and west don't nuturally mingle, but | whom his affection grew s his knowl- it's a lie; you and I can beat th2| edge of and acquainiancezhip with her | world.” | The woman thrilled to his gallar: As for Mrs. Mait 1 the two | woolng. Any womwan would have don2 | girls and the youngs they were | so; some of them would have losi| Armstrong's devoted friends. They their heads, but Enid Maitland was | knew nothing about his past, indeed an exceedingly cool young person, for | there were things in it of which Mait- she not quite swept off her teet, | l]and himself was ignorant, and which | and did not quite lose her balance. had they been known to him might “I like to hear you say things like | have caused him to withhold even his that,” she answered. “Nobody quite; tentative acquiescence in the possibili- like you has ever made love to me, | ties. and certa not in your way, and| Most of these things were known that’s the reason I have given you a|to old Kirkby, who with masterly half way promise to think about it.|skjll, amusing nonchalance and amaz- I was sorry that you could not be |ing profanity, albeit most of it under with us on this adventure, but now I| his breath lest he shock tihe ladles, am rather glad, especially if the even ' tooled along the four nervous, excited temper of my way 18 to be interrupted | bronchos that drew the big supply by anything like the outburst of & few | wagon. Kirkby was Maitland’s oldest minutes since.” and most valued friend. He had been “I am glad, too,” admitted the man. the latter's deputy sheriff, he had “For I declare [ couldn’t help it. If I heen a cowboy and a lumberman, a bave to be with you either you have mighty hunter and a successful miner, | got to be mine or else you would have to decide that it could never be, and then I'd go off and fight it out.” reasonable competence, and had a nice little wife and a pleasant home in the | “Leave me to myself,” said the girl mountain village at the entrance to earnestly “for a little while; it's best the canon, he drove stage for pleas- i 80; I would not take the finest, noblest yre rather than for profit. He had man on earth daily twe ive mile “And I Morrizon to Tro given over h unt fron uirkby had Dneve on the old man's = Leeks spent on ihe AU tlaud. ranch. Ifie' had grown .2 (5 not think that merited that wo i overwhelmingiy 1! well along in yeovs, but 'w:- capable of playiis @ man's all that, aud he intended to i this tnstauce. | Nobody scanned 8 face more closely t humped up on the front sed wagon, onegfoot on the bl head sunk almost to the level ot knee, his long whip in his hand, ! keen and somewhat fierce bre taking in every detail of what \\:n.e’w ing on about him. Indeed (!n:-ru ,\“4. } but little that came belore him that | old Kirkby did not see. (To Be Continued.) e gt LEWIS ON INDIVIDUAL EFFURT‘ el nols eaklI J“"l:: Gsr::l:taotTngF 'glr:snl I:f Ulnlvsflp- sity of Georgla. L OPIPOTURROC e ton Lewis of Illinols addressed the graduating class of the University of Georgla. The senator's address was devoted to an effort to revive the doc- trine of individualism and confidence in the citizen as such, and to combat, | Athens. Ga.—Senator James Hamll-s | as he sald “the present tendency to i belleve that nothing can be done ex- cept by co-cperation of many men; and to revive the doctrine that the in- dividual citizen s, after all, the source of all form of relief and rem- e ! hers were not the first ears into | ““.‘.]lr“‘”""'l | + which he had poured passionate red-h ""“' d be evidenced mainly | protegtations. He was neither bet- | by lacking oi self control, perhaps [ ter nor worse than most men, perhaps | 1. | with Kiid's somewhat grave and some- and easlly, however, and joined read- | Mr. Robert Maitland, as Armstrong | and now, although he had acquired a | edy in a free government.” “Let there be the fulfillment of the order of God in the workings out of the individual in his own given or di- rected wav, and thue achieve for him- | | Senator J. Hamilton Lewis. self his relief, and through each the rellef of all." continued Senator Lew- {8. “In this way, all are served by each, as is the course of the whole law of nature “By this course of Indlvidualism, man is restored to & pride in himself | and to a confldence in his individual possibilities He |s inspired by the knowledge that it {8 in himself that the future of the country and the| prosperity of citizenship reposes Hof awakens to this and moves out to! achieve it | BOLT CAUSES CHILD TO WALK Boy of Four Refuses to Use Legs Un | til Lightning Strikes Near Hls Father's Store. | | That Thomas Willlam | walking for the first | time in his life, althcugh he I8 over | | four ycars old. is credited by his par- | ents to a bolt of lightning which | struck near their home at Jamaica, L, | 1., recently | The little boy had alwuys had n; pair of normal legs, but no amount | of coaxing could induce him to use | | them as other children o1 his age did During a storm he sat by the door of | his father's g when light ning struck 1 | | New York | i Brown. Jr, is Ty stor and d a4 deafening crash of ¢ { Mrs. Brown herself was hysterical | with fright, and then with joy when | she saw her boy running around the room time Latest Dresses Packed Sasily. The one person who niost heartily | | rejoices at the vogue for d aphanous | materials and aln: nothing blouses |18 not the man who sells these cost. ly things—for most of them are cost- ly—but the woman who has to pack 8 week-end suit case. Where one stif shirt waist and a frilly blouse for dressier occasions uscd to go, now | she can stow away several of the thin | crape blouses and at least two of the | dressy lace or net ones, ‘ The flat collars are another boon | to the woman when she comes to | packing much in little. The collars | are cut on absolutely straight lines, so ‘ that they don't crush like the 5hapedl ones of other years alwavs did, [ _— Whisper to Engaged Girl, A little bride who lives in the out. | skirts of the city and who has to rise | early, has in her trousseau severui | caps of linen lawn and lace, and it is | | & dainty little white-capped '-\um:m} | who pours the ¢ at the mc meal. Her hu leclares the cap and Be m the < aud {rom dust— [PA'S MODERN AMERIC. Electric comfurtable d well ventlated. two persons, AR OB DiSOTO HOTEL lobby In the ofty. Two large porches; do no rson, without bath, $1.50; one person, wyy, path, $3.50; two persons with, AN AND EUROPEAN yqr, Electric Ligy W. L. l'.ArL-;,H\lm [} o Al 4 Ay [0““ ourteous treatment RUdrantee) AMEK1CAN " 3 b with bath, $3. O Mn:‘ Vath, gy 0 HOEOPOEOHAS OO IHPBFOEIBOH 046 40 AUTOMOBILE OWNERS! [ have installed a Vulcani POPOBDBOP 0FOFDFOIOFOROBOHA 2 SIS S .Ihe Lodges.. R B e L cencu BRI e Palm Chapter, U. E. B, meets 77er. wcond and fourth Thursday night ¢ each month at 7:30 p. m M flora Keen, W. M.; J. V. Wilson ey, e Lakeland Lodge No. 1. F. & A v. Regular communications held o wcond and 4th Mondays nt‘ 7:80 » s Visiting brethren cordially 1» rited. J. C. OWENS, W. M. J. ¥. WILSON, Secy. RO & K OF2 Regular meetlng every ¢:30 at Odd Fellows dall, ug wembers AlWays Wwelcome. fuests. F. D. BRYAN, Chaucellor Commatide w. .ACKSON, Becretary T 33 G A K JU SAtutaay in aver the tome © Yoels h at | w Apseling . M. B | Kentucky avan:'e i Commander Adjutan: { . TALLEY. Lakelane Chapter, R. A M N .+ moets the Arat Thuredsy night .o | toch month in Masonlc Hall, Vit a§ companions welcomed. A&. Leonard, H. P.; J. F, Wilscn, Beey. Lakeland €amp No. 78, W. 0. W., meets every Thursda night Wood men Circle first and third Thursda)y ufternoons at 3:00 o'clock. W. J Bttridge, Council Commander; Mra Lula Hobb, Guardian of Circle. POLK ENCAMPMENT N0.3, 100, ? Polk Encampment No, 3, 1. 0. ¢ F., meets the first and third Mo days. Visiting Patriarchs welcom: F. A, McDONALD, Scribe H. B. ZIMMERMAN, Chiet Patriarch. G LAtoB of L 8 Orange Blossom Div. No. CAR! 19 A. to B. of L. E. meets eve: socond and fourth Wednesdaye o eacsL moutl at 2:30 p. m. Visitie: wdters AiWAYR wWelcome, MR8, J, C. BROWN 84-) ieets every Tuesday night at yelock, at Mcoonald's hall, United Brotherhocd of Carpenters sad Joiners of America, Zocal 1776 Meets each Thursday night Morgan & Groover hall, ove Bates’ Dry Goods Store Visit! orothess welcome R TARSHAL Presidear LAYTON, Vice Pres LOGAN, Treesure I FELDS. Fin. Secy H F. DIEt X TH, Rec. Hacy W X, Uonductor LR W. BCaRR, WILLOUGHBY, Elnora Rebekah Lodge No. « meets every second ang fourth Mou lay nights at 1, 0. 0. F. hall. Vimt. ag brothers and sigte, mvited. . — MRS, (. E. ROBERTSON ,N. G MRS, gUY ARENDELL, See. Lake Lodge No. 2, 1.00 P ;o:)u;.mu nights at 7:30, at 1 - 0. F. hall. Vigitin . ‘ordially invited, . VN J. z, REYNOLDS, Sec. 0. M, EATON, N. @. — ORDER (F EAGLIES, The Mraterna] Order TSats avery Wednesda, : Y Y mighy 10, at 0aq Follows’ nan % : 4. H. WILLIAMS : , Presid B M. smang f'ecreur;m S BPORE Lagelang Lodge No nt n r “t ._‘,,‘:‘,1 Protective Order of mix» > ~ r'v Th UTSCay night 1p lods ' OVer postofies, Visitiag wrey, GEORGE MOORE E R € cordially » : 1291, Benev- Vist: of Eagie | zer and am prepareg tolg TIRE REPAIRING of the most difficult kind, and can give you s, tion and save you money. Also Tires Placed on Baby Carriages While You wgj W. B. ARENDELL Bicycle and General Repair Shop Gedar, Street, Just Back of Gentral Pharmag CHORCROBCROROCHOROHIIO O G301 Surgical “Goody Household ap; Sick Room §y plies go to| Lake Pharmy Bryan’s Drug St We wil) send them, you and will try o ]you right. ' PHONE ! Pure, rich, sterlized ¢ from cows inspected and Ja by the City Pure Food Di) ment, Manufactured u the¢ wmost modern and conditions. ALL ingred that go to make our O MUST be the standard of i ity and quality. Therel difference in ‘‘Frozet learn to say tards” and POINSETTH } Cream. Try it. MR SALE BY Lake Pharme Ji LAKELAND o The sidewalk that & ™ o CEMENT {s the #il weather will not effect NOW, before the inclest or of late fall sets in, B¢ hose needed walks, repslr ” lar and make other rev"-"fi_ should be done with CENEY Ask us for figures—¥¢™ submit them. " Lakeland Arif® Stone Work Hol Zimme""\f’F | Bogin Rarty to Train O It in habit alone tust &% ®aoe in the child. & " "‘E,.; i 1t s not formed 4 bard, bitter ! . mote it In {ta he of the rcbleat the great “unGe: P