Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, September 22, 1913, Page 2

geise a8 PAGE TWO \ Being the Story of, V3 \ Certaih Who Drank of it and Cg@c\d A Rowmance o Now all this, although it takes min- es to tell, had happened in but a lew seconds. Seconds sometimes {in- elude hours, even a life-time, in their brief composition. She thought it would be just as well for her to sink down and die in the water, when a sudden splashing below her caused her to look down the stream. She was so agitated that she could mmale out little except that there was & man crossing below her and making directly toward the body of the bear. He was a tall black bearded man, she saw he carried a rifle, he looked nefth- er to the right nor to the left, he did not bestow a glance upon her. She could have cried aloud in thanksgiving for his apparent obliviousness to her as she crouched now neck deep in the benumbing cold. The man stepped on the bank, shook himself like a great dog might have done and marched over to the bear. He uprooted a small nearby pine, with the ease of a Her- cules—and she had time to mark ana@ marvel at it in spite of everything— and then with that as a lever he un- concernedly and easily heaved the body of the monster from off her clothing. She was to learn later what a feat of strength it was to move that fnert carcass weighing much more than half a ton. Thereafter he dropped the pine tree by the side of the dead grizzly ana without a backward look trampea swiftly and steadily up the canen %Hrough the trees, turning at the point of it and was instantly lost te sigar i3 gentle and generous purpose were ahvious even to the frightened, agy- v ed, excited girl. Ve womwan watched him until Qe disappeared, a few seconds longer, and then she hurled herself through the water and stepped out upon the shore. Her sweater which the bear had dragged forward in its advance, lay on top of the rest of her clothes, covered with blood. She threw it aside and with nervous, frantic energy, wet, cold, though she was, she jerked on in some fashion enough clothes to cover her nakedness and then with more leisurely order and with neces- sary care she got the rest of her ap- parel in its accustomed place upon her body, and then when it was all over she sank down prone and prostrate upon the grass by the carcass of the now harmless monster which had so nearly caused her undoing, and shiv- ered, cried and sobbed as if her heart would break. She was chilled to the bone by her motionless sojourn, albeit it had been for scarcc!ly more than a minute in that icy water, and yet the blood rushed to her brow and face, to every hidden part of her in waves as she thought of it. It was a good thing Tt she erled; she was' n%t' % weep- ing womian, her tears came slowly as a rule and then came hard. She rath- er prided herself upon her stoicism, but in this instance the great depths of her nature had been undermined and the fountains thereof were fain to break forth. How long she lay there, warmth coming gradually to her under the di- rect rays of the sun, she did not know, and it was a strange thing that caused her to arise. It grew suddenly dark over her head. She looked up and a rim of frightful black, dense clouds had suddenly blotted out the sun. The clouds were lined with gold and silver and the long rays shot from behind the somber blind over the yet uncovered portions of the heaven, but the clouds moved with the irresistible swiftness and steadi- ness of a great deluge. The wall of them lowered above her head while they extended steadily and rapidly across the sky toward the other side of the canon and the mountain wall. A storm was brewing such as she had never seen, such as she had no experience to enable her to realize its malign possibilities. Nay, it was now at hand. She had no clew, however, of what was toward, how terrible a danger overzhadowed her. FKrightened but unconscious of all the menace of the hour, her thoughts flew down the canon to the camp. She must hasten there. She looked for her watch which she had lifted from the grass and which she had not yet put on. The bad stepped upon ft, it was irretrievably ruined. She judged from her last glimpse of the sun that it must now be early afternoon. She rose to her feet and staggered with weaknose: ghe had eaten nothing gince morning, and the nervous shock and strain through which she had gone had reduced her to a pitiable condition, Her luncheon had fortunately caped unharmed. In a big pocket of her short skirt there was a small flask of whiskey, which her Uncle Robert had required her to take with her. She felt sick and faint, but she knew that she must eat if she was to make the journey, difficult as it might prove, back to the camp. She forced herself to take the first mouthful of bread and meat she had brought with her, but when she nad tasted she needed no further incentive, she ate to the last crumb; she thought this was the time she needed stimulants, too, and mingling the cold water from the brook with a little of the ardent spirit from the flask, she drank. Some of the chill had worn off, some of the fatigue had goné. She rose to her feet and started down the canon; her bloody sweater still lav on the .ground with other es- CA MEO_S-_) Brooches, pendants, scarf pins, bar pins—a full line of the above goods just selected from a large stock. cut, the work of artisans. Call and look them over. ways glad to show our goods. Every stone fine, clean We are al- H C. STEVENS Jeweler a———m—_ Lakeland, Fla. ~ W, K. 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Whence came he, who was he, what had he seen, where was he now? She thanked God for his interference in one breath and hated bim for his presence in the other. The whole sky was now black with drifting clouds, lightning flashed above her head, muttered peals of thunder, terrifically ominous, rocked through the silent hills. The noise was low and subdued, but almost continuous. With a singular and uneasy feeling that she was being observed, she started down the canon, plunging des- perately through the trees, leaping the brook from side to side where it nar- rowed, seeking ever the easiest way. She struggled on, panting with sud- den inexplicable terror almost as bad as that which had overwhelmed her an hour before—and growing more intense every moment, to such a tragic pass had the day and its happenings brought her. Poor girl, awful experience really was to be hers that day. The fates sported with her—bodily fear, out- raged modesty, mental anguish and now the terror of the storm. The clouds seemed to sink lower, until they almost closed about her. Long gray ghostly arms reached out toward her. It grew darker and dark- er in the depths of the canon. She screamed aloud—in vain. Suddenly the rolling thunder peals concentrated, balls of fire leaped out of the heavens and struck the moun- tains where she could actually see them. There were not words to de- scribe the tremendous which seemed to splinter the hills, to be succeeded by brief periods of si- lence, to be followed by louder and more terrific detonations. In one of those appalling alterna- tions from sound to silence she heard a human ery—an answering cry to her own? It came from the hills be- hind her. It must proceed, thought, from the man. She could not meet that man, although not bear it. Better the wrath of God, the fury ol the tempest Heedless of the sharp note of warn- ing, of appeal, in the voice ere it was drowned by another roll of thunder, she plunged on in the darkness. The canon narrowed he hie made her way down the , leaping reck- lessly from rock to rock, slipping, falling, grazing now one side, now the other rling hevselt torward with white face and bruised hody and torn hands and throbbing heart that would fain burst its bonds. There was once an ancient legend, a human creature, menaced by all the furies, pitilessly pursued by every malefic spirit of earth and air; like him this sweet young girl, innocent, lovely, erstwhile happy, fled before the storm. Then the heavens burst, and the fountains of the great deeps were broken open and with absolute lit- teralness the floods descended. The bursting clouds, torn asunder by the wild winds, driven by the pent-up lightning within their black and turgid breasts, disburdened themselves. The water came down, as it did of old when God washed the face of the world, in a flood. The narrow of the canon was filled ten, twenty, thirty feet in a moment by the cloud burst. The black water rolled and foamed, surging like the rapids at Niagara. The body of the girl, utterly unpre- pared, was caught up in a moment and flung like a bolt from a catapult down the seething sea filled with the trunks of the trees and the debris of the mountains, tossing about humanly in the wild confusion. She struck out strongly swimming more because of the instinct of life than for any other reason. A helpless atom in the boil- ing flood, growing every minute great- er and greater as the angry skies dis- gorged themselves of their pent-up torrents upon her devoted head. CHAPTER VI, Death, Life and the Resurrection. The man was coniing back from one of his rare visits to the settlements. Ahead of him he drove a train of burros who, well bro followed with docility leader in the advance. ledg the wise old approaching winter. The season was late, the mountains would soon be im- passable on account of the snows, in- deed he chcse the late season always for his buying in order that he might not be followed, and it was his hab- it to buy in different places at different years that his repeated and expected presence at one spot might not arouse suspicion. Intercourse with his fellow men was confined to this yearly visit to a set tlement, and even that was of the briefest nature, confined always to the business in hand. Even when busy in the town he pitched a small tent in the open on the outskirts and dwelt apart. No men there in those days pried into the business of other men too <isceig. Curlosity was neither gafe nor necessary. If he aroused tran- sient interest or speculaiion it soon died away. He vanished into the mountains and as he came no more to that place, he was soon forgotten. Withdrawing from hLis fellow men ils man 1 alone spirit e away s or the crashings | she ‘ she ' craved human companionship as never before, she did not want his. She could n to their work, | The burros | @ were laden with his supplies for the | ti: for ! peaks bo thre | @rring accu reveled in 1 been pu last become Civilization | the hills in ev were being pu: the precious 1 covered at them came b them—God save the but his section of the country hitherto been unvisited even l,} I ers, explorers, miners or [p-Ccd seekers. He was glad, &s he hal growa to love the spot where he had made his home, and he had no wish to be forced, like little Joe, to move 0L | e e noble or ignoble, crowd, he had grown ¢ sllence, habituated to so! |and summer alike he " T mountains, delving luto every ter | oamed the forest, | She Screamed Aloud. exploring every hidden canyon, sur mounting every inacc ble peak; ne stori, no snow, no condition of wind | L R ol SRR e e P——————— e e weond snd feurto Thurwdar ntgs | ¢ each month at 7:80 ¥ ciora Keen, W. M., 4. ¥ ey, | e —————————— v Regular communicatione held o: weond and 4th Mondays at 7:30 [ rited. o ————————————— « (130 at 0dd Fellows Hall, s 1/DERN AMERICAXN AND EUROPEAN yyg - DLSOTO HOTEL 4 Eleetrie Lighi W. L. Parker, \ Ltectrie ¥ - Jo Tobhy In the city. I'wo large porches; do o M "I M wad well ventllated. Courteouts treatment g, f 0 ba g Naon, without bath, $1.50; one person, Wiy, out N ! with bath, §3. e, porauns; AMERICAN 8 person with bath, $3.00; two persons withyg ‘(lul.'r?« it wath, $6.50. 1 o ————_———— e O B EOSOHOTORY BREOBUBISAFOSO4 0 40, AUTOMOBILE OWNERS! | have installed a Vulcanizer and am prepareg i TIRE REPAIRING of the mest difficult kind, and can give you tion and save you money. Alsc lires Placed on Baby Carriages While You wit W. B. ARENDELL Bicycle and General Repair €hcp Gedar Street, Just Back of Gentral Fharmagy 20 3OO BOROHO S GOHDIDOOOTOO OO e e SCtisfag, COBRQUOON . Lodges.. FOR DRI fp (V) Surgical Gy Householii ap Sick Room Sup plles go to| I'a! Lapter, U. E. 8. mesis v W ila0 Lakeland Lodge No. s1. F & ¢ Lake pharma Bryan’s Drog Sty l Visiting brethiren cordially J. C. OWENS, W. M J. ¥. WILSON, Becy We wil! send ilem you and wil! 11y {04 K ore Kegular raeeting every Yuest Vien ux wmembers always welcomee F. D. BRYAN ' Coaucellor Commuatié or weather daunted him or stopped| { @ aCKSON, Bocretary him. He had no human companion: RO ship by which to try his mettle, but i A never S I i of the 2057 33, U AR mat he was Yieqrs Lie ATdl 3aturaay ‘no e . i | mcath at 10 & m. st the Lume He found some occeupt too, in M. Sparting on Keaticky aven = the following of oll Adiw's inherft-| a bR «ereander ) “Y/f/j ance; during the picasunt mouths of| y ®, TALLEY, Adjutant ) x e summer he made soch garden as he! ‘.7 " fi CL(:/' b Soull iian e Dioieas an ol iiinile ‘ LaXelanc Chapter, R, a. M >/ {.‘,1’ 4 4 ;{‘;:';g f;“[‘_:‘ };‘i‘l" ‘]’”" '” "“"'1“-“'1‘;::1 t4 meets the first Thursday rignt P fifim ‘B‘ ab iim lay treasures 2l 4 - timable, precicus metals ahounded in sech month in Masonic Hall. Vin 4 [E/ ,FAMDAMI the hills. He had located thei, tested, | |43 companions welcomed. 4. ‘TAM analyzed, estimatcd the wealth that| Leonard, H. P.; J. F. Wilson, Beey was his for the taking—it was as val Pure, rich, sterlid ueless to him as the doubloons and golden guineas were to Selkirk on his| fsland. Yet the knowledge that it was! there gave hin an energizing sense of potential power 1sly enorm- ously flattering to his self-esteem unconscio | I Sometimes he wandered to the ex- treme verge of the range and on clear days saw far beneath him the smoke of great cities of the plains. He could be master ationg nien as he was a master among mountains, if he| | chose. Ou such occasions he laughed | cynically, scornfully, y¢ he ever give way to such emotions. | A great upon him; cherishing a great passion | he had withdrawn himself from the common lot to dwell upon it. From a perverted sense of expiation, in a, madness . of griel, horror and despalr, | fdeas in the desort of the mountains. Back to his cabin he would hasten, and there surrounded by his living memories—death'ess, vet of the dead! —he would recreate the past until de- | Jection drove him abroad on the hills to meet God if not man—or woman. Night-day, sunshinc-shadow, heat-cold, storm-calm; these were his life Having disburdened his ful ani- | mals of their packs and g seen | them safely bestowed for the winter | in the corral base of the home was one mc > had built near the| ponewhich his rude | he took his ritie | | selves he ts in the past in r for sin and for love toward God; this | man had buried himself in the \\:ldvr-‘ ness in part for the first of these | causes, in other part for the love ofj woman. In the days of swift and sud- den change he had 1 een constant to a | remembrance, and abiding in his de-' termination for five swift moving vears. The world for him had stopped Its progress in one brief moment five years back—the rest was silence. What had happened since then out yonder where people were mated he did not know and he did not greatly care. In his visits to the settlements he asked no questions, he bought no pa. pers, he manifested no interest {n the world; some things in him had died in one fell moment, and there bad been, as vet, n t life, hope, they are i | Life wis its awful its rare t | for a meets every Thursda night. Wood men Circle first and third Thursda; afternoons at 3:0v o'clock. Ettridge, Councl: Commander; Mra Lula Hebb, Guaidian of Circle. POLK ENCAMYMENT Yl‘., meets the first and third Ao rarely did | qays, Visiting Pat:larchs welcom. and terrible sorrow was! H. B. ZIMMERMAN, Weots overy Tuesday night at ° I. W. 8CaRR, " L. WILLOUGHBY, Reets ¢very second and fourth Mon lay nikbw at 1. 0. 0. . ball. Vit ng brothers and aisters cordial writed. . s s e b i Lake Lodge No. 3 1.0.0.7 ueets P.Aday nights at 7:89, at ! ) O F, hall, Visiting drothers ar Lakeland €amp No. 718, W. 0. W from cows inspected and by the City Pure Food Dey W ment. Manufactured u the most modern and perf conditions. ALL ingred N0. 810 0.! that go to make our ¢ Polk Encam,ment No. 3, 1. U MUST be the standard of ) fty. There F. A. McDONALD, Seribe ity and quality difference in “Frozen WA e learn to say e S e é tards” and POINSETT @ LAtBoL & Urange Biossomm Div, No. 49, Cream. Try it. he had made himse!f a prizoner to his | & I A. to B. of L. E. meets eve: second and fourth Wednesdaye « sarL moutd at 2:30 p. . tisters always welcome, M SALE B | Lake Pharmal Visiti» MR8 J. C. BROWN 8ec) veloek, at Mcoonald's hall. E LAKELAND Gnited Brodherhood of Carpemter: e ————— aad Joiner, of America, Zocal 1776 Meets each Thursday night = Morgau & Groover hall, ove | -~/ G Bates’ Dry Goods Store. Visitin brothe.s welcome. R. 1. MARSHALL, Presiden: J. W. LAYTON, Vice Pres. J. W. TOGAN, Treasurer 1. H ¥YELDS, Fin. 8ecy. H £ DIE(KiTH, Rec. Beey | H. u COX, Conductor | AMUEL BOYER, el X Elnora Rebekah Lodge No. ¢ The sidewalk that {8 03} # CEMENT is the walk' Wweather will not effect NOW, before the incleme: o of late fall sets in, b" those needed walks, reps!! ! lar and make other rePd should be done with CEMEY MRY. (. B ROBERTSON, N. G MRA. GUY ARENDELL, See. Ask us for figures—"™ ordially invited. submit thex J. Z. REYNOLDS, Sec. 0. M. EATON, N. @. e P ST ORDER OF EAGLES, Tue ¥raternal Order of Eagle sMx every Wednesday Righy » 10, at 0dd Fellows' hall. R WILLIAMS, President Lakeland Arili I R, Grone Work \ H. B. Ziminerman 1 M. SMAILS Secretary RN Begin Early to Trs!f . BPOR It 1a habit alone tf Lakelang L - snce {n the child, ant if it is not for: bard, bitter X 26 No. 1291, Benev: 1 Protective Qrdap of Eir; ! lidrscay night 1n lods in It “ee. Vieltlng brevr :—:\\f:.av- l\n . HEORGER MOORE. B R tally v 2 gitul “WLU