Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, September 26, 1913, Page 2

PAGE TWO CHAPTER IX. ™Over the Hills and Far Away.” Recognition—or some other more potent instantaneous force—brought| the woman to a sitting position. The | man drew back to give her freedom | of action, as she lifted herself on her bands. It was moments before com- plete consclousness of her situation came to her. The surprise was yet too great, she saw things dimly through a whirl of driving rain, of a rushing mighty wind, of a seething sea of water, but presently it was all plain to her again. She had caught o fair view of the man who had shot the bear as he splashed through the creek and tramped across the rocks and trees down the canon, at least she had not seen him full face, but she reco=nized him immediately. The thought tinged with color for & mo- ment her pallid cheek. “I fell into the torrent,” she sald feebly, putting her hand to her head and striving by speech to put aside that awful remembrance. “You didn't fall in,” was The am- swer, “it was & cloudburst, you were eaught in it.” “I didn't know.” “Of course not, how should you?” “And how came I here?” “l was lucky enough to pull you out.” “Did you jump into the flood for me?” The man nodded. “That's twice you have saved my life this day,” said the girl, forcing herself, womanlike, to the topic that she hated. “It's nothing,” deprecated the oth-. er.” “It may be nothing to you, but it i8 a great deal to me,” was the answer. “And now what is to be done?” “We must get out of her at once,” gaid the man. “You need shelter, food, a fire, Can you walk?” “I don’t know.” “Let me help you” He rose tc his feet, reached down to her, took her hands in the strong grasp of his own and ralsed her lightly to her feet in an effortless way which showed his great strength. She did not more than put the weight of her body slightly on her left foot when a spasm of pain shot through her, she swerved and would have fallen had he nnt caught her. He sat her gently on the rock. “My foot” she sald piteously. *I don’t know what's the matter with 1t.” Her high boots were tightly laced, of course, but he could see that her left foot had heen badly mauled or (o) - | J | sprained; already the slender ankle was swelling visibly. He examined it swiftly a moment. It might be a sprain, it might be the result of some violent thrust against the rocKs, some whirling tree trunks might have caught and crushed her foot, but there was no good in speculating as to cauges, the present patent fact was ‘hat che could not walk; all the rest was at that moment unimportant. This unfortunate accident made him the more anvious to get her to a place of shelter witkout delay. It would be necessary to take off her boot and give the wounded member proper treatment. For the present the tight shoe acted as a bandage, which was well. When the man had withdrawn him- self from the world, he had inwardly resolved that no human being should ever invade his domain or share his solitude, and during his long sojourn in the wilderness his determination had not weakened. Now his coming desire was to get this woman whom fortune—good or {ll!—had thrown upon his hands to his house without delay. There wzs nothing he could do for her out there im the rain. Every drop of whiskey was gone, they were just two half-drowned, sodden bits of humanity cast up on that rocky shore, and one was a helpless woman. “Do you know where your camp is?” he asked at last. He did not wish to take her to her own cimp, he had a strange instinct of possession in her. In some way he felt he had obtained a right to deal with her as he would, he had saved | her life twice, once by chance, the | other as the result o deliberate and heroic endeavor, and yet his honor and his manhood obliged him to offer to take her to her own people if he could. Hence the question, the an- swer to which he waited so eagerly. “It's down the canon. [ am one of Mr. Robert Maitland's party.” The man nodded, he didn't know Robert Maitland from Adam, and he cared nothing about him. “How far down?” he asked. “I don't know, how far is it from here to where you—where—where— we—-" “About a mile,” he replied, quickly fully understanding her reason for faltering. “Then I think I must have come at least five miles from the camp this morning."” “It will be four miles away, then,” said the man. The girl nodded. “I couldn’t carry you that far,” he murmured half to himself; “I question it there is any camp left there any- AMEOS 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. H. C. Jeweler STE Every stone fine, clean We are al- VENS Lakeland, Fla. W. K. Jackson-ssscitea. W, K, McRae Owner and Manufac- turers’ Agent Real Estate Brokerage--Real’ Estate TELL US WHAT YOU HAVE TO SELL, WE WILL TRY TO FIND A BUYER TELL US WHAT YOU WANT TO BUY; WE WILL TRY TO FIND A SELLER Rooms 6 and 7, DEEN & RRYANT Building Lakeland % L) Florida THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAK ELAND, FLA., SEPT. 26, 1913. way. % lere Was 3L, Jown Dby the Wa- ter's edge?” “Yes.” “Every vestige will have been swept away by that, look at it,” he pointed over to the lake. “What must we do?” she asked in- stantly, depending upon his greater strength, his larger experience, his masculine force. “T shall have to take you to my camp.” “Is it far?” “About a mile or a mile and a half from here.” “I can’t walk that far.” “No, I suppose not. You wouldn't be willing to stay here while I went down and hunted for your camp?’ The girl clutched at him. “I couldn’t be left here for a mo- ment alone,” she said in sudden fever of alarm. “I never was afraid be- fore, but now——" “All right,” he said, gently patting her as he would a child. up to my camp and then I will try to find your people and—" “But I tell you I can't walk.” “You don’t have to walk,” said the man, He did not make any apology for his next action, he just stooped down| and, disregarding her faint proests| and objections, picked her up in his arms. burden, and he did not run away with her as the heroes of romances do. But he was a man far beyond the average in strength, and with a stout heart and a resolute courage that had always carried him successfully through whatever he attempted, and he had need of all his qualities, physi- cal and mental, before he finishea that awful journey. The woman struggled a little at first, then finally resigned herself to the situation; indeed, she thought swiftly, there was nothing else to do, she had no choice, she could not have been left alone there in the rocks in that rain, she could not walk. He was doing the only thing possible. The compulsion of the inevitable was upon them both. They went slowly, the man often stopped for rest, at whicb times he would seat her tenderly upon some prostrate tree, or some rounded boul der, until he was ready to resume his task. He did not bother her with ex. planation, discussion or other conver sation, for which she was most thank- ful. Once or twice dnrinz the slow progress she tried to walk, but the slightest pressure on her wounded foot nearly caused her to faint. He made no complaint abcut his burden and she found it, after ail, pleasant to be upheld by such powerful arms; she was so sick, so tired, o worn out, and there was such assurance of strength and safety in his firm hold of her. By and by, in the last stage of their journey, her head dropped on hig shoulder and she actually fell into He Stared at Her In Great Alarm. uneasy troubled sleep. He did not know whether she slumbered or; whether she had fainted again. He did not dare to stop to find out, his strength was almost spent; in this last effort the strain upon his muscles | was almost as great as it had been in the wbirlpool. For the second time that day the sweat stood out on his forehead, his legs trembled under him. How he made the last five hundred feet up the steep wall to a certain broad shelf perhaps an acre in extent where he had built his hut among the mountains, he never knew; but the last remnant of his force was spent when he finally opened the unlatched door with his foot, carried her in the | log hut and laid her upon the bed or bunk built against one wall of the cabin, Yet the way he put her down was characteristic of the man. That last vestige of strength had served him well. He did not drop her as a less thoughtful and less determined man might have done, he laid her there as gently and as tenderly as if she weighed nothing, and as if he had car ried her nowhere. So quiet and easy was his handling of her that she did not wake up at once. 8o soon as she was out of his arms, he stood up and stared at her in great alarm, which soon gave way to reas- surance. She had not fainted, there was a little tinge of color in her cheek that had rubbed up against his rough | “We'll go, She was by no means a light| | once that it was up. ARiln Fhe ftared at Lim To De- wilderment until he spoke. | “This is my house,” he sald, “we are home.” | “Home!” sobbed the girl. “Under shelter, then,” said the man. | “You are very tired and very sleepy, but there is something to be done; you must take off those wet clothes at once, you must have something to eat, and I must have a look &t that Ifoot, and then you can have your sleep out.” | The girl stared at him, his program, | if a radical one under the circum- ! stances, was nevertheless a rational one, indeed the only one. How was it |to be carried out? The man easily divined her thoughts, | “There is another room in this house, a store room, I cook in there,” he said. “I am going in there now to get you something to eat; meanwhile ! you must undress yourself and go to bed.” He went to a rude set of box-like shelves draped with a curtain, appar- extly his own handiwork, against the wall, and brought from it a long and somewhat shapeless woolen gown. “You can wear this to sleep in,” he continued. “First of all, though, I am going to have a look at that foot.” He bent down to where her wound- ed foot lay extended on the bed. “Wait,” said the girl, lifting herself on her arm, and as she did so he lift- ed his head and answered her direct gaze with his own. “I am a woman, absolutely alone, entirely at your mercy; you are stronger than I, I have no choice but to do what you bid me. And in addition to the nat- ural weakness of my sex I am the more helpless from this foot. What do you intend to do with me? How do you mean to treat me?” It was a bold, a splendid question, and it evoked the answer it merited. “As God is my judge,” said the man quietly, “just as you ought to be treated, as I would want another to treat my mother, or my sister, or my wife"—she noticed how curiously his lips suddenly tightened at that word— “it T had one. [ never harmed & wom- an in my life,” he continued more earnestly, “only one, that {s,” he cor- rected himself, and once again she marked that peculiar contraction of the lips. “And I could not help that,” he added. “I trust you,” said the girl at last, after gazing at him long and hard as ; if to search out the cecrets of his very ‘,snul, “You have saved miy life and | things dearer will he saf> with you. I have to trust yon.” “1 hope,” came ti» guick cemment, | “that it is not only for that. I don’t | want to be trusted upon compulsion.” ‘my life in the flood,” was the answer. “I can remember what it was now, 'and you carried me over the rocks and the mountains without faltering. Only a man could do what you have a0 gone. I trust you anyway.” “Thank you,” sald the man briefly | meets every Thursda night Wood as he bent over tiie injured foot again. | geg Circle first and third Thursda) The boot laced up the front, the afternoons at 3:0v o'clock. W. J’ short skirt left all plainly visible. ‘With deft fingers he undid the sodden knot and unlaced it, then stood hesi- tatingly for a moment. “I don't like to cut your only pair | POLK ENCAMYMENT of shoes,” he said as he made a slight motion to draw it off, and then observing the spasm of pain, stopped. “Needs must,” he continued, taking [ F., meets the first and third Mon slitting the | days. Visiting Patriarchs welcoms out his knife ard leather. He did it very carefully so as not | 4, B, ZIMMERMAN, to ruin the boot beyond repair, and finally succeeded in getting it off without giving her too much pain. And she was not so tired or so miser- able as to be unaware of his gentle- nees. His manner, matter of faot, business like, if he had been a doctor one would have called it professional, distinctly pleased her in this trying and unusual position. Her stocking was stained with blood. The man rose to his feet, took from a rude home- made chair a light Mexican blanket and laid 1t considerately across the girl. “Now if you can manage to get off your stocking yourself, I will see what can be done,” he said, turning away. It was the work of a few seconds for her to comply with his request. Hanging the wet etocking carefully over a chair back, he drew back the blanket a little and carefully inspect- ed the poor little foot. He saw at not an ordinary sprained ankle, but it seemed to him that her foot had been caught be- tween two tossing logs, and had been badly bruised. It was very painful, but would not take so long to heal as a sprain. The little foot, normally so white, was now black and blue and the skin had been roughly torn and broken. He brought a basin of cold water and a towel and washed off the blood, the girl fighting down the pain and successfully stifling any outery. “Now,” he said, “you must put on this gown and get into bed. By the time you are ready for it I will have some broth for you and then we will bandage that foot. I shall not come In here for some time, you will be quite alone and safe.” He turned and left the room, shut- ting the door after him #®s he went out. 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Also TIRES PLACED ON BABY CARRIA GES WHILE YOU WAIT ' W. B. ARENDELL Bicycle and General Repair Shop Cedar Street, Just Back of Central Pharmacy COPOROBOBOEOR I OO FORTHHO O CHHHCHROCHOOHCHICHO O O BHRIO 0O Surgical "Goods Household a n ¢ Sick Room Sup- plies go tol Lake Pharmag Bryan’s Drug Sto et .Ihe Lodges.. Palm Ckapter, V. E. 8, meets over. weond and fourth Thursdsy right * each month at 7:30 p. m. Mr mMora Keen, W. M.; J. . Wilson >0y, Lakeland Lodge No. 31. F. & 4 #. Regular communications held o: wcond and 4th Mondays at 7:30 » a. Visiting brethren cordially 1 rited. J. C. OWENS, W. M. J. 7. WILSON, Secy We wili send them u you and will try to t K ore ‘you right. Kegular meeting every tucun:' P H 0 N E 42 «e 1:30 at Odd Fellows Hall, Vieit 4% wembers alvays welcome. | F. D. BRYAN. ' Chancellor Commandsr ; tlhc . M. ,ACKSON, Secrstary. POSLSDPOSOED OO 1t A ZO8T 33, G. A, R. Wisats the 9rst Saturday :u ave. vonth at 10 e, m. at the homa ¢ #. 5parling on Kentucky sven HAKFPYR vie mander Adfutan | i oy Lakeland Chapter, R. A. M sach month In Masonic Hall. Viv. | \ap companions weleomed. A. Leonard, H. P.; J. ¥, Wilson, Beey Pure, from cows inspected and passe by the City Pure Food Dep ff Manufactured unde . rich, sterlized crean Lakeland €amp No. 78, W, 0. W., [ Bttridge, Councl: Commander; Mrs Lula Hebdb, Gusidian of Circle. ment. the most modern and perfe conditions. ALL ingredient that go to make our cream MUST be the standard of pi ity and quality. There s §0.8,10.0 2 Polk Encamyment No, 3, I. 0. ¢ F. A. McDONALD, Scribe. difference in “Frozen Cus- Chief Patriarch. learn to say i tards” and POINSETTLA Ie @LAtoB oL A Orange Blomsom Div. No. 49 |} Cream. Try it. d. I 4 to B. of L. K. meets eva:: second and fourth Wednesdays ¢ OR SALE BY eacz month at 2:30 p. m. Visitia; Sisters always welcoue, MRS. ). C. BROWN Bec)y Meots every Tuesday night at )'clock, at Mcoonald’s hall. Lake Prarmacy} L | & S+ Onited Brocherhood of Carpemter and Joiners of Amerita, Looal 1776 Meets each Thursday night :: Morgau & Groover hall, ove Bates’ Dry Gnods Store. Visitin brothe.s welcome. R. 1. MARSHALL, President J. W. LAYTON, Vice Pres J. W. TOGAN, Treasurer I. H YELDS, Fin. 8ecy. H . DIETRiCH, Ree. Boey H. u. COX, Conductor. !AMUEL BOYER, W. 8CaRR, L. WILLNUGHBY, Elnors Rebekah Lodge No. 4 ueets every second and fourth Mon lay nigbts at 1. 0. O. F. hall. Vumt ‘ag brothers and sisters cordially mvited. MRS, . E. ROBERTSON, N. G. MRA. GUY ARENDELL, See. Laxe Lodge No. 3,1.0.0. ¥ ueets PF.iday nights at 7:830, at : ). O, F. hall. Visiting dbrothers ar ordially invited. J. Z. REYNOLDS, Sec. 0. M. EATON, N. G. The sidewalk that is maie b; 8 CEMENT s the walk that Wweather will not effect. NOW, before the inclement w or of late fall sets in, have us those veeded walks, repair your lar and make other repatrs should de done with CEMENT. Ask us for figures—we'rs g sabmit thex, Lakeland A rtifici -~ ORDER OF EAGLES. Lakeland Business College Prepares young men and women for lucrative positions as stenog- raphers, bookkeepers, telegraphers and civil rervice employes. Mode'n equipment, competent tea.hers and qualified graduates. Parents, enter your son or dau ghter now. Single course in book- keeping, stenography or telegraphy $42.50. Combined course of any of above courses $65. These exceedingly low prices expire Sept. 20, 1918. hunting coat; she was asleep, her reg- | ular breathing told him that. Sleep prehensive to recall the painful cir was of course the very best of medi- | Cumstances attendant upon her first cines for her, and yet she should not | disrobing. She said she trusted the be allowed to sleep until she had gor Dan absolutely, yet she would not rid of her wet clothing and until have been human if she had not something had been dome for her(]ooked most anxiously toward that wounded foot. It was indeed an em-| ¢losed door. He made plenty of noise barrassing situation. | la the other room, bustling about as He surveyed her for a few moments | If to reassure her. wondering how best to begin. Then| She could not rest the weight of realizing the necessity for immediate | her body on her left foot, and getting action, he bent over her and woke her | rid of her wet clothes was a some- lggfi slow process in spite of her (Continued on Page 7.) = aem——— Tue ¥raternal Order of Eagle seets every Wednesday aight o 10, at Odd Feliows’ hall. J. H. WILLIAMS, President B. M. SMAILS Secretary B.2.0.% Laxeland Lodge No. 1231, Benevo ‘at and Protective Order of Elks »etw every Thursday night in lods: aoma over postoffice. Visitiag brett GEORGE MOORE. E. R. ren cordially w Stone Works' H. B. Ziminerman, Proj Begin Early to Traln OIS It is habit alone that creates o #moe In the child, and for the cl.ild it 1t is not formed early, nothin bard, bitter “warfare” can ever mote it In ts being Bystem I8 of the noblest laws {4 eviden-s the rraat gy b . | Vo