Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, September 27, 1913, Page 2

PAGE TWO THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA., SEPT. 27, 1913. zS!szG& Who Drank of it qna 1ife fouches to the sleeping and the dead. Had there been any eye to see this girl, she would have made a de- lighttul picture in the warm glow CHAPTER X. On the Two Sides of the Door. The cabin contained a large and & emall room. In the wall between them there was a doorway closed by an ordinary batten door with a wood- en latch and no lock. Closed it served to hide the occupant of one room from the view of the other, otherwise | it was but a feeble protection. Even had it possessed a lock, a vigorous man could have burst it through in & from the stone hearth. There were no eyes to look, however, save those which belonged to the man on the other side of the door. On the hither side of that door in the room where tlie fire burned on the hearth, there was rest in the heart of the ocenpant; on the farther side where the fire only burned in the heart, there was tumult. Not outward moment, and visible, but inward and spiritual These thoughts did not come very E Al i, el clearly to Enid Maitland. Few and yethers was no Bickof BROREent manifestation of the turmoil in the man's soul. Albeit the room was smaller than the other, it was still of a good size. He walked nervously up and down from one end to the other as cease- lessly as a wild animal impatient of captivity stalks the narrow limits of his contracted cage. The even tenor of his life had suddenly been diverted. The ordinary sequence of his days had been abruptly changed. The pri- vacy of five years which he had hoped and dreamed might exist as long as he, had been rudely broken in upon. Humanity, - which he had avoided, from which he had fled, which he had thoughts of any kind came to her. ‘Where she lay she could see plainly the dancing light of the glorious fire. Bhe was warm, the deftly wrapped ‘bandage, the healing lotion upon her foot, had greatly relieved the pain in that wounded member. The bed was bard but comfortable, much more so than the sleeping bags to which of late she had been accustomed. Few women had gone through such experiences, mental and physical, as had befallen her within the last few hours and lived to tell the story. Had it not been for the exhaustive strains of body and spirit to which she had been subjected, her mental faculties would have been on the alert and the Zabslt“aw;ny JT{e:",.".i'[“d,,.. .r(;m“d\ dhi;n. strangeness of her unique position | d,ee'lfffx.x:)q' w‘n": 111 A "rhoe. would have made her so nervous that 3 p... o roid i world with all its grande: . .ud its in- ghe could not i.ave slept. For the time being, physical demands upon were paramount; she was dry, was warm, she was . she was free | significance, with all its powers and its weaknesses, with all its opportu- nities and its oblications, with all its joys and its sorrows, had knocked at however, the her entity she . i his door; and that the ocking hand from anxiely and she was absolutely i H y 5 was that of a woman, but added to unufterably weary. Her thoughts ¢ 5 4 s i i his perplexity and to his dismay, were vague, inchoate, unconcentrated. Bt Hinboha The fire wavered hefore her eyes, she ; A ; o ¢ g 1 eould live to hims alone with but a closed them in a few moments and memory to hear him company, and ! s AR i I') [ h i did alagigl then. i | from that dream he had bee n thun- Without a thought, without a care, i 2 : e 3 derously awal:cned. Everything she fell asleep. Her renose was come- e s iy A | changed. What had once plete, not a dream even disturbed the had mow becomo ini profound shmber into which she BAlent Serid Her ny Bt tlioies e o 5 . . il I g 8 ’ 3 2 gank, Pretty picture she made; her EDro Her o Hocteay e would have head thrown backward, her golden ke to tell her story and something of his; the world would learn some of it and seek him out with insatiable curios- ity to know the rest. Eyes as keen as his would present- ly search and scrutinize the moun- tains where he had roamed alone. They would see what he had seen, find what he had found. Mankind, gold-lusting, would swarm and hive upon the hills and fight and love and breed and die. Great God! He couldl of course move on, but where? And went he whithersoever he might, he would now of necessity carry with him another memory which would not dwell within his wind in harmony witl‘ thg memory hair roughly dried and quickly plait- ed in long braids, one of which fell along the pillow while the other curled lovingly around her neck. Her face in the natural light would have Jooked pallid from what she had gone through, but the fire cast red glows upon it; the fitful light fllckered across her countenance and some- times deep shadows unrelieved ac- centuated the paleness born of her sufferings. There is no light that plays so many tricks with the imagination, or that so stimulates the fancy as the light of an open fire. In its suddén qutburstg, it somaotimes seems tg gdd © CAMEOS, Brooches, pendants, scarf pins, bar pins—a full line of the above goods just selected from a large stock. Every stone fine, clean cut, the work of artisans. Call and look them over: We are al- ways glad to show our goods. H. 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These exceedingly low prices expire Sept. 20, 1913. { which until that day had beei para: | mount there alone. + 1Slowly, laboriously, painfully, he had built his house upon the sand, and the winds had blown and the floods had come, not only in a literal but in spiritual significance, and in one day that house had fallen, He | stood amid the wrecked remains of it trying to recreate it, to endow once more with the fitted precision of the past the shapeless broken units of the fabric of his fond imagination. While he resented the fierce, sav- age, passionate intensity the interrup- tion of this woman into his life. While he throbbed with equal inten- sity and almost as much passion at the thought of her. Have you ever climbed a mountain early in the morning while it was yet dark and having gained some domi- nant crest stood staring at the far horizon, the empurpled east, while the “dawn came up like thunder?” Or better still, have you ever stood with- in the cold, dark recesses of some deep valley of river or pass and watched the clear light spread its bars athwart the heavens like nebu- lous mighty pinions along the light touched crest of a towering range, un- til all of a sudden, with a leap almost of joy, the great sun blazed in the high horizon? You might be born a child of the dark, and light might sear and burn your eye balls accustomed to cooler deeper shades, yet you could no more turn away from this glory, though you might hate it, than by mere effort of will you could cease to breathe the air. The shock that you might feel, the sudden surprise, is only faintly sug- gestive of the emotions in the breast of this man. Once long ago the gentlest and ten- derest of voices called from the dark to the light, the blind. And it is given to modern science and to modern skill sometimes to emulate that godlike achievement, Perhaps the surprise, the amazement, the bewilderment, of him who having been blind doth now see, if we can imagine it not having becn in the case ourselves, will be a bet. ter guide to the understanding of this man’s emotion when this woman came ever, street, a whispered word, the touch of a hand, the answering throb of an- other heart—and behold! two walk to- gether where before each walked alone. Sometimes the man or the wom- ! an who is born again of love knows it ' not, refuses to admit it, refuses to recognize it. Some birth pain must awaken the consciousness of the new life. If those things are true and possi- ble under every day conditions and to ordinary men and women, much more to this solitary. He had seen this woman, white breasted like the foam, dress from the Paphian sea. Over that recollection, as he was a gentleman | and a Christian, he would fain draw a | curtain, before it erect a wall, must not dwell upon that fact, he would not linger over that moment. Yet he could not forget it. Then he had seen her lying prone, yet unconsciously graceful in her aban- donment, on the sward; he had caught a glimpse of her white face desperate- ly vptossed by the rolling water; he had looked into the unfathomable depth of her eyes at that moment when she had awakened in his arms after such a struggle as had taxed his manhood and almost broken his heart; i‘lm had carried ler unco nu~, | ghastly with her pain-drawn face, stun 1 erately over the { rocks in the rain te hi id th There he had he lender little foot in h ting it, home. ) £ s hand, W ‘\11 he | | h 3 r weary almost hln blue peols, in whose l(‘I‘ll)\ there yet lurked life and light, while her 1 hair tinged crim- son by the blaze lay on the white pil- low—and he loved her. God pity him, fighting against fact and admission of it, yet how could he help it? He had loved once before in his life with the fire of youth and spring, but it was not like this. He did not rec- ognize this new passion in any light from the past; admit it. Hence, he did not under- stand it. But he saw and admitted and understood enough to know that the past was no longer the supreme subject in his life, that the present rose higher, bulked larger and hid more and more of his far-off horizon. He felt like a knave and a traitor, as if he had been base, disloyal, false to his ideal, brance. Was he indeed a true man? abiding faith, that eternal conscious- ness, that lasting affection, beside which the rocky paths he often trod were things transient, ible, ev- anescent? Was he ¢ that he fell at the first sight another woman? He stopped his ceaseless pace for- | ward and backward, and stopped near that frgil gnd futile door. of suddenly into his lonely orbit. His eyes were opened although he would ! not know it. He fought down his new consciousness and would have none of it. Yet it was there. He loved her! ! With what joy did Selkirk welcome the savage sharer of his solitnde! Sup- pose she had been a we 1 of his own | race; had she heen old, withered, hid- { eous, he must have loved her on the | instant, much more if » YOuNg | and beautiful, The rowis inev- | ttable. Such passi horn. God | forbid that we <hould deny it, In the busy hat of men wlhere woimen are as plent s blackberrics, to use Fal- staff's simile, and where a man may sometimes choose between a hundred, or a thousand, such loves are born, for- A voice in the night, a face in fthe i how | rising as the ancient god- | He | therefore he would not | recreant to his remem- | Did he have that rugged strength, that | She was [ there and there was none to Pprevent. His hand sought the latch. What was he about to do? God for- | bid that a thought he could not freely | share with humanity should enter his | brain then. He held all women sacred, |and so he had ever done, and this! woman in her loneliness, in her help- i lessness, in her weakness, trebly ap-' i pealed to him. But he would look upon her, he would fain see if she were there, if it were all not a dream, the creation of his disordered imagin- ation. Men had gone mad in herwnitages in the mountains, they had been driven insane in lonely oases in vast des- erts; and they had peopled their soli- tude with men and women. Was this some working of a disordered brain, too too much turned upon itself and with too tremendous a pressure upen it, producing an illusion? Was there in truth any woman there? He would raise the latch and open the door and i look, Once more the hand went stealth- {ly to the latch, The woman slept quietly on. No thin barricade easily unlocked or easily broken protected her. Something in- tangible, yet stronger than the thick- est, the most rigid bars of steel guard- ed her; something unseen, indescrib- able, but so unmistakable when it throbs in the breast of those who de- pend on it feel that their dependence is not in vain watched over her. Cherishing no evil thought, the man had power to gratify his desire which might yet bear a sinister construction should it be observed. It was her pri- vacy he was invading. She had trust- ed to him, she had said so, to his hon- or, and that stood her in good stead. His honor! Not in five years had he heard the word or thought the thing, but he had not forgotten it. She had not appealed to an unreal thing; upon | that her trust was based. His hand left the latch, it fell gently, he drew back and turned away trembling, & conqueror who mastered himself. He was awake to the truth again. What had he been about to do? Pro- fane, uninvited, the sanctity of her chamber, violate the hospitality of his {own house? Even with a proper mo- Mve, imperil his self-respect, shatter ,her trust, endanger that honor which so suddenly became a part of him on drm.md" She would not probably kno“, she could never know unless she awoke. What of th That :m-i cient honor of his life ¢ race rose | like a mountain whose scarped face | cannot be scaled [ He fell back with a swift turn, 8 | feeling almost won ind more | men, | s, if t in fem: | inine isolation, tered as women are so often by necessity, | would be as feminine a r sisters— influenced him, overcame him. Hls| hand went to his huuting shirt. Nerv- { | | | l He Stared From One to the Other. ously he tore it open; he grasped & bright object that hung against his breast, As he did so, the thought came to him that not before in five years had he been for a moment uncon- sclous of the pressure of that locket over his heart, but now that this oth- er had come, e had to seek for it to | find it. The man drogged it out, held it in his hand and opened it. lle held it so | tightly that it aln beneath | the strong grasp of rong hand. | 0st From a nearl rew :mmher" object with hi d. He took | the two to the ! soft light of the candle upo and stared | Il eyes brim- from one to the osher wit ming, Like saw other things than pr ed to the | casual vision. He heard other sounds than the beat of the rain upon the roof, the roar of the wind down the canon, A voice that he had sworn | he would never forget, but which, God forgive ! 'm, had not now the clei. . 'ss that it might bave had yesterday, whispered awful words to him. Anon he looked into another face, red, too, with no hue from the hearth lor leaping flime, but red with the blood of ghastly wounds. He heard again that report, the roar louder and more terrible than any peal of thun- der that rived the clouds above his head and made the mountains quake and tremble. He was conscious again of the awful stillness of death that su- pervaded. He dropped on his knees, | buried his face in his hands where | they rested on picture and locket on the rude table. | Ah, the past died hard, for a mo-| ment he was the lover of old—remorse, | passionate expiation, solitude—he and the dead together—the world and the | living forgot! He would not be false, he would be true, there was no, power in any feeble woman's tender | hand to drive him off his course, to rake his purpose, to make him a rew, | another man. Oh, Vanitas, Van- itatum! (Continued on Page 7.) eryst | | TAMPA'S MODERN AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN HOTEL Dt‘i(l") HOIEI- Elecl?kl:’llr‘{fi.“d Mgr., '!mn, Electric Elevators, Electric Fans In Dining Room. Largest and most comfortable lobby in the city. up.__All outside rooms and well ventilated. sons, without bath, $2.50; persons with bath, $6.50. mmm 2 AUTOMOBILE OWNERS! 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