Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, September 29, 1913, Page 2

Being the Story Cortaiy Porsons Who Drank of it t,nd O nqguered Syt Drady ]rnugh, coarse, but clean, she heard a ‘Who was this' woman? Why washe ' #0 quick to remove the picture from her gaze? Thoughts rushed tumultu- ‘ ously through her brain, but she real- ! ized at once that she lacked time to ! fndulge them. She could hear him | moving about in the other room. She | threw aside the blanket with which | she had draped herself, changed the bandage on her foot, drew on the heavy woolen stocking which, of course, was miles too big for her, but which easily took in her foot and ! ankle encumbered as they were by the rude, heavy but effective wrapping. | Thereafter she hobbled to the door and stood for a moment almost aghast at the splendor and magnificence be- | fore her. He had built his cabin on a level shelf of rock jcrhaps fifly by a hundred | feet in area, It was backed up against an | overtowering cliff, otherwise the rock } fell away in every direction. She di- vined that the descent from the shelf into the pocket or valley spread before her was sheer, except off to the | right, where a somewhat gentler ac- clivity of huge and broken boulders gave a praclicable ascent—a sort of titanic stairs—to the place perched on the mountain side. The shelf was | absolutely bare save for the cahin and a few huge bhoulders. There were | stunted trees further up | on the mountain side above; a few hundred feet beyond them, however, ! came the timbor line, after which | there was nothing but the naked | rock. ! Below soveral h lay a wdred feet cle bord dom lakelet wus v shaded side. T body of water v snow {rom the st and peaks in the clear, pure sunshine and rari- fied air of the mountains seemed to rise and confront her within a stone's throw of the place wlere she stood. On one side of the pretty lake in the valley, or pocket, beneath, there was a little grassy clearing, and there the dweller in the wilderness had built a rude corral for the burros. On a rough bench by the side of the door she saw the primitive conveniences to which he had alluded. The water was delightfully soft and as it had stood exposed to the sun’s direct rays for some time, although the air was exceedingly crisp and cold, it was tempered sufficiently to be merely cool and agreeable. She luxuriated in it for a few moments, and while she had her face buried in the towel, emera.d ¢ 1 by pin vere [} CAM 11110 man lay down u jof fine linen. { had never cat | ho 8 1 brc She looked up in time to see pon the bench a small mirror and a clean comb. He said nothing as he did so, and she had no opportunity to thank him before he was gone. The thoughtfulness of the act affected her strangely, and she was very glad of a chance to unbraid her hair, it out and plait it again. course, & was to rej step. 1l she could do with it it it and let it hang upon her shou oiffure would have looked v to civilization, but out there in the mountains, it was em- inently appropriate, Without noticing details, the man | felt the general effect as she limped back into the room toward the table. Her breakfast was ready for her, It was a cearse fare, bacon, a baked po- tato, hard tack cr.sped before the fire, coffee, black and strong, with sugar, but no cream. The dishes matched the fare, too, yet she noticed that the fork was of eilver, and by her plate there was a napkin, rough dried, but The mun had just set the table when she appeared. “I am sorry I have no cream,” he said, and then, before she could make comment or reply, he turned and | walked out of the room, his purpose evidently being not fo embarrass her by his presence while ghe ate, Enid Muitland had grown to relish the camp fare, bri to it the appe- tite of good lLeaitl 1d exertion, ing that tasted t rude meal that njoyed s0 good to hcr the 1 it 1 shared it v o \ ot aecount, deter- ished her ¢ the man and have understanding with Kkfast to & some delinite him, And, after all, she reflected that she was better alone than in his presence, for there would come steal- ing into her thoughts the distressing episode of the morning before, try as she would to put it out of her mind. Well, she was a fairly sensible girl; the matter was passed, it could not be helped now, she would forget it as much as was possible. She would recur to it with mortification later on, but the present was so full of grave problems that there was not any room for the past. CHAPTER XII. A Tour of Ingpection, The first thing necessary, she de- cided, when ghe had sa%sfled her hun- O S l Brooches, pendants, scarf pins, bar pins—a full line of the above goods just selected from a large cut, the work of artisans. Call and look them over. ways glad to show our goods. H. C. Jeweler — - W. Owner and Manufac- turers’ Agent STE stock. Every stone fine, clean We are al- VENS Lakeland, Fla. K. 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Parents, enter your son or dau ghter now. keeping, stenography or teiegraphy $42.50. any of above courses $65. ¥ Single course in book- Combined course of These exceedingly low prices expire Sept. 20, 1913. not a hair pin left, of | She | ger and finished Lier meal, was to get !\vord of her plight and her resting place to her uncle and the men of the party, and the next thing was to get away, where she would never see this man again, and perhaps be able to for- get what bhad transpired—yet there was a strange pang of pain in her heart at that thought! No man on earth had ever so stim- ulated her curiosity as this one. Who was he? Why was he there? was the woman whose picture he had had so splendid a man buried himself alone in that wilderness? These re- flections were presently interrupted by self. “Have you finished?” he asked, un- ceremoniously standing in the door- way as he spoke, good indeed.” {wave of his hand, but taking no other notice, he spoke again, “If you will tell me your name—" “Maitland, Enid Maitland.” “Miss Maitland?” The girl nodded. “And where you came from, I will endeavor to find your party and see | what can be done to restore you to | them.” “We were camped down that canon at a place where another brook, a | large one, flows into it, several miles, I should think, below the | where—" She was going to say “where you 1found me,” but the thought of the way {in which he had found her rushed his glance directly upon her, , be, the recollection of the meeting i to which she had been about to allude rushed aver her with an accompany- 'ing wave of color which heightened her beauty as it covered her with shame. She could not realize that beneath his mask of indifference so deliber- Who | 80 quickly taken from her gaze? Why |the reappearance of the man him- . “Yes, thank you, and it was very Dismissing this politeness with a ! place | over her again; and this time, with | although | it was as cold and dispassionate and | indifferent as a man's look could well | ately worn, the man was as agitated | THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA., SEPT. 29, 1913. watchied Tilm as long as she could see “lxim, until he was lost among the | trees, 1f she had anybody else to de- ‘}pend upon, she would certainly have | felt differently toward him; when | Uncle Robert, and her auut, and the | children, and old Kirkby, and the rest | | surrounded her, she could hate that man in spite of all he had done for her, but now she stared after him de- i terminedly making his way down the mountain and through the trees. It ' was with difficulty she could restrain herself from calling him back. The silence was most oppressive, the loneliness was frightful. She had | been alone before in those mountains, but from choice; now the fact that | there W no escare from them made the sensation a very different one. She sat ¢ 1 and brooded over her | situation ur 1e felt that if she did not do somel #d in some way di- vert Ler thoug she would brenk down again. le had said that the| cabin and its contents were hers, She | resolved to increct them more close- ly. She hobbled back into the great ~ N N | She Watched Him as Long as She Could See Him. LR TUT LY { mcond spd £ TAMPA'S MODERN AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN HOTEL Electric Elevators, Electric Fans in Dining Room. Largest and most comfortable lobby in the eity. up. Al outside rooms and well ventliated. DESOTO HOTEL Electric Lighted. W. L. Parker, Mgr., Tampa, Fla, Two large porches; do not have to be cooped Courteous treatment guarauteed our patrons. 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Vs, sn | CRHRAT S AT < a Surgical Household a6 Sick Roem -uyp- plies go to! = tad Goads, | Lake Phermucy Bryan's Drug Store We wil’ send them up tq you and will tiy tc irea yyou right. | ag she, not o m.noh at the remem- room and looked about her agaim.| .. mempers L brance of anything that had trans- .., K T ¥ i " > ! There was nothing that demanded ¥. D. BRYAN i pired, but at the sight, the splendid ' careful scrutiny. She wasn't quite 0! '“ i : 1 ple an as she s i i s £3i) JOIRI ]lclnrf‘, of H}(\, \\(HXIAEH as she stood sure whether she was within the pro- Ln .ce‘ or C \ie there in the little cabin then., It seem- oot biitishe selzeniihe nids M. ACKEON, Sucretar ed to m“l " if she gathered up ‘; most worn of the volumes on 11.(\1 own pergon all ]lh ¢ ,':rt ..mi I R o toxt ook on niine 08T 03, 6. A4, B ! ‘, light and 1 all the e boorved, and | Woasta the st caturuay i freshness c¢ndor of the morn. 4 ! $ i s - e i N ( I, acro 0 o ) R AR R T O i ing, to shine and dazzle i Jis} y 5 Pl As sho logi 2 oparling cn Kepiucky comprehe 5 ’; jout her lam s e | ALY eal neath these we ¢ WA ) s e e 7 i R R A e i~ | [ ,‘””“ _"' vard,” and a date some scven years e = { “I think I know ) T | Laketand Clapter, R. A. A Y %‘ :lo\u ‘n‘Il:‘x‘ 7 lli "“];:[ :‘1]1';:\‘\: Ve “il;; The owner of that book, whether the | '# meets tha firgt Thursday v g 1 ‘E‘Y itself ™™ A : ¥ present | sor or not, had been a| +2ch month in Masonic Hall, “u WAMDAD&R’YC& “Yes, that is it. In that clearing we have been camped for two weeks. My uncle must be crazy with anxiety to know what has become of e, and—" The man interposed. “I will go there directly,” he said. “It s now half after ten. That place is about seven miles or more from here across the range, fifteen or twen- ty by the river. I shall be back by pightfall. The cabin is your own.” He turned away without another word, “Wait,” sald the woman, afraid to stay here.” She had been fearless enough before fn those mountains, but her recent ex- perience had somehow unsettled her nerves, “There is nothing on earth to hurt you, I think,” returned the man. “There isn't a human being, so far as I know, in these mountains.” “Fxcept my uncle's party?” He nodded. “But there might be another—bear,” she added desperately, forcing herself. “Not likely; and they wouldn’t come here if there were any. That's the “I am first grizzly I have seen in years,” | he went on, unconcernedly, studiously looking away from her, not to add to her confusion at the remembrance of that awful episode which would ob- trude itself on every occasion. “You can use a rifle or gun?" She nodded. e stepped over to the wall and took down the Winches- ter which he handed her. “This one is ready for service, and you will find a lver on the shelf. There is only one possible way of ac cess to this t's down those rocic stairs. in, one woman, a child, even, with these weapons could hold it a I 2 “Cou t 1 go with you?” Enid pressed her wounded foot upon the ground. It w not so painful when resting, but she found she could not walk a step on it without great | suffering, “I might carry you part of the way," | said the man. *“1 carried you last | night, but it would be impossible, all | of it.” “Promise me that you will be back . by nightfall, with Uncle Bob and—" “I shall be back by nightfall, but I can't promise that I will bring any- body with me.” “You mean?” “You saw what the cloudburst near- ly did for you,” was the quick an- swer. “If they did not get out of that pocket, there is nothing left of them now.” “But they must have escaped,” per- sisted the girl, fighting alarm at this blunt statement of possi- ble peril. “Besides, Uncle Robert and | most of the rest were climbing one of | the peaks, and—" “They will be all ri | T am to find the place ¢ | your story, I must go | He turned, and then; but it d tell them another down her | college man. Say that he had gradu- ated at twenty-one or twenty-two, he would be twenty-eight or twenty-nine years old now, but if so, why that . white hair? Perhaps, though, the | book did not belong to the man of the | cabin, { She turned to other books on the { shelf. Many of them were technical books, which she had sufficient gen- eral culture to realize could be only available ‘to a man highly educated, and a special student of mines and mining—a mining engineer, she de- clded, with a glance at those instru- ments and appliances of a sclentific character plainly, but of whose actual | use she was ignorant. I A rapid inspection of the other | books confirmed her in the conclusion | that the man of the mountains was iindeed the owner of the collection. There were a few well worn volumes {of poetry and essays, Shakespeare, & Bible, Bacon, Marcus Aurelius, Eplcte- tus, Keats, a small dictionary, a com- mendious encyclopedia, just the books, | she thought, smiling at her conceit, | that & man of education and culture would want to have upon a desert is- land where his supply of literature ! would be limited. l The old ones were autographed as | the first book she had looked in; oth- ;N‘s, newer additions to the little Ii- brary, if she could judge their condi- tion, were unsigned. Into the corner cupboard and the i drawers, of course, she did not look. | There was noti e in the room [to attract her save some piles of manu v arranged on one of t h one cover- ed with a rd and kept in place by | There were ft other half t on Ih(“ | not ex f course, she did than to note that i the writing was in ‘the same bold, free hand as the signature in the books. If she had been an expert she might have deduced much from the | writing; as it was, she fancied it was strong, direct, manly. Having completed her inspection of this room, she opened the door and went into the other. It was smaller and less inviting. It had only one | window, and a door opened outside. | There was a cook stove here, and | shelves with cooking utensils and graniteware, and more rude box re- ceptacles on the walls which were fill- ed with a bountiful and well selected ! store of canned goods and provisions | of various kinds. This was evident- ly the kitchen, supply room, china closet. She saw no sign of a bed in it, and wondered where and how the man had svent the night. By rights, her mind sh been fili with her ! party, and in their a ould have 4p companions welcomed. A. Leonard, H. P,; J. F. Wilson, Beey Lakelang Famp No. 78, W, 0. W meets every Thursda night. Wood men Circle first and third Thursda; afternoons at 3:0v o'clock. W. 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JOR SALE BY Lake Fharmacy SN LAKELAND. 129 r Onited Brocherhood of Carpemter: aund Joiner, of America, Local 1776 Meets each Thursday night : Morgan & (roover hall, ove Bates’ Dry Goods Store. Visiti: brothe.s welcome. R. ). MARSHALL, President J. W. LAYTON, Vice Pres J. W. TOGAN, Treasurer J. H FELDS, Fin. 8ecy. H F.DIELX.TH, Rec. Bacy H. u. COX, Conductor 2MUEL BOYER, . W. BCaRR, L. WILLOUGHBY, Elnora Rebekah Lodge No. weets every second and fourth Mou tay nigbts at I. 0. O. £, hall. Vit mg brothers and aisters cordially imvited. MRH, «. B. ROBERTSON, N. G MR3. JUY ARENDELL, Bee. Lake Lodge No. 23,1.0.0.F _eets B.iday nights at 7:30, at ! ). O, F. hatl. Visitiax drothers ar ordially ‘nvited. iz J. Z. REYNOLDS, Sec. 0. M. EATON, N. G. " ORDER OF EAGLES. Tne W¥raternal Order of Eagle «vete every Wednesday aight @ #6, at 0dd Fellows’ hall. 4. H. WILLIAMS, P aldent E. M. SMAILS sr’:i — v — 3P0 Laxeland Lodge No."“‘( I b .ot and Protective ¢ Elks e Y The sidewalk that is mai: by u of CEMENT {s the walk weather will not effect. tnat th NOW, before the inclemen: weath er of late fall sets in, have us la| those needed walks, repair your cel lar and make other repatrs th should be done with CEMENT. Ask us for figures—we're glad submit thex. E:) s Lakeland Artificial Stone Works' H. B. Ziminerman, Prop.” Begin Early to Train Chilc-sm, It ia habit alone that creates ob snoe In the child, and for the ¢ !4, U it s not formed sarly, nothing word or a backward rambled 114 Nablaah { down the hill. The girl limped to the |y | ‘eots every Thurscay @ 10dg: i "’":- i‘:-‘;:f'u\t;e‘.'t‘&:a cc‘.c' ever | brink of the cliff over which he had 5 an | uoms over postofice, 8 brets °f“‘he L ,’;‘.::\",C" : plunged and stared after him. She who had been brought up in the most | GEORGE ME R the B AR A s g (Continued cn Page 7.) ren eerdially v e