Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, September 30, 1913, Page 2

PAGE TWO FFIm™r Being the Q’l'yngrank i | i | \ “T took an empty bottle with me,” said the man, breaking the silence, “in | which 1 had enclosed a paper saying that you were here and safe, save for your wounded foot, and giving | direction how to reach the place, I built a cairn of rocks in a shel- tered nook in the valley where ! your camp had been pitched and left the tightly corked bhottle wedged on top of it. If they return to the camp they could scarcely fail to see it.” “But if they don't go back there.,” “Well, it was just a chance.” “And if they don't find me?”’ “You will have to stay here for a | while; until your foot gets well| enough to travel, anyway,” returned | the man, evasively. “But winter is coming on; you sald the lake would freeze tonight and if it | snows?” “It will snow.” The woman stared at him appalled. “And in that case—" “I am afraid,” was the slow reply, “that you will have to stay here.” He hesitated in the face of her white, still face—"all winter,” he added, des- | perately. “My God,” exclaimed “alone, with you?” “Miss Maitland,” said the man, reso- ! lutely, “I might as well tell you tlmf truth. I can make my way to the set- | tlements now or later, but it.will be a journey of perhaps a week. There will be nc danger to me, but you will have | to s here. You cculd not go with | If T am any judce you couldn't ibly o your foet for a mountain journcy fer ot leest three weeks, and | the girl, meéans nothing to ine, but it has ¢ause enough for what it would fain say now.” She came to her decision swift- ly. “There is no help for it,” she continued, “we are marooned"—she smiled faintly as she used the old word of tropic island and southern sea—"together. You have shown me that you are a man and a gentleman. n God and you | put my trust. my f well, if you can teach me | to walk on snow shoes and it is pos- | i . 1 ! sille to get through the pas seg, we will try to get back; if not, we must wait.” “The decision is yours,” sald the man, “and vet I feel that 1 ought tol pcint out to you how—" “I see all that you see,” she inter- rupted. *“I know what is in your mind. It is entirely clear to me. We can do nothing else " “So be it. You nced have no appre- hension as to your material comfort; I have lived in these mountains for a long time. I am prepared for any emergeucy. I pass my time in the 3 summer getting ready for the winter, There is a cave, or recess rather, be- hind the house which, as you see, is by that time we shall be snowed in | as effectually as if we vithin | the urciic circle. Dut if 3 11 let me go alone to t | I can bring back your oman to keep you cempany, v the trails | | are imp: enough men to | L¥ % make it T () e you! md down the | in. I could not l n i you were well, ith of winter.” k her head stubbornly, “A week alone in these mount: and I should be mad,” she said deci- sively. “It ien't to be thought of.” “It must be thourht of,” urged the man. “You don't understand. It is either that or spend the winter here with me.” The woman looked at him steadily. “And what have I tofear from you?” she asked. “Nothing, nothing, as God is my witness,” protested the other; “but the world?” “The world,” said the woman reflec- dively. *“I don't mean to say that it “And Who Is James Armstrong?” built against the rock wall, and it 18 filled with wood enough to keep us warm for two or three winters; I have an ample supply of provision and clothing for my own needs. You will neced something warmer than that you wear,” he continued. “Have you needle, thread and cloth ?” she asked. “Everything,” was the prompt an- swer. “Then I shall not suff:r." eng wilk waed lunadry wort (s thet {o just what we ape givon, Lalzela 2 Zhas & Long Life of Linen na Stea ? e what you ave lesking ter an? Yry uk m Laundry } Wes: Maiz . ré CAM 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 Owner and Manufac- turers’ Agent Rooms 6 and 7, DEEN Lakeland N STE n & | W, K. Jackson-usewe-W.K. McRat stock. Every stone fine, clean We are al- VENS Lakeland, Fla. Real :Estate Brokerage--Real” Estate TELL US WHAT YOU HAVE TO sELL, WE WILL TRY TO FIND A BUYLk TELL US WHAT YOU WANT Ty BUY; WE WILL TRY TO FIND A SELLER . & RRYANT Building by Florida When | THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAK ELAND, FLA., SEPT. 30, 1913. sible from Lige uiow tuat sometimes almost rose level with the tops of the walls. In every sheitered spot great banks of whi‘? were massed. The spreading branches of the tall pine trees in the valleys drooped under | heavy burdens cf snow. Only here ! and there sharp gauat peaks were ' swept clean by the flerce winter winds and thrust themselves upward in icy air, naked and bare. The cold | was polar in its bitter intensity. The little shelf or plateau jutting out from the mountain side wupon thought, and then bit his lip. He had Which the lonely cabin stood was shel- determined to vouchsafe her no infor- | tered from the prevailing winds, but mation regarding himself, and here she | the house itself was almost covered had surprised him into an admission | With the drifts. The constant fire in the first blush of their acquaint. | roaring up the huge stone chimney ance, and she knew that she had tri- | had melted some of the snow at the umphed for she smiled in recognition | top and it had run down the slanting of it. roof and formed huge icicles on what She tried another tack. baa been the eaves of the house. The | “Mr. Newbold,” she began at & ven- | man had cut vy the drifts from ture, and as it was five years since he | doors and wi for light and lib- | had heard that name, his surprise at night her knowledge, which after all was | very simple, betrayed him a third |time. “We are like stories I have | read, people who have been cast away lon desert islands and-" “Yes,” said the man, “but no cast- | | aways that I have ever read of have | been so bountifully provided with ev- | erything necessary to fhe comfort of | life as we are. I told you I lacked | nothing for your material welfare, and , | even your mind need not ste gnate.” “l have looked at your books al- i ready,” said the woman, answering | his glance, | “Are you that wonder of wonders,” asked the man, smiling lightly, “an educated woman who knows how to | sew?” | “It is a tradition in Philadelphia,” | answered the girl, “that her daughters should be expert needlewomen.” “Oh, you are from Philadelphia.” “Yes, and you?” She threw the question at him so ' deftly and so quickly that she caught him unaware and off his guard a sec- oud time within the hour. “Baltimore,” he answered before he stormy to keep hi: a great dcal of ¢ work every morning aud : ficed. | Every day he had to go down the - to the bLoitom of water the bu k and sir 1eaAs0Ns S0 e a day under tie cond: s. And the woman never saw him start out in This was where she had found his | the storm withont a sinking heart and | name, he realized. ! grave apprelension. On his rewurn to “You will have this room for your | the cabhin Lalf frozen, almost spent own use and I will take the other for | anq exhausted, she ever welcomed him mi:xe,j‘ he continut:d‘ with eager gratitude and satisfaction T am loath to dispossess you.” which would shine in her eyes, throb “I shall be quite comfortable there, | jn por heart and tremble upon her ! and this shall be your room exclusive- lips, control it as she might. And he ly except when you bid me enter, as | yyuayg it was vell worth all the trou- ; When I bring you your meals. I shall { ble and hardships of his task to be so ho‘l‘d‘ it'!nvi.olute.” o greeted when Le came back to her, But,” said the woman, “‘there must | = \yi)tor had set in unusually early be an equal division of labor. I must' ;4 ith unprecedented severity. Any do my share.” 4 | kind of wii in the mountains t Th}" tls(n tpn;'“'h_ L) d‘; z;‘ ll:e “_m would have ammazod the girl, but even er except to take care o e burros, the miaf with hig laiper e Bhea keep up the fire and prepare what we have to cat.” “l am afraid I should be unequal to outdoor work, but in the rest I must known 1d, or such Iis daily | declared !} such sharp deep and | ) | records had never h low o iy nary temperatures nor 1 vation He recognized at once that idleness e : o 5 ever noted such v furious o as-ented heartily, ™ L and e It Ay L con- | “when your feot make you an ef | little ¥l well enough to tember of our 1 ;rCsS Ticient ” g clse berore 1 get e iy well. The man up her beot it it and al- o 18y one the had been in cctively, “I am en up,» fhe fivst put it on maey good the shapeloss woolen stoeking I ask?” X mtly, Which Lad co the clumsy band- “Why he—I—he is a friend of my 88e happiy no r necessary. Al uncle and an-—acquaintance of m, d bruised member 1 and own.” g » could use it with “Oh,” said the man shortly and ©€&r¢, hor foot was still very tender gloomily, as he turned away. { and capable of & 1ing no violent Enid Maitland had been very brave ©F l‘”; contin 1. Of neces- in his presence, but when he went out Sity she had been largely confined to the house, but whenever it had peen possible he had wrapped her in his great bear skin coat and had he!ped her out to the edge of the cliff for a breath of fresh air. Sometimes he would leave her she put her head down on her arms | on the table and cried softly to her- | self, Was ever a woman in such a ' predicament, thrown into the arms of | a man who had established every con- | ceivable claim upon her gratitude, ' forced to live with him shut up In a | there alcne, would perhaps have left two-room loz cabin upon a lonely her alone there always had she not mountain range, surrounded by lofty | imperiously required his company. and inaccessibie peaks, pierced by ter- | Insensibly she had acquired the hab- rific gerges soon to be impassable ' it—not a diflicult one for a woman to from the snows? She had read many ' fall into—of taking the lead in the stories of castaways, from Charlesfsuxall affairs of their circumscribed Reade’s famous “Foul Play” down to = eXistence, and he had acquiesced in more modern instances, but in those her deminance without hesitation or cases there had always been an island Tremonstrance. It was she who or- comparatively large over which to dered their daily walk and conversa- reign with privacy, seclusion, opportu- tion. Her wishes were consulted nity for withdrawal; bright heavens, about everything; to be sure no great balmy breezes, 1idyllic conditions. range of clioice s allowed them, of Here were two uplifted from the earth liberty of action or freedom in the upon a sky-piercing mountain. They constraints th which nature bound would have had more range of action them, but whenever there was any and more liberty of motion if they selection she made it. had been upon a derelict in the ocean. i The man yiclded ev And she r d at the same time = and yet he dil i that in all those storics the two ¢ ay h other. Wou rything for her it in any way f-respect or ? And instinctive- azan the hot e within outvied the at erisis in fire of the hearth as the bleod rushed ermination to the smooth surface of her cheek again, What would her f: | could know kLer po the world say, and above all what | would Armstirong say. It cannot be | | denied that her thoughts were terrl- | | bly and overwhelmin, dismayed, and yet that despair was not without a certain relief. No wman had ever so interested her as this one. What was | that in the great emergencies she the mystery of his life, why was he | would be led, in the great battles she there, what hall he meant when he | would be fought for, in the great dan- | had blessed the idle impulse that had | gers she would be protected, in the sent her into his arms? great perils she would be saved. Her heart throbbed again. She lift- | There was rest, comfort, joy and satls- ed her face from her hands and dried | ‘action in these thouglts. her tears, a warm glow stole over her | The strengti, of the man she mas- and once again not altogether from | tered was estimate of her own power the fire. Who and what was this | and charm. There was a great, sweet, man? Who was that woman whose Volceless, unconscious flattery in his picture he had taken from her? Well, | deference of which she could not be she would have time to find out. And uUnaware. meantime the world outside could Having little else to do, she studied | think and do what it pleased. She the man, and she studied him with a sat staring into the fire light, seeing Wwarm desire and an enthusiastic pre- | pictures there, dreaming dreams. She disposition to find the best in him, | was as lovely as an angel to the man She would not have been a human | when he came back into the room. girl if she had not been thrilled to the very heart of her by what the man had done for her. She recognized that whether he asserted it or not, he had established an everlasting and | fudisputable claim upon her. The circumstances of their first| meeting, which as the days passed | did not seem quite so horrible to her, ! mountain brooks, if they flowed at all, | and yet a thought of which would | | ran under thick arches of ice. The | bring the blood to her cheek still on deepest canons were well nigh impas- ! B (Continued o Page 7). | ct their , their happin- he would assert him- n would be un- her say if he what would self, and his questioned and u There w to the woman in the whole situati She had a woman's desire to lead in the smaller t s in life, and yat craved the woman's consciousness CHAPTER XIV, ; | The Woman's Heart. | That upper earth on which they lived was covered with a thick blank- et of snow. The lakes and pools were frozen from shore to shore. The TAMPA'S MODERN AMERICAN AND EVROPEAN HOTEL DESOTO HOTEL I Largest and most comfortable lobby in the eity, Tiwo large porches; do not have to be coo up. Al outside rooms and well venti!sted. RATES—EUKOPEAN : One person, sons, without bath, $2. out bath, $3; oue person with bath, $3.50; persons with bath, $6.50. | SOPOBRQPOFQROFOEOPQIOPOFOHT SOHIFOESIFOPO PR FOIOH0 AUTOMOBILE OWNERS! “ I have installed a Vulcanizer and am prepared to do : : ¢ TIRE REPAIRING ’5 Of the most dificult kind, and can give you satisfaction and * save you money. Also ? TIRES PLACED ON BABY CARRIA GES WHILE YOU WAIT : W. B. ARENDELL % Bicycle and General Repair Shop B Cedar Street, Just Back of Central Pharmacy FOBROMTYBOBO O YTIIHO DRI D BDDDDHOOODODDOTIDO HOC AL velm Chapter, U, ¥l 8. mocety vver weoad aud fouria Fhureday ‘ earh wonih al T:30 BB “ore Keen, W, K.; 4. F. Wilsor Lakeiand Lodge Ko, ¢1. * & & v. Regular comusnunications Leld weond and 4th Mondays at 7:20 3 . Vioiting brethren cordialir "ited, J. C. OWENS, W. M J. F. WILSON, B8acy K OF F. meetlng every Jegulsr Suosd oo T 80 at Odd Feliows Hall, Sia'o | MEMDOrN AlWays Weolcome ¥. D BRYAN Coaucellor Commard. AUKSON, decreialy hR . K iy 4 LfUGL ine i 10 = FEE SRV i1 Yeain nmth at Aantue apariing cor it. TALLRY. Lakeland + meets tha firat Jhursdsy & h menth fu Mazonfe Hell 4# companious wealcomed ¢onara, H. P.; J. F. Wilson Cbapter, a , Bagy Lakeland Caxap No. 78, W, 0. W meets every Thursda ulght. Woo wep Clrcle firet and third Acursds Afternoons at 3:Uv o'clock. W fttridge, Councly Commander; Mre Lula Hibb, Guaidian of Circle. ?0LK ENCAMYMENT NO. & 1.0. 0. : Pclk Encamyment No. 3, L. 0. ¥, wmeets the first and third Ao 1ays. Visiting Pat'iarchs welcome F. A. McDONALD, 8cribe 4. B, ZIMMERMAN, Chief Patriarch. GLAtB oL & Orange Blossom DUiv., No. & I A to B. of L. E. meets eve: tecond and fourth Wednesdayr ¢ sac. month at 2:30 p. m. Visitis sisters always welcolse, MRS. ), C. BROWN 3ecy Meets every Tuesday bpight at 1 clock, at Mcodonald's hall. (11} ‘nited Brocherhood of Carpemter aud Joiner, of America, Zocal 177¢ Meets each Thursday nignt Morgau & (roover hall. ove Bates’ Dry Goods Store. Visity: brothe.s welcome. R. ). MARSHALL, Presiden: J. W. LAYTON, Vice Pres J. W. TOGAN, Treasurer J. H YELDS, Fin. Becy. K f. DIELRiCH, Rec. Beey H. u. COX, Conductor :MUEL BOYER, {. W. 8CaRR, !. L. WILLOUGHBY, Elnora Rebekah Lodge No. « weets every second and fourth Mon tay nigbtws at L. 0. 0. £, hall. Vunt img brothers and sisters cordially mvitea. MRA. . E. ROBERTSON, N. G MR3. GUY ARENDELL, See. Lake Lodge No. 2,1.0.0. F zeets PF.iday nights at 7:80, at : ). O F. batl. Visiting brothers ar ordially ‘nvited. J. Z, REYNOLDS, Sec. 0. M. EATON, N. G. ORDER OF EAGLES. Tue Y¥raternal Order of Eagle acers every Wednesday might o 86, at 0Odd Fellows’ hall. 4. H. WILLIAMS, President E. M, SMAILS Secretary 320k Laxeland Lodge No. 1291, Benevo «nt and Protective Order of Eim neets every Thursday night in lods voms over postoffice. Visiting bret: GEORGE MOORE. E. R. ren cordially w without bath, $1.50; one person, with bath, $2; two 50; two persons, Wwith bath, $3. a Electric Lighted. W. L. Parker, Mgr., Tampa, (Courteous treatment guaranteed our patrg AMERICAN: One person wif two persons without bath, $2.50; (ke Fethtic Talalhin i bgls Surgical Geoc's Household an Sick Roum =up- pites go tol Lake Pharmac Bryan's Drug St e We wil! send them uvp 'you end will try to tr ]you right, PHONE 42 | |M Pure, rich, mierilzed frcia cows lnspected snd pazs s by the City Pure Food lepart weut, Manufact e unds the most modera and erfsc conditions. ALL {ngredien that go to make our cre.m MUST be the standard of pt ity and quality. There s difterence “Frozen Cul in learn to say tards” and POINSETTIA le Cream. Try it. Mn SALE BY lake Fharmac LA KELAND - SPLENDIE: N U7 / = 11§ sidewalk that g mai ot CEMENT {8 the walk t1at weather will not effect. NOW, before the inclemen: or of late fall sets in, have those needed walks, repair youl lar and make other repa're should be done with CEMENT. Ask us for figures—we'rs gl submit thex, p‘ [ s Lakeland Artifici Stone Works' H. B. Ziminerman, Prdj§ Begin Early to Train Chilo It i hadit alone that creste: #moe in the child, and ‘or the c”:l it 1t 18 not formed early, nothin bard, bitter “warfare” can ev mote it In its belug. Syster of the noblest iazw in ev'de the grect “und tor Bearn,