Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, September 30, 1913, Page 7

Tte Chalice of ourage of Certain P et ko petivies il A Romance of Colorado BY CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY hor of *“The Ring and the Man,* way,” “'As the Sparks Fly Upward."” Illastrations by Ellsworth Yoang e, o RN R (Copyright, 1911, by W, G. Chapman.) (Continued from Page 2.) o Tn“ant, hed in some way {urned r over to him. His consideration her, his gracious tenderness to- hrd 1-er, his absolute cbnegation, his ilen. overwhelming desire to please | br, to make the anomalous situation which they stood to each obscrved intimaecy, by an absolute ck c. presumption on his part—all oce things touched her profoundly. Although she did not recognize the ct th.on perhaps, she loved him from o moment her eyes had opened in o mist and rain after that awful pitle in the torrent to see him bend- g over her. No sight that had ever met Enid aitland's eyes was so glorious, so ve inspiring, so uplifting and mag- ficent as the view from the verge the cliff in the sunlight of scme 2ht winter morning. Few women bd ever enjoyed such privileges as rs, Sre 'd pot know whether she ked tbe winter crowned range best 1t way, or whether she preferred orld, glittering cold in the ; or even whether it was active when it was dark and ;s and drifts were only light- | » stars which shene never so above her head. ved to fury of 1 lLie 1 somc ¢s in the 3 1 the wind sht > lost souls in some icy h the Lills and over the her face if sle daved to [ R ) 1 o s s ~chool B other | vle in spite of their lonely and | i so bravely uphe and | | The uj | child' | the he | oks and THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAK ELAND, FLA., SEPT. 30, 1913. A Pt ————— = = 5= ..+~ A Wi . e e . ! but in the tempest he stood watchful, | on guard by her side, buttressing her, ! protecting her, sheltering her. Indeed his presence then was necessary, without him she could scarce have maintained a footing. The force of the wind might have hurled her down the mountain but for his strong arm. When the cold grew too great he led | her back carefully.to the hut and the | warm fire. i Ah, yes, life and the world were | both beautiful to her then, in night, in day, by sunlight, by moonlight, in fo this dear haven. TWas it strength of character she sought, resclution, determination? | This man had deliberately withdrawn from the world, buriea himself in this mountain, and had stayed there deaf to the alluring call of man or woman; be had had the courage to do that. Was it strength of mind she ad- mired? Enid Maitland was no mean { Judge of the mental powers of her acquaintance. She was just as full of life and spirit and the joy of them as any young woman should be, but she had not been trained by and thrown ! with the best for nothing. Noblesse | oblige! That his was a mind well stored with knowledge of the most, , varied sort she easily and at once perceived, Of course the popular baoks of the last five years had passed { him by, and of such he knew nothirg, but he could talk intelligently, inter- estingly, entertainingly upon the great , classics. Keats and Shakespeare were | his most thumbed volumes. She Loved to Stand in the Full Fury; of the Gale. i | { calm and storm. Yet it made no dif- forence what was spread before the; woman’s eyes, what glorious picture | was exhibited to her gaze, she could | not look at it more than a moment | without thinking of the man. With | the most fascinating panorama that | the earth's surface could spread be- | fore human vision to engage her at- tention, she looked into her own heart and saw there this man! Oh, she had fought against it at| first, but lately she had luxuriated in it. She loved loved him! | And why not? it that wom- | en love in men! h of body? She could remember yet how he had carried her over the wountaing in the midst of the storm, how she had been s to his at a task trength, d the | ly were ge up and ught her | heart. She realized later 1ad been, what a feat of 00i11g 01 3 overturning of th \ * chool Supplies A RIS en Tablets, Pencils, Ink., Crayons, Lunch Baskets, WE CAN SUPPLY YCURWANTS Book-bags, Etc LAKELAND BOOK STORE | Benford & Steitz ‘ | reminded him of that night in the | | Start that checking account and save yourself the risk, and inconvenience of carry!ng money about and of payiug bills, ete., with cash. The check book 1s sure to tricg the enocomy that doesn't pinch and will relieve you of many wo:ries. Your account is respectfully so- licited. aunoyance | to the roar of the wind through the | you felt He had graduated from Harvard as a civil engineer with the highest honors of his class and school and the youngest man to get his sheepskin! Enid Mait- land herself was a woman of hroad culture and wide reading and she de- liberately set herself to fathom this man's capabilitic Not infrequently, much to her surprise, soretimes to her dismay, but generally to her sat- isfaction, she found that she had no plummet with which to sound his greater depths. | Did she seek in him that fine flow- er of good breeding, gentleness and consideration? Where could she find these qualities better displayed? She was absolutely alone with this man, entirely in his power, shut off from the world and its interference as ef- fectually as if they had both been abandoned in an ice floe at the North Pole or cast away on some lonely fs. | land in the South Seas, yet she felt as safe as if she had been in her own | | house, or her uncle's, with every pro-! She.z pfctured often 'l}er return and | by | tection that human power could give, ' B€Ver by any chance did she think of He had never presumed upon the sit- uation in the least degree, he never once referred te the circumstances of their meeting in the remotest woy, he never even discussed her rescue from the flood, he never told her how he had borne her through the rain to the lonely shelter of the hills, and in no way did he say anything that the most keenly serutinizing mind would torture into an allusion to the pool and tha bear and the woman. The fineness of his breeding was never so well exhibited as in this reticence. More often than not it is what he does not rather than what he does that indicates the man, It would be never thou he forgotten merit in his ¢ ber them ¢ teep still—aye, showed the He would close his | eyes in that little room on the other | y of the door and see in the dark pool, her white sh s, her graceful arms, the lov: ce with its crown of sunny hair 1z above the rushing water. He had listened folly to deny that he ! it of these lad | them there would be no ilene but to remems- | things long nights, when she thought him 2sleep if she thought of him at all, and heard again the scrcam of the storm that had brought her to his arms. No snow drop that touched his cheek when he was wbroad but cold rain when Le had held her close and carried l'er on, He could not sit and mend her boot without remem- bering that white foot before which he would fain have prostrated him- self and upou which he would have pressed passionate kisses if he had given way to his d . But he kept all these things in his heart, pon- dered them and made no sign. Did she ask beauty in her lover? Ah, thcre at last he failed. Accord- ing to the canons of perfection he did not measure up to the standard. His features were irregular, his chin a trifle too are, Lis mouth & thought too { his brow wrinkled a little; but he was good to look at for | he looked strong, he looked clean and | he looked 2 There was about him, too, t tamp of practical ef-! ficieney t ien who can do things | always huve. You looked at him and | » that what he undertook | ould accomplish, that de- bility were incarnate that he s are said sent, and the sender. man neith- th el | I, at least, not This woman leved thig er because nor in spite of these qualities. That they were might account for her affection, but if they had not been, it may be that that af- | fection, that that passion, would have inhabitated bher heart still. No one can say, no one can tell how or why those things are. She had loved him while she raged against him and hat- ed him. She did neither the one nor the other of those two last things, | now, and she loved him the more, Mystery I8 a great mover; there is nothing so attractive as a problem we cannot solve. The very situation of the man, how he came there, what | he did there, why he remained thcre,y questions to which she bad yet no answer, stimulated her profoundly. Because she did not know she ques-| tioned iu secret; interest was aroused and the transition to love was easy. Propinquity, too ponsible for | | 1 | cellent | an expensive | household, and the tion spent upon it -] pend upon wi i scheme of its surr | bottom, and another exactly half way PAGR LRV ’ g s b o SR, ARSI inevitable. ‘ Yes, this woman loved this man. She said in bLer heart—and 1 am' J. P. McCORQUODALE that she would have loved him had | The Florida Avenue Grocer he been one among millions to stand | ——— o before her, and it gwas true. He wa:‘ 290 PHON E R ED i the complement of her nature. They | differed in temperament as much as | in complexion, and yet fn those dif- | ferences as must always be to make ! perfect love and perfect union, there | were striking resemblances, necessary | points of contact. : There was no reason whatever why | Enid Maitland should not love this' man. The only possible check upon‘ ber feelings would have been her rather anomalous relation to Arm- strong, but she reflected that she had promised him definitely nothing. Respectfully asks his friends and the pubi generally to give him a call when needing Fresh Meats, Groceries, Vegetables, Etc. 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