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. BRADY fid'%fi-fl,hflfi e S 1 O Wim by Ellswerth Young t. 1011, by W. G. Chapman.) (Continued from Page 2.) narrow door iike a lion pent up ars of steel. I bad oniy my own , my own passionate adoration to e me then, but now that I know love me, that I see it in your eyes, I hear it from your lips, that I Lk it in the beat of your heart, can Jep silent? Can I live on and on? I see you, touch you, breathe the “% air with you, be pent up in the .3 roomy with you Lour after hour, after day, and go on as before? I ;de it it 18 an imposaibility. t keeps me now from taking you y arms and from kissing the color i your-cheeks, from making your my own, from drinking the light /your eyes?” He swayed xesr to aihis voice rose. “What restraims ' be demanded. 17 " sald the woman, mever Vi back an inch, facing him an the courage and daring with h & Goddess might look upon & “Nothing but my weakness and strength.” es, that's it, but do not count too . A upon the one or the other. —< God, how can I keep away from life on the old terms is insup le.,. I must go.” od where?”" aywhere, 80 it be away.” od when?” ow.” Y would be death in the snow and © mountains tonight. No, mno, s;annot go.” ell, tomorrow then. It will be I can't take you with me, but I 80 alone to the settlements, 1 tell your friends you are here, 9 THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA., OCT. 2, 1913. Ge allve, well. I shall find men to come | I Treeze and dle unléss T Tave your May Latimer In the strect. . - tried | back and get you. What I cannot do alone numbers together may effect. They can carry you over the worst of the trails, you shall be restored to your people, to your world again, you can forget me.” “And do you think,” asked the wo- man, “that I could ever forget you?” “I don't know,” “And will you forget me?” “Not so long as life throbs ia my veins, and beyond.” “And I t0o,” was the return. “So be it. You won't be afraid to stay here alone, now.” “No, not since you love me,” was the noble answer. “I suppose I must; She Was Utterly Unable te Suppress an Exclamation. there is no other way, we could ot g0 on as before. And you will come back to me as quickly as you can with the others?” “I shall not come back; I will give them the direction, they can find you without me. When I say goodbye to you tomorrow it shall be forever.” “And I swear to you," asserted the woman in quick desperation, “if you do not come hack they shall have nothing to carry from here but my dead body. You do not alone know what love s, she cried reeolutely, “and I will not let you go unless I have your word to return.” “And how will you prevent my go- ing?” “I can’t. 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Say the word and | I am at your feet, I put the past be- hind me.” “I don’t say the word,” answered the woman bravely, white faced, pale lipped, but resolute. “To be yours, to have you mine, is the greatest desire of my heart, but not in the coward's way, not at the expense of honor, of self-respect—no not that way. Cour age, my friend, God will show us the way, and meantime good night.” “I shall start in the morning.” “Yes,” she nodded reluctantly but knowing it had to be, “but you won't go without bidding me good bye.” “No.” | “Good night then,” she sald extend- ing her hand.” “Good night,” he whispered hoars- ley and refused it, backing away. “I | don't dare to take it. I don't dare to touch you again. I love you so, my | | only salvation s to keep away.” (To Be Continued.) HIS YELLOW STREAK t By GERALD TAYLOR. “The reason why some men never succeed,” said Anderson at the club, “is that they don't measure up to more than their twenty or twenty-five & week. Take Joe Ransom, for in- stance.” “What, Joe Ransom who—?" “Shut up, Mortimer. I'm telling this tale.” i “But Joe Ransom has succeeded—at least, he—" Anderson turned on him so savage ly that Mortimer growled himself into silence. Then Anderson resumed. “Joe Ransom was a poor clerk, earn- ing $18 a week. That was four years ago. He used to come round to my bachelor rooms in the evening, and, when I wasn't too busy to kick him out, he would lament the harshness of fate and the hardness of his boss untfl I kicked him out anyway. Rar some thought I hadn't mu~h sympathy for him, and I hadn’t. But he thought, also, that I hadn’t any interest in him, and there he was wrong. He was very interesting to me as a psychological subject. I knew that Joe's faflure came from a certain instability of character. He had a yellow streak in him, but it hadn't had the opportunity to show up, that's all. “He had a girl—all those fellows have. Her name was May Latimer, and they didn't see any prospect of getting married. I met her once. She was a good-hearted, shrewd-headed, rather common type of girl, and just the mate for Joe. He hadn’t had the sense to select her, though. She had selected him. “And then one night Joe came rush- ing into my rooms, wild with excite- ment. “‘Get out!’ Isaid. ‘T'm busy.’ “‘Can't help it,’ answered Joe, danc- ing round the room. ‘You've got to listen to me. Fortune's turned. I'm rich. “‘What's the matter? I asked. ‘Got a ralse from your boss? “‘No,’ answered Joe, trying the tan- go with my best leather chair. ‘I've come into a fortune.’ “Then' he reminded me about an ec- centric old uncle of his in Maine whom 0 Sl uftod arm [ AL “So It Seems There lsn't Any Prop- erty After All. he had often spoken about. It seem- ed that the old boy had died and made him his sole heir to his prop- erty, which was worth a little more than $40,000. Joe showed me the law- | yer's letter from Portland, and he was | 80 excited that he forgot to take it away when he went home. “From that hour Joe Ransom was a | changed man. The property was to be | sold and he expected the money with- | In six weeks. Every tradesman in our | town learned the news. Joe bought $500 worth of clothes the second day. On the third day he purchased a touring car and a runabout. On the fourth he bought a yacht. On the fifth he invested in a house and a butler. On the sixth he negotiated for a steam- ship passage aroun4 the world. When two weeks had gone by all Joe Ran- | gom'’s money was tied up in negotiable | securities. d the money was still ! 2 th distant. ' said Joe Ransom had a yellow | streak in him, and now it came out. In the middle of the third wm;k}_gej She L | joker did you a good turn against to hurry by me and I stopped her. Then I saw that she was crying and she looked ten years older. 4 “‘What's the matter, Miss Latimer? I asked. “‘Joe has thrown me over,’ she sob- bed. I said she was a commonplace sort of girl, and the type that would blurt out that sort of thing. But; all the same she was just suited to Joe and I was mighty sorry for both of them. “The hound kept away from me after that. I guess he knew that I had got wind of the affair. Folks be- ' gan coupling his name with that of Miss Macy, a local society girl, as the mewspapers phrase it. Miss Macy | badn’t any money, but she had style and dash to sell and she wasn't chary about it I reckon she was anxious to get those pretiy insteps of hers inside that touring car. “It was at the end of the fourth week when Joe burst into my rooms one evening, as white as a sheet. In his hand he held a lawyer's letter. He handed it to me without a word and sank down into my leather chair. There was no tango this time. His face was drawn and yellow. I read the letter and looked at him, and I was Quite shocked at the change in his appearance. “‘§o it seems there isn't any prop- After all,’ I said. “*No, he crieds ‘The old hog hadn't any title to that land at all. What am I going to do, Will? TI'm ruined.’ “‘What about the real estate and the touring car? I asked. I couldu't help taunting him. “‘They're going to take everything back,’ he answered savagely. ‘But what good will that do me? I owe five hundred for the clothes and it will take me my life to pay that back —if 1 get back my job.’ “‘How about Miss Latimer? I ask- od, and Joe sprang up and grabbed me by the arm. “‘I've been a hog and a skunk, Will,' he said. ‘Do you think she'll take me back? Do you? “I told him to be a man, to go to his boss first und ask for his old job back; then to go to Miss Latimer and ask her forgiveness. 1 think he saw things more serfously when I had finished speaking to him. Anyway, he did what I told him to , and next day he was back with his former employer, working for $18 a week. And the fol- lowing Sunday I met him walking with May Latimer and their faces were ra- diant. “Yes, that was a lesson for Joe Ransom. All the town was laughing at him. The little boys called ‘chug, chug,’ after him in the streets. But May was a plucky girl and she stood by him, and 1 saw that he was de termined to live down the past. “Two weeks passed. The boys had ceased to yell after Joe. The day for the marriage had been fixed. The tailor had been pacified, through my intervention. Joe's future was ap- parently to be as untroubled as his past bad been. The brief splurge, the short and vivid dream of wealth had steadied the fellow. The yellow streak had worn itself away. And then, a few nights before his wed- ding day, Joe and Miss Latimer came round to my rooms together. Joe had a letter in his hands. He handed it to me without a word. I read it. “Dear Sir,’ it ran: “‘We beg to notify you that the sale of the property of your uncle, the late Mr. Josiah Ransom, netted the sum of $43,897.16, and we are enclos- ing you a draft for the same, less five per cent. commission and estate fees. “ ‘Respectfully yours, “‘Wedgwood and Orpington.’ “‘Well, young people,’ I gaid, ‘what do you make of that? “Joe swallowed painfully. ‘I've sent a telegram and had the letter con- firmed, and they say the former let- ter was a hoax,’ he said. ‘It's true, Will, don't you understand? Lord, | that practical joker saved my money | for me. I don't owe a penny except to the tailor, and May is going to see | that there aren't any touring cars.’ “‘It seems as though that practical your wish,’ T said. ‘Maybe he was & friend of yours in disguise, Joe. “‘Maybe,’ said Joe Ransom doubt- fully. “But May Latimer had more per-| ception than I had given her credit fqr, because, as they went out of the door she suddenly turned and squeezed my hand. “‘I'll never forget this—never, Mr. Anderson,’ she said. “‘Take care of Joe’ I answered, ‘and we'll call it square.’ “She did.” (Copyright, 1913, by W, G. Chapmax.) Human Thumb a Brain Gauge. The fact that there {s what is known as the “thumb center” in the brain, recognized by all surgeons, demonstrates the immense importance attached to the thumb by medical science, It there {s a tendency toward par alysis, the physician notes it in the thumbs long before the malady shows itself in other directions. 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