Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, October 10, 1913, Page 2

s ey PAGE TWO NEW GOODS Mr. Cole has just returned from a two months’ stay in the mar- kets. We are receiving new goods for the fall and holiday trade. We invite you to call and inspect the quality and styles. Alwaye “A Pleasure to Show Goods” (™. =~ " COLE & HULL jeweters and|Optometrists Phone 173 Lakeland, Fle. TAMPA'S MODERN AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN HOTEL Rlectric Elevators, Electric 0' 5010 “0"’[[ Electric Lighted. Fans in Dining Room. W. L. Parker, Mgr., Tampa, Na d most comfortable lobby in the city. Two large porches; do not have to be cooped 1?:.meitlln:>uuldl rooms and well ventilated. Courteous treatment guaranteed our patrons RATES—EUROPEAN : One person, withous bath, $1.50; one person, with bath, $2; two per sons, without bath, $2.50; two persons, with bath, $3. AMERICAN: One person with out bath, $3; one person with bath, $3.50; two persons without bath, $2.50; twe persons with bath, $8.50. Lakeland Business College P:epares Young Men and Young Women for lucra ive positions as Stenographers, Bookkeepers Telegraphers and Civil Service employees. All English and Commercial iBranches taught in both day and night sessions. Parents. enter your son or daughter now and give them a thorough commercial training at one- fourth the cost of sending them elsewhere. Call and get our terms or address W. D. HOLLAND. MANAGER S T e S \ Mann Plumbingco. BOWYER BUILDING, LAKELAND, FLA. Best Place__ <1your Order Work Now and and Avoid the All work guaranteed first class in every respect.hEstimates furnished on short notice. Office Phone 257 Residence Phone 274-Red “Yes, son, that is a good haircut. 1 have my work done there. | will haye mother to take Wary to have her hair bobbed. They make; a a specialty of cutting children’s hair, The PHOENIX BARBER SHOP is the largost in_Polk County ¥ ¢ & L. "E. PEACOCK. MANAGER Long Life of Linen| long with geod laundry work (s what you are lesking for ant \hat in just what wo are giving. Try ws Lakelana Steam Laundry Phone 180 West Main B4, Brooches, pendants, scart 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 C. STEVENS Jeweler Lakeland, Fla. — ¥ W. K. Jackson-sswites- W, K. McRae Owner and Manufac- Real turers’ Agent Estate Brokerage--Real Estate 2 e TELL US WHAT YOU HAVE TO »ELL WE WILL TRY TO FIND A BUYER TELL US WHAT YOU WANT Ty BUY; WE WILL TRY TO FIND A SELLER Rooms 6'and 7, DEEN & BRYANT Building Lakeland B S Florida L NS AR S THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAK ELAND, FLA., OCT. 10, B “Bh, TN acknowledge them,” said Armstrong, seeing the absolute futils ity of further denial. He had forgot. ten all about the letters. ‘He had not dreamed they were in existence. “You've got me beat between you; the cards are stacked against me, I've done my damndest’—and indeed that was true. Well, he had played a great game, battling for a hizh stake he Lad stuek at nothing. A career in which some | good had mingled’ with much bad was | now at an end. He had lost utterly; ! would he show himself a good loser? “Mr. Armstrong,” said Newhold quietly, extending his hand, “here are | your letters.” “What do you mean?" “I am not 1n the habit of reading let- ters addressed to other people without permission, and wiien the recipient of them is dead long since, I am doubly bound.” “You're a damned fool,” cried Arm- strong contemptuousiy. “That kind of a charge from your kind of a man is perhaps the highest complaint you could pay me. I don't know whether 1 shall ever get rid of the doubt you have tried to lodge in my soul about my dead wife, but—" “There ain't no doubt about it,” pro- tested old Kirkby earnestly. “I've read them letters a hundred times over, havin' no scruples whatsoever, an' in every one of 'em he was beg- gin' an’ pleadin’ with her to go away with him an' fightin’ her refusal to do it. I guess I've got to admit that she It Was the Woman Who Broke the Silence. didn't love you none, Newbold, an’ she did love this here wuthless Armstrong, but for the sake of her reputation, I'll prove to you all from them letters of hisn, from his own words, that there didn't llve a cleaner hearted, more vir- tuous upright feemale than that there wife of yourn, even if she didn't love you. It's God's truth an' you kin take it from me."” “Mr. Armstrong,” cried Enid Mait- land, interposing at this juncture. “Not very long ago I told you I liked you better than any man I had ever seen. I thought perhaps I might have loved you, and that was true. You have played the coward’s part and the liar's part in this room—" “Did I fight him like a coward?"” asked Armstrong. “No,” answered Newbold for her, re- membering the struggle; “you fought like a man.” Singular perversion of language and thought there! If two struggled like wild beasts that was fighting like men! “But let that pass,” continued the woman. “I don't deny your phvsical courage, but I am going to appeal to another kind of a courage which I be- lleve you possess. You have showed your evil side here in this room, but I don't believe that's the only side you have, else I couldn’t have liked you in {the past. You have made a charge against two women; one dead and one living. It makes little difference what you say about me. I need no defense and no justification in the eyes of those here who love me, and for the rest of the world I don't care. But you have slain this man's confidence in & woman he once loved, and who he thought loved him. As you are & man, tell him that it was a lie and that she was innocent of anything else although she did love you.” What a singular situation, an obser- ver who knew all might have reflect- ed! Here was Enid Maitland pleading for the good name of the woman who bhad married the man she now loved, and whom by rights she should have jealously hated. “You ask me more than I can—" faltered Armstrong yet greatly moved | lI:oy this touching appeal to his better | self. | “Let him speak no word,” protested Newbold quickly. “I wouldn’t believe | him on his oath.” | “Steady now, steady,” interposed Kirkby with his frontier instinct for fair plas, “the mews down, Newbold, P INuppp— he Story i}f\C riai Yorsons rank of it 5‘"3 ngqix red A Romance o \ By gyrus Townsen ——— Our New Line of Coat Suits and Dres ey HAVE ARRIVED An inspection of these handsome thingg is cordially invited MODE 1918. for S swor Th %, 0, Ehap M N 8 Mrs. H. Logan, Protrietress h this paper for Announcement of Opening Next Wegg don't hit him now.” _ | “Give him a chance,” added Mait- land earnestly. “You would not believe me, laughed A1 ong horribly, “well then this what I say, whe true or )i can be the j What hont to sa all reco i vel at forthcoming « Vel ) i final | ate made her » yerful one: the 1 1y i the wonian who urg-d him: theie W | nothing left for him but a chance that she should think better of him than he merited; he had come to the end of his resource And Enid Maitland spoke again as he hesitated. “0, ihink, think before you speak,” she cried | “If I thought,” answered Arm-, i ‘strong quickly, “T should go mad. New- | bold, your wife was as pure as the | snow; that she loved me I cannot and | will not deny, she married you in a | fit of jealousy and anger after a quar- rel between us in which 1 was to blame, and when [ came back to the | camp in your absence, I strove to | make it up and used every argument that I possessed to get her to leave you and to live with me. Although she had no love for you she was too We refer those who have not banked with us to those why HAVE. We are here to serve our patrons, and are willing, at any time, to advise those who need help or advice You go to the doc’ good and too true a woman for that. Now you've got the truth, damn you, believe it oy not as you like. Miss | { Maitland,” he udded swiftly. “If1bad ) 450 when you are ill, you go to the lawyer to straighten out yow met you €oor I might have been legal difficulties; when you are in financial perplexity why not gv to the BANK? The banker is the one man who gives his advice free and cheerfully. Do Your Banking With Us FIRST NATIONAL BAN OF LAKELAND verything Ev IN BUILDERS’ Hardware It is most important to select the best hardware for that new home or building. That brings you here, for we make a point of carrying noth- ing but the best builder’s hard- were that adds not only to tke beauty of a building, but to its selling value as weil. The sash and door locks, hinges, etc., are a very small part of a building, but will re- Pay many times for the cost and trouble of proper selection. We are prepared to pame a better man. Good bye.” | He turned suddenly and none pre- | venting, indeed it was not possible, he ran to tie ounter door; as he did so | his Land snatched something that lay on the chest of drawers. There was a flash of light as he drew in his arm but none saw what it was. In a few seconds he was outside the door. The table was between old Kirkby and the exit; Maitland and Newbold were nearest. The old man came to his senses first. “After him," he cried, “he means—" But oefore anybody could stir the dull report of a pistol come through the open door! They found Armstrong lying on his back in the snowy path, his face as white as the drift that pillowed his head, Newhold's heavy revolver still clutched in Lis right hand and a bloody welling smudge on his left breast over his heart. It was the wo- man who broke the silence. “Oh,” she sobbed, “it can't be—" “Dead,” said Maitland solemnly. “And it might have been by my hand,” muttered Newbold to himself in horror. “He'll never cause no more trouble to nobody in this world, Miss Enid an’ gents,” said old Kirkby gravely. “Well, he was a damned fool an' & damned villain in some ways,” continued the old frontiersman reflectively in the si lence broken otherwise only by the woman's sobbing breaths, “but he had some of the qualities that go to make & man, an’ I ain't doubtin’ but what them last words of hisn was mighty | near true. Ef he had met a girl like Jyou earlier in his life, he mought have been a different man.” | | CHAPTER XXIV. The Draught of Joy. The great library was the prettiest | room in Robert Maitland's magnificent mansion in Denver's most favored res. | idence section. It was a long, studded room with a heavy beamed ceiling. The low book cases, about five feet high, ran between all the | windows and doors on all sides of the | room. At one end there was a hugel open fire place built of rough stone, | and as it was winter a cheerful fire of logs blazed on the hearth. It was & man's room preeminently, The drawing-room across the hall was Mrs, | Maitland's domain, but the library re- | flected her husband’s picturesque if | low- somewhat erratic taste. On the 3 walls ther y ictures i i the svrelsz “;y “I(l‘:ningpt]:;?re‘\mc:l- ";teres"ng pnces on ‘he Com' and, Dunton, i L gy o B S plete hardware for any style of ed heads of bear and deer and buftalo, Swords and other arms stood here ang | there. The writing table was massive and the chairs easy, comfortable and inviting. The floor was strewn with robes and rugs. From the windcwsl facing westward, since the house wag set on a high hill, one could see the great rampart of the range. There were three men in the room on that brilliant morning early in Jap. | building from the humble cot- tage to the largest office build- ing. Yes, Sir! We also sell. the beslt building tools--all moder- at i vary something like a month aftep | id prlced. these adventures in the mountaing which have been so : brothers Maitland; the third was New- - Hardware Compan The shock produced upon Enid M P hone 71 Opposite Depot ait- strong to- S episodes land by the death of Ar gether with the tramend. that had preceded ii had utterly pros. strated her They bad spent the pight at th »the mountaing agd (Continued o Page i