Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, October 23, 1913, Page 2

).} 3 e e T i i i W. K. .lfiCl\S(}n-Associated.w_h'.Mckac l PAGE TWO NEW GOODS Mr. Cole has just returned frc Kets. \Ve are receiving new We invite you to call and ins m a two months’ stay in the mar the fall and holiday trade peet the quality and styles. Always goods for A Pleasure to Show Goods” COLE &6 HULL taweiers andjQptometrists Phone 173 lakeland, Fla, TAMPA'S MODERN AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN HOTEL *lectrlc Elevators, Electric DISOTO HOTEL [iectric Liehted. ans {n Dinlng Room. W. L. Parker, Mgr.,, Tampa, Fla urxm' and most comfortable lobby In the city T lirge porches: do not have to be cooped ap._ All outside rooms and well vent!lsted Courteous treatment gnarantead our patrona RATES—CUROPEAN : One person, without bath, $1 70 ; one person, with bath, $2; two per sons, without bllh, $250; two persons, with hath, $3. AMERICAN: One person with out bath, $3; one person with bath, $1.50; two persons without bath, $2.50; twc persons with bath, $6.50 Lakeland Business College Preparcs Yourg Ken and Young Women for lucra ive positions as Stenogreplers, Bookkeepers Telegraphers and Civil Service employees. All English and Commiercizl iBranches taught in poth 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 School Books and School Supplles Tablets, Pencils, Ink. Crayons, Lunch Baskets, Book-bags, Etc WE CAN SUPPLY YCURWANTS LAKELAND BOOK STORE Benford &4Steitz “Yes, son, that is a good haircut. 1 have my work done there. 1 will haye mother to take Wary to have her hair bobbed. 7They make a a specialty of cutiino children’s hair, The PHOENIX BARBER SHOP is the Iargost in Polk County Long Lifeof Linen J'amy Witk good lawmdry work is what yez eve losking fov an? 5 just whai we ary giving. Try wa ] Lakelana Steam Laundry Zhone 188 West Main $4. — CAMEOS, Brooches, pendants, scart pins, bar pins—a full line of the abuve goods just selected from a large stock. Every stone fine, ciean cut, the work of artisans. Call and look them over. We are al- ways glad to show our goods. H. C. STEVENS Jeweler Lakeland, Kkla. Owner and Manufac- turers’ Agent Real Estate Brokerage--Real Estate TELL US WHAT YOU HAVE TO aELL WE WILL TRY TO FIND A BUYLk ‘'ELL US WHAT YOU WANT Ty BUY; WE WILL TEY TO FIND A SELLER . Rooms 6 and 7, DEEN & BRYANT |Building Lakeland L4 T Florida TAE EVENING TELEGRAM. LAK ELAND, FLA, A PERSONOF 0CT. | 1 SYNOPSIS Matt Broughton leaves the service of John Mort on a Pacific island to return to America Mort gives him a valuable ring Broughton promises to say nothing abont the mysterious Mort and his woman com- panion He is shipwrecked and must realize In San Francizco on the ring Raising $1.000 on the ring, to bhe repaid, Broughton returns to his old home at Manaswan. He thinks of going into the mule business with Victor Daggancourt, | a colored garage keeper Broughton is visited by the local aditor. who calls him “king." The “king” is duc to a per story about Broughton 3 the Paclific. At a church fair he nieets Christine Marshall, daugnter of a locsi magnate “Does that mean you've found Mana swan Lorribly dull? But of course it does. People only stay here who have to—like barnacles on a rock.” “l1 don’t know. [I've liked it well enough.” stammered Matt, *“though yon make me ashamed to admit it. 1 think I'm sorry to leave the old place, specially now " “That settles it, Mr, Broughton, You simply must come!” excluimed the young lady. *Please tell me that you willl” Matt listened eagerly as she laughed agiain and then struck his ag, The sound of his voice startled him with its carnestuess. “Certainly, if rou wish it,” he said *It's too charming an invitation from too charming a person for me to 1 fuse.” Apparently Miss Marshall was o it tle taken aback. There ghade less cordiality in her tone as she replied, *Oh, if you would wneh rather not, you kunow—if it's inconvenient or anything—please don’t let me put you out.” “Oh, but I'd love to come. and truly I would.” With an even more ambiguous: “*Oh thanks! Then we will expect you Goodby!"™ the phone was closed seemed o Really Poor Dacgancourt was terribly east | and expostulated | down at the news tremblingly, with tears in his eyves. He was so humble, so quaveringly re strained, that his reproaches were harder to bear than if they had been | more outspoken. Mrs. Rattane and the others were merely surprised, very much surprised indeed, and listened with the greediest of ears and the most evident iueredulity to the tale of a forgotten promise to Mr. Doty An unreisoning elation Matt. He was enger to be alone with himself and dream, for had not a love Iy queen stooped to notice him and thrown him a flower? Never was a Saturday night more slow of arrival, yet when at last Matt stood at the entrance possessed he was stricken with a sort of terror ITe entered gcuiltily and once insid had a fresh spasm of dismay to find he was apparently the only man there in | ever on the alert, he wonld h E entered into the atlair v hility But at the 1 mddening e bed to | | ehatter; to eat thin to euat: to buy things buy: to be hil: | is 1 rs he didn't want he didn’t want 1 ous when arrested by after | the comie nan - intliction infliction to one whose heart was tumulit, and whose eyes were ever on | | the watch. SOME IMP2 “LLOYD OSBOURNE of the chureh | and heard the babel of voices within | 23, 1913. DNATDTA , 4 £~4 ANCE } By Copyright, 191}, by the Bobbe-Merril) Lompany. CHAPTER IV. »Always call me Chris.” U7 Mr. Doty wuas more to het trusted than Matt hadd thonght of u sudden he came bustling np like a rashing little tug, towing two statelier ships. Bewilder ! | ing inteodnetions ensued. Matt fonnd | himse!f shalking hands with an impos | ing centleman with 1 white muostaches | shiking hands with a young Iady in | bine foutard, whose dark. soft glance lingered curionsly on his own. Matt | hardly Enew whether she was pretty or not -or ot least very p His first impr vouth and hre fmpnike nally pssion wi more of gracions | «, of rather an | nt little mouth, parting « onperfeet teeths of delicately ! penciled slightly | e, and an abundance of glossy | hair, which under the lamplicht ap peared darker than it really w.s “I've met a considernble number of said the general it ¢ glad to add an- nw.v to w list von know It's rather a repronch to us, 'moafrafd, that we let the papers discover you fipst” SO, those pap exchiimed Matt “But really owhit s one to evehrows 1 nose do? 1 might a8 well run after an ex pross train as tey to deny all that ru! is sife in this country,” o with great eond I o to bed at nizht 1 nd wi up in Wit 18t s Marshall )\ Maid or smnww ng equally surprising and un pleasant.” SIt's the sn mudey pictures 1 hate mest™ put in Miss Marshall, *i've round with little had mine stick ol cupids shootine areows into an unfor | tunate forei nobleman.* The general, st 1y sally, was greeted passing uintanee the opportunity of iss Mar shall if she would not like to mike the round of the booths with him. Il.r face showed her pleasure at the pro posal, and in her answering look, so areh and eaver, Matt seemed to reml something that made him dizzy. She was more than pretty: she was ex | quisite, and the sudden realization of her beauty was not without a dart of pain. They moved about, talking--or | rather, trying to talk, for the noise and jostle eansed constant interruptions talking and hoping for chairs and elnd ing the general | L opadr of truants all the while looking into each other's eves and linghing Bot there were no chalrs: there wias not an empty spot in the whole church except in the pul pit, d that was set Innccessibly in | midair like a wooden lilv on a |'un'_' twisted stem. Matt gazed at it much as a cuastaway sailor might gaze at an | | afrship—an unminned advsilp avitting high above his head, But as he gazed his resolt *hing at his own ashit evening dress. The place was crowd. | on grew, and be announced 1 ed and hot and noisy and disconcert | it recklessly g com men with rosettes y | Bt they'll all see us!™ cried Miss U hand and welcomed hi | Marshail, ! M oexeited young ladies y d nd they | d him, holding ap objects fo X 1 | sale and ove wi ed saney with k) im od t { said Matt the ‘ drae | » hooths, of whic! d 1 up hore, ‘ t s 0w 0N ¢ o oside of t d ! 1 1o ol a sort of street ! ou'd | pro de l n | Ve rid 1 | COZY } AN berve, there and every- | o whore, was Mr Doty ] j7 A t 1 nice, w iy EaN i ! \ 1 n el | he erush to nuke s | | { that every one was having “a gooldl t! lep “ |1t was all ver kindly and simple d be re | hed it not been for s 8 et | i { | pense. and A restlessness that t Luever have snece these lovers, but his swa lowtail was an awe inspiring garh and bore with it a mysterious authority | X | Moreover, with quick presence of mmd' that convuised his cowmpanion, Matt announced that he was going to give | a recitation. which alln\d resentment (Contiaued on Poye 6.) J. F. TOWNSEND & COM! 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