Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, October 23, 1913, Page 6

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ARENDELL Bicycle and General Repair Skop Cedar Street, Just Back of Central Pharmacy [ have installed a Vulcanizer and am prepared to do | | OLTHDPOFOFOIEDFOSOHOROEFO N REITL IO GO O RIRIROORRIRRRO | | | NUWAY TAILOR SHOP 3 And Pressing Club Pressing and alteration; ladies’ work a specialty. and delivered. l Work sent for Hats cleaned and blocked. Ladles work solieited. the TAILOR | £ e | Bowyer Building | f_DUKE { Kentucky Ave. Phone 257 A PERSON | OF SOME IMPORTANCE By LLOYD OSBOURNE Copyright, 1911, by the Bobbs-Merrill Company (Continued from Page 2.) anT TNeq Tvery one wica delghled au- ticipation. The blockade was broken, and Matt had the supreme satisfaction of lending Miss Marshall into the pul i 2it. He would have put her on the| chair—there was a chair—but she pre ferred the hassock, insisting at the sume time that he should sit on the| tloor. Here they cowered out of view,| trying to restrain their laughter. “Now, tell me about those times,” said Matt. “What five times?' inquired Miss Marshall, provokingly insincere and with that pretty parting of her lips. “Oh, you know—what you said over; the phene™ “I'd rather hear about your first! time" “That's easy. 1 came here expecting! to tind you adorable, and you are.” “Men say things like that just as lit-! tle boys shout ‘Get a horse, get a horse!" when you're stuck in a motor.” “But you really and truly are,, and"— ! *And what?” “In all seriousness, I'm almost sorry I came.” | “Oh, dear! Why? Isn't the great, splendid, swaggering king happy in his little pulpit?” It became Matt to look grave-—be- | came his strong features and well (-ut[ mouth | “I might like you too well,” be said | simply. “Would that e so dreadful?" “I'm afraid of life—-afraid of deep! emotions.” “But you've got over them before?” “Not without scars.” “Isn’t that what life is, Mr. Brough- | ton?" | “Getting hurt and getting mended?” “No—looking for that other half of | one.” “Have you looked ?" | Miss Marshall nodded with an air of great seriousness. “I found him, only be was the wrong half--some- | | five | 3 ° Panuens “I'm almost sorry | came.” body else's half, you know-—anyway, not mine. You mustn't think me 80 | voung. I am nearly twenty-three and have broken an engagement.” ' | | “I suppose it would be horribly pre- sumptuous to ask if 1 have any of ‘the other half* qualities?” | “Oh, you want to make sure of a| doughnut before trading in your cooky. | My other half could never be so cau- | tions.” “But yvou do like me, don’'t you? You would searcely have telephoned to me like that if you hadn't” “That's true. It was perfectly crazy of me and almost entitles you to think | everythine.” “Everything? What's evervthing?” wt I meant more than 1 did"” “What exactly did von mean?” “Oh, how yvou pin me down! TIt's so ! impossible to tell you You never could understand.” “Why not? I'm not so conceited as that. 1 am quite capable of under- standing that a woman n 3 cents’ worth, but not “It's that very lite 3 t! ht like me 10" ap® it makes it so impossible. how can 1 express it—men se -« ing <o elear- ly, can express ev n {'ferent kinds of symbols ¢t them in their mind like a b record or | fmmigration statistics ire hazier, | more—more unforwulated, all instinct, | with a tingle where you have a fact” “That's awfully clever. Go on." “Is It clever? You see, we're even | clever im the same haphazard sort of way and hardly know it when we are' You came and I saw you and didn't think anytbing much about it except that you stayed in my bead. Stayed L A B LY A RN ' sallor like myself. | doesn’t know the rizht word. ) You like me—and that perhaps in some | Matt's heart | and his recoznition of Matt was of the No. 666 for M if taken then as a ton! return. Calomel end does not &ripe or sicken. 25¢ fHE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAK ELAND, FLA., OCT. 23, 1913. —— 4 stayed, Fou know—not rght out In tront, but in a corner, ke a hatbox your maid has forgotten to take away And every time I saw you the hat box and more worrying, till lfi;‘.w\ She broke off with a smile. adding lightls, “Oh, well, there's your donehnut, and now, please, I want me cooky " “les o derling little donghnut,” said Matt, “and instead of eating it I'm go- ing to put it away i silver paper :l.ll(l keep it just to lvok at. And as for cookivs- all 1 know is that the sweet- est voive in the world <aid, Come to the churelh social tomorrow nicht! and ! 1 came to the chureb socidl tomorrow nizht, where | found the sweetest voice in the world belonzed to the swootest girl in the world, and then evervthing seemed to go round and roun"l till the sweetest girl in the world, who is also the cleverest girl in the world, suddenly became the only girl in the world, and -and” “Yos, vou'd better stop there.” said Miss Marshall. *That isn’t frankness, that's conventionality. A second later you'll be saying ‘Love me and the .\\1I!'|I| is mine " “Would that be so awfully silly?” asked Matt “Not only silly. but bromidian.” 3 midian? What's bromidian?” ‘Repenting commonplaces, like a par- rot."” “Mayn't anybody say 1 like you without being called a parrot—-or that | bro name?” “In good society Mr. Anybody never says that to Miss Nomebody after an CHORHOROBONHRCH) O SRR YR . OO OHCHOHOHOBOHOOBN OO0 acquaintince so very brief as ours.” “No short cuts allowed; is that the idea?" “What's the most 1 could be permit- ted to say, then?-worrying? You said worrying, yourself.” “It isn't quite fair to steal my word.” “How clever one has to be—to like you One mustn't say this; one mustn't say that: it's like a compli- cated game, and terribly beyond a poot | You must forgive me for being blundering and stupid. 1 hardly know anything about young white ladies.” Miss Marshall laughed outright at being thus described. *1 never thought of myself as a young white lady.” she said, much entertained. *It sounds as funny to e as though you called me a young pink lady, or a young hine lady. Oh, dear,” she went on softly, “I don’t waut to Le too hard on my poor sailor. who's awfully nice and winning. even if he is stupid. and Let's just admit that 1 like you and that queer way it was all inevitable.” This unexpected admission made ! leap: again there wits | that dart of pain. that sense of over- whelming and somehow elusive happi. ness. The fragrance of that enchant- fng young womanhood was in his brain. For a while he remained silent, as though under a spell he was loath | to break. I don't b iieve | can laugh | any more.” he said at last, looking up strangely at his companion. *1 don't believe I can even go on talking as we have done. I wonld like to go away as | did yesterday, and think, | and think. and think.” That's what 1did, too,” she returned | in o voice that was almost a whisper. “When great things happen one wish- | es to be alone, doesn't one?” “Tell e vour nmme,” he said, stil in that wondering tone, “It's incredi- bie, but 1 do not know it." ! “Christine, though they call me Chris | =alwiays call me Chris” | “Aud mine soch a horrid one—Mat- | thew- and it's alwuys Matt, vou know, | which is even worse” | “1like it. Matt and Chris “it sounds old fashioned, doesn't it, like one's Maytlower ancestors? And ye afore. | 4 said Matthew was a young man of no- ble presence and of signal worth and understanding, withal sober and up standing 1o the fear of God, yve whilk of all ye pilgrim maids he chose one Christine Marshall, avowing for her"— “Go on - don't stop there.” But she did stop there, looking down ! at him with eyes like stars, all wondor and tenderness and shining, girl-like, with just a quiver of the pretty mouth, | Alas for the lie that came back to | | | Foost, accompanied by a perflmmrryf knocking on the pulpit panels, and the apparition of a very fmpatient _\'uuugi man in a high collar, “8Say, brother, ain't You ever going ‘e us that there recitation " "It has been unavoidably postpon- ed.” said Matt brazenly. rising, s Miss Marshall did the same. He plended with her to remain a little longer, but she would not. It sepmed that by this time the general would e as a roiaring lion, and prudence di tated a return | They found him not exactly roaring, ! but certainly rre ! to | i tfl, not to say crusty, scantiest | “For Leaven's sake let us get out of this place,” he said smothering an ex | Dletive \ night have had some | thought of the horses even if you hudn't for me. Come along ™ “"Oh papa, wait, I've invited Mr 3rouchton to have tea with us tomor. row-abont 4" Then <he added to Matt, “Please come, won't vou?” “Shall ook forward 1o it.” snapped the zeneral. with the manner of a per. 8on temporarily biocked in a burnine bufldine. “Good night. good m:hr': And with that and the pressure of g slender, gloved hand. Matt was left alone—-more alone, so it seemed to him, than be had ever been before in his life | ( To Be Continued') i | | I Thisisa prescription prepared ALARIA or CH ive or six doses will especially ‘ ILLS & FEVER, break any case, and c the Fever will not he liver better than It acts on ¢ E g i Imported Kippered’ Herring 10 pound kegs $1.25 Bulk Sweet Pickles Heinz ,‘57” 25¢ per quart Dried Pitted Cherries 35¢ per package Marshmallow Whip 25c per pint Also a fresh line at times of National Biscuit Co. Foods W. P. PILLANS & CO, Flerida Avenne Grocer Pure Food Stere IF YOU ARE THINKING OF BUILDING, SER MARSHALL & SANDERS The 0Id Reliable Contractors Who have been building houses in Lakeland for years, sy who never "FELL DOWN" or failed to give satisfaction, All classes of buildings contracted for. The many fip residences built by this firm are evidguces of their ubilityte make good. 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