Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, October 28, 1913, Page 2

PAGE TWO A ————. WHY TAKE CHANCE When you can take your watch where you ! are sure you can ¢et it repaired right the first time. We guarantee all work and will deliver if promptly. COLE &4 HULL Phone 173 Kentucky Avenue Lakeland | | ;‘ . —&] If You Want Something Real Nice to Eat, Try Some YLVANIA BOLOGNA DA RN B G halotuniisisin s oS IR PENNS Which is different from the ordinary Bologna. and is «f the fin: st and most appetizing flavor. FOR SALE BY ALL MEAT DEALERS JOHN E. EMBICH, AGENT . THE EVENING TELEGRAM. SOME I Lakeland Business Colleg Prepares Young Men and Young Women for lucra ive positions as Stenographers, Bookkeepers Telegraphers and Civil Service employees. All English and Commercial (Branches 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 ge: our terms or address W D HOLLAND. MANAGER School Books and school Supplies _“- Tablets, Pencils, Ink. Crayons, Lunch Baskets, Book-bags, Etc WE CAN SUPPLY YCUR WANTS | LAKELAND BOOK STORE Benford & Steitz \ “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. MANAGE Long Lifeof Linen uiong with good laundry work is what you ars lesking for un’ i [vat what wo are givizg Try w L PE Lakelana § tem}r Laundry Phone 188 West Hein B BGARETL LATT )AL AT AR T | AT CAMEOS | | Brooches, pendants, scart pins, bar pins-—a full line of the abuve goods just selected from a large stock. Every stons 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, Fla. Duke, the Tailor Manager NUWAY TAILOR SHOP | HIGH GRADE TAILORING Up-to-date cleaning, pressing, altering B. P. Whidden Proprietor Hats cleaned and blocked Bowyer Building Ladies work solicited Eentucky Ave. Phone 257 SYNOPSIS Matt Rroushian John Mort on a Pacific island to return to ' leaves thie gerviee of America Mart glves him a valnable ring Broughton promises to say nothing ahont the mysterions Mort and his woman com- panion He s shipwrecked and must realize In San Franclsco an the ring Ralsing $1.000 on the ring, to he repaf Broughton returns to his old nome at Manaswan. [Ile thinks of going into the mule business a colored garage keeper Broughton s visited by the local aditor. who czlls him “king.” The “king” is due to a “fake newspa per story about Broughton's adventures i the Pacific. At a chuich fair he weets Christine Marshall, daughter of a local magnate, APERSONOF LAKELAND, FLA., OCT. 28, 1913, g Lo S P T A e e o el 1 b Al i Do 92108 v = 1Y CY DR RS ¢ AE N ) j. e 1CWAINMIKY K Ye Furnish Susely Bonds in % Contracts if you want a cacin! consistent ant re / LLOYD OSBOURNE I less himorons ¢ tinued, hold L under the infliction, » member that the amount might be ma with Victor Daggancourt, | terially inerensed. Good night, good | é’ nicht " a1 m ’ | owy 1noney . Matt accompanied him down the Stairs and to the (rout door, where, 5 ; q with it renewed grsp of the hand and | Every old man is the ripened fruit of his younger days. & anoiher cordinl furowell, the stiranger man does not grow old over night. Age creeps upon us, ana if witlked 1 Iy away. bt alinost look § : { ¢ A Il e liE e SRR extravagance is stealing away our money, age is stealing away ol ax whoan automobile bad been Matt falls tn love with Chris, who asks ' him to call on her. Duaggancouri is an fous to make the start in the mule busi- ness in Kentucky ST on fls way to the Aurshalls' Matt ls detained by an importunate stranger, but Mautt is late and cannot listen to him. He tells bis love to Chris Chris also loves Matt. The stranger, who calls himself Kay, shows Matt an old portrait of Mort and offers him $50,000 for information about him, but Matt re- mains loyal. CHAPTER VII. Mr. Kay Offers More, R. KAY gathered up his notes and returned them to his wal- let. “Think it over,” he sald. “Fif ty thousand dollars is a lot to lose. Per- haps it may occur to you that you're acting rather precipitately, for, after all, a man's first duty is to himself, and you scarcely seem to be fn—er-- very affluent circumstances. If you should care to place a small flag in your window—a tie, for that matter, or any bright bit of color—we shall accept it as a sign that you have—er—changed your mind, Don't forget that, will you? It is quite conceivable that the sum might be increased if we were assured of your active co-operation, but it would be superfluous to go into that at this stage. Just a little flag at your window, and within six hours 1 shall be promptly at your service.” Matt burst out laughing. *Is that your usual method of communication?" “But why not a skyrocket he asked. “Fifty thousand dollars 18 a lot to lose.” while you are about it, or a blue light, and masks, of course—and a pass word. I'll say ‘Walter.,' and you an- swer ‘Jones,' or perhaps a single m, terions word, like ‘gurgle.’ rather good, How do you like gurgle?” The other's face davkened at this derisi When he spoke it was with perceptible humiliation and embarrass- ment. “1'm only an 1it.” he wur mured. “Such theatrics are none of my making. though in this affair they se'em unavoidable, Laugh all you like. Mr. Broughton. ‘A man who has thrown away a fortune for a whim is | entitled to, though some day when you're older and learn how hard a world this s it way seem copsiderably I N e T our capacity for work and preparing us for a desolate old age. | owas i clashoof gears, actlood of blind- | It you wish to be comfortable, you must begin puttin: awas ing lizht and o wegniticent limousine | 3 L ¢ f g swept hese ong into the night | YoUy ok Lod e Al olanibes SOlSs iRl S Matt tirrod indoors awaii, eager for | upon the money you BANKED when you were younger postponenment “I'd sot my foolish oid heart on it. s p o S e i iots 1. Blleeadl ot Yo 1 Hardware f.rnishings must be dur- o '« a tervible blow . ; . ‘ A ¥ a little while iv, safe, aristic=-musi harmonize : sake, don't . } 1 t Vietor. In with the architeciure of the house f v and dent) v ne to vo t dollar, at 3 a St y i Al el i way is to get your ha dware here, v ht N d ed and 2 t . i the waney tn it, Marse Our hardware edds not only to the Broy but b ou are you; ¢ 3 ocinse 16 1k it LA beauty of your house, but to tis stinct- his curse- to love and serve a 4 master. Say no more, sir. 1 shall not el { 7e hle you I am like the selling value. hist v ho put his trust in princes. and verily was he disappointed.” liab'e estitnate o0 'he constiuction of yourl building, SEE US (MMEVIATELY. Tt! FPHONE 241 Weharl will your. old age be 2 RicH or Futch & Geniry Bldg - cpo s, “opyright, 1911, vy tbe Bobbs-Merrill Company. Good night,” he con- ‘ « out his hand. *Permit | ¢ize for my persistence, | vou for your good nature You will let me | And re me to apoio and to thin of debt or 7 ,"’/ Yiexlravagance -Bank == hear fromw you, will you not? Lis delayed supper and in o staie of | extreme perplesity and exhilaration It was 1ot everybody who would have Fefused $50.000. The fact that he had Do Your Banking With Us done so put him in a glow of self es- %‘\ 3 ) f’ l‘J 3 teem. Though why had it been offer- i 5 ( ed—good God, why? And who was 3 l I /’ .‘23 John Mort, and what could they possi- bly want of him? How strange it all was, how insoluble! And, strangest of all, that he, Matt, the obscurest of mortals, should be caught up in any- thing that could conceivably “shake the world.” That was what Mort had sald—“it would shake the world.” Well, it shouldn't shake if he could help it. He was loyal through and through. Tlie “wolves” were chasing the wrong sleigh if they thought they could get a bite out of him, The next morning turned out a verita ble black Monday. Notonly was it rain- ing a sleety, dismal rain—Matt could have endured that—but he was assailed, besides, by a succession of disasters, First of all, there was no letter from Snood & Margreaves. Somehow he had fully counted on getting it, and OF LAKELAND oing Jo Build SPECIFY GUOD HAROWARE the firm's delay in writing began to take on an ominous aspect. With scarcely $80 in his pocket and part of that owing here and there, he felt uncomfortably pressed for money Then there was Daggancourt, whom he had completely forgotten in the flow of larger events—Daggancourt. effusively expectant of that immediate departure for Kentucky. To make a man weep s a painful experience, and it was in this manner Daggan- court received the news of a second One of the most important details in the planning of your new house is the selection of the hardware, Your choice of designs is very lib- eral-=we offer many ,different pat- terns to select from. Before spec- ifying your hardware, be sure and see us. We can save you money and give you a more beautiful home. Matt was conscience stricken; he had leaned on Vietor; he had found com- fort and a sense of safety in the old fellow's rugged affection. It was hard to see It go, and it appeared doubly valuable, now that it was lost. Matt telegraphed to Snood & Hargreaves: Please give immediate effect to my let- ter and remit money for ring by express Telegraph reply, saving when I may ex pect to receive it When this was accomplished he en countered the concluding disaster of that whole disastrous morning. His telephoned reqnest to speak to Miss Marshall was received by a maid, who said that her mistress was ill and could not come down. Nor could a messaze be carried to her because she was asleep. One might be left, how- Wilson Hardware Co. er. Did th lems vish ave :‘r";r d the gentleman wish to leav Phone 7] Opposlte Dep0t Matt, wretchedly perturbed, could think of nothing else than that Miss Marshall was to be informed that he had rung her up. “Broughton, not Button — B-r-o-u-g-h-t-o-n — and please tell her I shall call this afternoon in (Contiaued on Page 6.)