Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, October 28, 1913, Page 6

v ek . < e business man who wants his Lank account inoan institation that has every facility tor handling com mercial business an institution that is able and willing to extend him the aid he needs will find that his ac- count is welcome here We respectiully solicit inquiries H (Continued | dovwnponr than ever, A PERSON OF SOME IMPGRTANCE By LLOYD OSBOURNE Copyright, 1911, by the Bobbs-Merriil Company from Page 2.) and perhaps the weather the hope of seeing her take her for a drive if cloars and she is well ero At 3 he was at Fair Oaks in a worse only to tind him- Half soaked, he stood on the threshold and was told that Mis: Marshall could sce no one and that the doctor had given her some sleeving stuff. The general, too, had intrenched himself agafust callers. Matt climbed into his buggy and droyve off, <ick with despair. Nplashiug along the muddy road, he wondered at himself for refusing that S50000. With the money they had of- ferod him Chris, for was not this what it awmonnted to¥ - With £50,000 in his rebufle solf pockiet he might go up to that big honse and take her bodily away, mar- 'y lier, have her for his very own? Ninety-nine men out of a hundred ald sugeest o detailed examination ol our last statement , THE STATE. BANK C)F LAKELAND FLA IF 0U ARE IV IHE MARK:T For Tin, Sheet Iron, Copper. Zinc or any kind of Roofing Work, call the LAKELAND SHEET METAL WORKS Smith-Hardin Building Phone 279 Ask for J D, CARTIN : We can fix that leaky roof Our Motto is: Modest Prices and All Work Guaranteed, SLAOFOFOROIOBDFQIVE0F0D0 D 06 L 20 CHOAVCANON0OO VOO OO G ALBIELD, BELISARIO, Supt. and Gen. Man. ¢ ¢ Pros. s . and Treas. Uo merit the good will and confidence of cach customer by deserv- v 4 i P ¥ : HE LG : { [0 make each customer'’s dollar go the farthest by giving him the ¢ ¢ ighest quality at the lowest prices. 2 7T IN CEMENT £ Sidewalks, Floors, Porches and Ornamental Work for the Garden or 3 ‘emetery, Blocks, Brick, or anything in the cement line. [ r - 3 s LAKELAND PAVING & CONSTRUCTION CN 8 Phones: Office 548 Bfack. House 39 Blue. § LAKELAND, 307 West Main Street. FLA. W%OOUWOGDO&WOWMOQQQ&W PO BOFDOHOT OHOEOR: QEOBO: 0RO MWMWMWC AUTOMOBILE OWNERS! ! have installed a Vulcanizer and am prepared to do TIRE REPAIRING Of the most difficult kind, and can give you satisfaction and save you money. Also I'TRES PLACED ON BABY CARRIA GES WHILE YOU WAIT ; f W. B. ARENDELL R P Bicycle and General Repair Shop - Cedar Street, Just Back of Central Pharmacy Lhare anenar e FRORDBOBDFIRD SORCRPORE o TR0 CIORRHITHROCRORNHHRBRBRND | ——T AT e — W. K. Jackson-sssoiaes- W, K, MCRae | Owner and Manufac- Real turers’ Agent Estate Brokerage--Real Estate TELL US WHAT YOU HAVE TO s£ELL WE WILL TRY TO FIND A BUYER TELL US WHAT YOU WANT T0 BUY; WE WILL TRY TO FIND A SELLER DEEN & BR' ™ s Rooms 6 and 7, Lakeland Building Florida - Telegram 106 Week 1 loss ¢ | trade, vould have taken the money—would have jumped at it Fifty thousand It might be years before he wotld he worth a quarter as much. And here he was throwing it out of the window like a quixotic fool, It was not in him to betray John Mort. It mply that he was incapible of it. Mo almost wished that he was not, It v<onot principle nor religion nor anvthing bot a faet. e himselt was quite helpless, Volition lay altogether him It something he could not do. that was all. At home there was a telegram await ing him. It read: dollars! Wis s hoyond was Matthew Broughton, Care Mrs, Sattane Manaswan, Conn.: Fixperts pronounce rnby flawed and Firm faces subst ndy made. If acern nptly puaid shall dis- of statutory period ' worth §i00 only Ivance ¢ interest he not pose of ring at Telegraph in SNOOD It was a blow stageer; defenseless, wias to hide in his room. the door and with desperation read the telegram agnin. Good God, all he had | then was the money in his pocket! Were it not for Chris he would have | been less unmanned. The sea is :|i hard master, but it will alw feed and clothe a man who has made it his | He couldn't starve it that. But it meant losing Chris—abin- | doning all thought aud dreams of her as his wife, ITow did he know that he wasn't be- ing cheated? There was no tlaw in the ruby. Everything John Mort had wis of the best, of fhe finest. “Lx perts pronotnce ruby tawed!™ The hap would have paid him $5,500 then dud there for the ving. He was an espert himself, that bald man. e haduw't dillydallied or anything, but biad been eigerness itself to clinch the hargain, It was inconceivable that he & ITARGREAVES to make any min his first instinet wasn't | had been mistaken. e was a thief, that was what he was, a low, con | temptible thief, who had discovered how to get the ring for a thousand the thousand originally advanced, e raged up and down the room in | impotent wrath. People knocked and spoke through the keyhole, but he dis regarded them. One, alone, conld have been of the least solace to him, and she was lying in that great, grim house beyond those miles of dripping woods But she would know soon enough { pretending to laugh, Matt locked | 2la tif you don't mind Ud rather 1 low him i es T7HE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA., OCT. 28, 1913. hundred Thousand, and shall Be wost pleased to settle the matter at once on that basis.” “1 gave you my decision last night,” Matt said. *“Or rather I told you I hadn't the information you wanted. You surely can not vroof of it than this. What man in ' would refuse a hun(lrwl thousand dollars? 1 know I wouldn't, | I was only jo ing when T raised you. It was only to See how fa you would o, Mr. Kay, you are trying to buy \l“ullmv' I haven't got. and there it | i nutshell” 4 n who was the you ' referred to in that newspapen account The mian who p quelled the sa ready to aftack youn? please, It is very important key to everything.” Matt started; he had completely for- gotten that chance reference to John Mort: the indiscretion of it now took his breath away. What an ass he had to let Hunter Hoyt extort it from his lips! “Answer me strane teeth, his senses violinist Answer me that, it is the Lieen ever that.™ continued the a4 gleam of his yellow at Matt's arm . with and eclatehing . the violinist?' returned Matt, “He was nothing to et ited about. In reality. he wasn't a violinist at all. but played the concerting, and he didn't quell any- body. That was all the newspaper men's work, like most of the interview. It was simply that we had a seare once down in New Britain and kept him playing till we could get at our pistols.” “Then there was nothing in it%" “Well. there had been a massacre in the next bay, and”— “But no violinist? No one at all re-| sembling the miniature 1 showed you?" “No, no! e was a Dutchman nam- ed Van Tassel and had been a waiter in a Sydney restaurant. e was a hot tempered little fellow and had hit somebody over the head with a hottle, That's how we came to take him-paid ns 20 to smuggle him out of his serape” *1 see that you can't help us,” said Mro Kap after a pause. “It's disap- pointing to have to admit it. I wish I could persuade you to go hefore my principals and tell them swhat you've told e They blame me for my fail- ure are not convinced, you know think they conld have got this infor mation ont of you-this information thot isn't there. Perhaps 1 might ke it worth your while to come ottt of my own pocket, yon know--out of a1y own pocket. Would you con sider it “Where do you want me to go?" | “Ouly to the railway station, to a private car we have sidetracked there You could show them that we are on 4 wrong scent- support me in what |1 have already veported. T should Ivui d to pa, Surely that would | be worth haif an hour of your time? What do you say " Matt hong back. undecided and not vitene appreliension, terribly tempting, | He was confused. unconscious of a! Yet the $50 was It would allow him | to extend his stay in Manaswan; to‘ put off bis departure for a couple nf weeks; te be near Chris--to see her, (u talk to her, to dinger in paridise hetor ul he would be cast out of it fo Nor would it be any disioyalty Mort, bhut merely sion and falseliood, pos<il tul now that he was b ed. As to their doing hiw mull of eva torepetition wen help ol forewarn- harm that was preposterons. ‘Chrenten, per- haps? Well, let them threaten! One could stand a lot of threatening tor $o0. Yes, 'l go for $30," he said. *Ouwuly have it in advance.” Mr. Kay hastened to count ont (wo twenties and a ten, and then seemed to tind it an infliction that Matt should sugest any further delay, It was only to run upstairs and leave the money and his purse under the pillow, lnlll Mr Koy cliated and demurred, and Matt on his return found him waiting with ill suppressed impatience | alone™ he eried, and, grip- Matt's arm as though not to al ape again, hurried down “Come ping too soon. A few days and they would say goodby for the last time, forever, unless a miracle happened. The gen cral was the only person capable of figuring In a miracle. But Matt built no hopes there. It was impossible to associate “Bless you. my children,” with that keen. proud face—rather, n withering sentiment and a glance that would strike like a knife. The miracle would be how to get out alive—how to escape with the lest shred of self re spect. No. with $£000, with g eonrt and the aid of Chris' intrepid spirit, it The could have plucked | general or no general, and carried in triumph to that Kentuoky farm. But $80 was eichty ~nothit 3y supper time he | composin rose been I somewhat re covered and, though very pale, contrived in other respects to conceul the crnshing uaturve of hi misfortune. He announced he had received bhad news 1 that he micht be excused from 1 the particulars After supper h«- ot his overcoat and settled himself in o dry corner of the veranda, where his retlections suddenly arvested by the stoppage of an automobile at the gate and the de scent of a vaguely familiar tigure. It his gravely R were was an immense limousine, not unlike the one he had associated with Mr. Kay's departure the night before. 1In fact, the vaguely familiar figure was Mr. Kay himself, advancing hurriedly up the board walk. “Brought the mint with you?" Matt. “Why. \ll‘ Kay am ready asked certzinly 1 have,” exclaimed with undisguised eagerness. to raise our offer to a the board walk to the automobile. A moment later they were both inside and the car swiftly moving. had been within the bounds of reason | ( vo Be Continued ) FOR THE BRIDE'S BOUDOIR Dainty Draperies and Hanaings May Easily Be Secured, and Thers lIs Nothing Better. l In fitting up her | dainty | the bride will bedroom take stock of ali the | various draperies and hangings that ve been reibpated to her ate from | time witheut end. 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