Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 4, 1913, Page 2

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LAKELAND, NOV. 4, 1913. ' APERSONOF SOME IMPORTANCE § SYNOPSIS Matt Broughton leaves the gervies of John Mort on a Paclfic island to return to \ America Mort gives him a valuable ring Brouchton promises to sav nothing shont | the mysterious Mort and his woman com- panion He 18 shipwrecked and must reallze In San Francisco on the ring Raising §1,000 on the ring, to be repald, ! Brourhton returns to his old nome at Manaswan He thinks of goinz Into the mule husiness with Victor Dagezancourt, | & colored warage keener Broughton s, visited by the local aditor, who cells him | “king " The “king” is due to a “fike" newspu- | per story about Broughton's udventure the Pacific. At a church tair he Marshall, dauxtter of a lo magnite, Matt falls tn love with Chris, who asks him to call on her. Dusgancourt is anx- fous to make the start in the mule busi- Kentucky. ©n he way to the Mirshalls Matt 1s detained by an importunate stranger, but Mutt Is late and cannot listen to him, He telis his love to Chris Chria also loves Matt. The stranger, who calls himself Kay, shows Matt an old portrait of Mort and offers him $0.04 for Information about him, but Matt re- | mains loyal Matt agaln refuses ¢} i atia cde but escapes. He tells Chris about Mort, and together they try to puzzle out the strange man's ldentity, Chris promises to marry Matt as soon as he gets a Job In epite of expected oppo- sition from her wealthy and proud father. Mysterlous Influences lose various posi- tlons for Matt, Including one as asslstant to Daggancourt and demonstrator of an automoblle, | Matt and Chris elope and are marrted after a quarrel with General Marshall, They go to San Franclsco and ship for John Mort's island on board the schoon- er Esmeralda, commanded by Captain Schwartz. CHAPTER XIIL A Friend Drops From Heaven. HRIS, who was sitting on the bed In a cheap rooming house in San Francigco, looked op and saild with a strange earn- estness: “Matt, 1 want to tell you something.” “Why, what is it?" he asked care lessly. “We were followed all the way up from the ferry." “Followed ?** *“Yes. 1 man followed us: I'm posi- tive of it." She roxe, and going to the window, looked out. | “Oh, Matt. there he is now!" she' eried “Cowe quick " | But Matt was too late; the man had | disappeared in the direction of a saloon. Matt had Intended to go to Spnood & Hargreaves and, demanding an ex planation of their outrageous conduet, force then to a settlement. His post tion was unassailable. If they could | show him no ring—and he knew they | did not have it—he could threaten them with the police and press them | to the wall But the unwisdom of | puch a course grew more and more ap parent. It would be tantamounnt to | announcing his arrvival to Mr. Kay, with unforeseeable dangers aud cou- sequences, Snood & Hargreaves were put hy a8 a last resort, only to be braved in the extremity of misfortune. Instead. Matt would make the round of the business houses with which he had | formerly dealt on John Mort's behalf | and borrow sutlicient woney, if n«; could, for a steerage passage In the mail steamer to Samoa Chris necompanied him. It was a | blustering, windy day. bleak and cheerless, and it seemed to become bleaker and more cheerless still as | Matt was denied at one ottice after | another. He wax the victim of by- 7 gone zeal, of byrgone logalty and hon. ‘ esty. However lightly he had spent his own money. he had alwuys been a } hard bargainer where John Mort's was concerned. How remorselessly that B per cent for cash™ now rose in judg. | ment against mm that 1 can do bet. ter at Turner's,” or whatever it was— | to bring down the price. By 4 o'clock he hud to confess him self heaten. Except for a ship chandl r, at the foot of Market street, the list of poesible lenders was_exhausted. But | 'mm\ way, whose last 1 | I ! | | | [ cheerfully, indicatine Matt ! e with yon, | abonrd? | awakening to interest | mome for white soclety. “LLOYD OSBOURNE Sepyriges, 1911, 0y the Bebbe-Merrill Lompany. e had never put mueh Hustness In s e he lhad some trouble in remoemberinz Yes. Coloman, that was it—Joo Col man, a Jolly old Englishwan gs round as a tuh. Coleman greeted heartily that Matt wo surprice he wns al him s nch wout t hoeartily—so “You'l better be en '“l‘" he sl with o wroetehed e ata sudle, “I'm on my |u s and every shike of my h mlx t\ n 83" AL ned Caleman in sham Hz- n. “Here. sit d nwn oo thot ! ]l have o cirr [RESY | \m e A0S like ol tims to sce You agn lw t st o0 'I will 1 Were vory warnpine, ] i 1| ear and leavine aeninst sn oancly he told Matt “to get on with bis (xlo of woe" red. but swith reservotiong [ that he had tricd life ausd failed and wanted to retarn to the 1shinds, | | Matt obo, favine hriefly shore “That's ense” safd Coleman, “No | need to be so hlue ahont it, I'm eand for a hnundreed dotlars, 1 alwavs ke you, Bronehiton, and when | like o man | it don't stop at the trousers pockot | [ Bless your hondsome face, it don't All yow've to do is to eateh the mafl boat nnd male a bee line for the co- coantts andd the o i *1 have wine with me, Joe, rled.” *Oh, I say!” Coleman exclaimed. ruh bing his chin and looking worred “You've been going it. haven't you? A hundred dollars is about my Hwit, | couldn’t go more than o hundred, and that's what they charee for a sinele passage to 8nmon, Hold on, thongh, | have it! Ship stewnrd or work yvour way and let wifev he the prssenpcer Coleman suddenly dashed to the door and grabbed the arm of » min who had stopped for a moment to peer In. He was a short, thick set person of a seafarine ent. with the ap- pearance of a north German or a Seandinavian and poppinez blue eyes that danced with good humor e was effustvely introduced to Matt as Captnin Schwartz of the schooner Es- meralda. “I fancled youa had up with the mnd- hook and cleared a month ago!™ cried Coleman “No such ek growled Captain Schwartz in a strong German aceent vervhody bhehind: everyhody hum- drouble, drouble, drouble all I'm mar bu the tim “Here's some more™ safd Coleman “Ne's go- and when may he come [Te's o sonth sen eaptain like yourself and has lost his shp “Ship? Vatshin? inquired Nehwartz, “The topsail schooner North Stap" sald Matt in a shiver of expectation and hope “Hels stoek here without a cont" put in Colenmn, “snd it don't matter to him mueh where von land him as long as it is something drv, with g palm tree on it and cold missionary on the sidebonrd * They all langhed at this. and then Schwartz sald, “1 wasn't meaning to stop anvwhere this side of the Solo- mons, but he ean gome: he enn wome.” Laying hix hand on Matt's shonlder, he added: "Old south sen cpraing should stand tozether. You'd have done the <ame for me, and dat is all there is to it “His wife's alone.™ interfected Cole- man. winkine at Matt. “and a corking younz woman she is too. Sines splen- did and plays the mandolesn, and it will be dandy of a moonlizht nizht to sit on the poop and hear her “You got a wife? nsked the eap- ta’n. anparently moch plensed, “Say. but dat will be fine! Youne, sue L “Twenty-three. replied Matt. 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