Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 6, 1913, Page 2

oA B L IR by PAGE TWO TAE EVENING TELEGRAM AND, FLA ., NOV. 6, 1913. M O V E D My customers and == f{riends will find me Van Huss Bu:lding. COML OVER! | will makeit to your, - interest. Wiil have an up-to-date place as soon as I can straighten up. D. B. DIQKSON ’ p——— 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 gay nothing ahout the mysterious Mort and his woman com- panfon He s shipwrecked and must realize In San Francisco on the ring Ralsing §1.000 on the ring, to be repald, Broughton returns to his old nome at Manaswan He thinks of going into the mule business with Victor Daggancourt, a colored warage keener Broughton I8 visited by the local aditor, who czlls him “king ™ The “king’ is due to a “fuke’ newspy per story about Broughton's adventures in the Pacific. At a church fair he ineets Christine Marshall, daugnter of a local magnitte Matt falls In love with Chris, who asks him to cill on her. Dazgancourt 18 anx- | fous 10 made the start in the muie busi- ness in | 1cky When you can take your watch where you ; are sure you can get it repaired right 1he; first time. We guaraniee all work and will | | deliver if promptly. ! | | COLE & HULL | Phone 173 Kentucky Avenue Lakeland THL UNIVERSAL CAR It you circled the world on the tail of a comet, you couldn’t pass ‘em—there’d always be an- 5,000 Fords other Ford ahead. More than 32 are everywhere giving unequaled service and completest satisfaction. Anywhere, you can “Watch the Fords go by.” Five hundred dollars is the uew price of the o Pie way to the Mirshalls' Matt fs detalned by an importunate stranger, but Mutt is late and cannot listen to him. He tells his love to Chris Chrla also loves Matt. who calls himself Kay, shows Matt an old portrait of Mort and offers him $50,000 Ford runabout; the touring car is five fifty; the town car seven fifty—all f. o. b. Detroit, com plete with equipment. Get catalogue and par- ticulars from THE LAKCLIND AUTCNCEILE #KD SUFFLY CO. LAKFLAND,FLA. malins loyal Matt again refuses r. I iz attacked, put escapes. He tells Chris about Mort, and together they try to puzzle out the strange man's identity. Chris proniises to marry Matt as soom as he gets a job In spite of expected oppo- sition from her wealthy and proud father. Mysterious Influences lose various posi- tlons for Mutt, Including one as assistant to Dagzancourt and demonstrator of an automoblle, “Yes, son, that is a good haircut. | 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. .. MANAGER Matt and Chris elope and are married 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. Out 1n the Pacific the young couple find themselves prisoners on board the Esmer- alda, which maintains wireless communi- vessel To escape from the Esmeralda Matt me- cretly cuts a hole In the ship's bottom, and he and Chris, with the ship's crew, take to the whalebout. They meet a for- eign warship. CHAPTER XV, Danger Above and Below. T was difficult, once the Esmer- alda had been revealed in her true character, to maintain the fiction of unconcern. But it was poliey to do wo, lest something worse wmight befall, and Matt and Chris were perseveringly friendly to the careworn captain, and to the sulky, sardonic mate They judged it wise to talk a great deal of the Tokelaus and of their plan afterward to reach Samoa aund start a litle cacao plap tation, Mutt's ery, wrung from his despera tion, that he would stnk the schooner had given him the germ of an idea Yes, why not sink her—not from any notion of wild revenge, but as a wel caleulated solution of the perils su rounding them? To wait, in fact, un til they knew there were Ixiands nem them and then, sinking compel Schwartz to take to the surt boat Thix wae a fine, big, carvel built boat, twenty-six feet long, and Mut tested it with his penknife to malk, aure it was sound It wounld easin hold all hands, with ample provisions ind water, and a trip of sixty or eight miles in it wonld be no terrible hard ship. Compared to the unknown dan gers that grew daily nearer. the ha wd of such an excape seemed small fr feed And once ashore, anywher axhore—they would be safe, for, how ever prim’tive and loose the little u Long Lifeof Linen aleag with good lanndry work is what you are lookiag (o uxt ihat (s just what we are giving. Try ws Lakelana Steam Laundry Zhone i89, West Maix . NEW GOODS Our 'ine of Jewelry and Silver Novelties is ready for yourintpection. These goods were bought so carefully that their selling piice will attract you. the vesse AMi JiwIryand Wa'ch Rerei'irg C refully ard Premp! yDone H. C. STEVENS THE LAKELAND JEWELER tive povernments are, they are stron B' p' Wh|dden DUKe’ the Tollor l'l):ll!',‘(l to prote.t LILs' A:\\.‘: aud !1;01 Proprietor Manager sons of those within their ruie. But to xink the Esmeralda! That wis a0 easy to say! Of course a stick of dynamite would send her to the bot tow in short order, and there wus plen ty of the deadly stuflf in the trad room, together with caus and fuses But that was suicide That was t open a barn door to the Pacific ocean The alternative wus to chisel a goo sized hole in her garboand streak and give it about twice the bore of a bilze pup. The Esmeralds had NUWAY TAILOR SHOP | HIGH GRADE TAILORING Up-to-date cleaning, pressing. altering Hats cleaned and b'ocked Bowyer Building Ladies work so.icited Kentucky Ave, Phone 257 a0 unusually for Information about him, but Matt re- -'APTERSQN OF wow just in front of my old siand, over in mei SG E W;&@ FE‘ANCE again and again to make | The stranger, | cation at night with the shore or another | ! deep: he J LLOYD OSBOURJE Sapyright, 111, by the Bedbe-Marrill Lompany. Igum\ pump, worked by a couple of hand spikes, and throwing a five inch stream. Matt squared the circle in dustrionsly and then doubled the re- sult, over these calenlations of no going sure timed to accom would force mistake. What he plish was a deak that Schwartz to lay the vessel toward the pearest lind, and perhiaps bring it into view before' there wonld be any need to take refuze in the whaler. On i two to one mtio of leak against pump, he hoped the Esmeralda misht stay afloat for ten or twelve hours aftet e had achieved his purpose They were tw four days out ot Ran Pranciseo whea the fivst fand roxe over the horizon Fo Matt the weht of the island was lite o signal it made him acutely vestless and un comfortable: he was po ~ed o with the suffocating sense of almost terror that precedes all desperate deeds Tak ing advantage of the commotion on deck. he ran below, watched his op portunity. and entered the trade room No er man, on his knees before a snfe, and thrillinzly conscious that at any moment he micht be interrapted, could have experienced more trepida- | tion than did Matt as he sought out a | case of axes and pried open the lid e seized one. he went down on his knees before the hateh and fumbled with the ring conntersunk in the plank ing. The hold was about nine or ten feet peered in agnin, ganging it. Rope? ‘There was rope every where, compactly coiled and harlapped It wonld be quite a bother, though to cut the fastenings: new rope also was sure to Kink -to tanele and twist ftxelf into snarls. Why not a bolt of that stout red cotton It wonld be Just as etlicncions more effeacions— lHmber. He made the toose end fast to a keg of nails and tossed the holt itself down the hatehway: lowered the ax after it on a plece of twine: nlso a key saw and a pair of chisels on another piece of twine Crushing the cotton in his hands, he swung over the opening and let him- self go Hix feet tonched the fron bars; all about him it was as black ns pitch except under the twilight of the hatch The air was stale and stifling and reek- ing of bilge water. Getting his tools torether, he got vigorously to work, rippine off a hig patch of the inner skin and laving open beyond the real obiect of attack The next step required more delicate meth ods—more care and skill One fissure, however small, in the onter planking might admit 8o flerce a gush of water thiat the task wonld have to he rehe eun elsewhere with all its attendant delay But there was no time for de Iny ~not an Instant. Above Llm was the unlocked door-the apen hateh, urging him to feverish haste He marked a good sizad square on the plankine, mindful that the copper outside wonld help to check the intlow, and set to paring the wood away as evenly ns he conld with the chisel It wis Oregon pine and came off in brizht, shavings, sticky with rum. He dug deeper and deeper; the square sunk fnto the vellow timher: he wits as assiduous as ever. thoueh the effort became harder to keep the sur clenn face flat and uniform He was drip- ping with swent; the ux was heavy and extremely awkward to hold, cramping his right hand and annoyiug Rim with its cumbersome handie Dropping the chisel. he ran hix hand Aown the ax handle, gripped and. aim- inz the blunt end of the ux ut (he up- erture, let gy with all his strencth, There wam a Bash of greeuish witer, & stupefying roar, a blow in lis chest that burled bim sprawling backward, drenched, contused, almost SULSEIesN, Even at that depth the water Wils un- der A colossal pressire; it was N though @ weyser had opencd In the sLip's side: the streaw ran solid for s x or seven feet. curved and burst. Matt stargered np avd regarded it with awe, dizzily tryiag o collect bis bewildered senses God, Low would the Quips_ever cope with it! The whole Gond (Contlaned on Page §.) 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