Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 7, 1913, Page 2

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They make a a specialty of cutting children’s hLair, The PHOENIX BARBER SHOP , is the largost in Polk County L. E. PEACOCK. MANAGFR Long Life of Linen aveng witk good lauadry work ia whed yoa awy leskiag fir axt aatin Jush what we org giviag. Try wa SIS — o Lakelana Steam Laundry Zhone 136, West Main th. NEW GOODS Our line of Jewelry and Silver Novelties is ready for yourinspection. These goods were bought so carefully .that their selling piice will attract you. All Jewriry and Wa'ch Repalring C-refullyard Prompt yDene H C. STEVENS THE LAKELAND JEWELER B. P. Whidden Proprietor NUWAY TAILOR SHOP HIGH GRADE TAILORING Up-to-date cleaning, pressing. altering Duke, the Tallor Manager Hats cleaned and b'ocked Bowyer Building Ladies work so.icited Kentucky Ave. Phone 257 friends will find me now just in front of my old siand, over in the I will make it to your Will have an up-to-diute place as THL FVENING TELEGRAM, LAK ELAND, FLA, NOV. 7, 1813. | { | SYNOPSIS | | Matt Broughton leaves the merviee of John Mort on a Pacific island to return to America Mort gives him a valuable ring. Broughton promises to ray nothing about the mysterinus Mort and his woman com- panion He {s shipwrecked and must renlize in San Francisco on the ring. Rafsing 1,000 on the ring, to be repaid, Broughton returns to his old nome at Manaswan. He thinks of going Into the mule business with Victor Daggancourt, a colored garage keener Broughton is visited by the local aditor, who calls him “King. " The "king’ is due t, a “fake' newspa per story about Brougnton'a adventures in the Pacific. At a church falr he meets Christine Marshall, daughter of a local magnate. Matt falls in love with Chris, who asks him to call on her. Daggancourt is anx- mess in Kentucky. On fits way to the Marshalls' Matt 1s detained by an importunate stranger, but Mutt 1s late and cannot listea to him. He tells his love to Chris, “Chris also loves Matt. The stranger, old portrait of Mort and offers him $50,000 for information about him, but Matt re- wmains loyal. Matt agaim refuses .-) o attacked, wut escapes. He tells Chris about Mort, and together they try to pussle out the strange man's identity. Chris promises to marry Matt as soom 68 he gets a job In spite of expected oppo- sition from her weaithy and proud father. Mysterious influences lose various posi- tlons for Matt, Including one as assistant to Daggancourt and demonsirator ef an automobile. Matt and Chris elope and are married after & quarrel with General Marshall. or Esnieralda, commanded by Captain Schwartz. Out In the Pacifie the young couple find themselves prisoners on board the Esmer- alda, which malntains wireless communi- cation at might with the ehore or another Vessel. CHAPTER XVi. John Mort. TE was apparently coming np at great speed: the smoke swelled in volume: two smoke stacks beeame discernible: no, there were three! By George, there were four, in a towering, stupendons, black vomiting line- a giant of a ves sel. with fichting tops to her squat masts and turrets, sponsons and < uns showing above the glistening white of her bow. A man-of-war, a colossns of twelve or fourteen thonsand tons at reduced speed to encircle the o and return whence she bad started with coul still to spare in her Brob- dingnagian bunkers Matt watched her with parted lps and straining, fascinated eyes. Was it hle nhe e 8he Offered a Spectacle That Stirred | the Heart. | she. then, who had called up the Es weralda night after night? It wus no _cy!x!mmuumm;m- - APERSONOF SOME IMPORTANCE , J LLOYD OSBOURNE | less sea. By [4 Sepyriges, BUL, By the Uobbo-Merrth Lompany I ranged tryst in the waste of the limit- Many a government of im- portance had not the peer of this mag pificent vessel that was racing toward them under forced draught and with all the power of her mighty engines. As she drew nearer, sparkling with white and steel, she offered a spec tacle that stirred the heart The water flashed at her stem as she cut it asun- der and tossed it aside in a rainbow spray: her decks rose, tier upon tier, alive with men; ter lone, slender guns " protrud:ng from the ports were backed fous to maxe the start in the mule busi- who calls himself Kay, shows Matt an ' They go to 8an Francisco and ship for ! John Mort's island on board the schoon- | | | with human faces; on the lofty bridge were two officers in uniform, the one standing motionless beside the steers- man, the other pacing two and fro, occasionally stopping to use his glass, | Suddenly the throb of her engines censed und she was gliding toward the whaleboiat under no other impetus but her vast bulk. Shrill whistles sounded, white clothed sailors were seen run- ning. and as if by magic the starboard ' gangway was lowered, its base churn- ing the water or rising high above it as the ship rolled in the seaway. At the head of the gangway, as the boat was | cast off and all the survivors of the | schooner crowded up. Brandeis. Krantz, | Schwartz and Chris were met by a burly officer, who grinned affably and shook each one of them by the hand. As Matt and Chris passed to the quarter- deck beyond the former raised his cap to a group of officers, who returned the salute with naval stiffness. It was a moment of some embharrass- ment—to stand there with no howe under the snn save that strange deck and to know they were dependent on the charity of those disdzinful ob servers, who gave no sign of welcom- ing them But an instant later they were ac costed by a young man. also in uni form, who, advancing hurriedly. bow ed and in broken English said. “Reg pardon, instructed by captain, follow wme, piease be so kind ™ Guiding them down the stairway t the deck beneath, he led them alon: a4 passagew:dy to a cabin, into whi b be ushered them with this m-:M'u!.u:l statement: “lustructed by eaptain, yon | are liere to remain, please he so kitd I With that he sainted, elicked his fieels | with Teu | l * formality and denarted -presumably “insteneted by captain' to report their incarceration It was without donbt an officers eabin and was prettily decorated with photographs. fans, shells, cotillion fa vors and other tritin: wementoes, The palr, thus oddly imprisoned in it, felt 1 lessening of their tremors and laneh- ed at the sight of themselves in the 2lass. “They ought to be afraid of us." ex- clalmed Chris with saucy contidence, twining her arms about Matt's neck and studving the effect. “1 look like the widow of an organ grinder on the bread line. and by the time I've comb- ed your bair a bit you might pass ar a Siberfan exile who had escaped in a garbage can.” The young officer returned and stood blinking at them ceremoniously in the doorway. “Instructed by captain, your pres- ence is requested, please be so kind." he sald. addressing Matt. As Chris Mee also she was told to star behind “Instructed by captein: no, no; pleake be 8o kind." exelaimed the young officer, barring her away *In. structed by captain. The gentlemun only will follow me. Please be mo kind." It was not without hesitation that Matt oheved. He felt a certain chill Ing of the confidence that had anj- mated him before The young officer's tone was masterfnl in spite of the punctiliousness of his words und car ried with it a disquieting wuthority. The young man led bim through va- rlous prssages and finally brouzht him to what was evidently the ship's wardroom Here, sested about (llel head of the table, were five oldish, grave looking officers In undrexs uni- form. One. white baired. dignitied and somewhat hald, wore the lusiguia of a rear admiral, “Good dny," Se sald curtly im feie (Contiaued on Page 6.) Lo WHY SAFER THAN CASH Paying by checks is not only more convenient than pay- :ng in cash, but it is safer, beczuse it eliminates risk of loss. 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