Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 7, 1913, Page 3

of the Navy Daniels has announced that the historic battleship Oregon will lead the great parad: national warship fleet through the Panama canal when it is formally opened hands into his pockets. Then his nonchalance utterly disappeared, for his hand closed upon—the little watch 'and chain. He must have put them there in his confusion. “I do hope you'll ind my watch,” said the girl, who had tied the boat to a tree and now came up. a present from my grandfather, and I'd give anything to get it back.” ' Richard saw only one way out. drew the lost articles from his pocket | and put them in her hand. ard’s captor. The girl looked rather curiously at Richard. Then she drew the man a little way aside and whispered some- thing. He shook his head; the girl persisted, placing her hands plead- ingly upon his arms. came toward Richard. chain you can go,” she said. mistake,” he said. "It was my first | lake because the island confused me, and when I saw you | was startied that I put them in my pocket. 1 don't suppose you'll believe me, but 1 can reler character.” The the cottage. “Nothing there,” they called. looked at Richard, and seemed to hes- !itate about repeating their request to search him. The cottage was cer- tainly occupied by some one, and as certainly the occupant was not there. Perhaps this young man might have| spoken the truth. But they looked at door. “He felt his Tingers close upon HHE-4+4+4444444 5 watch. But his own watch was in —— his pocket. He felt for a match hast- ily, struck it—and suddenly perceived a young lady dressed in a Japanese klmona who stood in the other door- way, looking at him, He had blundered into the wrong ly H.” M. EGBERT. (cottage “If you want a quict placc to g0 The match flared out as the wind d write your novel this summer, rughed in. Too embarrassed to speak, w'd better let me send you to my Richard turned for the door and hur ngalow on Outer lake said Mrs. ried out into the darkness. As he did mple. “Therc are a number of cot- go he heard the girl scream, and a zes on the eust shore, but only one moment later lights began to flicker the west, and that's mine, so you {n the adjacent cottages. 1 write to your heari's content and He stumbled down toward the lake. body will intertere with you. But But again fate was against him. He \ Sorry you won't be here when my could not find his boat. ice ‘May comes home fu;m Califor- There was nothing to do but to » 8he continucd, with a"twinkle in make for home. Happily he now *eyes. ihad a fair sense of his location, and, drs, Temple was aun old friend of more happily still, he knew that, once thard Dwight's family, an eccentric, he was beyond the farthest cottage, | dleaged woman, with a shrewd the country round the lake was open. | 1d, & sharp tongue and a kind There was a broad trail, in fact, \Vhlch‘ wt. Richard, whose first book, led almost to his own door. He had | 10 Raplds,” had placed him beyond just reached the confines of the trees need of finding employment, had when he heard shouts behind him. seen her in several years, her un-[ It takes a man of more than ordi- wounced visits having always co- nary courage to explain himself un- |ded with his own absence. ld@l such conditions. Dick ran as fast M ymmg men would rather as he could go without unduly betray- ';t.l. mtty girl than go off into the ing his whercabouts. As he ran he Wds alone,” she continued, “but you heard his pursuers following him, hors &re a class apart, I supposfl."! “He's in those trees,” he heard one . week later Richard was installed |yell to another Mra, Tempic's bungalow. It was| “Got your jistol, Bill?” ' furnished, and the rental “Sure! I'm uot taking any chances ofly‘j\ut enougll to free him from | with the mu an that robbed Mills' place sense of oblication. He planned last week!' pend & pleasant summer there | “What did he do?” Iul:bfirk ' “Broke into M The voices witer 18k® was a winding body of 'died away und Richard redoubled his AP t his first afternoon in- hausted from his wild plunge through | | | Finally the man { rather sulkily assented, and the girl j ard Courant: “I didn’t steal them, and it was a | But there wasn't a printer n you to Mrs. Temple as to my, THE REVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA., NOV. 7, 1913, back, and departed with a smile which | made Richard realize that he had Iost something, at any rate. Would he find it again? He deter- | mined fo try with ail his mighs, even | though it involved many visits to the other side of Otter lake, and though the novel sufferced in consequence, And, when the summer ended, had found it again. he (Copyright TRIED HARD TO SAVE FRIEND Irishman's Evidence, However, Not Seem Altogether Convine- ing to the Judy. The following is a story told by Wil- liam Jennings Bryan: “Five Irishmen, the Peerless One said, had been charged with assault with intent to kill. The state tried to prove the disturbance began at ten o'clock at night. Dennis, one of the accused, sought to show by a witness that he was at home and in bed with him and did not get up until long aft- er the trouble was over. “‘Tlow do you know that Dennll was in bed by eight o'clock? the dh- trict attorney inquired, *‘Hadn't we a clock in the house? the witness retorted. *‘Oh, and did the clock strike after Dennis came in? *‘Wel, no, the clock wasn't strik- ing then. “‘What was the matter with it? “‘It had been out of order for & few days.’ *‘Then, if the clock was not going, how did you know that Dennis was 112, by W. G. Chapman.) Did “It was | In before eight o'clock? *‘Well, the witness replied, after a moment's studying, ‘I know he was “We'll do our best,” answered Rich. | In before the time whin the clock strikes eight whin it do be ing.’ “But Dennis was convicted."—Ames ican Magazine. strik- Lacking in Print Shop Realism. A dramatic criticism from the How- “Two weeks ago up at Kansas City, 1 saw a very good pro- “If you give me b.wk my watch and | duction of ‘That Printer at Udell's at | the Grand. One or two of the acts He ! Were staged to represent a country printing office, and it was very realis- { tic even to the printing office towel. the whole play. When the make-believe day here; I tock the wrong side of the ’ type-slinger would go to the case and | take up the stick, his typesetting mo- tions were not like a real one. He never reached for the cap case, never spaced out a line, and couldn't get onto the old jour swing at all. Then when Udell went to take a stone proof wrty was coming back from ©f a job, he rolled it with a hand | roder with no ink on it, laid a piece They ' of paper on the form and put the hard planer on it, with no blanket or pad under it, and hit it a lick with the mallet. Any printer knows a readable proof can’t be taken that way.*— ‘l\"mmns City Star. Nature Fake? The idea of a cat eating a cucum or, and the presence of numerous pace. :h" 5080 SUARS AndiEmnarecs O id) ber would probably be scolled at by It falands made it difficult for a| It was u long distance, and when at | him. . | it ol ) f 1 life, but to find his way about It.'last he reached his cotts wge he was ox- | It's all right,” said the girl, cheer- 1iCst oObservers of animal life, bu “m:’u \ t | fully. “I've found it i sdcl an oecurrenee is vouched Inx by 1l Ats shores in his boat. the undergrowth, while his coat was ::YO""’" found it, Miss Cameron?” 6 Bead of the lake he beached Ludly torn by briers. He threw oft | "It was very stupld of me. and flung himself down on lLis clothes and tumbled into bed, to MY Watch in my chatelaine and—and for a long meditation as to sall into an uneasy slumber for an Dere it is” And she opened the bag xhorolne So engrossed hour or two. \When he awoke the @nd showed the article in question, e that he awakened to sun was just rising above the trees which, in fact, she had just trans- EE H £5 itles by discovering that the sun | Dwight put on Lis clothes and was | ferred "»""’f”' S gone down a long time ago. In ' amazed to sec how forn they were. mThe men l!uuiu-dl at 1].11-1 0[']:(IT'1\?III: “ dmost too dark to lmu % ! e man who had spoken with Ll '.“ | Bilack marks from tree branches (ymeron looked at Richard. He sus- | cpangled his coat, almost like the bars | on a convict’s tunic. He walked down to the water's edge and stood there, wondering how he could explain to the girl without admitting that he was her nocturnal visitor. | His problem was to be solved very <ly, for at that moment a boat. um.umng three men and the girl in cuestion shou from under the trees and pus]vv-vl into the bank. The men sprang out, leaving the girl to hold| the boat to the shore. “Who are you, what are you doing pected souicething, he did not know quite what, but--well, there was noth- ing more to be done, “We must apol ), them, rather glumly. ‘Since the watch and chain are found of course there is nothing more.” They went down to the boat, and, just as the girl was about to embark, she left them and came running back to Richard “I want to tell you I believe you, Mr. Dwight,” she said. “And I hope you've learned a l n." te it at last, but before reached the large island which is Iandmark’it was almost pitch 2 ' said one of q : { here, and where do you live?” de-| ¢ certainly have,” said Richard. 1 manded one ¢f the men. “Next time I take a wrong turn in thu’ i: “My name is Dwight, I am taking a' gark—" it stroll, and I live in Mrs, Temple's cot- i ()h I don’'t mean that sort of a les- I ; tage over there,” answered Richard. son,” answcred the girl, and Richard 7 | “Youre up early, Mr. Dwight.! saw that her ves were twinkling, aren't you?” inquired the other. just as Mrs. T auple's had. *1 mean, “Yes. I like to get up early,” said not to go off into the woods when you Dwight | have the chance of s g at home “Been having a walk through the and meeti meeting—meeting me!” woods, perhaps?” the man continued, “You are Mrs. Temple's niece!” ex- glancing at Dwight's coat. “Well, I'll be frank with you. This cottage was closed yesterday morning, because I came pest here and saw it. There have been several robberies round here of late, and last night a lady’s cottage was broken into and a gold watch taken. With or without your| permission we are going to look for it.” He turned to a friend. “Bill, you keep him here while I go through the cottage,” he said. “Then perhaps, it we don't find what we want, he will consent to be searched. Don't let him claimed Richard in asgtonishment. “What a fool 1 was not to remember your name! Why —" Why, Mrs. Temple him there without the pretty nicce also! must have sent telling him that wis at Otter lake Wasn't that just like her? graph which auntie sent me,” she con- tinued. “That's how I knew who you were. And now that you have found the way to my cottage—" “l may come again?" “During visiting hours,” With much difficulty and many ; turas, at last he reached the ! “4.’ the cottage loom up in rker i{nside, and as he | she uu'.l [his hand to find the | 88t 8Way." laughing. it against a piece of | 11e men departed on their mission, | “Migs Cameron'” called her friends. | he did not remember | 108Ving Dwight a prisoner. He w“yaye you lost anything?" shrugged his shoulders and thrust his “No, I've found it uow,” she culled ithot nosition beside the @- % VI AT DA B PR INTTICH . T 4 S WA =Y e “I happened to hive your photo- I for the convenience of taxpayers on HAVE SEVEN MILES of Amer- n wrapped fencing on hand in L7, 36 48 and 58-inch, all 12 and 6 inch stays. 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