Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 29, 1913, Page 8

lonza Logan J. F. Townsend LOGAN &§ TOWNSEND " BUILDING CONTRACTORS We Furnish Surety Bonds On All Contracts If you want a careful, consistent. and re- liable estimate on the construction of your & building, SEE US IMMEDIATELY. TELEPHONE 66 Futch & Gentry Bldg N R SRR TR ST ST » TSSOSO SN OIS MRON T.L. CARLETON § SANITARY PLUMBING TINNINGand SHEET METAL WORKS Gas Fitting, Sewer Work, Driven Wells and Pumrps . . . . COR. N. Y. AVE atd Main ST. LAKELAND PHONE 340 FLORIDA [o=dal jal 2us Jui ot \ EVERY DAY SPECIALS White Grapes, 20c. Cranberries,qt 15¢ English Walnuts, 25c¢ . Paper Shell Pecans, pound, - 25 cents Imported Figs, pound, - Dates, - Raisins, Currants, 25 cents Citron W.P.PILLANS&CO. Bure Food Store Phone 93 Make his Christmasa Hart Schaff- ner & Marx Clothes Christmas For Yourself and Your Friends Consider the satisfaction you’ll get or give by sending or receiving a Hart Schaffner & Marx SUIT or OVERCOAT But if y» u dont care to goso ‘‘strong”’ as that, just remember that the other goods we sell are up to the same high standard of value, Here are some of the lesser things we haye for gifts . GLOVES || 75¢ to $2.00 | ; SUITS $12 up t0 $27.50 Umbrellas and i Walking Sticks | i | HATS $1.50 to $3 . HOSIERY 1 Onyx 25¢ to 50c Pair Sweater and Sweater Coats $1.50 10 $5.00 Neckwear 25¢ to $1.00 tfitter The Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothing The Hub From $1.00 to $2 Handkerchiefs From 5c to 5oc || JOS. LeVAY R A R T T ST R A R 2 e —— \ \ A Story of the Freeing of Cuba r 2 4 By LAWRENCE PERRY Author of “Dan Merrithew,” “Prince or Chauffeur,” eta. Illustrations by Ellsworth Young ht, A, C. McClurg & Co., 1918 OO ebiod in Gront Britain. (Continued from Page 2.} dies here.” Pierre sank on his knees. “Oh, Mr. Holton, save her! She loves you. You love her! Save her. You can, and you alone can.” Holton struck the man on the shoul- der and his voice was stern. “I will save her,” he paused. hely me, Pierre, T will!” The candle was blown out and the two waited in the darkness. “But why,” whispered Holton, “has Miss La Tossa volunteered for this work?” “Because,” was the reply, “the per- son, who presses that button will never leave this place. It is intended that it shall be destroyed so that no trace of the mystery will ever be found.” Holton’s heart grew sick. Undoubted- ly the girl, in her blind, patriotic fury, had come forward as a martyr to give her life for the country she loved. At the moment there was the sound of a lock turning and then the door creaked. Holton and Pierre were lying behind some wine-casks. The next instant they knew the girl was in the apartment with them. They heard a match strike. Evi- dently she had lighted a lantern, for a soft yellow glow filled the place. And now Holton, peering through a crack between two casks, saw her. She still wore her khaki hunting- suit, Her face was pale as death and her eyes blazed with a supernatural light. Slowly she looked about the room, and then, in the middle of the floor, she fell upon her knees. She was praying. Holton arose silently and stole to a position directly in front of the switch key. When she returned she found him there with arms folded, standing as immobile as a statue. She did not scream. Her lips parted and she stood still, staring at him with dilated eyes. So they stood for the space of a minute. To Holton it seemed an eternity. Then she spoke. “You!” Her voice was deep, but ex- pressionless, “It is I, Miss La Tossa,” responded Holton. “Why—why have you come here?” “I have come to save you from your- self. You are in the grip of a great misunderstanding.” Before Holton's steady, compassion- ate gaze, the girl's eyes fell. It was as though some message from the Ameri- can’s heart had reached her. At any rate, her voice became more gentle. “You must leave me, Lieutenant Holton,” she resumed. “I—I—" She paused, realizing what it would mean to have Holton leave her to per- form her deadly task of shattering the city and its American occupants. This thought caused her to reel. Then, as though with the flashing swiftness of lightning, she sprang to- ward the officer and threw one arm around his neck, the other reaching over and touching the electric button. “Now, Mr. Holton,” she cried, “if you move I shall press—" Before she could complete her sen- tence Holton raised his shoulder ever “So moved at least an inch out of reach of the little knob. She tried to spring away from him, but Holton held her. “Miss La Tossa,” he began, “I came here because I love you—that is my only thought. I love you. I have loved you since I first saw you. I have spoken to you concerning the Americans as a man would speak to the woman he loves, with the whole truth in my heart. I have talked, since I saw you this morning, with scores of high officers, and I can tell you that what I have already sald to you is the whole truth. “Cuba is certainly and surely to be left to the Cubans. England, France, Germany, Italy—all great countries have been officially assured by the state department that it is to be. But first, order must be restored here and the wheels of government set going. To that end General Wood is to be ap- pointed military governor, and in good time every single American soldier will leave this island. There is no doubt about that. Ah, Miss La Tossa, believe me! For, as God is my judge, 1 have spoken only the truth. speak. “Losing you is a price too volves saving my countrymen. cannot lose you—and live. wish to live. believed me. No, I Every look, every word liar. So be it.” ton and folded his arms. press that button. fere. you. nothing now for me.” with staring eyes. heaving, his dark, handsome great tenderness. 80 slightly and her finger was thus re- | . “One moment,” as she essayed to great for me to pay—even when it in- I do not And so—you have not of yours tells me you regard me as a He moved away from the push-but- “You are now at perfect liberty to I shall not inter- 1 shall stay here and die with That is my wish. Life means A cry of horror broke from the girl. She stood swaying, surveying the two Her gaze at length fastened upon Holton, standing there, his arms folded, his broad shoulders face turned to her with an expression of Something in his eyes, something magnetic, the power of his great love S——— — i 53fioFn O —Beapowef, | ; i {B15 Gmotions | ut, aud thus snorn O . rompe g g ul'::ere was really little use in resist crept |ance on land. peace ed |sioners of the two countries. rivited her gaze to his face, Slowly, in spite of herself, she toward him, fascinated. “Ranee! How my arms have ach! “THe Tather Taino, 3 Ty by. But just me they made out hig g the end of the byl “Father!” crieq So it came about that was agreed upon by commis- , \ s he g 7 ! Come.” a long leave of absenes, enor La Tosga |q i i i stood on the deck o0 “Peace!” he crieq, « reby him. In his powerful arms he caught istood on looking down upon the A . “Peg o i : g down up declared. tg cen APD looked up at him and kissed lantic liner, loo 3 e been llllceul: S}l;zr ofiands pcare ssed his face. |crowd assembled on pler an(tli b:;l;he:g She turned to 1}y, ite Furnit She. drew his head down once more t0 ;to wave farmwl} and Go 'BAP hurrys “Peace,” she smil T umorile‘l t her lips. | friends and relatives who \ure!l ]fl;’t Holton pressed 1 ants due S Andp {hus in the darkness, with po- ing to the contu}ont to'spf'nd ;ufnmer “Was there eve : E ecelver tential death all about, love, the con- brilliant days of the W amngl ) —anywhere in all ), h i queror, triumphed |away from the scenes of bloo whispered. rne e — (and disease. . (THE 3 ny CHAPTER XVI | Close by his side, with her arm ) ve to pay i t | tightly locked in his, was a girl 80 e | o collec The Day of Peace. radiant that she attracted the att(la:- LAKELAND POTATOAN}) be prosecut Ten minutes, perhaps, had elapsed tion of everyone “",“"T‘“?s"dd[::r fla: VLGETABLE law when Pierre, who had thoughtfully : tle group. she had just kisse R . TH wandered away down the tunnel, reap- ther g(mll-b)‘l an leave the ship. AR “And you, Thomas,” he said, “will peared with a warning “Ahem!” Holton, exalted to the seventh heaven Pierre, and then striding to the Cuban, 'ter come he seized him by the arm and led him quently. “As “Now then, Pierre,” he laughed, laughed Holton, “you stay here until I call, or I'll set twoy g forcibly into the tunnel again. you down on some of this dynamite | and press the button.” i So saying, he returned to Miss La Tosga and gave such an account of himse!f as a young man very much in love with a beautiful young woman may be expected to give. A little later they made their way out of the building. Her pony was still standing where she had hitched it, but Cesnola and his horse were gone. At ! least, Holton assumed that Cesnola had gone from the fact that his horse | nad departed. As they walked to the girl’s pony, ; though, Holton, with a sudden excla- | mation, leaned forward. There, al- most at his feet, lay the body of a man. The girl saw it almost at the same instant. “What is it?” she asked tremulous- i 1y. “A man,” was the solemn reply. Holton lighted a match and bent over the body. Then he straightened up as though he had been struck in the face. “It-is Cesnola!” breathlessly. “Cesnola!” She bent down until her face was close to the dead man, and her hand, reaching out, came in con- tact with a knife. This she withdrew, and, standing up, trembling, she held he whispered it toward Holton. i “You must get rid of this!” she cried. “Rid of it! Why?” “Because it is Pierre’s knife.” In a flash Holton saw it all. Pierre, coming out had seen the spy waiting for the explosion. Filled with hatred for the man who had led his beloved Ranee into this situation, he had promptly paid off the score. “Give me the knife.” Holton wrapped the thing in his handkerchief, and in good season contrived to place it where it would never be found, which is getting a bit ahead of the story. h In the meantime the two wended their way toward headquarters, Hol- ton le ng the horse, the girl walk- ing very close to his side. The recent ordeal, coupled with the discovery of the body of Cesnola, had unnerved her, and occasionally a dry sob broke from her lips. Holion decided that, more than any- thing else, she necded lights, good cheer, and good food. So they went to the Venus restaurant, and there, amid all the brilliancy of its military patrons, the blushes returned to the girl's cheeks aud the laughter to her lips. After their meal Holton and the girl et out for the La Tossa estate, the on her pony and Holton on a rowed from one of the When they hed the estate it was vearly midnigai. Ranee was delight- ed to find awaiting her a me! age {rom her father in Havana, assuring her that he was well, and that through lorce of circumstances he would re- main in that city until the result of the present campaign was determined. The girl wept over the letter as she handed it to Holton, “Poor, dear father!" she cried. *I trust he is happy—as happy as—as . Holton crushed her to his breast. * * * * * * * * As to the war, but little remained. 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