Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 8, 1913, Page 6

Alonza Logan J F. Townsend LOGAN ¢ TOWNSEND i BUILDING CONTRACTORS We Furnish Surety Bonds On All Contracis _ # )f you want a careful, consistent. and re - liable estimate on the construction of your building, SEE US IMMEDIATELY. 1 l TELEFHONE 66 Futch & Gentry Bldg et Lo LE e ny D8 ot 20 el 2 0t JRERRE AR ST el el Ta ARl el O T. L. CARLETON SANITARY PLUMBING TINNING and SHEET METAL WORKS Gas Fitting, Sewer Work, Driven Wells and Purmr ps el Jul Sng SR lSal tel Snt ol lul tul tel tui COR.:N.2Y, AVE avd Main ST. PHONE 340 LAKELAND @ FLORIDS. L leiealetele e, et etnl i EE ol uteu ta et ut nla datatel s utdinluta tatale n atalnlu a e 0 0 ' n a1 SPECI;AY White Grapes, 20c. Cranberries,qt 15¢ English Walnuts, 25c¢ — Paper Shell Pecans, pound, - 25 cents Imported Figs, pound, - Dates, TR 25 cents e Raisins, Currants, Citron e — W.P.PILLANS&CO. Pure Food Store SRR Phone 93 P NS4 LT " ul‘ Search the city overand you cannot find such values as here for $20 and $25. Head- ed by Hart Schaffner & Marx and add our own S. M. special clothes, you'll have here an especial selec- tion---All the new weaves and colorings. Remember, $20 and $25 Clothes Values OUR $15.00 SPECIAL CLOTHES are all wool and must give satisfaction. Clothes values for the boys in many new ideas---including all colors, prices $5 to $10. Holiday suggestions for the men and boys are many---We ask you to see our win- dow today for just a few things suitable “| Outfitter The Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothing The Hub JOS. LeVAY =PV = R S T ST By CHARLES EDMONDS WALK Author of “The Silver Blade,” “The Paternoster Ruby,” etc. o e e ORI G e 0.8,0¢ o (Copyright 1912 by A. C. McClurg & Ca) quitted himsclf co vigorously but a few short seconds previously, was P ‘ lying at their feet—dead. l CHAPTER IV, The Face in the Crowd. Up to the present moment the two young men had been confronted only by a series of mystifying incidents, baffling, to be sure, but bearing noth- ing sinister upon their face; and un- less Van Vechten's more recent per- turbation (at sight of the veiled lady) be taken into account, neither had the morning’s queer events borne any especial significance whatsoever. But here, in the twinkling of an eye, was tragedy stark and grim. Only a minute or two ago and this man was pulsing with the perfect vitality of young, vigorous manhood; now the spark of life was flown—extinguished, as one might puff out the flame of a candle. Both were profoundly sobered by the shocking end of their brief chase, and even Van Vechten's more active mentality was slow to accept realiza- tion. stood gaping at the still form, his brain for the time being utterly be- numbed. . The spell of horror was in a meas- ure broken by a policeman’s belated arrival, He stooped and turned up the man’e face, and a thin crimson line could be seen staining the left temple. The features were composed, as if death had been kind and mercifully swift, “Slugged,” was the officer's senten- tious conclusion. Standing upright, he shot a glance round the crowd. “Who saw this done?” he roughly demanded. Nobody replied; only an aneasy stir- ring undulated through the small gath- ering, which promptly settled again in- to silent immobility; and the blue-coat, as usually happens in such cases, competency to handle the situation, It was at about this juncture, Van Vechten forever afterwards remem- bered, that he first became aware of the face. He was standing behind Tom, a bit to his left, and opposite the alley mouth, His entire attention, nat- urally enough, up to this time had been absorbed by the ugly scene at his feet, It was all the more strange, therefore, that his mind should have been attracted and held elsewhere, even temporarily, But nevertheless, all at once he experienced an indefin- able, irresistable impulse to glance up- ward at a certain point in the ring of onlookers. And his regard came to rest upon a particular face, Straightway he became sensible of an unfamiliar thrill, an abrupt quick- ening of the pulse, for which he could not in the least account. Perhaps he would have looked away again at once had there not come to him, as instantaneously as had the impulse to glance upward, a convic- tion that the face signified something |" far out of the ordinary. The present circumstances might in a measure ac- count for the horror mirrored there, but not for the despair, the terror, which seemed gradually to be chilling the face's owner into a statue of ice. The face, Van Vechten told himself, was reflecting emotions of a depth and potency for which the man's death alone was wholly inadequate to ac- “My God! Don't—Don't Look at Me Like That!” count; the fixed stare was directed ad something beyond and behind the life less figure. It wae a girl's face. It was refined and delicate of contour, and was framed in a nimbus of wavy midnight hair. It was, moreover, a strikingly beautiful face—even hauntingly beau- titul, for it was a face which the be- holder would not be likely to forget for many and many a day. Van Vechten knew that he had never seen the girl before; still there was something about her that teased and perplexed him. He knew dimly, later, that she must have been slender and not very tall, for she was standine in the paved al- ley, on the crowd's outward edge, and It was only an accident of relative po- sitions that afiorded her an uninter~ rupted view. What terrible, gripping horror was il th"‘x seemed fo he paralyzing all her fancies? 1 this man’s death As for Tom Phinney, he merely | sought to cover with rudeness his in-! . ’slgn!fy to her more than it did to any-- 'one else here present? | To one such as Van Vechten, accus- tomed to reading the all but impercept- ible indices of schooled features, this vision was like a naked human soul. Terror and despair parted the delicate pink lips and widened the lustrous dark eyes, they blanched her cheeks and held her breathless, utterly ob- livious of aught else save the dead man, And now he discovered, suddenly, that he was not the only person inter- | ested in the agitated girl. His atten- tion was somehow drawn to a man standing a half dozen or so feet from ner; a tall, raw-boned fellow with a | powerful frame and a sullen cast of | vountenance—a countenance just now scratched and bruised, as if its owner | nad recently met with a severe accl- ' | dent of some kind. i | This man was staring angrily at the girl, He too seemed to be oblivious of the dead man, and intent only upon catching her eye. And then the mag- netism of his look had its effect; her eyes were drawn to his, and she came to herself with a start. A tinge of color appeared in her cheeks; but Van Vech- iten observed that the terror and de- spair still lingered l_n_‘ her eyes. | (To Be Continued.) | A skating rink will soon be added {to the amusements of the Ancient | City. It will no doubt be a very pop- ular resort. | i | " e e 8 ae The Protessian - YA S RO 1O YR CHI SAMUEL F. SMiTH. M. 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