Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 13, 1913, Page 2

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All outside rooms and well ventiiated. Courteous treatment guaranteed or patrons. RATES—EUROPEAN RATES—AMERICAN thout bath_ One person without bath One person with bath .. Two persons, withous bal Two persous with bath ... One person, L4 L 1. —— W THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAK ELAND, FLA., DEC. 13, | 1913. 'gerer e Jaerr ”C,, ——”--‘- | SYNOPSIS. ’ Boek |. CHAPTER I-Rudelph Vaa Veshten, 8 | young man eof leisure, is astomished te ! see & man emter No. 1818, a house across | e Albert Vontoska 306 South Virginia Av Fla.; phon tor all occasions. G G AL the street from the Powhatan club. The house has lon, spoken of as the House of Mystery. CHAPTER II—Beverel at regu- lar intervals eater No. 5 CHAPTER 11I-Van Vechten expresses concern to his friend, Tom Phinney, re- garding the whersabouts of his cousin and flancee, Paige Carew. A fashionably attired woman is seen to enter the House of Mystery. A man is forcibly ejected from the house. Van Vechten and Tom follow the man and find him dead ja the street. CHAPTER IV—Van Vechten is attract- ed by the face of a girl in the crowd of onlookers surrounding the body. Later he discovers the girl gasing at him with 8 look of scorn from the windows ef the mysterious house. CHAPTER V—Detective I'lint calls on Van Vechten to get his version of the tragedy. CHAPTER VI—Tom Phinney goes alone on a yachting trip. He recognizes among some persons in a passing motor boat two men whom he had seen enter the House of Mystery. He sees one of them, a Mr. Callls, on shore later and follows ; him. Tom is seized, blindfolded and taken to a house, He hears a girl named Jeasie, evidently the daughter of the man in authority, question his captors. A sweet- voiced girl later protests against the roughness of his captors. Book II. CHAPTER I-Van Vechten calls on his uncle, Theodore Van Vechten, big man in Wall street and known as the ‘““Man of Iron,” in search of information regarding the whereabouts of Paige Carew. CHAPTER II--Detective Flint shows Van Vechten a gold mesh purse found in the House of Mystery. Van recognizes it as belonging to Paige Carew. CHAPTER IIT-The sweet-vofced girl helps Tom Phinney escape, but refuses to disclose her identity. Tom dgclares he will meet her agaln. CHAPTER 1V—Detective Flint tells Van Veehten ho haz a theory that Paige has been kidnaped. Van goes to lay the case before his unc'», “Not a glimmer of one.” “And if you were out of sight of the house, you couldn’t find your way back to it?” “If you told me not to I shouldn’t even try to find it.” “Very well. Now let me untie your hands.” The task was not an easy one, for the knots had been tightly tied and were still damp. But presently his hands were free, and the first unham- pered movement of his arms wrung from him a groan of anguish, “Hush!"” the girl cried in alarm. “I—I couldn’t help it,” apologized Tom. “It hurts like the very dev—like the deuce. I'll be all right in a min- ute.” And after a bit, when the circulation was restored to the benumbed mem- bers, Tom himself made short work of | the bonds around his ankles. He rose unsteadily to his feet, “If I could stamp a few times,” he sald. “Mercy, no!” “Oh, I shan't. What next?” While he lent himself submissively to the operation, she bound one of the handkerchiefs over his eyes, tuzging the fabric and disposing it in such a way that by no possibility could he! see when he got where it wa#® light. | Her fingers touched his face many times, and the nearness of her, now on this side, now on that, and 1~ 1d him and in front, was maling hiu giddy. “You r.:st walk just as ¢ ever you can,” she enjoins quietly as if you were a b take your hind \Whenl o it means you arve to step dows } means to step up S SN { for Tom mumbled something “I said that 1 wished we were o upstairs instead of down.” “What in the world do “ou wi.h— oh! So that is all yo promise amounts to, is it?"” “l can wish, can't I?” sa om, moodily. “I didn't intend for ou t | hear.” ; Her response was » command for him not to speak auouiner word. "“Glve me your hand,” she said curt- Their fingers met and closed, but ' when she attempted to move away Tom drew her to a standstill. “Just a moment. I must disobey you this once. What will happen to you when it is discovered that I am gone?” “Why, nothing.” “It seems improbable. don't you know, that anybody who wanted me so badly would be tickled to death to have me get away.” “Nevertheless nothing will happen to me,” she repeated. “I know that what I am doing is for the best, not only for you, but for us too. Pray don’t think I am going to all this trou- ble solely for you.” “I did think so,” Tom said in a gloomy tone. “Look here, if I'm not sure that everything will be all right with you, I'm not going to budge a | step.” In her exasperation his guide gave his hand a vigorous jerk. “Mercy goodness!” he heard her ex- claim. “Did anybody ever see suchan been wnoecupled and h‘ | ! | | ! e “But You Will Not Want to Know Me Then.” When aggravating man. I explain what I have done, that will be the end of it. Now come on.” “Truly?” “Hcnor bright. Step carefully.” And so, with infinite caution, and without attracting the attention of any of the household, Tom was led down the stairs—every step being indicated 2y a single hand-squeeze—and out in- | to the night. Presently he divined that he was being guided round in a circle, but made no protest. Neither spoke until the girl halted, | “Now, then, Mr. Phinney, listen to !your final instructions,’ she said in a Ilow voice—no longer a whisper, but the same marvelously sweet voice that had charmed him earlier in the evening. “You are in the middle of the road that leads to Rocky Cove, and facing the town. You are to stand here and count one hundred, slowly, then you may remove the handkerchief from your eyes. Bear in mind that you are to count slowly, and that you are not to try to follow me. Have I your ! promise?” “The conditions are hard,” returned Tom. “If I am willing to agree, surely I am entitled to some slight considera- tion in return?” “Well?"—impatiently. “You must hurry.” | Said Tom: ‘“Promise me that I can see you some time," Said the girl: “Why in the world do you want me to promise that?” “Because,” said Tom warmly, “you are the girl I have been looking for all my life—the One Girl—" “How ridiculous!” she coolly inter- rupted. “You don't know me. If you ' were to meet me tomorrow—any- ;v‘llxere—you wouldn't know that [ am “I would,” Tom stoutly protested, “anywhere. I would know you among a million. Tell me that I can see you —soon.” | There was a long moment of si- lence, during which Tom waited eager 1 Iy for her next words; but when at last they came they were spoken so gravely, and were weighted with such & note of sadness, that he was stariled. “Mr. Phinney,” she said, “you may discover who | am much sooner than You can possibly expect. But you will not want to know me then; conditions will be such that people will shun rather than seek my acquaint You will regret even this meeting in the dark.” “Never. If you talk that way 1’11 rip cal8 rae right now.” “I know you 10t do that”"—what delectable notes yoeq and sang in:' | her v:ice ivlvhen she talked like thig! —"not until you hay s y € counted a hun. “You're a witch!” he declared ve- hemently, and was rewarded with a ; little rippling laugh that confirmed | the opinion. “Am 1?7 Then I cannot be for witches are old and ugly. b(;;:ltu;::; | have been very 800d to trust me go nnpllcltg; Here is my hand once more. 0d-by. Let 1 o gy me hear you be- | And Tom, standing blindf the moonlight, raised to his ollit:):dtl:: band of the girl he haq never seen, with all the gallant courtesy of a me: dieval knight paying homage to hig ! lac:y.th There was a reverence in the ;;;1\, A x:)t“l:eld the little hang capfive‘ Tom began to coun tone. He had all at once grown very | grave, and his tall, erect figure hag | taken on a new dighity that it had | never before known; for his mind ang heart were, for the first time in his | aimless life, . | reeri » Set upon & high Dlu\f ance, distant tin a low mono- (Continued on Page 6.) | | Teacher of Music | e., Lakeland, for MA i in §Fi CH e 299 Black. Lessons ve or six doses wij[) | plano Harmony and Vocal Culture. Qi faken then as ¢ oy turn, It act . Orchestra furnished on (i ol Reasonable terms. lomel and doey g i T R RO i, [ hen You Think of A SN ey |- Remember that we aregheadquarters for'ay { and urusuaifarticles, suchfas arelidealffor;,,% § No. LARIA o'r“ = i Books Toys 1 Beoklets Dolis Bashets “ taticnery DeskiFittings |Alligator.6oods § ORI N SF AT AR M IS Ml . 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