Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 18, 1913, Page 5

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FORT __ ARCHITECT LAKELARE FLA KIBLER HOTEL, = T W. 8. PREETON, LAWYLR 0fice Upstairs East of Beurs Hew BARTOW, FLORIBA Examination of Tities exd Kea | Estate Law a Bpeefalty JEREMIAH B. SMITH NOTARY FUBLIC LOANS, INVESTMENTS IN REAL ESTATE f Interesting snaps in elty ' HHD‘;.M:;?FEDBE property, farms, ele, Better see me &i once. Will trade, sell for cash or om esgy lerma. 14, Futeh & @entry Bidg. LAKELAND, FLORIDA 1 gg=.=-=-_=r~.-=-=~ Rings Pins Broaches " Charms :: LaValiers ‘boughtrightand sold right CUT GLASS J or - This week we will open up and display the largest line of ‘ & -~ \ f eut glass ] (3] gg er ’(’de','z 2: : we have ever bought. It 18 from the best manufacturers and will ef’demoderl’yb 2 N be sold at a price that will interest you. ( i ~—= || scouTs COMPASS WATCHES f.aucczwea&cb'§ W — (goad gift for the boy) 8YNOPSIS. volce Caimie over the wire. He aiso had received the cryptic message, but cer- Repairing promptly ana carefully done and all work guarsruteed, Book I tain portions of it obscure to Rudolph CHAPTER I-Rudolph Van Vechten, & young man of leisure, is astonished to 8¢e a man enter No. 1113‘ & house across the street from the Powhatan club. The bouse has long been unoccupled and is &poken of as the House of Mystery. CHAPTER I1—Several persons at regu- lar intervals enter No. IIE. CHAPTER IIT-Van Vechten expresses concern to his friend, Tom Phinney, re- garding the whereabouts of his cousin and flancee, Paige Carew. A fashionably attired woman 1s seen to enter the House of My:torgb A man is forcibly ejected from the house. Van Vechten and Tom follow the man and find him dead in the CHAPTER IV—Van Vechten is attract- od by the face of a girl in the crowd of onlookers surrounding the . Later he discovers the girl gazing at him with & look of scorn from the windows of the mysterious house. CHAPTER V—Detective Flint 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 ganlng motor boat two men whom he had seen enter the House of Mystery. He sees one of them, @ Mr. Callls, on shore later and follows him. Tom is seized, blindfolded and taken to a house. He hears a girl named Jessle, evidently the daughter of the man in authority, question his captors, A sweet- voiced girl later protests the roughness of his captors. Book Il. 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 informatfon regarding the whereabouts of Paige Carew. CHAPTER II—Detecttve Flint shows Van Vechten a gold mesh purse found in the House of Mystery. Van recognizes it a8 belonging to Paige Carew. CHAPTER IIT-The sweet-volced girl helps Tom Phinney escape, but refuses to disclose her {dentity. 'om (eclares he will meet her again. CHAPTER 1V—Detecttve Flint tells Van Vechten he has a theory that Paige has been kidnaped. Van goes to lay the case before his uncle. “"That’s what it says,” replied Tom. “In a way, yes. But this sheet of de- formed intelligence is morv remark- able for what it does not say than for what it says. Schuyler, you know, was Mrs. Devereaux's maiden name.” Tom’s eyes opened. “By George!” he exclaimed wonderingly. “So it was!"” “Well,” tartly, ‘“does the circum- stance suggest anything to you?” But Tom merely stood silent a sec- ond wagging his head. “No. It's only a little more muddling, is all I can make of it.” “Here it is the fifth of September,” Van Vechten's summarizing went on; “where, in heaven's name, have they been all this time? Where are they now ?” “Moses and green spectacles, Rud- dy!” burst forth Tom in desperation. “You'll give yourself a headache if you keep on asking questions that nobody can answer! Here—let's sit down at this table and have something to drink; maybe that’ll help. You can think things over, anyhow.” Van Vechten all of a sudden experi- enced a let-down from the high ten- sion under which he had been labor- ing ever since the cablegram’s arrival, and immediately the drawn lines about his mouth, and the restless shifting of his eyes, disclosed his growing bur- den of anxiety; even to Tom's unob- servant regard it was laid bare how deeply the bafMing mystery—the un- certainty of his cousin's fate—had af- fected his whole being. “Steady, old man,” mured sympathetically, nerve tonic. Drace up.” They sat down. “l don’'t want anything to drink,” Van Vechten declined the offer, “‘but 1 will gladly smoke a big black cigar. Perhaps it will clear away some of the cobwebs.” Tom, ever a model of abstemious- ness, contented himself with a mild and ladylike thimble of curacao. Then they took up the subject of the cablegram again. Van Vechten flat- tened the paper upon the table, propped his elbows at either end and grasped his hair firmly with both | hands, the cigar smoke forming a blue halo about his head. He gave himself up to the serious business of inter- preting and assimilating the disquiet- | ifathomable information from | Tom mur- “Try a little ing, over o The operation, me very ctory, for by uttered another groan, tosse oked cigar and on ifestly, was not | nd by he his more sat | satist at—" he began, but his com- | n promptly checked him. v you stop right there,” com- manded Tom. “If you want to fire any I > tions, su you try 'em | I don’t comprehend your question.” | ou m up.”| “They have cabled Central Ofiice,” | d aspark ' Mr. Flint explained, “a half-dozen | of h sprightly humor times today for inf ation. The aft- | fla 2 i":rr.mm’w‘ extras a reward— t boy,” he said. “If I pos- tv 3 e hur ~being of- | sessed your practical mind I would not d o for f on of be so woozy over this thing. But you ss Carew. That would account for are an inspiration, Tommy—why | their sudden interest.” didn't I think of it before? Fother-| By way of answer the young man ingill must be one of Uncle Theodore's | handed him the cablegram from Foth- | eringill. agents.” After some delay, Uncle Theodore’s | ity in Miss Car were more or less clear to him. The surmise respecting Fotheringill had been a pretty shrewd one. That gentleman, it appeared, was a member of the firm of Hirschfield & Sons, bank- ers, the Man of Iron’s principal Brit- ish representatives. He had been in- structed to send all messages in dupli- cate—one for the elder Van Vechten's information, the other for Rudolph’s guidance. The latter learned further | that all other information likewise was to be sent to him. “Lord, Uncle Theodore!” Rudolph lamented into the mouthpiece, “the newspapers will now be justified in stirring up whatever scandal they may conceive!” “Are you afraid of them?’ demand- ed his uncle sharply. *“No, no; of course not. It's Paige I'm thinking of. Think what her feelings must be when she sees all the rot that's being printed about her.” . He heard the older man grunt. “A precious lot of consideration she .has shown for our feelings,” he said, “But you are mistaken; the newspapers may be our best allies, and it is not good policy to antagonize them at this stage. “Frankly,” the incisive voice went on, “I am now exceedingly worried; if there were not so many vital business matters exacting my personal atten- tion—things I can’'t neglect because they involve the welfare of others—I would drop everything and take up the search myself. But I must leave that part of it to you; I know you will be diligent.” Rudolph assured him on this point, adding: “But my hands are so hope- lessly tied by the utter absence of a starting-point; there is nothing to take hold of, nowhere to begin, Why, I haven't evolved even a tentative theory yet. What the devil does it all mean anyway? Have Paige and Jo- sephine both lost their minds?” No answering oracle came over the wire, and the Man of Iron uttered his parting injunction: “Use your best judgment; spare no expense.” Van Vechten emerged from the stuffy booth and shook his head like a swimmer far out at sea, who, while not sighting land, despairs not, but struggles bravely on. The entrance of Mr. Flint at this critical period had the soothing effect of a balm. His manner waseso quiet and unobtrusive, so methodical and unruffled, and with- al so confldent, that one’s plight must be desperate indeed for one not to respond to the inspiriting influence of his presence. “Well, so you have turned up at last,” Van Vechten greeted him sour- ly. “Good heavens, man! Why don’t you keep in touch with ecivilization when you efface yourself from the world?” “This is the first opporturity I have found for communicating with you since we parted last,” was the calm response. ‘“Don’t fear but that I shall keep in touch with you, for the way matters are shaping it begins to look as though I shall need your assist- ance pretty constantly.” Van Vechten bent eagerly across the table. “Have you learned anything?” he de- manded. “Yes—and no. Nothing definite about Miss Carew. But I have un- earthed a good many facts which may or may not have a bearing on our in- vestigation—for 1 am including the mystery of your cousin’s disappear- ance with the mystery of Sunday's murder. There’s a connecting link somewhere, although I haven't hit upon it. The dead man’s identity has been established.” Both young men looked an interro- gation, and Mr. Flint proceeded. “Now that we have learned who he is, the facts tend to confuse rather than to enlighten; there is no hole where he fits in. It would seem that he was rather a worthless sort, an expert mechanie, but at outs with his union and discredited generally by in- dustrious members of his trade. His name was O'Neill. He never worked anywhere long, and his quitting of a job was invariably the culmination of trouble of one sort or another.” The speaker’s manner abruptly altered. He asked curiously: “Has tland Yard's sudden activ- sent perturbation?” Is my do with your pr Van Vechten smiled feebly. shattered nérvous system so ruthless- | ly exposed?” he asked. “But, truly, Mr. Flint glanced at_it, then (Continued on Page 8.) s hehalf anything to | H. C. STEVENS The Lakeland Jeweler A. C. L. Watch Inspector Bargains Galore | | | For the Holiday Shopocrs d Get my prices on Blankets and Comforts before buying—can save you money. I'have a complete line of Men’s and Boys’ Suits, Prices are right My Shoe Department is complete, and if you want good Shoes see me. Ladies, I have a few Coat Suits left that I am selling at COST. I have all styles and colors in Men's, Boys and Children’s Hats. Complete line of Men’s and Boys’ Pants. See my notion department when looking for Christmas gifts. I have Trunks, Suit Cases and Hand Bags. Remember, I de- liver your packages at any time of the day and all goods guaranteed. ! Phone 284 when in need of anything in my line. i J. C. 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