Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 18, 1913, Page 8

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Phone 93 Pure Food Store R Egn Don’t Forget That Christmas will soon be here, and that we have some beautiful Holiday % Goods to dispose of at very low prices BTG b € P Sy Sl G S R PETEEEEDDDEP %24 s e @reg Bathrobes and Slipper to match, % $10 worth for 83 . $6.50 i Ties and Stlk Socks in boxes for & $1.00 and a host of other Holiday goods, including Initial Handkerchiefs in : silk and all linen. All our cloth- ing in men and boys reduced in prices for the Holidays. Some good Hats at $1 5o s Srdrdud S =Y o 5rEHeE S g oo GG B @ B & P ¥ PSS oo oo SETFPDGTPRE TR CBDBES $ovr <] | Outfliter The Hart Schaffner & Marx CIolhlng' The Hub JOS. LeVAY among the different familles con- cerned that 1 hope to find the key to the puzzle. And there again I 1ok for your help. bl “Consider, Mr. Van Vechten: it'e a far cry from the murder of an ob- scure, unimportant young man here in New York to Temple Bonner in England, whose name in any language means unlimited wealth and power. He and his family own no inconsider- able portion of the world’s second city. He is inaccessible to all ordi- nary methods of approach, zlndA by (Copyright 1912 by A. C. McClurg & Ca.) virtue of his position and affiliations lie sat up With a jerx and His eyes | a force to be reckoned with even by narrowed to mere slits. He pondered | the ruler he has elected to owe alle- the text for some time while the two | giance to. But it has become unmis- young men watched him in silent cu- | takable that a binding cord lez}d! riosity. through the maze of intervening “Well,” he breathed at last, return- | events, uniting Temple Bonner and | ing the message, “here is one more | Jim O’Neill as surely as if they walked | link in the chain—not a very definite | hand in hand. one, but an additional small detail that | “Now you are privileged to assocl- | asgociates Miss Carew directly with | ate with such people; you are one of yolir house of mystery.” them. I am not. That's how you can Van Vechten stared in wonder at|help me.” the slip of paper. Tom abruptly ex-| The young man surveyed him curk claimed: “How the dickens do you|ously, perhaps a little admiringly. make that out?” There was a noticeable tone of re- But Mr. Flint was not to be hurried. | spect in the question which he pres- “While there may be nothing 80 |ently asked, very mysterious about the house it- “Flint, how did you come to be bur self,” he pursued evenly, “nevertheless | rowing into the past, and raking up it is by way of promising us a very |old dead, forgotten romances?”’ pretty problem indeed. Does the name | “You supplied the hint,” was the ‘Withypool’ signify anything in partic- | quiet answer. “When you said that ular to you?” the house had not been rented through “Nothing definite; it is familiar, | the regular channels—that is to say, that is all.” by application at the estate’s offices— “Withypool,” repeated Mr, Flint,|a moment's reflection told me that musingly. “I have had occasion to look | possession of the house could haveJ it up.” been obtained only in one other way, “You have!” shot from Van Vech- | namely, by direct authority of Mr. ten in his surprise. “What do you | Bonner himself. Rather extraordinary, know, Flint? Tell it!” eh? It was while trying to verify this | “It's a little village in Somerset— | conclusion that I stumbled upon the | on the edge of Exmoor forest—per-| rest.” haps one of the prettiest regions in| “If your information is exact, the rural England. Still does the name |old place over yonder—Lord, what | convey nothing to your mind? Think!” | would Josephine think is she knew Here Tom Phinney interjected: how it had been exciting the club’s “Ruddy thought it was confoundedly | curiosity for lo, these many moons!— | familiar when he read the message.” | {f you are correct, then it is her old | While Van Vechten tried his best to | home—her birthplace—the house recall the associations which the name | from which she was married. Well, | all but evoked, Mr. Flint sat shrewdly | well, well!” contemplating him. The marriage had not been a happy “I give it up,” declared the young |one, and the speaker paused. There| man at length. “Go on and tell it— | was a quality in the detective's silence | why you jumped so when you read the | and intent attitude that seemed subtly message. What's the answer?” to encourage the young man’s remi- “I said that it was a pretty spot”— | niscent vein, for after giving the un- the man’s deliberation was provoking | fortunate union a brief mental turn- —“an ideally desirable location for a|ing over, Van Vechten dismissed it home—regular old-fashioned English|and went on. country home, you know—gables,| ‘“Josephine had a twin sister—Hen- chimney-pots, ivy, deer-park, hedges, | rietta—been dead for years and years. and all that sort of thing. For in-| She too made an unlucky match, I be- stance—" lieve—people, you know, don't talk “Confound you, Flint! Out with it!” | about such things. I know next to “Mr. Temple Bonner’s.” nothing about it. Must have been For a moment the two young men | gome gay times in that old house.” sat staring speechlessly at the un-| Mr, Flint of a eudden leaned for- moved detective. Then Van Vechten | ward and fixed Van Vechten with a smote the table with his fist, look that arrested and held his atten- “By George!,’ ejaculated he, vehe-| tion, mently but not loudly. ‘“That’s {t! “Now then, Mr. Van Vechten,” he The very thing that's been chasing | had grown all at once compelling, “if round in my skull!” He proceeded | the veiled lady you saw Sunday after- more calmly. noon—the one who came in the taxi “But, Flint, admitting that pne of | _if ghe did not resemble Miss Carew, the two ladies mentioned here is my | then wasn't it Mrs, Devereaux that cousin”—tapping the cablegram—“the | you were reminded of?” fact that you found her purse in a| «Wwait, Flint, wait,” the other house which happens to belong to] checked him. “She was a young lady, Temple Bonner, and that also she has | mind.” been mysteriously sojourning near his | “Still,” insisted the detective, “you home in England, presents only a co- | thought at first glance—before you incidence—curious, perhaps, but im-|saw that she was a young lady—that material.” she was Mrs. Devereaux-—isn't that “Maybe so; but do not lose sight|go?” ! of the other lady—her companion. She For a long time Van Vechten sat was a Schuyler, I believe.” scowling at the table. By and by he “True.” looked up and his regard encountered “Do you know that before Number | the detective’s. 1 1313 came into Mr. Bonner's posses- “I believe you are right, Flint,” he sion it belonged to Compton Schuyler, | admitted at last. “It was the difference Mrs. Devereaux’s father?” in years that fooled me. Until I real- The expression that now flitted | ysed my mistake I believed the veiled across Van Vechten's face was one of | 154y to be Josephine Devereaux.” bewilderment. He had no comment to make. . CHAPTER VIII. “Furthermore,” continued Mr. Flint, ; ey “instead of the present owner being The Ghost of Romance, ignorant that such a shabby parcel of van Vechten's admission was ac- property is a part of the estate, its 'cepted by Mr. Flint quite as a matter purchase was prompted by a sentl|or course; as if he would have been ment growing out of a romance more | gycedingly surprised if the young than thirty years old. So, you see, the | s, had identified the lady of the taxi- coincidence begins to assume propor | ¢ah with some other entirely different tions that must signify something—| porgon, Said he: something that would be of value to “I ghall sketch briefly as much of us if we could only grasp its meaning. | ¢hq Schuyler-Bonner history as I have There is where 1 hope you may help | joarned; then, Mr. Van Vechten, you me.” will see what I want to know. “This is rather staggering, Flint,” | «In the seventies and early eighties, eaid Van Vechten, as soon as he had | Compton Schuyler was a prominent collected his wits, “but still the ¢ir|figure, a man of affairs, in the New cumstances are merely coincidence | york commercial world, and as for- to me. I can read no meaning into | tynes went in those days, a wealthy them, nor are they informative. I fall | nan Besides, he was of the old Dutch to see where I can render the slight- | g¢ock; his home was a center of the est help. Tom here is in a position to | gaghionable life of the city. Twvo beau- supply you with something mueh more | ¢iry], charming daughters greatly en- to the point, for by the purest accl | papced this attraction, so that the dent he stumbled upon our sandy-com- | pame was really better known socially plexioned man—to say nothing Of & than in a business way. At that period ripping adventure. His name is John | pis home was looked upon as a man- Callis.” . sion, and that young man who stood The detective favored Tom with & |, the family’s good graces counted look of interest, and then his eyes |pimself fortunate indeed. smiled. “It was only an inevitable conse- “One thing at a time, gentlemen,” | guence that the two Schuyler sisters said he, “one thing at a time. YO“.C:\rriod a long string of suitors in can't excite me. through with the point we were dis- | ang enjoyed the supremacy which for cussing.” several years discouraged all idea of “It is entertaining enough for me,” | matrimony. . agreed Van Vechten. “I trust it will “Then conditlons began to change. By CHARLES EDMONDS WALK Author of “The Silver Blade,” ] “The Paternoster Ruby,” etc. prove profitable. ; "am acquainted in a general way with Josephine Devereaux’ history—as is in a way familiar with the uneveni- jty and, in the cruel way society has ful history of a friend—for that ¥eI¥ o giving her erstwhile favorites the reason 1 am rather hazy as to details. o514 shoulder, speedily forgotten. In other words, there never has been | «pirst, through a series of bad in- any reason why one should want t0 ' yestments, Schuyler lost the bulk of plumb her past. She is almost a mem: pic fortune. A few months previously ber of our family, and has been for 80 jacanhine had married against her long a time that whatever affects her ¢q¢ther's consent, and her husband, also touches us.” Percy Devereaux, showed the sort of “Precisely,” said Mr, Flint, 80 brisk- gpesimen he was by promptly desert- ly that his augmented interest caught jng her when the loss became knowa. Van Vechten’s attention. Next, Mrs. Schuyler died suddenly, “Well?” the latter encouraged. | “It is _in the close _relationship (To Be Continued.) \ Let us first get | their train, they were s&ocial favorites | You see, while K‘rOl\fl misfortune followed another so | that in a remarkably short time the | 08 ' tamily sank into comparative obscur- | CHRISTMAS IS HERE FOOS OO OO OO HOLOLDE P mar m O i w G m U e L) Why not consider a nice pair of shoes :s, present (.The most appropriate Gifts cay be selected from our up-to-date stock, Dress Shoes, House Shoes, Satin Pumys Bed Room Slippers, Indian Moccasins or anything in the shoe or Hosiery fip; Make our store your headuuarters whe in town, and look our line over before buying elsewhere. Kimbrough & Rutherforg Opposite City Hall — THE PHOENI Christmas. 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