Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 24, 1913, Page 6

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HUFFAKER 1di Doks usiling —Attorney-at-Law— M| fuislalatututu ut ) § QOO0 PO0000030300MY | goom 1, Stuart Blig _Bartow, i SAMUEL F. SMITH. M. H e Vi TUCKSR & TUCKER EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT | g ug, Hidp. Lakeland, Floru Phone: Office 141; Residence 2) o e : 15UIS A._FORY Suite (, Bryant Bullding { o ——— LAKELAND, FLA. HpAS FHIGGFIG IS GO0 ARCHITECT Residence phone. 278 Black ¥ \IELER HOTEL, LAKELANY FLa Office phone, 278 Blue. ' DE. SARAH E. WHEELEF § I 1 - et Y% .%. PRESIOK, L& | l | | ! : | | | | : : : : : m OSTEOPATH OMce Upatairs East of Bewrt Howi Rooms 2 and 3. "S;har‘ gullding i St e 2 BARTOW, FLORIDA QOO GHROHOOO0OD : i e ¢ Titiea snd Kea FEOGOARIOOD GO SO0 Examipation of Titi ¥ Established 1n July, 1601 y g DR. W. 8. IRVIN ; Estate Law a Speelalty D. 1 | e g § Room 14 and 15 Kentucky Bulldin ¥ | o =t B ons At 80000t | 97 JEREMIAH B SMITH OIS NOTARY PUBLIC { 20000t ] LOANS, INVESTMENTS IN REAL ; ! ESTATE DR R R SULLIVAN PHYSICIAN & e s st n o roperty. h 3 Special Attention Given ¥ ; ! :;;tu:u::h::' it ; SURGERY ¥ | [ sell for cash or o a&Y S, L Boom 14, Futch & Sutry B ! LAKELAND, FLORIDA Oson-Bryast Buliding, @round Fioor ;l . e | E\i Rooms 5 and 4 Kentucky Building 8YNOP8IS. Book I. CHAPTER I-Rudolph Van Vechten, & young man of leisure, is astonished to 8ee & man enter No. 1313, a house across the street from the Powhatan clud. The house has long been unoccupled and is spoken of as the House of Mystery. CHAPTER II—Several lar intervals enter No. CHAPTER III-Van Vechten expresses concern to his friend, Tom Phinney, re- garding the whereabouts 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 in the TEONS At regu- CHAPTER IV—Van Vechten is attract- :lby the face of a girl in the ot;wd of ! ookers surrounding the body. r S ook of ot thom Toa wiadome ot the n from mysterious house, i CHAPTER V—Detective Flint calls on Van Vyechun to get Nis version of the CHAPTER VI-Tom Phinney goes alone on & yachting trip. He recognizes unol:: some per«ons in a passing motor bo two men whom he had seen enter the ' House of Mystery. He sees one of them, fi Mr. Callls, on shore later and follows im. Tom {s 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, l Book 1. | | CHAPTER I-Van Vechten calls on his uncle, Theodore Van Vechten, big man in . 1Wall”u‘treet a,n):i l;n’ov;'n uutha ‘Man of] ron,” in search of information regarding the whereabouts of Palge Carew. ! CHAPTER II-Detective Flint shows x:nlx“hter; ?u“(]d mea‘)’x purse found IR use o ystery. an recognises as belonging to Pa.l;yo Carew. CHAPTER III-The sweet-voiced girl helps Tom Phinney escape, but refuses to disclose her {dentlty, R‘om declares he will raeet 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, CHAPTER V-Messages are sent to , Europe in an effort to trace Palge. Tom tells Van Vechten he is in love and re- lates his adventure, CHAPTER VI-A message from London reports that two ladles resembling Miss Carew and her eompanion, Mrs. Devereauy, salled for New York some ;Imndprovioualy. A reward of $2,500 1s of- | fered. CHAPTER VII-It develops that the ladies visited the English home of Tem- ! ple Bonner, owner of the House of Mys- tery. Flint has a theory that they are connected with the mystery of No. 1318 CHAPTER VIII-Tt {8 recalled that Temple Bonner was in love with a daughter of Compton Schuyler, who mar- rled Max Willard. The other daughter married A _man named Devereaux. Bone ner and Willard were intimate friends. A search is started for Willard. CHAPTER TX—Van Vechten enters the House of Mystery by the back door in time to hear John Callls threaten a girl. He iInterferes and helps the girl escape, but {8 rendered unconscious in the strug- Book 1. CHAPTER T-Tom Phinney gets a job as master of Brownlow’s yacht Kohinur which has heen chartered for some mys- | terious mission. | CHAPTER 11-The charterer and his friends board the yacht at night and Tom hears the volee of the unknown girl and also of a man volved In his adventure of a few nights previous. CHAPTER TIT ~Tom finds the girl more henutiful tvan he had anticipated. The harterer turns out to be M Willard. CHAPTER TV Willard Tom that his mission s honorable and inti- iates that o e s js ahant to ba righted. H that no one ia to 1o cht without his | 1 of the volee, hWile Tom < jumps overs nern ts uno i evplaining his ¢ board ~"Took Tore. Willar he began, menting the other's recasd with a level look and addressing him with a plain bluntness, “your nae is not at all fa- miliar to me. Il tell you just why I followed that chap Monday night, and | why 1 was surprised when you hand- ed me Brownlow's note. You'll see then that there are some things I'm | entitled to know as well as yourself. So we'll understand cne another right | here and now.” Willard nodded, but said nothing. “Do you know the Powhatan club?" | Ancther silent nod; but the eyes hn-’ trayed a light of dawning c«nnprulnen-: sion. “I'm & wember,” pursued Tom, “and mysterious way in which you peo nie aeted in that old house across from \Why shouldn’t vbout it end wondered, who the tenants up to, and all us made us all cur time and time sain | were; what they were | that gori of thing, Candidly, it didn’t | luvk rigat j “Now, I've geen you come and go at that house; 1 knew that you be longed "there. 1 saw the chap who was killed Jast Sunday come out of the eame | house. I reco ed you in the motor- boat Monday evening, and when I aft- rwards saw the fellow you call Cal B _of course 1 followed him. Any- body would.” All the time Tom had been speaking willard sat watching him with discon- certing intentness. He now gaid: “Then your love of justice overbal- ances your sense of caution?” “I like to see a square deal, if that's what you mean.” Willard now rose to his feet. “Thank you for your frankness, cap- tain Phinney,” said he with an air of | relief. “That explains matters. I am | | gorry I can not be so frank with you | | {n return. ButI can’t just at present; | too much is at stake.” With a uredl lgmsture, he brushed back a lock of | white hair that had fallen upon his | forehead. | “My undertaking has been too often | jeopardized, the forces opposed_to mel ; € ime LOCR cf (By Charles Edmonds Walk.) : DA TR0 SR SO TS S DE0E | critical juncture. gle with Callls. N\ ! “Then Your Love of Justice Overbal- | without | identified as members of Willard's' party, were mingling with the crew | in a friendly fashion and enjoying ! themselves; but John Callis geemed | apart, isolated, utterly oblivious—per- | Ll bl are too powerlul and too @lert, for me to chance any unnecessary risk at this Will you take my word for it that it is entirely honor- able and proper?” Not waiting for Tom's reply, he affirmed with much earnestness: “The truth is, Captain Phinney, if right and justice do not for once mis- carry, a great wrong soon will be cor- rected. If you betray me, if you die- close anything you may discover on board this yacht, you will be the in- ! strument of such a miscarriage. I must remind you that you deliberately accepted the unusual conditions of your employment, and that as a man of honor you can not do otherwise than remain loyal to your employer.” Tom himself was now standing. “Dashed if I don't believe you!” re- sponded he in his impulsive fashion. “But—say—Mr. Willard—hang it all! That poor chap who was killed: that sort of thing, you know, sticks in & fellow'’s crop.” The jet eyes were as steady as jewels upon the masks of & graveh idol. “Again I shall have to ask you to take me on faith for the time being,” responded Willard, unmoved. “I'll give you my word—should you ask me one week from tonight, I shall tell you exactly how that regrettable af- fair happened. You will hold me blameless.” i “Did you do it?” “I did not.” i “That's enough as far as you and 1 are concerned. Now then, on my part, I haven't the least desire to meddle in your affairs. I know my place and my duties, and I have enough to keep me pretty busy with- out bothering about anything else. But if I can’t help seeing that things are not strictly straight—wrong, you know—it will be a part of my duties to interfere. Satisfactory?” “Perfectly so. It's good that we had this talk. Good morning.” Tom had only begun stoking his pipe when the Kohinur's charterer re- appeared in the doorway. Said he: “By the way, I forgot to say that I do not want anybody to come aboard ances Your Sense of Caution?” my express permission—nor 10 o ashore. 1 have to go down into the city myself. Will yon give the neces- ary orders for the lannch to take me to the landing?” “l understand, sir. launch manned at once.” “It's uncertain when I shall return— late this afternoon or evening, prob- ably.” “The watch will keep a look-out for you, ¢ir,” explained Tom; “when they gee you the launch will come to take you off.” Whereupon Max Willard took his lifeless face away for good, and Tom, after telling Phil Mercer to get the lannch ready, returned to the chart- house, where he sat smoking and ru- minating. Reflection prompted aetion, and ac- tion made him forget his own dejec- tion. He walked forward, and in a moment his regard fell upon the un gainly form of John Callig sprawled | against the rail, motionless, his eyes staring sullenly cityward. There was something in the fellow's attitude that made Tom eye him nar- rowly. 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MCRae Real Ectate Owner and Manufac- turers’ Agent him by without a word; but just as | he got behind the man, Callis stood ! upright with a sudden movement and ' struck the rail a resounding blow with his clenched fist, at the same time spluttering an oath. He favored Tom with a baleful glare. | “How far,” he remanded rudely, “is | it to that landing?” Tom coolly looked him over. He! had no reason to be favorably dis- | posed toward the fellow, and he frowned at his present manner; but he had a measure of dignity to main- tain and could not afford to quarrel with him now. So he replied curtly: (Continued on Page 8.) Brokerage--Real Estate TELL US WHAT YOU HAVE T BELL WE WILL TRY TO FIND A BUYLR - 1ELL US WHAT YOU WANT T¢ BUY; WE WILL TRY TO FIND A SELLER Rooms 6 and 7, DEEN & BRYANT Building Lakeland kS £ Florida 11.00 f 1.30 | .68 . .66 1.3 I T . .28 3.0¢ .48 | .2 .38 | .60