Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 2, 1914, Page 8

| I I i | | | SRVr T ean Ry val TR AR L L Ens g v L ARl | 2 > P Y AR 6 TR | THE EVEN'NG TEL&GRAM, LAK Alonza Logan J. F. Townsend LOGAN § TOWNSEND BUILDING CONTRACTORS We Furrish Surety Bonds On Ali Lontrects If you want a careful. consistent. and re- liable estimate on the construction of your building, SEE US INMEDIATEL Y. TELEPHONE 66 R AAL T.L. CARLETON SANITARY PLUMBING Futch & Gentry Bldg TINNING cnd SHEET METAL WORKS COR. N. Y, AVE ard Yain ST, LAKELAND QEROPCACHOHORCHCR S B BB PG B PP & PBPE Gos Fitting, Sewer Woik. Driven- Wells and Punrps .« « + . o . O LSOO O g g Let yoeur New Year's Yesolu tion be to continve buyiog Your Feed, tilizer from the store that nuk this line a specialty and price tiaht. Coeme to se o2l ““wany af. i**VT.(‘i Mqr That New Year will socn behere, and o thet we have some beautiful Heliday » 6 md- to disyeoce ofd vary lew pri ccs 5 It wr e or g > Ton’t “"!@rm 2t s § Fourand Fer- us “ast of Light andg Water Plant fc'rms Cash B TR ey Eathrobes and Slipper to match, & : $:0 werih for 56.50 T Stk Socks in boxes for $1.00 and a hest of oiher Holiday goods, Ties and incleding Initie]l Handkerchicfs in All ovr cloth- ¢ ing in men and boys reduced in cilk and 2! linen. prices for the Holidays. ; Some geod Hars at §1 ; nmw FORGET ToE STORE | § *5“5*‘!”!‘0'34‘5"!*@”5' PP |uu!fittei" The Hart Sebittner § Nenx (:omrpl OS. R SR L LeVAY B e oos & B RANLESERRT T SRE oy tod LU0 - 17 ”» ¥ ] 2 X % g P }; (e FHONE 340 g FLORIDZ § OHOGOC00T St B DS Crdot SO S OGO BHOIO E b VRPN A A LAUAK AV AL A ASAY AA By IDA N. MUNSON. The hours of the short winter's day were drawing to a close. The tall, old- fashioned clock in the dark front hall of the Crawford mansion had already struck five, and out of doors the early twilight was ushering in a cold, dreary night. The wind blew the snow in al! directions and whistled * down chim: neys with a mournful cadence. By the open fireplace in her sitting room sat Mary Crawford. No matter how imposing the exterior of the Craw- | ford mansion, so called because its ap- | surrounding houses in the town, no | matter~how large and grand all the | other yrooms in the house might be there was one cozy apartment on the second floor, just over the conserva- tory, where the sunlight seemed to lin-' ger longest and where, the rest of the house might be cold and cheerless, there was always the temperatue of a soft Indian summer, Even now, when the darkness was fast approaching, one could almost see to read by the faint light that came in' through the western window and the cheerful fire threw such a radiance over everything in the room that the thought of cold and hunger seemed very remote from this woman reclin- ing in a soft, easy chair by the glowing hearth. Yet there was hardly a poor family in Crawford who could not tell of her gentle ministrations of love in times of sickness or misfortune, The little woman by the fire stirred receily and opened her She um]d hardly have been asloep, tor there w 1 tear on her check and she raised one hand to press her forehead as though it ached. On the small stand near by lay a vel- i vet case and, drawing the table toward her, she opencd the article, d a ncat prir of kid gloves and several handkerchiefs. ‘Barbara’s gift,” she “She ramembered that | birthday. She eves selosing said softly. this is my always remembers ey | erything that she thinks will please | me, dear girl,” | For a while the woman moved het { hand back and forth over the top of i the velvet cover with a 3 i touch, “I am old, Larbhara,” she said to her- sell, as il talking to the girl, "1 am i thirty-rine yeurs old today. You are | young, and albove all things, | want | you to be about nie, I been tl ter ior te )y, It does not matter nd althougzh you have s my own little daugh- v yvars, happy just be , T will let you go and me now, Yos, Parbara, I will be biave ard not * you unhappy. You shall never know how my heart aches wihen you go. 1 owitl bear it all in sil- ence because ol iy promise.’ Sudiiv she arose and, siopping to | the door softly locked it, then knelt | before a cabiuet In the roum eontain- ing several drawers. From a chain around her necie she drew a Loy and fuseried it in the lock of oiv of the drawers, Jier face was very W ber hand tremibled so that « ( | the side of the binet ¢ i port. After o) ; it she | the only thing it contained; a t ol yellow iciter poper. The writing was j almost obscured In some plices where t had tallea on it iasping it | tigh with both hands she roseated { hersell in the wrochair sod coad: 1 *London, England, Nov. 25, 1898, 1My dear trierd: | “Being falsely accused of a crima { for which I have received f of life imprizonment, 1 write to a k « | you a great favor. I know unt why pmy thouyuw tuci to you in iny troui e -tuay be b 2 you once cared fur me—ucvert 5, for the 2ol the jonly on Ieft me in this world to love, and for the sake of l'or mo'her, who is | how In lcaven, 1 ask you to keep my little duughter, ra, and try to i make her happy. and our taith | ful scrvany, Judy, will cor to you | with this letter, 2ad it you ¢ mnot my daughter send a m » directed to Castle Couirt, Lot ¢, oth lerwise 1 shall trust that ehe is safe | with you { “Money will be scut you regularly i from my bankor, and it is that Darbara )W nothir I my im | prisonment hat 1 be all sunshine if po-oible : “Now may God rewird you 1 bless | you both until that ¢ al day when all { wrongs shall be ver righted SILBEQT ARNOLD,” | | Here were | | A% ay uoever to return, bec misunderstanding that sl blind foolishress would not let him set right, | Parbara and Judy bad brou message, How well she rem | that day when the sunshine girl's | house! Frowm t | been e loug happiness. ! had sent her! thi the mbered I a little ned had dilled the groat er that he wught little d She was glad he h \\‘ found a good woman to comiort Lielp him, g,m to think he h:d known a ort years of enjoym: nt, and that wn urforriving spirit had not d his 11 as it had lers | Of his life now she could never trust herself to think. Gilbert ip prison! She gasped at the thought, It \ | | ABPR END GF THE SCLILOQUY, | pearance was superior to that of the | eren though‘“m]d Arthur | words in a 1 e } 1 S ; “I, Mary Crawlesd, proy to do all i VI Lo hers {in wy power to : larbara Arnold Hoy 1 cared for me : v dear ‘K¢ ! N ked, § B I th he softly * Goently the woman her lips SVe od | to the paj here Gil rig ! ¥ McClure News. | sigued his and then leas pipet \ ie.) 1m her chair with a tired sigh. 4 ¢ P, | She remembered the ¢ J";" alistic Frenchmen B4 ‘-“A‘L_N%“m L ELAND, FLA., JAN. 1, 1914, his fveedem had been at the price of her ewn Mfe she would not have hesi-| tated one minute. Night had come, and yet she did not turn on the lights. Day and night were alike to her when thinking of the man she loved. Judy knocked at the door of the lite tle sitting room. When it had been opened she asked with the familiarity of a trusted servant: *“Is your head- ache better, missus?” “Yes, Judy,” was the answer, “and | is Barbara home yet?” “No, missus, she just sent word that she would come home a little later with Massa Arthur.” “Very well, Judy, have supper ready when they come, and Judy—" “Yes, missus.” “Tell Barbara I'll not be down to supper tonight, but not to worry, as I feel much beuo “Yes, missus.” i And Judy disappeared from the door and hurried down the long hall, [ Slowly Mary Crawford went back to the arm chair, ‘ “Barbara is so happy,” she mused, is so noble and true. There is no one that I would rather give her to. But it is so hard and so soon, too, only next week and I shall be all alone.” | “All alone,” she repeated, “but Bar' bara must not know that I care eo much. She must be happy, and I—it makes no difference about me. I will keep my promise for your own dear sake, Gilbert.” Slowly her eyelids closed, and so still she sat in the arm chair with her head resting inst the cushion that one would have thought her asleep. She must have been asleep an hour later, for when the great brass knock- er on the front door echoed its signal through the bouse, she did not move. Judy opened the door to admit a tall stranger powdered with snowflakes and apparently almost exhausted from I his journey in the storm. | “Judy!"” a faint voice exclaimed, and then the man sank helplessly on the o | old-fashioned hall seat, | However, that one word was enough for the old servant. In a minute she wus on her kuces pulling at his coat, and murimuring words of endearment. “Massa Gilbert! The good Lord be praised. 1 has prayed and prayed for this day, and now you is come home Bless you!” By the great stove in Gilbert Arnold obedientiy the hot drinks Judy prepared, and tied to auswer the good old soul's questions, He had traveled day and night since that memorable aiternoon when they had told him that the guilty one had confessed, and that he w L free man, He thought of Mary Crawford, and ‘thing teld him that the woman who once loved him had been worthy is trust, Gilbert,” Judy was saying, “Mis want to know you is conte, and if ve 11~ thoroughly warme: d, HI &0 tell her.' the Kkitchen SO of h will “Judy.,” the man said, where is your mistres “in her sitiing room, Massa Gil- bert.” / Barbara will be home S0C 1 noyour mistress is alone?" | 10 to her, Judy, T know just v the room is I'ur I used to play | when al | The little fire must have It lreams for he i i1 d did not t i lenly opencd her ey v a Tl opposite he Gilbert he said tly i you | | d so 1 o i, | er than Bl 1 But 1 3 wale n d then i will s (i S in the w 8|5 | gl ety | ll.l\l‘ cuine i ) you und ra | The 0 | nto ) ( | 1 ? 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