Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 27, 1914, Page 7

— make things easy for yourself §ell Office Supplies wr work demands something pocial we will get it for you Lakeland Book Store Benford & Steitz RSN E THR EVENING @ theyear’sworkright 4 the right materlals and g é § closed, and Stevens remained behind é AVED B CHANGE By GEORGE MUNSON. Stevens, the assistant teller, relieved Waterbury between the hours of one and two. On Saturdays Waterbury went home at twelve, when the bank % clean up the work. This occupied about an hour and a half, or longer. Stevens wag getting thirty dollars a' wleek, and his wife was in the hos- pital. The delicate and difficult opera- tion had been successful, but Stevens owed nearly five hundred dollars. The sharks were pressing him, too. They had threatened to come down to the bank; that would mean the loss of his position, of course. He had thought over his problem. In his desperation the moral aspect of [ ] the projected crime amounted to noth- Ing. He knew that he could walk out of the bank, just before closing time, with four or five thousand dollars in IN BUILDERS’ | Stevens knew that she was the kind lo'sllck to a man through thick and ‘ ) thin. Some day, some time there Itis most important to select best hardware for that new ne or building. That brings you here, for we ¢ a point of carrying noth but the best builder’s hard- j that adds not only to the fufy of a building, but to its ir(ngp value as well, be 'sash and door locks, ges, etc., are a very small Véf' abuilding, but will re- ymary- times for the cost Btrouble of proper selection. W are’ 'Prepared 10 name ktebting évites on the com- e hardware .for any style of iding from the humble cot- i théu;&fi;‘ office build- Yes,‘glflj\"&g‘« als0 sell the t buildifig 'tdols<-all moder- 10+ 5+ 10> o-4f ¢ f ) n Plumbingce e your Order NewYnder Now ke;nada Hotel _and g * Avoio the Rush tesd Firet, Qlagzin; Every) Bespect. Estimates Will Be ekt Sy 18 R lner Phone 274 Red % 13 101 atsd soroo! S .. 101 8igkl bisv U ARE™ 9" THE MARK:T (g 2 \Sheet Iron,,,Goeper. Zinc or 2ty ind of Roofing Work, call the JAND SHEET METAL WORKS 12'South Florida Ave. Ask for J. P. CARTIN . Wirtha 3 Our Mofto is. . e: aln “(:)f;'k 611:::‘0“:“‘" his pockets, in the shape of hundred dollar bills. Old Wrigley, who super- intended the depositing of the money In the safe, was as blind as a bat. The exploit would not call for any remark- able exhibition of “nerve.” ! His wite, a weak-willed little womnn,{ would, of course, be horrified. But would be an opportunity for rejoining her, and meanwhile he could at least arrange to send her a thousand dol- lars, through friends. They would not' let her starve in order to recompense the bank, which expected a man to }lve after his marriage on thirty dol- ars. i The problem was simply whether ' ke could “get away with” his plunder. Stevens had made all his plans. He' knew just where he was going td hide. He would rent a room in the furnished room quarter of the city and lie low for a month or two. The mistake most bank thieves made was in confiding in some woman. Stevens would conflde | i [ 1 i | Fate Had Dealt Him the Worst. in no one. He wore a mustache; with' that gone, and spectacles, he believed he would be safe from detection. “What's the matter, Stevens? Why ' { are you looking at me like that?” de- manded Waterbury irritably. ! “I heg your pardon,” stammered Ste- | vens. Waterbury had been very try-, ing of late; he seemed bent on picking | a quarrel, and on the flimsiest of pre-' texts. Well, that was another reason | for Stevens' plan. His position was | insecure; and it would be just ltka“ Harrison, the president, to turn him | adrift when Mary was ill. Waterbury was pacing the floor of his cage when Stevens relieved him at twelve o'clock that Saturday morning. “I thought you were never coming,” he growled. He nodded curtly and, with-| out another word, opened the door of the cage, passed out and let it slide ! to behind him. Stevens watched him | with a rather grim smile as he dlu.p-i peared. The bank was closed to the public. | Stevens remained alone in the teller's | cage. One by one the clerks and as- sistants went out. Presently nobody was left in the bank except the watch- man, Wrigley, the cashier, and bim- solf. Then Stevens hastily transferred five packages of ten hundred dollar | bills apiece to his coat pocket, finished ! his work and took the money to the safe. : ! Wrigley joined him. Stevens’ m-a-i tense of counting it was not elaborate. \Wrigley had taken off his glasses and wag thinking of his home. Presently the safe door slammed and, with a courteous “good-by,” Stevens found | himself in the street. He jumped aboard a car and de- | scerided half a mile away, at the fur- nished room house in whieh his new bome was to be. He had already trans- ferred his baggage to the railroad sta- tion by cab, ard had had it expressed thence a few days later. He had left clue behind him. no’l‘hat evening for the first time in months he had dinner at a restaurant. He smoked a cigar, strolled about | town and finally went home and to ped. Not until nu: mrnln; did he n the packages Ol k op;'hen he did so he saw to his horror that they were valueless. Every one except the top bill in each package was a Confederate greenback. Instead of the five thousand dollars which he had imagined was tn his possessiom, TELEGRAM, LAKTUESDAY, JAN. 27, 1914, he had just five hundred—barely ~ | enough to pay the doctor’s expenses. netar winer: o The Loss by Fire in the U. S. His coup was useless, and he had spent about twenty dollars moving and on the dinner of the precedilng evening. There was only one course now—to go back and smuggle the money into the drawer again, this time not under the listless watching of Wrigley, but under the eagle glances of Waterbury. A wave of disgust and utter self- contempt passed over Stevens. Fate had dealt him the worst, because the most unsuspected, blow. Well, he would go back on the following morn- ing; he could somehow contrive to re- place the money; at the worst suspi- cion need not fall upon him, and when the money was found the matter est. Stevens spent s miserable night. Remorse, disgust, self-loathing, and & vast pity for his helplessness to make Pl“h‘!elphm Underwriters, Mary's life happy struggled within| capit . him. When at last he reached the [German American, capital 2,000,000 bank it was to find the offcers gath- |Springfield Fire and Marine ered together in groups, eagerly dis- cussing something. “You've heard the news, Stevens?” inquired Wrigley. “No,” answered Stevens. “Waterbury's dead.” The room seemed to swim round Stevens. He heard the old man's voice continuing, as if far away. “Yes, he was killed in the wreck on the Southern & Eastern this morning. He was then four hundred miles from safe and find he had filled it with Con- During a Recent Year Amounted to Almost f—j‘\ bne-Half the Cost Of All New Buildings Constructed During the Entire Twelve Months! When Buying or Bulilding Provide the Means For Rebuilding! We represent the following reli- would cease to be of pressing inter|.pa companies: Fideli?y Underwriters, capital ...... .. .. 4,750,000 Al e $4,500,000 capital 2,000,000 MANN & DEEN Room 7, Raymondo Building New York, and—his clothes were ' ' stuffed with bills aggregating twelve an a“ an thousand dollars. We've searched the [ L — e ———————— tederate bills, with a single good one on top of each package. They're counting up the loss now.” WE HAVE IT Stevens staggered into his cage. ‘iFrom StiCk Candy to the Finest Box Cafldy “Mr. Harrison wants to see you, announced a boy presently. .Have you tried any of our mens, vent It the wresdent) LOME-MADE CANDY ? A Trial is All We Ask “Ah, Mr. Stevens, this is a very un- fortumate sccurrence.” said the presi.| We also have a nice stock of Fresh Fruits, Nuts, dent. “You have heard of it, of course. Unfortunately there seems to be no room for doubt as to Mr. Waterbury's purpose, and, more happily, I don’t think we shall be the losers, as we should have been but for that unfor- tunate wreck. Well, Mr. Stevens, we are going to ask you to act in Mr. Wa- terbury’s place for the present, and later, possibly, we shall make the po- | « sition permanent. The salary, you may know, {s two thousand five hundred PP dollars. Good-morning.” . rumbt Deltvery Dried Figs. Dates aad Raisins JFRESH APALCHICOLA OYSTERS H. O. DENNY Pbone 33 e cm e o - — Gl d sty trsc st v 0 oin, 00 8 Water Wells, Irrigationand Drainage Plants PUMPS AND ENGINES packages away where their presence might be discovered later. His second was to pray with all his heart to be made worthy of his fortane. (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.) NEW PARADISE FOR HUNTER East Africa Has Probably the Last Virgin Field Remaining in i the World. | | A new hunting fleld of vast area,! still untouched by the rifie of the white sportsman, has been found in Bast Africa by Stewart Edward White, the American author. In a letter | written to & friend in Berlin Mr. White calls this territory ‘“probably the very last big virgin - hunting country in the world.” i Mr. White, accompanied by his wife, first went to Africa shortly after Col Theodore Roosevelt visited the coun- try four years ago. He was so de- lighted with his experiences that he returned recently with a new expedi- tion to travel into more remote re~ | gions. He obtained permission from: . the German government to hunt in the German territories, and here found the country heé describes. After being out of touch with civ- flization for many weeks, Mr. White sent a messenger with letters to Vie-| toria Nyanza. He writes that the new field, where the sound of a rifile never has been heard, is . as big as the hunt- ing grounds of British East Africa, and that there are in it thousands upon thousands of head of game of all sorts. Wildebeste, which are found in big herds, stand at & hundred yards' distance to watch the party pass, and other animals, many of them of rare species, are so tame that the hunter can walk up to them in plain sight. The country is composed of |’ low hills reaching down to the open plain; the climate is good and Mr. White suspects that the region lay 80 long unvisited because of the diff- eulties of getting in. Bverybody in the party was well at the time of the writing and Mr. White expected to finish his trip about De- cember 1, coming out via Lake Vio toria Nyanza. | Men of Meavy Brain. In a letter to the New York Times Dr. Bdward Anthony Spitzka, prose- cutor of the American Anthropometric society, says the record shows 16 heavier brains than the late Prince Katsura’s in 108 weighed. ‘“The Jap- anese,” he adds, “are a people of small | ¥ stature, because short legged, and this g fact lends interest to the question of relative brain weight. On the whole, the brain weight of the Japanese com- | pares favorably with that of BEuro- |/ peans of similar stature, and it may (| be shown to be superior in this respect to other races of the same general stature. These facts are of not a little significance in relation to the learn- ing, industry and aptitudes of this progressive race.” Can Grub Along. Pather—You must know, sir, that my daughter will get nothing from me until my death. Suitor—Oh, that's all right, that's all right! T have enough to live on tor two or three years—Puck. We have 10 years’ Call on us. Experience We can do and latest the work Improved N:' . 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