Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 31, 1914, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT GET YOUR GASOLINE OIL and DRY BATTERIES at the ELECTRICAL SHEFT &METAL SHOP THOS. L. CARDWELL Lakeland, Fla Phone 233 At this Period use all Safe- guards:for Comfort and Well}Being The best and most practicable of these is ice*OUR ICE. It preserves your food, conserves your health, increases your pleasure, does you good in ways too numerous to mention—and all for a very little money. Instead of decreasing your taking of ice on the cool days which will be occasionally sandwiched between the warm omes, resolve right now that every day is a full ice day for you. And stick to that COUPON BOOK of ours. It is your consistent, per sistent SAVER, ¥ Lakeland Ice Company F hone 26 THBE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA., JAN. 31, 1914, lady, Miss Morris, has suffered a 5 ' great loss' through the reckless driv- THEIR WEDDING GIFT By WALTER JOSEPH DELANEY. ‘Whiz! Around the corner came the auto- mobile, driven at a reckless rate of speed, an anxious-faced young man at the wheel. There was a cry sharp and terrified, then a ringing clatter, the cry echoed in masculine accents. There was a loud crash, and the vil- lage marshal a square away came sprinting to reach the man who had precipitated a double disaster. The whirling machine had only grazed a fair young girl because & chance pedestrian hastily pulled her back from death. The corner of a parcel she carried, however, was struck by a projection of the auto and dashed to the sidewalk. The driver of the auto leaped to the ground quickly. He ran over to the young girl, who leaned against a tree half fainting. “She is not hurt. Thank heaven!” he cried fervently. Then he saw the official approaching. His face grew grave. “Will he stop me?” he asked of the young man who stood half sup- porting the girl. “He certainly will,” was the definite reply. You were exceeding the s1peed limit recklessly and they are very severe here. You will have to go to the court—" “Impossible! My friend,” cried the man. “I am on a vital urgent mis- sion. The seconds count and delay may sacrifice a human life.” “Quick, then,” spoke the other, and he touched the long auto duster his companion wore. “What do you mean?” “I'll take your place. Off with it. Go!” The next moment Willis Reeves wondered what stirring impulse had actuated him to assume a penalty for a person he had never seen before. He had whipped the coat from the owner of the auto and donned it in a flash. The machine sped away, its owner shouting out some inaudible re- assuring promise drowned by the noise of the exhaust. The young girl recovered from her half dazed condition. She tottered over to where the parcel had been dashed to the ground. It clinked and clattered. She opened it, gazed at il i ing of this young man. She has been working on a special order of chima painting for over three months. What little money she had is tiéd up in it, and the automobile smashed her work to flinters. This young man should pay her—" “Why, no,” abruptly spoke the young girl—“this is not the man who drove the automobile. He saved my lite by drawing me out of the way,” and Miss Etta cast a grateful look upon her rescuer. “How is this?” sharply demanded the magistrate, Reeves glanced at the clock. If he told his story, a telephone message might halt the automobilist some- where down the line. He did not be- lleve that the earnest eyed young man he had assisted would leave him in the lurch. “I assume all responsibility,” he said simply. “Can you pay the fine and dam- ages?” “I have no money whatever,” con- fessed Reeves frankly. The girl regarded him with strange interest as the judge bowed her from the courtroom. “Your honor, there’s something queer about this case. This young man wasn’t in the automobile at all,” said the marshal. “Why don’t you explain?” urged the judge to Reeves. “I teel sure the fine and the loss to the young lady will be adjusted soon,” was all that Reeves would say. “What are we going to do, if the prisoner has no money to rpay his fine?” propounded the marshal. “The rock pile, of course—he'll have to work it out.” “I seem to be in knee-deep!” cogl- tated Reeves the next day. “I never counted on this, though.” Two others beside himself had been marched to a spot on the highway near a stone quarry. Each was sup- plied with a heavy hammer and was expected to break up the rocks for use in road grading. The next day Miss Morris came to the place while the men were eating their coarse dinner fare. She engaged Reeves in conversation. She learned the true story of the automobile epi- sode. The next day she brought him a warm meal. A tle of rare friendship began to grow up between them. The fourth day Reeves saw the marshal conducting a lady down the road. He pointed to Reeves and the lady approached. “You are the gentlemar who was arrested instead of my brother,” she said. Reeves smiled whimsically, with a glance at his dust laden garments and his bruised roughened hands. “Oh, my friend! my friend!” cried the lady, and seized one poor wound- ed hand and kissed it. “I am the sis- ter of the man you so nobly served. He was on his way to my dying fa- ther with the last possible medicine that might help him. It has cured and saved him. In his anxiety my brother forgot you, but telegraphed me. We can never repay you. And now, take me to this Miss Morris.” “I have pald Miss Morris for her T.L. CARLETON SANITARY PLUMBING TINNING and SHEET METAL WORKS Gas Fitting, Sewer Work, Driven Wellsand Purrps . . . . « .. COR. N. Y. AVE ard Maio ST. 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The breathless official came dashing up to the spot. “Was that your automobile?”. he demanded. “I'm responsibile,” replied Reeves evasively. “Then you are under arrest. This dangerous running has got to be stopped. We'll make an example of you.” A subordinate officer arrived. He seized Reeves by the arm at the di- rection of his superior. “Hold on—what about that young lady?” interposed Reeves, turning to thé weeping girl at the curb. “I'll attend to the young lady,” gruffly retorted the head offictal. “She has probably got a further bill of damages to present,” and he glanced at the bundle on the ground. “Your friend, or chaufeur, or what- ever he was made off with the ma- chine, did he? * Well, we'll hold you.” Willis said nothing. He was led to the little courthouse of the town. It was all new, all strange to him. Only that morning he had reached the place. Fate had been hard with him for some time past. A skilled drafts- man, he had lost a position in the city through the failure of his firm. Now, homeless and friendless, he was withont money and willing to turn his hand to anything in the shape of honest work. Then had come the present episode. He wondered if it was reckless des- peration, a sense of his own useless- ness in the world, yet an apprecia- tion of the fervent words of the own- er of the automobile that had influ- enced him to act as the scapegoat for another. The man who had apprehended Reeves knew sufficlent of the case to testify as to excessive speed. The stern faced judge listened and deliv- ered his dictum: “Fine one hundred dollars and costs.” At that moment the marshal en- 'iereu the courtroom, the young lady The PHOENIX BARBER SHOP | "ot sore i sovms “No, no”"—began Reeves. “It must be. And shall I tell you a secret?” inquired the lady with a hap- py smile. “Miss Morris loves you.” “If T thought that!—" began Reeves rapturously. 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