Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 4, 1914, Page 3

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Both were pensioners on the bounty of Miss Lucia Warden, age thirty-five, looking ten years younger, and, al- though missing most of the joys of life, by no means soured, and still hoping and longing that some day Love would come along and help fill out her lonely life. She had given Miss Duncan a home, she had educated Bart. She owned , As soon as the little ones are well | ried because of the hard round of du- THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA., FEB. 4, 1914. home to the homeless and distressed. enough, I shall seek a quiet village like your own, engage in some small business and make them forget the old artificial life we have led.” He told her how he had never mar- ties, the broken fortunes of his broth- er and his family had required. She. read in his face the steadiness, the depths of longing of a matured mind. It seemd as though their meeting had bridged a chasm of two loyal souls seeking an empty heart to make of it a palace of love, fidelity and hap- piness. And then one evening, as they sat in the glow of the firelight and the shaded lamps, the little ones asleep in each other’s arms, like cherubs, Henry Morton boldly, bravely told this superb friend that -he foved her. She was waiting for the declaration, for she was hoping for it. How true, some property, and those two coveted it—at least counted on getting their | share of it if it was ever distributed. For this reason any deviation from ' personal or household rules was viewed with concern by the twain of selfish time-servers. =~ What had | aroused their present consternationl was the fact that Lucia had not only allowed a traveling circus to show on a lot she owned, but had visited it several times. “I don’t see what you find so ob- jectionable in a clean, harmless en- tertainment,” Lucia told her sister-in- law. “The clown is simply funny, the others do some wonderful acts, and they have two little children who give a pretty exhibition with some trained ponies who are perfectly entrancing.” Wisely Miss Duncan kept her re- sentment to herself. It burst out afresh, however, the day the circus took down its tent. What occurred so stirred up Miss Tabitha that she hastened to the office of her nephew and the twain held an active indigna- tion meeting at once. “It's just terrible, Bart!” pro- nounced the agitated Tabitha. “It seems as if the glare and glitter of that horrid show has just set Lucia wild. When I tried to talk to her, she “It's Just Terrible, Bart!” eaid that she was tired of the hum- drum life she was leading, and wanted variety and human sympathy. Well, she's found it!"” “What do you mean?” “Bart, I believe that Lucia has fall- en in love!” If Bart had been a woman he would have shrieked; as it was he turned pale. “Incredible!” he gasped. “It's true. It seems that those two little acting girls are under the charge of a man calling himself Henry Mor- | ton. He used to be a balloon acrobat, but had a bad fall. His brother, now dead, was also an actor, and had trained the children. Morton is travel- ing with them as their guardian. I won't say that he is not a polite, dig- | nified gentleman, but he has fascinat- ed Lucia, and I hate him. Well, that isn't the worst of it.” “What next?” “Why, somchow the two children have cauzht the measles and can’t go cn with the show. Morton has can-, celed their contract and Lucia, son-i heaxted Lucia, has turned the house] into a hospital.” “You don’t mean to say that she has taken those two children?” “Yes, I do, and Morton is there, too, helping nurse them.” It was all true. Without pausing to analyze feelings or motives, Lucia Warden had drifted into a new envi- ronment. The curtain had risen on the proepect of a new delightful life. Hers was a heart that had gone hun- gering through the world, and now she lavished all the riches of her warm, sympathetic nature on the two little waifs under her roof. Never had an ingenious, true-souled little woman more appreciative friends. After the hardship, uncertain- ties and discomfort of half a season of roughing it with the circus, the lit- tle children snuggled down in the pretty, cozy home of Miss Lucia like birds housed in a cherished nest. Their uncle would scarcely leave their presence. His ministrations were assiduous and untiring. When Lucia came into the sick room, a sort of glorified contentment came into his bronzed, serious face. Lucia learned the history of the lit- tle ones, left under a year’s contract with the circus company, with which their father and uncle had been con- nected. “That is all over now,” Morton told her, wtih profound satisfaction. “It has been a providence that their {liness came at a time when your kind heart opened the doors of your beautiful how manly he seemed, as the actual tears of joy came into his honest eyes when she told him how her heart had gone out to his lonely life and had cherished the dear little ones. “We must do something!"” declared Miss Tabitha to her nephew two days later, when she learned how matters stood Morton had gone away to close out a little piece of property he owned at a distance. “Leave it to me,” replied Bart, af- ter he had gained every detail he could as to the past life and antece- dents of Morton. Four days later he sent for Miss Tabitha in great excitement and ex- ultation of spirits. “I've got him!” he chuckled. “That hint you had about his living at a cer- tain town five years ago has brought results. I wrote to a law firm there They sent me a photograph of hi said it was the only one they conld find, and that after his trouble he had left there, and they had not seen him since. Look there. Triumphantly, he handed to his relative a photograph. It pictured Henry Mortoa—eonly in a convict’s suit. “I wonder what Lucia will say to that?” cried Miss Tabitha. “We must unmask this villain at once!"” Henry Morton had just retruned to the village as Bart and his aunt ap- peared. “l have comd upon a solomn mis- slon,” said Burt, £.¢d with @ cense of righteous indignation. “Aunt Lucia, thiz wan is un ex-convict!” The astonished Lucia took the prof- fered paciograph. With supreme con- fidence in ker fuce che hauded it to Mr. Mortuu. “My friends,” said the latter with a pitying smile, “you seem to have hap- pconed across a picture of mine taken wlhicn T was an «ctor in a stage drama. As to the ‘troudle’ you refer to, that al'uaes to some financial troubles of m dead brother.” Miss Tabitha thought it best to plant hersell with another relative. Bart sneakeqd into obscurity. As to Luciz, Mr. Morton and the little ones—they | | became part and parcel of the happi- est family circle in all christendom. (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.) CETTER THAN A KEEN BRAIN Intuition in Sport Would Seem to Have an Advantage Over Culti- vated Intelligence. To what extent do sport and brains assimilate? We have known ball play- ers who on the fleld had all the wis- dom of an Aristotle, the shrewdness of a Disraeli, the genius of a Napo- leon; but who, outside of baseball, | ¢idn’t have brains enough to stroll in irom under a cloudburst. On the other hand, take the case of r'red Merkle, of the Giants. No con- tender in the game has been so con- | sistently labeled a “bonehead.” He has been branded as solid ivory from skull to hoof. Yet of the 400 big- league players there are not a dozei | curolled with anything like Merkle's brain attached to their domes of thought. There are not a dozen—or half a dozen—as well read, as students, as logical in debate or as wise in as many different things that pertain to what we term existence. Merkle, outside of baseball, would stand high as a citizen of general knowledge and understanding. But on the fleld there are dozens who don’t know the difference between calculus and Catullus, but who can outthink him two to one. Frequently too keen a brain is a handicap in sport, for it produces too great an imagination, and imagination is fatal to success. One of the hard- est, contenders in the world to beat | in any game is a youngster who gets going, for he doesn’t know enough to understand where the psychological pitfalls wait. Mathewson, Collins and others are smart off the field as well as on. But this doesn’t apply to all. We have known a lot of smart fellows, | also, who were boobs in the harness of sport. “Why shouldn't —— be a great golfer?” a well-known pro. said to us a day or two ago. “The guy doesn’t know the difference between an 8 and a4 We know one star of baseball with- out any particular outside intelligence who, as far as we have seen and heard, never made a bonehead play in his life. And he told us once that he never had to think out a play in his life—that each play came to him by intuition.—Collier's Weekly. Count ’Em. “I see that twenty-seven lives were lost in a shipwreck.” “Gracious! How'd it happen?” “Three cats fell overboard.” | r : The Loss by Fire in the U. S. 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