Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 18, 1914, Page 2

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Thanking you for your valuable patronage, we are Very truly yours, Kimbrough & Rutherford MAYES GROCERY C0. > “Reduce the cost of living,” our motto for nineteen fourteen Will sell staple groceries,- hay, teed, Wilson-Toomer Fertilizers, all kinds of sh noing crates and baskets, and ¢d potaoes, etc., at reduced rrices Mayes Grocery Co. LAKELAND, FLORIDA Now is your time To Buy an Automobile. We have in stock twenty touring cars, with six more touring and six roadsters on side tracks. Ford Touring cars, $610.50; Road- sters, $560.50, delivered anywhere in Polk county. LAKELAND AUTOMOBILE AND SUPPLY CO. Lakeland, Fla. R | 1 WINNING OF NELLIE By AUGUSTUS GOODRICH SHER- WIN. “Hands up!” Hector Waith was more surprised than alarmed. Four men faced him in the rugged Kentucky mountain path whom he had heretofore ac- counted as his friends. He was too accustomed to the rugged mandatory ways of the group, however, to hesi- tate at the order given. “Why, what is the trouble?” he asked quietly enough, although he did not like the glint in the eyes of the leader of the coterie, Wilson Vance. “Sit down on that rock,” direeted the stern-faced leader of the quar- tette. “We have something to say to you.” Waith marveled, but obeyed. The grim four formed a menacing half circle about him. Two of them con- tinued to hold their revolvers low- ered, but ready for instant action. He had been so free, familiar and chatty with Vany2 and his companions for over two weeks, that he could not analyze the ohange that had come over them. “Is this a hold-up or a court of in- quiry?” he hazarded with a faint smile. “It's a court of justice and a serious affair,” replied Vance unbendingly. “To state the case briefly: You, pur- porting to be a young business man from the east, came out here nearly a month ago seeking your health.” “My letters should persuade you that I am the genuine article,” spoke Waith lightly and again with the smile. “It looks different now,” declared Vance. “You were welcomed as a temporary guest at the home of my uncle. You took an interest in my cousin, Nellie, his daughter. That was nobody's business except hers | and your own, although I suppose some of the young fellows around here would like to have seen you gone. When a man's square the Vances treat him right. When he's a spy—" “What do you mean by that?” de- manded Waith instantly and sternly. “Just what the word implies,” broke The Splendid Steed Wavered, Up- reared. in a new voice and a figure came into view from a copse near by. The instant Waith recognized the man as Dale Woods, he knew that he was in trouble. The fellow was a distant relative of the Vances and the brother of a notorious outlaw for years protected by his friends from the law. Dale Woods was an old re- jected but persistent suitor of pretty Nellie. For the past week he had never met Woods without a scowl and a threatening glance. “I say you are a spy,” declared Woods, facing Waith fiercely, “and these men know it. You lost a coat while bathing in the creek. I found it and in a secret pocket I discovered —this.” Woods held close to the eyes of the astonished Waith a badge of the gov- ernment secret service. “I never saw it before,” declared Waith, “That won’t do!" snarled Woods. “You have come here under false pre- tences to get a clew to the hiding place of my hunted brother. Friends,” he added to Vance and the others, “we are honest men, but we stick to our friends in trouble and my brother must be protected. I demand this man’s life as the penalty for his spy- ing into our affairs.” There was silence and bowed heads. Hector Waith knew that his fate was sealed. He thought of the wild-rose beauty, Nellie, whose bright, tender ways had won him to linger in this wild district. His clear glance swept the faces before him. Speech would be useless. He must act if he would save his life., The men stepped aside in low-toned consultation. Waith saw Woods draw out his revolver. Just beyond the copse a horse grazed untethered. With a spring Waith gained his feet and dashed towards the animal. He was in the saddle in a flash. The horse made a bound along a narrow ledge skirting a deep ravine. “Bang! Bang!" with an unearthly scream the splendid steed wavered, upreared. Pierced at a vital part, the brave animal swung to one side. Horse and rider went hurtling over the edge of the narrow footpath, dis- THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAK ELAND, FLA., FEB. 18, 19 , appearing amid fathomless depths far | below. ibe'rhe pursuing coterie reached the { edge of the ravine. They peered t?own Iin awed silence. Only Dale Woods | said to himself, with a thought of Nel- lie Vance: “That ends the man who came be- tween me and my love!” It was hours afterwards, when 8 limping form with tattered and dis- | ordered attire emerged from & remote passageway between two walls of rock leading from the ravine. It was Hector Waith. He had es- caped after a terrible experience. The horse had gone to the bottom of the gully. He had sunk & few rods down into a nest of dense enveloping vines. Waith had clung to these, safely sheltered from the view of his pur- suers until they had left the spot. He could not climb up, the grade was | too precipitous, but foot by foot he let himself down until he reached the bottom of the ravine. This progress had been accompanied by dangerous falls and contact with sharp-pointed rocks. The moon was up when he emerged from the ravine. He was at sea as to distance or direction. His only thought now was to get out of the district before being overtaken. Nel- | lie would come to him at some point | of safety when he wrote to her later | explaining everything. It was in the early hours of the morning. The moon was just sink- ing, when lying in the road before him he made out a human form. It i apparently been making her way from ! one point to another of the desolate [ district when she had sunk from ex- haustion. She was insensible and Waith could not arouse her. “What shall I do?” he questioned himself. “It is dangerous for me to | delay, but I cannot leave this helpless | old woman to die.” | Like the true man he was, Waith | thought only of the unconscious , charge on his hands and the hours passed on. He discovered a deserted hut at a little distance. He carried the old woman thither, gathered up dry grass for a bed and made her as | comfortable as he could. She revived It;omewhmt. but was still incoherent.} i From her wanderings Waith declded; | that she had started to visit a rela- | tive-and had got lost and old age and exhaustion had brought her to the ebbing state of vitality. For two days Waith gathered ber| ries, nuts, whatever he could find to give sustenance to his charge. She was gradually rallying her strength. “Even at the risk of coming across any of the Woods band, I must get word to others to care for her, as I| cannot,” he decided. He had not gone half a mile from the old hut in search of some other | habitation, when turning a ledge of | rocks he faced a leveled revolver— | Dale Woods behind it. “So you escaped?” he hissed out. “What luck! Scarcely for another, I have found you. March.” “Wait,” demurred Waith. “An old! woman whom I found two days ago lies very ill in a hut near here. Try and do something for her. I will go where you will, then.” “My mother!” were the first words of Woods as he gazed upon the face of the old woman. It was atter Woods knew what he owed to the man he had sought to destroy, that he handed a note he had written to Waith. “I shall remove with my mother to some otber part of the country,” he said. “You have acted the man— more than that—ior the sake of that dear old woman. Take that letter to the Vances. 1 have confessed all my cowardly treachery. Good-bye.” And it was thus that Hector Waith's great nobleness of soul won Nellie. (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. 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