Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 17, 1914, Page 2

PAGE TWO ~® | TWAYES GROCERY (0 “Reducc the cost of living,” our mo:to for nineteen fourteen “Will scit staple groceries, hay, feed, Wiison-Toomer Fertilizers, all kind: of sh roing crates and baskets, »rd se ¢ proroes, etc., at reduced o - [ B TR Mayes Grocery Co. LAKELAND, FLORIDA e+ e e e . e e et e e, S . S, & W7 i 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. 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 ones, 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 Phone 26 : The Loss by Fire in the U. S During a Recent Year Amounted to Almost One-Half thé Cos Of All New Buildings Constructed During the Entire Twelve Months! When Buying or Building We represent the following reli- able companies: Fidelity Underwriters, capital ...... .. .. 4,750,000 Philadelphia Underwriters, Provide the Mseans T R R $4,500,000 German American, capital 2,000,000 Springfield Fire and Marine .. for Rebuilding! MANN & DEEN Room 7, Raymondo Building REX BEACH BY HARPER & BROTHERS COPYRIGHT, 1810, 1911, SYNOPSIS. Kirk Anthony, son of a rich man, with oollege friends, gets into a fracas in a New York resort. A detective is hurt. Jefterson Locke insinuates himself into the college men's party. [ Locke, aided by Kirk’s friend Higgins, l, who thinks it a joke, drugs Kirk and puts ' him aboard a ship bound for Colon. Kirk is on the passenger list as Locke. | “Broke” and without baggage, aboard the ship Kirk makes the acquaintance of Mr, and Mrs. Stephen Cortlandt. | Cortlandt is in the American diplomatic service and is going to Panama on a mis- | slon. In Colon Kirk, as the son of a big railroad man, is taken up by Weeks, | American consul. i Kirk’s father repudiates him, and Weeks | casts him out as an impostor. Kirk meets Allan, a Jamaican negro canal worker out of a job. The two are arrested by Colon police for helping to put out a fire Kirk and Allan are treated brutally in a Colon jall by young Alfarez, command- ant of police. Allan's release is obtained by the British consul, but Weeks refuses to aid Kirk. Mrs. Cortlandt gets a phone call. Mrs. Cortlandt obtains Kirk’s release by using influence with Colcnel Jolson, head of the canal. The Cortlandts are In- triguing to make Alfarez's father presl- | dent of Panama. Kirk's father casts him off finally, and Mrs. Cortlandt obtains for him a position on the Panama railroad under Runnels, master of transportation i The girl tells him her name is “Chiqui- | ta’ 1le learns later that that means only | “little Kirk begins his work. | Mrs Cortlandt has learned who Jefferson | Locke 1s [ one." (real name \Wellar) is a swindler has disappeared. His deseription fits ! The latter tries in vain in Panama | u Kirk to learn something of Chiquita and meets | Alfares i | Kitk wins the capital prize, $15,000, in | the lottery He and Runnels make for advancement. The Cortlandts ing turncd from the older Alfarez, to make Senor Garavel, a banker, presi- dent of Panama, SN0, no, senor, That TS something vou should not ask. If ever we are to meet again it must be with my father's consent. Please! Do not urge, for truly I would have to refuse.”” She let her palm rest in his an instant, and he? cheek went scarlet as he pressed it to his lips. Then she sald: “Go, Mr. Bra- zen One. Ilow greatly it surprised me to find you here I cannot say. It gave me such a start! And, Senor Antonio— my father may be found any day at his bank.” Before he could detain her she was gone, flitting up the path with just one flashing smile of mischief over her shoulder. Anthony went home with his head In 1 the clouds. All his doubts were now at rest; for whiie Chiquita had stubbornly denied him all encouragement, he felt § sure that her heart had answered. It was in the highest spirits, therefore, that he opened a letter he found await- ing him and read as follows: Dear Kirk—I hope you are heartily sick | of yourself and ready to do something decent for a change. Knowing your arls. tocratic habits as I de, I realize you must | owe a lot of money by this time, and your new friends must be getting tired of you. I have been expecting you to draw on me daily and am taking this occasion to warn you in your own expensively ac- quired college English that “there is noth- ing doing"—except upon one condition. If you will agree to behave yourself in fu- ture I will pay your debts, send you west and give you a job as operator at $40 a month. But you will go where I send you, and you will stay where you are put. 1 will do the thinking for both of us and ! judge of your associates. Maybe if you | prove to be any good at all I will arrange with the police to let you spend your va- catlons in “that dear New York" which still shows signs of your red paint brush. I would be pleased to have an apology by return mail, so that I may meet you in New Orleans and start you off once more on the road to decency and self respeet. You will never be a success at anything, but I am always ready to do my duty. This is my last offer, and If you refuse you may distinctly and definitely go to the devil. As ever your loving father, DARWIN K. ANTHONY, P. S.—I can get good operators for $30 a month. The extra $10 is pure sentiment. Spurred by his present exhilaration, Kirk wrote an answer, which he read with a good deal of satisfaction before sealing it up: Dear Dad—You affectionate letter with the kind offer to take charge of a siding out in the Dakotas is at kand. I would like to help you along with your business, but “Upward and Onward” is my motto, ' and you'll have to raise that salary a bit. I am drawing § a month at present, quarters fur ed and promotion f ised. 1 have made some good investm and there are no debts to settle. Inc find my last bank statement, which wil doubtless prove a great disappoint.nent to you. If you ne tation I w offer at ¢ would have to be at always your devoted a ¢ KIRK. | t care to logate farther | [ these past few weeks she had been | him a stranger. | made allowance for his weaknesses, { at their shoulders. NE'ER-DO-WELL| A Romance of the Panama Canal WISt ThaR Dulalo. Wy Wite TMEHL WOt | like it. Kirk lost no time in calling at the bank, but was disappointed to learn that Senor Andres Garavel had left | the city for an unexpected business tour of the provinces and would not return for at least two weeks. In the days that followed he saw nothing of Gertrudis, but a great deal of Edith Cortlandt. She had redeemed her promise of getting him a good horse—something rare in this country— and he was grateful for the exercise, which came as a welcome relief from his indoor toil.. Soon their old friendly intercourse was going on as if it had never been interrupted. As for Kdith, this semipublic in- timacy came to be quite as much a pain as a pleasure to her. During plunged in a mental turmoil, the signs of which she had concealed with diffi- culty. She had fought with herself; she had tried to reason; she had mar- shaled her pride, but all in vain. At last she awoke to the terrifying cer- tainty that she was in love with Kirk. She began to look upon her husband with a quickened curiosity, and found I'or years she had ignoring them as she ignored his vir- tues, but never befor ud he appeared s0 colorless, so ins aant. above all | She had barely tolerated him but now she began to de- so alien, hitherto, spise him. If Cortlandt was aware of her change of feeling and its cause, his method ; n Plumbingg Place Man Best ___ — your orgy , WOrk Now Under Now and Glenada Hotel au [OWBSt Pine Street A::I)IE s e Prices Rush | All Work Guaranteed First Class in Every Respect. Estimates Wi)] ), Furnished on Short Notice. Office Phone 257 Residence Phone 274 Red e "***WWF' Room 17 Kentucky Bldg. Phone: W. 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They saw less and {ess of each other. Only before others, or at their frequent political councils, were they quite the same as they had been. Of Anthony, on the other hand, she arranged to see more than ever, flatter- ing him by a new deference in her manner, making him feel always at ease with her. In their frequent rides they covered most of the roads about the city, even to the ruins of old Pan- ama. Then they began to explore the bypaths and trails. One afternoon they turned into an unfrequented road that led off to the jungle from the main highway, walk- ing their horses while they marveled at the beauty of the foliage. They burst out into a rocky glen, where a spring of clear water bubbled forth. “What a discovery!” exclaimed Edith. “Help me down, please. I'm going to drink."” Kirk dismounted and lent her a hand. The horses snorted appreciatively and, stepping forward, thrust their soft | muzzles eagerly into the stream, then fell to browsing upon the tender leaves | Edith quenched her thirst, shook the cramp from her limbs and said: “Some ! time we will have to see where this road leads. There may be more sur- prises beyond.” She broke a flower from its stem and fastened it in Kirk's | buttonhole while he gazed down at her | with friendly eyes. “You're looking awfully well lately,” he declared. Glancing up, she met his gaze and | held it for an instant. Something in | her look gave him a little thrill of em- | barrassment. “I think I'll give Marquis and Gyp their dessert,” he said and, turning aside, began to gather a handful of the greenest leaves. The instant his eyes were off her she took the horses by thelr bridles, swung them about and with a sharp blow of her riding crop sent them snorting and clattering down the trail. Kirk wheeled barely in time to see them disappearing. “Say, why did you do that? he asked. “Because I wanted to. Isn't that reason enough?” Her eyes were reck- less and her lips white. “I did it be- cause I wanted to talk with you.” “Well, those horses wouldn't over- hear.” “Don't be angry, Kirk. I haven't seen you alone since—that night.” | said guiltily. “You're not going to lecture me again? I'm sorry enough as it is.” | “What a queer chap you are! Am 1 s0 unattractive that you really want to rush off after those horses? 1 have known men who would have thought it a privilege to be left alone with me— like this.” | “l—have no doubt.” | “You remember, for instance, I told (Continued on Page 6.) .. 3% OUR WEEKLY LIMERICK There is a man, by name, Mr. Denny, Whie is wise and saves every penny, ! @ SAVE ' START _ bdion gl BANK :\ccoum TRADING HERE § il He Trades at Our Store Because Prices are lower, Andthe dollars he saves—they are many. 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