Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 23, 1914, Page 2

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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 lce Company Phone 26 THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAK ELAND, FLA ARCH 23, 1914. = THE = [ | | | i NE'ER-DO-WELL A Romance of the Panama Canal REX BEACH BY HARPER & BROTHERS COPYRIGHT, 1910, 18911, 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 himselt into | the college men’s party. | Locke, aided by Kirk's frlend Higgins, | 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 | &, and lfrl. Stephen Cortlandt. Cortlandt is in the American diplomatio service and s going to Panama on a mis- sion. In QColon Kirk, ag the son of a big | rallroad man, is taken up by Weeks, | Amergoan consul. Kirk's father repudiates him, and Weeks oasts him out as an impostor. Kirk meets Allan, a Jamaican negro canal worker out of a job. The two are arrestad by Colon police for helping to put out a fire Kirk and Allan are treated brutally in & Colon jail by young Alfarez, command- ant of police. Allan's release is obtained by the British consul, but Weeks refuses tol;zld Kirk. Mrs. Cortlandt gets a phone call. Mrs, Cortlandt obtains Kirk's release by using influence with Colonel Jolson, head of the canal. The Cortlandts are in- triguing to make Alfarez's father pres!- dent of Panama. Kirk's father casts him oft finally, and Mrs, Cortlandt obtalns for him a position on the Panama railroad under Runnels, master of transportation. ! wing of the hotel. | corner and rapped sharply at a door. The girl tells him her name is *“Chiqul- ta.” 1lle learns later that that means only “little one.” Kirk begins his work. Mrs. Cortlandt has learned who Jefferson | Locke is. Locke (real name Wellar) is a swindler and has disappeared. His description fits | Kirk. The latter tries in vain in Panama to learn something of Chiquita and meets Alfarez again Kirk wins the capital prize, $15,000, in the lottery. He and Runnels make plans for advancement. The Cortlandts, hav- | ing turned from the older Alfarez, intend to make Senor Garavel, a banker, presi- dent of Panama. Alfarez son, Kirk's foe, is engaged to Gertrudis, Garavel's daughter. She Is| Kirk's *“Chiquita. He meets her again at the opera through Mrs. Cortlandt’s aid. Kirk makes love to Chiquita. Edith Cortlandt, Infatuated with Kirk, goes rid- ! ing with him frequently. | “She avows her Tove for him. Thelr ride and talk are interrupted by her husband. Kirk asks Garavel for his daughter's hand. The banker wishes her to marry Alfarez to advance his own ambitions. | Clifford, a man from thea States, asks Runnels about Kirk i “Kirk recélves permission to call on Chiquita, Young Alfarez challenges him to a duel. Kirk laughs at him. Mrs, Cortlandt asks Kirk to call on her. Cortlandt overhears his wife make love to Kirk, who tells her he loves and is en- gaged to Gertrudis. Prompted by Mrs. Cortlandt, Garavel forbids Kirk to call on his daughter. “Let us go out on the porch.” “No, no! We must remain in my father’s sight. Will you take me to my seat?” “No. 1 want you to listen carefully to what I'm going to say and be calm.” He spoke low and earnestly. | “Don't stop dancing now, when 1! tell you. Chiquita dear, you must marry me tonight, right away! I have arranged everything. No, don't look ! up at me until 1 have finished. Try to smile. I've planned it all out and everything is in readiness. 1 have a room just around the corner of the veranda; there's a judge waiting for us, and Runnels and his wife"— “You are mad!" she gasped. “No, no. We'll slip through one of the French windows, and we'll be back | again before they miss us. 1\'0).10\1_\'l will know, 1 tell you they're waiting. If we are missed they'll think—it doesn’t matter what they think, you'll be my wife, and Ramon can't marry you then. We'll say nothing about it until your father is elected president.” “Senor, one cannot be married in a moment. 1 am Catholic—the banns”— “I've thought of all that, but a civil marriage is binding. We'll have the religlous ceremony afterward; mean- while this will stop Ramon, at least. 1 promise not to see you again until you send for me—until your father's hopes are realized. You may walit as long as you wish, and nobody will know. They tricked you, Chiquita, dear; 1 can't explain, but it wasn't all | politics; by any megns. Oh, girl! Don't| you understand; I love you—love you!, 1t's our only chance.” The words were ' tumbling from his lips Incoherently; he was pleading as if for his life, while she clung to him to support herself. Through it all their feet moved rhyth- mically, their bodies swayed to the ca- dences of the waltz as they circled the ballroom. He knew it was her lifelong loyalty, her traditional sense of obedience that made her hesitate. “Mother of God!" she exclalmed faintly. “Is it that 1 am dreaming?” “They are waiting for us; the dance is hall over already. 1 love you-Det- ter than all the world. Do you remein- ber two nights ago? You kissed me then, and—I—I—can't live without you. | We'll go away together, you and I, ! through all the world—just we two." She gave a hysterical, choking sob that was half a sigh. Then ber eyes flashed upward to his—they were wide and bright and shining—her lips were parted, her body was lithe and full of life. She slipped from his embrace, whispering: “Yes, yes! Quickly, senor!” And the next instant they were out upon the wide gallery with the dance be- hind them. “Hurree, hurree, or they will follow!" Together they fled along the north The girl was pant- ing, with one hand held to her bare throat. But she ran like a fawn. “Here!” He swung her around the “Quickly! Quickly!” she moaned, “For the love of"— With terrific force the door was fair- 1y jerked from its hinges and slammed to behind them. The next moment Allan's big body was leaning against it, as if the wall were about to fall in- ward upon him. Runnels leaped for- ward with an exclamation; his wife stood staring, her face as white as snow. With them was the genial gray | haired judge from Colon, whom Kirk bad met at the Wayfarers' club on the | niglhit of his arrival “You made it!” Runnels cried tri- umphaut!y. "“Miss Garavel!" his wife echoed. “Thank heaven you came!” “Quick, the music will stop! Judge, this is Miss Garavel. You must marry us just as fast as you can.” ! “l presume you consent?' the judge asked. “l—1 want to be happy,” she said simply. “You understand, judge, she's of age. 8o am 1. They want to force her to marry a man she doesn't"— The muflled strains of music ceased. There came the faint clapping of hands. “Madre de Dios!" Miss Garavel cried. “We are too late!" She beat her little palms together in desperation. There was a breathless interval. Then the music began again, and to | | | “Quickly! Quickly!” she moaned. its throbbing measures the marriage ceremony was performed. As the last word was pronounced Mrs. Ruunuls‘ burst into tears and hid her face | against her husband's breast. Runnels | himself held forth a shaking hand to | Kirk, then patted the bride clumsily | upon her shoulder. *I know you will be happy Anthony,” he said. T With an incoherent ery of g Kirk folded his wife in his nrn:]seu::s she kissed him before them alj, s “Come, we must get back. 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