Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 25, 1914, Page 2

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It is your consistent, per- sistent SAVER, Lakeland Ice Company Phone 26 THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAK ELAN +| of the canal. +| triguing to make Alfarez's father presi- D, FLA., MARCH 25, 1914. 4 THE =~ NE'ER-DO-WEL A Romance of the Panama Canal i o Seevy COPYRIGHT, 1616, 1011, 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, alded by Kirk's friend 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. PO RO a8 “Broke” and without baggage, aboard the ship Kirk makes the acquaintance of | Mr, and Mrs. Stephen Cortlandt. Cortlandt >!s in the American diplomatic service and is going to Panama on a mis- | sion. In Colon Kirk, as the son of a big raflroad man, is taken up by Weeks, American consul, 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 | s Colon jail by young Alfarez, command- ant of police. Allan’s release is obtained by the British consul, but Weeks refuses | to ald Kirk. Mrs. Cortlandt gets a phone call, Mrs. Cortlandt obtains Kirk’s release by using Influence with Colonel Jolson, head The Cortlandts are in- dent of Panama. Kirk's father casts him off finally, and Mrs. Cortlandt obtains for him a position on the Panama rallroad under Runnels, | head, REX BEACH BY HARPER & BROTHERS ) nothing.” “I waited because I wasn't strong enough to revolt—until tonight. Ob, but tonight I was strong! Something gave me courage.” ! CHAPTER XXIV. A Question and the Answer. N all their married life Edith Cortlandt had never known her husband to show such stubborn force. Failing to | dominate him as usual, she was filled with a strange feeling of helplessness and terror. i “You had no right to accept such i evidence,” she stormed. “Bah! Why try to fool me? 1 have | your own words for it. The other aft- ernoon I came home sick—with my | I was on the gallery outside | when you were pleading with him, and ‘ 1 heard it all. But he was growing | | tired of you. That, you know, makes it all the more effective.” He smiled ! in an agornized fury. “You—cur!” she cried, with the fury of one beating barehanded at a barred | door. “You had no right to do such a thing even if I were guilty.” “Right. Aren’t you my wife?" The look she gave him was heavy with loathing. *“That means nothing ! with us. 1 never loved you, and you | master of transportation. The girl tells him her name i{s *“Chiqul- ta.” He 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's son, Kirk's foe, is engaged to Gertrudis, Garavel's daughter. 8he {8 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. “Bhe 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 the States, asks Runnels about Kirk. “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 Kirk manages to see Chiquita. She loves him, but will obey her father. Mrs, Cort- | landt blocks Kirk’s and Runnels' path. Detective Willlams seeks Kirk, known to him as Locke or Wellar. During an intermission between dances at a ball Chiquita and Kirk are married, the girl returning immediately to her fa- ther's side. She Bung him away from her so vio- lently that he nearly fell. “It's a lie! You know it's a lie!” “It's true. I'm no fool.” She beat her hands together distract- edly. "“What have you done? What will those men think? Listen! You must stop them quickly. Tell them it's not so.” He seemed not to hear her. “I'm going away tomorrow,” he said, “‘but I'll never divorce you, no matter what you do, and 1 won't let you divorce me either. No, no! Take him now if you want him, but you'll never be able to marry him until I'm gone. And I won't die soon—I promise you that. I'm going to live.” “You can't go"— “There's a boat tomorrow.” “Don’t you see you must stay and ex- plain to those men? My God! They'll think you spoke the truth. They'll be- lieve what you said.” “Of course they will,” he chattered shrilly. “That's why I did it in that way. No matter what you or he or I can do or say now they'll belleve it forever. It came to me like a flash of light, and I saw what it meant all in a minute. Do you understand what it means, eh? Listen! No matter how you behave they'll know. They won't say anything, but they’ll know, and you can't stand that, can you?”" “You have no evidence.” _ know it. You never could have suc-| teeded without me. All you have is. due to me—even your reputation in the service. Your success, your influ- ence, it is all mine. The debt is all | on your side, as you and I and all the world know.” “Who made me a manikin?”’ he de- manded, with womanish fury, a fury that had been striving for utterance these many years, I had ambitions and hopes and ability once—not much perhaps, but enough—before you mar- ried me. I was nothing great, but I was getting along. I had confidence, too, but you took it away from me. You—you absorbed me. You had your father’s brain, and it was too big for me. It overshadowed mine. In a way you were a vampire, for what I had you drained me of. But tonight, when he got up before those other men and dangled my shame before my eyes, I had enough manhood left in me to strike back. Thank God for that at least! Maybe it's not too late yet for me to be a man, Maybe if I get away from you and try"— His voice died out weakly. In his face there was a mis- erable half gleam of hope. “I never knew you felt like that, I never knew you could feel that way,” she said in a colorless voice. “But you made a terrible mistake.” “Do you mean to say you don't love him?” “No, I have loved him for a long [MO*WW' Plumbingco. Place your Orde Now and Avoig the Rush First Class in Every Respect. Estimates Wil 3, Furnished on Short Notice. Office Phone 257 Residence Phone 274 Red e ——— ————— PUPPRURRRTR T T Ll L Room 17 Kentucky Bldg. Phone: W. FISKE JOHNSON ! Mann Best Work Now Under and Glenada Hotel [ 0w e st Pine Street Prices All Work Guaranteed e Office, 102; Residence, 150 2 REAL ESTATE AND LOANS : CITY AND SUBURBAN PROPERTY A SPECIALTY 3 Fii 8 we have it for sale; if you want or can get them for you. Make | If you wani ta buy property o sell property we have customers, out vour list and see me today. B g EAOCr e L e tu. 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It began, I think, at Ta- boga, that night when he kissed me, It was the only time he ever did such a thing. It was dark, we were alone, I was frightened,’ and it was purely | impulse on his part. But it woke me | up. and all at once I knew how much he meant to me. When I discovered | that he cared for that girl—well, if you overheard you must know. I frighten- ed Garavel into dismissing him, and I set out to break him, just to show him that he needed me. Tonight he scorn- ed me. That's the truth, Stephen. If we believed in oaths I would swear it.” “You are shielding him. You want to make me out wrong.” But she knew he knew. “Those are the facts. Heaven knows they are bad enough, but they are by no means 8o bad as you thought. And I'm your wife, Stephen. That thing you did was brutal. Those men will talk. I was guilty no doubt in my thoughts, but I'm young, and you have no right to blight my life and my rep- utation—yes, and yours—by a thing like ithat. We will have to meet those men. 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