Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 27, 1914, Page 2

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K3 ~x THE = NE'ER-DO-WELL A Romance of the Panama Canal ¢ REX BEACH COPYRIGHT, 1010, 1011, BY HARPER & BROTHERS | Jour scruples angered me, I honor you i for them now.” difference with us, Mrs. Cortlandt,” he o said gravely SYNOPSIS. “We have talked openly before, and | Kirk Anthony, son of a rich man, with , there is no need to do otherwise now, ;‘0“08; f")"e"d!! ieflAl";ztlt{rlcz l’x?xr: You mean by that that you don't care w Yor! # e J:flsrso: Ll::kgr lnulnuute:ch‘{;uelt into | fopimeybutyl know (better, (1 believe the college men’s party. | there is a love so strong that 1! must i | find an answer. Although you may Locke, alded by Kirk's friend Higgins, | | not care for me now as ygu care for— who thinks it a joke, drugs Kirk and puts him aboard a ship bound for Colon. Kirk is on the passenger list as Locke. l gome one else—I know that I can make “Your husband’s death can make no | | you forget her and put me in her place. | “Broke” and without baggage, aboard ! | the ship Kirk makes the acquaintance of | Mr lnfl Mrs. Stephen Cortlandt. Cortlnndt 18 1n the American diplomatioc service and is going to Panama on a 1nis- | sion. In Colon Kirk, as the son of 1. 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 arrestad by Colon police for helping to put out a fira Kirk and Allan are treated brutally in a 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 of the canal. The Cortlandts are in- triguing to make Alfarez's father presi- dent of Panama. Kirk's father casts him off finally, and ! Mrs. Cortlandt obtalns for him a position on the Panama rallroad under Runnels, master of transportation, The girl tells him her name s “Chiqul- ' ta." He learns later that that means only | “little one.” Kirk begins his work. Mrs. Cortlandt has learned who Jefferson 1 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, $156,000, in the lottery. lle and Runnels make plans for advancement. The Cortlandts, have 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. She Is Kirk's “Chiquita.” He meets her again at the opera through Mrs, Certlagdt’s aid. Kirk makes love to Chiquita. Edith Corilandt, 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, & man from the States, asks Rulnell about Kirk Kirk “recélves permlsamn 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 hll daughter “Kirk manages to see Chlquita, She loves him, but will obey her father. Mrs, Cort- llndt 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 returaing immedlately to her fa- ther's side. Kirk breaks with Mrs. Cortlandt. At a dinner tendered to Cortlandt by the rall- i road men Cortlandt openly ‘“gives” his wife to Kirk, creating a great sensation. Next morning Kirk goes out with Allan, Cortlandt tells his wife what he has done. She denies any wrongdoing with Kirk. Cortlandt is found shot, and Kirk is ar- rested. Gertrudis tells her father she is Kirk's wife, and the banker visits Kirk in jail “I'm very sorry. for a moment that I did what they | claim?” “Neo, no! It has all been a mistake from the first. I was sure of that.” “You heard what those two men tes- tifled?” “Bah! be can do nothing. That is Ramon Alfarez. But You will forgive me for what I said that night at the ’ hotel, won't you? I didn't really mean to injure you, Kirk, but I was half hysterical. I had suffered so these last few months that I was ready to do anything. I never dreamed there was a way out of my misery, a way so close at hand. But somehow, even be- fore General Alfarez's voice on the phone told me what had happened, I knew, and I-I felt”— “I know you had a great deal to put up with,” he sald. “but for both our sakes I wish it had come \n some oth- er way.” “Oh, I don’t care,” she cried reck- lessly. *“The one thing I can grasp in all this turmoil, the one thing that rings in my ears every moment, is that I am free, free! That is all that mat- ters to me. You showed your loyaity to Stephen more than once, and, though You never thought l p I can help you, oh, so much!” “Wait!” he said harshly. “You force |/ | me to break my word. [ don't want to tell you this, but—I am married.” “You—never told me that! It was | some mad college prank, I suppose.” “No, no. I married Gertrudis Gara- vel that night at the Tivoli.” “Oh, that can't be. That was the night of the dance. Why didn't you tell me? WWhy isn’t she here? Why does she leave you alone? No, no! You hardly know each other. Why, she’s not old enough to know her own mind”— “But I know my mind, and I love her.” Her white hands strained at each other as she steadied her shaking voice. *Love!” she cried. “You don't know what love means, nor does she. She can’t know, or she’d be here. She’d have this prison torn block from block.” “You don’t know what you're saying. You're hysterical, Mrs. Cortlandt. 1 love Gertrudis so deeply that there's no room in me for anything else and never will be. [Heaven only knows what they have made her believe about me, but I don't care. I'll upset this little plot of Alfarez’, and when she learns the truth she will come back again.” “This little plot!” Edith cried in distraction. ‘“Ana I suppose you wish me to give you back to her? But I won't help her. I'm not that sort. I'm a selfish woman. I've always been selfish because I've never had anybody td work for. But I have it in me to be generous.” “I’'m sorry,” he said. “You have suf- fered, I know. Don't trouble any more about me—please.” “Oh, I'd rather face the gallcws as you face it than what is before me, and I'm not sure I could help you, aft- er all. Youn are in Latin America now, remeriber, and your enemies are strong.” “I am Darwin K. Anthony’s son,” he protested. ‘“He won't allow it.” “Bah! He is an American, and these are Spanish people. You have seen how they like us, and you have seen what Alfarez can do. He's rich, and he'll perjure more witnesses; he'll manipulate the court with his money. Yes, and I'd rather he succeeded than see you—no, no! What am I saying? L-let me go; let me get away from here!” She broke down and went sob- bing out into the corridor. On the same afternoon Mr. Clifford, accompanied by Anson, the lawyer, took the 3:20 train for Colon. As| soon as he arrived he called up Colo- nel Jolson to request that the com- missioner’s motorcar should, without fail, await him at 10 o'clock sharp on the next morning, with an open track | ahead of it. Strangely enough, the colonel agreed very readily. o CHAPTER XXV Darwin K. Anthony. BOUT noon on Monday Edith Cortlandt received a caller. The name she read on the ! card her maid handed her| gave her a start of surprise and set her wits whirling in speculation. She was greeted by a gigantic old, man with a rumbling voice. He was, pacing back and forth with the rest- lessness of a polar bear. “How do you do, Mrs. Cortlandt?" he began at sight of her, his big yolce flooding the room. *I'm sorry to dis- turb you under the circumstances. 1 knew your husband slightly, and I've heard about you. I extend my sym-| pathy.” She bowed. “When did you arrive?” “Just now. Came across in one of those blanked joy wagons—fifty miles an hour. I know everything, madam. What I didn’t know before I landed I learned on the way across the isthmus, so don't let's waste time. Deuce of a position for you to be in—I understand, and all that—and I'm sorry for you. 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