Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 28, 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 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 EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA., MARCH 28, 1914. = THE &=~ NE'ER-DO-WELL o ooPYRIGHT, 1910, ifit. Ll S SYNOPSIS, e 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, | 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 Ilr. n.nd Mrl Stephen Cortlandt. Cortlandt is in the American dlplomntlo service and is going to Panama on a 1nis- sfon. In Colon Kirk, as the son of s big rallroad 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 presl- dent of Panama. Kirk's father casts him off finally, and Mrs. Cortlandt obtains for him a position on the Panama rallroad under Runnels master of transportation. The girl tells him her name {8 “Chiqui- 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. Kirk. The latter tries in vain in Panama to learn something of Chiquita and meets Alfarez again. Kirk wins the eapital prize, $15,000, in the lottery 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 Gertrudi Giaravel'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 Corilandt, infatuated with Kirk, goes rid- ing with him frequently. “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 retumaing immediately to her fa- ther's side. Kirk breaks with Mrs. Cortlandt. At a dinner tendered to Gortlandt by the rail- road men Cortlandt openly *‘gives” his wite to Kirk, creating a great sensation. Next morning Kirk goes out with Allan, Cortlandt tells his wife what he has done. Bhe 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 “She’s not there,” Runnels hastened to say. “I've tried to find her, but I was told she was out at the country place.” “Then 1 think I'd rather drive out there than eat. Won't you go with me, dad?” “Well—yes! I want to see this bank- er fellow, and—I'm not so blanked hungry, after all. We'll settle this thing right now.” The afternoon sun was still an hour high when Kirk Anthony came down the hill from the Garavels’ home and crossed the meadow toward the forest glade he knew so well. Chiquita was there, huddled upon the seat where they had rested togeth- er, one foot curled beneath her like a child, her head bowed down disconso- lately. From one brown hand, now drooping listlessly, a few wild flowers bad scattered, and her sliim figure was clad once more in the stiff, coarse denim dress of blue. Her other hand was toying with her beads mechanical- ly, as 1f the fingers had learned thelr task from long practice. Her dusky eyes were fast upon the lights that wavered In the pool. As if to prove that the spot was i really peopled by kind spirits, a gentle voice seemed to whisper the news to her and she turned to find him smiling | at her. She rose and met him with ber hands outstretched, her face trans- figured. After a time she leaned backward in his arms and said gravely: “You see! When one says many, many prayers the good saints always answer. The padre told me that I should never cease until you came, but I grew very | tired, senor.” | “Apd_you uever doubted me?” A Romance o{ the Panama Canal “" REX BEA BEACH His description fits ' He and Runnels make plans | nnkim.nonm te—p——— = “O_El n‘ollr “I'm free, you know.” “Of course! What else were my prayers for? Had my father allowed I would have gone to your prison, but | he forbade it, so I had no choice. But | every hour [ prayed that he might give | me leave, and I think his heart was | ylelding.” | “I'm sure of that,” he told her, “for I have just come from him.” It was some time later when the sun, | was dipping that voices sounded out- side the wall of verdure, and Kirk heard Andres Garavel saying: “Of a certainty I shall try that ex- periment, senor, for the ticks in this | | country are a pest to cattle. A little to the right and you will find the path. | St | An instant later the two white haired men appeared. “Mello! There you are, eh?' Dar- win K. Anthony esclaimed grufily. “Where's that girl?” 'He paused and let his hostile eyes rest upon Ger- trudis. She saw a great, forbidding giant of a man scowling down at her with eyes He Paused and Let His Hostile Eyes Rest Upon Gertrudis. like Kirk's, and she came forward tim- idly, holding out her hands. She was smiling up at him faintly. “You are Keerk's father, yes? You are the Senor Antonio.” Mr. Anthony uttered a curious, chok- ing exclamation and gathered her gently in his arms. When he looked up his eyes were wet and his deep lined face was working. “I couldn't wait any longer,” he &pol- oglzed humbly to his son. come and see her.” “And then I hope you will like me,” she said in her grave, quiet way. “Your father has told me every- thing"—Garavel laid a hand upon his new son's shoulder—*“and we have be- come good friends already. I fear I owe you a great apology, my boy. But if I consent that you take my little girl away to your country will that be reparation?” “Then you will let her go with us?" Kirk cried happily. “If she doesn’t go I'll stay,” Anthony enior rumbled. *“1—I don’t see how $ou ever did it. you're such a blamed fool. Now let's go back to the house, it’s sundown.” “We'll be along directly,” his son as- sented. “There are chills in the evening air,” Mr. Garavel protested. “I'm sorry, but we were waiting for | the fairies. They were almost in sight when you frightened them away.” Gertrudis nodded. “It is quite true, Benor Antonio. We heard them all about, everywhere.” She placed her little hand In Kirk’s, then checked her father’s remonstrance, saying: “Ob, It Is quite proper for us to walk home together, even in the dark. We are married now, you know.” “Come on, Garavel,” exclaimed Dar- win K. Anthony. “You understand how it is.” Together they went out through the fragrant path a little way. 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