Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 1, 1914, Page 7

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CandY WE HAVE IT #om Stick Candy to the Finest Box Candy Have you tried any of our E-MADE CANDY ? A Triai is Al We Ask also have a nice stock of Fresh Fruits. Nuts, Dried Figs, Dates and Raisins. *SH "APALCHICOLA OYSTERS H. O. DENNY | % R Delivery Plene 11} 1 EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELANU, FI By GEORGE ELMER COBB. 1 was about at the end of my re- sources, in fact stranded in Paris with few friends, and my art education not yet completed. Up to a few months a benevolent half uncle in New York He had died and I had no further dependence on that source as his estate had gone to oth- ers. I sat in my very humble room in the student's quarter one chilly wintry evening calculating my slim funds and prospects. There seemed no way open for me except to give up a cher- ished proposition for a trade and re- turn to my native soil. There came a tap at the door. “It is Adrian Morse, the artist?” in- quired a man fairly well dressed, ex- tremely courteous but possessed of a searching sinister eye that I did not like. I bowed at his query. “I have come on a matter of busi- ness,” continued my visitor, but he did not explain how he had heard of me or it he had been directed to me. His next words, however, showed that he knew of my forlorn condition, for he remarked: “I understand that you need work, and 1 promise you a rich fee if you will pack up a few of your utensils and accompany me briefly.” “To paint a picture?” bluntly. 1 inquired “No, to repair and touch up a dam- ! aged canvas,” he replied. “It is not far and [ have a cab in waiting.” Of course I went. I made up my ! palette, some colors and tools into a small package and was ready for him almost immediately. As he crowded into the vehicle be- side me I heard him give a low voiced order to the driver to proceed to a certain street. I had never been in that thoroughfare, but I had heard of the locality, the most notorious and dangerous in Paris, in fact a favorite rendezvous of the Parisian bandits. 1 do not know why, but instantly my suspicions were aroused. I was a poor specimen to select for plunder, —— “} Was on My Guard In a Moment."” yet the man might be drawing me into some complication of peril and crime and my fears took the alarm at once. “I have changed my mind—I will not accompany you,” I declared sharply, and I reached my hand to seize the strap and signal the driver to stop. The hand of my companion shot for- ward to deter me. As it grazed my own I felt some thin sharp metal point pierce my hand. “Ah! you were so precipitate you have wounded yourself on the edge of my sleeve button,” spoke my com- panion.” “I wished to explain— um'm-um’'m—" His words faded into a droning, meaniugless mutter, and a black veil seemed to cross my eyes. I did not realize it then, but I knew later that this man had used upon me one of those tiny poison needles, a formidable accessory of the criminals of Paris for drugging or Kkilling a troublesome victim. I had no sense of consciousness af- ter that until 1 found myself seated in a chair in a close, stuffy room. The man who had drugged me stood before me smiling in a cynical, tri- umphant manner, “You forced me to act in an arbl- trary way,” he said. ‘“No harm has been done. There are your tools of trade,” and he pointed to a table where lay the parcel I had brought | from my poor studio. “And there,” and he indicated an easel, “is the can- vas we wish you to fix up.” I stared in wonder, but with a posi- tive thrill at an unframed painting | held by brads across a board upon the easel, for it was “The Watchers.” Who in France has not heard of “The Watchers,” that notable chef d'oeuvre of an obscure artist who gained fame only after his death? Who also, as I, did not know of its mysterious theft from the Louvre, of a fabulous reward offered for its dis- covery and the conviction of the thieves. In a flash I recognized the gituation. In despoiling the frame in' the great picture gallery of this cher- ished gem, the robber had torn and | defaced one corner of the priceless canvas. “It will be five hundred dollars if you restore that painting to a pre- | sentable condition. Can you do it?” I was on my guard in a moment. [ realized how I should act and what I should d I doubted if | would re- VED BY A GIRL, celve the money promised or be al- lowed to depart after I had done my work, and I set my wits at work to circumvent this probable agent of a set of desperadoes. I assented to his proposition. “Very well,” he said, “I will go and {bring you some refreshments and stimulants, for your experience com- ing here may have unnerved you.” And then he was gone. In an in- stant I had that precious canvas re- i leased from the easel, rolled up under my arm and a dash made for the near- est window. As 1 leaped out I landed in a close court. I heard a shout from the room T had just vacated, I saw a face at its window. A door in the adjoining build- ing was open. I ran towards it, to come upon a staircase. I followed its windings, an uproar pursuing me. I reached the second floor of the build- ing, seized the knob of the first door I came to and bolted into a lighted room. “I am being pursued by desperadoes from the next building,” I said hum riedly. “Save me, hide me, and I—" I was about to say: “And I will re- ward you richly,” but the eyes that met my own told of real sympathy, a slight shudder that she realized my peril. “This way, quick,” she said, and moved towards a bed. Within it lay an old man, evidently an invalid, asleep or unconscious. She bade me climb behind him, covered me up and then resumed her seat. The banging at the doors, the loud shouts told that my pursuers dom- inated and terrorized their neighbors. Finally the door was thrust open. My captor fiercely challenged the girl, She pointed a warning finger to her lip and pointed at her invalid father. The intruder looked under the bed, explored a closet and then proceeded on his fruitless search. had saved me. There was a beautiful woman depicted in the canvas I had rescued, but not to compare with the serene yet sensitive countenance of my gracious friend. An hour later, enveloped in an old coat that she had loaned me, I left the building and reached the police. 1 will not tell the royal reward I re- celved for returning the stolen picture, but it was enough to complete my edu- cation and get married on. And she who shared my little for- tune was the lovely girl who bhad helped me to win it. (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) BAD CHECKS WERE COMMON Hotel Man Recalls the Ways of Some Slick Swindlers in the Past. “Owing to the great carelessness ex- ercised in cashing checks, it used to the lay of the land to work off bad checks on a hotel where I used to be a room clerk,” sald a former hotel man yesterday. “I flatter myself, how- ever, that of all the half a million dol- lars’ worth of paper I O. K.'d during the half dozen years I was connected with the establishment neither the hotel nor I lost a cent. “But time and time again I used to witness a performance like this: “A man would arrive and register ; himself as ‘Reginald W. Drexel, Phil- adelphia,’ or give an equally well known family name in some other city. The head clerk would fall over himself in his anxiety to give the new arrival one of the best rooms in the house. A little later, the stranger, having inquired the name of the chief clerk, would approach and speak to him: “‘Oh, Mr. Blank, my uncle told me to see you and make myself known. He said if I should happen to need any money while I was in New York, you would be able to fix it up for me.’ “‘I ghall be only too glad,’ the head clerk would reply. ‘It was thoughtful of your uncle to remember me. 1 hope he is well. Come right this way.' “Then he would hustle the man, a perfect stranger to him, over to the cashier's window, and introduce him, and say it was all right if ‘Mr. Drex- el’ wanted to get any checks cashed or needed any money. self a ‘little short’ and the cashier would let him have a couple of hun- dred dollars or more perhaps once or twice. Then the young man would ! suddenly leave the hotel the next day, with no suspicion being aroused, in case he had drawn cash, for perhaps a month or more, when his ‘uncle’ in Philadelphia, in reply to a bill sent him, would indignantly disclose that Mr. ‘Reginald W. Drexel’ was an im- | postor. If it was a check that young ‘Mr. Drexel’ had cashed, he was sure to have gone before the bank on | New York tbat the draft was worth- less.” Brawn and Brain. The bishop of Liverpool, speaking at a prize distribution, incidentally drew from the recent Wells-Carpentier fight an interesting lesson, which par- ents would do well to observe. With a smile his lordship remarked that he knew very little about boxing, but he had read an article in a leading Lon- ! don journal on the progress of that memorable fight. From this he gath- | , ered that the eecret of the French- man’s victory was that he o\ldoml) | used his muscles and his brain, where- as the Englishman apparently trusted | almost entirely to his muscles. The result was that muscles and brain won, and he impressed upon the par- ents the vaiue of the combination. lt would be to the benefit of the nation | to have a strain of boys with robust , bealth and well-trained minds. { 1 stole a glance at the fair girl who ; & very | “‘Mr. Drexel’ would soon find him- ] ! which it was drawn could get word to | Long Lifeof Linen that is just what we are giving {s what you are looking fer and Try us. alony with good laundry work. Lakelana Steam -Laundry Zhono 180 West Maix . 1URB0HIRNNOSHHONNAIRSHORCIIINNRIOS | BX0HCHKCHINCKCRCHOHRORCHOBIHCS . JCHCHROINNREE § TF YOU ARE THINKING Of BUILDING, SEE ; ? 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