Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 15, 1914, Page 2

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All work R > brick work, I respectfully solicit part of the paving that is to ba% GUARANTEED ONE YEAR As an evidence of good faith I will allow the property owner to retain 10 per cent of the amount of their bill for that time, pro- viding they will agree to pay the retainer with 8 per cent per an- num at the end of the guarantee periog if the work shows no in- Jurious defects caused by defective material or workmanship. D. CROCKETT ®. O. Address, Box 451 Res., 501 North Iowa Avenue. L L L S L S SRS St L] | MAYES GROCERY (0. “Reduce the cost of living,” our motto for nineteen fourteen Will sell staple groceries, hay, " feed, Wilson-Toomer Fertilizers, all kinds of shipping crates and baskets, and seed potatoes, etc., at reduced prices Mayes Grocery Co. LAKELAND, FLORIDA TROLLEY CAR MUTINY By MARY ROBERTS RINEHART. (Copyright.) The reason for the quarrel has noth- ing to do with the story; it was the usual affair, in which the Girl declares with every appearance of sincerity that she hopes she will never see him again, and the Man gnaws his lip— fashion having abolished the mustache —and declares savagely that she need not worry, she won't. The only unusual feature was that the Man was handsome, and did not know it, and the Girl, who was charm- ing, and knew it, was quite unspoiled. Perhaps it was the rain that had ruf- fled the current of true love. As he held his umbrella over the Girl, they were as far apart as the poles; the drip was falling on the rim of his hat, and his head being thrown well back—he was very much injured —a little stream of water ran down between the shoulders of his gray rain- coat. From one pocket protruded the corner of a gilt tied package, and the little widow who stood just back of them smiled and sighed. When the Wilkinsville car came along he assisted the Girl in ceremo- niously. On the platform she turned and spoke to him. “You have my purse,” she said, icily polite. “May I trouble you for it?" Which meant that she wished to pay her own fare; he was not to dare to do it. The Man looked uncomfortable, and fished out of one of his big pockets a dainty little patent leather affair with a monogram on it. The Girl went to the extreme end of the car and sat down; the Man made his umbrella an excuse to stay on the platform. The car was comfortably full, but not crowded. In fact, as they discov- ered later, there were precisely twen- ty-six passengers. The conductor was collecting the fares. He declined her proffered nickel with a jerk of his head toward the door. “Fare's paid,” he said; but the Girl insistently held out the money. “There is a mistake,” she said, flush- ing uncomfortably. “I intend to pay my own fare.” The conductor took it resignedly. “Well,” he said, “the gentleman back there with the gray raincoat paid your fare, but if you want tQ pay twice, all right.” He rang up the fare with an air of great probity and went on. The Girl flashed a glance of withering scorn at the back of the car. The widow was palpitating with ex- citement; there was a little excres- cence under the glove on the third fin- ger on the Cirl's left hand. Perhaps they were engaged! The rain was beating down merci- lessly now—the penetrating, all-per | vading rain of February. The windows were steamed and opaque and the tracks were twin canals of sluggish yellow water. The car stopped with a jerk, and the conductor thrust his head in. “Car ahead, please,” he said sono- rously, With a sigh the women began to pick up their bundles and gather their skirts. This was an imposition under | which the Wilkinsvilleites had long groaned. The car, designated plainly for Wilkinsville, would, toward the rush hours of the evening, take its pas- sengers only a certain distance. Then, relying on the toleration and lack of spirit of the average suburbarite, the passengers were transferred to an- other car, which might or might not be waiting ahead, and the original car was hurried back to town. The Man took a hand. When one has just quarreled with the only girl, and she has just told him, quite frank- ly, that she does not care for him any more, he is in the best possible condi- tion to take up a public grievance. “Look here,” he said, stepping into the doorway, “don’t get out, you peo- ple. It says Wilkinsville on the front of this car, and we ought to stay on it until it takes us to Wilkinsville.” The conductor reached his hand to the bell rope. The motorman had ta- ken his place at the reverse end of the car, which was now ready to start to- ward the city again. «“All out for Wilkinsville,” said the conductor. “Take the next car ahead.” An Irish laborer got up and picked up his dinner bucket. “Come on,” he said. “Yez'll do it, anyhow, afther the other car's gone. The gr-r-reat American people is migh- ty indepindint—on the Fourrth of July.” He went out then, but the shaft had told. One passenger stopped in the aisle. “I demand,” he said, “that this car take us to Wilkinsville. If it doesn’t there will be trouble.” “I guess there will be,” said the con- ductor, “if missin’ your dinner will be trouble.” ., Then the Man spoke again. “Anyone who wishes to should get out now and take the car ahead—if there is one. Those who would like to make this a test case will remain on the car and insist that it go to Wilkins- ville. He glanced at the Girl, but she did not move. A weman with a baby got up irresolutely, looked out at the pour- ing rain, and sat down again got out; it was mutiny, unanimously agreed upon. The conductor jerked the bell rope and the car started back to town. No one ! | photograph, which hung there, Occaslonal transients zcl' £ on a strap for a ¢ ng got When it reached th trict the car became original twenty-six and gradually all save the Wil sation became g agam; at the car spector boarded tt an appeal was made conductor, however, an ly departed. Two drummers getting on ward gazed electrified at the in of the car. “Just run over 8 them asked the conc b ue of general conversation came through the partly open door “No,” he said, surlily “Well, what is that in there—: day school convention, or trade un the other man asked facet The conductor ran a scC over the indignant suburban! in. “There's twenty said, disgustedly, as a sky-rocket in a snow refused to explain further to collect the fares in u There had been some d the second fare, but after cor it was decided to pay it The passengers were beco ter acquainted. When a 71 boy took a flying leap scramble to the platfor the amazing spectacle of ¢ people in animated conversation one another. “Say,” he said, pointing through the glass of the door. “what's the trolley party?” “Lot of damn lunatics,” conductor, and lapsed into morose si- lence. At the end of the line the conductor opened the door with a jerk. . “All out,” he said. “This car is going back to town.” “We'll get off at Wilkinsville, and no place else,” said one firmly, and amid a silence broken only by the snapping of watch cases as the mutineers con- sulted the time, the car started back to town. The Man came in and sat down not far from the Girl, but she only chatted pleasantly with the little widow across from her. The conductor and motorman were not so mirthful now; there was an air of grim determination about the twen- ty-six that made the cold night air warm and comfortable by comparison. In the meantime a common trouble was bringing the people inside closer together. It developed that the woman with the baby had a cloth bag inside of her coat containing three hundred and fifty-five pennies—"one for every day of his life," she explained amiably; *1 brought them along, it isn't safe to leave them.” So the pennies were brought out ¢ suitably exchanged, and the next time the fares were paid in copper, deaving the conductor white with rage and vis- ibly bulging ix of t narled the d It was eight o’clock when the car be- gan its next trip from town. The pas sengers were growing hungry, and when the last transient had gone, leav- ing only the steady occupants, the Man conversed secretly with the ba- ker's boy. As a result the white cov- eied basket was passed around, with a bag of apples from one of the mar- ket baskets. Two passengers weakened at the end of that trip and got off, leaving | only a space of empty seat between the Man and the Girl. The little widow | eyed the gap disapprovingly, but the Mdn stonily read the advertisement for somebody's pork and beans, and the car, after another request from the conductor, a little less courteous this | time—that they move into the car ahead—started back to town The Girl was feeling very lonely and | unhappy. Once or twice she looked at the relentless profile near her, but it was unresponsively classic. Not for worlds would she have shown less | spirit than the other women in the car, and got out. But she was stiff from sitting, her head was aching from excitement and hunger—and just a little from the quarrel. As for the Man, it is very possible to gaze stonily straight ahead, and vet| see clearly every movement of a girl some distance to your left. He had an ache, too, but it was a lonely sort of | heartache. As for the little widow, she pulled her black veil over the rim of her hat, | feeling very sad and alone, and won- dering if she had ever been so when she had some one to love he P, At the barn the car switched off anq | rolled slowly, ec ingly into the di ness of the building. There it was stopped with a jerk, the conduc switched off the light and h with the motorman made his the office. The little widow shivered the Man should go? What it It would be like a man to leave at this p sycholo cal moment, when the Gir] was gry, and lonely, and forlorn; for t tired eyes and the quiver of a pr chin had not been lost on the wom behind the veil. 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