Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 24, 1914, Page 7

itt Received! OAN DURKEE'S GIRL By 0. HENRY. Sam Durkee had a girl. Her name was Ella Baynes. They appeared to be devoted to each other, and to have perfect confidence in each other, as all couples do who are and have or aren't and haven’t. She was tolerably pretty, with a heavy mass of brown hair that helped her along. He introduced me to her, which seemed not to lessen her preference for him; so I reasoned that they were surely soul-mates. Miss Baynes lived in Kingfisher, 20 miles from the ranch. Sam lived on a gallop between the two places. One day there came to Kingfisher a courageous young man, rather small, with smooth face and regular features. yMEL AND QUEENSWARE . Presseds % LL BE WORTH SOMETHING appointy Breoeds B proof & man; nses, i DB DR BB &3 3 | | rices th & o o YOU TO SEE OUR LINES @ | He made many inquiries about the | & | business of the town, and especially of the J | the inhabitants cognominally. He said with | he was from Muscogee, and he looked | now of & | it, with yellow shoes and crn(zlwtm]l 3 = 1 met him once when 1 3 | \d ) r the mail. He said his 3 J 1 A 3 B o ssenger for ] L. &t Cowdery Buildihg ©| i o Mol | I i a yelloy i t out town as ostentatiously as; T o TR Fr e e i) ild permit. 1 tion would L3R TR L RER R R AL L LERET 8 2L T it in iled on rnoon d to Sa 2 1 refrai led and hao nake orie 1l rol before r for the who he Ho was Tatum, from the Creck Nation, son of & | old Gopher Tatum your Unclo Newt shot last Februa You know & p up with the very newest thines in faney footwear. It's a :%' I re to show our goods, ng our aim is to fit you. We are the : | \ sore in Lakeland that ues the custom fitting methods. é. W‘i“ R T Al SR S o 1 U e E e S e e e oy :‘. ! @ kS - DUTTON-HARRIS €0. s’ ¢ - A @ Ave. * Quality 2 FOOT FITTERS We Repair Shoes While You Wait. % L} R L R T T L T B L R R R R RR A SR Sy 4 4 in the U. S During a Recent Year e Loss by Fire Amounted to Almost One-Half the Cos Of All New Bulldings Pumped Six Bullets Into the Body the Brown Dress Covered. what he done this morning? He killed your brother Lester—shot him in the co't-house yard.” 1 wondered if Sam had heard. He pulled a twig from a mesquit-bush, chewed it gravely, and said: “He did, did he? He killed Lester?” “The same,” said Simmons. “And he did more. He run away with your girl, the same as to say Miss Ella Baynes. I though you might like to Constructed During the Entire Twelve Months! When Buying or Bullding t represent the following reli® compani ty Underwriters, fudelphia Underwriters, AT Provide the Means kurow, s'zlx I rode out to impart the pital 500,000 ln"orma on. v : . GSOTUUI, 2 botet) a 1 am much obliged, Jim,” sald Sam, > Ameflufl, capital 2,000,000 R h Idl“ l taking the chewed twig from his “" Fire and Marine 0r c ul g mouth. “Yes, I'm glad you rode out. pital 2,000,000 Yes, I'm right glad.” “Well, I'll be ridin’ back, I reckon. That boy I left in the feed store don’t know hay from oats. He shot Lester in the back.” “Shot him in the back?” “Yes, while he was hitchin’ his hoss.” “I'm much obliged, Jim."” «] kind of thought you'd like to Kknow as soon as you could.” Simmons rolled a cigarette and stabbed his pony Wwith both heels. Twenty yards away he reined up and called back: “You don’t want no—assistance, as you might say?” “Not any, thanks." “I didn’t think you would. Well, go- long!" Sam took out and opened a bone- handled pocket knife and scraped a dried piece of mud from his left boot 1 thought at first he was going to gwear a vendetta on the blade of it, or recite “The Gipsy Curse.” The few feuds I had ever seen or read about usually opened that way This one seemed to be presented with a new treatment. Thus offered on the stage, it would have been hissed off and one of Belasco's thrilling mclo- i dramas demanded instead \ ] wonder,” said Sam, with a pro- foundly thoughtfu ssion, “if the cook has any ¢ | He called Wash the negro cook, and | finding that he had some, ordered him Lakeland Ice Company | Sam's private room, where he slept Phone 26 ANN & DEEN Room 7, Raymondo Building At this Period use all Safe- guards for Comfort and Well Being The best and most practicable of these is jce~0UR ICE. }t preserves | Your food, conserves your health, increases your pleasure, does you good in ways too mumerous to mention—and all for a very little money, Instead of decreasing your taking will be occasionally sandwiched be right now that every day is & full ice day for you. And stick to that COUPON BOOK of ours. It is your consistent, per- sistent SAVER. of ice on the cool days which tween the warm ones, resolve and kept his armory, dogs, and the gaddles of his favorite mounts. He took three or four six-shooters outof a tbookcase and began to look them over, whistling “The Cowboy’s Lament” ab- stractedly. Afterward he ordéred the best two horses on the ranch saddled and tied to the hitching-post. Now in the fuel business, in all sec- tions of the country, I have observed that in one particular there is a deli- cate but strict etiquette belonging. You must not mention the word or re- fer to the subject in the presence of a WATER THE EARTH TO suit conditions. No better irigation in existence. J. W. Kim- brough, of Lakeland, Floridd has the management of the State of Florida, Cuba, Bahama Isl nds, Alipines, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippl and Arkansas. Any one interested in irrigation can obtain information by writing him or the company. They are now prepared to fill all orders promptly. feudist. It would be more reprehen- Address . sible than commenting upon the mole sible then commenting upon the mos|§ Kimbrough and Skinner Irrigation Co., later on, that there is another unwrit- LAKELAND, FLORIDA ten rule, but I think that belongs sole- ly to the West. 1 yet lacked two hours to supper- time; but in 20 minutes Sam and I were plunging deep into the reheated beans, hot coffee and cold beef. “Nothing like a good meal before a long ride,” said Sam. “Eat hearty.” 1 had a sudden suspicion. “Why did you have two horses sad- dled?” I asked. “One, two—one, two,” said Sam. “You can count, can't you?" His ‘mathematics carried with it a = Ten Acres Tru:lLand, One Lot near School- momentary qualm and a lesson. The house: Alse one new Six-room house on one thought had not occurred to him that & 2 Acie of Land. : the thought could possibly occur to P R L Sl g & @ .Saérifice For Cash me not to ride at his side on the red .. . road to revenge and justice. It was ' 4 the higher calculus. I was booked for « MANN pLUMBlN G Co b the trail. I began to ent more beans. . In an hour we sct h at a steady = s g | gallop eastward. Our horses were Ken- ! !‘.QNE 2"’7, pNE Sl. . tucky bred, strengthened by the mes- : » ; s of the West. Ben Tatum’s y have been swiiter, and | ; but if he had’ G s of the hoofs | = of those trailer heart « J W.Tcwnsend L OGAN § TOWNSEND Alonza Logan are you w said in a whisper. BUILDING CONTRACTORS a melancholy sigh. nderstand; but he . do o Yaiote, e Tom 'e Furnish Surety Bonds On All Contracts ¢ derfoot, there’s rule out here among Fe e S EERYLG R | white men in the Nation that you ean't, & shoot @ man when he's with a woman. if you want a careful, consistent. and re- y £ 3 5 r . . . Duover inew it to e bioke vet, You Y fiable estimate on the construction of your o ganz of men or by himself. That's building. SEE US th’F{’IATELY. why. He know too. We all know. So, that's Mr. \ Tatum! One of the TELI:IJHONE 66 Futch & Gentl‘y B,d ‘pretty men!” I'll cut him out of tho herd before they leave the hotel and I m regulate his account!™ After supper the flying pair diszlpl peared auickly. Although Sam haunted | e = = R e I lobby and staigway and halls half the | night, in some mysterious Wiy the cssse—————— fugitives eluded him; and in the morn- f ing the veiled lady in the brown dress with the accordion-plaited skirt and the dapper young man with the close- clipped hair and the buckboard with the prancing nags were gone. Five miles farther we came upon the future great western city of Chandler. The horses of pursuers and pursued were starved and weary. There was one hotel that offered danger to man and entertainment to beast: so the' four of us met again in the dining room at the ringing of a bell 8o reson- | ant and large that it had cracked the D& OUR WEEKLY LIMERICK | w o There was a man by 1he name of La Grange ‘Whose wife, badly needed a Range so they came to Our Store welkin long ago. The dining room' was not as large as the one at Guth- ! And that they re. hadn’t come Just as we were eating apple ple— before how Ben Davises and tragedy impinge upon each other!—I noticed Sam look- ing with keen intentness at our quarry where they were seated at a table across the room. The girl still wore the brown dress with lace collar and cuffs and the veil drawn down to her They now think, is exceedingly strange. nose. 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