Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 5, 1914, Page 3

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The telephone rang sharply again and again, and Lomas, after a mo- ment's hesitation, took down the re- ceiver and said: “Hello!" A sort of strangled gasp came to his ear, and then a woman's voice said: “Is this Doctor Ersmit?” “It’s Doctor Ersmit's telephone,” an- swered Lomas. “If you will hold the wire for a minute or two I will go and find him. He went—" “I can't wait,” saild the volce. “No, 1 can't wait. I must go. Tell Doctor | Ersmit to come at once to 87 Bourne street and to bring things for stanch- ing a wound. It is life and death, and even now it may be too late. Oh!" There was terror and anguish in tho | cry, and it was succeeded by the click of the severed connection. Lomas dropped the receiver and, hurrying out| into the hall, shouted: “Billy?” “Well, what's the matter with you?” answered Doctor Ersmit from the head of the stairs. “Do you think I'm deaf? You nearly made me drop the bottles. I've joggled them as it is.” “Never mind the wine,” said Lomas. “Here's a case for you—87 Bourne street, and it's a matter of life and death. Wound. Party didn't say what kind. Get your things together, and I'll drive you over there in two shakes of a lamb’s tail"” “Bourne street!” repeated Doctor Ersmit, wonderingly. “Why, that's two miles off. Why didn’t they call some nearer man? Who is {t?” “She didn't say,” sald Lomas. “Just said it was a wound, and to hurry, and then rang off. Come on. We'll try the hock after we get back.” Doctor Ersmit slipped into the coat that his energetic friend was already holding for him, and two minutes later Lomas' auto was speeding at an ordi- nence-defying rate in the direction of Began to Pull His Beard Thought'ully.' Bourne street. Eight minutes more and the engine was wheezing at a standstill before No. 87. Lomas leaped out and was ringing| the bell furiously before Ersmit had balf way climbed the steps. A light| Explorer's Escape From Death Might was burning in the hall, but the house was silent as the grave, and there was no response to the repeated summons. “Try the door,” sald Ersmit. Lomas turned the knob and it opened easily. The two men entered the house and Ersmit called aloud. “Strange!” he ejaculated. ‘“‘Are they all dead? Ralph, I believe somebody has been hoaxing us.” Lomas pushed past him and entered a parlor, striking a match as he went. He 1it the gas at a chandelier, and looked about tho room. “Nothing here” said Doctor Ersmit, who had followed him. “What's in the next one?” Lomas looked in pale face to his case, Billy,” he ¢ On the floor by a small table that had evidently been overturned in his, fall, lay the prostrate figure of a man in evening clothes—a tall, powerfully made man of forty or thereabouts, with coarse features, now set in the rigidity of death. “By the Lord!"” exclalmed Doctor Ersmit. “It's Frank Beverly!” He| ripped open the man’s walstcoat and disciosed a emall red staln over the Then he turned a “Here's your SHOE POLISHES Black—Tan—White THE F. F. DALLEY Co., LTD., BUFFALO, N. Y., HAMILTON, ONT,: there. Hardly a drop of blood, and there hasn't been time for coagulation vet. Yes, he 1s dead; dead as Pharaoh, and if it didn't sound heartless, I'd say it was a good thing, too. Ralph, we've got to see first if there's any- body about the place, and then—I've got to do some thinking.” They made a hurried but careful search of the premises, but though the house showed signs of recent occupa- tion, they found no one. They returned to the parlor, where the murdered man lay, and Doctor Ersmit flung himselt into an armchair and began to pull his beard thoughtfully. “You say it was a woman's voice?” he said at last. “Tell me exactly what she said.” L.omas repeated the conversation, but added: “I couldn’t undertake to swear that it was a woman's vioce, Billy.” Doctor Ersmit looked keenly at him under his beetling eyebrows, and Lo- mas met his gaze steadily. “You've heard me speak of this Bev- erly and of his wife,” said Ersmit, at last. “I've heard you speak of him as an unmitigated scoundrel. I know that his wife left him and that you regarded her highly.” “If she had been my sgister—or my daughter, for I am old enough to be her father—I could not have thought more of her. I think she is abroad now, but if she had been here and— Ralph, I guess we'd better call the po- lice. The telephone is in the hall. 1 noticed it as we came in."” One night a year later Ralph Lomas stood on the deck of a Cunarder re- turning to New York, and looked down at a woman reciining in a steamer chair with a smile that was curlously cheerful considering that she had just told him that she could never marry him. “I suppose you have your reason,” he sald, almost easily, and wrapping a rug closer about her with solicitous care. “It {sn't that you don't care for me. I know that.” She shivered under his touch and [ looked at him appealingly. “Why will you torture me so?” she cried. ‘“Yes, i I care for you. I have grown to care | for you very much in the short time I have known you. It seems as {f I had known you always. When I first met you your voice sounded strargely fa- miliar.” “So did yours to me,” he sald, still smiling. “I seem to need you,” she continued. “And, Ralph, I don’'t want to lose you. Does that sound selfish? You must al- ways be my friend. I am most un- happy.” “You will be most happy,” he said. “And you will marry me. Dear, you spoke of my volce. When I heard yours for the first time it thrilled me in Its every tone. 1 seemed to hear it always. 1 knew no rest untll at last I saw you and knew you for what you are. Then 1 loved you.” “I must tell you,” she said, in a whis- per. “I know,” he sald. “You first spoke to me over the telephone from 87 Bourne street. You said: ‘Tell Doctor Ersmit to come at once.' I had heard of you before, and later Ersmit told me more, but I did not want his justifi- cation. I do not want yours. I belleve in you, and I love you. Look up. I want you to marry me.” She did not look up, but she stretched out a hand gropingly, and he took it between his. Then, in the dark- ness, their lips met (Copyright, 1814, by Dally Etory Pub. Co.) FELL THIRTY FEET UNHARMED Surely Be Described as Miraculous. On Mr. A. H. Savage Landor's re- turn journey to the Tapajos river, after a desperate struggle to reach the rubber gatherers who live far in the Brazillan interior, he had, as he re- lates in “Across Unknown South America,” a very curfous experience. “The forest near the Secundury river was at first overgrown with dense vegetation that gave us a good deal of work and extra exertion; but after that, when we got some distance from the water, the forest was fairly clean, except of course for the fallen trees. We found troublesome ravines of great depth where streamlets had cut their way through. “In going down one of those difficult ravines, I h : A might have been fatal. The ravine, the sides of which were almost vertical, was very narrow nly about ten meters across. We let ourselves down, hold- ing on to a llana. When we reached the bottom, we found a tiny brook winding its way between great round boulders that left a space about two feet wide for the water. I began to climb the other gide, gnd I had got to a height of about thirty feet. In oraer to go up this steep incline, I had set one foot against a small tree, and I pulled myself up by a llana. Unluck: ily, the llana suddenly gave way. The welght of the load that I had on my shoulders made me lose my balance, so that my body described a complete semlicircle. I dropped down head first from that height on the rocks below. “Providence once more looked after me on that occasion. On the flight down I already imagined myself dead; but no—my head entered the cavity between two great rocks, against which my shoulders and the load be- came jammed, while my legs waved wildly in midair. I was forced so hard against the two side rocks that I could not possibly extricate myself. It was only when Benedicto and the new man came to my help and pulled me out that we were able to resume our jour-| 1 was much shaken and a good ney. deal bruised, but otherwise none the worse for that unpleasant fall.”— Youth's Companion. Cause for Damages. In Lippincott's Magazine the following story, which {llustrates the dangers of too prompt obedlence to orders. “Say, Tom,” sald Jack, “did you know that Bill was going to sue the company_for damages?” “No, o — e appears | you don't say!” was the answer. “Waot did they do to him?” “Why,” explained Jack, “they blew the quittin’ whistle when ’'e was carryin’ a ’'heavy plece of iron, and ’e dropped it on 'is foot.”” “I need a half-column filler,” said the dainty blonde editress of the wom- an's page. “Oh, run some fashion | notes under the heading ‘What Our| Girls Are Wearing,'” suggested the | managing editor, crossly. “ }r—yes,"\ blushed the editress. “But that would fill only a couple of lines."—Puck. S | Anxious for Misery. “There is plenty of trouble in store| for that man.” | “Yes, and he is so anxious to get it that he {8 willlng to pay storage charges.” STOMACH TROUBLES | Mr. Ragland Writes Interesting Letter on This Subject. Madison Heights, Va.—Mr. Chas. A.| Ragland, of this place, writes: “I have been faking Thedford’s Black-Draught | for indigestion, and other stomach troub- les, also colds, and find it to be the very best medicine I have ever used. After taking Black-Draught for a few days, I always feel like a new man.” Nervousness, nausea, heartburn, pain in pit of stomach, and a feeling of full- ness after eating, are sure symptoms of i stomach trouble, and should be given the proper freatment, as your strength and health depend very largely upon your food and its digestion. | To get quick and permanent relief from these ailments, you should take a medicine of known curative merit, Its 75 years of splendid success, in the treatment of just such troubles, proves |the real merit of Thedford’s Black- | Draught. Safe, pleasant, gentle in action, and without bad after-effects, it is sure to benefit both young and old. For sale everywhere, Price 25¢. N. G 120 Pre-Inventory RED TAG SALE or stove for & fuel, for H/f}'r‘u]“'flfl(-’d & range, y “kind of y' room in the el look Copyright 1913 by The Buck's Stove and Range Company The lady of the house is most in- terested in hardware for the house QWhy then shouldn’t the lady of the.house buy /louschold hardware Aerse/f? 1f you need anything in the line of hardware for the home, come here and look over our at- tractive stock. You can “‘shop’” in this store as well as any other; and you’ll enjoy it just as much. qYou’ll be surprised how much there is to see; how many work-saving things you will find displayed here. ‘]Morc than that,you’ll be surprised to find that our prices are jower than you can find anywhere else. When you need anything in the line of hardware, come here! We have on hand a few large Stoves and Ranges that are going at LESS THAN FIRST COST! $45.00 Range at 65.00 Range at.....:.: 30, 00 SOV alsvivivs o 20.00 Stove at 32.00 .......... ) 00 Sale Closes May I5th LAKELAND FURNITURE & HARDWARE CO0.