Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 9, 1914, Page 6

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Five hundreq dollars i s the price of the Ford runabout; the touring car is fifty-five; the town car seven fifty—f. 0. b. Detroit, complete with equipment. Get catalog and particulars from Lakeland Automobile & Supply Co. Lakeland, Fla, .’ . J ‘ INTERESTING READING FOR Summer Days An exchange library. A full line of periodicals. The best of the newest “The Harvester,” and other popular books at 50 cents. The Book Store BENFORD & STEITZ Lo ) {SIDEWALKS i Having had many years’' experience in all kinds of vement and% brick work, I respectfully sollcit part of the paving that is to be done in Lakeland., All work GUARANTEED ONE YEAR As an evidence of geod faith Iwill allow the property owner to 4 retain 10 per cent of the amount of their bill for that time, pro- ! viding they will agree to pay t he retainer with 8 per cent per an- num at the end of the guarantee period if the work shows no in- jurious defects caused by defec tive material or workmanship. D. CROCKETT Box 451 Res., 501 North Iowa Avenue. ®. O. Address, LR TE 28 B AR LB T T S R T S e Will Sacrifice For Cash Ten acres truck land, one lot near school : house; also 1 new six room house one acre of land. MANN PLUMBING CO. PHONE 257, PINE ST. ) oo o B o % face ranch life with him that only one FESPFEPEPEPEIEFPSPPTRITINY EVBNING TELEGRAM, LAK ———————————————————————————————————— BACK TO LIFE By LAURA KIRKMAN. i 00000000000000000000000000 John Rand blamed only himself. He had known before he asked Pearl to woman in a hundred strikes happiness under such conditions. l “Pack your trunk, kid,” he said kind- 1y, patting the bright head that lay de- jectedly on the round arms. “It's got on your nerves. There's just one thing to do and that's to get back to civiliza- tion. I'll try to follow, girl.” “You'll follow!” Up came the yel- Jow head. The blue eyes lighted with hope. “Oh, John!” she cried, “do you mean {t?” He nodded—Afirst half-heartedly, then more vigorously and convincingly. “See!” she cried, clutching the door famb, “can you blame me? What girl brought up to dances and music and theaters could drop to this without going half mad?” He went to her quietly. Soothingly, he patted her arm, gradually drawing her away as he did it. “I know,” he saild gently. “And come! Now you're going to pack. You'll go back to your mother—until we see what can be done.” “Back to life!” she caught him up. The following morning he drove her to the station. “Good-by!” he sang out as the train pulled away. He stood a long time looking after {t. Then, whistling a tune that had strange hitches in it, he sprang into his wagon and turned Demon’s head homeward. When he reached the ranch he flung the reins over the mare's back and strode into the house. No doubt one He went straight to the little room at the back of the house which had been Pearl's. “God!” he whispered, back! Bring her back!” For, all at once, he knew that unless he had hopes of her coming back he could not go on. could grit his teeth and work. he knew that he couldn't. The only way he could get himself to go out with the boys and work was to tell himself that her first letter would bring news of her coming back. And so he lived, in hope, until the letter came. One of his boys deliv- ered it to him two nights later, as he sat smoking on the back step, watch- ing the red ball of the sun drop behind | the prairie. With eager hands, he took it. Iis fingers trembled as he tore it open. He bent, shoulders contracted. His eyes were like fires. ) “Darling Johnnie,” he read, “I can hardly wait till you sell the old place and come East.” He dropped the letter. He covered his eyes with his shirt sleeves. His shoulders heaved. He was sobbing as he had sobbed when a little boy. But gradually he got back the cour- age to goon: “Oh, Johnnie darling this is the only place to live! I have been in a dream of happiness since I re- turned. Of course I could not be so happy if I didn’t know you were com- ing soon. Goodness! How I have danced, and teaed, and played the pianola!" After all he did not go on. He could not. He knew what the rest of the letter was like. Hearing a commotion in the corral, he got up and pushed his steps toward it. He dared not sit and think. And it was with welcome that he saw an obstreperous broncho tearing round and round the corral, défying authority. “Don’t go in!" cried the men in hor- ror, as he vaulted the fence and made toward the wild beast. John laughed. Here, for a moment, he could forget his pain. He headed off the animal, cornered it. Then reck- lessly, step by step, he neared it. When he came to he was lying in bed with a doctor bending over him. One movement told him that his leg “bring her Now was broken. He lay back, closing his eyes in pain. Dimly, he saw figures flying about waiting on him. ITe was conscious of other of the boya straightened his pil- low. Still another asked him if there was anything he wanted. “There's not a letter?” he asked. But through the long day none came. Quietly, he lay on his bed with his eyes wandering out over the The darkness fell at last. ness came. “Johnnie, darling!” Pitch-black- he was saying to Johnnie, darling.” denly it seemed to him that a voice in the pitch-blackness about him was say- ing it. He propped himself up on his elbow. Yes, there 11 was again: “Johnnie, darling!’ And his own lips were closed! He sat up straight now. “Pearl!” he cried, in the threatening voice of a child, who, it disappointed, will go into wild, inconsolable, hysteri- cal crying But there was no disappointmer store for him; Pearl w in the darkness besid With a broke She sobbed [ took t writing “Oh, J | —and our life out the silence! I have been dea ew to ~Ill in his fore. Oh, I love it, now! Don't leave it, dar- ling! Let us stay here, always, you and 11" of the boys would attend to the horse. | He had thought he | some one puttering over the fire. An-| plain. | himself, as she used to say it. “Oh, | Or was some one else saying it? Sud- | ELAND, FLA., MAY 9, 1914. HIS LUGKY NUMBER By CLARA HAMBURG. «Somehow,” remarked the young woman, “I don’t like the expression of your eye, George!” “What?” demanded the young man, emerging from a brown study. “What's the matter with my eye? It’s a per- fectly good eye—and all that—I assure you! Why, that eye of mine “1as taken prizes—" “Now I'm sure of it!” almost wailed the young woman. “It's the expres- slon you always wear just before you propose to me! I've seen it sixteen times, so I ought to know! Don’t tell me you're going to do it again—after all I've said to you, George! And we'd settled down so nicely into being just friends!"” “We're not such great shakes as friends,” said the young man. “A friend is a person that it is no bother to have around and yet with whom you can dispense easily and still eat three meals a day in peace of mind. You don't fit any of that description. It bothers me like the deuce just to look at you and as for dispensing with you—this s the fourth time this week I've been here, isn't it?” “m sorry I annoy you,” sald the young woman, a little stifly. “I am sure I have no intention—" “You have, too!” interrupted the young man rudely. “It tickles you to death to watch me suffer! My break- ing heart is better than a $2 matinee for you! If it was otherwise, then instead of sitting here with you I'd | be tramping down the steps with the fatal words r ng in my ears, ‘Miss Jenks has a he che and begs to be excused this evening!’ 1 guess I know! You've got Roman blood in you, Laura Jenks! One of your ances- tors sat in a front arena seat and ‘ turned her thumb «h»\\n every time in those good old da “Well, 1 never!” gasped the young woman, ‘“Why in the world did you call if you were going to be so dis- agreeable?” “Can’t I be disagreeable in my own way?” demanded the young man. “When I propose to you it must be extremely disagreeable from your standpoint, so I should think you'd like a change of subject matter. Still, if you'd rather—" “George Forest!” cried the young | woman. “Don't exert yourself to be obliging! And don't think I am hold- | ing my breath walting for you to re- | | hearse that same old theme! I am eure I don't want—" “Then that's all right,” said the young man with rellef. “To ease your mind I'll tell you that nothing was farther from my thoughts.” The young woman looked at him with startled eyes, in which amaze- “After All Your Ravings!” ment was mixed with eomething else. “Why, George!” she murmured at last. “I don't want you to feel that WAY=— as though you were a bore to me! 1 never could feel that way about any- thing you did, you know. It has been | Just because I did care so much for you—in a friendly way, of course— that I did not want you to spoil your illra through mistaken sentiment. 1 knew that some time you would meet a girl who would completely wipe me out of your memory and then you | would thank me for saving you—" “Thank you, Laura,” said the young man with emotion. “It may all be true. It must be as you say—some- where there is a girl who is destined | for me and you can bet it's she I want and no counterfeit!"” “I'm glad | senses, I'm sure,” snapped the young woman. “But I must say, after all | your ravings about my being the only girl you ever could love, you take !;) the idea very coolly! It just shows how much faith one can put in a man | and his devotion! You can change | from one to another with the most dreadful ease! I am sure I don't envy the girl you bestow your affections on | next! Rather a second-hand affair, I should say! Thank heaven, I had sense enough to refuse you! Why, it would have been a calamity if I had married you, George Fore “I euppose so man. “Butla Only you mt to look for nitted the young 0-0-0-h!” the woman, I sort of m stood you! Did you know s was a lucky number, George? 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