Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 15, 1914, Page 6

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MANN PLUMBING CO.: !‘HONAE>257,A PINE ST. & ?n&@@@w:w&@m«wm«a*wm | quite | an answer EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA., ATEL | By GEORGE RANDOLPH CHESTER. Robert Walsingham Smith paused thoughtfully just inside the gate. Half a dozen important things called ur- gently upon him for attention; the funny gray bugs underneath the flat stone at the side of the front steps; the nice little puddle where the gar- | the hydrant it- self, with the possibilities it offered of | den hydrant dripped; getting yourself nice and wet and cool all over; door, with its wobbling springiness and the chance it offered of getting another scar on his chin. But outside the Brainerd gate a new and wonderful diversion offered itself. A white dog, young enough to | be playful and old enough to be a confirmed tramp, bounced up and poked his cold muzzle into young Mr. | Smith | Smith’s hand. Young Mr. jerked his hand away and stumbled back two steps, where he stood at! rigid attention, his stomach drawn back as far from danger as possible He was a fine dog, that fellow. was better than a doll, because you didn’t have to move his legs and arms for him, or pinch him to make him squeak. He was better than a two- and-a-half-year-old human playmate, because he did not always want to shriek for the identical thing that you wanted. | For instance, he would grab up a' stick and run a few steps with it, | then lay it down. "When you went to pick it up, he would grab it and run a bit farther and lay it down again; but maybe that time he would let you get it and let you run on ahead and would try to grab it out of your hands, and by and by you would let him have it, because it was only a stick, anyhow, and you didn’t want it—that 1s, till the dog got it; then you wanted it. That was a fine game, and it took them several blocks away from the house where Mrs. Smith sat calmly content in her work, secure in the knowledge that the DBrainerd girls were petting and coddling the young- ster and spoiling him, and getting his stomach out of whack, and teaching him bits of choice new slang for them to laugh at when he repeated it, and the broken outside cellar-| He ' | ! with the sense of duty. | | from the park, when suddenly the big | loving him half to death. In one of the smooth, wide drive-' ways stood a qulet automobile, and a man wearing a leather cap and a very black face was doing something or other with delightfully dirty-looking ' tools. | A little way off, up near the foun- tain, another man sat on a bench. He, too, had on a leather cap, but his face | was clean and his clothes were clean. and, what was more fascinating than all, he was feeding peanuts to the squirrels. He walked right up and held out his right hand. The white dog, at the same time, walked up to the man and sniffed, but it was only a perfunctory sniff. He, too, possessed the clairvoy- ance that could see through clothes | and countenances and fair speech to the hearts of men. The young man promp‘ly proceeded | to fill both chubby hands. Peanuts| stuck out from them in every direc- | tion, and one fell upon the ground. In | trying to pick it up he dropped six. | “What is your name?" asked the big | man in one of the intervals of shelling | and feeding. Robert Walsingham Smith waited until he had swallowed what was in his mouth, as he had bgen carefully | taught to do, and then he replied | clearly and conclsely: “Name, Wobbawassinmiss.” “Exactly,” agreed the man b 4| thought it must be something like | that. If you don't mind, however, I'll Just call you Tyke. It comes handier.” “I tired.” “Why, bless my soul, so you must be!"” replied the man, becoming sud- denly aware that the small morsel of humanity had been standing all this time on two amazingly small feet. He glanced down at the dust-grimed little shoes and gathered the young- ster compassionately in his big arms.| Tyke rested his head contentedly | back in the comfortable angle he found walting for it. The big man started to talk about the birds and the squirrels and the| other things that he judged might in- terest tykes in general, glancing down every now and then and watching for the monosyllabled replies that came more and more slowly. In one of these glances he observed that the blue eyes were glazing and that the | 1ids were drooping. “Here, Tyke," said he hastily, “this won't do! Somebody will be looking for you." ! But the sleep of tykehood knows| no logic. It comes when it wills as| {rresistible as doom itself, and the man ! suddenly found himself the possessor | of a strange baby that was sound | asleep. “Here's a nice muddle,” he specu-| lated. ‘“‘Now what am I going to do! with this?” It w a puzzling question d urally he looked down at of the puzzle, as if to seek there. In the caus man had never bg h | derfu ving lashes were th What a { promptly, but the big man in it never MAY 13, 1914, this upon the rounded cheeks! pr like fine-spun gold was that waving hair! What a be autiful thing, more wondrously beautiful than any other of those chubby, created object, was the cu little lips! he feared even a b the harmony of t the man drew his h his pocket and gently the moisture. The moment was a revelation to this man who had fought all his life. Really, there seemed, after all, some- thing in the world besides business and competitors, besides money and stocks and bonds, besides the struggle for place and fame and riches. He was a man who, having attained his pinnacle, could look back upon the course over which he had come and view now, with a trace of compassion, some of the rounds of the ladder that he had broken in his ascent. These things had never bothered him much, but just now they recurred to him and made him feel just a little bit as if he were almost unworthy to be the bearer of this beautifulgittle burden that seemed suddenly a holy and a gsacred thing A sharp, clicking sound broke in upon his reverie, and rapid chugging. He looked around ]Hsi chauffeur had succeeded at last in fix- | ing his automobile, and there it stood, whirring and trembling, eager to dash away. He arose and walked over t0 the machine. The ¢ had been | asleep, but only in that light slumber that is permitted to t » weighted kerchief from away wiped then a “Huh!" said the man to his rhxlu{-l feur, “I seem to have picked up a i responsibility here, Williams. I'll be | hanged if I know what to do with it! “Tell you what you do, Williams," he suggested. “You just drive very slowly around the streets bordering the park. I have no doubt that if this baby is lost and belongs in the neigh- | 4 borhood, we shall find some one, if not several people, out looking for him.” “Very well, sir,” replied Williams. “Shall I lay it on the back seat?” “No!” replied the man decisively. “I shall hold him!” For nearly the full hour they had | chugged about the streets radiating man saw a former friend—one with whom he had not been on speaking terms for nearly a year-—come fran- ti‘cally along the sidewalk. The former friend was peering from right to left as he strode on, and nothing escaped his eye. Suddenly he left the side- walk and came running toward the au- tomobile. He had not seen the man in it nod the chauffeur who drove it. He had, however, seen Tyke. “Stop!" he cried. “That's my baby!” The automobile stopped very moved, except to fold Tyke a little more closely in his arms by way of | a reluctant goodby. “Hello, Smith!" he calmly called. Mr. Smith looked up at the sound of the ve'ze and recognized the blg; man. | “Oh!" he sald in amazement, and | for an instant the two looked at each other as men do who have cause each to wonder what is in the mind of the other. DBoth were reluctant to break the ensuing embarrassed silence, The big man, as became him, was the first to give in. He was the * poration,” practically “By George! Smith, I don't your last hour or so,” he said in the tone of old. *“I was fortunate enough to pick up your little one in the park and have been driving around the neighboring streets for the past hour, hunting for the center of the fuss that 1 knew must exist somewhere. Jump in and I'll run you both home.” “Very kind of you, Davidson, I am sure,” replied Mr, Smith. *“I live only a few blocks from here, but since the soulless cor nvy you boy 1s asleep I shall take advantage of | & your offer with pleasure.” | Mr. Davidson, considering the com- fort of Tyke, made no move to open the door of the tonneau. Mr. Smith opened it himself and clambered in. Mr. Davidson moved over carefully to give him room, but he made no start toward relieving himself of his burden. The machine turned to a side street at the direction of Mr. Smith, who then turned his attention to Robert Walsingham. The paternal arms had a peculiar ache in them, but he stood it as long as he could—for the space of possibly two or three blocks—and then he suddenly held out his arms with a gesture so imperative that Mr. | Davidson drew a long breath. He was compelled to recognize Mr. Smith's rights in the case. Slowly, reluctantly, gently, he laid Robert Walsingham Smith in his father's em- brace. Another silence of more or less em- barrassment ensued. Mr. Davidson looked curiously down at his own left arm which he held, even yet, in the ! position that it had retalned for the | past hour or so. He could still seem to feel that warm little body cradled within it. He looked over at the baby hungrily, then he cleared 1 ¢ “I say, Smith,” he obsery been thinking about you here lately. 1 have berth for a man of I think will be better than ti t 1is throat. 1, “I have FIRST NATIONAL BA i | All The Lateg { Creations |y | Just Receive: gt l irs F 6-IN-1 [ USE IT Tor Babies. For prickly hmt. Aftershaving. After the bath. As aface powder. As "i a foot powder. Really indispensa- ple. In sifter top cans. At drug- gists, 15 cents. For Sale in Lakeland by HENLEY & HEALEY Pharmacy THE SONG SHOP The Drug Store 009 Franklin Street. TAMPA - - - FLORIDA ! 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