Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 21, 1914, Page 2

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Lakeland, Fla BoiBocR o B e PGt SEPFOLPSFERRR2PPPE BBPIPIEFDIIDDIPBDIPDPIHSPT is as important to a picture as a becoming gown to a woman, The frames we make are right injjquality, style and workmanship, and will beautify as weli as preserve your pict- e Ures. THE BOOK STORE “CONSULT US” figures on wiring your house. We Look out for the Let us put gutter around ect it from decay. % 1l save you money. season. ouse and prot T. L. CARDWELL, Electric and Sheet Metal Contracts Phone 233. Rear Wilson Hdwe Co. : | call tt trlumphant. There was nothe $oeg o . but—there was a change. m— CHANGE IN_ELIDA By SELINA ELIZABETH HIGGINS. For a whole day our darling had moved about the house as one in some dream-like trance. Never was a be- ing so gentle, and she was gentle now. The same sweet smile framed her lips, the clear earnest eyes showed the old-time tenderness in their depth, Elida was listless. She would sit for an hour gazing at seeming noth- ingness. When she was spoken to, her | pretty brow would wrinkle, there was a puzzled flickering of the delicate eyelids. It would take her quite a minute or two before she would seem to und and what was spoken—she ! nprehend. Iler ir away from her her soul at tions wern wondered < v for her absent lover, Williard Hull, that had brought on this deep abstraction. But when I spoke of the estimable young man whom we :all liked intensely, she only smiled and spoke quietly of his speedy return, as though her heart were at| perfect ease regarding him and his prospects. It was early that evening when a warm friend of the family dropped in. | She was a music teacher and quite an attraction at local social entertain- | ments. She looked around for Elida, | who had retired to her room saying | she was wearied. I did not wonder at this. Elida had acted so all that day. | She had been out late the evening | previous at a soiree that I knew Miss | Evans had also attended. | We were close friends with the music teacher, and in my anxiety and | perplexity 1 spoke of the strange mood that had held Elida in a strange | thrall all that day. “My dear Miss Nettleton,” spoke my visitor, when I had concluded, “I came | purposely to see Elida. You under- stand me well enough to know that | it would not be from any idle curios- ity, but from motives of the purest friendly iInterest. Something hap- An Amazing Spectacle Met My View. pened at the soiree last evening that was inexplicable. It has been in my thoughts all today. I could not resist coming here to see Elida.” “Something happened?” I repeated, o trifle fearsomely. “Yes. A young man, his name was given as Dalziell, attended the soiree last evening. He came with the Ritchies, whom I only know incidental- | ly. He is a wonderful conversational- ist and a marvel at the piano.” “And he met Elida?" I asked, dread- | ing that something might shadow the love and loyalty of my darling and | | her flance. | “Only as he did the others, as a| gentleman of great attainments, cour-| taous to everybody. He was not at tke first particularly attentive to her. | i!da just noticed him, that was all. He had just finished a brilliant musi- cal composition of his own, however, | when 1 saw him lean toward Elida, who sat near by, and fix his eyes upon her. A light shone in them, I cannot describe. It did not repel, but it was deep, flashing, piercing.” “You are alarming me,” I said tim-| orously. ‘ “I am sorry, but I must tell you all,” replied Miss Evans. *“I saw Elda ! start and a nervous tremor crossed her face. Then in a rapt, wistful at- titude she leaned slightly forward. She was like one enrapt, fascinated. Su nly, but without r ng his glence, this Dalziell dashed both hands down upon the keyboard of the There was a strain of wild A look I cannot de- Near 1g a frag- 1iing cards. olently to to a thon | | movi low cry covered but when eS were calm, their bright ack shudd her na atural in sweetness a I “You astonish me!” was all I could gasp out. “I glanced at young Dalziell,” went on Miss Evans. “There was a strange, | weird expression on his face. I may EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA | glazed, | her was | piece of fauceted crystal in one hand. | placed a warning finger to his lip, | life extinct MAY 21, 1914, ing sinister to it, but it expressed in: ‘ fafte satisfaction. He dashed o‘fl into 8 quick, lively Polish mazurka."” “And the guests?" I asked breath- 1essly. “Passed the incident by in wonder, too well-bred to notice it by open dis- l cusslon. I heard one lady say it was | an accident, another an impulse hys-! terical. In my opinion the man hadj hypnotized Elida. For some purpose, { good or evil, he had hypnotized her..y and she, then as now, all unconscious | of it. Ile had tested some occult | power he possesse d Alas! 1 could not solve the prob lem and passed a sleepless night Elida arose the next morning, listless and preoccupied. About ten o'clock I | left hor alone in the house. I could comething of I determined Why?” 1 not rest. 1 must kn this mysterious Dalz to call up rs. Rit I had g« two b! h sectin back er of the hal to the pa An ama acle met my view. Seated at a little stand, her face pale but placid, her eyes dreamy and was Elida. Standing before the stranger. He held & On that Elida's eyves were fixed. “Who are you? what are you doing here?”’ 1 quavered impulsively, and the man turned to face the weapon in my trembling hand He was not in the least moved. He never lowering the crystal. “For Williard Hull,” was his aston- fshing announcement in low musical tones. “From Williard Hull!” I cried. “No—for him. Do not interrupt—it {s a critical moment. Speak!” he added, directing the mellow insinuat- ing word at the transfixed Elida and fixing his glance piercingly upon her. “The wall—is it east? And which wall?" “No,” came in a dreamy, faraway murmur from Elida. ‘Not a wall—but a well.” “Success!” gasped the strangeg and sank into the nearest chair as I ex- hausted after some guperhuman effort. In a few moments the man arose. He made some movements with his delicate hands toward Ellda, whose face renewed {ts usual expression. Then he turned to me. “Miss Nettleton,” he said, "1 have heard of you. I am a friend of Wil liard Hull, who has gone to look up the hidden fortune of his dead uncle. He did not find it at any ‘wall,’ as the hint was. I am credited with possess- ing certaln occult power. Perhaps. At least, my mind filled only with honest motives, working on the pure crystal-clear mentality of this beautd ful young lady, has evolved a clue— ‘well,’ not ‘wall’” It was a well, Indeed—we knew It within a week, when Elida's flance came back a rich man. And Dalzlell, the strange, mystie genius whom I at first 80 feared, we all love now as a loyal, devoted friend. (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) NEW STORY WITH OLD MORAL Had Young Wife Remembered Maxim | She Might Have Been Happier ‘ and Richer Today. There's a mean old man {n Sweden. | He suspected his wife, and played | dead so as to see what she would do. He got his doctor to pronounce and place him in a coffin. 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