Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 23, 1914, Page 6

R e 806080085t cniactnseaeltn “the telephone. ....l...............OO...: . (] ®| “Where shall I tell him to come?” | ® AHS e » . . Ld he asked. “I scarcely know where I| g BE"EATH THE ST . :As T"E GULDE" H'EEGE: am. Something has put the street|® H : —_— : lights out of commission.” : : . @' She gave him the street and num-|® By DOROTHY DOUGLAS. o ¢ By BELLE MANIATES. § per. When he had finished telephon- | § L ® ing she asked him into the library to | 000eeeeeeeeeseesssssceces .....’....................}await the coming of the chauffeur. The firmament seemed ablaze with It was like a fairy-godmother dress, ghe knew that he was Roger Thorne, | a million twinkling stars. A slim, spun of samitelike stuff and golden g cousin of Nora Valdeen's, and had | pale quarter of the moon cast a faint gauze. As Helen | pyt recently come to the city. path of light over the vast expanse of Blaine held it| hen he had gone she went to her | water, forth, the 10n8, room and took off the gorgeous gown. | g tne man, leaning over the ship's sinuous lines fall-| “Cinderella after the ball. Samson' railing, the night was perfect; to the ing in a slender, " shorn of his glory,” she thought. glittering train, a| In the morning Miss Aylmer sent | th night held a feeling of unrest that little thrill of for the gown and Helen felt as if a | was both definite and vague. achievemen t part of herself were shut up in the | “I do not see how you can feast your swept through her. | jong box. soul—on a night like this,” the girl She was a dress-| In the afternoon Miss Aylmer came said softly, “and still refuse to believe maker, but in ac-“jn hurriedly. 1in him who created it.” complishing = the| “Oh, wags there something Wrong pejiy Valdez looked down at the creation of her with the dress?” asked Helen. | girl and shrugged his shoulders. fancy she felt as| “No; but I have decided not to Wear | - u] pelieve in some great force with profound & trl it. Could you make me another—a ynich we are powerless to cope,” he umph as an flrllsliwhite one—by to-morrow night?” said, “but I do not call that force who beholds his| TUpon the information that she God.” masterplece on canvas. | should never wear it, Helen asked per- One day Miss Aylmer, the daughter mission to buy it to use as a model, ' of the richest man in town, called her and she hastened to write a check for “To whom do you pray when you are in trouble or when you want some- girl, slim and pale as the moon itself, | “Then it did not live.’ He turned | suddenly toward the girl and his vt:lce took on an accent of seriousness. Do | you think that ghould you and I love love? Do you not want to believe which they had previously spoken. | Nadine turned her face upward to- ( ward the wonderful sky and gazed ! with unseeing eyes at the firmament. “Have you no answer for me?"” ques- tioned Valdez. “No,"” whispered Nadine, and swayed | slightly toward him. In another second she was in his do love me—you wonderful being,” he gaid. “And you will marry me and come down into the mountains of Chile with me—will you not—and I will show you the red star that watches over my country?” “No, no!" she cried swiftly, “I could not marry you! It would kill me to live beside one who has no each other time would rob us of that R) R. S{a[iflfl AW ::dl)"fi AVCNDALE SPRINGS TENNESSEE P. 0. Rirtiegy. that a million years from now it would If you are 'lulnl\ln‘: {(.H'.flvrb\l’l-ll!‘:,t;xf.lj} :‘[;’:‘:E ":" q‘”h" Monntaj, | be the same when we were perhaps | japge variety of un;zllh-‘-.l\llll?‘ gy phunse, . Il)l,\‘\n iod E oincarnated as flowers or birds on | est trees. und untold quantities o I Loy i cheereq h T .d planet up there?” | many wild birds, where a cool breeze is always to be . in gy, b q‘v‘tn‘(\llmli rthepred star about | deep and shady giens which surround the grounds. ang " He pointe s 8 { e Dple: d fort of each ang fort is made for the pleasure and com . ¥ then come to Auburndale Springs. Tenn. Note the addr., F. J. HOFFMAN, Proprietor it 2 The Loss by Fire in the | During a Recent Yoy Amounted to Almoy One-Half te up by telephone to consult her about the price named. an evening gown for the charity | event. “My cousin, who is abroad, has sent that color.” | “Bring it down tomorrow,” advised on the night of the dinner appeared in * Helen. When Miss Aylmer opened the bun- dle her maid carried Helen uttered a little cry of delight at the contents. Helen draped the material about her customer. The result was most unflat- tering to the plain-featured, sallow face, but her fingers ached to fashion this fabric into the form her artist’s eye was already creating. She drew down the shades and turned on the lights. “It 18 more becoming by electric light. I must have it. I don’t care whether it {s becoming or not. And make it as original, as startling as you ' like, so that people will notice me.” Helen devoted herself so assiduous- ly to her work that it was finished late Monday afternoon. After dinner, alone in the house, Helen tried the dress on herself for a final inspection. “It's the dress that makes me seem attractive,” she thought She then recalled the set she had inherited from her mother, and had Just clasped the gleaming necklace about her neck when the doorbell rang. When she went to the door and stood In the brilliancy of the electric light, the man on the threshold stood and stared, silent for a moment at the beautiful picture she made. Then hs explained that his car had broken down and he wished permission to use her telephone in suiiiifioning his chauf- feur. She asked him in and led the wayl ' dropped in for a chat. “What I came for, Helen, is to beg a me material for a dress, but it's a sort favor. Dine with us tomorrow. Roger of yellow. I have never tried to wear will be there and I want you to meet.” | To her delight Helen accepted, and the golden apparel. ! When Helen was presented to Roger she met the same look of adoration in . his eyes. | “Then you really do exist?” he sald as they went in to dinner. “I feared you might be in my dreams only.” The evening came to an end, and Helen was sent home in Nora’s 1imou- islne. Roger accompanied her. After a few preliminaries she casually re- ferred to her occupation. ently. “Nora told you?” she asked. “No; on the day of the ball I called on Miss Aylmer to see what flowers 'she preferred. She was trying on her ball dress and came down to receive me in it. I was startled at seeing that dress. There could not be two such , creations. I resented her wearing of . it. She asked me if I didn't like it. I managed to collect myself and say I | liked her best in white. The next night | T asked her why she did not wear her | new gown, and she said she had sold i it to her dressmaker, and told me of i you, and that you were a friend of Nora’s. So I asked Nora's assistance.” After a happy evening, Helen lifted the cover from the box in which re- | posed the dress of gold. “It was you,” she half whispered. “You dazzled and blinded and lured him on—just as the Golden Fleece led Jason.” (Copyright, 1914, by the McClure Newspa- per Syndicate.) On the day following the ball, Nora “Yes; I knew,” he replied lndll!eb' thing?" asked the girl. “I do not pray,” Valdez said. warmth of the night, “Are you cold?” inquired the man. “No—only shocked. I have never before met an unbeliever.” “You would meet plenty in my coun- try who believe as I do,” Valdez told ' her quietly, “we are even now fighting a religious faction in Chile. They are 80 strong that they are holding our country back from any kind of prog- ress. They oppose everything that | means growth and betterment for the people.” | “You will never win out though you have ten million men beside you,” Na- ! dine Vance said softly. “You have no i power upon which to call in moments of weakness.” “I am strangely weak—at this mo- , ment,” he said only half aloud. ' “Come!” cried Nadine. “Tell me some more about the stars. I was in- terested—until you shocked me with your lack of faith.” “Can you not teach me—faith?” Val- dez realized that he had spoken more because he wanted to hear the girl's soft voice than from any desire to swerve from his own philosophy of the creation. “I can scarcely do so great a thing in so short a time,” Nadine replied. “Tomorrow night you will have ar- rived in Plymouth, while I will go on to Cherbourg.” “All things must have a beginning,” Isuggested Valdez. “And an ending,” laughed Nadine. “No, no! There is where my philos- ‘ophy {8 happier than yours. That | which lives never dies—in my opin- fon.” “Love dies,” said Nadine with a quaint assumption of experience, The girl shivered in spite of the | faith.” With a movement sudden and | unexpected Nadine slipped from his arms and along the deck. She had disappeared before Valdez could gath- ! er his bewildered senses. The girl had torn aside the drap- erles of Valdez' rather comfortable philosophy and had seta tiny lighted candle somewhere within his taber- to turn. He realized that life without a garden without flowers. | her cabin and fell to dreaming and in | her dreams she saw herself boarding ' a steamer for Panama, then going by rail to Colon and from there to Val- paraiso. After that Nadine's clear reasoning became vague, for it was there that Felix Valdez again entered her actual presence and only the mem- ory of the touch of his arms remained | clear to her. So great was the long- ing to see him once again before the |into her coat and went up on deck. ! The stars were faint in the sky and only a few travelers remained outside, i She made her way toward the bow of the ship and saw Valdez standing where she had left him. Her heart‘ was beating tumultuously, yet she went bravely to him. He put out his ' arms. | “I wanted to tell you my plans,” Na- : dine said softly when she could speak. ' “Love canot die. I think we will love one another—in all other lives.” “Dearest,” whispered Vaidez, “my first prayer to your God has been an- swered. I asked him to send you to me—out here beneath the stars.” (Copyright, 1914, by the McClure Newspa- per Syndicate.) Nadine would be as void of beauty as | Philadelphia Underwriters, As for Nadine, she went below to German American, capital 2,000,000 long separation that Nadine slipped |@ddgdddddddbdddddbaddddigd We represent the following reli® nies: nacle of flesh. After that she had tble compa ; left him alone and he knew not where | fidelity Underwriters, capital ...... .. 4,750,000 capital .... .. ......$4,500,000 8pringfield Fire and Marine capital 2,000,000 Of All New Bullding Constructed During the Epp Twelve Mong When. Buying or Builgy, Provide the Meany For Rebuildin MANN & DEE Room 7, Raymondo Building ——— @ 2 Security Abstract & Title Co. % Bartow, Florida FRANK H. THOMPSON, VICE PRES H. W. 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