Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, July 17, 1914, Page 6

PAGE SIX P2 22 222 22222224 24 2 OLD SLEUTH'S STORY !if the firm had given him a run for|somehow 1 EVENING TELEGRAM, LAFELAND, FLA, JULY 17, 1914 ———————— e ———— wrists—for the boy and I were, of -rm got after him like a traflic | course, coupled in the betting. | cop getting hunk with a chauffeur that| “It was against the regulation for | he's laying for; and the boy, who'd |me to unbraceleta con once I'd geared never made a dip-in before in his life, | myself to him. But I knew he wasn't TAFFETAS ALL LOVELY and probably never would have &Gfllfl‘golng to make any run for it; and | pESIGNERS WOULD SEEM TO couldn't pipe myself By C. L. CULLEN. I nis taw marble, was soaked & flv&}tmdglng up to that girl on the bench _— (Copyright.) The grizzled headquarters detective ! was strolling down from the Mulberry street office of the Tombs, where he was to pick up a pair of sentenced men, bracelet them together, and con- voy them “up the river"—which is to| say, the Sing Sing prison. 1 fell into step with him, and after a while he told me casually what his job for that day was to be. “Old-time lags, the pair that I'm pointing to stir (prison) today,” he re- marked. “But I'm glad of that. It's the first-timers, and the way they take it to heart when I'm packing them up the road, and the way their women folks at the station shrivel up when the gate closes on their man, that gets me around the neck-band. | specker for his first frisk of a little | bundle of pungerino bones. “He took the wallop steady enough, though when he caught the eye of the girl sitting alongside his counsel, I'm not saying that he didn't swallow a little cotton for himself. “The girl just rested her arms on \ the table, and put her head in them, tion. and you could see her shoulders shake, though she didn’'t make any sounds worth mentioning. “She was a pretty little slip of a thing, and she and her man had only' done the stand-up before the parson | and settled into one of those instal- ment-junk, quarter-meter flats about a year before. “You could see that he was all the world and the milky way to her, and, says I to myself, when I saw her shoul- | with her man rigged to me like that. “When the boy saw the girl, and of a choke in telling me that he'd never forget that stuff in me, and all like that. Then he joined her. “T ached to peek in the other direc- But I had to keep the off wick on that untied con, and there was get-together. “Never mind, pal. It was the worst 1 ever ran into, and I've taken a lot of timber of that kind. Train time came, and I had to stake him to the arm-tap and waft him the eye-signal that time was up. I didn't put the wristlets back on him and myself un- | til after we'd got aboard. | “Last T saw of the girl she was 1 “The two gumshoe stickup men |ders heaving that way when the boy | pressed—little, fragile slip of a thing, that I'm chaperoning to the pen today | was led off, ‘Me for an acute case of I believe I told you—against the bars will be chattering all the way up on 1 housemalid’s knee or lumbago if tl?ey ‘outside the gate, arm stuck through, the train, figuring on what celltier (TY to spin me to the job of steering and waving a wet handkerchief at him, they'll catch, what kind of a lob the! turnkey of their tier will be, whether“ yard, how many of the old guns that were there the last time they came | here and did a bit will still be thers, | and all the like of that. | “For those two old-timers the going- | up thing is like being on the way to| that one over the road.’ 1amd with a look in her eyes that I'd jerried up to why I turned him loose | to go to her, he was there with a bit | nothing for me to do but watch their' | HAVE WROUGHT WONDERS. | Easily the Favorite Material for Call- ing Gowns and Deserves All the Popularity Which Has Been Accorded It. Some of the most effective summer calling costumes show a combination | of embroidery, writes Lilllan Young in Star. As the embroideries come most- | ly in strange, even garish, colors, they | have, of course, to be used with dis- i cretion even in this season when deli- cate, harmonious colorings have given ;place to bolder treatments. And as for the taffetas—all that the ! designers promised of them has been | fulfilled, and more. They have never ' been so lovely. Delightful things that were never thought of in the old days | of this material are accomplished, and | its popularit, is increasing every day. | The silks themselves are so beauti- “For I knew that the girl would be 4 heap rather have one of my ownful that even a moderate amount of in- they'll make the laundry or the stone- At the statlon, and I'm getting too'dead and burled than be wearing. groggy around the Adam’s apple to dish myself out any more dents of that kind than I have to. “The young fellow didn't have much of anything to say on the way up, and neither did I. There are times when | genuity is sufficient to transform them into ravishing frocks, suits, or hats, or | coats, for they are put to many pur- | poses. No other fabric lends itself with “Did 1 get by with that little spiel ' you can’t pull a chirp out of your!such grace to unique trimming effects to myself? Never a chance! 1 was doing most of the convoying of the | frame with a derrick. “I handed him over, got a receipt take the Keeley cure. They know the lflgs to stir at that time, and when | for him, gave him the mitt-squeeze and inside game, and play it with signals. ]‘ this boy was due to go up, the chief the pat on the shoulder-blade, and “I'm always glad when it's that way. | As I say, it catches me hard around | the fichu sometimes when I'm escort- called me in and slipped me the as- signment to take him. “I squeaked and squirmed around, blew back to town, feeling like a wom- {an what’s been to see ‘East Lynne. “Three months ago I was about to ing the new ones, and especially the | telling the chief that I had an wlcerated | poard the roller—me and and another younglsh ones that've got women folks | tooth and all like that, but he only | hull—with three old-timers bound up that still believe in 'em and care for | eased me the eye-twink and then the | tho stream, when the sight of a box 'em, up to the double-warble plant.” “I had always understood,” I put in, “that even the new ones, most of them, put on at least a show of game- | ness when they were starting off to do their first trick.” “Oh, they're game enough,” the old headquarters man replied. “That is, they don't show anybody what's guingi on inside of 'em. None of them ever handed me any of that blub-blub stuff. “But when there's a little woman in on the blow-off, then it's me to keep my lamps glued to the station clock 80 that I won't be able to see the breakaway from the clinch of the girl and her boy. “I've been a bull for 30 years, square enough, and know the smell of prlsonsi as well as I know the whiff of ham- md. “I've brought up and seen go their ways & whole houseful of young ones, which Is why maybe I always try to con the chief into sick-listing me when I'm wised up to it that I'm slated to convoy one of the first-timers; one with a girl wearing his ring and moni- ker, up the river. “But the chief always hands me the hoot when I try to pull that on him, and I've never yet been able to bull a chief Into flopping me off one of those hard jobs. “I steered one to stir last year about this time, that put the tacks so deep into my tonsils that I came near hav- ‘ng to get 'em pulled out by a lock- >mith, “And the finish of that steer-up was a little game of gulpiness that made me cancel the eats, and just sit around the house for three days, and smoke myself close to the pension list. “He was a clean-faced, decent-look- ing young fellow; bookkeeper ar col- lector, or something like that; and, from playing the ponies, I think it was, he'd nicked his firm for a few bum hundreds. laugh, and there was no ducking when he did that. “I got the assignment the day before the boy was booked to go; and so I nudged down to the Tombs at the visit- X‘lng hour, knowing that the girl would be there with him. Was she there? “Was Napoleon at the battle of Wa- terloo? She was clinging to him in the reception room, which was agalnst | the rules at that; but all of the case- hardened old key-swingers were let- ting the rules sprint for the end book in that case, and turning their heads away, because lamping a scene like that wasn't just the kind of stuff they felt they were on the city pay-roll for. “At last the two had to pry loose. I caught her in the hall, trying to dry her eyes with a little wad of soaked | handkerchief. I told her who I was, putting the mufller on the pipes for fear of scaring her; and says I when she had quieted down a bit: “‘Little girl, nobody knows any bet- ter than the old shield-flasher now talking to you what rough medicine this is that you're now taking; but it might be worse. It's in your poor lit- tle hands to make it worse.' “‘How is that?' she asked me in a gaspy kind of way. “‘Why, by being at the station to- morrow,’ says I. ‘Don’t do that. It'll hurt all round. It always hurts. The boy is all right. He'll get his good time, and it won't he long before he'll be back at the flat, spick and span, and fighting for his head to make the new and fine start. ‘“‘But don’t be at the station tomor- row. That'd never do. It wouldn't do for anybody. How about f{t, little woman ?' “Oh, yes, she was there. She couldn’t help it. She was sitting on a bench in the walting room when we brushed through the swing door. I wicked her first, and I pulled a quick | being lifted down from the baggage | car hitched to a train just in on the cross-the-way track sort of held me. “I knew the shape and color of the box. It was the kind they ship cashed- |'in lags in, back to their folks, if their folks wants them. “And then, taking a slant down the | station to pipe if anybody was going to be on the job to receive the box con- taining the dead lag, I saw the girl. She was in black, and she had a baby in her arms. “She was sc blinded with the crying that she would have stepped off the platform on to the track if I hadn't done a quick waddle and caught her round the waist. “She was about twenty-two, but she looked up at me out of the eyes of an old woman. The fat baby in her arms cooed and sang that improvised baby stuff, and the little mother lugged it along, tottering from one side of the platform to the other, me holding her up, while my matey watched our bunch of up-going lags. “I hated to have her see the box. But that was what she was there for, and there was no flagging her. When she reached the box, she pulled out three little white carnations from inside the waist of her dress, and put them on the pine thing. “Then I had to board my train to join my layout of old-timers on their way. I learned later that the young fellow had joined the quick-lunger out- fit about as soon as he got there, and had whirled right down to a nine- monthg' cash-in. “Yes, I'm glad it's a palr of pen vets that I'm leading up the road to- day. TI'll enjoy their lag gabble dbout how many of the old push they're go- ing to give the cell wigwag to when they zig in. And that lays all over having those gourds put into your throat, if you're asking me.” 3 SLEL 12 £ “His play in gettinz the handcuffs off our .;E’C)«':' QEQTOCOEQT0 DO iR e T Sttt S STt D al St SudSul Rut it lutl Zefad dnl-2udu bR ntR nlotn Satn) P L ¢ ° 2 Sl =2 B BB ST ERa2 2el 2ul el Buy tul ul Lol son2ul el pet el 208 DISAFASDS RIS QIQPQPOFOSVIQN We are oftering our line of McCORMICK MOWERS HAY RAKES AT LESS THAN COST We Have 2-horse Mowers, 4!¢ Foot Cut We Have 1-horse Mowers, 3! Foot Cut Get Qur Prices BUCKEYE FARM FENCE.--ALL SIZES OUR MOTTO---We Want YOUR Buriness. MODEL HARDWARE CO. C. . 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The blouse was cut with elbow sleeves and in front and back the ma- terial was gathered a little on the lino | Taffeta Is the Favorite Material for Calling Gowns. of the shoulders, then covered with a scalloped and embroidered medallion of the taffeta, repeating the design of the tunic border. The V-neck was filled in with white chiffon ruffling, and a crushed girdle of black satin drew the fullness of the blouse in at the waist line and was caught up under the bust in front and tied in a flat bow, the space just below being filled in with a section of embroidered taffeta. | DAINTY HEMS iS THE ORDER Handkerchiefs, to Be In the Mode, Must Be Distinctive Both in Quality and Finish. Although handkerchiefs are among the smallest accessories of a woman's wardrobe, they are an important fac- tor in showing refinement in taste. Time has passed for the fancy hand- kerchiefs which were once so much admired, so it leaves the hem as the distinctive feature In the smart styles. Dainty hems are good form, and one of the popular novelties is a hem as narrow as it can be turned. Together with this style is the variation made by corded edges In contrast to these dainty hems are who like the extremes. This latter | width permits of the corner decora- tions in simple designs which continue | in popularity to extend One corner effects, as initials or other simple designs, are much favored and cutting the hem of one corner in fan- 1 to them cy design is a pretty novelty. of taffeta with chiffon and odd touches | a letter from Paris to the Washington | clined to take the liberty of doing with i A charming idea was developed in' | the ultra-wide styles favored by some | | $ Security Ab ] : E Y Abstract & Title Co. ¢ L4 % Bartow, Florida ; & 3 ;]; ;,K f{m;m ERES...... L. J. CLYATT, SECRETARY i . TRHOMP! ; § SON, VICEPRES H. W, SMITH, TREASURER # % ABSTRACTS OF TITLES : 3; New and up-to-date plant. 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