Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, July 29, 1914, Page 6

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CAPITAL STO.K $300,000 A New and Unique Bond Wm. Steitz, payable semi-an- nually, which is evidenced and guaranteed by Coupons Lakeland, Florida. d e derson pulled it open. THP EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA, JULY 29, 1914 i much nerve.” . INTHIRTY SECONDS By GEORGE FOXHALL. —_———— e (Copyright.) Anderson, night man at Middleville, New York, put his feet on the tele- graph table and sighed for the ex- citing times when he had os'd three trains a day on the fringe of the Arizona desert. “Nix on the heart of New York | State,” said he. " 'Tis a dull and droop- ing wilderness; a high-sounding delu- sion, There isn't enough doing in the heart of New York state to—" The outer door swung open and a hig fellow in cveralls stepped in quick- ly. Keeping his back to the door he turned the key in the lock, the sharp click betraying the movement to the surprised but untroubled night man. “Much obliged, bo™ said he, with- out taking his feet from the table. | “Did you put.the cat out 'fore you locked the door?” For answer the stranger stepped to the office door and kicked it open, a gun in his hand, frowning churlishly upon the facetious operator. “Do you feel like keeping up the comedy?” he asked grimly. The operator was made of the real stuff. Two years at a tiny desert sta- tion is a better test of a man's nerves than a battlefield. Anderson eyed the big man coolly. Realizing that he could never get to the gun on the shelf by the ticket window, he kept his feet on the table and looked bored. “Oh, I don't know,” said he, “what's the play?” “l see you've got a safe here.” Anderson grinned. I reckon you're going to monopolize the comedy your- self,” he said. “There's three two- cent stamps an' the American Railway Association book of rules in that safe. I'll lock it if you like, then you can go ahead an’ blow it open.” “Don't worry, little man, I never ex- pected they'd trust a man your size with real money. I ain't wanting to take nothing out of your safe. I want to put money in it.” “Oh!” Anderson paused to get the point of the joke. It eluded him. “Me an’ the New York Central's awful proud-spirited,” he went on. “We won't let nobody give us money unless they pull artillery on us. But if you insist—" “Sit still.” The stranger stepped fosward and slipped the office pistol into his pocket. “Stand up,” he com- manded. His hands pressed swiftly on Anderson's various pockets, but nothing in the way of arms was evi- dent. The big fellow dug his hand into the bosom of his overalls and pulled cut a small tin cash-box with the lid smashed. “There's two thousand, nine hun- dred dollars in this little box,” he said, “an’ I'm going to put it in your safe. Get a hustle on. Open it.” The safe door was not locked. An- The man put the box on a shelf, slammed the door shut and whirled th2 combination knob around. “Now show me the combi- natlon so's I can get it if I happen to shoot you.” “I'd hate you to lose your money by my demise,” grinned Anderson. He twisted the knob slowly and the other made a note of the figures. “Now I've a few words of instruc- tlon, then you can unlock the outside door. I'm going to sit behind that gauze screen that conceals your wash- stand until the New York train comes along at 3 o'clock. There I car without bei: ‘If anybody comes an' tells you about a man having bu'sted into the big boarding house down there you don’t know nothin' about it, an’ you [EXXXXOOONXXXXX XXX see g seen haven't seen no sign of a s about If they find me be screen I'm a friend of y road, dropped off the we a chat, an' now taking “Finally, be evidence wnger nd the urs on the t-bound for | 00Ze tuff in your safe will ainst you as much ‘l»“ me after you've tried to een me, an if they should take it into their head | to search me an' you try (o peach when I'm not in a position to shoot, I'll turn state's witness. The big man laughed at the com- ! pleteness of his protection “Regular Raffles, ain't you?" com- mented Anderson, a tinge of disgust marking his cool easiness. “Hadn't we better open the door an' let a breath of fresh air in now?” The burglar frowned and stepped through the office door. | “You'll just turn the key,” he | snapped. “If you open the door I'll | let fresh air into that fresh brain of yours. You're going to stay here. | Now sit right down in your chair. I'll st on this one, an' unless the screen’s bullet-proof, mind how you move about an’ how you pound that key. 1 know Morse “All right, bo,” said Anderson. “An’ now I reckon your voice must be tired. Give it a rest.” “You nervy little flend 1 don({ know but I'd better shoot you 'fore | scmebody comes in. You've got too | | Don't bother. I'm no sheriff. I'm If you hear my call ast fire your gun in the air to wake me going to sleep station deor y, and, after | one that yielded anything worth while. ' | thing distressingly brave about the old | { on Anderson’s icy cold one, too over- | ¥ | compared to her, ' Chlorate of Potash Tablets Must Not‘ . | chlorate of potash tablets, commonly and a well-dressed, elderly woman entered. “It's an old lady,” muttered Ander- son, ralsing his chin and peeking through the ticket window. “I nup-‘ pose I can get up?’ ! “Of course.” ! Anderson arose. “Good morning, madam,” he greeted cheerily. “You're about early.” “Yes, but I could do no other. Oh, it's a terrible business, Mr. Anderson —I think that's what they sald your name {s, up at the Laurels?” Anderson confirmed it. “The Laurels was broken into about an hour ago. My room was the only = .g..g,,p.g,;g,.g, The thief got all I had in the world.” & The old voice trembled a little, but ";Z; did not break. | & “Nearly three thousand dollars,” she went on. “My son's in the jewelry [ business in New York and he sent it | to me last week in cash. He wrote | me to have a gOOd time for a few m weeks, ant then invest the rest in a cottage or something that would bring ! me in a little for the rest of my life. | That's why I came to Middlesville for | a holiday. ‘ “But I'm wandering from my busi- | | ness. I said I was coming to the depot | to ask if you had seen a strange man ; around, but of course I know he would | i keep out of sight. That was only an | | excuse. I'm running away, really.” i Anderson smiled. There was some- ‘ lady’s half cheerful, half heart-broken ' tones. I "Runnlng away?' he asked. “Why are you running away? You didn't | rob yourself, did you?” He smiled afresh at his own feeble humor. Yk “No, but I'm going to rob the Lau- ' rels,” said the surprising old lady “You see I haven't a cent left to pay them with, and I can't face them, 8o I'm going to run away to my son in i New York and he'll send them the < money. He's a jeweler. Here's a pic- | ture of his store. See the sign, & ‘Thompson, Jeweler’ Do you think you could give me credit for a ticket, < Mr. Anderson, until my son sends you | & the money" I'm sure you can trust | me.” g The old lady shrank as the slow change crept likke a mask over the features. He gripped the counter as ' it he would have crushed it to tinder. ' He smiled, a ghastly, strained contor- e tion. He laughed and his strained ! nerves ceased themselves. ! “I wouldn’t run away if I were you, Mrs, Thompson,” he said soothingly. | & “I can do better than that for you." | & He walked toward the safe, talking | as he went to shut out the horror of * the crash and stinging agony that SADE its message in his expectant brain, & If he could only get the sate open be- | & fore the man made up his mind to | % shoot! Would the thunder never ? come! He was twirling the combina- ' ¥ tlon! He was still alive! In another | & fraction of a second he would be dead, & but— b The safe swung open. He had :: talked, and felt, and worked, and de- T B4 scended into hell in 30 bursting sec- 25 onds. 3 “A man in overalls, an honest-look- | & ing fellow,” he was saying with seem- ing cool facetiousness, though fear al- | & 854 most stilled the beating of his heart, “came in and asked me to take care | ., of this, which he said he had found in | & ) s ‘Lo road. Peculiar how things hap- DB BGBB DR P DOIID R D DG pen, isn't it? I suppose this must be your cash box. There's two thousand, nine hundred dollars in it. That's all gxy@‘wflwpg,@kwg right, now. Don't cry No, my safe Isn't a good one. You'd better take ::: the money right home. Good-by.” & The old lady put a withered hand | % ) through the ticket window and laid it | | wrought to notice its iciness. 1 | $ “God bless you,” she w hispered, :: with difficult articulation. “God bless | % you." And she went out. “? There was a movement behind the | % screen. Anderson turned to comfort the burglar. His pistol was still in ' his hand. “Ain't you a fool to risk your life | llke that for an old woman? he llblxk‘d curiously [® I didn't care ‘L hang for your sun | said Anderson bel- | ligerently. “So have I," said the big fvllm\.i “She just went out of that door.” 1 The New York train sounded fn | the distance. Anderson stared dumbly | at the other's outstretched hand “I'm going to leave the jew: Iry bust ness, old man,” said Thompson grave ly as he went to the train. MIXTURE MAKES FOR TROUBLE ey Be Carried in Pocket With “Safety” Matches. Recently a serious fire was started in a coat pocket of a man who care- lessly placed twg chlorate of potas) tab- lets in the pocket with a box of s; afety matches. Brushing against the side of the door, he pressed the tablets against the coating on the outside of the match box, with the result that an in- tense fire was started in his coat pocket, and he was severely burned. | Red phosphorus is used in the n 1anu- | facture of safety matches and is placed | on the box, instead of on the hmd of | the match. The head of a safe ty match contains chlorate of potash, which, containing much oxygen, flares up | strongly when rubbed agalnst the phosphorus on the side of the box. | Thus the careless practise of carrying [ ey, - ,04;.(3;.51 oo supposed to be entirely harmless, in the same pocket with a “safety” box, may result in serious injury.—Popular Mechanics. | Py L LR S e B R B B S L *mm%»i@xw G B I B B “I've got a mother myselp,” | ® PEPPEEPPEEIELEIPEMDE BB B B Bl i b cmu_mar ATt I Ml e i, 5 =1 HUNDREDS OF THEW! A biggshipment of the repring edition of famous copy right- ed books—the best reading for the least money. 50 Cents a Book! 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