Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, September 4, 1914, Page 7

THE EVENING TELEGRAM Lal} EL . Really indispensa- ble. In sifter cans, i -y LA — For Sale in Lakeiand by HENLEY & HENLEY 1 o0-0--0-00-0 JOHN'S DISCOVERY, By CLARENCE JOYCE. VHY ? not get one of those large It was strange that the thought of Inez should occur so frequently to John Phayre's mind as he sat fishing above Clouston weir. Perhaps it was that the miniature rapids above which he fished, heedless of the warnings of the guides and hotel man reminded him a little of the huge Shoshone rap- ids, where he and Inez used to meet. Inez was the daughter of a sheep farmer, and John had worked for the man for two years before the unex- pected death of a rich old uncle left him a fortune. Phayre was forty years old and he had put a barren youth behind him. ; He had once thought of marrying Inez. But Inez was wholly uneducated, a daughter of the western plains. They loved each other. Had John been ten years younger he would have plunged headlong into matrimony. But middle age brings caution. And so, realizing the improbability that such a mar- riage would bring happiness, John had sald good-by to Inez and her father and gone East. There had been a look in Inez’ eyes, a hurt, pained, hopeless look—he re- membered it often nowadays as he sat fishing on the little Adirondacks lake near the summer hotel. It was unfor- tunate that he ehould be thinking of Inez when he was engaged to marry Dorothy Baird. He had met the Bairds in New York, and Mr. and Mrs. Baird had suggested that they meet at the hotel that summer. There seemed to be a good deal in common between Dorothy and John. She was a merry, jolly girl, just such a one as he would have fallen in love with, twenty years ear- ler, when life stretched, fair and un- stained, before him. So they became engaged, John picked up his fishing rod and, putting on his hat, stepped out of the boat and made his way back to the hotel. It was evening and the dark- |t urns to beautify your yard? 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BELISARIO, Proprietor ikl J07 to 817 Main St. LAKELAND, FLA: @| ¢y, He meant to surprise Dorothy alone on the plazza, where she liked to sit in the hour before dinmer. It . was the month of June, and the hotel | was almost empty. { _As he came through the shadows of ' the pine trees he heard a man’s voice g. “But is all our love to go for moth- ing?” he was asking. “Surely duty does not mean that you must throw away the happiness of two people?” | Jobn meant to slip away. He did i not want to spy upon & love affair. | But, to his horror, he heard the wom- [ an’s voice reply, and the woman was | Dorothy. Her words were broken with BOGSPE S H I 16 SPFPFPIIDHE DD PG SATISFACTION S Always tells in any line. Mr. Cole is in the Eastern ¢ wflarkets at the present time buying for our four stores. u as the goods arrive oneWe will be pleased to show 4§ of the choicest line of General Merchandise ever offered in ¥ “A Pleasure to Show Goods” Arnold, I love you as I have ulways COLE & HULL loved you,” she answered. everything to my father, and my duty Jewelers and Optometrists. Lakeland. Fla. forces me to marry John Phayre.” “But you don't love him, Dorothy!” “He thinks I do. And I respect him, Arnold. Bo, please God, he shall never know.” “Dorothy, you are deceiving your- self. You have made yourself think that it is your duty to your father to marry this man—this old man, for he il nearly twice your age. But you | are eelling yourselt, Dorothy.” “Arnold!” “Yes, you are selling sourself,” he answered bitterly. “That marriage portion that he has promised to settle on you, which will go to your father, is the price of your dishonor and my betrayal.” “Arnold! How dare you say such bitter words to mel!” exclaimed the | girl. ! “There, forgive me, Dorothy. I will say no more. Tell me you love me | and I will try to bear with my wretch- ed fate. I know you will regret your decision bitterly. But if it must be— must it be, Dorothy?” She murmured some inarticulate words, and then, with a wild outburst of weeping, she fell into hie arms. John Phayre’s face was as white as a dead man’s as he crept into the ho- & Phone 46 THE ELECTRIC STORE 307 E. Main St. Fagure With Us We offer you the best and largest assortment of Electric Fixtures in South Florida On Display at Our Store Florida Electric and Machinery Co. | to the Bairds, alleging that he had to J mn | tel and up to his room. | On the next day he excused himself up to New York on business. He AND, FLA., SEPT. 4, 1914. | went to his lawyer and told him ihat ke wished to settle a sum of money | upon his flancee. “I suppose it is not necessary to let her know before the marriage takes place,” he said. “I would rather it had the upect of a—surprise.” "Ceruhly not, Mr. Phayre,” an- swered the old lawyer. “How much is the sum you were thinking of settling on Miss Baird?” “One hundred thousand dollars,” an- swered John. “A large sum, Mr. Phayre,” suggest- ed the lawyer, rubbing his hands thoughttully. “It will etill leave me a hundred thousand of my own,” John Phayre replied. “Well, Mr. Phayre, I don't want to dissuade you, but—well, often a man acts impulstvely and regrets it after- ward.” “I shall not regret it,” answered John. “Please draw up the settlement in such a way as to make it absolutely irrevocable in case I chango my mind or—die.” The lawyer drew up the settlement, and John left him. He went to his bank and drew out ~ hundred thou- sand dollars in notes. This he mailed to himeelf at a post office in the West, Nobody at Shoshone Station knew anything of John Phayre's eastern connections. Then John went back to the hotel. “Are you going fishing again, John?" inquired Dorothy affectionately, put- ting her arms round him. “I wish you wouldn’t fish above the weir, John. You know a guide was killed there last fall, when his boat drifted over the rapids.” “Oh, I can take care of myself, Dor othy,” answered John, smiling. “I wish you cared for fishing, Dorothy. After we are married I shall initiate you into the joys of fly fishing.” It was something of an effort to John to play the game. And the real- ization that the girl's affection for him was a simulated one made it doubly hard. But at last he was gone, and, half an hour later, he sat in his boat above the weir, casting his line. He fished for about two hours, thinking hard. As every fly fisherman knows, the sport is conducive to men- tal exercise. He had fully made up his mind when the two hours were ended and five large trout lay in the boat. He would go back to Shoshone Station. The thought of Inez was curiously fnsistent with him that day. Ignmo- rant? Unlettered? At least she was the type of woman who would always be true to her chosen mate. And he must give Dorothy to the man she loved. Poor little Dorothy! He was able to think of her now without a shadow of regret. He had loved her, but the discovery of her love for Ar- nold had shown him that his heart lay westward, where he had once thought it lay. The faces of Inez and Dorothy rose up before his mental eye, as in a picture. He scanned them carefully. He saw himself and Dorothy, he grow- ing old, she approaching the mature beauty of middle life, discontented, trying to fight down her dissatisfac- tion with life—then Inez, and the placid current of their life together on the great plains. He threw his hat into the boat and put on a cap which he had brought in his pocket. He put his fishing tackle into the boat also. Then, with his knife, he cut the rope that tied the craft to the tree trunk. Afterward, holding the severed end in his hands, he frayed the strands, 6o that the rope should seem to have snapped rather | than to have been cut. Having done this, he released it and let it glide down the stream, and stood watching it. It drifted slowly, gathering impetus, Then the river bore it faster upon its breast, and it spun no more, but head- ed straight forward toward the treach- erous rapids beneath him. Faster and faster; now it was going full speed toward the rocks. How like his lifel How like John's life! It shot forward as swiftly as an arrow, stopped for a moment, spun broadside on, and then, polsing itself upon the brink, it leaped down among the foamy boulders to the placid lake below. John stood and looked after it. The frrevocable act was done. There was no going back now. And he did not want to go back. He had set Dorothy free. After a decent interval of mourning she would marry Arnold. The hundred thousand dol- lare that he had settled upon her would be quite secure. It would af- ford the lovers a comfortable income, and leave something over for old Baird. John Phayre smiled contentedly as he sat upon the banks and let the warm sun stream on his face. An hour later he rose to his feet and made his way across country five miles, to where the Transcontinental halted to take on water. As he reached the place the train was already appear- ing in the distance. It elowed up, and John sprang aboard. Four days later John Phayre de- scended at Shoshone Station. A buck- board, driven by a woman, was wait- ing there. John looked into the face of Inez. “Have you come back to John?” she whispered. stay, “For ever and ever, Inez,” answered : John, kissing her. And as they drove off over the llhll plains no thought of the past dlltnrbod him, or Inez, either, for each was im | measurably happy in the knowledge of the other’s love. (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) The individual who has knots at tl. middle joints of the fingers uwm has a place for everything and every. thing in its place. PAGE SEVEN TaHeee Mayes Grocery Company WHOLESALE GROCERS “A BUSINESS WITHOUT BOOKS” We find that low prices and long time will not go hand in hand. and on May Ist we will insta) our new system ot low prices for Strictly Cash. We have saved the people of Lakeland and Polk County tliousands o! dollars in the past. and our new system will still reduce the cost of living, and also reduce our expense¢s and enable us to put the knife in still deeper. 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