Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, September 14, 1914, Page 2

BEGAUSE OF DO By ESMER JENNINGS. _————m It was not the intrinsic value of | the gems that tempted Ellison. It was | not the knowledge that each one of | those shining things that stared at him with their unwinking eyes all | day in the jewelry store was worth so0 many dollars. It was their eternal | glitter. them! There were diamond rings, with stones varying in size ¥rom little more than that of a pin's head to that of a bean. There were necklaces of | gold, set with glittering rubies and | sapphires. But, finest of all, was the | Persimmon bracelet. | It had been bought from the Persim- | mon estate for $200,000. It was a| gleaming mass of diamonds and emer- i alds. A flawless emerald is the rarest and most costly of gems. The brace- let was worth about as much as all the rest of the contents of Kahn's window together. And James Clark, salesman, aged twenty-five, was earning only $15 a week. Moreover, he was in love. The sight of the prosperous pur- chasers, who flung away in ten min- utes, each one, perhaps a half-year's salary on the $15 basis, stung the young man to the quick. He saw noth- ing before him but long years of toil- some drudgery behind the counter, ev- erlastingly fingering those glittering ‘baubles. “I'd like to see how Dolly would look with you around her wrist, my fine fellow!” he apostrophized the stone. The thought became an obsession. And it would be so easy to take it home with him one night. The store closed at six; at five minutes before six the bracelet was femoved and placed in the big safe by Cyrus Kahn. Then the rest of the window display was placed in the older safe. That was supposed to be burglar-proof, but the big safe, containing valuable pa- pers, always contained the bracelet, for it was the last word in safe-mak- ing. But—Ellison knew the combination. And he had learned it in the most foolishly simple manner. It was sim- ply because Cyrus Kahn spoke his thoughts aloud. He had spoken the combination number aloud every night and morning during Ellison's three years of apprenticeship. At least, be had probably spoken it in the morning, but Ellison was not there to hear him. Kahn, an old-fashioned business man, arrived at eight to open the store in person, as his father | B BrfrdoSrrdnged :g E: SEESEPDD PRy hf;we kn And there were so many of | . THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA., SEPT. 14, 1914. —_— | 1 was | —years, even, Jim.” “It's Only to Look at,” Dear.” had donme whnen he owned the small beginnings of the big business. Elli- son and the five other salesmen did not arrive for another half hour. Only the preceding week Kahn had refused to increase Ellison's salary. His manner had been kindly enough, but the refusal rankled. And mar- riage with Dolly seemed as far away as ever. At five minutes before six Cyrus Kahn removed the bracelet and placed it in the safe. At six o'clock he fol- lowed his salesmen out of the store. At least, he thought so; he did not know that Ellison was in the packing room. Ten minutes later Ellison, | bracelet in hand, emerged through the side entrance. He was to take Dolly to a dance | that night. The girl was waiting when he called. Ellison slipped the brace- let on her wrist. “Jim!” gasped the girl. “It's only to look at, dear,” he sald. “I horrovred it from the store, to see how you would look with your little hand inside.” “Borrowed it, Jim?” she questioned. “Sure! I have to take it back in the morning,” answered Ellison. That would mean at half-past seven, before Kahn got down. Ellison had thought out his plan, which presented no difficulties. But he had not an- ‘ v?' E Iin his pocket. | And then the obsession revealed it- | self to Ellison in all its ugly form. ' He had the bracelet; why should he go back? The girl seemed to sense his tempta- tion, for suddenly she flung her arms about his neck, sobbing: | “Jim, you'll take it back? Youll! take it back?” she cried. “You shouldn’'t have brought it here. You shouldn’t have shown it to me. You'll take it back? Swear to me, Jim!” “Of course, dear,” he answered. “I foolish to have done that. There!” He removed the glittering thing from the girl’s wrist and put i “Forgive me, Dolly!". “Yes, dear. Good-night—and re- member, I'll wait any length of time DO CUB OB CEDOEO OB E G Yes, it was going to be years. And the accursed stones seemed to sear’ Ellison’s hands as he fingered them. Two hundred thousand dollars! Why, | he could have repaid all but twenty-; five thousand as the price of immun- ity, and started life a wealthy man! But then, there would have been no Dolly to share that life!” At half-past seven he turned the' corner of the block ori which the store | was situated. His heart went into his | mouth. Cyrus Kahn was standing in the door, talking with two policemen. The look upon his face was that of an old man. And Allison was seen' as soon as he saw. He went slowly up to the door and | POB SR OREON owner's first words raised his spirits, however; he realized that the worst had not come to pass. “Burglary!” gasped Kahn. “Nobody knows how they got in. They haven't touched but one thing, the emerald bracelet, and they must have been after that! And they knew the com- bination!"” There really had been a burglary, for the inside of the store was evl-: dential. The safe stood open. Glass ‘cases had been smashed wantonly, and a whole litter of cheap articles was piled carelessly into one corner. It looked as though, disappointed in their search, the burglars had done some damage vindictively before be-! ing frightened away without any of the smaller loot. Jim drew the bracelet from his pocket and gravely handed it to Kahn, | who leaped into the air, and then snatched it from his clerk. “Mr. Ellison!” he stammered; and suddenly a light of understanding ' came upon his face. “You—you—you suspected something and took it home ticipated the effect of the bracelet on the girl. The dance was a failure, and Dolly was very silent all the way home. When they got down from the street car Ellison perceived that she was crying. “Oh, Jim, we—we'll never be able to have a bracelet like that—nor any other kind,” she sobbed. with you—?" “I took it home with me,” answered Ellison mechanically. “That sandy rat that was in here last week!” exclaimed Kahn with an oath. “Wasn't it he, now? We know who he was. Mr. Ellison—come here!” He pulled his pocket-book from his | Pocket, but Ellison was not hardened ) e e e e het | pulmonary or lesser circulation.” H e m———— =] 5 B Sy @ e for hauling frait — - S— ~S— O Phone No. 340 L w b nature of the Holy Spirit in his work, ‘Christianisimi Restitutio.’” The dis- covery was nothing less than that of the passage of the blood from the right side of the heart to the left through the lungs, what is known as | This great discovery remained un- recognized until Wotton’s attention | was called to it by Charles Bernard a | surgeon at St. Bartholomew’s hospital, in 1697, seventy-seven years afterl Harvey's discovery was published. Golf Post-Mortems. In golf, as in bridge, the fascination lies in the post-morteming. It speaki' well for the self-restraint of men that there are not more cases of man- slaughter, mayhem and homicide in golf club cafes than are on record. There i8 no man living who can listen with equanimity, and without a grow- ing desire to take human life, to the detailed account of another man’'s shots, And yet no man who has ever played 18 holes in his life can refrain from cornering another golfer who is trying to slink off the porch, and telling him how he made the eleventh hole in two, ' and how he foozled his approach on number twelve and just missed holing out in threo, and how his caddie e —_——— SO S B BIS SIS ISR RIS LIPS - ¢, - FARM WAGONS €[ We can save you money on Wagons. and 2-horse Wagons is complete, and if you need a Wagop this« fall, see us. C. E. enough for that. “Well, then, it will be twelve hun- dred a year from to-day,” sald Kahn. “You've saved me from bankruptcy. ' You—" He stammered out his thanks. And Ellison was suddenly glad, be- cause of Dolly. (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) CREDIT GIVEN TO SERVETUS! Martyr Said to Have Discovered Cire culation of the Blood Many Years Before Harvey. Although the honor of the discovery of the circulation of the blood indis- putably belongs to Harvey, Servetus, who was burned by Calvin, might have forestalled Harvey by mnearly four- score years had he not been im- mersed in those religious polemics which were his undoing. Sir Willlam Osler says: “In pos- session of a fact in physiology of the very first moment, Servetus described it with extraordinary clearness and ac- curacy. But so little did he think of the discovery, of so trifling impor- tance did it appear, in comparison with the great task in hand of restor- ing Christianivy, that he used it simply as an illustration when discussing the LEel Zutinl L pel ol te) jeladiud iudiuinla gt s et ey et tet Sut tul Butuy Tut Rus et ututiut Sut Sultud Bud Sud Juddnttut L Jud B RS LRE 2 at T atlultat utta L et ak iat Sa L T A D BN G OH GO BB BRI BAO BRSNS LI O LRSI DD D D0 LHB0MBCH B SICHECHECHBAN SO0 INE B840 ORI B LR S S SR B O B IO PRINTING YES, WE DO IT---DQ IT RIGHT 2 3 Py e —————— Our stock of | Q We sell the “COLUMBUS” make ang the name is a guarantee of quality, HODEL HARDWARE (o TODD, Mgr. We Want YOUR Business stood waiting for Kahn to speak. 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