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

2 TH® «.£NING TELEGRAM LAK ELAND, FLA, OCT. 28, 1914. COULD SCARCELY WALK ABOUT And For Three Summers Mrs. Vin- bellev.el would have died if I hadnt tent Was Unable to Attend to | ™™™ FORGOT THE PAST By JOHN ECCLES. :3 —_— (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) [ At first John Charlton had eaten out his heart in loneliness; then, as the weeks slipped into months, he grew reconciled to his fate. He could to say. dead also. He was killed by a fall in the hunting field. The shock killed your father.” g John was quite unmoved at that news. He had never had much in common with his elder brother. As the younger son, John had nl.wayu been put aside'in favor of the heir. “Your brother left no child, Charl- ton,” the governor's secretary was saying. Would he never cease? John looked at him in a daze. The thought of Haidee had gone from his mind. His father dead. His brother dead, without leaving an heir. 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C.—*] suffered for three summers,” writes Mrs. Walter Vincent, of this town, “‘and the third and last time, was my worst. 1 had dreadful nervous headaches and prostration, and was scarcely able to walk about, Could not do any of my housework. 1 also had dreadfu! pains in my back and sides and when one of those weak, sinking spells would come on me, 1 would have to give up and lie down, until it wore off. 1 was certainly in a dreadful state of - health, when 1 finally decided to try Cardui, the woman’s tonic, and 1 firmly HOBOIOOE never hope to return to England. He had been accused of forging his father’s| «gir John, allow me to present you name to a check. to some of your old friends,” the sec- His elder brother, the heir to the retary was saying. estate, was the culprit. His brother's| And John, still wandering in Lon- wife had come to John and pleaded,' don in May, with his nostrils full of with tears in her eyes, that he assume the gweet scent of hyacinths in the the guilt. Everybody would suspect parks, was brought back to consclous- him, she said frankly, because of his pess of the dreary perfumes of the recklessness and improvidence. There paliroom by seeing his sister-in-law was a girl—Amy Nairn; she had looked . and—Amy. favorably on the young man, and he| He found himself bowing mechan- had been wildly in love with her. But' ically, just as though he had only left then John Charlton was never able them the day before. He looked into to resist a woman's pleading. And Amy's face. What had there ever his sister-in-law had taken him at & peen in that woman, to whom he had weak moment. given all the passion of a first love? The upshot was that John went into | He had dreamed of her three years exile. He had pleaded with Amy to' tjll Haidee came into his life, this red- share his lot, and she had llughed\cheeked English girl, with the faint first; then, when he told her that he smile and the worldly face. How far was accused of forgery, her pretty;away his past life seemed all of a; brows contracted and she had indig- sydden! ! nantly dismissed him. “John,” his sister-inlaw was say- So John had settled down to farm- ing,” won't you come out with us upon ing in Jamaica, with the small sum his ' the veranda? 1 have something to father gave him. John often fancied te]) you.” ‘ the old baronet understood, but, if he| John followed the ladies outside. He‘ | he was the baronet. did, he gave no sign. He shook hands ' was leaning against the veranda rail with John; and so they parted in now, and his sister-inlaw’s words | New Arrivals Hecker’s Old® Homestead Flap- Jack, Prepared Buckwheat, Cream farina, and Cream Oatmeal. silence. were buzzing in his head. That was four years ago, and at first John's heart had overflowed with anguish. Time and again he had been ' tempted to write to Amy, explaining matters to her. But he refrained. 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ENSIGN NORTHROP, Lakeland, Florida — PETERSON & OWENS ATTORNEYS AT LAW Dickson Building Established in July, 1900 1, \ from invitations to the governor's balls ! | and when he entered the ballroom and ! Then Haidee came into his life— kered Puritanical men who think that Haidee, the only child of the rich Cre-! everything irregular is a crime. He ole plantation owner, with her soft found in your brother’s desk a writ- ways and winning innocence. The old, ten, signed confession and insisted that it should be made public to the world.” John remembered Mr. Smeaton, a ; > 3 | kindly old man who had always taken »} [ ! ’ 14 3 an interest in him. So Smeaton was \) | i I ," 78 . the man who had come forward so un- AR N M oo Y d .expectedly to retrieve his honor. Ot ]” ) A M| “We begged and pleaded, John, but ) ‘ { Jt ) % nothing could move him,” his sister- ““ i ’ . in-law continued. “We even offered |‘| ‘ il lw" i N S him three thousand pounds to hush | il ' uflh "N up the matter, but it wouldn’t do. The i |\ ) % old wretch threatened to make the tale H ) public himself unless we did. So it | Il bad to be done, John.” She sighed. ga “Well, you can guess what a row | ‘there was in England, especially as you are now the heir to the property. In fact, things got so hot that I found i it best to take a holiday in some place where the rumors hadn’t got busy yet, Amy promised to come with me, and she has kept her word. You know you and Amy were always good lfrlends. John. So now'I shall leave you two together to talk over old | times.”* d{ v The woman,was gone, and John i lnook:i uxlxsteadlly against the railing, " i | looking into the hard, worldly face of And Now I've 8:‘:::’."Mueh as | Dare, , Amy Nairn. How could he ever have loved her? How could he? How could man would have been well content to'he? He could not answer his own have John for a son-in-law without : question. asking any questions. He knew that' “John, I am so sorry,” said Amy, John was cold-shouldered by the King- ' Putting out her hand. John took it and ' ston aristocracy, that he was omitted it felt cold and cat-like in his own. “John,” whispered Amy, “do you re- and dinners. But he did not care. John Mmember what you asked me that night was a good manager, and Haidee loved before you came away? I have never him. | forgotten, John. So, four years after John's arrival, for our misunderstanding. I have often they became engaged. The marriage thought of you, John.” was to take place in a month's time.| He would have liked to have thrust Then it was that something hap-' his fist into the woman’s face. What pened. : a deliverance his had been! But Amy John Charlton received an invitation Was singularly obtuse. to the ball at the government house. “I will admit,” she said, “that my He stared incredulously at the en- mMmotives in accompanying your sister- graved invitation note, for it was the in-law were not altogether altruistic, same governor who had always cold- John. In fact, I—I—I wanted to see shouldered him. However, he went. | You again—" She looked down and Perhaps it was because he wmtedishuflled her feet in simulated con- Haidee to take her, rightful place in fusion. Amy had singularly pretty Jamaica society; perhaps it was mere- feet—almost as pretty as Haidee's— Iy his longing to look upon the faces and she had always been aware of of his own kind again. John went, the fact. “And now I've said as much as I saw the men of his rank, and the dare, John,” she added, raising her women in evening dress, his heart eyes to his. leaped in his breast. Haidee suddenly: “I am sorry,” said John, bowing. seemed like somebody very distant “Sorry, John?" . and remote from him. | “That you should have made this And the governor shook him by the A long journey for nothing. I cannot hand. Afterward John danced. He marry you—" danced with English girls, with the| “How dare you!" she exclaimed, bloom of the moist English summer | With flaming cheeks. “Has Jamaica still on their cheeks. And then the made a brute of you, John?” governor's secretary drew him aside. “No, a man,” he answered. “When “Charlton,” he said—John knew the I go to England I shall take my wife man officially—"“there will be some With me. You see, we are to be mar more guests later in the evening. A iried before the end of the month, party has just arrived by the late Eng- ' Amy.” lish steamer. I want you to stay and His last picture of her was seeing meet them. The governor wants it.” the sudden cat-like cruelty flame into John assented. His thoughts were her face and eyes as she stood, sphinx- back in his own country, and ia his like, against the rail. But the picture heart he saw the busy streets of Lon- faded within a moment. For the air | don, the Row, where he had ridden in ,d was full of the sweetness of a Jamaica boyhood, the placid countryside and night, and John was riding home to his | smooth lawns of his father’s home. ! bride-to-be—Haidee. ' - - “The fact is,” continued the secre- | gy s e tary, “I don’t know if you have heard No Harm Done. —you cannot have heard, because no- | Her friends had asked their young body knew your address, and we were hostess to play for them, and she was asked to find and notify you. Your Derforming a difficult selection from | father is dead, Charlton.” | Wagner. In the midst of it she sud-' John listened, apparently unmoved, denly stopped in confusion. And I am so sorry |* DR. W. 8. 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