Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 2, 1914, Page 7

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His brother’s wife had come to John and pleaded, with tears in her eyes, that he assume the guilt. Everybody would suspect him, she said frankly, because of his recklessness and improvidence. There was a girl—Amy Nairn; she had looked favorably on the young man, and he had been wildly in love with her. But then John Charlton was mever able to resist a woman's pleading. And his sister-inlaw had taken him at a weak moment. The upshot was that John went into exile. He had pleaded with Amy to share his lot, and she had laughed first; then, when he told her that he was accused of forgery, her pretty brows contracted and she had indig-; nantly dismissed him. So John had settled down to farm- ing,” won't you come out with us upon the veranda? ing in Jamaica, with the small sum his o)) you.” to say, dead also. He was killed by a fall in the hunting fleld. The shock killed your father.” John was quite unmoved at that| news. He had never had much in! common with his elder brother. As the younger son, John had always 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 mlml.I His father dead. His brother dead, without leaving an heir. Then-—why he was the baronet. “Sir John, allow me to present you , to some of your old friends,” the sec- retary was saying. And John, still wandering in Lon- don in May, with his nostrils full of the sweet scent of hyacinths in the parks, was brought back to conscious- ness of the dreary perfumes of the ballroom by seeing his sister-in-law and—Amy. He found himself bowing mechan- ically, just as though he had only left them the day before. He looked into Amy's face. What had there ever been in that woman, to whom he had given all the passion of a first love? He had dreamed of her three years till Haidee came into his life, this red- cheeked English girl, with the fninv.l smile and the worldly face. How far| away his past life seemed all of a! sudden! J “John,” his sister-inlaw was say- I have something to John followed the ladies outside. He § Yours to Serve in Groceries, Feed, Seed and Fertilizer. - D. B. Dickson PRPPRPPPRPRPREEEE TETTE LIRSSt SEE R L S L L LR L) did, he gave no sign. He shookhands iy gng his sister-indaw’s words 4 with John; and so they parted in silence. 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. And at last he ceased to think of the past, except in the desolate hours of mid- night. Then Haidee came into his life— Haidee, the only child of the rich Cre- ole plantation owner, with her soft ways and winning innocence. 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He was a dreadful man, Mr. | Smeaton, one of those mutton-whis- kered Puritanical men who think that everything irregular is a crime. He found in your brother's desk a writ- ten, signed confession and insisted that it should be made public to the world.” John remembered Mr. Smeaton, & kindly old man who had always taken an interest in him. So Smeaton was the man who had come forward 8o un- expectedly to retrieve his honor. “We begged and pleaded, John, but nothing could move him,” his sister- in-law ‘continued. “We even offered him three thousand pounds to hush up the matter, but it wouldn't do. The | old wretch threatened to make the tale public himself unless we did. So it had to be done, John.” She sighed. “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 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 friends, John. So now I shall leave 'you two together to talk over old times.” | The woman was gone, and John stood unsteadily against the railing, | looking into the hard, worldly face of ! Amy Nairn. How could he ever have loved her? How could he? How could |he? He could not answer his own question. “John, I am so sorry,” sald Amy, & | father gave him. John often fancied P v the old baronet understood, but, it he %’: €« ’ ”» § was leaning against the veranda rail 2 Don t_fa" 'obsee us were buzzing in his head. i 1 k & 3 MW“ FESTTLTI LTRSS TR LR L AL SRt Orange Clippers Spruce Pine Picking Ladders LR R y’s Orange Plows Cement Coated Box Nails asking any questions. He knew that putting out her hand. John took it and John was cold-shouldered by the King- it felt cold and cat-llke in his own. ston aristocracy, that he was omitted ' “John,” whispered Amy, “do you re- from invitations to the governor's balls member what you asked me that night and dinners. But he did not care. John before you came away? I have never was a good manager, and Haidee loved forgotten, John. And I am so sorry him. | for our misunderstanding. I have often So, four years after John’s arrival, | thought of you, John.” they became engaged. The marriage! He would have liked to have thrust was to take place in a month's time. ' his fist into the woman’s face. What Then it was that something hap- @& deliverance his had been! But Amy pened. | was singularly obtuse. John Charlton received an Invlutlon‘ “I will admit,” she said, “that my to the ball at the government house. | motives in accompanying your sister- He stared incredulously at the en- in-law were not altogether altruistic, graved invitation note, for it was the Jolin. In fact, I—I—I wanted to see same governor who had always cold- | you again—" 8She looked down and shouldered him. However, he went. shuffied her feet in simulated con- Perhaps it was because he wanted fusion. Amy had singularly pretty Haidee to take her righttul place in feet—almost as pretty as Haldee's— Jamaica society; perhaps it was mere- and she had always been aware of Iy his longing to look upon the faces the fact. American Field Fence Cyclone Ornamental Fence of his own kind again. John went, | and when he entered the ballroom and saw the men of his rank, and the women in evening dress, his heart leaped in his breast. 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Your father is dead, Charlton.” John listened, ‘apparently unmoved, ! for his mind was still playing that: | curlous trick, and he was living over | the past with his father again. He re- membered the old man’s affection for him when he was a little boy, how they | had given him— “And your brother is, I am lol-ryI “And now I've said as much as I dare, John,” she added, raising her eyes to his. “I am sorry,” said John, bowing. “Sorry, John?” “That you should have made this i long journey for nothing. I cannot: marry you—" | “How dare you!” she exclaimed,: with flaming cheeks. “Has Jamaica ! made a brute of you, John?” | “No, & man,” he answered. “When ' 1 go to England I shall take my wife | with me. You see, we are to be mar-' ried before the end of the month, Amy.” ! His last picture of her was seeing the sudden cat-like cruelty flame into | her face and eyes as she stood, sphinx- like, against the rail. But the picture faded within a moment. 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