Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 3, 1914, Page 6

QA EHEHDS 1S S EVENING TELE HER SILLY TALK By JULIA TRUITT BISHOP. Howard Marsh, author and journal- {st, acknowledged that he was about Mission furniture gll (:);d";? (abinet Work gr+ TELEGRAM LAK ELAND, FLA., NOV. 3, 1914. are the ‘Oread’ who wrote ‘The Cross | #844448448440004440 3440444 of Fire'” The shy woodland spirit th A I hicola 25 C ho had carefully hidden herself :w:y coul:lo not have her secret un-|§ ()ysters 50¢ qt; pt. Try our Home made Peanut Brittle and Chocolate Fudge S s o R LAKE Papy BOAT Hoy UOYLAND pyyy Power Boats and R Special Rates t, B —and when he looked into her eyes and heard her speak he would know. After that Miss Barbara heard the and Boats Phons 3T6-Red A Specialty DeLOSS M. 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He acknowledged it to Trask, the city editor, who was silent and phlegmatic and rather a dull fellow on the whole, to his way of thinking, though he rather liked to talk to him at times because he lis- tened so well. He acknowledged it again to little Miss Barbara Scott, who bad passed the hey-dey of young girl- hood, one would say, and whom Marsh found to be a nice little old maid enough, and quiet, as old maids ought to be. Trask had gone on smoking very ' calmly, after his disclosure, and it ' was only after a long pause that he had remarked dryly: “So you are going down into the backwoods to find a genius! And she doesn’t want to be found! How will you know her when you find her?” But it was to Miss Barbara that he : sald, without reserve: “You know, Miss Barbara—you exercises—or sometimes it was later, and he found her resting in the gal- lery under the balsam vinea. “I am more sure of her every day,” he said once. “Have you ever noticed what a soft voice she has?—an awful- ly sweet voice, Miss Barbara. And she is of just that shy, reserved kind —a true woodland spirit. Miss Sarah is quiet, too—but I don’t think it can be Miss Sarah, do you, Miss Barbara? It is almost mure to be onme or the other of them—I am positive of fimtl —and it doesn’t seem to me that Miss ! Saran is possible.” “It Miss Sarah were beautiful there | would be two possibilities,” said Mlll' Barbara with a little smile; “and flut. would lead to a great deal of irresolu- tion and complicate your decision.” He flushed uneasily. “But the other one 18 beautiful,” he sald. “And I am ‘sure she is the one.” At the end of the week he was won't mind my sitting here in the gal- " given to silence, and instead of sit- lery, will you?—well, I am quite sure . ting in the gallery and talking with I would know her the very minute I' Miss Barbara he was prone to walk saw her or heard her voice. Absurd, | up and down the white path in* the isn’t it?—to have fallen in love with “moonlight. He had reached the point —with & mind, one might say. But where speech was difficult. Many from the time I read ‘The Cross oti‘ nights had passed before he paused ! Fire’ 1 knew that I must find the at the step and looked up at Miss author. And everything she has writ- | Barbara, sitting in the shadow. ten since has appealed to me in'such| “Are you going to tell me that you | a way—there is such tenderness, such have found her?” she asked, without insight—something so elusive, as turning her head. though one had caught a glimpse of a | “Yes—I have found her,” he said, Dryad in the woods—and I simply with a new quality in his voice. “That | i8s—I have found—Eve. I suppose I would know. He would see her face H. O. DENNY to face very soon—perhaps tomorrow Elliston Building. PHONE 226. Prompt Del. Office Phone 848 B.ack and Picnic pyy, Best Service —Reaso, W. T MOOA\‘);\-‘ D P. O. Box 2 LEPPESSIPBL00: Ra e aaa o mel t 2t ot S T SMIHOISIISSTILOT PGPS SIS 0O SUIIL0- Beutify your Lawn, Let us tell you how, Little it wll cost. Lakeland Paving and Construction Cop 207 to 216 Main St. LAKELANYD, i Attention! Some good things in Ladies’ Coat Suits : | 1\ years success in Lakeland. M re Building Blocks of all discrip- R White Brick, Pier Blocks, 3 ar at FLORIDNTATIONAL VAULT . | Refurnishedand thoroughly renovated, and everything Clean, Comfortable and First-class. e Dining Room Service~Unexcelled. ! i & = Rates Reasonable. N\ | S OUR MOTTO Your Patronage Cordially N ! 'hich is proven by our six Invited. ™ A | [aker of the National Steel \ : inforced concrete Burial | | L. W.YARNELL =& : Vault LIGHT AND HEAVY HAULING Z - \ \ b | HOUSEHOLD MOVING A == | | , SPECIALTY 7/ ! HORSES AND MULES ¥OR HIRE L ! Phones: Office 109; Res., 57 Green l tions. ed Cement, Pressed Brick, il 4 inch Drain Tile, 6, 7 1l 8 Tence Tost: Infact, any- thing made of Cement. = “80o You Are Going Down Into the Backwoods to Find a Genlus?” | Gresh Country Eggs and am going to find her, you know. It Was beastly mean in the publisher not to glve me her name, but I did find out that she lived in this part of the world—strange that she writes under that name—Oread—isn't {t? Well, I am golng to stay out here and look into every face in the country until I find her. You may laugh—I fancy I saw you smiling—but I think I shall know her.” . He had told Miss Barbara the same story several times gince he came to the Glen and secured board with Miss Barbara’s mother. Miss Barbara sighed a little, and was thinking more, doubtless, of the mnext day’s work in the little brown school house over the hill than of his quest for the Oread whom he would be sure to know. i The next day he came back ' with fishing rod and empty basket, but with alert step and jubilant eye. “I have caught a glimpse - of the new Miss Bledsoe,” he sald, “the one who has been away from home. Her name is Eve, isn't {t? I have seen Miss Sarah often, and have half-way believed that she might have writ- ten ‘The Cross of Fire'—she is a cultivated girl, you know, and the house is filled with books. It really must be one or the other of the Bled- soes—they are almost the only ones— the other people I have seen here are quite incapable of it. But Sarah ‘is S0—well, she is a very plain girl, you know—not what you would call a beauty at all. And this other one is beautiful—I have heard 80 from sev- ' eral, and I saw that she was some- | thing — quite extraordinary, you know.” Miss Barbara had looked up from the little heap ot exercises she was Do You Want Fresh Clean GROCERIES? =ic “Eve {8 beautiful,” she sald, m.' absently. “It is a pleasure merely to 8it and look at her” We are at your service for anything carried by an Up-to-date Grocery Phone orders glven prompt attention W.J.REDDICK |- TETITSTIOITSOIOTOLITIIS SIS Chickens Arriving Daily ; We also have Fresh Home Grown Vegetables Our Meats are Sweet and luicy ~-and we handle everythiog to be found in an up to-date Grocery. Your patronsge appreciated. The BigPure Eood Store PHONE ©3 er & Edmonsor glimpse,” wouldn Oread with all that b the gold in it, and such a face! Seem to feel that my quest is here, Miss Barbara. ‘ and he stooped to help her gather | away?” must have come here for that.” “And she {s—the lady of your dreams?” asked Miss Barbara after a little pause. P ‘, “She may be” he sald, “I donm't; know. I have forgolten ko dreams. The only thing I remember is that I am in Jove with the most beautifui woman I have ever known.” “What more could one ask?” sald Miss Barbara. A heap of little papers slipped from her lap as she moved, them up. “It is nothing but the chil- dren's exercises,” she murmured. “I| have been sitting thero—dmmlnl—' you didn’t know that I ever dmmsd.l did you—and forgot to put them' ward that Howard Marsh looked in one day upon Trask, sitting in his lit- tle den of an office, where the papers were piled high up on every chair. Marsh was just returned .from his wedding journey in' lands afar, and| Wwas a little pale, for he had found the beautiful Eve was at times hard to entertain. “Glad to see you,” sald Trask, wlth' & new light in his cold eyes, that took all their coldness away. “Just mk! from your bridal tour? We didn't| take any—but we are very happy, just ' the same.” “You? You? Are you married?” asked Marsh incredulously. l “Yes—hadn’t you heard? ‘Oread, you know—why, of course you know | her—Miss Barbara Scott — come around to the house—you and Mrs. Marsh—and renew old acquaintance. ' By the way, it was that silly talk of yours that put me in the notion to . find ‘Oread’ for myselt—knew her the ! minute I saw her. Much obliged to you I'm sure.” H But Howard Marsh had tumbled the bapers off a chair and was sitting there, laughing—a laugh that some- It was more than six months mor-: how was lacking in most of the ele- & ments of mirth. e s Ever Counted Your Buttons? Have you ever counted your but- tons? And thought of the people who make them? As I sit and write I confess that there are seventy-three ! on my clothes, most of them luperflu-: ous. Why should my waistcoat have six buttons, by coat—never buttoned —eight? Why should my intimate clothes demand buttons—and button- holes? They are the protest against buttons. i There are men and women in the ' world who are against the perfect simplicity of life which should be without buttons. If you had time it would be easy to devise a costume without buttons and the correspond~‘ ing holes—very difficult of acquisition In this whirl of clothes, shirts and but-' tons. But if all of us renounced but- | tons in favor of string (a quite easy ' renunciation) think of the despair of ! those who make millions of buttons | from diamonds to—the other refuse of | the earth.—London Chronicle. — Highly Humorous Comparisen. Strickland W. 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