Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 12, 1914, Page 7

m»wum&e:si — lOUISE OLIVER. .gofioflofiofio#ofiofig family guarded Evelyn very atom of her were oo £0ld. And little n‘“l"\ PO O O wonder, for even yet the Hixons had not recovered from their sur- prise that a beauty had been born into the fam- ily. THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA., NOV. 12, 1914, upon Papa Hixon. though not a gove! held much the ga family as Sindbag of Haroun-al- Raschid. He was rich. In fact he owned the trolley line that was hav- ing trouble with its right of way. : Mr. S* told papa he was looking or a wife and let papa infer that Eve- lyn suited his taste exactly. “I hat ‘t‘raleled all ofer America.':.aaid he and nefer—nefer hat 1 seen such' great peauty.” Papa, knowing that Evelyn needed a little care in the handling, said he i would think it over, and asked his | 8uest to Sunday dinner, | Evelyn developed a mania for writ- l ing letters and Postcards, and making Mr. Schmoker, al- TIOT nor an earl, me respect in the ;‘050#0&.&.#00.@“0#04“.: THE HOUR AND MINUTE By GEORGE MUNSON. i zofifinfioaofiototlfiofiofiofinto | Singleton's was the acutest mind | Dot connected with any regular police i bureau, as everyone knew. But Mary } Harrington did not believe that he could save her husband, Charles, from Edyln( an atrocious death. This was | the situation, as she outlined it to him i in the parlor of the lonely little coun- try house: “‘405050#0#050#‘#.;.#.&‘.* $ KITTY AND KITTEN By CLARISSA MACKIE. wereroreTOTONOTOTOYOTONYS Carroll left the ballroom rather hur edly and sought seclusion on the sandy beach at the end of - the boardwalk. Five minutes later came Capt. Ar- thur Dacey of the army, whom he (] b3 ° ?» [ » [ 4 OO OTOR 303 & $ : 3 i i ! ' Hecker’s Old Homestead Flap- Jack, Prepared Buckwheat, Cream f'arina, and Cream Oatmeal. Roxane Graham, Whole-Wheat, Cake Flour, and Selfrising Flour. g New Arrivals Xila and Jane trips to the drug store There were three brothers, Henry, had left dancing and Mary and Belle, the elder were all tarred with the sam@ stick that mark upon Mr. and Mrs. hat stick had left no trace pong them. bn had appeared, an elfin ughing blue eyes, flufty and skin of rose petals, ink. was one year old it was her husband must be at ofession; before two he the rank of a judge; by t be a governor, and at dent. Indeed, as Evelyn her eighteenth birthday n to talk of royalty. v Alder came to town to ’s drug store at five dol- and serve soda at five case of necessity with volous notion that $20 jld buy dance tickets and rs marked down to $3.89 lis engineering corps had for stamps. | Jame d C i That week Evelyn 8 and Charles. The two elder breathed and llved.Mr.“sec and drank, | ones were unmarried. The father had hmoker, till she grew weary of his name. Satur- | day confirmed her fears wh j overheard papa tell mamma tten:t ;:1: | Schmoker was worth $10,000,000, that when he was his son-inlaw ! would do so and so, and so and so | Immediately Evelyn ‘card to some one and r . the drug store for a stamp. i was out and Harr the store alone. prescription counter counting pills when Evelyn rushed in. “Oh, Harry, darling. to be terrible at home. They've always said I had money, you know. | will be—dingdong, { 1t until I go mad, o than anytihng—give in.” [ “Hush, dearest. You'll never give | in. You're golng to marry me!” “This minute, Harry, dear, it you say so!” “On five dollars a week?” | | | and Jess, it was to be divided equally be- he tween the widow and Stephen Barnes, 12}0“801::]‘:: footpath of a field leading from the town to his h o i ;t:::tr f:;agld ‘\V";l lSchmoker who owns geath w“s’n:;)::ted’l‘l:; t::inae :':t)clh‘. e I-hPBDa has made up ' which was found fairly intact beside ave to marry him. him. Whether he had been the vic- 'k ?0 marry tim of an assassin’s bomb or what & now how it , had happened nobody could ascertain. gzdung about . After some weeks of investigation the r die—or worse matter ceased to be one of immediate | ond brother died. A violent explosion . 8hook the house in which the family panged. “It isn't likely we're both! left his money equally among the three, but, after the two elder ones were dead, it was all to vest in the youngest, Charles. If he died child- ‘Which twin? Carroll could not have answered, that question and & step-brother by a second marriage, Dacey sat down on the sand beside scribbled a d whom old Harrington had hnted.‘ his friend and lighted a cigarette. an down to Stephen was a ne'er-do-well, and held | Nick a position as a jeweler’s assistant in y was holding down ' the little nearby town. He was back of the | “Thought you were dancing,” re- marked Carroll. “Was—but to tell the truth, Rod, I'm in a mess!” declared Dacey. “Sorry for you if you've more trou- ble than I have!” | “Listen to this, Rod,” confided the captain, turning a troubled face to the other. “I'm engaged to one of the Atwood twins—and I don't know which one it is! Can you beat that?”; “I'm engaged to one myself—and I | don’t know which it is, either!’ = “Good heavens, Rod, you're joking!” cried the captain. l * Roderick Carroll turned a harassed ' face to Dacey's. “Do I look like a man making a silly joke?” he de-| Three months previously, at 7:37, the body of the eldest brother had been found, blown to pieces, upon the public interest. Exactly two months later the sec- lived. The body of James was found ' o in his bed, with a gaping wound in | SDESEE 10 the samo Oue, with one of the Atwood twins. I | therein was the cause of his predicament. | | Grdro Richelieu Pancake and Buckwheat Flours and Oatmeal. My Line is as Fine as any in Town. My Store Clean, San- itary, Free from Rats and Roaches. FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES DAILY Yours to Serve in Groceries, Feed, Seed and Fertilizer. . B. Dickson SHESPPSHHEFPPAPFOSOIPHDODD PHBBHHBHOPOERES DS PISIHI “Don’t fail to see us” 3 & 3 G before having your Electrical work done. We can save you money.and give you better ed by a flaw in the right e new interurban trolley p was a thousand miles § On five dollars a week! the abdomen. The evidence given by ' Sometimes they can't tell them- . “ ; o d § stuff’’ than you have been getting, and for But we'd starve. Evelyn, dear, W& Mary Harrington at the inquest selves apart!” muttered the captain 3 must not be foolish.” a litt'e less money. ome and mother, and fa- d he was old enough to mself. Anyway, he had ck's advertisement, and he day in the early fall, and Evelyn for a sunde chocolate, and after that pd royalty needed have ‘& k after their fences. hed her sunde lelsurely, n looked over the post nd the card rack—not Harry. Just past a pduction of the court Harry's brown eyes. The and the blue eyes looked other and the blue eyes tfully warm, dear,” said better get home so you vn. Your face s s0 Mr. Schmoker called Mr. Schmoker, who had dropped in ! to buy some of his strong, black | cigars, heard part of the conversa- tion. He went back to his hotel and wrote | two letters. One was to Mr. Hixon, regretting his hasty departure trom | town and requesting his kindness to- ward his (Mr. Schmoker’s) private secretary, whom he was leaving in his place, Mr. Harry Alder by name. Later he went back for his cigars, and when he was gone Harry found a letter for himself on the counter. “Marry the little Evelyn,” said the letter. “She is the prettiest girl in America.. I inclose a check for $10,- 000—a wedding present to you both. In a month come to me in New York. You will be my private secretary unt{l I can find somethiug better for you. Wishing you success, I am very truly yours, Hans Schmoker.” . Copyright, 1914, by the McClure Newspaper Syndlcate.) et Us Supply Your Needs Orange Clippers Spruce Pine Picking Ladders Cement Coated Box Nails i’s Orange Plows American Field Fence Cyclone Ornamental Fence * % Everything | showed that he died at five minutes past one. | That was all, except that Charles . was momentarily expecting the same fate. Singleton thought for about eight minutes, resting motionless in his chair. “Will you let me see your watch?” | he asked of Charles at the end of that period. Charles Harrington gave him his watch. Singleton took oft the case and examined it under a microscope. “You haven’t had it regulated late- 1y?” he asked. “No. It is strange you should ask me that, because my step-brother Stephen is always anxious to regu- late it for nothing when I go into the shop.” “Ah! You don’t suspect him of complicity in this affair?” “Good heavens, no!"” Charles Harrington. “He had regulated your brothers’ watches before the murder of each?” “Now, that is odd,” answered Charles. “He certainly had, but—you don't suggest there was a bomb in- side the watch of Henry or James?” “Hardly,” answered Singleton. “Howeyer—suppose you take your watch to Stephen and let him regu- late it. Arrange to call for it at 5:15 —the store doesn’t close till six, I suppose?”’ 5 The day arranged was five ahead. At the appointed hour Charles Har rington duly met Singleton outside the jeweler's shop. He accosted him, but Singleton only stared at him blankly. “I am afraid you have the advantage "ot me, sir,” he answered. Charles remembered and went in. Singleton, following, saw a pale-faced, meager-looking man, with a furtive ex- pression, standing behind the counter. “Well, I've got your watch ready, Charley,” he said, and, opening s drawer, he handed it to him. “What can I do for you, sir?”’ he continued to the detective. The detective took the watch from Charles Harrington’s hands. “Charley,” burst out Stephen, “I for- got something. Will you let me keep your watch tifl tomorrow? I—er—" The clocks in the shop pointed to 20 minutes past the hour. Singleton lald the watch down on the counter, but kept his hand over it. l Stephen grabbed at it, and Singleton grabbed Stephen by the collar. “Game's up,” he sald briefly. With answered the other hand he turned the watch “Hold him, Mr. Harrington, un- til 1 stop the infernal thing,” he sald. He opened the case and stopped the watch, twisting the hairspring into a mass of tangled wire. Then he opened the glass. “Look at the minute hand,” he said to the jeweler. “It looks kind of dirty,” eaid the old man. “But what—what—" “What is it? Fulminate of jodide, | and the most violent explosive known. grimly. “They’re playing a joke on us, f & i Rod, and just at this time I'm not in- clined to stand for it.” | After outlining a scheme, Dacey re- turned to the ballroom. , “Will you come to the conservatory 'for a moment.” | 'The news must be broken roughly, he decided, so when the three were; standing there beside the fountain he ; looked at their anxious, lovely faces with some qualms of conscience at the lie on his lips. “You will be shocked to learn that Carroll's body has been found on the ! beach!" he said bluntly. { There was a simultaneous cry from : the twins. ! “Oh, Kit!” cried one. i “Darling Kit!” cried the other. l Which twin said certain words Cap- | tain Dacey never knew. lmmedlltelyi one girl vanished through the outer door and the other swooned quietly away in his arms. “I am a brute!” accused the cap- tain fiercely as he dipped his hand- kerchief in the fountain and bathed the temples of the girl in his arms. So Captain Dacey touched the tiny mole under the long lashes—and it vanished forever! Thie was his own girl. Carroll's girl had naturally gone out to the beach, where he was. At that moment Carroll was having an adventure of his own, | A light figure had come flying down the boardwalk toward him, leaning against the rocks, had cried affrighted- ly when she saw who it was. “It's only a joke, Kitten,” he pro- tested. “It's a very eilly joke,” she retorted, drawing back from his arms. “Kitten fainted away when she heard the news —and I came to see if it really was true! I suspect that Captain Dacey is comforting Kitten this very moment, belleving it is 1.” “That's too bad,” said Rod, quietly. “Dacey s merely wasting precious time over Kitten; his leave is nearly over and he will go back to his post. ! Of course, if the girl's he's engaged to doesn’t bind his chains closer while she has an opportunity, he might— well, some of those army post girls are mighty pretty. And just at this moment, Kitten is some fascinating | herself!"” ‘“The very idea!" cried Miss Atwood, ' incredulously. But Carroll smiled ' when she turned and fled back to the hotel. i “They must effect the cure them. | selves,” he muttered, as he followed her at a safe distance. i That night when the Atwood twins faced each other in the room they shared together there was rather a - scared look in Kitten's lovely eyes. . Kitty’s eyes wore a hurt expression. | “Kitten Atwood!” sald her twin sis- ter coldly, “you permitted Captain | Dacey to kiss you—I saw you!” i | “I hated 1t” shuddered Kitten' haughtily. “But when I fainted, he i 1 & 24 CARDWELL, Electrical Contractor EVERYTHING ELECTRICAL PHONE 233 West Main Strest and New York Avenue SPPPFEEFIFIPOPPPPIIISES IS SIS PIEBPIDPREESPELBIIP KELLEY'S BARRED Plymouth Rocks BOTH MATINGS Better now than ever before High class breeding birds at reasonable prices. Fggs from high|class pens for hatching. ,;,,;n Write me before ordering else . where, H. L. KELLEY, Griffin, Fla Don’t Talk War, But Talk Business, and | Boost Your Town HE HUB is still selling Hart Schaffner & Marx good Clothing, and it is the best clothing ever brought to your city. Now, Old Men and Young Men, come aroucd and see what you can buy for $1S5 and $18 to $25 Have just received a new shipment of | In four minutes this tiny mass pasted . dabbed water on my face and my under the minute hand would have mole vanished—he wouldn't believe ' | caught the hour hand, and then—well, | that it was not you!” l . usually carried | you can guess what would have hap-| “I shall take care that there is no: ® ] i ” i pened. But the cunningest murd':rfjf mistake in the future,” said Kitty, ln an up'tO'date 'alwn)'s leaves a trail, and he left his l gravely, “The silly reason is over-—-| Arrow Shirts, Neckwear and Onyx Hose !-ln the fact that his two vicd 1s!md we are not really shallow at he.rt.' Hardware Store ! dted when the hands were together. ! dear; 80 we must not play with love !- I'll take this as evidence—" 'iny more—something has told me to-i Wl“ appreCIa‘e ShOWing them to everybody “He lles! He said he was a col-! night that it is a very precious thing.” “Then,” said Kitten, humbly, "youil “Precisely,” answered ingleton, better wash that horrid mole from un-| i | ! | ilector." gasped the tremblluj man | opening his coat and displaying an der your eye, dearle, and we will go officer's badge. “I have just been and make peace with them tomorrow.” | made a special police officer in this | ! town for today. You see, 1 am col- | But when peace had been made and Carroll and Dacey surveyed the flaw. 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