Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 20, 1914, Page 2

IMPROVLD POULTRY AND GARPEN FENCE The BEST Fence IMPROVED it the wires are welde jrest Constra tion known, 12-in, Stays, 21c Rd. 6-in. Stays, 26c Rd 12-in Stays, 23c Rd 6-in. Stays, 29c Rd. 24-in. High, High, High, High, High, 30-in. 30-in. 36-in. 12-in. Stays, 25¢ Rd. 6-in. Stays, 33c Rd. High, 12-in. Stays, 29c Rd. High, 6-in. Stays, 36c Rd. Hiigh, 12-in. Stays, 31c Rd. High, 6-in. Stays, 39c Rd. 36-in. 42-in. 42-in. 48-in, 48-in. { Everything in Hardware Furniture Our Famous All Cotton 45-pound Mattress 3.99 The House of Quality and Right Prices LAKELAND Furniture = @ == Hardware Company THE EVENING TALKGRAM, LAKELAND, THE LOST FREN By H. M. EGBERT. (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) Col. Jim Slee sat in his swivel chair and looked at Miss Elizabeth Ray and pulled his drooping muetache. Colonel Slee was the last man in the world whom omie would have associated ! with a large city store. A little over fifty, perhaps, with a splendid figure and military bearing, there was some- thing chivalrous about the man in spite of his reputation. If there can be grades of fast livers, the colonel un- doubtedly belonged to the highest grade. In 50 homes he was regarded as a man of unblemished reputation; and those who knew what his life was somehow exonerated him. The colonel had fallen heir to the store on his brother's death, and he had not known what to do with it. His first act was to call all the em- ployees together and raise their sala- ries. Then he promoted all the pretty girl clerks. The colonel’s old-fashioned idea was that the prettier a girl was— and every girl was pretty if she had health and a sweet temper—the less right she had to labor for a pittancef Miss Ray, being the prettiest and most innocent of the lot, was appointed the rolonel’s private secretary. That was as far as the colonel got before the departmental managers in- terfered and told him, with firm polite- ness, that he would have to leave the charge of affairs to them unless he wished to drive the store into bank- ruptey. The colonel made them agree that the revised salary schedule should stand, and after that he came down to the store for about two hours a day and pretended to answer letters. It is doubtful whether he would have come more than twice a week but for Miss Ray. She was about twenty, and she came from a little town in ek Looked at Miss Ray and Pulled His Drooping Mustache. Connecticut. She was one of the pret- tiest girls the colonel had ever seen, ' with her fluffy brown hair, gray eyes, ‘red lips and unsophisticated ways. i The colonel was a little afraid of her ~at first, but after a while he won her that she did not understand in bis de- | meanor that evening. And, what: troubled her most, she had somehow | felt that it was mot advisable to make . any reference to him in her letters to Tom. | Tom was looking forward anxiously to eeeing her when her vacation came, the following month. Perhaps then she would tell Tom. Perhaps . . . ! She went to bed with a consclence not wholly free from problems, ] It was a day or two later that Miss: Elizabeth spoke of her vacation to the | colonel. 3 I “Why, I have been thinking of that,” | he said. “I shall want you—at least, I i should like to have you help me, if you | can. You see, Miss Elizabeth, I am. taking a little yachting party to Key! West, and I ought to keep in touch i with business affairs. 1t you could ac-, company us, you can have another holiday when we get back.” The yachting trip was to take about | six weeks. Miss Elizabeth had never been at sea; much as she wanted to see Tom again the invitation was ir- resistible. The colonel told her that: there were to be three or four other | ladies. They were to go aboard the vessel at the little private dock at seven in the evening, a week thence. Mies Elizabeth wrote a letter to Tom, explaining the situation and promising to come home as soon as | she returned. Then, at the appointed hour, she accompanied the colonel. who called at her boarding house in a taxicab, to the pier. The yacht lay alongside the wharf. A watchman paced her decks, but, though they inspected her from stem | to stern, there was no sign of the oth- ers. They had sat down for a mo- ment in the dining saloon. The girl| was becoming a little nervous. “We will have dinner now,” said the ' colonel. “Wait a minute,” said the girl hur- riedly. “When will the others be here? Your sister—is she not expect-| ed before we dine?” The colonel pulled his mustache and looked hard at her. Then he stretched out one hand and patted hers gently. “My dear,” he said, “we are going to be the only two paseengers aboard this trip.” The girl looked at him with terrified | eyes and rose from her chair with a, little gasp. To the last day of her life | she always pictured the colonel thus, ; seated before her, pulling his drooping | mustache, and smiling at her with! such a kind expression on his face. { “I thought you understood, Eliza- | beth,” said the colonel in tones of grave politeness. There was reproach ! in his voice, but Colonel Slee could never be anything but a gentleman. | “But—you said—you said—" the girl | exclaimed; and even then she could ! not quite believe it. But presently she ! understood. She was not at all angry. She felt the tears of humiliation rush | to her eyes, that he should have mis-' understood her so. And there was more than humiliation—there was real sorrow for the lose of a friend, the only friend she had had, except Tom, | since her parents died. | “Are you going KElizabeth?” asked the colonel, watching her. | She began buttoning her coat. “You ought not to ask me that—O, what have I done to make you think other- | wise?” she pleaded. ! “My dear,” said the colonel, “I thought you understood the situation. i Perhaps I was wrong; I had no ish to deceive you. That is not my way. There are certain conventions s why did you think 1 was taking you , out to luncheons and dinners?” { “As a friend,” she cried hotly, feel- | confidence. He knew how to do that; ! ing her cheeks burning. i ‘Ihe was always gentle and "always a.‘-' gentleman. l He had employed her as his secre- tary, at twenty dollars, for about a | month when he learned about Tom. | Tom wae a young farmer in her home town, and they were engaged to be married—perhaps in a year's time, when she had saved her trousseau money and he had begun to make things go better. He had only lately taken over the land, and it was heavily mortgaged. “Mise Elizabeth,” said the colonel, and, though it was the first time he had ever called her by her Christian name, his tone was 8o respectful that it wae impossible to take exception to his words—"“Miss Elizabeth, you are much too charming a girl to take up country life. Why, here you could have your pick of a dozen million- aires.” Miss Elizabeth laughed softly and looked at the colonel with that inno- cent expression that always puzzled him. “I'll prove it,” said the colonel. “I'm going to take you out to lunch with me, and just you watch the men stare at you." Miss Elizabeth put on her hat and accompanied him. She had never been into a big restaurant before, had never eaten cold jellied consomme or tasted champagne. She sipped about two tea- spoonfuls of the ice cold wine out of courtesy, although her parents had been prohibitionists. Still, she did not want to hurt the colonel. *1 have had a most delightful time; you are very good to me,” she said, when they returned to the office. “Feel like repeating the experi- ment?” inquired the colonel, and Miss Elizabeth nodded gayly. That was #he beginning of many luncheons. At times the girl’s heart misgave ner; she felt that she ought not to accept so much kindness from this friend. But he was always so gentle, so entirely respectful to her. Then one day the colonel invited her to dine with him and go to the theater. For the first time that night, after she had left him at her door, Miss Eli- zabeth began to dread that his interest in her was not wholly platonic. There had been an undertone of something He shook his head. “Men of fifty do not make friends of their lady em- ' ployees in that way, my dear,” he an- | swered. “I am sorry. Let me help you with your coat.” ! They went up the stairs to the deck | and stood side by side there for a mo- ment. Everything in Elizabeth’s life ' seemed to have crumbled into ashes. ' She turned. “I am sorry,” she said. had understood. Good-by."” | For the life of her she could not summon any indignation against him. She did not feel the insult then, only the unbearable loss. Colonel Slee took her hand in his and bent over it. They strolled up the dock; he called a taxicab and escorted | her to her door. Then he raised his hat and left her. On the following morning a epecial delivery message arrived for the girl, asking her to hold her position at the store till the colonel's return. They need not meet, he said, but he trusted she would take charge of his interests till he could make arrangements. Elizabeth went back to business. She did not see him again. The! yacht was wrecked in the great etorm | that ravaged the Florida coast that summer. Colonel Slee never appeared | again. He doubtless died, with all the crew. But he had had time to make certain arrangements. The girl found herself the possessor of a substantial legacy. But she never told Tom all the | circumstances. That was a page ot her life that she tore out of the book. | “I wish I, Keeping Wine Properly. To keep wine properly, the quuld’ must actually touch the cork, for any | air that is compressed here by cork- | ing the bottle is very injurious. Air | can be removed by taking a small cop- per tube about the size of a quill and filling it so as to make a semi-tube, then fixing a thumb ring at the top and sharpening the bottom end. Place the tube in the neck with the flat side against the glass, and the cork is' driven in so that the air comes off through the tube. When corked, the' tube is withdrawn and no air is left in | the bottle. S RHPODPFOFAFOPOROPOHO LY - i vigilant Dame Fashion for the fitting the Washington Star. . niably smart on that account. | tashionable, you see, and goes | with black . - | and slanted to a point in back. This ; also forms a heading to the full coat- | FLA., NOV. 20, 1914. — e / - - - - - - - CSOHIBOBPE SIS “ryanily] PLOWS (BRI —_///—-—-____———\——‘ tust received, 8 con}plete 2 inch inch Regular Turning Plow, s built especially for Florida soils. [y guarantee of satisfaction er your mop line of 10 ard 10 tc 4 The Brinley Flow i on: is suld with a back. ———. Phone No. 340 g HAVE MILITARY TOUCH EFFECT OF WAR SHOWN IN THE PREVAILING FASHIONS. Tailored Suits Undeniably Martial, and Also Smart—Ililustration Reveals How the Idea Has Taken Feminine Fancy. If the brass buttons and other mili- tary paraphernalia are to make an ap- peal now is the time. Bursting shells and the sound of drums in some cor- ner of the world, whether it be far or near, shows a very decided military | influence in the world of fashion, and the tears we shed over the tragic losses each day reveals are more than DreeP B S DS LA ; _‘?"A oo gD 2o The Military Influence Is Felt In Tal-‘ lored Suits. ool apt tw fall on our own brass buttons and gold braid promptly supplied by | Vg Erreded occasion, writes Lillian E. 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