Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 30, 1914, Page 6

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Special attention to repair work of all kinds McGLASHAN OUR SHIELD TO Which is proven by our six years success in Lakeland. Maker of the National Steel ISIOUR MOT reinforced concrete Burial Vault | Building Blocks of all discrip- tions. Red Cement, Pressed Brick, White Brick, Pier Blocks, 3 and 4 inch Drain Tile, 6, 7 and 8-ft Fench Post; in fact anything made of Cement. FLORIDN'NATIONALVAULT €O Buyers Are the People Who Read Advertisements. They Know Their Wants, but Want to Know Where to Supply Them. —2 LAKE [PARKER BOAT HOUSE (JOYLAND PARK) _ Power Boats and Row Boats Special Rates to Fishing and Picnic Parties THE EVENING TALEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA., THE WEDDIG YE By H. M. EGBERT. Claud Deering was as happy as a rising young doctor in a small town could be, for on the next day he was to marry the best woman in the world —Ray Clifford. Neither of them was in their first youth. Deering was thirty and Ray had shyly confessed that there was only a year or two between them in age. “A year orgtwo, my dear,” she had said, laughing, “and don't forget the two.” And Ray had been married before. Deering knew all about that tragedy in her life; the inexperienced girl of twenty-two, fascinated by the rogue who wanted the little legacy that her father had left her. John Brooks was a man of the world; he had seen a good deal of the world, and not its best side. Of all that Ray was com- pletely ignorant. She loved him with all the devotion of her nature, and would have stuck to him in spito of all—of his prison record, of 'his igno- ble life, had he confessed to her. But having got possession of her small | fortune, Brooks had left her for an- other woman, three months after the marriage. Later came news of his death in a brawl in a low saloon, and Ray resumed her maiden name, Well, one can only take up one's life again when it has heen broken. Ray took up hers. Nearly six years had | passed before she met Deering, and | their first meeting told them that they had been made for each other. As Deering sat in his office, drecam- ing over the happiness in store for her, there came a knock at the door. He was alone, the old housekeeper having gone home to her sick sister. Deering rose and opened the door. A ragged tramp was standing out- side, “Doc Deering?” he inquired with a surly scowl. “That’s right,” answered the doctor heartily. He felt on good terms with all the world that night. “Come in! and sit down. What can I do for you?” The man collapsed into a chair, and then Deering saw that he was in the last stage of weakness and emacia- ‘|“‘ I[ m ;:wlmmwmmm lw/ g i “That's Why | Came.” tion. There was a smell of whlsky‘ upon his breath, The fellow leered dully at him, “I heard—I heard that you were go- ing to marry Ray Brooks tomorrow,” he mauttered. “That's why I came. I'm—I'm John, her husband.” Deering took the blow quite calmly, as a man should. He took the tramp's arm in his hands and began feeling the pulse. “You're in a bad way, my friend,” he said. “You'd best go into the hoepital at Nevins. It's ten miles away. Il drive you there tonight. They will admit you free on my rec- ommendation, And let me tell you, | ot l you'll have to change your manner life it you want to pull through.” *“That’s all very well,” sneered the man, “but you can't throw me off the scent like that. If you want me to be silent and let you marry Ray, you’re going to pay for it. How about fifteen hundred, doc?” Deering clapped the man on the shoulder. “If your statement is true,” he an- swered quietly, “you have the situa- tion in your own hands. But I shall pay you no money to connive at a second wrong upon a helpless woman. Come along, I'm going to take you to the hospital!™ “I'll go!™ muttered the man. when I'come out I'll make you pay through the nose, young fellow. A few days there will ix me up, I guess, and then you'll have had time to come to your senses. Say, I guess you'll be ready to pay when you're a mar ried man,” he grinned. Deering left the man seated there and went out and harnessed his pony. think of that, Sufficient for the night the ghastly evil that it had brought. At eleven o’clock he pulled up in front of the hospital The porter, who knew him well, helped to carry the balfconscious man inside. Soon he was snug in a comfortable bed in the ward. “Miss Lennox not on duty tonight?” asked the doctor of the night nurse. “She'll be coming on at twelve, Dr. Deering,” answered the young woman | in charge. “I'll wait for her,” Deering an- swered. “I am rather anxious to talk with her about this case.” | Miss Lennox was one of Deering’s proteges. . She had once been a pa- ' tient of his. Or, rather, he had found her, dick with pneumonia, in an ob- scure lodging house to which he had been called. She was earning a pre- carious livelihood as a seamstress. Deering, struck by the girl's refine- ment, had questioned her and learned of her unhappy history. She had been ! separated from her husband, and her | family had cast ber off on account of the marriage. Deering had got her a humble position in the hospital at Nevins, where she was unknown; and there she had graduated as a nurse. She was accounted the best nurse in the hospital, and now had charge of the ward from twelve till seven. Only ' Deering knew the story of her life. ' That was one of his numerous kind- nesses. And now his own life seemed fated to be wrecked, and there was no one to help him. The sick man opened his eyes. Deering felt that he was growing stronger. In spite of his humanity, the thought would come to him that this wreck of flotsam would be better oft dead—better off for his own sake, for Deering’s, for Ray's. Why should such useless ltves Illmger, to make only misery? The man leered at him. | “Say Doc,” he said, “this is a mighty comfortable bed to sleep in. It's weeks since I had a bed like this. But I'm going to make you pay through the nose, just the same, if you want Ray. Understand?” . A groan broke from the doctor's lips. He clenched his hands and strode up and down the room, The sick man's eyes foflowed him malev- olently. “Once,” he said, when Deering re- turned to his bedside, “you could have put that all over me. You could have won my gratitude and worked upon my better nature, But I guess I'm too old a bird to be cadkht by, kindness any more, You'll pay fifteen hundred young fellow, if you want Ray.” Deering turned upon him. “Do you think I am a bigamist?” he cried, “If you are John Brooks, you've got me in your power. But you won't get a chance to torture that helpless woman again.” The man did not answer him. Deer- ing saw his eyes fixed in terror upon something—someone on the opposite side of the room. He looked round. Miss Lennox was approaching the bed. “Good-evening,” began Deering, and then he stopped. There was the same look of terror upon the face of the nurse. “Why—" the doctor began. “Why—" “0, I guess she remembers me,” burst out Brooks, with an oath. “She ought to, We lived together long enough for her to know my face.” “That man is—my husband, doc- tor!” said the nurse, sinking into the chair at the side of the bed and weep- ing hysterically. *“O, why did you bring him here?” Deering looked from one to the oth- er in amazement. He sdWw at once that it was true. “I've got my marriage certificate,” faltered the nurse. “He says we lived together. But he can’t deny that we were married before a minister.” “When did this marriage occur?’ inquired Deering quietly. “Eight years ago,” anewered Miss Lennox. “0, why did you bring him here?” “I didn’t know, my dear,” answered Deering, stroking her arm. “There, I am sorry. But he is just a patient, ' just a sick man. He shall not trouble you.” “I don't know about that,” answered Brooks with a snarl. “But I know,” answered Deering: .sternly. “If you married Miss Lennox | i elght years ago, your marriage with Miss Clifford was & bigamous one.” ‘told she wasn’t legally married,” sneered Brooks. “She will not be told,” answered the | doctor quietly, “If you molest Miss i Clifford—my wife, as she will be to- morrow, in any way, if you so much as ! dare to let her see your face at any j time, I shall have you clapped into i Jail for bigamy. And if you dare to ' annoy Miss Lennox either—." { And then an amasing thing bhap- | pened, which, as the doctor said after | ward, changed his ideas of human : nature. For the nurse sank down be- side the man in the bed and put her wByt | &rms round him and cried upon his i | o ; | And, when Deering looked at thé | | face of the wretched creature, to his | utter astonishment he saw two tears | ro'ling down his cheeks. ! Silently he went out and got into ' his trap and whipped up the pony. He ! knew now that his bride would never | learn of the shadow that had been When he came back he found his pa- , €8t upon her life, and of the tragedy tlent in a He injected a stimulant into his trap. A minute later they were ing along the mountain road. carri t bodily to the - o M drty. | thelr honeymoon that he learned semicomatose condition. that had so nearly blighted their hap- arm Piness It was not until he returned from Brooks was dead. His system, broken l ! down by years of debauchery, had not Best Service—RensonableRates § | +P4L FE o T i meaiied | boen able to struggle agatnst the at W. F. MooNEY, Prop. against the thought that this sodden tack of pneumonia that had super- P. O. Box 32 wretoh could ever have been Ray's Vened. Residence Phone 234 Black &' husband. As for the fature—he : (Copyright, 914, by W. G. Chapman.) 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Most depilatories are apt to leave a red spot and an extreme irritation of H (Dutch Boy Painter Trade Mark) and pure linseed oil mixed right on the job and tinted the desired colors make perfect paint. You get not only the colors you want but a sure-result paint—so fine it anchors into the empty sap pores and stays on till it wears out. Yo 00, gfif‘fl SR DRt BVt will leave the skin soft, smooth and clear. Its action is gentle and most cifective in immediately removing the Latr. i Smart women generally keep a lemon on the toilet table, as the application of fresh lemon juice is excellent for | whitening and beautifying the hands. The juice will also remove stains from around the finger nalls and will vastly | improve the color of the skin. No toilet | table should be without the ever-use-! ful lemon. | It 1s not universally known that an| excellent whitener for the teeth is to be found in common salt. The teeth should be carefully brushed with a lit- tle salt at least once a week, taking care to rinse the mouth out carefully afterwards, so that not one particle of the salt may remain around the teeth. | The whitening effect of salt upon theg teeth is instantaneous. 1 | i i fed Life is What We Make It E have opened a fresh stock of \V Grocieries in the Cumbie Building, Dixieland, and are ncw prepared to serve vou. Buying right is half the fight. Our prices are rock bottom, and our motto is to Give us a trial and be convinced. 2 E= == = = = = = ) < - -3 o | o ¢ - g - o ® pe = -3 PRIZE FOR THE HISTORIANS 7 o Priceless Records Found by Virginian | g Librarian Are Being Tabulated (& for Publication. o 5 ° If. anything is more wonderfully |, © fraught with chance than history, it ID o is undoubtedly the collection of his- I’ o torical materials. 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