Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 23, 1914, Page 2

THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA., DEC. 23, 1914, [T LR LR LRSS R R 2 ) NAN VISITS EUROPE PLANTING PENNIES RAMBLER AUTO SERVICE CARS FOR HIRE PHONE 274-RED Vulecanizing Doneat 711 E.Qak ¢ Big Specials for the Last Christmas Shopping Cut Glass C Suit Cases | We expect to close out these lines made some very attractive pi Don’t miss them | Model Hardware Phone No. 340 C. E. TG .. MAIN ST. and FLORIDA AVE. By DOROTHY DOUGLAS. By ADA MAY ROWLAND. 1 1 Copyright, 181, by the McClure News-| Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman) ' paper Syndicate. “Hello, Hal—anything wrong?” { When Nan went on her first visit to| “Nothing but what money can cure.” Europe she had not the slightest hint| *“H'm!” observed the first speaker that she would arrive in a land ‘hrown as he proceeded on his way. “I don’t into the horrors of war. She had llke that sentiment, and I always taken her trip across the ocean on a thought that Hal Sturges was the last long delayed holiday and had expected man in the world to entertain such a to find only joy and merriment, for fallacy.” | Nan had a way of meeting lupplnaui The soliloquizer, however, did not half way wherever she went. | know that his usually bustling, hope- But in Belgium she had fled from ful young friend was under a pretty the advance of the common enemy, severe strain at the present time. into Paris and from the gay city she Hope, ambition, love, seemed all about had enjoyed a scagt threq weeks when fo wither away because of money and with hundreds of other Afhericans Its urgent need. she had scrambled onto safer Eng-| Many years previous Hal's father lish :nn / i bad loaned David Eastman a large “Yondon was a haven of retuge Q§ $Um of money. Things went wrong Nan, who had smelled the smoke of With Bastman. Then they went bfls battle and heard the boom of dis-' tef. He was hopest and he turne tant fire. She had seen pitiful little over td his creditor his little mort- families of Belgian refugees fleelni' iued farm at Grayton, with the pro- along the roads from devastated viso that he was to be its tenant at homes, leaving behind them all beau- & fixed rental while he lived. Finally ty and all hope and going they knew Eastman wrote to Hal's father that not where. { he would be able to square the whole But London was waiting with open debt, some ten thousand dollars, with- arms to receive all of the weary refu- in a year. Hal's father died before the year The Ideal Christmas Remembrance The personal thought — spirit of the giving, de- termines the value of the gift, What then, could be more fitticg than your portrait for the Christ- mas remembrance —t o carry your simple mes- sage of friendship? - A dozen portraits solves, at once, a dozen perplexing gift problems. gees from the courageous little coun- | try, and Nan found herself again face was up. Hal wrote to Mr. Eastman, GHO 08 . to face with the realities of war. asking what the prospects as to the Lol Hlnke There were no less than a dozen of promised money might be. He re- these Belgians sheltered in hospitable ceived a speedy reply, stating that it ) - P hotographer homes in Norland square. he would come down to Grayton the B O Lake Mirror Hotel It was in the acre of green park old account would be gettled in cold belonging to the square that Nan be- came acquainted with little Jean Leman, a Belgian child who had been cash. Hal arrived at Grayton to find that Mr. Eastman had died the day before. MRS. H. M. COWLES, Prop. Under New Management. o You Want | Refurnishedand thoroughly renovated, and everything Clean, Comfortable and First-class. brought over from the devastated city , A search was made for a will. None of Louvain. i was found. For money. There was Jean’s mother was a French lady, none at bank nor in the house. Only who was sleeping beneath a flower the old farmhouse was in evidence as garden in Belgium. Her father was tangible property. a soldier, Maj. Albert Leman. { It was a great disappointment to From that moment on Jean and Hal, all this. He had confidently Nan became fast friends. They K counted on the money to start in romped and played and went on long . business. He had already invested 1n 'bus rides through the city and out that direction. This became a dead into country lanes. | 1oss. He had to go back to a poor When the wounded soldiers began | Paying position in the adjoining town. to arrive in trainloads, Nan could no ' Then, too, a situation evolved at the more have left the city of London | little farm that distressed him. Dur- than she could have cut off her own | ing the last year of his life Mr. East. right hand. She simply had to re-| man had given a home to an orphan main. Something held her, she knew ; 8irl and her little sister—Nellle and Tampa Lakelimd Pender;s O1d Studio G R O ) [ ' ' Make an appointment today ( ) 1 We are at your servic carried by an Up-to Phone orders glven p W J. RED 513 1-2 Franklin Street Studio now open every day L e——————————— ————————————————————— i Dining Rcom Seivice Unexcelled. Rates Reasonable. Y ur_Patrorage Cordially Invited. : Why shouldn’t women preserve their. natural attractiveness if that be possible. The Marinello system teaches its followers to make the most of themselves. Every woman should be inter- ested enough to investigate. not what. It was during the sixth week of the | war that Nan discovered little Jean ::::::fl::::mm ::.'”'"I'“ Leman’s photograph on the front page ! Manicuring Scalp Treatment || ©f the Sketch. Major Leman was anxiously seeking news of his little girl and had asked the papers to as- sist him in the séarch. Nan did not wait to have her breakfast but went quickly into the boarding house next door in search of Jean. Nan explained as swiftly as possi- ble in her improved French that Dad- dy Soldier was in London and that he was looking for his little girl. “We will go down this morning when you have eaten your nice break- fast,” Nan told her and went off to ascertain the location of the King Ed- ward VII hospital and the quickest way of getting there. Jean chatted incessantly on the journey down; she was so excited that Nan felt her own calm engulf her as if for the purpose of steadying the child. Consequently, when they arrived at the hospital and ap- proached the big Belglan officer whose head was swathed in bandages and one arm pinned in like fashion to his side, it was Nan who displayed a most wonderful calm. Major Leman broke down emotionally — perhaps more than he had during the entire weeks of flerce fighting—when Jean was swept into his uninjured arm. Over her head, which he held against his breast, he looked at Nan and made swift apology for having conversed in a foreign tongue. “One is apt to forget convention in moments of great emotion,” he added. “In a moment I will thank you for having cared for my little Jean.” “You are not going away from me again, are you?” Jean was asking her father. “Vns, dearie, as soon as this arm is better, and the more often Miss Nan- ny brings you down to see me the sooner I can get back to help the sol- diers at the front.” So it was that during the long hours of convalescence Nan came to know love. 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N Tenn. and Pine St. SEND YOUR FRIEND A Christmas Box Oranges or Grapefruit Packed by the FLORIDA CITRUS EXCHANGE I will be at the Exchange ev- ery week day between 9 a. m. and 12 m. to take orders. F. C. MURRAY. P. O. Box 191. Lois Blynn. The young lady had been housekeeper and nurse for her old almoner. He had given her a cow. some chickens, and the old farm horse and carryall. Independently Nellie had worked up quite a clientele for milk and eggs in the neighboring vil- lage. Usually, the farm. Upon the day that he felt that money would cure a great proportion of his ills, Hal was realizing how slow was the process in his present environment towards attaining a com- petence. Unknowingly, the vague thought of being able to ask Nellle to become his life partner had a certain place in his aspirations. He was greeted at the farm by Nel- lie in her usual bright sympathetio mood. He stayed to supper. As usual he gave to little big-eyed, wisttul Lois, the few pennies he never begrudged her. “You mustn’t do that, Mr. Sturges,” chided Nellie Gently, as the little one scampered away. “Why not?” challenged Hal, pleas- antly. “Because she seems to lose them all. It is strange, but she never asks to go to the village and buy sweet- meats, llke ordinary children. The pennies always disappear mysteri- ously and she never tells where they go to.” “Perhaps she has a secret hoarding place?” suggested Hal, with a smile. He left Nellie and strolled through the orchard in quest of the truant child. Finally he caught sight of her blue frock over near a fence corner. “Why, what are you up to, little one?”’ propounded Hal. Lois looked up with a little an- swering frown. “Not very nice, being peek-a-boo on a young lady!” she chided, childishly. “If you want to know, though, I'm planting pennies!” “Planting pennies!” ejaculated the bafled Hal, “Yes, sir. All you give me—in here,” and she patted the ground. “When they grows, I'se going to pick whole baskusfuls off'n the bushes.” “Whatever put that in your head, child?” demanded Hal. i “Gran'pa;” 80 she had been taught to designate Mr. Eastman. “How is that?” pressed Hal “Saw him do it, watched him,” was the blunt explanation. “Bags—and they chinked. And jew'lry, and pa- pers. He didn’'t know 1 was watching him. Never growed, though. Guess spot was too shady.” “Where was the spot, Lols?” pressed Hal eagerly. She showed him. A bright light of intelligence had flooded Hal Sturges’ mind. Ten minutes later he was view- ing the ground under an old oak tree where Lois insisted she had seen “Gran’pa” “planting money.” “I've been doing some digging,” an- nounced Hal to Nellie somewhat later, and he told of his discovery. “A small fortune,” he explained. “Dear little Lois, but for her the hidden store might never have been found. 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