Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 28, 1915, Page 7

THE REMITTANCE MAN A Story of a Partnership, By 1ZOLA FORRESTER Copyright by Fradk A. Munsey Co. e —— purpose of recelving a certain letter from’ London. She said to Dewing: “I've got thirty days, baven't I, Mr. Dewing, if | can raise the balance? ‘The iuterest is paid up to the 10th.” “Yel'm, you sure have.” responded Lin lhnppuy. “And | hope you can raise it. If you can't, 1 guess I'll bave to take the place off your hands.” Moflie smiled and tightened the refns. “All vight. I'll be bere on the 10th, then. You'll come over tomorrow, Mr. Crittenden?" Nest morning while the early mist still curled like low campfire smoke up the hillsides be rode to Upper Bend. Mollie was out feeding her chickens when he arrived. “I've got three other men working , bere. but they aren't a bit of good." bis pocket. : she told him. “Two look after the In front of the store was Mollle | Sbeep. and ove stays around handy to o, ted on ber brown pouny. belp me here at the ranch. The place iy ’I"::“m enough to make any | 13 all run down. It needs a man's hand man pause, but there was more than ;ud point of view. 1 hope you'll get per beauty and grace to check the u::nw::hb;:igm T Euglisbman. fof & moment later she | wi" gaid Crittenden. “That's pegan to cry. S bl De . What 1 came for.” Beside ber st n Dewlng, a grio * Byt pe did not tell her how strange on bis face and cbeerful contentment g goemed, this buckling in \s emanating from bis personality. i 158 010, barnes fairly after nearly two years of inertla. He From & lounger at the door of the . pimyelr hardl. ly sensed the keen, buoy- totfice Crittenden caught a remark aqn¢ gpur of responsibility. that sent the bloud faster through bis . (pe day Mollie stopped him as she um.‘ / | was riding. “Lin's got ber dead to rights. She rhings are picking up. Jobn." She o't meet the payments on the Upper | called him Jobn quite naturally now Bend outfit, and be won't give ber | “ think we'll pull through, There's time. No fool woman can run the ' $500 to pay by the 10th I've got some nach, no matter how good looking she gaved toward it, and 1 heard today #o. It needs a man[” those new folks down the valley want Nobody will ever know whether the | to buy sheep. We could let 8 bunch spark of British chivalry collided with | g9 couldn't we?" s instantaneous appreciation of Mol- | “Would you mind taking in.a partner li‘s points or whether it was purely | here, Miss Owen?" asked Crittenden nubconscious action regulated by fate's | giowly. “I like it. and I think | could decree, sex attraction and opportune | make a good thing out of it. 1 can put propinquity. Sufice it to may that|in my share, and that wonld pay off some lmaluth current turned Crit-| Dewing and give us a start." tenden's footsteps in‘the direction of | The color rose in Mollie's face. She the brown pony and Mollie. did not meet his eyes. It was not an “I understand, Miss Owen.” he be- | easy thing she had to tell him. but she gan, with the delightful drawl that went ahead bravely. e Goldspur 'gooseflesh, “that you | “Johu, | want to be frank with sou. need a foreman over at your place” | ] like you. You know that. don't yon?" Mollie met his eyes and stopped cry-{ “No, I didn't” said Crittenden. and fug She iiked his eyes. There was & the look fn his eges almost made Mol glint of humor in them, and they were | lie lose her courage. a relist nfter the little black slits that “You're a hully foreman,” she added foruished Lin's sonl with loopholes. | firmily. “RBnt wonld yon stick? I've “I'll take you if yon want to try It.” ! heard all about yon, of course"— she fiashed hack. *What's your pame?" | “What have you heard¥" Jubu Crittenden.” *“That yon are a remittance man.” Mollle feic a slight thrill of disturb-| Then Crittenden told her simply, ance. She bad beard of Jobn Critten-' without any show of repentance of den Everybody around Goldspur bad. excuse for the past. He had made a -sajd . he . was. g “remittance fajlure of lige at home. He was.no ————— o 07 P A el i L Crittenden stepped ont of the post- ofice at Goldspur, with his usual montbly letter from London town in HE basis of elastic paint— the kind that expands and contracts with the wood, leav- ing no cracks exposed to the weather—is ATLANTIC WHITE LEAD (Dutch Boy Painter Trade Mark) and pure linseed oil, We sell these prime paint ingredients as well as the necessary tinting matter to get the color combination you desire. is another feature. It's full Qpraers Paiting Guide o helo o 1 2 eions. "Gome 10 a0d % ‘your copy. . WILSON HARDWARE COMPANY Lakeland, Florida The Secret of a Good Figure brassiere. Hundreds of thousands of women -bording S otle Brassiere for the reason that they regard v as a corset. 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Out bere the outlook is wide. 1 will make ; after being passed from one Person t0 & ¢34BFEEPIPPPEPESEEEEE bd- a good partoer, Miss Owen.” “Would you promise to be as faith- ful as yon bare been the pgst three weeks?" “I'll promise anything if you'll let | me stay,” be retorted. with sudden recklessness, and Mollle at ooce dis- continued the personal circuit. n She took him at his word. Dewing! was bought out the following week, and Crittenden became partoer at the ! dogs. Upper Bend. Tacitly a new basis of | Object for furtber abuse; if | rebelled friendship bad been established be- | tween the two, however. He ‘rarely’ came to the home ranch, but spent bis time at the sheep camp. Mollle did not mind—not so very much. One morning he rode back with a brown and yellow pansy in the button™ hole of his gray flanpel shirt. Tbe dusky petals reminded him of Mollie’s eyes. That evening Mollle went out in the moonlight and looked longingly up the valley toward the sheep camp, four miles away on the mountain side. She caught a glimpse of the possible fu ture and bent to find another brown and yellow pansy, warming to ber fin- ger tips at her own thoughts. Instead. she found Crittenden’s latest letter from London. carefully folded as it had fallen from his pocket. She sat down on the low stoop. chin on palm, weighing her love's worth. In the clear moonlight Lin Dewing found her there. Mollie barely listen- ed while he explained how be had rid- den fifteen miles out of his way to see ber. “It's on account of this bere Critten den you've tuken in as partner, Mol He.* he told ber. “You've turned the whole thing over to bim, and he’s made a mess of it. The boys won't stand for him any more. They're riding to- night to clear bim out of the valley. and Goldspur™-- “What are yon talking about, Lin Dewing?" gasped Mollle hotly, crush- ing the letter in her band. “You know be's never done a thing that was | crooked!” “He dou't know the game nor the rules of sheep grazing. He's trespass- ed on cattle land. The boys will make 1 him see light!" i | *“It tsn't them—it'’s you, Lin Dew: ing!” Mollie caught up a lantern and start- ed on a run for the corral.’ After her went Lin, his borse following leisurely. Neither spoke. He knew what she meant to do. As she seized the bridle and saddle from their books be caught her arm. “Don't be a fool, kid! You can't stop | them now. What do you want with | bim anybow? 1 only pushed yon hard on the payments becanse | wanted you to bave to ask me for help.” “Heaven help anybody who had to ask yon for help! You let me go!” *1 won’t. Yell, yell all you want to!" Mollie tore bher wrist from bis grasp and whistled. Lin swung around at| | the answering barks, but the big wolf- hounds were on him, and be went down like a worried fox. “Watch bim, Scraggs!” Mollie called. | “Easy, Monk. just watch bim! Don't let him get away!™ | The pony was on its way before her right foot had caught the stirrup, and she bent low, laughing recklessly, ev- ery nerve on fire at the thought of what lay ahead. She knew Lin Dew- ing and his crowd of men. They would clean out the sheep camp with- out a qualm unless she could reach |t in time to warn Crittenden and the herders. So it bappened that wben the raid- ers rode over the rim of the foothill and looked down at the sheep, close huddled in the moonlight, they met a surprise. Mollle had begged for a re- volver. “It's half my property and balf my fight.” she told Crittenden. *1 want to help.” He gave her one. There was barely time to get the saddle off ber steaming pony and sling a blanket across its back before Dewing's men came, but even in those precious moments he had mavaged to make her understand what her coming meant to bim. But the fight was bis own. Brief as it was a keener sense of enjoyment swept over him than he bad kvown In years. He was fighting for more than Mollie’s rights—for his own new hopes and ambitions. When it was over he sent the herd- ers to look after the three silent figures that lay on the moonlight splashed hill- side and turned to Mollie. She saw his eyes and the great longing In themy and handed him the letter from her olouse. “1 found it by the pansy bed, John.” | she told him with ber old directness. | THE HAND OF GOD By M QuAD Copyright, 1914, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate. All | bave to tell you in connection with the accident that bronght me to this hospital is this: My parents were drowned before | was a year old. and another | was at last sent to a pau- | pers’ home. At the age of ten | ran | away from the institution, boping to ' better my condition, but instead of that ; 1 tell into the hands of this and that ! farmer, and in every instance | was | overworked and ground down. The : name generally given me was “I'au- | per.” and | was clothed in the cheapest ! and poorest garments ang fed with the | 1 1| bore 1t patiently | was an ! i 1 was kicked out to find another place. } 1 used tv wonder and speculate as to why | was treated ip this manner— why there was never a kizd word for me. why men, women ana“niidren de- sired to humiliate me ufiu add tv my | burdens. [ wasn't malformed. and | wasn't sulky or impudent. Had any human being interested himseit in me should have come up tv give the world an bonest fight in an honest way. | was sixteen years old as near as 1 can make it when | was last kick- ed out. | had worked for that farmer a year, and be had clothed me like a scarecrow and fed me like a dog. Sim- ply because | broke the bandle ot a boe by accident | was beaten until 1 fell unconscious. In the small hours of the night, groaning at every. step, but fearful of my life, 1 took to the highway, and a carter gave me n lift | which carried me many miles before light. | was determined to try the city this time. My rags. my ighorance and my general appearance bad always frightened me away from the towns and kept me among the agriculturists. 1 had scarcely descended from the cart when | encountered an old man, who looked me over and then accosted me. He seemed to have n kind face, and be spoke pleasantly, and it was soun agreed that | should go with him. As | was a pauper and a runaway, too, | could expect no more than clothes and bonrd in exchange for my services. The man was named Savin. He kept a secondband furniture shop, and as he was all alone in the world be lived in a miserable way in a room over the shop. In a day or two he got me to sign a paper binding myselt to him until of age, and the ink was bard- ly dry on the “X" mark before | found a change in him, He was by nature cruel, stingy and selfish, He worked me without stint. and during the two years | wns with bim | was always bungry aud tired. One night when | had been with Mr. Sabin about two years and just after he had benten we for some trifie and lnughed over his work # strange thought came to me. For the first time in my life a feeling of revenge crept into my heart, and it made me shake " and tremble. 1 had stood Insults and abuses beyond number and never thirsted for reparation. In a quarter { of an hour there was more chunge In me thun the Iast ten years had wrought. | called up all my wrongs. My heart filled with bitterness against the whole world. | wanted to strike men dead for what they had made me suffer. The old man found a change in me the nest morning. | had spent the whole night thinking, and when he called me his dog nnd thfew me a morsel of food | stood up and cursed bim. When be laid bis hands on me I threw him to the floor. He was dumfounded, but be shut his teeth together and looked at me with bair | shat eyes and said that he would have my life. We were both sullen and si- lent that day. but | reasoned it out that his plan was to come downstairs that night as | slept and bind me fast | and then torture me to his heart's con- ! tent. Yes. | rensoned it out that this would be his way., and while | was | wondering how | could haffle bim Sa- tan came tv my ald. “Go und kill him!" whispered the | tempter. “Go and kill him and take ! all his money and flee far awayt He deserves killing for the way he has , treated you. and all the money you can | find should be yours by rizht!" | The more | thought it over the less murder and robbery seemed a crime, and by and by | had neither fear nor pity in my heart. At midnight, with an iron bar in my band, ) crept up- | stairs and softly pushed the vid man’'s | door open. e bad just got out of bed. He bad a candle In one band and a rope in the other, and there was a dev- flish smile on his face as be thought how he would trap and get revenge on ‘ me. My face must have told him that | 1 was there to do murder, for his jaw dropped, and | saw terror in his eyes. I bad raised the bar and was about to spring forward, neither of us having uttered a word. when there was a erushing and a splintering, and a great heap of junk which was stored In the | room above him came down. It was morning before any one found us. He was dead—broken. battered. i «1 didn’t read it. but it bothered me. | bruised and crushed out of all sem- I thought that when we went into part- | blance—while | was little better off. bip you stopped all this sort of ok : o | do murder. They called it an accident. thing.” “Yet you rode tonight to save me. | all the same!” “To save the sheep,” lle. avoiding his eyes. “1 must get home. Lin may be chewed to mincemeat if he tries to get away from the dogs.” | “I'm going with you.” sald Crmdn-' den. 1 She turned at that, one band on the pony's back, ber lips parted. ! “But why?" | “Why?' He reached for ber sud-' denly. “Because | bave the right or mean to have from tonight! Youreyes were the spur that started me wew road, Mollle. I've been keep the trail since. That letter was only in answer to one of mine ordering the disposal of the property that hronght me in the little income T told yon of Fiomet golnz bk Ay " alie @ lifpuied | corrected Mol- | No man suspected that | was there tv though | tell yon it was the hand ot God tovk the old n.an's life to prevent me from becoming a murderer. but at the same time dealt out my just | punishment. Had | dyed my band in blood there would have been no heaven for me. Tomorrow when they bear my corpse out of this maybe the an- gels will bave pleaded my cause and secured forgiveness for me. THE MORE YOU ADVERTISE THE BUSIER YOU GET . We Take Pride In Doing ____ Werk Right B2ING YOUR JOB TO US, AND SEE 'J.B. 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Mg: - I | RN DD my life I never did pass a night with more epicurism of sleep; there being | now and then a noise of people that ! waked me, and then it was a very | rainy night, and then I was a little weary, that what between waking and | then sleeping again oge after another, ! I never had so much content in all ! my life.” The probability that we get snatches of gleep at odd moments when we suppose ourselves to have remained continuously awake is supported by the phenomena of dreams. Mark Twain accounted for his own “disap- pearing visitor” by the beliet that he had unconsciously had a very short nap, and many have explained visions of ghosts as due to dreams during such short naps. For nothing is better established in connection with dreams than that an apparently very long one can occur during an almost infinitesimal time. 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