Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 13, 1915, Page 7

THE SVENING TELEGRAM LAX ELAND, FLA., SPECIAL SALE Rexall Goods TOLD AT THE cLUB By JOHN BARRETT. “Her Serene FEB. 13, 1915, o Thé Big, Burly man the seemed 8 H i fast augmenting ranks of women Plorers,” sald Randolph at “She has left on a three years’ through Central Araba, and THIS WEEK see Display. All Rexall Goods Guaranteed Lake Pharmacy PHONE 42 Beatrice of Luxemburg has joined ‘the g 1 i 8 the prince of Wessel, after four years ,of married life made much conversa- “That's interesting,” put in Bruce. “I didn’t know princesses were hu-'way i man enough to be granted divorces. last we reached the hotel door togeth- By :‘l.:e way, what's become of Gardi- ‘u' there was no sign of an automo- Ber? { blle or of the countess. The cmrb‘ ‘What has become of Gardiner?” | maid had vanished, and the proprietor asked somebody else. “He hasn't' seemed quite indignant when I ques-' been here for a couple of months. | tioned him about the kidnaping, and Last thing I heard of him he was accused me of being inebriated. ! traveling _En Europe. Has anybody; “Gardiner spent the night rushing seen him? about the streets, in the wild hope‘ T've seen him,” said that the countess was being held Parnes. ! somewhere in Spa, and that he could | find her. I went with him to prevent him from getting into trouble, though I had the hardest work in doing so. { He wanted to see the American con- sul, and actually did go to police head- | quarters. Of course they laughed po- (mely at his story and promised | make investigations. That was except for one thing. 6et Your Coupons in the Great Voting Contest at the Hub. This is the only Gents’ Furnishing Store in Town giv- ing Yotes with Purchases of Goods Our little Jim “But either he has failing eyesight or he is living incog. just new. I saw him stepping out of an auto ia front of a house in Yonkers, where I happened to be last week. to all, where in ten years' time.” “Speaking cf Gardiner,” said Treve- than, “I'm going to tell you fellows something. As vou know, Gardiner and I went to Europe together some five years ago. We stopped at a lit- tle hotel in Spa, on the eastern edge of Belgium, where crowds of tourists g0 every summer to try their luck Spring Line Is Coming in Daily at the gambling tables, or to get back their health at the medicinal baths. “On the lowest step of the hotel Gardiner and I found a lady’s visit- ing card. ‘It had evidently dropped, or had been thrown there by intent as ‘the girl was being carried out of the hotel. On it was engraved the name of the lady who is now, or was till recently, Princess Beatrice of Luxemburg. “So Gardiner had the clue, but that was all. I went with him to Luxem- burg and we stoed before the big, old- fashioned palace of the ruler, and Ivutchad the sentry walking up and down with his bayonet over his shoul- der. Not much use trying to get past him! We walked all round the palace by day and by night, but there was no sign of the Princess Beatrice. We waylaid all the carriages that drove in and drove out, and if the princess had been in any of them I think Gardiner would have sprung on the box and tried to take the carriage to America, duennas, coachman and all. ‘Ordlnary house, ordinary auto, but the lady he was with—say! She was a stunner. Biack, flashing eyes, ! and such an air! I'd know her any- | There were some interesting people ! “We spent, I think, three days in | LAUNCHES this sort of nonsense, and then we read in the newspapers that the princess was living in seclusion at the court of Wessel, paying a visit to the See Our Windows 'RUSS RODS 'OAK, CYPRESS They reflect the Superb Stock with which our Store is filled. The Hu THE HOME OF Hart Schaffner and Marx Good Clothes: JOS.. LeVAY The Countess Scemed to Grow Pale as Death. at our hotel. One of them was a Bel- glan countess—at least, so she called herselt. She was dashingly pretty, and about twenty-five. She was at- ‘tended only by an elderly maid, and kept a good deal to herself. “I don't know how Gardiner struck {up an acquaintance with her, but be- fore a week was out she and he were always together, walking in the woods, listening to the band, or sit- ting outside the casino side by side. “You know Gardiner was never a communicative sort of fellow, but it wasn't long before it was plain he was desperately in love with her, and by and by I drew the whole story from him. It seems she was not really a countess—at least, that was only one of her numerous titles, and her father had arranged for her to marry a man of high standing, and rather than do so she had run away ith the maid, while her father was ouring Europe to find her. She ouldn’t even tell Gardiner her name. | ;But she loved him as much as he, . loved her. “‘ don't know what to do, Treve- than,’ he said to me. ‘If I thought it honorable I'd ask her to take the next ship to America with me. I could sup- port her, of course, though not in the way she has been accustomed to. But —well, somehow I don’t feel it right to do things in an underhand way like that.’ p “I told him that if he didn’t take the bull by the horns he would be impaled. I adjured him, by his rights as an American citizen, to ask her | to come back with him. He intimated that she would go. I said I'd be best man, and that once we were on the high seas there would be no way of losing her. Even if the parents dis- covered it, she couldn’t be held up at ¥llis island, and he, Gardiner, was as much entitled to marry a countess, or whatever she was, as if she wam‘ a department store owner's daughter. “Gardiner wavered. You remember | lhow scrupulously he used to weigh | things. Well, the end came quite un- expectedly. I had about worked him up to the point of following my ad- vice. A steamship was to leave Ant- werp for New York the next after- noon and there would be plenty of time to catch the night train from S| p"lWe three were sitting out in front of the hotel. I can see the countess’ big eyes, fixed on Gardiner’s; 1 could see the tremulous fluttering of her heart under her corsage. And some- | ' Rags and improper dressings have begn respons- ible for more blood poisoning and serious results than anything else. The safe thing to do when any wound is made is to come straight to us for antiseptic gauze, bandages anfi §upphes. Better still, don't wait until some one1s injured, but come now and have it in the house forinstant use. We have everything forthe sick room for every occasion. Woods’ Drug PHONE 408 Store WE TAKE CARE SH00eNNeTEITITS0 IEWELRY WORTH WHILE 5 to the standard ail the o our mind when we CUSTOMER. The t how T understocd that Gardiner Mac % eached his conclusion, aud that he | was going to do what I had begged him to. They were simply waiting | for me to g0 away. “] made some trivial excuse and The Cole & Hull >er\'ihcc is up ) time. The first thought that comes T0 see a customer in the store is, SATISFY TH ch e Every small detail is given the most consideration. above explains the steady growth of our business. s “A PLEASURE TO SHOW GOOD: COLE & HULL Jewelers and Optometrists Lakeland, Fla. SOPEIPITITSGTTITS bour or so. I took a few turns up | of the hotel; and then a big, burly | man dressed like an officer and ac- ! companied by two smaller men, also | in uniform, came out of the hotel and walked straight toward Gardimer and the countess. | “] logked round after them, At.ll!‘ mother of the young prince whom, it ‘was rumored, she was to marry. Next day the engagement was announced. That day we left for America. You may have noticed Gardiner has seemed changed during the last three or four years.” “Yes,” answered Jimmy Barnes. “Quieter.” — SOSLHISSSES0O0 FISHING IS FINE! 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By the way, | I'd like to see that plece about the | princess in the newspaper.” Somebody picked it up and handed | it to him, and Trevethan read it. | “Well, she still has the traveling instinct,” he said, “and if she eludes the Arabs as deftly as she eluded her father when she was at Spa I shouldn’t be surprised it she did suc- ceed in crossing the peninsula. Why, here's her likeness! She hasn’ changed a particle since those day when I knew her. But this doesn’t | begin to do her justice. Hello, Jimmy! ‘What ails you?" Jimmy Barnes had picked up the paper and was staring at the like- ness. “0, nothing much,” he answered,! laying it down. “Onmly this happens to be the lady I saw with Gardiner in ‘Yopkers,” (Capyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.) He Must Have Been Hard Up! The Managing Editor—Did you give that fellow a job? The City Editor—I did. He told me the truth about himself. “What did he say?” “Said he was broke and needed work."” “Good! I had him sized up wrong. 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