Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 6, 1915, Page 7

HESESSE4000 000004 y PR LAt} Felicia’s Furs By Virginta Blatr think I look nice in my mink?" | “Lovely,” he hastened to say. “But why not the red foxes?” “I—" she began, then hesitated,and , stammered, “I'm—I'm tired of them.” . He gased at her in amasement, “Tired?” “Yes. Don't let's talk about it any more.” After that she wore her old mink, cheerfully. Sinclair pondered over the mystery of the red fox furs. Was Felicla then such a spendthrift that she could af- ford to buy furs and not wear them? He made himself unnecesarily mis- erable over them. It seemed to him beautiful, yet she hid her depths be- that Felicia was more frivolous than neath a light manner, and sometimes ever. He couldn’t get in touch with he wondered if there were depths. her. Did Felicia ever think about any-| He came home depressed and tired thing but her own good time, her after a five o'clock call on her. His own interests, her own desires? { mother was out, and he sat down in i But he put all doubts from him front of the fire. when he met her at the station. She| When his mother came she found had been away for a week-end at her him in the darkness. uncle’s—a rich old bachelor, who, “Dear boy” she said, “why so contributed to her love of ease. early?” “Uncle Bob is a dear,” Felicia told | “I went to call on Felicla—and—" ber lover as they walked toward the | “Oh, Felicla!” she broke in. *“I house. “What do you think he gave have something so lovely to tell you me this time, Sinclair?” |about her. I heard the story this Sinclair smiled down at her. “More | afternoon. Such a lovely story. Wait | than I can ever give you, I'm .tnld.;tnl I turn up the lights and I'll tell If you hadn't really said ‘yes,’ Feli- you." cla, I should expect you to trim your I “Sit here in the dark,” he begged. salls and fly straight for some other | He drew a low chair up for her and port. You ought to have anchored to threw himself on the rug with his a millionaire.” |head 1n her lap. “Now tenl me all Some of the brightness went out of the lovely things you can about Fe- her face. “What makes you say licla.” that?” she asked quickly. ' “Well, you know the dear child's “Oh—your love of pretty things—of juncle gave her a check and she | Armour Star (Copyright, 1012, by Associsted Literary Press) Sinclair loved her. He knew it, and he knew, too, that he wanted her for his wife. i She was 80 different from the wom- en of his own family. His mother was a graclous gentlewoman, dis- pensing her bounty, her time, unsel- fishly to others. From her he had drawn his ideal of the perfect woman. He was sure that Felicia’s soul was Hams ‘Uncanbassed at ‘ 18 Cents his Week Only good times.” She flashed a glance into his face. Then she said, lightly, “Poor Sinclair. Is he afraid he’s golng to have a but- terfly wife?” He smiled back. “I'm afraid you will spread your wings and fly away.” She shook her head. “You know I won't,” she said, confidently. Then she opened the silver bag which hung on her wrist. “Look at this,” she sald. -“Isn’t Uncle Bob generous? I . TWEEDELL | PHONE 59 22 e etestsststestsssed id! The Lakeland Seed Co. ED TO WEST MAIN STREET, NEAR § § YATES HOUSE White and Golden Dent Corn Sweet Corn Millet, Rape and Rye tock and Poultry Powder; also Dr. igic and Bee Dee Liniment and Dip and Sce Us in Our New Quarters. E LAKELAND SEED COMPANY. j Potatoes I Coupons in the Great Voting at the Hub. This is the only urnishing Store in Town giv- s with Purchases of Goods Our ing Line Coming in Daily I ] : | “You Look Lovely in Your Red Fox Furs, Felicla.” shall buy furs! Sinclair, there are the loveliest ones—with long tails and a big muff—and with my new blue suit—and my hat with the plume— lnn'll be proud of me.” “I'm proud of you now. It doesn't take fine feathers to make you & «beautiful bird, Felicia.” But in his heart he was saying, | “Why should she spend all that for bought some red fox furs.” Sinclair sat up. “Yes,” he sald quickly, “go on.” “They were very expensive, and she felt a bit extravagant over them, she told me. Well, suddenly she stopped wearing them—" “I know.” “And we all wondered what had become of Felicia’s furs. But she wouldn't tell us.” “Yes.” “The lady who told me bound me to secrecy. She said she wanted me to know because my son was to marry Felicla, and she thought he ought to hear.” In the darkness Sinclair was tense. “Well?” he demanded, “This woman knows & young girl ‘who used to go to school with Felicia. Her name {8 Mary. She is very poor, and this winter she has had the shab- biest clothes. And one day she met Felicla in a downtown shop and Fe- licla insisted that they should have hot chocolate together and over the cups they talked. The girl had such an awful cold, and now and then she shivered. Felicia spoke of it several times, and when at last they came out of the store, she said, “Oh, you're not warm enough, take my muff—please,’ and she thrust it into her hands. She insisted on putting little Mary on the car, and just as she was bidding her goodby, Felicia slipped off her beauti- ful fur collar and laid it around Mary's neck. Then she ran away laughing, and little Mary had a note from her the next morning, saying that she was to keep the furs.” “But why,” Sinclair was on his feet, “why shouldn’t she tell me?” “Ask her,” said his mother prompt- ly, “just as soon as dinner is over you must go to her.” “The dear,” said Sinclair. He sald to his sweetheart that night, “Could anyone but you have done such a lovely thing, Felicla?” “Oh,” she hid her face in her hands, “I was afraid to tell you." “Afraid?” “I thought you'd think me—silly.” He looked down at her gravely. “Why should you think that?” “Because I know you don't like to have me extravagant—but—I—I couldn’t let little Mary go cold, Sin- clair.” The tears were streaming down her cheeks, and suddenly she was sobbing ia bis arms. “Why, Felicia, darling,” he sald, “it was a beautiful thing to do—and 1 love you for it." Nervy Miss Blank. The two girls just in front were dis- furs?” He really thought she looked cussing, quite audibly, Miss Blank. well enough in the old set of mink. Miss Blank, they said, found a valua- And he wondered again what she ble diamond ring at & reception last would do, as his wife. But be forgot Winter, and never so much as put an his forebodings for a time as she advertisement in the papers about it. chatted of her trip. | “She wears it all the time,” sald one A week later, as they walked home Sirl. shouldn’t t.hlnk she'd have the from church together, he sald, “You Rerve, would you?" look lovely in your red fox turs, Fe- “Mercy mo!" answered the other. Uela” | “But, then, she'd do anything. I found “Aren't they dandy?™ she de- & Pearl ring once, but, of course, I nev- manded. | er wore it.” As she walked by his side in all “Oh, did you really find one?” ex- her beauty, there were glances cast at claimed the first. “What was it like? her of which she was perfectly con- What did you do with it?” sclous. “Isn't it nice,” she said, glee- | The other girl merely put 'her hand fully, “to have people think I look t0 her throat, where a pearl set as a | well in my red fox?" i pin held her dainty collar. “That’s ‘ “Yes, it's nice,” sald Sinclair ab- ' It.” she said. ! sent-mindedly. He was thinking of | And then they went on talking of | the future. Would she be happy when | how shockingly nervy Miss Blank is. there were no lovely things for others e R ) to admire? - The Soul In Command. He spoke to his mother about ft All our limitations are of the body, that might. “I'm afraid I can't give but in our diviner moments, when the | ber the things she will want, mum- soul takes command, it makes but | sle.” small account of them.—Amelia Barr. “Don’t worry,” sald that wise lady. | _— “Felicia will be glad to be shabby for | Making Bad Worse. | your sake.” | The man who Is always sure that | “Do you think s0?” he asked. | the worst is yet to come adds to his “] know it,” was her decided an- offense by waiting around for the pur- swer. “She has a side you haven't pose of proving it. discovered yet, Sinclair. She won't Mltm,w.hmmmmfll Be Our Windows ect the Superb Stock with ch our Store is filled. > Hu THE HOME OF gffner and Marx Good Clothes: JOS. LeVAY us by ** As a Result. 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