The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-02-07
pearlng View Of Mad Young Lady,
Click Snans Scraam,"

NICK. snap. scream.
The old commodore had been in
earnest about those beartraps. though
the signs about spring guns had been
intended solely for moral effect. He
had set half dozen traps, and as she
mad progressed toward the dell Clara
mad sprung one of them. Her escape
from the cruel Jaws was marvellous.
They missed her ankles but gathered
In her skirts of stout cloth. and she
presently found that she was as much
OF prisoner as II she had been
caught by foot.
Just that one scream and then she
realized the situation. The irascible
commodore might come charging
through the woods at any moment.
and at any moment the ungentleman.
" young gentleman might take Il
into his head to abandon the old boat
and follow on her trail. It did not
take her two minutes to realize that
without knife to cut away her skirts
she must remain there a prisoner un.
I'll some one came to release her.
She could not pick up the trap and
walk off with 1t. owing to its weight.
and neither could she sit down and
rest.
For the first ten minutes Clara pom.
dered. For the next she silently wept.
She could hear that young man wills.
tie down on the beach. In the other
direction she could hear the commo-
dore cursing his coachman and man.
m-all.work. She had left the Young
man in a hnf about a boat If he
came she must apologize She be-
lievod she had read or heard that re-
tired rommodores first caught their
victims in bear traps and then burned
then n the stake. There was more
Fiert weeping. 4 photograph Of
Clara Parker Just then should have
beer Quilted "A Mermaid Ashore. or
The Shodder of the Scalding Tear"
ll;rrv Binghams kodak enthusiasm
mad l'd him To be bit discoirtcous
towards i STRANGE young lady He
regretted II IT once. She had no soon
err t'nod her back on him than hc
kicked tho boat into the surf and then
theoretically kicked himself along the
hcncA fer 4 quarter Of mic. Then
he entered the Moods 10 give hor a
M n gnl IL, 4 ~.
homr Nfter remaining in hiding for
hall ~ hour he took wander among
the trees. and all Of a sudden he stood
before the young lady whom he hn-
lievcd was homcward bound She
was shedding fears and yet seeking
To naintan n certain dienity.
u | beg your pardon. but is any.
thing wrong?" he stammcrcd as he
came TO n halt.
She chokcd and swallowed In hcr
efforts to look indignant.
"Ah. sec" he continued. "You
have been caught In n trap. Why
didn't you CALI
''' ""i''u w IeIly tHdt HOtIIHS ON
earth could have induced her to ask
his aid after the episode of the boat.
but he seemed so different now. that
she simply shed more tears and wiped
them away He found n limb on the
ground, and with a permit me" he
used 1t MS a lever To pry the Jaws OF
the trap open and release her.
Marrow escape for you,' he quiet.
~ said. whoever set such n tran
here ought to be sent to prison. l.
="
The girl stood md looked at him,
wondering whether to thank him or
walk or without n word, when he
continued:
I'm sorry about that boat and ask
your forgiveness
Grant granted" she managed 10
say as she walked off.
One can never tell how such things
will turn out. hut rs the retired com
modOre hears their voices singing and
laughing over tho hedge dividing the
two villas on the right he growls:
"Humph' Another pair OF young
FOOLS getting ready to make them.
selves miserable for lifc.."