The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-09-27
UNcllDIT 3NAL SURRENDER
or STUBBORN MILLICENT
BY HARMONY WELLER.

Nillct Z: s.ep.ed lightly from her
limousine and into the foyer Of the
thc1te. She VAS conscious of pre-
senting an unusual picture in her big
dropping hat and frock of palest
mauve; there was just suggestion
of melancholy about Nilicent that on.
~ exaggerated her charm. To the
man standing near the ticket Office
she seemed the embodiment OF all that
was lovely.
Nilliccnt looked rp aad canelf Lis
eyes liked adlnirins!y upon her and
the color tlamcd into her chrc.s Her
fingers trembled slightly as she fun
bled for her ticket.
a frown sped swiftly across her
face. The ticket that she had taken
a month or SO ago was not in her
bag.
J I'VE have been booked back for the
last six weeks the man told her.
Il did so want to see the play" she
informed the man behind the window.
AS she turned to leave the foyer her
appealing eyes swept across space TO
The soodlooking man whose ga lad
biCught The color into ner checks.
II you care 10 axe his stat %ill
be only TOO happy lac said in q per
frc'iv i",ei@oHal t~ue.
@i'i.en leIa' 1 . COMO II
! Ihcn IN a hurried voice thanked aim.
And you are not robbng yougself?"
she questioned
THE seat will 60 begging if you do
rot use it. the man said and gave her
the ticket.
Mile, at reached down into the
depths of her opera bag and brought
forth two-dollar bill
is that riSht?" she asked and did
not raise her eyes.
dull red mounted even to the
mans temples. He drew back swiftly
then as suddenly took the money,
Thank you, yes He raised his hat
and Nillicent Wcnt into the well.fllcd
thcater.
\ moment before the curtain arose
she knew that he had come in and
that he was sitting beside her Milf
cont iclt peculiarly aggricycd thai he
lad nD' . much - looked At hor
She found herself losing in'crcel in
the actors and watching every move
mcnt 81 the Ions. shapoly haGd e The
man Occasionally She s.,e !. lr
rop 3ions gl2lc" II His profile
Gar success Of the play lnd COME
not through any hocle lose Affairs
Nith another mans vii ~ as eruat
financial crisis II was m, I d prot
,y. domestic drama told IN Vcll BAD
;.nced healthy minded people There
We're no scheming politicians and no
wan eyed hcroines
The hero was biz aud broad-minded
and the girl he loved was sweet and
she was not jealous nor catty when
her handsome lover danced with the
dark-eycd Suzctte
Milliccnt felt suddcnl, vcry small
and insignificant and unlOvcd
1T is only play girls who are so sim.
Pile minded" she argued with herself
She glanced q. the man beside her.
His eyes were following the girl on
the stage and Millicent fancied there
was more than the theater.goer's ad.
miration in his face. She bit her lips
70 still their trembling and turned
again toward the stage.
Girls are not like that In real life,
she told herself vehemently.
The curtain went down on the Sec
ond act The man beside Millicent
again went out and in her vivid imag-
inatiOn she pictured him as buying
great clusters OF American beauties
and sending them to the stage heroine.
She wished now that she had not |
seen the play nor the man. Way down |
in the depths of her nature something |
had stirred. Was it the play or was 1t
the man beside her whose personality
seemed to have overpowered her?
Whatever It was Millicent waited
with rapidly beating heart for his re-
turn.
The light went down and she began
TO think he was not coming.
How perfectly ridiculous and silly !
of mo 10 feel this way" She laughed I
scornfully a; herself and ended with .
wis;lUl eyes.
trai'st hcr VII she turned toNuI
fhe h". Of go 81 strr 4 u.a
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