The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-01-22
MOLE AND A SCAR
One Look at the Former and One
at the Latter Starts a
Romance.
BY DONALD ALLEN.

furnishing" department in q clothing
store
Miss Kittie Parker was a young
woman who had employment in q
cloak and suit house.
Mr. Carney used the subway to get
to and from his boarding house up
town as free as if he owned the outfit
| Miss Parker did the same.
Mr. Carney, when luck was with
him, found strap to which he could
hang during his live-mile ride.
Ditto Miss Parker
Mr.. Carney boarded at a house
where there was "a gentleman with a
cork leg
Mss Parker boarded at house
where there was lady who had lost
! pn arm.
Ar. Carney was sized up at the store
| and at his boarding house rs 4 gentle
man who cou'! hot BE- ban boozled by
the wiretappers.
Miss Parker was sized up at the
cloak house ard boarding house as a
girl who would have to be shown il
man came slong and claimed to be
worth million and proposed mar
riage
MIR. Carney's uncle had died, as all
uncles must sooner or later, and left
him diamond horseshoe pin Such
pins are scarce and unique. Mr.. Car
ney didn't prize his pin for the value
OF the diamonds. nor in memory of his
uncle, but because he had been told
that there were only two more like It
In the whole world He wore the
jewel day and night. and whenever a
customer took notice of 1t he was
given a discount Of zen per cent.
Miss Parker's aunt had died, as all
aunts in this world are bound to do,
and left her small gold watch. II
was one of tie sort that is worn
pinned on the left sid, over the heart
II wasn't scare noe unique nor val
| liable 1t was worn altogether IN
memory Of Aunt Sarah and the de
liccus mince pies she used TO make
Behold now of IN evening. hero and
heroine are han ing to the straps in a
| subway car on their way home. They
happened for the first and only time
to be standing side by side They were
not kicking. They wore only too thank
ful that the guard had not showed
them on the roof instead OF course
there were other strap-hangers, thou
sands Of them.
Mr.. Carney seldom noticed a fellow
passenger lie WAS too busy thinking
OF collars cuffs end nccktics He JUS
happened to notice Miss Parker be
cause she had mole on her lef
cheek. She would have preferred t
have had it on her right cheek, but az
her Aunt Sarah said. it had distingu'
look where Nature had located 1t.
Miss Parker happened to notice Mr.
Carney because he had scar on hi
chin. II was one he got while playins
shiny as boy, but as most every
body thought he got 1t while follow
ing Colonel Roosevelt up San JuaI
hin he had let it go at that.
No talking-no tlrtation-nO mash
in, One just looked t the mole, an'
tho other just locked al the scar. Thel
might have bumped together when th'
cars swayed but subway passenger
brmp and think nothing of 1t. IT.
what they call uncone cious bumpns
By and by the guard threw open tn
doors and whispered the name OF
station and announced that all pas
sengers who were dissatisfied coul'
20 ashore. Among those who did -
we're Miss Parker and Mr. Carney. y
the top of the iron steps they sepa
rated to meet no more. She forgot th
scar, and he forgot the mole. Sh
went to her room to put her h!
straight before descending for dinner
He went to his TO see If the fool-kno
} in his tie had worked loose. Ten sec
onds passed and then:
"Oh, heavens"
by Jupiter"
MY watch is gone!"
} my pin is gone.'
1.-THE man with the scar got ~"
1.-THE girl with the mole got it,"
81 suspected him all the time!"
II ought to have known she was
pickpocket.!"
| Mr. Carney went Off to a police sta
ton and told the captain all about \
The captain told the sergeant at tn
|, desk, and the sergeant told the war
detective.
shes a professional" was the Re
ply of the latter
But don't care what she is" pr
tested Mr. Carney. 81 want you 4
catch her and get my pin back"
You have no clew."
''Of course have. Didn't say tina
she had a mole on the left cheek"
We'll, you'll have to help me out
You must ride back and forth on III
subway trains for a week and look TO
her"
IN be hanged il I do! DO 20
think can spare that much time fror
my business?"