The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-11-29

JedllLRIIc lelp-
ed herself TO salad before she asked
Wrlnkling her dainty brows in curi.
oslty, What, for goodness sake? You
look like a triple tragedy in bronze .
Then, as a suspicion took shape in
her mine, she laid her fork down and
raced him fearfully You're not
Words failed her.
He nodded solemnly. Il certainly
am, to my everlasting sorrow he re.
piled with feeling.
Jeanette sighed. Then, we're two
OF kind she said, land we were put
together for purpose. I'll really have
to ask your name. My thoughts were
wool gathering when you we're"
MISUNDERSTANDING, more probably
he interrupted. laughingly. "Ill con-
fess that I've been trying in vain to
find suitable rhyme for
"Oh, DON'T" she exclaimed "as If
| didn't have troubles Of my own. And
the name she asked suddenly.
observation-disclosures Wainwright"
mot the Wainwright she asked in
awed tones.
The same, please your ladyship,"
he bowed with exaggerated Difference.
And here, I've been-I've been just
too impairment for-Oh!" she STAN
mered
Lets form a truce and declare the
subject barred" he offered. She smil-
ed an eager assent.
MAY ask where you are staying?"
you may she rendered.
"Then where" Her soft laugh
stopped his words. I'm not staying
II live here she offered conciliating-
ly.
Eyes, and where? l mean to CALL"
he said quietly.
NO." interrupted Jeanette, hur.
riedly, II don't receive callers-I have.
MT time," she explained.
$50 be it, your ladyship." She
glanced furtively at his strong face,
and scolded herself for the interest
it evoked
did you ever have an ideal?" he
asked irrelevantly.
Heaps Of EN-" she responded read
lily.
II mean, did you ever cherish the
likeness Of possibility and suddenly
discover that 1t was real flesh and
blood creation instead of Pigment
OF an unstable imagination?'
She looked at him, curiously. No"
Then you can't UNDERSTANDINGS one
would feel under such circumstances
or that one would have the desire
to" He paused and looked into her
eyes with meaning. Jeanette laugh
ed and stirred in embarrassment.
you don't mean" she began with
her customary straightforward direct
ness, that am the unspeakable--
THAT is precisely what do mean."
he replied, gravely. Il didn't recog-
nize the likeness at first. 1t was sew
eral minutes before you unbent SUI.
ficiently to bestow your smiles"
"Mr. Wainwright" Jeanette bris-
tied in simulated INDICATION.
1T was a spring day in early May
he continued dreamily, ignoring her
exclamation, "a bevy of school girls
with long braids down their backs
were parading the park. The hat OF
the fairest one of them ala slim.
childish, elf of a girl-blew down the
street, and lad of tender years gave
pursuit and rescued the offensive
piece of headgear. He returned 1t,
trembling with the holiness of his :
1aring, to the owner, who would not
sven lift her long lashes as she
him family. I've always had
IN overwhelming desire to find that
,oung lady and see for myself what
lind of eyes she possessed, that sne
vas SO unwilling to use them"
And that was you'll should never
lave believed it." Jeanette laughed
! bit absently. F
"And now that I have found the
yes he continued. a new determine