The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-10-24
Il LLOYD OsBOURNE
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f, sure To .-c y Jr1li It" 1cTle1 Matt.
Even If they backed out we could
sell il somewhere else
Yes. that's true" said Victor, recOv-
ering his cheerfulneSS. land maybe for
a better price, considering you took the
first bid they made Depend upon it,
you could have raised them few hun
dred dollars"
They fingered awhile longer. talking
about the $500 commission Victor
hoped to get on a secondhand car and
as to the adviSablity of taking $1,000
cash for the garage or a thousand
down and another thousand on nine
months note
Perhaps Matt kept closer to the We
randl that DlorninS than usual, for II
was warm and sunny and likely to
tempt the presence of Mrs. Sattane
with her rocking chair her darning
| and her ntcrminabe tongue. For once
Matt was eager for Mrs. Sattane, and
when at length she appeared he was
very agreeable and friendly, drawing
up beside her. with his pipe, instead
OF dropping off the end rail, as he ordi-
narily would have done, After few
false starts he got her on the subject
OF the MarShalls, and, though as a mar
rator she was as uncertain as a rabbit
and apt to give conversational jumps
In the most random directions, Matt
always contrived to bring her back
and running again in the way he
would have her go.
The general when a young cavalry
officer hardly indeed more than boy.
had made a runaway match with a
Miss koenig Of Philadelphia. who was
so rich tina people used to call her
Miss ki|manSegc He had thereupon
given up the army and taken to law
instead and from law had graduated
Into politics and congress. After
seven or eight years his wife had died
leaving him with two little boys, who
were now middle aged men, one n
traveller and writer Of some reputation
and the other an ironmaster on the
lakes. with railroad OF his own and
fleets OF ships The general had taken
his bereavement terribly to heart and
Tor awhile went all to pieces until his
friends made interest for him and had
him appointed minister to some far
away and insignificant post. more with
the idea Of benenting him BY the
change OF scene than launching him
into what was to he distinguished
career He rose RAPIDLY. was constant.
~ promoted and was one Of the first
American ambassadors when that
grade was inaugurated by President
Mckinley.
In the meanwhile he had married
again. losing his second wife MANY
years later in a carriage accident
His daughter, Christine. had narrowly
escaped the same fate. and for several i,
years had been helpless invalid. no
body ever thinking she would he we'll
AGAIN. But mt last she recovered and |
was as strong as most girls, or strong.
er. TO judge from the daring way she
rode and her much talked of fiirhts On
skis.
On the Spanish war breaking out
Marshall had thrown diplomacy TO tha
winds. and returned to Connecticut -
belp organize the states quota for tbe
national defense, receiving his com.
mission as brigadier general of vol.
unteers, and earning much local ra.
nown by his energy and patriotism
1t was not his fault that the enrolled
citizens never saw Spaniard or
burned anything more deadly than
mosquito powder. The picnic stage
was hardly past before the war was
over ana the general reappointed to
MS former post Since then no had
dehnitely retired. more on his daugb.
ters account than his own. II was
SAID, to LET her see something Of her
own people. and marry In her own
land. his regard for courts and court
life being none of the best.
de Kept up three establishments
one In Washington, another at Bar
Harbor. and the third, his big. com.
Portable old colonial house at Fair
oaks. about four miles cut OF Mana.
swan-moving from one to another as
Inc numor seized him. Fair Oaks was
his favorite. as he had owned It ever
since bis first marriage, and had never