The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-07-27

OlQH KNOW Nnen. mad lneu lOOieu
all right ] hear they called me the
Unknown-to be identified by the
scar"
Carter nodded.
"1'm-glad the old name shant be
dragged In the dust-no one shall ever
know" went on the sufferer. And
I'll 60 down through history as the un.
known outlaw-who came to your
quiet village-killed mani wish
they could know how he deserved kill
ing-and then killed another, and was
finally tracked to death-by dogs.
Thank God, my mothers dead-and
all the folks. But what will she-she
will never know, never hear-My God!
what will she think
Then through the trees. gladstone
and gay as the twitter of the birds,
came the sound Of a woman's voice
singing II startled the silence OF the
woods, and a greater contrast to the
tragedy which had just been enacted
/ there could not be imagined.
The outlaw had raised haggard
! face.
DO you know what that means?" he
cried hoarsely. DO you know what
that means, man? 1t means that she
is coming that am going to see her
once more-before 1t is too late!
The trilling voice was becoming
louder Carter went from red to
white as he listened Then suspicion
became certainty, and he broke out
1T cant be-because Is my
sisters voice."
Then she is your sister. 1t is the
song ! taught her-over at Albany
} where | met her,
She visited there murmured the
other DULY. My God" he cried as
J clearer understanding of the situation
: was borne home to him,
The dying mans face had under
gone a change Already lined from
the agony he was suffering, and DAM
with the dew of death, 1t became al
, awful sight to behold,
, do you understand-don't yo'
: | see?" The words fell from his still
? lips almost inaudibly. For the low
, of God, man." he broke off-"dont lie
her know-keep it from her. and yet
, and yet--let see her
4 For a moment Carter stared, the
/. the nearing voice warned him Int
action.
0 "She shall never know" he salt
answering the eyes which looked u
, into his as trustingly as dog might
! and yet you shall see her"
A little later, In answer to WHIST
from Carter, there burst into the CT
' Gle formed OF fallen logs and unde
= growth. and hidden by trees, the II
ure of a girl. She was bareheaded ar
flushed. and the love of life burne
y from her eyes. The concluding strait
OF UpT SOUR lItlIlDiCu w Gil 'ipN"'~
y her parted lips. then died there
~ Don't be alarmed, but there hi
- been an accident" her brother WI
10 saving. See, dear, he was coming
10 YOU. But he carried weapon-t
~ man-hunt, you know-and the weap'
fell accdcntly to the ground. II we
J. off"
But even before he had tlnish
speaking the girl had turned de
ear to him, and with tho sublime COZ
10 age of womanhood had pushed nj
~ aside until she herself piliowed I
y sufferers head. Her hands were bu
u ministering the hundred and one Ill
attentions woman has at her co
mt mand and of which man knows no
IL ing, only touch, a car 2sS, here a
Vn there perhaps but only those OF
fe who have experienced know.
d Carter, after receiving the lightni
- lcok Of gratitude from the dyi
as mans eyes, had turng! away. But fri
ei ments Of the whispered colloq
hs reached him.
CT Don't grieve, dear" murmured
Up woman, though grief had alrea
of burned It's imprint In her own star
eyes. 1T might be worse. Yes, dc
ne think, for instance, II you were dy'
a death such as the poor outlaw
re- we're tracking must die-think, I
ais how much worse It would be for
You die respected OF men, and 10y
lot loved always
ay- Carter never knew how long af'
ward It was-as time is counted-t
}" he heard faint gasp, then Woma
cry. But the sound told him that
ith was over and that to one more e.
ce. tence there had been written FIN
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