The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-02-25
ROUTE TO GLEN ROBIN
BY JOHN PHILIP ORTIZ.

If the cook at The Elms" had been
| brlbed to give the route to Glen Rob
IN she would have said:
When you get out of the front gate
you turn to the right.
Yes"
You go down the road till you come
to creek. You don't wade the creek,
put cross on a bridge. Then you go
along Till you come to a big elm tree.
There you turn to the right and 60
up into the woods. The creek starts
there. You have to cross it on a plank
to get to the glen There's heap of
rocks there all jumbled together. That's
why they call it glen And right in
that glen, reading a book or thinking
or love and romance, you will find Miss
Louise Harper. ward of Grandma Pat
ridge, who is the incest old lady in
the world. and is going to die some
day and leave Louise Il barrel of mon
ey. That's Nil and now YOU go on
and let me got back 70 my kitchen"
That's what the cook would have
said had young Mr. Sidney Stanley
come sncoping around to make in
quirios, }ut he didn't come. He was
no snoopcr. llo had heard of and
even seen the girl but he had never
heard Of or seen the glen
What brought the young man to the
creek and the bridge that afternoon
was lonesomeness, a desire to get off
by himself and think thinks.
Reaching the crest of the hill, the
glen was discovered. There's nothing
very rare and novel about a glen. The
Sight Of an elephant beats 1t three to
one. Nevertheless, young Stanley no
sooner ascertained that there was
case Of rocky glen on hand than no
had a desire to explore It, To do this
he must cross the plank that bridged
chasm, and the waters beneath got
up respectable roar and tumble.
My stars"
Miss Louise had been sitting on a
rock feeding a haf-tamed squirrel. She
had heard the rustic of the bushes
and knew that an intruder ap-
preached
Who could it be? Had the cook or
the gardener been sent to call her?
No II they had they would have
halted rods away and whooped.
No whoops.
Most girls would have called out,
Back back, brave youth, or you'll take
a tumble but she didn't.
Wish hadn't tried it," said the In
truder to himself after making about
three feet of progress along the plank.
Mr. Stanley dared not attempt to
go back or go ahead. He just stood
still and shivered He could feel the
plank giving beneath his weight and
held his breath. Miss Louise at last
opened her lips to say something, but
closed them again without uttering a
sound.
There was way out of the glen by
the rear, but IT was difficult one.
She took 1t, however, and was de-
scending at the peril of broken limb,
when she heard the breaking of the
plank and the shout the young man
uttered as he went Down.
Two hundred feet below the glen
the creek emerged on level ground;
Miss Louise was there when human
body came driving down with not ore
chance In ten that there was any life
left in 1t. She seized It and drew 1t
ashore, and after regarding It for a
she ran for the house to
shout to the gardner.
Get out the auto as quick as you
can, while | telephone for a doctor"
The doctors report when he had
made an examination was Half a doz-
en- bad contusions. broken arm; two
ribs broken; knee-cap broken; scalp
wound Who is he?"
II don't know" replied Miss
Louise.
"But he has had a fall, and is half
drowned beside"
Yes"