The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-08-10
les COTTAGE

LEO UUIIRUt
tARoL BROWNE.
"a one summer day at the
Jack Loring was tramp
he golf links when Ernest
evertook him. Weatherby
~ to middle-aged -stoutness
the burden Of his bag of
= pink-faced and perspir-
81 oath came pantingly.
~ Jack Familiarity on the
1fst to congratulate me-"
kcitedly. I'm engaged to
q rent"
ID him with impassive
e but he felt that some
j his breast grew cold and
IN throbbed painfully.
~ indeed fortunate" said
5 holding out his hand.
ont is q charming girl"
N fell into step and bah
unity of Nancy and her
charm Of person and char
pArdly writhed as he lis.
was not Nancy Durwent
Weatherby described and
~? Wasn't she the only
- ever loved-ever could
now, to hear from Wealth
that she was to marry the
)6bman!
I'D his teeth-well, Wealth
~ fich and Jack was merely
only just out Of the strug-
~ - and not yet quite arrived
ennacle of success. He was
4 his latest picture might
~ ~ arrival.
2ue Nancy was beyond his reach
H. knew the Durwents were
AMY ambitious, but he had thought
] youneost and fairest daughter was
IlG>rent.
20 teed on with a desperate swing
41g club. Weatherby watched the
milling through space, suddenly
poppoar among a little group
Nqd the second hole. The group
On and then closed again.
34Nat 1cott, Loring!" yelled Wealth
\ dnShing off at numbering trot.
cNvo III Somebody with that ball.
lloSo ~ Nancy"
4ee followed him with long strides
- thoy reAched the second hole to.
114Y pprwent was the center OF
D4k4gtic group who we're ex.
lN1 red bruise on her round
4 A1 0efry," said. Jack, pushing
~ 4oeA4rby. II didn't see any.
hope you are not badly
0urwent."
nv iiled and pulled down her
little at first" she said
IT after It Is bathed In
M1t will be better. Pray
yer 1t, Mr.. Loring. Acct
bAppen on the links, you
* oQe very kind, but l wish there
&lng l could do" urged
4! can fetch q doctor, II you
mt trouble" Nancy was
hen Weatherby elbowed
ed joined his fiancee.
1ohed at his air of pro
Doo ofter Miss Durwent, Lor
- eoM significantly, and Jack
0 lnfully. bowed himself
N1 vent back to the teeine
~ he followed the ball to
NJ saw Nancy. escorted by
~ Ind one or two friends
noo cAo4 cut through the woods
~ IN ouse.
yaeE W0G ia suppressed fury the
q ~ ~ lay. There was to be q
nco ~ ~ clubhouse that night and
~ he'd to 60; but how could
no& l9oncy when he knew that
~ ~ C0 beyond his reach? He
4 hin10ek he ought to be glad-ii
= was - sort of girl to sell her
e for Wsatherby's money and
|uses and motors, for Jack was sure
- Nancy did not love Ernest
'eatherby.
H sulked In the veranda of hi
oety little bungalow all afternoon
nk1ng . dozen different plans in a,
~ minutes. He would sell the
|oGn1ow and never come to Ingle
80 again; he would 60 abroad
- the world, perhaps-and for
1olos Nancy Durwent, who hac
Nd love and chosen money.
~ brief moment on the gol
A had seen Weatherby's grea
sparkling on Nancy's left
3ock laughed bitterly at the
hat he had planned so surel.
had had his dead mother
ut ring, a beautiful sapphire
hond cluster, reset and re
to At Nancy's finger.
it's all over" he shrugged
bitterness strengthened.
ext morning he was in tn
reading the paper when Their
trot, trot, of horses hoof
ride path that wound up Il