The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-20

bion.
mo, not yet, but it will be some /
time" declared the optimistic broker.
IF you are willing to put up con-
trolling block of the stock as collateral
1 can get you the loan"
Go ahead" acceded Albion, though
not hopefully.
So. following devious ways, the
broker financed the proposition along
until one day the end came. The
people who had loaned the money de-
manded its return, with exorbitant in
terest as due, and threatened to seize
and sell out the cherished life work Of
Albion for mere song.
I've got to go back home!" de-
eiared Albion. I'm half sick, totally
discouraged and almost hopeless Of
raising any more capital. How long
have the creditors given US to pay the
amount"
Ten days"
I'll try" said Albion. but weakly.
! He started for home really Ill and
arrived at the little quiet home town
Frustrated with a dangerous fever.
OF what TRANSFERRED during the next
three weeks Albion Weare knew little,
and that during brief lucid moments.
In one of these he smiled family as
his nurse gently informed him that
she had been sent by Miss Tyrell.
Then within an hour Albion was back
in the grasp of the wasting fever,
raving over the lost investment, the
days of grace, the end of which would
see him bereft Of his great discovery.
At times. however, his delirious
mood grew into soft and tender ap-
peals to the woman to whom he had
never told his love. And in the ad
joining room Helen Tyrell hid her
blushing face in her hands. and her
breath came quicker, and the swift
tears told of the deep, heartfelt inter
est she felt in this lonely man, buf
fetted so cruelty by the adverse tides
of fate.
One evening Miss Tyrell was visited
by a stranger He was the broker
who had vainly awaited the promised
; return Of his client to the city.
was natural that he should tell tn,
story disclosing the negotiations o
Albion. In the wealthy heiress h,
i found willing and sympathetic aud
/ itor.
The nurse attending Albion hastene,
into the sick room one beautiful Jun
n morning at the unexpected call of he
patient. Her face frightened, for Il
u one glance at the bed she had rea
the first tokens OF a past crisis an
l, the promise of convalescence in tn
q wasted face.
. He was straining his eyes toward
y calendar upon the opposite wal
He motioned to the nurse weakly.
: Tell me-" he spoke hoarsely-"th
, the day of the MONTH
Innocently she named IT, A dee
! groan burst from the lips of the sic
! man and he fell back Frustrated. wit
the words:
| six days too. late! l have To-
everything" Then he was awake an
| sensible for the rest of the day. b.
I there was set. hopeless expressiC
to his face that the experienced nurI
8 did not like to see there. When Mi
a Tyrell came she told her OF the 1
n cident. In a moment Helen read Il
I situation-and it's remedy.
Mr.. Weare," she spoke gently, ,
most tenderly, as she approached Il
Il bedside of the patient.
1 L., l. a. g.
i Albion took her hand in a ferve
~ clasp.
: Are you strong enough to hear
p little, very little, about business
she Intercepted.
- 81 have little business left
II sighed but gave a weak assent to n
- proposition.
And then she told of the brok
HT coming to her of redeeming the sto
= just in time, of her supplying n,
capital-and the company was a 8,
cess.
al You did this all for me-" he chok
out, because
A, Because you are my dear,
No.. friend she said, and her eyes w
70. fond and loving oh, why did y
,od not tell me of your need for none
IN Alas! can help you no further,
,,n your discovery has made you W
-. rich"
IA. What came of 1t all? Greater wea
mo for faithful, patient Albion Wear,
NJ the added riches of the love of q Il
-. woman.
Copyright. 1915. by W G. Chairman