The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-05-24
HIS TOWER MAIDEN
sy CONSTANCE MORTON.

per SyndicateD
Strange to relate Deane Barlow had
never been in love-not until that April
evening when he had returned to his
room at Mrs. Pilling's boarding house
and had discovered his Tower Lady.
The tower" was the narrow. jut-
ting wing of fashionable private
hotel around the corner. and at one
of its lace-draped windows he had dis
covered a girls lovely, wistful face,
sometimes looking out at the sunset
clouds piling in the west and just Wis
ible through rift in the buildings; II
sometimes, and more often, bent
thoughtfully downward as if she read 1
book.
Deane grew to love her hair of pale |
gold and her eyes of some mysterious /
color that distance would not reveal
He worshiped her from afar, for he
knew that there was wide social bar
| rier raised between the occupant OF
that luxurious suite and poor young
law clerk
At night the curtains of the tower"
| were Drawn anu HIS iduy hau va"
ished. Twenty-four hours must elapse
before he might glimpse her face
again. 1t was only in the afternoon
that he saw her; never at other times
or on Sundays.
At the dinner table that night there
was much animation among the board
ers. Miss Brown, who operated the
telephone switchboard in the hotel
around the corner. hau revealed the
fact that there was to be wedding IT.
the Palisade the next day--at least one
of the guests was to be married; hac
they not all seen the beautiful Miss
Gladys Elmorton?
"a blonde. isn't she?" asked Ads
J WATSON eagerly.
Miss Brown nodded her head
, Mr.. Pilling, who carved the roast
A., looked up from under his shaggy eye
brows.
! Who's she going to marry?" he
r asked grufI!y.
bradbury Kohler-he's got oceans
: Of money"
. Deane Barlow WINGED.
Bradbury Kohler was one oil his EN-
Q ployers-a big, jovial, red-faced young
man. So Bradbury was going &c
Y marry Deane's Tower Lady! No won
Q der the tower window was darkened
the prospective bride would have nc
n time now to lock with dreamy eyes
into the sunset
So Deane banished his dreams ant
l plunged into his work with renewed
y industry. There was much talk II
d the office about the wedding and SOM
10 chatting Of the bridegroom when II
u returned from honeymoon spen
abroad.
Then came momentous day whe
e. Deane, looking out of his window tt
IL ward his lady's tower, again saw ne
o. sweet. serious face turned toward IN
sunset clouds A little wrench at hi
heart told him that he had not SUI
IA ceeded In Diminishing her from n
dreams.
The next morning he happened
~ be alone in the Office when the dot
opened and young woman entero
Delicately fair and very lovely In n
summary attire, che turned pair
ad- blue eyes on the clerk and smile
ra- pleasantly
in rs MIR. Kohler in his of'lcei'
tes Il will inquire" Deane placed
,ur chair for her and was about to lea
les the room when her voice detain'
ees him.
lat Please tell him Mrs. Kohler
de- waiting for him." she smiled over h
try shoulder.
ely Mrs. Kohler! Delne's brain W
eat dizzy as he delivered the message
tist Bradbury and followed that hap
nti- bridegroom down the corridor to
&C outer office.
I'M "Gladys!" MIR. Kohler greeted /
OF and the two disappeared toward
ior- private office.
TUG II this strange young woman "
10" the wife Of Bradbury Kohler, W
'rce then. was the lady of his tower?
anu Hin first move was to inquire
80 Miss Brown concerning the other
''Ae mates of the Elmorton family. II
peared that Gladys was an only oh
>u' But there was another girl tht
io' 100. Miss Brown acknowledged. N
'"'' Elmorton's social secretary was NJ
'eoN Avis Sandford Miss Brown knew
slightly. Miss Sandfords brot
III worked in the same Office with Dea
:. =. He must fnow Jack Sanford.
.on Deane did know Jack Sanford
voot well as he knew any of his Eel
and clerks. They had attended basel
tho games together, and always lunc
dar- sue ny sue III 'iio ""
i, a. rant Jack was married and had
naid Quently invited Deane to his II
iyos home in the suburbs, but Deane
,ona never been there The knowledge
,bicb his Tower Lady was sister to
turn. friend convinced Deane that SO
thing more than coincidence was
,,.,d work 1t was a kindly fate--noti
"a a less!
no. When Jack Sanford repeated
ed 'nVltatlon Deahe ae.opS'u VIZ"
tering haste.
And that evening he met his TIC
Lady face to face. She was n
charming than she looked and tn;
ough saying a great deal
1t was many weeks before d.
foine had the courage to tell her the
of his Tower Lady and 10 finally
her to be his wife and sweetheart
:, an helpms .e-for the wife of his DIRE
mus. he all these three things.