The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-08-16
|UR ON AN ISLAND
BY DOROTHY ALLEN.

is q little DIT OF an island, you
". not large at all. Sometimes
there's q storm the sea comes
up to the garden, but it's love-
here in the summer. I'm glad
could both run down to see Law.
Ie."
wen smiled at the two in the Cd
te seat. Smiled deliberately and
malice aforethought and most
ghtful impartiality. Flick Hab.
bn and Dolf Cramer returned
smile each in his own way.
Is was broad and melting and
Gus. 1t bespoke alteration and
r helplessness. F1ick's was full
, strange. cynical misery, as of
who would have said to the word
she has landed me. Behold me
and die"
dow's Larry bearing up?" asked
Well, Of course, he's not really fully
bvered. 1t was awfully nice of
boys to come way out from
city to cheer him up. Aunt Helen
do our best, but we're not like
b, you know, and his own crowd.
glad we just happened to catch
same train"
lick grinned out at New Ro-
lie fleeing by. He had waited for
rs. it seemed, beside the grilled
eway back in the Grand Central to
i Dolf, and had Weakened to find
i with the captured prize saunter-
over from the ticket windows. He
ndered how they could still even
serve the semblance of friendship.
Is it not he who had worshiped
len Marquis from afar for two
hrs? Hadn't he put up with Larry's
beral pugnaciousness and loquacity
Jelly because he had a sister with
ace like an apple blossom? Hadn't
monitored Larry all through his
year, pushing him along by
Der force, just to win the conf
bee and affection of Gwen? All
s, while Dolf Cramer reigned in
own special field of endeavor, and
PIX no more notice of Larry than
he had been midget in the ada
|ht blue.
Then there had come the accident.
had been voted pleasant and ad-
Fable thing by the junior class to
ice goat of mature years and live
sense of justice in the private con-
pting room of the seniors, a goat
led a deep, rich red, with black
|rns, and it was done. All juniors
ID been warned to go far from the
|ene of action. but Larry had lin
Pred, being interested as the person
po had assumed responsibility with
e goats owner. And he had been
|ught, felony in junior eyes, caught
d taken into the private room and
prisoned with the goat in the inner
oset until the quality of mercy,
rained to the minimum, released
,th
Gwen had come after the remains.
try was not injured vitality, but the
at had not chosen kindly and he
rs bruised, much bruised. There
ION, Dolf Cramer had assumed com.
and on seeing the patients family.
was he who devised the pretty tale
at made Larry q hero and hid the
at from the family history. It was
who conveyed Gwen around the
npus and showed her its beauties.
Nobody had ever suspected Dolf of
thetic tastes. He had been bluff
hearty through the long, sane
inter-. His class name had been ap-
'priated and, seemly, a name suited
his general temperament and man.
proportions, for he was dubbed the
orpoise." Flick loathed deception
any form. He could not see that
the alchemy of love the soul of the
had bloomed like some
site rose of gold. He could not see
OF this. nor even grant him a par
right of way, for love did not give
n any blooming roses. 1t only
de him silent and suffering, and
took to leaning against corners of
lldings. with a face like Dante's
ath mask.
ret he had not retreated. When
invitation had been given for him
visit Larry in his convalescent
IT, he had accepted, even while he
ew that Dolf likewise was inclined.
all man drop from the firing line
a wound here and there?
You'll both love Aunt Helen" said
en- She came down on an ear
train with Joan. We just met
IN over at the Pennsy this noon.
seems as IL you boys ought to
wv her. She's from Richmond, too,
N Carruthers.
men Flick turned his head and
lied at the "Porpoise.' Did they
w Miss Carruthers? The smile on
is rotund face became fixed like
ldhas. 1t lacked spontaneity and
ale Joy. And Flick's humor rose.
nave never met Miss Carruth-
he said. but l have often heard
spoken of. She was very popular
richmond. very popular"
i Sound Beach they took the car
wound along the rhore line. Gwen
1t wasn't very far, and then just
little walk across the sand dunes
beach.
Larry had a boat that he used to
IS over to the Island in" she
led up at Dolf. Dolf's stock was
ng steadily She kept near to
> and permitted his assistance over
Intestinal pools of water left by the
Yet Flick smiled at the far Long I