The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-06-30
LOVE IN The BREAKERS
A STORY OF CAPE MAY
BY ETHELBERT TIE WANDERER.

do not like the fashionable watering
| places, either on the sed-board or inland.
| Yet Fate, or my restless wandering spirit
! has more than once led me in the season,
to Saratoga, Newport, Cape May, and thu
now desoate yet once famous white Sui
phurs' Of Virginia These who know me.
ana few, very few are those who know me as
ami know well that | am happiest when
shut out from the world its frivolties, its
designations, and its hypocrisies | wander IN
the wilderness Of my own mountaln-home
watching the wild deer in its gambols, the
trout sporting in the crystal water, or the
eagle piercing the clouds, far, far above the
lofty mountain tops
But to my story
1t was many summers ago when the spirit
moved me- to make flying visit to Cape
MAY. 1t was in the height of the season
when reached the Cape, going by steamer
from Philadelphia. Every hotel was crowded;
the company was as various as companies at
watering places generally are-belles look
mo for mates beaux on the same scent any
quantity of fortune hunters and few, very
| few really sensible men and women in that
vast crowd. The fair sex was not represen
ted, as l thought by any killing beauties
| Wanderedin at three or four OF the eve
ming chops and made up my mind that
had seen as much beauty at a Mexican fan.
dango, more in a dance on the green OF an
! Andalusian village, and not less at back
wood dance where one fiddler formed the
band, and a Virginia reel the dancing
Card"
| saw nothing III fact, to drive away my
natural melancholy, and had made up my
mind to take good swim in the surf OF
the Old Atlantic and then on the next day
to start once more for my wildwood home
among the old Adiroudaclls.
/ So | took my bathing suit from my trunk,
and when the sun began to dloop towarc
the pines in the west | sauntered down t
the beach where hundreds were already
sporting in the surI-the shrill laughter
and the pretty screams oftair ones maxim
a fine contrast with the heavy roar of tht
surf
For few minutes hesitated to enter The
water, being more pleasantly engaged II
scanning the scene before me barley neV-
er had a finer chance for sketching from lif'
than he would have had there A Hogartl
AoGiu have been only too happy for thu
carcaturean opportunities afforded HIM TO
instance fat, besf-eating citizen, carrying
at least, two hundred weight Of mortality il
his own person, went into the water with
| wife on his ann whose lean and lank figure
taller than his own, was to thin to cast a shad
ow on the white sand Of the shelly beech
And 0jce U6rSa,a very fat lady and man a
lean as Romeo's apothecary would be seen
the one waddling duck fashion into the wa
ter, the other lettering, towards 1t like
half-starved landsnipe.
Not handsome woman III the water J!
| mutttered, as gazed over and among tn
crowd.
But at that moment as if to rebuke me TO
lmy lack Of gallantry, IA vision passed me
she seemed to be too beautiful to be any thin
but vision-which made my spirit retrac
the thought in an instant, for the. lady wa
gloriously beautiful. One glanc
Of her eyes-great, black, all-beWilderln
eyes,-fell upon me as she passed, and tel
that blushed from my head to my feet
She glided-she did not seem to walks
close by me that her snow white bathing-r ot
actually touched me and the contact thre'
an electric glow through me in an instan
Tall, her figure could, even IN thatungalnl
garb, be seen to be perfect-ller complexio
almost too fair for the waves Of jetty hal
(which hung about her white brow and necl
and, to crown all, look Of melancholy upo
her perfect features that made my but tt
susceptible heart ache to be her sympathet
confdante, her comforter, if only such thin
could be.
With bitterness in my heart against IL
happy man who could be privileged to wa
upon such an angel, turned to see VII;
heatbeo was attending the goddess OF m
hearts sudden alteration.
There was no masculine presents no OF
so uear as myself. She entered the wate
aIone-not tilnidy or with a shrinking stel
but like calmly proud Diana, when no pr,
ing Action was near.
! Tnvoluntarily followed, though at r
ispectful distance. | watched her every mi
) ton. as she advanced farther and farther hi
the foamy yeast Of waters.
Moving out until more than halt herqueel
" form was immersed in the briny waves, 81
stood, and gently bowed her head to tt
great breakers, as they rolled In, in snow
: wreaths, upon her Oh, how | wished that
, was one-iust one of those breakers ?
J Would | not clasp that queenly form in N
chaste embrace aud bear it awya to son
lone isle of beauty" to be mine mine, 70
ever? Yes, | would!
!. But hoarse shout from the meu,a cry
warning, and thousand screams from ros
lips suddenly white, recalled me from tt
wild dream which was taking possession
me. My queenly vision had gone farther OF
than all the rest;so had l,when a roller Of
least thrice the usual height came tumbIir
in upon US. In a moment she was hidde
F.. from my view; the next second was und
hundred tons Of water, or SO it seemed.
Half strangled buffeted my way to Il
top Of the water only to find that the ''ui
dertow" had swept me outside Of the sur
beyond the uttermost breaker, and that ii
tide was bearing me seward.
thought not ofmy own danger. Whe
was she? At that instant | saw her-a loo
of despair upon her beautiful face-within
few feet Of me, Just sinking for she evi
IDENTIFY conld not swim, as she made no a
tempt to do So
Heaven! what strength came to me the
Never did strong swimmer in his agony
strike out more boldly than | did, then an
there. IN an instant, j was by her side, N
J hand supporting her, and my voice utterin
these words,
LADY do not despair, viii save you
die with YOU"