The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-07-19

It's one of those vanished things,
and I'm sure it'll float. I've got an aw-
full pull To get ashore, and I'll see
which'll be at Bayside first or my
hat"
If he had any deeper thought he did
not put IT into words, but dashed gal
lantly into the fast roughening water.
And now the wind was beginning TO
be something more than breeze, and
Jack work was all cut out for him, for
he did not care to be carried too far into
the cove by the tide.
Still, there was nothing so impossible
in the feat, for man like Jack, but
wat, in due time, though pale, and
dripping, and exhausted, lie dragged
himself out on dry land. And then he
found it no contemplate job to coax
himself once more inside of his water
soaked clothing.
Beyond him, at little distance, rose
the bald, weather.beaten knob that they
called "The View" and which formed
astock attraction OF the Bayside drive"
| The road itself passed near where Jack
had landed, and he waited moment
in the thick bushes at il edge, for his
ears had caught the sound of coming
wheels, and he hesitated about making
an exhibition of himself. 1t was ris.
| ing tide he had breasted, but within
his own heart things were at terrible
low ebb.
Nearer and faster came the rattle of
the wheels, and then they swept past
him at their best gait, the new team of
Murray Nesbitt, and Nellie Martin her
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driver. She seemed TO be looking up
at him, too, with more of earnestness
and emotion in her face than Jack
Loutrel had ever seen there. True, it
was but II glimpse he caught as they
flashed past him but he cared no longer
who might see him in his forlorn pre-
dicament, and sprung over into the
road to make the best of his way TO the
hotel.
That had been an eventful morning
! for Nellie Martin. 1t was a long drive
that Murray Nesbitt had planned for
her, and that, too, not without pur
| 30 of his own. The swift motion was
a good thing for Nellie, and aided amaz-
ingly in restoring the tone of her some
what rutiied spirit but, for all that, she
was more silent, and in manner more
subdued than Murray had ever known
! her before. How could he have given
up so good and 80 h opeful an opportun-
ity? At all events, he did not, and
Nellie heard him to the end in such a
halfhumble quietude, that Murray's
heart throbbed quick and fast, with a
glow of coming triumph.
They were not driving very fast Just
then, but were coming utupon the sea-
ward slope of -" The View"
Nellie's face had been halfaverted,
and there was dreamy look in her
eyes that her companion did not see.
Suddenly she exclaimed, with sort of
halfelectric start
"Where is the rock Why, it is no.
thing but foam and how the wind is
blowing y
Murray Nesbitt look ed, with puzzled
amazement, in the direction in which
Nellie pointed.
"Oh, that rock" he said, coolly.
"Why, that's nothing. The water has
been over it this half-hour."
"Home home Drive back to the
hotel, instantly!'' gasped Nellie. "Oh
if anything has happened to him
left him on the rock without boat u
Even Murray's disappointment did
not prevent his obeying so serious an
injunction, and on they sped, past J ack
Loutrel's ambush, little dreaming that
he would come striding on behind
them.
1t was a short drive long as it seemed
TO Nellie's conscience-stricken aste
4 and she ran breathlessly from the car.
riage to the beach.
Careful hands had hauled the boats
up high and dry, for the waves were
chasing one another in rough and
tumble that was momentarily becoming
more boisterous.
No one seemed at hand to help, and
Nelle's own fair hands were quickly
tugging vainly at one of the gaily-paint
ed wineries.
"Wait a moment, miss ~ shouted be
lind her the rough voice of the boat
keeper. "Why, yer into the water yer
self. You don't want to row out In al
that sea?"
"Oh but we must save him lief
him on the rocks ~
Just then, a long, crested, splashinl
wave died away from around her feet
and left behind it, on the sand, a round
water.soaked chip hat. Nellie ssw ii
and covered her face with her hands
for now she knew that Jack Loutrel wa
not upon the rock.
As for Murray Nesbitt, by this tim
he neasurably comprehended the stu
, alton, or thought he did, and insisted
in doing his uttermost to get one o
more of the boats into the water, hav
ing it in mind to row all over the GOV
f in search of any hope of aiding his I'm
fortunate rival; while poor Nellie, afte
a few moments, mechanically picked u
the wave.tossed wreck of hat, an,
turned back toward the hotel, withou
vouchsafing a word of explanation /
, the curious and anxious inquirers, win
L were now rapidly hurrying down to tn
water.side. So general, in fact, was tn
D exodus, that when Nellie entered tn
veranda, she found it altogether dc
serted.
5 On she walked, like one in a dream
e but at the furth, end, toward the roao
Y a tall form, clad in garments that clun
e forlornly close to their wearer, passe