Marshall County Republican., 1872-07-18

suddenly snatched off his light chip
hat, and sent it spinning out upon the
water.
" 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 frst-I 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
Jacks 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 a man like Jack, but
wat, in due time, though pale, and
dripping, and exhausted, ne 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
astock attraction of the Bayside drive"
The road itself passed near where Jack
had landed, and he waited moment
in the thick bushes at it 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.
self was sitting beside the handsome
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 n 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 long drive
that Murray Nesbitt had planned for
her, and that, too, not without pur-
DO e of his own. The swift motion was
good thing for Nellie, and aided amaz-
ingly in restoring the tone OF her some
what ruffled spirit; but, for all that, she
was more silent, and in a manner more
subdued than Murray had ever known
her before How could he have given
up so good and so hopeful an opportun-
ity? At all events, he did not, and
Nellie heard him to the end in such a
halfhumble quietude, that Murray
heart throbbed quick and fast, with a
glow of coming triumph.
They were not driving very fast just
then, but were coming outupon the sea
ward slope of The View"
Nellie's face had been half-averted
and there was dreamy look in he
eyes that her companion did not see
Suddenly she exclaimed, with sort o
half-eleclric start:
"Where is the rock? Why, it is no
thing but foam; and how the wind i
blowingW
Murra.y Nesbitt looked, with puzzlet
amazemelt, in the direction in whicl
Nellie pointed.
"Oh, that rock" he said, coolly
"Why, that's nothing. The water ha
been over it this halfhour."
"Homel homel Drive back to tn
hotel, instantly" gasped Nellie. Oh
if anything has happened to him II
left him on the rock without boat II
Even Murray's disappointment di'
not prevent his obeying so serious al
injunction, and on they sped, past Jacl
Loutrers ambush, little dreaming tina
he would come striding on benin
them.
1t was short drive, long as it SCENE
to Nelie's conscience e-stricken aste
and she ran breathlessly from the ca
riage to the beach.
Careful hands had hauled the boat
up high and dry, for the waves wer
chasing one another in a rough an
tumble that was momentarily becomin
more boisterous.
No one seemed at hand to help, an
Nellie's own fair hands were quickl
tugging vainly at one of the gaily- pain
ed wherries.
S "Wait a moment, miss - shouted
3 hind her the rough voice of the boa
| keeper. "Why, yer into the water We
self. You don't want to row out in a
3 that sea?n
3 "Oh but we must save him l lie
}. him on the rocks !"
r Just tben, long, crested, splashir
i wave died away from around her fee
n and left behind it, on the sand, roun
: water-soaked chip hat. Nellie ssw
t and covered her face with her hane
# for now she knew that Jack Loutrel W
b not upon the rock.
y AS for Murray Nesbitt, by this tir
y he measurably comprehended the sit
,, alton, or thought he did, and insist
d in doing his uttermost to get one
more of the boats into the water, hs
= ing it in mind to row all over the co
If in search of any hope of aiding his U
n fortunate rival; while poor Nellie, afi
e a few moments, mechanically picked
n the wave tossed wreck of hat, a
TUNED back toward the hotel, witho
3, vouchsafing a word of explanation
W the curious and anxious inquirers, W
a were now rapidly hurrying down to I
r. water-side. So general, in fact, was I
so exodus, that when Nellie entered /
veranda, she found it altogether
g serted.
as On she walked, like one in drea
lie but at the furth end, toward the ro
ry tall form, clad il garments that clu
ne forlornly close to their wearer, pas,