The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-07-17


For the present all stars shine;
You are here, and you are mine.
Love makes light. and song, and flowers,
For whose sake! Dear love, for ours.
WHAT CAME OF A SEASIDE TRIP.
"Cm," clicked Aunt Mary Child, in a
displeased tone, as she emerged from the
tent door and glanced down toward the
beach.
What did you say, Auntie ~
"Nothing, Grace" But Grace had
glanced also, and what she saw brought a
shadow over her gentle features. Surely
that bundle shaped mass among the rocks
below was Molly Pomfret, all rolled up in
Il big shawl, with somebody else, and
surely that somebody else was-yes =! ii
was-Jim!
But if Grace turned pale, Aunt Mary
made up the equipoise of color by be.
coming proportionally red. Her soul was
hot within as she gazed. To her the "salt-
ing party was not merely pleasure ex.
cursion, as to the rest; or possible para
disc, as to poor Grace; but a tournament,
a battlefield, in which Molly Pomfret
represented one knight, herself another,
and Jim was the precious prize to be
awarded to superior skill and valor.
Her first move was to borrow " Grace
Goodenow, the girl whom, with that in
fallible instinct which leads us to see the
rights and wrongs of other peoples love
affairs more clearly than they do them
selves. she had long ago selected as the
wife Jim ought to want. But to borrow "
Grace was not an easy matter, DIR. GOOde.
now being strongly opposed to par.
ties Of pleasure, and all that savored OF
trivolity and "philandering," agains,
which vague and anomalous iniquity he
was wont to frequently and strongly in
weigh. A long morning of argument was
the price paid for this concession. Aun,
Mary had to face much discussion and
Reproduction had to hear that the longing
for salt water which she had incautiously
alluded to as natural" was an instinct
shared with brute beasts, prairie wolves
lick" and satisfy thi eRP m aps 10 ie aen
to listen to vast and erudite body OF
objection drawn from natural history and
"Scripter," and finally, only carried hel
point by stringent references to Grace's
thinness, paleness, want of appetite, and
an adroit allusiOn to an Aunt Esther, dead
some twenty years before of consumption
and rather hypothetical "Uncle lack,
who kind of wasted away, and went on,
like the snuff Of a candle" When the
dominic, on mention of this worthy, be
gan to hitch uneasily in his chair, she
knew her cause was won; for, in spite O
his big bow-wow manner, the good mar
was exceedingly sensitive and anxiou.
about his only girl. So, seizing the mo
ment with a woman's quickness, Aun
Mary began to dilate on the exceedin!
steadiness of tie party, which she mad,
out to be sort of cross between water
cure and a camp-meeting. I'm sure i
you'd have been with us last year, doctor
you would have felt gratified, as l did
really gntJfed-at all that went on. Nom
of the boys ever went fishing or anything
until after prayers, which we had every
morning regularly, with the reading o
Scriptures. 1t aid really seem like an in
tluence for good over the young, and To-
one considered it privilege to be there.
"Well, WE'LL" said the convinced domi
ME, 1.-THE child shall go. Perhaps she il
not looking altogether as well as usual
and, as you say, the saline breezes may b,
beneficial to her health. Grace, you viii
be discreet and obedient, am sure!'
"l'll see that she is" cried Miss Child
elate with victory. I'LL keep as sharp Al
eye on her as if she were my own. Hey
Oracle, you'll behave yourself, and no
fret even if do speak severely at times?
Grace laughed. The prospect did no
seem very formidable to her. Every on
knew Aunt Mary" so-called by half tn
girls in Dusenburry, and all young people
at least, loved her. p
The munitions of unselfsh and genuin
affection may generally be trusted. Grac
was really the wife Jim Child needed, tn
heaven-meant woman, the complement t
his nature. But though his aunt divine,
this, though Grace, half unconscious
responded already to the instructive at
traction, the idea had not yet dawned upol
Jim himself. The delicate, flower-like
struck him as dim and colorless. Moll,
Pomfret, with her shallow prettiness an,
flighty airs and graces, caught his eye AM
immature fancy thousand times more
:. :. that he was in love with her; but h
had begun to think himself so-a mos
dangerous first step Now, for the frs
time the two girls were to be contraste,
side by side, and Aunt Mary's hopefu
spirits prophesied good results. "Men ar
blind enough" she thought; "but nothin,
less than born idiot could see my Grac
and that Pomfret girl together for ten day
and not find out the difference. If jim
really is such a goose, he deserves hi
fate"
So now this long-desired Sailing party
was really begun. There were the whit
tents, two for sleeping and one for cook
ing; there was the long broad dining
table, rooted with boughs; and the boug1
hut which sheltered the wagons; there
below the little knoll, crowned with pin
and cedar, loveliest of spots for encamp
ment, lay the smooth beach, with its firing
of yeastwhite foam, from which far awe:
stretched the expanse of ineffable ocean
blue. Long bars Of pink cloud still lay o.
the horizon; eastward the fair, solem
moon slowly climbed the, sky. 1t was tn
very scene on the thought of which Grac
for month past had smiled herself t
sleep; but somehow, now that it wa
there visible, tangible, lying about hel
the sense of disappointment came with j,
A faint chill crept over her bright imagin
ings. Something beautiful had vanished
Could it be because of that comfortable
group b6ow Jim, Molly, and the mutus
blanket shawl?
"It's pretty cool tonight, isn't it," SAT-
Jolly Mr.. Child, emerging from the men
tent. where he had been helping his wit
spread the beds. YOU'D better wrap VI
Oracle. Where are all the boys an
girls!" ara RITA Ia frf "a
"Not far of, any Of them," responds
his sister. Suppose you get them oil to
gether, and have good sing here on tn
knoll, James"
"a first-rate idea, Mary. Here, mother,
raising his voice, tell the children Il
come out; we're going to sing"