The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-09-13
BEHIND A PANEL.

A wide, white forehead; above, braids
knotted with white aster; pansy-dark
eyes under curled black lashes. The
lovely woman's face looking out of the
oriel window held Captain Somers cap
tive.
"Come, captainP called voice from
the water below.
He made no response to startle the
girl, for she had not seen him. The
cool, oval face rested on the slender. hand,
and she was was looking dreamily over
the water.
" l say, cap, what keeps you? What
have you found?'
He could have strangled Low, with
his impatient believing, for now the fair
face started and flushed, and, turning,
Adelaide Westerly saw the intruder in
her garden,
Captain Somers stepped forth, but
without his usual ease and grace, and
lifted his hat.
81 beg your pardon. Could we get
some water hereW
Yes, certainly. Knock at the south
door, and my man will give you all you
want"
She seemed startled out of an habitual
serenity, yet her voice had a strange
sOftness and sweetness.
Give" continued the captain, are
in search of strange boat which got
adrift from the yacht Mermaid last
night. We have been about here for
three hours. 1t must have got over the
bar and gone out to sea-"
Low, lifting himself to look over the
bank, saw how things were, and settled
back resignedly in the dory.
A small boat called the Dolphin ??
asked Adelaide.
| eyes"
"With book and a spy-glass in it? .
eyes," confessed Somers, ashamed Of
his seamanship. 81 lett get away from
me. have charge of the yacht. There
she is, yonder," pointing to the offing.
"You will find your boat fastened tt
post just inside the breakwater. My
man, Stephen, picked it up last night
He is in the garden. Stay, l will cal
him."
She came down to the garden door,
beautiful young creature all in white
and found Captain Somers awaiting her
cap in hand. They went together down
the overgrown path, he holding the rose
vines aside to let her pass.
i" | am giving you too much trouble.
"No. There is my man. Stephen?'
The old man came up with his spade
He began telling how he had found tn
boat-for which the young gentleman
did not care two straws, casting desper
ately around in his mind to learn how
he was to meet Adelaide again.
She had already withdrawn to the ter
race and stood awaiting his final bow
She little dreamed the truth-sweet lad,
of Shalot! She was looking fxedly a
the fine strong figure, the cool, sensitiV
blonde face, the picturesque yachtsman'
dress. She had inhaled the faint fra
GRANGE of cigars, felt the magnetism o
this strangers touch as he put her dres
aside from the the thorns; and feelin
of pain she could not express visite'
her pure heart as she realized that in
minute he would be gone from her gaze
And he went. With one backwar
glance from the fine blue eyes, with
gay and graceful salutation and fna
call of thanks to the young lady Capital
Somers turned a bend of the rose pat
and disappeared, followed by oil
Stephen.
GA desperate venture" he muttereC
"but my only chance"
If, while unmooring the boat, he deftl
: questioned the old servitor of the West
terley's, old Stephen never told. Blu
when he saw the two boats floating 0
,l,,,o11oI = L. l., g
, in his hand and muttered:
"Good luck to you, sir! "
The fair lady of Shalot went slowl
back to her bower. Perhaps the prett
chamber did not then look quite beaut
, full. Perhaps she, too, murmured, ="
am half sick of shadows" 1t woul
not be st all strange.
This girl of twenty lived strangel
isolated life. She was the last of he
' race, living on the estate bequeathed I
: her in infancy by her dying father. :
half-sister of her mothers, an aged w
man called Aunt Resolve, was her onl
companion. She had never entere
society. She knew little Of the worl
i outside the beautiful garden and shore
: of the jumpers.
But for old Aunt Resolve the gi
seemed to be wasting her " sweetness o
the desert air." The devoted old woma
idolized her. From her babyhood sh
had dressed, watched and tended he
S Perhaps it was mistaken fondness tbs
f relieved the heiress of all care of ht
$ estate, for it required some mauagemer
E to make it yield an income for the fam
: ly, and Adelaide suffered from emu
$ Perhaps a little care would have bee
D good for her. But Aunt Resolve though
0 differently, and the girl knew nothing
$ the oyster beds and the crops that we
hers.
The girl stood in the rose path agai
upon the following evening, her garde
hat in her hand, her eyes unconscious
5 fixed upon the yacht Mermaid in Il
ofipg, She was in an unusually though