Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-09-03
a Summer Romance.

The romance of Rye Beach, this sum
mer Is the engagement of Miss Sarah
Brown, n beautiful young Pennsylvan-
ian and an heiress as we'll, TO Robert G.
Miller, the son of Rye Beach fisher
man, and himself nothing more than
skipper of one of the hotel yachts which
are rented for excursions byhotelguests.
Miss Brown was one of a party that
made several trips on the yacht which
young Robert ''skippered," and Robert
saw great deal Of her, and went dead
in love with her, though, of course,
mindful of the great disparity of their
social positions, he kept the secret Of
his love to himself, contenting himself
with paving her extraordinary atten-
tions during her trips on his boat. As
for Sarah, she was extremely courteous
TO him. That was all. Well, the catas-
trophe that led TO the engagement hap
peded like this: They are great hands
Tor fish chowder down along the New
England coast. Instead of serving a
small plate of soup at the hotels, they
set before each guest about bucketful
OF Goldfish chowder, aud, strange TO say,
the guests like it. Miss Brown is pas
sionately fond of fish chOwder and eats
fabulously large quantities of it, and
sometimes eats it so rapidly that she
gets her mouth full of Goldfish vertebra
before she knows il. Recently she did
worse. She got very large piece OF
the backbone of a Goldfish down her
throat, and was utterly unable TO either
swallow it or get it out. She was ter
ribly frightened and so were her friends
who decided at once that doctor must
be brought from Portsmouth, ten miles
away. Robert Miller CHANGED te be in
the hotel Office when the order was
given for horseman TO be despatched
10 Portsmouth, and learning what the
trouble was. insisted on being the man.
SO a very swift steed was saddled, and
Il second later Robert disappeared in a
cloud of dust. In a couple of hours the
Portsmouth doctor arrived, his horse
white with foam and breathing fire
from his noStrils, and the doctor, being
a Skillful fellow, soon extracted the
bone. Five minutes later" he remar-
ked, '1and | should have been too late.
If that messenger had not been hero,
| should never have seen my patient
alive" "A hero" exclaimed the lad
les. What do you mean? 1t was only
Robert, the skipper" ''What his name
was. | know not; bat | repeat it, he
showed himself a hero, and saved
this young woman's life by his hero
ISM Explain yourself" cried the
excited woman. SO the doctor explain
Ell how Robert had fallen from his
horse when about half way TO town,
disIocating one ankle and breaking an
arm. but Notwithstanding his injuries
he had again mounted tine horse and tied
himself TO the saddle, and driven on
faster than before to make up for lost
time. "Why, when he reached my
office" said the doctor. she had just
strength enough to deliver his message
and then he tainted dead away with
pam and exhaustion, L left him in
charge of my students and came or,
for knew that there was case of life
and death here" Well, when Miss
Brown recovered her senses, being of
very romantic turn OF mind, she lost
them again. and fell in love with the
man who saved her life, and she is TO
marry him as soon as he RECEIVERS sufli-
ciently from his injuries.