Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-06-26
BEHIND A PANEL.
A southern story.


knOtted with white aster; pansy-dark
eyes under curled black lashes. The
lovely wOman's face looking out of the
Oriel windows held Captain Gordon Som
mers captive.
Come, Captain" 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 looking dreamily over the
water.
Il 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 Westerley saw the intruder in
the garden. - fss FF1 81
Captain Somers stepped forth, but
without his usual grace and ease, and
lifted his hat.
Il beg your pardon. Could we gel
some water hereT
Yes, certainly, Knock at the south
door, and my man will give you all you
want" j rtt4fF ~
She seemed startled out of an habitual
serenity, yet, her voice had strange
s0ftness and sweetness. 3 ofA
I've" 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 oyer the bar and gone
out to sea-" n0r. tsFFR rFFEsf-'
Low, lifting himself to look over the
bank, saw how things were, settled back
rssignedly.
"A small boat called the Dolphin?
asked Adelaide.
"Yes." asF sstsn-E ~
with book and spy-glass in it?"
she continued.
.Yss." confessed SOmers, ashamed of
bis seamanship. Il let it get away from
me. Ihave charge of the yacht. There
she is yOnder," pointing to the offing.
you will find your boat fastened to a
post just inside the breakwater. My man
Stephen picked it up last night. He is
In the garden. Stay, / will call him."
She came down to the garden door-a
beautiful young creature all in white
and found Captain SOmers awaiting her,
cap in hand. They went together down
the Overgrown paths, he holding the
rose-yines aside to let her pass.
Il am giving you too much trouble"
mo. There is my man. Stephen she
called,
The old man came up with his spade.
He began telling how he had found the
bOat-fOr which the young gentleman
did not care two straws. casting des-
perately about 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She had already withdrawn to the ter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 Lady
of ShalOtl She was looking fxedly at
the fine strong figure, the cool, sensitive
blonde face, the picturesque yachtman's
dress; she had inhaled the faint fra
GRANGE of cigars, felt the magnetism of
her dress aside from the thOrns, and a
feeling of pain she could not express
visited her pure heart as she realized
that in a minute he would be gone from
her gaze; 81
And he went. With one backward
glance from the fine blue eyes with a
gaysand graceful salutatiOn and final
call of thanks to the young lady, Captain
SOmers turned bend of the rOsepath
and disappeared, followed by old Ste
phen. ~
A desperate yenturer he muttered,
but my only CHANGER
If, while unmOOring the boat, he deity
questioned the old seryitOr of the Wester-
leys, old Stephen never told. But when
he saw the two boats floating off shore
he chucksd over the bit of silver in his
hand, and muttered, "GOOd luck to you
sirr' .tf-A-A3 ~ -
The fair Lady of Shalot went slowly
back to her bower. Perhaps the pretty
chamber did not then look quite beauti.
full Perhaps she, too, murmured, Il am
half sick of shadows" 1t would not be
at all strange. n9 p b.
This girl Of 20 lived astrangely isOlat.
ed life. She was the last of her race
living on the estate bequeathed to her in
her infancy by her dying father. A hall
sister of her mothers, an aged woman
called Aunt Resolve, was her only com
paniOn. She had never entered society
She knew little of the world outside thu
Ibesutiful gardens and shores of the
.Jundpers.
But for old Aunt Resolve, the CIR
seemed to be wasting her sweetness on
the descent air. The devoted old woman
idOlized her. From her babyhOOd sht
had dressed, washed, and tended her
Perhaps it was mistaken fOndness that
relieved the heiress of all care of her
estate, for it required some management
TO make it yield an income for the fam.
lily. and Adelaide suffered from ennui
Perhaps little care would have been
good for her. But Aunt Resolve thought
differently. and the girl knew nothing
of the Oyster-beds and the crops thai
were hers. 49,
1.-THE girl stood in the rOse-path again
the. following evening, her garden hat
in her hand, her eyes uncOnsciOuSly fixed
upon the yacht Mermaid in the Offing
She was in an unusually thoughtful
mood. There had come to her for thu
first time the thought whittier her Life
was tending. To wear away the season:
from youth to age in uneyentful mo
= n0tOny, her soul unsatisfed, did not suit
her. But spell, a fate, seemed upon
her. Probably it would never be other.
wise; and sadness no words could ex.
press spread through all her conscious
ness. HES y e7,IHlI fiyARfa
Astep upon the gravel. She turned
and encountered the CLEAN of two blue
eyes. Captain SOmers bowed low.
"YOur pardon; more missing property
Miss WeSterley," he stammered
what is it nOwT asked Adelaide. in
amazed tones. - Iisi1 Us s-tt4e ~
"a ring dropped yesterday. All, here
it is" STOPPING to hide guilty blush
and Immediately, with strange good for
tune, discovering diamond ring at tn,
edge of the grass plot.
He showed tito her "a diamond
quantity set; his property for. fifteer
years, he said, the gift of his dea(
mother.
The heiress of the jumpers was al
guileless as child. She never thought
OF fear; and what was there to suggest
~ IN gentle words and cOurtly tones
ana. fortunately, Captain SOmers was an