Daily Republican., 1883-09-06

was coming.
| While she was wondering who i,
could be, her mothers voice sounded
shrill from the kitchen window.
"Etta Here comes George Lovejoy
with load of hay"
Eta nodded, but from the peculiar
expression which crossed her pretty
face, IL was plain to be seen that the in.
formation was not the most agreeable.
The hay wagon advanced slowly, the
sOnOrous Creak coming nearer and
nearer, until it ceased altogether just
beyond the hedge.
| "A bright flush mounted to the girls
cheeks she knew what was to follow,
and her head dropped low over the last
glass, as CHEEKY voice called to her:
"Want TO go sailing this afternoon,
Eta"
She glanced toward the hedge.
The boughs were parted and the jovial
face of George L0vejoy was visible,
peering through at her.
| She shook her head.
No, George, she answered, 81
can't 60 this afternoon, "
"pll ask yOur mother If yOu cant, y
persisted the young farmer.
Smother has nothing whatever to do
with / d"
"No. Then why cant you go.''
81 have an engagement. "
"With whom 2"
At any other time Eta would not
in the least have minded telling George
Lovejoy anything; to-day, however,
she resented his curiosity; perhaps she
felt little guilty.
eff you must know" she retorted,
Il am going sailing with Mr.. Alfred
Lewis.
"Alfred Lewis" exclaimed George,
"why, he doesn't know anything
about sailing boat. -
:" How do You know he doesn' 2"
"How should he 2"
"Well, guess you'll find he knows
quite az much about boat az you do 7"
And seiz!ng tray OF glasses, Eta
walked Indignantly into the house.
How impertinent he is !" she
thought,as she hustled her sweet freight
on to a shelf in the stOre-roOm.
"Contound that dude - exclaimed
George, as he returned TO his team and
picked up the trailing reins.
Promptly at four o'clock Mr.. Alfred
Lewis stood upon the wharfat the lake
side. where boats were to be let.
He had engaged the prettiest craft,
named Bessie, and had posed in true
sailor style to await The advent of Eta.
He had blough IL yachting-suit with
him from the city, bite flannel very
dainty trimmed with blue, and "A silk
polo cap of he same romantic hue
This was the first time he had ap-
peared in his get-up and the children
we're stickt II speeches. with alnira-
ton, while Their elders wondered if the
city boar'er had gone crazy.
The y Jung gentleman considered him
self positively killing, you know"
and Eta tacitly concurred in his view.
They left the wharf with flying col
ors, and were soon but white spcck
upon the azure bosom of the lake.
Mr.. Lewis possessed an enormous fund
of compliment and small talk. aud so
beguil,d the time that Eta wished
they had started out at eight in The
morning instead of four in the after
noon.
And the way he luffed and tackled.
How Eta longed to have "that hate
full George Lovejoy" there to see.
Al went well so far as the Bessie was
concerned.
To be sure an ominous cloud was
rolling up in the west, and the gentle
way had taken to themselves white
caps; but what Of that?
Eta and her "dude" had no time to
notice such tritling matters.
Suddenly, however, a violent puff of
angry wind almost put the boat on her
beam end
The next gust pretty nearly cApsized
her.
Poor Eta shrieked aloud and covered
into the bottom of the boat.
Pale as a ghost Mr. Lewis got down |
on all tours and hunted Wildly for life
lerserverS.
Only one was to be found.
"Car't you swim 90 cried Eta, in
fresh alright
"No, no." stammereh the knight of
the white flannel and blue silk, "can't
you?"
ooh, dear, no! We shall be drown.
I'd -
"Herc'Sa life-preserver -
Bur one won't do for two !"
Well, I'll put it on and you can
cling 10 me. Perhaps we shall be
picked mp by some passing vessel"
"Vessel % screamed Eta, almost de-
irious with terror; "therc never
was such thing on tho"
Her words were cut short by a
scream.
The gale had burst in all It's fury. |;
Lewis, in his ignorance, had neglected
o reef the sail, though he had sue
ee ed In getting into the life-preserver
Itter fashion.
The catastrophe came all too sud
|enly.
The Bessie careened and went bottom
lp.
Mr.. Lewis sprang off on one side,
eaving his lady to float off on the
ther.
At the same instant trim little cat >
Oat shot np,a strong hand was put out, :,
nd the girl drawn up 10 safety. =
Her first exclamation was:
ooh, George, dear, where IL Mr.. T.
.ewis? He can't swim ~ =,
"There are his feet, replied the VI
Dung farmer, with u laugh, pointing \
} a pair Of extrrmitics encased in white AZ
protruding from the sur :,
ice of the troubled water. y
The unfortunate fellow had put on -
le life-preservtr too low, and rs a !;
atural consequence his feet, ms cad -.
his head, were elevated heavenward. " ~
OF course they rescued him, ard y,
iough he lay in the bottom Of Ill" ~
pat with closed ewes. he was by no "
'eans unconscious. "
Upon reaching the shore they spread ,
i'm out on the grass TO dry, the sun
aving come ont again, aud there he
as only too thankful to be left alone.
Two days later some boys fishing near
10 dam found q blue polo-cap fiutter- 81