, 1884-03-12
LYTEoN's
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stitch in her hdo," said Miss Seton. ma
nciously.
my aunt could never ride In . country
wagon"
"Well. all I can say is that any sort OF ye-
hicle will be preferable to walking" chimed
In Rithwick, who was notoriously disinclined
to exercise except to do knight errantry for
Miss Laarock.
Just then the ISLAND Maid" f~oundered In
among breakers, and began tho difficult feat
of getting up TO the long. low bit of launch
ions set in the bay called the landing. Tho
tide was running out and the captain had his
hands full, and gladly accepted Harvey Dali
tons aid, who was a good seaman.
The man on the cart grew larger and de-
veloped into a brawny, broad-shouldered
Adopis, with a close cut brown beard, curl
ing brown hair, and a blue flannel shirt open
at the throat His large p~ensive brown eye
twinkled mirthfully at the screams OF the
ladies when tho boat pitched this way and
that Suddenly, with his face grown very
white, he saw one OF them tossed like weed
over the side, and heard the screams intensi-
fed. Naturally he sprang into the water.
and, holding her limp form under his arm,
climbed up the landing. all green and Shiny.
1t made the other man swear to see him
CAhspiu0 l1lAs l<oAIOCk hkhlnsb us bfedsb ts
If she had been a common country maiden.
He set her dripping on tho white bit OF
beach, and begun to lament the loss OF his
hat.
How strong you are," she murmured, as
calmly as II she had climbed up the stairs as
the others wero doing. ~ beljeve they would
have let me drown"
"Well, 1 should not" he said. simply.
And he helped them all into the great lum-
beriug two-horse affair, and directed the
trunks put of under a rough shed, saying he
would return for them later.
Then he climbed up in front, after carefully
throwing q shawl over Miss Learock's wet
shoulders, and cracked his whip about the
ears OF the big gray horses, and they started
at a trot down a sandy road with the tall
green chestnuts on the right and the blue sea
on the left.
After a delightful ride OF half an hour they
turned into a low country house with wide
pinzzas and gables, around which swallows
were twittering and fighting.
A stout. gray-haired lady opened tho white
gate, smiling at the brawny driver.
supper is on the table, my son. thought
they would all DO hungry"
Take this one to her room, mother, and
get her into dry clothes" he said, as he lifted
the limp heiress down, to tho chagrin OF
Cory, who thought him u low. Inbred coun-
try pumpkin, entirely too familiar.
That was why Miss Learock came into the
old-fashioned tsa-room with a white cross
barred cambria, a world too big for her, and
her long yellow tresses hanging over hsr
shoulders.
Miss Hogarth shifted broiled ham, fried
CLANS and hot biscuits, and such coffee as one
only reads about, and she had no time for
her grave disapproval Of Rowena's familiar
ity with these people.
After tea young Lytton, whose other name
was Logan, started after the luggage, and
everybody went out on the piaxIa to watch
the August moon rise from the placid waves
which lay sleeping under her silvery beams,
although the day before a storm had dashed
those swells into pillows higher than the Lyt-
ton homestead, and bits OF n wreck lay strewn
on the beach, further down, where the
rocks were tall and Jagged. Rowena sat
screened behind a scraggy vine, straining
her blue eyes in the dusk to catch the first
glimpse OF the stout fisherman as he strolled
up under the trees after getting the luggage
from the landing. Why she did so she could
not tell, and indeed utterly failed to satisfy
Miss Hogarth latter in their room under the
caves, where the birds had long since gone to
sleep.
Mr.. Lytton had scolded his mother roundly
for allowing the young lady to sit in the
night air after such a dousing rs she had. 1t
WINS a delicious novelty to Rowsna that he
paid not the slightest attention to her in the
matter.
"Why, that fellow Is absolutely imperti-
nent and encroaching," said Caroline, taking
OIL her false head-piece, altering her appear
ance for the worse.
do you really think sol" WINS Rowena's
answer, as she reverently hung up the roomy
white muslin-his mothsr's Sunday gown
ayes, l do" snorted Miss Hogarth, finging
her stout CATERS under an old chest OF
drawers with glass knobs; "and let me toll
you, Rowena, not to descend TO any nonsense
with this foolish, low fisherman. To airt
with him would be unworthy of you"
Rowena sat down by the window, one OF
the dormer kind, in deep shadow aud looked
out on the black waters which might have
swallowed her up forever but for this 10
fisherman. She scarcely heard the remark
fired at her from different points in the room
and wondered why she had never before felt
a positive delight In the thought OF bringing
a man to hor feet 1t had been pastime
merely. She longed to start the fire which
smouldered In the depths Of this mans
brown eyes. Yet he might even be married,
or plighted to some artless country girl,
whose image filed his giant heart. 1t made
her nervous and she tried to forget that his
mother had mentioned n certain Amory, who
had been at the scene of the wreck with Lo-
gan for hours. Whatever mischief lay be-
hind those deep blue eyes fell far short OF the
Matching, US Miss Learock was too Ill to
rise the next day and for many days, during
which she lay on the snowy bed and heard
the swash OF tho waves on tho shingly beach
and the angry fighting OF tho swallows In
the caves. She worried herself into a heat
and pleaded to 20 down ON the porch. but
word was brought from the grave fisherman
that it would be impolitic as she YVES threat
ened with the coast fever.
All sorts of Wild trumpet vines and sen
flowers were laid on her hot pillow, sent by
Lytton. and Annabe Sheets began TO rave
about his prowess In swimming, boating,
driving. playing at lawn tennis and cricket
And this tiresoms little gossip was full OF
Amory Hartegen. a hshermanis dark-eyed
daughter. who helped with the household
work and was taking a daughters place evil