The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1884-06-18

the green parrot; but the courier and
the nan-servant, being males, andtheir
services not being imperatively required,
they we're left behind in London. Lucy
had lust celebrated her twenty-third
birthday, and Amy was just about to
celebrate her twenty-first; and-altho'
l am sorry to have to record i'll am by
no means agtonished that they were both
in love. Lucy, during the whole of the
previous season, had been determinedly
flirting with designing young artist
named Robert Rhodes and Amy, young
er and less experienced than her cousin,
had been carving on, even more senti-
mentally, with Vivian Jellicoe, who,
being heir to baronetcy, found that po-
sition so arduous and fatiguing, that he
was quite united for any active occupa-
tionof alaborious character. OF course
Miss NIarrable knew nothing of these
affairs. Had she suspected them she
would perhaps not have taken her nieces
with her to Abermaw, for ithappened at
that very watering-place Sir Thomas
Jellicoe and his son Vivian were staying
when the three ladies, the two maids
and the green parrot arrived. But no
foresight on Miss Marrable's part could
have prevented Robert Rhodes from fol-
lowing Lucy to North Wales. That adj
| venturous artist had made up his mind
| to spend the autumn in Miss Larkspur's
neighborhood, and even if Miss Marra-
BILE had carried off her elder niece to
Timbuctoo or the Society Islands, Mr..
Rhodes would have gone after the pair
! by the next train, steamboat, diligence,
or caravan available.
Upon the morning, therefore, after
Miss Marrable's arrival at Abermaw she
and her nieces were comfortably INSTALL
ed at the Cors-y-Gedol Hotel, while at
the Red Goat, close by, Sir Thomas Jel-
/ leo and Vivian occupied rooms on the
| first floor, and Mr. Rhodes had bed
room ON the third.
In the course of that afternoon Miss
Martha Marrable, accompanied by her
nieces, and followed at respectable dis
lance by the two maids, walked in the
sunshine upon the hard sands that
! stretch, for / do not know how many
hundred yards at low water, between
| the rocky hills behind the little town
and the margin of Cardigan bay. The
weather was hot and sultry, and the I'M
rippled sea looked like molten lead in the
/ glare. Much exercise was therefore out
of the question, and erelong the three
ladies sat down on the seward side of a
rush-grown sand hill to read, leaving the
| two maids to stroll further # they chose
to do so, and to explore at lnelr leisure
unaccustomed wonders of the seashore.
Miss Martha, having arranged her sun
shade to her satisfaction, opened little
volume on The Rights of the Slaves of
England, while Lucy devoted herself to
Of t1i1o,c o1e j
deep into Keats, In five minutes THE
lutes more Miss Mari able was emitting
sounds which, but thatSI know her to be
woman who has no weakness, / should
call snores. From that moment Lucy
and Amy, as if by common consent, read
no more.
Lucy said Amy, mysteriously to
her cousin, 81 have seen him"
$50 have 1" said Lucy.
"What curious coincidence ~
"Not at all. He told me that he in
tended to follow u.s.
what Vivian told your"
"Oh no! Bother Vivian! You are al
ways thinking of Vivian. ] mean Rob
ert."
He here, toor' exclaimed Amy. 'sI
meant Vivian. saw him half an hour
ago with his father"
Well, | advise you not to let Aunt
Martha know too much" said Lucy
IF she suspects anything she will take
us back to London this afternoon"
Miss Marrable murmured uneasily in
her sleep. A fly had settled on her chin.
'Hush'' exclaimed the girls in uni
son and then they were silent.
| Not long afterward they caught sight
OF two young men who were walking
arm in arm along the sand couple of
hundred yards away.
.'Look p There they are" whispered
Lucy. "Aunt must not see them. We
must 60 and warn them" And stealth
lily accompanied by her cousin, she crept
away from Miss Marrable and ran to-
ward the approaching figures.
need not describe the greetings that
ensued. Such things are the common
places of seaside encounters between
young men and young women who have
likings for each other, and they have
been described thousand times. Suf-
flee it to say that, few minutes later,
Lucy and Robert were sitting together
under the shadow of bathing-machine, I
while Amy and Vivian were confiden-
TALLY talking nonsense dozen yards off
More than half an hour elapsed ere the
girls returned to Miss Marrable; but for
tunately the excellent spinster was still
mumuring sleepily at the fly on her chin;
and when she awoke she had no suspi-
cion that she had been deserted by her
charges. AS she walked back with them
to the hotel, nevertheless, as with a
strange intuitive comprehension of dam
ger In the air, she held forth to them on