Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-03-13
4 SEA SIDE ROMANCE.

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4 SEA SIDE ROMANO :.
But how can I help feeling neglect
ed and miserable, Ned? Yon scarcely
look at me when Miss Lovel is near,
and she is your preferred partne in oil
things, now. You walk with her, you
sing with her, you drive with her, you
dance with her, and it makes me very
wretchedS .5 .@s !.
."Now, Mollie, if you're going to be
jealous!" 80 =. !:
"I'm not jealous, Ned. If T thought
you didn't care most for me; if L fancled
you cared at all for any one else, Idon't
think I'd demonstrate with you at all.
I would just take off this touching
the diamond on her hand, "and hand it
back to you. I'm not jealous, but you
are not very kind to me, Ned" ~.
"My little pet, you do not see things
as Isee them. One owes something to
society, especially when one is at the
seaside. II you would only remember
that I love you too we'll to find fault
with anything you can do, and ifyou
would become little more of soci-
ETY. character yourself, would be per-
fectly happy. Why, you scarcely take
the least attention from any one but
me and SO many are willing to offer
attentions to you. Now, dear, kiss me
at once; I must be off; I am to drive
on the beach with Miss Lovel; not jeal-
GUS, my pet?"' .M "a asss1,ass- s,as
"Not jealous, Ned; no." and she turn
ed from him, but without giving him
the kiss he had asked for.
"She is jealous, thought" the young
fellow thought, smiling as he watched
the pretty, straight figure going away
from the nook in which he had found
her out to the stretch of sand, against
which the waves were rolling, receding,
leaving now mass of seaweed on it,
now returning and bearing it away a
| very coGuette of an ocean, now kind
and now cold, and always fair in the
sunlight.
Ned Tremaine hurried over the beach,
whistling as he went, and he presently
caught up with his afianced, who, in
her pretty dress of cream and black,
with the wide sun hat pushed little
back On her blonde head, was looking
very beautiful and animated-and smil-
ing in the face of Lee Stone, the most
incorrigible male firt at the beach.
"Where now, Tremaine?" the latter
called out, as, with nod, he pursued
his way.
"For drive on the beach; will see
you later" and Ned had gone by, re-
Stunning his whistle.
Mr.. Stone smiled little and spoke a
few words to Mollie. She colored
slightly, followed the tall form of her
lover moment with her eyes, then
| gave gracious answer, and half an
hour later, when Ned and Miss Lowell
met the pretty light carriage on the
| beach, in which Lee Stone took his
daily drive, they received a pleasant
nod from pretty Mollic. who was his
companion, and who looked as though
she was thoroughly enjoying his socie-
ty: q"
"She certainly lost no time in follow
ing my suggestion" Ned told himself,
half in surprise; "and she has evidently
found the society of Stone anything but
boring" II
"What handsome couple they make,
Miss Lovel said, with certain CLEAN
in her steady gray eyes. Ned colored
suddenly, he didn't quite know why.
"Perhaps you didn't know that Miss
Annes is my promised BRIDE" he said,
trifle coldly. -& .... -.g,s@
"Oh. but so many engagements are
broken in a summer at the seaside; one
never minds that very much" the Ian
| guild belle said, indif'erently.
That night there was hop at the
hotel, and Ned had made up his mind
4 while dressing to be- g little more at
tentive to Mollie; but, to his surprise,
lie didn't find Mollie Annes shrinking
! under her mothers wing, as had been
4 her custom. A number of her old friends
had arrived while they we're at dinner,
and they were about her; beside, Lee
Stone was quite prone unced ID his at
tentions to her, and while she gave him
| Ned) q smile from the distance he
found it quite difficult 80 get near her;
then light tap on his arm informed
him that Miss Lowell was asking him
why he was SO preo ocupied, and as
4 Mollie and Stone went circling by, join
ing the walters. he followed them with
Miss Lovel. gs
"a rather pronounced Irritation, !"
Lee laughed, later, when he and Mol
lie stood on the hotel terrace, watching
the moonlight on the sea and strand
and one solitary couple pacing slowly
along beside the waters. Both knew
who thev were, for few moments be-
fore they had seen Ned Tremaine place
that pale-pink scarf about the shout
ders Of Miss Laura Lowell as he led her
across the terrace, to much engrossed
in his task, it would seem, to notice
Molly or her companion.
oh, everybody firts more or less at
seaside hotel; one has nothing else to
do, you know" Moilie answered Lee,
with light ripple Of laughter, and he
looked down on the pretty face to
which the moonlight was so tender, his
voice sinking to almost Q whisper as he
spoke to her.
tIt is 3 cowardly pastime for man"
he said SOFTLY, and for ! woman it is .
cruel one. s5f.l .a u .&s
Again she laughed, while arranging