The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-10-22
A SEASHORE ROMANCE,
The nistor, Lying Back of Pair of Blue E,.

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Newport Letter to New York Herald.
He was listening to the quick waltz
thrown out in a torrent of sound waves
by the orchestra when 1 joined him.
and we sat and discussed terrestrial
events on the half-moon gallery OF the
casino. Thelatest society on dit, the
clever playing of the Englishmen in the
international polo game, the yachting
gossip of the day, and various other
subjects passed in review in tho
thread of conversation, when. after a
moments pause. he remarked: "The
story in the Herald OF the mysterious
woman in the cab on Bellevue avenue,
who tried to get note to gentle
man, made me think of the various
episodes occurring nearly every day
which rarely come to the surface to
form topic for the gossips. For
that matter, in these times it is as
tonishing that so little comes out
under the sunlight. Idon't refer to
mere chronique scandaleuse here in
Newport, but to the domestic dramas,
the heart burnings resulting from
acts really sufficient to cause pain
thegale OF wind that may rage beneath
smiling face and the struggle that
goes on from one morning to the next
to attain something which ought to
be possible, but which isn't in the or
der OF things. Perhaps was in a
q brown study when you came along
Well, so was, and I'll tell you what
was thinking about. l can't order
bottle to fill up the chinks, for they
are too virtuous here to sell wine.
"In the first place, do you remem-
Der that girl l pointed out the other
day-the one we saw on the avenue?"
''Of course l remember her. She
was pretty enough. You said you
would tell me about her later"
Pretty, indeed, she appeared, with
her tiaxen hair, her large Dresden
china blue eyes, and the under side of
a pink hydrangea flower combina-
ton OF her cheeks. She wore piqu-
ant white gown and big hat with
nearly foot Of brim, and the youth
as we'll us the oldsters had their fill of
staring as she went by in the carriage.
Oh, yes, l remember her very we'll
"Well, I'll tell you her story. She
is Miss =, and she only came here
tor few days flyer to visit some of
her acquaintances. She is passing
The summer at another resort. She
is twenty, | believe. She didn't look
It, did she? She never looked her years.
When she was only twelve she had
the manners and appearance of six
teen. When she was just fourteen she
was a-but anticipate.
"Her near relatives live in New
York, you see. and the girl used to re-
ceive private instruction from q gov
erness, go to the dancing class, and
| take her exercise on the avenue like
other chicks. In the staff OF servants
there was a clean limbed young En-
gllshman whom some one of the
family picked up across the water.
He had red cheeks and a good face,
and he possessed something OF an
education, SO that he was not q mere
stable boy. His place was on the box
with the coachman. He wore tops
pulled up high over his shapely legs,
and his livery was snugtitting, with it's
bright buttons and the cockadc on the
side OF his hat. When the little miss
/ stepped out of the coupe the trim
1 tootman stood beside the open door.
1t was not long before the two caught
one another casting sleeps elances,
and the little girl was not averse to
turning her big blue optics on the
dark ones OF her attendant. During
the autumn, after the family came
back, Missy used to ride on her pony,
and Henry, the footman, rode behind
her on decorous cob. Perhaps it
was lonely for the child-she was but
just fourteen, don't you see? At any
rate. there was before Tonga change OF
the conventional equestrian positions
OF mistress and groom, and the park
policemen sometimes saw the two not
only riding side by side, but they wit
messed other little famiiarities which
might have made them stare if park
/ policemen had not gotten over being
surprised.
"Well, things progressed until final
| y, one fine afternoon, it was arranged
that Missy should take run up the
Hudson to pass few days with
! friend OF the family. So she was COM
| fortably seated in train at Forty
! second street, and she started on her
1 short journey.
/ Started, l said. 1t was the strang-
est thing in the world that the
same morning Henry should have
received notice that some of his
/ friends in the old country had arrived
and wished to see him very much.
Therefore he asked for day off. He
was family favorite and he GOT it.
| When the train left the station Henry
was In the smoking car. Before Miss
Blue Eyes reached the point up the
road where she was to disenlbark
Mr.. Footman was seated beside
her-he was out OF uniform-and in
stead OF getting off the pair went on to
Poughkeepsie, where they arrived just
in time to catch a train going back to
New York. They took it, and that
evening heprogressivey youngla had
put on her oldest looks and manner, SO
as to lead theclergyman to whom they
applied to believe that she was ofmar.
riageable years. She didn't go up the
Hudson to pay her visit until the fol-
lowing afternoon, and at the station
it might have been noticed that she
parted with a red-cheeked young man
in Il manner SO atfectionate as to lead
to the supposition that she was about
to depart for a years absence. And
SO things went on for the entire win
ter. The girl used to meet her foot
man husband at some place up town
on the east side, and they escaped
suspicion until after the holidays.
But for her desire to indulge in little
familiarities with Henry who used to
be seated in the front hall in full uni
form during reception hours, all
might have progressed favorably to
the letter OF their hopes, but the fact
of one Of tha servants oh,