Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-07-14

but holding un to his rod duggedly. |
"rhe fish is sulkiug In the lower pool he
cts. "N hen I've had a rest You must come
and rouse him up with stones"
This respite is brief. The game fish Is
soon csreeriug around the second pool, but
the effort is Il tual one, Very soon he Is lN-
ing in shallow water almost passive.
We have no gatf with us, and Captain Con
big landing net would not even hint at en-
closing such a leviathau rs this
Dick leads the fish steadily shoreward I'M
III il is almost aground then Captain Croti, |
warily circing around It, scoops II up IN |
both arms, aud behold! the great salmon Is |
glitterlug among the ling and heather.
\ loud cheer arises from the whole PARTY,
and little Bella. in a paroxysm OF triumph,
kneels beside the silver monster and kisses
its slippery sides.
"lhirty pounds at least" we cry.
"No; twenty pounds, perhaps say the
gentlemen. "And grand fish In perfect
condition"
The excitement of the sport had complete.
ly driven all thoughts of Dicks coming de-
parture from my mind, but they now return
with force. I" lie shall have chance |
declare to myself, and ponder little little,
while the others are STEPPED in fish worship
"Dick,' | exclaimed authoriuNely, "Nou
must go home at once, instead nt lolterlhE
about here dripping Ikea Newtoundland
dog. Ethel and / will walk tack with you"
Catching Dicks eye, SEQ that he under
stands me.
"Come along" he says
Ethel takes my arm on the side remote
from Dick. She is remarkably SILENT anu
shows a tendency to blush about nothing,
fearing, possibly, that her anxiety about
Dicks dangerous esCdpade lust now may
have betrayed her Dick, feeling that ne Is
now, as he would himself phrase II, IN Tor
it." maintains a no less mre0otracleGuiNh'
ness. Never have two such leaden compan-
ions fallen to my lot before or since
1t is a relief that the beauty OF the winding
l 4, ,HNnsV lllN
compes me TO stop and take out my sketch
book.
..I'Il stay with you" said Ethel nervously.
What! and leave poor Dick to jog home
along ?'
"Eh ?" says Dick. looking at me with
comical terror "DOn't let me drag her with
me, il she wants to stay
'Nonseuse go away, Ethel l cannot
| have you hdgeting about me while am
drawing"
Their assiduous good nature in preparing
NV water-cOlOr box and book for action
| knows no bounds neither fulsome hints nor
| cross requests will induce them TO depart
| At length, when | am busy with my hrst
wash aud refuse with sulky steadiuess to
| any more questions, or to Otler any further
| pretexts for their moving hand or foot in my
behalf,they stroll shyly of together,-Ethel' :
eyes on the ground, Dicks on the distant
horizon.
Craning around upon my smp-stoo l
watch then down the long slope of breakteru
and heather, straning my eyes rs they grow
indstinct after crossing the stream and hnall Y
disappear, to leave me not the wiser for all
my gazing.
Anxiety prevents my sitting still for ten
minutes together. My sketch is a curiosity-a
phenomenal specimen OF the kind of daub
producible by the COnvulsve dashes of a
| hand totally Inasssted by mind which is
| too agitated to do its duty.
My eyes yearn to pierce the small knoll be-
hind which the twain have disappeared. Are
| those two heads any nearer each other than
when | saw them last?
! For wears we have looked upon Dick as
| brother tomorrow night when he has de-
| parted, many tears will be shed he will know
| nothing of. His going to India, too is g
| mere freak,-a decision reversible, | really
| believe, by a single word from Ethel
| Again, Dick Is our master, unhampered 10y
| that lack of gold which quenches the hope
| OF so many young fellows. Well l havt
| done my best, and now they have had a Clea
| hour with their fate in their OVID hands,
may as well collect my paraphernalia ant
| follow them.
As l pace homeward, and gaze over thu
| swelling hills, the sun, "setting beyond tht
utmost purple rim saddens me. Solitude
and the gloom of evening, melancholy as
long drawn sigh of nature, settle upon my
| soul BY the time have reached the bridge
| to be crossed, the castles which | have bull
concerning Dick and Ethel have crumDieC
| one by one.
Suddenly stumbled upon them in tn,
| rocks, and nv hopes rushed 10 the surface
once more The glow of happiness upor
| those two faces admits of but one eNpIana
| ton.
" You old brick" begins Dick claspinl
my two hands with feryOr | trust he vii
never repeat; "it it hadn't been for YOU,
should never have done it -
And, Lucy" adds Ethel, in a thrilling
voice, with her arms round my neck
"you're dear old thing lit hadn't been
for the salmon, and Dicks going IN after it.
he would never have"
Z" Done this" interpOlates Dick, kissing 6
her again and again, with a cool indifference
to my presence, which bsthes ber face witt
crimson. But we haven't the courage TO go OF
without YOU" he adds when he has quite
done his whispering in her ears
| You'll have to, though, Master Dick" !
| reply, dashing onward and into the midst o
the astonished group 1.-THE inn parlor.
| L" It's twenty pounds ten ounces" sh out
Bella by way of greeting.
Come outside, girls !" eXcam breath
lessly, "and I'll show you something worth
hundred salmon"
As we emerged from the door, the sof
twilight shows the prettiest picture We hav,
ever looked upon; and the happiness which
| underlies the shyness of the one face and thu
sparkle and triumph of the other wakes al
answering chord IN our hearts as we mur
mur, :" Welcome, brother"