The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-04-26
A SEA SIDE ROMANCE.
BY NARY O. PRESTON.

Bnt how can I help being neg-
led and miserable, Neds You
rcely losk ut me when Miss Lo-
h is near, and she is your prefer
1 partner 10 all things now. Yon
Alk with her, you sing With her,
n drive with ber, you dance with
r. and it makes me very wretch
:
Now, Mollie, IL you're going to be
l,us !
I'm not jealous, Ned II I thought
d didn't care most for me II 1
|ncisd you cared at oil for any one
he. I didn't think I'd demonstrate
lh you at all. I would just take
this touching the diamond on
baud, and hand it back to you.
b not jealous. but you are not
Try kind to me, Ned
My little pet, you do not sec
ipgs as l see them. One owes
netting to society, especially
hen ore is at the seaside. IL you
buld only remember that l love
n too veil to find fanlt with any
pg you can do, aud il you would
come a little more Of a society
tractor yourself. I would be per
lily happy. Why you scarcel,
Q the least attention from au,
but me, aud so many are willing
pffer attentions to you. Now
r, kiss mo once must be off
m to drive on the beach with Mis-
bel not jealous, my pet ?
Not jealous, Ned, no ) and sh'
he'd from him, but without giviui
kiss he hal asked for.
She is jealous, though! tho youn'
bw thought, smiling as lie watch
lhe pretty, straight 6sarse so'
away from the nook ia which b,
found her, ont to tho stretch o
against which the waves wer'
ng, recoding, leaving now a mas
esweed on i. now ,returniug am
VlNns-~a;<, s,du "nu now coia
Always iair' in the sunlight.
Nc TremAiue hurriodN over th'
Ach, whistl'ug as he vent, aud b.
bsently caught up with his aflianc
who iu her pretty dress of cream
Ia black. with the wid-5 suu-ha
sbee little back oa her blond'
ad, WAS looking very beautiful
d ansna,ei-aud smiling in th'
ce Of 1 pee Stone, The most incor
gible uAalc Airt at the beach.
where inow, Trenaiue ? the lat
r called but, as, with nod, h'
ursued his way.
For a drise on the beach viii
DO you later ; and Ned had gon'
y, resuming his whistle.
Mr.. Stone smiled little and spok
few words to Mollie. She colore(
lightly, followed the tall form q
Ter lover for moment with he
yes, then gave y gracious answer
md half al hour later, when Me-
Ind Miss level met the pretty ligh
barriage onthe beach, in which LIE
tone took is daily Dive, they re
leived plcsaut nod from prett
hIollio, who VS. his companion, an
IS ho looked a. thengh she wa
thoroughly enjoying il society.
She certainly lost time 10 fol
lowing my suggss'N,' Ned toll
himself, half in surpIe'i and SD
has evidently found society @
Stone anything but botg,
What handsome louple the
make Miss Lovel said ith eel
tain 3 nam in he steady tray eyes
Ned lorod suddeni% r. didn'
quite know why.
Perhaps you didn pow ths
Miss Auues is my prv ped wife
he said, q triae coldly'
oh, but so many gement
are broken in summer the sea
side one never minds YER
much the lsuguid belle d indil
ferently.
That night there was at th
hotel. and Ned had m up hi
mind while dressing to- IA littl
more attentive to Mollie to hi
surprise, he didn't find W Anne
shrinking under her mo- wing
as had been her custom imbe
\pi her old friends had ar Will
10y were at dinner. an1 .wer
put her; beside, Lee Q wa
TO pronounced in hi9 htion
er, aud while she gay (Ned
Pile from the distanc} foun