Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-08-28

bang; then he threw himself down in bis
favorite chair to think.
This act was performed for about two
hours to the accompaniment of many
cigarettes. With the eighteenth one
the last remnant of Halls anger burned
away he arose and yawned, and emerged
from the blue smoke t'sadder and
wiser man."
He would go down and see if Dorothy
had returned, but he would be very dig
niied and non-committal until he was
sure that she had repented.
He descended the stairs leisurely,
whistling an air from Fra Diavolo with
marvellous skill, for he thought he de-
scrled scarlet spot in the dusky hall.
He sauntered indiferently along, then
came to a sudden stop.
1t was his mother. She heard him
coming and waited for him.
"Where is Dorothy?"
81 left her on the rocks a couple of
hours ago-with Max" he finished, see
ing the reproach upon his mothers face.
Max has been here more than an
hour, but l can't Dorothy anywhere.
There is shower coming up, go at
once"
Hal had vaulted the veranda railing,
and minus hat and umbrella, rushed for
the rocks. Already loud runblings of
thunder were heard, and big drops of
rain came faster and faster.
dorothy" he called, as he ran along,
Dorothy"
No answer, save the rush of waves and
the roar of thunder.
Thoroughly alarmed, Hal sped over the
rocks, calling frantically from time to
time; but no answering voice greeted
his ears.
Madly he ran on, shouting until he was
hoarse.
At last he stopped to take breath.
He had reached the spot toward which
Dorothy had started when she left him a
few hours ago.
Suddenly Hal saw something which
sent all his blood from his heart. He
leaned against the rocks to steady him
self, as a deathly faintness came over
him.
There, half hidden by the seaweed,
lay Dorothy's little white sailor hat. Two
hours ago the outgoing tide had been
crashing and breaking at the foot of that
very rock.
No wonder that Halls strength forsook
him. No wonder that sea and sky and
rocks became confused blur.
She must have made misstep, and
Hal couldn't finish. He sat down and
covered his face with his hands.
Presently the cooling rain upon his
head aroused him.
He looked at his watch. He had been
gone from the house just twenty min
utes.
He reached out and reverently took
up the little hat; then he rose, and like
one bereft of his senses, he paced the
desolate rocks-back and forth.
At last he turned his face towards
home. Slowly though he walked it
seemed to him that he reached the house
in one brief second.
He saw his mother upon the north YER
anda.
He assembled the steps and went around
the corner Of the house. There, comfort
ably ensconced in a sheltered nook sat
not his mother, but Dorothy!
When the girl saw the bedraggled,
wretched looking figure standing before
her, all her dignity fell from her like
garment.
"Why, Hal, DEAR" she gasped, "what
is the matter. Why don't you speak2"
Then, suddenly compromising, she
cried, "Hal, dear, your mother told me
you had gone for me. Did you think
what did you think?"
Speeches., Hal pointed to the hat.
~ sat there a few minutes" the girl
explained, "and took it off. It began
to rain so suddenly that forgot it and
came home without it."
The pleading voice seemed tc restore
the young man to his senses again.
With a wan smile he held out his arms.
All his fine theories, formulated few
hours previous, fled from Halls mind
like dead leaves from a tree.
"Dorothy, my darling, do you love
me?"
Two soft arms frightened about his
neck.
"And we will be married and 60 over
the seas together9"
eyes, to please grandmother and Aunt
Jane and your mother"
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