Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-03-11
OLD POINT EPISODE.

If there is one spot in the world where
people ought to be agreeable it is at Old
Point Comfort. In the winter, of course.
But if there is one place where the angu-
larities and acidities of human nature are
accumulated it is at this fashionable sea
side resort
This was the conclusion that Colonel
Maxwell arrived at half an hour after his
name was added to the list of the guests
quartered at the Hygeia, which every body
knows has an unrivaled repute, and-well,
an unrivaled repute. The hotel is large
roomy and comfortable, and as thousands
well know is in perfect harmony with the
great, solemn sounding sea as the best
architectural achievements one encounters
the world over. An admirable continuance
to swallow up the Municipalities and ex-
ira allowances of a liberal race of travellers
The colonel had no sooner set foot in his
room than he wished he had gone to Flor.
ida Just outside his door a dog snarled
at him. Dogs were his aversion. If he
had been less considerable he would have
kicked the dog aside; instead he exclaimed
angrily, Get out Of my wayp and passed
into his room. At that instant a little
child appeared in the hall She looked at
the colonel with solemn big blue eyes
so solemn that the colonel's firm mouth
relaxed as he glanced at her Then he
closed his door with a snap.
Simultaneously a door almost opposite,
and a trifle ajar, was opened wide, and a
lady beckoned the child i- an imperious
manner The child obeyed the 81 Mt man
date, was drawn into the room and the
door of No o. closed with bang.
Half an hour later the door of No. o.
opened, the colonel emerged, and as before a
dog-the same he encountered as he entered
his room, seemed to rise up out Of the floor in
his path. And again, as before, the colonel
exclaimed, angrily, Get out Of my way.
you nuiSancep Upon which the dog dis
appeared-dissolved into air, apparently,
as the colonel's attention was attracted to
the peculiar manner Of the child he OBJ
served half an hour earlier and who now
vainly endeavored to conceal her doll as
she walked backward, recoiling from him
shyly but surely. Again, as before, the
door of "a opened, the child darted into it
sidewise and the door closed with signif-
cant snap.
The colonel's friends were in the habit
of saying that it was a great pity, consid-
ering how much nature had done for him
in the way of features, figure, complexion
and voice that be took so little pains to
display his admirable qualities. How
much reason there was for this high est
mate | leave the reader to judge.
When the colonel was seated at the din
ner table he found himself opposite the
child that had attracted his attention in
the hall He was passionately fond of
children-a man who tossed up, caressed
and crowed over babies in secret. This
child's beauty was 50 rare that he sat star
ing at her unwittingly, until her manner
recalled him to himself; then he chided
himself for disconcerting her. He glanced
at the lady beside her-a brilliant bru-
nette. Finely penciled eyebrows, suf-
fcient in themselves to stock a beauty; a
neck that was a marvel, and the head,
how exquisitely modelled, how fine the
lines Of that head
Meantime the beauty flashed glance
at the colonel 1t comprehended the en-
tire outer man-she measured the inner
man two hours earlier in the day. As the
colonel intercepted the glance he actually
blushed, while the brunette apparently
was unaware that she and her charge were
not the sole occupants Of the table.
odd" thought the colonel.
Two hours later Mrs General Ollapod
beamed mon tbe brilliant brunette as She
met her with ontstretcbcd hands
,sNfv dear have a sunrise for Won. Nv
narticpIar friend Colonel Maxwell is here
NJ, ,lC,,,t NM ,,,,. ont m baip,, indifferent
after the times have planned to bring YOU
Together -
From which IL NAV be inferred that
whatever military genius or talent was in
the OIlanod household Mrs. OUapod did
not share il. The beauty smiled.
oTbe discouraqamcpts Won have cucoun-
tered Mrs OIlauod almost iustifes the