Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-09-18
CHAPTER XIII.

--- rorSE-BOAT ''TAWNT OWL"
1- Angus, what is an egotist?"
..-.-'. you know, Miss Meredith?'
.r.. ] now ia a general sort OF
ROT precisely"
..- a---,t is a person Who-but
ado YOU want TO know
e-s.se lust now Mr.. Abiuger
nae what I was thinking Of, and
said OF nothing he called me an
... that kind OF egotist is one whose
-.a-e too deep for utteraLCe.'
P. a-, twilight. Rob stood on the
f-le h0use-boat "TawDy Owl, ="
~ down AZ Nell, who sat In the
b. her mother beside her, amid
b.. Of Chinese lanterns. Dick lay
--sa-. prone, IS be had fallen from
.--.ek whose one flaw was that 10
vse when any one got into 10. Mr..
I'D. looking out from one OF the
rrl8ws across the black water
$50, now stTeaked with S-.s-
- silver. wondered whether be was
--. himself, and Mary, In a little
r...ea. jacket, with a cap 20
r ay back in a camp-cha,r on
win silent banjo 10 her hands.
Tss 1-szsu.ng 10 out In tanne,s,
-.i been at such pains % select
.l.. would suit aim that the
yes a.,r0ciOus. He had spent
-.. afternoons al Molesey during
nee weeks the Tawny Owl had
.a-e. out this time be was 20 re-
over r.glt 40 the Island Hotel.
-Tswnv on" was part OF the
Pc ~ boats that almost girded
*, Island. and lights sailed through
gree, telling OF launches moving 90
..-.rgs near the ferry. Now
..-.- tlere was an echo Of music
.st.s-flt bO2t-h0usa. For O mo-
Gle water was IOQuaci0us IS din
r., ralts shotpast. Canadian can
-a ghosts that haunt the
an. by night, lifted their heads
.aa river. gaped, and were gone.
- wand dipped into The
- ..far O. weight OF swallows, at
--. Bad together. The boy on the
.at-l0ase kissed mis- hand 20 o
- .1 t.sr5 The "TlvDy Owl TAX
f E-.. Naredi-h's servant, and
-.--aI 90 his kitchen smiling.
-.a 1oat-h0use across the river
t-. ~.rc-0u0ns TAP OF hammer.
-v.rt.ar rushed through his
a. There WIS ID soft SDlGSLiug along
-s
-s was once a literary charac-
Dick u1ruured, ''wl0 said that 70
s.t nothing was an impossibI.lty,
be- .v.t before the days Of house
came here q week ago % do
-r thinking aud believe I have
only f0ur JhOugLts-tr>t. that
r .r tae island is an irate cow;
tla .1 summer the sun shines
E --.-d. that the trouble OF
- cigar IS almost as
as -re pleasure OF smoking
ans fourth. that swans-tbe
-. --.--rt referred TO swans, built
ug memory. ~
r-. ike man glad 20 get a.
.-t .. his sentence or sorry that he
- 70,
.I#o1-ht," said Mrs. Meredith,
"a. Gle reason YOU walked round and
t.a island by yourself so fire.
DIP IS because you can think ont
Pres .r .t'"
VS. Dick answered, "ths Island
.ee o capita. place 10 think on,
sTars start OF on my round
-Et0 .h.1s hard. After that all
- I am back az the 'Tawny
F.a remember that / have for
-...s"
.o-sa, 70 enjoy this, remarked
Ills is ny brother, Mr.. Angus
oEoo; he 70 spend part Of
--av l.r-."
Remember him" Rob answered,
Nary b.ushad, however, re-
- ,-a. rae last time VII, and
at, Rob there had been q
,a.
enjoy the fishing, said Dick.
.'- base l>ael only three or four
--. / ana confident ] hooked
yesterday
81" -atae BOY, said Nell, "fsh-
Che Island to-day, and his
--1 strapped him 20 q tree in
.-. -.c-tia. .c."
- saw your Young brother az
-.' said Rob % Mary. she had
maze with him"
80 yes. said Dick; "that was the
wanted 20 h0rsewhip you, you
1'-cl, be and Miss Meredith
- ir.s-ds,' Rob retortcd. He
wondered how much Dick T.
> OILY the y0gcg gentIeman'S /
A1inger explained, while I
-.iset up Indignantly; "he /.
, -s had 60 give up either .
... 1-J match, and SO Nell was /.
-.g dropped
Vas not now you spoke" Nell /
"-S il low voice. "wheD I /
s-5. ABOUT him, poor boy, in your
..2n.sed to 6e a sister to him. !
remarked Abiuger. "Ab. I
H9t q safe plan that. How I.
,'.,,-ers have you uow?p
-t -s-l out his hand for Na~v,s I
,-..- setting himself comfortably /
,.,.-s'' waaSed ana sang, while the !
b, ,,--. .lusat uyriads Of flies and the !
,-3 coelebs was a holder b,,s.
aides fair were Gov.
l.-.a was FOR a wife, be sais
n Twas boy.