The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-05

4 NO, SdIu SJ UtA, you, WHY dut
Maly must stay with me. Tether':
point is too far for you to walk: be
| sides, it will not be high tide before
| your bedtime Elsie, you can go with
them if you like, but you must put or
your strong boots, and tell nurse to tie
| my wooden scarf across your chest F"
Willy and Maly began to protest
Mr.. North returned to his severe man
ner and slenced them.
''Sybil says no, and that is enough.
he said. Not another word"
Their mouths turned down.
81 think they might come down to the
beach, sir" said Sybil, seeing their dis
appointment. 'It is only Tether's point
that is too far. Maly, be good, and ash;
father if you may como down with me
for a quarter of an hour before going
to bed"
DIaly shrunk behind her elder sisters
skirts.
But sybil meant to go to Tether's
Point herself" said Elsie. s'Yeu know
you did, Sybil. You told me SO. You
wanted to see the waves"
81 can see them just as we'll on the
shore here said Sybil.
"Why should you sacrifice yourself
to these children?" said Mr.. North,
testify. why can't their governess
take tnem?''
''She is lying down with headache,
sir, and nurse has a cold, and l can't
send one of the other servants out to-
night. Besides, like to go with the
children"
''Well, just as you like" said Mr..
North, Grossly. He went to his study.
The wind was roaring around the
house and the waves Numbered on the
shore. He settled himself to his work
He dipped his pen in the ink and looked
at the ruled paper before him He
dipped his pen in the ink again, and
yet again. He wrote a sentence, read
it over, altered word, and finally can
celed the whole with a line. Then he
began once more. The house shook in
the fierceness of the gale. A draught
came from the chimney.
Later on he heard the boys and Elsie
starting. He heard their boots in the
hall, and Elsie's strong pair creaked.
Arthur ungallantly told her that they
made his head ache. Mr.. North smiled
drily as he heard Elsie retort that they
had been Arthur's before they were
hers. and that they would be his still
only that they had ceased to fit him.
and I'm not surprised" she added,
though they're miles too big for me-"
The door slammed ON the argument.
Then he heard the pattering Maly
and Willy and their excited voices call
ing for Sybil.
Coming, coming. comingr' sounded
in her voice from upstairs. He heard
her bounding lightly down, with a
Jump at the last four steps. Then it
struck him that he had spoken GROSSLY
to her-even though it had been on her
own behalf-and as she passed the study
door he called to her.
What is it, father?"
Nothing. l want to kiss you, that's
all"
Dear old father"
81 am bear sometimes"
Never, father. Never bear to me-"
"Sybil
Yes. dear
''Do the children love me?"
Eyes, father. You are little sharp
with them sometimes"
She laid her against his.
Try to be gentle with them. They
are children. They don't understand"
How good you are, Sybil.'
After that he moved as If he would
go on with his work. The children had
opened the hall door and they had ad-
mitted the four winds of heaven.
Now l must be off, she said.
He never knew what impulse moved
him, but he followed her to the door,
and there he kissed her again. When
he went back to his writing table there
were tears in his eyes.
Half an hour passed. It was filled in
the study by the sound of the scratching
of pen. The vicar wrote that night
sermon that he never preached The
text was taken from the thirtv-frst
chapter of Proverbs and the twenty
ninth verse:
Many daughters have done virtuous-
", but thou excellest them all"
He heard the children come in and he
called to them.
Where is your sister, dear?" he
asked of Maly.
''She sent US in because it was time
for Us to go TO bed, and she has stopped
because she wanted TO see the sea-
And, oh, the seas so rough.- said
Willy. and there are great. big. enor-
nous waves as big as-oh, ever so bigl
And Mays hat nearly blew away. and
our coats are quite wet
go and take them off. then, my boy.
Good night, little man. Good night,
Maly. Run along"
Sybil stood on the beach and watched
the sea Her clothes were twisted
around her By the gale and her hair
had been blown loose and was
slapping her face and tapping like
ribbons, Every wave seemed to dig
into the shore as il broke with the
noise of q thousand guns, and then
rushed up the sloping single. Il tore
the stones back with grinding sound
IN its recediDg. Spray stood il drops
On SYPHILIS face and on the nap of her
rough coat Foam lay like snow IN 4 long
line that was washed higher and higher.
How the wind reared ard how the
sea Numbered >ybil bresthed a prayer
for all who were 1T the mercy OF the
waters What free aud superb curve
was that az breaking wave There
must be for moment hollow. she
thought. under each, IS the hollow IN