Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-12-07

'fYes, he looks happy, mother" he re-
peated with a chuckle. SIT was not so
long ago since it was you and who
were standing like that, and / don't re-
| member that we were very unhappy
either. 1t was croquet in our time, and
the ladies had not reefed in their skirts
quite so taut. What year would it be?
Just before the commission of the Pencil
ope."
Mrs. Hay Denver ran her fingers
through his grizzled hair. ''It was when
you came back in the Antelope, just be-
fore you got your STEP"
"Ah, the old Antelopel What clip
per she was! She could sail two points
nearer the wind than anything of her
tonnage in the service. You remember
her, mother. You saw her come into
Plymouth bay. Wasn't she a beauty"
"She was indeed, dear. But when
say that think that Harold is not hap
py mean in his daily life. Has it never
struck you how thoughtful he is at
times and how absentmindedT
SIN love perhaps, the young dog. He
seems to have found snug moorings now
at any rate"
81 think that it is very likely that You
are right, Willy" answered the mother
seriously.
"But with which of themr
II cannot tell"
well, they are very charming girls,
both of them. But as long as he hangs
in the wind between the two it cannot
be serious. After all, the boy is four
and twenty, and he made $500 last year.
He is better able to marry than / was
when was lieutenant"
81 think that we can see which it is
now," remarked the observant mother.
Charles Westmacott had ceased to knock
the tennis balls about and was chatting
with Clara Walker, while Ida and Harold
Denver were still talking by the railing
with little outbursts of laughter. Pres
emily fresh set was formed, and DR..
Walker, the odd man out, came through
the wicket gate and strolled up the gar
den walk.
"Good evening, Mrs. Hay Denver"
said he, raising his broad straw hat.
"May come in?"
"Good evening, doctor. Pray do"
TRY one of these" said the admiral,
holding out his cigar case. "They are
not bad. l got them on the Mosquito
coast. l was thinking of signaling to
you, but you seemed so very happy out
there"
Mrs Westmacott is very clever
woman" said the doctor, lighting the
cigar. "By the way, you spoke about
the Mosquito coast just now. Did you
see much of the Hyla when you were out
there?'
mo such name on the list" answered
the seaman with decision. There's the
Hydra, harbor defense turret ship, but
she never leaves the home waters"
The doctor laughed. 1--WE live in two
separate worlds said he. "The Hyla is
the little green tree frog, and Beale has
founded some of his views on protoplasm
upon the appearances of its nerve cells.
It is a subject in which | take an in
terest."
"There were vermin of all sorts in the
woods. When have been on river serv-
ice, have heard it at night like the en-
gine room when you are on the measured
mile. You can't sleep for the piping
and croaking and chirping. Great Scott,
what woman that isl She was across
the lawn in three jumps. She would
have made captain of the foretop in the
old days"
''She is very remarkable woman"
"a very cranky one"
"a very sensible one in some things"
remarked Mrs. Hay Denver.
''Look at that nowr' cried the admiral,
with a lunge of his forefnger at tho
doctor. "You mark my words, " alker, 4
if we don't look out that woman will
raise a mutiny with her preaching.
Here's my wife disaffected already, and
your girls will be no better. We must
combine, man, or there's an end of all
discipline"
mo doubt she is little excessive in
her views" said the doctor, ''but in the
main think as she does"
Bravo, doctorr' cried the lady.
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