Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-10-19

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pressed his opinion OF what woman
should be, which was precisely what
he thought Matte was not, with the
greatest freedom.
The captain, despite his good looks,
made himself immensely unpopular
among the ladies by his persecution Of
their friend, and on the day when we
first met him upon the bridge, had de-
ciqed to return home forthwith
When he had read his book in the
grove he sauntered of to discover
some solitary means Of passing the
afternoon; and finding on the shore
ar old man with rickety sail-boat,
feed him literally to take him on board,
Meanwhile Paul Holden escorted
Mlttie home to Silverspeer.
Mrs. Silverspecr and Mrs. Cooley
the other married lady Of the party,
w1se preparing to go to certain
slaNered nook Of the river to bathe
Their bathing dresses were on their
apns, and their great hats tapped over
tlleir eyes. Matte proposed at once
II join them and the three women
hurried away, laughing and chatting
about all manner Of things, on the
vby, and enjoying the ridiculous fig
utes they made in their hideous fan
nel bathing dresses, when they were
al last equipped in them, and their
4uslins hung suspended in the little
,gessing house at the top Of the sandy
Stretch which lay between it and the
I Matte loved tha sea, She plunged
ibto it fearlessiy She went ont to
Iaet the waves as though they were
friends. She foated on her back, and
ldipped under, to the terror Of her
friends Her laugh as silyery as the
fhime of bells rung we'll in tune, went
but over the water aaI ca ught the ear
bf gentleman reposing with cigar
Us mouth upon the deck of a rick
H. sail-boat.
Hang it'll said this gentleman.
lhat woman again. There's no get
fling rid of her. Pat me on shore old
8 ntleman. You re rather too tipsy
So uiuekfurther with under any
{ sdsaastances.
VT all ''No marrer, all RI We.
| tack about And he proceeded to
stack about" at once, the Captain
lying with his eyes closed and his Gig
ar between his lips. The next moment
the patched and dirty sail dipped into
the sea, and the boat turned bottom
up, and its occupants of course went
with it. The old man had grnsped
the edge Of the vessel and clung to it.
The Captain clung to nothing. He
had put out that remembrance of a
right arm which was all he brought
from Seven Oaks, but it scarcely serv-
ed him. BY the time he remembered
that the sleeve was actually empty he
was in the water. H could not swim.
HIS heavy clothes weighed him down.
The tipsy boatmau could not held
him.
Its over with me, he thought.
Then a strange, underlined thought
fitted through his mind He could
not have analysed it, had there been
time. 1t was a somehow softened and
regretful thought about the girl of
whom he always spoke as THAT wo-
man.
Meanwhile that woman" looked
out from the bathing nook IN the
arms of the shore across the water, and
cried ont. with an cxcumation Of con
Germ and anxiety
Look, it's Bogle's old boat, and
one of our gentlemen in it, It's your
brother. Mrs. Sllyersp ,cr. How clum-
sy. How stupid Waat are they try
ING to do? They'll be over.
cold Boyle is drunk, suppose.
How could Cap go out with him,
cried Mrs. Silverspeer, cap can't
swim; he. never could And since he
has lost his arm, of course on, my
dear, they are going over.
'They'r over, cried Mattie, and
at that moment th sail dipped into
the sea.
"Mv brother, my helpless broth
er, cried Mis-. Slyerspeer. "oh, help
help! Why am not man? Help
help! helpl Cap is drowning.
"R1n for help, cried Matte. I'm
not quite sure how long can hold ont
] l,,+ lo .I,,,'4 1r0,-u can swim