The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-06-25

passlonately. Yes, that was decidedly
the best thing 10 do, and perhaps it
would save both OF them great deal OF
siouble and suffering. And in his mind
during IL all there were a lingering
doubt and a half defined feeling that he
might stay and face 1t out ana win her
to him, after all.
The east is radiant now with fierce
glow like the intense cleaning of fur
mace fire. and the beautiful carmine is
shot here and there by long darts of gray
black clouds. The light extends far into
the north and south until the red blends
with the clear silver blue of the morn
ing sky. Above the eastern horizon is a
huge white cloud like a limestone rock
cleft in places by long bars of glowing
gold, and high up in the sky the white
clouds are in layers like the feathers of
a white dove. The color in the east
grows more and more intense until a
gold rim lifts itself from the sea, grow
ing larger and larger every moment, and
the sun comes Kissing from the depths
of a silver sea. The light turns the
white spray TO drops of shining gold
and flashes in at the window of the light
house on Monomoy point, streams across
the narrow spit of land and glistens on
the water on the other side, turning the
waves from blue to gold.
A dory is tossing about in the waves
offshore, and the sun shines on the drip
ping SIDES of the boat as it rocks to and
fro and lights up the face of man
sleeping in the stern and while sleeping
smiling.
Grace Boardman, who made much Of
having self command, was very much
annoyed when Grosvencr left her as he
did, and she wondered where he was GO
ing and why he had such desperate
look on his face when he went out Of
the door.
And SO the bowling that evening was
not altogether a success. The noise #
the rolling balls and the falling pins
made her nervous, and she slipped
away unobservod and went over TO the
hotel. She was longing for some one 10
talk 10 and some one TO conhde in, and
therefore when she met her aunt, Miss
Eunice Westchester, at the door of the
hotel she was very much pleased. She
found Miss Eunice standing at the dooT
and looking across the bay, where a
glow came from the bowling alley. Ii
was dark excepting for light here and
there on the shore and the one streaming
across the bay. The night air was damp.
and Miss Eunice shivercd and drew her
shawl closer about her shoulders. She
played with her gold bowed spectacles,
shifting them on and Off uneasily, and
then she looked down at letter she held
in her hand. The mail had just come
in, and this was an event of Importance
at the hotel, for it only happened twice
each day. Usually there was a crowd
of people in the little parlor to receive
it, but on this particular night some
thing had taken every one to the bowl
ing alley.
Miss Eunice was very comfortable
old lady--comfortable TO look upon and
comfortable to talk to, for she never
made remarks about being old, and she
never said that the young people were
becoming altogether too self assertive.
She was too aged TO be called an "old
maid" and she took life in a very easy
way and very rarely allowed anything
to disturb her. Her gray hair was al
ways parted accurately in the middle,
her shawl was always about her shoul-
ders in strictly sedate manner, and
her black gown never looked dowdy. At
times her small blue eyes would fash
in a sprightly manner at some sally of
wit from her brother, and she would
tap hem on the shoulder in an absurdly
convivial way and call him "a sad old
boy" Her voice was very sweet and
musical, and she spoke in a deliberate,
careful way, common to old ladies of
her temperament.
Miss Eunice held very important
letter in her hand, and she was wonder
ing how she was to get it to her brother,
who was bowling. The hotel was
one horse place, and messenger was
cutie out of the question. Miss Eunice
would have gone over herself were il
not for certain twinges that told her she
must look out for her old enemy-rheu-
matism.
The problem was solved by the ap-
pearance of Grace Boardman, who i'm
stantly volunteered to take the letter