The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-11-13

so unkindly to me?"
Mamma" said Harry, buntly,
"why did you speak to Miss Chaloner
SO sptefully?"
'Llttle boys shouldn't ask ques-
tionsl said Mrs. Elton, sharply.
"Go in and brush your hairl
$50 you have really concluded to
go to Blyden's Point with us?" said
Juliet, brightly, us she met Mrs. FL
ton Mt the dinner-table next day.
'Ies, to please the children"
'And, Miss Chaloner," intorposed
Harry. 81 am to row mamma and
the little ones, while you walk across
the sands and meet us, at o'clock.
"Then we must start little in adj
vance of your boating party" said
Juliet.
How brightly the golden afternoon
slipped away upon the smooth sands
of Blyden's Pointl Even Mrs. Elton
forgot to be spiteful, but reveled in
the beauty of the far off rocks and
sapphire armament, and owned to
herself that "realy, Juliet Chaloner
was very charming
"See, Miss Chaloner cried Bes-
sic, ecstotically dancing upon her tip
toes, 'the water is creeping all over
my shells "
Don't you see the tide is coming
up?" said Harry, eagerly. ''Stand
up on that high point, and take your
shells away quick unless you want to
lose them"
''But Miss Chaloner," said Helen
wistGully, "the water is ever so high
over that narrow neck of land, where
we crossed by the old lighthouse ;how
shall we get back again?"
Juliet laid down the branch of sea-
weed she had been admiriug with
Mrs. Elton, and looked off towards
the rising tide with check suddenly
blanching.
"Miss Chalouer, what is the mat
ter?" shrieked Mrs. Elton.
"We are cut off from the main
land" said Juliet in low voice.
"The tide is coming up, and half an
hour from now this point will DO sub.
merged. Why did we not think of
that? The bont, Harry quick ~
"But, Miss Chaloner," pleaded
thoughtful Bessie, "if we were to
run-the water is surely not higher
than our waists
"My dear, the neck of land is half
n mile away, and the tide is rising at
fearful rate. Get into the boat, Mrs.
Elton"
"Alammai mammal" walled the
children in chorus, while Mrs. Elton,
pale and trembling, and incapable of
effort, sat on the rock.
tduhpb HoNc, ohc SthluIncIcu'
'I really think that 1 am going to
faint.
But even while the words were on
her lips, Juliet's arm encircled her
waist and Juliet's strength guided her
to the little boat that lay rocking on
the waves.
1t was very small, containing but
two seats, and when Mrs. Elton and
her five children we're ensconced
therein. every nook in it was occu-
pied,
"There is no room for Miss Chal.
oner!' cried Harry.
Mrs. Elton looked fcebly around.
''Give me Rosa-let me hold Rosa
in my lap" she faltered, scarcely
knowing what she said.
But Juliet unloosed the loop of
rope that fastened the boat to a pro-
jecting rock, and flung it out upon the
waves.
''The boat is overloaded already =
she said, in calm voice. Push off
Harry "
The generous heart of the boy rose
up with choking throb,
"Miss Chaloner! and leave you
here to perish?"
'Listen, Harry" she said, hurried
ly, "Row home as fast as You can.
Two hours will take you there, and
then-then you can send the boat
for me.
And as the words trembled on her
tongue, Juliet Chaloner glanced over
her shoulder at the white-crested
frnges OF foam slowly creeping up
the sands, and knew that, two hours
| from that time, it would all be one
wild tossing mass of wavesi