The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-10-13

while the boys distracted frisnds Seeaed
. pAtrel on shore stra1ning their 49,.
with art-siokAnins dread for what tns
go might give Up. II was NOT un1u ~
next morning that the stdgec came
into harbor. flowed By the United states
| Survey steamer. whose oficevs were toua
| in praise of the slkiu and bravery OK the
young captain which had saved his pas
sengsrs lives. 10 Diisey was sns nero
| Of the hour.
| Ala strset in the afternoon. her face
IookInr IKE 4 May rosebush after
| shower. ..u-...,
.srhe very queerest, most delightfui
| thing has happened" she said. breath
lessly, to the group OF girls mat mao
gathered At the tennis court. "That de-
Srhtfui boy who sails the Midget has
turned out to be . relative OF ours'''
"A relativew gasped Constance
Don't you remember my telling you
that Papa wanted to come mere because
| his father once lived here. Grandfather
was a sailor. and he and his brother
were wrecked on this island. Grand
fsther went away and made his fortune.
| but his brother and his family lived here
always: the Dilsey family on tho Blue
Mountain Road are our second cousins
Dorothea said It as simply as II 1t
| were the most natural thing In the word
| 10 have such relations; under her
breath MILE Briard murmured: Pays
| extraordinaire.)
There was a rumor In the air tnat .he
| IIarbor was an unhealthy place that
summer on account Of defective sewer
age: there was a case OF fever on Para
| disc street, and Mrs. Poole closed her
| cottage in haste and carried Constance
and Jack off 70 Lenox- Later In the
wear they went abroad and lived Tor
| three years. Constance and Jack Were
at school In Germany and knew Vs
| from occasional letters from nome
| where they had left no near reia,i'e'
what was going on in their set
The Tarleton had carried the queer
relatives, whom they mad discoVerea
at the island. home TO New YORK WIN
them and were giving them all the edu-
| na,ior.l and social opportunities pos
sible. so Gladys Bourke wrote Son-
stance fought to see' that dueer-iookhg
| Blue Mountain girl; she was already our
ana great social success; people
thought her beauty; sff was certainty
very original and striking.
when she read that the little pang
| that had always haunted Constance was
| soothed "she has had too many good
| times to miss that one that might nave
| given her" she said to herself.
But when, a few days after her return
| 10 New York, she went to Dorothea Tar.
| leton's coming OUT party, dread oi
| meeting the Blue Mountain girl was up
| ner-most In her mind. or course sh,
| would understand now what an ABSURD
| favor she had asked. but Constance mop
| Cd she had lost the clear, direct gaze
| that was so embarrassing. There was
the Juno of the East End hotel In the
| receiving party; but Constance looked
in vain for Lorena's high forehead ano
wispy locks, the thin, fercely eager III
| lie face that had never left her memory
When at length she ventured 10 ASH
| Dorothea, the girls bright face sadden.
ed. you didn't know? She died tha'
very summer, Of the fever 1t was heI
sister whom Gladys wrote you about
The crooked baby died too; they arr
buried together in that bleak Town Hill
cemetery"
A sob tore its way from Constance
throat. ''she never had any gooo
dimes" she said; land I might nave
given her oner'-fndependent