The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19

ODe cay during steamboat cNcuf-
sion, after admiring Vivette flushed
with the breeze on the steamers deck,
and her wonderful hair curling TO
catch the rather vigorous zephyrs, I'M
til he could control himself no longer,
he said as they walked the deck to-
gether;
do you know that you are very
beautiful, Vivette?" (She really APP
peared not to know that self-evident
fact)
You are very kind, Cousin Adolf >
she replied, without any expression of
emotion whatever-much to the sur
prise of Adolf.
81 ought not to know it," she con-
tinued; "but am not so dlsingenuous
as to pretend that ! am unaware of
what partial friends have claimed for
me-"
The women of New Orleans arc
many of them very beautiful" con-
tinued Adolf.
Il have heard so"
II have associated with the most
lovely; but no beauty has ever inn
pressed me like yours"
well, my very partial cousin, you
are very kind l ought to thank you,
and do"
But do not see You through the
partial eye of cousin"
with whose eyes do you see me then,
Cousin Adolf? Is there something be-
hind those shining glasses with rims
of gold which do not seq"
81 see you with the eyes of a devoted
lover, Vivette."
How thankful we should be, Mr..
Molier, that we cousins who have
never met before, can appreciate the
ties of blood and kindred" said Wv
cite.
Il never called you Miss Molier.
How could you say Mr.. Molier?"
cousin Adolf, forgive me. j would
not hurt your feelings for the world n'
But you refuse to understand me.
love you with devotion compared
with which the ties of blood are as
nothing. Without you can never be
happy"
Il am confused, my dear cousin.
Please tell me what you mean"
Vivette said these words in a man
ner so wholly devoid of guile that
Adolf was COMPOUNDED: and for the
present he retired from the assault.
This conversation between Adolf
and Vivette had taken place out of the
throng. near the stern of the boat. on
the hurricane deck; and the partici-
pants now walked Forward
Among the numerous passengers
who took advantage of the boat
excursion-there were hundreds
was a company of young gen
tlcmen without ladies, who had
seated themselves on the open
space behind the ladies' cabin at
the stern of the boat. They were
smoking, chatting and enjoying their
trip, and few persons on the boat were
aware of their being on board; nor did
they know or apparently care to know
of the other groups on various parts of
the boat
When Adolf Molier and Vivette
walked forward as described, they
halted for moment on the wheel
house where the stairway to the rooms
below was guarded by a slender rail-
ing. Adolf put out his hand to take
the railing, missed it because of his
near-sightedness, and pitched head
long into the river, nearly draggin q
Vivette with him. There was an out
cry and a shout of imam over
board" The boat was running
with the current, and as the young
men at the stern heard the cry, one of
them saw a man evidently unable to
swim, pass the stern struggling in the
water. In few moments the young
man threw off hat and coat and leaped
over the stern into the water, and soon
grasped Molier by the hair and held
him with a giants grip with
one hand while swimming with
resolutc composure with the
other. The boat was stopped,
the yawl sent to their assistance, and
they were taken safely on board, and
bac to the steamer.
Rescuer ana rescued appeared To
have no knowledge of each other.
Molier had lost his spectacles in his
fall or his subsequent struggles, his
hair was wetted down to his head, and
even Vivette hardly recognized her re-
Gently submerged cousin; while the
young man who had gone to his assist
ance was without hat and coat, and
only his comrades on the stern Of the
boat knew who he was. Vivette had
only seen him in the water at a dis
lance, and if she knew him did not
then recognize him. The young man
had fastened TO the stern, rejoined his
companions and there remained until
the boats return an hour later, when
&c took carriage and drove off in
search of dry clothing.
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