Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-11-21
LAKE MARY ROSE.
"a Duffus Hardy in G hlcagO News.

qttle lake which pore VuaI name-a
deep still pool, clear as mirror, re-
lecting the golden sunshine and azure
ky and fringe of green pine woods,
The slim, stately yellow pines" of the
South, with their graceful, feathery
crowns.
"Well, you see," replied the owner
Of the lake and its surrounding shores,
in his slow, deliberate tones, "this
lake used to be called Postum. Now,
that's not pretty name, So when
bought il | changed the name, and
called it Lake Mary Rose. His
voice softened as he dwelt on the words.
II see, said Dorian, smiling not
unsympathetically. You have named
it-after some one?"
John Garston's somewhat heavy face
frightened with slow answering
smile, as he replied: Eyes, after a
dear little girl who'll be here l hope,
some day when I've got proper house
built and things smooth and fit for a
dainty little lady like her. y
''She's coming out, them"
''Yes, hope so, when I've set things
shipshape and make comfortable
home ready for her -
Lucky fellow!" observed Archie
Dorian genially, but with a slight,
involuntary sigh.
''I've had long streak of bad
luck since l came out. i" John Cars
ton rejoined, "but | hope it's on the
turn now. I've put all-yes and more
than all-Pm worth, into this land, "
with an indicative gesture sweeping
the shores of Lake Mary Rose, " ''and
think it'll pay me. Y
They were an oddly assorted pair in
appearance, these two men. English
both and fortune seekers in Florida
both-was there any one more point of
resemblance betweenArchibald Dorian
and John Garston? The one young
tall and 1.-THE and fair, refined 10 tone
and feature, with happy mingling Of
grace and strength in his we'll knit
figure, a gentleman every inch of him;
the other dark, broad and squarely set,
with plain, rough hewn features, hair
and beard grizzling fast a solid mid
dle-class air and provincial accent-a
country yeoman farmer and nothing
more. Yet these two, seemingly so i'll
suited, had chummed" alomst at
first sight and were now ''going part
ners'-the partnership promising to
be on the whole greatly to the advant-
age of the younger and less expert
enced, who was new to Florida life,
while Garston had been out some
years. Their alliance was matter of
some surprise to their compatriots, of
whom there were many in the neigh
borhood, all, like these two, crowded
out of those close-serried ranks of the
battle for life in the old country and
seeking fortune-or in some cases bare
bread-in the sunny South, which did
not, however, prove the happy hunting
ground they had anticipated. whereon
gold might be had for the gathering.
Archie Dorian was one of those who
had INDUCED in vague dreams Of sit
ting under his own vine and fig tree,
swinging in a hammock in his own
orange grove, but found that he must
clear the wild land, fell the tree and
pillow the ground, dig and hoe, plant
and prune, face the stern realities of
daily toll in the fierce blaze of the
tropical sun. For pioneering is no
picnic and hard work il the only road
TO success, in Florida as elsewhere, for
those who start in life without the
golden key. There was many of Young
Dorrlan's class out there, Younger
sons, family failures, impecunious
descendants of aristocratic ancestors.
names not unknown in the historic
annals Of England; between most of
these there was sort of freemasonry of
general mutual understanding. They
all knew old Dorian had shipped
Archie out to Florida to break Off an
affair with some third rate actress
some said, music hall singer. A few
there were who knew a little more than
that; John GarstOn for a long time did
not know SO much he was not "one
OF them;" and it did not happen until
after he had extended his confidence
to Archie with regard to his own matri-
monial hopes and prospects that he
heard for the first time an allusion &c
Dorrian's infatuation for "that girl al
the Hilarity."
His governor was in an awful funk
for fear he'd marry her," observed
young Vane, swaying leisurel4Nin his
rocking chair-the days work EMe.
Pretty little minxn' reiSarkeG
BERTHE Beauchamp, "did you see hei
in Bo- Peep?' -
mo, / never saw hers
She was one Of the ahepherdesses, .
continued Beauchamp, lazily knocking
the ash off his cigarette. "What ar
innocent face she could put on, and
by Georgen' he added, chuckling al
Of ankles in tbe Cro"l %1 darc =. q oisPi"9
"Dorrian was awf,,ii,' i go -
and think he's 40 had s os sono 5 s ~ ne
believe he,d marry ba orv &c 90 ener SUI
could. J, mn n III Il ~; W Morrow u NJ
who was n Iittle fnrtbnr IN Souhs i,iaI
confidence than tbo reat III WE Archie
"Why cant beg', ~ ;roni,oa III,
Garston. who had l;s+onad WIN - H. o"n r.i
ting conversation viii i,,taro w. 'ho pass
Because h. MANI teion o l.,
what the royerpor allows bi,n nns III ~