Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-07-25
A SUMNER STORY
OF One Chap in Quite n Number of
Chaps. and Also II Sumemr Hotel.

CHAPTER l.
1t was morning in the highlands. and as
Aurora, tinseled in pink and silver, came
tripping DER the blue and purple mountain
tops, long train drew in from the winding
valley ard stopped at a pretty station. on
which a summer hotel looked down from Its
eerie among the crags.
AS the train drew out of the station and
hurried away IL. the mists of amethyst
fir cling the brows of the mountain. soil
tafy young mai might have been seen on
the platform giving directions concerning
his luggage
CHAPTER II.
A half hour later a solitary young man
might have been seen eating his breakfast
in the sllle manager OF the hotel
CHAPTER III.
On the piazza of the hotel something of
importance, not to say great moment, was
occurring. Girls in pink, girls IN blue,
girls In white duck suits. girls In seersucker
gowns girls with brown eyes. girls with
blue eyes. girls with gray eyes, girls with
golden hair, girls with raven tresses, girls
with tawny locks. girls dainty and sweet
and loving and beautiful, girls hopeful, am
bilious, willing; girls reckless. grasping,
selfish; girls waiting, watchful and weary
girls. girls, girls.
piazza, gathering in clusters, twittering as
the birds twitter, tindly peeping IN the
windows. only to dodge biushlng away,
hLrrying about as if on the eve OF some
conspicuous event, toll and turmoil, ana
then there was tumult and a great crowd
irg toward the door of the dining room.
At this moment a solitary young man
might have been seen coming out OIL inc
sale manger.
CHAPTER ".
A hammock swung softly in the summer
breeze and four girls sat IN ana aDoul IT,
A boat fioated the pretty rustic iake,
and six girls propelled it among the lilies
that fringed the sedge
A dashng cart and horse, swung grace
fully around the grave!ed curve Oh the
road, and stopping in front OF cottage
five girls descended md threw themselves
listlessly down in the shade of the piazza.
A body of tennis players and squad OF
bicycle riders met on the lawn and ad-
journed to the cooling shadows OF great
oak, where lemonade was served. 1hey
were all girls.
During these fleeing moments sontary
young man might have been seen peeplng
through the blinds Of his window over
looking the grounds. +
CHAPTER Y!
What means this excitement Of effort
and wild rushing of feet? he
From hammock, and BOAT and cart ana
piazza, and shade, and bicycle, and tennis,
and book come the hosts yof rainbow rib
boned girls, all meeting at one common
center: all eager in the same endeaVor' all
animated by the same. purpose: all con-
centrated upon one object. and but one
alone Il rsf
At this moment solitary young man
might have been seen walking across the
lawn.
CHAPTER VI.
1t was evening in the highlands, and as
Aurora. tinseled in purple and crimson.
glided swiftly down the shadows OF the
everlasting hills and sank away into her
gorgeous bed, a long train drew In from
the winding valley and stopped at pretty
station, on which summer hotel looked
down from its eerie among the crags.
AS the train, with a final puff OF RELIEF
at finding rest. stopped in the cleaning,
solitary young man armed with double
barreled shotgun might have been seen CIV
ing directions concerning his luggage.
CHAPTER VII.
Five minutes later as the train whirled
rapidly away down the mountain, leaving
the hotel on It's eerie among the crags fad
ing into the flmy mists of the night,
solitary young man might have been seen
on the rear platform gazing heavenWard
and murmuring a prayer Of thankfulness.
Walter Stetson, a young Washington
comedian, who was last seen here with
Buckler's Stock Company, has secured