, 1897-12-29
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It bef:re. bns Polly let me into the &c.
Cret.
well, we went We had not much
more than started when 1 overheard the
captain saying to the purser: We can't
do anything tonight. Wait till we have
been out Is minutes and then go around
and take up the tickets, and We'll 60
back Oh, they're a nice, honest lot.
these hardy, seafaring peoplel"
why didn't you make q row about
it," said Riggs, If you heard him say
a thing like that?'
Make a row about it? Why, I would
have given So to get back, if it had been
necessary, instead of the so cents they
asked. But it was not to be. That bay
is as full of islands rs a shad roe-shut
up; you know what l mean-and we
zigzagged about among them. AS we
We're creeping around the end of one OF
them Polly asked me what that man uI
forward was locking for. thought he
must lie watching for a buoy that
marked the point that the boat must &c
around i'll passing the island. Polly said
that she had often wondered why they
didn't have those buoys placed nearer
to the shore, where it would be easier
to 20 aroCnd them. Just rs she had
wondered that there was Il lump and u
terrible grinding noise ana the boat
stopped. Her question was answered,
and wc We're stuck fast OH the rocks
just inside the buoy.
We'll, then there was Il row. Chill.
dren screamed, women tainted and men
put on life prcscrvers-on themselves
usually, not the women. Polly wasn't
frightened n bit. She just sat close tc
me and g!oated over the other girls"
And what did you do? You were
just as brave rs she, | suppose"
Brave! What was there to be brave
about: The boat was fast On the bottom.
She couldn't have sunk any farther if
she had Dcen il sieve, and she probably
didn't draw more than five feet of wa
ter, SO even if we had fallen overheard
we should only have had to stand up
and or heads would have been oct of
water. don't claim any great bravery,
but I'm not a fool. Neither is Polly. 1t
docsu' run in the family
"Oh, don't know!'
well, we stuck there for an hour
and II half. till the tide rose and took
us off, and Polly gloated. Then they
took us ashore, and we walked back tc
the hotel, and Polly was the only con-
tented person in the crowd. | suggested
that we We're pretty full of fog and need
ed something to warm us up. Polly
suggested tea | said that Il hot scotch
would suit me better, and Polly nearly
tainted. She said that this was a no Ii
cense town, and there probably wasn't
such II thing as Il hot scotch this side
of Boston. and ! couldn't get it ever if
l was there because it was after 8
O'Clock. 1t was then that l thought Of
New York. The next morning, as soon
as the telegraph Office opened, l ent Il
dispatch to you
what! That crazy dispatch that you
sent to he, asking me to telegraph it
back to you. signing M. D. after my
name?:'
Eyes, and then l told Polly that my
doctor had tclegraphed to me that the
air of that place was o bracing for
me and that l must come back, and ]
showed her your dispatch to prove it.
Then l packed my outing suit and
came
ut appears to me-" said Riggs. that
your cousin Polly is a good deal more
devoted to you than you + to her"
NO said Biggs hesitatingly. II
don't think so. If l had been one of GO
men, and she the only girl in the place,
it is likely hat the rest of the conGi.
tons would have Lcen reversed too. -
New York Tribune.