The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-10-05

captal.1 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 tie tickets, and We'll 60
back Oh, they're q nice, honest lot,
these hardy, seafaring peoplev
why didn't you make a 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 as a shad roe-shut
up; you know what I mean-and we
~zigzagged about among them. AS we
were creeping around the end Of one Of
them Polly asked me what that man up
forward was looking for. I thought he
must be watching for a buoy that
marked the point that the boat must go
around in 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 go around them. Just as she had
wondered that there was a bump and a
terrible grinding noise and the beat
stopped. Her question was answered,
and we were stuck fast on the rocks
just inside the buoy.
"Well, then there was a row.. Chill
dren screamed, ONE tainted and men
put on life preservers-on themselves
usually, not the women. Polly wasn't
frightened a bit. She just sat close to
me and gloated over the other girls"
"And what did you do? You were
just as brave as she, I 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 been a sieve, and she probably
didn't draw more than five feet Of wa
ter, so ever if we had fallen overheard
we should only have had to stand up
and our heads would have been out Of
water. l don't claim any great bravery,
but I'm not a fool. Neither is Polly. 1t
doesn't run in the family"
"Oh, l don't know!"
"Well, we stuck there for an hour
and a half, till the tide rose and took
US off, and Polly gloated. Then they
took US ashore, and we walked back to
the hotel, and Polly was the only con
tented person in the crowd. l suggested
that we were pretty full Of fog and need
ed something to warm US up. Polly
suggested tea. I said that a 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 a thing as a hot scotch this side
of Boston, and l couldn't get it ever if
I vas there because it was after 8
o'clock. 1t was then that I thought of
New York. The next morning, as soon
as the telegraph Office opened, I sent a
dispatch to you"
"What! That crazy dispatch that you
sent to me, asking me to telegraph it
back to you, signing M. D. after my
name:"
eyes, and then I told Polly that my
doctor had ~telegraphed to me that the
air Of that place was too bracing for
me and that l must come back, and I
showed her your dispatch to prove it.
Then l packed my outing suit and
came"
1T appears to me, said Riggs. THAT
your cousin Polly is a good deal more
devoted to you than you are to her"
"No,' said Biggs hesitatingly. Il
don't think SO. If l had been one Of 20
men, and she the only girl in the place.
it is likely that the rest of the condi-
lions would have teen reversed too. -
New York Tribune.