Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-02

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tied down to work and was with clock
like regularity sticking her nose into
the solid green waves, and then saucily
throwing it up in the air again and
sending the water skirting along the
rail or flying over me, my new COM
panion broke the silence by appearing
for the first time to recognize that l
was human.
ID 'Mister-r-r?"
""Kemp," answered, bowling stiff
ly.
"My name is Archer"
"I think have seen you about the
hotel"
'This must seem strange proceed
ing to you," he said, laughing. Evl.
IDENTIFY the peculiarly had just dawned
on him.
"Rather," I replied, thawing just
enough to smile.
"And perhaps an explanation Is
due," said he.
"Not as long as you can sail" an
swered.
On that score I confess [ feitno un-
easiness, for I soon saw that, sturdy
fellow that he was, Archer was
fully competent to handle the boat,
for all the power there was in
the breeze he got out of it, and
though time and again the Miriam
keeled over till her lee rail was we'll
awash and my heart was in my mouth,
she always swung back again without
swerving an inch from her course.
"There is girl in that boat thai l
am most anxious to see, Mr.. Kemp,
said Archer, after pause.
$50 I should judge" said 1.
"I have spent nearly all my life in
London" he went on. ''I should be
there now had I not met her. She
sailed for home about two months ago
and ostensibly by accident butreally
by intention I came over on the same
steamship. By the fourth day out
from Queenstown we had fixed every
thing up nicely. Then [ happened to
remember another engagement-sort
of o marriage of convenience-and
like q fool I told her. She shut her
self up in her stateroom for the rest Of
the voyage and cut me dead at the
pier. I humbly followed her to her
home in San Francisco. She fled
back East. All trace of her was lost
and came down here to sulk."
"Do you think we'll catch emp" /
asked with suddenly awakened inter,
est.
s.Thank you," he replied. This sim.
pie acknowledgement of his gratitude
for my own evident sympathy in his
venture won me completely and
scrambled to the mast with reckless
ness that surprised me, that might
get the bearings of the craft we were
chasing. :.
.How far off do you make them?'
he called to me.
"About two miles,"
"They are beating along the bay, >
he cried, "and I think if we hold this
course we'll just cross their bow.
The mans judgment was superb, fol
fifteen minutes later we were so close
to the other boat that I could see. its
two occupants plainly. One was q
man, regulation small-boat man. at
tired in q combination of golf and
Yachting clothes. The second was O
girl. I felt that were she as interest
ing as she appeared as she sat there
on the windward rail, fearless OF dan
ger, her face aglow with the excite
ment of what she evidently realized
was a race. Archer was excusable fol-
forgetting his other engagement.
was meditating on this when my com
panion, who had been hidden from
her view by the rail, exclaimed
"Jove!"
"We're all right" said I. "We'l
catch them and you can go on board.
"That's just it," he growled. g!
can't 60 on board. Why, she would
cut me dead or toss me over"
AS he was best posted as to the
young woman's character, silence OF
nv part seemed beftting. He did no
speak again until we had drawn with
in 6ailing distance of the other boat
when he motioned me to him.
"We'll run right across their bow,
he whispered. Don't You mind me
T can sec bottom here. Keep right OF
and they will haveto take me in. Now
look out!"
We swept across the bow of the
other craft, and by a seeming gly clums.
maneuvre went about; the boon
swung around and an instant latel
Archer was Houndering in the bay.
grasped the tiller and the Miriam
scudded away before the wind. Poo
sailor as I am, had necessity demand
ed it I doubt if could have navigatet
the boat back to where Archer wa
Hopping about in the water, SO it wa
an easy matter for me to obey his in
functions and sail away oblivious to hi
cries, which mingled with those OF th'
girl in the tiny sloop. Only twic'
did I look back. The first time wa
to see my erstwhile companion belnl
dragged by main force into the othe
boat; the second to see two men ant
a girl gesticulating wildly to me to re
turn. But I smiled grimly and rolnt
ed the Miriam toward home.
On the next day L returned to town
and heard no more Of the sentimen
tai man until late in November.
, was walking up Thirty-ninth stree
one afternoon on my way home iron
the office when my attention was Mt
tracted to q well-appointed broughan
that swerved into the curb close b.
me. l heard voice call, "Kemp"
It was Archer, and rs [ took his out
stretched hand he turned to the prett
!, young woman who had just emerge
from the carriage and said:
Kemp, my wife. New York Sun
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