Connecticut western news., 1898-05-05

it before. but Polly let me into the B. cret.
 Well, we went We had not much more than started when overheard the captain saying to the purser: We can't do anything tonight. Wait till we have been out 15 minutes and then go around and take up the tickets, and we'll go back Oh, they're nice, honest lot, these hardy, seafaring peopleP'
 "Why didn't you make row about it, said Riggs, If you heard him say thing like that?''
 Make row about it? Why, would have given $5 to get back, if it had been necessary, instead of the 50 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. l 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 bump and a terrible grinding noise and the boat stopped Her question was answered, and we were stuck fast on the rocks just inside the buoy.
 "Well, then there was row. Chil- faiy feal nd put on life preservers-on themselves usually, not the women Polly wasn t frightened 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, 1 suppose.
 "Bravel 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 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 our heads would have been out of water. I don't claim any great bravery, but I'm not fool Neither is Polly. It doesn't run in the family"
 "Oh, I don't knowP'
 Well, we stuck there for an hour and 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. suggested that we were pretty full of fog and need ed something to warm us up. Polly suggested tea l said that hot scotch would suit me better, and Polly nearly tainted She said that this was no h- cense town, and there probably wasn t such thing as hot scotch this side of Boston, and 1 couldn't get it even if 1 was there because it was after Q o'clock. It was then that thought of New York. The next morning, as soon as the telegraph office opened, l sent a dispatch to you "
 "Whatl That crazy dispatch that you sent to me, asking me to telegraph 1t back to you, signing M. D. after my name?"
 "Yes, and then told Polly that my doctor had telegraphed to me that the air of that place was too bracing for me and that 1 must come back, and l showed her your dispatch to prove it. Then packed my outing suit and came" "
 ''It appears to me-, " said Riggs. "that your cousin Polly is a good deal more devoted to you than you are to her. "
 "No," said Riggs hesitatingly. "1 don't think SO If had been one of 20 men, and she the only girl in the place. it is likely that the rest of the condi- tions would have been reversed too. "- New York Tribune.