Connecticut western news., 1898-03-24
VACATION IN FOG.

Riggs came into the office with an air of not caring who knew it, and Riggs said to him: What, back from your vacation so soon? A little earlier than you expected, isn't it?''
 "Yes, I am back earlier than I ex. pected," Biggs answered, land don't want you to ask me what came back for either. 1"
 Well, I won't ask you" said Riggs soothingly. What is it to me?"
 ''I came back to get warm," said Riggs, eff you must know"
 II don't want to know" said Riggs
 "Isn't it enough" said Riggs, ito have everybody, from the proprietor of my hotel to the elevator man here in the building, worrying me about what I came back for?''
 "It seems as if it ought to be enough, !" said Riggs
 But it appeared that Riggs really wanted to tell, and as soon as the two started for luncheon together he began of his own accord II always said, " he began, "that New York was the best place to be in the summer It may be pretty hot sometimes, but New York is better prepared to stand hot weather than any other city in the world And SO with Manhattan Beach and Long Branch and the highlands close at hand always thought that the bother of going far for vacation was more than it was worth, and I seldom went But this year my cousin Polly wrote to me how lonely it was down on the coast of New England where she is staying, with 20 girls in the hotel to one man, and how much she wanted me to come down, and finally went down
 II don't know what 1 wanted to go for It wasn't uncomfortable here The night I got there nearly froze to death sitting on the piazza Polly said the wind was little fresh, even for that place, but ought to have been there the week before, when the storm was and when they all went out with their winter clothes and rubber boots on to see the waves, and the fishermen said there hadn't been anything like it be- fore since 1873 But the wind was blowing S5 miles an hour right then, and that was enough for me,
 1.-The next morning put on fresh, clean outing suit just as if l had ex- pected summer weather. It was beau tiful suit that l bought on purpose to wear down there, and Polly said she was proud of me, though she was lit tie afraid might get pneumonia Evi- dently she was proud of me, or of the suit, or something, for all that day she just took me around and showed me to the other girls I didn't know another soul in the place, so she had me all to herself and it really was worth some thing to see how happy she was when she looked at the other girls.
 You'll die of modesty some time, D said Riggs. "You ought to do some thing for it. !"
 Ut wasn't altogether so easy show ing me to the other girls either" Riggs went on, flor the fog was thick enough all that day to boil potatoes in, only the air didn't suggest boiling at all. But Polly said that this weather was uuuSlldL Du6 udu DCcll IlCI0 bWO mers before, and sometimes it was al- most warm She thought that so much cold was sure sign that it was going to be warm soon It was foggy all the next day, too, and for that night a moonlight sail was announced They called it sail, though it was to be on a steamboat When l saw the advertise ments and saw the fog, l was inclined to make light of it, but soon found that it was serious matter, for it ap- peared that they were going to have it regardless of the weather, and Polly was bent on going and on taking me with her.
 II told her l would much rather sit on the piazza with her alone and talk about the days when we used to make mud pies together, or some other pleas ant subject She said that the disparity in our ages was too great for us ever tc have made mud pies together, and she didn't remember anything about it.. but it was not too great for us to go on a moonlight sail together l spoke about the fog, and she said that it was likely to clear up any minute.
 II remember that the last time had seen the moon, before 1 left New York, it was past the full. 1 looked the mat ter up and found that it would not rise that night till after 10 o'clock Polly said that the party would probably stay outa good deal later than that, so it would be all right, and anyway a moon was of no great consequence on moon light sail 1 found at last that she simply regarded that moonlight sail as an especially convenient occasion to dangle me before the other girls some more. It appears that where there are lot of girls on moonlight sail men are regarded as uncommonly desirable. didn t know anything about dead shot. Bud never missed unless he wanted to, and had craving for vengeance that was only aggravated by a gentler passion.
 What happened in the next few min- utes can only be explained by the story which Bud afterward told with series of chuckles and an occasional wheezy laugh that seemed to expend most of it's force internally.
 '1 knowed all the time," he de- elared, "that Jim Bumper wouldn't play no square game when the stakes