The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1898-04-05

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,,({AsSA$%sA The sun glinted
M&&GNANANNNSMyS down on the white
N$NSsESSNMMNy5 sails of yacht
SE&&ssssss lying n mile or two
out, making the
brasswork glitter and the pretty little
breakfast table, set under the awning.
look most inviting. 1t was most
charmingly arranged deux, and
everything, from the delicate eggshell
china to the little rat-tailed spoons,
was of the daintiest description.
Everything around looked so calm
and quiet; it seemed almost as though
spell lay over it all, and the ship
we're about to sail into an enchanted
city-the brilliant blue of the Mediter-
ranean, and the cloudless Southern
sky, with the white roofs ana orange
groves of Algiers in the distance,
making up a picture worthy of fairy
story! AT least, SO thought the man
and woman who were leaning against
the rail watching tiny boat which
was slowly making its way out to
them. The woman held a Lig scarlet
sunshado over her, TO shelter her fair
curly head and sweet mobile face
from the sun
Fancy, Harry" she was laughing,
lust month to-day since we were
married! What charming remem-
brance! and what lovely idea of
yours to have all those lovely flowers
brought over to decorate the ship with
n mi Uh l,, Il
the little white hands holding the par
asol, and made the brilliant rings
upeh them glitter again "Wcll be-
gin at once, as soon as he comes" she
went on. 81 think festoon of big
yellow flowers would look splendid
over the saloon door"
"Oh, no." answered her husband,
laughing; ''we won't begin at once,
We'll have breakfast first, and look
Mt the papers; in fact, don't you think
1T will be too hot for us to do anything,
little woman? meant to let Williams
10 it all, and we could sit in our deck
chairs and direct him.
You lazy old thing" she cried.
81 do believe you get worse and
worse every day, and the idea of
wanting to look at papers when You re
ON your honeymoon! L never heard
Of such Il thing"
We'll, [ am sure you were as eager
as L was for the letters this morning.
he laughed; sit would serve You right
II there were none. keeping me wait
ing all this time for my breakfast,
too, and he cast longing and smil-
ing look towards the little table un-
der the awning.
Don't go yet, Harry" she said,
'he's just coming now, >" aud even as
she spoke the boat drew up at the yachts
side. 1t was, indeed, a goodly cargo
that she~carried, baskets of oranges,
bananas, and purple grapes, whilst
the other end of the boat was mass
of brilliant blossoms, and on the seat
beside the tall swarthy African lay n
packet of letters and newspapers.
"Oh," gasped Molly, who was an
artist in small way; "oh, what a glor-
ious mass Of color, what lovely
flowers,"
Meanwhile the men carried tho
baskets on board, and Mr.. Ashley
with his letters, walked over to the
table and sat down in low deck
chair.
"Now, sweetheart, he said, you'll
give Inc cup OF tea, won't you?
Here are two letters for you, do come
and sit down.
But Molly was kneelin9 beside the
flowers, burying her face first in one
basket, then in another; and had to
he coaXed away and comfortably in
stalled in her Chinois wicker chair by
Harry himself before she would settle
down TO breakfast and her lettersl
Such pretty picture rs she made!
her white dress and scarlet parasol
standing out against the deep blue of
the sea, and behind her the large has
kets Of flour and fruits
They wero both engrossed in their
posts; she, reading her first letters
from homo since her trip, he, looking
over the latest town news and rend-
ing eagerly all that had happened in his
beloved city during the three weeks
he had been away Sometimes he
looked mp with n smile. and read her
ont q bit Of news, aud asked how her
mother was, aud the boys, and at last
finishing OF his tea with q sigh Of
satisfaction, he handed hor his cup TO
refill
How perfectly delightful 1T is
hereW he said, looking around ON the
beautiful scene, and then letting his
eyes rest lovingly ON his wife. "aud I
think you look charming pouring out
tea, he added, with laugh.
Fancy paying your wife compli-
mento after having been married n
MONTH" she smiled; you arc not
keeping mp your role of old married
man.
III can't do that at the expense Of
truth, " Re answered. land you know I
always had 20 say out what I thought
Bat yJu have tiny frown, sweet