Smyrna times., 1900-01-31

siow OF rcd handkerchief bound about |
Dlack ;ca'dS. The lake filled the Ii+tIa
rooms within the breakwater with a |
thousand voices that seemed to call ont |
~ DuH that he was fool and he grew |
desperate and one day went in search
oI the girl. She was at home ironing
some clothes, and she looked a little |
frightened when she saw him coming
at the door.
Are you going to marry me?" he
cried. His hands were clinched and his
eyes hot
What is the matter? Why do you
speak SOP faltered Agatha.
You haven't been to the breakwater
for days"
There's no law to make me fish,"
You were not at home when | came
to see you"
How could know you were com
ing?"
Il lie awake most of the night, Aga
tha, thinking of you
More fool you. Duff. Come in and
sit down. My home is not so strange
as yours. but you are welcome to it,
Out of your windows we can see the
water but here we can only see the
dirty street"
He sank into a chair and leaned his
head against the wall. He was unhap-
py-sO unhappy that, almost without
meaning it, Agatha went over and
kissed him.
Then you don't hate me?" he cried.
| throwing his arms about her. The girl
! grew pale.
"Why should hate you. Duff? Have
l ever acted as if | hated you?"
He went home determined to bring
the marriage to pass as soon as possi-
Bile. and he bought shawl from BOhe-
mia beautiful with many colors. which
he laid aside to give his bride Also he
arranged with the priest. He got flow
ers in pots to place in his home in the
breakwater. and he thought of how the
two of them would sing together so
loud that they would drown the sound
of the waves even in a storm.
Then the days grew so few to the
day he had set for his wedding that he
could count them.
One evening she promised him that
she would go again for a ride in the
moonlight. 1t was October now, but
the weather was still warm. and the
moon rose the color of blood. But
though he waited a long time at the
place where she had promised to meet
him, she did not come. Nor was she
with the fishers the next day. though
the wind was inshore and the mpI
fI,. L. I'll,
scaly burdens. The next evening he
went to her home and her father met
him ut the door.
Agatha wanted me to tell you some
thing for her" said the father. 'Sht
is going to marry a bricklayer who ha:
a fine furnished fiat of his own. He il
rich. She was just fOOling when sh,
said she would live in the breakwater
Ha, ha! That was a funny idea. Duff
, You didn't really expect she would
marry you, did you? She was onl!
foOling. She thought it was funny t,
play she was going to live with tn
fishes. She is a good girl. is Agatha
but she likes to have her play. Yol
must not mind what a girl like tina
, does, Duff. She does nothing but laugl
, all day long. But when the bricklaye
talked marriage to her l told her sh
must stop her foolishness."
yes" said Duff and got up and wen
home.
/, He found his boat tied where he let
it-he knew the trick of hiding a boat
and he got in it and rowed along tn
inky waters to his door. The pier'
black against the blackness, were lik
= the teeth of a monster, and his doc
: seemed to be in the cavity made by
I lost tooth. Within it was cold. but b
u lay down without covering himself b.
fore the crucifix and let all the voice
{ of the waste yell Fool. Fool
e through his dwelling. He let the voice
/ have their way because he knew tn;
+ he and Agatha would never sing the
. down. Agatha would never be the
e again, and as for him-was it like
that he would sing