Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1900-02-23

VA q over the door, you
vs. \ know" Nan was
<N541EM sayin 6, as she
SA-SY3 clasped her hands
| 10, K behind her head
s.-r--- -. ( and locked of
p Esssess1 s+-faA as>>@-- J through half closed
! NSaSSess=<- r.4A--l4~S lids to where one
Casz&..sE1ss-~.zH caught a gIimmer
- and sparkle of the
/ oceans blue, that lay in sweeping
crescent between the cliffs aud sky
below them. "And a lot of crazy lit
| tie Oriental things scattered around
one can pick up so many odd bits in
tue Chinese quarter, carved ivory
junk boats, and great spiders with
yellow and black splashed bodies.
and frogs, and grifins, and things,
and they look 50 cute aud bizarre
dangling round, you know, Tom"
Toms straw hat was pulled low
over his eyes. All one could see be-
| meath was a straight nose, and q well
shaped, good-natured mouth and chin,
all non-committal.
at will be glorious, Nan went on,
after pause. You know 1 have al
ways lOnged for that half bohemian
sort of existence, the kind that goes
with chatting dishes, and anytime
meals, and artistic confusion"
Mr.. Nugent had many ways OF ex-
pressing his opinions. One was by
keeping silence.
You know that zigzeg corner in the
back parlor that mamma said would
be SO awkward? I'm going to fix it
oil up with Turkish hangings OF old
rose and those delicious dull greens
with gold tasSels and things, and have
three-cornered divan, and a little
tabouret, and when you get home late
we'll have supper there
"What will you have to eat?" in
quired Tom, with his first show of
active interest in the building of the
air castle.
Anything" with q comprehensive
wave OF her hand, the left one, where
q diamond caught a sunbeam and
threw it back with a rival glitter.
"YOu can cook anything with q chat
ing dish"
Cant We have stove, please?"
and now the straw hat was pushed
back, and pair of blue eyes met her
own with a serio comic pleading.
"Nay, nay, Pauline, " replied Nan,
rcsolutely. 1--WE lived in an atmo-
sphere of stoves, and systematic
housekeeping, and regular course
dinners, AID canary birds, for twenty
years, and one of the great reasons
why L want to marry you, sir, is be-
csuse you're different from the rest;
you're q newspaper writer, you know,
and out late nights. and used to all
the outlandish ways Of the ungodIy
Philistines. as mamma calls them, an
] knew we'd live in the Barracks, as
you called it, and have funny, stu(fy,
little suite OF rooms, and do oil kinds
OF queer things, don't you see?"
Mr.. Nugent did see, and was about
to express himself folcibly on the
subject, when q breeze tossed one
end of soft chiffon tie across his
eyes, and there was q laugh. and
n Winsome, girlish face perilously
near his own. aud the throne of rea-
son tottered and fell before the on
slaught.
Your royal highness may do ex-
actly as your own sweet will dictates"
he answered steadily. "Whither thou
goest 1 will 60, what thou eatest l
will eat"
"Oh, don't Tom; don't take it as
joke" reproachfully.
After n conciliatory moment OF
silence, Mr.. Nugent said.
"The shadows point north. That
was the first sign | learned in nature.
Nan; 1t never yet failed to awaken a
response from the inner man. Let's
go back TO the hotel Tn starving"
The air castle grew more material
istic day by day, until at last it stood
beautiful: reality, and opened its
portals to receive the builders there
of.
1t was on the third floor of the
"Fleur-de-Lis," otherwise the Bar
racks, mp around Forty-third street,
where one caught n glimpse of the
electrlc stats in tue Casinos roof
garden over on Broadway, on one
side, and on the other came the
eternal rumble Of the elevated, over
nSi1th avenue. There were only four
rooms, but the treasures therein
were manifold and marvellous. Nan
had started out with the ideas of
Philistine, and had never deviated
from her standards. There was the
carved ivory junk boat steering an
uncertain course above the green