Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-09-09
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and I'd like nothing better than to go
on a wedding trip, which is a little out
Of the common. 1t would be awfully
romantic, and you're such stickler
for not wanting to be like other people.
I'm just as ready now as | ever shall
be; and you don't need to walt to grad
uate, because nothing depends on 1t;
you're going TO be a painter
Cowles eyes twinkled. YES" he
said, 1T would be romantic"
81 remember" said the girl, becom-
ing very earnest, II remember pic
ture where there was a young man wait
ing in the moonlight outside a great
white mansion. He was holding pair
of horses, and on one of them was side
saddle He was looking up at the big,
silent house. ard waiting-and the door
was opening to let out a girl who was
bundled up for a journey and who
looked happy. The man had on bum
coat with double shoulder capes and a
sort of bell hat-he was stunning.
didn't blame the girl, and always have
thought you'd look well in shoulder
capes"
i'm afraid I'd have to go in my ordin-
airy clothes
You look we'll that way too" said
Miss Noel, smiling till her even white
teeth showed.
we could take the Pavonia," said
Cowles, stroking his nose. She sails
next Saturday at g. Could you be ready
them"
Il could be ready tomorrow. VIII
you really do it? Won't it be fine? Wen
just stop being conventional, and do
things after our own hearts.
Cowles thought a minute THAT will
give you a week to get ready, he said.
You cant take much-a steamer trunk
and a couple of bags. You can send the
trunk into town the middle OF the week
by express, and I'll have it put on board.
Then on Saturday you can come IN
town shopping You'll want to get In
early. I'll meet you at the station, and
we'll go out to Brookline. There's
young clergyman4ax knows mex lie IL
marry us, and I'll send Brandt out for
witness. Then back here for the we'd
ding breakfast, which you shall order
-" and Cowies bowed mockingly at
the girl while he dipped his spoon IN the
pink tinted soup before him.
'lss perfectly jolly isn't it, re-
sponded she. Think how much better
that will be than six bridesmaids and
rice down your back
We'll go on board about noon, pc
fore the crowds begin to gather. Wen
go below and stay below till she sails.
1t will seem more like running away
Perfect. That'll give me time to
change my frock. III be married IN
my green and I'll travel in that old
gray thing wore at the mountains last
year Shall -"
Cowles smiled. 1t was the gown she
had worn when one day on the top Oh
little mountain they had rested On
great fiat rock hanging between earth
and heaven, and he had told her that
he loved her. The girl understood him,
for she frightened and burst out, And
think of the week on the ship together;
it's better than the mountains; the
long long days in the steamer chair,
doing in the sun, with you reading to
me or sketching the people for me 10
laugh at. And the long, long even
ings on deck in the moonlight. IL IL
be moonlight, won't it? 1t must be.
We've never been on shipboard togeth-
err. and it wouldn't be worth while I'M
less it was. Besides people always
elope by moonlight, don't they?"
"Pll hunt up an almanac tonight,
said Cowles.
And when we're tired of reading,
we'll walk and talk and lean over the
bow and watch the porpoise that runs
in front. And there'll be all sorts OF
people on board whom we will wonder
about and who will wonder about us.
Therell be a man who has been in the
pepper trade in Borneo; and another
man who grows something in Trinidad,
and who speaks eight languages and
half dozen patois. And expect therell
be an actress and a wicked old lady
with ringlets who looks as though she
knew the world. But we will stick by