The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-22
THE ADVERTISERS DAILY SHORT SIORY

There were only a dozenssx xiFisA, at the Hylfopp Ynne-this spelling for lltop tnn- Is taken from the advertissnent- sltheugh not a girl present butF wpuid nave vowed and declared there vera 'swhole droves and hocks" of them Fhere' were severals men around. too. puts the game persons. who say ,sS s1cn nnIa orTsssn bsne ,olernly testified in any court that tnere want man on the place.
 Of course, of course they would nave elueidated on cross -examnation, N,,, Lhsre were creatures, human being, possibly, it the Hvltopp in male attire. bnt they didn't dance or flirt or were too neEtsto walk or ride, or were married. or were jugt plain stocks. ana or coursSs ,ss,s tlIs
 with a beating heart, or light 1antas- tic toe, or a soul for the solitude 'ot' two, or a tingling drop of blood for a wIlu KaIIop down the mountain, do with an indfviduaI answering to the description of the male contingent Of the Hyitppp' ' There was really nothing she could do. She may have wanted to drop F. pvotly over precipice mile high. put sne sons, so she was practically helpless. and the male contingent continued to exist
 But even the burdens of disappoint- mert and the trials of deprivation and fine tribulations of sacrifice do not al- WAYS continue. and 1t came to pass one afternoon when the train from the East had come and gone, man, to whom every longing, hoping weary maiden fore the register on the ofnee counter and inscribed his name thereon. He ar rived at an hour when elderly women whose future is assured, and spinsters without hope of a hereafter. were loafing listlessly about the hotel halls, or In shady spots on the piazza, and 1t is pos slble that he might have come in to din- nerl as unexpectedly as sunrise. but Miss Freston-Kitty the Crusher, they called her--happened to be passing through the lobby and saw him. The oth- ers would probably not have noticed, heipg indifferent to such matters. but Kitty Preston was not so callous, and that evening as her erstwhile lonely con- panions began to drop from the upper spaces, as angels from heaven come down to dinner, she met them with 3 mysterious whisper and a finger raised
 Hist. hark, hush" explained Kitty in a stage profundo as each new arrival came within the circle of her influence; a real man has come. He's dream and a vision: eyes like the chocolate flow CT. mustache that gleams in splendid biackness and hair to match: figure of Apollo and Belvidere combined; teeth of pearl and skin of satiny velvet: clothes from head to foot of the most elegant material and the most faultless fit, and a dress-suit case that would be an infal- Iible Introduction to the Cliff-dwellers of Newport. That's the hew man. and saw him first"
 Then would follow a brief contest as to the claims of the others, and Kitty would stop her contention to tell her story all over again to the next curious
 And his name is Henry Huntington, and his address is Boston, Mass" she would add as ftnaltty of superiority that could not be questioned.
 How do you know?" would come the invariable query, notwithstanding there was only one possible source of informa- lion. and Kitty would answer. proudly:
 The ink wasn't dry on the register un- til I was hanging over 1t in breathlegs anxiety. It seemed to me as if were a twentieth century Robinson Crusoe study ing the footprints of new being come to make my loneliness less intolerable." |"
 Not since the season had begun at tho Hyltopp Ynne had there been such 2 state of suppressed excitement as seemed to throb and pant and struggle to be free In the large dining-room that evening. MT. Huntington, or the new arrival, did not appear until the usual guests of the house had taken their seats, and when at last he stepped across the threshold and stal ted down the center aisle pre- ceded by Rowing" Beverly, the obsequl- ous head waiter from Virginia, there was a very appreciable feeling to all, a kind of stuffy sensation, that nothing short of burst of enthusiastic applause would relieve. He gave no sign that he was the observed of all observers, nor that ne WAS D EuOlQ OL ldSHlOu anu n BAdb1 VI form. but he was all of them, and more He was a conqueror who trfumphed be- cause he was so perfectly lovely that nc one had the heart not to be conquered.
 After dinner Mir. Huntington moved alone about the piazzaS, through the dI Iawing-rooms, down the halls, over into the dancing pavilion, and even once out on the graveled walks into the fnsidious coolness of the lawns shadows where the light of his cigar came and went fitfully as he smoked, like a beacon flash on a dangerous coast sending forth it's warnings. But he spoke to no one. Not even to the men. nor to those settled and elderly married women to whom 1t IS less difficult for a stranger to address himself than 1t Is to the men. Possibly 1t Is because of the innate. inductlve kindness of women; possibly 1t is that elderly married women are so everlast- inRly ennuied at summer hotels that they are willing and glad to talk to anything
 Think of it. girls said Miss Preston to bevy of her kind, "a flower but not unseen, to waste it's sweetness, and not on the desert air, either. Why doesn't he give some of us a chance? Look at that cigar glowing out there on the lawn Cigars may be mans solace in solitude out please look around you and see how
 rriieadavss story ''CINGHAM ApRON