The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-27
AT STAYTON-ON-BAY.
BY H, s. cANF1ELD.

- @& . . SAN ~Af @~AS
 The father of Ralph Cammack had been colonel of fighting regiment of the British army. After hundreds of affairs in India, Afghs nistan. Egypt. burmah, and 50 forth. he died full of years and honors and lead-on half pay. The mother of the boy came of a long line of bulldog English squires. The warrior strains in him ought to make the ending of this story clear.
 She came to New York not many years ago, having relatives there. The boy at school displayed a quite nota- ble pugnacity. He was large and strong. quick to anger and came in, a lhtle time, to wear the unenyiable title ot school bully. He had several savage nattles while going through Harvard and three months before his graduation rom the law school, fought twenty rounds with a professional antagonist In no wise superior to himself. He did not believe that the science of self-defense" would help him apprecia- ply ins law practice but his friends said that his aggressiveness would stand him in good stead at court.
 Doubtless 1t was a valuable quality, but 1t did not seem to get him business. At the end of six years, being then 29 years old. he found himself with just enough income to live economically. By rigidly pinching himself he main- aged still to make an appearance in the society to which his birth and breeding gave him entry. and this so- ciety was society which spent its winter seasons in town and its sum- mer seasons at the sea coast. With each recurring heated term Cammack found that he had saved just enough 10 pay his bills at an expensive coast hotel for six weeks, and when he re- turned to the city he recommended with carcely enough cash to pay car fare.
 He was a powerful, well-built fellow, with light hair, a sweeping moustach" and very light blue eyes. There was something of the bluf health of the English in his fiorid cheeks and a blurf heartiness in his manner toward men. With women he was soft, even in. sinuating. They found him attractive enough. liking his physical soundness and he might have married well moro than once. He declared to hin,- self, however, that he would surrender his liberty only for very high prlce. and no millionaires having come III his way he remained single.
 Last summer at Stayton-on-B Bay. q Jersey resort, he met Miss Eugenie May. orphan daughter of old May. the gluemaker, who died at Monte Carlo five years back with some gold pieces on the table in front of him and mill lions in stocks and bonds. The girl. a slight young thing not yet twenty, was at the Stayton- Bay hotel un- der the chaperonage of her aunt. an an- cient maiden of forty five. who wore pink ribbons and corkscrew curls and had not given up hope of an estah- plishment. The old woman called the young one Genie" and left her pretty much to herself.
 Miss May. undersized. slender, dark. with large brown eyes and a sensitive mouth, was much pleased with Cam mack. His bulk and muscle and gentle manners appealed to her. She was an imaginative girl, considering her wealth and position singularly un- spoiled of the world. and she used to weave romances to herself in which. sometimes as knight and sometimes as modern, he played a central and en- nobling part. He did not know this. of course, but felt reasonably sure of his ground and waged his suit steadily. From the first stage of his acqualnt- ance with Miss May he had told him. self that here, at last. was the woman best suited to him. He knew that he could love her. and her vast wealth acted as no drawback. She was prac- tjcally alone in the world. having no relatives likely to interfere with him. and he saw ahead of him the height to which he might climb if aided by her money.
 Before the season was half ended 1t was recognized thing about the hotel end grounds that Cammack was to be the lucky man. The pair boated, sailed. bathed, rode. played golf and lounged. Sometimes the maiden aunt was along, most often she was not.
 Strolling far upon the beach one evening. the waves creaming in the moonlight cn one hand and a waste of open country on the other, they came to a great rock which jutted from the sand, and halted in its shadow. They W ere as utterly alone as If in the heart of Africa, and Cammack decided that the time was at hand. The girl liked him, though she was not aware 0f any Impulslvely warme- feeling, and che was unprepared for a direct assault. The man had studied her nature and knew that she was to be taken by sur rrise. Without warning he took her hands In his. drew her to him, folded her in his arms and bending down whispered rapidly that he loved her and asked her tJ be his wife. She could not have told afterward how it all hap
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