The Savannah morning news., 1901-10-04

whose children he had brought ashore
from grave danger in the treacherous
surf; sunlit, because Elmer was in
love.
When a youth not yet of 20 years
falls in love with an earth born god
dess of is, and when his passion seems
to find response and the jaundiced
fangs of doubt and jealousy find no
Judgment in his buoyant breast, then
to be in love is to have all places tenn
pies, all seasons summer. Sleeping, he
dreams of songs. Waking, his uncon-
scious consciousness basks in a per-
petual glory whose beams engulf one
central shrine wherein She is the hal
lowed saint Then to live, to be, to
feel, to know that one loves, to believe
one is beloved. to endure heart pierre
ing raptures, to laugh at pains. to WOO,
to part, to meet again-a daily temp
est, mighty prayer. Oh, laughing lit
tie god, whom kingly poets and poet
kings have crowned, we'll did those who
knew thee first perceive that thou vert
blind.
Why it was Celeste the one only girl
i'm all the world for the young life
guardian is hardly clear to those who
saw the bourgeoning, the bud the
blossom, of this waterside romance.
True enough. she was sufficiently fair.
Her lips were red, her black eyes very
bright, her white little teeth quite reg
uiar. Her supple young body was
ravishing in it's maiden glories of
rounded elasticity and glowing tints.
not even the envlous screen of her mod
est bathing dress could conceal this
fact-but, well, one shouldn't be cap
ticus where so much else was charming
altogether. Her girl friends said Celeste
was vain. for one thing. For another,
they whispered among themselves that
she was g. spiteful little she cat who
cared only for Celeste and none other.
There, you bore. Go to ones neigh
bors to find out the truth. For my
part, l merely have concluded that
Celeste has no soul. But that is the
veriest speculation. One should be ra-
tional, and even fair, regarding ones
dislikes.
However 1t may be, when he had met
Celeste Elmer fell so deep into the well
of love that he would like to have
drowned there. Nor is this any meta
phor of speech.
She came almost every day, after the
first. The young guardian of the beach,
a giant with blue. eyes and yellow hair.
an Ahtinous in naked calves and arms,
taught the fairest of all his visitors
the gentle art of floating, the strenu-
GUS rush and swirl of the overland
stroke, the restful. evenhanded, tire
less progression of the breast stroke.
She took to the water like a duck
After month the pupil bid fair to
overtake the masters skill.
She came first with her parents, and
a younger brother or two, graceless
brats, canal bred, who had known how
to swim at birth. and who took deep
joy in splashing cold lake water upon
the timid and shivering Celeste at her
first venture. After time the elder
people came no more. They made
Elmer's acquaintance and had conf
dence in him. They saw at one keen
glance the strength in his great frame,
the honor in his clear blue eyes. To
such as he it is good to commit chill
dren, even young girls. After time,
too, the brats also stayed away when
they thought 1t was the hour for Ce-
leste. You see, when she had learned
no longer to fear the water, and had
become mistress of a bold stroke or
two, she revenged herself most thor
oughly for the early splashing the
brats had given her, and ducked them
in deep water most numerically, until
they were half strangled. Which ia