Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-06-26


affections had been nothing less than
looted-that he should be blown like
chaff before the wind.
His departure was delayed from one
week to another and it was Mrs. Mayo
Robins who one morning remarked to
him that he received a small blue let
ter, addressed In trailing hand, with,
such regularity that, no doubt, he
would soon be lost again. to which he
| replied with a laugh:
"Oh, that's mother! She wants me to
come home"
One day.. late in September. Paddy
received an especially thick blue letter
1t was plain to be seen his mother was
growing inpatient; SO that night he
took Miss Lewiston out for long
walk, and for the fortieth time Since
her arrival, vowed he adored her.
They stopped by shattered bath
house and seated themselves on a log.
with their backs against the one stand
| ing wall Of the demolished pavilion.
| Then Paddy, in broken voice, told her
he was leaving on the morrow, and
asked for some hOpe-sOme word to
| comfort him in his eXile-tO let him
know his life should not be spent In
| vain.
In Miss Lewiston's eyes there were
| genuine tears as she told him she was
| sorry to wound him, but she liked him
as a friend and nothing more; she
couldn't be said to have led him on
because she accepted his attention in
| the firm belief she cared for him, and
on cross examination found her mis-
| take.
Paddy was visibly moved and silent
ly they wendell their way back to the
| hotel.
After bidding Miss Lewiston good
night" Paddy. with gloomy smile.
seated himself in one corner of the de.
serted smoking room, and, pulling from
his pocket the blue letter, read GER
tain paragraph which ran:
I'm so afraid my dear boy. that you
are growing less fond of me-yOur let
ters, Tor one thing, are not as long or
as loverlike as they used to be. When
each other for three months felt sure
yon would not keep to il. and the fact
that you have, and have not seemed to
mind the separation, is what has wor-
ried me SO much. You know | love you
better than"
Iaddy's hand dropped to his knee.
II guess have been right much of a
cur" he muttered Poor little Lucy"
Mr.. Leicester's sudden departure
threw the little hotel into state of
excitement equal only to that caused
by Miss Lewiston's arrival.
Mrs. Mayo-Robins declared she knew
those blue letters were responsible
there always had been something queer
about that man!
Mrs. Pinnell contributed her share of
gossip by announcing that the previous
day she and the Sterling boy had been
driving up the beach. and discovered
Paddy sitting with his head in his
hands in a most detected attitude,
while beside him, on the sand, lay one
of those identical blue letters.
Lynn Haven. although seaside re-
sort, was a. far different place from
Brightside. 1t boosted board walk
lined with some seven or eight fakir
booths, and. even greater possibilities.
four hotels and n score of cottages,
fresh painted and imposing. which
served as a suitable setting for the
one villa of the place, "Glendower
Heights" the summer home of the
Honorable Percy Neale Bolingbroke,
iron magnate, whose millions and one
daughter. Lucy, We're his sole inter-
ests in life--the millions coming first.
The pertdy of womankind was the
chief topic of conversation at this
mans table. his wife having eloped
some six years previous with his pri-
vate secretary. and mans inhumanity
to man stood next in hand.
Little wonder then that Lucy being
wooed by the irresistible Paddy during
the intervals of her fathers frequent
distempers. was easily won. All went
smoothly until the subject was breach
ed to Mr.. BolingbrOke.
The day that Lucy's luckless sutton
interviewed Tor attempted to interview
her father will go down as history in
the servants hall.
Paddy precipitately left Glendower
Heights and Lynn Haven, and Lucy
was sent to visit maiden aunt whom
she heartily despsed, having always
had sneaking suspicion. any way.
that 1t was no less a person than Aunt
Maria who posed for the ogrcss in the
fairy tales.
Mr.. BolingbrOke was a far-seeng
man, and, as he knew that opposition
would merely tend to feed the fire of
the young peoples affections. devised
a plan by which he and Lucy, in the
early winter. would tour Europe.
Leicester and the girl had arranged
| to allow an interval of three months to
pass before they should take the next
step. hoping. in the meanwhile. by ex-
emplary behavior to cool the ire Of the