The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-09-19
Love- Broken
~ WGass. Henry Wilton
Thomas.

among certain ungenerous gossips at PEN
'haSsett beach that other girls carried off
the desirable husbands, and Rosalie
wright got the medals for swimming. And
the saying was true, so far as 1t reached.
1t was Rosalie's third season at Penhas-
sett. II she had gone back to Boston year.
after year with a wedding ring no nearer
her hnSer than before, 1t was not be-
cause suitors were lacking. But that was
a phase OF the matter which did not ap-
pear worthy Of mention when the gossips
took 1t into their heads to discuss her sea-
side career.
Ihere were people who professed to
know something about Rosalie's notions.
These asserted that she rated men In the
reaches Of the ocean. That is to saw.
her opinion Of a man was affected largely
by his performance in the surf. She had
little taste for a fellow who was not
skillful and brave in a bathing suit. Be
ne ever SO handsome and witty on the
carpet, he dwindled in her esteem IL he
was wanting in the courage to venture out
over the breakers and sport with Nep-
tune Tar from the prudent crowd. In all
likelihood there was some ground for the
sosslps' talk in this regard, and how could
she nouor a man who dared not follow her
lead? - 800 N|
She was a fine. picture in her. water
ropes, and many a faint-hearted bather
bemoaned his lack of prowess when she
paoe him a cheerful goodby, and struck
oue lor depths over which he cared not
TO a noat and gambol. The girls chung
TO the life rope, and spluttered and
screamed when a wave broke upon them
mad their consolation, nevertheless. ...,
Inc husbands are not all out there"
they told themselves, and events often
proved them in the right. E
One day Arden Fessenden appeared on
tne peach. 1t was the beginning Of the
Penhassett season. Certain observers
never knew just how 1t came about, but
they were not long in observing that his
bushy black head was never seen in the
SURF very near shore. 1t was always away
out where the wild white horses played
In the company Of Resale. Some morn
tngs they entered the turf together, strobe
past the cl1ngers to the shore, and struck
out side by side, with long, deliberate
strokes. through the crashing white-caps,
far beyond the throng. Let us not think
how they looked walking in to the shore,
her costume clingtng, salt globules drip
ping from her ears, and her tresses wildly
aWry. There are pleasanter pictures to
contemplate than that of human beings
In bathing toys coming forth from the
brine. 1t Is the test to which all beauty,
masculine or feminine, must succumb. Be-
FORE their dash into the sea was the best
time to regard them-he the Titan and
n the Titania-while the sun coppered
his shoulders and turned her bronze hair
Into threads of Etruscan gold. 1t is hui
initiating to lave to own that neither, Of
these splendid creatures was exempt from
that unpoetic potentiality known as wa
ter cramps. Yet such is the fact, and in
this instance Arden Fessenden was the
Victim. S
It CHANGED in this wise: He reached the
shore one morning and was ready for ths
plunge some time before she had made
her appearance. He did not wait for her,
as had become the custom. So Titan en-
tered the sea alone and the gossips tuseed
one another's sleeve. 1t was a misunder-.
standing. He thought she had remained
at home that morning. commonplace
thing enough, and yet it might happen
even to o goddess. 49,
The truth was that she. stood in her
bathing house ready to emerge at the
very momen that he submerged himself
by a dive. She stood on the sane awhile,
and saw him far out, holding solitary
sport with the distant breakers. There
was something more in her gaze thar adj
miratiul for a fine swimmers fact which
the gossips duly. noted.
All at once she ran at full speed down
the shelving strand, leaped over the low
rolling surf, and quickly plunged in where
1t was deep enough to swim. By his
time the %loungers IN shore knew what
what was the matter. Some of them had
seen what Rosalie saw at the moment
that she broke for the water. They had
seen Arden Fessenden throw up his hands
after the manner Of a man signaling for
help.
A cry was raised for the life-saving
corps, but before they got away in their
craft Resale was far from the shore. He
said afterward that she called to him to
fight on, to keep up, that she was coming.
The ~llfe-saving men reported that when
they got near they saw her with one arm
around him, holding him UP, and with the
other keeping herself above water in the,
h a good swimmer knows. He
was totally exhausted and she was near
" SO when they were lifted into the boat.
Those are The simple facts OF how Rosalie
saved his life.
The gossips shrugged their shoulders
and said that the episode put Arden Fes-
In most embarrassing position.
1t was all well enough for a man to. save
aWoman's Hfe-properly romantic, in fact
but here was the ~scanda1ous situation OF
that bold Miss Wright turning the tables
on time-honored custom and taking the
privilege of the hero into her own hands.
Talk of q woman throwing herself at al
mans head! RAh, well, what could be ex-
,pected OF a. girl who had shocked every
body so long by her daring performances
away out there where no other girls ever
thought OF going?
AS to Arden F~essenden. 1t is reasonably
certain that35the embarrassing situation
the happiest moment OF his l.fS. Be-
fore the season closed 1t became generally
unaerstoodssthat he had not allowed the
technical point of her saving his life, In
Stnad mp Hi GO ~ - Aro =, An,.F,n. ,ry341I
q mans privilege tpS propose. Thus 1t
came about that the rope-clingtng girls
We're obliged to revise their opinion as to
the exact region in Neptune's domain
where aahusband might he found.
Merely Symptoms.
Chicago Journal: Life IL failure
said he tired looking passenger In
grave and far-aWay voice. Man Is q
fraud, woman q bore, happiness de-
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