Evening journal., 1905-09-11
A Yachting Romance

In Barnegat bay there is good fish
ing, and on Barnegat bay there arel
mosquitoes. / was there with a fish
ing party on a sloop we had hired at
Bayhead Being more of an explorer
than fisherman, one afternoon l took
a boat and pulled in toward a cove
shaded by great trees. On reachlngl
land saw a man standing on thel
shore He was in dingy trousers and
shirt, topped by a twenty-five cent
straw hat, and was putting on a pipe
Say, you therew / called. How
about a landingT"
Come right in here"
did so. and be pulled my boats
nose up on to the shelving shore
stepped out of the boat and, looking at
the man, whom had supposed to be a
countryman, saw something familiar
in his face.
Haven't l met you somewherer'
asked.
"Are you Tracy. the man that played
right tackle on the Harvard team in
1S8-g'
Yes. And your
I'm Heydon played against you
in the Yale team"
'sAnd made the big run that gave
your college the game"
Il made a run in that game" he re
/ piled modestly.
What in the world are you doing
beref"
"Oh. was always an odd fish. /
don't like a crowd. live here in that
little stone hut up there"
You're the hermit they were talk
ing about on the yacht last night"
He took me TO his hut and showed
| me how he lived He had built a bunk
IN one corner, there were a fireplace
under the chimney where he cooked
his own food, a pine table, couple Of
ramshackle chairs and a cracker box
full of tableware He had screened
his door and window with mosquito
netting.
''You are an odd fish, sure enough,
said. How long have you lived
hereY
"a year this summer"
Like itg"
Better than jostling people who
don't care for me except what they car
get out Of me.
j / invited him to 60 aboard the yacht
with me, but he declined, and 1 left
him feeling sure that some unpleasant
experience must have soured him.
Having completed our fishing be re
turned to Bayhead and / to Seabrighf
where l was staying with q friend il
his summer cottage. We had at dinner
on the night of my arrival Miss Can
nett from New York, fabulously rich
She had come IN her own yacht ant
was on her way down the coast e
= Old Point Comfort At dinner / tolC
of my meeting with Heydon, and Mis-
Gannett. who was interested in curios
tiles, remarked that she had heard O.
such people. but did not believe the!
existed.
The next day Miss Gannett invited
me to make one of the party on he
} yacht. was much surprised at tn
; invitation and particularly delighted
Who could tell but that l might max
a match for myself on the trip. Mis-
: Gannett was a very pretty girl o
woman-she was tweny-six years ok
and there are few bachelors VIII
would NOT be pleased TO marry al
attractive woman with large fortune
I accepted at once, and we started ol
the voyage.
rs the hshing really very good Il
Barnegat bays" she asked me as W
were nearing its mouth.
Not very; the mosquitoes are hon
) rible."
Il dote on fishing. think we'd BET
ter put in there and see if we can ge
, q few bluedsh."
I'VE might visit the hermit sue
gested
"Oh, we won't have time for that"
Rounding the point. we sailed up tn
bay and anchored not far from wher
we had fshed a week before. It wa
sunset when the anchor fell, and by
3 o'clock Miss Gannett was in her bert
. with a headache. The hostess havin
withdrawn the other ladies' followed
and the men, not wishing TO keep theI
awake. turned In also.
All the next day we sailed up an