Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-08-10
ALoyal Mummy
BY Iz0LA FORESTER
Copyright. 1905, by r. Q. Eastment


serenely. "She treats him terribly, this
summer worse than all, and It's the
third summer If some one doesn't in
terfere It may go on forever. And he's
splendid boy .aszs.
"Better than fne?y
.sJVell,' said Peggie kindly, every
one is type unto himself. don't
think your type clashes with Had
ieigh's.
You darling
"Not on the veranda, Billie"
Were engaged
81 don't care If we're engaged hun
dred times; you can't grab me like that
on hotel veranda in broad daylight
There you go. You take up Had
leigh and his troubles and never con-
slider for an instant the way you treat
me. We've been engaged four years.
ssNot all the time. Six times sepa-
rately.''
well, you ought to be ashamed Of
yourself. You're as bad as Betty
Wayne, and yet you turn around and
sympathize with Hadleigh. Sympa-
tulZe Will me.
81 won't And I'm not as bad as
Betty. It's ever SO much better being
engaged six times separately to one
than it is six times separately to six,
isn't it?'
Billie took refuge In moody silence In
the hammock Through its meshes he
could get good view of the figure
seated on the yeranda railing. 1t was
lissome. girlish figure in pongee and
turquoise blue, and he shut one eye
contentedly to get the full effect of 1t
against the background of blue sky
and sea.
Betty really thinks the world of
him, only she doesn't know IT, Peggie
announced suddenly after some refiec-
tion. And he considers her so per
fectly hopeless that he doesn't dare do
thing but trot around after her like
pet mummy"
'Mummies can't trot."
sWell, / don't care! He trots around
as one would trot if it could trot. Billie
Ballister, If you treated me like that
I'd never marry you in this world"
'Do you think you ever will?'
"Some day. said Peggie hopefully.
"All Hadleigh needs is appreciation
He's tagged around after Betty so long
that no other girl Will look at him.
Don't appreciate too strenuously.
Hadleigh might not see the point"
'Oh, no, he won't" Peggie's scorn
rose superior to discretion. IF + treat
ed You like a stray telegraph pole all
the time or a C. 0. ID. express pack
age to be held till called for, wouldn't
you see the point il some other girl
took you up and deIicately and diplo-
matically intimated to you that you
were altogether just right?"
Il wish had the chance" said Billie
gloomily. What do / do while you're
delicately and automatically intimat-
ing to Hadleigh?"
Glover" retorted Peggle sweetly;
stalk and glover and look jealous.
Then we'll make up and be engaged
for the seventh time Anyway, HadIeigh
won't make love to me. I shall merely
act as a diversion for the good of the
cause"
1t was three weeks later that the di-
version ceased 1t had been a most
successful diversion Even Billie in his
desolation admitted that. So did Had
leigh. From being an engaged nonen-
tity he suddenly became featured on
the bill, as Peggie would say. There
were handsomer girls at Pineta Point,
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and lovable and characteristic Of the
place as Peggie, and when she under
took the act of delicate and diplomatic
intimation she did it thoroughly.
The first week Betty Wayne was
amused. The second she fatty declined
going in the same coaching party with
the two The third she sent HadIeigh
back his ring. And Hadieigh accepted
condolences gracefully and pensively
and became the steady convoy of Peg
gie's pink parasol in Its wanderings
around Pineta Point.
Peggie was happy. Every night she
assured Billie things were going splen-
didly. Hadleigh did take SO easily to
education. He did not finch a particle
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said nothing.
The day after the return of the ring
the pink parasol took its way up on
the bluff overlooking the bay.
Lets sit here" its owner said to
Hadleigh. Il like to watch the fort
and the islands There's Billie Bal
listers yacht out there, the Peggie o.
Named for you, isn't it?''
ut was-last summer"
Hadleigh laughed shortly.
"a new name every summer. 1t will
be the Betty w. SOON"
Peggie looked down at him with
| hurt, surprised eyes.
billie will never change the name
Of that boat she said, with dignity.
1 HE painted 1t out yesterday" Had
leigh answered 81 thought you knew
| ''Knew what?''
Betty only broke her engagement