The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1905-07-21
A WATCHING ROMANCE.

mosquitoes. I was there with fish
ing party on sloop we had hired at
Bay head. Being more Of an explorer
than fisherman, one afternoon I took
boat and pulled in toward a cove
shaded by great trees. On reaching
land I saw man standing on the
shore. He was in ding trousers and
shirt, topped by twenty-five cent
straw hat, and was putting on a
pipe.
Say, you there?" | called. "How
about landing?"
"Come right in here"
I did so, and be pulled my boats
nose up on the shelving shore. STEP
ped out of the boat and, looking at
the man, whom I had supposed to be
a countryman, saw something familiar
in his face.
Haven't I met you somewhere?" l
asked.
care you Tracy, the man that play
ed right tackle on.tbe Harvard tea m
in 1872
Eyes. And your
"I'm Heydon. l played against
you in the Yale team"
And made the big run that gave
your college the game
81 made run in that game,' he re-
piled modestly.
"What in the world are you doing
here?'
ooh, I was always an odd fish. I
don't like a crowd. l live here in that
little stone hut up there"
"Youre the hermit they were talk
ing about on the yacht last night"
He took me to his hut and showed
me how be lived. He had built bunk
in one corner, there were a fireplace
under the chimney where he cooked
his own food, pine table, couple Of
ramshackle chairs and cracker box
full of tableware. He had screened
his door and window with mosquito
netting.
"You are an odd fish, sure enough"
| said. Glow long have you lived
here?''
"a year this summer"
Like it?"
Better than jostllng people who
don't care for me except what they
can get out of me-
l invited him to go aboard the
yacht with me, but he declined, and
l left him feeling sure that some un-
pleasant experience must have soured
him.
Having completed our fishing he
returned to Bayhead and l to Sea-
bright, where l was staying with
friend in his summer cottage. We
had at dinner on the night of my
arrival a Miss Gannett from New
York, fabulously rich. She had come
in her own yacht and was on her way
down the coast to Old Point Comfort.
At dinner told of my meeting with
Heydon, and Miss Gannett, who was
interested in curiositles, remarked that
she had heard Of such people, but did
not believe they existed
The next day Miss Gannett invited
me to make one of the party on her
yacht l was much surprised at the
invitation and particularly delighted.
Who could tell but that 1 might make
. match for myself on the trip. Miss
Gannett was very pretty girl or
woman-she was twenty-six years on
and there are few bachelors who
would not be pleased to marry an at
tractive woman with large fortune.
l accepted at once, and we started on
the voyage.
els the fishing really very good in
Barnegat bay?" she asked me as we
we're nearing it's mouth.
"Not very; the mosquitoes are hor-
rible."
81 dote on fishing. think we'd
better put in there and see if we can
get few bluefish.''
1--WE might visit the hermit" sug-
gested.
ooh, we won't have time for that
Rounding the point, we sailed up
the bay and anchored not far from
where we had fished a week before. It
was sunset when the anchor fell, and
by 9 o'clock Miss Gannett was in her
berth with headache. The hostess
having withdrawn the other ladies fol-
lowed, and the men, not wishing to |
keep them awake, turned in also.
All the next day we sailed up and |
down the bay or lay at anchor fishing
and despite my report on Barnegat |
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