Smyrna times., 1906-10-31

deepened, and he went about with his
hands in his white duck pockets, wear
ing a mystical look of wisdom beyond
mortal ken, for his prophecy was COM
ing true.
Dudley Graham was the strangers
name. Jolly eXulted in it. 1t couldn't
have been better. And when, after a
couple of days, Dudley showed himself
possessed of an unlimited "wad' to
boot and a disposition to scatter it
Jolly's admiration changed to respect,
and he hoped Dudley's choice would
fall on Dorothy, because for himself he |
always had preferred blue eyes.
But Dudley apparently had no choice. |
The cousins were the prettiest girls at
the Lights" Therefore he made love
to both of them with absolute impair
TALLY. And he was an artist, at love-
making-nO ordinary piazza incoming
or woodland strolls, but at daybreak,
when all the world lay in a bridal veil
of pearl and diamond, he would take
the girls out for q sail or send them
up great clusters of forest flowers to
say good morning for him.
(which oneY asked Jolly, and every
one at the Lights" echoed the ques-
ton. Perhaps no one thought it often
err than the girls themselves. Gradual
ly they drew apart. There was no
open quarrel, nothing to gossip over,
but all the old sweet comradeship was
broken, and except when Dudley was
with them they walked and lived
alone
To Dorothy it was wonderful thing,
this strange new love, something not
to be breathed of, and yet her eyes
never met Graham's that she did not
feel vaguely sorry for Irene. And
Irene, winsOme, gay hearted, was odd
] ly quiet and restrained these days,
and. hearing Graham's voice in her
ears as they two bent over the dip
ping SAIL she felt her heart ache for
poor Dorothy.
And then, as jolly called it ever aft
er, there came the day of decision 1t
was a gray day, threatening, squally,
bringing with it a premature tang of
September chill. Graham was going
out in his yacht, the Lorelie. As he
came down the steps of the piazza
Dorothy Joined him, tall and slender.
in her rain coat and hatless.
Graham hesitated and glanced to
where Irene stood.
Afraid he asked laughingly, and
she took the challenge, not because of
his words, but because of Dorothy and
her silence.
There's a storm coming" called
Jolly. III get the life savers ready to
go out after you"
1t was only jest and half an hour
later Jolly, in his big hearted, rough
way, would have given all he owned to
call it back, for out ON the gray sea
the little white winged yacht swirled
and dipped as the storm swept down
on it, and when the darkness had lifted
there was a cry from those watching
from the inn, and down at the little
white life saving station below the
lighthouse they were pushing out the
lifeboat.
Keel up the Lorelie drifted, but be
fore the lifeboat reached it they found
a figure swimming for shore, a hearty
strong, athletic youngster one Dudley
/, Graham, who had kept his presence OF
mind and resolved to save said bud
ley Graham's precious life at all haz
, ards.
go ahead" called Tom Hardy, the
captain of the crew to him. go ahead
; you're doing finely. Keep it up. We
/ wouldn't stop you for the world"
: And they left him swimming fol
: shore and made straight for the over
: turned yacht, where two girls hell
I each other above the peril of the sea.
+ Take Irene first" said Dorothy.
? dolly first" gasped Irene as Ton
r lifted her into the boat
!, The next morning Jolly sat on tn
S piazza smiling buoyantly to two figure
f in the hammock
HE went on the early boat" he sal
b blithely. Congratulations. But wa
d not he a really lovely specimen? Flo
e fair weather, l mean. Wasn't he
k Jolly" interposed Dorothy, "eve
n the inevitable can be postponed, can
k it? We-Irene and I-have decide
that our inevitabeman must be twins