The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-11-02

name. She wore a coat and skirt of
green cloth, lightly hemmed and cuffed
with dark red braid. Her large white
hat was trimmed with velvet Off tone
to match the braid, and her neatly fit
ting brown boots and gloves were of
the right shade. Beneath her coat
there was glimpse of a knitted jersey
OF soft white wool, this being tribute
to the season, though winter in
Lyonnesse can usually shrug its COM
Portable shoulders at the deceitful
vagaries of the Riviera.
That she was a young person of
some maritime experience was visible
TO the connoisseurs above at glance.
She was busily engaged in packing the
spacious lockers of the Daisy with GER
tain stores of apples, oranges and veg
understanding from the lordly new
potato (an aristocrat ait that time of
the year, to the plebeian cabbage-and
her 1.-THE, active figure moved with an
ease born of confidence in the erratic
principles Of gravitation as codified
and arranged by rocking boat
gear, seeing that the mast was secure
ly stepped and the tackle ran free.
While they worked they talked, and, of
course, the critics listened.
do you think the weather will hold.
Benz" asked the girl over her shoulder,
STOPPING to arrange some clusters Of
daffodils and narcissus so that they
should not suffer by the lurch of some
heavy package when the boat keeled
over.
'The glass be a-fallin', sure, missy"
said the old fellow cheerily, "but wi
the wind backin' round to the norrard
it on'y means a drop o. wet"
''You think we will make the rock in
good timer"
''We'm do our best Miss Enid"
She sat up suddenly.
Don't you dare tell me, Ben Pollard,
that after all our preparations we may
have to turn back or run for inglorious
shelter. into Lamorna."
Her mock indignation induced a mass
i've grin. "A mahogany table break.
ing into mirth," was Ends private de-
scription of Ben's face when he smiled
ZEE knaw the coast as well as
most" he said. Farther go, stronger
blow, zee knaw."
"And not so slow, eh, Ben? Really
you and the Daisy look more tubby
every time I see you"
Thus disparaged, Pollard defended
himself and his craft.
"Me an Daisy III sail to Gulf light
quicker'n any other two tubs in Pen
zance, missy. Her be a long run at
this time O. year, but you'm get there
all right, 'xpect. WIZ a norrard breeze
we'm be safe enough. If the wind
makes zee en- zee ct comm, zee knaw."
She laughed quietly. Any reflection
on the spanking powers Of his pilchard
driver would rouse Ben instantly.
"As If 1 didn't know all you could
teach me-" she cried, "and as If any
one in all Cornwall could teach me bet
ter"
The old fisherman was Modified. He
looked along the quay.
thine we'm cast off" he said. "Miss
Constance be plaguy long time
fetchin' them wraps"
ooh, Ben. how can you say that?
She had to go all the way to the cot.
tage. Why, If she ram
Here she be-" he broke in, "an' she
b'ain't runnin' neither. Hers got a
Young man in tow"
What announcement would straight
en- the back of any girl Of nineteen like
ufSts that? Enid Trevillion turned and
stood upright.
"Why, it's Jackv' she cried, waving
a delighted hand.
$50 1t be-" admitted Pollard, after q
surprised stare. when I look land
ward my eyes b'ain't so good as they
was"
He stated this fact regretfully. No
elderly sea dog will ever acknowledge
to failing vision when he gazes at the
level horizon he knows so well. This
Is no pretense of unwilling age; it is
wholly true. The settled chaos of the
shore bewilders him. The changeful
sea cannot
Meanwhile, the dawdlers lining the
wharf. following Ends signals with
their eyes, devoted themselves to
covert staring at the young people
hurrying along the quay.
Constance Brand, being a young and
pretty woman, secured their instant
isuffrages. Indeed. she would have
won the favorable verdict Of q more
severe audience. Taller than Enid, she
had the brown hair and hazel eyes Of
her father To him, too, she owed the
frank, self reliant poise Of head and
clearly cut, refined features which con-
veyed to others that all important first
good impression. Blended with Ste
uphen Brands firm incisiveness, and
softening the quiet strength of her
marked resemblance TO him, was an
essential femininity which lifted her
wholly apart from the ruck OF hand
some English girls who find delight In
copying the manners and even the
dress of their male friends.
Her costume was an exact replica of
that of Enid. She walked well and
rapidly, yet her alert carriage had a
grace, a subtle elegance, more fire.
quently seen in America than in Eng
land. Her lively face, flushed with