The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-11-09

course it blows hard here in a gale,
but just look at that tiny ventilator, no
bigger than a ships portfolio, with a
double storm shutter to secure it if
you please, for all the world as If the
sea rose so hight"
Constance took thought for awhile.
II suppose the sea never does reach
this height" she said.
Enid, in order to look out had to
thrust her head and shoulders through
an aperture two feet square and three
feet in depth. They were in the living
room at that moment-full seventy feet
above the spring tide high water mark.
Sixty feet higher the cornice of the
gallery was given its graceful outer
slope to shoot the climbing wave crests
of an Atlantic gale away from the Ian
tern. The girls could not realize this
stupendous fact Brand had never told
them. He wished them to sleep peace
fully on stormy nights when he was
away from home. They laughed now
at the fanciful notion that the sea
could ever so much as toss its spray
at the window of the living room.
They passed into the narrow stair
way. Their voices and footsteps
sounded hollow. 1t was to the floor
beneath that Bates had fallen.
II don't think like living in light
house." cried Enid. ut gives one the
creeps.'
Surely there are neither ghosts nor
ghouls here" said Constance. "It is
modern, scientific, utilltarian in every
atom of its solid granite"
But Enid was silent as they climbed
the steep stairs.
Once she stopped and peeped into
her fathers bedroom.
"That is where they brought me
when l first came to the rock" she
whispered. "It used to be Mr.. Jones'
room / remember dad saying So"
Constance, on whose shoulders the
reassuring cloak of science hung some
what loosely, placed her arm around
Ter sisters waist in sudden access OF
tenderness.
You have improved in appearance
since then. Enid" she said.
What a wizened little chip 1 must
have looked. l wonder who l am"
II know who you soon will be if you
don't take care"
Enid blushed prettily. She glanced
at herself in a small mirror on the
wall. Trust a woman to find q mirror
in any apartment.
81 suppose Jack will ask me to mar
ry him." she mused
"And what will you replyT'
The girls lip parted. Her eyes shone
for an instant; then she buried her
face against her sisters bosom.
"Oh, Connie" she walled, 'I shall
hate to leave you and dad. Why hasn't
Jack got a brother as nice as him
self"
Whereupon Constance laughed loud
and long.
The relief was grateful to both
Ends idea of happy solution of the
domestic difficulty appealed to their
easily stirred sense of humor.
Never mind. dear" gasped Con-
stance at last. you shall marry your
Jack and invite all the nice men to
dinner. Good graciousl will have
the pick of the navy. Perhaps the adj
miral may be widower"
With flushed faces they reached the
region of light. Brand was writing at
a small desk in the service room.
Something seems to have amused
you" he said. "I have heard weird
peals ascending from the depths"
connie is going to splice the adj
miral," explained Enid.
"What admiralT
"Any old admiral.
Indeed ! will not take an old adj
miral," protested the elder.
'Then you had better take him when
he is q lieutenant" said Brand
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