The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-03-09
GRAND MARIAs* MINNESOTA SATURDAY, YIN ARCH

will give a thought to mo sometimes
when am away upon the sea"
She lay awake all night, dreaming
finer dreams than ever coMe in sleep;
! and in the morning her hostess gave
her d commission.
"Oh, my dear, / am so frighttufly
busy!" Mrs. Atcheson explained.
What. is it? Let me do it," urged
| Minna, anxious to be useful.
~Oh, my dear girl, would you? Oh,
should be so much Obliged to you!
1t Is just to go to the pier with
this parcel for Capt. Spurling-the
Penguin is still there, I see, and I'm
afraid of being too late with it. He
kindly offered to take anything for me
70 England, and l thought it a good
opportunity to send some CASTOR
clothes for my sisters children"
Terrified, but exulting, Miss Smith
presently set forth upon this errand.
When Capt. Squirting saw his visitor
he was down the gangway in two Sec
onds.
What, Miss Smith! And you have
brought the parcel yourself? How
kind of you! How good of you! Come
up and have a little rest after your
walk"
"Oh, no! oh, no." she replied, with
tragic gravity. Il must not stay, in
deed. I should not have come, only
there was no one else. We are very
busy at home, and Mrs. Atcheson
wants me-
"Just for five minutes-just to have
a look at my ship before we 60"
Il must not stay,' she calculated,
hurried and breathless; and yet in a
few minutes she found herself sitting
on the red velvet sofa in the captains
little sitting-room with cushion at
her back. And presently she found
Capt. Squirting sitting beside her,
with his arm around her waist.
Had he been required to defend
his conduct, he would have plead
ed the irresistible circumstances.
for there are men who see a
natural validity in this excuse, and
a chaperon of 80 has no business to
ignore the fact, while, as for Minna's
conduct, she was a young thing and
knew no better.
AS young things do, when fine fell
lows provoke them to it, she had fall
en- frantically in love; and of course
she took this particularly fine fellow
for god in human shape, and king
who could do no wrong. If he put his
arm round her waist, it was because
-oh, bliss unspeakahie !!.--=heca.se.~ he
loved her, too. Such had been her
bringing up, strange as it may appear,
in this land of precocious girls.
She f1uttered in his embrace, like a
wild bird in a snare. and then yielded
to it, dropping her head upon his
shoulder
! "Oh,' she walled in tears, @when-
when shall ever see you again."
At noon the Penguin was towed out.
| At night Miss Smiths headache was
SO bad that she could not join Mrs.
Atcheson's whist party.
| A few days later she went home to
her mother, who thought her very lit
tie benefited by her seaside trip. She
was pale and absent-minded; she
Stunned companionship; she con.
fessed to sleeping poorly. When asked
| what was the matter, or whether any
thing was the matter, she, of course,
said Nothing" Mrs. Smith, who had
family of ten, every one of which
was cherished as if an only child,
knew better, but would not force the
| confidence that was not freely given
Meanwhile Minna's heart was away
upon the sea. She thought of the sea
all day and dreamed of it all night,
and read of it in as many novels as
the local mechanics institute could
| supply; and of course she had made
up her young mind that only sailor
could satisfy her. Also that her love
for the particular sailor responsible
| for this state of things was that love
which only comes once in a lifetime"
| peculiar, as we know, to young peo.
pie in their teens.
| that the Seamew had returned. I'm
mediately she resolved to repair thith.
er in order to question Capt. Brent
about his friend. She confessed for
the first time that she was out OF
| health, and said that only sea air
could restore her.
'Sea air did not do you much good
| when you tried it BEFORE" Mrs. Smith
| eecocooeoocoe