The Democratic advocate., 1908-09-04
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HIGH TINE.
By CONSTANCE
DARCY MACKAY.
Copyrighted, 1903, by Associated
Literary Press.

"Not the slightest When MiHarli
makes up her mind it stays made up,
and l made up my mind yesterday
Bobbie."
You mean your Aunt Isobel made it
up for YOU" Robert Ashton answered.
looking at katherine AIfllard as she
perched beside him in the bow of the
boat The wind blew her hair into dis
tracing ripples. She put back strand
Of it as she faced him, replying:
"She did have a good deal to do with
it, I'll admit But, after all, she has
lived much longer in this world than
have and has gained more WISDOM
Eyes, worldly wisdom"
isn't that often another name for
common sense? Besides, there are mo-
ments when I feel that she knows me
better than I know myself. l do love
the ct ceteras Of life so, Bobby! Love in
Harlem fat would never do for me.
want all the pate de fois gras of ex
iStence and none of the rye bread.
And you know from the first I've nev-
er given you the least cause for hope
I've always been perfectly frank with
you, haven't I?''
Always"
"Then l can't see why you should
protest so much"
"Well, for one reason l hate to see
you flinging yourself away on old Sen
ator Rathbone."
Thank your
"And, for another, what man gives
up the girl he loves without a struggle
1t isn't human nature to forego thing
simply because it's beyond your reach.
And then there's a third reason. We
could be so gloriously happy"
The girl averted her eyes.
Couldn't we?'' he persisted.
Il don't know she faltered.
"Ah, but you do know! You know
we're one In everything. That's why l
dare to persist 80 much We like the
same things We like the same people.
We have the same sense of humor-eX
cept in the case of Senator Rathbone"
"Bobbie, If you make fun of my
friend l won't take you sailing again"
"But, Katherine"-
'Now, Bobbiev' For second time
she faced him sQuarely. 1--WE told you
my minds made up, and mean what
say. You've been good friend to
me, and I've enjoyed the times we've
had together. But If we're to be good
friends still this kind Of thing can't
keep going on. Don't you see how
hard you are making it for me? Either
you must promise me not to mention
1t again or I'll have to give up seeing
you entirely"
"All right" he replied, with that
characteristic boyishness that women
always found 50 adorable in him. "I'll
be good"
He nodded at her smi11ngly, and she
told herself that, after all, he was only
a boy with boys ardor-twenty-five
and not yet grown up! But that was
because she was looking at his smile
and not at what lay in hts eyes.
| She let out the main sheet of the
White Lady until the spray dashed
across the bow of the trim little craft
| 1t was gray day, with hint of rain
in the afr and the sea gulls lowering
inlandsuch day as sends the usual
summer resorter to cozy chair by
Pickering logs with novel close at
hand and the fisher folk out to open
sea with the promise Of heavy catch.
Between gray green water and slate
gray sky. the White Lady seemed the
only thing afloat as she skinned and
tackled and lifted on the crest of the
waves. They were racing to wind
ward now, and the homes Of the shore
dwellers faded in the distance Here
and there stood the solitary houses OF
fishermen; then these, too, became
fewer.
The shore rose to bare, rocky head
lands capped with stunted pines
gaunt, jagged rocks with the water
creaming at their base Islands rose
mere specks in the distance, only dis
cernible because Of the surf that play
ed about them or the dwelling or two
that reclaimed them from utter loneli.
ness The White Lady throbbed and
few, so tense, 50 alive, so seemingly
part of the elements, that it was
hard to believe her thing Of wood
and canvas
Look outr' sang Ashton as the boat
came suddenly about 'eThat was a
pretty close shave"
"Who sails with me holds life in
fee," laughed Katherine, intoxicated
with wave and wind and foam.
There is such a thing as common
sense" quoted Ashton.
But the wine Of the sea was in Kath-
crimes blood. She rounded another
fat rock triumphantly.
'Carefulr' cautioned Ashton.
"Afraid?' she taunted, with uplifted
chin, and then laughed as scarlet
surged across his-keen young face.
"Sail where you like! I don't carer
he cried.
"You think" she sconed recklessly
that just because I'm a girl can't
manage my own boat Why, round
ing these rocks Is a perfect game for
me! Eye done It lots of times. OF
course Z know the summer people are
warned against it. But I'm not sum
mer person at heart I'm what Cap
.ain Davy calls regular salt, and
allow no mutiny on the part Of my
crew. So there! And whoever &C.
cepts my invitation to sail accepts the
risks that accompany it. Sing ho
sing no, for a sailors life, sing ho
| Sino ho for a.