Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-06
Bv Joseph C.. LINCOLN,

over here. Wanted to see the show.
Gee! what gang of jays! You're the
guy what put up the candy for me, amt
SHOULDN'T wonder. Do you like your
teacher?''
BET your life She's a peach. Sos
| the other one: Miss Talford her name is"
"Humph! What do they call you over
on the East Side when you're at homer"
"Redny." says the little shaver
Hartley looked down at him and smiled
one OF his quiet grins.
You're brick
We got through the crowd and into the
hall finally. Shutting the door was
job. The folks outside seemed to think
they'd been cheated. I'd like to have got
rid of Philander. but you couldn't do that
without a block and tackle: he stuck to
Miss Page like a kedge anchor to mud
bottom. The doctor was putting a strip
Of sticking plaster on Hartley's forehead.
The cut want nothing but scratch I'm
glad to say.
cornered the major and commenced to
talk politics. He was hankering for the
county representative nomination and
knew his soft spot. Hartley and the
Page girl got together then. but they
didn't seem to know. what to say.
I heard her explaining that she hadn't
gone to Europe at all. Her ma had been
| took sick: nothing to speak of. I judged.
spell OF nerves" or the like of that. So
Agnes and her chum, this Margaret Tall
ford. had seen the chance they'd been
waiting for and had got their poor chill
dren tribe together and come down and
took the Lathrop place at South East
w1ch Seems Miss Talford had hired it
afore. intending to go the fresh air
wage alone. longs she couldn't get
Agnes to 60 It with her.
But how Is 1t that you're here?" says
she. Il thought you were at the noun
tains.". =
Hartley explained that at the last mo-
| ment. he had decided to try the seashore.
He was at Wellmouth for the present, he
said.
But you should have known L was
here she says. II wrote toto Ed, of
course-before left the city. Oh. see!
l sent the letter to your Adirondack ad-
dress. But it should have been for
warded."
Hartley stammered a little. but he said
quiet that he was afraid perhaps Van
Brunt hadn't thought to send word to
have his mail forwarded.
II see" she says. That's like Ed
Martin seemed to think twas too. but
faithfully. His letters. of course, have
gone to LIVERPOOL
Well. that was about ALL We had to
be going. said goodbye and we started
Tor the door Miss Page came over and
Mr.. Hartley" says SHE. "I want to
thank you for saving Dennis; Maj. Phin-
ney told me about it. 1t was brave. And
I'm glad that you're not hurt
She, was pretty nervous. but a good deal
less mustered than he was when he took
her hand.
1T was nothing. of course" he says,
hurried like. "That youngster was worth
picking up. Good morning. Miss Page"
about Van ,Brlnt no doubt coming over
to see her In a day or so: And then we
left the hall and headed for the street.
" We walked along pretty brisk for a
ways. neither OF us saying much Of any
thing. Whatever there was carlate
said. By and by we come to the railroad
crossing. And here Hartley stops short
SOL, Says he. II believe I'll go back
by train. don't feel like a sea trip this
afternoon. .That-erSthat crack on the
head has shaken meNup some. 1 guess.
Explain to Van. will you? Tell him I'm
all right. but that I've got little mead
ache. Understand"
1 presumed likely that I Understood
more. maybe, than he thought I did.
Headache is fair to middling excuse.
but Judged there was other things I'd
seen them two look at each other when
they met. and-well, they say a mods as
good as a wink to blind horse, and
amt blind. L made a sort Of note in
my mind to get the pumps to working
again on Lord James next time / got a
chance at him alone.
Hartley left me and went over to the
railroad depot and 1 kept on down the
| road totthe shore. 1 was loafing along,
going over to myself the dofngs of the
afternoon and wondering what Van
Brunt would say and so on. when come
out into the clear place at the top of
Meeting House hill. And the meeting
house clock struck. four.
II jumped like I'd set down on a hot
stove. i hadn't no idea 1t was as late as
that The pig and the Page girl and the
time out Of my head. ! yanked out my
watch to make sure that that clock was
right. and then 1 glanced at the sky.
Over to the BASTARD big fat. gray fog
at, two, East wich Port cove is a nasty
place to set out of at low tide, and here
was an easterly fog coming
AS q. general thing don't take any
bodS's wash when 1t comes to handling a
boat or looking out for weather and such,
but now was ready to sing small. A
ten-year-old boy brought up along shore
would have known better than to do as
Id done. Don't make no odds how good
antexcuse | had for forgetting: no excuse
went down that hill like the man in the
tin CONN went to Tophet, ''clinketty jim
gle jumped fences and cut across
lots. and I'm ready to swear. right now
square inch In Eastwich Port than In
any other place on the Lords green
earth. I bust through the pines and come
out on the beach yelling. Hi! Turn out.
everybody. Get aboard now. Lively!''
And; by time! there want a soul in
sight. For no less than twenty-five and
al half minutes by my watch walked up
and down that beach, seeing the tide go
out and bellerins "Ahoy!'' and where
are your at the top of my lungs And
then. 10 and behold you. here comes Van
Brunt and Lord James. poking along as
easy as II. they had all the time there
was. Van had been over behind the
point taking swim and his lordship had
gone along to set on his boss trousers
and keep the creases in, or some such
mighty important Job.
CTo be continued tomorrow
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