Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-06

self in the sand for little while II |
you like and run back to begin over
again. 1t is heavenly. No other ad.
jectiye half expresses it.
When we did really make up our
minds to stop out for good and had
dressed ourselves, feeling like god.
desses just born Of the foam Cor gods,
as the case might be), we all met-our
party, the Pitchleys and my cousin
to arrange about what Mohunsleigb
would do.
1t seemed that Mrs. Pitchley had in.
vited him to lunch, and as she had been
so kind about the bathhouse he ex.
planned to Potter he thought that he
couldn't very well refuse About stop.
ping on he would decide later, but he
consented to drive with us in the
afternoon in a motor car of Potter's
that holds six. By that time he would
have had time to send a wire to a
! friend of his in New York and to-
make up his mind what he had better
do about going back
When we got home we found Mrs.
Ess Kay much better and up. She
Sally and Potter for taking me to the
beach, but when she heard about
| Mohunsleigh, she forgot to be vexed,
| and seemed almost excited about him.
l can't think why.
| She asked lots of questions, very
quickly, one after the other, brighten
ing up when Potter told how he had
invited Mohunsleigh to come to the
Moorings, but looking quite strained
and wild at the news about his lunch
ing with the Pitchleys.
/ you oughtn't to have let him go,
Potter she said.
Potter shrugged his shoulders-those
square American shoulders of his.
Strange as it may seem to you, he
wanted to. That settled it. 1 didn't
monkey with the gunpowder."
i Mrs. ESs Rays lips went down at
the corners and her eyes flashed
How easy it is to see that woman's
game" said she. Cora Pitchley
knows that Mrs. Van der Windt and
the committee will be only too anxious
for us to go to the pink ball now, and
she thinks she sees a way of getting
there, too, after all. Mark my words,
she's got her earl; it'll go hard with
her if she doesn't stick to him. Betty,
can't you do something? He's your
cousin. You've right to him.
Il don't know that l want him par
ticularly," confessed. "Mohunsleigh's
dear, queer old thing, and I'm fond
of him, but we haven't seen much of
hi ct o.,
he can't be bothered with me-"
Anyhow. he certainly ought to be
here" said Mrs. Ess Kay anxiously
!. ut will be perfectly loathsome if we
/ have to sit still and see the Pitchleys
gobble him up
\ Poor Mohunsleigh" 1 exclaimed
"Why. what will they do with him p
And for lurid instant 1 beheld Miss
, Pitchley and Carolyn as beautiful
: ogresses. with their lips red-too red
{ They'll go to the pink ball with him
; and by him. They couldn't without
] him. That's what they'll do said
Mrs. Ess Kay, as If she saw my cous
l ms whitening bones picked clean 10y
| the Pitchley family. 'And we shall
l have 10 be intimate with them the
whole time he stays"
/ "Oh, you needn't feel bound to fol
5 my sake. 1t isn't as though Mohuns
Y leigh I began, but Mrs. Ess Kay
r snapped my poor sentence in two, as
E if it had been cotton on a reel.
: Il have to think for all of u.s." SAID
f she. Cora Pitchley is a climber"
VI We changed our dresses sally say:
= one must be forever changing ones
: dress at Newport, lunehed, and theI
e at the door appeared gorgeous white