Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-05

It acts on steel in storage or on the II
bores of guns when exploded as pro- |
Polling charge. Meanwhile" turning |
to Lawn, I'm tremendously obliged to |
you for coming-and for your offer.
You see how it is, don't you? l |
couldn't risk taking money for thing |
which might at the end prove dear at |
any price"
II cheerfully accept that risk" in
sisted young Lawn. Il am quite ready
to do all the worrying, Captain Sell
wyn."
But Selwyn merely shook his head.
repeating, 'You see how it is, don't
you?'
The matter of business arrangements
apparently ended then and there.
Lawns company sent several men to
Selwyn and wrote him great many
letters-unlike the government, which
had not replied to his briefly tentative
suggestion that chaosite' be condition
ally examined. tested and considered.
So the matter remained in allegiance,
and Selwyn employed two extra men
and continued storage tests and ex
perimented with rified and smoothbore
tubes, watchfully uncertain yet as to
the necessity of inventing solvent to
neutralize possible corrosion after
propelling charge had been exploded.
Everybody III the vicinity had heard
about his experiments. Everybody pre-
tended interest, but few were sincere,
and of the sincere few were unselfish-
1t, too, n,,;,
and Lansing and maybe one or two
Others
However, the younger set, now pre-
dominant from WyoSsett to Wonder
head, made up parties to visit Sell
wyn's cottage, which had become
known as the Chrysalis, and Selwyn
good naturally exploded pinch or
two of the stuff for their amusement
and never betrayed the slightest an
noyance or boredom. In fact, he be-
haved so amiably during gratuitous in
terruptiOns that he won the hearts of
the younger set, who presently came
to the unanimous conclusion that there
| was romance in the air. And they
shifted it with delicate noses uptilted
and liked the aroma.
One man, often the least suitable, Is
usually the unanimous choice of the
| younger sort where, in the disconcert-
ing summer time. the youthful congre-
gate in garrulous segregation.
Their choice they expressed frankly
and innocently. They admitted cheer
| fully that Selwyn was their idol But
| that gentleman remained totally I'M
conscious that he had been set up by
| them upon the shores of the summer
| sea.
On the. sunlit sands dozens of young
| people were hurting tennis balls at
each other. Above the beach. under
the long pavilions, sat mothers and
chaperons. Motors, beach carts and
| victorias were still arriving to dis
charge gayly dressed fashionables, for
the hour was early, and up and down
the inclined wooden walk leading from
the bathing pavilion to the sands a
| constant procession of bathers passed
with nod and gesture of laughing salu-
| tation. some already retiring to the
showers after brief ocean plunge, the
| majority running down to the shore,
eager for the first frosty and aromatic
embrace of the surf rolling In under a
cloudless sky of blue.
AS Eileen Enroll emerged from the
surf and came wading shoreward
through the seething shadows she
caught sight of Selwyn saunterine
across the sands toward the water and
halted, knee deep, smilingly expectant
certain that he had seen her.
Gladys Orchil, passing her, saw Sci
wynn at the same moment, and her clear
ringing salute and slender arm aloft
arrested his attention, and the next
moment they were off together. swim
ming toward the sponsor canoe which
Gerald had just launched with the as
/ sistance of Sandon Craig and Scott
Innis.
For a moment Eileen stood there
motionless. Knee high the fiat ebl
boiled and Kissed, dragging at hel
, stockinged feet as though to draw hel
seward with the others. Yesterday
she would have gone without though
! to Join the others. but yesterday |:
yesterday. 1t seemed to her as sh,
lctD fJot hi lin,