The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1909-04-29


spar and funnel and contour of hull
and superstructure twinkling i'm jew
cleo hriliancy.
ON great improyised open pavil
ion set up I'm the Hither woods gar
landed ana hung thick with multi
colored paper lanterns. dancing had
already begun but Selwyn and FL
leen fingered on the lawn for awhile
fascinated 10y the beauty Of the fire.
works pouring skyward from the Mo.
hrara
"They seem TO be very gay aboard
her" muru urcd the girl Once you
said that you did not like Mr.. Neer-
gard no you remember saying itT'
He replied simply. 81 don't like him.
and remember aging So"
"1t is strange" she said, that Ger
aid does"
Selwyn looked at the illuminated
yacht. 81 wonder whether any Of
| Neergard's crowd is expected ashore
here. DO you happen to know"
She did not know. A moment later,
to his annoyance. Edgerton Lawn
came up and asked her to dance, and
she went with smile and whls-
pered "walt for me, II you don't mind;
I'll come back TO you
At intervals he caught glimpses OF
Eileen through the gay crush around
him He danced with Nina and sug-
gested TO her II was time to leave,
but that young matron had tasted just
enough to want more. and Eileen, too,
was evidently having a most delight
full time. So he settled into the har-
ness of pleasure and was good to the
pink and white ones, and they told
each other what q dear" he was and
adored him more inconveniently than
ever
Truly enough as he had often said,
these younger ones were the charm.
lngly wholesome and refreshing anti.
dote to the occasional mlsbehavior of
the mature. They were, as he also as
serted, the hope and promise Of the
social fabric of nation, this younger
set.
Supper and then the Woodland CO.
tillon was the programme, and almost
all the tables were filed before Selwyn
had an opportunity to collect Nina and
Austin and capture Eileen from very
rosy checked and indignant boy who
had quite lost his head and heart and
appeared to be on the verge OF head
long declaration.
"It's only Percy Draymore's kid
brother" she explained, passing her
arm through his with a little sigh of
satisfaction. "Oh here come Nina
and Austin How pretty the tables
look all lighted up among the trees!
And such an uproarv' as they came
into the Jolly tumult and passed in
among a labyrinth of tables, greeted
laughingly from every side.
Under a vigorous young oak tree
thickly festooned with lanterns Aus.
tin found an unoccupied table. There
were a great deal of racket and laugh
ter from the groups surrounding them
but this seemed to be the only avail
able spot; besides, Austin was hungry
and he said so.
Nina, with Selwyn on her left, look
ed around for Gerald and Lansing
When the latter came sauntering uI
Austin questioned him, but he replied
carelessly that Gerald had gone to joir
some people whom he, Lansing did
not know very well.
"Why, there he Is noww exclaimed
Eileen, catching sight Of her brother
seated among a very noisy group OF
the outer edge Of the Illuminated zone
"Who are those people, Nina? Oh
Rosamund Fame is there, too; and
and
She ceased speaking so abruptly tina
Selwyn turned around, and Nina bi
her lip In veXation and glanced at heI
husband for among the overanimateC
and almost boisterous group which wal
attracting the attention of everybod!
in the vicinity sat Mrs. Jack Ruthven
And Selwyn saw her.
For a moment he looked at her-look
ed at Gerald beside her, and Neergart
on the other side, and Rosamund op
posite, and at the others whom he ha'
: never before seen. Then quietly, bu
; with heightened color, he turned hi
= attention TO the glass which the serv
ant had just filed for him and, rest
ing his hand on the stem. stared at tn
bubbles crowding upward through
to the foamy brim.
(To be Continued)