Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-02-09

sky, with the sun dancing ON the clear
green water as II the mllli0naires OF
Newport had been sprinkling gold
pieces. But the best Of all was the
floating platform about hundred
yards from the beach, where we sat
and let the emeralds and pearls spray
over us.
At home when you are at the sea
your governess or some other person
who thinks enjoyment ought to be
measured off by rule sits on the shore
looking at her watch, and when you
have been in exactly twenty minutes
she tells you to come out directly or
you will catch a chill. I've always
wondered what It would do to you II
you stopped In for twenty-one min.
utes, though l never had the chance
to try. but in America all that Is quite
different, as different as the very way
they say seaside" with their accent
on the first instead Of the last syllable.
Nobody thinks about watches. You
tust bathe and battle as long as you
feel like 1t. When you are tired OF
it you come out. Then you bake your.
self in the sand for q little while II
you like and run back to begin over
again. 1t Is heavenly. No other ad.
jective half expresses 1t.
When we did really make up our
minds to stop out for good and h. d
dressed ourselves, feeling like god.
desses just born of the foam Tor gods,
as the case might be). we all met-our
party, the Pitchleys and my cousin
to arrange about what Mohunsleigh
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 wire to q
friend of bis 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
was inclined at first to be cross with
Sally and Potter for taking me to the
beach. but when she heard about
Moliunseigh. she forgot to be vexed.
and seemed almost excited about him.
I 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 60.
Potter" she said.
Potter shrugged his shoulders-those
square American shoulders Of his
"Strange as 1t may seem to you, he
wanted to. That settled 1t. didn't
monkey with the gunpowder."
Mrs. Ess Kay's lips went down at
the corners and her eyes flashed.
How easy 1t 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 60 to the pink ball now, and
she thinks she sees way Of getting
there. too, after all. Marx my words.
she's got her earl: It'll go hard with
her II she doesn't stick to him. Betty.
can't you do something? He's your
cousin. You've right to him."
81 don't know that want him par
confessed. "Mohunsleighs
q dear. queer old thing, and I'm fond
of him. but we haven't seen much of
him at home for years. And know
he can't be bothered with me-"
Anyhow. he certainly ought to b.
here" said Mrs. Ess Kay anxiously
ut will be perfectly loathsome II We
have to sit still and see the Pitchleys
gobble him up"
Poor Mohunsleigh" ! exclaimed.
"Why. what will they do with him?"
And for lurid instant | 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-
FMS whitening bones picked clean by
the Pitchley family "And we shall
have TO he intimate with them the
whole time he stays"
"Oh, you needn't feel bound TO for
my sake 1t isn't as though Mohuns-
leigh began. but Mrs. Ess Kay
snapped my poor sentence in two. as
If it had been cotton on reel.
81 have to think for all Of u.s." said
she. Cora Pitchley is a climber"
We changed our dresses (Sally says
one must be forever changing ones
dress at Newport). lunched, and then
Mt the door appeared gorgeous white