Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-15
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This talk was verginS upon the per-
sonal. and therefore to be discouraged.
How keenly observing he must be to
detect-in her cosmopolitan English the
old Alabama accent. She supposed
herself to be quite rid of it. His own
occasional and Inconsistent lapses into
ultra-softness of intonation seemed
quite like dialect to her. He waxed
more and more interesting. Surely,
surely. he was not SO very much worse,
at heart, with his love of flowers n
his chivalrous delicacy, than some peo-
pie min other walks of life. She was
quite recovered from her alarm, quite
ia control of the situation now, u
Cling bewitchingly down and looking at
her lilies, as they emerged from the
Narrows and shot out into the Lagoon
the blue waves of which had subsidized
into ~round-rolling short swells.
"Good-by," cried Virginia, looking
back into the enchanted marsh. GOOD
by. This is the world again.
Carson WGs looking the other way
with less persistence now. There was
something mysterious in the charm OF
this girls manner Her good-by to the
Narrows seemed q subtle rapproche-
ment to him. They were in the world,
and. Observation-Disclosures let
him come closer.
The lights OF the hotels n villas
along the north shore swept by them in
a panorama of fairy Nominations. A
great tow-boat slowly pushed it's W.
acres of barges toward Mobile from the
Perdido bay inner passage. The La
SIlaI .-ifh launches Ine
evening had so far grown quiet that the
airships had come out, sweeping the
skies like enormous phosphorescent IN
sects. From a hundred yards overhead
fell the twapgling of a banjo and the
voice of a tenor in full song. virginia
whose slances at her robber had been
extra-hazardous recently, because more
likely to meet his, could safely LOOK at
him again, absorbed as he was IN the
management OF his craft. he stood up
once 1.-the and graceful as a leopard,
and. after scrutinizipg an approaching
sloop sheered off, saying that there was
better water to port. He was evading
detection. she thought, and she felt
companionably furtive and guilty.
1--WE have been very impersonal.' said
he "Mav | introduce MYSELF, My
name is
Oh. please don't.' she exclaimed.
.Forgive me. but I'd rather not know
ut is mo- interesting" said he, with
a slow smile, not to know. l snail
always think Of o as
"As the girl from Mars" she sug-
rested. II came fumbling down to you
in a heap, put of the sky"
.Hardly from Mars" he demurred
more properly from Venus
~ don like that very vell,' she pro-
tested.
..Therc's Andromeda,' he suggested.
"Too tragic" she said. And too far
Off"
..Then the Pleiades are eliminated"
Carson went on.
s'Ouite So" she assented. "There
only one of me-, and
and there will never be another!
he rejoined.
No answer to this little gush seemed
either demanded or available. So VIZ
ginia merely shook her e
II struck like a comet said she;
.'but they all have numbers. don't they
or those funny little cuneform sym
bols
isn't there an asteroid named Psy-
chez he inquired. 'I'm going to as
sumo that there is, and name you after
that" .
"A purely telescope star
Because of its distance. only. Psy-
che
"A little body, whirled about among
the great ones, because it can't help 1t
I believe
"And I shall not have the satisfac-
ton. unless Il sends me word. of know
ing whether 1t actually exists or not" >
said he meanlnglv.
And or course" she said, "Pysche