Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-05

of the nostrils. as II MISS Suarez was
DESTROYS Of indulging In a laugh. but
saw no citable reason for so doing.
She waved her handkerchief ut the
captain.
"Do you see." said Carson. pointing
to the receding shore. "that the little
hill at the landing ia Just mass of
shells?''
why. SO It is. l believe" she ex
claimed. How came 40 many there?"
Its a prehistoric kitchen hidden"
said this most extraordinary young
pirate. so many people lived there
that they literally made hill of the
shells of the mollusks they ate.'
"lndeed!" CALCULATED Virginia. and
after long pause she added. How
odd!'
Mentally her sreecl, was. How odd
that this young 0utcast should know
about archaeology. or is it paleontol-
ogy?"
| 1t was easy to study him because
he looked SO reigiously away from
her. He was rather interesting.
He threw over the tiIler to round
into little reedy cove. but instead of
running ashore he entered a narrow
creek, which he followed through
such amazing tOrtuOsities that the sun.
low in the west. was now on the right.
now on the left. sometimes astern and
again dead ahead
Their talk was verging upon the per
sonal and therefore to be discouraged.
How keenly observing he must be to
detect In her cosmopolitan English the
old home accent! She had supposed
herself to be quite rid of 1t. She was
quite recovered from her alarm and
looked bewitching as they emerged
from the narrows and shot out into
the lagoon. the blue waves of which
had subsidized into round rolling short
swells.
"Goodby," cried Virginia. looking
back into the enchanted marsh. Good
by! This Is the world again."
Carson was looking the other way
with less persistence now. There was
something mysterious in the charm Of
this girls manner. Her goodby to the
narrows seemed subtle rapproche
ment to him. They were in the world.
and therefore. 6guratively. she let him
come closer.
The lights of the hotels and villas
along the north shore swept by them
In q panorama Of fairy illuminations.
I'VE have been very impersonal,"
said he. MAY | introduce myself?
Ny name is
"Oh. please don't" she exclaimed.
"Forgive me. but I'd rather not
know"
ut is mo- interesting" said he, with
q slow smile, mot to know. shall
always think Of you as
"As the girl from Mars" she sug-
gested. II came tumbling down to
you in heap out Of the sky"
Isn't there an asteroid named
Psyche2" he inquired. I'm going to
assume that there is and name you
after that"
"A purely telescope star
Because Of its distance only,
Psyche"
The boat quietly passed out across
the woven threads Of light that web
bed the water from thousand points
about Strong's bayou and gently came
to at the dock Of the Yupon Hedge
inn. The promenadcs were crowded
with people in evening clothes and
walters with trays. 1t was gay
scene. and Carson felt the pull Of 1t
as they stepped ashore.
Can do anything mo- for your"
he asked.
mo. no; you must go now! But
thank you a thousand times" said
she.
Psyche" said he fervently, II shall
never escape from the tolls you have
lured me into. Never!"
He carried her hands to his lips
kissed them passionately and leaped
into the boat. Virginia watched him
amazedly as he darted away like a
frightened tarpon. not toward his cab
in in the dunes. but out through the
entrance Of the bayou and of across
the bay toward Point Clear One
more mystery to ponder over.
Ito be continued>