The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1910-02-03
TAKEN BY STORM.


81 do not believe it is love-" said
She
IF it is not love, what is it,"
"oh, y-attraction-perhaps
you mesmerize me-or mesmerize you
who knows?"
Il do, love you"
"Three days ago you did not know
me-"
THE plant can spring in a night"
But it does not always come to
flower"
I'm this case 1t is Towering already"
As his eyes met hers they smiled,
and his broad shoulders took posi-
tive set.
She looked at him disdainfully-this
big, handsome, brainy man.
But a few short hours and we shall
have forgotten one another" she re-
marked.
Don't think that tell you that l
love you. And you-why will you not
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS truth"
His eyes were tender, and, as If COM
PEELED, she answered.
what can acknowledge? How do
/ know that this"
She hesitated.
"This is love?" he concluded
A mighty green wave capped with
foam Numbered by, almost splitting
over the deck.
LET me assist you out Of the sea-
dust" said the sailor.
The girl laughed.
GO to your watch" she said; II can
assist myself"
Miss Nolan had enjoyed the trip up
the coast, starting at Portsmouth,
stopping at Plymouth, and now on to
Glasgow. Life at sea, even at sea-
son when most women are glad to be
safe on land, had a fascination for
this girl, bred among thinkers and
scholars, cultivated women and pro-
fessional men. A man who was all
action was an interesting study to her.
That was how she put it to herself
when her ears inclined to the first
officers impulsive wooing She did
not take him seriously then, She had
read about sailors and had theories
concerning them. The second day out
she wrote in her diary:
"a sailors life is 50 fiilcd with peiils
and hardships that | can hardly blame
him IL he fills up his breathing spaces
with whatever sport comes his way
even If that sport sometimes means
playing at love. Any other man I
should despise for making a jest Of
such a serious matter-but, considering
all things, | think Jack can be forgiv-
en- for having a sweetheart in every
port"
Miss Nolan, like many an ineXperi-
enced girl, prided herself upon being
liberal and broadminded.
The fourth day her diary recorded;
81 believe he thinks he is in love
with me, but that's absurd. How can
he possibly care for me when he does
not know? He has the audacity also,
to tell me that he is sure that | love
him. Why, DR.. Gibson, who, father
says, is both morally and Intellectually
one Of the finest men on earth, and
who has been paying me attentions for
two years, would not presume to hint
at such a thing 1 think will marry
DR.. Gibson after all. He has such
good, kind eyes. They never make me
feel-uncomfortable.
II wonder why am 80 attracted
to him-this sailor man? Even before
we had spoken to one another, before
the vessel left port, when he was sup
erintending the slowing of the hold,
was drayn to watch him and listen to
his masterful voice. never saw
man work like king before. How
the men under him obeyed his orders,
His strength was greater than any Of
theirs. don't believe they could
have hoisted those bales without HIS
aid.
'Then he moved with such freedom
and fearlessness, scorning the gang
plank and passing from steamer to
dock and back again so quickly and