Holbrook argus., 1912-09-10
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was the onIy coTreW appraisal ot the situation.
 They sat on the sand during the long forenoons under the shade Of the big umbrella listening to the melan- sholy monotone of the sea and chuck Sng sand into each others shoes.
 They paraded along the seas verge under the same old, big old moon of All the ages.
 He didn't whisper anything to her about the state of his feelings. Yet ae couldn't help but glance at her with heap of wistfulness as the two weeks' vacation drew to a close. and once or twice he fancied that she re- turned the wistful gaze.
 But he wasn't going to take tho chance of making the bad break of de- claring himself unless he knew posi- lively that he had at least little bit of one in hundred chance.
 So after the most delirious two weeks of his life he returned to New York the most miserable hardware clerk on the face of the inhabitable globe.
 When he had parted from the girl h shadowy corner of the hotel piaz- ta on the night before his departure ae had been sorely tempted to tell her things. He refrained. however, by gigantic effort, although he did pick long golden hair from the lapel of ais blue serge coat when he got to his room at that.
 She invited him upon parting to be Sure to call upon her in New York In the autumn, and he told her that he sure would, and
 But just . moment, pleage.
 Now, if this were one of those hi. arious. made to order yarns there's not . doubt in life that the average reader would get a whole lot more good out of 1t.
 But 1t isn't one of those things. On the contrary. it's & strictly veracious narrative.
 The professional funny men would have the world believe that young folks who meet each other at the sea shore never by the remostest chance ever think of keeping up the acquaint- ance made down by the seas verge when they get back home, and that such seashore affairs never, never on earth result in anything worth men, tloning.
 But they do.
 They result, as . matter of fact, in Q heap of marriages.
 The professional screech evoker would wind up the story in this man. ner:
 He'd have the girl drop into the hardware store some gray day of the following October to look at a pair of roller skates or to examine some and irons for the hall fireplace at her rich home, and she'd come face to face with the young hardware clerk. upon whose blue serge lapel she'd left a couple, If not more, of her golden hairs at the seashore few months before.
 The jokesmith would have the young clerk start with an expression of acute pleasure to greet the young woman, addressing her with the phrase, "Oh, Miss Gotgilt, how exceedingly well you look! And don't you recall our jolly times at the seashore a little while ago?" And then the young wom- an would draw herself up to her full height" in most freezing manner and address him as if he were a lightning bug or German carp, asking him to be good enough to show her a coal scuttle. and that would be the windup of the seashore romance according to the usual view of 1t.
 This, however. is different, for real life doesn't trot to pole with the joke smiths gage.
 Consequently, as simple matter of fact. when this young woman returned to New York the hardware clerk called upon her at her folks handsome home almost immediately, and he got a mighty pleasant reception from her, and she looked mighty glad to see him.
 She introduced him to her father and mother and he made prompt hit with both of the old folks by his frank and on the level manner. They may and probably did have all sorts of other ideas for the girl, but when she told them, & few months after the young hardware clerk had called, that he'd asked her to marry him and that she'd fixed the date for the following June--the June of 190s-they accepted the situation as 1t was framed up, and the marriage came of exactly as per program.
 It's a prosaic sort of finish and all like that, maybe, but facts are facts and not fancies, and so the prosaic windup really can't be helped & bit.  Holes In shlps and Compressed Ar.
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