New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-22

seemed 10 me COulll pear IT So W ll1l YOU N'1!C
back after year glad to YOU that it seemed
10 me that must have things as they were before
"Ycs remember YOU said so, replied Damon. pod-
ding scawlrl through the wecdy path.
But when YOU came back YOU were so queer she
said And then VIII said YOU weren't YOU. And You
ran away 90 suddenly. And then VIII has been so de-
voted
For the last time Damon turned in the path. DO
YOU 10 say that YOU love hlm' ne asked JoyuIy.
do YOU mean YOU are engaged;
Il am very very fond Of YOU STILL Larrabee she SAID
softly: 80 much that when saw YOU few minutes
ago forgot everything except that YOU there and
| was looking YOU just as | used TO.
81 noticed YOU did," he said grimly.
"But things have changed for me, Larabcc, she
went on Is who is sadly forced 10 deliver crushing
blow 81 have found the real love OF my life am GO
ing marry VIII just rs soon as we get To the next
British protcCtoratc.
May Heaven bless you.' said Damon.
an loyalty 20 him, She said firmly, 81 shall have TO
tell him met you here He's following you YOU know
Larrabcc.
oh tina, $ all right said Damon gaily. ~Iye stayed
here SO long Ginning with YOU that would be miracle
If ne hadn't found ont by this time that the other boat
riding al anchorwas the Simeon Bailey. Tell him what
ever YOU like but for the sake OF old times, Sara, have
one favor 20 ask you.
"Onlv name it, she said SWcctly.
81 hope it won't be a shock TO you, he said, but
am in love with Angela Give.
what" she cried.
"Now do be reasonable Sara" ne pleaded III you
have right to be engaged TO Wallace, have night to
love Angela Give
"Yecs." she conceded.
~Now. | want YOU to talk to her about me. Don't
call me Larrabcc Damon and don be surprised II she
calls me something else. You Just tell her that there IS
nothing between YOU and and that YOU engaged
10 Wallace Say Just that and no more, sara Enough
is as good as feast and there's use telling her how
much used TO be devoted to YOU. You wouldn't like
anyone to remind Wallace how much YOU were once
devoted TO me"
IN DO lust as you ask, Larrabce, she said.
"Goodby I'll never forget 1t, and we'll always toe
the best OF friends" he said.
THEN he began running through the last stretches
Of the brush. As he went he rather reproachcd
himself for the time he had been wasting with Sara 1t
had been time not spent in the real Larrabce DamonS
service but in his He had been stupidity confusing
his love affairs with Damons As himself, he had want
ci be free from any cntang cement that would keep
him from Offering free heart to Angela, when the time
should come. But as Larrabce Damon what possible
reason could there be for clearing up arrabec Damons
love affair in order that Iarrabce DamonS substitute
should have a clear field with Angela Give? For the
time he forgot that not knowing who he really was he
might be already married and without the right 10 adj
dress Angela Give. His conscience reproached him
with the fact that he had spent valuable time and as
ne saw now, llcndcrsons time, in order TO get Sara
Kccnc into state where she would be willing explain
To Angela Give that she engaged TO Wallace and
that the young man whom she had "my dcarcd So
Enthusiastically nothing to her. and did not love her
However, what done was done, he decided, as he
ran toward the beach, and besides if it TO be done
over he afraid he would have acted in precisely the
way
As he came in sight of the boat he saw the two sailors
in it, ready to push off, and Corrigan running up the
sands toward him.
"Come on. Sir" shouted Corrgan. "I've beer look
ing for YOU this last half-hour' Corrigan's face
crimson with the heat and stung with flies.
THEY got into the boat and the sailors pushed off,
little sulky and lowering i'll expression
"Thcy'rc mad because didn't let them at the people
on the island explained Corrgan in a whisper, he
sat beside Damon in the stern-sheets. "Who do you
think is on that yacht out yonder?'
I'm sorry to spoil your surprise, Corrgan but al
ready know. It's Wallace"