Putnam patriot., 1913-01-31
hAzEN'S REVENGE
Happy Ending of Motor Boat Collision.
By CARL JENKINS.

when ms two weeks were up ne ought to have gone back to the city content. But did he do to7 Not at all He didn't make a move towards going. On what he called his last afternoon he had been fishing out a mile from shore when girl in motor boat appeared She evidently took him for someone else, for she came foaming down upon him with laugh upon her lips.
 Mir Hazen had four hand lines out, hoping to make a record catch on his last fishing day. and the propeller of the motor boat caught and wound them all up With the last one 1t almost dragged the fisherman out of his skin. He hadn't noticed the girl and her boat until too late, and in his confusion and indignation he found himself calling out:
 Here now, but what in blazes are you up to-"
 IT beg pa-don!" stammered the girl
 But that's no way"
 Now MT. Hazen saw that 1t was Q motor boat instead of whale and sAucy looking girl instead of griz- sled old fisherman, and of came his cap and he managed to say:
 T didn't know. you know"
 "Or you wouldn't have sworn at mel" she replied
 But you-you-"
 Yes, I took you for 6 gentleman. was mistaken! How much is the damage?'
 Mir Paul Hazen was rather slow witted at times. and this was one of the times. He had been surprised. He had almost sworn at a young lady. He had sat and stared at her like a dummy. After her insulting fling at him he had sat for five minutes and let her sail circles around him and then head away without a glance at him. It was minutes before he could pull himself together and exclaim:
 Now what dye think of that?'
 Mir. Hagen was a gentleman. He was also a favorite in society. He also had the vanity to think that most girls looked at him twice instead of snubbing him once. Here was one that didn't. She was saucy and de- liant. She had given him the worst snub of his life. and 1t ranked. How to get even with her was the thought in his mind as he rowed back to the hotel
 And that was why Mir Hagen tar ried. After two hours of inquiry he learned that the girl was a camper at
 
 and while no one knew her name 1t was generally agreed that she was snippy In speech and attitude. She had spoiled the fishing for three or four other parties within the week past One of MT. Hazen's informants added to her indefinite information:
 And l do hope that someone will give her to understand that she isn't the only pebble along this beach,
 It seemed to the young man that 1t was up to him to do the showing Next afternoon he hired a motor boat and set of in quest of revenge. They will rent an applicant a motor boat at most beaches, though he be as ignor- ant of their machinery as a dog is of landscape painting. The renter is told to do this and do that and is sent of and an hour later Is hauled off a mud bank and lowed home and is glad to fork over three big dollars extra
 Half an hour after MT. Hazen was af1oat the girl of the day before bore down on him after rounding Catfish Point. She held straight for his craft, and held the course until he had to give the road or take . collision. He couldn't swim a stroke, and he dared not take the chances. She didn't ap- pear to see him as she swept past, but he saw that she was biting her lip to keep the smile back The owner of the motor boat had said
 "If you want to speed 'er up turn this switch-so''
 MT. Hazen wanted speed-heaps of speed-speed at a hundred miles an hour. He turned the switch and got 1t. The boat jumped fifteen feet and then came down to scoot away like rocket. It was now the young mans turn to sail circles around the other craft, but his triumph was brief Be- fore he had fairly completed one the girl slowed down and started off on a new course. She ignored his exis- tence.
 Early In the spring lumber schoon- CT had been driven into the bay and upon bar. She WIS so old and had been so badly strained that her cargo vas taken away and she was stripped And left to rot. The hulk lay three niles from the nearest shore. MT. Hazen had never visited it. It was to- wards the wreck that the girl headed. and half an hour later. with speed un. abated, the young man followed suit If she was hiding behind the wreck he would dare her to come out and fight it out like man.
 Yes, the saucy girl was in hiding She had made up her mind that ths other craft had the most speed and she refused to enter into a race where defeat awaited her. She was in the lee of the hulk, with her fish lines ont when she heard the boat bearing down. It was coming at full speed and the young man was fussing des- perately with switches. Something stuck
 The craft was held straight for the one at rest and the crash and the girls screams could have been heard half a mile away. Both occupants were thrown into the water. and both boats vent to the bottom. If there was hero history has missed recording It If thera was a heroine she was too be- dr1ggled to brag about 1t. When tho smoke and smell of petrol had cleared gway and the splinters had ceased 10