The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-03-05
CHAPTER '.
The Dody on the Beach.

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The oody on the Beach.
Lonesome Cove is one of the least
frcQuented stretches on the New Eng
land seaboard. From the land side,
the Sheer hundred-foot drop OF Haw-
Hill Cliffs shuts It or. Access by
water Is denied. denied with a show
Of menacing teeth, when the sea curls
2 Ia lips back amid "A swirl of angry
currents. from its rocks and reefs.
warning boats away. There is no
settlement near- tho -cove..--.The SOM
Der repute suggested by its name has
served to keen cQttaxers -Nom- build
Y Ing on the wildly. beautiful. uplands
that overbrood the beach Sheep
browse between the thickets OF ash
s and wild cherry extending almost 20
the brink Of the height, and rhe strag-
Cling pathwaya along the edge, worn
. by the feet Of their herders, afford
\ the only suggestion OF human traffic
within half mile OF the spot A
sharp-cut ravine leads down to the
J. sea by q rather treacherous descent.
Near the mouth OF this opening. a
4 considerable gathering OF folk speck.
led the usually deserted beach, at
/ r0on OF July sixth. They conferred
on q dark object. few yards within
i the food-tide limit Some secuted
about, peering at the sand. Others
pointed first 10 the sea. then to the
(, cliffs with the open gestures OF those
4 who argue vehemently. But always
their eyes returned. drawn back by
an unfailing magnetism, to the cen
trial object.
From some distance away lone
Imam Of q markedly different type
kfrom the others observed them with
Nm expression OF displeasure. He had
Drsached the cove by an arduous
tncramble, possible only to good
fclimber. around the jutting elbow or
THE cliR to the northward. II was
knasily TO be read in his face that he
Twas both surprised and annoyed 10
|1lnd people there before him One
Iof the group presently detached him.
i oelf and ambled over to the newcom-
or. With an accelerated speed as he
drew nearer.
y "Swanny!" he calculated. If IL
amt Professor, Kent, Didn't know
You 1t first under them whiskers. You
sxomember me. don't You'll used to
drive you around when you was here
i before
How are you, jarvis" returned
the other "Still in the livery busi-
ness, I SUPPOSE"
"Yes. What brings you here, Per-
fessor?" $500. .-r-- ~-
Holidays: I've just come out Of
the woods. And as you have some
very interesting sea currents just
here. l thought I'd have look ar
them. Nobody really knows anything
about coast currents. You know. Now
my opportunity Is spoiied." He N.
\ dicated the serowd~by-a movement OF
his head. - - --~
"Spoilt? guess not You couldn't
have some al better time, said the
y local man eagerly.
"Ah, but you see. had planned 70
s.swim out to the eddy, and make some
& personal observations"
"You was going 10 swim into Dead
y Mans Eddy" asked the other aghast.
II why. Professor. you must have turn
u ed foolish They amt man on this
coast would take chance like that.
Superstition. retorted the other
scrrtly. "On still day such as this
there would be no danger 10 an ex-
N perienced swimmer. The conditions
Il nre ideal except for this crowd. What
Il? Has the village gone picnick.
ing?'
Not sca'cely. Amt you heard?
Another ones come in through the
8 oddy. Lies over yonder"
ii Professor Kent's eyebrows went up,
4 - he glanced toward the indicated
spot; then gathered In a frown.
Not washed up there, surely?" ne
oaid.
"Thets what answered Jarvis.
when"
Sometime early this morning"
"Pshaw!" said the other turning |
- look It the curving bulwark of
focks over which the soft slow swell
was barely breaking. III 1t were the
ether end of the cove, now, could
.Gn6eraand It."
Yes" agreed Jarvis, they mostly
some In at the other end. on this
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