Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-28

II No! OF not. going to tell about an
i ~ thing happened there
You'll have o fancy little high island
crescent bay along the beach
road and houses climbing up the hillside You'll
have fancy wooden wharf with piled it in
sitting about in the with
bsht-coored trade print twisted about their waists
by way of clothes You'll have to fancy blue sky and
sea, palm big red flowers. and yellow
beach with little cheerful lap-lappns on it all day
long you'll hot sunshine and the east
erly warming and cooling you together;
the salt shore and the smell of the heated
Jungle behind.
The Rede- Barneses-Mr. Lady Evelyn Rede-Barnes
touched there a they making among the
islands in Rede- Barnes yacht Pque Dame. with
pany friends who cheap and nasty
and played most peculiar bridge
thing that happened the most part, to
do with Lady Evelyn. She'd fallen into habit, when
the yacht was in port of slipping away from the others
going long solitary walks. She wasn't afraid,
peaceable lot and besides, she
little automatic pistols that fire five
shots very hard She lived those walks. 1
;hink-ooked forward to them-back over them They
have seemed to her like hours out OF prison You
married that snarling little
seems off early the morning they reached
Ieyuka She walked down beach past
and, beyond them little bungalows
hidden behind clumps of hibiscus and poinseta
bousainviea and other big flowers that she didn't know
of. She rounded point the island and all
the port and the stores and houses the on
shore, the yacht anchor. lost sight and
hearing. ended just long
winding ribbon OF yellow beach and the sea and the palm
/ fancy her, you know drawing long sigh
She slowly along that golden beach, prod
ding sunsiade the little bright
underfoot, irdescent, buey- green,
clothes OF giant crayfsh. Once brown Fijian boy
passed by dragging of cocoanuts. and he husked
them. and Clipped off its top, and she drank, for
thirsty. and the boy went his way, pleased
Punch. shilling in his mouth After that she
sat for while fallen tree very comfortable and idle
and without thought, finally again.
She came upon white man sitting against rock In
spot of shade and reading newspaper He seemed to
be a young thirty, she thought-and
ne had yellow hair a little upturned yellow
He white drill trouseDs and soft shirt,
open with its rolled up
bows very much interested in the newspaper.
Tor he didn't look up all Lady Evelyn spoke to
him. Then he gave a got o feet
swiftly than seemed possible for
I'm trouble YOU. she said to the but
! wanted ask much farther l walk along this
shore a native boy told me something didn't quite
understand about the beach coming to end"
yes" the yeIlow-haired said 1T just
round the point hard BY There's half mile of sheer
beyond" momentsry over
quite at his eyed her frankly but with
the least rudeness It seemed To Lady Evelyn that he
In that extremely informal attire the finest
:isure that she had though that
60 say a great a had bee and
brought up England herself,
Jopped her b. that she knew nc be we'll
over looked and hard
Iis face his and his thick round throat
sunburn brown leather. but she that when
stirred and the soft shirt drawn little aside at
neck. whittier than She had a
nsans vsien of little de-Rarnes and of his friends
the yacht-not bad physical specimens two Of
wondered how long they would singly
altogether, combat with this young yellow-hared
giant VINO newspapers lonely beach.
Lady Evelyn said something apoiogettc about having
interrupted his reading, the laughed
apologize trumpeting the dead people
o o heaven. That seemed e an
little speech to happen the FIJI
al 81 N on edge
talk.
S s p. b read 'z NO s
wherever h. could beg, borrow, ind steal
chem. because newspapers seldom his
don't belong the civilized world longer" he
and 1 shall probably London 1
sufTagette. but like read about them
they're funny. Fancy padocking yourself an
railing to annoy the police! That's jolly clever
Lady Evelyn eausht at that phrase seeing
London aud asked il he had
Something Of The sort said the yellow haired young
"oa. don't think I'm snivellns:" he exclaimed when
she looked a him.
rs all right. you don't want to go back
Daty-coulmou duh dismal responsibility | wouldn,
the jewels. ! wasn't be
spectacle hated IT, hate the thought of it now :
pointed and she became a small
schooner 1t anchor l'J yards OFF dra
the sand S'e hadn't noticed them until then
That little tni, yonder.' said he, rs
King and God all rolled into My
yols pray no AID island 100 miles from
snail it's mine When OF swas-
seIins about the Pacific in the Nabuna / Tuvana
sld Faey there. too
tic broke OF and laughed narrowing his her.
Bat lady icvsIyn didn't laugh. said
fes, yeU do rather And think like Il. You've
s1t souaethin2; TO boast Of
taats something, isn't it,
Something" cried Lady Evelyn. Something, II is
the thing this dreadful world that is worth having