Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-14

1 Paul Hagen had loafed, ashed, sailed and had a good time generally at the | summer hotel on Great South Bay, and 1 when his two weeks were up he ought i to have gone back to the city content. i But did he do so? Not at all. He didn t make a move towards going. On what 1 he called his last afternoon he had
 been fishing out mile from the shore when a girl in a motor boat appear ed She evidently took him for some one else, for she came foaming down upon him with a laugh upon her lips. 1 Mir. Hagen had four lines out, hoping l 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 it almost dragged the fisherman out of his skiff. He hadn't noticed the girl and her l boat until too late and in his confusion and indignation he found himself call l ing out:
 Here now, but what in blazes are
 If beg pardon," stammered the girl.
 "But that's no way"
 Now MT. Hazen saw that 1t was a
 motor boat instead of a whale and a saucy looking girl instead of a griz- 1 zled ole fisherman, and off came his cap and he managed to say!
 ''I didn't know, you know" "Or your wouldn't have sworn at mel" she replied.
 .Bat you--you--
 "Yes. took you for a gentleman. I
 was mistakeni How much is the dam age?"
 MT. Paul Hagen was rather slow wit ted at times, and this was one of the times. He had been surprised. He hao almost sworn at 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 arounr< him, and then head away without 8 glance at him. It was
 minutes before he could pull himself
 together and exclaim:
 Now what dye think of that?
 MT. Hazen was gentleman. He was also 8 favorito in society. H. also had the vanity to think that most girls ping him once. Here was one that didn't She was saucy and defiant. She had given him the worst snub of his life, and it ranked. How to get even with her was the thought in his mind as he rowed back to the hotel
 And that was why MT. Hazen tarried- After two hours of inquiry he learned that the girl was camper at Black Bass Point, four miles away, ana while no one knew her name, int was gen. orally agreed that she was snippy in speech and attitude. She had spoiled the fishing for three or four other par ties within the past week One of MT Hazen's informants added to her in definite information:
 And I do hope that someone will give her to understand that she isn't the only pebble along the beach"
 It seemed to the young man that 1t was up to him to do the showing. Next afternoon he hired motor boat and set off in quest of revenge. They will rent an applicant motor boat at most beaches, though he be as ignorant of their machinery as a dog Is of land scape painting. The renter Is told to do this and do that and is sent off 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, Hagen was a1oat 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 dida't ap- pear to see him as she swept past, but he saw that she was biting her lips to keep the smile back. The owner of the motor boat had said;
 Eff you want to speed Ter up turn this sWitcfl-So"
 MT. HazeR wanted speed-heaps of at a hundred miles an E1oaF He turned the switch and got 1 it. The boat jumped fifteen feet and then came down to scoot like rock ] et It was now the young mans turn to sail circles around the other craft. l