Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-30

S@HW ing ledge at the eastern end where
may make good catch with hook and
line and MANY hooks wherein driftwood fire will burn
famously for the baking of the little white clans for
which Belhaven is famous city menus
1t was toward Gull Island that Horace Reeves
rowing this morning In the old green dory lay fishing
tackle bait, box of lunch, copy of the Pedagogc
Review old gray flannel coat, and one OF those non
descrpt canvas hats affected by amateur mariners He
was attred for the business at hand old trousers that
matched the coat, for being more water-sained
and gurried faded blue neggee Shirt sneakers,
white, and of convenient neutral tint that
de6ed dirt
Throat and face and arms red-brown with tan,
and under the skin, he sent the dory across the
sparkling with the short, jerky strokes of the
doryman well developed muscles played like cords
under satin. He distinctly good looking, with
thoughtful brown eyes, grave mouth, and straight
nose that proclaimed authority. Men liked him at first
inspection, boys adored him, and women admired him.
And all this named Horatio
Theoretically Horatio Horace, is perfectly good
name and has been borne by many estimable gentle
men; but somehow when you tack it man of
thirtywo wears who is feet and oneha inch the
Lord made hm-why, it doesn't seem to fit! He had
come by the honestly and naturally It had been
his fathers the Rev. Horato Quintin Reeves minister
of the gospel and president of one of the smaller Eastern
colleges Besides the name, Horace had fallen heir to
comfortable patrimony and talent for teaching the
ycunp idea As principal of Clearwater Academy for
Bows he had fame for the institution and himself.
At present he off duty for the time July, and
with his mother and sister occupying the small
white cottage the point known as 3The Light
Belhaven is pleasant place in summer,-not too
fashionable crowded, not too far from town,
His way however, not his sisters way. Con-
stance (called Connie) busy, social, frivolous
BODY She dubbed her brother misanthrope, a mi
sogamist and several other long harsh She had
some excuse for her severity for when you have good
looking brother of manageable age and is only
natural want to show him off and make the best Of
him. Horace fatty refused to be made the best of.
Being made the best of by Connie entailed, he
pected. being supplied with wife He didn't want
wife because wives invariably of the female SEX and
he looked upon the female SEX barring his mother and
Connie, with respectful but suspicious tolerance.
You can see what hopeless task was Comics. If
she imported charmer to subjugate her BROTHER he
calmly wandered away to town. If she brought in
nymphs from neighboring cottages, he promptly dis
appeared with a fishing pole. A brother who will
neither tango bridge rt pretty hopeless, and
Connie at the end of his first month of vacation was
nearly ready to accept defeat But she still had
card 3up her sleeve. The cards name Ernestine
Jefreys and she closely resembed the Queen OF Hearts,
Connie knew better than to produce Tina as she was
called brazenly for that would bring about one OF
those aggravatng trips to the CITY, instead she pre-
vailed on mutual friend to issue the invitation. Tina
had arrived had been presented to Horace, and-had
failed! Horace had spoken polite phrase or two and
wandered away as usual. Tina had not ataken,'
and Connie last reduced to desperation. Beware
a desperate woman! As Kiping says
TT had been hot on shore but here the water the
heat was pleasantly tempered Eastward the horizon
was shrouded in haze; while in the south few bundles
of cottony clouds foated azly. Horace the dory
on the little beach, made fast the painter convent
ent boulder and laden with his cargo sought the ledge
that the edge of the and steps down and
down rough rocky terraces until it finally drops sheer
into the botle-green depths Dsposng of his and
cap and magazine in Granny, he fixed hook and sinker,
bated with fine, plump clam, and cast
He lighted pipe and gazed shoreward. Just then