Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-08-11


string. If it had been possible 10 d.
so now with any degree of dignity, HI
would have reenfcld ed himself in the
blanket and stalked majestically away
AS it was, he smiled at her, said
/ Come on" and taking a run, divet
out of sight in the tumbling waves.
| When he came up. he shook the
water out Of his eyes and struck out
! for the s'oop. He reached T. and drew
himself up on the decl: in all the glory
icf the pink and yellow bathing suit
He glanced at the beach, but the sir
was not there. The white sand glist
ened in the morning sunshine. and the
waves ran gurgling up and slid softly
back again. tumbling the pebbles and
seaweed on the deserted beach.
Wouldn't condescend to swim with
her chauffeur" thought Algernon. hurt
and bit angry. Here goes for d
dive"
He dived, shot upward into the sun
shine. and shaking the water out o.
his eyes, gazed into the face OF the
laughing girl. not three feet from him
He swan to her.
Aren't you pretty far out?" he
questioned anxiously.
She shook her head. Her eyes
danced and her cheeks were scarlet.
She looked care-free and young and
wonderously pretty. She dived head.
long through a swell and laughed
across it at the mans frightened face.
II won't drown" she said Don't
look so worried" r
She clambered up on the clonp and
sat on the edge of the deck, swinging
her feet, and drawing the heavy mass
of hack hair over her shoulder. began
to rebraid it with wet slim fingers. Al
gernon drew himself up beside her,
wond ering why she had decided to
swim with him.
How Cd Elizabeth go Yesterday
moruing?' he asked, leaning forward,
his hands holding the deck on each
side of lin. WAS she stationary or
rtovable?"
Movable" SAID the girl. eft was
ine. She didn't balk once. I do not
know whether it is reformation Or
only memory"
whats the difference?" asked Al.
gerron amused.
In ,;.ne," said the girl "Tae first
il permanent. the last temporary
All her hesitation had gore they
laughed and talked, dove and swami.
They raced to the beach and she forced
him to work for his victory. She stood
a moment in the breakers, laughing
like child at the buffeting of the
waves, her hair tumbling around her
face, J err slim brown hands raised to
keep it cut of her eyes.
II wish that we're mermaid" said
she Il wish that never, never had
TO go on land again."
I'm glad you're not" said Alger-
non II don't want to be norman"
Your logic is weak" she laughed,
Thank you said Algernon.
Mama generally calls it my intellect"
"A mother should know" she leased.
II don't think so," returned Alger-
non Its an exceptional mother that
knows her own child"
And may not yours be an excep-
tion?' she questioned gaily.
"She isn't said Algernon. "You see
she doesn't know. She thinks I am
studying sociology" he added in ex-
PLANTATION, forgetful Of the story he had
told her yesterday.
with a weak intellect?" she ex-
claimed mischievously.
with no intellect, said Algernon
gloomily. "A weak intellect couldn't
do it, strong one wouldn't"
"You don't like to study them" she
questioned, amused, and glad that he
had been to college.
"As | look at it," said Algernon,
hands on his hips. feet apart to steady
himself in the tumbling waves, "as l
look at it, it is detriment to
memory"
How is that?' she asked.
''The more study, the more have
to forget" explained Algernon. and
the more one forgets, the harder it is
to remember, the weaker the memory
grows"
"Why forget?" she asked.
Good to forgive, best to forget"
said AlgerDon airily.
She laughed and ran up the beach.
Algernon draped himself In the blanket
and joined her by the rock where she
was putting on her slippers and a long
brown cloak.
Does not your mother know that
you are a chauffeur she asked diff
IDENTIFY, as they took the narrow path
through the woods, she slightly in the
lead
mo" said Algernon. There are a
good many things my mother does not
know"
The girl pictured his mother, a gen.
tie woman, old and apparently poor,
filled with loving tender ambitions for
her son, having scraped and pinched
to put him through college. In that
boundless sympathy Of hers, that was
always so quick to respond to the
slightest call made upon it, the girl
seemed herself to feel the other WON.
ans disappointment when she learned
that her son was only chauffeur.
"Ah." said she, why do you do it?
Why don't you do as she wants you
to-"
81 hope to be able to-" said Alger-
non, some day when 1 have gone to
heaven and become an angel"
NO. said the girl, frowning, Il
mean now, when she can see you and
IL; oh