The evening world., 1915-02-25

afternoon whom the Crown OF 0rsu.
ada was beating up the Atlantic coast
line Of Maryland: and Il was In the
dark Of the crescent moon that ~
put into the cove almost landlocked
BY towering rocks which knew 70 be
the natural harbor OF Otter Island.
, For Of course thsrs had been all
along no doubt In my mind that We
were going to the island OF tho
Longuehayes: and whom the present
owner smiled at my recognition and
said something to the effect that I
now perceived he had acted ON my
nso Ssssins r. ssS SsV's: nUs n IN.
tended to 70 there I'll alonE.
y Ottef Island ID somewhat the shape
OF an oyster shell: and has. more
over. the angle Of the said shell ele-
vated on Its broad end. The broad
eide Of the oystAr. to pursue the
whimsy. was the farther removed
from the land, and a ship sheltered
in Ahe cove was therefore unper-
ceived from the shore unless the tele-
scope used by the curious possessed
the power Of looking through a wall
of solid rock. Tho rock In question
has an altitude Of some thirty feet.
and the island, to a person approach
Ing Il from tho shore. has the ap-
pearance Of an inclined plane. II ~
perhaps a mile In diameter and II
thlckiy wooded with pines ana CO.
dars, hardy enough to grow on its
rocky soil. There had been various
abortive attempts on the part of sue.
ceeding generations to make the SOIL
produce crops Of wheat ana OATS. put
the success of sthe crops was not ep-
narent when the selling. pr1ce was
compared with tho cost OF farming.
BY dlut Of much fertilising material
and several loads of earth from
worcester County, they had succeed
Cd in making = vegetable garden,
however; but this was now rank from
disuse. and wr.y % approached the
house through :-' garden 1t seemed
only q place set .o,rt for the proouc-
tion Of rare weeds.
rhs house itself had been built
among tho pines and cedars: ana, be-
ing A low, two-storied structure. was
entirely hidden until. when one was
within ten yards, n curve In IN old
roadway disclosed II. Gray and grim
II stood Ike some ghost In the pallid
moonlight that filtered In through the
eyergreens, even the Ivy, which had
once clustered II no thickly. reduced
TO nero snaky windings OF dead
branches. 1t had never been pleas
ing house, this which the pessimistic
hermit and his slaves had built from
the gray stone OF the island In tho
beginninR OF the eighteenth cen
tury. and now Il squatted In Its
desolation as II during all Its career
II had sought TO achieve this entire
.olitude and was frowning upon Us
for our intrusion.
II was moreover shutteriess and
lacked n door-the latter giving proof
that some yandnls from the shore
had utilized these complementaries
for tha ares, whose embers We founo
In the hall and tho kitchen. Doors
ana shutters had not alone suffered
hit. OF manteling and shelving were
gone, and the hickering torches 'ns'
ws held revealed, scratched on tns
crumbllnG white walls OF tho Kitchen
hi. Of verse evidently Inscribed py
The nnwelcome visitors of tee past
I.onruehaye's face was not pieasan,
Fl, "a he viewed these dissertations OF
the family house; and I should no.
have cared to sec the perpetrators a.
that time, lest their supposea ~
bring about q punishmcnt tnst va
perhaps too severe.
= Tho furniture had. OF course. bear
= long removed. all save Q few heav,
clothes presses and like cumbersome
articles Of furniture, and the place
itself was full OF the dust of the tws
decades during which the house hat
stood neglected: LonEuehaye. Jone.
and myself had como ahead Of th'
others, On our return to the shor'
we found most OF tho company dis
porting themselves ON the beach Il
the childish Rame OF leap fros, whicl
II appeared Chitty had suggsstsd q
an antidots for cramped muscles. Tn
J n me was broken up by IxOneuOhay y