Evening star., 1915-02-28

B@A ERTAINLY, among experienced
WNlNSy yachtsmen, there would not be lacking
T(HN(d those who might have regarded the Hiron-
VNAS8 dele's present voyage piece of folly.
AVMg ~ There is wilder coast in Europe than
SlIHE]3 the barrier of shaggy rock that France
Ng@IEN1 opposes to the ocean from st. Malo to
Biarritz. At Finistere, in particular,
each headland is not breakwater, but ruin. During
heavy storms the dash frenzy up hundred feet
of shattered cliff the Atlantic having smashed and
thrown every sheer wall of rock ages ago.
Of course the adventurers were not facing No 8
gale. That, indeed, would have been rank l1nacy
But the estuares of the Aven and the Belon joining at
Port Manech sending down inconsidcrable
volume of water to meet strong wind, and the oppos
ing forces wagng bitter A mile farther
channel between the mainland and group of rocks
called Les Verres There the tide and wind would not
be greatly at variance, and the partly submerged
reef would lessen the force of the sea- though the only
signs of its existence patch of highung spray
and small tower, with black buoy, at its eastern
tremity This what Perdot had called the "nside
passage To the landsrnan it was figure of speech
To the sailor meant diminished to halt their vol
compared with the "dirt' outside.
The Hrondelle raced through the turmoil at the bar
as though she enjoyed it, and, once the sets to
wndward, the journey became exhilarating. None of
the four people board displayed the least
Indeed they reveled in the excursion. When their
craft swept into the sheltered LIE Pouldu
without tossing another bar and was brought up
alongside the small quay, their flushed faces and shin
ing eyes showed that they looked on the outing as
thoroughly enjoyable one.
THEY we're ready for an early luncheon too and did
full Justice to the menu. Afterward, while Inger-
soil planned his picture, Yvonne and To]lemache
stroled along the right bank of the Laita to the ham
let Of LIE Pouldu.
The girl told her companion of the singular coinci-
dence that brought her father unexpected commits
sion by that mornings post; but Touemache pooh
poohed it.
you're becoming almost as superstitious as these
Bretons" he said. @Its high time your father took you
to New York for SPELL Spooks can't live there since
the automobile came along They don't like the fumes
of PETROL fancy. But these silly Bretons appeal to
saint dread devil for every little thing. One
stained glass proposition cure rheumatism in a
and another SPAWN in horse It's unlucky to
gather and eat blackberries because the Crown of
Thorns was made out of brambles. You shoot a
wretched tomtit; but you mustn't touch magpie. If
you want to marry girl you pray to Saint This; if
you're anxious to shunt her. you go on your marrow
bones to Saint That. I'm fond of Brittany and its
folk but l can't stomach their legends Look that
pindroppng business at Sainte Barbes well! Poor
Madeleine couldn't get pin home her life,
whereas everybody knows that she and Peridot will
make match of it before this time next year"
Yvonne did not like to hear her friends amable
weaknesses exposed thus ruthlessly "l Homer mods,
poor girl who has watched many love affairs
since A. D. 235 may surely be forgiven occasional
mistake she said.
"Has she been at it so long? What is the yarn?"
please don't speak disrespectfuy of Saint Bar
bara. Because she wanted to marry someone whom
her father didn't approve of he imprisoned her in
tower, and when she converted to Christianity
beheaded her.
"rhe old rascal! Did the other fellow-the one she
hkedclimb the towere Perhaps that for the
rings
@It is possible. l have no doubt men were just as
foolish seventeen centuries ago they today"
Thanks. That personal touch helps lot But,