The Press., 1916-06-14

we will again see this beautiful sight and that we shall then be one"
 'If I live you will have your wish,' replied Evalina.
 The next day the ship that was to carry her to England sailed from the little town on Narragansett bay, the lovers waving until they could distin- guish each others forms no longer.
 During the first year of their separa- ton Evalina wrote regularly to her lover. The second year abroad was for an education in social life. As her lover had predicted, she became a belle. She wrote Edmond of the fine people she met, of the amusements common among persons of quality. But her letters showed no diminution of love for him and indicated that she looked forward to their reunion with as much hope and pleasure as when she had left him.
 Yet there was a great deal that she did not write him. She did not write of the offers of marriage that followed one another in rapid succession.
 When these offers of marriage were showered upon Evalina she declined them without giving as reason a pre- viOus attachment. Later, possibly as one might hide behind gauge, she ire quently wore as decoration the sea- weed that her American lover had giv en her. Sometimes 1t was tackled to bo,. cE irt SornotimoS Sho vuOro if Tn hor corsage, and again it would be inter- twined with her hair. In time she came to be called the Seaweed Lady.
 Meanwhile Roscoe was studying as a collegian, though his mind was with his heart, and that was across the ocean, He read with avidity Evalinas s letters and shuddered as he thought of the differences between himself, an undergraduate of e college but few years old, without fortune, compared with some coroneted man with vast estates. Evalina's letters were reas surfing, but she was growing from maidenhood to wOmanhOod, and would she not give way at last?
 However, the period allotted for her sojourn abroad was drawing to close. She did not write her lover that she was coming home for the reason that she did not know if she would be per mitted to return. Her parents were much chagrined at hearing that she had refused an earl and the second son of a duke and were debating whether to send the funds for her pas sage back to America or Insist that she remain longer.
 It was two years from the time of Evalina's departure that storm such as Newport had not experienced In many years broke upon the coast. For three days the giant waves struck wildly upon the cliffs and rolled far up into Narragansett bay. Then, on the evening of the third day, the clouds broke away in the west, and the sun set in golden splendor.
 That night the moon was at the full. As the sun went down the queen ol night rose. Edmond, desiring to view the effect of the storm on the waves, when night had fallen and the moon was lighting the land and the water, started for the beach. The path was lonely, and there was terror in the tumbling of the great waves on the sands. The only likeness to the night of Edmond and Evalina's betrothal was the full moon.
 He had passed midway from the town to the water when he saw before him a figure that he knew to be woman by her garments fiuttering tn the wind, which was still strong. She seemed to be coming toward him, Du, as he advanced drew no nearer tC him. He went on until he came to the edge of the beach and saw her still distant from him, sometimes fitting nearer, sometimes farther, and always seeming to rock like bird resting or the crest of a wave.
 Whether 1t was the night, still dis turbed by the storm that had passed or something bewildering in this un steady figure, Roscoe could never tell but an appalling premOnition stretch ed a pail over him like the wings o1 some huge black bird. Something within him seemed to say: "A grea1 misfortune has fallen upon you. The wind and the waves are a dirge. Bs strong or you will be crushed"
 And now, having reached a point overlooking the water, the sands beins soaked, progress was slower. Scat tered ragged clouds were flying above now and again dashing across the face of the moon and shutting off it's light At these dark periods the fitting figure
 was lost, but reappeared when tn cloud had passed and the full light O the moon was released.
 Edmond had spent many an hou
 when home from college on the spo where he and Evalina had spokel their betrothal, and he saw that tn figure was slowly moving toward ii Yet it was the movement of a foatini object, driven by alternate advancing and receding waters, yet borne by al invisible tide toward a given point But notwithstanding this apparent. slow movement he gained but little ol the figure. At last it reached the yer! spot where he and Evalina had plight ,I ,of,