The sun., 1916-11-07

There is a tradition that a man
who lived In Good Ground, Long ISL
and, many years before the advent OF
Charles Francis Murphy. wanted to
court a young woman residing In the
village Of Southampton. He set out
repeatedly in his buggy to visit her.
His mare would carry him a certain
distance on the road through the
%Shinnecock Hills and then would
come to a lead stop; neither blows
nor caresses could persuade her to
90 further. Eventually the young
man gave up the effort to reach
Southampton-in that day there was
no railroad--and married a girl VINO
lived across the street.
Nowadays we should he told that
his ~gasolene gave out in the hills. or
that he stopped to play golf and In
the ardor Of the game forgot ms
errand. The legend is probably a nc
tive establishment of the fact that
| the S%hinnecock Hills are so attractive
as to make IL nearly Impossible to
leave once you ave entered them.
Just what constitutes their charm
II is difficult to say, unless 1t may he
/ because the region lies between two
bays. bare. undulatory. w~indswept n
possessing great delicacy Of contour
and coloring. The natural environ
ment suggests the desert island OF
romance. This Illusion Ia interfered
with to a great extent by the golf
courses. the costly cottages OF summer
residents and a twenty foot cement
highway skirting the shore Of Shin
necock Bay.
In one Of these cottages George
Narel fingered late into the fall to
finish q novel which he was writing.
Publication of the first chapters had
been begun serially. and II was i'm
perative that he complete the tale.
When he had done so he intended to
hunt up Patricia Wickham and ask
her to marry him.
In one Of the handsome residences
Of the Southampton summer colony
Patricia Wickham remained long after
the close OF the resorts season. She
fingered in the expectation that George
Narel would find his way over &c
Southampton one of these days anC
propose to her. once or twice "a week
she drove over the hills in her car. hut
tho cement road did not pass les
Narels house and she could not de
liberately let him know that she wa
staying close by. Perhaps he woul,
hear of 1t by chance.
Narel finished his novel and has;
ened with IL to his New York publish
ers. Then he went mp Fifth avenue &
a certain street where he called at
house and learned that Miss Wick
; ham was at Southampton. Wonderin,
greatly he entrained for that town.
At the same time Patricia Wickhan'
|, hearing that Narel had gone back 4
, New York; hurried thither. The,
passed each other at sixty miles al
|, hour somewhere about Bayshore.
:. when Narel found that the younI
woman was not at Southampton II
r began to think that h did not "a
: to receive him. So he went to the cot
, ,age in the Shinnecock Hills and mad
. himself as unhappy as his surround
inrs permitted.
When Patricia wickham found tina
Narel had left New York she waite
=. for him to rcappcar. As he did not d
, 80 she finally decided TO motor out {
Southampton.
With some difhcultv she Contrivcd
=, ditch her car nj the point on tn
cement road nearest the Narcl cot
tagc. Then she walked to the cottas
, in search Of help. There was no on
. there. Narcl had gone over to South
: ampton that morning to look at III
= house she had lived in.
In an extraordinary At Of tempe
Mis-, Wickham walked TO the railroa
station and went back to New Yor
u when Narel returned 10 the city. h,
= tween THANKSGIVING and Christina
the social season was IN full swim
: ono Of the event Of the early seaso
u had beer the announcement Of the ei
e ragement of Patricia Wickham
y Arthur Rupert Andrews. noted for h
y portraits of eminent men.