American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1921-11-18

white teeth of gnawing waves
screamed at by angry gulls whose
homes were those clefts and caves
which the boat invaded. And all this,
poor little boat, on a hopeless quest
for no reward but peril and wounds.
Cuthbert Vane had a sprained thumb
which could not be ignored, and on
the strength of which he was dis
missed from the bo~at-repairing con-
tingent, and thrown IN my hands to
entertain. So of course l had to re-
nounce all thoughts Of visiting . the
sloop. I should not have dared to go
there anyway, with Mr.. Shaw and the
captain able more or less to overlook
my motions from the beach, for was
quite morbidly afraid of attracting at
tention to the derelict. 1t seemed to
me a happy miracle that no one but
myself had taken any interest in her,
or been inspired to ask by what chance
so small a boat had come to be
wrecked upon these desolate shores.
Fortunately in her position In the
shadow Of the cliff she was incon-
~spicuous, so that she might easily
have been taken for the half of a large
boat instead of the whole of a small
one, or she must before this have
drawn the questioning notice of the
S%cotchman. AS to the captain, his at
tention was all set on the effort to
discover the cave, and his intelligence
was not lively enough to start on an
entirely new tack by itself. And the
Honorable Cuthbert viewed derelicts
as he viewed the planetary bodies
somehow In the course of nature they
happened.
So, assembling my excitements anc
anxietles, l swung paacidly in my ham
mock, and nearby sat the beautiful
youth with his thumb carried tenderly
in a bandage. Was 1t merely my be
ing so distract, or was 1t quite another
reason that led him to open up 81
suddenly about his Kentish home
Strange to say, instead of painting TO
the title. Cuthbert wanted his broth
er to go on living, though there wa
something queer about his spine, poo
fellow, and the doctors said he couldn'
possibly OF course l was surprise
at Cuthbert's views, for l had Away
thought that IL there were a title
your family your sentiments towar
those who kept you out of 1t wer
necessarily ~murderous, and your teal
crocodile when you pretended to wee
over their biers. But Cuthbert's fee
ings were so human that | mental
a~pologized to the nobility. AS
High Staunton manor, | adored 1t.
! is mostly ~Jacobean, but with an nj
cient Tudor wing, and 1t has a chap
and a ghost and a secret stalrca'
and a frightfully beautiful and wicke
~ancestress hanging in the hall mea
a portrait Of her-and quantities
8 oak paneling quite black with ag
= and silver that was hidden in the far
o lily tombs when Cromwelrs soldie
y came, and q chamber where ElizabeI
b once slept, and other romantic detail
l. too numerous to mention. 1t is a lit
e bit run down and shabby, for lack
IS money to keep it up, and of course
that account all the more e%ntrancin
d The present Lord Grasmere lived
T. to his position so completely that
Is had the govt and sat with his foot
t, a cushion exactly like all the elder
% aristocrats you ever heard OF, on
IN when | inquired If his lordship ours
t. his valet and flung plates at the TO
men when his foot hurt him, his S
ar was much shocked and panied. ]
did not realize so well as from
n extensive course of nOvel-readine
r. that such is the usual behavior Of
tied persons.
of 1t was delightful, there in the !
to stiffness Of the island, with the pal
tn rustling family overhead, to hear
of that cool, messy. ancient place.
err asked eager q~ueStiOns-l repeat