Evening star., 1922-07-30

for next to nothing he shook his head
with mock solemnity.
In the evening they sat for a long
time on beach overlooking the
dainty Isle of White. AS she came
in her landlady said to her:
Il hear they was a couple of sciety
pickpockets on the boat"
Miss Dennison blanched.
Were there?'
Yes, and some says they was ar
rested. Didn't you hear about it,"
why, n-no. Are you sure they
were arrested"
mo. but that's what some says, or
else they're goin' to be-"
CHE went guiltily to her room. She
~ wished that Sargent were nearer
to her. She slept poorly, and in the
morning she was feverish until he
called for her.
Lets begin exploring today she
urged him. please. You don't mind.
do you?"
Wen start today, by all means but
l don't want you to be worried all
the time. Besides" He flushed a
little. IF it hadn't been for this par
ticular kind of mix-up l shouldn't
have had the courage to-elect my
self your associate"
She had learned that he was very
susceptible to any attack upon his
shyness.
do you mean that If we both
hadn't lost our money you'd have
ignored me?
NO" said Sargent gravely, mot
that. But I'd have given you choice.
AS it is, couldn't even give myself
a choice My job was to take care of
YOU"
"Oh! Purely a matter of duty.
then?" Her tone was tantalizing.
"A matter of pleasure to myself.
but when it also happened to be a
duty I wasn't afraid you'd misjudge
me. I wasn't thinking of myself at
ALL was thinking of you"
There was a prolonged hiatus.
II didn't mean to tease you" she
said contritely. But you do tease so
easily. Well, won't do it any more.
whererl we go for the first picnic?"
Now, if ever there rises a wave of
popular sentiment against romance,
Bermuda will surely have to be put
on a special blacklist. And here were
two young people. man of twenty
nine and a girl of twenty-three,
thrown together in a romantic spot,
and under circumstances which had
made them friends, partners, almost
before they were acquaintances. The
man had begun with. sympathy, and
the girl had given him back graft
tude Next, they had shared a COM
mon loss and a common libel. Now,
penniless wayfarers, they were to-
gether on a fairy island, and in their
daily budget and in the distributor
of duties-the man to carry the bur-
dens, the girl to season the food
there was a marked suggestion of
domesticity. And this is fatal.
Sargent had never uttered a word,
never made sign, to show that he
regarded himself in any relation to
her except that of comrade and
protector. But 1he was a woman
she knew.
Yet when she dared to dream about
the future she was troubled and un-
certain. It was romance in Bermuda,
but what afterward? Could Sargent.
with all his academic principles. feel
permanent respect for a woman
who couldn't pass her college exam
nations? What would he think Of
her ten years from now[and, on the
other hand, what would she think of
him? In ten years she would have
lost none of her own adventurous
spirit; but would Sargent have for
gotten the mood which was govern
ing MIN now? Wouldn't it be
ironed fiat in another decade-or
less? She shut her eyes to the future.
and told herself to squeeze every
drop of happiness out of the living
present. It was safer.
= 4
A WEEK passed and there was no
draft from Boston. They paid
their bills tand pawned their suit
cases) and went on ration allow