Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-16
Getting a Yawn Out of 1nez

I Caught me over on the mainland.
| where I'd gone for supplies in ms
| little motor boat. And l couldn't get
back. IL just couldn't. wouldn't
have done any good if I had, except
that I'd have gone, too, and been
much better off For the seas swept
right over here. You see what hap
pened to the house. And Helen and
the boys-God knows. Anyway, they
were gone when l got here, after
three days of agony. Gone. Swept
into the bay, probably. and out
| through the pass into the gulf. That
| last fearful night they must have
gone. / found one of her shoes on
! the beach. That's all.
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D AIRY and ] looked at each other.
| u and then at the, man. with his
unkempt head sunk in his hands. We
| said what we could in the way OF
useless sympathy. 1t wasn't much.
"And since then, Tommy" asks
Barry.
I've just hung on here" says he.
What else could 1 do?
But see here, old man. says Bar
ry, you can't go on like this. You
| must let your friends help you to
| buck up. I'll get in touch with some
of the boys and
NO" says McGill. Don't bother
| with me- Tits no use: / IN no good.
| My eyes are getting worse and I've
| lost all my fighting nerve. That last
+; blow was too much. I'm finished, l
tell you. I'll stay on here for while.
where they were, and then-well.
some day, maybe, I'll work up the
| courage Toto
He broke off with a shrug of his
slumped shoulders. And nothing that
either of US said could seem to
change that grim decision of his. He
would allow us to bring him some of
our picnic supper, and he asked
Barry to leave him as many cigar
| cites as he could spare. That was
| all he wanted, except to be left alone
So, when We heard them calling US.
| we went back.
| found that Inez had charmed
| Cap'n. Jim out of his sulks and that
he'd been talking to her.
! He SAYS" announced IneZ. that
! there's a hermit man on this place.
Living all alone. Funny gink, too.
I'd like to see him
mo, Inez." says l, you're mistaken.
| i doubt if you'd enjoy seeing this
particular hermit Barry and / have
| been talking to him for half an hour
and We hardly. worked up laugh
\ between us
GALL right" SAYS lnez. Maybe we
~ find funny one next time.
! Cap'n jim he says there's lots others
down here. Some are crazy and
some amt. One on that island just
above. Old Dutchman that's been
there long time. Others out in pine
| woods"
us that fact, captain" asked.
He mods. Il could name you
dozen. ma'am," says he.
As we chugged home after supper
! we looked back at the palm set key
lying there in the moonlight so calm
and peaceful.
"And yet" says Barry, tragedies
do happen there. don't they?"
"Also." adds, there does seem to
| be plenty of wreckage along the gulf
coast Wrecks like poor Tommy Nc
GILL Perhaps that's why it's all so
| fascinating and mysterious. 1 wish
we could see more of it."
We'll, why not?" says Barry.
Say, don't talk foolish" breaks in
Inez. 81 don't wanna go anywhere
| else tonight except to bed. I had
| lotta them beans. me-"
And then she proceeded to break
the spell of the Florida moonlight
| with a yawn. You know how catch
| ing q yawn is. too. Especially the
way 1nez does 1t.
Copyright. 1922. ~ sewel Ford@