Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1922-12-28
World and the
Woman
By JUSTIN wENTwooD
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Hale stood upon the highest point
Of his property, surveying Hfe
The highest point was just six feet
above the level of the sea. The lowest
point was about six feet below. But
the palmettos were so scattered and
the mangrove so dwarfed that Hale
could see clear TO the encircllng
waters.
Over them boat was coming. Hale
swore.
He G!d not want company He
would warn off the intruders. He
hurried down to his strip of silver
beach and assumed an angry look.
In reality Hale could not look very
angry. 1t is impossible to look angry
at Twenty-Five, when you are the
owner of an island kingdom.
AS the boat drew near Hale saw
thai 1t was pulled by a single occu-
pant, girl, with copper-colored hair
and white arms. She did not see
hale until the boat grounded. Then
she sprang ashore and gasped:
Goodness, / didn't know anybody
lived on Shell Keyln
Il am the owner of Shell Key said
Hale grimly.
I'm sorry / trespassed. You see,
I'll wanted a place to be alone"
Hale softened eWon't you come
up to my cabin and have cup of
tear he asked. "Phat is, II you don't
/ mind oaY,darsoa nth
She laughed. She had pretty gray
eyes and delightful smile, though
she looked a little SID, Hale thought
She sat down on the camp stool, and
soon the tea was ready,
you see" she explained, Il was
sehool-teacher, but my throat got bad,
and the doctors were afraid of tuber-
culosis. So they sent me down to
Floride And It isn't tuberculosis at
an, and I'm getting better but you see
there's the cough, and the boarding
houses are afraid of coughs down
here, $3.50 none Of them would take
me, It's so hard to stop coughing"
She eoughed apologetically.
$50 / had to come down to Palm
Point and live In a cabin there, and
it's crowded all the time with tourists,
and I just wanted to be alone. So /
came over to Shell Key to look at it,
meaning to camp out here for a week IL
well, if there was no one here
"And then so back to teaching?"
"And then go back to teaching"
she answered sadly.
I'm much like you" said Hale. Il
was threatened with the same trouble,
only I had just a hundred dollars left
when my fare was paid. So l bought
/ Shell Key-an acre and a half-for
twenty dollars down, purchased fifty
dollars worth of food and implements
and started-but come, and III show
YOU"
lie led her TO the highest peak Of
mis- domains. Through the palmettos
the girl saw a clearing of quarter
Of an acre, in which corn. tomatoes,
and other esculents were fiourishfng
.I'm going to get nanny when
sell my corn" said Hale.
And you mean to live here alwaysY
Rather than go back to clerking
yes. I'm going TO make Shell Key
the highly intensified example of
truck farming in the world. And I'm
going to raid an orange plantation FIVE
miles Gown the coast on the next dark
night, and bring back sucklings. They
grow the best nayels in the world
| there
Slowly they went back. "You seem
70 have made a little island paradise
here" said the girl.
"a kingdom-a world" he answered.
= wouldn't 90 back to the world out
side for anything"
"And t. she said, ''must go TO take
UP my work In the world again. Each
If US to his fate"
Eyes he answered.
perhaps I'll row across to Palm
Poiut some afternoon and call on you"
ave only got one more week" she
said 'And I'd rather you wouldn't"
why not?'
"It's-too sad, isn't 1t. / mean
he saw that her eyes were full Of
tears giving up ones dreams"
"We all have TO give up our dreams,
suppose" he said.
'But you have your dream"
mot all Of IT."
They were upon the beach now. She
turned and looked at him. "What
dream have you had to abandon?7 she
asked
4oh, every mans dream, suppose.
be answered.
'The dream Of finding some one to
share my kingdom with me I've often
thought of her. She has gray eyes ami
coppery hair"
And you've abandoned that
| dream?n
"rye never found her" His look
was unmistakable. And she could
hmuse herself no longer with him.
II ought to have told you" she said
penitently. my husbands at Palm
Point He's an invalid, and-and