Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-07
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ARCHIE LAvERocK. the ..arrans
n o' hi: mid.twentiesi tbs moed pre.
, yss up from .os brutal v,. 4 =
poised She has won q biz priSe IN
the "prettiest English girl' contest
and Is o noted film actress. Archie
i has merely saved her from some Gin.
SEYMOUR. movie man. her admirer.
FRANKIE. Lucy's half -grown IRE
pressible brother. q naval cadet.
THE ADMIRAL. rubicund. choleYic old
officer, who dotss on Lucy.
MRS. JOY. gay. charming. almost rs
uR souRItCE -MATHEWs, ancient inya-
lid, tired Of being bossed by women.
MAUVE. his granddaughter. slim,
the interest Of the Rover, but ig-
cENEvIEvE WI MOT, piquant
American widow. whom the Rover
rescues, and whose small boy adorss
"Ig You Want Me. Come After Ne"
She said, when you've thought 1t
over for a week. Mr.. Archie Lave
lock. you can write and tell me
what conclusion you've come to-"
Archie, also on his feet, looked
down at the peach tanned earnest
face of the rich mans widow to
whom money had never meant I'M
Writer" he echoed. why must
write It? III tell you by word Of
mouth. l shall still be here"
But 1 shall not be here" said
the American girl.
She had but that moment thought
of this solution.
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going away; back to the States?"
s Not right away" she told. him.
"We're going on further down the
coast. Concarneau, perhaps, whore
they have the fishing nets and the
sails bright blue to match the sea.
I'd like to see that-so would the
you're going down there?" he ex-
claimed, dismayed. Next week?"
"Or before that. maybe. don't
know as it's so good for Marcus,
being always with a bunch Of girls.
They spoil him." declared the young
mother. demurely.
Il have thought for some time that
maybe we'd better hit the trail
again soon, and pack up from Ker
Babel. It's no use staying in one
SPOT for the whole of a summer. is
it, If there's nothing to keep you
from moving along; now is there?"
"I-see," said Archie Laverock,
looking down very straight into the
soft peach face that held. still, q
purpose behind it's mischief.
She meant, III you want me, come
after me. If it's a question Of the
money, get it. somehow, the way our
men get everything we want, for
And then the tets-a-tete was
broken up by Marcus pattering up
to them from the shell-line, with
delight and excitement shining from
his Cupid-face.
ooh, say! Momma! Mr.. LAYER
rock! See what / found!" He skip
ped and jumped. holding out an oval
white object. "Oh, say, its won-
derful thing! It's what the sand
castles going to be for. -
found 1t myself - That boy at
the Hotel dc la Mer has got one.
'Tisnt as big as mine! It's a cuttle-
fish bone"
He could think and speak of Moth
ing but this newly acquired treas
ure--- "Mr. Lav-er-rock, where
abouts on the cuttlefish did this
bone drop from? What became Of
that cuttlefish that this belonged to-?
out Of cuttlefish bones? How? Say.
hasn't cuttlefsh got any other kind
OF bone, only this ne?"-all the
way back to st. Enogat.
Something he's found. That's
more to a boy than anything we
could buy him." commented young
Laverock to the mother as they
walked along. 80
They encountered, OF course. other
visitors who may pass across this
story like the blurs Of sunlit color
that they seemed to Archie: golfing
English. groups Of Frenchwomen
wearing the muslin hat. the uniform
short. sleeveless frock and the
deliberately sunscorched complexion
that was n Continental rage that
nearing the steps that are cut in
the rock and lead down to the PLACE.
there passed them a classically tall
shape In love-in- the mist blue,
striding cliffwards.
She went by swiftly and without
look.
Selma" exclaimed Genevieve Will
see us!"
But the Swede girl, once their
backs were turned, wheeled about,
and fingered to watch them out OF
sight. Inevitably as the sunnower
turns with the turn Of the day, the
girls gold head twisted and craned
toward the last glimpse Of Archie
Laverock.
That Rover had not given her q
thought. His growing preoccupation
was, Now what would 1t take to get
me down to Concarneau? How
much would It cost to put up theirs?
where am going to raise the
money!"