Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1924-09-19
CHAPTER IV-Continued

The glory or the year deepened
swiftly. and joy kept pace with it in
EIlen's heart The harness was long
gone, the couch was upstairs again,
and only cushioned rocking-chair in
its place. Ellen could sweep the gar
den path again, with her blue sunbon-
net over her eyes. Ellen could cut out
cookies on condition that she went
straight upstairs and lay down for an
hour afterward. Except that she
usually went to bed at eight o'clock,
and avoided the more violent forms of
youthful amusement, Ellen might live
her old life again.
But it would never be the old life.
1t was so enriched and so enhanced by
the FIVE long months in prison that
Ellen felt sensations of freedom alb
solutely birdlike. warmth and flowers
and blue sky Intoxicated her. Leonard
Henshaw, for whose attentions she
had wistfully lcnged a year ago, was
her captive now, but she did not want
to marry Leonard Henshaw. She only
wanted to be alive, and to claim her
work and play among the living again.
May thlrtieth, always great day
In Port Washington annals, broke
cloudless, and found all the village al
ready in holiday mood. The yacht
clubs would go into commission at
high noon, with every imaginable form
of gayety to do honor to the occasion.
At the Port Washington club, where
Ellen and her friends would presently
gather, there were to be swimming
baseball game between the married
and the unmarried men, moving pic
lures, games and prizes for the small
children. dance until long after mid
night, and, of course, the raising of
the colors.
shaw boys, in their car, at eleven
o'clock, and was under parole not to
race, even if she swan, not to screw"
even If she sailed, and to be home at
five o'clock to get three hours rest be-
fore the dance.
Strings of color were f1uttering
everywhere, women with baskets were
gathering on the clubhouse porch,
eager boats were cutting about the
pier end like restless gulls, tenders,
loaded to their capacities, were max
ing for the yachts. Presently the col
ors went up, fluttering gayly against
the blue, and the cannon, fired from
the grassy mound before the club
house, was answered by twenty boom
ing shots from the boats. AS the det-
onation died away the band burst
madly into sound, and thirty young
figures plunged from the pier end for
the first swim, to pull themselves upon
seals. and add their shrieks and laugh
ter to the general uproar.
If Ellen LatImer, one of the seals
who was warning Bobby Carnival that
If he pushed her into the water again
he would be sorry for 1t the longest
day of his life, had CHANGED to glance
toward The Eaglet, one of the visiting
yachts in the bay, anchored three hun
bred yards away from her. she might
at this moment have received shock.
For man with thick mop of sill
vered hair under visored yachting
cap was standing there, yawning hap
PLY In the warm sunshine.
Gibbs Josselyn, If he had been
through no such schooling as Ellen in
the last few months. had suffered, too.
in his own way. Like Ellen. he had
seemed to lose his place In the world.
with hfs fathers marriage. his resig-
nation from his fathers irm. and the
transpianting from his fathers house
70 his club. Sensitive and proud. he
found the attitude OF his intimates
equally distasteful, whether they sym
pathized with him or criticized him,
he missed his work, and found no In
centive to take up anything new.
Without his realizing It, the pretty
little Miss Latimer had touched him
She was not flirting, like Lucia, she
was dead In earnest. the bright-eyed.
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