The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-18

for I won't take any risks with the young fellow We'll, why should he take any risks, say7 It'll cost him something. dare say, and that's very decent of him, and his wife's at the back of that. You know her. that short fat woman She has made eyes at the swim ming instructor all the summer like q codfsh. All the women are silly over him. You'd be surprised That Vest from schwoissiiackeri cries all day long like ieaiy gut ter"
 we've seen what comes of that, ]" remarked Herr Eggenhofer There's that crazy baroness drown. ed herself in the lake for him."
 "Yes-but do you Lnow .ae lat est?" said the postman, taking his pipe out of his mouth. "The crazy young baroness never nt.intO the lake at all. She's alive all the time.
 What are you talking about Don't tell me tales like that" said Herr Birndl severely.
 I "ft's the truth. 1 heard 1t from an old Vierecker. I met him early this morning behind the Zirbitz. He had been guide to a party over the Iron Tooth, and he met Schleinx on the far side of the hut up there just over the Hirzinger-Kees. and Schleinz had had the baroness roped and climbed with her up the Iron Tooth, and they had been kept a day in the hut owing to the midst. The baroness had yodeled and sch was 1arking about: she can climb with the best of them. We know that already. dare say she'll be down from the Iron Tooth this evening. I've told them at the Schloss."
 well. that's the limit" said Herr Birndl, and he spat with an- ger and astonishment. .She ought to De shut up in a lunatic asylum, that's all there is to be said. A nice farce! There we were rowing up and down the lake like a pack of fools, and then we hear she was climbing all the time on the Hir- zinger-Kees. That finishes it. That's enough for me. And the swimming instructor, poor fellow, what that day cost him! Diving in like that, time after time, was enough to make him bad, and what he must have endured when he was bad al- I ready!
 Hats off to him, I say, to go through all that with blood poison ing. He's sportsman; he made nO- thing of it, you see. And he doesn't l give up now. He's not just going to lie there and die. He's as strong as a wild pig, Dr Mayreder says Per- haps his constitution will pull him through and we must wait and see. We must tell hi mnoW, as soon as he comes round after the l morphia, that the baroness has I been seen on the Hirzinger-Kees. That'll be consolation to him."
 Yes, and what am I to do with this registered letter?" asked the postman.
 ''There'H be something of im- | portance in 1t, no doubt. No good waiting till the mans dead and | gone. Better give it to me, and I'll sign for it. Matz can wait till he comes round and be there to give 1t to him. Matz sits all day at his bed- side like dog, and I have to col- lect all the towels myself, but what can I do? He'll just have to wait there with the letter. A nice bus- mess. the whole thing, I must say.
 Martin meanwhile lay in the hos pital bed. He lay extended on his back. with his bandaged arm beside him, and the white coverlet rose and fell with his faint quick breath.
 "His pulse is good" said the mo- ther superior, cautiously feeling il with her left hand.
 Martin wondered why so many gi- gantic black birds flew over the sea with white heads looking like nuns. His forehead wrinkled over his closed eyes, and he gave a tremendous sigh. He had no pain. He felt very comfortable. He had been swimming for several hours with May in the sea. The water was blue and transparent. The waves broke in foam and missed with an | indescribable freshness about their ears. The warm water bore them up | and they were carried along by each wave as 1t came. It was the Bay of Waikiki. Martin recognized | 1t, with its palms and mountains | ranges and the long gentle waves l running up to a beach of incom- parable loyeliness. "Arne Borg trained here for his world record. Martin said to May. For a moment 1t all looked like photograph in book he had read, and then it became real again.
 May lay fiat in the water. She swam beside him like a strip of gold-with a slow stroke. Martin had never experienced so deep a calm and joy as this-to be swim | ming hour after hour with May be- side him through the sea. It is true that shark came along now and then and bit him in the ram, but he said nothing to May for fear of alarming her and it did not hurt very much. On the beach of the Honolulu Shimmy" was being play ed. T always wanted to spend my honeymoon in Honolulu" said May. Martin thought about this for a long time while he swam. So he was on his honeymoon with May in Waikiki. He hadn't known that. They had been swimming for such a long time together that he had | forgotten the wedding. You see, :" h esaid to Herr Lyssenhop. who came to pay them visit, ''one can live in castles in the air" They were sitting in a large room in this castle of theirs which swayed l gently to and fro because 1t was l made of water. May took out a handkerchief and wiped the mois- ture from Martins forehead. He felt 1t quite distinctly and 1t did him good for he had got very tired. He felt the shark bite growing more painful. He opened his eyes. How did Matz get to Waikiki, was his first thought. Everything was dim, and through one or two holes in the dimness he looked out into the world. At first he saw 1 HAPPE!R'. R. ] FANNY }. N g|,Y SAYsI