Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-03-08
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and nervous, and, more. am tired and
sick of seeing people"
"You have a yacht"
"Hate it,"
This time the doctor shook his head.
"Now if l had a desert island"
He smiled as one to petulant child.
"There is silly little island off
the coast of Florida, DOCTOR" Mrs.
Parkman said. "My father owned it
and he used to leave us at the coast
hotels and go there camping and fish
ing. I would never go, so he left it to
Jessica."
"Just the thing"
"But how can one live on desert
island?" Jessica demanded.
"Take a portable bungalow down in
your yacht. Have complete rest. You
should be there fully three months.
During the first weeks stay in the
sun and rest. After that little exer-
else, walks, fishing, bathing. Go to
bed at dark, up with the sum-"
at sounds wonderful to me, mother"
Mrs. Parkman nodded and smiled.
This was the solution. 1t would, she
believed, be the physical salvation OF
Jessica.
The Parkman attorney came over,
on request, and left directions as to
the location of the island, which he
copied from the deed. 1t had to do
with longitude and latitude and didn't
mean thing to Jessica.
In an amazingly short time every
thing necessary was aboard the Park
man yacht, portable bungalow, sup
plies, furnishings all that could be de-
sired
The skipper of the Parkman yacht
had made a note of the instructions
as Mrs Parkman gave them to him.
He indicated fairly large and pretty
island.
"That is it," he said.
He personally went ashore in a
small boat and found suitable spot.
The men soon had the portable bum
galow up and furnished.
Only Jessica, her mother, Dobson,
Nora and cook were to live on the
island. Other servants were to re-
main aboard the yacht and this was
to make daily trips to the coast for
ooI tho lilo
"The very first thing I want done,"
Jessica ordered, "is large sign. AS
long as this is my own island l pro-
pose to be absolute ruler of it,"
And so a sign was neatly painted
and put up at the little crescent beach
used as a landing place for the small
boats. The sign read:
NO TRESPASSING
Private Property
j. Parkman
To the great relief and delight OF
Mrs. Parkman, Jessica enjoyed the
ouietness of the island For week
she sat about in the sun, did very
little reading and began to sleep well.
By the end of the second week she
had ceased being "jumpy" and ven
tured out on some lodges for little
fishing. She was as pleased as !,
child with the small pan fish she
caught.
Then she began taking walks. At
first she couldn't go very far, but
within another fortnight she was
amazed and delighted to find herself
ENJOYING the walk through the heavy
underbrush.
There was small clearing about
the bungalow. Many Towering plants
had been brought from town and she
enioyed setting these out.
By this time she had her color back,
was we'll tanned and developed more
than a normal appetite. !
Jessica, as we'll as the others, would
have been greatly ashamed it they
knew that every now and then fishy,
old, diversified launch came in from
somewhere beyond the twelve-mlle
limit to an inlet on the east shore OF
the island where, in dug-out cave,
certain quantities of burlap bundles
were stored.
But these men always departed and
were evidently too intent on their own
affairs to waste time exploring the
rest of the island. And as this inlet
was perfectly hidden in thick shrub
berry and practically unapproachable
from any place except the water be-
cause of a swampy stretch, there
seemed to be little chance that Jes-
! sica would discover them or their hid
ing place for the apparently precious