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By Josepll:C
COD:tinged ,from last week.
He ,strode across the eighth `of. sa
Mile of 'sand which he and IVIyriele had
traversed in their walk-. and Aeureritd
in at the side door ef the station. Cal-
vin was, at' that monyent,„ ;strolling
along the edge of the outer beach,
faithfully ,earrying out the doctor's
orders honcerang daily exercise. This
Seleueus did not knew. He hastened
through the mess-reem, and, Without
knocking, opened -the door of the
skippees room slid entered.
• Homey was not there, but 'Someone
else was. ,.Mr.' Oammon was, there.
She Was kneeling on the floor before,
the • trunk, or chest, Which belonged
to Calvin and in which heekept his
spare 'clothes and personal property'.
emima was kneeling before that
trunk and fitting a key into the lock.
Beside her, en the floor, lay several
sheets of notepaper with writing u.p-
n them. . , • .nh
!When her husband made his hur-
ried • entry. she started yiolently,
.prang to her feet, and leaned.against
he wall in the corner behind the
ruhk. She was pale, Curd duirligetheih-
ong and tempestuous married life
Seleucus had never seen her so 'tak-
n aback or at a leee for words.
"Eh?" he exclaimed. "What are
ou doin'• in here all alone? What
akes youloOklika that? What ails
J• eminia did not answer. A look of
elief came to her face:- Evidently
he had ,hot expected to. see her hus-
and, but hadeex,pected-and feared -
O. sees someene else. She was still
ale and agitated. however. A thief,
aught in the act, could net have look -
d more guilty. She did 'not speak
nd Seleucus suddenly transferred his
tare film' her ceuntenancd to'the
riiiiithahid-theinlethe -theerehorpt-Pet
eside it. -Upon the upper sheet -it
ad never been folded -he eould need
min where he ,stood the wotds, "My
wn dearest Norma." And he recogs
ized the ,handwriting. An inkling of
he truth flashed to his: brain-
"Ctimus!-' he cried. "MY crimue-
el That letter of Calvin's! You
as -you was .takin" it. out of his
est!".
The color came hack •tO Jemirca's
ce, reame with a rush. Her, 'voice
turhed also. ,
"I was not," she retorted shrilly.
wasn't. I was putttn' it back.
oh't you tell him I took it. Don't
ou tell him I ever saw it. Don't
on elare! Get right out of here!" -
,She made a 'dive for the letter, telt
er husband .dived in the same direc-
on. Her hand seized the letter
rat, but Seleucus's huge paw clutch,
her wrist and held it tight.
"Let go of me!" she cried, twisting
dsteuggling. "You -you oh, you
t go of • me!" • •
But he did nbt let go; Instead,
!ding her wrist with his right hand,
o bent 'her fingers back" with his left
d took the letter.from them. Then,
utching it, he turned t� the • door:
raptic, she sprang after him and
ughi him by the arm.
"You 'gine me that! You give ;roe
at!" she shrieked.'
,Seleueus swung about .and picked
✓ up in his arms. It was the first
me he had ever dated to assert him -
If in his dealings with his .wite, and,
far as is known, he, never so dared
gain -but the assertion, although
ort And temporary, was comPlete.,
e bore her, struggling and -kicking,
rpes the room and deposited her
tciblh upon the bed.
"You stay where you be," tr-
red. Then he ran from the room.
The rness-room was untenanted at
e time, for the men were all down
the shore, amusing themselves, by
asing Peleg. ,Rogers andCahoon
crpulled his dory up on the beach
ring his absence,- and the 'crowd
as enjoying viratchhig his
ruggles to get it afloat unaided. He
d •at • last succeeded, however, and
w, with oars in place, paused a,
roke or two from the shore, to ex-
ess his candid' opinion of his tor-
entors.
The first hint of disturbance at the
ation was brought to the group by
leucus himself, who came plunging
wards them like a charging. rhinoc-
os. They demanded to ,know what
as the. matter, but he neither stoo-
d nor answered. He was wearing,
t rubber boots, but a thin pair of
nvas shoes of the variety called
nea.k.erse"---In-spite ef -this- he dash -
into the .aold water, waded above
s knees to the dory and elambered,
edlessh of Myrick's frantic pleadings
"lo'ok 'out," over her side.
."Lay to it," he panted. "Rowl"
Peleg ;began rowing towards -his sn-
ored catboat. Then, from the door -
ay of the• life-saving station came a
ries of shrieks in a shrill and angry
male voice. The men heard them
rid to look. 'Peliig heard them
o, andel:might have ceased rowing if
15 passenger had permitted. •
"GO on!" roared Seleucus. ;"Go on,
I'll heave you overhoaed! Faster!
y to it!" er"--
The Wild Druck was reached and
sirded. Myrick sprang to the hal-
eels, Gammon to the anchor rope.
he stall rose, so did the anchor':
Fihnn the, beaeh -came a -shout.
"Hi, Seleucus! Seleueus!" bellow.
illotnner. "Your wife wants you.
e says for you to come back." .
And then Mr. Gammon gave Utter-
ee to an answer LWiiieh was destin-
• tq be added, one Of the ,choicest
ms in the collectien, to the history
d traditions a Setuckit Station.
"She can • get, to hell!" roated Sele-
s. Then he, went -to • Orham.
0,trutivrE:g.3t
iSeleuctis returnetflia that even -
g. 1Viyeick brought hftn down as
✓ tit his -the hermit's -but ott the
eb, arid lie ha& walked •the rest
_Aiwoopellit,,,
of the way. The hidasere Of • the
ere* were already in 'bed when he
entered the station. Calvin was in his
room and asleep. Mrs. Gammon, for
the ftst time, was not sitting in that
rooro-nor, as she had since his
cn-
va1scenee, in , the zness-room, await-
ing., a possible call from him. Her
attendance was no longer really nee,.
essary and, even if it had been, , he
would have been.obliged to do without
it that night: Jernima, after her hus•
band's hurried departure, w e nt
straight to her brother' e tha'nty, and
there she stayed.
Cohan himself bad offered a reason
for .Seleucus'a going with *rick to
Orham. ,He had asked 'him to go
there because :there Were, ceilidh et -
rands to be done. This might explain
the going, but .it did not explain the
manner of Mr. Gammon's departure,
nor his public defiance of his wife.
Nothingeexplained that.
1Phinney• paused at the tkipper's
door on his way to the stairs. He
opened .the floor and peeped cautious-
ly in. Homer heard -Fan and ,stirred.
Josh was conscience-stricken.
• "There now!" he exclaiined re-
morsefully, "we've 'been makin' se
much noise you couldn't sleep, Cap'n.
I'm sorry. We ought to had more
sense. But since: Seleueus blew up
and went loony I cal'iate it sort of
touched the rest of us in the head:
I'm sorry enough. You all. right ?
Anything we can get you?"
Calvin declared he was perfeetbr all
right, and would probably fall asleep
soon. .11e asked ..questions about the
Weather, told .Phinney to call him if
anything happened and bade the lat-
ter good -night. He was all right, so
far as his bodily health was coneern,.
ed; although still weak, he was quite
free, from pain and- was travelling
back to nonthat at a, satiefaetoryerate.
But as for sleeping -that was not
easy.. The doctor had told him that
he must, that sleep was 'the finest
tonic in the world; and he did, try to
obtain that tonic. . But, while trying,
he invariably fell to thinking, and his.
thoughts were dreary andepessimistic.
He must do his beset° get well, com-
pletely well; he supposehl it was his
duty to do so. But, facieg the situa-
tion, there ,alone with his thoughts;
he realized that he cared little what
happened to him.
, He Was still awake -When Mr. Gam-
mon tiptoed into the mess-roorn. Sele-
ucus meant to be very careful, but io
iiis nervousness he bumped against a
chair and Calvin heard him and call-
ed. Seleucus opened the door and
fearfully thrust in his head.
"Eh?" he queried. "That you, Cap'n
Cal . • . . ? Oh!" with a Sigh, ap-
parently of relief, "you're all alone
Etin't ye? She-Jeenirria, I nrearz-she
ain't here?"
Horner informed him that his Wife
had not been there since his depars
Cure. "I think she is ov.er at the
shanty," he added. "YOu'll go over, I
suppose? You aren't on duty ho -
night."
"No -o. No, I ain't. •Unless," hope.
fully, "there's epmebody that that
ain't feelin' well -ore -or somethirn.
Then I could go on patrol for hih. Rd
juet as soon as not."
"No, all hands are fitst-rate. You
go and see your wife. She must be
expecting 'you. . . . I hear you
eft, in a hurry. Who did you see up
there'? Where did you go?"
, Mr. Gammon uneasily shifted his
feet. He was -thankful that the room,
V
dark.
"Oh, just, went--4r---nrdiihd," he
said vaguelyseehJust kind of 1round
and -and ,around. I see the fellers
at the' store and the post office, of
C
"Didn't, you go anywhere else?"
"Who? Me. . . ? Why. where
was' there to • go? There ain't any-
thing stirrin' up to the village,, no
town -hall time nor nothinh . . .
Well, I guess I'll go aloft. That is,
unless you bein' sick, you'd like to
have me stay here and keep watch."
hi'm not sick. And it's a fine clear
night. You'd better go over to ,the
sha,nty and see your wife. -Shelf he
ehpectiog you. Tell her all the Or -
ham news.' Go on: I must get erne
sleep." .
The door slowly- closed.' ,Seleucus,
alone in the mess -room, sighed. Then
he pulled at his moustache, looked at
the clock, and sighed again. Sighing
did not help matters. He walked to
the window and looked out. The
lamp in the Jarvis shanty burned
brightly, iyht. Gammon's -next sigh
was accompanied by a shiver He
tightened his belt, groaned aloud, and
w,ent- out into the night. A minute
later he entered the Jarvis living -
room. Jeminia was there, waiting for
The patrolman -Baxter Cahoon -
returning after midnight saw the Jar<
is windew still illumined. From be
the drawn 'shade the sound of
a voice, a shrill, animated voice, 'drift-
ed across the stillness. It was Mrs.
gammon's voiee. Cahoon, lingering
at the corner' of the station to listen,
could' not hear what she was saying.
Her husband, apparently, .was saying
nothing.
And yet Seleucus did say something,
--something which came to him in
T
notate of an inspiration, and
which, like a life preserver thrown
to a man who had fallen overboard,
Was destined to keep him afloat for
hiany days to come in -the etoriny teas
a his life as Jeminia Gammon's hus-
band. Whenever those sesta threaten-
ed to go over his head and &own
him, he took a firm. grip on that life
preserver and the fury of Jernime's
vrrath was thwarted for -the
He had listened silently and hope"-
lesslY to the tirade with which she
greeted his 'appearance in the Jarvis
living -room. He bore her reproaches
meekly, acknowledged that maybe he
hid been -a "little mite roegh" When
he threw her down *sit the -bed in
Iforner's room at the dation; he was
"dreadful sorry", for that, he diodes-.
sod, and for consigning- her to, per4i7
tion when.. aboard the Wild Duck at
the moment 'of departure. "I gUess
likely I hadn't nught, to said th.at,
Jemima," -'ho admitted, abjectly,. "but,
you see, I was all sort of het up. Pel-
eg had just Old me somethin' that -
that upset me -and then when I see
you with !Cal's letter, it -it just—"
She interrupted. "Where is the let-
ter?" she •detnanded.• "Yoe giive me
that letter this minute." - •
"Why -why, Jemirria, you see „ 11.
"Give it to 'ire! Hand it right ovei,
do, yen heak
eSeleueus.•-groineti. "I can't" tre'con-
fessed. "I ain't got it. I -41 -give it to.
-to pomebody else." ' ..•. „
!She sprang from her Chair. "You -
you give it to somebody else!" she re-
peated.' "You give it What!
Seleucus Gammon, did you give that
letter to -to her?"
Mr. Gammon nodded, "That's what
I done,, Jemima," he said, in complete
'surrender. "You see, 'twas her letter
--Cal was Writin' it to her
bein' as she was gin' away so soon -
for good -1 -I --well, r 'Went right up
to where ,she lives soon's I got ashore
and gihehit .fts" het; . . Whether
'twas the thing 'to.. do er not 'don't
make any difference- now. We can't'
change it; Norma's got the letter."
His wife's face had been crimson.;
nowhitturned white. '
.'Did Yen:in-did ,you tell her how you
.got it?" she cried. "Did you tell her
about -about men?" e,
iSeleucus shook his head. "I never
mentioned your ,name, Jemima," he
declared. "Course I didn't. She don't
know you ever see it. She thinks Th -
I found it on the floor in Cal's room.
That's what she thinks:" • •
• Jemima caught her breath.
"She -she better think so," she de-
clared, with ea;vage emphasis. "If you
ever_. let. her thinkanything else -if
.hou ever tell one soiil that I took that
letter Out . of .Cal Homerls-trunk,
-1'11-1--- 0 -o -oh, if you. ever do!"
it was here that inepiration
came to•Seleueus. He raised hii-head;
there was a new note in his voice.
.. "I shan't, Jemima," he said slowlsen
"I shan't tell, neverenehnless—" •
"Vnless! Unless what?"
' "When -finless you make me desper-
ate, same as you, done over there this
Morn. If you keep on pitchin' into me
and-e-layinh elle out same as you're
doin' now, if You get me all worked
up and -and. reckless --why,, you can't
tell what I might do. You couldn't
tell what any man might do if he was
drove half crazy. So long's you treat
me-er-,-kin-d of decent and -and
reasonable PII never tell a soul, you
can abet on it. Bet if -if I get where
I can't stand it any longer, 1 -1" --
with earnest . solemnity -"I might
blow up and tell all bards. I wouldn't
swear I wouldn't. • A desperate man
ain't responsible for what he does or
says in them cases-You'll..have to he
-er-hind of -well, considerate of
me, Jemima."
Mrs. Gamnnen's. face was crinison
again; and now, .as she straggled
with her er-mitioos, it became purple.
She choked, panted, and stared at her
husband, Seleucus remained silent, hut
there was determination in his look
andeattituder-
Jemirna's clutching fingers slowly
straightened.
"Oh, go to bed!" she gasped. "Go
to bed!"
Mr. 'Gammon, gratefully obeyed .the
order, but he hugged the life preserv-
er to his breast. It could be used again
perhapS, again and again.
'Spring, real and genuine, eame
Setuckit, a few days later. One morn-
ing the sun rose in a sky unsmirchel
b3 -'the smallest cloud. The great sea
gulls, their wings glistening in the
light, dipped and sailed and • circled
above their fishing grounds along
the edge of the point rip. Where the
long sand flat thrust a yellow fringe
out into the cove the terns -"mack-
erel gulls" or "kyaks" the life -havers
called them -Were clustered in burich•
es that, from a distance, looked like
banks of snow. The roofs and steep-
les Of Orham rose in clean -cot mat -
line above the eastward horizon, The
entire crescent of Sea, from Broad
Rip back to -'the Crow Ledge, was dot-
ted with white sails or black tugs and
SCONVS. . •
"She's come, boys," declared Ellis
Badger, stretching himself luxuriously
before the 'door of the station. "Here
she is. R,eglar spring weather and no
make-believe. No .more no'th-easters
for a long spell.. No more icicles on
your eyeewinkers • when you go for a,
little eruise off yonder in the channel,"
"Not till next winter!, anyhow,"
agreed Josh Phinney. "Well, it's time
we had it fair and smooth. We've
earned a rest, we fellows here at
Setuckit. We've 'hauled the old boat
through a whole' lot of mighty rugged
water since Iast fan."
Calvin went out after dinner that
forenoon. for a walk along the outer
beach., Doctor Palmer had examined-
hirn the day before and pronounced
him well. "I shan't come 'again unless
you send for me," said the. doctor,
"All you need now is to keep out-of-
doors in good weather and inside
wheti it is bad. Eat -or try to eat.
And don't let the station wok fret
you. The busy season: is ,over; there,
won't 'be any Storms to- amount to
anything, and if a vessel should get
into trouble, let Gammon handle the
boat. Another month, and you can do
it yourself; but what you need vow is
strength. I've told iCap'n Kellogg that
and he told me thAt those were his
orders to 'you. Ile is coming clowe to
see you pretty soon, and he'll give
them To you himself. And,. one other
thing! Cheer up! Get hold of your
nerves. Grin once in a while. You've
got a lot to be thankful for. Don't go
around looking as if you d lost your
laiit friend. You haven't, you know.,"
To Caihin, however, it seemed that
he had done just that. Tire one friend
that counted -who .had been so much
More thee) friend -had ,jeft him mad
hit leaving was his fault. Ile, wonder-
ed What 'she was doing, how she was
gettitie en with her eIck' father. The
tidings, of nartlett's death and burial
harl been carefully kept from his ears.
"Dort tell him yet awhile," cont -
retitled thedoctor. «Thls fitritnns
ry
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Iblo4dyt) gnex.i°4-44he.
worth While„ that ids -blit dont taIi'doeh. AIA'n4e;rp can
him Beheni ie dead. ,Wait • Until his 4. -don't
nertes are strpnger."w.
So 'Calviti remained hi. ignotahhe. to1 W e:4"14°-thS. ...r;
• this additional blolv which .144 befahr hate. Or .310'.
lett •Normarlfirmeinories .of the stren-
uous .1:herrn* When hn. rued hs
former ettptan from tbe'straeft14
boat -herr -the Seallop vjg •eFeie,-.etat
hailer vague, almost as fogg,y'thret
Merlin had been, •Ir7t "hey...were com-
ing back to him. Eh ......emhehed fore-
ing.Peldg, MyriekIno peennsing.to
keep silent.eoneerning the facttliat it
was he Who had....breught Bartlett. a-
shore. As he thought of it now he
wondered why he had. been so. -stub-
herr in that. matter. There was no
egsential, sensible reason why Norma
should not have known that he found
and saved her father. .Nevertheless,
he wag gladshe did: not knew. It
weialeineolyehemind her of him; and
she woad not wish to be -reminded,
He Waked. on, by the water'sedge
in, the .glorioussunshine ofe 'that May
morning, thinking these thoughtseand
other, until he reaCheshthe end 'of the
point. Then he nurned „up. the -beta
and sat 'down •upon tha sand.' at • 'the
foot of a' high bank, which -the light-
ly waving beach grass fringing its
tope -shut him from view from. the
station, '"eveh front ....the tower. There
was no intention in his mind of get-
ting out of sight; -the bank cut off the
'breeze; that Washalleand the sunlight
was warmer there.
He sat there.for some thrie.. If he
had not been* lest in his thoughts,
none of them too agreeable, he would
have heard the rattle of a•shehicle
preaching oveethe rutted' road lead-
ing .betereeii the denes to the station;
He did not, hear. it, and it was only
when he chanced to look up and glance
down .the beach that he became aware.
eomeone was walking tp,evards hi,
following the footprints he had. lett
in the moist sandhjust belowhiglihtide
mark. He looked -and looked -not hie
lieving the evidence of his eyes. Then
he sprang to his feet.
The 'perponwalkinghloWitds' him,
now only a little way off, was.the one
person,..Whom he had never expected
to see again -Norma Bartlett.
She saw him too, and waved her.
hand. He stood there, weak and .pale
and trembling, his hearlf and partial -
regained strength scarce ,proof .a-
gainst the 'shack. Norma!''. She was
here-at-Setuckit! Why had she
come? What cauld her coming mean.
And, as she drew nearer, he noticed
Aomething• strange, something differs,
ent, in her appearance. She was in
black -a small :black hat, a black
skirt. 'a white shirt -waist. Not a
touch of -color ithout her anywhere..
Why, she was -she must be in mourn-
„ing! And then the -truth haree`te'hirin
Her father mast be dead. Bartlett
must have died while he, Homer, was
sick,. and, because he was „sick; they
had not told him.
The -realization of this .obvious truth
and of the grief she'must be sirff,ern
ing made .him forget even the tre-
mendous surprise at seeing her there;
he, ceased to wonder why- she had
come. He sthoped toward her, hold-
ing out his hands.. •
"Norma!” he cried. "Norma'!. Oh, "Seleucus told You that?"
I'm so sorryleSossorry foreyou. It -it - "Yes. He fold me all about it." „
is your father,' isn't it? He—" • "But- how did he know? No one
;She tooTh-his hands. Her .acceptance knew that but Peleg and Peleg prom -
of them was, of itself; something quite ised me heheratildn't tell. He 'must
different from what • he might have have told, though. Confound him, of
'expected -would 'have, expected if he course be, did! Wait until I see him,
had ;time to think clearly. He looh-ed that's all., And Seleueus too."
into her face and she into his. , 'Hush! You mustn't say that. Can't
"Oh, how white ancl-tied you you undehntand how ,grateful I ani to
look!" he exclaimed. both of them? . Suppose I .had found
She smiled bravely. -Yet, . as she it out. afterwards. Longeafterwards;
looked at him, het eyes grew wet. after I had gone away. Suppose I nev-
"You are so white and thin," she er found it out, any of -it, but had
seid. "And you h.eve been so sick, gone, 'away thinking -what I did
haven't you.?" think. . . Calvin, :Why didn% you
"Oh, I'm all right now. Yea, I am want me to know? Tell me, please"
11 rieht. Ihinyou-it is your father, He did not answer. It was some -
of course? When—" thing else she had said which caught
"A week -yes, nearly ten days ago. his -attenfion.
But I thought you didn't know. They "Going away," he said, slowly.
said no .one had told you." "Where. are you going?"
'"No one had. But when 1 eaw you "I am going back to Fairborough
-dressed like this -I guessed. I knew They have offered me my position -
it must be. I am so sorry. You believe the one 1 used to have -in the library.
that, 'don't you? It . . . I -think I must , go, you know. I mut earn
perhaps I had better sit down again. something. Father's sickness, and all
I am a little shaky on my ping still, the rest, have taken All the money I
and this -this seems to had saved. •I must get back tih work
She put her hand ;upon his arm. at ohce." ; 1 •
"Yes, sif down," she urged. "Please He did not speak. She was watching
sitliqeCnig;
';tated, "Byt you'-yoo won't pression change:
ees, him intently, and she saw. his ets
"I shan't thy to thank you far -for
doing that for father," she said. "You
were ill:rand-and you risked, haul'.
own . . Don't sayhyou
1 ,know you did. Of course you did:
And, beeause you did, you -you al-
most lost it.",
"But why dra heihmake Mr. Myrick
promise,' not to tell?',." she :asked.
"Calvin o why didn't ybu wa.nt anyone
to keoW? Tell erre that. please."
• He S(..ra'S" not Iodising at her, and he
stirred uneesily,
„
-"Oh, it was just a crazy notion of
mine," he muttered. "I gueseTmust
have been half crazy that morning,
anyway."
"But you had some reason, you
must have had. What was it?"
He sniiled,erather.„bitterly, "Well,"
he confessed, "I thought -1 suppose
I thought you had had trouble en-
ough bn my account. You wanted to
forget me, and you should, of coarse.
If you heard •I was mixed up with
finding your _father it would remind
you of me again, and only make more
trouble for you. You might think you
ought to thank me, perhaps -think it
was something you had ,to do. I didn't
wanlyOu to feel that way." -
He heard her draw a quick breath.
"Thank- you!". she exclatrned. "Sore-
ly you couldn't believe I ...whenidn't.
want to thank you!"
"There is no reason why you
should. Looking after people and
boats that' have gnire adrift is pert
of my :jo'b, 'that's all, That's what
they pan me my seventnAve a month
for. Don't say any more about it, Nor-
ma. And you shouldn't have come way
down bete for that."' •
,She, too, was silent,,for ati instant.
'Then she said quietly, "Bert I didn't.
That wasn't why -I carte: I think -
yes, I am almost 'sure Talicifild have
come even if Mr. Gamatorn had never
brought me yoor letter' or told meet
your saving father. 1 think I shoe&
have dome, anyway. Or, perhape,"Intite
ten you to come to .0rhatrt and tee.
1/e look at her new. The color atitti4
tp her. aheeks • as he did so but her
eYes met his, brae e and tinialteeing.,.
"'Why?" he demanded), •
'Can't ydu hilt hid why? slitritid.
iib&riht 'thin ,
011"itt the!
.Any.decent _girl would haite;gilten.
a. _fellOW WilO" treated her .as
'• eYriuoug.' Ahntelo...tteltueniow4_,_hen was)* M.
.tShe leaned towardshim, opeseenen
she pleaded.' "Yen ratustn't eay.
You did tellme, Yeei tried to tell mock
.."Yes.,after youfound it Out frOM
someehe else.". •
• "No, 'before. that. In the letter you
wrote to ,zrze at. Fairboroughe they
forwarded it to me; afterwards."
'413tit there was nothing ...-aont-a:
beut herin that,"
"No. But therehatere'evereso inany
other things, .about father and,. your
reasons for takingeoliththe boat *len
he told you not to. Everything, you
told me you had "written. -I was al -
Most happy when I read that letter •
•or I should have been if I had ne
been sehashanied of myself. -I -you
,now I had doubted whether yon ev
er wita it. I had."
"I don't Wonder you did. You had
reason enough to doubt my ,ding
anything decent nrid honest."
"No. No, I hadn't. I should have
knownn-for I knew you., But I as
jealous and hateful and generally
wickedejzzat then. But I' thought and
thought ----and grew more sensible, I
hope, and when they told rne how ill
you were, I -well, I think I should
have esone to you even then if it had
not been • for father, . . 'And
then, when Tgot the other letter—"
e "Other fetter! What letter?"
"The one you began to • write me
And/never finished. The one in which
you told me the whole truth about -
about her. When I got that—"
"filet wait -wait! I didn't send you
that -letter: It was in my trunk. I
was wriing it the night before your
father -before the trouble haphehed.
Yaircouldn't,have got that letter."
She smiled. "Yes, 1 did," she -said:
"Mr. Gammon hrought it to me three
days ago. He came to the cottage
with it. He said he had found it en
the floor of your room and saw my
name at the beginning of it and
brought it to me:" '
"But -but it wasn't on the floor of
my, rom,t couldn't have been. It
wash locked up in my trunk. Hiow
could he-hiere.gothit?"
"Hush! hush! You mustn't excite
yourself so. Never mind how he got
h. I think, myself, there is some mys-
tery about his getting it; he was
very much fussed and behaved queerly
enough when he was there. But what
does it matter? Why should we care
about that? I read it &soon as he
had gone, and I have read it 1 can't
tell you how many times since.---. . .
And that washtt 'all he came to see
me about. He told me that it was you
and not Peleg Myrick, who went out
in that storm., as sick as you were,
and found father and brought him to
the shore.
;x-vas110.9.'
Relid :ot try;t0,i10M.0a
id;677.:
. "I came beenalsh 4 -nen,
ashamed,
tyou teellhow„it, I den4
"No, I will sit 'beside you. . . :
You are all righl now. -You are not
going to -to faint or anything?"
He laughed, weakly, at the idea.
"Faint!" he repeated. "No, I shan't
faint. I was dizzy, that's all. That
cenfounded rheumatism took .it out of
me. 1 suppose. and that is why I am
acting like a kid. . . But you?
You have bh through all that and
I didn't koow! Why didn't they tell
me? They ought to have told me!"
He flushed angrily at the thought.
She saw his agitation, arid, sitting be-
side him, put her hand upon his.
"I am very glad they didn't tell
3;eu," 't -h -e said gently. "It would' only
have worried you, and you have had
awry and trouble enough on our ac-
count -poor father' e and mine. Cal-
vin, I came here to -day to ask your
forgiveness. Can you forgive me?'
He gazed at her. "Forgive you!" he
repeated. "I forgive you .
Norma. why -why—"
"Thish! Don't look like that. You
frighten me I shall think you are
going to be ill' again. Listen, please.
1. have so much to tell you."
'Yes, -yes, I'll listen, of course.
But Norma, why did you corne? How
did you get here? What—?"
"Plenee he quiet and -listen. Please!
ion brought me. I rode down with
loge bought -me. 'I rode down with
him, Mr. Gammon, said you were
walking here at the point and I came
as soon as he told me, to find you.
Captain Kellogg, has been very, very
kind to me. He has been a wonderfui
friend when I needed friends so much.
And he is your friend too. So is Mr.
Gammon, We Nth have good friends,
Calvin, And Oh -how much we owe to
them!"
She had called him Calvin again.
And her tone, her More her manner
towards him! Why -h- He seized her
hand in both of his,
"Normal" he cried once more.
"Hush! Remember you promised -to
listen. And thereis to, Much to tell.
Celyin, I have treated you dread-
fully. I realized ft -I think 1 began.
to realize it almost that 'very day
after father and.4...went away ,frotrit
here. But .1.,von1dn't admit it, "'ven
hh--
• •Izaeiehgone ahr-a.y erehith
...„
. But now lee interrenated.....ge ^ In;
his arias about her . Inchly.,,yrahaos
,
roughly, and .dider . he • to .. .•
• " melee!" he cried, Nerolat..401,011
mean --do • yeu care -fo me Ito:WI
you? Do you?"
IShe toked up at hin, -then din..,
."I should . think that was..., almaSt.
apparent," • she said '"Tilis 'looks as
if I did, doesn't. it?"
Pore .was in lite al-. here, a ra- •
the r -long-interval. Sk,e..was the first
epeak; perhaps' she would .hawee
spoken sooner 'if she • he -shad
permitted it.
"We have so mucheto say," she dee.... .;
elated, "and stack a little time to .sa.y.
it in. You must go .badk to the station.'
-you must. They „will. be' corningp t�
look for you :Pretty soen.'" .
.„ He looked at his watch. "Yee,"
admitted reluctantly, "I suppose 1• ..
mutt. It is airiest drill time -and
logg is there, isn't he? But. we've. got
a few minutes yet, Norme,hyou 'be-
lieve, I never really .caredsat all for
Myra Fuller, don't. your
---;She put her hand to his.,:lips..11ushl
You and I are net goinghto niention
that persen's name again --ever.' Are
we?"
"You' bet we aren't!" he declared,
and meant• -•it.
,"No. And now we must be very' ....-
sensible .and talk -about ourselves and- • •
onr•-plaris... I am going to Fairbor-
ough day after to -morrow, Oh, ,yes, • I. • '
meet! And , yetimust stay here, and
do your work, of co_ursNy.e. will write
each -other ;everfstray. and, perhaps,
see each other once in a while. And,
we must work very hard and Save all
we can; because -well, you khow why,.
don't you, .dear?'h„ _
He nodded. "I'll work, y4511. reaY •b -e
sure of that," he declared. :h'But 'I'n
net going to be satisfied with thie
kind of work lohg. I'm 'going ahead. ,
Kim; "I've got something to worklere
Life-savirigh-ih.the ,best fun on earth,
for inc.' anyhow -,-but I'll get fun en-
ough out of something with a better ,
nature and that pays better. I hope
he'll give the chance to Seleuetzs; he .
is a good fellow, and an able man;
although his reports might be hard
to read. I shall stay at Setuckit as
long as the superintendent feels he
can't do without me: I owe him that
much. But, while I'm here, I shall- he
putting. over my lines for something
worth while. Why, he told rneh him-
self-Cap'n Kellogg did-htfat,
really, wented it, he guessed he could..
place me with one of the Beaton and
Sevannah steamship' lines. -1t might
not be so much of a job to start with
hutIll make it more in a hurry. Ycnt
watch me, Norma: With you to work ,
forenif1 don't earn money and get
ahead, then7--"
She laughed happily. "Hush! hush!"
'he said. "Goodness, how excited you
are! Of .eoursei. you will get ahead.
There isn't a bit Of doubt about that,
And as for the money, I shall_ earrt
some myself. And,after all, what
does all that matter to you and me -
now? It doesn't seem to me that
anything really 'matters now--excep
this. „.4 . . ,.And we must ge, bae
to t•he statiorzehre
He rose to his feet. She, too, rase
and stood beside him. He drew a long
tenath. She was right, absolutely
'right With her behidehisn he could _h..
-and would -get .0.11ein the world. He
wasyoung and, therefore, for him
tha't world was, full of opeortunities.
TheTharder the fight the,better he
should like it. And it wceild be fp, hr
that he fougitt. They would be togeth=
er. Tlhat waa.tbe esscahal thing, the
only thing that i7ally ehettered. He
Squared his shoulders, and, figurative-
ly speaking, snapped his fingers at the
fture. He, Calvin. Homer, 'twenty-six
years old, ,and, at present, keeper of
the Setuckit Life. -Saving Station at a
wage of seventy-five dollars' a month
and found, had that future eorroered
or as good as conquered, already.
Twenty-six and the girl he loved -be-,
side him! Why -it was, easy! '
He pulled fa cap down upon his
head.
"Now wa:tch me handle that boat
drill," he announced triumphantly.
THE END
• Valuable Reports.
Among the various reports ,issued
bsr the Department during. the past
year, which are of especial interest
and may be obtained by anyone...inter..,
e-sterle.in them, "ere the followihgr--;
Ontario Agridultural College and Ex-
perimental Farm, 1930; Ontario Fruit
hewers' Association, 1931; "Manure
and Fertilizers; Their Use in Ontar-
io"; "R'esults of a three -Year Study
of Certain poultry rations as they af--7'
feet the hatching power of hen eggs..
as. well as the number Of e,gge laid"'
'(Prepared by Gi A. C. Pepartribent'or -
Poultry Husbandry)),4 1'iIrasif0,
herioies to-PotiltrY-by Lionet'Stifiter-t...
inn, promote'. -tobIogailth Veneta:
Institutes...of- .flatarto (repOrt . ftut;--
pao)-. Mach valuable inftirreatiOft,js
•&Waited itt triete, tete:ft* and. they
will be gladly furnishe0 froo otahavoy.
upon apprioatioo to the.1uthtong
trite& of the Depot -0161A of )i•
"!ontture,, Toronto, • •
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