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Entered according to Act of Conaress
L, MUNRO, |
Vatiewater st,
Vol. XXII
Love Afioat.
BY Mis. M, A. KIDDER,
Sariaxo with thee,
clear summer sea.
Scoms, on my darling,
Like heaven to me;
Heaven on earth,
When skies are so blue;
South winsa co gentle,
1d you, love, so true.
Her
Oars Keeping ti ine ith
‘The song of the
summer time
Sweetest of al!
Salling at morn,
‘When breezes, new born,
Ripple the waves of their
‘Madness now shorn;
Sparkles of of aunehing
Gomming the sea
Weare as happy
happy ean be!
Lore in a boat—
tr
D
the joy, and
the pleasure one finds,
iene for home,
Fizough pearly white foam,
“Sailing with thee
On the clear suminer sea,
Seems, ob, my darling,
Like eaven fo me
Heaven on eat
When skies are so blue,
South winds 0 gente
ur, love,
| Butered according to Act of Congress, 61 the year 3505, by Korman, 1, Munro, in the oftcr bf the Librarian of
sm at Washington, D.
| Bachelor Girl:
BOUND TO BE A “NEW WOMAN.”
An. Up-To-Date Romance.
By LUCY MAY RUSSELL,
Author of “Saucy Susie,” “ That * Horrid’ Circus Girl," “ That Terrible Tom Boy,“ Dolly Dimple,” ete,
. [his Story wwilt not be Published in Book-form.]
CHAPTER V, but the fact was that Nell was fearful that he would
OLAND DECIDES TO CALL. gee her weakness, and not for the world would sie
could hardly a more terrible mo-| bay
ment for Roland and bis compan! ion than it was for Tt
Nell Rogers when he saw the runaway team tear- looking after ene
ing down toward “Td better get in now,” said Mrs. Hawkins, on
‘or a momel cnt nae \d paralyzed, and_ did] the other side fof the carriage,
nothing but stare across the ravine, ae if awaiting] , He looked at her with @ puzzled alr, wonderin
the harriule morent, whem she would see thea how she happene out of the carriage, and
dashed dow nity, why he ad hot wrotived her absence befor
‘Then like a ‘ eh ae all her faculties awoke, |“ What are you d doing: there" he asked,”
and it came te @ opportunity had come| She stared
to prove to herself dh ‘thete ‘was something in be-|_ “Why, you
ings “new wom: ry,” she cult,
‘he old-fashioned, conventional woman, Fore bs
thought, would at such a time ag this faint ani He ugieds ‘Staniive “he Preferred to make as
sereain; It was for the new woman to do different-| Htt}s a Feat you ‘of the mai
iy done, anyhow," ‘murmured he,
me out of the back of the bug-
‘You would have been killed, aud
put you out? ‘That shows bow absent:
minded Tamm, i forgot alt about i.”
“1 think it was very brave of you,” she said;
{and, ol! how strong you ‘are, for Pam not © light
weight.”
He siniled as he looked at her plump figure.
“I wonder I ever pushed you through the open-
Wh was the new or the old woman that
animate her, the fact is that with the swiftness of
thought she snatched her revolver from her pocket
and leveled it atthe nearest ‘horse of the runaway
tenn
as no time for deliberation; it
of do the thing that suggested steele with
quickness as poss
Gland wa no more ‘dooking for help from ber
than be was from Mrs, Hawkios, 60 that be was en-
amazed whe Instant. before the te
dashed into him, a pistol shot rang out in the air,
nd almost under bis eyes the horse nearest the eda
of the precipice Jeaped sideways and dragged Ite
companion over
‘iis own horee was quivering with terror, as if It
had realized the awful danger whieh had threatened
se
mueh | ing.’
“You \ucy fellow,” she sald; * but you may.
laugh at a ‘ihe a much as you like, for you intended
the expense of your own.”
You talk of courage and presence of ining, what
Fou tink of Stes Rogers?” .
“Was brave of her? That comes of leat
Ing how to shoot. You gee, there is oa is
ef pew-fangted notions.”
“see there is something im ber, anyhow.
ooted ike « new Diaua ae be stood thore wo cal:
iy after having done @ thing that, would hare cor-
ered the noblest hero with honor.”
Mrs. Hawkins forgot ber nerves in her delight at
by her the expression she saw in her hapdsome compan-
there was not either bone
Roland biniselt heaved a long ue He was alive
when he had expected
Se, rt full of grate
tude and admiration, and it seem sned toh hg had
never seen anything'so beautiful in his lite.
‘The revolver was sil trong, and bun,
side, her arm a6 lim, eyes.
or muscle in it, T6 fs in love with her,” she thought to herself.
But he did not seo that, nor that her face was| “Now, if eh he would only fall ia love with bi,
ale. what aweet thing it would bo.”
Not did he know that the bachelor girl felt] So wom turned the thought over sn
strangely Me any other woman under such eiteum-| mind, an to do all she could to
star o faint. ructher ‘0 Hplensnbe' ‘project as bringing those two
He saw ia: nis prescfver' the, beautiful, herote, | togeth
teady-nerved woman who was different from anj| | The fact that auch a t ead entirely out of her
“other he had ever « e's poss ol male a great deal of ait
He ops is Ips wo tell hor bow grateful he | ference Could at least have the satisfac:
was and how noble
about
Titer'a words ehe. had touched ‘her oree. sherly for as Roland ‘was concerned, if he
with her whip, and was dusbing swiftly up the | w Jove with the bachelor gir, she could vlan °
road. iin eoper auth yeraye
Roland rose quietly. ‘‘I have done my errand and will wi
extending it to him, said coolly: “Ta
i .
Ga ~~ * , YZULE Wy 59)
AND Lhe a encrnval WASKDE
ue year 1898, by NORMAN L. MUNRO. in the office of the Litrarian of Congress. at Washington, D.
e a cigarette to smo!
all the lovely things she bad ever been kuown to do,
ad that she aid
In the morning sould have made an tndif-
ferent listener to sucha rectal iin fact, he w
not have turned au altogether de ear tot
whe listened with inter est, | ih eager
e38, as quite ready $0 rconeete that Nel
a’most superior woman, | Iu fact, be was ‘almost
ready to beliege thers wate more io the
ew woman idea than he badd Defore been willing to
amit,
go Sirs, Hawkins talked and he listened and aek-
ed questions unt] the mountain was crossed, and
on the whole he could nog say that he bad ever bad
8 pleasanter
Think ihe said soferly, as they rode home-
ward,“ Usst oust to call on Miss Rogers to thank
Nerfor what the so bravely aid suppose ae wil
hardly object to being Vhanked tor
our lives
“1 shoulda't think she, ows, ” Mrs, Hawkins re
sponded, addin Is, ‘Seep. nthe
Ohe who thanks her fe as hindsomne
“Tbelieve I will 0 19 ber house to-iare
ST am afraid the house, will be full of pucste to:
morrow,” Mrs, Hawkins sa
rT ach’ keow as that
Teught to thank ber, yo no
“ id havo to-thank ber before a lot of
ren vathans she suggested.
ao”
2
SEs
an make any difference;
fat would be awkward. But what could
~ Why pot gothisevening? Thomas will be going
over with the batten aud d you could go with Dim.
= It struck Roland that bre would not like to be
sociated in Nel’ tad witb utter, 80 he shook his
head,
‘No, L believe I will rite cover. Is it far?”
MAbout a mile; and a very, lee walk
show yott the house as wage
Je ae ego tn ‘ive famtly for years,
it {s now, | Miss Neil bas
{ots of iclends up bere Tier summer.”
wen of her oan ne, ‘L suppose?” he asked.
“Allnew Nomen?! he asked, with the shadow of
a grimace on his fac
“New women? Do sou
2 young women?”
taht girls, wom-
vali mannish dis-
ke for tl ised her now that
she ‘aoc i mn love with
rephe cat "she aa sorts here.
y
fret are howling ewells trom the
Beeps a sort of open “house, L suppose?”
“Yes, the people como and go all euminer long,
thouch'a few stay all summer, It is the poor ones
mostly Bat stay the loncest, tor Nell Rokers is the
tm 6 girl that--ever lived, She always
“ha like to talk to her just for curiosity,” he
fra, Hawking smiled Ug herself, and Tooked slyly
at him as she thougat what a fine-looking couple
they would make.
She pointed out Oakdale: to him as they drove
long, and told” him all, she knew sbout it and its
8 consivarable, since she bad
recalled
Sltord ih morning.
ST'shoul think, he sal Igy that she
Would be followed by forme bu
th, don't kom
He listened in
on the wealth of the Ke
the meeting with Engen
He
uld have
I Rogers, "Sue would
Mgbt about face
“1 suppose she "Shinks now that she never will
ry,” he said,
To him it seemed lke a lofty disdain of thanks;| At any rate she could talk about Nell, aud tell
“1 believe 60,” repited Mrs, Hawkius, with a
nd woud | eto
be
silence, #5r, a8 Mes. Hawkins dwelt |
ee
‘igh you good day,” said he. Nell took a cigarette case from her pocket and,
eon the way, Mr. St. Clair.”
‘atural contempt for such a declaratfon from a gil:
“put of course she will marsy wh right man
comes slong. I Kuow that TET neve a
ted her, Z would go after her just the
would for any other gi,
Galen Iaugived, bat said nothin
‘A girl like Nell Rogers only w
stronger an thaw she le herself And 1 ty
you that when, the does love a maa her Jove will be
worth
“1 suppore $0, Avy woman's love is worth ba
Ing, isn't 10?”
“I don't think ft is. But bers will be, because
she haen’t wasted a bit of it on any man yet.
APTER VI.
ANOTHER KIND OF A GIRL.
a
with, herself. She
ld 6
send it to her that very even! ee
ie was angry, because she'was disappointed fn
herself.
She had always said there was no more need of a
oman fainting than of 8 man.
It true that she had not fainted, but she
scornful admitted that she would have fainted if
it had not been for ber pride,
iad the danger was all over,” she murmured,
AT tiad shot stralent and had saved ihe Ure I
id av
know a man would wen provokiugly cool
foment he bad accomplished phat be tated
She galloped home again aud tossed the reins to
‘one of the boys, who Blood 1 really to. ‘receive her.
“Rab him down well,” she fai, ears “ pu
nani rash on bis Tegs aud ban
TS Goch” the boy. ‘ait to the head stableman,
“but Miss Nell is mad about something.”
Not exactly angry at that time, but, annoyed,
veged, bumbled
to berself as she
t to her room,
went you rn
sod ther words touched the real sore for the iret
T know that man saw 7,0, the eadile,
vant the ren th think they are tue ouly ones
strong. an of alll others, too, Well,
how, 1 ama quits with him for hate dia Yor te is tee
morhing. ow he saw me tal my shoes and
There Caine a knock at her door almost a8 she
1d it behind her and threw herself into a chair,
Come in!” she ealled, pulling her gloves off and
‘ng out of the window at the same time: for the
no doubt it was the housekeeper come to aunoy
om
“Nel
She turned her head with a start, A tuff,
vision of pretiinese stood in the doorway, satiing
and waiting with open srime for ‘the enthusiasts
greeting, which she had no doubt would be h
the Tionent Nall ook
* Victor
Like's aint} white, utterfy Vietoria Raymond
Buttered aed the room and ey Borgel inte into the
and go away a horrid
“Tell me you are glad to see me ahead of time,
P agai
glad to see you ahead of time, Snowbird.
dreadtul vite conventional fasbion-plate
vou are! Let me loo
She held the ret creat
laughing gayly,
ire off at arms length
looking very statuesque and
beautiful ‘by Zontrast with the thers fairy-like
settines
" cont Fashion: plate, am I? That isn't what the men
1 am
Meat oh, Cknow what they call you; just what
they cull every other girl who wil listen to their
nonsense, ‘They call you Hebe, or Aurora, and say
(She went 0
yan to be {de
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your yellow hair is spun gold; and
that your eyes hare Uorrowed their
‘Out
dorta | Biahea and tenghed.
skirt on. Walk across the room,
Jou lonesome bachelor Rin”
She was such a dalits; saucy:
prety litle birdiike er
ich contrast to Nall that
could see them together
‘wondering ‘what was the
bond between them,
tionality and one
the minds and desplee
seross te room in
and
ber ding bane
reached the other side picked up
rette from a table and lighted
“You must excuse me, Vic
abe a, ‘frpat 1 shall bave nerves
fT a calm them with a
sina ”
“You have nerves! But what
should give you ouch womanish
things? Let me look at you! You
have) had an, advent now
you have. Ugh! how can you
smoke that norri thing?”
es, jad an adventure;
dow
sigh of anticipated
and murmured:
are going to tell
No nonsense now,
T would tell you of
mine jn 'a minute if you would
Only ask mey Dut sou ever care
to hear what I have done, Will
ding with pay
stockings olf thle more
tog and sprained, my ankle just
yw! the young man who
ed you. Tam sure there was
8 young gentleman, Tell me, was
he handsome?”
‘He was strong,
“He took you in bis arms and
carried you! "Oh, Nell? And nove
you are in Jove with him. Ob, what a delightful
romance!”
1 me take
a gentle
bim, He must have wateb
my shoes and stockings off. I don't t
man would have done that.”
“oty Ldowt know. Anyhow, you owe kim a
bt of gratitude.”
“Nonsense! he only got his feet wet, Besides, I
day paid the debt.”
\ Realis! Qh, how delightful, you are, Nell!
Nothing bver neppens wr did you pay
thedeuir®
“Saved
his life by shooting, s horse that was go,
tng to run tuto Bim and drag bi ecipice.”
voria half rose oa the ivan, her bide eyes big
with terest and excite ent
onderful creature!
Couldn't he have
go way?”
fe might aves erbapa, but be, had
with him, and rred ‘to use his fs provigious
eth to
Mh de
“No, indeed; ns, the farmer's wife.”
“That fat M
‘Plump Mes. Hawkins, and pretty beary to toss
about in the way be did it, too, Oh, he is strong
enough,
“A gentl
“Looks like f
«What is bis name?”
er"
jot know. I believe he did tell me,
Maybe he didn't though. I forget”
4 you don't ore him?”
iy not.”
“ne pa Oil in time, for he ls sure to lore rou,
nd if he fe handeome—aid 5 be was bau
P aida't fay, but T beliove he te, In fact T
know he is, risome or ugly I hate him, for
oat bate he i a kentieman’ or
tt ts of mo consequence, anyhow. Ie
and Tare quits.”
‘Does he live ta this nelghborhoo
tthe Working farm, I fancy.
raldle & boaniing
cao
and m tallets no that you Will bo
a to receive hi nen be'comes?”
Wben who com
“ Your Wero.”
You “eran Maite addte-pate, shalt
hin ney he would
el 1 shall ia at_you_ presently.
What are Fou,going to pur on? Let me eelect a
sown for you
How atsurd you are, Vic!
shiek waist, 2 standing ‘collar and. a {ours
nd my gown shall be & brown satecd
Nell!
«y ‘thal part my bair on one side, and I have
cigarette ready to light the moment be puts in an
No, Leball put on a
-haud;
gers
“ at pave a chance while he is bere 2 shall say—
trill go away diagueted and your heart el
be ‘Hroken, eh Roe
from other girl. Do
something prety, Are yo
She sprang to to er
Neil eat oa athe ‘arin of ber chair, woking bet elgar-
ette with the utmost calmness.
“On, NG Stine irom Victoria, “wh:
you extravagant creature! Why, here,
dozen, at leas, from Felts, gocrine
many from Redfern, aud & Siierueee fro. nat
woo
