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Something had happened to the ca
noe as they tried to ride the smaller
raptds. Creston said afterwafd he
thought some hidden snag had ripped
• hole large enough to start a leak,
and It had been twilight then, too
dark to notice until they felt the water
In the bottom of the canoe.
There had been no real danger, he
kept assuring her after he had beached
the boat, and they stood on the tall
spur of gray rock In tiie middle of the
•ilent river. They would be missed
at the cottage by dinner time, and of
course Barclay or some of the others
■would put out to the rescue In the
motorboat.
In the meantime they could build s
Are on the rock as a signal and take i
things easy. There was nothing to
worry about.
. Dorothy was silent as lie talked. She
knew how Connie would say she had
mannged the whole affair cleverly. It
had been her mother’s pride the way
•he had married off her four girl* to
wealthy men. The lovely Warlngs, they
called them—Evelyn. Winnie. Phyllis
and Dorothy—and only the youngest
remained.
She wondered If Creston suspected
that he had been selected by her motk
er as the man whom she was to marry.
He was so easygoing, so careless, ap
parently, that she doubted whether he
would even care. And yet It seemed
as If he had followed them down the
coast with deliberate Intent In his
yacht, and had taken the cottage at
Palmetto beach so as to be their next
door neighbor. It was all so business
like and unromantic. Evelyn had satd
to her the night before they left for
the South as they sat together in her
box at tire opera:
"Don’t let mother persuade you Into
a marriage like mine, Dot. I have ev
erything—but love and comradeship. 1
am less to my ‘husband tlmn his .Tap
butler. I nin sure be would far rather
lose me than Suroki with his knowl
edge of mixing drinks artistically.
Marry the man you really love.”
And the worst of it was she had
cared for Creston Clay from the first
time they had met. It had been at the
country club, at tea after a game of
golf. Winnie had watched her amus
edly as they talked together, and on
the way home in her car she had said:
“It’s just your luck, kiddie, to pick
a winner like Clay without realizing it. j
He’s worth millions.”
Dorothy had felt the chill of disillu
sion then. Was everything in life
touched with gold to make it worth
while? She remembered this now,
watching him bend over the building
of the Are. It was so beautiful on the
rock at this hour. The beach slipped
away to the low ripple of sui'f, and a
fringe of palmettos rose in slender,
purple silhouette against the sky. -
Creston came up and stretched out at
her feet.
“They’ll see that soon,” he said. “1
ml y wish they wouldn’t, don’t you,
Dot? It’s like the islands you read
about, isn't it? When 1 was a young
ster dad had a craze for sailing the
seven seas, and I went along. I al
ways liked the islands best, and 1
wanted one, I know. Now that every
thing seems to be going I think I’ll
take the boat some day and slip away
to hunt them.”
“Everything going!” repeated Doro
thy wonderlngly.
He nodded happily, looking through
half-closed eyelids at the lights ou the
main shore.
“You know dad inherited all he had
from his father, because Uncle David
was supposed to be dead, lie had the
wanderlust, like I have, and hadn’t
been in America in years. Well, he’s ■
turned up, that's all, and of course
the whole shooting match goes back to
him. I’m rather glad. I’ll have enough
to keep up the yacht and do what I
want to. The only thing is”—he looked
up at her quizzically—“your mother
wouldn’t give me a ghost of a show,
would she?”
^ Dorothy started to speak, but he
checked her.
“Don’t say anything to spoil it, Dot.
They’ll come after you soon enough.
Just imagine you’re on my desert
island, this little Council Rock, and
we’re not going back until we want to.
Just supposing we were going to be
married tomorrow. Uncle David just
reached New York, I heard by wire to- !
day. And the yacht’s waiting for me.
Supposing I were to ask you to go
with me. It wouldn’t be the regular
society honeymoon, would it?
Across the bay there came three
long, shrill whistles, and the dull throb
of a motorboat engine. Dorothy smiled,
leaning close to t lie shoulder that
somehow was Just beside her at t lie
proper height. He slipped his coat
around her as they waited. There
would be Granger, of course. It was
his boat.
“Listen, dear,” lie said softly; “it
can’t make much difference to you, and
it would be everything to me If you’d
Just kiss me once before they come.
It would mean that you old care a
little bit, and that somebody believed
in me, don’t you know, and the money
made no difference. Could you, Dot—
Just one?”
And quite against all the principles
of the Waring training, Dorothy turned
her face to him, the tears wet on her
cheeks as she kissed him.
Just two weeks later the Dolphin
•lipped Into harbor at Port-au-Prince
on Its way southward bound on a
honeymoon cruise. The youngest War
ing had married for love.
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white, also decorated, in dinner sets, from $25 up. Single pieces of
sugar and cream, cake plates and vases.
PAUL BLOEDHORN
WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER
Watch Repairing Phone 223
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Install the “Silent Smith”
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FRED M. SCHAUPP
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Steam-Fitting, Marine Pipe and Tank Work
Sheet Metal Work
SECOND STREET, NEXT DOOR TO FEDERAL JAIL
PHONE 72
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New and Second-Hand
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We Sell Goods on Commission
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NORTHWESTERN CLEAN
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We Buy All Kinds of Furs
Honest Prices Paid
We make up all kinds of Furs, also
do remodeling. We also do Tan
ning and Mounting. Fourteen
years’ experience.
Next to Hegg's, on C Street
Phone 123-4
Sanitary
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Plenty of Them at
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