Show itow he won her permit me to suggest a plan through which a lady became engaged while she was visiting at cape may point last summer this girl a wealthy westerner by the way had flirted desperately pera tely with and finally refused a man well known to club life iu new york he did not give up the ship however but went down to cape kiy point to see the cruel one they went in bathing and he taught her to float although she swim a stroke one day she was floating and he was swimming with one hand placed beneath her shoulders to keep her steady after she had been looking up at the bright blue sky for what seemed to her half an hour the young man told her they were far from shore with fifty feet of water between them and the bottom of the sea she begged him to swim back toward the beach when suddenly ba withdrew his hand and sho commenced to sink she uttered a little cry but ho immediately supported her again then ha told her while the cool kilt waves slashed swashed around them that he loved her to distraction that he had grown desperate and that unless she promised to marry him then and there he would let her drown and for a second time he momentarily withdrew his hand the western girl daro move but sobbingly she confessed that abo had loved him all along and that ahe would marry him of course and that he ought to know she was just acting silly when she refused him alien the young man stopped swimming and stood up in four feet of water and when ha had helper the girl to stand she found herself alosa to shore but a few hundred feet down the beach away from other bathers she kept her engagement too and they were married in january philadelphia press |