| Show TAKINO TAKING TO THE GIRL 1 vt i roa ro tl tits relt LAIH Tat avlet 1 kyt it BY EMMA V SHERIDAN T ler ty by abil autton all ail rights reserved rrell CHAPTER 1 I A GOOD ODD 0 im tir tired d 11 let at go go 0 home ill tow you no so indignantly 11 1 1 I 1 mean I 1 am tired of you cant you row somewhere besides whore where I 1 ant ni 1 I dont seem irem able to madge 1 I hate 3 all abon you put on mock meek pho flick ermid seemed la in earnest I 1 it f a chill wy WAY in the air li Is it a sign ign i dont row so fait I 1 am good mind to duck you madko madge bump bumped d tho the handles of tile oars cars into the bolt so the blades stuck sky ward ril and blazed absy go away go amity y RO 90 awa attway ay your mother wants wanti you honestly I 1 will lilt hit you with an AD or car it you data dont L go away 1 I dont believe it amadito M idao with rago rage besides T ho he via nent at on oil smoothly if 11 I 1 RO go some oma other follow fellow will take my place yon mui ber you aro are tho the only girl at red rea sands t 1 11 I sit alt here and drift out to hosoa SOL what a good idea so no will L I 1 1 I iball RO go right homo home that hotter it must be b lunch time I 1 ai 1 I will jump overboard capital and ill roscue you and hold you tight under water and kle you at as I 1 did yesterday only oftener madge scanned tho the horizon helplessly then glowered upon ler her companion ilo he was wa grinning cheerfully but his bis eyes aero ore sullen mr haddon edden II will you yea listen to roa rea son on ralf please 1 I want you to let mo me alone impossible I 1 am going to marry yon you yon are not I 1 halo bate youl you 64 6 4 L ja 15 I 1 Z 1 I hats yom 1 ou 11 1 I am alki and you doot donti I 1 will do anything elbe tor for you illow can you like a person who hates bates you 1 I dont know maybo maybe its because you are arc the only girl here oh ob brightening brighten in that Is all over L rosa asa mayfield who used to be my chum fit sc hoolis coming down bho bhe Is cokely goldau hair you like golden hair rosa mayfield old pretty name ralf lo 10 looked aked thoughtful and remarked under coder lilo ills breath something about madge when does she come collie abe be may be there now lets go see oh lab yes you go not without you 1 I dont k M ant to row in you I 1 will tow lie deftly cassed his bit painter through the ring on tier er boat pooh I 1 can it IL there Is no lie knot L not lot let me go ani much you yon might go and a n d sit pa fa the rocks and lure lore men though for that matter any girl these days who can sit on rocks can lure men dont row against me it makes towing hard how bow pretty the tha back ol of your neck Is darling do you know darling you never before lot let me call you yon darlan darling its because pro im not speaking a 0 you you marry me you yea ought to take to kd a good chance like that I 1 might take like this now girl and then where would you yon bo be oh it ou all would I 1 should down right love youl well ill try said ho he gravely on the dock doc stood a pretty slim fig tiro bro with yellow hair madge did not sea eo because her back was turned madge called the slim creature miss farrugo madge hardly waited for the landing oh you dearl illow how do do I 1 thought you could row so sol I 1 can but burtob ob may I 1 present mr haddon miss mayfield Mayfle ld charmed bliss madge can row a little but she was tired so I 1 towed so nice of you yes it not a bit rosa I 1 can row as 53 well as a be CID can fix your boat miss madge no then miss fiolo shall aall I 1 take you to 10 the lic bouse laso and when madge came up with tho the oars she sho laughed seeing them ahead nd said lightly well 6 good riddance Id dancel and that was the beginning CHAPTER IL 4 SEW NEW BATH SUIT aint rosa bad been at al red sands coo week tito the rising boll bad rung some time since when madge sat eat up in a bod bed why you fire are almost dressed ross kosa 1 I always like to dress carefully you arent a bit as you were at school your hair Is lorthan ever too lifee it oil yes throw me m my stockings now to too sea you before folks one would never think you yon know how pretty you are but you yon do oh yes men do not ilk like vain tain women though women Inde akil you are oo no older than roe me than L I 1 than I 1 I 1 mean I 1 Ihal hate omoo men that Is very foolish men will not like you driows you like them and unless anosi roen men ilk alko you you will riot not have a good lime imon men do so like me madge had bad left ell the remark personal do they HOW who Is mr hedden a dell what a funny place piece to bring him lu in he Is just RAIL halt ali ah ralf balf I 1 know hire him so well wall I 1 often say that antl n st knowing you yon know ly ilk ing ohl Is he bo rich some ile he has a he horse arse quito i a catch 1 I am m sure I 1 dont know I 1 never think of 0 such bubli things I 1 dont liko like you as ai much antich as I 1 used I oh yes ves you do yo you u have got so grown up and overy everything ery cry thing you arent a bit like lak me DIB now 1 I lam am gronn more ladylike perhaps you yon mean lure 11 ill 1 I bate ladylike do you yon dear id raar rather row and run and awl 1 I prefer riding boot Onoe figuro shows bettor batter oil oh do you ride aldo I 1 dont anymore any onoro I 1 can call only do it bareback and mamma says I 1 am too big now illow how unkind your you can havo have my borso no io ono one rides ralf kill can ride but bo be never does 11 thank you perhaps ha be or some soma of them may ride aljo when they too ECO I 1 ido do 1 I will take in 1 I you out my boat too perhaps sometimes omet lmos though I 1 always alway s prefer A niao man 1 I can row as good as aa a man can you dear mildly hotter 1 illow naco do you know I 1 quite hate halo you how ex extraordinary nary I 1 madge madeo tolt felt guilty and she said eald meekly III 1 mean to be rude I 1 hope you think I 1 did and rosa keen as she eho sailed t to breakfast 0 answered sweetly 1 I know in the days that followed hajec was no longer bothered by the men sho she was no longor longer the only girl tit at red sands in tact fact no ono noticed tier her at all she was all at once just a little gill bho could not seem faem to got back her dignity either nor resent tier her treatment everything she did only made seem more an awkward stupid child ailt if aiwas called her little girl now is d that made herra glicr ralo glog fr any ono uld think ho he bad flavor mado made talks love to tier or never asked tier her iio to marry him ho fro certainly seemed to lo have forgotten all about abool it probably iio he was now making just the same lovo love to rosa madge wondered if 11 the she ought not to tell lose but then she abo could not be sure sura that thai it would not bo be spiteful so she didot why should site she she care anyhow so she tucked notier ii skirts shorter than ever and tom boyed around and was quite miser m ble ablo site row ed by herself hir self every boily rodo rode horseback her now dow she sha swam races by herself nobody ever c ame in now unless loss cosa did und than it took them all boleach lo 10 leech her bho was lovely in the ilio water blick bho lot her hair all loose tind it it crinkled about her bar her bath suit was green and sue be looked like a illy madge could sao EDO that herself its as she trod way out it made her hate halo herself for being plump and round she ducked her head bead to mako in ko her hair coma out worse and the she wah wished lied herself dead once ralf swarn swam out to her bar why dont you como come in you will got crik kapskI ho he salt daiil try to bo be attractive like your friend silas miss rosa 11 at tilts this madae Mad iret nado made plunge at halts aggravating curly head bead tito tho buddo a yn i 7 14 madye made a plunge at davs kro anaro voting val trig curly head weight of 0 her on oil his shoulders sent him dond do n sho bike frit felt herself hold fight slid she screamed hud struggled but that only filled her mouth with salt water and her struggles wore held by a stron sir and not very gulle gentle grasp digwo close down it occurred to tier her how near dear the chicane she had bad been nod find how flow swift the current ran there sho she had flavor dover been beca under water so long idas before A surging sounded in liar her ears ea then a sharp pain th through rough her bar leg aud and it stiffened and wormhole horm hole body filled with within pain lie tho the champl in a moment they wore above water ralf eik struck out strong ho he needed to the lido ran hard bard madge buns about Us his nock neck helpless doing as his short orders directed and crying silently when they reached still stil water he h shook her roughly you nearly drowned the pair of 0 us he be said avo a good mind to marry you yoa young youna tiger eat cat at once and chalso you as you deton a 1 I hate youl sobbed madge and burled buried her tooth teeth in his shoulder when they got within sight of tho the othora others site alia let g 0 for or shame nut but ralf said nothing ross losi was so pretty find and to so full of solicitude and called tier her such a reckless child and alter after it was all over and madge lay in bed For from her chill and salt water swallow a she r realized eat what ta a nuisance nal since she was to ovey every one and bow every one thought her bar more ol of a child than ever ralf rait sent her bar up tied la in white paper a pie piece ce of tallied stained jersey cloth with two jagged holes in it sho she tt tiled led to be believe 1 avo sho she did not know what it was next axt morning some soma one aked where Is I 1 leddon gone goes to town slid ald same borno ono cis else to got get a now new bath suit alt and nd mad madge go crept guiltily away CHAPTER III HE WANTS TO manny up MB do you know alss WISS Rosa that one of the islands in the hay bay Is haunted 1 isit I it which one you can hardly see in this light that on one over there well once upon a lime k A fairy airy story not a bit of it ones upon a time thero there lived thero there queer old fi elioso hose liolio was the bia cabin of a ship ind I 1 you are telling about no this man was not nice alee I 1 like ike peggotty gotty lie was strange and u ugly oy they did say he bo had wrecked the vessel of which bo be used lined the cabin cabill for a louse house at any rate the iho name of at the lost vessel hung over lie hla door AE goei hilli laveo raveo as il II to jle JI lived nil all lonc lon you are ro trying to frighten fright on me with ill that t voice whit what JM did lie ho look like very dreadful sonic thought him ono of lioio who lail lad been drowned como to lifo again ho looked it ill all so oppy P PY 61 I 1 one kil and yellow fallow a C couill nation his board wits wi scraggly criff gly and nj hla his eyes yes well ono night cimo came n L fearful gale and tho the liland island was all w a shod a er and 0 O oh h vi viett hat the house wi was washed a aawar ay and tile alio man wn was w unshed invy away and the iho whole abing was waft away no I 1 show you tho the island but ever since that time the abo g ghost of that old man has www w w really Ec ally really nc 1 I neier dolor heard the abo story before I 1 believe you mado made it 14 up this minute no honor few know th tatt a s tory story I 1 had bad it front from an old senior ler lo ito 10 know it was true because lie saw nw it himself you dont moan mean to say that people go there oli oh yes yeb someone lives there now dc ore tho gale of is chich aich I 1 told you tho the island was connected with the laud land by a strip of beach that was a great part of the time above water now the iha pass pan Is always under and only pa pis rabla at pretty low tide of 0 courso course the place can always bo be reached by witter water ralph began rowing vigorously where are you going dont want to try it ch no no row away from it I 1 dont W want nt over to bo be ablo able to it now illow sweet you look when you aro are frightened frighten edl I 1 1 I wish you meant all you say Non nonsense you dont caro care 36 bit whether I 1 mean what I 1 say aay or not ross put on a pretty little hurt air you are aiwas either frightening me to death with ghost stories or saying till unkind kind thin things gs the she complained people should not isi taco iio things too in abo summer time suppose for instance I 1 took you seriously koai looked shy what would happen then 1 I might believe you nicer than you aro are and I 1 might got get my heart hear broke you think ao 90 ill of me no ko but I 1 know girls of your kind so w well elf of my kind summer girls ith lille idle hearts girls who intend to malm make it summer record your hand here the fire aro slippery lip pery ram iam not nob as insincere as you th think bink perhaps she sled as they wa walked ked to tho the house and oh yes you yon are returned ralf rait C cheerily ross hosa looked wistfully sweet but sho she was crois she began making ell cp ler her in mind ind to bring brentt this aggravating person to lo tier her loot foot and make it for him abera sho she sighed 11 you do not do der too 1 I understand you better than you think what do you mean 1 I mean to be ba careful rosas heart fluttered she look discontentedly after him and then sat fat Lorse derfelt elf down dowa on the moonlit dorch and began crying horn gladgo found her har itoe ralf car ing up lip tho the what Is it ross kosa she cried putting out ready arms of sympathy nothing go away said rosa rosa kosa dont bo be angry but do not lot him make cu ca unhappy he bo worth it ile ho never caros for any one not noi really dont you be unhappy too ile he cares indeed he rosa bosa spoke spitefully 1 I wonder he how w it la Is bo be wants to marry me thou then dous doub he oh oft rosal oh yes said ald rosa in liar her way and you you 1 I dont know and that was ak why hy you were crying uh yes that was why please please forgive mo me madge madee said eald chokingly of course I 1 was nils taken I 1 only yes you yea only said what you know of him madge felt herself grow white in the moonlight but bat rosa kosa wont went on smoothly I 1 men always amuso themselves before they make up their minds yes yea said mado madge with stiff lips when a man really loves loos it Is different went on rosa however lou on aro are a child anil and do not understand these things thing 11 1 I 1 I am cold said 2 madge fadge 1 1 I will go in the blood was throbbing through her temples atie did not go in ebo hbo went IV it what Is it rosa cosat beyond the iho door into the shadow and knelt by tho the rai ral lher bead burled against her arm something hil broken in liar her hoart heart was now born there hero sho she inow know now flow how her bar heart had bail fill nils lud ad ler her kalfa face aco swam swain bocora tier her eyes rolfs voice sounded in her ears ear nails rang rafts through her hea heart thard sobs choked her while she ho had thought him worthless a follower after each new face she ho had not realized reali sed her bar own feeling fler pride had perhaps hurt a little but she bo bad not oil felt the iba throb of her heart newt kowl to know that she BUB bad been amusement to him ito some ona line else had reached ills ilia serious though tl all ah she bho boat beat her hauda hands against liar her poor little dark head out US OL 0 tier her pain fain breer n womanhood into her heart came caina a sweet shame that still was pride it that lovo wn wit born lovo loie forager to bo be hidden said and kept bacic lovo love that none tile the losi less lifted IR proud head bead saying 1 I tta am ot at your broach breath and ot of our lira life and so BO comforted hor bur in her pain thero was a crunching sound along almonr the gravel ralf balf ile stopped slopped and livered tit at tho the figure at the other ellior oud end ot of the porch darling ho he said softly itoda started nod and came forward to him madge waited no more she eho held 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