Show A A 7 M I 1 NELLIES DILEMMA wayside Bay bayside side is one of those numberless with saltwater summer refuge which the shore of 0 long island is studded it was a quiet sort of place and the neighborhood WM as good but the most remarkable able feature of 13 haysiden i aside lit that at summer WM was the he presence farlin 1 5 wt hir t attro wo admirers were J jack a loutrel and murray nesbitt Nes bilt jack and murray gallantly main deain bained an out war ward semblance of good will through gli alt all their doubtful rivalry malry but who shill shall blame jack if lie a keen sensation of triumph it at finding nellie martin actually ir in his boat one splendid july morning maruin mo ruin theres there that desolate cooki looking it tv litile little island at the mouth of alic e cove cote said nellie did you ever I 1 go ashore there YM yes its dry now noli at low ion wa ter billhi j waves go clelin clean over it ii 1 sheathe ahert the tide tid eup tha fidall 11 we land dind and talce take pos possession sesmon and make believe theres a chance of finding something 1 I dont care air said nellie an and d in ill a fw minutes more they were seated cc casily on the low ledge ju ill the ce center liter and jak jack was silent at be looked dreamily out to sen sea when lie turned n train tit at nellie ier arr it nas I aishe L I 1 ci rl ill I e boat again what is the matter jack abe aal ad with un all attempt at banter are you hush nellie dont 1 laugh ingli at inthir just now interrupted jack iu its a 0 voice that was deep eyou for him but very low find and sweet 4 ive something I 1 I 1 want to say say to you p and so lie he had and lie he said it ill all before nellie could Ai muster juster courage to stop him when tier her eloquent companion for an answer she sprang to her ter feet with a laugh that ej a world of IV willful r meaning I 1 do you mean to lubck me lie X nellie cl 1 to I 1 martin artin do you not kenoly can you not feel that I 1 lam am in ili ear earnest riesto it is a matter mailer of life ind ami death biti uie luc I 1 answer me oh 01 nellie mr jark jack loutrel loutel ill you yet have alic goodness to pull IDO ashore or sh ch I 1 take lake the boat boa and go ryo alone 1 I 1 I want to lie your oarsman for aie nellic but not 1101 just flow no nellie was already standing by the boat as jt it rocked gettly at i the lic edge 0 of tile attis islet beall I 1 nail for you she said and lid there was has half it a tremor in her voice jack loutrel could not haic baie spoken atribat moment to lo save hi his s life and he bink down with his back toward tile boac aboaf A more nellie w waited a eted she 1 would llave g ci given v for an answer but none came and ho her er proud will ill cir carrich carri ct tier into the boat and scaled her at th the oars she pulled very slowly anti and it was halt half a mile to tile beach in front of the bamide hotel but a curve itt hii llie land at last ait hid li id oe rock from hur her sight highl villiour willi viLlI out her consta iii gaze tuo the change of posture in the figure sl sh c lial left ittin on en the ledva it was a u s for nellie although unlike any she had bad ever had bad before and it may have been the anti g excite I 1 ment of tier ber feLli feelings kims even more than carelessness thai eliat led her to accept so caf eagerly tile tho offer of 0 a drive murray Zes Nei bitt which waited for tier acceptance cep tance as a she stopped stepped on oil shore meanwhile jack Iou loutrel trel hall had remained main cil in almost sullen fixedness of musing 0 for a lent long 0 time lime tic he lind had risked illuce ou tle the case and failed to na win hi Il hullo tallo he exclaimed little lie title tide Is is coining chinini ff in ili of courto caurto it it and what am I 1 to do lie now w cellio ill has carried off eft tile the boata boit 1 jack loutrella ra 9 a 11 annii all of 01 achon aud anil his bis outer enter clothing was quickly quick I 1 Y eno enough rolled it in a neat lot bubele bundle and fastened at al ilia back of his neck lie he dallied gallantly into alic fist roughening wat walar ur all ami in title tine time lime though pile pale anti drippin M and ex 1 lie he bimel self out on oil dry land that thai had baca liceri an eventful morning in for NL nellie ellie martin it wis was a ion long 0 T drive that thai I 1 chirray th irray nesbitt alad planned Z for or not without a pur purpose post of his own how could lie have C given up LIP so good and so hope hopeful fill opportunity tun ity at al a all 11 events lie he did not and N ellie hear huu hun to tile end in such stich a hilf half humble quietude that thai i heart throbbed bittick hicl anti and fast 4 glow low of coming coining tri iri alph f i 1 1 nicy yere were ilot d riving 1 1 just tile then bul ut were n arc out on oil the lie seaward slope of c view nellies face hail beati I 1 lulf avert averted iod and there was a dreamy look in tier bejes ejes fes that tier companion lid did not sec bee suddenly she gitil a ort orl of a half electric start bhele is the lock all alir 1 I I 1 A it t I 1 Is 5 tiling but foam and how f the lie wind of oh that dial boik lot k lie sam said cool choily Y vily wal nothing tile alie water or liaa las liean over it ii this half lour home onate ivinel I 1 drive bael back to to tile llie hotel instantly 1 asbed 0 IN I 1 lie ic oh ob it vt lifts lias happel led to lam I 1 left I 1 0 f t liidi ILI on oil the llie rock gitil out it 11 bot bo lt it was it short alric tl ric lobig loew a it seemed in ill nellie NL 4 conscience stricken alid asje s ic ran rail 1 less froni from hit we tu llie i bear careful 1111 biad hauled the hati up bagh ln alt and iry dry for tile waves were chas chasing gitig 7 ore one another in a rough and guint blat was waa momentarily becoming foj 0 more cloist boisterous or OU I 1 no ono one scein ct eil I 1 it ill hind band to help and Nel nellitta litts own handi caly tuning lugging tt at one 0 of tile aily ly lai I 1 d nylia ri les wait a ino inon nellt liisa hec A the he lough oice ct ili boal keeliher ke elier why vl Y yet into inlo tile herself yer self you dolt mint kant to row out in ill all libit aca 2 s 1010 alt but TWO no W min I 1 left ilila on lite rock atinay N cabitt by this siule com colu tile the sitt situation lation and insisted on oil tl alir doing Ir lh his to get L boats into to the water ater lo 10 row ill all over tile cove core in search scarth of li his n rival wl while 1 lie poor nellie after A few moments turned hack back it alio llio 10 hold without a word of I 1 explanation on 0 11 sho walked like on OIK in ill a dream tire am lint iut at tile the further oud cud toward the road a i tall form clad in ili garments th that a t clung forlornly close to their wear wearer er passed PIS ill by liet her as it if it bad been swi ono wirt krew kaw I 1 OU oll jackl exclaimed nellie end r ad lill klie iv rasped lilio bald ly by the aa he spoke jack Lout loutris rid arm r ln as is th it you jack had turned upon her a pale reproachful almost stormy face but bul I 1 callet blue eyes were reaming i tears cesis and her lips that had bad lean ell so wilful were quiver iz io 0 ni as they never had before ob jack it if you ila bad 1 I not colne ashore should have died wellie nellie nellie martini martin yes JAC jaik 1 I fourd d it out all at once when I 1 saw there was nobody on the rock and then oll oh I 1 please forgive merdear me dear jack I 1 alas for murray Nes bittl the glory of ills his new tein has ins deliar dep artau for jack loutrel had bid got his hi answer chicago sial macl |