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CHAPTER VI the ponies seemed But suddenly the alien human presence nd shied back in fright, stamping a very ecstasy of their tiny hoofs in instant the they wheeled On ear manes and md galloped, with flying heads, across the nar- row spit of land. 1 Red Raskall, who, a moment ago, to sense ; ' ; d f apparently as bewildered and quivered now u He flung ; with understanding. equine and his clarion call up his head challenged the mares. Racing ahead I of them, he led them straight across the point of the narrow island and In a scramInto the dashing surf. bling mass they were after him, whinnying once rushing, more with delirious delight. She stood there at last, alone and After a time she wandered forlorn. limlessly along the beach. ; It was midafternoon now, and the shore would seem less lonely, less Even the noise of the terrifying. breakers, loud and rhythmic and compelling, would be better than f their booming here in the interior, where their faint thunder seemed but an accent to the si- -, had been Lark, neighed ' ' pell-mel- l, far-of- lence. The outcropping ridge of rock extended clear through the island and ended at last in a sort of shelving tableland of stone, perhaps some fifteen feet in circumference, just ' above the beach. From here she could see the water and be able to attempt to flag any passing ship or f approaching fishing boat. She noted ' it once that to one side the rocks I were piled up in a kind of pyramid. I Carefully the stones had been placed ; I shelter. make a to it was a house, a little playhouse, almost! Eagerly she bent to Why ; it Branches of scrub pine examine to form 'had been crisscrossed .back wall, and the sand protectingly against a was banked The side J walls were of rock, and the roof was a e slab that only a strong man could have raised. It was icarcely waist high and, at first glance, more like an animal's lair than a human habitation. j I Bending low and peering into the shadows at the back, Lark saw a pile of things, stores and treasures in t heap. A pony skin bad been stretched as a cover but had slipped off. She crawled inside and gathered up the things, bring- H them out with her. She sat down then and spread tai out in front of her. Here ere a small curving knife, flint and tinder, and a wooden box of hard They were a little moldy and damp, but Lark ate them nth ravenous delight. A while ago she had found some bitter red ber-f- i, but these had not half satis-fe- d her hunger. The box was full a biscuits. There would be enough last her for several days, she .tought She held them In her wnds, longing to eat them all now, M knowing how foolish that would With an effort of will power, returned most of them to the it slate-lik- d ; i tor, She found next a ship's Lu'e folding contraption. could be pulled out and to- a. She went down to the edge the water then and adjusted it artfully to her vision, hoping that. ne fading light of the late aft- she might be able tch 8M of a sail on the horizon. i just beyond the incoming break- there floated a bale of hay, ca seemed to be drifting steadily the shore. Lark watched it r while and then ; turned away ' tlgh' 11 Wa Srowtog dark ic ,'nd she wa beginning to be ihrthtened by the lonelinesi and by i1" returning hunger. "St she acknowledged defeat .dlscourasement and crept bnv spy-glas- s, t'"UchD'at 1 mi m ?'Jt.tlerocl!8.heUerwhere' Siseuits it V? h iW ivB ' ir bee i 8 ; ine remalnin 01 ny picces and eatin t. she finalIy curIed "P to IM t0 mound the sand y and 8tiU keeP her The had come in more, and its clamminess was touch of a cold, dead hand. hand of the Moor. f8 , J , ' WnVanima1' Lark Arrowed woi."Je ft : oke 'hm ,Q sand- - A8aln and again during the endless night, hor Kasi cramped body ilmed?eCratin8 j ' ;en the wakened Lan.dhcra ' She unburnnrl WCight she w that .t. and face were cu lnland to the shade ,at . While ,n l7.La cooler todows the lrces- - She drank at v...''r'ng. drr,r,l, J Kr Par,Ke Walcr trickle slowly down throat- - She walked in t ir,d ft k. ,d"cy. letting her bare feet W.N.U.SER.VICI crush the sweet green grass under- - out. 'Twas a great wonder anybody come out of it alive." Once she saw signs of the ponies Lark thought of those "ITHAT game is played more with marks of their tiny hoofs, but those little boats. throughout the world than any no print big enough for Lancer was She said, "I was in a boat and it other? This is one of the queries Here. The tiny circles looked old went down. It didn't even get a you get from servicemen billeted in and weathered, the edges were gray start. I guess all of the others in Europe and the South Pacific. And and powdery and the spoor was half, that boat drowned." then they lead you on to a comparierased. "Doubtless. A girl, 'bout your son of tennis and golf. This includes It was just before dawn the next courts and all other inmorning that Lark awoke to hear age, was in the boat that got in courses, the splash of oars and to discern safe. Her and her father. Squire gredients that make up an arguTerraine. Complained the dim outline of an lost six ment I put this debate up to one approaching fine horses. Half wild, they those folks, of our leading tennis statisticians dinghy. postin' rewards for horses no doubt and here are the facts: After a time the awkward dinghy "Why compare tennis with golf? pulled up from the tide and was drowned, because one fellow's big gray horse swam all the way to Why not compare tennis with any beached not far from her. A man, boy, in rough dungarees and with shore, safe as a muskrat horse other national or owned by a squeaky-voice- d man, International sport? hair unkempt streaming to his shoulYou won't find any ders, was coming up the sand, com- name of Plascutt Dawes." Lark shuddered, remembering other game even ing straight toward her. She stirred close, in an internathose horses in the ship's hold. and he stood for a second listening, tional way. hardly more of a human figure than "There was a powerful big wom"Here's something the ponies had been. He was tall an, Minnie Buxtree," he said. "A that may shock naand gaunt, but there was a narrow couple of bound wenches. a tional and internastraightness about him that spoke preaching man and a baby . . . of youth and of unreached and unthose Terraines and that Mr. Plas- tional sport followrealized male strength. cutt Dawes, I mentioned to you. . . . ers. In 1939, Just before the recent Lark's urgency roughened her I disremember any Clelia. There world war broke was but a voice and coarsened it. "Here," she few." out, the Internation cried out "Here! I'm by the rock Lark was crying quietly again, the al Lawn Tennis as- Grantland Rice shelter!" weeping of release, of joy at the sociation had a membership of 59 "I see un! You leave my things filling of her terrible need for hu- nations, headed for the Davis cap. be!" The figure came running to- man companionship. To know her No other sport has even come close ward Lark, catching up a short, loneliness was broken was unutterto this mark. ably gratifying. "This entry list embraced every He glanced at the sky, stood up. continent and every civilized counstretching his arms, a slim and beau- try from the U. S. to Kenya and tifully muscular figure in the pale China. And each of these 59 nations light He blew out the horn lantern. has a tennis governing body. He said, "Sun be up in a minute." "Without any argument, the most "Is this island far from the main- famous international sporting trophy land?" Lark asked. is the Davis cup, donated in 1900 by "You could see It if it wasn't for Dwight Davis from St. Louis. No the September fog. It's ten miles, other international cup is in the maybe, maybe a little better . . . same class. The Peninsula. Some call it Vir"Fifty-nin- e what other nations ginia, some Maryland. Lot o' is- sport can equal that? Or even come lands hereabouts. See them, easy, close, including soccer, golf, basketon a clear day. This is Ghost Isball, or track and field? land. There's Hurricane Island, and "Strangely enough the two most Pony Island, and a lot of little name- famous cups the Davis cup for less hitches of marsh grass and sand. tennis and the Walker cup for golf Chincoteague, off yonder, is big, with came from two famous St. Louis people on her. Assateague, too. Not sportsmen Dwight Davis and many people come to this place. George Herbert Walker. Dwight That's why I keep my things here, Davis and Bert Walker, both from what things I got. Guineas on the inland St. Louis, were main factors shore hate and fear this island, in putting tennis and golf on the international sporting map. proper." "Guineas?" "There may have been two finer "Oysterin' people, along the Pe- sportsmen, but I can't recall their ninsula. I ben't Guinea, but I reck- names. Their international appeal on I look like one, all right I I reached to more than millions it moved close to the billion mark." live with 'em." "I've never seen any." "You'll see 'em. . . . Smell 'em 15,000 Tennis Courts before you see 'em. . . . Smells Our tennis expert then began to like the bottom of an old boat, does get eloquent. "As you may know," Guinea folk. I hate them, all the he said, "there are about 5,000 golf way through my body and soul. . . . courses in the country. But don't I'm bound to Cony, four more years. there are 14,800 municipal tenforget Four more years. My folks died nis courts in 983 towns and cities of off when I was twelve, and Sheriff the U. S. There are 2,300 municipal bound me out. I've served pretty courts located in as few as 10 cities, near six years. I've got four more. and New York isn't one of them. "I was shipwrecked." I'm nearly nineteen, and I've got There are 706 tennis clubs, memfour years" bers of U.S.L.T.A., and 777 others heavy oar from the beached dinghy, "You change from one minute to not members. And this doesn't inwaving it threateningly, holding the the next, Gait. At first I could clude the enormous number of tenin other the lantern forward flaring hardly understand a word you said, nis courts at private homes. hand. "Golf claims around 3,000,000 "I'm not hurting your things!" But now you sound " "I reckon I picked up a lot of players in the U. S. We happen Lark screamed at him. "You be a girl, ben't you? What Guinea talk. My father'd break me to know that tennis can claim you doin' here?" He was quite near of it if he was alive. He had a scorn around 5,000,000 players possibly her now, a tall, unkempt young man, for Guineas, though he doctored 'em more. After all, golf requires from 100 to 130 acres for a course. Tennis when they had a need." unwelstaring at her with deep-se- t far less." requires "Your father was a doctor?" coming eyes. The main point Is that trnnls "I was shipwrecked. I washed up "Doctor and preacher and here days ago. . . . I I thought Gait said with a clear note and golf belong largely to competinobody would ever find me. I've of pride. "He was ever a great one tors, not to spectators. And that's been here days and nights such a for books, too. I can read. Can the way it should be. We have had long time." She tried to steady her- you?" He colored up, watching her entirely to many spectators In this country and far too few actual playself against the trembling, sick re- closely. or competitors. This "goes espeers lief flooding through her at the blessLark said gravely that she could, ed shock of another human presence. and he said quickly, defensively, "I cially for football, baseball and box"That Tempora ship, I reckon." knowed un could. Likely un took me ing. These are largely spectator His speech was strange to Lark. He for a fool to ask un that. Why do games. But these conditions may also change later on. Millions of had a curious way of making the un have to question me so close?" spectators only mean box office reHis words. flat won't Lark "I words, question you." to his smiled at him. "And you don't have ceipts. They mean nothing In the wild brown hair hung almost shoulders. He looked lean and strong to talk Guinea to me. I understood way of physical condition. Now back to tennis. Our expert and angry, standing there in his you better a while ago." continues "Tennis is the only sport He went to the dinghy and brought disreputable dungarees and short In countries all over the torn and tattered jacket. back a slab of bread and some played world under the same rules and Temthe hunbe must "Yes, "You cheese. Lark said, "Yes," strong regulations. Tennis is an internationpora." She knew she was going to gry, lady. Have bread." al matter, not a local affair. We erv. could feel the sob tearing it "My name's Lark." Lark acceptthere are something like figure bleak sat She down, of out her. self ed some bread and broke off some tennis players in the world, in ly, in the sand and put her head cheese. "Thank you. Gait. I am men and women. No other sport her arms, giving over to the thick, hungry. If it hadn't been for your can even approach this mark. Bebiscuits I don't know what I'd have fore the war we had something like punishing sobs. "I'm sorry you had to get wasnea done." turned out 800,000 tennis rackets in here. Pity you couldn't have "I. wish I'd guessed," he said each year. This will be doubled after life-boin. come that been in that simply, "that you were out here. I the war. Tennis will be one of our . . This is a mighty lonesome wish I had." greatest games. It takes up far less He was speaking with a slow place for a lone girl by herself." space and gives far more action Hi voice was centle now. kindly. prideful care, watching her, waiting than golf." To forestall any wild squawks His speech was easier, with less of for her every word. They lay in the the thick softness, the guttural pro sand in the shade of the fog bushes from bowlers, softball players and and the stone wall and scrub pine. basketball players, we'd like to nouns. I A delightful sense of peace and rest T.nric naid aeain. childishly, step aside on this part of the arguiirtn't hurt vour things. I did eat stole over Lark. She closed her ment. The bowlers and the basketball players claim around 20,000,000. some of your biscuits. I suppose eyes. . . . When she awoke, startled, feeling The softball players over 30,000,-00they were yours. "Vn was hungry." He sat down the catch of the loneliness again, We'll let them fight this out. But people don't read so much in the sand, opposite her, staring at calling out for him, Gait said genher intently. "I'm glad un found tly, "I watched un asleep, there, and about their stars or their teams. .1 never saw you, a while I couldn't think to waken un. Un The four major reading sports in the I looked so happy like, and and so United States are baseball, football, back, just somethin' movin'. an' oroKe on, He -" Conypretty, Lark. . . . But we'd better was afraid boxing and racing with golf next. "Mv few things ain't think what to do, where's the best The Best Golf Suing much. I take shame for yellin' at place to make for." "You'll take me to the inn," Lark un. like I did." Craig Wood reopened a hot arguThat's, all rieht." LarK couia con said, astonished, "won't you? When ment a few days back: " "The biggest improvement In golf, trol herself now, could try to smile you go. . . . Why, Galt-G- alt one of the reasons the leaders give All her arguments, all her pleadat this tall, gentle young man wim h tmcic eves and the you those record scores is this they ings and reasonings were lost on half-alm- ost on the back-swinsavage way of speak him. He said, simply and stubbornuse the squared-facto take the to and squared-fac- t aim the you don't "I keep ing.. . ly, I'm Gait Withe, i m douhq serv inn. Lark." He repeated it doggedworking through the downswing. ., tn Mne and Cony Vurney that ly, maddeningly. "This means less pivot, leis turn. It means more hand control. runs the inn over to the Peninsula." don't aim to stay "I certainly You should take the club head away He gestured off toward the ciouay here!" She mocked him, furiously, in , west. "We tried to help that sinkm' his own thick squarely from the ball and keep it see me miMru in this position so you can bring it way. ship. You could const wise hura back squarely to the ball." plain. But it was small boat make (TO BE CONTIM r.U) ricane. Couldn't no CIRCLE PATTERNS er WW life-boat- ... ... ... Dainty Party Frock CHE'LL look as blight as a new penny in this dainty party frock. 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