Show if H but R ut aa knew tr ap blew ellior glanced roguishly at the oung man sitting dejectedly beside tier er on the sand at hilton milton point I 1 iou may have as many minutes ss as this sand takes to run through my fingers she said taking up a handful of warm white sand froni front the beach and then if you con dinue to be diz disagreeable agreeable and cross III well weil never mind you 11 regret it mr jack rob r n she let the soft sand trickle slowly through her sunburned fingers like a minute glass a as she hummed care lessly softly it if I 1 but knew the young man turned impatiently and looked out across the broad e ex of water how easily the white winged yachts skimmed shimmed over the water he ile aisheh wished his I 1 atle craft cf of love would run 0 o smoothly elinor he said turning to her will ft you stop singing that when jour lour fit of ill III temper blows over he retorted watching the last few rew gra ns of sand fall from her fincers ers it if I 1 but knew your our heart v vis s true she bummed hummed on ig bornig I 1 in see here what can I 1 do aci to prove to yu that I 1 am sir cerea he ile watched her dust the sand from her pretty palm do doa you makr me feel III e a princess cf of ye yo boldn time then brave gats won ta r ladis by acts of courage but now yes now nowa he aid looking up at her eagerly 0 now we don t even take a man s vord for any anthia th 1 g and el EI nor laughed a merry capt captivating hating laugh which chased away the frowns from jack a brow he ile could never be angry with hr for long suppose suppo e we play v e are living irving years ears ago she aid laid after a in nute play anything you I 1 be le and do anything I 1 I 1 11 I 1 e ea she ask ed looking at him dubiously her tone was half serious half hair playful anything h replied firmly that Is provided you 11 accept that as proof that I 1 love you I 1 ve aid cald all I 1 can to no mail elmer elinor did not reply nor look up ehe fhe was tracing her name in the sand ing she had tr ej ed to believe jack but somehow at times she doubted that ho he really meant all he said he ile was such a ericus sort of a fellow and she O 0 che was frivolous and scatterbrained accord ng rg to her own estimate cf of her herself eff why should he love her and yet will wh should he say so it if h did not P at last she covered the sand letters over and looked up jack she aid cald would you ou eally cally do anything for mea even if it was silly and and awfully darf dangerous ercus just to prove to me that you ou like mea not to prove that I 1 I 1 ke you but that I 1 eve you yes he lie laughed a little at her serious face do you see that big rods rock out ir IT she let the soft sand trickle slowly through her sunburned fingers there she pointed to a larg rods rock lust just in the edge of the now low tide I 1 do you know when the tide la Is high it Is a long ong distance from the the water almost covers it and splashes around it and makes a ter noise does it ita he asked amused yes and unless one is a vry good swimmer one cannot possible possibly get in until the tide goes out again it if one Is 1 caught out there it would be b awful to stay there all night elinor shivered at the very though thought of it should she go on and what then 9 who aver ver I 1 out there all nighta he asked know ing well what was coming why why nobody she hesitated would you do ita do you ask me toa to he lie looked at her intently she was building a pyramid of sand 1 1 I d bel eve you if it you did she I 1 stroke by stroke she pulled out 0 0 ward the B a rock said at length and looked into his ees eyes to see how he would receive the suggestion and you d like to believe me ell cora nor tell me that but no don t III do it are we cot not living a bun hun dred sears years ago agoa elinor 1 I 1 hd now that he had premised promised to do it that she had not ua ed it suppose suppo e a storm should come up and the waves would dash y over th the rock and sv beep him off ond nd and he as not able to swim far enough to reach the shore jack she said a little nervously lets let s move forward a hundred years I 1 don t like it way back here 1 I 1 I might beleve you but jaca would not pass over the century so quickly he would do as she had asked him he would spend the night on the big rock and ahn s she he might believe him elinor sat in the window of their summer cottage on the shore and watched the tide come in wave by N save ave one by one the shadows fell and the figur out on the rock became less and less oll distinct at last she had to go cut to the beach to see it at all higher and higher grev grewe the water mark about the rock and yet the figure did not move it at on th topmost point looking out ofer oer the sound at last it was too dark to see the figure on the rod and elinor walked up a and nd down the beach in n front of the cottage she was cup opposed up posed to have retired but somehow it seemed to useless to pro pre end to sleep she wondered it if the ladles ladies in the centuries long a ao aci ci slept on as usual valle their knights were in danger 0 she wished tomorrow would come ahn she in live a again gain in the century the searchlight of a sound steamer was thrown on the rock and by its light she could cee the waves break and smas smash h about the ragged edges running close to the water waters s edge he looked up and down tor for a skiff one ope of the old flat boats she elie and jack so often fichel in finding one far up on the shore she dragged it down to the water and jumped in stroke by stroke she elie pulled cut out toward the big rock but the tide was strong and the boat heavy it seemed hours before she came anywhere near it jack jack she called I 1 im M 0 its such hard pulling elinor was all jack said as he took tool hold of the rope with one hand and hers with the other the place was not nearly so rough as it had looked from a distance jump in she said bat the night chasn t begun yet he rep led still standing on the rock what she almost gasped I 1 thought it must surely be morning and that it was never going to col got light it its s only 11 and thai that late years ago get in jack she said trapa or she hoped no one wae was oa oil the shore to see I 1 woula it if I 1 but knew know he said A mea n i n gly T then h e n know now jack and do eoma As jack walked home from the lit tie cottage that night he thought years ears was the shortest space of time imaginable he broke into a happy if I 1 but knew if I 1 but A knew ruby douglas in boston globe |