| Show if I 1 but knew elinor glanced roguishly at the young man sitting dejectedly beside her on the sand at milton point you may have as many min minutes as this sand takes to run through my fingers she said taking up a handful of warm white sand from the beach and then if you continue to be disagreeable and cross ill well never mind regret it mr jack robinson she let the soft sand trickle slowly through her sunburned sun burned fingers like a minute glass as she hummed carelessly softly if it I 1 but knew the young man turned impatiently and looked out across the broad expanse of water how easily tho the white winged yachts skimmed over the water he ile wished bis his little craft ot of love would run so smoothly elinor he said turning to her will you stop singing that song when your present lit of III temper blows over she retorted watt washing hing tho the last few grains of sand fall from her fingers if I 1 but knew know your heart was true she hummed on lg bornig him see here what can I 1 do to prove to you that I 1 am sincere he watched her dust the sand from her pretty palm do you make me feel like a princess vrin cess of ye olden kime then all 1 pv I 1 2 t it she let the soft sand trickle slowly through her sunburned fingers brave knights won fair ladles ladies by acts of courage but nov 01 yes now he said looking up ap at her eagerly 0 now we dont even take a mans word for anything and elinor laughed a merry captivating laugh which chased away the frowns from jacks brow he could never be angry with her for long suppose we play we are living years ago she said after a minute ill play anything you like 1118 1 and do anything I 1 like she asked looking at him dubiously her tone was half serious half playful anything he replied firmly that is provided accept that as proof that I 1 love you ivo said all I 1 can to no avail elinor did not reply nor leek look up she was tracing her name in the sand thinking she had tried to beliey believe jack but somehow at times sho doubted that he really meant all hd ho said he was such a serious sort of A ii fellow and she 0 she was frivolous frivol our and scatterbrained scatter brained according to tn her own estimate of herself why should he love her and yet why shoud should bo ho say so it if he dirt did not at last she covered the sand loiters lotters over and looked up jack she ohe said would ou really do anything for nib me even if it was silly and ani and awfully dangerous just to prove to me that you like me not to prove that I 1 like you but that I 1 love you yes ho he laughed a lit little ie at her serious face do you see that big rock out jut there she pointed to a large rok k just in the edge of the now low tide 1 I do ft you know when nhen the tide is high it is a long distance from the shore the water almost covers it aud splashes around it and makes a noise does it he asked amused yes and unless one is a very goon swimmer one cannot possibly get in until the tide goes out again if anle on is caught out there it N bo be awful to stay there all night elinor shivered at the very thought of it should she go on and what then who ever stayed out there all alb night ht he asked knowing well what was comilia com colln ilig why why nobody sho she hesitated would you do it do ou ask me to he looked at tit be he intently she was building a pyramid of sand 1 I id believe you if you did she said at length and looked into hia ees 0 es to see how he would receive the suggestion and like to befit me elinor tell me that but no dont donot ill do it aro are we not living a hundred years ago elinor einor wished now that he had promised to do it that she had not asked it suppose a storm should 4 come up and the dav waves m over the rock and sweep him 01 it and he was not able to swim enough to reach the shore jack she said a 11 little tle nervous lets move forward a hundred adred ye yea I 1 dont like it way ba back here i might believe you but jack would not pass over avero overo century so ao quickly he would mould do she had asked him he mould sp the night on the big rock and t she might believe him elinor sat in the window of thi ad summer cottage on the shore 0 watched the tide come in wave vave wave one by one the shadows and the figure out on the rock b beca ec less and less distinct at last a had to go out to the beach to see at all higher and higher grew the he T mark about the rock and yet J figure did not move it sat oa on topmost point looking out over sound I 1 at last it was too dark to sea see a figure on the rock and elinor wa up and down the beach in front ont of 0 cottage she was supposed to in retired but somehow it seemed useless to pretend to sleep she wondered it if the ladies in centuries long ago slept on a a while their knights were in ea tp 0 she wished tomorrow ow would mould c when she might live again in i twentieth century the searchlight of a sound stil was thrown on the rock and t light she could see the waves and smash about the ragged edd edlet running close to the waters 0 4 she looked up and down for a it ii one of the old flat boats she jack so of often ten fished in finding i 1101 f 9 stroke by stroke she pulled out 6 ward the big rock zar far up tip on the shore she dragged down to the water and jumped stroke by stroke she pulled toward the big rock but the tide strong and the boat heavy it see beet hours before she came anywhere it jack jack she called 1 I its such hard pulling elinor was all jack said U to took ok hold of the rope with one n and hers with the other TI the ie A p was not nearly so rough as it looked from a distance jump in she said but the night begun ha he replied still standing on tha n what she almost gasped thought it must surely bo be mao mort and that it wag was never going to light its only 11 and that 10 0 years ago get in jack she said tient ly she hoped no one v WO the shore to see 1 I would if I 1 but knew know LO bei then know jack and do cors As jack walked home from t tie tle cottage that night ho he thought years was the shortest space of imaginable he broke into a b whistle if I 1 but knew if I 1 knew ruby douglas in globe oil |
