Show IN THE MORNING 6 by EDNA MARY BOOTH ca 1134 ty mcclur N e iam was as upon treadwell beach T two 0 persona persons moved slowly elatic cue at it the watery mattes edge the one going east us afung vr nal garl the theman man who met her and und passed her was young too in passing abi y had looked at each other with some intentness the girl girls a upa lips had curved to a smile ind d into her eye eyes had come tf 9 swift touch of eagerness the man bad had MISI raised id his cap when he reached her lier he tood near her aud and took off oa ble his cap esp tucking it out of eight in bis his folded ana arms before ha he poke spoke to her are you looking for something that he baked with easy friendliness she glanced up at han with an am ex pres of seriousness that w was la in combat ith the dimple dimples la in ber her soft pink cheeky cheeks im lm juat playing with stith the seaweed and I 1 alove loe to poke among the T la um am fi tally eally doru dou on an the bach beach to look tor for hilly billy 1 I look every august billy I 1 what billy the maa man asked weking eking a firmer touting totting upon the band sand billy Is a little boy I 1 used to kaow I 1 mean he was is 4 little boy when I 1 orel knew hi lit a was that long ago HI ills eye eyes narrowed aul little linen came into bb fore liend ax a be ile asked aked the question loa sixta years and it a tea ten years since I 1 ve seen him sixteen yeara years ten years 1 exploded the young man how you roll off time urne one would think you were fifty again bhe she glanced up from the tangle of sea seaweed eed at her feet 1 1 I m twenty bhe she eald said im old enough to know better than to be talking to a stranger like this talal then why do you he lie asked a teasing note coming into his voice but ehe she was serious again she swung out ber her wet to cover sea and shore 1 I think that it la is the stow day that must take the blame ite we too new for forma forms or conventions and we W are alone we might be on a deserted shore ana aud tha cottages lifeless as they seem the hills beyond lie ile turned and looked where she was looking but he poke spoke lightly I 1 I 1 see e smoke coming from a chimney on the place where I 1 am staying bhe flung back quickly afis it edme this very minute 11 with a coo cool I 1 note coming into her voice she went on slowly so you are staying with the Clay yes N here are you staying I 1 she swung out her stick toward the west t I 1 over beyond the creek I 1 am with my aunt youve forgotten about billy 1 eald said the young man you yott ve not told me why by you are seat beaconing ching for him 1 I just want to see him again ehe she ex explained girlishly we used to play together on the beach from morning until night where Is be now bowl it if I 1 knew where he Is do you think fd be here looking tor for him she queried without turning her head heal ouch 1 she muttered a moment later and gave a spring to a higher place the tide Is coming in she announced nm looking down at her wet feet you bauw the tide was wits coming ln iti you were too near the sea is some thing you cant tant he gave gava voice to a quick I 1 ludw and hastened on your name Is lydia you said so did you noti nott 1 I mentioned my aunt lydia she explained quietly tell me about billy he said she clapped ber her haul hald over ber her knees billy was the nicest boy that ever eter lived she began when his mother died he came here to live with his he was eight u ye J and I 1 wae was four father kept the drug store here then ue he has a drug store where ve me live now but that isa t about billy ie Is it billy and I 1 tell fell in ld love at first sight right she threw out a little laugh thai that rippled over the water the man began tn to make a pyramid ct of sand we ine lived orl on a little way from here she salo said with a wave 0 of bet band hand toward the road every day we possibly could we were down on thic thip beach to play billy took good care of me she paused for a moment he ile was fourteen when hie his father tock took hloi him to the other side of the conti nent before he went billy and I 1 came here that billy might say may good ba W to tho th beach it was an extremely sor kor roami occasion because it wee was my birthday and wed always bad had su sub b lovely times on my birthdays billy was as solemn as solemn could be and eald isaid that some birthiar birthday birth dar wed meet again on this his beach and then wed we d be old enough to get pt married aud and id be hi his wife and wed never have to part again I 1 think it was because he wa was going away from a place that he loved a that made billy talk like that tor he the silly kind do you think that vas r asked the man tor for chilan n flo aw the girt girl returned quickly but something in the way bluy billy mid bald it made roe rne remember and S think bed hed come my tart lain four birtty birt dayt days walked on treadwell bea beat beah h early in the morning roo billy loved early in the abe man aa still watching the gull on tbt reek 1 iu I S no vu 1 ins any more to look for amly the man turned d suddenly reached d out J and bought per her to mm you art not any tiny more to for intile bebau be caulle youve you ve found him eb ladlar |