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Show I II I j "M I Dut Knew" - II I Alitor M.r.n.1 ii r il My at the fr.ur nm n nuns; il ..ct.-illy hesldo ler en the Hind ;,t Milion p.ilut. "Veil n-.i h.ic .is niiiny iiniiutes !' ' '."' I ti i ' lo nm throui;h hiy fiier i .," rle ;i .1, t a 1.1 nt up ft hanjt il i f wiii i. i. n i lie land liom the b-aih. "A i i! liicn If ou con-tin con-tin ts to ho it; mrc ;:l.lo nr,l cro.-s. l' "-r i'.:i,l. J.iull ri'tret It. Mi. Junk K, .;. . " flu- let the f..,i ....I trickle slowly tlli-1 her nm hu ied lingeia like a rill ire clii .s . s-,. I mini, . , rnio-lei rnio-lei -ly. n f i iy. -i( 1 it I. ,.,v." '1 bo joiing , ,i:i tii.u.-d lini-atlenlly I ! Itnd Its 1 1 il i lit it 1 1 1 : tin- l.n id ex- I ' a i f v..it, r. llc-.v ca ily thn j wh.tm'.ri.e.l .i,l is i.: limn, d over' Ih - iter. I'. v, . 1.., i,t ilo ci.ift ! I1' " "! rut, n. l.ly. I "lllli r," I .. , ,1 imi.ii e to her, "w i'l il Ft, u ill Unit .nn;:" j "V.l :, jot-r p. nt 111 oi 111 ti int er j hltr.vi hut," i he lei. lied, w.il, lill'g I'.ie list lev g a.i-s i f -ami full Imui her (; -rs. "if I hut l.i ,- your hr-i t t.. i true." i lu huiutiiid on. Ig- Ir.oi i 'i 1 in. ".-is i io. what cm 1 do to provo lo y.u (hat I am slmon-?' ll wat I rd l er dust ti e sand from her iueity r ,!in. "I n? Vou make nio leel llko ft prim --is i f 'ye old il llnie.' Then ' tuiive it chin wen lair lailli-s by acts : of r, nr e. but now" I "Vci, now?" ho raid, looking up at her enrrrly. I L ""Ji n wo ilnn'l even tak-j a man' I uoVTHor ciilhing." Art li liiiirhcj, a tii'-rry, i aptlvulltig I ... , w li Ich. chafed away tho Trow its f-fc Jack's brew. He could never bo ang. with hrr for lory;. , "Suppi.io we play wo aro living 1(I j.urs ago," sho snlii, after ft m niite. Til play anything you like." "And do nro ll. lie, ill ,-7" she ask-td. ask-td. lisiklpg at him diili'-ueiy. Her toi o ns hull m'i Ions, hsif tiiuj fill. "Atij thing," bo rcpiii-l, llnnly Tbnt In piovlded yi.uil ueieet tint n proof ti nt 1 li vo you. I've suhl all I run lo no avail." l.lltii r did not reply nor look up; fb? wbs trncli-g her mitiio In the snnil -thltil Ing. thn had tried lo believe Jsik, but, si.mrhow, nt limes, she doubled that bo really meant all he said. "Ho was ueh a serious sort nf a fellow, and sho O, rho was frivolous ir.d scatter-brained, according to her own eiilnialo of hemelf. Why should lis love her? And ynt, why shtiuld ho isy so if he did nor! At lust she rovere.1 the sand letters over and looked up. "Jack." she id. "would you really do anything or me? Kvou If It was silly and and awfully dai'gi-reus Just to prove to nie that you llko me?" "Not lo provo Ihnt 1 like you. bill 11 at 1 h vo you yei." llo laughed a Utile at her serious fine. "1 0 you see that big rock out I t'r-- ,'!..:! ;-'.' r? Y ' -' ' pmfi. -f, . S.'sj ' - 6 ha Let the Soft Sand Trickle Slow!;' Through Her Sunburned Flnnor. tlurl?" bbo pointed to ft largs rock Ju it tn the eil;.e of the now low tide. 1 do." "Von know when the tide 1 high It Is 1 long dlstunrn from the chore? The water almost covers It and spltitliea nrouud It and makes tr rli.le noire." iie-a It?" be asked, amused. 'Vfii. and unlesii oi-e U ft vry good swltnii.er ore caiinol possibly get u until tbo tide l.oes out agalu. If on Is caught out there It would be awful to stay thero till night." Fllnor fhivere.l nl the very thought of It. Should she go on? "And what then? Who ever stayed out thero all night?" ho ftvkod. knowing know-ing well what was coming. "Why why, nobody," sho hesitated. "Wi ill, I you do It?" i "Do you ni-k inn to?" 1 In looked t her l-itently. Hho was building ' pyrnmld of sand. i "I I'd believe, you If you did." ho Stroke by Stroke She Pulled Out To ! ward the 8ig Rock. said ftt length, and looked Into his ' c)cg to see how bo would recelvo tho su geilon. "And you'd bko to believe mo, ICI1- nor? Tell mo that but. no, don't: I II do It. Aro we nut living hun- , lll.r.or wl ln d now that he had ; pr. li, ml lo do It, Hint she bad nut , a. i.e.! It. Supplier a rtorni should eoiiu, up in, I tho waves would li.uh over the rock niul sv.ii-p lilui off and and he wan not aide to swim far enough to reach tho shore. "Jack." the suld, little nervously, "let's move forward a hundred years; I don't llku It wuy hack here. I I might believe you." Hut Jack would not pas over the century so quickly. He would do as alio had asked li 1 in ; be would spend the night on the big rock and tb-D she might believe bim. Fllnor sat In Hie window of their summer cottage on tho shnro and wati bed the tide come in. wave by wave. One by one tho shadows fell and tho figure out on tho rock became leva and b-ss distinct. At last she hud to gu out to the beach to seo It at nil. Higher and higher giew the wnter mark almut tho rock nnd yet tho llgiiin did not move; II nil on th t npiiKiHt ,lm, looking out over the tuuuil. At Inst It wns too dark to see tho llguro on Ilio roek nnd Kllnor walked up mid down Hie beach In front of the col luge, t-iio was Hippon-d to havo retired, but niniehow It seined to iltolci-s to prclei.d to sleep. the woi'iknd If the ladies In tho ci-utuiles lull,; ii ii slept on us unuul while their l-nli Ins weio In danger. (), she wbhed ti. morrow would route whn ihu might live again lu the twentieth cci tury. Tho te.in lilli lit of a sound stenmer was tlirowu tn thn rock, and by Its light fho cimiIiI see the wine break ai.d smash u'.u ut tho ragged edges. Huntilng close tu tho wuter' edgo, ..ha linked up and down for skirf, one of tho old Hat bonis she nnd Jnck so oiien ll-hcd In. Finding one lur up on tho uhuro, ho dragged It down lo tho water and Jumped Id. Btrnke by stroko she pulled out toward tho big rock, but the tldo wus utrung and the boat heavy. It Deemed hours beforo sho camo auywhore near IU "Jack, Jack I" she called, "rm O it's such hard pulling " "Kllnor," wns all Jack said ft he took hold of tho rope with ono bsnd and bona with Iho other. The plure was not marly so tuiigh ft It bad hoked from ft dblnncc. "Jump In," alio sultl. "l!-.it tho night ha.m't begun yet," he replied, I'HII hIii n.lti tc en tho roek. "What." rho uluiosi gasped. "1 thought It niu..t kuuiy be morning and Hint It wns never going h got liittit- "H's only 1 1 - - Mild thai wasn't lata lurt year" urn." ' (i.i ic. .luck sho snlil, Impsv tliiiily. Sin- hoped no onu wu oa the shore to see. "I won1:!, if I but knew,' " be ald, ' 8 ... inenningly. '"rhen l.now. Jack and do come." , As .In-k walked home from the lit- . tie cottnie Hint nlcht ho thought 100 ' . v.-nrs was the idiort.-sl s,.no of lima iniiuiTialile, He biol.e into si hupp? i whlile: "If 1 but knew-If I but I', I new 1 " Huhy lumglns In llostoii Clohe. 7 . .. , |