Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 13, 1911, Page 6

PAGE SIX o would be impossible for me #2 {a820e l - him 10 ask Myra ¢9 Lo his wife A lq 3 d through a childlike faith in an appari. ! R] A i‘an tion, But we women are made of dif- ferent stuff from men, and 1 could rely i 4 on Myra to believe in anything that i ]‘! e bad the appearance of being super- natural, especially if it pointed to a mate. A few days before Hallow- How | Made a Match on een, when she came to deliver milk to : | me, I said to her: ! Halloween “Myra, are you going to try to get a { glimpse of your future husband on | « | Halloween?” ! “I haven't thought of doing so,” she | replied consciously. “You don’t believe W { in that, do you?” 1 ° “Why not? There are lots of quees , On the coust of Maine is un island | things in the world. Is it any more ! ‘(Bailey’s island) where 1 have a sum- | wonderful that a girl should sce the man she will marry than that mes- sages may be sent through the air | without even a wire to conduct them?” R By Mrs. SARAH B. KGBZRTS Copyright by American Press Asso- ciation, 14 mer cottage. My place is on the cast side of the island. and on that side the Atlantic’s waves are unbroken by ang “I never thoughit of that.” Jand or shoals, so that they come| «pe 1 wore you, coming us you are singing in upon the rocks. Surround-|to a marriageable age, 1 would try ing the house, except on the sea side, | to get a glimpse of him.” are fir trees, whose odor hangs pleas-! “How?’ ‘ antly upon thie air, especially pure in! “oh, at 11 oclock on Halloween that region. The people who live on | night start somewhere, The first un- | Bailey's and on Orr's island, being | married man you meet you will mar- nest north of Bailey's, are mostly tish- | ry.” er folk, though seme of them do a lit-| “\Where shall 1 go’" tle farming in vegetables and milk, oI have it. Go out on the water. 1| The several summers during my oc- | have a small motorboat, which I will cupancy of my cottage a girl about | lend you. You can run it, can’t you?" seventeen years old—Myra Crofts was | “Yes, ma'am.” her name—brought me milk. She| *“Well, come here just before 11 drove about among her customers in lo'clock. The moon will be nearly fuil. a little buekboard wagon drawn by a |1 will start you out on the water, You small horse, so used to his mistress' | will pass but one person—i wan in stops that he would stand quietly { boat. e will be your hushand.” wherever he was placed. Myra was a The innocent creature’s face beanwed study for an artist. Her clothes were | with pleasure, She rezarded what 1§ of the poorest, but her face was|told her as probable, as 1 had myself comely and her figure fit for a model | many years before considered it possi- for a statue. 1 did my own house- | ble that with a bit of wedding cake work and used to reccive the girl at | under my pillow 1 would sce my own the kitchen door, and since 1 liked | future mate. her would always speak a pleasant | “Ile will be working at something,” word. One day 1 said to her: 1 continued, “but 1 can't just tell you “Myra, it seems to me that it I3 | what. You shall see for yourself.” nearly time you were getting a hus | “Qh, dear!” she gasped. putting her band.” hand to her heart. “Do you really +Qh, dear, no,” she replied, showing | mean 1t?” by a toss of her head that the subject| «come at half past 10." deeply interested her. “There's no one| mppe pext afternoon 1 saw Ned, who on the island who wants me, and 1| haq just awakened from his day's never go off it. And, as for the sum | giymper, and stopped to ask him bow wer visitors, the young men are all t00 pqayy mackerel he had taken the night much taken up with the visiting girls | petore. He told me, and I led the con- to notice one who peddies milk.” versation about through various 1 had my eye on a young fisher| ¢hames till I finally broke away from man, to whom [ had taken as much| wpae I was speaking of, saying: fancy as | had for Myra. During the| " «Ry the bye, Ned, do you know that months of July and August he gave|¢omorrow night is Halloween?”" his attention to the summer visitors,| «j gidn’t know it,” he said. taking them out in his motorboat,| wyoy don't believe in such things, but after they had gone he would re-| 55 voy o™ turn to his fishing. 1 went out with| . o0 o child.” lim frequently and had every confl-| w\oy “uhiid or no child, on Hallow- dence in his ability nsnsklm.ter. There een the girl you are to marry will ap- A ibblar ) ledges in Casco bay,| ...n'¢o wou while you are working and Ned Ballard could sail among with your uets.” them almost with bis eyes shut. 1 e smiled with the look of one who was once with bim In a fog some seven took but little interest in the matter or eight miles out to the eastward | o Halloween, but would mnot be numerous islands and reefs interven- averse to seeing a sweetheart. ing between us and home. Ballard “Remember,” 1 added, moving on brought me fnto port safely, never ly-| ., o, -y ¢ wife will i ing to for a moment, and when we elicyou.your fusure ‘). i past you tomorrow night. landed [ sald to him: o = " “How In the world did you do it?" n".‘\‘lre::ald WA AT b ‘*0h, to me,” he replied, “it's like your = = walking about in your own house In 1 gave him no reply. All was work- the dark. 1 notice the flow of the tide | 1€ Well for my plan. I only hoped by the direction of the buoys. | oc- that the weather would be propitiouns, casionally get a glimpse of a rock, a for should it storm or lllnlo,‘d sea be bols- bit of shore, a point, which confirms | terous all would be fl‘lwht . s me In my opinion as to where 1 am.” | A8 [ expected, when Myra came to me on ‘Halloween she was as be. This was all unintelligable to me, for 1 had during the whole period scen comingly dressed as her scanty ward- nothing but that driving fog so com- robe would admit. I had procured a mon on that coast, flower during the day, which 1 put io It occurred to me that Ned Ballard her hair, and replaced her tawdry wrap and Myra Crofts would make a good [ With a white sweater. The nights match, Ned brawny and strong, Myra are chill on Casco bay, even in sum- a fine specimen oryn countr;' ;flrl. yso mer, and in October they are cold. But fnterested was 1 in bringing the two| MyT2 had the warm blood of youth in togethier by a plan 1 conceived that het veins, and T knew n sweater when the season ended and the other would keep her perfectly comfortable. summer residents and visitors departed | Fortunately lher.t' was no wind, and 1 stayed on. For a few days after the the sky was covered ouly by broken hegira from country to city 1 feit clouds that rendered the heavens more lonely at the changed appearance the | beautiful, lighted, as they were. by [ , but as soon as I be- the moon. ::El‘::n nmkst::‘ned !to the new regime 1 took my charge down to a stony 1 felt more pleasure in my surround- beach, where, there being ouly a long. fngs than ever. There was above me low ocean swell, 1 had moored it. She the great blue dome of the heavens, got in, and as I pressed her hand at about me the waters of the bay, and starting I noticed that she was thrilled_ it 1 | with emotion. 1 pushed off the boat, -:“b,lr:::;h‘;:‘d|2::||2l:|%‘:_' e i telling her to steer for the north point § ringing | °f Ragged island. I could myself sce A.;" "‘"‘:‘:’ ;’::o':;{;cfie;:&;:: hl ivn: Ned's boat between me and the point, obliged to stay till after Tallowees, :::ltl\-nllo’;:: t:uI: s‘:\:xldm“lln:: ::Tl::: in i :::‘;(“l‘::“ thn)tl;l::“:; gw::y;ow::‘ I;:::‘ so | Into the moonlight I sent a prayer after frequent now since Ned Ballard was her that she would find a husband and . happiness. engaged with his fishing, His work N was in the night, and he slept by day. | (I)e:;rl::;:lalpt[::\:‘:;le &:‘hzl:‘nfifim B Gl pelndipety B BRSO 1 confess,” he said, “that until I got spreading his nets at set UL RSN to work ut.uug my nets 1 thought of taking them up at its rising, and when 1 had told me, though 1 did Yucky would find them well filled with :oln:l r{:‘lln :f ke comine o phuk. ik fish., which he sold at a haadsome o . Y . as soon as I was busy 1 forgot all E:l:;ml‘l‘:'ktol:i I?.I:o::::n:. bt about it. Then I beard the explosions v’ rare out Moonlight nights were his favorite ?Ifm:e :‘:fi:m: s‘m?"‘:v’“; a :ew:n- ::::Iet 'l?y li::l'.mhl'ht(:’m w‘;:: s;."::'d::: dered who was coming. When (‘:le‘:)ont ’ eame near me I looked up, and there, “nough for the fish down in the water her face lighted by the moon, standing to see the mets in which their fins _ a . with one bhand on the tiller, was Myra Pore iUt 1 hiive BUSE SR S Crofts. 1 was taken flat aback. between my cottage and Ragged| ™ " b o :s‘;;ml—so called from its ragged shore Why, Myra;’ 1 exclaimed, h“ h-nl: —and when his boat would lie in the | brines you out here in the night a moou’s shimmer 1 could almost recog- | Alone? nizo the silhouette of his tigure. “She answered never a word, just That year Halloween came at the| looking at we strangely out of her fall of the moon. 1 had thought of | éves, as though moved by some deep inviting Ned and Mygra to my cottage feeling. Iler boat passed .mme and, unknown to each other and contriv- | turning, moved in the moon’s shimmer ing to have them see each other’s re- toward the narrow waterway between flection in mirrors, but Ned was hav-| Orr’s and Bailey's islands. 1 could see fng such luck with his fishing and the| it go through and turn northward, light of the moon was so valuable to doubtless to the anchorage cove a lit- l him that 1 could not prevail upon him| tle farther up.” to give me even one night. So I was It was Myra's faith that she had obliged to invent another plan. seen the man she was to marry tl}at Ned kmew very little about Hal-| brought success to my scheme. Ned ! loween. He had heard of it, but did could not resist her innocent belief. pot know that on that evening girls The next spring the pair were married, were liable to get a vision of the man and I was a much interested spectator they would marry. There was no at the ceremeay. My wedding gift was superstition about him, and I knew it a cottage. THE EVENING TBLEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA., DEC. 13, 1911. $5000 Worth of Ladies’ Ready-to- Wear to Close, at BARDIN'S From Dec.12th to Jan. Ist My stock is too much for this time of year Boughttooheavyonsome articles RICES on every article in the entire stock will be cut. Some Coats, Cloaks, Capes, Sweatel:s, Shirt Waists, Etc., will be sold BELOW COST. Remem- ber The Ladies’ Store--Bardin’s. Coat Suits, Coats, Cloaks, Capes, Sweaters, Dresses, Kimonas, Hose, Ties, Shirtwaist Muslin, Silk Underwear, Corsets. PRICES WILL BE MARKED DOWN Come and see! What is nicer to give for an Xmas present than a nice Kimona, a Silk Underskirt, a pair of Silk or Kid Gloves, a nice Shirt Waist, some Silk Hose, a Silk Scatt. Auto Veil. Wool Fascinator, a set of Beauty Pins, Linen Handkerchiefs or one of those new Ties or Collars. It is impossible to quote prices on all the articles to be found here. JUST A REMINDER 50 $1.00, $1.25 and $1.50 Shirtwaist, . .. $§ .69 Our $8.50 and §10 White Serge Dresses closed at $5.49 24 $2.0% Silk Underskirts, . . . . 189 10 Long Coats, regular price §2.93 to $1%, fiom S1.89 up to . . ‘ . A 10 00 24 §3.45 Fancy Outing Kimonas, . . . 249 Remember 6 oz, bottles of Peroxide Hydrogen. 12 §3.48 Silk Kimonas, . . . . . 249 (some stores charge 25c for 4 oz, bottles) . 0 Also Colgates Cashmere Boquet and Violet Tal cum Powder, the regular 25c boxes, lic ordfe § . . ‘ A ' 150 50c and 7ic Ladies’ Ties, Jabots and Collars, to close, . y . . . . . I8 50 Silk, Satin and Serge Dresses at a Price That Will Surprise You ‘o S 1] A Chance to Get Your Xmas Presents Cheap Bryant Block, # Lakeland, Fla.