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THE MORNING ASTOIUAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. t
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Business.
B.r A rfAof Venmor.
OwrlBht, JM. 1V 0, II, nictmrti-
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'IS will gu tn Iletmlow lUwU
III In summer," nit Id my
wlfsi "Wo will cotix John
t Kit w ith "un, There me
always u trcf.it many nice girl there.
Hud who know what nwiy lwi-tt '"
John I uiy wife's hruttjor. He Im ii
quiet, rdlrtug young aiao and very
lniHliftil, ; Hi doe uot cure for girl.
At k'ltM he nay lip ilmnn't. - ;
..My 'wife fiinl ber mother thought
Joint ought lo imtrry Ihtuunv lie wan
thirty mid received a snlury of t'2M
H y i'U r, They throw hint lit blm for
yenr or two. uml Hint tli'y cnuiu out
Into the tiiiii uml argued with him.
Hut John wtlil In' vn very comforta
bly ultuiitiit In Imihelor U in ter.
My wife showed leu tfiiltiilMiiNiu
over the nmiter. I think xhe fenced
uhn would end. iim youim (lien who
keen aloof from .vimiiiu indie, ami oii-
ciuonuy imn t uiiuerxtniiu me game,
comiimniv un. nr iiiiirryiiiu Home en-
. , . .. ....... . .,1 ,.. ...
nreiy iuiimwhiiih' Hrmiii, rruiiuuijt sue
not the HeiiHlmv tent h plot, In niolloii
merely to liuiinir her uioiher. Nobody
who knew John and looked at the nit
untlon In iiuythluu it'iriiohlng an un
binned way timid liuatrlne that he
would bo In iiuy danger nt lleimlmv,
For my own unit. I knew thai lie would
take a dip eotinileiitlouly every day.
spend the rent of hi time In untidy
nook reddidit the nix best selling nov
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Ing Incrwfsed by o fu'uclf It lngl
one the number of hi acquaintance.
When I made that calculation I had
never heard of tbe Cub tie girl, I law
her flint on tie evening we arrived.
fSlie-woi sitting at tbe end of tbe botel
pluzza, and John wn vented near ber.
They were engaged lo conversation,
I felt it my duty to And out wbo tbe
girl wa. 1 didn't Intend to let my In
nocent young brother-in-law fall Into
tbt clutcbe of a dc-Mltcnlng woman, f
found that the we a daughter of Tom
Castle of Chicago, wbo bad been a
millionaire, hut, owing to an ambltlou
attempt to' corner tbe pork ' market,
wn one uo longer; alto I learned that,
betide being remarkably pretty, the
wat cultured, rollned and educated.
At the Drt opportunity I atked Jobn
how be had become acquainted with
ber, tie didn't teem to know, lie
hadn't trade any advances, be aold,
and he wa dure tbo bndn't They bad
Just happened to meet Then be be
gan talking about affinities and tome
other rot,, and I taw the dlteote bad
attacked hlni.
"Now. tee here," ald I. ... "You don't
know anything about girl. If you did.
loan took ax oab ahd mures on.
you would aeo that abe'a juat flirting
with you."
But It did no good to warn blm. Be
Insisted that tbe wa tbe nicest girl
wbo ever hnpiM-ued and that the would
at oan commit murder at trifle with a 'llgblful period and to discuss bands In
man' affections'. ! general. Well, among other tbluzs. the
"Very well," wild I. "It mutt be j girl knew all about bund, and she
aouie time, and It may at well bo now, ; would spend an hour at a time dls
eusisiiiK wiiu mm me career ,oi
aid she would be Just delighted to do
to. John bad never rowed a boat, but
of course that didn't matter.
Jobn braced an oar agalntt tbe pier
and puttied off. The Impetu tent the
boot perbnpt fifteen feet out Then,
with an nlr of determination, he grasp
ed the oart. He let one of them fall
lightly into the water and pulled very
hard. Tbe remit wa that be lifted the
oar Juat above the girl' ear and turned
bait a pint of water down the back of
her nock. Sue -smiled.' but ber smile
teemed to luck spontaneity, tie took
n fling at tho other oar and deposited
another half plut iu ber lap. These
little Irregularities mado him nervous
and embumtMMcd, to that at the next
ttroko be iuIhwk! the water altogether,
and tho onr twung around and ttruck
her on the tide of the bead with great
force. About this time be lost bis bal
ance, fell backward and wa about to
disappear Id the briny depths when tbe
girl opportunely graped bit feet and
restored blm to equilibrium. Then she
tlfnmt ber sleeve above her elbows,
Kclzod the oart and rowed tbo boat to
tbe pier,
.After that adventure I felt pretty
sure tbe girl bad conceived a real lik
ing for John. Of course i hadn't tbe
remotest Idea why. I Imagined that
after the boating Incident tbe girl
would cease ber effort to. make Jobn
happy. She didn't, so 1 knew it was
no mere flirtation.
Tbe more I taw of tbo Castle girl the
better I liked ber. She wa very ver
satile and correspondingly popular.
She played golf and tennis, rode a bi
cycle, understood sailing a yacht and
was quite at borne as a chauffeur.
Then, ugnlu. ber stock of miscellaneous
Information was truly wonderful.
Senator Hluuklnt was at the hotel tbut
tiimmer. lie' Is for tariff revision.
The girl dlm-nnned reciprocity end tbe
reduction of duties with 'him. She
tnid tho thought the Dlnglcy tariff act
tbe most inliultous piece of legislation
that bad ever tarnlabed a statute book.
After Blenkhw went away ex-Governor
Wbltniyer ran down for a week. Whit
uiyer is a Ktand patter. So was the
CiiKtle glrl-tlmt week. She said only
an enemy of bis country would con
sider lowering a duty on anything.
This show wbut an adaptable, com
panionable 'girl the wat. She could
dlM-uts any mau't bobby Intelligently,
whether It happened to be amateur
photography, postage stamp. or golf.
Now, John' bobby wat military
bnndt. Before bo moved to the city
he waa solo cornetlst In the Beaming
ton brass baud. Ho enjoyed an envia
ble reputation In that part of tbe state.
It relieved bis mind a great deal to In
dulge In reminiscences of that de-
sidetrack. She was sure ho wouldn't
say that she bad done anything to en
courage him.
John Hod loyally and said she bad
not .
"I knew you didn't care for me," said
bo, "but I couldn't help telling you, all
this.. I'm a fool. That what I am,
a"- ":' ,
"Ob, no!" Interrupted the girl. "1
think you're really a very sensible fel
low. Why, you should have beard
Cbarlle-rbut of course I mustn't tell."
Then tbe held out her band to Jobn,
bestowed a look of deep sympathy
upon blm and said sbo was very, very
lorry for blm.
.John told me the whole atory. He
ttill felt that ho had bad a fair deal.
I didn't, ond I made aeverai unkind
remarks about tho Castle girl.
Probably she inferred from my man
tier when we met next morning that
John bad told me whst had occurred
the previous evening and that I
thought be bad Just cause for com
plaint, whatever bis view of it might
be. At any rate, she came over to tbe
corner of tbe dining room where I was
standing just before my departure and
began conversation.
"I suppose be bat told you all about
It," tbe tald.
"He bat," said I. .
"Perhaps you think I flirted with
blm," she went on. ..
"I do." sold I. v "
"I didn't mean any barm," said she.
"Girl never do." tald I.
"If an exceptional case," said she.
"Can you keep a secret?'
"As well us the next man and better
than any woman," said I.
She looked about ber a trifle fear
fully as though she bad an Idea wbs;t
slie was about to say might be over
beard. "Suppose we go out on the piazza,"
she said.
We bad the greater part of tbe piaz
ea to ourselves. I tried to remain In
dignant at her, but I made an otter
failure of It. She bad a trick -of smil
ing at you and acting as though she
regarded you In tbe light of a big
brother In whom she could safely con
fide that was Irresistible. .
"You see." she said, "papa was quite
wealthy ouee. but he took a plunge In
tbe market and lost It all. He's In the
while you nre young and have a strong
constitution."
Tbe Castle girl wa certainly very
nice to John when you take Into con
sideration what a clumsy, awkward
fellow he was and how unkindly na
ture hud dealt with him touching bis
face. She played croquet with blm all
the next forenoon, and In the after
noon, when he asked her If she would
like to, go out rowing with blm, she
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Once, I recollect, sbe was Interrupted
la the midst of ono of these conversa
tions by a young lawyer wbo bad heard
that the was omniscient and wanted to
know if she could state the rule in
Shelley's case. She could and did. She
said perhaps be would like to know
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He said be wouldn't trouble ber for
that and went away.
Meantime Jouns condition grew
steadily worse. He even fell into the
rhyming habit, and be would sit on
the bote) piazza long after senstble
people were In bed, dreaming of heroic
deeds. Although he did uot say so di
rectly, I know from chance remarks be
made that he rather hoped tbe Castle
girl would go beyond her depth some
time while bathing so that be could
save her life.
Toward the end of the first week
John and tbe girl chanced to be In tbe
turf at the same time. John is a
splendid swimmer, His style of twlm-
mlng is what youths In country places
call dog puddle.
When I first saw John that morning
be was swimming valiantly toward the
diving float, which is anchored a short
distance from shore. After be had
taken about a dozen strokes he became
tired. Ha tired quite easily. So he
stopped swimming and stood on the
bottom. He, had made a slight miscal
culation ns to the flepth, and the wa
ter reached above bis eyes. He began
to' shout that he was drowning and
begged piteously for help. The Castle
g'.rl heard him, and so did three or
four others, who started to aid him.
The Castle girl called them back. She
swam out to him and towed him Into
shallow water. ,
John explained that there was a pe
culiar undercurrent in that place which
just wound around a fellow's legs like
a rope and held him fast - Of course
even the most powerful , swimmer
would suocumb to It.
We were leaving Henslow on Satur
day morning. Friday afternoon John
told me he had made up his mind to
propose to the Castle girl. He wanted
my advice as to the best style to adopt.
Some doubt existed lu his mind as to
whether it would be wisest to use
blunt brevity, metaphor or carefully
stated but plain and businesslike ar
gument. He uIbo desired my opinion
as to the result I advised In favor of
the plain, common sense style.
In tho evening John found an op
portunity to unbosom himself. . He
tpld her bow domestic his tastes were,
how he longed to settle down, what bis
salary was and bow much the president
of his bank thought of him and ended
by asking her to take, a .matrimonial
chance with him. '
The girl said It had never occurred
to her that John thought of her In that
way. She said If she had so much ns
suspected that h$was traveling In that
direction she would have set a switch
open for blm and landed hlsi safolv on
"I FELT I Mt'BT DO SOMETHING."
real estate business now. That's the
final refuge, you know the last stop
ping place on tbe route to the alms-house-the
real estate business or per
haps canvassing for life insurance.
"I felt I must do something. Papa
didn't wish it, but I insisted. Still I
didn't know what to do. I bad never
studied shorthand, and I bated tne
thought of being a telephone operator.
One day a frleud of mine who knew
my perplexity said to me: 'Why don't
you go somewhere as a social enter
tainer? Eleanor Brackett has done
grandly nt it.
'"And what might' a social enter
tainer be?" said I.
' 'Why.' she said, 'at summer hotels.
you know, there are apt to be people
who are reserved and unsocial and
others who form cliques. The result Is
tUat a great many guests go away dls
satisfied and say the place Is dull and
the people who frequent It disagree
able, and of course that damages the
hotel proprietor's chance of heavy pat
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guests, breaks up cliques, pulls the
clammy and retiring people out of their
corners and pushes them Into conver
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mixed up and lively.
" 'It looks like n rather large order.
said I.
'"It is,' said she. "but you can All it.
You get the best of everything at the
hotel and a good salary besides, ; Elea
nor has turned down half a dozen g:xd
offers for this summer. She can find
you an opportunity, and after a season
or two you'll do awfully well.'
"I spoke to Eleanor about It. and she
told me the proprietor" of thi Look
away House at Henslow Heneh had
one of these posftious open. I wrote tti
him, and he said 1 could come ou uml
try It and If I did well 1 'should !
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Mlfll H 1 1 1 1 II II 1 1 tutu Mil 1 1 IMliMIMIM
he. 'Start Iu on faltxi. I don't know
.'anything nbqut him. but be looks like
a fair subject for n test. If you can
draw him out of his shell and get him
to dance about and spend his money
foolishly, as a young man should, I'll
employ you regularly.' , :
"So I Just did the best I could to give
Mr. Slmpkins a good time.. I never
once thought of flirting with him, and
I didn't dream he was taking things so
seriously. I did so want to make
good." v
''Well, you've certainly dona it,"
said I.
"I do feel sorry for Mr. Slmpklnsi;
tnougn. win ue reany taKe it verj
hard, do you think? Those quiet chaps
often have it the worst, you know.
Why, I remember Harry, but of course
I mustn't tell." s
I detected Just the slightest naughty
lowering of her eyelid.
"He said he'd never be the same man
again," she said.
I thought of several idiotic Incident
in John's past life.
!'I hope he won't." sail I.