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LARK I'UUM Y KXAMINKK, LAktV iKW, UUF.UON, TIIUKHHAY, FKU. 1. :H.g TWO Lady wepy Across the Water By C N. 6 A. M. WILLIAMSON 0 cor y right. i9o. by mcclure. rmturs co. 0 0 yy Oiapter9 ' .,TT.I IS. ESS KAY bad a head ache next morning and stopped lu bed. She couldn't speak or be spoken to, and so we uuiuu't pcssibly ask her advice about going to Uailcy's beach for a dip lu the sea. Potior, whose proposal It ms, said that mis was perhaps provi dential, us she was almost ceruiu to waut uie to stay In till 1 could betakou at ollicially. "But you uou't need to know that," he luliicd. I looked at Sally, and she laughed. o I knew that I was to go. "Oh, but what about bathing clothes: 1 exclaimed ou suJJen thought. "Uow Atupid of uie not to have re- i urmbered that I wi r.id want tbeti) ' SWore 1 left home or in New York!" j "1 reckon It would have been stupid j t us If we hadn't remembered." said Rally. Then she weut on. lrrelerautly. tt seeiued at tirst. "What Way of tin1 along." "I'm not sure but that I'd bette. In If Mr. I'arker thinks Mrs. Stuyve-sant-Knox would want me to," I floun dered on. "She won't mind not much, any way. If we don't take you to the Casi no without her." Sally tried to reassure me. But her eyes had begun to twin kle. "Don't you think she might? There are n lot of letters I ought" "Xow. child, out with It. Don't you. like the bathing dress?" "Oh. I admire It Immensely," I stam mered. "It's like a a picture. But 1 can't see myself wearing It. That Is, I can't lenr to think of any one else seeing me wear It." Pally went off Into a fit of musical southern laughter. "You poor baby. I I forgot the shiH-k It might be to you if you're accustomed only to English tithing clothes. They certainly are i he limit: Have you never been to Trouvillo or Oste::dV" 1 !io. k my head, sad nt having to s;v.:i ungrateful. But how could I help ii? "V.Y;i. they have this kind there. lie had evidently abandoned all In tention of Immediate flight now, and his rage was visibly cooling. He was looking at Mrs. Pltchley with quite as much Interest as she showed In him i I..- A -., I , It.tnb alwnt It 1 I ben he deigned to remember that I v.-:is III i little long lost cousin, asked when I'd arrived on this sklo the water and n few other things, but he looked more nt Miss I'ltehley thau at me I suppose It Is Ollucult to be much excited about a person who hna tat.cu ruling lessons on your foot. Potter asked Mohunslelgh where he was staying, and when he heard It wn at a hotel he said his sister wouldn't allow that to go on. l.ord Mohuns lelgh would have to come lo the Moorings, thai was nettled, and his man must be told lo pack up bis things directly. Mlgutn't word le sent by messenger at once? "Haven't brought a num. thanks aw fully. Shed that habit long ago," said my cousin. "I've got precloiia little luggage, too: picked this thing up In a shop as I came along and they charged me the deuce of a lot for II. aud with even more at the girl, al though he talked to Totter Parker and You're awfully good, you know, and answered tils questions quite civilly. He explained that he had actually leen ordered away from the lieach. bathing suit and all, by some "Imper tinent ass of an official." Potter was hospitably distressed, but Mrs. Pltchley was moved to laugh ter. "lla, ha. wou't the man le sick when be rees you coming back with us and hears us call yon Lord Mohnns- jonih is tomorrow':" The 'JSith of July." said Potter promptly, while 1 was resiguiug my- j elf, after a slight struggle, to the! fiact tint I had lost track of dates i "Seems to me that's somebody's 1 Mrthday, Isn't it':" Sally appeared to address her ret.. ark to the cei.'iug. : "How did you know?" 1 exclaimed. i and so th-y ',o here. Everybody has ! it. My p.vttiest one Is much like jours, only It's poppy colored. Kath erine's Is cornflower blue this year, ii-.l she's sot a black one and a lilac one. When you f; all the others pranelt'g shout l:i the same sort or things :oa won't fe.'l a bit funny" I was far from sure that I should "A little bird told me The 2tat builds in birthday books oq a table iu I.ad.v Victoria's 'den " "Fancy your keeping the date SWir head all this time." "I've a weakness for remembering birthdays when I'm fond of the peo ple who own them. You see. every body thinks' about Chiistmas. aud I dou't want to 1 e confused with every body in the minds of just those s(e cbil people No.v. the truth Is. I've got a little birthday preseut upstairs which i '.' :i': i :eau you should see in kmd I attain to such a p.-aceful state of iive-i mind as cot to "feel fuuuy." But Sal ly had called me a baby, and I had to redeem myself from that asp'Tsiei a' any price. So I tried to compose my countenance over a U-atlng heart and think alsmt other things on the v:: to the beach, as you do If you are gi lug to the dentist's. I'ot.er went with us, though I sup posed that when we came to the en 1 he would bid us good by and trot tiT to the place where the men bathed, wher ever that might be. Our things had been taken on ahead by a servant or ntil tolf i;'l'iv Lot ss nnrf nf it m.-iv eome in rather handy this moruiug. ! two' ond we walkel- as the day wa; erb;:rs we n.Uht ruu up aud have a ' rK'rfoct- nal 1 was thankful to get a took at i. " i I,tt,e exercise. "Oh. Si.iv. vou dear!" I exclaimed We 11101 a Krpat many people whom "O'i. :-allV. "vou wretch, to Lave kept ' Sa"-V and r,ter knew- and Just as tir: birthdav to vourself! 1 want to1 rtter had BaId- '"IIere we ar Gal leys oencn. that handsome Mrs Pltchley and her stepdaughter, with k yfZy;, U.- :. on this act," grumbled Potter. Z-X tardly heard him, l was ao ex Mif about what I was going to Ond ttpstairs. We went to my room. Sa.'ly and I, and she rang for Louise, who was told fetch from what Sally called her "closet" a certi.in black "trunk" of whose existence Louise was evidently .already a wire. Mr. Doremus came up. They called to us, so we stopped to speak, aud I was pleased, lecause I'd been, wanting to know them. We were Introduced, and I was wondering what Mrs. Ess Kay would do if she coM3 see us chat ting with the Plichleys In sight of all New port when a little thin uian. look ing perfectly furious, with a strliieu It was a crnod fdzort hni I la- onmirh , 0 ... , valuing buii ruueu up uuuer ills urui. hold two or three dresses. And came hopping along toward us as If he hen. It was opened by Sally after , were a cricket ball that Bomebody had totifse hid gone it proved to contalc J batted off the beach. three and a halt His panama bat was on the back of vue oi uie tawe was a liiue gauze bis head, nis single eyeglass on Its tail gown, embroidered with patterns ! chain was flying out behind him in f thistles hi tiny sparkling things ! the breeze, and mv first thone-ht w "Why, MohuiuUl'jh r I t i it .i. lelgh? for If you'll point blin out in time, that's what I shall call you. right under Lis nose. You see. this Is a pri vate leach. We all subscribe for our bath houses. b:it you'll be our guest, of course, and I'll put Mr. Pltchley's box at your service. He's gone off fishing tor a few days. Only to think of the Earl of Mohuusleigh being turned back. Iieliclousr "Can't say I thought of It that way till now." said Mohuusleigh. bis wiry mustache and condescend ing to gihi slightly at last. "But It's true I'm not a millionaire you know." "You're an earl. You can't say you're not. for l read In the Flash- all that. t offer to put me up, but I only came prepared to spend a night or two." Then Potter Insisted and blew all Mohunslelgh's objections away one by one as If they hud been threads of cobweb, still my cousin wouldn't give a definite answer, perhaps not under standing American hospitality, or per haps having other Ideas which he pre ferred. At all eveuts we weut to the bathing machines (which weren't bath ing machines at all, but dear little houses) without anything being decid ed The only Invitation which Mo hunslclgu had really accepted was Mrs. Pltchley's. for her husband's bathing box. She kept her word and called lillil "Lord Mohuusleigh" lu quite a high voice. Just as we passed the man who bad refused to let him go on to the beach before, hut the man didn't seem bupre-sed In the least. I think he didn't even recojule Mohuusleigh as the same person, or If he did he pre tended very cleverly not to. I had forgotten the horror of the bathing dress In my surprise at meet ing Mohan: icl,h. but It fell over me again like a cloud as soon as I was shut up In the baihlng box with those v !sps of green silk. I wouldnt havif the maid help me and wrestled with the ordeal alone. It took me some time, but when everything was on (there were only four tilings, counting the cap and smart tittle samialsi I couldn't say to myself that the effect wasn't attrictlve. It was. and I did approve of Myself In the ipiaiut head dress, which was more like a fetching j silk tootic with an Alsatian bow In front than a mere cap. But the awful-moment came when I was ready, with my hand on the door. 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Itilnt.l li.tr llti lilllfll lit ' I the moment, and it didn't uie I As I stood hesitating, souictMidy I knocked. I peeped out. aud It was Sally quiet. unasMimlng little Sally. aat looked like dianonds. The second was yiiik tulle, with garlnuds of tiuy -vzex. The third was a white linen, wade as only Amiii.aus know bow to Mke up iiueus, aud the half was Veil.. I was not quite sure what tt was at first, though I cojM that it arax pretty. It wa.-j pale g.. 11. and -there were- two parts of it " be o!g Sr of the two (it was not :y -ic ras of soft silk and extrei.e. . tidily. Tf-fiad a low necked aud sho t sleeved lixlice. and attached to that was a fcirt or souiething that wo , 1 Lave been a skin if It had had i;;o.-e time to grow. The second pirt was silk, too. but more dillicult 1 ('"scribe. Perhaps I'd do best to say that it was like long stockings, only It was lu out piece on.l evidently meant to fasten r. ...j waist. "There's also a pair ft sandals and r really sweet cap, deah," Sally ev ljtu fried. ls It a tmey dress for a little girl?" 1 Bskaipnzzlcd. "1or a little girl about your size. 'Why. you funny child, It s y.ur bath fng dress. 1 had to get It and all the 'ifher things ready made, for there wasn't time for anything more than Jwrlng the in altered to your measure jeaent If they were to lie ready for jpnr birthday." ,"Oh, Sally, are they aii for we?" tSVnll. they're for nobody ei-. It'll jour birthday." Of course I told her she was an angel, and so she was, rpilte an excep fioaal kind of an angel, and I kissed Sir-r arid was saying a great many takings when she stopped me. "So glad you like them, deah. But now we most be moving If we're to have out fcatb this morning. Louise can t leave Katlierlne, but we'll have one of the ther maids come with our things. It's getiing late." I felt frightfully. "It la late, isn't H't" suld 1 hopefully, looking at my watch. "Perhaps It's too late to go this morning, after all." JXot a bit of It," aald Sally. "O For that Terrible Itching. Klzeina, tetter and salt rbeuni koap Olalx vctims in perpetual t foment. Tfi application of CbamL. i laln'e ttaWe will instantly allay this iobiug, and many cases have heeu cured by at nse. For sale by Daly & Hull. how comical he looked. My second, as he came nearer, wa something quite different. "Why, Mohunslelgh!" I cried. He stopped hopping so abruptly that he stumbled and nearly fell down. "Hello. Betty.'" he growled, hauling off his hat as If he bated the bother of doing It "Where did yon sprlni from?" "Home. Where on earth did yot t'lulng from?" I echoed. "They've sprung me off beir beast !y beach," said he. glaring and sticking !:i his eyeglass. Then he almost waved his hideous little bathing suit at me "Wouldn't let me bathe, the bounderaT ""Vouidut let rot bathe?" "No, Said: Ton can't get In hc-e. This beach Is for millionaires.' 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It wasn't quite as bad as before, and when I was out of my box-like one of those little barometer women that tell fair weather there wan Mrs. I'ltehley lu crimson and Car olyn I'ltehley lu white, and lots of pretty women, all with the same lovely stockings. There hadn't been any standing about when we arrived, be cause we were early, not having gone to the Casino first as the others had, aud It was a relief to find them, or It was, until 1 had a great shock. Instead of the men being away at a separate beach of their own, they were put with us. and kept Mpplng out of boxes every minute, and run ning up to talk to the girls they knew. Just as calmly as If tbey were In even ing dress. My eyes almost came out of my head for an Instant. Then I Just swallowed bard aud leaped over about live centuries of prejudice as If I were Jumping across a tiny beck. "Kverytbing's a matter of custom," said I to myself, and lu another min ute I was racing gayly down to the water, band In baud with Sally, as If we bad been little girls with sand palls and shovels. I expected to feel as If I bad plunged Into n million gallon bath of Iced water, when I got out among the creamy breakers, but. Judging from the sensation, Americans have bad tbelr part of the Atlantic beautifully warmed from underneath with some patent heating apparatus. It would be Just like them! The sandy Is-ach la so level you can patter out ever so far until you finally have to bob up and down for the roll lug waves as If they were royalties. 1 can swim a little, and I'otter took me beyond the breakers. It was great fun under that arch of turquoise sky, with the sun dancing on the clear green water as if the millionaires of Newport had been sprinkling gold pieces. But the best of all was the floating platform about a hundred yards from the beach, wbere we sat aud let the emeralds and pearls spray o7er us. At home when you are at the sea your governess or some other person who thinks enjoyment ought to be measured off by rule sits on the shore looking at her watch, and when you have been In exactly twenty minutes be tells you to come out dlrevtly or you will catch a chill. I've always wondered what It would do to you U ConUnuad on Pag- Three-- of Mohuusleigh had sailed for Amer ica, though it couldn't be ascertained on what ship." "Didn't know there was any partic ular reason why It should lie ascer talned." said Mohunslelgh. "I've ruu over to visit a chap In California dashed uice chap, too. but thought I'd have a shot at New York first, and blest If I could stand it. Never could stand being grilled since a sunstroke I got when I was serving In India." 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