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Miss Sternberger placed the well-groomed left hand, with a seal ring on the third finger, upon the thread-lace bosom of her gown. "How you frightened me!" "It's a nice night, Miss Sternberger. Want to walk on the beach?" "Don't mind if I do," she said. They strolled the length of the veranda, down the steps to the boardwalk and the beach beyond. Mrs.

After dinner a surfeit of tenderloin Bordelaise he walked up the short incline to the boardwalk, where on one of the benches overlooking the sparkling water he saw a slight familiar figure. It was Miss Beggs. Her eyes dwelt on him momentarily and then returned to the horizon. "You are a great deal alone," he commented on the far end of the bench.

"Don't let that worry you," she answered serenely. He saw that it need not, and looked forward appreciatively to a scene in which Meta would not come off second. Above them the long curve of the boardwalk was empty, with, behind it, the suave ornamental roofs of the cottages. A wind quartering from the shore had smoothed the ocean into the semblance of a limitless and placid lake.

"Did he say anything about his income tax?" asked Helen, but for an answer the jaunt up the fog-laden boardwalk was undertaken, and only those who have ever indulged in real mid-summer fogs, could really appreciate description, and such do not need it they know! Captain Dave was glad to see the girls.

"Yes; it's a great big house where the family lives while at the seashore," the Doll said. "You'll like it here. This is my third summer, and I " But just then the door opened and Arthur and Nettie came running into the room. Of course the toys could no longer talk to each other. "We're going down on the boardwalk in wheeled chairs!" cried Nettie. "I'm going to take my Rag Doll."

He continued, his voice precise and even "We went directly from the end of the Boardwalk to the old shed; it was open, an unfastened door on a pair of leather hinges. The shed is small, about twenty feet by eleven, with a hard dirt floor packed down by the workmen who had used it; a combination of clay and sand like the Jersey roads put in to make a floor.

A boardwalk can be changed at any time with but little trouble if you get it in the wrong place, but a cement walk, once down, is down for all time, unless you are willing to spend a good deal of hard labor in its removal. Never do spasmodic work in the garden.

Then I got a surprise. "The creature looked eagerly at the coin in my fingers, and he moved toward it. He was crazy for the liquor it would buy. But he set his teeth and pulled up. "'No, Governor, he said, 'I'm in it for the sawbuck. Where'll I find you about noon? "I promised to be on the Boardwalk before Heinz's Pier at two o'clock, and he turned to shuffle away.

No doubt that seems a slight reason for going out to the Inlet with the creature; but you must remember that slight things are often big signboards in our business." He continued, his voice precise and even: "We went directly from the end of the Boardwalk to the old shed; it was open, an unfastened door on a pair of leather hinges.

"'While I am very snugly fixed down here, Patsy, said he confidentially, 'I must confess I was a little disappointed in the location of the cottage. From the picture on the letter-head the waves seemed to be curling under the Boardwalk onto the lower steps of the front porch. Every room with a sea view, and no mosquitos, the circular said. But the printer evidently got hold of the wrong form.