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The Duchess was roused from her dreams by means of a piece of ice from one of the tumblers; checks were paid; and the company poured out, yawning and chattering, into the sunlight of the empty boardwalk. Jill detached herself from the group, and made her way to a seat facing the ocean.
The great hotel men would do their own building according to restrictions and plans laid down by the Sea Island Company. The only real expenditure would be for streets, sewers, lights, water, walks, trees, and the great one hundred foot wide boardwalk with concrete ornaments which would be the finest sea stroll in the world. But these could be undertaken by degrees. Eugene saw it all.
"You know what I mean. I can't . . . that is to say . . . it isn't as though . . . I mean . . ." Wally smiled a tired, friendly smile. "If you're trying to say what I think you're trying to say, don't! We had all that out two weeks ago. I quite understand the position. You mustn't worry yourself about it." He took her arm, and they crossed the boardwalk. "Are we going in the right direction?
"I read it in the Atlantic City letter of The Philadelphia Press that one of the Comic Opera singers daily seen on the boardwalk is Miss Clara Hunt, who is known to theatre-goers by her stage name, Lulu Ray. These newspaper correspondents know some of the obscurest people. If I had told you her real name, you would have known who she was in time to have avoided being taken in by her."
There's a lot of water there, ain't it?" "Ocean of it. And a beautiful beach, and surf bathing, and a boardwalk miles long, and piers, and merry-go-rounds, and shops, and hot sausages, and moving-pictures, and rolling-chairs, and lovely music, and ice-cream waffles, and orangeade, and popcorn.
Well, what shall we do next? I see a few bathers down below. Shall we go down on the beach and find a place to sit and watch them for a bit?" They went; and he found a bench in a quiet place under the shorings of the boardwalk close up alongside one of the lesser bathing pavilions, and they sat there, and he talked and she listened.
They were moving faster now on a broad paved avenue bound with steel tracks. A central business section was left for a more unpretentious region small open fruit and fish stands, dingy lodging places, drab corner saloons, with, at the intervals of the cross streets, fleet glimpses of an elevated boardwalk and the luminous space of the sea.
Carson was standing outside his office door, when he heard a quick stride on the boardwalk and the gay voice of the Preacher singing "Roy's Wife of Aldivallock." "The top of the morning to ye, Doc," was his cheery greeting; and the doctor answered: "Say, Jim, come here. I've got a good one for you. This is a brand-new one."
"Why, they tell me that one afternoon the sea serpents came in so thickly among the bathers that it was hard for them I mean those in bathing to tell which was sand and which was serpents. Some of the serpents crawled up on the boardwalk, and even got into some of the stores and hotels.
And the romp from the beach echoed with their merry laughter for all could vision Grace under the fire hose! "This way to the Log Cabin!" announced Cleo leading her friends from the boardwalk along the Avenue to her quaint summer home. "Now, for our first inspection!" "OH, how curious!" This from Grace. "Like a mountain house at the seashore.
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