Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Eabi of fahes and it was Chisma L v now.fL bCl'. By" an y it woul be too late, anyhow for a whole year, which was just the same as fo: ever and ever. Oh, she must go out this very minute ! The child had put on her hat and coat before she remembere that Angel had told her she must never stir beyond the hotel garde alone. But, then, Angel probably did not know this important fact about fathers lost at sea return ing on Christmas eve and not at any other timre. If she waited until Angel came in it might be after sunset, as it had been yesterday, and then,' even if they hurried into the street to search, they coujd not recognize him in the dark. "I do think Angel would surely want me to go she knew," thought Rosemary. Her heart was beating fast under the little dark blue coat. What a glorious surprise for An gel if she could bring a tall, handsome man into this room and say "Dearest, now you won't have to work any more or cry in the nigl when you think I've gone to sleep. Here's father, come back out < the sea." "Oh, oh !" she cried and ran from the room, afraid of wasting ai other instant. The sallow young concierge had often seen the child go out alon to disappear round the path that eireled the hotel and play in the dust square of grass which, on the strength of two orange trees and a paln was called a garden. He thought nothing of it now, when she nodde in her polite little way and opened the door for herself. Five minut( later he was reading of a delicious jewel robbery which had happene in a tunnel near Nice and had forgotten all about Rosemary's e: istence. The little girl had an idea that she ought to go to the place whei ships came in, and as she had more than once walked to the port wit her mother she knew the way very well. ITwo white yachts were riding at anchor in the harbor, but no on had come on shore who looked handsome enough for a father to 1: rcnz b "'e sent i t momez smiled at he kind.s) neaqeme n t habi offathr,an ile ahta evlde no. She had eane itol be oolae, nyowfrna wh year ativewa juenys un theseaso evr ndevrOh mshe gooundi Anery bamspnte!arsadn The child had put e on here then people eot she hameir tha Anel hrettoldwhie she tnves.rbyodtehoe ad ing ose Chrtachts," ad noan ofther tipeyme ,"n h ep who come waite unti Angel camhe in ittlegh beas hnte afterl sunset,he hillt thben ysiota, bia wienldn then, etenat they hauidto the monee o search,o tke smbdyes mounot I rentz there coun th dak oeof?Isol.iet a "S o think Ael, wold therdeepweyedm man, go tn hrha "They knew," touget osn eaueyouaeto.on. 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I:hst i :utiful little golden I'aired, smiiling th in, so ful of life! But it was all right now. K= dly p;i'}h ha( just escaped. ")on't you know, little one," he asked gently, "that it's very dangerous to run in front of automobiles ?" "Oh, but I wanted so much to stop you !" said Rosemary. d "Why, do you know me ?' and the young man smiled such a pleas r- ant smile, with a gleam of white teeth, that the child was more than ever sure she had done right. d I "Yes, I know you by 'eavensenthinstinct." She got out the long word with a gasp or two, but it was a great success. She had not mixed up a single syllable. The young man burst out laughing. "Where's your nurse ?" he asked. "In London," said Rosemary. "She isn't my nurse any more." "Well, your mother" "She isn't" "What ? Are you going to tell me she isn't your mother any more? Are you out 'on your own,' little lady ?" "I don't know what that is, and my mother's my mother just as usual, thank you," said Rosemary, with dig nity. "She's quite well, but she doesn't know I came out to look for you." Lt- "Oh, doesn't she ?" echoed the young man f i in the car. "Then don't you think the best thing you can do is to let me take you back to herI" - ~"She won't be home yet, not till it's dark, e b expect,' said the child. "Oh, that's a long time yet! Well, since o: know me wouldn't you like to elimb in d and have a little run?" "May I, truly and really ?" The little face grew pink with joy. d "Truly and really-if you're not afraid." "What should I be afraid of ?" Rosemary asked. "I was talking nonsense. Get down, Paul, and put her into the tonneau. You'd better sit by her perhaps." The chauffeur proceeded to obey, but when the child found herself being tucked into a back seat of the car she gave a little protesting cry. "Oh, can't I sit in front with you ?" '"Of course you can if you like. Paul, wrap her up well in the rug. , Now, little one, we're going to start. I won't take you too fast." He turned the car and, passing the Casino, drove up the hill, tak ing the direction of Mentone when he had reached the top. He had not been over this road before, as .he had arrived by way of Nice yes- - - terday, but he had studied road emaps and knew both how and where he wished to go. "Now," said he, driving care- . fully, "how do you like it ?" "Oh, it's wonderful !" answer ed Rosemary, with a rapt smile on her rosy face. "Have .you ever motored be fore ?" She shook her head. "Never !" / r"Brave baby." e"I don't usually cai-e to be call ed a baby," ,she -remarked, "butI\ don't mind from you." - 'Tm especially favored, it seems," said the young man. "Tell. .~ me how you happen to know me. e can't think, I must confess, unless it was on shipboard"- 7 ~"There ! I knew perfectly well it was you !" broke in Rosemary, with a look of rapture. "You were on a ship, and you were.lost et sea. But you're found again now be cause it's Christmas eve.'" "I wasn't lost at sea, though, or I shouldn't be iaere with you," said Hugh Egerton. He glanced rather wistfully in a puzzled way at the lovely little face framed with blowing golden hair. There was something in the child's eyes~ which stabbed his heart, yet there was sweetness in the pain. "I'm afraid. we're playing at cross purposes, aren't we ?" he went on. "Was it on a ship that you saw me ? yu"Oh, I didn't see you on the ship !" said Rosemary. "I only knew yuwent away on one. I haven't seen you for ever and ever so long not since I was a tiny baby." "y Jove ! And you've remembered me all this time ?" "Not exactly remembered. It was the feeling I had in my heart, just as Jane said I would the minute I saw you, that told me it was vou. That was why I ran to keep you from going on in your motor car, because if you had I might have lost you again for ever and ever." -. "So you might," said puzzled Hugh Eger -, ~ ton, pleased as well as puzzled. "And that would never have done for either of us."' , "It would have been dreadful," replied Rosemary, "to have to wait for another (3hrist mas eve." "Christmas eve seems a day for adventures," I said Hugh. "One finds new friends-and dear a little girls, and-goodness knows what I shall find next !" ~ "We must find Angel next," Rosemary as sured him. "She'll be so glad to see you." i"Do you really think so? By the way, who isAngel ?" "I e:p-t I'd forgotten, IIugh answered. She looked so re pro!,hfll that not for the world woullc he have denied all knowledge of Anu e. The child evidently took him for some one she had known. Per.:s she hnd ser a photograph of some long lost friend of her family who re,embled him and she had sprung to a conclusion, as children do. But she was an exquisitely pretty and engaging little thing. a :r pal, and worth cultivating. Hugh liked children, especil1 h he had always been rather shy with them, not knowi (-x(. . iW i. liked beit to be entertained and finding it difficult to think of things to say in keeping up a conversation. But there was no such difficulty with this child. It was really interesting to draw the little creature out and see what she would say next. As for finding Angel, however, when the time came to do that he thought he would prefer to bid Angel's daughter goodby at the door. He had no fancy for scraping up an acquaintance with strangers through thei children. * * * CIL=4 OSEMARY sat in silence for a few moments, taking in the full meaning of her companion's answer to her last question. He had forgotten that Angel was Angel! Though she was warmly wrapped in a soft rug of silvery fur, a chill crept into her heart. Could it be that nurse's words about father had been true, after all, and, if they were, was she doing harm rather than good in bringing him home? Presently Hugh waked out of his own thoughts and noticed the little girl's silence. "You're not afraid ?" he asked, blissfully uncon scious of offense. "I'm not driving too fast to please you ?" "Oh, no !" said Rosemary. "You're not cold ?" "No, thank you." "Nor tired ?" "No, not tired." "But something is the matter ?" "I'm worrying,". confessed the child. "What about, little one ?" "'m not sure if I ought to have spoken to you or have come with you, after all." To save his life Hugh could not have helped laughing, though it was evidently a matter of serious importance. "What-do you think -we ought to have a chaperon ?" he asked. "Paul's in the tonneau, you know, and he's a -- 4 most discreet chap.". S"I don't know what a chaperon is," said ' osemary, "but swill you promise not to be angry if I ask .you . something, and wvill you promise to answer, .honor bright ?" "Yes; to both your questions." 1' "Were you really unkind to Angel. before you were l<ost" . . .. .k This was a hard nut to crack if his past were not to be ruthlessly severed. froin Angel's by a word. He thought for a moment~ and then said, "Honor bright, I can.'t 'remember any thing unkind I ever did to he'r." "h, I'm so glad! I was afraid when you said you'd forgotten. But maybe her name wasn't Angel then ?" "That was it, I'm sure," replied. Hugh soothingly. "Maybe you named her Angel yourself ?" "1 ddt know," said Rosemary. "She seems to have been it al ways, ever since I can remember. And she.does look just like one, you know, she's so beautifil." . "I expect you remember a lot more about angels than I do, be ause it isn't so long since you came from where they live. But here we are in the woods at Cap Martin. Have you ever been here before ?" "Angel and I had a picnic here once, all by ourselves, and there were lots of sheep inder .the olive trees and a funny old shepherd iwho made music to them. Oh, I do love picnics! .Don't you?i Angel sad if she. were .rich she'd take me on the loveliest kind of a picnic for hristmas; but, you see, it would cost too much money to do it, for' we've hardly got any, especially since the comtesse doesn't pay us back" "Wha: kind of a picnic would it have been ?" asked Hugh, driving along the b)eautiful shore road, where the wind blown pines lean for ward like transformed wood nymphs caught in a spell just as they spread out their arms to spring into the sea. "Angel has told me lots of history stories about the strange rock villages in the mountains. There's one called Eze on top of a hill shaped almost like a horn. She showed me a picture of it. Children live up in the rock villages and never come down to the towns. They've never even seen any toys, like other children play with, Angel says. All the strangers who come here give nresents to the poor in Monte NOTIVE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT Isaid ~estate will present them duly We will make final settlement on attested. the estate of Mt-s. Elizabeth 'Camer- H. W. Cameron, on deceased, in the probate court for T. L. Cameron, Nex ,erry county on Friday, the sev- Executors. enteenthi day of January, 1908, at COAN- N 11 o'clock in the forenoon, and im- HI CWCAINE a mediately thereafter apply to the UW ISE said court for- let ters dismissory. All Habits cured at my sanatorium in a .il- few weeks. You can return to your pe-sons indebted to said estate wilhome in 30 days wel, free and happy. make payment on or befora said date I haed e ee hbit aspecialtyfor and all persons having celaimns against oon e es A