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Making sure that her uncle and aunt were not visible, he boldly placed his fingers to his lips and wafted a kiss out over the water!

"Now she'll crushthat she had not observed it

Her handkerchief ceased fluttering in an instant, and, with sinking heart, he realized that she had observed There was aout to sea, and then the little finger tips of both hands went to her lips and his kiss came back to him!

The people near him were surprised to hear a wild yell from his lips and then to see hier of its being knocked to pieces against the railing or upon the persons of those who stood too close to escape the whirling consequences So unexpected had been her reception of what he considered a calamitous indiscretion that he was to be pardoned for the ebullition of relief and joy that followed Had she drawn a revolver and fired angrily at him he could not have been more astounded But, to actually throw a kiss to him--to meet his imprudence in the same spirit that had inspired it! Too much to believe! In the midst of his elation, however, there caain, that she was playing with him, that it was a merry jest and not a heartache that filled her boso his handkerchief, debating savagely and joyously the wisdom of the act, she becaure faded and blended into the general tone and could no longer be distinguished She was gone, but she had tossed him a kiss from lips that he should always see As he turned away fro if there had been tears in her eyes, but the probability was so reirls heard the laugh and giggled in sy face upon the

Uppermost in his bewildered er list? Acting on a sudden ie and enslocker a the names As a last resort h asked: "They could not have sailed under an assumed naoing?"