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5 THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1927. Test it Yourself! "SALADA" GREEN TEA . Write Salada. Toronto, for free sample. All ■Se Wells CHAPTER I. | Of all scenes of sheer gayety, of Malaxed conventionality, of utter freedom from responsibility, care or trouble, there is no spot to compare with an ocean bathing beach. The wine-dark sea may stretch its dangerous depths to the far horizon in one direction; the land with its1 seething spots bf civilization, may yawn with equal dangers on the other side; but at the joining, the foam-fringed bait of No Man's Land between earth and water, all is merriment and abandon. Bars are let down, restraint flies, caste is forgotten, and high and low, good and bad, real and imitation are Baade free and equal by the one touch of salt water that makes the whole world kin. "Come on, people," he said: "what ane we waiting for? I suppose, Robin, you and Angelica will take your life in your bands, as usual--" "Yes, rather," and the girl in the swimming suit scrambled to her feet. "To-day we're going way out--farther than ever before." "Fools!" growled the older man. "I wouldn't mind, only it's so expensive to subsidize a guard to pay exclusive attention to you two idiots. Well, go to it." They all rose then, the beautiful Madeline Barron, in her French costume, and her adoring husband, Ned Barron, the copper king. The pretty girl, Angelica Fair, was her friend and guest, and the other two, father and son, were Croydon Among the beaches best adapted for 1 s%™ an^hf a , sea dipping are those on the coast of . ?ut',a^>ut *° Sbart' Madehn« T*8 New Jersey, and of those one of the '^layed aPP*aran<* * £er finest is the great resort called Ocean .three-year-old daughter, with her Town Inurse- Its habitues contend that nowhere \ J®" baby was ™ bathing r0mp€rS » is the temperature of the water . 1 gleeful at the prospect of going alwaysi;irsu'b;z*t&ti in/ad5^g- Bo* rr^ntL±pped 1 lustment of the sun's rays a counsel, a^psat on fe^1^^J tf narfection 00 ahead'> y°u People, Barron OI pertection. | „w ,n 0(>me ^ fa Year after year the lovers of the■ . . w „__. ,„„ . . ... j , . ... ! minute. We want to play with place return with joy and leave with p0pSy » regret. ... „ 1 So the others went on, Robin and July opened auspiciously. Every-. A lfc who were ex t swimmers,: ™ ^ m readiness for an enor- | ft wayeg t to ft d,ari mous celebration of the national hohVj d and c don &earg to gtend| day and those who could do bo came; th<J ; and J and down; »I it tfZ ' I th« Barrons joined him. j get, as it were a running start. Another group on the beach that! The noonday sun shone down <m\ ; wf k^ d to a somwhat hundreds of human hands in long straight rows, human fists, rather, as each tightly clasped itself round the out into the c With many the sea bath consisted j, In a continuous frantic clutch on this life-line, while the more adventurous |' 3 danger seems negligible when j' the great waves oall. •On the other side of the last lace- 11 Another group \ j morning was keyed to ; different pitch. The dominating spirit was Car-. ' melita Valdon, a beauty as exotic and hard, thick rope that shot its way far ^ a]iu:r;ng as lh^r name Her beach pajamas were distinctly " j Parisian and a step or two ahead of ' i American fashions, dared 7et'go,~ and luffeHhe "SpentBu* Carmelita was a step or the shore ahead of most things and most waves neaJ ' • people, and her oriental costume and Others still, and these were the ones Kn„„ ' .____.__Vm. „ • .... , ' , . ., ... Japanese parasol made her a picture that turned gray the hair of the life ,„„„ „++„„„+;„„ „„ ;+ ,„„ „ , , , . . . that was as attractive as it was col- guards, were possessed to swim out orful far beyond their depths, and beyond „ ' . , ' ' . , Her woman companion was a per- all bounds of wisdom or safety. But fo ^ a was £ and forty, and dressed the part. Also she was of great importance • socially and possessed of a sharp ton-' gue, so her favorites fawned on her, edged fnll of the combers, the; beach | ^ her enemfes her ^ groups sat about in utter bliss of Dertn contentment. "Duchess," said Carmelita, in lan- . H«re; a family from an inner coun-1 id accent „A , ^ . ty of the state; there a small crowd m0Tn{nJv' . 6 from the middle west; yonder a gay, „of wurse'-> returned Mrs Bar-bunch from New York City itself. nab who ^ ^ noble ^teama. A quiet, sophisticated-looking group (iShall we now?„ of five consisted of three men, a, „No hurry„ t fa FqI_ young woman and a girt som. "I only came yesterday, you The girl wore a modish swimming know j want to 1<x>k aW *a * suit of wool jersey, flowered in quiet minllt6s ■ *ap and hemp-soled sandals !costume of worsted, ghirt ian<1 trunk^ Her lithe eagerness proclaimed her wag becomi to him_ The a swimmer, and she was manifestly a si,ver * ^ ^ impatient to start. across ^ ch &nd ^ The other woman, only slightly old- Wack ^ er, was garbed in an elaborate bath- Perh fi Mg ing costume of flowered crepe de . _ ,„ , I , . , 6 ,r , ... ... , , i IL a s ii the temples, but his face was unhned chine, with a coquettish beret that fell , vi i j i. • .1 ' •, . , , , j and his eyes clear and bright, over to one side of her curly bobbed t-,^ „A , , ,„ s , i,«4 m„ _i„ i.„ j « Deep set, dark eyes they were, that hair Clearly, she had no intentaon ha(J looked; / ^ of dampening her newly niarcelled for better an^f()r ^ wh ' ^ J 1^ rt ^ »h«wd appraisals were rarely at, gashed, and a smart beach cape of fauJt flowered silk fell from her shoulders. XT ' , ,„„„ . „ „ , , . ,. , , .,, Now, he was observing the beach Her lovely face was ahght with CIwd/the Ms ^ women fa S!l .,2^1^1.11 JfSS i; their alluri"S c^tumes and ^e men h their scarcely scantier garb. "The bathing suits grow prettier every year," he said, with an appreci-s at the passing throng, and then at the two women in his >wn party. "Oh, come on," said Neville, the other member of their quartet, "you Sun in my eyes,' was the reply, can ]ook at them in the shop windows but when the parasol was again push- on the Boardwalk later. I assure you, Cd aside, the dark eyes, with their GarrVi they have some stunndng rigs heavy brows, lacked all hint of laugh- on show." ter, and the red lips paled beneath j «But perhaps it isn't only the gar-their red, and called for a fresh ap-(ment that pleases the eye of Mr. Fol-Phcation from the enameled vanity som.,» Carmelita Valdon suggested, ease she earned. j wfehir.g now she had worn a n The oldest of the three men rose deoolette effect that her chic paji and shook himself like a big dog. suit. "Everything pleases me," he declared, smiling, and rose, stretching himself luxuriously as he feasted his eyes on the gorgeous scene. "I haven't been down here for three years, and the place is renewing its charm for me. I always did revel in it. I only wish I could swim in the surf. Look at those chaps way out beyond the breakers! That's the stuff." "Don't you swim?" asked the duchess. "I'm glad, for then you'll stay with us. I hate men who get me clutched to the rope and then say 'Excuse me a moment,' and the next thing you know they're out beyond the three-mile limit!" "Nothing like that!" Folsom smiled at her. "I can swim all day in still water, but not in the surf. Probably could, after a little practice^--" "Don't practice; stay^ with us," smiled Mrs. Valdon, and Folsom agreed to do so. So the four of them grasped the rope, and, like puppets on a string, jumped up and down, sprang at the oncoming waves, choked and laughed aa the salt water dashed over them and behaved generally..like irresponsible children in a big bathtub. Roger Neville, unable to resist the oall of the surf, swam away, took an insoming breaker head on, and came up smiling on top ,of it. "Get into the game, Garry,' called out. It's great, really, and there's almost no undertow to-day. If you're carried off there are scores of life guards about who'll pick you up." "Oh, I'm not exactly timid!" returned Folsom, scoffingly, as Neville came near enough to hear him. "But I promised these ladies I'd stand by-" "You did so!" insisted Carmelita, who stood next to him, and who laid a detaining hand of his own, as it grasped the rope next to hers. "If you want to swim, choose some other time. Just now you are a squire, of dames. Isn't he, Duchess?" "You bet he is!!" exclaimed Mrs. Barnaby, wiping salt water out of her eyes with the back of one hand, while hanging on to the rope with the other. "If he deserts us, me for dry land. I know I'm going to be swept out to sea by this next wave. Oh, mercy! here it comes! It's like a wall of water!" It was a wall of water, and it gulfed the party,.as well as hundreds of other bathers near them. The Duchess coughed and sputtered, but gamely held her ground. Car-mel;ta took advantage of her friend's bewilderment to slip from her place on the rops, aud exchange with the Duchess, thus bringing herself next to Folsom, a position she had coveted from the first. •l;How's Mrs. Barnaby? She all right?" Folsom asked, bending over to see the lady in question. "All right, yes!" growled the Dij-h-ess. "but that snipjack slid into my place! Now I shall be drq£Bfe|| Wilson Publishing Company I .sBut her word: of another approaching wave, and she .Iking and devoted all her attention to preserving her equilibrium, j'nd keeping her hold on the (To be continued.) Nail Facts. Finger nails grow faster in summer than in winter. This is only one of many curious facts about nails. nails on your right hand grow faster than those on your left, and no two ! nails grow at the same speed. | The average time each nail takes to reach its full length is four and a half months, and at this seventy will have renewed his nails one hundred and eighty-six times. 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