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Excerpt from After Thirty
Purposely, upon the following day, he reached the beach a little late, and as he loped down the stretch Of burning sand his eyes searched the margin of the sea for the familiar winged bathing-cap. And presently, amid the swirling suds just inside the breaker-line, he Sighted it. The girl's back was toward him. He hurried into the water, and, com ing within reach of her just as a great green roller toppled over, pressed a hand upon her damp, delight ful neck.
Her head went under for an instant. She came up a disheveled mermaid, blowing, dripping, angry. And She had a right to be angry, for she had never seen Wickett before.
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