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The Unwelcome Mother
By Jerome Shorey
Produced by the Fox Film Corporation
LIK.K a veil that separated her from all the rest of the world, the mystery of the sea enwrapped Ellinor from infancy. Her eyes were deep, fathomless. They looked not at you, but beyond you. Always she seemed to be thinking of you with the sea as a background, as if she did not trust her own judgment of you. but was seeking counsel of distant waves. But this was not often noticed, for it was seldom that she met anyone. There were few visitors to Peter's Point, and those few were not encouraged. The^ Point, where the lighthouse had been built, was named after Old Peter, who had tended the light as long as anyone could remember, ami Peter had become a member of that silent brotherhood which comes as close to understanding the sea as the finite can come to comprehending the infinite. So while Peter did not repulse visitors, he simply discouraged diem by his silence, and Ellinor, as she grew out of her prattling, baby years, soon became imbued with the same spell.
Perhaps it was not altogether from mere force of imitation of the old man. Ellinor had come from the sea — virtually parentless. True, there were two in the boat that ( ild Peter saw. one stormy day, tossing in the troughs of the high seas beyond the line of breakers. It seemed impossible to save them, but Peter was younger then, and one of the strongest men in the service, the coastguards said. He launched his sturdv little skiff, and fighting the wind and waves, at length succeeded in bringing the drifting boat ashore. There was little sign of life in either of the occupants, a young woman and a baby girl. The mother died without regaining consciousness ; the baby was Ellinor. There was nothing to give a hint as to her name, or the name of the ship from whose wreck they had escaped, or whence she came or whither she was bound. Ellinor was just a child of the sea.
Peter's wife was living then — young, slender, lis
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