WHEN CUPID CALLS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 62, 28 February 1929, Page 6

WHEN CUPID CALLS

YOUNG MAN’S DARING SWIM. [Special io "Tribune.”! Auckland, Feb. 28. A Northcote vouth left his invalid father alone the other evening to visit his fiancee, who lives at Mount Eden. The hours sped away as hours spent that way usually do, and, with tlmm. the last boat. Then to the young came the sudden realisation that his father was alone, and he had promised to be home. What was there to be done? Manv wild ideas rushed through his mind, but, there was only one way— He’d swim! Un till that moment the night had seemed warm, but stripped, and standing on Shelly Beach with a dark stretch of water in front of him there was scope for argument on the question. Even the fish slqrt at that early hour of the morning, and the swimmer swears that he was constantly knocking up against them ns they Iny iust below the surface of the water. Whatever the obstacles were they helped to add to the uncanniness of the swim. Exhausted and shivering he crawled ashore in the mud at North Shore, hut. even then, his troubles were not over. Over half a mile of a walk awaited him—not over a path hut round slippery rocks beneath ledges. In all the darkest patches tins and branches of trees tripped him up. To-day, as he lies in bed recovering from a severe attack of quinsy the early morning swimmer wonders whether being in love is worth while. The girl? Well, ii not every girl who can boast that her fiqneee is prepared to swinj harbours for her.