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<p>“I walked far away down on the beach, to the ruins of an old pavilion near one corner of this new private park, Dreamland. A year ago that old pavilion was standin up straight and the old-style waiters was slammin a weeks supply of clam chowder down in front of you for a nickel and callin you cully friendly, and vice was rampant, and you got back to New York with enough change to take a car at the bridge. Now they tell me that they serve Welsh rabbits on Surf Avenue, and you get the right change back in the movin-picture joints.</p>
<p>“I sat down at one side of the old pavilion and looked at the surf spreadin itself on the beach, and thought about the time me and Norah Flynn sat on that spot last summer. Twas before reform struck the island; and we was happy. We had tintypes and chowder in the ribald dives, and the Egyptian Sorceress of the Nile told Norah out of her hand, while I was waitin in the door, that twould be the luck of her to marry a redheaded gossoon with two crooked legs, and I was overrunnin with joy on account of the allusion. And twas there that Norah Flynn put her two hands in mine a year before and we talked of flats and the things she could cook and the love business that goes with such episodes. And that was Coney as we loved it, and as the hand of Satan was upon it, friendly and noisy and your moneys worth, with no fence around the ocean and not too many electric lights to show the sleeve of a black serge coat against a white shirtwaist.</p>
<p>“I sat with my back to the parks where they had the moon and the dreams and the steeples corralled, and longed for the old Coney. There wasnt many people on the beach. Lots of them was feedin pennies into the slot machines to see the Interrupted Courtship in the movin pictures; and a good many was takin the sea air in the Canals of Venice and some was breathin the smoke of the sea battle by actual warships in a tank filled with real water. A few was down on the sands enjoyin the moonlight and the water. And the heart of me was heavy for the new morals of the old island, while the bands behind me played and the sea pounded on the bass drum in front.</p>
<p>“And directly I got up and walked along the old pavilion, and there on the other side of, half in the dark, was a slip of a girl sittin on the tumble-down timbers, and unless Im a liar she was cryin by herself there, all alone.</p>
<p>“And directly I got up and walked along the old pavilion, and there on the other side of, half in the dark, was a slip of a girl sittin on the tumbledown timbers, and unless Im a liar she was cryin by herself there, all alone.</p>
<p>Is it trouble you are in, now, Miss, says I; and whats to be done about it?</p>
<p>Tis none of your business at all, Denny Carnahan, says she, sittin up straight. And it was the voice of no other than Norah Flynn.</p>
<p>Then its not, says I, and were after having a pleasant evening, Miss Flynn. Have ye seen the sights of this new Coney Island, then? I presume ye have come here for that purpose, says I.</p>