Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-12-08


man hurrledly. TO impl0re your forgive
ness-to so on my knees Ia YOU. find
cannot live unless l am at peace With
you.
''Oh, that is all right says She, break
ing INTO low feverish laughter Il forgive
everything. You dld net mean. il.
| felt even THEN that Won didn't Oh
laughing again in a soft but heart-break
ing fashion, Il don't know what should
have done if you hadn't come. The long
highland always thinking and"
She stops abruptly; that eager laughter
dies. a heavy shudder shakes her sen-
der frame, and she bursts into tears
''0h, it is all wrong" cries she, drag
glng her hands from his and covering her
eyes. 1T is terrihlei | am mad. think,
On, 20 away again. You should never
have cOme-neyer.
II think | should, says he stoutly.
You are tired. Come in here''-lealinc
her towards the little matched house
and let us argue ii out quietly"
Argument is useless says she finally
Some thought that means despair has
checked her tears, and She now looks up
Mt aim in the dim moonlight with large
sad eyes
my case before you-"
There is another case says She
hes- But surely net Sc strong Il enc
AZ lnine?"
Stronger" sadly
Yon make toe much of it," says he
Say he did YOU good turn once, is that
any reason why you should give up the
whole happiness of your life TO him? Ola,
Evelyn. Darling heart! If yen have no
pity for yourself, ! implore You to hav,,
pity upon me-"
He catches her hand and presses it pas
slonately to his lips.
-Ahr 1T IS toe late for that" says she
with strange smile. ''You might have
had pity ON me. but you didn't. No" in
terrupting him when he woHld have
spoken, with a determined gesture mot
word / want mo explanations; it IS all
over now. There is an end of whatever
friendship may have been between ms.
Don't say that" says he, growing
deadly pale. DO you forbid me your
presence? II this horrible thing must be.
at least do not east me utterly ad1'ift-,ao
not fling me altogether cut of your path.
| was brute 10 YOU this morning. |
know that; but / felt half mad-and--
Evelyn. crushing the hand he holds he
tween both his 0wn-''must you marry
that mani
7 must" in frozen way.
But it is wicked; it is deviiish. You
will betray both him and me. My dar-
ling in a desperate tone, don't he
know myself what | am saying. But
don't persist in this matter; give me one
word of hOpe-of comfort"
Il haven't one to give" in stony sor.
of way. You come" with a little sad
movement OF her head. +'too late!"
BY that | am to understand that if
had spoken sooner. before last left
home, you-you would have listened to
meY'
No answer.
oh, why did not speak, cries he in
anguish. taking that eloquent silence for
the truth 1T is.
"Oh, why, why, why" sobs she. break
ing once again into bitter weeping, Why
did yon not say all this before"
Il don't know" mournfully He has
folded his arms round her and is strain
ing her to his heart. Il was afraid. per-
haps. All my life, think--I know
have loved you, but until this last snm-
mer il never became quite clear to me.
and then-oh, don't cry like that my
sweet-my love-
and them asks she miseraby. re-
calling him from her present grief to that
past one when she had seemed to he less
than nothing to him, whilst he mad been
all in all to her.
''Why. then you were cold to me-" says
he; You were cold, Evelyn; you must
remember that. And then that cursed
Crawford came with ali his money. and
they whispered to me that you were Il
sensible girl. and were seeing your way
clear to he a rich one as we'll
And you" making an effort To break
away from his protecting arms.
NO. | did not believe them; never
never. Not for moment; But with
hesitation, won certainly threw me over
for him very often"
"Oh. no.
Well humbly. "-it seemed 50 to mc.
And grew nervous about il. After all,
what IS there i'll me that q girl should
specially fancy meE' says Capt Stamer
with such astounding modesty as only
love the all powerful could create. And
that last day. you know. when | came
er; you were really. darling"
Who! j.. eXclaims she, showing her
self thoroughly cOnverRant with the for
eign language he is using. "Oh! it was
you who were. cruel-cold- unjust
Evidently the ''er-er' had meant all
this.
Was il? Perhaps so. didn't know
it." says he dejectedly. Il came up that
day to tempt fortune-to try my fate
with You. and something in your manner.
something purely imaginary, | am sure"
hastily; he is growing positively abiect
now. prevented the words from passing
my lips. | could not ask you to marry
me when ! felt your answer would be
no.
II don't know how you could have
thought tlat.'' says she with naive but
very mourufuI wonder AS for me |
was always so afraid that you would
guess how it was with me"
Too afraid, ! suppose" says he with
a deep sigh.
Perhaps So" with deeper. "But
how was to know? You seemed to like
every girl just as well as you liked me-
Evelyn
We'll. you did indeed. I'm sorry if it
sounds horrid. but that's Just how il
looked to me. Those Staveley girls, now.
You remember that day at Parklands
when you gave Esther roseg
No. | don't indeed"
oh. well. l do
But ] suppose she asked for it. and
in ones own home how was one to refuse
her? You wouldn't have me refuse her,
would you?'
II don't know" slowlyand with a
searching glance that quite undoes him.
Il don't know whether she asked YOU
for it either. but-you needn't have
smiled at her when you gave it."
This. being plainly grievance that has
long ranked. is received by Stamer with
due gravity. In truth he is 50 sad ar
heart that not even the absurdest Of his
little sweptheart's remarks could move