Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-04-14
A DEUS EX MACHINA.

II don't like your riding bout bybyour
SELF he said, gruffly.
oh. indeed! l have been longing 50
eagerly to have your opinion on the. sub
ject, Notwithstanding that, as | haven't
asked for it, you might have inferred
that it was a matter of indifference to
me. Thank you so much, now | know.
You don't like it,"
Her words pricked and CALLED him aud
made him speak more gruiHy still.
You know it's wrong. You don't know.
though, what harm you might come to,
ar who might meet you. There are
tramps, and-and all sorts of brutes'
Bears, for instance%" she asked, with
pretty and tantalizing arching of her
eyebrows. Zone meets them in so many
other places, too, that | have grown quite
accustomed to them. and now they really
don't frightcn me bit"
You think that very clever and satir-
ica!, no doubt" he said. But | tell you.
you oughtnt to be riding about the ceun-
try alone, Dolly. It's dangerous. and
--- he paused, feeling vaguely that he
was making weak climax-''it's not
proper
Dolly answered him with a moeking
laugh.
OF course, we ought to be worshipcrs
at the shrine of st. Grnudy. but I'm not,
and just understand. pleas" setting her
flushing defiance at him from her blight
brown eyes, that | am going op, by
myself as much as | hlsa4-sessfsss " s o.
like TO go oftener aud farther than eyer
for long time TO come, and whatever
Your opinion about my conduct may be,
will YOU kindly keep il 10 yourself till
ask for it: Even second cousins may
abuse their privileges. Goodby."
Second cousins, You know that I'm
more than that, Dolly, you know that
but she had gone i'll and shut the gar
den gate between them. Dick loved the
pretty self-willed girl with all his heart
and at times he thought she cared more
than little for him. But at other times
he had doubts, haunting, torruring doubts.
Her contempt for conVentionaitIcs often
shocked, and her habit of cycling about
The country alone seriously alarmed him.
What hr felt earnestly he was bound To
express earnestly. and as Dolly held pre-
sumption the worst of offenSeS and the
WGrst form of if an attempt To interfere
with her sovereign viii and pleasure,
their dlSaErtcmeutS were many and all
ways ended IN his utter discontinue. lie
turned away NOW, sour and angry. while
convinced that his protest WAS wise for
only a month before the Wears wife had
hCcn waylaid by trampS on the Hayden
road and had only escaped 10y promptly
wheeling round and flying back at top
speed Ia the vicara@e.
Dolly. holding her head very high. made
her way into the drawing room. thor
oughly VcNcd with herself and all the
world besides and trying Ia grow hrin in
the conviction that all the world besides
was wrong aud She alone in the right.
Her mother, looking up. SAW that ~ome-
thing was the matter and diSCrceiiy
avoided the show of curiosity.
Back again, dearest she said with Il
bright smile.
I'm going to Cumbcrlcgc tomorrow. =
said Dolly. rushing NJ her fences II
shall ride there and stay all night. Per
hapS Molly will ride back with me next
day.
} "Goins Ia Cur oerlegc. Why. my dear.
/ its over >iNt miles and You've never
/ been more than thirty"
i "BUt | can do SIXTY easily enough
/ Don't IT, afraid about that" Dolly spoke
/ a hitl" GROSSLY. fer She herself was not
I without uu>glViagS as 10 her powers of
/ 'ndurany.
! But M sure IL e." far; and thea.
! VINO Euil'g with NUut
/ Ne ont. M going alone. | prefer
/ H..
! tier mother >iTanglrd little scream Of
/ Tear ami then poured forth her Intellectual
protest
II MOI SAFE. VOW den know what
ma! h&Ntth !" You. l Nhali tie ~ Il fever
81 2hN'rty an day. he>ldeS, what viii
people say III sure Your cousin Dick
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