Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-09-08
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from his seat and holds out to her his
hand. Come, / dare not run the risk
OF wearying you; Let me take you back
TO the ballroom"
If you will" says she, rising too.
But YOU never weary me- | like to be
with you. She says this naiyely. ear
nestly, without a suspicion of coquetry.
However she may treat young men, with
crawford she is always honest. And IN
deed II rs now only the bare truth she
speaks. When with him a sense of rest,
of comfort, falls upon her MANY are
afraid of this cold, self-contained unso-
clabie man, but not Evelyn, perhaps be-
cause 10 her alone his heart has gone out.
tie might have made some answer to
| her kindly words, but that at this instant
the sound OF voices, raised and wrangling,
reaches them. Nearer and nearer they
come. destroying the ideality of the night,
and threatening destruction to sentiment
of any kind.
Crawford casts an astonished glance
| towards the direction from which the
voices seem to come, but Miss Darcy
maintains an unmoved demeanor.
1T is only the Wylding- Weekes,' saws
she with the melancholy resignation of
one who knows what to expect and is
| used to it. They are always quarreling.
One grows accustomed to it of course,
but always wish they wouldn't do it so
loud: 1t Is so unnecessary and is such
pity
1T is" says Crawford drily.
They don't care who hears them, or
where they are" says Evelyn plaintively.
! Inc last time it was in the church
porch, and we were all there. Some
strange clergyman had come to preach
sermon for the Hottentots, or some other
unpleasant people, and he lost his place
IN his sermon, and Mr.. Wylding- Weekes
declared 1t was all because poor Mrs
Wylding-Wee had been--been-'
She hesltates and turns a lively Grim
son.
Well?'' says Crawford
Its horrid word | think." saws Miss
darcy, red STILL but taking her courage
IN both hands; but | assure YOU he said
she had been 'Ogling' the missionary,
m sure 1t wasn't true. But he made a
dreadful scene, and We were all shocked, :"
They are coming this way. Let us es-
cape with our lives while we may" says
Crawford, and together they speed
through the. scented strawberries, until
once more they find themselves ON the
moonlit walk before the house.
we have evaded that danger" says
crawford, but I'm afraid not without
eVil results. Your shawl is doing any
thlng but its duty; and there is always
a little chill in the air on such nights as
these. Let me fasten it for YOU
lie lifts the white silk shawl and care
fully winds it round her. To Stamer,
coming down the steps of the conserva-
tory, it seems as though he is encirclipg
ner with his arm, and that without re
buke. He turns abruptly back again
and re-enterS the ballroom.
Evelyn and Crawford. innocent of the
fact that anyone has seen them, and still
more innocent of the fact that anyone
could possibly have misunderstood the
situation, regain the ballroom in their
turn, where Evelyn is speedily seized
upon and carried away into the Waiting
whirlpool
There is no doubt about her being the
big success of the night Lady Stamer.
looking on. looks grim beneath this
knowledge; Mrs. Vaudrey grows gay be
meath it. AS for the colonel he takes it
as a matter of course; who should be adj
mired, if not his pretty Evelyn?
But Evelyn herself, in spite of her tri
umph, is conscious of a sense of loss;
she feels puzzled, too, and hurt. The
best men in the room have been fgura-
lively at her feet, and yet, he-Eaton has
not once asked her to dance He, her
oldest friend. 1t is so strange, so unac-
countable. What has she done that he
should treat her so? 1t is now very peri
lousy close to the end of the evening,
and still he holds aloOf, not even deign-
ing. as by chance they meet each other
IN room or gallery, to cast q look at her
good many people have already TAX
en- their departure, the colonel amongst
them. The fact that he has gone has
made Evelyn feel even more lonely. A
half wish that she had cut short her visit
at the castle and gone with him is OPP
pressing her; and with it a sense OF an
ger that he should have left her so soon.
If He had waited she might have gone
with him. But he had been in such
horrid hurry.
For the first time in her life indeed she
is unjust to the poor colonel, who had
come there in the lowest spirits and sore
ly against his will, simply to please her
Accustomed to go to bed at 10 sharp.
he had sat resignedly on until half-past
one of the biggest hands in Europe I'M
til his wife, coming to the rescue. had
carried him off. II had indeed gone so
far with him mat it would have been Il
case of sheer brutality on the part of
anyone who had sought to keep him long
or from the desired couch.
Yes; 1t will soon be all over. Others,
following the example set by the colonel.
have vanished into the night. and are
now several miles nearer their homes.
The room is thinning. The end will
come and she will not know how she
has offended Eaton. A shadow has fall
en- into her pretty eyes, her lips take a
downward curve. Making. q little. eX
cuse to her partner, she dismsses him.
and sinking upon friendly seat, let's
little sigh escape her
The knowledge that someone has come
up behind her and is standing there close
to her without speaking, causes her TO
turn and look mp.
1t is Eaton, at last.
CHAPTER XXII.
perhaps. now your engagements are
a little slack. | may hope for a dance"