Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-09-05

Thirty or a little over, for man."
said Mcintyre boldly, sand 2O-or a
little over-for a woman" he conclud-
ed.
Il think" said Maud, allowing her
attention to wander from the game for
moment, "that the gap between 20
and 80 is too great. Fancy-ten
years!"
'If' said Mcintyre, "you were your.
self asked by man"
But his speech was drowned by a
tremendous outburst from the parti-
sans of the Light Blues. Bannerman,
tho great hope Of his side, wasrun OUT.
Maud had noted the significance Of
his tone, but before she could reply
another wicket fell amid another up
roar, and Tom came in.
Tom, Joined by the last man, settled
down to pull the match out of the
fire. But he was i'll at ease; Banner
mans loss had unnerved him: an easy
looking ball from the Cambridge slow
bowler sent his off ball spinning, and
the game was at an end. Cambridge
had won by eighteen runs.
Whilst Mr.. Mcintyre was enjoying
a solitude a deux with Miss King in
the drawing room Bannerman and
/ Tom were discussing the days play in
the billiard room-Tom full of misery
and apologies, Bannerman, in his big
hearted way, philosophic and sympa-
thetic.
well, must get said the captain
at length. Good night. Tom; cheer
up old man"
you're a good sort, Ban. Good
night" said Tom drearily.
Mr.. Mcintyre having taken his de-
parture, Bannerman found Maud alone,
looking little flushed and pretending
to read a novel.
81 must run away" said the Captain,
TN playing at Edgbaston tomorrow
and that means catching train be-
| fore breakfast
I'm so sorry you lost today" said
Maud, giving him slim white hand"
"and | am cross with Tom"
The three were all good friends. Re-
tanning her hand in his best paternal
fashion Bannerman said, Then don't
be cross with Tom any longer He's
awfully depressed about it, and his
arm is hurting him no end"
His arm!" cried Maud, all woman
now.
Eyes, he bumped it on the rails when
he brought off that big catch yester-
day"
"O,'' said Maude, 81 must"
Eyes do and don't be too cross with
him." and so old Ban went out of the
room and the house and made IT'S for
his county against Warwickshire on
the following day.
When he had gone Maud stole into
the hall Her father was writing let
tiers in the study. All was silent.
Maud stood hesitatingly on the thresh-
old of the billiard room. For some
reason-though she had pretended
otherwise-she felt glad that Tom
hadn't particularly distinguished him
self in the varsity match. She had
been getting little tired of late of
hearing his praise sung; it had been
nice, at first, of course, having blue
dancing attendance upon her, but the
novelty of it had worn off, so she had
not followed the ups and downs of the
match with much enthusiasm. She
now found herself actually admitting
that there were other things about
Tom that she liked better than his
cricket. He hadn't the keen profess
sional wit of Mr.. Mcintyre, but he pos
| o1 HaaI s,ff In
healthy humor that Maud found enter
tanning He had seemed to have lost
a little of this humor recently-per-
haps most of it-but that may have
been because he was in. Yes, he
was as sincere as daylight ana as man
ly as man could be.
1--WE shall have to be engaged for a
long time, but | shant mind that"
murmured Maud opening the billiard
room door.
Tom started up.
Miss Kingi"
Maud Misunderstanding herself on
the arm of his easy chair-that as he
had rudely forgotten to come and say
good night to her she had been obliged
to come to him. Then, after petulant-
ly selling his cigar and throwing it
into the fireplace, she tasted his whis-
key and soda.
How can you drink such stuff?"
she cried" placing the glass down hur-
riedly, "you--a boy!"
Cheers one up" said the boy.
And now show me your arm. Wait
and I'll get some Gilman"
Returning shortly with the embro-
cation she made Tom take his coat off,
whereupon she unfastened his cuff
Ink and rolled up his shirt sleeve.
Then she anointed the blue swelling.
Tom couldn't trust himself to utter
his thanks, and she knew It,
Pulling the sleeve down she read
justed the cuff link, helped him on
with his coat and told him to sit down
in his easy chair again.
'Ill allow you another half hour"
she said. getting him fresh cigar.
"Here--here's a match. There! aren't
you much obliged TO me?"
Tom was somuchobngedth had