Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-06-09

rest The adventure raade a great i'm
preston and was long remembered and
spoken of, and from the day of its occur
renee l was more carefully watched at
home.
When asked the good woman / mar
ried to become my wife, l related this
incident of my child-life TO her. She
made light of it, and l think it was
chiefly through her encouragement that
the adventure was known in my house
hold My daughter. it appears, describ-
ed it to Mile. Rosalie as a diverting in
cident, and the woman Of multifarious
accomplishments treasured it in her mind.
During manhood my somnambulistic -pro-
pensities occasionally broke out but
they were always of the most harmless
kind. Shortly, however, after the en-
gagement of Eunice and Harry / was
greatly disturbed by an incident to which
| could attach no satisfactory explana-
ton. My wife told me that she woke In
the night and l was not by her side,
She was about to rise and seek me, when
l entered the room, undressed myself and.
lay down in bed, being all the time in.
sound sleep.
Il have no remembrance" / said, "of
going anywhere or doing anything. 1t
is very annoying. / wishN they had
thrown a bucket of cold water over me
when / was child. 1t might have cured
me-"
lit might have killed you,' said my
wife, gravely. ut is too late now to
fret over it, Richard"
II should not mind said, ''if could
remember where / go to, or what / do;
but it is all blank"
We spoke of other matters, and went
down to breakfast. After the meal my
wife and | strolled in the garden and
spent an idle hour there. Ny daughter
and Mile. Rosalie were in the grounds.
and Samuel Fleetwood made his appear
ance to give me a report of some tax
l had set him to do. When he camei
toward me | was conversing with Nile.
Rosalie, my wife and Eunice being at a
little distance, and / left my daughters
goyerness to join him. Certainly my,
mood was peculiar one on this morning,
for the short conversation l had with
Mile. Rosalie left an uncomfortable inl-
preston upon me- And yet nothing was
spoken by her or me to account for it q
we had conversed upon ordinary matters,
but there was in her a manner confid-
ing tenderness which was new and
strange to me.
After hearing Fleetwood's report / re-
ferred to something l had observed as he
approached me and Mile. Rosalie. She
had nodded to him, with pleasant smile
on her lips, and he had returned neither
the nod nor the smile. / inquired the
reason.
Il do not like her, sir" he said, after
a pause.
Speak more plainly, Fleetwood" 1
urged.
''Wel, SIR he said, Sin the first place,
she is not a Frenchwoman. But her
| name is French"
"Quite true, Fleetwood. Her father
may have been French"
May have been, sirr' he remarked,
repeating my words with emphasis.
Then he is not living?"
Mile. Rosalie is doubly orphaned 1
said. Come, come, Fleetwood, we may
be doing the young lady an injustice in
canvassing her so freely behind her back.
But, having gone so far, we may be add;
ing to the injustice by not carrying this
conversation to its legitimate end. We
| cannot be too careful of regulations.
| Say what is in your mind"
Very well, sir. Mile. Rosalie has no
parents, but she has relations"
Il think not Fleetwood. She is alone
in the world, with not soul to depend
| upon except ourselves"
Then the man she meets, SIR" said
| Fleetwood, sis not a relation"
Il was not aware" l said, that Mile.
Rosahe was in the habit of meeting any
man; but, after all, it is no affair of
ours. Are these meetings frequentw
Every frequent, / should say, sir.
have passed them, by accident, at least
half a dozen times"
How long has this been going ~
at is four months since l first saw
them
l reflected. Mile Rosalie had been in
our service only five months, and it was
generally understood, through her own
statements, that she was a stranger in
the neighborhood, and had no friends or
acquaintance. Here, then, was another
duplicity to trouble and perplex me.
Where do these meetings take place,
| Fleetwoodf'
I'm Ivybush Lane, sir"
Iyybush Lane was, perhaps, the most
secluded part of the locality round about;
but if Mile. Rosalie and her friend were
lovers, was it not natural that they
should meet in a spot where they were
least likely to be intruded upon?
And at what hour. in your observa-
ton" l asked, do they meet"
Always at night, sir, when there is
no moon"
ITO be continuedl