Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-08-01


amining picture row and then by the
way.
Did he die on the way homer she
asked. quietly
Away up country in Australia
Then" she said, why did YOU re-
turn"
Nostalgia I answers. You fret
and growl and get sick with everything
You long for the old places and the old
| people"
only thc-the old people," asked
Elsa.
The people YOU have known all your
They need not all be 50 very old, {
said Ella.
But" l continued. 4 am not certain
| should have returned if had
Known -
If YOU had known what?"
cot the changes which the last two
| months have brought about"
Elsa came 10 an abrupt standstilI.
facing me with unmistakablc indigra-
| ton.
DO you intend to suggest that have
changed" she demaEded
Il wonder whether you remember the
night l saw you last :"
OF course | remember" She answered.
"Aou were beautiful then
"Nou know that is not what l
| meant" she cried.
Nov you are more beautiful still'-
''Pcrhap, that i, due to fine feathers. .
She suggested, with the faintast Of
smiles
Perhaps
But she exclaimed. throwing out.lier
hands, with the white gloves in the right.
they are nothing They do not eouns at
all
1t was impossible to resist a glasee
around the gallery. with its collection
You say they are nothing?"
Il asked whether YOU thought I had
changed" she insisted myself
How can | Judge you in that intimate
way:"
You have surely known me intimate
lyyou have known me for wears"
Il will take Your word Tor it that You
haven't | answered; but still Elsa's
face looked grave
But, then" she suggested, IF you
didn't take the trouble to find out what
| really was before'
oh. | never doubted what you werel''
What = She demanded. with quick
upward glance. But before | could have
explained. even ii | would she added
impcriou~ly: Tell me about your
friend
You would have liked old Howard"
said.
Wa, he III very long," she asked.
He broke down soon after we landed
But didn't he get any better?n
Not much. 1t was a tedious business
for the poor fellow
And for you?'
oh. well'
Didn't his illness rather handicap
you?" Elsa suggested
Il dare say it did-a little
who nmsed him.
you must understand we were miles
away from everywhere and every one
Then it was your
There was no ono else"
still she cried. 4 suppose he wasn't
i'll the whole tine?'' -
No, but he was never quite VIII -
explained. OF course, he had his better
periods"
You might have taken him to some
town-have got him off your hands? r
II might"
why didn't you:" she demanded, Sc
vcrely.
You see. We had pooled our funds and
taken cattle run and stocked it, and,
besides, Howard was eyerlastingly hop
ing for better times"
Then said Elsa. 1T was really his
illness which prevented your success
Anyhow | returned, we had agreed
to chum."
But" asked Elsa, "do you-do you
think it was quite fair?"
old Howard would have done the
same by me-
Il wasn't thinking of Mr., Howard"
OF whom. then 20
"Why-of the girl you left behind
YOU said Elsa
4 don't think ever passed a day
without thinking OF her" ! protested
Was it quite fair to her."
Fair
You had left her waiting for you!"
cried Elsa
But then, you scc she didn't know"
| reminded her
OF course answered Elsa, with q
smile. How stupid OF me-"
You you were forgetting I sue.
gested.
YES. II was forgetting" she MUIR
INJURED. and heI face grew grave again.
In any ease" I said 1T would have
been impossible to leave Howard in the
urch."
SO You stayed ?"-
why. YES
And did the most of the work -
There was no one else to do it."
And when he was i'll. You nursed
him?"
I'm afraid the poor chap had rather
Il rough time OF it ] said.
Well you know" cried Elsa. II
think YOU always were a little rough"
Not like the johnnies in the picture
over there" ! suggested, as we reached
the end of the gallery and turned. re-
tracing our step, along the other side
How do you like this one" she
asked. The picture on the right"
isn't it supposed to be tou,na-
monty' ! inquired.