Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-12-31

skllliul rider as a general rule, and there
/ was plenty OF room for him to get past.
! But (as occasionally happened with him)
/ be vas thinking very hard Of something
which was not the thing he was doing:
I the necessity for swerying and to avoid
( the carriage did not occur to him until
/ toe late; he touched the carriage wheel
and fell massivey. II IS fair to him to
/ add that when he said what he did he
was not aware that there was a lady IN
/ the carriage.
/ She took no notice of what he said. but
she was shocked and frightened by his
! fall, and was out of the carriage in .
moment Mas he killed? Was he hurt?
/ Thanks, awfully," said the big and
/ toyish youGg man, as he rose to his feet.
I not nurJ in the least ] only hope /
haven't taken the paint off your carriage"
/ 'But it's stuff and nonsense" cried the
old lady. oXcitedly, you are hurt Your
| hands cut and | can see it. If the dust
/ gets into the wound you highland do
4 look at the-cr-treadle of your bicycle"
/ lie protested tlat the scratch was moth
/ ing. He would walk the machine along
/ TO tie nearest repairer's. He was awfully
/ sorry he'd given her so much trouble.
/ She would not hear him. He must come
/ up to the house with her and get his
clothes brushed and that hand attended
! to. And she had a gardener called Smith
| quite a mechanical genius though
/ short tempered, and very fond of bi-
| cycling-who could put the machine right
| in five minutes.
The young man doubted the ability of
a short tempered gardener to mend
broken crank in five minutes or any
| longer period of time. But he liked the
cid lady; he liked her impetuous kindH-
ness, and he let himself be persuaded
But he would not let her say that it was
entirely her cOachman's fault, or that it
was in the slightest degree anvbodv's
fault but his own. They argued the
| point on the way to the house.
IN the hall he was handed over TO Par.
slow as "a gentleman whom we've nearly
| murdered, and please do everything YOU
can for him."
III ten minutes he found himself suf-
ticicntly clean and presentable to 90 to
the drawing room and thank his hostess
once more and say goodbye to her.
We're you riding to any particular
placer"
NO, Lady Marbles. Riding to any
where"
Good. Then you must save me from
Iunching alone OF course luncheons
dim CT because one doesn't dine on
Christmas dav. because Of the servants"
This is really very kind of you But
1t Is also very rash. You know nothing !
OF me, except that ! rode a bicycle very
badly this morning"
ON, my dear child" exclaimed the old |
lady, and her rapid assumption of the |
ant IF Z.
him. I know a great deal more-a very |
great deal more. | believe | know al |
most everything except your name
there. Par7loW has given you the adyan- |
tagc of me. But You may tell me that |
and anything else you like"
My names Iangier- Richard Tanoier. |
| took my degree at Cambridge last sum |
mer, and my father is prosperous
grocer in Pelton. rode over from Pelton
this morning"
I'm so glad You did"
Parslow announced that luncheon was
served.
+ hope you're as hungry as / am
said the old lady, smiling. Tangier gave
her his arm
Il suppose" said the old lady medita
lively at luncheon that men do these
IillnSS-Out women never do.
"Gesf" said Tanoicr. Who. naturally. |
had not the faintest idea what she was
talking about.
Il mean this riding off to no particular
place just for the sake of exercise. 1t |
would be quite impossible for me to leave
my house without Knowing just exactly |
where ! was going
Even if your house were on fire."
Then. Of course, it would be different |
But | don't see Your noint"
Il only mean that it was not for the
sake of exercise that | left my fathers |
house this morning. / left it simply be-
cause | couldn't bear to stop in it any
longer | told them that / would come
back when Christmas was definitely |
over Tie young mans round face dark
ened as he spoke. u don't know. though |
Why | should bother you with these lit
tie domestic matters"
"pUslow,' said the old lady firmly. Il |
will have little more turkey" She
turned cXplanatorily to Tangier. Il al |
ways make a point of taking twice on
Christmas day. | value Christmas i'm
mcnsely. | went to church this morn
ing"
Pm afraid" said Tangier that l am
very tar IRON being orthodox"
II thought that had gone out of fash
ION said the old lady rather sharply.
What? Unorthodoxy. Lady Matrices ;"
NO. Mr.. Tangier Talking about it.
Except perhaps at Oxford"
But | would never have mentioned it
if you had not first of all mentioned your
own orthodoxy. You see. You have taken
me So generously ON trust that it only
seems fair to tell you Il few of my prin-
cipal disabilities. social and otherwise"
Yes said the old lady. Il own YOU
show reason But you're really wrong
to think so much Of these things | shall
cure Won of that in time" She did not
seem To realize how much this last re-
mari took for granted. You must re.
member that when society mot that
know anything about il in my provincial