Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-08-13

the hou7SfSNNI tts a. itcI prime minister.
Dublin was not so big that people could
disappear IN it. Not like London at all.
Thank heaven. rot at all like London
As he went M the steps he met a
young lady coming down at whom ne
glanced casually. Then he stood still and
stared in his surprise.
Il was Just thinking of You. Miss
O'Sullifan," he said, holding out his hand.
DO you suppose my thinking of Won
brought ne Just here. where / should
meet YOU! | have core from the south.
Nh. Nandeleur told me of your misfor-
times
Cecilia O'Sullivan blushed hotly for an
instant; but he had seen a certain delight
in her face. Then she was pale again.
ard he saw that she looked i'll: there
were dark shadows about her ewes. which
reminded him now he could see them in
broad daylight. of brown pansies: tho
soft roses OF her mouth were pale and
had a depressed dr6op.
All, yes she said, and her soft south
ern brogue was like a wall. He remem-
bered now that he had not heard her
speak at The Cottage. 1T made q great
difference to us, that storm. 1t made a
great difference to good many people"
He looked at her with sudden illum-
nation in his face
Forgive me" he said, still holding her
band. you were | find YOU
here, where | also have business - = =
S Il want employment as a governess, Il
companion thing" she answered.
But, alas, there is not much hope for ne
= have no accomplishments of any kind.
might go out as a parlor maid, but l
am not strong enough"
food heavens." said LEstrange. a
parlor maid! / should think not. Do
you think, by any chance, YOU could look
after one little girl of l5-the sweetest
thing alive? She is my little half sister.
! don't think she wants any accomplish
ments. She won't learn anything she
doesn't like. and she learns anything she
does IKE naturally and easily. She
wants a lady to be With her. She has
left school because she has been i'll.
Nhy-if you Will come-heaven has sent
You. Come iii and see Mrs. Drummond
Dunlop. | want TO tell her that we have
settled il up
y little later he walked home with Ce-
celia to her aunt's lodgings They were
III nameles7ly depressing street at the
Rorth side of the cty-a moribund street
which had housed nobility and gentry in
lie Eighteenth century. The afternoon
had ended in rain, and the dark parlor,
viii. it, drcary, lodging house furniture.
where Miss O'SulIivan Beare received
him, was full of shadows.
As she talked with him the old lady
held a handkerchief to her eyes.
y GU remember The Cottage" she said;
n al
round the dingy room.
He had a ridiculous impulse to implore
Der to take up her residence in Clooney.
as his old house was called Cloonev was
so much too big for him and little Ellie:
and it was full of beautiful things,
housed bcfttingly, as those at The Cot
tage had aot teen. But he controlled
himself.
Ho" ever. it was settled about Cecilia.
Cecilia was to 90 down to Clooncy at
once. The salary LEstrange mentioned
with bushes, was ridiculously large.
However, Miss O'Sullivan Beare saw
Aaothing remarkable about it, When one
OF her blood stopped to a mental occu-
patton she did not therefore come on the
plane OF common folk
L'Estranoe left Miss O'SuIlivan and
Ellie together for few weeks. When he
Joined them he found, as he had antici-
Pated, the happiest understanding he
tween the tWo-nay. more than that. fOr
Eiiie adored her new governess to that
extent that I'Estangc complained with
secret delight that Miss O'Sullivan had
cispossessed linn with Ellie
Late in the summer Miss O'Suilivan
Beare came to visit Clooney. and found
new Cecilia. Delicate wild roses III
Cecilia's cheeks. shy light in Cecilia
eyes. a straight carriage. ,prinoing
step, Il ready laughter that had never
been Ceciia's before. With her opinion
of the O'Sulivan Beares. the old lady vas
not unduly elated when she discovered
the state of affairs between her niece and
L'Eshange. In fact. she made secret
inquiry among her cronies into the his
tory of the L'Estrange family before she
consented to be satisfied
Then, when all was happily settled
J.. rsstrange led her one day into the pie
tnre gallery and toward "A picture which
stood upon an easel He was eddy pale
for happy lover. Miss O'Sulhyan Beare
was an olidity; one could not lie sure Of
her point OF view.
II want YOU to look at this" lie said,
and his voice shook
She had to get out her lorgnette be,
fore she could see the picture.
That" she cried. The old Shepherd
ess picture. How did you come by it.?
1t is not a copy surely"
He became palcr than before.
Not to put too dne point upon IT,
he said, Il stole it. ! told Cecilia
would confess everything. | said to my
self at the time that was only taking
il away to verify my own suspicious
about it, | should have sent you the
full value OF it. How could | leave it 10
the rats and the dump: You know you
would not believe me-
Dear mel" said Miss Harcc!ia. rather
in wonder at his agitation. I've always
heard collector would do anything. In
fact. my re, cred grandfather, Sir Her
cules, always justified it. You know he
stole the grand dukes snutlbox. Alas.
it persisted in the flames. But why did
YOU not take the Rembrandt, rather than
This :"