Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-09-17
The NEXT But ONE.

/ Rerton had sent him for Lady Brandon's
/ ball had found him with no reason for =
refusal. DO come" she had written
across it; and Maynard had come, know
/ ing. all the time, he had be t. have kept
az; v.
The sight of Miss Renton, veritable
queen in the midst of the homage her
! beauty exacted, only made him feel more
ashamed OF his tcmerity in ever having
dreamed of making her his wife. He
could but congratulate himself that he
/ had had the good sense to keep his folly
/ to himself and had given her TO oppor-
tunity of rebukmg his presumption.
/ Win her charms of face and manner,
charms that destined ner to shine in the
world Of wealth and fashion, was it like.
~ she would have been content To be-
come thc wife of Il country squire, who
had as much as he could do to keep to-
/ q thor his ancestral acres!
! Miss Renton was to make a rich match.
/ 1t was with this intention open and
avowed, that her aunt, Lady Brandon,
/ he'd given her season in town, and May
! rare! did not dare hatttr himself that, in
/ Lady Brandon's eyes, his paltry fifteen
!
/ claim exemption from the stigma of pow
/ ertN.
/ ii was on Sir George Farcham, the
IoNncr Of Fareham hail. in Yorkshire a
| house in Park Lane and the finest moor
/ in Scotland, that rumor had bestowed
/ the hand of the fortunate young lady,
and rumor had penetrated even to the
W.lds of Cornwall where Maynard had
: 1. L. /.
! broNs over the drouth and fearing for
i his wheat crop.
j In an interval between the dances he
/ found himself standing close to his en-
We'd rival who was watching the door
way with evident impotence. Miss Rem
! ton had promised the next dance to May
nard, and as she entered the room both
! he and Farcham FASTENED to meet her
! The latter reached her first, and Maynard
drew back
But Miss Renton smiled sweetly.
"No, no, Sir George; it was the next
/ but one | gave YOU" She turned to
Maynard: This is yours"
Fareham could but bow and acknowl-
edge his mistake, wondering who the tall.
sunbmncd man could be for whose dance
Miss Benton had so careful Il memory.
You don't want TO dance, Mr. Nav.
nard. do you?" said she. Come and find
4 a lreath of fresh ali"
/ sac led the way to the balcony. and
/ they stood leaning over the cushioned
baiustrade looking into the street below
0n the opposite side of the square an
4ther dance was in full swing; the music
so1ndcd across the intervening trees
Miss Renton sighed. Isn't it whirl."
/ She said.
TO me it is" said Maynard: 'but,
then, | am new to it ALL three days of
the season, you know, is my annual al
! loWancc."
OH" she said, tell me about the
country-about Trevethan; it seems
years since | left it."
| Maynard laughed.
I'm afraid there is little novelty in
/ Trevethan. The tide comes up the
estuary twice a day, as usual; and we
farmers grumble, as usual, about the
weather What am | to tell you?"
You've told me just what | wanted to
/ know" she answered; there's nothing
changed. Do YOU remembei-one day
when we picnicked ON the golf links
Un there ny the sandhills. where YOU look
all around the horizon and seem in the
/ midst CT perfect c1rcle-dO You remem .
hor ,ume one said it seemed like the
center of the world?"
Miss Rcnton paused and locke!
thou9htfully down on the moving lights
of the carriages
I've often thought of that since" She
went ON, "and I feel now as ii it had
been true, as if it had been the center of
the world. Everything seemed 50 sin
there; here wa seem on the very cape--
rushing round so fast that it takes ones
h'ath away"
Maynard had refuge in silence, hardly
3 understanding her mood
Pm so glad You came tonight She
said softly. Il feel as ii YOU. NJ MI
events, were out of the whirl: and Won
YOU steady me, somehow. and ;,rip mo IN
; think"
, MAYNARD looked around ;,,,.el,,.,......,..
/ to see that no one was within bcarin% ;