Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-07-16

SItspL liliHESs anu Was -blHe ~ dSk YOU
10 be my pilot. Mr.. ROchfort."
The old man ehuekled with delight
Time was. my dear, when ! would have
accepted the challenge with light heart.
But now | leave it to the younger ones,
though they don't seem TO me to know
the way Of it, quite as we did"
MIS- ElIerten laughed gaily.
Hunting is going to the aoss, isu't
if?in company with the government
and the country. Well. since You won't
help me, | suppose | shall have to take
nay OWE line"
And snow them all the way. my dear.
could almost wish for blank day and
n0 scent"
Heresy heresy! MIR. Rochfort Is H.
eeittul, and compliments are vain
BY the way, nay dear, yor know
everybody. Tell me, who is that at tile
corner on i very decent gray horse?"
Marian did not need to look. hut for
iorul, sake turned her head in the direc-
tom Indicated.
lie appears to know YOU" continued
the old man. See, he Is lifting his hat
to YOU
"Ncs. ! think it is Mr. Nanrenen."
Old George Rochfort gave casual
grunt in reply, as tough to intimate
that his interest in the newcomer was at
an end. But VIXEN Mrs. Ellerton had in
consequently moved away he grunted
again, looking With shrewd eve from tie
ono to the other.
Wonder what's in the wind now" he
said, aloud.
Is 1T u fox?'' chirped his grandson.
and Mr.. Rochfort checked his erunts
Presently a general move was made.
and Marian pushed Nimrod forward, hop
ing, as she carefully told herself, to avoid
he inevitable meeting She need not
have hurried, for whether by chance or
design, it was net until quite late in tie
day that Vamenen rined up at her
sidc. Hounds were at fault and pending
4 fresh cast, no one was sorry TO get a
Ireather after some heavy going in ihe
s0dden country.
look at ny poor gray, his hide
= FAXED and pied, rs | ride. as ! ride; -
quoted Nenrenen gayly; and Marian's
eyes shone with swift appreciation. DO
YOU suppose" he continued, that our
worthy poet flung in the rhyme TO com
picte his tour de force, or was he laugh
ing in MS sleeve at the aptness of it,"
"Eoth, as the schoolboy answered when
he was asked which was the bad party in
parliament"
The boy WAS WruEo"
''of course" retorted Marian: each
-oan considers his own party perfection.
on mistake me. The boy should
have augmented or diminished the mum
Ter One and half. or one and too many
would have been arer the mark"
Mrs. Ellerton opened and held out her
sandwich case.
May ] offer you little Free Food -
Il should prefer d fair bargain" an
>Wered Namencn, in 50 low tone that
her pretense of deafness was cxcusable
Can You tell me what we are waiting
tor?' he asked presently.
His companion 9azed at him in won Ter
ment.
"'rhen you really do know nothing
! about hunting!"
Nothing whatever, and have your
warranty that it is not the slightest use
attempting to learn"
Did ! say that2 Then why are you
here todayg'
Il have followed YOU across three con
tinents with the express purpose of tell
ing you.'
Marian bit her lip. for she had diggci
the pit herself. - really do not think il
at all wise. Do YOUR
TO be candid. | do not think at all
about it,
Her gay little laugh rewarded his gray
lily, but in a moment it dropped to 81
lence. Hush" she whispered, they've
got to the line again. DO YOU hear that
whimper? Yes. Didn't | tell YOU? He
must have turned his head homeward
We shall have quite II pretty bit of jump
rng.'
The whimper was taken mp first by
one then by another, until burst oi
melody told at last that the beauties
were once more on ReyHard's track
IF YOU like to ride round YOU might
very likely fall in with us somewhere
about Iron Cross" said Marian
Thank YOU" replied her companion
/ hui when they had raced through two
fields aud crossed the brook he was still
at her side. At the next fence he gave
+ her a lead, and she decided that he had Il
+ fairly good seat, hut bad hands and a
certain lack of Judgment She almost
wished there was more to find fault with
and IT, wish was oratifed on the in.
I start, Tor. letting the gray have all his
own way. Nanrenen raced on. quickly
,h>tanced both the huntsman and tho
master. and at the next pump escaped
by miracle crashing into the midst OF
the hounds. \ well.directcd execration
checked his career, and, To do him Justice
lie grasped the situation, and awaited
calmly the ma stor's vials of wrath These
were not uncorked until the fox had been
pulled down five minutes later and by
the time Mrs. Ellerton rode up. with
some vague woman's instinct of defend.
ing her own property, the need for de.
Tense was over.
III was an accident; we viii leave il
at that. Mr.. Nanrenen." the master was
SAYING; "and we are pleased to have YOU
ont With Us though | must own that !,
this one case we would rather lead than
follow YOU
What did he mcan?" puzzled Marian
What was there, indeed, in the man him.
self that was 50 different from what she
remembered of him? This quiet self re-