Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-08-27


ing light down the little hill which lay
between them? Did her lonely chin
ney still claim his thoughtful care:
Five minutes later the dark plot was
formed, and Miss Tirzah was hurrying
about her preparations for the night
with cheeks that burned with fires she
had thought long since gone out for
ever.
The following morning more aston
lshed creatures there could not be than
were the kittens, eat, cow hens and
canary Of Miss Tirzah Hitchcock.
Something, certainly. had gone wrong
Six o'clock came and the stable door
was not opened by the brisk mistress.
IIalf-past six. and still no fire in the
kitchen stove. Seven O'Clock, and no
breakfast yet for the mistress and her
indignant dependents
Loud and angry rose the protest Of
/ Brindle from her snug stall. while the
old eat and canary did their best TO stir
things up inside.
Meanwhile hidden by the parlor cur
tains, crouched Miss TirZah. wrapped
in huge red and green shawl, her
heart finttering between shame and
dread. while her eyes watched with
feyered anxiety the house just up the
| hill
Oh. how pitifully foolish now looked
her deep-laid scheme, when faced in
the broad light Of day
OF course. he had forgotten, years
ago, to watch her chimney What
was 1t TO him now. whether she had
fire or not? She would go this very
minute and build it, She
Why what was that? Some one
was coming out of Solomon's front
door. Some one--why, it was Solomon
himself creeping forth rs If he had
just been engaged in stealing his own
spoons and was now making off with
them to a place of hiding
Where was he going?
The heart of Tirzah stood still for
one long and Notwithstanding second,
then II went on again with such ham
mering and commotion beneath the red
and green shawl that less plucky
woman would have He'd for the cam
phor bottle on the instant.
Solomon was coming down the hill
straight toward her tiny home Com
ing. it is true. not as the couQuerors
come. with bold and martial tread, but
after timid. sluky fashion of man
who had had his last timid advances
in that direction scorned.
When it was certain past all shadow
of doubt that he was coming into
the house, Tirzan the crafty creature
betook herself to the cane-seated rock
CT, where, wrapped TO the chin in the
big shawl. she waited with palpitating
heart for the timid knock which at
length sounded on the door.
Come in" she then called. feehy.
at which the door was opened cautious
", inch by inch, until the entire fig
ure of the middle-aged lover was dis
closed Ia view.
At the sight of 1'irzah bundled up
and in the armchair. all of his heSita-
ton vanished.
Why Tirzah. are you took Sick|'
came in the loud CHEEKY voice which
had not sounded in the room for five
years past An its cold enough ia
here to freeze the hair of a dogs back
Let me fix you a fire"
In a few moments a cheerful fire
/ was roaring up the chimney. 10 he
/ sure there We're more chips ON the
1 tioor than Miss Tirzah would have seat
tered in a twelyemonth. and the eat
was splitting out her indignation in
a remote corner over an injury dcnc
her sleek Tail ny the heavy boot of
Miss Thzah'S new fireman.
Iirzah, however, noticed neither the
chipS nor the anger of her eat. NOT
redder than her cheeks was the blaz-
ing fire, for solomon had taken com.
age and was sitting beside her. ipouir-
ing kindly when She was took" and
II b" shouldn't - ana "frtch the doc
= tor" ''''
"fou see, Tjrzah, ne said. with a
guilty laugh. Il alters look MI Won,
chimoIy the fust thing in the mornia
I've kinder got into the habit.
know YOU don't like IL, but-eh-why.
HHa E