Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-01-16
HIS WOOING.
nv Wilhertine Worden.

( little writing desk, and the tea was being
made III low flat silver teapot on her
! teatable. 1t was Il charming, peaceful
| spectacle on the whole--with the excep-
! ton of Dorothy herself, vino was wink
J ling her pretty brows in Il deep frown
and going about her labors at the tea
making in a manner altogether savage.
You really fill me with sense of
/ anger toward YOU" she said shortly.
You are so stupid" Pelham leaned back
in his chair and stared deiectedly at the
fern across the room that made such a
4 bewildering background for her head.
/ Il know it," he said miserably
/ Then why don't you change your
4 self"
Il can't"
"Oh, You men!" Her interruption was
/ seonful. You really don't know how
YOU do look she continued, hanging
around n girl for two months IN this aim
/ less weak-hearted manner. Making love,
or being in love. you call it. 1t is not
consistent with your size, for one thing,
! Freddie, YOU are so tall and strong-and,
i again, it is not consistent with your ma
! turc. 1t is not your way of doing things.
/ How stupid men are, anyway"
I Pelham Strengthened himself up with a
show of spirit. See here" he said.
You should not be so hard on rs. OF
/ course, we have not the peculiar skill in
our love affairs that you women have,
/ but, then, that is your special province,
you know. As you say, we can only
blunder along, and it doesn't count for
much that wc are honest, because. rs you
/ also say, we are 50 stupid
Dear dear!" exclaimed Dorothy inno-
Gently, lifting the cover off her teapot
and gazing anNiously into its depths.
Dear. dear! ! must have touched him
~. little. When a man falls back
openly on his stupidity and honesty
/ something has happened. And it is also
Il sign that it I. time to stop, no matter
what YOU are doing, stop 1t is really
one OF the most important things in life
to know when to stop"
What are you talking about" asked
Pelham irritably.
My tea--you know there is a time
! when II is done. Did YOU tell me that you
took sugar, and six Jumps at thatg'
Only IN my coffee answered Pelham
stillly You know that | never take
tea al all.
Except at Elizabeth Alortons" She
finished brisSly They make tea so diff
fcrently there and then one can do 50
much in the name Of tea Think OF Che
quarts Of the Morton brew that YOU have
consumed, Freddie. The last time | met
you There you were walking trile I'M.
steadily rs you passed me- Did YOU hear
me say passed. Because that is what
YOU did actually passed met"
you we're with that idiot Thursten,
sIII bf,t
YOU can throw away 50 much 0f voln
time with him bright girl like YOU !
don't know why | dislike that fellow So
much | can't treat him ciyilly."
SO it seems she answered drily.
You insult him every time You meet
him with me, | take notice Now have
cup OF tea, like good boy
Pelham took the tea with n sigh Il
don't know what has come over me late
"" he said "Or rather | do know. OF
course. Il is all because of Elizabeth
Morton. | am no nearer her now than
when first met her ! do not seem to
be able to know her, some way And il
makes me vaguely dissatisfied with
everything and everybody. | have fol
lowed your advice in everything, Doro-
thy, but it doesn't work And YOU
shouldn't make fun of me the way you
do Why count you my best friend"
\ tlniy piece of lace and lawn fell in
his lap, There is my mouchoir. Fred.
die said Dorothy swcetly. Weep a lit.
tie, 1t viii do YOU good"
Pelham put down his cup and rose to
his feet Il duh red showing through The
good brown of his face. "Of course | am
Il fool" he said angrily; "A great, blum
dering oolin love with Il girl who will
not have anything between us, aud the
sport cf my best friends" Dorothy rose
from her chair and crossed The room I'M
pulsiyely and laid hand ON his arm.
You must not talk that way about
yourself" she said, because viii not al
low YOU, aud ana your best friend. but
YOU arc not in love with Elizabeth
Nlortun!"
WHAT" he exclaimed
You are not in love with Elizabeth
Norton She repeated. with wise nod
oi her head Pelham sat down in his
char with little laugh
That is queer" he said, when ii is
the belief that | have been loving her Tor
the last two months" Dorothy snapped
a slim finger at him in dcrision
That is nothing" she said. except
That IT Is two months too long for Il man
to be 50 mad, DO YOU remember the first
tune | ever saw You. Freddie when we
wore children mp at Whiting Coves"
Indeed ! do" answered Pelham warm
lN. You were wading in the pools that
afternoon Just the little pools And |
whipped that old dog OF grandfather
that Vas always following me around
, ana YOU did not like it and called the dog
= l. yol. And then you got little defiant
t and Wadcd out 70 a spot of land --"
/, "Nt>, and called the dog out with
o me"
r And he didn't know amy more than to
90. either"
e And then the tide came in"
. And you began 10 yet afraid. aud
! wouldn't come when ! called YOU"
And the dog howled
And you cried. But neither one Of
h go" would stir. Lord. wasn't mad!
. went out 90 that bit of land ike a streak
AMI cJlled the dog"
And >hool, me-"
1T yen had been a hov Dorothy.