Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-12-03
IN CONFIDENCE.
GY HERBERT A. MoRRAH.

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story books to look at, and she was fairer
than flower. 1t was Il union OF mature
MINDS, and there was money on both
sides: prospect. therefore. of more bliss
and success in life than follows the pop
ping of average champagne cofks.
Friend Eustace was ambitious. This
promised to keep him up to his work at
the bar. lie had future before him
uncles III high places, and so forth: in
iact, the sun shone upon their joint path,
and yet the clouds came.
As friend of both families, / received
the condolences of both from time to time
You are an old fogy, Cousin Arthur
Margaret would say. II can tell you
anything. In confidence, OF course.
strictly between you and me"
:, Quaiihed or not for the diploma of Old
Fogyism, what man ever seriously object
ed to recieTe the condolences of a pretty
womanl
As Il matter Of fact rather liked the
ldca: Whenever she woye the fabric of
2 hint, | always asked to see the en-
Eqstacc. on the other hand, was 8
hundred degrees more nervous. 1t was
seldom, Il want to know this or that,
or - want 10 tell you such-and-such Il
matter He talked of himself iii the
thlrd person and in the conditional mood
man were wilfuly to rake up some
thing in the past when he could easily let
II slip and live as though it had never
happened; what would You call him!'
"A fool" said l.
Somehow this failed to give pleasure.
~ course, old man. | was putting a
purely hypothetical case This time your
judgment strikes me as a trifle crude.
No ohense. Ion know | rate your opill-
IONS tremendously high, as 4 rule"
Well. | vouched, looking straight at
fnn -
To race with the fool himself | should
give the same answer"
Next day came Margaret She looked
tired, | thought.
"Oh, the slightest Bit" she admitted.
You know what rush London is I
never did pretend to be robust One
would need to be of strong metal TO
NO doubt, the ladies' of the Iron Age
had the best of it,"
living!"
but l don't like to see You faded,
demonstrated THAT air doesn't snit YOU.
When look back at your wedding day
iet me see, how long ago was that /?
three years this week
Fancy your rememberingr
One always notes the critical times
IN the lives Of ones friends
,. "The end of the third year is very |
dangerous stage"
Margaret sighed.
CURED.
"oh. Cousin Arthur, if / only had some
one to lean ONT
Your father"
"Fatntr!" She bit her lips and |
trowned. BESIDES. father is really ill., |
- am sorry, said |, conventionally.
niSealitis. a bad attack"
That explains everything"
Mother is worse"
We'll, after ALL" | venturcd. lightly
,tthey do belong to the older generation. |
m OF yours, You know. in spite of the |
gray halr. We're more on a level"
denly. ''' ou"
"Of course"
Don't laugh"
But one must" explained, gently. |
AT this stage one positively mnst. II il |
much too early for tears.
loveT' ~" never j"
That" said |. gravely. is mite an.
othcr story Perhaps you shall near If |
some day. In confidence. YOU know
strictly between you and me-
on, she said. flushing. II was-I am
IN love with EuStacc! This trouble is |
nor ten days old, hut It seems Il lifetime"
he NignSF' | inquired
l should never dream Of prying. Cou- |
SIN ,Arthur but there are-letters.
,.HSld,l,,, he 'S destroys unread"
them." Nv wa VPeh
Tour 1onr pes.simism shocks me-
has received one. '' "e
DO you tax him with IN"
IL would be degrading"
breakers ahead" ''''e 'le
lou Shan't be broken" | prcmjss1 oar
i9htl}' Wen sec this through together
EnStace was my next visitor rra
u"aspN hlmSolf down in one Of nv arm.
'.'titS' soon he grew restless ana began
10 pace the room. s"'
We seem her again" he said.
re devil Won have"
49, can get her out Of my hgaa. II
amounts 10 what those literary CLANS ra,l
an obSeSSinu" N''''iN cah
Tie wa. toying with a delicate piece ef
my cherished SatSuma.
Iut that down." | said. land settle
i"IiFS'li to a talk. Have Il weed and
iopk forward twenty wears -" ~"
That Suberrd him.
SVppo>e one must admi;." he re-
marked, that there is good deal of tho
beast lort in mast of us '' ''i'
n't You We rare wife in Alarraro. =
! m not brute pnnrSh 70 DENY II, Rnt
that's just the point. Shes a thonSand
times too good for me. | see ia" fanl
quite clearly" '"''
Speak on"
turn of tile bead did H."
onr head EiuSt he easily TUNED
Dot : admi; that? Hang + ~
weakness is humanr" ~
- 10 | learned from Dr Kenaeiv'>
"No, don't help me out bit"
Il was thinking of Margaret"
lie coiorrl up.
Well hc said slowly. turning as Sn3-
dcn'y I~hcn, you'll have time 10 think
nor" about her. I'm hard hit. ~ the
ad ah.4jl9tloU Stronger than even There
can only he one emf TO it. Ana I want
You 10 break it to MARGARET"
! tried to reason with the man Eat
F.t' tossed morality fD tho Wind.