Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-04-15
A LESSON IN LOVE.

The professor pushed aside his volume
of Chaucer to make room for his slender
young daughter on the arm Of his chair.
She nuttercd over to him in her soft,
white gown its cut revealing the curve
of her firm. fair throat and the artistic
lines of her rounded arms.
Where tonight Estele?"
TO the ball with Mr.. Denton and Mrs.
Mills" she answered blithely.
with Mr. Denton? Isn't Teddy Va
ricl going?"
Il suppose so-yes."
Her tone was Indifferent but her neIv-
business under her fathers gaze be-
traycd a stifled uneasiness, silenced
struggle
They tell me this Mr. Denton IS
very wealthy man." he said.
oh! it's true. He has riches beyond
ones dreams
The note of personal triumph in her
voice was harsh to her fathers listening
ear. He regarded her thoughtfuily.
sit here ON the hassock, dear. ] can
see you better You are sweet and pretty
and pure. The soul of your mother
shines in your eyes. lie lifted his head,
and his strong, pale face, with its soft
framing of waving gray, was profiled
against the vivid velvet of his chair.
His voice became almost whisper.
This is the anniversary
Not of your marriage, father
NO My marriage was a subsequent
date. You do moi know have never
told youthat your mother was married
before she became my wife-married and
widowed
why, no, father dear said the girl.
with quick, sympathetic interest.
Il never care To speak Of that yet TO-
night ] see | must tell YOU the story.
must give you message from the dead"
Il shouldn't have made this engage.
ment. You are sad, father; I'll stay
with you"
NO. | want you to 90. ] shall have
time to tell you before they come"
He caressed the hand that sought his |
and unused minute in silence.
ON this night years ago, Estelle, your
mother first went out of my life She |
was placed very much like you. in a |
comfortable home, in college town |
where her father. too. was d professor. |
The miniature that hangs beside your
bed feehly pictures her beauty. 1t tells |
the outward loneliness, but only hints at |
her inner grace. All! there were many |
who sighed for her wonderful smile.
"She and | had discovered the purple |
twilight. In every blossom / saw her
face; the dewdrop cleaned with the |
luSter of her eyes; her voice was in the |
warbling OF the birds; her smile was in
the sunshine. Somehow. / feel, Estelle, |
that is the way Teddy Variel thinks of
YOU
he girl put up protesting hand. |
Her father smiled and resumed his story. |
Her mother forbade our engagement. 1
| was only a struggling student and, |
though her father believed that | should /
win fame he did not check his Nitp's /
ambition for her child.
There came to the town very much /
like the coming of this young Denton. a /
man with gracious personal gifts and /
riches which at that time seemed inn. |
mcuse. lie had Just come into hi, in /
heritanee.
They met-and he loved her. At first /
she would not listen, bat her nature was /
gentle, her mother determined and her
father porting over ancient tragedies |
overlooked the one creeping into his |
home. | was poWcrlc~s. She could not !
receive me when | called. and. at the |
functions where We met. she was zeal |
onsly guarded 10y her mother and the |
man.
"She accepted him. She told him
frankly that her lovp was mine: that in |
promising him she was accedinr Ia her
mothers will But he was buoyantK |
confident that love would come. They |
We're married, and he took her away to !
! mansion filled with treasures of art.
/ >1' NAT Jewels and gowns and horses
ct" 'nin4N that money could buy But
! rove ad not come. The strongest, soft
,>I nests E>tellc, are built by the birds
love mated
For year did not care what be
came "i me. But | loved her. and could
do nothing of which she would be
ashamed went to Egypt and began
the researches that have brought me
fame.
rive years passed The longing to
SEE her again. 10 hear her voice. became
'Htolerable pain. | went back 10 Lon
0on and haunted the streets. the sbons /
the theaters. where She might be- 1ben /
enc myth. when | had almost dcspairad /
saw her in her box at the opera
She surpassed even my dreams uer |
gown was soft and white. Above Lr. |
shoulder red rose lifted with the same |
proud tilt of her own pretty head : |
'hlliled at the thought that ON her had |
never seen faded flower. The hons
became blurred: | was gazing nj bcr /
through Il mist of tears-Patti was sine.
ing Home. Sweet Home
hurried out and stood i'm the obscp,.