Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-10-20

one side, while Cecilia was altogether
in a state of disarrangement. They were
both dripping wet, almost as if they had
Just come out of bath.
ut is your fault" cried the girl, you
savageI"
sit is my fault, is it? Was it not you
who"
At this point, however, the humor of
the situation overlook them, and the
two cousins looked each other in the
face and laughed with all their might.
THAT was fine blow you got on your
head"
q should say so. guess must have
a bump on my forehead"
"And l. too, here"
My poor little Cecelia!" cried Fer
rucio
Don't laugh So" said Cecilia, striking
up comic attitude of alarm. IF you
shake the umbrella too much it will
start its funny tricks again and will
shut up
"Oh, horrorsi After al, Cecilia. when
| come to think of it, it wasn't such
bad trick the umbrella played ON us, was
litg"
Again Ferrucio thought that he allowed
himself to speak too rashly and he
| liuSHtN leu.
Cecilia darted him a glance in which
there was a world of unconscious CO.
lquetry. Then disposing herself to a reso-
lutte mood she said: Come now, let us
walk the rest of the way like respectable
people"
She passed her arm again through that
of her cavalier and drew herself up
against him as closely as possible. THAT
is the way" she said, NOW l will have
my whole body under cover"
Ferrucio felt kind of uneasiness a
discomfort that he had never experienced
before; but that discomfort was so de-
hcious that at that moment he would not
have exchanged it for anything else in
the world.
And Cecilia, inclining her pretty head
toward him, spoke to him as she never
had spoken to him before until that day.
as one speaks not to a boy or playmate,
but to young man who can be taken
into ones confidence, to a friend
Seeing himself finally treated as an
equal by young lady almost 1914 years
old and so very pretty, Ferrucio was be-
side himself with JOY. At first he was
confused and embarrassed, but gradually
his tongue was unloosened and he began
to speak with warmth and an unusual
emphasis.
| How many things the two cousins said
| to each other under that umbrella They
recalled the time of their infancy when
! they lived in the same city and passed
many hours together every day, quarrel
ing frequently, occasionally also pulling
each others hair, but never able to re-
main separated. Later the families went
| to live in different places, and Cecilia
and FeTucio remembered how bitterly
they wept on the day of their separation
/ Yes, they wept and wept, and swore
that they would write each other; but in
asmuch as they were then scarcely able
to make strokes with their pens there
was no possibility of keeping their prom
Use. But in the fall Ferrucio came to
pass his vacation with his uncle and
aunt, and continued to do so every year
For Cecilia this Yves the pleasantest sea-
son of the year.
| 1t was true that there was an interval
of considerable cooling down when Ce-
celia seemed to be bent on becoming a
steeple, while Ferrucio evidently had
made up his mind to stop growing. Then
she really looked down upon him. Basta!
| But now all this humiliation was at an
end, and Cecilia faithfully recognized
that Ferrucio would not cut bad figure
at her side. But what pity it was that
they could not walk arm in-arm the
whole year round! What a pity they
could not always confde their intimate
thoughts to each other, their secret de-
sires, the little sorrows of life!
The two cousins passed into pathos
| Who knew what the future had in re-
serve for them? A series of disillusion-
ments, perhaps premature death! Brr!
! The very thought of it made their blood
| freeze in their veins.
Don't even say it, Cecelia!" eiacu-
lated Ferrucio.
you would really be grieved if l
died?"
"Oh. what terrible language!" he an
swered, turning his humid eyes upon her.
| In answer she pressed his hand gently
This sentimental conversation was in
| terrupted by the sound of voice.
"Eh, children, why don't YOU hurry 90
| 1t was Signora Susanna, who waited
for them at the gate of the villa, where
they had arrived without noticing it,
'And now" continued Signora Susan
ma, do me the kindness to explain why
you keep the umbrella open? It is TWEEN
ty minutes since it stopped raining"
ut has stopped raining?" exclaimed
Cecilia and Femucio in great surprise.
YES, of course? Have you been wan
dering in the cloudsy 1 am not surprised
at Cecilia, she never knows where her
head is; but you, Ferrucio. shame on
you! And in what norrid condition
you are? All muddy from top to bot
| tom.
Walk up quick and change your dress,
and then come down at once to the table
You, Ferrucio, give this umbrella to Men
leo and let him return it to old Martha at
once. For all the good it has done you
might as well have done without it,"
NO, mamma, believe me, it was very
nice under this umbrella" said Cecilia,
as she entered the house.