Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-08-11
CHAPTER VI.

,ba hills. They were ho' ~,i'i S,s
~ but meditating how they should
70, 70 their lovers.
e. On clad we are not to be kept in
n -" ebay" remarked Ella. Here
III pTlSo4 Morrison! wonder what she has
81 TO say. l,,rh+ a note fron, Sir
nv n was to the effect that he re-
hs, .4a1 not being with Ella, as promised,
N gre.'e .,orn;nr urgent business having
cajied him TO London
CT CO. ue allowed to take walk, Mor-
Fl - asked Gertrude sarcastically.
i, .ntor, Miss Gertie, you should know
:. mas lust Sir Keith's great love for
81 H. RIA that made him turn the key
ION YOU Yesterday; he was so afraid
'fa,l catch cold if she insisted on gong
.,I But today is fine. Go where you
I1.s He expressly says you are not to
q he interfered with"
Then we will certainly go out at once.
Oy 1bs c;rls went into the meadow, max
;,@a Dretense of gathering wild flowers.
p d. Brown watched them for awhile.
To+ one step did they take in the right
q direction until the man had gone.
d aEow for the wood, Ella; we haven't
moment to waste" said Gertrude as
soon as he had disappeared.
Must we pass that awful houseH /
fae afraid to 90 near it"
Nonsense! 1t is so much the nearest
way"
when thew came in sight of the gloomy
ola mansion. II think / should go mad
sbnt up in that dreadful place" she said.
You'll not be so tried" laughed Ger
+rude. Hurry up! dreamed last night
that YOU and / were married"
They say that to dream OF a wedding
ia sign of death"
Rubbish! l wonder whether this is
the right path! Yes, l remember that
lowered creeper."
IN have some; it is such lovely
blossom" said Ella, and she sprang up
at cluster.
Take care You will fall"
The warning came too late; scarcely
were the words spoken when some loose
pebbles slipped from under Elias feet,
and she came to the ground with badly
srrained ankle.
at was simply idiotic of you to jump"
said Gertrude testify.
What shall l do?" Ella tearfully
asked, Il cannot walk. l shall never get
to Dare now"
Gertrude was soon down ON her knees,
bathing the swelling foot with water
from neighboring brook.
Il viii bring Percy and Dare to you"
she said. Keep up your spirits. have
but a mile to run. You'll lie still, won't
q yOu:"
Il have no choice. You'll not be long
will you, Gertief Run, dear. I'll not be
afraid will think of Dare"
But she was afraid, with that weird
q old house so neart
And Gertrude, running on the wings of
lOye-she, too, had fear-fear of she knew
not what. She had reached the edge of
the wood when she heard a scream-or
was it fancy? She stood still, painting
quivering. Was Ella safe? Had any
thing happened to her? What could have
happened? That which she had heard
was a ravens croak or the boot of an
owl nothing more. On, on again, to Dare
and Percy Efingham
The two handsome Young men aroused
some interest at the little village inn,
though less than might have been ex-
pected, Dare being an artist and making
much show of his calling, and the scenery
about Grantley being exquisite and much
ireQuented by his fraternity The inn
keeper peeped through the lozenged- paned
window of the bar-parlor as the young
men sat in the sunlit porch.
"Ion painter chap be handsome, but
ne amt in no hurry to get to work." he
said to his wife.
lie amt got his Twin to make-that's
sartln," she laughed. "Ain't he like a
\andeleur, now?"
Which he be-but that means nought.
IN Keith hasn't relative in the world.
lie the last of his race since the death
al has brother, Sir Vivian, five-and- twenty
years ago"
80 long as that? I've heard Sir Wv
ian was good man."
lie was a man in a hundred. Sir
Ae'tA was bad 'un from the beginning.
LOOK out o the window. wife! Nav.
you re TOO late. There was a lass dressed
jill Wmte that showed herself t'other side
" me road, and then ran back again, and
u dashed if our gents didn't oop and
rum after her as fast as their long legs
could carry them"
Ilost know the lass?
Not l."
Ing lass" was Gertrude Staunton; fol-
owed by her lover and Dare Livingstone,
.-e vas now but a stones throw from
.'e meadow stile, l&1ghing and sobbing
'-e,ner in Percy EAingham's arms.
4'l Where Is Ella" asked Dare anx-
ON. how selfish 1 ami" Gertrude ex-
S.a4" ed. releasing herself. Then, explain
ABOUT the accident, and rapidly tell
i.- mem Of all Ella had suffered from Sir
Netl-s opportunities and the scheminp
40 IL -24y Meddlicotte, she babe the eager
t... push on" Dare needed no second
lung ~,5 the path pointed out to him. he
along 1t like the wind.
81. -. u ade and Percy, following less
n. ~, suddenly heard shout,
II IS Dare!" exclaimed Gertrude. lis
mag 5reathlessly. Something has