Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-02-09

together nervously.
Monsieur, ought to have said zat re
friend was only one person, and Eat Pere
Antoine had not seen him? But if she
vent away just q minute too soon, vas
Eat my fault! And suppose l had ex-
planned it all, and meanwhile the starch
had boiled over or burned? When sings
of Eat sort happen to Mere Margot, she
viii say No, no. to any reqyest. And |
wanted to go so much! Almost before |
knew What l vas saying I repeated after
her, English? Oh but yes, assuredly!'
and zen | ran upstairs. So you see, zere
vas no difficulty. She is so busy viz re
starch she ask me no more qvestions :
but | am not truly happy, for l feel l
have been deceitful-have | not? All,
need not ask you, monsieur, l see it in
your eyes, and What you sink of mel
But you do not know What it is to have
a great, great temptation-and it is not
too late. l Will 60 back now. l viii give
it up and eXplain-'
The look that had shone in Carriers
eyes-a look strange enough to attract
the girls notice-was of one brought sud
denly face to face with some bitter and
sorrowful memory. 1t ended now in a
harsh ironic little laugh, as he laid his
hand on Bebe's arm and checked her i'm
pulsiye movement.
"A great temptation!" he repeated
gaily "Oh, no, of course do not know
what that is! That sort of thing only
comes to little girls, and when it comes
only little girls would be weak and fool
ish enough to yield to it. Men are too
wise and prudent to do so, for it is al
ways foolish to give in to temptation,
however great it is, Mademoiselle Bebe
II one does, one is sure, sooner or later,
to have to pay for it-pay cash down.
and with compound interest; and there
is only one thing more foolish still-to go
back to confess, to try to retrieve your
faults. Neyer-whatever else YOU do
never be idiot enough to do that, my
child! If yOu steal siXpence stick to it.,
spend it, get the good of it somehow.
anyhow, as long as it lasts; but don't 90
and give it back, don't plead guilty to
taking it. The world. which might have
forgiven the theft, if it ever found it
out, will never forgive or forget the peni-
tence-no, nor allow anyone else to for
get it, either. You'll have lost your cash
and your credit. too. for when you've
stripped yourself of the one, your i'm
maculate Judges will
"Pshaw-why am I talking in this
way to a child like you? Don't you see.
Mademoiselle Bebe, that am only jok
ing-making fun of you to punish you
for making mountains out of mole hills {?
Deceit? What deceit was there in the
matter? You told la Mere Margot that
you were going to the races with a
friend-and English friend-and that
was true. If you were to break your
word now, and not 90, you would have
been telling an untruth, and deceiving
both her and-the friend. Don't you
think that having considered her rather
too much, you might consider the poor
friend now? 1t would be a great pity
to miss the first race!"
At that terrible suggestion Bebes little
feet began to trip along so brisllly that
she almost ran. After all, if NJ. Rouselle.
who was a friend of the chaplain. and
threads mingling with his fair hair.
looked old enough to be her father-if
he thought her scruples only fit to be
laughed at why should she trouble her
self with themI
"All the same, | know I am being
naughty and l shall tell Mere Margot all
about it this evening" she said to her
conscience, which was purer one than
GARNER suspected, with all his knowledge
of the world.
After that she forgot everything but
the delights OF the day, and enjoyed
them with such whole hearted rapture
and enthusiasm as would have made
even a misanthrope happy in her com
pany. To people acquainted with Good
wood, Ascot and Longchamps the annual
races of q provincial town in a quiet
corner Of Normandy would have seemed
too trivial and dull to be worth witness
ing, unless, like GARNER, one had
monetary interest in any of the horses;
but to Bebe Richard, who, since she
could remember anything at all, had
never lived anywhere else but in Caen
and to whom it was quite as important
city as London. and only second to Paris
in size and dignity, this race week, which
crowded the hotels and streets of the old
town with visitors from the neighboring
districts, and was attended by a whirli-
gig of lesser fetes and amusements, was
of the most delightful, the most exciting,
the most tremendous Importance.
"Ah! Look, look at re people-how
zey fill re stTeets!" she kept saying &C.
statically. See, zere is re carriage of
NJ. lie Marie, and re parasols of his
daughters-how rayishing. And re flags
outside re prefecture monsieur, did you
ever see so many and such gay vons
All. VOLTA lie General Vulcan and his es-
cort-could anysing be more magnif-
cent? Truly, monsieur must allow Eat
our soldiers in re Calvados are finer ian
any ozzer in France!"
And monsieur, in his mood of reckless
good humor and amusement, was ready
to allow anything; indeed, his meek sug-
gestion that if there could be any i'm
provemeut in them it might be that
their legs should be a little longer or their
trousers a little shorter was received
with such astonished indignation that he
gave in at once, and apologized with
laughing humility.
One thing chilled him. He recognized
vanr.ln't IN tho an