Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-02-02
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CHAPTER I.-(Continued.)


on re race course, and / shall tell him
your name ard re service you did me; for
cough he may have missed re boat or
have been prevented by les affaires from
coming today, he is qvite certain-oh,
are you not as sure of Eat as 1 AMI
qvite perfectly certain to arrive tomor-
row. And ven he does and you meet us,
YOU viii tell me Eat never, never, never
have you been in such a gay, beautiful
place as Caen, because it is not only re
races, as said, but all re town is en- fete
Re whole of re Cours de la Refine is lined
viz kiosques, peep-shows and steam
roundabouts, viz little galloping horses
and Roman chariotsl Also. zere viii be
a circus, cirque Americaine-ze town
is now all covered viz announcements of
it-and flower show at re Hotel de
Vile; and in re evening zere will be &c
fete on re river and re procession of H.
Illuminated boats. and re avenue Eat Dor
ders re race course Will be hung viz Chi
nese lanterns! Oh, it is not to be
imagined how charming Caen is in zese
tree days!"
Her little face was quite radiant with
the delight of anticipation, and GARNER
thought
Well, if all the girls there are as
charming as you, could perhaps imagine
it,"
They were talking quite like old
friends, though the sleeve had been mend
ed and the coat resumed long before they
reached the City of Delight; and then,
just as the steamer dawdled up to the
side of the quay for the Decentralization,
GARNER heard himself hailed by couple
of men in racing overcoats and billy cock
hats, who were evidently on the lookout
for him. They were sporting acquaint
ances whom he had last met at Bou-
logne, and was expecting to meet here;
but when, after q few hurried questions
and answers on the prospects of "the
field" from the betting book point of
view, he turned to look for his little fell
low traveller and her dog, they had dis
appeared, nor could his subsequent search
among the people who were crowding the
deck and quay discover any sign of them.
The knowledge gave him a momentary
pang of vexation. He was not woman's
man in any sense of the word-as a rule,
indeed, he made a point of avoiding wom-
en- and English women in particular
but he had found himself vastly attract
ed by this ingenious child, and one or
two traits in her-the manner in which
she had declined, without resenting, his
money offer, and the delicate, unobtrusive
way in which she had set to right sew
eral other adaptations while pretending
only to patch up the ripped seeve-had
touched and charmed him strangely. He
would have liked to see her safely on
shore, to have said Good bye" to her at
least-perhaps to have asked her name
He felt annoyed at her vanishing so
quickly, but by the time he and his
friends had finished their deieuner he had
almost forgotten her existence
Five years before this Russell GARNER
had been a lieutenant in a crack regi-
ment. He was the spoilt child of an ador-
ing mother, who had surrounded him
from infancy with luxuries far beyond
her means, and stripped herself of COM
forts so that he might have the more to
spend. Further, he was the acknowledged
heir of a wealthy uncle with a place in
Scotland, another in Wiltshire and
house in Grosvenor square, at all of which
young GARNER was free to lord it as be-
came the adopted son and successor of
the crusty, gloomy old man, who having
quarreled with and disinherited his only
son, dead long since, now found sad
pleasure in building up a bright future
for the handsome, high spirited boy, who
was not only the sole child of his
widowed and favorite sister, but his own
next of kin.
Few young men could have had fairer
prospects than young GARNER Society
opened her arms to him; society mothers
angled for him on their daughters be-
half; his male friends fattered and en-
WED him. And then one day, in the
middle of it all, something happened to
him-a great misfortune so great as to
ruin his whole life and throw a black !
shadow over his name, to shut his uncle's
doors against him, destroy his prospects, !
and send him out from his own people
and country, a broken and discredited
man.
GARNER went under" as the saying is. /!
and he had remained ''under" ever since |
The blow that had fallen upon him had !
compelled him to leave the service, and |
he quilted England at the same time.
His mother died-broken hearted, people |
said-less than a year afterwards and /
her son remained abroad, leading a wan
dering life in Paris. Homburg, Boulogne, |
Monte Carlo-all the places most fire. |
quented by people with money to lose |
and others with wits to gain it. He had !
a little money of his own-less than
hundred a year-which had come to him
at his mothers death. What he gained |
besides he made at bacearat, or the bill |
lard table, or by backing horses; but he
lost as often as he won, and led q most |
precarious existence.
Meanwhile in the three big houses in
Scotland, Wiltshire and Grosvenor square
his name was never mentioned. As for
society, it had forgotten him completely.
CHAPTER H.
"Ah, ca. ca, ca, NIademoiselle Bebe.
what is the use of so much weeping and
such betises about few races which will