Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-02-16
cadet ROUSELLE"
BY TEEo GIFT


have no friends like Eat. You see, / am
not like girls who have fahzers and
mozzers to make friends for zem. /
have no Won but Pere Antoine and Mere
Margot. All my friends of zeir class are
IN bed by now-oh, you do not know how
strict zey are! ley would not allow zeir
hllettes to walk out alone, even of an
afternoon, and girl to appear at zeir
house at night, seeking refuge, viz a man.
or even by herself Oh, you do not
understand 1t would be impossible
it could not be-"
| But have you no English friends to
whom you could explain mattersg They
would understand and take you in for
the night"
Il have two, but always zey go away
from Caen for re summer holiday. Won,
teacher of English, goes TO her friends
IN England, and re ozzer's family are in
Switzerland. If zey we're here, indeed
her voice broke into irresistible little
sobs. Then, as a new idea seized her,
she went on, But zere is NJ. lie pasteur!
True, he is widower, and he does not
like me or my garden. Still, a clergy
man is not like ozzer men-and he has
an old housekeeper. Perhaps, as you
know him so veil and are such good
friends, Eat if you would take me to
him and tell him just how it happened
Zat-"
GARNER interrupted her. a flush of
very genuine shame and annoyance on
his face.
81 can't do that, my child" he said
roughly, and yet not unkindly. THE
fact is, I'm afraid l rather took you in
| nv I
you an excuse for doing what l saw you
wanted to do, but though l was at school
with him-that was true enough-we
hadn't even met for years, till l encoun-
tered him the other day here in the
street; and his opinion of Newell,
nothing could do you more harm than
for him to know you were with me now
I'm very sorry, Bebe"-he did not no
tice that he had dropped mademoiselle,
and the girl looking ut him with eyes
full of bewilderment and pain, did not
notice it either-"I wish to goodness I'd
never mentioned Jackson's name; but
don't often get chance OF giving n
good little girl a treat, and That
convent where you were educated
wouldn't the nuns take you in there?"
1T is five miles away, on 2e road to
Ouistreham, monsieur and re nuns all 90
to bed at .. ley open to no Won after
wards"
Then there is nothing for it but an
hotel, for you can't stay here, and as
the town is pretty full of strangers for
the races, it may be difficult to get a
good room at one-though for the same
reason there will be less wonder at a be
lated traveller wanting one as late as
this. See here, my child" he went on,
as she shrank back, with a quick move
ment of dissent and refusal-"you must
trust me in this. Oh. / know you'll say
how can you, after the pastor business,
but that was different, and you must
have seen l have taken good care of you
today, haven't II"
Indeed, yes, monsieur, you have been
YER good to me, and for ze ozzer matter
| cannot blame you. 1t is my fault
all my fault | desired re pleasure so
much, l acted like child, and
Poor little child" he said kindly.
well, trust me like one now. Before
heaven | swear you shan't repent it..
I'm doing for you what I would do for
my own sister, and only because you
yourself say there is nothing else you
can do. shall take you to good hotel.
not the one where l am staying-I shall
engage a room for you for the night,
saying you are my sister, and that it
was too late after the fete for you to
catch your train for Dives. | will put
you in charge of the chambermaid, and
tell her to take your coffee to your room
in the morning. You shall name your
own time and afterwards l will meet you
at the hotel door and we will come back
here and find out the mystery of this
closed house
Monsieur" she spoke lstlessly all
her excitement was gone. win you ring
again-just vonce?"
For reply he rang and knocked, not
once but half dozen times, aud as be-
fore only the sharp barking of a dog
answered him.
ut is Trompette." she said. Poor
Trompette! He hears his mistress and
if zey are inside zey must hear us too.
But l do not believe zey are-I do not
believe zey could be so cruel Oh, mon.
sieur. if zey are, l must trust you, for l
do not know What else to do. Only I beg
you not to advise ME anysing Eat is
wrong, because-because l know I am
YER silly and ignorant" Her voice fall
tered p:tifullS, and GARNER. much
touched, drew her hand through his arm.
Il have told you l will care for you
exactly as l would for my own sister"
he said. "and may heaven punish me if
don't! Come now. we must make haste
and YOU must tell me which hotel you
are likely to be known at, so that we
may choose another
It was II o'clock before GARNER sue
ceeded, not without much difficulty, in
engaging room at a respectable hotel
for his forlorn and tired little com
panion whose white face and piteous
eyes made him fear at each moment that
she would add to his embarrassment by
bursting into a fit of hysterical crying.
She bore up wonderfully, however. He
had, indeed, impressed upon her during
their walk how necessary it was that
she shnlld act and seem as thnngh moth