Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-02-16
CHAPTER ".

hOS DOb nave SOuc 10 steep ming again
oh, please, monsieur, ring very loudly,
Zis time!"
1t was 10 o'clock at night-not at all
a late hour in London or Paris, or any
city where evening amusements are the
rule, not the exception-but equal to
midnight at the very earliest in the an
Gent city of Csen, where there is only
theater during the autumn and winter
months-where music halls. except those
OF the very erudest description, are prac-
tically unknown. and where most of the
respectable householders, who pass their
evenings slipping coffee OF playing domi-
noes, go home to their wives and fam
lilies by half past at latest
But race week, with all the wild and
manifold designations attending it, was,
of course, an exception to all rules, keep
ing staid fathers and mothers. stolid dis
Greet sons, and virtuous, thick wasted
fair haired daughters out until such I'M
heard hours that the crowd Of rev
elers, returning from the river side after
the procession of boats was over, were
still making the cobbled pavements quite
noisy with the clatter of heavy boots
when the clock in the Hotel de Vile
across the river had done the same two
minutes previously.
GARNER and Bebe were standing out
side house in quiet street of the bet
ter class, leading up to the ancient
Abbaye aux DANES, where the remains
of Matilda of England. the Conqueror's
wife, still rest beneath the altar, watched
by the nuns who have charge of the
good substantial one, very superior in
appearance to that which GARNER had
imagined as likely to be the home of his
charges relations and foster parents.
Gazing at such an extremely respect
able exterior-he who twenty minutes
before had been combating by every ar
gument in his power Bebe's desire to run
home the instant the last colored light
on the river was eXtinguished feeling a
sense of repulsion at the idea of ending
what had been-he felt and knew-a day
of such perfect happiness for his little
white-robed fairy tale princess. and
sending her back to become the Cinderella
of some sordid lower middle class home
GARNER who had had this vision be-
fore his mind through all their homeward
walk, felt a sudden pleasure in the fact
that not all his powers of raillery and
persuasion had availed against what had
seemed to him then the girls childish
obstinacy in the matter of early hours.
Enjoyed myself? You know have, -
she had exclaimed, when he professed
to doubt it. 1T has been like-like
heaven! Never have | had qvite so
beautiful day in all my life, and l shall
sank you always for giving it me-but
must go home now. No, it is not be-
cause Mere Margot Will scold she viii do
Zat anyhow perhaps, and l viii put it
against re happiness and not mind it.
1t is Eat it would not be convenable in
my own mind-not right to stay out
alone viz you after re rest of re people
have gone home"
And now not only was the door firmly
closed. but, although he pulled at the
quaint brass bell handle once, twice,
thrice, no one came in answer to it, nor
was there any sound from within. nor
any CLEAN of light through the key hole
when Bebe put her eye to it. She stood
up. looking rather pale.
"Zey cannot be gone to bed" she said
'Pere Antoine himself was not to return
till Latte o'clock, perhaps, he said. Eat
vas Why he could not even take me to
see re river fete, and Mere Margot vas
to have a soupe- au-vin for him ven he
came in. Besides, l am here. How could
zey go to rest when / am still outside ?
ley have got tired waiting for me-self-
ish, bad girl Eat I am-and have fallen
asleep in zeir chairs, Eat is all. Oh, ring
loudly YER loudly zis time!"
GARNER complied with such good will
that by putting his ear to the door he
could hear the bell pealing through the
silent house, but there was no answer.
Bebe gave little sob.
oh" she said, at is impossible Eat
zey do not hear you! 1t must be Eat zey
are so angry zey mean to punish me by
keeping me out long time"
'Confound their anger! A fine way to
show it, with little girl like you" cried
Garnier Indignantly. He was beginning
to feel very angry himself, the more so
because he was conscious of having
been to blame in the matter.
eff they will not heed the bell we'll
see if knocking won't bring Them" he
said, and proceeded to hammer at the
door with his stick, but to no effect be-
yond setting dog barking in a neighbor
ly garden with a noisy violence which
made the silence of the quiet little street
the inhabitants of which seemed to be
all alike wrapped in profound slumber-
the more noticeable.
GARNER turned to look at Bebe. She
was leaning against the wall and her
small face looked ashen white in the
moonlight.
MY dear child" he said hurriedly
+'don't cry! These people-your foster
Iparents-can't be such brutes as to shut
you out, more especially as you went out
with their leave and they would hardly
expect your friends to bring you back
before the show was over. Perhaps they
may have grown little anxious, how
ever, and gone to meet you. In that
case we must have missed them and
they will be back again in a few min
iutes Let US walk up and down till they