Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-04-27
cadet ROUSELLE"
BY TFiEo GIFT

main part of them already. There, do
you know what that. is ?" he asked; and,
drawing folded paper from his pocket,
he tossed it laughingly into her lap
Bebe unfolded the document, inspected
it wonderingly, and shook her head
"No-what is it? l do not under
stand" she said at last, with a hopeless
shrug of her pretty shoulders. GARNER
laughed again.
1T is a special license, little goose, by
which, in consideration of a certain
money payment on my part, which he is
too well off to need, his Grace, the Arch
bishop of Canterbury graciously permits
me to marry Miss Angelo Wilhel--"
"Ah, yes, l see my name"-she had
laid her finger on the letters, blushing
and dimpling-"and yours too! But they
have not spelled Rouselle right, and
why have they put you another name
tooH"
"In English 'Rouselle' is spelled Rus
sell, little one" said GARNER lightly;
"and as for the other name"
He hesitated More than once since his
engagement it had occurred to him that
Bebe only knew him by the second of his
baptismal names, which. he had told her
at their first meeting was the same as
that of her nursery rhyme, and which
she had evidently regarded as his sur
name, and had employed ever since. He
could hardly tell her that he had left her
to that supposition because, until fort
night ago, he had seen no reason for con-
talng his family name to a little girl
with whom he had been briefly entangled
in regrettable, if innocent, adventure.
and whom he had never intended and
scarcely desired to see again.
The good old name! He had been very
proud of it once. To have been told and
to know that he had disgraced it was the
bitterest drop in his cup of life-bitterer
than ever now that he was back in Eng
land, with all the old feelings and asso-
Citations stronger than ever on him. Now
that he was beginning a new life it
would be better perhaps to drop it alto
gether, and with it the risk of continu-
ing to be cause of offense to the rela-
tions who had discarded him.
GAS for the other name" he said, that
is also mine by right; but it is one that
/ do not care to use; and when we
leave England for Texas, a fortnight
hence, / shall be called Russell only
as to you"
81 see," said Bebe brightly, "it was a
"a sort of title which you will drop
when you go into business Well, l like
You rs Rouselle-Cadet Rouselle, if you
do not mind my still calling you that
after we are married"
81 never want you to call me anything
else. Remember, you always said that,
vaurien as he might be, he was bon en-
FAINT. Well? What is the matter now ?"
he aided, as ne saw her look up from the
paper with a slight frown on her pretty
! forehead.
| why, that-that--- she hesitated,
! then colored. 1T seems to me, in effect,
monsieur, that in obtaining this formal
permission to marry me from your arch
bishop, ard in making all your arrange
ments for-for next week-you were
not doubling very much of the consent
| fer which you profCssed to ask just now"
| "Well, not very much" GARNER owned,
| laughing; because in the first place.
he took enc little hand and kissed each
| slender finger tip deiiberately-"I thought
you were too reasonable; and, in the Sec
| ond''-he took her other hand and paid
like homage to that--''too kind and sweet
and generous to wish me to give up such
a good post as this Texas one and keep
! on loafng idly in London, in order to
oblige poor Miss Gray to employ per-
manent lady cressmaker."
"Ah, but that is the troubled" cried
| Bebe tragically. ut is in order that l
may be able 10 do what you wish, that
l am so glad to do dressmaking, or any
thing that will earn a little money, for I
must-I must, before am married. Do
you not understand" she went on, her
cheeks crimsoning and her pretty eyes
! filling, in her youthful modification,
shat l have-how shall l say it7-no
/ clothes, and that even the most simple
trousseau must be paid for Also''-
| fercely-"that l am not going to allow
any one to lend or give me money any
more, unless l have earned it--no, not
even for boots to replace these" she
added, with a rueful glance at the once
/ dainty little patent leather Shoes now
worn and cracked with much fruitless
/ tramping of London pavements. Indeed
l know too well they are disgrace to
you"
"Aro thev?" said GARNER; 81 shouldn't
/ have noticed them # you hadn't told me.
! Perhaps that is because you have such
pretty feet that one only looks at them,
/ Just as one never thinks of the cost of
your clothes when you put them on in
such a way. Just as you are now, in
YOUR little black frock and simI lie hat,
and with that lace scarf rounG your
/ throat. and The knot of red roses tucked
| into the bosom, you look twenty times
NOSE chic and dainty than three -fourths
! of the smart young women parading in
the Row yoDder Still OF course you
want other clothes tefore being married
and had always thought that-without
any ofense to your proper pride-the
corbeille de marriage, which every French
bridegroom is permitted to present to
/ his bride. even if she be a duchess and
millionairess in one"
"But, Cade: Rouselle, you are not a
French bridegl oom!"
of am Cadet Rouselle, certainly am
French Bridegroom, mademoiselle, just
as YOU will be a French, very French,
| little bride; and I most certainly mean
to claim my privilege as one for the &C.