Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-10-19
CHAPTER ".

Sybil was thoroughly upset at the I'M
expected termination to. an otherwise per-
feet outing, and her only thought on
leaving Mr.. Chantley was to get home as
quickly as possible and tell Tom all
about it.
She jumped into a cab because she
feared she would not find an omnibus
quickly. Reckless expenditure, yes;; but
she did not want Mr. Chantley to over
take her. She never wanted to see him
again. she said to herself with q sob, as
she was driven quickly along to Jermyn
street.
Then she decided not to tell Tom, for
how could she put what had happened
into words! And Tom would say it was
her fault, she should not have gone. She
hoped he would not see that she had
been crying.
But when she got home Tom was too
full of important news to notice SybiPs
tear-stained cheeks or to ask why she
was late-he had thought she was de-
tanned at the Office.
Sybbie darling. you'll never guess
what has happened"
Tom said Darling" so something very
remarkable must haye happened, for he
was as undemonstrative as most boys,
perhaps more so than most.
Besides, Mrs. Carroll was sitting in the
armchair in their room, her face beaming
all over.
"0h, do tell me, Tom, quiekl You've
got an appointment in African"
No. You'll never guess, so I'll tell
you. What blessing | didn't go to the
boat racei / should have missed Mr..
Holyoake.''
Mr.. Holyoake was their uncle's lawyer.
Sybil was all over excitement.
Tell me quickly, Tommie," said the
girl pleadingly.
do you ever remember hearing of I'M
cle's cousin, Miss Anne Ashworthf"
YES" said Sybil softly, "uncle and
she were sweethearts long, long ago. but
they had little quarrel and parted in
anger and they never met again"
''0h, say, Sybbie. who told you all
that 2"
Uncle told me-" she said softly; "he
never forgot her. Is she deadf"
"Oh, dear, no, very much alive! She's
only just heard of uncle's death. She's
been travelling in Greece, and now she
has written to Mr.. Holyoake about US"
She's our cousin too"
Eyes. She's in Rome, and I'm to take
you there at once"
How proudly Tom said this! Ee was
nearly 10, but he uttered these words
with the air of a man who has lived
much and variously and chaperoned
young ladies all over Europe
But what about the bank?"
oh, goosie, Cousin Anne wants to
adopt US! She's rich, very rich, Mr..
Holyoake says"
u don't know that want to be adopt
ed, said Sybil sturaily. 'I'm getting on
50 web in my profession. / must see
cousin Anne before | decide But, OH
tommy, she can adopt you and send you
TO Oxford-you always wanted to go!"
Both OF neither" said Tom; I'm not
gong TO be adopted if you're not"
Its rare stroke of luck, my deaFs,"
SAID Mrs. Carroll, beaming, "and there's
nobody glsdder than me as 'as watched
you grow up, you might say, for you
was SAly 5, Miss Sybil, and you seven,
asfer Tom, when came up TO London
fetch you home after your poor mas
Did you ever see Cousin Anne. Mrs
Ss1FroiiF asked sybil, hoping for an af-
hrmative answer
Never heard tell of her even You
was with the professor only TWEEN
Two years, and he was 40 when
vent: Ny poor master!" The woman
Pls her handkerchief to her eyes and
"iped away a genuine tear
oyn, old girl, Cousin Anne has sent
~leC for your clothes and mine and the