Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-05-18
cadet ROUSELLE"
CHAPTER XIX.-(Continued.)
BY THEO GIFT

Bebe raised hers, all stained with tears,
and sobbed out
"Oh. yes, yes, Cadet Rouseile-dear
Cadet Rouselle, you know / dol"
The color came back iAto Carriers
cheeks and he made movement as if
10 take the little trembling hands
stretched out to him. The impulse was
checked however on the instant, and with
decisiveness which drew him further
from her.
Thank YOU he said simply, but with
a slight huskiness in his voice. Il am
glad of that, for what | told you was
perfectly true; and though IL makes no
earthly difference of course to the matter
in hand. and cannot certainly benefit me
in any worldly or pecuniary sense. l am
glad to think that you can still believe in
me so far. / fancy that in after years
you may be glad of it too.
THAT is all. l am not going to tax
your faith any further. l should Ice of
course to ask you also to believe that, IN
spite of the immense advantages to be
derived by an impecunious gambler and
adventurer like myself from a marriage
with YOU, and the weight of argument
which your guardian has brought to show
that ! not only planned to do this, but
stopped to the basest methods for ensur-
ing the success of my plan, my acquain-
tance with you did, in very truth. spring
from the merest accident. 1t was CON
tinued from force of circumstances rath-
er than from desire; and until this mo-
rnent | had not the slightest idea that
you were any other than what YOU
seemed-an orphan girl, almost as friend
less and alone in the world as myself
and no better off in worldly goods-Bebe
Richard, in short, not Angelo GARNER.
Pm not going to strain your credulity as
far as this however, because though YOU
being young and tender hearted. might be
incined at the present moment to be-
lieve me, your grandfather and guardian
would very soon bring you round to their
opinion. if only by reminding you that a
man blackguardly and INSCRIPTIONS
enough to do what they accuse me of
would be equally INSCRIPTIONS in deny
ing it. That's true enough, you see, and
since neither denials nor assertions are
worth anything without proofs to back
them, l don't propose to offer either"
Meaning, as I'm afraid we must con
clude, That you feel you are unable to do
SOL" said Mr. Langley. with a slight
sneer. pardonable perhaps under the cir
cumstances. 1t had the effect of irritat-
ing the younger man beyond endurance.
For your sake, Mr.. GARNER, | regret
that it should be so. for | am bound to
tell you that while eager and anxious to
welcome to his home the only child of
his long-lost and deeply incurred son.
and determined to overlook any faults or
indiscretions of which her extreme yout h
and inexperience may have been guilty.
your great uncle distinctly commissioned
me to inform you that his present opin-
ion of your conduct with regard to her is
such that he is not prepared to extend
his invitation to you, unless you can at
least furnish him with such excavations
or explanations as would allow him, for
the honor of the family. to condone--'
THE honor of the family" cried Gar
nier passionatey. What have YOU. a
wretched attorney, to do with that, that
you dare to quote it to me! And what
about my honor! BAH" His blaze of
passion was suddenly quenched in a bit
ter laugh You'll tell me. | suppose
that l have already shown how little I
could guard That, and if my wife's-
There, enough of this and of the whole
coil!
'Bebe'-he turned almost fercely on
The terrified, half fainting girl, still sup
ported by her guardians arm-"I told
you in that conversation, which you did
me the honor to believe. that whatever
my otner errors and impurities may be. |
had never, save on that one luckless
evening, wronged any man of a penny
piece during the whole course of my life
nor had ever injured n woman know
ngly, or to my own profit. I hold to
7 r,a1
yon, it seems, tricked you, the Iheiress to
great property. who might have wed
ded among the best and smartest in the
land, into marriage with a shabby. dis
reputable relation of your own, living by
his wits and with little else to back
them. Wen, I'm sorry. You may not
neleve 1t. but l am, as sorry as YOU can
ne; and what is more. decline to profit
by IT. Do you hear that. sir? decline
either to abide or profit by it. You NAV
tell my uncle. 1t is my answer to his
message
our answer to You decline? ]
don't understand you, Mr. Garnier!" the
lawyer etammered. GARNER laughed
again, more harshly than before.
And yet it is simple enough" he said
mocklngly. You see. there are two sides
10 every question. and each has a right to
look at it from his own. The little girl
whom found friendless and exposed to
penis worse than robbery OF violence on
the London streets. with only a few shil-
hngs in her pocket, and no power-for
ail her will, poor child-to earn more;
Inc little girf$shom l pitied and loved
the possibility of my caring for her never
seems to have entered your mind-whom
placed under the protection of kind
ana vrtuous woman, guarding her honor
as l would have done that OF my sister:
the girl whom / married this morning.
ana Tor whom, because loved her for
the love and trust she had in me, would
nave changed my life. gone into trade.
worked like NAVY. if need be. to keep
her comfortably and make her happy
was Bebe Richard, not, as l said lust
now, not Angelo GARNER! With the lat
yer young lady 1 have nothing to do.
enc as you justly say, is no mate for a
man IN my position, and I will neither
lam nor bold her. No, by Heaven! Nor
aught belonOinu to harp