Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-08-07

men In the nrm, quiet tone with
winch Shirley had grown so familiar
neither will l say So Austin and are
bound to one another still. Why should
this thing in which he had no part come
between u.s. Shirley, help me to make
/ Lance see"
l can't, Mani can't take your part.
think with Lance-that your marriage
with Austin Lynthwaite is hopelessly out
OF the question"
Then in the morning came Austin's
letter, worded much as he had promised
Lance 1t should be, containing no pleas.
no persuasions, yet, to one who knew
the writer's inmost heart as Nan did.
breathing of love and of his own fidelity
IN every line. 1t was answered that
same day-a long, loving answer that
brought within the walls of Lvncroft
again something like a ray of sunshine
to tighten the clouds that had descended
ON the place three days ago.
Arc you answering Lynthwaite's let
ter?' asked Lance, coming in during the
evening to find his sister at the writing
table
| She looked up with dauntless ewes.
No; | answered it this morning"
"And you told him."
What | gave you to understand last
night | should tell him / shall never
give up Austin, Lance"
Nan, my little sister. you must You
can't marry into that family. Think of
what we have suffered at their hands :;
think OF how they have injured us
father mother!i"
But not Austin. Austin had no part
in it."
He is that boys brother-that WON
| ans SON."
And so you would saddle him with
their misdeeds? Lance. you are unjust
unreasonable"
mo, think it is you who are unrea-
le-unnatural-to think of linking
yourself with one of that race. But"
he added coldly, have it your own way.
Ii you are determined to marry him 1
suppose / have no right to interfere.
Only understand me, Mani tell YOU, as
/ told Lynthwaite yesterday-you will
have to choose between him and ME.
His path and rhine lie far apart and
always must. You may walk in one or
the other, you cannot walk III both"
| Early in June Lance and Shirley were
married-a quiet wedding, with Hugh
Marvyn as best man and Nan as soil
tary bridesmaid, followed by ten days
honeymoon, and then return to the
little suburban house to which the girls
had migrated from Ingleside.
Nan was to live with theo still: but
she knew, and even the Others lad a
vague underlined suspicion, that it would
not be for long-that Austin Lynthwaite
was making ready for her a home at
Hambledon, and one day sooner or later
she would leave them. But they never
spoke of it openly. OF what use, when
it only led to argument and disapproval
to the sounding of those Earring notes
that were the only things to mar the
domestic peace and harmony?
So Nan made her small preparations
silently-not secretly, she would have
scorned that-and Shirley and Lance
looked on; seeing, but making no com
ment; disappearing, but not again put
ting their disapproval into words. And
Nan, watching anxiously for the least
sign of relenting still saw that harden
ing of her brothers features when it
sometimes fell to his lot to hand her a
letter addressed in Austin's handwriting
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forehead when now and again she saw
her stitching industriously at what
| looked suspiciously like a piece of bridal
finery.
Then came an evening when Nan was
flushed and restless, yet now and again
strangely silent; when she fingered over
her good night as though reluctant to
leave them and 60 to her own room, and
when they saw a great usefulness and
yearning in her dark eyes as she spoke
to them.
Good night, Shirley-dear, dear Shir-
ley! Good night, my dear old Lance
Lance, do you remember how, when we
were children together and used to kiss
each other good night we always added
Bless you? | want you to say it to
me tonight like you used in the old
days"
why tonight particularly, Nam" he
said, looking up at her with grave
scrutiny as she bent over his chair.
Because this is my last night here ;
by this time tomorrow | shall be many
miles away"
"You are leaving home--to marry
Austin Lynthwaitef" he asked, not
meeting her gaze now, but seeking the
anxious eyes OF his wife.
Yes"
"When-where z"
"The day after tomorrow at the old
church at Hambledon. Tomorrow I'm
going to the Marvyns to stay the night
with them. Lance, Lance, forgive me !
could not give Austin up"
He did not speak; it seemed to Nan
that the old harshness settled over his
features, and she turned away sorrow
fully.
Good night, Lancet"
1t surprised her a little when he drew
her face down to his and kissed it ten
derby.
Good night, Nan! Bless you now and
aIwaysl"
Happy is the bride that the sun
shines on!"--if only pale and fieeting
CLEAN of sunshine, tradition sayeth.
Then doubly, nay, thrice happy, surely,
was Mans married life to be; for the
sun shone out right royalty on that July
morning when she drove through the