Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-02-28
A LOVER IS QUARREL

| day do not think any other alternative
remains to me than to release yoL from
your enga cement. am certain we should
never get on together. You want hero
| inc out Ct a novel, all devotion and ODE
dience, for whom there would be only
enc man III earth-yourseIf ! really
couldn't do it. You will find plenty OF
g',ls ready 30 worship you, | have no
doubt, wits whom you would be very
much happier than with Sybil Heath
| cote
do not think this letter unkind, bat
| conscientiously believe that to separate
is best for both of u.s.
Cyril Dale, who was sitting at break
fast with his chum, Jack Linton-they
vented chambers in common in the Tenn
pie grew very pale as he per',sed this
letter, at first rapidly, then slowly,
weighing every word, with rising epl3r
and an indignant pressure of the lips.
What do YOU think of that r. he CHE |,
| passing the note across to Linton.
Lin ON was tic elder of the two by ~
cral years, cool ind imperturbable; waite
| Cyril, WHO was My five and twenty, was
hot-headed, impetuous, acting on the IN.
| pulse oi the moment.
jack glanced through the letter AMI
said:
"Tantrums! | dareslY she cried her
eyes out ali right for having written It. &
Not she!" Irtolted Cyril, hotly. II is
deliberately heartless and cold hooded.
She means every word G. it'll"
''Nonsense That aunt of hers, Mrs.
Nettleby, has been filling up her head
with woman's rights and her own value
But her heart is all right Take no no.
tice of this. Stop away from her for a
week, then 60 back ready to forget and
forgive"
Il shall do nothing of the kind
shall take her at her word Do you
suppose l will give her the triumph of re-
peating my dismissal? She is quite right.
We should never have got on together, so
the best thing is to end it! What a
! change twelve. month has effectedI"
When Cyril and Syb,l first met it was
at her fathers country vicarage, and he
fell in love with the pretty, charming,
unsophistieated girl of 49, Soon after
they were engaged Mr.. Heatheote died,
and Sibyl went to live with her aunt,
Mrs. Nettleby, who resided in a fashion
able part of London and mixed herself
up with ''the movements" of the day.
| Cyril Dale was not favorite of Mrs.
| Nettleby's. He was not appreciatiTe Of
| ''the movements" and she was continual
| ~ reminding her niece that she could
Sake a far better match than with a
| briefess barrister, even though his father
was man of fortune And although
there was nothing mercenary in Sibyls
nature, she was uninfluenced by such
| suggestions. So she assumed lofty and
Indifferent airs toward her lover, which
caused many chickering's that at last rose
to serious quarrel.
! Il shall go down to The Tawthorns, .
said Cyril, as he carne back into the
| sitting room, where Linton was smoking.
"Yes, think it is the best thing you
can do! The country air will calm you,'
he said.
But don't let there be any mistake!
l have broken with Sibyl Heathcote for
ever Read thatl"
| And he tossed him the note he had
just written, which ran:
| Dear Sibyl-If you can so contemptu-
ously east aside two years of assoeia.
| tions such as ours have been, and break
an engagement sanctifed by the memory
of your dead father, j think your de-
cision wise one, and | accept it. Your
sincere friend, Cyril Dale'
Don't send that letter. advised Jack.
| you viii be sorry for it if you dol"
| Sorry or not, shall do It'll"
Sybil Heathcote was dressing to go
with her aunt to the theater when CvriFs
note was handed to her by the maid
Five minutes afterward she sent a mes
sage to Mrs. Nettleby, begging to be ex-
cused accompanying her, as she had a
violent headache
In the one word, "tantrums," Linton
had exactly described SiSyl's attitude of
mind. When she wrote that letter to
| Cyril, love was pulling at her heart
strings and bidding her tear it up but
she was in wilful humor, overconfident
of her power, and burning to assert her
/ independence.
The Hawthorns was boarding house
a few miles from Dorking, at the foot OF
the Surrey hills, kept by two gentle
women, Mrs. Moulton and her sister. who
| added to a small income by taking nav
| ing guests in their fine old country house.
Both Dale and Linton frequently ran
down there for the week end and some
times longer.
1t was in a bitter and reckless mood
with a feeling that his life was spoiled
and that he would like to do something
| desperate, that Cyril arrived. Attracted
by the sound OF music, he went to tho
drawing room. Mrs. Moulton's daughter
Ruth, was seated alone at the piano
playing and singing As she finished the
air she looked round, and seeing Cyril
Dale standing in the doorway colored to
the roots of her hair as she Jumped ur
TO greet him. The slight, graceful figure
tastefully attired. the large, liquid haze
eyes. the fresh complexion. warmed and
purified by fresh country air, made up q
most attractive personality.
/ Frequently as Cyril had seen her he
had never before realized how charming
Ruth Moulton was, perhaps, because his
eyes had previously been filled with an.
other woman's charms. He begged her ia
sing again. Then he turned to other sub.
music. books, country life-and she
could talk we'll upon ALL
There Were few guests at The Haw.
thorns as il was still early spring. Sd
| that Cyril had almost the moncnoly al