Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-07-17

ton, whittier things were drifting, and
the anxious lines about her mouth grew
deeper, tire wistful look in her eyes
more marked.
How is it to endi. she asked herself
again and again. II never dreamt OF
thisl Nan Heriot and Austin-Anstin
and the sister of the man who How
is it to end"
She waited and watched, hoping that
even yet her sons new -born love might
die a natural death-even that its death
blow might come from Nan herself
anything to avoid the complications and
difficulties that il seemed to her must
arise If Austin asked Nan to be his wife,
and the love that she saw growing up
before her eyes proved to be not one
sided, but mutual.
Halo, party of three only tonight"
exclaimed Austin in quick surprise, COM
ing into the dining room one evening
during the week that he knew was to
be the last of Nan Heriot's stay.
where's our Miss Nan? / thought
she was to be here until after Sunday"
"She is. But she has gone tonight TO
take part in the parochial concert. The
girl who promised her services as accom-
PIANIST has met with an accident or
something; and Nan found most
piteous note of entreaty awaiting her
from Mr.. Hubert when she went homo
this morning to get some letters she
expected"
$50, with her usual good nature and
willingness to oblige everybody, she has
| undertaken it? What splendid girl
she is / say, why haven't we gone to
this tea fght-concert- it is 7"
Your father doesn't care for such
things, dear; and, although took tick
cts, scarcely felt equal to it."
| During the few weeks she had been
an inmate of the house Nan had been
so completely one of themselves that at
the dinner table that evening they
missed her bright face and CHEEKY girl
/ ish chatter more than a little. The
library, too, where they usually sat on
such evenings as they were alone,
empty when he came in from the dining
| by the freside, with small workable
drawn up close beside her.
Mother, where are those tickets you
were speaking z" he asked her pres
emily. Il may as well stroll down to
the hall and see what's going on. can
wait and bring Miss Heriot home"
q don't think there's any need for
that, dear Nan is such dear, cour-
ageous little piece of independence, and
it won't be a very late affair"
Outgoing to the window and draw
ing back one of the heavy tapestry cur
there's nasty sleet driving
down. She'll want goloshes---
umbrellas all Che usual rainy day para
phernalia"
"The first and last"--with faint
smile-"she has already. The second /
don't think she ever uses. She had
strong boots on, and carried her evening
slippers with her"
swell, no matter" Austin said, conn
ing back to the fireside with a half
confused, boyish laugh, and folding his
arms over the cushioned top of her
chair, "I'm going to that concerto
the tail-end of it, at all events-so
where are the ticketsg''
Mrs. Lynthwaite took an envelope
from her work basket and gave the
tickets to him, looking up into his face
with anxious, troubled scrutiny; and
the look in his eyes as they met hers
somehow told her that the danger she
feared was very close at hand.
! "Austini"
Mother dearest %
care you going to marry Nan Heriot ?"
That" he said, turning aside for an
instant and speaking very slowly and
gravely, lis more than / can tell you.
Put the question in another way if you
like and you shall have your answer.
DO love Nan Heriot ?'-yes. l am go
ing to ask her to marry me; and if she
will not then marriage viii never copae
into my life But am / going to marry
herr To that, mother, like me, you
must seek an answer from Nan herself. ?