Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-06


family at the Towers, made the salad
the Harrow boys provided the Jokes. the
monday tutor quoted Latin and comic
operas lnterspersed aptly or inaptly dur
ing the progress of the fun, and the
testers lent loneliness to the sylvan
scene.
1t is five months since 1 have felt so
young, declared Diana, with a sigh, as
she and Capt. Jaspar packed lunch, and
afterwards held council of war as to
the most picturesque spot for tea Some
times think / shall wake in the morn
ing and find myself gray haired. Aunt
Jane IS gray haired, the maids are gray
haired, Dixon is gray-haired, and the only
woman in the house who doesn't wear
spectacles is myself"
Capt. Jaspar looked up at the frank
face above him laughingly.
Il do see signs OF antiquity in YOU, I
verify believe. A palsied hand, feeble
gait, dim eyes, and general inability to
look after yourself"
Not the latter, / am sure" she said,
with laugh. "In such a home as mine
we learnt to do that from our cradles"
Well, Jaspar," said a quiet voice be-
hind them, Il suppose | shall have to for
give you for disturbing my partridges %
Jaspar sprang up, laughing.
Pooh, man, these are not your pre-
serves! They end yonder with the thorn
trees"
Pardon met AS an old resident, you
ought to be wiser. My shooting rights
are over the entire Datchett ruins
Jaspar, equal to any emergency,
laughed again
The mistake we made then was in
not bidding you to our feast Miss Fayrer
was to blame for that. Everything is
forgiven to an exile of ten years"
1T is useful to have an Eve on the
spot" said Diana quietly Sometimes
not now when I afford so good an excuse
L have regretted my sex"
Don't" advised Jaspar. "Hallol BY
all that is audacious, Dicks de-, is run
ming off with our chicken-Dame Good
enough's tit-bit!"
Like an arrow from the bow, he was
off down the slope, over the brook, and in
hot pursuit of the thief, while the dale
rang with his cheerful shouts.
Diana's eyes followed him restlessly,
magnetized into consciousness by some
thing nearer at hand than the robust
soldier.
In the silence surrounding her she re-
fused to be coerced into meeting a glance.
The stiffness deepened, until Mcclure
broke it.
"Diana-Diana Fair 1t is better than
Napoleon" he mused
Her eyes flashed upon him, her breath
came in hurried gust of anger, for the
lazy accents goaded her into remembrance
and brought back a scene she would like
to forget.
In the tumult of her feelings words
failed her.
''Well?" he said. 81 am SIRE there are
lots you want to say, Napoleon"
Il loathe familiarity from stranger, .
she said, smarting under the recollection
of disdainful mirth at her expense
"Then, Diana Fair let it be- he said
calmly, sitting down beside her, and
calculating how long it would take the
captain to scale the opposite hill, secure
the dog and return to his old position
Diana removed herself by a hairs
breath from his propinquity, fixed her
eyes on distant branch, and said Jelly
''My name is Fayrer-not Fair"
He snapped blade of grass at her
elbow, split it idly, and said
Il considered myself too new a friend
to venture on comparisons. OF course l
should like to have said 'fairer'-better
still fairest.'"
Her fingers tremb,ed, clasping her
knees.
IT am glad l am not southerner," she
said, steadying her voice.
"And why?"
Because it is so far better to be aloof
-aloof was the word you employed, l
fancy, last week-than familiar"
"Familiar!" he echoed; then after a
pause he said, Eve began our intimacy
under such hazy conditions that / find
it difficult to discover a footing. Having
realized that you were not Napoleon, for
all the big cloak and the manly brow, l
learnt you were DIANA and if Fair isn't
your patronymic, then my eyes and my
ears deceive me. As rule, consider
both them and DIR. Sanderson absolutely
reliable witnesses"
She kept her eyes on the far-away
branch and fell to shredding twig rap
idly.
"Trespassers l have condoned already"
he said in his musical drawl; "and the
wanton destruction of my property"
He stretched hand towards the bougb
she was breaking.
"Pooh!" said she, fiinging the branch
a hundred yards away. How long Capt
Jaspar is in coming!"
TERRIERS are tricky things. / should
allow him good ten minutes still if /
were you"
"Ten minutes!" she said breathlessly.
II wish | had never trespassed"
at is I who am the trespasser now"
said he, watching her under his lowered
lids.
She sent a swift glance towards him,
curiously knitted her brows, and flushed
to a glorious crimson.
"He is a splendid fellow" he continued
whimsically. at was a mere fuke that
the V. c. wasn't his. Beresford got it,
if you remember, at Valander's Spruit;
but it was Jaspar who paved the way
to it. Luck, 1 suppose. 1t was his luck
to be asked to this party; mine to be left
out"
ooh, dear!" CALCULATED Diana irrele-
vanity. 1--WE promised to gather the
sticks for tea, and it is now 4 o'clock"
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