Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-05-08
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CHAPTER u.-(Continuedl
Really, don't know what you are to
do Peggy paused, and then added,
laughing, Unless you take me. 1 rather
want to see the east. I'm very tired of
England"
The man dropped his paper and the
girl sat up.
Really, really? You wouldn't go,
would your Oh, would your
No. said Peggy.
But do! Oh, dol / have plenty of
money. | can pay you well. Oh, do,
please!''- the blue eyes looked up at
her, all beseeching smiles now.
Nonsense, Ethel" said the man rath-
er roughly Miss Morland has plenty of
money and isn't to be tempted. Don't
you know to whom you are t&iking?"
"Do you know me?" said Peggy. Then
you must know have very little money,
only ESQ year. Money'is tempta-
ton to me-
"Then do come with met" pleaded the
girl "Ill give you f100 a year
and all your expenses. Oh, please, DIS
comet You see how nice I'll be-"
Peggy looked at her bewildered. What
would the Osbornes and her grandmother
and all her highly respectable relatives
to say nothing of Charlie Denton-say if
instead of stopping at Erridge Green she
went straight off to some unknown part
of Asia with an unknown girl who was
apparently only foolish crying child :
But, after all, why not? She had been
knowing ever since she came to years of
Il. Ia+ che Al
to get out of the dull routine, and here
was the chance offered. She might see
Charlie too. She would be able to dis
cuss the situation free from the restric-
tiors of all their relatives. Why should
Ehe not take the cnance? And yet sure
ly it was madness.
The man turned round suddenly and
looked at her gravely.
Miss Morland," he said, my sister,
Ethel Rule, is bent, greatly against my
WISH on going out to Singapore to mar
~ a man"-he made face as if some
thing very nasty were being presented
for his Inspection Stewart Her
mother left her fortune, and she is her
own mistress and can do as she pleases,
and she elects to marry him, but she
does not fancy going out alone. | can
not possibly go with henry wife is too
i'll to leaye-eyen if / had the money,
which | have not. Miss Baines had
promised to go with her, and it is rather
difficult to fill Miss Baines' place at a
moments notice"
No, it isn't; you will come, won't
your" begged the girl. do say you'll
comet"
But suppose you didn't like me2"
said Peggy.
81 viii love you," declared the girl.
"Then your passage could be paid back
again" said the man more soberly. my
sister is unfortunately very we'll off and
is able to pay for all her fsncies.'
"But-but-" hesitated Peggy. Ev-
cry one would say she was mad to dc
such a thing, but could she possibly GO
on to the Osbornes and play tennis with
the curate after she had thrown up such
a chance of excitement and adventure
Think of going back TO the dull dreary
round which would 60 on for all her life
as far as she could make out
Miss Morland," came Mr.. Rules quiet
voice, Il have told you exactly how we
stand / am well known indigo trader
and if you will come with us to Water
loo / can then take you to PARIS bank
and to firm of solicitors and show you
that everything is square and above
board-that we are actually what we
say we are. and are well able to pay the
salary we offer l know you come of the
class that does not want situations, and
So
'"That is true" said Peggy. "AIy PEG
pie will be Mortified, but / would really
like to see the east"
Its beastly," said the man honestly
Il wouldn't live there a week Take my
advice and don't 60 This foolish CIR
will repent in a couple of days
81 sha'n't, Ted, and if Miss MorlanC
will come with me l shall be quite hap
py."
1T will be for the first time in your
life then" said Mr.. Rule, looking at hi:
sister with some disfavor, but she took
no notice and only stretched out hel
hands to Peggy.
You will come, won't your"
And the prospect fascinated Peggy the
more she thought of it. Neither hel
grandmother nor her stepmother needed
her. They were kind enough to her ii
their own peculiar way, but they let hel
see that they considered Charlie Denton:
promotion was very SLOW IN coming, an(
that 26 was great age for girl still t.
remain unmarried. They even grumblet
little gently about the trouble of tax
ing her out, and yet they refused to lei
her go out by herself, and they saiC
openly that with their small income il
was a tax to have her to keep ever
though she had quite enough to cloth'
herself.
One remark always vexed Peggy.
with your beauty" her grandmother
would say refectively, you ought t.
have made brilliant match, but W,
have no money to help you, so it is ou
of the question, and we must be content
with Charlie Denton"
That remark was certain to make Peg
gy yearn to run away, and now th'
thought of it came to her with great
force and decided her. Why should sht
not earn her own living honestly ant
hold up her head before all the world
III Charlie liked to break the engage
ment because she had taken a menia
position, well, he could do so. She her
self would write this very day and tel