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


arm round her frail shoulders.
We'll, since you will have it, there
is another reason. Something tells me
that the mother-bird isn't quite happy.
Now that the last of her brood has
spread its wings and flown across the
seas she's feeling forlorn and lonesome;
SO the great clumsy bird who heads that
same brood thinks that perhaps his re-
turn to the old roosting place may be
some solace. You see, mother"-drop-
ping his metaphor, with a kiss hastily
imprinted on the temples that it had
hurt HIM to see growing so woefully
ilned and worn of late-"it was a good
deal my doing, Guys going off to India
last year; so if
Austin, what are you saying?"-in-
terrupting him in a half-startled fash
ION. You had no hand in
| In originating the planf No; that
was Courthope's affair entirely. But all
the same, did lend old Guy the light of
my eountenanee. When ! saw that he
was inclined to be taken with the no.
tion | encouraged him; and l suppose it
was good deal due to my persuasion
that you at last yielded and consented
to let him 60"
Was it?" Mrs. Lynthwaite was not
| looking at Austin now. She was gazing
out upon the far-reaching garden, fresh
ana howery IN the pale spring sunlight !;
| but her thoughts were of something
less bright and pleasant than the clumps
OF golden daffodils that here and there
dotted the lawn or the multi.colored
hyacinths whose fragrance was waited
IN through the slightly open window at
the far end of the room. "I don't know
that you had much to do with it. Aus
tin. 1t was better for Guy to go; he
he brought me to see it at last, and |
sent him away gladly-gladlyl"
"You tried to be like the Spartan
mothers of old, didn't you? Neverthe-
less, the wrench was hard one. 1t cost
you good deal, and you haven't got
over it yet"
No." came the dull, pathetic echo, 81
haven't got over it yet. There are some
things that well-nigh crush the life out
OF mothers heart, and to me that
the loss of Guy-was one of them"
Il thought-hoped-th when the
first pang of separation was over you'd
take it less to heart But now when ]
come down week after week and see that
wistful, hungry look still in your eyes, il
its like continual reproach to me
for feel that in inducing you to lei
Guy have his way I've had hand il
bringing it there"
mo, no, Austin, there's no need fol
you to feel like that about it. Guy''-
catching her breath quickly-@woulc
have left us in any case. He-he was
doing no good here-you told me so
didn't you?-and found out afterward,
that you were right"
well, withdrawing caressingly tn,
soft filmy lace on the hair that the lasr
few months had perceptibly streaket
with gray that's all past and done
with. Let us only hope that Guy has
had his eyes opened by the sundry
| scrapes that he managed to get into
here, and viii do better IN the future
that lies before him. He can make a
rafting good thing of it If Hello
midget What do you want 70
| A small head had been thrust eagerly
round the open door-a head that at the
moment looked a Teritable aureole OF
brown gold hair, framing a flushed, win.
| some little face and shading eyes that
were excitedly peering into every nooE
and corner
81 want Miss Nani"-running swiftly
forward to peep round the back of the
| biggest armchair. "Her. an Gwennie
ruined away an hided, an now I've
! funded Gwennie, an neither Gwen nor
me can't found Miss Mani"
st strikes me you've lost something
besides Miss Nan, young lady"
81 know-my hair-ribbon."
L II .
| laughed Austin, with gentle tug at the
rampant locks. "But / mean your parts
of speech. Isn't it nearly bedtime !
What's Miss Nan doing here at this
time of the EVENING""
''Oh, she lives here now, you known
explained Nora tersely, freeing herself
from her uncle's hands with vigorous
jerk. you'll see her all day tomorrow
and Sunday, and"
Lives here?" Austin turned to his
mother with puzzled questioning. Nora
had darted from the room, leaving her
explanation unfinished
81 asked her to come to us for a few
weeks Mrs. Lynthwaite told him, a
faint flush tinging her thin, worn face.
4'The friend with whom she lives has
gone abroad-John Mirfeld asked her to
so with his wife and Masie-and she
would have been all alone"
''She lived with Miss Cadogan, think
you told me--the girl whom"
'Yes7-wincing at the last word or
two and interrupting him before the
sentence was completed. with Miss
Cadogan, whose aunt, Miss Faith Cado-
gan, died at the beginning of the year.
| didn't quite realize when--T mean it
wasn't until the Mirfields had been gone
day or two that / bethought myself
OF asking her to come to us. At first
she hesitated, but after little PERSIA
sion she yielded and came. She has
been here since Tuesday"
at was a capital little plan of yours,
mother You and Miss Heriot will be
companions for one another. And by
the time she leaves expect / shall have
got those needlessly commodious cham
bers of mine off my hands / shall let
them furnished, Think know two or
three fellows who are rather keen on
taking them-and be snugly settled in
the home nest again"
1t seemed, however, that Austin Lynth-