Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-09

He felt his death terribly. He was
speaking to me about it. 1t seems he
had never even heard he was ill'
1--WE did not know where to write"
He was at Heidelberg, studying-or
was it Bonni"
81 don't know never heard"
Naturally, your fathers death had
upset you, and then poor Neds coming
so soon after. And all the trouble with
those rascally attorneys. Do you re-
member the day l met you at Easton {?
| hardly recognized you, you were so
thin and pale"
Il had suffered she said, as she drew
her eyebrows together
You had indeed! You looked older
than you do now, and you were only
Mona's age! Well, we won't talk of
those days. Col. Gerard was good and
kind. | was satisfied thinking of you
with him. Isn't it odd how history re-
peats itself? You married a man old
enough to be your father, and now
| MOna's going to follow your example
Whereas l met my husband while he
was clerk in his fathers office, and
here's Jean as good as engaged to boy
| Of three and twenty"
I've been wanting to talk to you"-
Lord Trefoil sank into a chair beside
Mrs. Gerrard-"but that old moustache
has monopolized you all the evening"
Il knew him in India" she said. "They
were our nearest neighbors at Poonah
bis wife was my friend"
"Oh, then, he has a wife?"
''She is dead, am sorry to say"
! She ignored his pettish tone, or rather,
she foIgave it. Mona had given Jack
Bannatyne three waltzes in succession;
Lord Trefoil had only been able to secure
one. Certainly it was not his fault he
had arrived late and Sir John had de-
| tanned him in the dining room. His eyes
followed Mona and her partner now as
they careered round the room, that is,
whenever he could single them out in
the packed circle of dancers.
'The next is your dance, think" Mrs.
! Gerard said to comfort him.
| rs ?" he said "Pm afraid Pm q
bit lazy: girls nowadays go the pace,
and I've been travelling all day. No, it's
the next but one''-consulting his dane
| ing card; "and meanwhile III retain this
coign of vantage, if you don't mind"
Certainly, I don't mind!"
"The general will not come back to
GUST me?"
| There is another chair here"
ooh, if he comes, I'll got" he said. 81
might as WE'LL shouldn't get look in
She smiled absently.
''What about this sail? Shall we say
tomorrow, or would the next day suit
you as well?'
won't they all be rather sleepy to-
morrow" she objected
well, the next day. them"
eve are going home the next day"
"But that would make no difference.
We shall only be out few hours. 1t is
getting late in the year for cruising
the days are so short. If we leave Loeb
Linnhe at IL, with the wind as it was to-
| day, we ought to make the Ness before
2 And Wen have clear run home"
would it not be wiser to take the
Kelpie?"
Mona is so keen to sample the cut
ter he said, smiling, "and I've promised
to teach her to steer. / wonder if she
inherits your aptness. I've seen you
bring the old Peggy over her moorings
in a style that would do credit to the
! famous Sandy Munro himself"
"Pm afraid distance lends enchant-
ment to your views of these days" she
said, with a casual smile She was look
| ing at Mona, who had paused with her
/ partner at little distance. to draw
breath apparently, for they painted as
! they leant against the doorway, laugh
| ing and watching the others.
/ Lord Trefoil, his head thrown back. his
| hands clasped about his knee, looked at
/ her too.
| 81 used to be afraid I was TOO old for
| her. he said, "but now | am beginning
| to be afraid that she is too young for
! me-"
isn't it the same thing2" She was
paying scant attention TO his words
Not quite, if you take the trouble ia
analyze the sentence"
"Ah, but 1 can't" she said; "I haven't
! timei''
He turned his rather ill-humored gaze
to her face, to her dusky hair, to the
serious eyes he had perhaps never quite
| forgotten.
"You are not very sympathetic he
said. you never were, as well as l re-
member"
"Your memory is rather contradictory
isn't it?"
ibid I ever say you were sympa-
thetic %
a don't know that you ever required
my sympathy"
Eyes, | did-the other evening"
"And | withheld q"
"Well-not altogether perhaps" he
said, and laughed.
Then you have nothing to complain
of"
WAS l complaining?"
your tone had some kind of indict-
ment in it, thought"
Then it was unintentional," he said.
! II must not visit my spleen upon you"
She was looking at Lady Bannatyne
making her way towards them with her
brother in-law, William, the junior part
ner in the firm.
Not dancing, Mrs. Gerrardl" he said,
and she shook her head, with smile.
To arrange a match between these
/ two was one of Lady Bannatyne's pet
schemes, but she had never yet ventured
| to propose it to one at least Of the par
j ties concerned.
"And you, Lord Trefoil,'' she said,