Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-10
CHAPTER III.-Continued.

s;on I'D like to have been smart for
This afternoon, and you could have put
nm YOUR gray alpaca, and then we
wouldn't have been the Brown Holland
concert party, would we? / do wonder
If there will be any people on the yacht
that we've ever seen before. Fancy, if
lady Chilcote or Miss Agatha were on
hoard! They might be, mightn't they
All lords and ladies know each other, /
suppose. What would you do, Nan, But
I don't think they'd ever know you in
Vo,Ir mask. What was the name of the
lord who gave you the moss rosebuds
that dayP No-he wasn't q lord, though,
was he-only a sir? Perhaps he'll be
there He'd never remember you, l ex-
pect-you wouldn't want him to, would
you, Nan, not except you had on your
Sunday frock?''
NO, indeed! Oh, don't talk so fast,
Gerry darling, you'll give yourself the
headache and me too presently" ex-
claimed poor little Anne in a harassed
tone.
The child's careless chatter was simply
quitting into words the secret dread that
had haunted Anne from the moment she
had consented to give the entertainment
on board the FREELY.
She was too simple to recognize the
fact that any fear of meeting Lady Chill
cote or her daughter amongst the rowdy
class of men and women with which it
was Lord Frederic Germayne's pleasure
to surround himself was absolutely
groundless. The mysteries of sets, cliques
- hS&r sa%v 81
were q sealed book to little Anne She
knew that the smart London world was
all on the move Just now; that the hotels
and lodgings in all the fashionable wa
tering places, Sandbeach amongst the
rest, were crowded with the same people
who had danced and dined and fiirted
through the London season, and were
now busy repeating the progress in elab-
crate seaside toilettes with the same
unwearying pertinacity wherever chance,
circumstance, or the state of the family
exchequer caused them to pitch their
tents, What was more likely than that
her ladyship and her eldest girl had mi
grated from Cowes, where Anne knew
they were bent on spending the week, to
Sandbeach for the regatta, before going
north, where Sir John Chilcote rented a
moor every autumn and if this were the
case what was to prevent her finding
them on board the FREELY that after
noon2 The bare idea of such a catas-
trophe, involving, as 1t would, were she
recognized, instant dismissal from her
post as fit instructress of the Chilcote
children, and, what was far worse, the
forfeit of all chance of character from
her ladyship in the future, made little
Anne actually quail in her neat brown
shoes-an enormous extravaganza which
her little brown holland skirt had forced
her to commit when fortune had smiled
go broadly upon the combined efforts of
the little concert party.
Well, it was useless meeting trouble
halfway she said to herself, as she and
Gerry joined Phil at the harbor steps,
end the three of them looked down into
the fine gig manned by smart sailors in
blue jerseys with FREELY embroidered
In white across their chests, that waited
for them, rocking and dancing on the
sparkling water.
And, actually, there was Lord Ger
mayne himself in the stern, nodding and
smiling at them like an old friend, with
the tiller ropes in his hand and a great
grapes between his knees. And the sun
shone and the little brown-and- white
fishing boats dipped on the summer sea
outside the harbor, and the band was
playing Waldteufel waltz on the little
lawn in front of the yacht club, where
fhe smart ladies were sitting on the bal
cony under the red-and- white striped
awning, drinking tea and chattering to
the men who were lounging there.
All the world was making holiday it
seemed, and why not for once little Anne
amongst the restY
Here comes Freddy with his Brown
Hollands in tow. Wake up, Madge, dol
you've been asleep quite long enough.
Just rouse her, Mr.. Dale Evans, will
your"
Miss Kate Trevelyan, known familiar
" to her friends and acquaintance as
nit or Claws" as fancy pleased them,
Spened gold chainbag hanging at her
side with a leisure air, and, extracting
sheretrom tiny silver mirror and puff
pox, proceeded to powder her face in
preparation for the expected visitors,
%hlie her companion, leaning cautiously
Serward, administered to Mrs. Ashwell
= gentle prick of a hat-pin, lent to him
ny Miss Kate, and reused her from her
siombers with little scream.
Clawsl You wretch! Oh, you needn't
look SO innocent! As if Dicky would
nave thought of such q thing if you
nadnt put him up to it and lent him the
Pin'i" she exclaimed vehemently, while
assuming a sitting posture and putting
up Two shapely white hands to her rather
1lsheveled hair. His hair was one of the
honorable Madge's strong points, for, de-
sp.s Of curling irons, Frightening washes,
ana other fashionable destroyers, it re-
manned iuxuriant still, and retained its
natural hue, a warm nut brown, al
tnCugh It's owners age was close on 40,
ana life of incessant racket and dis
slpation had drawn many a faint line
found the handsome, bold blue eyes and
IAughter-lo loving mouth that from II
years old had helped Margaret Ashwell
- pay havoc with the hearts of man.
The gig shot along side the yacht Just
- - the two smart society women and
[Aer companion, Mr.. Richard Dale
LVans, the millionaire soap hoilar LIANT