Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-28
The millionaire's daughter was 10.

The millionaire's daughter was 10.
That is not much" said Verona
cheerfully
4 dare say it doesn't seem much to
you" said the millionaire's daughter
rather rudely.
/ Verona was over %.
/ at need not seem much to anybody"
/ Verona's tone changed.
Come, Laura" she said admonishing-
! iy, Il am sure you're saying half this
| just for the sake of saying it, You
really like Lord Martingale."
"Oh, l like him well enough!" The
admission was made in a tone judicially
qualified
And OF course he is very much in
love with your"
"Of course mott" cried the million-
aires daughter, with great emphasis.
| Not" echoed Verona
Good gracious, no! As if men like
him thought about love. Besides, he is
heaps too old!'' The young lady
stretched out and inspected pair of
shoes whose toes and heels were calcu-
lated to make a sensitive person vince
to look at He thought he might as
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better. and, as for Aunt Maria, she sim
ply purred. That's how it was, you sect"
Verona did not appear to see. Her
face was a mixture of amusement and
wonder.
81 declare, I don't believe" went on
the millionaire's daughter fractiously,
that he would have done it at all if
there had been anything else to do. But
there wasn't. The weather was shocking
it rained like deluge for a week; it
seems as if it always did rain in Scot
land. And then there was dreadful
woman there-Miss Mactayish. | be-
lieve that if he hadn't proposed to me
she would have proposed to him. People
call her THE Stalker She's awful"
But you need not have accepted him
unless you wished, Laura"
'Oh, needn't Il" exclaimed Miss Hess
lerigge. when he took il for granted
that l should say yes, and dad jumped
at it, and Aunt Marie purred-you can't
call it anything else. You know how
aggravatingly she goes on when she is
really pleased" She stopped with a
nod of her iaxen head; her pout and her
fretful tone disappeared together. "All
the same, You know, Verona, don't be-
lieve I would have said yes-not until
dad had rampaged at me, anyhow-if it
hadn't been for his cousin
''Lord Martingale's? Was she there ?"
Eyes, Lady Caroline Masters She's a
horrid woman-quite Old She was en-
gagged to be married to his father when
she was girl-he told me so; but they
quarreled about something and parted,
and she never married anybody And
now she is awfully fond of him"
Poor thing!" said Verona gently.
"You wouldn't say so if you knew
her!" Miss Hesslerigge declared, with
energy 81 overheard her ask him if he
really intended to be fool enough ia
marry that little frivolous, Frenchified
bundle of frippery that was me, if you
please-rude old thing! l thought of it
directly when he proposed, and it made
Yes pop out before / had time to think
I knew she'd be so wild"
There was a pause. Verona looked at
the pretty pink doll face with an ex.
preston of tolerant patience. Miss Hess
lerigge twisted a bangle and looked at
that
"Of course" she observed, with a
tentative air, my not caring for him
wouldn't much matter" She glanced uI
and down again. by itself, l mean"
THAT sounds" said Verona gravelv
"as though there was somebody else
Laura"
There was another pause
HE hasn't" burst out the million.
aires daughter, breaking it abruptly, "a
penny of course. They never have il
they're nice"
Nor" remarked Verona.
"And l don't say" went on the mil.
lionaire's daughter, unheeding, that he'd
want to carry me if I'd only sixpence
and if he would / wouldn't. Where is
the good of sixpence? You never want
one unless it's to send telegram, or fec
,, porter, or something. And you can't
live on kilograms and porters. But / dc
know he is fond of me, and would rather
marry me than anybody else That's al
much as you can expect of anybody"
Perhaps it is,' assented Verona. "But
who is he, Laura?"
HE is--it doesn't matter who he is, ,
said Miss Hesslerigge checking herself
! perversely. He's a dear, and I'm very
fond of him too. And l can't marry hin
because I've got to marry the viscount-
l told you so. And Pm very miserable
and so would you be if you were me
And that's all Pm going to say about it
because it isn't the least use in the worlC
to say any more"
Ito Be Continued.)
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