Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26

clairvoyant describing familiar picture
in his dream
And when l came back to my fishing
quarters next season your father and
your brother were dead, you had gone
with your husband to India, the old
Peggy had sunk at her moorings-so they
told me; the shore, the woods, were only
peopled with ghosts"
Il have never been there since" he
said.
Il made pilgrimage" he said, and
shook his head, smiling a little. 81 took
fishing lodge on the lake last summer,
and hired little cutter like the Peggy.
But | could not stay. The ghosts were
too much for me"
Il should not have given you credit for
so much sentiment" she said coldly.
Call it romance" he said 1T sounds
so much less silly. But that is all over.
| had something more delightful to oc-
cupy my thoughts than misty Irish lakes,
and wraiths, ana Nays that were cnce,
but can never come again. Give me
Mona, Mrs. Gerard! Make up to me
for past that has been mo"e or less
failure by giving me this sweet, fresh,
joyous young life to guard and cherish
to make happy, as | believe | cam"
Mrs. Gerard was silent for a little
while, contemplating the fire.
In a year." she said "Will You prom
Use to watt year?''
"A year!" he said. you want to rob
me of another year at 42?'
Il want Mona to know her own mind
VIII she know it any better in a year
than she knows it now?"
.'Shp will I-nour ,yn,t haitian
you expect me to wait year-in
silence?'
Not in utter silence perhaps. But
there must be no engagement not LETT
tiers; Mona must be free
1t was his turn to look thoughtfully
into the fire.
IF l agree it will be in the firm con
viction that you will let me off with half
that probation, or even less"
Il can't help your convictions she
said, with a slight answering smile; and
if it came to that l could not help your
exacting promise from Mona supposing
she should fancy she cared for you"
Gould she only fancy it,"
"Fortytwo and seventeen" she said
with cruel deliberatiou. You must at
least allow that haste in a case like this
would leave wide margin for rcpeut-
ance. But Mona is rather an odd girl
Even |, who am her mother, could not
answer for her conduct in any given cir
cumstances Perhaps it is my own fault
have endeavored to train her to act
independently-to use her own Judgment
to think for herself"
"She is a model of discretion" he said,
with a slight shrug. "She does your
training credit. 1t seems to me a mans
heart might lie at her pretty little feet
for long time before she would stoop
to pick it up"
Mona is not a hirt!" her mother said
Indignantly.
Far from it. But you were a Girt, as
well as | remember"
WAS IT, she said, and caught her lip
between her teeth for an instant 1T
takes an old friend to acquaint one with
ones shortcomings, doesn't it?''
II think it does" he agreed heartily /;
| but | suppose it's salutary-a tonic
braces one TO offer due resistance to the
| batteries of the rest of the world"
The world tiatters your"
How disagreeable YOU are!" he said,
with a kind of intimate hrusqueness that
reminded her again of the old days.
At this moment Mamie opened the
door, letting in flood of light from the
hall. Presently she carried in a tea t1ay
and placed it on the table at Mrs. Ger
rard's elbow.
Shall ] light the lamp, ma'am?" she
asked
81 suppose you had better-if you care
for tea. Lord Trefoil"
II will n Ia altT, ba soil
Mamie lit the lamp on the table in the
corner behind her mistress chair; the
/ glow fell full on Lord Trefoirs face.
! Whilst he had sat and spoken in the
| faint glow of the fire she could have
! fancied herself back i'm the old days. but
( she realized now the gulf OF years over
which they faced each other
| If she was changed, as he said he was
also changed. This was no smooth.
/ checked student, fresh colored, curly
I haired; this was a man with a sun
tanned skin, hair slightly thinning at the
temples, mouth whose determination
| the thick brown mustache could not hide,
cleft chin, bright dark eyes, still full
OF the fire of youth; so he met her
curious glance and smiled little lie
held bis yachting cap in his hand: he
wore Whlte HanneiS ana yachting
jacket, and looked like a sailor, she
| thought, and sighed little, drawing her
shawl about her shoulders.
You have been ill.," he said, "and |
have talked for an uneonscionable time.
I'm afraid I've tired you"
Il am a little tired. VIII you pour
tea for youTsefE'
| He did so, quite cleyerly, ami would
have brought her a cup but she said no
she had taken tea already; Mona had
carried it to her before she went out,
! II will 90 now" he said, as he put
down his empty cup; but / may come
and see you another day"
Surely" she said, smiling slightly.
Tiff am to be"
| He laughed, and, STOPPING, kissed the
! slender hand she held out to him.
| "But-but you remember my promise -
| Yes he said. Il remember it, / may
tell Mona | love her but / am not to
ask her if she loves me?"
/ She does not love YOU irritablv.
They also serve who only stand and
/ wait he quoted gaily Il promise not