Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-10-29
FOR EVER.


81 love you" said the man.
@And / you" said the woman
Their lips met
"For ever" said the man.
For ever" said the woman.
ooh the lips, and the hair, and the
eyes of YOU girl!''-he kissed each in
turn "God knows / have nothing to
offer YOU" he added sadly, "but
But love-" said the girl softly, with
shining eyes.
and cottage finished the mar
Ali why wasn't l born RICH dear, so
that | could have given you"
diamonds, instead of stars in
terrupted the girl "Ah, well, / don't
care so long as I've got you"
Darling" whispered the man.
So they married, and the gods lent
them corner of Mount Olympus for
their honeymoon; and even when they
came down from the clouds and found
themselves on solid earth again they
were divinely happy in their semi de-
| tached eight-roomed suburban villa for
six months. Then the unexpected hap
pene1 An uncle of the girl died and
| left her 100000. They were to be rich
III last. But the man was not pleased
The money was not his. And he didn't
want her to be rich at anybody else's ex-
pense. The girl howe rer, was quite
naturally delighted.
''You always wanted to be rich"
! Il never said | wanted to be a rich
woman's husband" he retorted Il
want to give YOU the good things Of
life; | don't want you to give them to
me-"
'sBut it's the same thing" she pro
tested
The man refused to meet the love in
her eyes.
q don't wish you to accept this
money. You said yourself once money
wasn't everything"
"And you that it meant great deal"
the girl reminded him. Il want to see
exactly what it does mean. We can al.
ways come back to this--if we don't
like it,"
"Never!7 retorted the man decisively
"We can never come back to anything
in life We must always go forward"
@Why, that's better still. isn't it,"
A vision of white and gold, sheen of
silk, froth of tulle, came smiling down
the stairs. Standing within the study
door man watched her descent with
satin-shod foot upon the last stair he
stepped forward.
at can't 90 on, this life" he found
| 1 AL l-sI1
it's degrading more, it's loathsome!''
"How stupid you are, jim! | can't
| help being rich You might just as well
be sensible and accept the position"
'I'll be hanged if ] will! It's come to
this, Madge. Either you give up this
cursed money Or"
"Yes?" quered the girl coldiy
ct go' he shouted. He had not
meant to say this thing
The car is at the door, madam" an,
nouneed footman
The vision of white and gold finished
pulling ON her long gloves and rose Ian
| guidly. Il hope. dear" she said sweet,
~, that, next time see you, you won't
be Lewis Waller kind of person, work
ing up for a third -act curtain"
| As a matter of fact, the next time
she saw him he was working as a com.
mon laborer down at the docks for
| hardly had her electric car whirled her
away that night than he slammed the
front door behind him and strobe into
the world in the clothes he stood up in
and nothing in his pockets but his pride
for of private means he had none, and
at her urgent request he had given up
his modest clerkship when they moved
The superintendent at the docks stared
when one day an imperiou, lady swept
into his office and asked to see one of
the hands.
He came sullenly Both hands out.
stretched, she went to him.
Jim. | can't live without you. Come
back" she pleaded
He saw that the months that had
swept between them had aged her. He
was moved
Not so long as there is this cursed
god between us" he told her But
get rid of it and III come back to YOU"
She recoied from him. She loved
him. yes, But she loved. too, her life
of glorious ease. She could not give it
all up,
Keep your cursed money! he told
| her hrutally, but you won't keep me-
Several times she came after Always
he refused her; inally-"What's the use
of you eoming?" he asked her bluntly
Il don't want you. You only want your
money Besides, it's too late now.
! There's a girl" he paused.
Weeping, she sought the superintend
ent.
Dismiss him." she pleaded, then he
win have to come back to me-"
The chief hesitated-his foreman
spoke highly of him-but finally, he
gave in.
Long she visited But he never came!
| Three years later, in a beggar in the
street who stared hard into her face, she
recognized him.
| "Jim,n she cried
| He turned his bloodshot eyes upon her
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