Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19

50 bad, but this morsel OF slumbering
humanity
Bevan sat beside her with the face
OF sphinx
Il wish you would say sonnet hing" oh
served Ella Plympton, irritably
4 really can't think of anything that
exactly hits off the situation
Il say what was that!''
1T sounded ike the guard whistling.'
But that woman isn't back and I've
her. Mr.. Bevan, 90 something quick
The train mustn't start. Why, we're
moving. You and | must just sit the
thing out
Probably that would be the best way.
Miss Plympton And, after all, it may
not wake. Perhaps it might assist mat
ters if | We're TO give it little nip out
of my flask"
"Oh, Mr.. Bevan. how can you talk like
that The sweet darling! He really
has pretty face, hasn't he?"
He's not a bad baby"
what nice nose it's got! It's not
unlike your own in shape"
This was true. Uncle and nephew had
that one classic feature in common. and
he had remarked it previously to Celia.
a button of a nose like that
"Ugh!" he exclaimed with lofty con
tempt, unfolding newspaper.
I'm really curious about the color of
his eyes said Ella.
Wake it and sect"
"Perhaps | may, when we get within
five minutes of Rugby. / hope the sta.
| tion people viii be kind to it. Wha!
are you laughing at, Mr. Bevan?"
Il was thinking what your Caxton
Hall friends would say if they saw you
this moment
Il shouldn't care in the least"
That's right 1t would be funny,
though, if some of them looked in lust
now, wouldn't it? What a charming
domestic picture we three make!"
MIR Bevan, you're perfectly horrid
Ii you can't find something sensible to
say please read your paper! There, the
child's waking. Did ems. then! Naughty.
bad man, wake ickle boy up! Lullaby
| baby on the tree top! When the wind
| blows'-for heavens sake stop rustliDg
that pape. or I'll never get the child off
again-'when the wind blows the cradle
viii rock. When the bough breaks. the
cradle will fall There. it's sleeping
again. Oh look at those dear little pink
toes! Aren't they just sweet?"
He murmured his admiration But he
1 NstS IbI IOOklllB at the toes. ne was
looking at the hand that fondled them
| It was not the hand of blatant suf-
| fragette that closed about them; it was
the hand of very human woman, ex-
| pressing the motherng instinct which
others beside Mr.. Barrie have discovered
| is the finest and most frequent quality
of sex. And the yoice-mothers have
crooned like that ever since the first
| little life came to earth.
| He felt quite ahsurdly happy Here
was true metal without alloy He had
| doubted this girl; now he was as sure
| of her as of the stars in heaven. He had
/ tested this girl. and the test had sue
eeeded beyond his widest expectations
| 4 halo lay about her head. but pure,
natural sunshine, not limelight, cast it.
All unconsciously she had stepped off the
stage and was herself-the charming
back -parlor self which even he had be-
gun to lose faith in
p Her haNds and eyes Were still busy
with the child Silently he rose. unfas-
| tened his bag on the rack. drew some
thing out, deftly adjusted it. placed it in
nosition, went a step away-click!
| She looked up into the eye of a kodak.
| Mr.. Bevan, have you snapshotted
me?''
have" He put away the camera.
"0h. that is mean of you-abnominably
mean. You'll send it to the papers
| You'll write out an account of "A Sui
| fragist's Dilemma" and use this as an
illustration. | feel / never want to speak
to you again"
He sat down beside her
"One moment Listen to my defense
before you condemn me unheard The
4 1 f,I- = s.,
| ton"
You'll show it 20 your friends them
Not another living soul but you or
shall ever see it,
''Then, what's the good of it ?''
"Good? Why, it will be one OF the
most valuable treasures | possess. It's
yoll you in supremacy great moment,
greater because you've been living it
so unconsciously. | understand you now.
Ella do you understand me? | want
/ you to marry me, ! love you from The
bottom of my heart"
He told her the whole story She knew
that she ought to have been desperately
angry. but for the life of her she could
not keep the laughter out of her eyes,
though she was saying things ike this:
$50 you thought to make ma ridicu-
lous ?"
'.Neverl You must believe in lie bon
MOTIF
i Two minutes later very anxious
mother stood at the carriage window
lis he all right, Ronald?'
''He and everything else. But, let me
introduce you! Celia, my future wife,
Elal"
An old-fashioned back parlor girl re-
turned Celia's delighted hug Herbert
Jameson in Black and White
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