Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-01-01


terday. For you are that, or you
wouldn't talk as you are talking"
what q temper you are inl"
Il am not in any temperl It can't
concern me in the least that you con-
slider me a child You are little more
yourself. Seventeen is much older for a
girl than eighteen for a boy. Girls grow
up sooner. Others know that-others a
good deal older than you, a good deal
wiser, a good deal more gentlemanly
than you are, Billy-know that 1 am a
womanI"
Up went her parasol once more. The
very sight of it amused and angered him.
What do you want with that thing?"
he asked jeeringly, pointing at it with a
fine seorn.
ut is really getting advisable that I
should take little more care of my
complexion" she remarked in her new
tone of voice "Auntie has said so over
and over again. She is quite right"
Your eomplexioni" Knocked Billy,
waxing indignant. "What does that sig.
Nifty? You are not out yeti Time
enough to worry about that when you
are"
He recalled her as she had been yes
terday, racing gaily over the Downs
with him, look of loosened hair waving
over her forehead the sun kissing her
young cheeks, and she not caring a whit
He thought of her by the sea, racing,
not him this time but the white crested
waves, and laughing when they dashed
up against her hurrying feet. She cared
little enough for appearances then, and
she looked her very best. Now she was
| gazing at her neat, white shoes, and
daintily flicked away leaf that fell
upon them, with little grimace as
| though the fiuttering thing brought con-
tamination with it. She was no longer
Lii; she was vain and frivolous-she was
just like other girls
"If you don't come down. he said. 81
declare I'll make you, Lii Lauriston!"
you can't! You daren't!"
"Daren't 1, thought"
Say you'll come down." cried he, as
he caught her feet, "or-"
Lii was timid; she did not take time
to reflect that it was hardly probable
he would hurl her down among the
tombstones. She yielded ANONYMOUSLY,
crying
"I'H come down, Billy just you leave
off teasing me at once!"
Billy desisted. Lii walked demurely
along the churchyard wal! till she came
to point where it was lower. Then she
shouted to her friend TO stand clear, and
jumped lightly down. She was cross at
her defeat, and, as she stood beside him,
she remarked, with great decision, that
she did not mean to play tennis with
him, he needn't think IT"
Billy was tall, and babe fair to make
a fine man, but he was not handsome.
He was just an honest looking Young
fellow with earnest eyes. 4 bit clumsy
as yet, but strong and athletic. He
looked his best in the open, and his
worst in a drawing room, where there
were so many things that might get
knocked over. He swung his tennis bat
in his hand, and the lace of Lil's parasol,
brushing against his face and tickling it,
disturbed his temper once more, so that
he forgot himself again and said
Its all nonsense putting on airs with
me, lii Lauriston! You ought to be
ashamed of YOURSELF"
Ashamed of herself She had never
felt more proud Ashamed of herselfi
Little he knew what had happened to
her. Little he knew what cause she had
to realize that she was no longer a child.
Lii reflected. To do so she sat down
upon a tombstone, and Billy took his
place beside her. They two, in their
youth and health and strength, were en-
tirely out of harmony with their sur.
roundings.
"You may be ashamed of me, you are
so unkind" she said coquettishly, "but
I am not ashamed of myself, nor is Mr..
Kennedy Galbraith ashamed of met"
She dragged out the last words, and
he could see how her eyes danced though
the lids half yelled them; he knew that
she was trying not to smile when che
drew her lips SO tightly together. 1t was
some joke she was playing on him.
mfr. Kennedy Galbraith2 Do you mean
your Cousin Ken?" he asked.
why, yes, of course! He does not
think me a child"
Doesn't he thought" Billy remarked
with laugh. Doesn't he just? Why,
he is nearly old enough to be your father
LIS patience forsook her. Really Billy
had never been more aggravating.
"You are the silly ass now!" she
cried. HE feel old enough to be my
father! He doesn't do anything of the
kind. He-he wants to be my husband !"
1t was at this dramatic and thrilling
moment that William Daryl broke into
a peal of laughter He was perfectly
overcome by merriment; he held his
sides; he rocked from side to side; he
was, Lii considered, most horribly vulgar.
Tears of modification were in her eyes.
She managed to force them back; hq
should not say that she was crying
ITO Be Continued
Mansion House as Home.
During her residence therein the Man,