Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-19


the despair OF match making mothers for
4 the last twenty years.
Il am not a match making mother"
mo, indeed! If you had your way
| it's an old maid she's bel But you won't
have your way There's my son Jack
only waiting to enter his claim, and l
suppose there'll be round half dozen
after tomorrow night"
Please don't talk nonsense!" Mrs.
Gerard said pettishly. Mona is child,
and | wish her to remain a child as long
as possible!"
IF Mona keeps young as long as her
mother she needn't complain Sir John
said calamity. But Mrs. Gerard neither
smiled nor frowned. With her elbows
resting OF the ledge of the balustrade
she was looking at the loch-not at the
| Riddle distance where the steam launch,
hung with colored lights from stem to
stern, lay like some gigantic jewel on
the water, but away beyond her, to
where the shadOwy headands, almost
meeting, seemed to guard the outlet to
the orer sea.
Some ghostly thing seems to be NOV
ing out there" she said suddenly. Did
you notice, just now. when the fashlight
Travelled that way. something seemed to
catch and hold it, like the wings of big
gray moth?"
81 didn't see it," Sir John said, peering
through the darkness. Il suppose it was
the lighthouse on the point"
ooh, MOI" Mrs Gerard said as she
shook her head There it is again,
think it must be a wrath, | no sooner
think | see it than it disappears. l wish
she drew her wrap around her with
little shiver-" somebody would tell Mona
that am waiting; it must be 10
O'clock"
Jean will fine her if any one can" Sir
John said placidly, and even as he spoke
the two girls came rushing out, followed
by Jack and Lexie Bannatyne and young
Finch.
''The Minnehaha is coming into the
loch!" they cried all together See her
see the big cutter just rounding the
point"
Where ?" Sir John said, Strengthening
himself
''There-now the searchlight's got her
don't you sect"
Looks like some pirate creeping in to
cut out the Kelpie!" Jack exclaimed de
hghtedly. "Lexie, run for the glass;"
They must have picked Sandy Munro
up at the point" Sir John said. NO
body else could handle a big cutter like
that in Loeb Linnhe'
Under the pilots skilled touch the
yacht could now be plainly seen gliding
to her moorings, the group on the ter
race watching every movement with
breathless interest One by one the sails
came down-they could hear the running
gear in the blocks and the splash as the
anchor fell
81 might have guessed Trefoil would
be in time,' Sir John said, studying the
proceedings on board through the night
glass Il always found him second
Monte Cristo for keeping his appoint
ments And we all know"-Jack taking
the telescope from his hands at this june
ture, he turned to pinch Mona's ear
"woh was at the tow ropes this time
Mona jerked her head out of his reach.
1t was evident that of all the people on
the balcony the arrival of the Minnehaha
concerned her least.
He'll think he's mistaken the date, .
Jean said, laughing as she too watched
the shadowy vessel, especially if he sees
us all up here. | wonder if he'll come
ashore tonight ?"
IF he doesn't I'll pay him visit on
board the Minnehaha," Jack said Its
only 10 o'clock"
Mrs. Gerard turned from the black
water and the dancing lights, and drew
her wrap round her with another SILVER.
Come Mona" she said eve must be
getting home Where is your cloak ?"
Jack has it"
The young man put it round her care
fully, drawing the hood over her pretty
head and fastening ii under her chin with
an empressement that made the others
laugh. Even Mona shook herself free
without an added tinge of color in her
cheeks.
you are shivering, nanny" she said
few minutes later as the station
brougham bore them homewards Il am
afraid | kept you too long waiting, but
Jack would finish that reel-and indeed
| wanted to myself And | didn't know
YOU had gone on the terrace. Oh, look
as turn in the road brought them in
view of the castle, the windows still
alight-"isn't it like an enchanted palace d?
/ don't suppose Pll sleep wink thinking
of tomorrow night. There, now, you're
shivering again! And you look as pale
as if you'd seen ghost. Nanny, what's
the natter"
81 don't know, unless I've caught a
chill" Mrs. Gerard said. Ppm getting
too old to lean over balconies in an even.
ing frock-I suppose that is it."
Mrs. Gerard had caught a chill. She
got up to breakfast, but was obliged to
leave the table, shivering, to sit in an
armchair over the fire and be coddled by
Mamie and petted by Mona all the fore
noon. Before luncheon it became evident
that she could not venture out of doors
that day.
81 must write a line to Lady Banna-
tyne she said at 3 o'clock. ut can't
be helped, dear, you must have patience
with your stupid old mother"
Mona could hardly believe that she was
not to 90 to the dance The disappoint
ment was so great that at first she could
scarcely realize it. But when she did
realize it she bore it very well. never
questioning her mothers ultimatum that
without her she could not 60 Lady
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