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

AN ADEQUATE CoNDIMENT.
''What are you looking so solemn
about" demanded voice.
/ glanced up quickly, and there at the
open window saw Miss Archibb.
"Am / looking solemn?'
"Like an owl What have you come
for?"
Nothing like making your visitors
| feel at home l believe l came over to
see you"
"Oh!" She appeared trihe discom
posed at the directness of the reply
And now you have seen me?n
Il shall look at you" This | proceed
ed to do.
Miss Archibb seated herself on the
window sill-she has an admirable fig
ure-and looking down at me.
1T would be ripping on the water !
remarked.
Would it? And yet you're here
II came to tell you"
"How self-saerifcing of you"
Him. ! said "Will you come 2"
Cant"
"Do you mean won't? Why not Y
She gave backward jerk of her head
They're all in there"
''What of that?"
"Oh, all right" She got down with
smile 1--WE shall be a pleasant party
"Party!" said |.
yes. Both aunts, uncle and the
mater. They'll all come with the dear
child"
"In that case,' said hastily, Il pre-
| fer you at distance" A girl by her
self is worth dozen together.
But why 90 through the next room ?"
| suggested, with sudden inspiration.
How =? Get out of the window ?"
I nodded. 1t was some ten feet from
the ground.
81 should break my neck"
| Nonsense"
"It's easy to say that-it's not your
neck. Beside, suppose somebody saw
me?"
Il refused to be put off with such
supposition
You're afraid
''AIr. Harding!'
you're afraid"
Without another word, she clambered
up on the sill.
"Shall l jump?'
"Merciful heavens, nor The possibil-
| ity of receiving some eight stone into
ones arms would draw such an eiacula-
ton from anybody.
Then how?"
A moments reflection gave me the
opportunity of noticing a tub of ever
| green's nearby. At the expense of some
exertion l dragged the thing under the
window. Standing on it / was some
three feet nearer.
'Kneel ON the sill, and come down
backwards" | instructed Don't kick
me in the face. All right, I've got you"
With a stifed shrek she let 90 her
hold of the window-sill and chung round
my neck.
Don't strange me- You see, it was
quite easy"
down now, please, Mr. Harding II
MIR. Harding! Put me down at once"
| was, as | said, somewhat insecurity
| balanced on the edge of the tub An
incautious step backward, and Miss
Archibb, the evergreens, and myself
found ourselves on the ground.
| By complicated movement of which
! | was too confused to notice the details,
Miss Archibb swished herself into a
sitting position and looked at me and
itth-iCh. IhC tugt VI TIC buD WAS very
hard, but nevertheless. | Joined in
you see!" / said reproachfully. "You
might have known l should have put
you down if it had been safe"
Il felt safer down. she remarked.
rising to her feet.
THAT evergreen looks pretty sick,n |
said, surveying it ruefully.
"Well, you'd look sick too. if yon'd
been sat on"
Il don't feel SICK" I reassmred her:
"of course ! don't know how / look"
Did | really ?" She laughed and
blushed 'Well, l suppose | did. You
deserved it, anyhow"
And occasionally one gets ones de-
serts"
We brushed the dust off each other,
and set off for the river.
by the way" | said, whats all this
gathering of the clans? Been getting
into a scrape?"
"Scrape!" she cried Indignantly, 81
should think not. Eve been a very good
girl"
"You!"
You're very rude You needn't look
so surprised anyhow"
How did you manage it2"
ITO be good girl? Well, did what
was told and smiled when | was
spoken to, and said Please and Thank
you"
And Yes and No. like good little
dolly"
Il haven't said Yes and NO vet"
she corrected. That's what the family
eonclave is about"
/ whistled-not loudly. so that's the
idea. Who are they?"
! ''Oh-two men,
Il suspected they We're men How
ever, can guess who they are Which
do you prefer?"
The idea of asking me You know
what shocking head I've got for fig
ures.'
l regarded her curiously I'd often
wondered how they did it. For man
it's ditferent-so my people say; how
ever heavy the golden chains which bind
him, he still retains some Independence.