Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-07-01

nay hayprd VIII get as Drown as
berry," Lady Muriel said. 81 viii run
and fetch sunshade."
Very quietly she assembled the marble
steps, and entered the glass doors be-
meath the striped green and white avn
ings.
"She has left her treasure unguard-
ed Missed Nita, her eyes blazing.
And then the tiny bundle of lace and
ribbon was caught up in her trembling
arms, conveyed to close carriage, and
borne rapidly away.
The abduction was carried out so clev-
erly that, when it was discovered that
the child had been spirited away, aIl eff
forts Of the police were fruitless, and at
last the search was abandoned.
Lord Carfax tried to persuade his wife
to return to England.
mo, Rex, cannot go. I feel I must
stay here" she told him resolutely. ''The
wound is not yet healed, and to be torn
away from the hAiIJwej spot where ny
lost baby first saw light would open il
afresh."
And thus it came about that winters
and summers alike found Lady and Lord
Carfax still residing in their beautiful
southern home.
One day telegram reached them
from England announcing the dangerous
Illness of Lord Carfax's father.
Il shall have to start at once" he
| said my own love, come with me.
cannot bear to leave you here"
Let me stay" she pleaded. "You
have not a moment to waste in even
thinking of me. Go, dear, and return to
me soon."
There was no time for argument, as
the earl's life was in imminent peril, so,
with sad heart, Rex set Off on his
Journey.
"n you take my advice you will not
carry out this very rash intention, Lady
Carfaa," the clergyman of the little Eng
lish church was saying earnestly to Mu-
riel a few days after her husbands de-
parture. 81 will try and get someone
less cowardly than these people to ~
tend to the poor creature"
"Mr. Lowell, it is no use to argue such
question with me-" Muriel replied
''This unhappy lady is stranger in
strange land, and duty impels me to 90
at once to her assistance"
1.-THE fever is infectious" he protested
|
no time to be lost. She shall not per-
ish while l have the strength to save
her." Muriel replied, with tranquil de-
termination, standing ready dressed for
driving.
In another five minutes she had set
out.
The carriage dashed on till it came to
a little wood of pines, compelling her to
ahght and walk through narrow path
to gate she could discern at the end
of it.
When she opened the gate she beheld
with eager eyes the paradise in minia tHe
stretched before her.
| A black boy was playing on the vel
vety turf near a white marble villa, with
child, little fairy like creature.
"Missus ware i'll in dare4" the son of
Ham said in answer to her inquiry, and
he pointed to window where hung q
drapery of eastern embroidery.
There, lying on bed hung with palest
blue velvet, was Mia Caldara.
She started, then recoiled, as Lady
Carfax approached.
"Do not be alarmed, dear friend" Mu-
riel said. II heard you were alone and
far from well, so fastened to you"
"Do you know this room is pesti-
lential that my very hirelings have
fedi" Nita exclaimed
"That is why I am here" Muriel an
swered TRANQUILITY.
When the doctor looked in, he found
the fair young Samaritan seated beside
the sufferer.
"This is no place for you, my lady"
he said.
ct is too late to argue with me"
she replied quietly; "all I want is the
assistance of one Of the sisters. Kindly
send one from the convent"
He departed thinking Lady Carfax the
| ideal of true womanhood, after promis-
ing to obey her.
In the delirium of fever, Nita revealed
her unhappy history and the silent
watcher listened till her whole frame
seemed turning to stone.
at cannot be true-it is some horrible
coincidence of namesl" she moaned. "Yet
there is only one Lord Carfax; and she
| spoke of those Grape roses that were
thrust into my hand, and of her wed
ding ring"
But not one sentence did Mia breathe
of her last act of revenge in that drama
of sin and crime.
"You say spoke of Lord Carfax"
| she gasped, when the worst was over
and she was well on the road to recov-
cry; "if did mention anything in my
fever it was only the wanderings of
distraught brain"
Madame" Muriel besought, Gin PHYS
name, be as merciful to me as ] have
been to you"
AYE, you succored me when / was
helpless. Heaven bless you for lit"
| "You were the giver of those emblems
of mourning, and the-the ring!"
How do you know that"
you revealed it all in your fever"
| 81 did? Then God have mercy on us
bothl / would have spared you and
died with my wrongs locked in my own
soul, because you have taught me what a
woman ought TO be. Listen, Lady Car
fax, to the history of my past, since you
command it."
| When the story was concluded, Mural
threw her arms around Nita, and fall
tered, while her heart throbbed with