Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-10-14

Vantage in! Camel" called my
wife triumphantly. You're no good
at all. Wilfred Game. set" / re-
ISed. Wonderful good tennis, Dear
est, and dropping our racquets. We
went to speak to Arch
| wouldn't have told Dearest for the
world, of course, but the truth was
that in spite of my praise of her play
ing, | had let her beat.
Couldn't you find a groom to take
the cart down for you?" l inquired
rather Indignantly as Terhune came to
halt in the road. Lazy beggars,
those grooms!"
The butler told me you people
were down here playing tennis, said
Arch, and | was in such a hurry to
see you ! brought it down myself.
Thought I'd walk back with you
y'know"
Agatha held out her hands to him
eagerly as he got down and stood be-
side us.
Then you've got something to tell
us!" she cried, you have.-I know
you have.
In way-yes!" he answered. "but
it's no. what you think, at least not
exactly, BY Jove, Vincent" turning
to me, I'm in an awful mess! A beast
ly unfortunate dilemma, don't you
know"
but don't know What's the trou.
BILE, Area? Tell u.s."
Yes, veil u.s." urged my wife
Well, you see," began the old boy,
and he mopped his brow with his
handkerchief in an anxious way that
made me feel quite sorry for him,
you see the way of it was, | went
and asked her all right, but" he
paused
But what What did she say?"
cried Deaaest and together.
For heavens sake!" I added, as he
still stam.nered, get it out!"
She said" he replied grandly
that she cared for me-"
Then what on earth are you put.
ting on such long face about?' ]
roared, and Dearest asked him anx-
iously what was wrong about that
Why, xhe trouble u.s." he told us,
getting more and more serious, that
in spite Of that admission she won't
give me definite answer until
month frc.m now!"
But sue can't wait that long," ]
expostula led, as if Terhune himself
were to blame for this complication.
Don't you see that if you're not actu.
ally and for a fact engaged by the
end of this week you might as well
not be engaged at all, at least as far
as your aunts property is concerned"
Il know" he said Nobody sees
that any palmer than l do. That's
why I'm so upset. What can have pos
sessed the girl, do you suppose?
didn't think she was the trifling
kind"
Nonsense" declared my wife, author
itatiyely "a little coquetry in the right
place is perfectly admissiblel She
didn't want to make it too easy for
you, thut's all Very feminine, and
quite delightful of her, call it,"
That's all very we'll" replied Ter
hume with some heat. and proper
enough / dare say! But think what
that same coquetry may cost mel"
And you could see as he said it that
he already beheld in his minds eye
that third cousin of his aunts sitting
on the veranda of the house on his
aunt's property in Australia, with his
feet on the railing
Well, If that's all you care about!
If you're only interested in getting
that silly old fortune of your aunt's, /
hope, yes, positively hope, that she
will keep you waiting until it is too
lRte!" said Dearest Unexpectedly.
Terhune stared in surprise at this
point of view and | own l couldn't
help siding with him little
But my dear girl" he protested,
how can | help being interested in
it? A fortunes fortune, and besides,
isn't 1t for her. too. that / want 1t, as
we'll as myself? And then, you know,
how absurd it is il she's going to ac-
cept me anyway, as I'm rather sure
she is, that she can't say so in time
to get me fortune as we'll as a wife?"
Come, now!" | put in, that does
seem reasonable, doesn't it, Dearest?"
Il thought you understood better
than that Wilfred, she said, with
look almost of severity at me, and to
Terhune. Il see you must be chastened
still further, Archibald she told him,
until you learn what true love is!
Disinterested, unselfish love,'
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