Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-02-18

be exclusively -your-well, not
perhaps your love, but your interest"
My darling!" he said tenderly You
know very we'll that l give nothing to
your cousin, Denzilia. who is, after all,
but a phantom as far as l am concerned,
that should belong to you But here we
are. May | come in or is it too late?''
Come in for half an hour l want
YOU TO tell me all that you did today
Nothing loath, he followed her up the
steep, stone stairs. Arrived in her little
kitchen she threw off her hat, and, seat
ing herself in the armchair, she babe
him sit near her and begin.
He obeyed her and tod his story con-
scientiously from the momenS that he
had seen the Carlesholsa train steaming
out of the station
so Mr.. Langrishe weIc alone!" she
remarked at that point
But | soon followed him. said Mont
resor, pursuing his story with vigog She
listened very attentiYely till he reached
the stage where Mr.. Thomas Wilson was
revealed. Here she yeelned a little start.
led, and when he proceeded to relate
how Mr.. Thomas Wilson had evidently
taken the inquirer after Denzilia Laven-
ham for dangerous lunatic, and had
spoken to him in humoring and sooth-
ing manner, she threw herself hack ia
her chair and burst into fit of lncon-
trollable laughter.
Aubrey, dearest" sha exclaimed. as
well as she could for laughing Il am not
laughing at you; | am not indeed, put it
Is so very funny some hoNytU
When he reached the episode of the
ring she seemed to awake to a sense of
the Importance of the situation She
sat up with startled expression on her
face.
Tell me that again" she exclaimed.
Mr.. Langrishe was SURE il was a ring
that he had seen DenziGa Lavcnham
wear?"
Montresor repeated that such was the
case.
Fancy his recognizing it, she muir.
INJURED. Il suppose he is very much in
| love with her?'
| Deuzilia laughed NJ more She listened
with an attention which was not as
sumed to the remainde~ OF the story.
When Montresor bid her Coed bye"
she lnurpMred sorrowfully---
Poor Denzilia! Poor Dcnziia! / do
hope nothing has really happened to
/ her.
Montresor went away well pleased that
his betrothed showed at last true
womanly pity for her cousin
! Two OF three days passed and nothing
more transpired. The ring remained in
the pawnbrokers shop at Carleshope No
one had come to redeem it, 1t was not
l.
! Thomas Wilson that Montresor succeed
ed i'll accomplishing his interview with
| Denzil Caterhouse.
! The old gentleman. when he did finally
admit him, seemed in worse health and
| in a worse temper than usual The room
was almost pitch dark. and Mr. Cater
| houses voice was so husky that the
! young man could hardly make out at
times what he was saying.
| He gathered, however, that Denzilia's
uncle repudiated the idea of the ring in
the pawnbrokers shop belonging to his
missing niece
AT the close of the conversation,
/ which Mr.. Caterhouse insisted should
/ be short one, Montresor tried to make
some allusion to the other Denzilia. 1t
seemed to him that she ought TO have
1 some relative of whom he could demand
| her. and to whom he could explain his
intention of proving in every way wor-
thy of her. But Mr. Denzil Catcrhouse
cut him short
"Denzilia Anselm is of age" he said.
/ Even if she were not / am not respon-
| sible for her. She may marry ANYBODY
she likes. I suppose you have nothing
in the world to keep a wife on? Bat
! that is a trife | merely mention it TO
! let you know that when you are both
| starving you need not come to ME for
| help"
Il should not dream of doing 500 said
| Montresor. and took his leave without
further ceremony.
As he reached the door the old man
called him back
Look here" he said 81 have made
mp my mind to double the reward! The
fellow who finds Denzilia Lavenham
will get ten thousand pounds. always
supposing she does not refuse to pav it
when she is found"
The old gentleman turned back to lis
armchair chuckling and MIontresor LETT
! the room.
4 couple of days later he mentioned
the fact of the increased reward 70 his
Denzilia, as he now began to call ,ler.
Yes" she said, Il saw it in the pa
per. Aubrey'-she sided up a little
closer to him, "if you were to find nv
cousin you would get 100000 The in
terest of that, added to what YOU have
got, and my little pittance would enable
US to marry at once"
ITO Be Continued)
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