Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-03-15

Il haven't an exaggerated opinion
of myself, so / know | amt Dragging
when | say I'll make a pretty good
husband. You could follow your own
sweet viii. and nothing would be too
good for you. I'd give you everything
your heart desired"
Except yourself she interrupted
suddenly. almost sharply Don't you
see?" she hurried on. Il could have
far easier married the Elan Harnish
fresh from Klondike when arst laid
eyes on him long ago, than marry you
sitting before me now"
He shook his head slowly.
That's one too many for me- The
more you know and like a man the
less you want to marry him. Famili-
arity breeds contempt guess that's
what you mean
NO, no." she cried, but before she
could continue, a knock came on the
door.
His eyes. quick with observation
like an Indians, darted about the
room while she was out. The impress
sion of warmth and comfort and beau
ty predominated though he was I'M
able to analyze 1t; while the simplici-
ty delighted him--expensive simplici-
ty. he decided, and most of it left
overs from the time her father went
broke and died.
She re-entered the room, and as she
crossed it to her chair. he admired
the way she walked. while the bronze
slippers We're maddening.
'I'd like to ask you several ques-
TONS" he began Immediately. Are
you thinking nj marrying somebody
else?"
There isn't anybody else l don't
know anybody like well enough to
marry. For that matter. don't think
| am marrying woman. Office work
seems to spoil me for that"
ut strikes me that you're the most
marryingest woman that ever made a
man sit up and take notice. And now
another question. You see, I've just
got to locate the lay of the land Is
there anybody you like as much as
you like me?"
But Dede had herself well In hand.
That's unfair" she said. And If
you stop and consider, you will find
that you are doing the very thing you
disclaimed- namely, nagging. | refuse
to answer any more Of your questions.
Let us talk about other things, How
is Bob?"
Half an hour later, whirling along
oh h. rotv oil
nue. toward Oakland, Daylight smoked
one of his brown-paper cigarettes and
reviewed what had taken place 1t was
not at all bad, was his summing up,
though there was much about 1t that
was battling There was that liking
him the more she knew him and at
the same time wanting to marry him
less. That was puzzler.
\ Once again, on a rainy Sunday,
weeks afterward, Daylight proposed
to Dede AS on the first time, he re-
strained himself until his hunger for
her overwhelmed him and swept him
away in his red automobile to Berke-
ley. He left the machine several
blocks away and proceeded to the
l.. L,
landladys daughter told him, and
added. on second thought. that she
4 was walking in the hills. Further
more. the young lady directed him
where Dedes walk was most likely to
extend. Daylight obeyed the girls in
! structions, and soon the street he fol-
lowed passed the last house and itself
I 4t1A ErrA 80.
slopes of the open hills. The air was
/ damp with the on-coming of rain, for
the storm had not yet burst. though
the rising wind proclaimed its i'm
minence. AS far as he could see
there was no sign of Dede on the
smooth. grassy hills. To the right
dipping down into hollow and rising
again. was large. full-grown eucalyp
tus grove. Here all was noise and
movement, the lofty. slendertrunked
trees swaying back and forth in the
! wind and clashing their branches to
gether. In the squalls, above all the
minor noises of creaking and groan
ing. arose a deep drumming note as
of a mighty harp. Knowing Dede as
would find her somewhere in this
grove where the storm effects were Sc
pronounced. And find her he did
across the hollow and on the exposed
crest of the opposing slope where the
gale smote its fiercest blows.
Its the same old thing" he said
Il want you and I've come for you
| YOItfve inst pot m have mo nada fo,
the more | thinF about it the more
certain l am that you've got sneak
ing liking for me that's something
more than just ordinary liking AnC
YOU don't dast say that it isn't; nov
dast your"
Please. please" she begged. wv,
can never marry, SO don't LET us dis
cuss it."
Daylight decided that action wa.
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