Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-03-27

They don't leave you much time
to pack your trunk and make fare
well calls on these New York Jobs.
There are too many others waiting
around to snap up the place" the
managing editor had said.
Stewart had decided to take his adj
vice, still planning how he might have
a chance to talk with Margaret. She
knew he had applied for the position.
but as she was away all morning on
an assignment she didn't know of
his acceptance.
Every minute is precious. for I
have thousand things to do" fumed
the young fellow, as he paced rest
lessly up and down the platform. 1T
was low trick OF Davis to beat me
TO 1t here. when he knew / was GO
ing away so soon"
At last the next car came and bore
him back to town.
When he reached the Office 1t was
just as he expected. Margaret had
gone home to dinner He called up
her boarding place. She was there.
but when he asked to come down that
evening she replied that she was GO
ing to report another wedding which
was going to occur in that vicinity
that evening But you may come and
go with me If you like 1t won't take
me long
When he told her OF his Intended
departure next day, her invitation was
more insistent
With good.by handshakes to other
members of the staff, Stewart left the
office. On the way to his room no
stopped and got lunch at restaurant,
then he went Off home and began has
tily to pack his trunk. AS he worked
he glanced around the bare LITTLE room
where he had passed many lonely.
homesick, discouraging moments.
i've hated the place, but it seems
quite like home when so to leave it..
lie thought of his old, pleasant home
in the little town of Carbon which
he had left to take his first news
paper position here, and his sense
of Inconsistencies increased. 1T will
all be to do over again when reach
New York, only it will be much hard
er to gain foothold there"
He found Margaret waiting for him
when he reached her boarding place.
She had on her wraps, and her brown.
eyes were shining under the smart,
little toque
On the way he told her more about
his new position, and his hopes and
plans for making good. She was all
kindness and attention, yet, withal, ha
had the sensation that she was trying
to steer the conversation away from
personalities. 1t seemed to him that
she dragged out the work unnecessar-
lily long at the house; and when they
were at last free to go, he took mat
| tiers into his own hands, and insisted
that the longest way round was the
! shortest way home.
Has Davis asked you to marry
him?" he asked.
At first she looked offended, then
she said archly, What If he has?o
= want to know If you accepted
him"
/ L probably snouldnt De walking
here with you If had" she laughed.
What difference does it maker"
Merely that I'm going to ask you
the same thing" And he poured out
the love and longing of the last
months.
Instead of the waste OF boarding
houses it would mean homeland
that's as near heaven as we ever get
on this earth, reckon" he ended hus-
! kily.
For few moments there was ST.
| ience. and they walked on beneath
the trees which rustled their dry
leaves in the soft autumn night. He.
! in alternate hope and despair: she.
with her eyes turned away, gazed up
at the hazy harvest moon. But by
| the light Of it, when her glance met
his. he could see they were full OF
tears.
Il, too, am tired of reflected Joy"
she answered slowly, nodding toward
her reporters notebook he was car
rying. Instead of writing up other
peoples engagements and weddings
I'll want one of my own"
Copyright. 1914 by the Mcclure News
paper syndcate.)