Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-08-14

This morning I should have hal.
sword over your head"
1T Is very difficult for me to resv..
all that has happened"
you are free to depart. Yon -.
free in every sense Of the word vors
future rests with yourself, nv dear
1T hurts me more than / can tan
to feel that you have been hating mo
all these months"
1T hurts me-now,"
Hetty walked to the window and
looked out
What are your plansP" Sara IN.
quired, after an interval.
Il shall seek employment-and Wal.
for you to act"
II? You mean?"
Il shall not run away, Sara. Nor A.
| intend to reveal myself to the an.
thorities. l am not morally guilty q,
crime. A year ago feared the con.
sequences of nay deed, but I have
learned much since then. was
stranger in new world. In England
we have been led to believe that Won
lynch women here as readily as Won
lynch men. / now know better than
that. From you alone learned nv
greatest lesson. You revealed to ma
the true meaning of human kindness
You shielded me who should not
Even now believe that your first
impulse was tender one. shall
not forget 1t, Sara. You will live to
regret the baser thought that came
later on. have loved you-yes, al.
most as q good dog loves his master.
1t Is not for me to tell the story 0,
that night and all these months to
the world. would not be betraying
myself, but you. You would be called
upon to explain, not I. And you would
be the one to suffer. When you met
me on the road that night was on
my way back to the inn to give my.
self into custody. You have made II
impossible for me to do so now. My
lips are sealed. 1t rests with you,
Sara"
Sara joined her in the broad win.
dow. There was strangely exalted
look In her face. A gilded birdcage
hung suspended in the easement With.
out a word, she threw open the win.
dow screen. The gay little canary In
the gilded cage cooked his head and
watched her with alert eyes. Then
she reached up and gently removed
the cage from its fastenings. Putting
1t down upon the window sill, che
opened the tiny door. The bird hoped
about his prison In a state OF great
excitement.
Hetty looked on, fascinated.
At last yellow streak shot out
through the open door and an instant
later resolved itself into the bobbing,
fiuttering dicky-bird that had lived
in cage all its life without an hour
of freedom. For a few seconds It
circled over the tree tops and then
alighted on one Of the branches. One
might we'll have imagined that he
could hear it's tiny heart beating with
terror. Its wings we're half-raised and
fiuttering. Its head jerking from side
to side in wild perturbation. Taking
courage, Master Dicky hoped timO
rously to a nearby twig, and then ven
tured a flight to tree top nearer the
window easement. Perched in It's top
most branches he cheeped shrilly, as
If there was fear in his little breast
In silence the two women In the
window watched the agitated move
ments Of the bird. The same thought
was in the mind OF each, the same
question, the same intense wish
A brown thrush sped through the
air, close by the tinid canary. Like
fash 1t dropped to the twigs lower
down. its wings paIpitating in violent
alarm.
"Dicky!" called Sara Wrandall, and
then cheeped between her teeth.
A moment later Dicky was fluttering
about the caves: his circles grew
smaller, his winging less rhythmicai'
till at last with nervous little futter
he perched on the top of the window
shutter. SO near that they might have
reached to him with their hands. He
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SIDE.
"Dickyl" called Sara again. TINS
time she held out her finger. For some
time he regarded It with indifference
not to say disfavor. Then he took one
more fight, but much shorter than the
first, bringing up again at the shutter
top. A second later he hoped down
and his little talons gripped SarSs
finger with an earnestness that 1911
no room for doubt.
She lowered her hand until it was
even with the open door Of the gildea
cage. He shot inside with whr tnA'
suggested a scramble. With his wings
folded, he sat on his little TapeS.
and cheeped. She closed and fastener
the door. and then turned to Hetty-
MY symbol" she said softly.
There were tears in Hetty's eyes
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