Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1916-08-25

NCAf N04NGulE4lL.
This place is too grand for me-" Lo-
relief objected
"Oh. offer your own price for Ger
ties fiat if you like it. They're crazy
for tenants. It's cheaper than hotels
If you want to save money"
Lorelei was surprised to find her
friends quarters not only richly but
lavishly furnished. The decorations
were harmonious and bespoke a reck-
less disregard of cost. A fluffy Jap
anese spaniel with protruding eyes and
distorted yisage capere1 deliriously at
its mistress feet.
But the objects that intrigued the
visitor most strongly were several
paintings. They were of a kind she
had seldom seen, and in the afternoon
light one stood out with particularly
startling effect. 1t was a dusky land
scape; there was a stream. a meadow
edge, trees just growing black against
a dying sunset, a herd of cattle COM
ing out of the west. Before this pic
ture Lorelei paused. staring with wide
eyes of wonder.
Lilas flung her hat carelessly into
chair. lit cigarette from a Tiffany
humidor. then turned with the spaniel
in her arms and, beholding her guest
with rapt. upturned face, remarked.
with a laugh:
Looks like the real thing. doesn't it ?"
"Oh-it's wonderful-so clean and
cool and quiet! I've seen cattle in Vale
that looked just like those. when
went barefoot in the grass"
"Some Dutchman painted this
names on the corner. He's dead now,
1 believe. 1t used to hang in some
museum-I forget where. 1 like pic
lures of women best. but" She
shrugged and left the sentence unfn-
ished. There's a dandy in my bed
room, although it didn't cost half as
much as that barnyard thing. The
frames a foot wide and covered with
solid gold"
Il had no idea you lived like this"
Lorelei peered through a pair of
French doors and into a perfectly APP
pointed library, with massive mahog-
any table, deep lounging chairs. writ
ing desk. and a dome-crowned read
ing lamp.
'My study" Lilas laughed. shortly.
That's where 1 improve my mind
not. The books are deadly. Now come;
Hitchy sKoo must have dinner ready.
His n9me isn't Hitchy Koo. but it
sounds like it, and he's the eutest
little thing; got the cutest little
swing" She moved down the hall,
humming the chorus of the sens eless
popular song from which she had
quoted.
Everywhere was the same evidence
of good taste in decoration and luxury
of equipment, but a suspicion had en-
tered Lorelei's mind, and she avoided
comment. Hitchy Koo was cook, but
Ter and house-boy, and in view of Miss
Lynn's disorderly habits it was evil
dent that he had all he could do TO
keep the place presentable. His mis-
tress ate without appetite and in a
hypercritical mood that took no &C
count of the wasteful attempts to
please her. Quite regardless OF the pa
tient little Jap. she found fault with
him savagely, so that Lorelei was
often painfully embarrassed.
$50 you like my home, do you" she
queried. after a time.
'I've never seen one so beautiful"
LiIas nodded. "Hitchy sleeps out,
and that leaves me the whole place.
Jarvis furnished it, even to the books.
and I'm studying to be lady" Again
she laughed mockingly. 81 make a
bluff at reading, but so long as l talk
about Napoleon he never thinks TO
question me. l know that French gink
backward"
81 wish 1 had a hobby-something 70
interest me, something TO tiFe Tor, z
said Lorelei, lamely. Af*
"Yes. 1t gives you SON Gang 70
think about when you're asans II
helps you to-stand things. For the
first time Lilas showed traee n FER
ing in her voice; she dropped her chin
into her palm and, leaning uppp the
table, stared as if at q vQn Ter
dark eyes were somber, her br0Ws
were lowered and drawn together.
The slipshod informality Or the meal.
the constant faultfnding Of me host
ess, made it something of trial. Lore
lei was not sorry when IL vas over
and Lilas took her TO looA atthe Va
cant fat. z. z
Miss Moore's apartment offered Z
wide contrast to the one thev bad 1zlST
quilted, being very small and ~
modestly furnished; but itNFzs o. tllAA
second floor. convenient to pufh elETas
tor and stairway, it boasts psaazaos
and the superintendent aA0Eaa S
prospective tenant to nama hen esFn
terms. She descended with rellef fee'.
ing that she had made pota bal bar-