Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-07-04
CHAPTER II-continued.

snake me some pretty speeches.,
Senior Billy" she laughed softly. ''They
float up to me here through the noon
light like the perfume from red roses p
She had drawn her mantilla closely
about her for no other reason in the
world but to tantalize the man below
her by hiding herself from him, and
there was only her voice and the vague
outline OF her young body through the
vines to tell him that she was there.
But to her his face, uplifted In the
moonlight, flushed and eager, was I'M
hidden.
"You are a flirtr' he cried, seeking
to make his voice savage and angry,
and succeeding admirably in filling it
with ad9ration.
"But no" she answered him from
the dusk about her. ''That is to be
cruel And IL am so soft-hearted
that to make one suffer would distress
me"
"If you roll your RS at me like that
again." Stairway told her very posi-
lively, II am going right in and tell
the old gentleman that am going to
marry you'll"
She laughed gayly at his impetuous
declaration.
ut would be like a play" she said
after a little as though she were think
ing seriously Of what he had said he
would do. SIT would interest me to
see. Papa grande would be very POI
lite and would ask Senior Billy to have
q glass of wine and a cigarita.
"And then"-the laughter yelling up
again in the eyes he could not sec,
trilling in the voice which dropped
down to him-''he would call Pedro
and old Juan to take you outside and
shoot you with their guns"
"And you find that funny?" demand
ed Stairway.
as it not? 1t is like the opera !"
"You are dying for an operati,
scene" His voice still rang with the
eagerness within him, his hand was
upon the vines which clambered about
her balcony. ''Let me climb up to
YOU"
"You must not !" she cried quickly.
And then, seeing that he hesitated,
she added lightly, again settling her
self comfortably upon her cushioned
seat. "That would be only musical
comedy. And should have to go in
side and shut my window and run
downstairs to papa grande. And
Sh"
He could make out the gesture as
she laid her fingers across her red lips,
could see that she turned toward the
open window behind her.
"Quien esq" she called carelessly.
"Yo, Pedro" came Pedro's answer
Ing voice. "Senor Dempton has gone.
The master says that in half an hour
ne will be glad to see the Senor.ta
Teresa"
"Bueno," she answered lightly. II
hear, Pedro" And then when she also
heard Pedro's light tread on the stair
way, descending, she turned again
toward the man below her. 81 must
60" she said softly. Papa grande
wishes me-"
Not for half an hour he said
quickly. 81 heard that"
But" as though she were hesitat-
ing Il should go now. 1t is very IN
maldenly of me to be here with you.
II had known that you were coming
should certainly not have come out
To look at my stars"
You are little humbug, Teresita,"
ne laughed at her. "You did know that
would be here, and you were glad of
It. and you came out just to see me-"
To see youg' And he could mag
Inc the arching of the brows above her
great eyes.
and to tease me. But look here"
1 am looking, senior. Mama mia,
out you are handsome in the moon
Hght. More so than by day!"
1 did not come here tonight to
MAKE you pretty speeches" said Stan
way stubbornly after his way. Il came
to tell you
resp expectantly. She clasped
uer hands and leaned a little farther
Out over him. allowing him a glimpse
o1 her laughing face, of white arms
Ana throat from which the mantilla
was slipping.
That love you"
ohF She seemed to lose interest
again her face was hidden.
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