Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-10-31
Shopping
Convenience

By VICTOR REDcLIFFE


Copyright. lslo By the western News.
paper onion-)
Adrian Blair paced the dusty coun-
try road just beyond the limits of Elm
wood in the somber and dissatisfied
mood. Re had been discarded by
woman who had attracted him, but
that had by no means broken his
heart.
Miss Blanche Worden had been to
him model o. worthy girlhood-until
he had found her out. The shock had
come devastatingly. He had really
liked the peerless beauty. One day
he had covertly coaxed her pet and
faTorite, d;minutive black and white
Fiji. novelty among CANNES. to fol-
low him from the Worden homie pre-
paratory tc embellishing the animal
with pretty collar.
ut will give me an excuse to hurry
back and pass another delightful
hour with Blanche" he felicltated
himself. Then missing his tiny COM
panion he began search that ended
in complete disappointment. That
was an hour of scurrying and vexa-
tion FOR Adrian He offered every boy
he met liberal reward for the re-
covery of Fiji. Then. crestfallen.
somehow fearful, he went to the Wor-
den home
II was his last visit, the very last.
Adrian had seen pettish girls in
tantrum, but it was nothing to
Blanche, She went into Mysteries
over the loss of her pet. She up
braided Adrian and scolded him.
stamped her pretty foot, her face
grew set and vicious looking. She
finally fell back upon resentment. In
fact she dropped the mask of urban
fly completely, and when Adrian
called the following morning she was
not at home, and before the week was
out ne knew that she had dismissed
him as a sutton and that Wallace
Trego was now her favored chevalier.
Eff was lost to Blanche and she
lost to Adrian. When he came 70
think matters over sensibly, however,
he was convinced that he had scored
q lucky escape from siren with
bad temper and of fitting loyalty. He
did not exactly fancy being pointed
to as a discard speedily superseded.
He held but one further cOmmunica-
ton with Miss Worden. 1t was to
indite a formal note stating that
neither time, money nor diligence
should be spared to recover the lost
Fiji. Later he went for a week Of
rest and reorganization of his dis
turbed faculties to the little town of
Elmwood. The road he now trav-
| ersed was a part of his regular daily
| hike. He strobe along, swinging his
walking stick, when scudding figure
flashed past him. 1t was that of
tiny animal wearing a blanket made
of some light material. This did not
so completely cover the creature that
Adrian could not make out color and
form.
"Fifi!" he shouted, and started
after the flying animal. but when he
had gone hardly fifty feet, through the
open gateway of a farmhouse great
mastiff came plunging with savage
growI. seized the little animal, tore its
blanket TO tatters, threw Fiji in the
air, and was about to seize ii again
In its vicious jaws when Adrian
reached the spot and gave the aggres-
sor a rap that sent 1t bowling out OF
view.
you poor little exile" spoke
Adrian sympathizingly as he took mp
the trembling, whimpering refugee
and then the cloth fragments scat
tered upon the ground. He noticed
spool of thread and some pieces of
lace. AS he placed these in his
pocket a boy passed him.
"Say, mister" he observed that's
Amy Pearce's dog. She lives just
where the road bends"
Fiji Struggled confidingly in the arms
of his rescuer and there was reward
for Adrian's kindness, for when he
had located this Amy Pearce he
found himself in the presence of a
lovely creature of eighteen who
listened to his story with tremulous
agitation.
Eff was picked up shivering and
crying in ditch by uncle on his last
trip to the city, she explained. He
is a dear, true friend, for I've trained
him so that whenever see anything
at the town store my cousin owns,
Just put a note In the pocket OF the
blanket and what order comes back
the same way"
The bright. lovable little maiden
sat down and cried as if her heart
would break when Adrian explained
where Fiji had come from. He tried
TO comfort her by hoping that the real
owner of Fiji might be influenced TO
allow the animal to remain in its
new home. and when he We 10 the
city the next day a memory Of the
innocent wild rose face of Amy Pearce
urged him to plead her cause at any
cost. Adrian sent an enissary to in