Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1919-08-14
CHAPTER lI--contlnued.


snake me some pretty speeches,
Senior Billy" she laughed softly. "They
float up to me here through the moon
light like the perfume from red roses ~
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 fllrtp he cried, seeking
to make his voice savage and angry,
and succeeding admirably in filling it
with alteration.
"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, 81 am going right in and tell
the old gentleman that / am going to
marry you!"
She laughed gayly at his impetuous
declaration.
ut would be like play" she spid
after little as though she were think
ing seriously OF what he had said he
would do. 1T would interest me to
see. Papa grande would be very POI
lite and would ask Senior Billy to have
a glass Of wine and a cigarita.
'And then"-the laughter yelling up
again in the eyes he could not see
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 gunsp
"And you find that funny?" demand
ed Stairway.
as 1t not7 1t is like the opera !"
"You are dying for an operati
scenep 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 mott" 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 10 In
side and shut my window and run
downstairs to papa grande. And
Shp
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.
"Qulen esp she called carelessly.
"Yo, Pedro" came Pedro's answer
ing voice. "Senor Dempton has gone.
The master says that ia half an hour
he win be glad to see the Senorita
Teresa"
"Bueno," she answered lightly. 81
hear, Pedro" And then when she also
heard Pedros light tread on the stair
way descending, she turned again
toward the man below her Il must
co. she said softly. Papa grande
wishes me"
mot for half an hour" he said
quickly, "a heard that"
Put" as though she were heSltat.
ing 81 should 80 now. 1t is very uu-
madenly of me to be here with you
If | had known that you were coming
/ should certainly not have come ont
TO look az my stars"
you are "a Ilttle'humbur. Tereslta,"
he laughed at her You did know that
would be here, and you were glad Of
It, and you came out Just To see me, "
ITO see you" And he could imag-
inc the arching Of the brows above her
great eyes.
"And e tease me. But look here"
Il am looking senior Mama mia,
but you are handsome in the moon.
light. More so than by day I"
u did not come here tonight 20
make you pretty speeches" said STAN
way stubbornly after his way Il came
10 tell you
"Yes2' cxpectantly. She clasped
her hands and leaned little farther
out over him, allowing him a glimpse
Of her laughing face. OF white arms
and throat from which the mantlla
was slipping
"That love You"
ooh /" She seemed TO lose interest,
but again her face was hidden.
"And that ] actually aud positively