Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1920-08-06
A Special
Providence
By MARTHA Nj. WILLIAMS

SSssup hOdheus uEOppluS his neau III
his hands.
$50 you could spend &c putting
frills on folly already quite srfficient. I"
his sister Prue answered stOrmily, but
with gIimmer of fun breaking
through the storm. "I've wondered
all along why you didn't ask her to
adopt you as an older son instead of
to marry you. Ever so much more
suitable
.Shnt up. will you'll" Jessup cried
tensely. He was hard put to it TO
keep from swearing. Prue, his twin.
his pal from cradle days. was in most
things wholly privile' 3D. But not in
all She must not blaspheme his
grand passion for a goddess of whom
no man could be quite worthy any
more than he could be quite insensible
to her charm
The years between? What did
they matter? Love laughed at Time
even more than at locksmiths. Her
soul was vernal as the first flowers of
spring in spite of a loutish lad some
thing taller than Jessup himself and
three daughters all i'm the stage of gig
gle and squeal. Kipling's Venus An
nodomim over again. be thought pas
sionately-only she had not FILTERED
away her widowed years in endless
fiirtations.
Instead she had been a model mots,-
er, close student of deep things. and
as such the inspiration Of sundry up
lift movements upon the part Of three
rectors who had come into the Gurley
millions-glven In fee, because. said
the testator, he knew they would be
put 10 good use.
Since she had never known pinch
ing poverty the money had not gone
TO her head, Rather TO her feet-she
admitted openly that she loved dane
ing even better than good works. and
now that she was rich enough TO in
dulge her whims. took her fiji Of 1t
when ard how she chose.
Thus Jessup had come in-she had
found him "a divine paftner" and had
not hesitated to dance with him the
newest rscasures-a privilege refused
to all others. "The dearest fellow
SO handsome, so gallant. with-well,
! don't know how to call it better than
such way" she cooed to disapprov-
ing dowagers. To the giris she
eclipsed she said blandly he was q
Knight of the Round Table. born out
of time and to be priced and used nc
cordingly.
That had made Prue foam at the
mouth = metaphorfealiy, OF course.
She was too well bred to say, even to
look, what she felt. The joint birth
day to the contrary notwithstanding,
she was years beyond her brother In
worId-wisdom; further. she had tie
intuitive feminine comprehension os
another woman
Mrs. Vane was giving rein now 70
youthful exuberanees, suppressed by
nm early marriage. crowding children.
and the careful economies made neces-
sary by their needs. To speak cole
loquially. she was having her filng-
having it good and plenty. Prue had
been unwise enough to voice her un-
Outstanding of the fact TO. Jessup, say
ing loftily: "She has had always TO
stay outside the toy shop windows,
so II is not strange that now when she
is up front inside. she is rather
greedy"
"No! Generous - In everything
Jessup had Interrupted Prue had
nodded: That's sol Then wonder
IS she collecting articles of higoiry
and virtue. such as young men. TO
parcel out later among her girls?"
Then Jessup had actually sworn
out loud and flung away TO stay over
the weekend Mrs. yane had asked
him TO spend II AZ Brook Burn He
vent thither in Cupid's rosiest airship
with all the doves of Venus circllng
above. He came away leadenly, ac-
cnmpanied by glooms In such legions
that had they been ponderahle ne
would have heen heavily mulcteG for
excess baggage.
They weighed only upon his spirit,
but were plalnlv visible to sister,y
eyes. Mercifuliy she had waited for
the period of the after-dinner cigar
10 let him know she knew-and that
ny look NOT words.
Something in II melted his hard
resolve of silence Brokenly. now
end then gulping, he had told her of
his discontinue His goddess was
still a goddess. but there doomed be-
tween the AWFUL shadow of another.
man almost elderly. fat. plump, even
nudgy, who ehuckled the gigglers each
under their chins. aud spoke to IeSsup
unctuously as "son." The wedding
was set for next month.
Mrs, vane smiling and blGshing
beautifully, had asked Jessup to be
chief usher. adding that he was the
very first among her friends 70 hear
the rews. DO it7 OF course-tf II
killed him. That Is to say. IL he man
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