Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1920-04-30


OF sheer inability TO endure this in
genuous estimate of Carols heartache.
Perhaps youll tell me-because it's
time for me to be going over"
Angela had risen. too. and stood be-
side him. Her features were COM
posed, bat still suggestive of inward
emotions little too tender 10 convey.
IF there's anybody in the world"
she said, who could give Carol any
consolation just now. it's you. don't
suppose you ever were a minister. bur
you look as though everybody could
come to you and tell most everything,
and you'd help anyway. you'd
try TO, So | wish you'd !. you'd
81. and listen Carols got TO
talk 10 somebody and when you're
hurt the way she is. you can't talk 10
your family and you We're
friend of Dicks. And She
swallowed, and went on more slowly.
You can use your own Judgment Of
course. but If were in yopr place
I'd lie"
Lie" ne repeated, aghast
ayes. would! He b. he
must have sent her some word. Mr.
Hniardi He must havew SHE was
desperately serious now, and thor
oughly aroused. ut means the Whole
world to her! It's everything! Why.
even I've got more than she has. and
she was waiting for him to come back
to bert I'd lie myself black in the
face, but I'd tell her something-tell
her anything l could think Of to make
her believe he hadn't stopped caring
It can't do any harm now. 1t can't
hurt you. And / won't even ask you
whether you do or not. Only you're
here. and she'll trust you"
"Will she?"
"How could she help III And
and that's all. Please don't let Ter
think he didn't care"
billiard stood irresolute; chaos IN
his brain. "Tll see," lie sale
with deiculty. "I'n see"
Won't you promise me? woa't
ask you sfterward. II yo4-"
Does 1t mean so mucn TO your"
Ever and ever So muca j.
Won't you please promiseT'
He gazed at her moment, yielded
with show of reluctance.
Very WE'LL promise. Because
you've asked 1t. And because US he
dearest, most generous, most thought
full thing | ever heard Of In all my
life. And after that, can't we
be truly frlends?"
Flushed. perplexed. honored, she
gave him her hand with hesltarcy
| which betrayed the deep sense of com
plment she felt
II don't think could be prouder OF
anything that could possibly happen
to me-" she said.
Was 1t worth the blatant mummery
he had conceived and executed? Was
II not worth that. and Infinitely more?
She was proud of his friendship
and she shared that distinc-
ton with no one else In the entire
universe.
Proud of It! billiard was fulsome-
lv abashed. Abashed--yes. ami sinul.
taneously glorified. He had come to
make the city proud, ignoraEtiy proud,
OF the man whose deeds had merited
no renown. Here, at the very incep-
ton of his plans a seventeen-year-old
girl was proud of him as ne was.
Courage. Inspiration. Resolve.
He had won her respect by the prom
Use Of lie: and in this instant he
vowed to deserve. by other and In
creasing lies II need he the prestige
he was unalterably committed TO gain.
whereby the past should be as NTH
ing. and the future should he a mag
nificent citadel of reconquered dreams.
She was proud OF him, and she had
approved the lie IN behalf of Dlcky
Morgan's memory. Unwittngly, she
had sanctioned the very purpose Of
his coming. and the method Of his APP
proach. She had confirmed his own
intentions, and given him the will 10
advance. He was to act as the staneh
defender of her playmate perished.
and 10 make of himself new and
better man. worthy of the eulogies
nsttIlis DIS ~ AE1AfNs lAE lON AA@fDhfA ADt
the unworthy Morgan. He cOnsecrated
himself TO this end. Told himself
fiercely that he would succeed And
she was proud Of himl 1t was an.
Other omen.
It was eleven o'clock to the minute
when billiard, not quite 50 bIithe as
wedding guest, and yet not alto
gether as dolefuI as a mourner waved
his hand to q slender glri who stood
on the veranda Of a house diagorally
across the street, and went slowly up
the Durants' brick walk He had an
ticipated the effect of this pilgrimage
upon his nerves, he had discounted
II; and Angela's advice had gwen him
an artificial stimulus for the moment;
nevertheless, as the fronc door opened
to him. and he saw. over the head Of
"A cunfrlyfpo maid gnr-vauf "a hallway