Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1922-03-31

Matilda So he went from scrubbine
porches to backing stoves, and finally
was ordered to chop wood.
Bob Rogers was still chopping wood
when Matilda appeared in the yard
behind the kitchen more charming
than ever in her confusion. She ex-
planned that her aunt had Just tele-
phoned and now she knew her mistake.
She had mistaken him for one of the
self help" students at the nearby col
lege who sometimes came to do odd
jobs for her aunt. But her aunt had
explained that she didn't expect the
student until the next day.
Now said Matilda taking the axe
from Bob and looking mournfully at
the blisters on his hands ''Now, you
must come in and have luncheon with
US. I'll have to be very nice to you
now to make up for my mistake
She did not say that her aunt had
told her to be very nice, anyway, that
the young man expected was a young
investor in pet business scheme of
her uncle's and generally well worth
cultivating.
The prospect of luncheon and the
society of this charming young woman
made Bob quite. docile. He had not
been allowed to explain at first, so he
saw no immediate need of doing so
now. There was a half hour of con-
versation before the cheerful fire in
the Fulton drawing room with Matilda,
In which he discovered many excuses
In the way Of mutual interests for
furthering their acquaintance. 1t was
agreed that they should go skating in
the next cold snap and motoring the
next day If the weather was good
Matilda and Bob lunched together
and the ministering Jenny was as
obsequious now as she had been curt
when she imagined herself dealing
with white trash instead Of
quality"
Just after luncheon when Matilda
was called to the telephone Bob be-
came uneasy, and perhaps justly.
Matilda, returning, wore a puzzled
look as she studied the face of the
young man she had already grown to
look upon as a friend
Whoever are you, anyway" she
asked Aunt says that the young
man / am to be nice to has been de-
layed. in town. He will be here for
tea," Matilda ended with a pout and
a little stamp of her foot.
"Why the pout?" laughed Bob. "It
doesn't seem to be hard for you to
be very charming"
"But 1 wanted you to be this i'm
portant young man. I like to be-nice
to you" Matilda hadn't meant to say
just that. She laughed little, blushed
little, and then demanded again:
"Who are you, anyway"
"Oh, I'm Bob Rogers. / came here
because Let me see, it's so long ago.
Oh. l was motoring along and needed
water. / went to the back door and
you gave me pail and told me where
the water was. [ thought you under
stood. Then along came Jenny and
ordered me to come back And you
set me to scrubbing porches. My car
is still standing out on the road. I've
really had a delightful interruption"
Matilda looked for moment in con-
fusion out the window, trying to see
the car. She spied it through the
branches of the bare trees.
"Have you anything very pressing
to do?"
mot a thing. Dads bought a few
hundred acres in the next county.
l started out to look it over We're
the Rogerses of Newton-maybe you've
heard of u.s."
"Well," said Matilda deliberately,
we've become so well acquainted and
you asked me to go motoring with you
some time-and Aunt knows your
family-if you took me with you now
to see that property / wouldn't have
to be home when uncle's client comes"
"Run along and get your things"
said Bob Rogers. 81 don't think Jenny
will mind giving me water now.'
And of course Matilda's aunt for
gave Matilda's absence when the i'm
portant young man came from town,
because, after all, said Aunt Matilda
few months later nothing could be
more appropriate than an alliance be-
tween the Rogerses and the FultOns.