Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-09-06

A New Cinderella
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0ACK BEREnSON caught sight of
nj her as he was going to the office
" after lunch He frequently caught
sight of her, but this was the extent
of their acquaintance He had groan-
ed more than once to think convention
atty forbade a more extended one.
She was not the kind of a girl with
whom one might scrape up bowling
recognition. to be later elaborated into
an interchange of commonplaces that
might eliminate in permission to call.
Indeed. if she had been. it is safe to
conclude Berensen would not have
troubled his head about her, for he
had a social position to maintain,
good deal of personal pride and more
than the average sense of exclusive
ness.
HALO he said. suddenly. and stop
ped short.
The girl ahead had paused. She was
evidently in some predicament, for she
stopped as though to extricate herself
or to pick up an article dropped. Al
most at the same instant however, a
tremendous v. piled with boxes,
bore down upon her, and at the shout
of the driver. who was striving to
rein in his huge PercherOns, she
sprang toward safety and reached the
sidewalk.
Berenson let the dray pass. Looking
down directly on the spot whore the
girl had hesitated, he saw that which
had arrested her. and bending quickly,
he pulled out of the thick black, sticky
mud an absuy6is, small rubber, with
its wrinkles hol6,ng Ire arch of a high
little instep.
"Wellr' he calculated, heres luck"
He felt ridiculously elated. SO
nleased did he look, in fact, that a
friend jostling him as he reached the
opposite sidewalk remarked his salts
faction.
"Wheat gone up, Berens0n?"
"No-rubberw laughed Berenson.
And his friend walked off. wondering
what there was in fishing footwear out
NJ the mire to make fellow look so
idiodcally pleased.
TT was mighty muddy, too he
commented disgustedly.
This accusation could not be made
against it an hour later. cleansed and
nolished to the highest possible degree
nv the man who kept the shoestand in
the office building where Berenson had
a suite. He took his prize upstairs,
and deposited it, wrapped in tissue pa
ner. on the top of his desk.
Then he sauntered TO the window
TO look over at the skyscraper across
the way. where at a certain window.
in a certain tier. he had often seen a
certain head. 1t was a shapely head,
ringleted as close as baby's with
sunny brown curls. Indeed, so fire.
duently of late had he gone TO his own
easement to discover if that particu-
lar bonnie head and rose4leaf face
were within range of his vision that
his business began to suffer from such
cratic absences.
Not that Jack BerenSon was bother
ing himself about business. During
those minutes he stood. absorbed in
day dreams. staring apparently at the
uninteresting wall of an unintereSting
building. he was thinking for the most
part how strange it was that he, who
had come gaily up the road OF life,
heart whole and fancy free. until he
had reached his thirtieth milestone.
should all at once Sc beset by the
most chimericai hopes. the most flu
tile desires. the most glorious of cha
otto imaginings.
Ii was lunacy, he told himself
stark, staring lunacy-that he should
go on his way with bounding heart
and a feeling OF the most Senseless
exhilaration, Just because be had pass
ell a girlish figure on the sidewalk,
met the Indifferent glance of violet.
black-lashed eyes. looking forth from
beneath a white brow, or caught the
faint. elusive perfume Of her demure
garments. And the worst OF il was
shat he could not bring himself TO De
indignant with himself for being such
a fool!
You like to be foolr' he told him.
self angrily. You're hugging your fol-
IL. And much good it win do you,
You've not got enough sense. Jack Be
renson, to last crazy man till break
Sast timer'
With which final shot he was apt 10
preak away from his vigil. return
sternIy 20 has desk and plunge into