Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-05-06
The Confessions Of -
20 - a Club Woman.
CHAPTER xxIII.-tContinued,)
BY AGNES sURBRIDGE.

Everybody Is saying so, sne respond
cd quite as eager to retail gossip about
ma as she had ever been about others.
~Thev say he's jealous of the counts at
,ertions to you, ami that he will only
return to you on condition you'll give up
cInbs and 90 back into penal servitude
in his kitchen"
That's not so,' said hotly. Joe has
always been very generous about hiring
servants"
well, you know his staying away
does give color to the stories-nOw,
doesn't itl"
What do you mean" asked.
..Vhv. all that gossip about you and
the count. you know" she went on merci-
IessIv. "Joe's staying away now, and
your living apart, make all the gossips
believe there was something between you
and the count"
rose. furious / would have ordered
her ont of the house, but my rage fairly
cboked me. The scales suddenly fell
from my eyes.
You'll have to get him back just for
decencv's sake, won't your" she went on.
20 don't look so madi It's no time now
10 ride your high horses. Besides, you'll
need me for your campaign this fall, if
Won propose to be elected It's going to
he un-hill work, but guess we can do it.
Bv the way, it's going to need lot of
press-work in different papers. That
will take a great deal of time, and time
IS money to me-" She stopped signifi-
cantly.
Il shall, of course, pay what expenses
there are in connection with the work."
said. getting calmer. "There should he
circular letters got out, l think. What
else?"
Suppose you pay me lump sum, and
I'll get out the circulars and attend to
all those things" she said. Say we
make it five hundred"
1 gasped. That is a pretty high fig
ure to pay for the presidency | said
at last,
80. you're not the first to pay it." she
answered coolly, "and I'm not in bust
ness for nothing. I've been through this
mill before. I'll tell you what I'll dc.
Make it two hundred and fifty if you
fail and five if you win" and she went
on to show me the cost of issuing a series
of letters on what she called the follow
up SYSTEM" to be sent to every member
Of the club. 1t was alluring, as she rep
resented it, but had a grain of sense
LETT and so postponed decision, fearing
to get her ill-will. When she had gone
l rang up Mrs. Parsons and told her of
the incident.
That awful newspaper woman!' she
answered. Have nothing whatever to
do with her. Think what a row we
should have in the club, and what sen
sational articles in the newspapers, if
YOU were to employ her and it leaked
out. No. The advance press agent may
81 be a necessity for the theatrical star, but
the club-president does not yet stand in
81 need of her. But let Miss Morrison
down gently, for if you incur her enmity
woe be unto you! Whom the modern
gods destroy they first make intimate
with ill-natured newspaper folk. And
we've had enough of that in connection
with that dreadful shoe man."
About a week later / wrote Minnie
Morrison that, on thinking over her
proposition, l did not feel that her
method would be our best way just yet
but that l would let her know, later, if
needed her services; and so we remained
frlends-at least, in outward seeming.
| saw little of Philip Haven during
these weeks, and then only in company
OF Mrs cambridge, with whom he was
desperately in love. But the morning
after Thanksgiving day [ received-in
common, | suppose, with the rest of his
Pensioners "a simple, engraved an
Eouneement of his marriage to Mrs.
cambridge. "At home after December
i, at the rectory''
called the first possible moment and
found them, three little Bainbridges and
all snugly settled Philip seemed in
S9nely happy. Poor fellow! he had been
alone IN the world for years and could
appreciate home better for that.
Yes, we are desperately happy,
Jackie" he said in answer to my con
eratulations. Il have found the one
woman who was divinely ordered to be
mine; am sure. Lily supplements and
rounds out my nature. and l am just the
sort OF man she needs"
" may nothing come between you to
preak up your happiness, Phil" l an
sWered. My tone betrayed me, for he
turned suddenly.
Jackie, you are miserable. What is
have been so absorbed in my own
"Halrs l haven't seen or known. Where
Is JOEY"
Here in Chicago" I answered. But
not at home any more"
So bad as that?''
80 bad as that The anonymous let
Ter and then an inopportune call from
me eount-it was too much for him."
us all wrong" he said decidedly. 81
VIII 60 to him tomorrow and tell him
lie Is in the wrong
That won't 60 with joe said; "but
On car tell him, for you know. that
mere was nothing wrong between the
Phil" ~ '0"'
III 60 in the morning, he replied.
80 where 2" cooed his wife. coming
"1T and leaning afectionately on his
arm. Any where l can't go?'
10 see Joe Henning' he answered. Il
can s'raIghten this matter out. if any
-t can Was / mistaken. or did
S''tIe Of annoyance fash across her face?