Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-08-07

runabout in which they were making
their excursion and he was the chauf-
feur-and when he had laid his free
hand with light caressing touch on
the waist Of her sealskin coat she
squeezed herself against the opposite
side of the cushions.
With a sensation as II the tempera-
ture was dropping away below the
freezing point, he nerved himself to
the venturing of the opinion that he
was glad that he had an opportunity
to be alone with her. The reply sent
the thermometer down 10 degrees.
Don't you think" she said, that hIIss
Eglington Is extraordinarily beauti-
ful?"
He was stumped for only a moment.
"She's a charming girl" he responded,
"but there is rather too much OF the
brick red in her hair to suit me, and
one of her shoulders is out of the
Michael Angelo slope. Now, l know
girl who is not defective"
But Miss Varbisons features are
surely what you would call classic ac-
cording to the Greek and Roman mod
els?"
Perhaps they are, but 1 have never
been sufficiently interested in her to
make a critical study of her contours.
But there is one girl whose features
seem to me to be"
And Helen varbison is so graceful
and witty. l really think that she
could fill the comic column of a news
paper with her original wittlcisms
Then sle Is such n lovely pianist. She
doesn't doobt that II financial misfor-
tune should come to tine family, she
could earn a good Income on the con-
cert stage"
II have never made an lnvestiga-
ton of her qualifications but l am not
obiecting to your rating of her. She
is almost a stranger TO me, and | don't
know that desire any more intimate
acquaintance with her. My thoughts
have all been Of
You wretch" she said. WHY. on
the very night that you and l and she
first met at the VandeSooks. she con-
dded TO me when we were putting on
our wraps to so home that you were
one of the most pleasing men she had
ever met"
Il remember that night" he said. II
am not aware that said over couple
OF dozen words TO her. My mind was
full Of"
"She isn't q girl who generally goes
wild over man. She is reserved. and
when she does express commentator of
male individual you can be sure that
he is worthy of it."
Then I wish that another girl
would fall into her frame of mind, 1
hope some good man may get her some
day. But what I wished to say
was"
Then you are not one of those who
think that the girl is always setting a
trap for the manT"
Goodness gracious" he blurted out.
- am only anxious that the girl near
est to me would fall into the trap that
I have been trying TO set for her. /
brought you out tonight with the stur.
dieSt kind OF intention of making pro
poSal and YOU have been fencing me
OF for the last hour with a lot OF
rubblShy talk about girls that never
looked at twice Let's get down "a
business and will you please answer me-
a direct question? It's been trembling
on my lips and must know how
stand"
Joe" she warhled, you can put
your arm around me now"
after all she remarked 70 herself
In the seelusiOn OF her bedroom an
hour after midnight. ''the only thing
am sorry about is that it occurred on
& lonely road. win ring Helen up on
the phone the first thing in the morn.
ing and give her the story. Neither she
nor any one Of the other girls had any