Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-10
Love Reigns Supreme


Lady Nab ran lightly down the steps
and got into the smart electric cab
waiting for her. The man evidently
had his orders, for he started away
Immediately.
AS the cab started, Lady Nab leaned
forward suddenly and murmured:
"Good-by, my baby; shall ever see
you again?"
Then she leaned back and thought of
the man to whom she was going, away
from her home and little boy and her
husband, who had made her so unhap-
by. 1t never seemed to strike her that
perhaps she had made him unhappy,
too, and that she was doing very
wicked thing in leaving her home. Her
one thought was to get away some
where where she would be happy and
where some one would think of her as
well as themselves-and Roy would do
all these things.
She shut her eyes and lightly clasped
her hands in her lap and Struggled into
the soft cushions of the cab.
Suddenly she started-what was
that ?-surely, q baby's hand had touch
ed her ownl Yet there was no one in
the cab with her, only there seemed to
be a peculiar haze in front of her.
She leaned back again and closed her
eyes and gave herself up TO pleasing
thoughts.
There It was again A timld, gentle
touch. The touch that Is unmistaka-
BILE when once you have felt baby 5
hand hold your own!
"Oh! cried Lady Nab. What Is
ttP Is any one sitting in front of me p
And little baby voice replied:
Eyes, Lady Nab, l am sitting In
front of you"
"Heavensr she cried; for, sure
enough, sitting on the sea facing her
was a little boy. Such curly headed
little baby with bright blue eyes and
a divine mouth. Yet the strange thing
was. he had nothing but bit of silk
draped round him and a CULVER OF ar
rows slung over one shoulder
You must be cold, DEAR" she said,
and took him on TO her lap and wrap
ned her cloak round him.
.Do you like babies?' he asked.
Eyes, l love them very dearly she
said.
do you? Then why ere you leav-
ing yours alone so late at night?"
Lady Nab was too surprised to an
swer.
The baby went on:
you know, he isn't bit happy WITH
his nurse. What is he like; your littls
boy, mean?"
"He is such dear little thing. ant
/ am so fond of him."
She took everything for granted, ant
never wondered how this strange chilt
should know all about her and the boy
She seemed to have forgotten, too, tha'
she would never see her baby again.
Don't you hate TO leave him at home
at nights when you are out enjoying
yourself2'
Il have never seriously thought
about that" she said.
Babies get 50 lonely, you know
they want such great deal Of love
Especially mothers love- There's real
ly nothing Ike it In all the world"
Lady Nab only held him closer. ant
slowly, slowly, the tears ran down hel
face.
Are You sure babies can't do withou
a mothers lover
well. they can do without II, bu
they don't make such good men an,
women. and they never know how {,
love properly themselves when thel
mothers haven't loved them"
Then she understood what a terrlbs
thing she had almost done. She hs,
nearly left her little baby alone Wit
its nurse and with its father fvhor
Lady Nab thought hated he baby an,
herseif). Its father. who VIA 8 s. n
unrelenting man. as she believed. sc
who, when he found she had gonC
would surely have turned on tha
dear. helpless little thing in his rag
and hated 1t more than ever.
"Ol my baby, my baby" she mul
INJURED
And this time Cupid, for, OF cours,
q was he. pv. his arms round be