Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-05-13
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Berry did not say anything. She
felt the interest in Cannon that she
did in all conquering, successful peo-
pie, and in her heart it gave her
sense of added importance TO think
that the family she had married into
and who refused to know her was on
| friendly terms with the Bonanza King
A half-hour later they had found
seats in front of the band stand in the
park, and, settling themselves with a
| great rustling and preening of plum
age, prepared TO enjoy the music Han
nah and Pearl were given two chairs
at the end of row, and Hazel and
Berry, with Josh as escort. secured
| four on the line Immediately behind
Dominick had not yet appeared, so the
sisters spread their skirts over a va
cant seat between them. and Berry. in
the intervals of inspecting the people
around her, sent exploring glances
about for the tall figure of her hus-
band.
She was very fond of the park and
band stand on such Sunday afternoons.
To go there had been one of the great
diversions of her girlhood She loved
to look at this holiday gathering of all
types, among which har own class was
! largely represented The outdoor am
phitheater of filed benches was to her
what the ballroom and the glittering
horseshoe at the opera are to the wom-
an OF society She saw many old
friends among the throng, girls who
mad been com emporaries of hers when
she had first gone to work" and had
long since married In their own world
and now dragged children by the hand
She looked them over with an almost
passionate curiosity, discomfitted to
see the fresh youth of some, and
pleased to note that others looked
weighed down with maternal cares
berny regarded women who had chill
dren as fobls, and the children grouped
ABOUT these mothers of her own age
three and four sometimes, with the
husband carrying a baby--were to her
only annoying, blIFdensome creatures
that made the party seem little ri
dlculous, and had not half the i'm
presslveness or style Of her elegant
costume and lilac frills.
Inc magnificent afternoon had
brought out throng of people. Every
seat N the lines of benches was full
and foot passengers kept constantly
coming up, standing for a few meas.
ures, and then moving on. They were
OIL all kinds. The beauty of the day
had even tempted the more fashion
able element out, and the two sisters
saw many elegantly-dressed ladies Of
the sort on whom Hazel fitted hats all
DAY, and that evoked in Berry a deep
and respectable curiosity. Both WON
en-. sitting high in their chairs, craned
their necks this way and that. Spying
through breaks in the crowd. and fol-
lowing attractive figures with lodging
movements Of their heads. When
either one saw anything she liked or
thought interesting she laid a hand on
the others knee, giving it a slight dig,
ana designated the object of her at
tennon in a few broken words. de-
tached and disconnected like notes
for sentence.
They were thus engaged when Ha-
Eel saw Dominiek and. rising. hailed
him with reckoning hand. He made
his way toward them. moving DELHI
erateiy, once or twice pausing to greet
acquaintances. He was taller thar
any an in the surrounding throng
and Serny, watching him, felt a sense
OF proprietary pride swelling in her
when she noted his superiority. The
son OF an Irish laborer and a girl who
had begun life as the general servant
In miners clearinghouse, he locked
as If his forebears might have been
the Hover of the nation. He wore
loose-htting suit of gray tweed, a wide
gray felt sombrero, and round his
waist belt of yellow leather. His col.
lar turning back from hi neck exposed
the brown strength of his throat. and
on lifting his hat in a passing saluta-
ton, his head with its cropped curly
hair the ears growing close against
it, showed golden brown in the sun
light
With phrase Of greeting he Joined
them, and then as they swept their
skirts off the chair they had been hid
ing, slipped in front of Berry and sat
down. Hazel began to talk to him.
Her conversation was of a ralIyjng
joking sort, at which she was quite
proficient. Berry heard him laugh and
knew by the tone of his voice that he
was pretending and was not really
amused Che had
to say to him. feeling that she accom-
plished enough in inducing him to Join
them, and, sitting forward on the edge
Of her chair, continued to watch the
people. A blonde couture some rows
in front caught her eye and she was
studying its intricacies through the in
terstices that came and went between
the moving heads. when the sudden
emergence into view of an unusually
striking female figure diverted her at
tention. The woman had come I'D
from behind and. temporarily stopped
by the crowd, had come to a standstill
a few rows in front of where the sis
ters sat. She was accompanied by
a young man dressed in the Sunday
l..
he turned to survey the lines of filed
chairs, Berry saw that he had a pale
skin, small black mustache, and dark
eyes
But her interest in him was of the
slightest. Her attention was immedi-
ately riyeted upon the woman, who be
came the object of a glance which in
spected her with a piercing eagerness
from her hat to the hem Of her skirt.
Berry could not see her face, but her
habiliments were of the latest mode
and of an unusual and subdued ele-
ganee which bespoke an origin in a
more sophisticated center than San
Francisco. Berry, all agog with curl
osity. stared at the Iady's back, not
ing not only her clothes but a certain
carelessness in the way they were put
on. Her hat was not quite straight.
The comb. which crossed the back of
her head and kept her hair smooth,
was crooked, and blonde wisps hung