Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-02-09
CHAPTER LII.

working girl.
Suddenly there was wheeling and
a rustling at the door and scraping
as If some one were bending to listen
at the keyhole, silence and then a
knock. 1t was Mrs. Boales,
There's young lady to see you.
Miss-Miss"-
Justin" snapped Marie. who had
given that name by a brilliant flash
of intellect.
Eyes, Mary" wheezed Mrs. Boales.
THAT wasn't the name the young
lady gave. First she said Moore. and
then she said Warner. and then she
said that Justin was right, she guess
ed, but she said June every time,
and she brought this slipper. Is it
yours?"
"Who is the young lady?" asked
June.
Miss Thomas, Miss-ma' am" Mrs.
Boales' constantly rowing eye came to
rest on the solitaire and the plain gold
band on June's finger. ''She said she
came to see you about position
June cast down her eyes in troubled
thought. Blye-he mad said he would
send some one for her in the morning.
Was there no evading the mans kind
ness? How had he Absurd. or
course be had got her address from
the driver of the car. She went down
the stairs in worried concern. but In
the doorway of the parlor she stopped
in establishment as she saw her caller.
For moment the two beautiful young
women stood studying each other in
admiration; then the brunette swept
forward with a gracious smile.
Later June called up the stairs. iii
be back some time this afternoon, Ma
rie." Then June went out with Tom
my Thomas!
Honoria Blye, sitting at her parlor
window and exchanging the thoughts
of the morning with her green feath-
cred familiar spirit. saw loafing across
from her house a long. lean. lanky
man with sparse black beard. Pres
emily the doorbell rang. and one of the
wide. low detectives came in with an
air of great exhaustion.
Nothing doing. ma'am." he reported.
"Blinky Peters and | watched your
husbands club all the time. Sneaky
Tavis has Swallowed Warmers apart
ments, and I'm to go let him get some
B sleep"
"Are you sure my husband and that
girl haven't left the city, she asked
''They didn't go from any regular
railroad station" stated Bill Wolf. with
conviction.
Ned Warner at about the same time
received report OF Similar discour-
agement from the long. lean, lanky de
tective. There had been found 10
trace of June Warner nor of Blye.
without thought OF detectives, but
keeping watchfui eye lest she should
see Ned or her parents. June went
boldly forth. She was thoughtful as
Tommy Thomas ushered her into q
waiting hanson. for this friend OF Gil
bert Blye's was extensively gowned
and seemed to live in unusual freedom.
In one of the big department stores
June was taken up to the manageress
of the French salon: then Tommy
went away. and presently June. whose
face and figure. carriage and manner
had been grimly inspected and approx
ed. was being instructed in the art OF
parading in gown and of displaying
the proper degree of elegant insolenct
to impress customers
A sleepy looking co!ored maid came
in. and some girls brought in gowns
shrouded in white bags.
THE canary. Maud" ordered the
manageress. poking her head between
the curtains. and the sleepy colored
maid slowly took down the bag con
tanning the canary evening frock
What is your first name. child?
June" answered that young lady.
Your name here will be Therese.'
added the manageress. You havenl
done this before. have you?"
No" June's voice was faint and
weak. She had queer feeling In hel
stomach. and her eyes began to widen
again as she studied an appalling array
| OF cosmetics.
Never mind I'll be in and mako
you up"
At last June was TO know bow IL fell
to earn ones own living. She had 9
mingled exhilsration and depression IL
| the contemplation OF that remarkable
experience.
As June peered out of her dressing
alcove a middle aged man and woman
paused in a vigorous argument. The
woman wanted money. and the mar
would not give It. Then June wa:
called and came out aud paraded slow
| " down between the two long rows o.
chairs. There were hundred or mort
women and some men. Occasionally
one Of the women beckoned to her anC
/ made her turn and walk away ant
come back.
She had displayed perhaps half Z
dozen gowns when the middle ageC
| man and woman DISTRACTED her pas
sageway as she came out OF the al
cove. They were still in an energetic
dispute about the money. A hundred
| dollars the woman wanted. and shs
had to have I'll The man finally lef
her.
A. lady from 8 group where gra,
mustachcd man with pink face and
joyial eyes was standing came owe
and spoke to the woman The woman
listened, her eyes following June al
she. walked in a beautiful black yelye