Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-03-02

thoughts, did not notice the
closed cab which stood at the
Corners the next morning as
she left the house. AS she passed by,
however, walking briskly up to the
surface car, Officer Mack, who had
been watching that cab and the hand
some brunette whose vivacious face
had occasionally appeared at the win
doWs, saw the cab start and slowly
move away.
June had stepped from her uptown car
and was crossing to Broadway when
q closed cab passed her, turned and
drew up from the opposite direction.
and a gloved hand tapped on the win
dow Tommy Thomas, the girl to
whom Gilbert Blye had introduced her!
(which way, pretty maid" Tom
my's glowing face protruded from the
door of the cab.
ITO the employment office. kind
lady," she laughed, and June exhibited
her little address slip.
''Fll take you over" offered Tommy.
The two girls laughed together as
they drove away, but at the next cor
ner Tommy excused herself for mo-
ment and ran into drug store TO tele-
phone. Tommy hurried out and re-
turned to her place in the cab with
June. but Mrs. Willard, to whom she
had phoned, remained at the telephone
and called up another number.
When June walked into the Acme
Employment bureau, having chosen
new one, quite naturally, since the old
one had sent her to gambling house,
she found a new address ready for her.
A lady wanted companion.
Her eyes widened with pleasure as
she saw the beauty Of Mrs. Wizards
home. 1t was scarcely visible from the
street. set back Of and below tangled
profusion of shrubbery and trees Be
fore 1t rolled the broad. smooth Hud-
son. Her timidity was set entirely at
rest when in the coy parlor just back
of the stiff drawing room she met the
kindly faced Mrs. Willard.
Companion? She was not to be
companion to this charming and sweet
and yet sometimes sad lady. she was
| to be q friend. sister, daughter.
| They knew that much in the first three
minutes of their conversation, and then
Mrs. Willard took June up to . wonder
| full bedroom which had once been
| child's, upon the walls of which were
| peacocks and ROSTERS and gnomes and
| elves. Il was visiting day among the
| Willard cottages and the cottages be-
| yond which were not Willard cottages,
and June had the joy once more of Civ
| Ing, mingled with the sorrow that there
| was need.
Ii was late when they arrived at the
| cottage OF the Groggs, and as they en-
| tered the front door Mr.. Grogg came
IN from the lower road and entered the
| back door. fully ten feet behind his
| breath. He was a red faced man with
| no blend in his countenance whatso-
ever. Nose, ears and all, he was the
same tint of red from where his neck
rose out OF its sprawling collar to
where his low forehead disappeared in
his sprawling yellow hair.
| "D'afternoon. ladies'" observed Mr..
Grogg cheerfully AID bowed his smile
in the direction OF the severe eyed Mrs
| Willard and the shocked June. Brought
you little present, Louz," and, with
as much extravagant Importance as II
this had been the rajahs jewel. he be
slowed on Mrs. Grogg the potted token
Of his thoughtfulness, geranium in q
papier mache pot
Mrs. Grogg was thin woman. chiefly
distinguished for droopiness and hol
lowness as viewed from almost any III
rection.
"Ar-the woman's voice concealed 6
tremor-"can We pay Mrs. Willard any
thing or the rent todayr'
Amt you got any money!
-Why, Al. you didn't give me AM
nancy
The man searched unsteadfly through
all his pockets He finally discovered
half dollar and dime
Never mind" broke In the soft voic'
OF Mrs Willard as she saw tears In th'
eyes OF Mrs. Gregg.
Mrs. Willard. who had come to know