The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-07-20
Observation-Disclosures
TIE ETERNAL feminine
BY IzOLk FORESTER.

INDEED, | WlH-IlBuI away 4NoI
bit of it. I'm awfully glad to help out.
Goodby"
He hung up the receiver and wheeled
about, looking not at Beth, but at the
clock.
'Tts Mrs. Hewitt. Her husbands in
Baltimore, and wired her to meet him,
and the maids gone, and there's no.
body to help her down with her suit
case. She wants me to run up to din
ner and take her to the station after
ward. You don't mind, of course,
Beth?'
"Who is Mrs. HEWITT" she asked
frigidly
"Why, she's a girl I knew out in
Denver, you know"
q don't know. How old is she and
what does she look like?'
"Now. Beth"-Milton looked bit
bored as if he hated to go into the
subject, it was so triyial-"l think we
agreed that real love is above jeal-
ousy. This is only common courtesy.
I've known 'GiTiie' Cooper-she used
to be a Cooper-since l was boy at
school She's about twenty-four, |
gucss-around there"
At eighteen twenty-four looks world
" wise and experienced. Beth pursed
her lips.
III be back by nine added Milton
Beth loo!,ed at him with growing
suspicion.
do you think you'll need a cushion
as a tame cat?" she inquired wither-
ingly. you needn't come back here,
Mit She could call a taxi and go
down by herself. OF course, you can
do Just as you please, but you needn't
come back here if you go carting suit
cases around for old sweethearts."
"You know, TIilt, you can't deceive
me one bit" She leaned her adorable
chin on her palm and looked up at him.
1--WE heard of Grille Cooper. Mrs.
Daniels told me you were engaged to
her and perfectly wild over her five
years ago. l think it's terrible for the
man you love to have memories Of
other girls"
She rose suddenly and left him
standing there, eXpOstulating.
She really did need a lesson, Milton
told himself severely. Utter lack of
faith in him was-too much to bear I'M
checked
All this lie told himself going up to
Girlies, all the way through dinner, all
the way downtown. Grille talked in
| ccssartly of Hobart, her husband, Of
his congressional ambitions, his
tastes, his achievements. She was
| little, appealing sort Of woman, with
big brown eyes and a wistful chin. Mil
ton found himself comparing her men
tally with Beth's beautiful clear-eyed
buoyant girHshness.
You know the real reason why
| asked you to see me to the station,
Milt," She said as they entered the
taxi Its for Hobart's sake. l want
| you 10 see that his new bill is handled
| fairly by the papers You will, won't
| you, Milt? | don't know myself just
what it's about, but it must be a splen-
did measure or he'd never take it up.
He's that type of man, you know, Milt.
Just ask Miss Wharton
"Beth?" asked Milton, alarmed,
what does she know about him."
"Why, didn't you know" The big
brown eyes met his in surprise "She
J. Sc mn, i11
year, ana it was before he met me.
She was hardly more than a child, he
told me, and they were all down at
| Pinehearst forethe late winter season.
believe he was accidentally shot, and
she found him as she was riding
through the mountains and saved
him"
"Was-was he in love with herr"
asked AIilt feebly. quite romantic,
wasn't it?'
He was till he met me-" Grille an
swered complacently, but he'll never
destroy her pictures He's got forty
snapshots of her, do believe taken
that season. l hated her till | heard
you were going to marry her"
The next morning, Beth met him,
radiant and ready for their usual walk
in the park
I'm so sorry, dear" she said, "but
you know you would 60 know wom-
en- are perfect cats, and she only want
cd to tell you about Hobart and me;
50 | tried 20 keep you from going.
refused him about ten times, Milt, and
I'm not one bit jealous of her."
Milton stared thoughtfully at the
spring vista ahead of them. And he
had feared to wound her, had wanted
to teach her a lesson,
Why didn't you tell me you knew
| him. he asked.
81 never even thought of him. Don't
you know, Mill" her voice was strong
with faith when the real big love
comes into your life it seems to
just sweep away everything else. Be
sides, | didn't want you to know | was
--or-lObbying Isn't that what you
call it? The woman's club | belong
to is behind a bill, something about
! fountains at street corners, and we
wanted him to present it, so wrote to
him about it and it comes up tomor-
row Aren't you glad, dear? If you
only could get something into the pa
| pors about it, Id love you for it, Milt."
Milton gloomed at the landscape
realizing for the first time in his life
the underlying power of the eternal