Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-06-12
CHAPTER III.-continued.


80 ~ tbree hooks. and lots OF maga-
49, or+icIes about women-womeh )
rights and suffrage, ana an liia.'
She's been-well, sort OF ieauei o'
since she graduated from cohese'
hack in-iust think !-1S7O, wnen most
os-,g mood to have - accomplishments
sErancb music, and washing extra
you know" ao-o-
She said it all with a quite adora-
,hle seriousness, and his gravity maCcn-
cd hers when he replied: i Woulu
ike to meet her very much. Felnln'
ism's q subject I'm blankly Ignorant
about"
.T don't believe" she said thought
fully. "that I'd call it feninism In
talking TO mother about it, if were
Won. Mothers a suffragist, put
there came another wave of faint
color along with her smile-Out
well. she's awfully respectable you
know"
She didn't seem to mind his laugh
ing out at that, though she udhl
Join him.
"What about the other interesting
member OF the family" he asked
presently, "your sister? Which Is she'
a suffragist or feminist?
eI suppose" she said, you'd can
Portia q feminist. Anyway, sne
hasn't time to talk about 1t much. lou
see she's a business woman. She's
house decorator. She tells you what
kind of furniture to buy, and then
sells II to YOU. Portals terribly clever
and awfully independent.
"Au right" he said. THAT DrlhSS
us down to you. What are youE
She sighed. "Tm sort of black
sheep. 1 guess. I'm just in the uniVer-
zity. But I'm to be lawyer.
Whereupon he cried out so explo-
vtvalv that she fairly jumped. Then he
apologized and said the notion OF her
in court trying q case-he was law
yer himself-seemed rather starthhg.
She sighed again. "And now L
suppose" she said, you'll advise me
not to be-"
"Not q bit" he said. ITS the nm
est profession in the world"
But he said it off the top OF MS
mind. Down below, it was suu en-
Gagged with the picture of her IN a
dismal courtroom, blazing up at d
4urv the way she had blazed up at
that conductor.
"I SUPPOSE" she hazarded, that IL
awfuIIy dull and tiresOme, though
until Won get way up to the top"
That reused him. It's awfuIy oull
when you do get to the top, or what S
called the top--being a client care
taker with the routine law business
of a few big corporations and rich
estates going through your office ike
prist through a mill. That's supposed
80 he the big reward, of course"
He was out of his chair now' tramp
fnp ND and down the room. 1.-The thing
IN hear in mind, if you're going TO
travel that road. is that case is
worth while in a precise and unaltera-
ble ratio to the amount of money III
volyed in it. If you question that
axiom at all seriously, you're Iost'
That's what happened to me-"
He pulled up with jerk, looked al
her and laughed. eff my sister Ere
derica were here" he explained. "she
would warn you that now was the time
for Won to ask me If I'd been to see
Maude Adams or something like that.
She smiled in a sort of contented
amusement. Then the smile trans
xnuted itself into a LOCK of thoughtful
gravity. and there WIS a long silence
which. though it puzzled him, he made
NO move TO break.
At last she pulled in long BREATH
turned straight 10 him, and said;
wish you'd tell me what happened
30 you"
And. under the compelling sincerity
Of her, for the next two hours and a
half or thereabouts, he did-told II
as he had never told it before.
He told her how he had started al
the foot OF the ladder in one of the
bir successful firms of what he called
-client caretakers." He told Of his
discovery of a real legal problem and
of the passionate enthusiasm with
which he had attacked 1t. the thrill,
ing weeks of labor he had put upon it
And then he told her how the head
OF the firm, an old friend of his ia
theirs. had called him in and said the
work Re had done was very remark
able, but. unfortunately, not profitable
10 the firm, the whole amount involved
in the case having been some twenty
dollars. In other words. he was fired
He told her how he'd got in with
an aItruistic bunch - the City Homes
association. And from the way he
told of his laborS in drafting a new
city ordinance, she felt that il must
have been one of the most fascinat
ING occupations in the world, un
til he told her how it had drawn hin
into politics. and then how after an
election q new states attorney had of
fered him a position ON his staff OF
assistants.
In a sense, OF course. ii was true
that he had. as Frederick would have
put il. forgotten she was there.
The girl knew he had forgotten. anC
her only discomfort came from tn,
fear that the spell might be broker
and he might remember suddenly ant
stop.
In the deeper Sense-and she wa:
hreathleSsly conscious of this, too
he hadn't forgotten she was there
He was telling il all because she wa
there-becauSe she was herself anC
nobody else. She knew-though how
she couldn't have explained-witl
that intuitive certainty which is tn,
only real certainty there is, that tn,
story couldn't have been evoked from
him in just that way by anyone els
in the world
AT the end of two years In tn
states attorneys Office, he told her
he figured he had his training and wa