Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-09-24
The OTHER GIRL
BY EARL REED slLvERs.
1918, by the Mcclure Newspa-
per Syndicate

10 COleVllle, where he naQ 10unQ Elsie.
She was the village school teacher,
just out of normal school.
He had not known Mildred very well
then. But the day after his return she
had met him at a country club dance,
and she had listened while he told
her about Elsie. And then, two days
before New Years, he mad told her
that he was going to Coleyille again
to see Elsie.
81 promised her the last time was
up there that I'd come again on New
Years." he explained, "and don't like
to break my promise"
Something In the hurt of Mildred's
eyes brought an answering light in his
own.
"You know, don't you," he asked
softly, that I'd rather be here with
your"
But Mildred shook her head. 81
don't know whether you would or not"
she answered frankly. "You must care
a good deal for her."
He nodded. eyes," he said; "I do"
Two days later ne had left for Cole
vile, but not before he and Mildred
had talked 1t all out. And Mildred
tried to convince herself that he was
doing the right thing.
"She is very much in love with him,
l know she is" she told herself, land
before he offers his love to me he
must find out whether or not Elsie has
lost her appeal to him."
1t was hard waiting until he should
come back again. Through seemingly
endless days Mildred tried to fix her
mind on other things, but 1t was use
less. Gradually an idea took posses
sion of her and worked it's way into
her mind until it became almost an
obsessi0n. She began to think how
strange it would be If Ted should bring
Elsie to New York with him as bride,
and it ended by believing that that was
exactly what Ted was going to do.
She resolved to go to the Grand Cen
trail station and to wait outside the
gates for Ted's train to come in.
81 can hide behind some other peo-
pie" she said to herself, "and il he
should come off the train with another
girl can see him first and come home
without him knowing it. Then he
won't have to tell me about 1t himself
She was waiting at the station when
the train arrived, and as the people
started to pour through the gates size
felt a sudden panic.
"Supposing he should come with an
other girl" she thought. II woult
never speak to him again in the
world"
The fact that under those circum
stances he wouldn't care whether she
| spoke to him or not did not occur t.
her.
The passengers had almost all passed
through the gate, and Mildred had be
| gun to think that perhaps Ted hat
missed his train, when he appeared
suddenly from the darkened platform
Mildred's heart stood still as she saw
him, for he was walking beside one o
the prettiest girls she had ever seen
With something like a sob, Mildret
drew back into the crowd, watching
with tear-bordered eyes while Ted an,
the girl passed almost within six fee
of her. When they had gone into tn
main station she rushed into the sub
way and somehow made the trip t,
! her home.
A doorbell rang downstairs, but Mil
| dred did not notice. Nothing mat
| tered. But a moment later a knocl
sounded at her door and the maid an
nounced that Mr.. Terrill was waiting
| Mr.. Terrill was Ted, and the announce
ment that he was downstairs filled Nil
dred with sort Of dull rage. Sh,
wondered vaguely why in the worlC
he was calling on her; but she re
solved that she would not let hin
know what pang his selection of thu
| other girl had given her. So Sh'
washed the tears from her eyes anC
went down the stairs, just as if thu
| bottom had not fallen out of the earth
Ted stepped forward eagerly as soor
as he saw her.
Mildred - he said.
But Mildred only nodded casually.
"How are you, TedT she asked, with
studied formality. You had a nice
trip, l hope"
He looked at her with startled eyes
whats the matter, dear?" he asked
softly.
There was something in the way he
spoke which shattered Mildred's re-
serve into tiny fragments.
ooh, Ted" she half sobbed, 81 saw
YOU get off the train with her. Where
is she?"
'Where is whoT
"The other girl-Elsie?"
"Why." Ted looked very much mysti-
fed when | left her this morning she
was standing on the station at Cole
VILE"
"And wasn't that she coming from
the train with your
"No, dear; that was my cousin, who
got on the train at Bridgeport, and
who asked me to take her over to the
Penn. station in New York"
ooh !" For long two minutes MIL
dred's eyes looked anywhere except at
the man before her. But they re-
turned to his after he had started to
speak, for he was saying the most
wonderful words in the world.
"There isn't any other girl" he said
softly. There Is no one but you.
dear"
No Eatter security on Earth.
The credit of the United States was
so high and unquestionable that in
1900, two years after the Spanish war,
2 per cent bonds were offered at par
and oversubscribed. This is a finan-
cial performance no other nation has
ever equaled. United States 4 per
cent bonds in 1888 sold as high as $50,
and in 1901 brought 1898 on the stock
market. The United States has new.
er defaulted on any Of its bonds. Not
one of its bondholders has ever lost a
cent of principal or interest. except