The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-12-30
THE WATCHER
BY GERTRUDE CUSHING.

the window without moving for three
hours; and perhaps she thought the
morning sun peeplng between the part
ed drapcres would find her there,
waiting dry-eyed and miserable as she
waited now, for the sight Of a little
form-for the sound Of little feet.
The door opened again. Vivian,
whose self-absorptIon had been mo-
mcntarly broken by the tolllng Of the
hours, turned fcarfulIy
"Any news Fcllce?'
mo, madame"
elias Mr.. Wyeate telephoned
ggain"
"Only TO make re enquiry madam"
"Dont come to me again unless there
rs news. Then come at once-no mat
ter what it is. want to be quite
alone now"
"Oui, madame"
And suIl Fellce fingered, loath to
leave the pItiful figure.
"PIease leave me, Fellce."
,,f DO ,., ~ ,-.. d, VIII.
nv ~ $50, .,' ''e uo0' ",,u VA, ,I,a
wet night and her gloomy watch.
How many thousands Of women, she
Won"o''', '"o'''rS' wives S"eelne "a, IT,
all over the broad earth were waiting,
watching praying for someone to
'o'''',J"'' ~ sue "''''eu - . 'rl 3 '9n
W. ~ ","'IIs " c va, ,, ,o," ~, o,. ~
I.n.r ,.,,r.fa rar sa,n,od 70 ossrooe
so,,cthipo of har min parhons # was
a message from those others that had
bnon Sent adrirt for any aching heart
70 harbor
WAS If onlv this morning, she
Thought woarilv, that she had left the
housp carp-rrce. Young and happy? She
felt IKE an old woman now.
She had snopnad an the morning,
Irpchad onyIv win some friends at a
dowpfovn notel and come back at
fbrna O'Clock TO he met at the door by
Farico-and IN n flash everything was
changed. The terror in the girls wide
eyes the tightly grippcd hands, had
seemed TO pierce her heart. to tear It,
and even now she marveIed how she
had stood so steady and so stonily
calm Why had she not tainted or
fallen? Instead, she had asked in a
stern voice that might have come from
woman Of ice:
"What is 1T? My husband2 JackT
"Jocoua madame"
uNot tirledro
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,ot coma bocf since eleven o'clock.
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=, IVA ,aua 80 ,bo nInh
n. ,'', w.. ,.,a ,.o,,,a, ,,,, 20 ,,o
~, nad orar ogrod HIM f. She
.,,5a,, ,,ar nl. endless onocnrotlons
n,1 tho ,rcassont movement She
,,ontod trst tbIs ann oplel and the
.,...,,t.se uotcbing II eaomod tho
ami, f,ino hor tout nerves could hold
oooirgt
Mem were like that she thought
1hoy must ever question ana protest.
mia Seek relief in bodily cxertion.
while women endured Ruf could she
endure? IL this waiting ana watching
never cudcd-or # ended In
soft swift football behind her