Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-11-24

The BlackmaiIed Partners Made No
Reply, on Account of an inability
That Was Perfect for the Moment.
she had decided not to change the
name, after alb She informed them
that they were to be her printers,
nothing more; she did not care to get
| all inky and nasty, she said. She
would however, do all the writing for
her newspaper, and had with her a
| new poem. Also, she would furnish
all the news and it would be printed
just as she wrote it, and printed nice
| ly, too, or else-"look out !"
Thus did this cool hand take pos
session of an established industry, and
in much the same fashion did she con-
tinue TO manage it, There were I'M
| suppressible protests; there was CO.
vert anguish; there was even strike
but it was short one When the
printers remained away from their
late newspaper building, on Wednes-
Cay afternoon, Florence had an inter-
view with Herbert after dinner at his
Henry and he had grown tired of the
printing press and had decided to put
in all their spare time building the
alter in Henry's attic; but Florence
gave him to understand that the the
alter could not be.
Henry and Herbert had both
stopped speaking" to Patty Fair
! child, for each believed her treach-
erous to himself; but Florence now
informed Herbert that far from de-
| pending on mere hearsay, she had in
| her possession the confession of his
| knowledge that he had ocular beauty
| the ruin0us bit of writing in his own
hand and signed with his complete
name--that she had discovered the
paper where Patty had lost it and that
it was now in secure place, aud in an
envelope upon the outside of which
was already written, "Wallie Torbin,
Kindness of Florence A."
Herbert collapsed. So did Henry
Rooter, little later that evening, af-
ter a telephoned conversation with
the slave driver.
The two miserable printers were
| back in their places the next after
noon.
! And on Saturday the new Oriole,
now In every jot and item the in
| spired organ of feminism, made It's
undeniably sensational appearance.
A copy, neatly folded. was placed
] in, han Of l.
forth for his place of business, after
| lunchlng at home with his mother.
Florence was the person who placed
| it there-without charge. She came
hurriedy from somewhere in the
neighborhood, out of what yard or
alley he did not notice, and slipped the
little oblong sheet into his lax fingers.
! "Therei" she said, breathlessly.
There's good deal about you in II,
this week. Mr.. Dill, and guess--I
guess"
"What, FlorenceT
81 guess maybe you'll" She looked
! up at him shyly; them with no more
to say. turned and ran back in The u
rection whence she had come-and
was gone. Noble walked on, not at
once examining her little gift, but car
rying it absently in fingers still lax at
the end of a dangling arm. There was
no life in him for anything; Julia was
away.
Away-and yet the dazzling crea-
ture looked at him from sky, from
earth, from air; looked at him with
the most poignant kindness, yet al
ways shock her headl She had an
swered his first letter by a kind little
note, his second by kinder and Hitler
one, and his third, fourth, fifth, and
sixth by no note, at all; but by the
kindest message Through one of her
aunts) that she was thinking about
him great deal. And even this was
three weeks ago. Since then, from
Julia--nothing at all
But yesterday something a little
stimulating had happened. On the
street, downtown, he had come face to
face, momentarily with Mr.. III. /. At
water Senior, Julla's peculiar old
father; and for the first time in No
ble's life this Mr. ..twater nodded to
him pleasantly. Noble went on his
way, elated: Was there not something
almost fatherly in this strange greet
ing? There had been an easement Of
the pain OF absence: and he glowed
with thoughts Of Mr.. Atwater.
The glow faded = somewhat from