Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-04-13
Continued from last week.

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for them lids, Lo."
didn't Ben say the minute you ges
working too hard not another job does
he send up from the factory"
Like 1t makes any difference. Poor
old gink. he thinks l don't know that
IL he wasn't in back of us. my little
wood carving wouldn't keep us In
shoe laces."
"Shh-h-h; here, femme fix your pill
low"
"What'n you do all alone this after
noon IL doze off, Lo? Put on your
little hat, baby, the pink one that Ben
likes, and stroll uptown past the Office
so he can see you. Don't stick around
here so much, baby"
"No, l gotta clear out that trunk.
| AL. All winter it's been standing
| around and 1 wanna get at 1t and get
] it down in the cellar and out OF the
way"
kiss me, baby. and I'll take little
snooze. Spring fever's got me for
sure"
She leaned over and kissed his
{F,beeks where the hollows darkened
\ A.em, lowered the shade and tip-toed
III closing the door after her.
4 The box-like bedroom, hedged In be-
tween the kitchen and front room,
might have been the builders after
thought. A white pine bed and white
pine table, improvised to dressing
Istand, left an area between them the
size of a door mat. damned between
the bed and the wall, black galva-
nized trunk crowded out the rooms
sole aisle.
The drone Of mid-afternoon de-
Iscended A million notes swan in
bar Of sunshine which slanted
Through the windows and lay across
the black trunk. The two-ten accom-
Imodation pulled out of the nearby sta
ltion with great changing and after
Itime whistled back twice from out over
/ 1.-The greenlike prairie. A child throb-
IIbing with freedom ratified his lunch
Hbucket along the picket fence.
IL Mrs. Delano tidied the dressing
tstand top and with handkerchief
rubbed a specS from the mirror until
HI squeaked Then she fumbled in a
II drawer among litter of keys, UNI
4 hooked a small one from its ring and,
spreading herself beside the trunk in
he cross-limbed attitude of shah,
lung open the lid.
The musty odors of the theater,
which are as ingratiating as the fumes
If Circe's cup, rose Immediately like
steam. Her lips parted and she delved.
red gold wig of spring-tight curis
ay first and beside it a Pierrette's
aointed cap, crushed and soiled and
With two black pom-poms dangling by
thread. Farther down a crumpled
ag of Plerrette's dress, pom-poms also
dangling, lay crushed beneath a
eweled crown. Next makeup box.
Iaubed over with many colors, ex-
lded the grease paint scent Of a
thousand memories.
Some cotton daisies gazed up at her
With innocent eyes from the bottom
battered pasteboard box. She lift
one and held 1t against her hair,
er throat throbbing. She even
trained over, still on her knees, to
,eZe into the little mirror, the daisy
: ED at cocky angle above her left
ar. Suddenly she danced to her feet.
opped about the tiny floor space In
ne fine frenzy of unlocking her dress
p the back. Reflected in the mirror.
er face could scarcely contain one
xpression for breaking into smiles.
turks, Pushes. She then spinned the
otton daisy above her left ear and
Ike a flash slipped into the ballet
ress of captivating Pierrette, her
rms outstretched in q. well-remem-
cred attitude OF the dance and the
ap Of spring rising in her veins.
1t was as If something cheeped with
her and her heart took flight, soar
g backward through resilient time
I'D space into yesterdays. Fatigue
lnished as rage before Abracadabra
nd Oh-la-la was her song.
Oh-h-h-h--Lo-o
She paused, poised on her toes. her
ms flung in q circle over her head
I'd the quick color draining out of her
ii Ct-pduStu III liiio tdblcuu NlNd ds
caught in a paralysis.
"Lo-o"
For a frozen instant she glanced
'out her, dragged at the bed covering
cloak for her fnery, but 1t chung
its moorings and, abandoning 1t in
If frenzy. she burst through the
or into the darkened front room.
All" She caught at his hand which
atop the rug 1t was limp and
angely cold.
At six o'clock Adalai finished its
with bleating of factory whistles
- sonorous booming Of the First
III Nterian chimes. Main street
81 its shop doors and white arc
hts sprang out before two cinemato-
iph theaters. Joe's place. Frayley's
Cream parlor and the Red Trunk
re and Ten-Cent store--open eve