Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-06-08

al Tell You, He's Backslidin'."
knows can't hold out against him II
I'm only across the tracks from him.
He knows the minute he's himself
again, with his head up, he can get
me back. That sort of going don't do
no good, Liddy. You can't do me no
good"
"God knows done my duty by you,
warning you that morning in April,
Annie, Steve wasn't no saint, but as
fine boy f."
"Yes, and / took the chance. Took
the chance, with Orrick Lowney crazy
WILD to ditch over his grandfather and
a million If I'd close my millinery shop
to be his misses and off to Europe with
him. Took the chance and stuck In
this burg with him through those first
two years of hi before the baby came,
took"
"Annie, you're making yourself sick,
girl"
Took chance! And even with
everything wasn't sorry. But I'm done
now! What got left I'd like to know,
with my baby gone and the thirst back
on him2 l amt got the strength to
stand Ii, Liddy. From the gayest girl
In two counties I'm wreck, Liddy I
Look at me, a wreck, Liddy. Both my
babies gone, one worse than"
"But, Annie, dear Lords sake, An
ME"
'sDone, tell you. Sister er no sis.
ter of his, / can't help what you are
I'm done. swore to him last night
and he was too silly to hear me, but ]
swear to you now, Liddy, and 20 God
above"
"Annier'
that I'm done. And IL you don't
believe me, look at my packed tele-
scope there I'm the corner and any veil
on my hat, and"
'Annie!"
HE had enough respect for his Job
all these years never to show up there
tipsy; he had enough respect for his
baby never to let him smell the vile
ness on his fathers breath. He-he's
got enough respect for his sister never
to want her 10 be here at the house
when he-he comes home silly, but
but what's he got for me? His wife
For mel What, Liddy, what1 WhatT'
And she fell forward in her own arms,
drenched in a bath OF tears
Hes your husband, Annie; before
God, he's your husband, and nothing
can change it."
Il tell you, Liddy, If he comes home
red-eyed tonight, so help me If there's
anything can change me. There's the
seven-fifty st. Louis Accommodation
out of here, and / tell you I'm done.
Donel"
mo, no, Annie girl. You come TO me.
For Gods sake, you come to me. II
1t amt all well tonight, I'll keep the
lamp burning for you In the side win
dow and the shade up so you'll see 1t.
Annie, when you reach the tracks. I'd
stay here with you, Annie, only II
ihohSo otNft ooiC IL DLhy wv btt
him come like that. I'll keep the light,
girl, and-and you come to me. To
mep
mo, no, Liddy, that amt the kind of
done am. Beasley's always got
corner for me somewhere in her room
Ing house. / can get job trimmin' in
Einstein's there easy as anything, any
day want. I'm done. Liddy. for sure.
Done, tell you. I'm goingl"
"Annie-Annie, you-you wouldn'tw
wouldn't /? Watchl"
At little after four came dusk to
dusk-colored day; at five, night, with
the wind gone down and the rain faster
and finer, like splitting sands. The Chi
cago Limited, with the shrek Of a
maniac and without pause for Spartan,
tore neck and neck with its schedule
through the town, rafting its window.
panes and the warning bell at cross
roads.
At six O'Clock a medley Of steam
whistles rose like rockets from the
various roofs Of the Wellington-Lowney
Wire Works, and five hundred workers
Strengthened and WINGED Of crick in the
back.
Ito be continued)