Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-03-23

fake flowers in Twenty-third street
loft. Me afraid Of a bar act, could
do that turn in my sleep il got the
right Kind of feeder"
She burrowed into her handkerchief,
her little trayeLstained figure hunched
and abject
II wish was dead"
Jaw, now, Lo, darling. I----''
1T just seems like nothing do
don't suit nobody"
''Lo, darling, just to show you how
you suit me, let's do what been beg
ging you to- Let's quit Then we won't
have nobody to suit but ourselves,
Let's you and me quit, that's how much
think of you. That's how much you
suit me. Let's quitw
"Qultm
"Yeh, quit! Let's jump. Lee can't
hold up after the way he faxed the
circuit on this show. You say the
word. Lo. and Wen do it right here in
Adalai. With the sixteen hundred
got saved, 10, my friend Ben Coll
ingsll set us up in anything from an
ice cream parlor to the box business.
He's big gun there; alderman an
everything but mayor. He's offered to
set me up, TO, every time I've played
the town. Gee, Lo. last year he was
putting up some little red-roofed cot
ready now--littie red-roofed cottages
on the hill, with n weather-cock on the
peak OF the veranda and white picket
fence, and-and he rents 'em, Lo,
we"
Honest, AL, you must be crazy
with the heat l thought you was only
guying all along-or | would have
given you brain test"
''Guying nothing; the idea has had
me for month like house atire |
wanna get out of this business hon,
before you much more than get in. We
can start together in clean little
town in a clean little way, kitten.
wanna get you out of the show bust
ness, Lo before you more than get
just in. Get you out, kitten, and take
care Of you
Honest, AL, you're enough to scare
a girl. We can't do crazy thing like
that. What'il Lee say IL we jump:
I wanna get on in this business. AL
I'm just starting, only six months in
the game, and l wanna get on. I ain'i
the kind of girl that could settle
down in tank in million years"
''All right, in the big town them Lo
if"
'Gee. wouldn't Lee be sore.''
lee, always Lee. 1 think you're
cracked over Lee and that's what's
hurting you. / think you wanna stick
around with the director OF this show,
that's what / think"
"What's it to you. You amt my
boss. Pm good GIRL am, and no
man can cast insinuations about me,
I-I"(
10, darling"
She was sobbing again-hurt, jerky
little commissions that racked her.
Honest. wish / was dead"
'Lo, darling, | tell you Lee amt the
kind OF man for"
IF / amt swell to Lee, he fines me
and puts Floss first in the pony prance.
IL | amt swell to you, then you come
around insinuating and"
Darling, it's just because +"
you know how girl like me that
wants to get on in the business has got
to salve it on with the director--if he
happens to like her. You know better
than i can tell"
She stole furtive glance at him
from the corner of her handkerchief
and Immediately returned to its depths
A greensh white aura sprang out
around his lips and his hands closed
until the flesh sprang white at the
knuckles.
"Whatta you mean? Ii that rat has
been bothering you, by Cad, T."
"No, no, no! Gee, can't fellow
like girl, just plain like a girl. with.
without bothering her? Can't a
girl and fellow fiirt little without
bothering each other?"
Her voice was as arch as her glance
THAT'S it. That's it. You're little
|. fiirt. You're little firt in the blood
and you can't help it. You can't help
flirting no more than ] can help the
color of my eyes. You're little flirt
and little devil that drives slow
thinking men like me crazy. No won