Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-04-06

mo, only J guess you better shut
the window, Lo; the nip amt gone out
Of me air yet"
Saint you feeling well. darling7"
"Sure i am. baby Only when fell
low sits on his throne all day his
crown gets cold"
"Oh. darling mustn't joke
like that"
She drew the rug closer across his
loglike limbs, peering closer into his
face.
you ain't getting that numb-kind
of paralyzed feeling any further up,
are you. AIT"
'Sure l amt, baby"
"Sure?"
"Sure."
'You-you look so limpllke today,
sweetness, and thought you'd be so
glad to see that it's spring Sure it
amt hurting. you any higher up? Doc
says if"
"Fit as fiddle feel"
She bent down to kiss him. His
head lay in the full glory of a bar of
sunshine that crossed his pillow.
SIN going out now and dig up In
the garden little. Look out, AL, at
the lilac bush; it's getting ready"
saint it beaut, Lo? 1 bet when
it blooms it smells like sixty We got
ia wrap it up these chilly nights just
like it was baby. We gotta throw
sheet or something over it. Don't for
get, Lo, to cover it at night"
"And then it'll look like a spook in
the moonlight"
81 want it covered so it won't get
nipped."
Nothing you ever want me to re-
member won't get nipped, darling"
poor little kiddo; keep you jump
ing, don't II"
''I'm going out now before do the
dishes and spade up like Ben learnt
me. Maybe some of the girls will have
time to run up for a minute to see us
when the show plays its return
week from tonight. We want the little
place to look swell, AL"
He was slow to release her hand.
It'll seem funny to have the show
playing in our town. won't it, Lo, and
-
She made wide-mouthed grimace
and pursed her frultlike lips into
pucker.
"We should worry?"
"YOu don't mean that, LO."
IDOL"
"Poor little kiddol Poor little kid
dol"
His throat might have been fur
lined.
"You think I'm laundering, don't
you? You think I'm laundering just
because the shows coming here next
week. Like fun / ami"
"You wouldn't squeal If you was,
baby, but don't you think I know!
Don't you think / know what livin'
In this amen corner is"
"Shh-h-h
Don't you think know what liv-
Ing with hulk like me in a."
"You--you're going to begin now to
make me cry. amt you? You-you're
going to begin and remind me of what
l done and make me wish / was dead
and-and-oh, God, AL, If anybody
ought to be hankering it's you. not me.
l."
"Shh-h-, darling! You don't need to
be ashamed of laundering. 1t would be
funny IL you didn't. A pretty SIXTY
little thing like you. amt laundering,
because the night the spring-board
didn't work was the luckiest stroke l
ever had. Would IL have got you IL
IF 1t hadn't gone back on me? Would
/? Even for hulk amt got nothing
to banker about, baby, it."
"But amt neither, AL. Honest /
amt. Gee, this little house and you
and Ben! Gee, / amt hankering."
There never was friend like Ben,
Lo, there never was"
"There never was, AL"
"And now he thinks the world and
all of you, Lo, and laffs and laffs at
your cute little ways. Honest, baby,
just think to myself If
IL you could get that other laundering
out of your head. wouldn't mind
nothing If knew that you and him,
after I-well, after I-well, you know
what I mean. baby. after Il"
"Al-Al. you make me ashamed to
listen. Please, darling, can't stand 1t
when you talk like that. Amt you
feeling right today? Amt your"
II mean 1t, baby. There couldn't be
nothing that would set me as easy
about you as that He's so strong, Lo.
like to see him all lit up like a
Christmas tree when you begin cutting
up with your cute little ways. He's so
strong, 10. and like kid at the same
time. He could be so good to you,
baby. I'd feel so easy II knew for
sure that"
al, please-please cut 1t. Please,
darling"
Even when hear him coming down
the street on his way to the factories
or when he stops by from the alder
mems meeting; even when / hear his