Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-02-16


on the boom yet. Gad!- You're the
only one ] ever knew kept her looks
and took on weight at the same time.
| You're all right, Mae, and--and, cad I
1 II don't wish sometimes the world
was different Cad If--if don'tf'
1t was as if the flood of her emotion
had risen to a wave and at his words
4 frozen on its crest. She opened her
I lips TO speak, but could only regard
him with eyes as hard as ice fields.
Now. now, Mae, don't look that
away. You're a sensible woman and
know the worlds just built thataway.
always told you it didn't cost us men
nothing hut loose change to show our
selves a good time You girls gotta
pay up in different coin. If | hadn't
come along, some other fellow would.
You girls know where you get. off.
Come, be sport, old girl With thirty
five hundred in your jeans and me
wanting to do the square thing-the
/ piano, and all, femme say TO you that
/ you amt got a kick coming. Just lem
me, say that to you-piano and all,
! Maer'
| Sobs trembied up, thawing the edge
/ of ice that incased her. A thin. blue
mist of tears rose to her eyes like a
premonitory ripple before the coming
/ of the wind.
"You can't! You can't You--you
can't ditch me like that, tell you.
| YOU
"By God If you're going to begin
to holler I'll get out of here so quick
/ it'll make your head swim!"
"Oh, no, you don't! Aw, no, you
/ don't! You amt going to quit me so
easy for a little hank that-that your
old woman found for you. Max, you
ANTI You wouldn't Tell me you
wouldn't, dear. Tell me! Tell men'
"Get off your knees there, and be-
have yourself Mae! Looka your dress
there, all torn. This amt no barroom.
Get up and behave yourself! Amt you
ashamed y
She was trembling so that her knees
sent little rippies down the tight white
silk drop-skirt.
/
away with it, You and me can't-can't
| part peaceful. You can't throw me
over after all these years for little
hank and get away with it! BY
heaven, you can't"
He drew tight fists to his sides, his
lower jaw shot forward. '.You start "a
row here and. by CAD if don't
Il ANTI / amt! But don't throw
me over, Max, after all these years !!
Don't, Max You need me. There amt
a woman on Gods earth shat will do
| for you what / will. IL amt got no.
| body but you, Max, to do for. | tell
| you, Max, you-you need me. Think,
/ dear, all them months when the GUS
toms was after you. Them hot days
/ when you couldn't show your face, and
/ | used to put you to bed and fan and
\ fan you eight hours straight till you
/ forgot to be scared and fell asleep like
| baby"
Now, now, Mae, T."
"Them nights we used to mix few
] drinks when we came home from a
show or something and sit right here
4 in this room and swill 'em off, laffing
and laffing till we got a little lit up.
/ That time when we sneaked down to
| Sheepshead and you lost your wad at
/ the wheel and | won it back for YOU.
1 All them times, Max That--that
Christmas eve you sneaked away from
] your old woman Remember? ! tell
4 you, Max, you can't throw me over aft
j er what we have been through together
and get away with It, You can't, not
4 by d--n sight. You can't"
4 In spite of herself her voice would
I slip up, raucous sobs tore through her
words, tears rained down her frankly
distorted face, carrying their bitter
4 taste of salt to her lips.
"You can't! You can't. ! amt got
the strength. | amt got a thing in life
4 that amt wrapped around you. / can't
I go back to hit or miss like-like could
ten years ago l amt got nothing saved
] out of ii all but you. Don't try to ditch
/ me, Max! Don't! I'LL walk on my
/ knees for you. T."
/ For Gods sake, Mae, II
4 eff there's way to raise two times
I fifteen thou for you, Max, I'll raise
j It, I'll find way Max. tell you
! will, I'm lucky at the wheel, Max.
/ You watch and see. You just watch and
] see / can work. Max. -"
get up, Mae, get up. There's good
/ girl, Get up and"
'I'll work my fingers down, Max,
only don't try to ditch me, don't try
\ to ditch me. I'll go out to the country
where your old woman can't ever sniff
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