Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-13
TAKING TO THE NEW GIRL
A Story Written for This Paper, by
Emma V. Sheridan.

Men do so like me-" Madge had felt
the remark personal
DO they? How nice. Who is Mr..
Hedden?"
What funny place to bring him in.
He is just Ralf."
"Ah, Rail-"
Il know him so we'll, often say that
just knowing. you know, not particu-
larly liking"
"Oh! Is he rich?"
Some. He has q horse"
"Quite a catch?"
Il am sure l don't know. never
think of such things. l don't like you
as much as l used"
"Oh, yes, you do"
"YOu have got so grown up and
everything, you aren't a bit like me
now"
lam grown more ladylike, perhaps
| You mean"
L hate ladylike.~
DO you, dear?"
I'D rather row and run and swim. :"
Il prefer riding. Ones figure shows
better"
"Oh, do you ride? I don't any more.
can only do it bareback, and mamma
says am too big now"
"How unkind."
| You can have my horse. No one
rides: Ralf can ride, but he never
does"
Thank you. Perhaps he or some of
them may ride when they see do"
| Il will take you out in my boat. too. :"
Perhaps sometimes, though l always
prefer man."
Il can row as good as man"
Can you, DEAR" mildly.
| Better"
How nice.
"Do you know, quite hate YOU"
| GLOW extraordinary" Madge felt
guilty, and presently she said meekly
Il didn't mean to be rude. l hope YOU
didn't think | did"
And Rosa, as she sailed to breakfast.
answered sweetly. Il didn't know"
In the days that followed Madge was
was no longer the only girl at Red
Sands. In fact, no one noticed her at
all. She was all at once just little
girl. Everyone ran around after Rosa;
Ralf worst of all. She could not seem
to get back her dignity either nor re-
sent her treatment. Everything she
did made her seem more an awkward,
stupid child. Ralf always called her
little girl" now, and that made her
raging. Anyone would think he had
never made love to her, never asked
her to marry him. He certainly
seemed to have forgotten all about it.
Probably he was now making the same
love to Rosa. Madge wondered if she
ought not to tell Rosa, but then she
could not be sure that it would not be
spiteful: so she didn't. Why should
she, she didn't care anyhow? So she
| .lr., IL
and tom-boyed around and was quite
Nobody rode horseback now. She
swan races by herself. Nobody ever
came in unless Rosa did, and then it
took them all to teach her. She was
lovely in the water. She let her hair
all loose, and 1t crinkled around her.
Her bath suit was green and she looked
like lily. Madge could see that her
self as she trod water way out. 1t
made her hate herself for being plump
and round. She ducked her head to
make her hair come out worse and she
wished herself dead. Once Ralf swan
out to her.
why don't you come in; you will get
cramps" he said. TRY to be attract
i've like your friend Miss Rosa"
At this Madge made plunge at
Ralfs aggravating curly head. The
sudden weight of her on his shoulders
sent him down. She felt herself held
tight. She screamed and struggled,
but that only filled her mouth with salt
water, and her struggles were held by
a strong and not very gentle grasp.
Down, down. down. 1t occurred to her
how near the channel she had been
and how swift the current ran there.
She had never been under water so
long before. A surging sounded in her