Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-10-06
TAKING TO THE new GIRL
A Story Written for This Paper, by
Emma V. Sheridan.

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the remark personal.
do they?: How nice. Who is MI.
Hedden?"
What q funny place to bring him in.
He is Just Rail-"
"Ah, Rail-"
II know him SO well, I often say that
larly liking"
"Oh! Is he rich?"
Some. He has q horse"
"Quite a catch?"
Il nm sure 1 don't know, 1 never
think of such things. 1 don't like you
as much as I used"
"Oh. yes, you do"
you have get go grown up and
everything, you aren't q bit like me
now
lam grown morc ladylike, perhaps
you menu"
II hate ladylike."
"Do you. dear?:"
I'D rather row. and run and swim. T"
Il prefer riding. Ones figure shows
BETTER"
"Oh. do you ride: Idon't any more.
] Gun only do it bareback, and mamma
says 1 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 1 do"
Il will take you out in my boat, too. -
Perhaps sometimes, though always
prefer u man."
Il can row as good us a man."
Can you, dear?:" mildly.
Better"
"How NICE"
"Do you know, 1 quite hate YOU"
"How extraordinary" Madge felt
guilty, and presently she said meekly:
Il didn't mean to be rude. I hope you
didn't think 1 did,"
And Rosa, as she sailed to breakfast.
answered sweetly. Il didn't know"
In the days that followed Madge was
no longer bothered by the men. She
was no longer the only girl at Red
Sands. In fact. no enc noticed her at
all. She was all at once just a 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 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, eve asked
her to marry him. He certainly
seemed to have forgotten all about it.
Probably he was now making the same
love to Rosa. Nudge 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
tucked up her skirts shorter than eve.
and tom-boyed around and was quite
miserable. She rowed by herself.
Nobody rode horseback now. She
swan C by herself. Nobody even
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 q lily. Madge could see that her
made her hate herself for being plump
and round. She duckcd 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 a plunge at
Ralf's aggravating curly head. The
sudden weight of her IN 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 wers held by
q strong and not very gentle grasp.
Down, down, down. It occurred to her
how neal the channel she had beer
and how swift the current ran there.
She had never been under water SO
long before. A surging sounded in her