Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-11-17
GIRL ROOMMATES' TROUBLES.
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Eve come to take sanctuary with
YOU" said the girl in the blue and
green hat. The fact is that l don I
care TO meet Louise for day or two.
Been using her postage stamps,
spilling her cologne, Or-can it be pos
sible that the lovely chiffon boa you
were displaying at the theatre the 9th
er night was hers?' asked the girl IN
the plum colOred gown.
"Oh, no. dear child, it's a great deal
worse than that. You know you pro-
phesied trouble when Louise and l took
a room together last month"
Il think | only said that no room
that was ever built was large enough
for two feminine occupants. What mas
Louise been doing then? Did she hang
her rainy day dress on the hook over
your fullest tea gown, or has she in
sisted upon monopolizing the mirror?
"N-neither; She
"Will use your curling irons, VIII she!
Well. the incest girl | ever roomed with
did that. Worse still, she used my
bonnet brush on her velvet cape. A
girl who would do a thing like that
Must come to some violent end
I know. But | must say for Louise
that she does none of these things.
She"
Refuse to get up first in the morn
ing and poke the fire then? Pshaw,
Just let it go out for morning or two
that will fetch her. know how pink
Louise's nose always turns if she gets
the least bit cold!
NO. she always attends to the fire
won't allow me to touch it, in fact. You
saw me at the theatre with Jack the
other evening, didn't you? You know
he used to call to take me out pretty Of
ten when l was at the other hqse,
but somehow things haven't gone so
well since l moved. Louise and l are
the only borders, so we share the par
lor. and
q begin to see now"
Louise will stay in the room when
Jack calls, and we seldom get word
alone To be sure, he calls oftener
than ever. but
1T does you no good with another
girl always in the room
That's it. Now, he spent Tuesday
evening with me-Us rather. ! didn't
see him a minute alone. Louise even
wanted to go to the door with him!
How ridiculous And you can't
complain to him, because of his mas
culine vanity
That's Just it. I knew, too. that he
had something to say. because he tiget-
ed so in theshall He had no chance to
say il, though, and | was not at all
surprised when I came in to the room
the following Afternoon to see one OF his
familiar grey blue envelopes on the
mantle. 1t was dusk, and | crouched
down on the hearth rug to read it. 1t
was an invitation to 90 that very even
ing to see that play of which you spoke
when | met you on Monday. BY the
way it was on Sunday that | met him,
and didn't remember mentioning the
play. OF course. though. l was pleased
to 20. He said that, as the time was
so short. he wouldn't bother me to re-
ply. but would come in hopes l would
60"
And you went?'
"Of course. You should have seen
how envious Louise was. She'd been
talking about that very play for a week.
But what puzzled me was Jacks be-
havior when he came. He seemed sur
prised to see me waiting for him.
Expected you to keep him waiting,
most likely"
And he asked so oddly for Louise"
Supposed that she wasn't in the
room, suppose"
and all evening he was so queer and
fighty that as soon as l got up this
morning had gone down to
breakfast fished out that invitation
to the theater and re-read it carefully,
hoping to find the key to the mystery
"And did you?"
eyes. hadn't looked at the envel-
ope at all. It was addressed to Louise
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