Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-01-06
WHICH GIRL WAS JACKS?
That Is Question You Can Settle TO
YOurcalf

That Is Question You Can Settle for
Yourself
I've come to take sanctuary with
you" said the girl in the blue and
green hat. The fact is that l don't
care to meet Louise for day or two
Been using her postage stamps,
splitting her cologne, or-can it be
possible that the lovely chiffon boa you
were displaying at the theatre the
other night was hers?" asked the girl
in the plum-colored gown.
20, no, dear child, it's a great deal
worse than that. You know you pro-
phesied trouble when Louise and /
took room together last month.
Il think l only said that no room
that was ever built was large enough
for two feminine occupants. What
has Louise been doing, then? Did she
hang her rainy day dress on the hook
over your fullest tea gown, or has she
insisted upon monopolizing the mir
ror?"
"N-neither; She"
will use your curling inrons, will
she? Well, the incest girl ever room
ed with did tha+. Worse still, she used
my bonnet brush on her velvet cape!
A girl who would do thing like
that
Must come to some violent end!
know But must say for Louise that
She does none of these things. She
Refuses 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 come TO call to take
me out pretty often when was at the
other house, but somehow things
haven't gone so well since | moved.
Louise and I are the only boarders,
so we share the parlor. and"
Il 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 mascu-
line vanity"
That's Just it, knew, too, that he
had something to say, because he hg-
eted so in the hall He had no chance
to say it. though, and l was not at all
surprised when l came into the room
the following Afternoon to see one OF his
familiar gray blue envelopes on the
mantle. 1t was dusk, and l crouched
down on the hearth rug to read it.
ct was an invitation to go that very
evening to see that play of which you
spoke when l met you on Monday.
Bv the way it was on Sunday that l
met him. and l didn't remember men
tioning the play. Of course, though.
I was pleased TO go. He said that, as
the time was so short, he wouldn t
bother me to reply, but would come in
hopes l would CO."
"And you went?'
III course. lou SnOulh nav DN~AA
how envious Louise was. Shed been
talking about that very play for a
week But what puzzled me was Jack
behavior when he came. He seemed
surprised to see me waiting for him"
Expected you to keep him waiting
most likely" ,
and he asked so oddly for Louise"
"Snnnosed that she wasn't in the
room, l suppose.
and all evening he was so queer
and Eighty that as soon as I got up
this morning-Louise had gone down
10 breakfast-I fished out that invi-
tation to the theatre and reread II
carefully, hoping to find the Key 10
the mystery"
"And did you?"
Eyes. l hadn't looked at the en"el-
one at all. 1t was addressed to Lou
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