Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-08-21

"'0h, she's always like that sale
Ethel. She's such funl She's the wit
test girl in the club and as quick a.
a fash
Well, she's too speedy for me,
said l, and if you've any more like
her, just keep them off. l can't quit,
assimilate that buoyant personality
of hers
"About a month after Ethel sent
me two tickets for the Comb and
Brush clubs vaudeville peri
az can't be there, she wrote; I'm
going to Florida, but 1 want you to
go and am sending you these tickets
with my compliments and much love.
"But 1 thought Of Oleander Hook
and weakly capitulated by deciding
l wouldn't go. I'd have to cut her,
and Oleander seemed so explosive
there was no knowing what might hap
pen.
"But that day in came Mrs. Fairfax,
cousin of Ethel's, and l told her l
wasn't going and asked her if she
didn't want the tickets.
"'But you must come she said.
It's going to be such fun
$50 l went with Mrs. Fairfax. In
the distance as we entered ! saw
Oleander. She had on another doggy
Cooking gown and derby hat.
Fancy! in the EVENING" She fastened
her gaze on me, but I looked through
her.
"She kept coming nearer and near
err, smiling broadly at me, but just
didn't see her. Then she sat down
near me and began to talk loud to
another girl. 1 paid no attention
whatever to her.
"Finally she leaned over and
plucked me by the sleeve. l know
it's a Shakespearean sort of express
sion, but that's just what she did.
She caught the sleeve between her
finger and thumb and gave it little
tug just as a fox terrier would do
with its teeth.
81 looked around and coldly con-
fronted her, grinning broadly.
ooh, 1 said, Miss Hook, l believe,
isn't it?'
"'That's just who it is began the
dreadful girl, you didn't see me, did
your
eyes, saw YOU I said.
"'Well, you didn't know me then
she blurted.
You-er-had a different hat on,
I believe, when l met YOU l said,
eying the derby.
"'Do you always know people by
their bats?' she said.
"'Not always; only sometimes I
Neplisd.
\"Mrs. Fairfax came to the rescue
h%e.
said\
o." suppose 1t is I said. But I'm
so eaAily scared
"oT&rrible thing to have such shy
disposikion,' said Oleander.
"'YoNre not troubled that way,
Miss HOAX I remarked.
ooh, Nm all right she said. Pm
on earth \ nd don't you forget it,
"'You'n Not let me forget it, l fear
I said.
cpd hate\ to be a dead on said
Oleander. \
I remarked.
"'Oh, be clubpy,' she said. Life is
too short to cheNE the rag. Let us go
to the trapeze, Lady Jane
81 moved out on Miss Hooks aura.
Her relentness gaN followed me. I
felt and I knew thA t she was saying
things.
about three 7eekH after I got a
note written on the Aeayy paper Of
the Comb and Brush clu\ p with the odd
emblems of the associaN ion engraved
on top. The writing looISd as though
1t had been done with a Match dipped
in stove polish. 1t said:
Dear Lady Jane: We're 81 ia the bad on
our vaudeville show and gueA it's about
up to you as your name isn't d n n among
the purchasers and you must havN craWled
In under the tent. But it won't do OLD girl!
Just drop that high and mighty toVch-me'
not air of yours long enough to cough up
81! And be quick aboutit See? FaNthIuI-
" yours, OLEANDER HOOK,
Treasurer the Comb ard BrAsh.
N. Y Sup.