Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-07-14

| gangrenous tendencies-and lengths
bilgy stuffs with bad places in Il
warp. Life was mostly serious vii
the saleswoman-ligh calculatio.
| in chair legs Renaissance or empire
and studies in chrome-red cookatoc
done in rows, had weighted her. B,
the salewoman was also liked.
And there was the tin can girl,
called by reason of much writing u
on the product. She was eligible an
nervous; stray eyewinkers made who
phrases for the tin can girl, and
fys leg, out of joint bit, stood +,
Might have been" SO plainly that ca
letters weren't worth cent yai
to the man who dictated them unit
tears relieved the T. C. girls nerv,
again.
Also was the law represented; ST
got there late on account of 'last
month and statements" she told the
in an abridged way. Dolores met ht
absently, by reason of much conceT
with reference to seating her out
the teachers range. Like shaking
red rag at BULL" she said to a hal
pin, when ''Hefty'' directed a fippaI
nothing at the last conner.
And the banjo girl, she was nc
eligible in point of years, but prett
and spontaneous, and Ike spontaneit
came last. Dolores had not stare
to invite her at all, but the ban1
g1rPs name wrote itself. In her hear
Dolores called her Wing Tee"-Go
knows why.
A table, margined with green an,
centered with Lawson pinks. was re-
| served for the spinster party
Ms. None of them had been thers
before except Dolores; just once-bl
that is another story. And so they
futtered-always excepting ''Hefty'
Into seats, Dolores telegraphing
Wing Tee to sit between the Law
woman and Hefty But Wing Tee re
fused to get the wireless ana
squeezed in between Dolores and the
wall 'I'm going, too," she gurgled
and showed her worries wickedly
"You are far and away the stun
ningest woman in the whole shebanz
Dolsie," Wing Tee told Dolores during
consumme. With fish, There's
man noticed it too, / think" Shortly
after she suspended spaghetti and
whispered excitedly: HE knows you.
I'm almost sure"
To all of which Dolores replied
Talk more to the law woman, for
Heavens sake!"
But all the same the B. G.. caught
her looking out the tail of her eyes
in the direction of the two men al
the table indicated. She also saw the
blonde mans eyes meet Dolores Chen
something happened in Dolores ia,
that made Wing Tee go back to.
olives.
AS soon as the disturbance in chit.
fon was quiet she felt for Dolores
hand under the table. Right here
Wing Tee reversed the lever and back
ed full speed down slant Of days
till she reached a. side-tracked even
ing in Dolores room: a handkerchief
box overturned and bIonde-faced
man smiling up from it's depths. She
made the connection at full speed
and was back before she raised her
meek eyes from the study of one-seed-
ed drubes.
What she saw was the blonde MAI
striding toward their table and Do
lores rising. The violins were plead
ing for something; then the hands of
the man and woman met; no word
was spoken until Dolores turned ana,
liz a voice like the delicate reach Of
chords, named him in her guests.
Whereupon the blond man got per-
mission to introduce his nephew and
brought him from the other table. By
this time there was another riot in
chiffon, and ere coffee Wing Tee and
the nephew had swapped several hun
dred glances.
AS they rose the blonde man led
Dolores a pace aside and Wing Tee
locked her hands behind her in agony
of doubt.
Presently Dolores turEed to her
friends: 'I'll have to leave you at the
door," she told them, and added shs
was "sorry.
Hefty, however, with teacn 7r 5
ear for subdivision, observed that the
protestation of sorrow had a subtle
note of JOY.
Wing Tee expressed explicit assent
in disjointed wink. go on" she
emitted through frozen lips; his
nephew is lovely!"
"Good night" Dolores told them I'M
steadily.
The saleswoman looked after her a
moment, wistfully.
The East a-calling'" Wing Tee
gurgled to the law woman, jerking
her head after the receding couple.
Whereat the law woman walked
slowly across the old common; the
stars drew down; perhaps they were
listening to tale told long ago, for
few words were spoken.
The bell smote the hour softly.
The man barred his head. ''The be-
ginning of the world again"
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