Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-10-19
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me, Brenda"
1t will not excite you? II will not
make you III again."
1T would excite and worry me II
should stop now after | have made up
my mind" said Elsie. Listen, You
shall know everything but a name.
cant tell you that"
Brenda was silent. She was saying
10 herself: Il am afraid. My heart is
trembling for this girl"
1T doesn't matter when, II doesn't
matter where continued Elsie "but
when and where fate pleased I met
man who took a great liking 10 me-. |
know little now. and | knew far less
than, though II wasn't so long ago.
He was an educated man, and was
not an educated girl, but | wished that
| was. We met in a merry part aud
| expected him to talk frivo'ity. He
didn't. His conversation was very i'm
proving. Oh, he took a deep interest
in my mind.
What idiots girls are! WHY. this
man read me like book. He saw that
] was full OF yellow covered ambitions
and ten cent aspirations. He had pro.
badly seen a great many girls eJuaIiy
deserving of encouragement. Thought
he was splendid. put my hara IN his
and prepared to ascend the hill OF
learning.
1T was a supper after the theater.
and We rode to my house together in
a hanson afterward at 2 o'clock in the
morning, and the chaperon OF our pLr-
ty rode in another direction in another
hanson with another man. Ny escort
talked about the 'Rubaiyat' Of Omar
khayyam, and then first appreciated
the beauties of that sublime compost
ton. Afterward he spoke of my work
II. very earnest and encouraging way.
He let me know that he had been quite
a student of the drama and that his
criticism and advice would be % the
greatest assistance. That, AT least,
was the inference. Finally he babe me
good night on the doors,eps, with
gentle sadness in his manner which
let ME know that there was romance
in his life. That made me feel safe.
Tor at that time | surely did not want
him to fail in love with me, and still
retained the delusion of my earlier
years that romances in a persons life
acted like vaccination.
The gentleman called upon me the
next afternoon, and he was very enter
taihing as well as instructive. He
brought me a large book. | forget
what II was about. The next day he
took me out to dinner, and | remember
that he gave me some very shrewd and
helpful criticism about my work.
Then | didn't see him for two whole
days, and | began to miss him very
much. At that time was lonely My
girl friends in the profession were all
cut of town, and some of the men in
the company who wished to be kind
TO me were rough in their ways-not
al all like the cultured gentleman
whose acquaintance ] had been so for
tunate as to make"
But didn't you ask about him." said
Brenda. Didn't you find out how he
stood socially"
Elsie laughed
How was to fin dout any of those
things?" she said. The world is
big place, in the midst OF which is So
ciety as you know it, litIle mutual
Insurance company for the purpose OF
protecting It's members, especially the
younger ones, against accidents.
only knew that liked this man and
that he seemed to be a true friend 10
ne. What other guide was ! " have
except my own beautiful ienorance?'
Il don't know, said Brenda aloud
but TO herself she was saying: The
more wrong she has suffered the more
! want 70 help her. ! won't let any