Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-10-28


then, 81 beg your pardon" he said,
vaguely.
A face was framed In the window-a
cool, slim sallow, softcheeked little
face, with eyes that bothered him.
They were very dark and very deep.
looking, like green water under a shad.
owing bank-the kind one braces him.
helf lest he slip into And Shultz, who
bad all his lie cherished the belief
that woman's eyes are given her to
see with with spectacles or without
as the case may bel clutched at his
hair and stared di2zily.
The girl laughed.
/ The laugh brought him back to the
pipe. He loved his pipe, and he
thought she was laughing at his mis-.
fortune.
Too bad" she murmured. Smash.
ed. All smashed"
There was nothing between them.
Her blue.black hair parted over her
vailed eyes like a curtain, and a comb
set with barbaric brilliants ,glittered
on her crown. He had never seen a
woman so small and slight as she.
Too bad" she repeated sorrowful
ly. An there isn't another pipe in
town"
Her voice was soft and slurring,
with a rising infection that caught at
one with an element Of tenderness and
pity, it was SO untaught His sorrow
for himself began TO change to sorrow
for her.
1T is tough" he confessed. But
don't you feel bad"
She clasped her hands and looked at
him--the dark.skinned, 1.-the, little.
boned thing.
81 mus feel bad What can do'
Oh, know mus make you a cigar
ette,"
She disappeared from the window
and appeared at the door Shultz sat
mute and wrathful in his chair, in too
great rage to speak.
He had healthy vanity, and no one
ever before had dared TO make game
OF him like this. The impudent hussy,
he thought resentfully, to attach her.
self and make him cigarettes against
his will!
But of his ire the girl was Innocent
She got down tobacco pouch and
matches, and then, with a pleased lit.
tie gesture which included him, she lit
upon his writing pad, and tore a neat
parallelogram from the very sheet
wherein he had commenced his mo-
mentous message TO the Denver school
ma am.
Shultz was paralyzed.
Now, II is pretty art TO make a Gig.
arctic. He followed her motions GU
riously. How judiciously she sifted
the tobacco into the followed groove,
How cleverly her fingers wound the
paper around the weed! How slim
her faclle fingers were.
Suddenly on her quick.moving fin.
gers, he noticed stain of yellow. A
CALLING load slipped from his outraged
ego. She was not making game of him.
She also was a smoker of cigarettes.
Then Shultz brought himself back
with a shock. He was puritanical.
The girl was impossible.
Look here" he said gruffly, Il new.
er smoke those things. Neither ought
you. It's a shame for a girl to do a
thing like that. And besides"
But she had raised the cigarette to
her lips. He had not counted on that.
A queer feeling swelled up in lis
bosom, expressing his heart.beats and
breathing.
The girl was looking at him with her
Swallowed, sea.green eyes swimming
with tears OF pain and establishment
Then, with her lips still parted, she
slowly lowered the cigarette.
Go on, he implored her. Finish
II up"
But she shook her head and started
toward the door.
Il wasn't nize." she murmured
shamefacedly. You doan even know
my name"
Shultz caught her hands.
What is your name? want to
know your name"
Let me by! I'm Mamie Romero
they call me Mamie r."
Yes; I'll let you by. But finish II up
for me- want 1t, the cigarette.
must have IT,"
He was quite daft now, was ShultZ,
and he placed himself in her way with
the reckless look which some women
witness oftener in lifetime than 9th.
ers. II may have been that the girl
had known the look before. She sigh
ed a little and moved again as If to
pass him.
Give 1t to me! You will, won't you.
Mamie RI"
She gave it to him and passed out.
And Shultz, with a quick, indrawn
breath, lifted the cigarette and kissed
ii again and again, on the damp edge
where her lips had touched it.
And that afternoon, because she did
not appear again, he broke into the