Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1904-12-24
ONE MORNINGS
WORK
By BEATRICE FINLEY
Copyright. 1904. by X. NJ. Whitehead

the porcelain blue linen as she rose Il
trifie uncertainty from the chair be
hind the white manicuring table.
''Oh. I'm sure you will do il just as
WELL said the man. looking ut her
with frank. almost boyish. admiration.
But | am er-Only beginner" said
the girl in blue. trying hard not TO
smile. and | might hurt You
The man threw back his head and
laughed until the little French curtains
at the open windows fairly shook.
Il don't believe You could hurt flea,
let alone Il big. husky chap like me: be-
sides. I've er-I've got TO get out of
here pretty soon
Well please sit down" said the girl,
motioning 10 a chair by the table. ''and
excuse me while get things ready"
In few minutes she returned. car
rying Il glass bowl filled with tepid wa
ter. and laid forth the implements of
the manicuriSt. Her eyes We're dane
ing. Gerard Wilson watched her every
move with interest. He had already
discovered that her dress and her eyes
u thought Id come around early"
he explained. before the place gets
crowded.
She nodded her head. Il always do,
too" she said. then caught herself sud-
denly. Il mean we like customers to
come early because il doesn't pay to
keep many girls down here. and yet
w In do I'm, all
to be waited on ut once
You must have to work pretty
hard" said Wilson. looking nj her rosy
tipped fingers.
Yes said the girl although many
girls envy me and do not believe that l
work ut all. My-my hours are long"
Wilson was dabbling his fingers in
the scented water.
Il read something in the paper once
about how you pretty manicuring girls
sometimes marry into the rich fami-
lies. ] expect You all want to come to
these summer resorts
She bent lower over his hand and
said i'm n mufiied voice: well. some of
us don't want to marry the sons of
WELL
The man looked at her curiously
They are rather tiresome lot. aren't
they: II seems to me they have rath.
er a stupid time of II with their eter.
nal round Of house parties. yachts and
games Now. out where | am the men
do things
The girl looked at him quickly and
sharply. We'll. the men do things
here too. They have to make money
to spend it like this"
''Oh. no. they don't" said Wilson de-
cidedly. Most of them hardly know
what their offices look like in New
York. Their fathers do the work. or.
If their fathers are dead. some of their
fathers old friends manage the family
fortune and keep the boys in an in
come that will permit $4,000 automo-
biles and ten dollar silk stockings"
81 am afraid you are a bit preju-
diced" said the girl. but her face was
serious. He waxed confidential.
Il do not mind telling YOU" he said.
''that | came here not so much to get
my hands done as to find out some
er-well. just how they'd do things
around here. You see. l am an Illinois
man born and bred. never even went in
for society in Chicago, but just as soon
as | left college ! struck out for the
, zinc fields i'm Missouri. and I've stuck
there ever since. You don't keep up
with the styles when you are develop
ing zinc Mines
"Have you struck it rich:" said the
girl, looking up at him. with Il laugh.
well. we have a pretty good thing
Of II" said Wilson. But ii doesn't
mean so much to me as IL does to Mr..
Van Twiller"
The girl dropped her file. and it took
both of them TO find ii in the folds of
her pretty morning gown. Then she
went to work again.
Mr. Van Twiller does not need any
more money
"Humph. A New York man never
gets enough. and understand he
wants to buy good old English title
for pretty daughter of his. and
suppose the biggest part of his money
will go into the title
Her face was flushing now Il dc
not think Miss Van Twiller is for
sale"
The man looked at her curiously.
do you know her?'
"Oh. yes. very well: she comes here
very often"
"Well. / haven't seen her yet l
came up on the late boat last night
with Mr.. Van Twiller and. between
you and me. when we got up to that
palace of his and l saw people in the
psrlor and on the porch i'm evening
party toys l got one of the best ready
to wear headaches you ever saw.
thought your summer boy wore white
ducks or light fiannels at thes@ resorts.
and that was all brought besides the
business suit I wore so just wired
back to town for dress suit. and
bet It will be here by dinner time to-
night or there will be something doing
when l get back to that hotel in New
York. | may have come out of the
zinc mines. but am not playing the
David Harum' act before Van Twill