The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1905-01-27
ONE MORNINGS
WORK
By BEATRICE FINLEY
Copyright, 1904, by X. NJ. Whitehead

Madame is out" said the girl in
the porcelain blue linen as she rose Il
/ .rihe uncertainty from the chair be-
hind the white manicuring table
! "Oh, I'm sure you will do it just rs
/ well" said the man, looking ut her
4 with frank almost boyish, admiration.
But | am-er-only beginner" said
/ the girl in blue, trying hard not to
smile, and l 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, Tve-er-Pve got to get out of
here pretty soon"'
| well, please sit down." said the girl,
motioninS to chair by the table. land
excuse me While get things ready"
/ In Il few minutes she returned, car
: rying 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. lie had already
uiSCoN Cltb lHuI HtL Ill eSS Iltl llcI ON is
were exactly the same color.
Il thought I'd come arourd early"
lie explained. before the place gets
/ crowded.
She nodded her head. 81 always do,
| too" she said then caught herself sud
denly. Il mean we like customers to
come early because it doesn't pay to
. Enar rirIS nd of
when people do come in they all want
to be waited on at once"
You must have to work pretty
I hard" said Wilson, looking at her rosy
tipped fingers.
Yes" said the girl, although many
/ girls envy me and do not believe that
work at 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 in a muflied voice: well, some of
rich families. We-er-know them too
we'll"
The man looked at her curiously.
They are rather tiresome lot aren't
| they? 1t seems to me they have rath-
er stupid time of it with their eter-
nal round Of house parties, yachts and
games. Now, out where l am the men
do things"
The girl looked at him quickly and
sharply. ''Well, the men do things
here too They have to make money
to spend it like this"
ooh, 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"
II am afraid you are bit preju-
diced" said the girl, but her face was
serious He waXed confidential.
Il do not mind telling you," he said,
l.
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
zine fields in Missouri, and I've stuck
! there ever since. You don't keep up
with the styles when you are develop
ing zinc Mines
"Eave you struck it rich?' said the
girl, looking up at him, with laugh.
"Well, we have pretty good thing
| of it." said Wilson. But it doesn't
mean so much to me as it does to Mr..
| Van Twiller."
The girl dropped her file, and it took
both of them TO find it in the folds of
her pretty morning gown. Then she
went to work again.
Mr.. Van Twiller does not need any
| more money
"Humph. \ New York man never
| gets enough, and | understand he
wants to buy Il good old English title
for Il pretty daughter of his, and l
suppose the biggest part of his money
will go into the title"
Her face was flushing now. Il do
not think Miss Van Twiller is for
| sale"
The man looked at her curiously.
do you know herr"
"Oh, yes, very we'll; she comes here
very often"
'Wel, l haven't seen her yet
/ 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 | saw people in the
| parlor and on the porch in evening
| party toys | got one of the best ready
| to wear headaches you ever saw. !
! thought your summer boy Wore white
| ducks or light tlannels at these resorts,
and that was all | brought besides the
| business suit wore, SO l just wired
| back 10 town for Il dress suit. and |
bet it will be here by dinner time to-
night or there will be something doing
when I get back to that hotel in New
| York. | may have come ont of the
zinc mines. but | am not playing the
David Harum' act before Van Twill
lers crowd"
A shadow fell on the floor; n stout,
smartly clad woman paused in the