Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1905-01-10


"Oh. I'm sure you will do it just a,
WE'LL" said the man, looking at he
with frank. almost boyish, admiration.
But | amer only a beginner sale
the girl in blue, trying hard not t,
smile, land | might hurt YOU"
The man threw back his head ant
laughed until the little French curtain.
at the open windows fairly shook.
Il don't believe you could hurt a flea
let alone a big, husky chap like me; be
sides, I've er-I've got to get out Of
here pretty soonr'
We'll, please sit down. said the girl
motioninG to chair by the table 'and
excuse me while get things ready"
In few minutes she returned, car
rying a glass bowl filed with tepid wa,
ter, and laid forth the implements OF
the manicurist. Her eyes were dane
ing. Gerard Wilson watched her every
move with interest. He had already
discovered that her dress and her eyes
We're exactly the same color.
II thought I'd come around early
he 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
keep many girls down here, and yet
when people do come in they all want
to be waited on at once"
You must have to work pretty
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 mufiied voice: well. some OF
US don't want TO marry the sons of
rich families. We-er-know them too
WE'LL
The man looked at her curi0usly.
They are rather tiresome lot, aren't
they? 1t seems to me they have rath-
err stupid time of it 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. ''Well, 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"
Il 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
just how they'd do things
around here You see, | 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 in 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 1t rich!' said the
girl looking up at him, with laugh.
well. we have pretty good thing
Of it, said Wilson. But 1t 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.
MIR. Van Twiller does not need any
more money
'Humph. A New York man never
gets enough. and l understand he
wants to buy a good old English title
for a pretty daughter Of his. and !
suppose the biggest part of his money
will go into the title"
Her face was flushing now. Il do
not think Miss Van TwilIer is for
sale"
The man looked at her curiously
"Do you know her"
ooh. yes, very well; she comes here
very often
"Well, | 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 I saw people in the
parlor and on the porch in evening
party toys I got one OF the best ready
TO wear headaches you ever saw.
thought your summer boy wore white
ducks or light fianfiels at these resorts,
and that was all | brought besides the
business suit / were, 20 / Just wired
back to town for a dress suit. and I
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
er's crowd,
A shadow fell on the floor: stout,
smartly clad woman paused In the
doorway. She almost gasped at sight
3f the couple at the table. "0h. Miss
The girl throw her warning
glance. but she could not stem the tide
IF apology.
Il would not have this happen for
the worldr' The newcomer was Tisi-