Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-11
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 - are to the police-if they could only get their hands on you)- we'll, Tom drew off the crowd, having passed the old gentleman's watch to me, and I made for the women's rooms.
 The station was crowded, as It al- ways is in the afternoon, and in min ute was strolling into the big, square room, saying slowly to myself to keep me steady:
 Nancy, you're a college girl-just in from Bryn MaWr to meet your papa. Just see if your hats on straight"
 did, going up to the big glass and looking beyond my excited face to the room behind me There sat the woman who can never nurse her baby except where everybody can see her, in rail- road station. There was the woman who's always hungry, nibbling choco- dates out of a box; and the woman fal- ien asleep, with her hat on the side, and hairpins dropping out of her hair; and the woman who's beside herself with fear that she'll miss her train; and the woman who is taking notes about the other women's rigs. And
 And I didn't like the look of that man with the cap who opened the swinging door a bit and peeped in. The .womens waiting room is no place for . man-nor for a girl who's got some body else's watch inside her waist. Luckily, my back was toward him, but just as the door swung back he might have caught the reflection of my face in mirror hanging opposite to the big one.
 retreated. going to an inner room swhere the ladies were having the maid brush their gowns, soiled from subur- ban travel and the dirty station.
 The deuce is in it the way women stare. I took of my hat and jacket for a reason to stay there and hung them up as leisurely as could.
 Nance I said under my breath. to 4he alert-eyed. pug-nosed girl in the mirror, who gave quick glance about the room as I bent to wash my hands, ~women stare cause they're women. There's no meaning in their look. If they were men, now, you might twit- ter"
 smoothed my hair and reached out my hand to get my hat and jacket when when
 Oh, it was long; long enough to cover you from your chin to heels! 1t was a dark warm red, and it had high collar of chinchilla that was fairly scrumptious. And just above it the hat hung. red-cloth toque caught up on one side with some of the same fur.
 The black maid misunderstood my involuntary gesture. had all my best duds on. and when lot of women stare 1t makes the woman they stare at pea cock naturally. and-and-well. ask Tom what he thinks of my style when I'm on parade. At any rate, il was the maids fault She took down the coat and hat and held them for me as though they were mine. What could do. 'cept just slip into the silk-lined beauty and set the toque on my head? The fool girl that owned them was having another maid mend tear in her skirt. over iE the corner: the little place was crowded. Anyway. I had both the coat and hat or and was out into the big anteroom in a 5iffy.
 What nearly wrecked me was the cut of that coat It positively made ne ehiver with pleasure when passed and saw myself in that long mirror. My but was great. The hang of that coat. the long. incurving sweep in the back and the high fur collar up 10 ones nose -eyen if it is a turned-up nose-oh,
 I stayed and looked for second toe long. for just as was pulling the far ing hat bit over my face. the doors swung, an old lady came in. and there behind her was that same curious man 2: face with the cap above it.
 Trapped? Me? Not much, I didn wait minute. but threw the doors oper with gesture that might have belonget to the queen of Spain. I almost ran into his arms. He gave an exclamation. looked him straight in the eyes as hooked the collar close to my throat ant swept past him.
 lie weakened That coat was too joIll i1uch for him r vas for me. too. Al ran down the stairs. its influence s, worked on me that ! didn't know jus which Vanderbilt was
 got out ou the sidewalk all right. ar, was just about to rake car when n, turnstile swung round. and there va. that same man with tha cap. His far, was funny mixture Of doubt and de termination Bu- it means the Cor rectiou fo- me
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