The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-08-10

Isake, let me talk TO YOU,
mo, don't say anything. You
lid must let me tell you, Me-
1873 don't call the other girls.
cant bear to tell this to anv.
body but you.
fou know how kicked when Tom
~ on Lattmers as the place we wera
" scnttle, And the harder / kiclsea
she stnbhorner he got. tin he swora
ne 90 the job without me If /
wouldn't come along. Well--this i
the rest of ii. =
ne mouse. You know. stands at tha
ena OF the street II vou could wall,
shfangh the garden with the iron fenca
wv come right down the bluff an
g me docks and out into East riyar
iom and came up to ii from tha
uocks last night. 1t was dark ana
wet, you remember. The mnd VA
thiok On my trousers Nance cldenls
4 BOY every time when it comes u
doing business.
Wen blow It all In, Tom" said
~ we Climbed. Wen spend week
AZ me Waldorf and then. Tom nor
gan we'll 60 to Paris. want rad
soat and nat with chinchilla. like that
near one lost and a low-neck satin
gown, and silk petticoat with 1aca
WIG eaain with rhinestones, and.
'eTt wall sls, Till You get out OF
tals And keep still.
/ can't. I'm 50 fidgety must talk
or I'll shrek,
vel, you'll shut up just the same.
20 you hear mel"
smut up, but my teeth chartered %
ehat Tom stopped at the gate.
Look here. Nance, are you going to
onnMf say 1t now-yes or no
Lat made me mad
TOM Dorgan," | said, ''T1l bet yorr
own teeth chartered the first time Won
went IN for thing like this. I'm ali
FiGht You'll squeal before | do
mats more like Here's the gate,
tts locked, Come. Nance"
with a good. strong swing he boost
ed me over. handed me the bag of
coos and sprang over himself. He
ioQked Kind O. handsome and fine. NV
ION as he lit square and light on his
teet beside me. And because he did
put my arm In his and gave it q
squeeze
On Mag, II was so funny, going
Wrcugn Latimer's gardenl There was
the garden table where had sat read
lhs and thinking he took me for Miss
othar There was the bench where
,hat beast NORWAY sat sneering at
me The wheeled chair was gone,
ard II was 80 late everything looked
asleep Bnt something was left be-
nihd that made me think heard
Letimer's slow silken voice. and made
me reel cheap turned inside out like I
~ empty porket--a dirty, ragged
pocket with seam in 1t. !
you'll stay here. Nancy. and \
Watch" Tom whispered. sYonW !
once y a cop comes inside the
;afe, but not before he's inside the 4
sa'e. Don't whistle too soon--mind IL
lat--nor too loud III hear We all 4
'iSht. And@lll whistle just once II 4,
anything happens. Then you run N
lear mes Run Ike the devil" II
Tommy. y
We'll what?" "
"NpthlnE-all right" wanted to
ay good sby-hut YOU know Tom. hi
Mag, were you ever where YOU re
ughtnt y be at Neutrality-suspicious.? lis
so know You weren't Twas your
ely little face and your hair that tn
avcd you--the red hair we used to guy tn
~ me Cruelty. ] can see you now W.
"a ireckle-faced, thin little devil. with Ia
ne tangled hair to the very edge Of
our ragged skirt yanked In that frst
ay 10 the Cruelty when the neighbors ri
orphaned Your crying wouldn't let m,
m sleep nights. The old woman had an
~ locked YOU IN there. hadn't abe. be-
J starve when she III out Mothers
reE queer. amt they, when they are u,
icer. J never remember mine.
Yes Ill 10 on ~,
stood II all right for time. out on
Icfe alone In the night hut never AZ
nsl one to wait patiently. can't .
ait---it isn't In me But there I had AZ,
stand and just- -God!--iust walt sa,
AZ hadn't waited 40 hard AZ thu u
Try irst wouldn't IA given out "a ~
on. But 4 stood 80 still and listened thn
\ t0fflbly hard that the trees began \