Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1905-02-02
ONE MORNINGS
WORK
By BEATRICE FINLEY

By BEATRICE +.

ON, III sure you Will do it Just as
WELL said the man, looking Mt 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 Il flea
let alone big. husky chap like me- be-
sides. Ive-er-Tve got to get out of
here pretty soon"
We'll, please sit down." said the girl,
motioning to chair by the table. land
excuse me while get things ready"
In Il few minutes she returned car
rying Il glass bowl filled 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
were exactly the same color.
81 thought I'd 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 curly because it doesn't pay to
keep many girls down here. and yet
when peo,lc do come in they all want
to be waited on 1T once"
You must have to work pretty
hard" faid Wilson, looking at her rosy
tipped fingers.
~ cs." said the girl, although many
girls envy me and do not believe that l
work ut all. My-ny hours are long"
Wilson was dab0lins his fingers in
the scented water
Il read something in the paper once
about how YOU pretty manicuriug girls
sometimes marry into the rich fami-
lies. | expect YOU al want to come to
these summer resorts
She bent lower over his hand and
said in a mulled 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 curiously.
"They are rather tiresome lot, aren't
they! 1t seems to me they have rath
er a 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"
"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 bit preju-
diced" said the girl but her face was
serious. He waNed confidential
II do not mind telling YOU he said,
that | came here not so much to get
my hands done as to find out some
er-wcll 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 strlcb it richi' said the
girl, looking up at linn, with laugh.
"Well, we have Il pretty good thing
of it." said Wilson. But it doesn't
mean so much to me as it does to Mr..
Van Twiller."
Tie 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.
MI Van Twiller does not need any
more money
"Humph. A New York man never
gets enough, and l understand he
wants to buy good old English title
for q pretty daughter of his, and |
suppose the biggest part Of his money
will 20 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 herF'
oh 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 TwiIler, and, between
you ana me, when we got up to that
palace Of his and ! saw people in the
parl0r and on the porch in evening
party logs | 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 | just wired
back 10 town for q dress suit, and /
bet it will be here by dinner time to-
night or there VIII be something doing
when | get back to that hotel in New
York. / may have come out of the
zinc mines, but I am not playing the
David Harum' act before Van Twill
ler's crowd"
A shadow fell on the floor; a stout
smartly clad woman paused N the
doorway. She almost gasned ut sight
of tho cornlo nj the table "Oh, Miss -