Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1906-12-20

and had 10 have her hair cut, and, dis
liking short hair, she wore a-a-weli,
not exactly wig"
"A switchg"
"Hes;l guess that's what you call it,
Well, in trying to cross Deer creek on
some slippery powders one day when
We were all out fishing, she and one of
the other girls slipped and got into
pretty deep water, We had a great
time pulling them out, They were
soaked from head TO feet, and in try
ing 10 dry the switch at the camp fire
il got burned she said she did not
mind the value entirely, but il was SO
hard TO match; she had paid small
fortune for that one. She really looks
pretty with short curls, but won't be
happy till she matches her switch
again, But even with the switch there
wasn't such an everlasting lot of il a.
you seem TO have, and 50 fine and softl''
And he touched 1t gently, as If it were
something precious,
Beyond the pleasure of his eompli'
ments Mile was recalling all the sto-
ries she had read and wept over OF
beautiful maldens who had sold their
long locks To buy their family bread.
| Must she do this? 1t was all she had
No pretty clothes, no iewelry; tan on
hands and face, Why, even Roy seemed
to admire ii more than anything else
about her, Ii il were cut OFF would he
ever come all the way up here to see
her again, bringing into her life the
touch of young companionshipa and the
brightness of the outside world that
had been more TO her than she had
| realized?
But, IA small fortune!" Her fathers
face at midnight haunted her. Al
what sacrifice had he stopped? Every
thing had gone to Golden Hair" the
mine that was her cruel namesake
Would it not be only appropriate to
| give this, too?
Roy" she said, To the enthusiasts
tic youth, looking at her so approx.
ingly, wouldn't | be fright if II
wasn't just for my hair? Would
you--would you like me without it?'
His eyes opened wide.
You see, Washed it this morning
because my head ached; perhaps it is
too heavy. If l had it cut off, per.
haps my head wouldn't ache. If ]
cut it off, do you think Miss Blayre
would really buy it?"
When he heard how the father had
come home, he understood about the
headaches and the mercenary willing
ness to trade golden locks for green
backs. His young heart, too, swelled
with impotent desire to help.
When he met her at his sisters in
| Golden, to take her to the gradua
ton exercises at the hall, he looked
at her twice as if to be sure she was
the same girl.
"Well, what is ito" she laughed
and dimpled saucily.
What is it-you?" he retorted
What has happened? What hav,
you done to yourself? Has some
thing happened?" he repeated eager
| ly, looking at her happy eyes spark
ling so bewitchingly under her luxu
rious golden pompadour, $50 that yo,
won't need Toto" and he touched
/ the wonderful pompadour fearfully
with one finger.
well, on the principle that tn,
condemned convict gets a squar,
meal and his last luxury" she sale
mischievously, Il determined t,
spend my last dollar on a shampoo
not the kind have been used to Civ
ing it up in the creek, but the regu
lar hairdresser sort-and Couture.
as they call what / call fixing it
and this is one result. Do you lik,
itP And she turned her head dain
tily as bird, from side to side be
fore his admiring eyes.
you look stunning!" was his sat
isfactory reply.
But here's the miracle she wen
on, her eyes dancing more gladl,
than ever. "The girl who did m,
hair was the conversational kind o
a female barber"
"Oh!" he groaned; 81 didn't know
you had them, too"
well we don't mind; we don't o.,
so often, and it was lucky for m,
this one was. While washing m,
hair, she asked politely: Excuse
me, but don't you do something
That wasn't very definite, and
didn't get her point. / said l di,
things occasionally. Then she aske,
me if | did not work in a frameshon
| did not understand her 1t seem
she comes from the east. and sb,
went on to say that the gold-leaf ha,
gotten into my hair and on NV seal,
Just like it did back there in the hal;
of the girls that worked at gildin,
picture frames, but she had no
heard OF frame factory in Denver
When ] told her ] did not know any
thing about such work, she asked M
what | used on my hair and how
washed it. | told her the only fixing
it got was little soap and that
washed it in the creek at home be
cause the water was so nice and soft
"'Oh! she said I've heard of then
; washing gold in the creeks: placer
! mining, you call it. don't your An,
| thpp IL dayynaJ ~