Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1907-07-24
ON ACCOUNT OF A MAN
Ely ALBERTA S. BROWNELL

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anybody.
Say, Name was stumped. wish
you could have seen her. She Just
stood there, dumb. Nobody ever zen
Rose fare up that way. an l gness
they didn't think it was in her. She
put on her hat, and she marched
straight out. with never a lcoS TO this
side nor that. Never stoppin 20 ask
Tor her pay even. so yer kin wei zee
how mad she was.
Well, we didn't see no more OF lt.,se
from that day. She might kase
dropped OF the earth for all we know n.
When Mr.. Leighton come in tro
next day, somebody told him how Rose
had left.
rs that 500" says he, raisin' MS
eyebrows. but he never made no III Sre
remarks. j supposed he didn't Xix 30
show his feelin's out too plain beto'a
everybody. After that. not KNOWN
the new girl and KNOWN Name 50
Wen, he got into the way OF dropp.n'
back into her place. Well. at f.st
she wouldn't pay no attention TO him.
She'd wait on him good, and all Il Al
but she wouldn't joke, nor chin with
him nor nothin'. He kept that came
polite, nice way with him though, aud
after a while yer could see Maine
loosenin up, and pretty soon she
couldn't do enough for him. Still she
never forgot how we'd all been laugh.
IN at her, and she had IL in "a re;
back at Rose, somehow. Ii was pretty
near year before she said anything
though.
Mr.. Leighton come in early for his
lunch that day and Name had jlst
brung his order In when she SAYS:
Did yer hear about Rose Noonan?"
He looked up. kinder surprised, but he
says, NO, what's the news" We'll
she says. tossin' her head in that way
she has, well, a certain party was
tellin' me-" she says, that Rose has
gone TO the bad entirely"
seen him Iookin' at her, kinder
queer. but he never said nothin'.
Yer know" says she, when she
left here she went over to New York
and tried to go on the stage. but she
want no good at it, and now they say
she's gone from bad TO worse This
party seen her all ragged up in a vel
vet suit, an ostrich feathers, and ste
said IL looked like she was touchin' up
her face bit, too. but they all 10
that. It's too bad amt il? Rose was
such pretty girl. Still yer never
can trust them quiet ones with the Kit
teny ways"
Then up gets Mr.. Leighton, and he
f1xy az .
says he, that | was married to Miss
Noonan last week, and moreover
says he. you can tell your certain
party that she's damned liar. for it's
a woman, | suppose" says he AN
II yer won't tell her" he goes on.
send her TO me and | will. Anybody
that ISLANDERS my wife" says he. has
got to answer to me for it," and he
goes out.
Well, / wish. ! only wish yer could
have seen the look OF Name.
wouldn't have took my weeks pay tc
miss it. Shed made ii all up of whole
cloth, yer know, and she was certainly
fioored, but not for long. Trust her!
She just losses her head in the air
and shifts, and she says, IF ever
fished as hard for any man as Rose
Noonaa did for him." she says. Il bet
it wouldn't take me no year to land
him"
She didn't stay TO Robinson's very
long after that. We made life miser.
able for the girl, jollyin' an pokin fun
at her. Last / heard Of her she was
workin up in Tidens as cloak model
maxim good money, too. She was
smart. Name was
And Rose, they say she's got love
ly home. and niger waiter right at
her elbow all the time. / heard that
Leighton asked her to marry him be
fore ever she left Robinson's. and she
said no, she want good enough for
him. not havin' no education to speak
Of He wouldn't hear to that. but she
held out, an at last he said he'd like
10 send her 10 school for the winter
and then marry her in the spring and
that's where she was all that year
when we didn't know nothin' about
her.
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