The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-07-22
ON ACCOUNT OF A MAN
BY ALBERTA S. BROWNELL
BY ALBERTA S. BROWNELL

her head high up, and never a look at
anybody
Say Name was stumpedl I wish
you could have seen her She just
stood there, dumb. Nobody ever seen
Rose fare mp that way, an guess
they didn't think IL was in her Sho
put ON her hat and she marched
straight out. with never look 10 this
side nor that. Never stoppin to ask
for her pay even. SO yer kin well see
how mad she was
Wei, we didn't see no more OF Rose
from that day She might nave
dropped on the earth for all we known.
When Mr. Leighton come in the
next day somebody told him how Rose
had left
rs that so?" says he. raisin his
eyebrows, but he never made no more
remarks / supposed he didl't Ike To
show his feelin's out too plain before
everybody. After that, not KNOWN
the new girl and KNOWN Name so
| wen, he got into the way OF druppin'
/ back into her place Well at FIRST
/ she wouldn't pay no attention TO him.
/ Shed wait on him good and all that.
! but she wouldn't joke. nor chin with
/ him nor nothin'. He kept that same
/ polite, nice way with him though and
after while yer could see Name
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 It in to get
] NJ If MAJ OF Gaf
near year before she said anything.
though.
Mr. Leighton come in early for his
lunch that day and Name had just
brung his order In when she says:
Did yer hear about Rose Noonan?"
lie looked up, kinder surprised but he
says, mo, what's the news?' Well.
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 lookin' at her, kinder
queer, but he never said nothin'.
Yer know" says she, when sho
left here she went over to New York.
and tried to so 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 sho
said Il looked like she was touchin' up
her face bit. too, but they all do
that. It's too bad amt IL? Rose was
such a pretty girl. Still, yer never
can trust them quiet ones with the kit
teny ways"
Then up gets Mr.. Leighton, and he
says: Evidently yer didn't know
says he, that / was married 10 Miss
Noonan last week, and moreover"
says he. you can tell your certain
party that she's a damned liar, for it's
woman, | suppose says he. An
If yer won't tell her" he goes on,
send her to me and | will. Anybody
that slanders 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 To
miss il. Shed made II all up of whole
cloth, yer know. and she was certainly
| UOOTtut Dut not lOI lOuBs 1 Iuhl utIi
] She just tosses her head in the air
} and snifs, and she says, IF ever
fished as hard for any man as Rose
{ Noonan did for him." she says, Il bet
, II wouldn't take me no year to land
! him"
= She didn't stay to Robinson's very
long after that We made life nicer
able for the girl, iollyin' an pokin fun
at her. Last | heard of her she was
workin up in Tilden's as cloak model
maxim good money, too. She was
smart. Name was.
And Rose, they say she's got a love
ly home, and a niger waiter right al
her elbow all the time. ! heard thaI
Leighton asked her to marry him be
fore ever she left Robinson's, and she
> said no. she want good enough fol
} him, not havin' no education to speal
OF. He wouldn't hear to that. but she
held out, an at last he said he'd lik'
a to send her to school for the winte
1 and then marry her in the spring ant
a that's where she was all that yea
e when we didn't know nothin' aS0u
her.
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