The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-07-12
ON ACCOUNT OF A MAN
BY ALBERTA S. BR0WNELL
BY ALBERTA S. BROWNELL

her head high up, and never look at
anybody.
Say, Name was stumped ] wish
you could have seen her. She just
stood there, dumb Nobody ever seen
Rose fare up that way, an guess
they didn't think It was in her. She
put on her hat and she marched
straight out. with never look to this
side nor that. Never stoppln' to ask
for her pay even. so yer kin well see
how mad she was.
Well, we didn't see no more Of Rose
from that day She might nave
dropped of the earth for an 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 didn't like to
show his feelin's out too plain before
everybody. After that, not KNOWN
the new girl and KNOWN Name so
well. he got into the way Of droppin'
back into her place. Well, at first
she wouldn't pay no attention to him.
/ She'd wait on him good, and all that,
bit she wouldn't joke, nor chin with
him nor nothin' He kept that same
| polite, nice way with him though, and
after a 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 1t in to get
back at Rose, somehow. 1t was pretty
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 Noonan2 ?"
He looked up, kinder surprised, but he
says, NO, 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 she
left here sne went Over to New York,
and tried to go on the stage, but she
want no good at 1t, and now they say
she's gone from bad to worse. This
party seen her all ragged up in vel
vet suit, an ostrich feathers, and she
said it looked like she was touchin' up
her face bit, too, but they all dc
that. It's too bad, amt it? Rose was
such pretty girl. Still, yer never
can trust them quiet ones with the kit
teny ways"
! Then up gets Mr.. Leighton, and ht
: says: Evidently yer didn't know,
says he, that was married to Miss
Noonan last week, and moreover,
J. says he, you can tell your certain
! party that she's a damned liar, for I'll
= woman, / suppose" says he. An
If yer won't tell her." he goes on
send her to me and l win. Anybody
i that slanders my wife says he. "hai
y got to answer 70 me for it, and b
g goes out.
{ Well, wish, only wish yer coul.
2 have seen the look Of Name.
wouldn't have took my weeks pay &
:, miss 1t. Shed made ii all up Of who'll
q cloth, yer know, and she was certainl.
noored. but not for long. Trust her
S She just tosses her head in the al
e and sniffs. and she says, If ever
r hshed as hard for any man as Ros
II Noonan did for him." she says, ! be
e it wouldn't take me no year to Ian
n him."
L She disln't stay to Robinson's yer
n long after that. We made life mi@el
is able for the girl, jollyin' an pokin' ia
n at her. Last heard of her she wa
.5 workin' up in Tilden's as cloak mode
n maxim good money, too. She wa
e smart, Name was.
e And Rose. they say she's got lovs
u ly home. and a niger waiter right a
10 her elbow all the time. heard tha
le Leighton asked her to marry him b
10 fore ever she left Robinson's, and sh
y said no, she want good enough fc
= him, not havin no education TO spea
y Of. He wouldn't hear to that, but sh
held out. an at last he said he'd lih
to send her to school for the wintt
Ia and then marry her in the spring an
that's where she was all that yes
le when we didn't know nothin aSol
her.
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