The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-07-05
ON ACCOUNT OF "A MAN
By ALBERTA S. BRoWNELL

walked out into the kitchen again,
and her face was that white way down
to her lips, yer could tell something
was goln' to happen.
She walked straight up to Name,
and she says to her:
You're a mean, contemplate sneak
she says. She always had that way of
talkin'. She got 1t from readin' SO
much, | suppose. AN I wouldn't work
in the same place with yer an hour
longer" she says. Il was leavin' to-
morrow night, anyway, but I'm goin'
now, yer low, jealous thing, yer, an
yer welcome to all my customers yer
can git" she says, snappin' her fingers
in Names face and walkin' away with
her head high up, and eve a look at
anybody.
Say, Name vas stumped! I wish
you could have seen her. She just
stood there, dumb. Nobody ever seen
Rose flare up that way, an l guess
they didn't think it was in her. She
put on her hat, and she marched
straight out, with never a look to this
side nor that. Never stoppin' to ask
for her pay even, SO yer kin well see
how mad she vas
Well, we dida't see no more of Rose
from that day. She might have
dropped off the earth for all we known.
When Mr.. Leighton come in the
next day, somebody told him how Rose
had left.
lis that 500" 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 50
well, he got into the way of droppip'
back into her place. Well, at first
she wouldn't pay nc attention to him.
She'd 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 a while yer could see Name
loosenin' up, and pretty oon she
couldn't do enough for him. Still, she
never forgot how we'd all been laugh
at her, and she had 1t in to get
back at Rose, somehow. 1t was pretty
a year before she said anything,
though.
MI, 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?
He looked up, kinder surprised, but he
mo, 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"
l seen him lookin' at her, kinder
queer, but he eve 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
gone from bad to worse. This
party seer her all ragged up in a vel
vet suit, an ostrich feathers, and she
said 1t looked like she was touchin' up
her face a bit, too, but they all do
that, It's too bad, amt it? Rose was
such a pretty girl. Still, yer never
car trust them quiet ones with the kit
teny ways"
Then up gets Mr.. Leighton, and he
rEvidently yer didn't know"
he, that / was married to Miss
Noonan last week, and moreover"
says he, you can tell your certain
party that she's a damned liar, for it's
a woman, | suppose" says he. AN
If 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, l only wish yer could
see the look of Name. !
wouldn't have took my weeks pay to
it. She'd made it all up of whole
cloth, yer know, and she was certainly
foored, but not for long. Trust her!
She just losses her head in the air
and shifts, and she says, IF ever I
ished as hard for any man as Rose
.oonan did for him." she says. II bet
1t 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 l 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 at
her elbow all the time. heard that
Leighton asked her to marry him be.
fore eve she left Robinson's, and she
said no, she want good enough for
him, not hayin' 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 to school for the winter |
and then marry her in the spring and
hats where she was all that year
when we didn't know nothin' about
her.
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