Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-01-08
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What is that for?" asked the Little

Lady.
It was ten.dollra bill. framed and
glazed, hanging on the wall of the Of
| lice.
In memory of an honest debtor,
spilled the Disseminated Man.
Are they SO rare, then?" she
asked.
VERY. And then the circumstances
of that payment were unusual. We
had tenant "a little chorus girl, who
lived in little room in one of our
buildings She was out of work. Had
been ill., Hard up and behind with
her rent Lord only knows how she
lived. Mostly on pickles. tea and
breakfast food cooked over a gas jet.
Poor little ballroom girl. But she was
honest, and whenever she earned
anything she paid dollar or two on
her rent and struggled along, eking
out her pennies with all the lodges
girls know, washing handkerchiefs
and sticking them on the window
panes instead of ironing, doing up lace
collars by rolling them round curl
ing iron and"
at SENS to me-" said the Little
Lady, that you know too much"
81 beg your pardon?"
Nothing. Go on
"At last she got an engagement to
go on the road, and she was as happy
as the queen of Tarsacon. She owed
us $40 and some little scores to other
people, and before she left she called
on each one and told them she would
lay as soon as she received her sal
airy.
Il told her All right; no hurry and
so she passed on after the fashion of
tenants.
1t was December 80 of that year,
in the afternoon, and | was alone and
working on some accounts when /
felt sort of cold draft, and / raised
my head to see who was coming in,
thinking the door had been opened,
and bescide my desk stood Miss Patsy
Vane. She had come in so softly that
| h Int heard her.
Why, how are your l said When
did you get back? Have you left the
company
She sat down before answering
The show has closed, she said /
just got back and want to pay my
debt And she opened her little peck
etbook and took out a ten-dollar bill
and handed it to me- AS took it |
noticed that she had a bigared mark
across her fingers, and as 7 wrote a
receipt l asked, What's the matter
with your hand?
" i burnt it, said she.
Il gave her the receipt and she fold
ed it and put it in her pocketbook and
stood up. Thank you so much for
waiting, she said, you have been aw-
fully kind to me. Good-by.' She hest.
tated a moment and then extended
her hand and took it. Her fingers
were very cold.
Good-by,' said, and l walked to
the door with her, opened it for her
and so she went away. In a short |
time some of the other fellows came
in, and ! laid aside my accounts and
went out, and as l got out in the street
the newsboys were barking about the |
lroquois theater fire. Good luck that |
Patsy got out before thought. |
Why she said the show had closed? |
and bought paper and saw that the !
Bluebeard company was playing there |
at the time of the fire.
"Still, thought she had left the
company until in next days papers |
saw that among the lost was Patsy |
Vane, and then l knew that in broad |
day / had sen and talked with her
spirit, just released | might have |
thought had dozed and dreamed. but
in the cash drawer of the safe was
the ten-dollar bill, just like any Other |
bill, except that one end was scorched
When the members of the com
pany struggled back to New York
saw Patsy's chum. oh, she said
Poor, poor Patsy. Sse was SO glad to
get to work and saved to pay whas
she owed in New York, and that after
noon she told me she had all paid bm
ten dollars rent, and she had lust 60,
lat and would sent it next day. Whe1
The fire came we started out together
and she would have got out, only she
said u forgot my rockotbook," ana
she ran back for it, and never got
1ut'
$50 | kept that bill and had il
framed as a souvenir Of a remarkable
experience"
DO you expect III TO believe that?'
lsked the Little Lady.
No" coolly said the DISCONTINUED
Nan, but just the same it's true. and
he paid it to me sitting right in that
hair you're sitting in now"
The Little Lady got up hastily and
moved to another chair.
Il did not think you were the kind
# man to have such fancies, she
aid.
4 didn't think so myself" said the
Disseminated Man, but It seems that
o me it was appointed"
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