Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-23
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and showing her pretty teeth like she
used to, but there was something about
the set of her lips that made her look
vicious. like an angry coyote:
same old fool Tom, and I can't under
stand you being in this live with such
clothes on. What kind Of a man did you
marry, anyway, that stands for thing
like this?'
That's just it. Tom.' she says. It's
him. I can't help it. deed can't-he
makes me do it; and / am so tired of it
all that I am just ready to drop. He
drinks and carries on awful. and swears-
my, you wouldn't believe how that man
swears now right before Sadie and she is
picking it up. too. Sadie is our little girl.
Tom. five years DID, and just as cute and
pretty as she can be: looks like / did, 1
guess-though John says I look like a
Piute squaw now. You will see her in a
few minutes; she does white turn with
me in a coon song, and Lacey gives lis a
dollar a week extra for it. / don't look
like Piute saua ,, ., do !: TONI ON I look
rolled up her calcimined eyes at me,
kinder lovin' like. just made me sick.
<<VY7ELL. I gazed at her painted up and
w spangled over like a Piute squaw
sure enough, and I felt like getting down
on my knees right there and thanking the
Lord for being good and saving me from
the likes of her. I bought another bottle
of wine and let her run on with her talk,
because I wanted to kill my calf love
stone dead. Why. I tell you there wasn't
anything too sacred for that woman to
dig up and make a fuss over: but she
thought she was doing it all right, she
didn't know how 1 felt. After a while she
got to fixing my necktie and picking the
threads off of my coat and fool things
like that; wanted to know where I'd been
and what I'd been doing. When l told
her I was going back to Trinidad to buy
the old ranch. she squeezed out tear or
two that she had to dry with little pats
of her handkerchfef-you bet she didn't
dare to wipe the enameling on that face
and said, MY. you must be awful rich.
Tom; 1 wish had married you instead of
John. He's as mean to me as he can be
and abuses me terrible when he Is drunk.
He slapped me on the mouth the other
day until it bled because lost my temper
a little and tried to choke him.
That's him all over-you never can
tell what he is going to do next. He says
it's all my fault. that I'm no lady and
never had the first instincts of sne that
has brought him down to this. and-and a
lot of other things like that that you
know and l know amt so. Why, Tom.
old man Lacey wouldn't have him here a
minute II II WASH TOT me, instead OF De-
ing thankful for 1t. he's jealous and cuts
up awful about it Then she cried in
real earnest, but didn't forget to pat with
her handkerchief instead of rub. Finally
she got to talking about old times on the
ranch down there and the things 1 used
to do for her. and blamed If she didn't
ask me to run off with her right there and
then Said we could go to Chicago and
London and all sorts of places. But 1
said I guessed I wasn't good enough for
her. not to mention the fact her husband
might object. But that didn't feaze ner a
bit, she only thought it was basfhulness.
and went right on making up a Jim
Dandy plan until the boy came in to tell
her it was time for the kid and her to
go on.
<<CAY, you ought to have seen that kid:
- 1t was the daintiest prettiest little
thing that ever happened. 1t had a weeney
tilted-up little nose that kinder -yrinkled
when 1t laughed, and hair exactly like
wire gold on white quartz. When Nellie
brought that kid up to the box to see me
and 1t put its arms around my neck and
struck me for a nickel. / wilted and stood
nat To do i~,er hat -