Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-22
Torchy In on the Oo1ong
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Continued from page 7

but some of the other girls might
Let them dare! says Miss Wee. straight
but she's a thoroughbred! There was one
group standin' little way off watchin' us:
but that look of Miss Wees scattered EN- as
though she'd turned the hose them. Next
goes on. sittin' close, I'm not much afraid.
You're a hummer. you are!' says l.
lookin her over approvin
There, there!" says she. . see that you
must have something to eat right away Here,
Hortense! There! Now you'll have a cup of
tea won't you?
Anything you pass out goes with me-
says |, "even to tea.
1t my first offense in the oolong line,
and. honest l couldn't tell now how it tasted;
but | knew all about how Wee handles cup
and saucer. though. and the way she has of
1ookin' at you over the rim. Say, she's the
only girl l ever knew who could talk more'n
minute to a teller without the aid of giggles.
There's some to what she has to say too.
and all the way you can tell whether she's
joshin or not is by watchin her eyes And me.
| wa mt losin any tricks.
She tells all about how she's been to
school here ever since she was a little girl.
Seems she's shy parents as | am; but she
has an aunt that she lives with between school
terms. This is her fnishin year, and as soon
as the final doin are over she and Aunty
due to sail for Europe.
Coming back in September" says l.
''Oh. no indeed!' says she. Perhaps not
for two years.
"Gee!" saws I.
"Well?" says she. and 1 finds myself lookin'
square into them big gray eyes of hers.
"Oh. nothing says l; "only-only it
sounds a long ways off. And, say, you don't
happen to have spare photo. do y, maybe
one taken in that dress you wore the night of
the ball?'
"Silly!' says She But suppose 1 have?"
Why" says I,-"why. l thought-well,
say. it wouldn't do any harm to leave my
"a T1at'c tl,a, of
Mrs. Zenobia Preble.''
'Zenobia!' says she. Why. l know who
she is Do you live with
I'm half adopted already" says l. Bully
TT was just about then l had the feein' that
some one was tryin' to butt in on this two
part dialogue of ours and l looks up,
and his mouth half open, watchin
Well, it's all over says l. Mr.. Robert
waitin' for me. Good luck and-and- Oh,
what's the usea Give my regards to Europe.
will you? Goodbye And with that we shakes
hands and breaks away.
Il don't wish to seem curious says Mr..
Robert. we walks out to his cab, "but-er-
is this something recent:
Not very" says |. We've met before
Then allow me-" says he, Ito congratulate
you on your good taste.
'Thanks!" says l. Same to you; and l
amt got much you at that, eh?"
seems SO pleased over something other that
we'd gone twenty blocks before he remembers
what brought up.
'Oh. by the way, says he, Il suppose
there'll be no end of about my forgetting
to send down those contracts. The Governor
was wild, wasn't he?'
He was wild, all right" says l, without
KNOWN whether you'd forgot 'em not
But when you phoned him. says Mr..
Robert, 'of course he
''Ah, say!" says l. DO look like trouble
hunter? l phoned Piddie-told him to sneak
EN- out send EN- down. and keep his mouth
shut. All you got to do is act innocent
NEVER mind the hot air Mr.. Robert passes
out after that What tickles most is
the package that came for me yesterday by
messenger. l finds it on my plate at dinner
time; so both the old ladies, was on hand when
l opens it
why, Torchy!" says Aunt Martha lookin'
at shocked and scandalized. "A young
ladys pictured
Yep says 1. Amt she dream. thought
And, say, Martha'd been lecturin me yet if
it hadn't been for Zenobia breakin in.
DO remember, Martha says she. that
you were not always sixty-three years old. and
that once Why, bless me! This must be
Alicia Vernon's child. Is there name the
back? There is! Verona Ashton Hemmng