The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-12-22

The Rescue

Isn't you goin' to have another
piece Of candy?" asked the girl who
had not been long from the land 81
Dixie. Then she put her hand over
her mouth and laughed gleefully
through her fingers. 1T nearly drives
Sister Matte crazy to have me say
Amt the way do" she went on, hut
somehow ! don't reckon ever will get
over doin' 1t.
Another thing that Just about en-
harnesses Sister Matte to death il
the way | talk to strangers. / know
nearly everybody In the apartment
buildin now and she don't know hard.
ly any OF EN-. Sister Mattie's lived ,ip
north so long she's just like northern
people.
"speakin' OF talkin' to strangers,
there's the sweetest lookin young man
lives In the apartment across the hall
from Us. I've been crazy to know him
ever since I've been here, and knew
he was all ready TO speak to me II r
gave him the least little bit OF chance,
but was SO scared uf Sister Matte
that I~never dared 10. Every time
wed meet in the hall, though. or in
the elevator he'd kind D. look at me
and I'D kind O. look at him.
Il reckon we'd a. gone on like that
all summer IL 1t hadn't been for the
fire the other mornIn'.
Eyes, indeed my dear, we did have
q perfectly terrible fire. 1t was about
2 o'clock In the mornin, such d scan
dalous time for anything to happen!
"The first knew about 1t was when
Sister Matte came into my room and
begun poundln' me. Get up! Get
up she was sayin when opened my
eyes The house is on fret!
Il Jumped up out Of bed and begun
floppin round the room and screamIn'.
still, ] had enough presence Of mind to
go back after my. black satin slippers
when ! got clear to the top OF the
stairs and Sister Matte was tnggin'
at my arm and tryin' to make me hur-
ry down. OF course, the first thing
did was to get my best hat and put ii
on and then put on my white shoes
and my kimono, too, because Sister
Matte KEEP worryin' me so about It,
runnin' around behind me with 1t In
her hand.
We'll, my dear. give you my word,
] was clear down on the street when
/ suddenly had the most awful feelln'
ever had in my life. I'd come of and
left my hair! Now, could you ever
believe It? My beautiful long switch
that paid So an inch forl
Il just knew Id never in the world
get money enough to get another one
and had the most awful vision OF me
goin' around the rest OF my life with
just the hair that grows on my head
and | nearly tainted. For a minute
! was so weak couldn't move and
then simply tore back UP the stairs.
When was about half way up heard
somebody gallopln' after me. What do
you think? 1t was that lovely young
man across the hall
Let me go and get II for you, Miss
Robinson, he said. Wasn't 1t sweet
OF him to know what my name was?
Il was Just pantin' by that time, |
was SO out of breath, and bein' so
kind O crazy and excited, Just told
him the truth. It's my hair | said.
I'm afraid you wouldn't know where
to find IT,
well, for a minute | thought he'd
die laughin', and 1t wasn't any laughln'
matter, ! thought. so started on up
again. He took hold of my arm,
though, and said for me to 20 on down.
stairs. and he asked me where my hair
was. BY that time he'd got over laugh
In, so told him 1t was on the dress.
er, and he went on up and went down
TO the street.
uiun nave any more than time 10
begin thlnkin' how perfectly terrible
I'd feel when he came back wavin'
that hair in his hand,l was thinkin'
maybe it'd be better to have gone
through life lookin kind O. moth eat
en- than to face such a terrible situa-
tlon, when he came down the stairs
and came UP to me and handed me my
hair. What do you think? He'd
stopped and wrapped 1t up In a piece
OF paper! Wasn't that the sweetest
thing you ever heard Of? My dear.
could any girl have helped fallin' In
love with him?
mo, the fire diin't amount to a hill
OF beans. We all went back to our
rooms In about half an hour, but Mr..
Sheldon came over the next morning
to ask how wa were. Wasn't that
sweet OF him? And Sister Matte
found he knows some people that she
knows and she asked him to come to
dinner, and he's been over every day
since.
Sister Mattie's just as crazy about
him as am, but never did tell her
about the hair. know she'd think 1t
was perfectly scandalous'
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