The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1912-01-06
The Rescue


piece Of candy?" asked the girl Who
had not been long from the Land CT
Dixie. Then she put her hand over
her mouth and laughed gles.ulE
through her fingers. 1t nearly drives
Sister Matte crazy 10 have me say
'ain't' the way do" she went on, but
somehow don't reckon ever will get
over doin' It
Another thing that just about en-
harnesses Sister Matte to death Is
the way talk to strangers. | know
nearly everybody in the apartment
buildin' now and she don't know hard
ly any Of 'em. Sister Mattie's lived up
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
gave him the least little bit of chance
but l was 30 scared of Sister Matte
that never dared to. Every time
we'd meet In the hall, though, or in
the elevator he'd kind O. look at me
and I'd kind o. look at him.
Il reckon we'd "a gone on like that
all summer II 1t hadn't been for the
IRE the other mornin'.
Eyes, indeed, my dear, we did have
a perfectly terrible fire. 1t was about
2 o'clock in the mornin', such a scan
dalous time for anything to happen!
"The first knew about It was when
Sister Matte came into my room and
begun poundin' me. Get up! Get
up!' she was sayin' when opened my
eyes. The house Is on fret
II jumped up out Of bed and begun
foppin 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 tuggin'
at my arm and tryin' to make me hur-
ry down. or cohrse, the first thing I
did was to get my best hat and put IL
on and then / put on my white shoes
and my kimono, too, because Sister
Matte KEEP worryin' me so about 1t,
runnin' around behind me with 1t in
her hand.
; We'll, my dear, give you my word,
! was clear down on the street when
I suddenly had the most awful feelin'
ever had in my life. I'd come off and
left my hair! Now, could you ever
believe it? My beautiful long switch
that paid So an inch for!
Il just knew I'd 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 l nearly tainted. For a minute
! was so weak | couldn't move and |
then l simply tore back up the stairs.
When was about half way up heard |
somebody gallopin' after me. What do
you think? 1t was that lovely young |
man across the hall!
" Let me go and get it for you, Miss
Robinson he said. Wasn't 1t sweet
of him to know what my name was?
II was just pantin' by that time. I
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 l thought he'd
die Iaughin', and it wasn't any laughin'
matter, thought, so | started on up
again. He took hold Of my arm,
though, and said for me to go on down.
stairs, and he asked me where my hair
was. BY that time he'd got over laugh
in, 80 I told him 1t was on the dress
er, and he went on up and went down
to the street.
ghar
II didn't have any more than time to
begin thinkin' how perfectly terrible
I'd feel when he came back wavin'
that hair in his handI 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-
ton, 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?
"No, the fire didn'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 we 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 I am, but never did tell her
about the hair. ! know she'd think 1t
was perfectly scandalous."