Bisbee daily review., 1912-03-19
The Rescue

Isn't you goin' to have another piece of candy 9" asked the girl who had not been long from the land of Dixie. Then she put her hand over her mouth and laughed gleefully through her fingers. Tt nearly drives Sister Hattie crazy 10 have me say 'ain't' the way do" she went on, but somehow I don't reckon l ever will get over doin' 1t.
 "Ancther thing that just about em- barrasses Sister Mattie to death is the way I talk to strangers. l 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 l knew he was all ready to speak to me if I gave him the least little bit of chance, but 1 was so scared of Sister Hattie that I 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.
 q reckon we'd a gone on like that ali summer if it hadn't been for the fire the other mornin'.
 "Yes, indeed. my dear, we did have a perfectly terrible fire. It was about o'clock in the mornin', such a sean dalous time for anything 10 happen,
 ''The first I knew about it was when Sister Matte came into my room and begun poundin' me. Get up. Get up,' she was sayin' when I opened my eyes. The house is on frer
 q jumped up out of bed and begun hoppih round the room and screamin'. Still, l had enough presence of mind 10 go back after my black satin slippers when I got clear 10 the top Of the stairs and Sister Matte was tuggin' at my arm and tryin' 10 make me hur- " down Of course, the first thing did was to get my best hat and put it on and then I put on my white shoes and my kimono. too, because Sister Hattie kep' worryin' me so about 1t. rurnin' around behind me. with it in her hand.
 Well. my dear, l give you my word, I was clear down on the street when l suddenly had the most awful feelin' ever had in my life I'd come of and left my hair, Now. could you ever believe it? My beautiful long switch that I paid $2 an inch for!
 T just knew I'd never in the world get money enough to get another one and I 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 vas so weak l couldn't move and then l simply tore back up the stairs. When I was about half way up heard somebody gallopin' after me. What dc you think? It was that lovely young man across the hall,
 Let me go and get it for you, Miss Robinson he said Wasn't it swee, of him to know what my name was?
 CT was just pantin' by that time, was so out of breath, and bein' sc kind O crazy and excited, I just told him the truth. It's my hair. I said I'm afraid you wouldn't know where to find it.
 Well, for a minute I thought he'd die laughin'. and 1t wasn't any laughin matter, I thought, so l started on UT again He took hold Of my arm though, and said for me to go on down stairs, and he asked me where my hail was By that time he'd got over laugh in, so I told him it was on the dress CT, and he went on up and ! went dowr to the street.
 q didn't have any more than time tC begin thinkin' how perfectly terrible I'd feel when he came back waviD that '-'- rr r'- bod wae thinkin maybe it'd be Jl-.,. tO nave gone through life lookin' kind O moth eat en than to face such a terrible situa tion, when he came down the stairs