El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-06
The Story of a Young Girls Struggles
The Fortunes Of Fanny
Fanny Finds the Coarse COmpanionshp Of the Cool
UnendurabIe

outside Miss Irwin wishes me to attend
to. I'll be back in q, little while
But as she started TO leave the
kitchen Delia's brother, Tom O'Brien,
checked her
You're goin' to mail themgr he
asked, glancing at the letters she held.
'Here-give EN- to me. I'll take EN-
out"
"Oh, no, thank you,v she declined,
retreating toward the hall. Miss IT.
win especially wished me to take
them
Then III go with you, my girl" the
man laughed, in no wise abashed by
her efforts to avoid him. 4 was just
saying to Della that it'd do a mans
heart good to be seen anywhere with
such peach as you"
The jest was rot meant as an insult.
but Fannys eyes flashed dangerously.
If you please" she said haughtily as
the man planted himself in the door
way to prevent her exit let me pass"
II was an unwise display of temper
on her part, and it kindled an answer
ing spark in the hot-blooded Irish
mans breast.
'Indade and I'll not"' he exclaimed,
and as she tried to slip past him he
threw his arm about her and lifted
her bodily back into the room, and
held her thus as the group about the
table burst into cheers and laughter.
But the laughter was changed to
EabD OL COILS ltIAdLlOn Wuen Il amy n6E
face aflame with rage, struck the man
a resounding blow across the cheek.
Cook Turns Against Fanny.
I'll teach you to lay your hands on
me" she exclaimed angrily.
He let her go and staggered back,
wrathful and amazed by the singing
ID little spit-fire"' he ex-
claimed GO to the devil for all Of
me-"
Before Della could interpose Fanny
had hurried from the room and out
into the street with Miss Twins let
rCrs. She had the presence of mind
to leave the latch off the basement
door When she returned to the house
she entered cautiously and crept uD to
her room. So quietly did she go that
the cook and her friends did not hear
her. AS she passed the kitchen door
Delia's voice was borne to her.
ITO the deuce with her, anyway
the Irish girl was saying.
Chapter XIII.
Fanny pretended to be asleep when
Della came up to bed on the night of
the episode with Tom O'Brien. But the
cook was not to be kept quiet by her
companions slumber. Instead she
dropped her shoes upon the floor in
removing them, and walked heavily
about the room. Yet Fanny did not
move nor open her eyes. At last,
when ltdA9 IOI bGtls JGlld tADHtu the
transom with a slam. Fanny knew
that this was an act of spite designed
to call forth a protest from the girl
who could not sleep in an unventilated
room.
Yet the action failed OF its effect,
for some time after Della had turned
off the light and laid down in her own
bad. An hour passed, during which
Fanny lay motionless trying to forget
the closeness Of the room and the foul
odors that could not escape At last,
feeling that she could endure the con-
ditiOns no longer, she arose softly, and
tiptoeing across the floor, gently
opened the transom. But Della had
been listening for her and in an in
slant was on her feet and had switched
on the light
What are you doing?" she de-
handed.
'I am opening the transom," Fanny
explained. TT is too close in here.
We'll I amt going to have it open
seen Della rejoined. ITS a cold
night anyway, and I've put up with
the last of your notions. Here I've