Omaha daily bee., 1916-03-09
The es SsF of Mary Page
By Frederick Lewis, Author of 3: Pictures by
What Happened to Mary :; Essanay
Pictures by
Essanay

Did he speak 20 you at any timeF"
We'll he had to speak TO me, but he
limited e TO Two boiled eggs and dry
toast. or gimme roast chicken and
mashed potatoes but with Mary Il was .
different. He didn't speak to her. but
he never let her get out OF his sight
Miss Barton. you say that you re-
manned at the hotel about three weeks
why did you leave at the end Of that |
time?"
Because Of the behavior of some OF
the men who came to the place"
What do you mean by their behsv-
iorT'
observation-disclosures, she said. |
flushing little You see, when we first J
went to work. they were all very decent, !
especially 70 Mary. and everything was
fine. Then they-they seemed to change
even TO me. / had TO give pretty sharp
call-down TO two OF three Of the sort of
rubes that wear red ties. and shoes that
look as II they had their trunk tucked in
the toe, and finally something the land
lady said put me wise TO the fact that
our characters weren't worth a two-cent
stamp In Prindleville. l didn't want
Mary TO know. so l kept quiet till the
day when the guy that always came for
! lunCh HOt IfeSn ana brleu 10 KISS nefs
''Will you tell us. as briefly as possible,
| Miss Barton, the events of that dayT'
1T was bad day to begin WITH said
| Amy ruefully Il smashed some crock
cry in the morning and the head waitress
| had had a quarrel with her beau the
night before. and everybody had a beauti-
| full Crouch and in the midst Of n the
landlady came out to me, and told me
! that her regular girls were Directing to
work with us, because of our bad char
| acters OF course Il made me pretty sore,
| and l was just going to say few things
about the bunch OF biscuit-slingerS they
had around. when the door of the dining
room banged open and Mary. taking her
apron off as she went, ran past us and
up the stairs. The landlady called her.
but she never even looked around, so 1
started after her. Just as l did so
cheap. flashy guy who was a regular
boarder came out of the dining room,
looking sheepish and with one cheek
| bright red and the other very pale. I've
seen good smack make that kind of
complexion before, so ] kind of waited
around to see what he would do
Did he leave the hotel?"
NO. He walked out into the office and
across to where Dave Pollock was sitting
and flung himself into chair beside him.
At that sort of got behind some cur.
tains and waited to hear what he said.
but needn't have bothered about hiding,
for he yelped loud enough TO be heard
all the way 60 the kitchen"
Can you tell US what nc said7'
Yes. He ripped out a good round damn
or two; then he said. Say. look here.
from what you told me. that Mary Page
IL he ha lint
crickey she swung a right onto my jaw
that Jared my brains in there. Just be-
cause 1 tried to give her a kiss"
Did Mr.. Pollock reply?''
mo. First he looked as II ne was going
to hand the chump one himself, then he
laughed as II he was satisfied with some
thing, and ran up stairs to Mary. She
was crying, and packing her grip, and
when asked her what the row was
about, she said that she was going to
leave right then and there. She said that
for the last two or three days she had
noticed decided difference in the atti-
tude of the men towards her. and that
at noon one OF them had insulted her and
she had slapped his face. The worst OF
II was, she said. the man said that he
had been told that she wasn't 50 particu-
lar with others. and was notorious where
she came from. Then 1 told her what
the landlady had said to me, but said
that was pretty we'll wised up as to who
was spreading the Islander. and thought
It was time we blew the old burg any
how"
Did the hotel proprietor make any OBJ
jections to your soing7"
well, yes and mol haven't come TO
that yet. When we went downstairs with
ont suitcases in our hands the proprietor's
wife was giving him an earful of what
she had heard about us, of how bad We
were and all the rest, and Mr.. Pollock
was sitting there taking It all in. but
: pretending to read. He jumped up when
we came in sight, however. and started
to speak. but we pushed by him and