New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-07-06
CHAPTER xVIi.-Continued.

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Rose, arriving promptly at the hour
agreed upon, had II wait of fifteen
minutes before any of her sisters of
the ,rvtrttc or Mrs. Goldsmith mr.
rived Il don't want anything Just
now" She told the S~alcSWoman. But
,il' iA,lu't, in these few weeks of Clark
street. lost her air of one who Will
buy II She sees anything worth buy
iuL IN fact, the SalesWoman thought,
correctly, that she knew her, and
,liIJri her the few really smart things
ttnY ,i,d in the Storp-a Poirrt evening
Sunu. a couple of afternoon frork>
from donnie. There wasn't much, she
nlmitDI, it being just between sea-
,ous.
Ebc rest Of the sextette arrived in II
par nud il trio. one of them Squealed
"Ilrilo, Dane" The ~SalesWoman was
shocked on seeing Rose nod an ac-
acknowledgement of this greeting, and
ju.l about that time they heard Mrs.
Goldsmith explaining who she was and
The nature of her errund to the man
pE'r.
The sort of gowns she presently be-
gan "Xrlaiming over with delight, ana
,rlcrlng put into the heap of posi-
hulltirS, we're horrible enough to hnve
irlwu a protest from the wax figures
~ tlt, windows. The more completely
lllr fundamental lines of IL trock Were
disguised with Sarturial >croll-saw
work. the more successful this lady
idt It 10 be. An ornament, to Mrs.
Goldsmith. did mo- live up to its pos
,IbilitirS, unless it in turn were dec !
nqI Vi with ornament of its own;
Ink, The ilras on the ileaS of the dog.
Rose spent II miserable half-hour
Worrying over these selections of the
wife If the principal owner of the
show, feeling she ought to put up
hy the patent futility of such II course.
All the while She kept one ry" On
ll,r door and prayed for the arrival of
John t;nlbraith.
H., rlmc in just rs Mrs. Goldsmith
finished her taSk-juSt when, by Il
process of studious elimination, every
pl,,ablr thing in the store had been
discarded and the twelve most utterly
hopeless ones-tWo for each girl--laid
as /, for purchase. The girls were
It ,p,tcl"d to put on the evening frockS
first. and were then paraded before
ili" director.
IT, was a diplomat and he was quick
IN hi, feet. Rose, watching his face
very closely. thought that for just Il
-pllt second she caught a CLEAN of in
.rable horror. But it was gone so
luirkly she could almost have believed .
She had been mistaken. He didn't
say much about the costumes, but he :
said 1T 50 promptly and adequately ;
hat Mrs. Goldsmith beamed with pride.
She sent the girls away to put on the
Set-the afternoon frocks; and
more the directors appreciation,
hnush l%nconic, was n hundred per
'"nt pure.
That's ALL" he said in sudden dis |
il,.il Of the SeXtette. ~"ItehearSal at Il
isht-thirty." v
b ti'li I'M 2" !
# tut Of school around behind the set II
+ screens that made an extemporane- n
u, dressing room, and began chang Il
w IN a mad scramble. hoping to get o
Wy and to get their dinners eaten "
oun enough to enable them To see the II
,itnln bill at Il movie show before the II
rehearsal.
i,ut Rose remained hanging about, h
couple of PAGES away from where II
,Ihraith was talking to Mrs. Gold h
The only question that re- 90
l4in"i he was telling her, was wheth.
r Tier selections were not too-well, III
~ rrtinal. genteel, one might say, for p
L. stage. III
H. wasn't looking ar her as he
liked. aud presently. as his gaze wan vi
,rpi about the tore. 1t encountered as
,,>e's face. She hadn't prepared it til
n the encounter. and it wore, hardly d,
,iIeI. a look of humorous apprecia-
III. His sentence broke, then COM
etnt itself. She turned away but G.
10 next ID he called out to her: &c
vnra you waiting to see me, Danef" oh
III like to speak to you q minute"
Ie said, when you have time" pf
All right. Go and change your lit
first" he said.
She found the other girls on the "v
int Of departure. But Edna offered alb
wait for her. tn
mo. you run along" Rose said. I've
me errands, and I don't feel like see- dy
: a movie tonight, anyway" co
looked a little odd about II, in
t hurried along after the others.
saleswoman-the same one the br,
inager had assigned to Rose. under ms
misconception which that smart no
ench ulster of hers had created to.
zen she came into the store-now ma
around behind the screen to VIII
her up the frocks the girls had shed. a I,
VIII you please bring me-" said ba,