The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-06-19
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Nine Eselfce, as Department
head Isl as hi ghIS responsibIe
and trusted execIit i've as vel as
an arts. All the Store Of cum
ming fabric I'd & jeWels Was Ieft
with a fortune OF costly stuffs In
4 great strong box IN the loft And
presently Nine Felfce turned the
! care and accounting Of this over
to Daisy 55s5
work in the wardrobe loft. But
for eleven OF the dozen Bob Sloan;
{ the paint shop foreman, had no
eyes at all, thoughNthe personnel
of a great circus In winter quar-
tiers is a community. Bob. from
the day of his first catching a
!gglimpse of Daisy and aside from
assidious attenti to his job, be-
came man of one idea And the
idea was Daisy.
Bob might lave done well along
the advancement OF that idea, for
he was clean looking youtfg man
of somewhat rugged type, and
enjoyed the respect of Nine. Eel
ice, which was important. But it
transpired that there came toEthe
quarters just at that time win
some youth named Joe Taggart
Joe had been candy butcher with
the Mcclure show, but declared
had had enough of that outfit Of
crooks and proposed to join up
with real people, even If he. did
have to takea Kind OF errand boy
job with the quarters superinten-
dent to start with He dressed
! well and gave the impression of
being in the circus business from
choice rather than necessity.
And he hadn't been in evidence
a week before he$had discovered
Daisy and laid such siege to her
that steady going BobESloan was
nowhere. The Bob Sloans in this
world have a foolish weakness for
sulkily giving way before the
Taggarts. They expect too much
of the girl in the case.
A girl who has lately been ira
gically orphaned and who sews for
elephants all day in a vast bare
loft needs other companionship in
her leisure than that of an aim ost
elderly French woman who counts
her dimes. And Daisy loved the
movies. If Bob Sloan was silly
enough to sulk and quit, what was
to be expected but that she should
become chummy with 50 frank
and pleasing an admirer as joe?
But there was one thing about
Joe Taggart that often sent
Daisy's thoughts flying to steady
old Bob. It was when, now and
then, she caught Joe looking at
her out of the corners of his eyes.
Bob had never done that. And it
made Daisy uneasy. She wished
he wouldn't.
Then came the night. They had
&been to the movies. Joe had pre-
tended to be going to kiss her and
pulled a handkerchief from his
overcoat pocket to wipe his lips in
mock preparation. All play, for.
Daisy never let Joe kiss her, you
know. But when he had gone
Daisy found, on the floor of the
hallway, letter without an enyel-.
ope Words in it caught her eye
and she read it-dagrantly; any
body would have done so; any
DOuS, d ill ENSAt III Slo Sie7li
teen and had been made love to by
the person who dropped the letter.
This is what she read:
Joe-For the love of Mike how
much longer is it going to take
you to pull that trick? You say
the girls a-simp? Well, get busy
with her anu cop the goods. Macs
frothing at the mouth because his
tinse1 room is held UP waiting for
them sparks. You'll be losing the
thousand and your pickings from
this show if you don't get a wiggle
on you. Get going.
BLANEY
"I brought it to you Bob" said
Daisy to Sloan the first thing next
morning, because I thought some
body ought to know, and you
seemed-oh. I don't know; you
seemed to be the only one
I'm glad you did" said Bob
soberly. "Felice would have made
an awful noise. And we must
keep this quiet for your sake. LIN
sorry. little girl. You liked him
a lot, didn't you? It's too bad to
have him turn out to be here just
to steal a lot of wardrobe jewels
for Mcclure. I'll take this to the
boss, and I'm sure he'll Just shoe
him away quietly.
Daisy looked up into the kind.
deeply concerned eyes of the man
for long moment. Bob" she
asked irrelevantly, you're eleven
years older than am, aren't you:
II you were eleven hundred do you
suppose you'd know anythinS?"
Then she turned and walked back
to the wardrobe stairs, and Bob,
wondering couldn't see the smile
at all.