The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-03
RE STLESS VIDA m" HURST

CHAPTER TNENTY-EIGHT
whats your name >" Angela
inquired not because she wanted
to know but feeling that she ought
to say something.
"Inez. Inez Marrs
She was not pretty. Her fea-
lures were plain. Her figure too
buxom but her skin was clear and
smooth, her eyes unclouded and
her laugh dubbed up like a spring
whose source was too deep to be
sullied by any surface dirt
What do you have to be SO
happy about >" Angela demanded.
Inez smiled
why wouldn't l be happy? I've
got a good job"
DO you call being a maid in a
fourth rate hotel a good job
You're darned right l do, the
other girl said. And so would
you if you'd ever gone hungry.
Listen. sister, I was brought up in
an orphan asylum That may not
mean anything to you but if it
did you'd know what it means to
be on your own
But you have to work so hard, !"
Angela reminded her.
Work doesn't hurt you. And
at night | can go home to a good
dinner and a room l don't have to
share with anybody"
IL
you afford to stay in a rooming
house ." Angela asked thinking of
the price she had paid at Mrs.
Davidson's.
At Molly's
"Oh. I live at Molly's. She S
like a mother to me. You set
Molly used to be on the stage but
when she couldn't get work any
more she opened a rooming house
It isn't very big. She only has
room for nine girls but we have a
lot of Fun"
Angela stared at her wondering
how 1t was possible to get so muct
JOY out of the mere fact of being
alive.
DO you suppose l could gei
work there? Do ng dishes OF
something 81
Inez did not seem to see any
thing strange about this request.
Molly doesn't have any hell
ordinarily. She does her own worl
but it wouldn't do any harm Il
ask"
I'D be willing to work for m,
room and board until | can fine
something better" Angela said
adding bitterly all l want is 1
place to crawl into. A hole wher,
can hide
Hide? Oh. you mean on &C
count of your face 81
Angela Heath could not hav.
discussed it with any one but Anna
Hunter felt an incomprehensiblc
yearning TO confide in this Other
girl,
1t will be easier when you &c
used 10 it Inez comforted her
Anyway it probably looks worse
to YOU than it does to anyone else
It's not so bad.
Her Face
Angela lifted her body from tn,
bed and deliberately turned he
face until she could see it in tn,
mirror, Not bad ? That livid vel
that ran from below her eye to III,
corner of her mouth NOT BAD
of course Inez said kindly
Its harder on you because yot
used to be so beautiful
Used 10 be Well, Angela re
! Elected sadly. it was the neares
to a compliment she would eve
hear again.
Seeing the despair in her eye
Inez said quickly, Why don't yol
go home with ME tonight when n
through? You can meet Mol,
and ask her if she has a placi
for you
/ Wearing hat covered with
/ heavily meshed veil Angela &C
companied Inez on ride whicl
seemed endless. Walking tire,
blocks after that in a part Of IN,
city she had never seen before.
WEAKNESS weighted her fee
until she could scarcely lift them
She began TO dread the trip bacl
10 her hotel. She was so ex
hausted from the shock and stran
OF the past week that she coul,
have Topped down upon any KIM
of bed any place.
The crowded tenement distric
with its shrill voiced children dart
ing through the early darkness o
the chill Noyemh Der Afternoon
seemed the background OF an eyi
dream. Where was she >
Cheaply Dressed
Who was she Why was shi
following this cheaply-dressed cir
inside the decrepit old house witt
its doorway painted bright blue
The touch OF color was as ineon
gruous on that dran street a
Angela herself. And behind 1t va
world different from any an
had ever known.