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had one or two waves in it?
The stenographer lunched with
Aunt Mary the next day, and car
ried home a black chiffon, which
she sent by express to Teresa,
with a note, "From one who is
mad "because she isn't plump
enough to wear a decent gown
any more."
She managed to get Teresa into
an arrangement of stays, and she
patted up her hair in some puffs
one night to show her how, and
then just as she was planning to
be Teresa's beau for the evening,
of course something happened.
She was laid up the whole day of
the party.
And Charley, whom she hadn't
seen for a year, had to send on
that very afternoon a special de
livery that he was coming into
town about 5 .p. m. for two or
three days. Oh, was there any
justice in anything? A spasm of
pain across her eyes answered.
Charley in town, and an evening
for someone else "planned previ
ously, and and both ruined.
. . . Oh, a bright thought ran
sharply as the neuralgia. Charley
could take Teresa to the party.
He knew a number of the girls
slightly, having been an interne
in the institution when some of
them began training. It would
do, and help both Teresa and
Charley.
When Charley came, was
kissed, and sent away with a big,
splendid-looking girl in "black,
somehow the little stenographer
felt strange. They looked she
watched them out of the window,
.leaning on one elbow in bed like"j
prize Americans. (The stenog
rapher had funny ideas some
times.) Charley was very devoted dur
ing the rest of his stay. , You
would never have known that he
had a thought of another woman
in his head. But the time came,
when he had "returned, that Char
ley's letters grew less frequent,
and Teresa used to get mail that
was addressed with a typewriter
from the same postoffice and
Teresa seemed different to the
girl at the desk. The stenog
rapher was too keen-visioned for
her own good.
"Well, my dear," she said one
day to Teresa, "tell me about it,"
and Teresa, being little less per
ceptive, confessed, and wept, like
the big child that she was.
"I had planned it from the very
first, you goose," said the stenog
rapher, gayly.
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IN THE LIMELIGHT
One of the most interesting of
foreign diplomats in Washington
is Solon Menos, the
new minister from
Haiti. But it is hard
ly expected that he
will ever equal the
record set bv his
predecessor, Paul-
ous Sannon, who
was blacker than
the ace of spades,
could talk French
more fluently than s6m
the French ambassador, and wore
the most gorgeous state uni
form of any of the foreign diplomats.
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