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The girl who especially disturbed him though he had never spoken to her was the last manicure girl on the right in the Pompeian Barber Shop. She was small, swift, black-haired, smiling. She was nineteen, perhaps, or twenty. She wore thin salmon-colored blouses which exhibited her shoulders and her black-ribboned camisoles. He went to the Pompeian for his fortnightly hair-trim.
"Candy?" he asked questioningly, as he rattled the contents. "My manicure set, and you'll have it all upset. Give it here!" went on the owner, and Walter surrendered it. "No, but seriously, what's it all about?" he asked. "I've just come home." "We girls have taken a bungalow at Crystal Bay," explained Cora. "We're due there to-morrow, leaving on the early morning train.
He was conscious of her as an exquisite thing, and when he tried to impress his personality on her he spoke as awkwardly as a country boy at his first party: "Well, kinda hot to be working to-day." "Oh, yes, it is hot. You cut your own nails, last time, didn't you!" "Ye-es, guess I must 've." "You always ought to go to a manicure." "Yes, maybe that's so.
I believe I'd have one if I were you, Kate. You never could tell it in the world. And it's good for the hair, too. It " "Fred is so disagreeable about such things. But if it couldn't be told " Kate began to doubt again. "Does it cost extra?" "Fifty cents but it does brighten the hair. It brings out the natural color there is an auburn tint " "But I really meant to have a manicure today.
Then Ruby Lee, not to be outdone by anybody, produced, from no one ever discovered where, a mother-of-pearl manicure set for the delight and mystification of the hero; and even Lazy Daisy went so far as to cut some red and yellow tissue-paper into squares under the delusion that some time, somehow, she would find the energy to roll these into spills for the lighting of Abe's pipe.
Don't you think a boy that takes that kind of medicine, without making up a face, ought to say, 'Thank you, ever so much, and always wear pinafores, and stay in the kindergarten, and if he ever grows up and goes into business he better become a he-milliner, or a manicure, say?
And then I am going to sell the technical stuff from the library and use that money where it will be of greatest advantage to me. And then, Katy, I am going to manicure the Bear Cat and I am going to drive it again." Linda hesitated. Katy stood very still, thinking intently, but finally she said: "That's all right; ye have got good common sense; your nerves are steady; your pa drilled ye fine.
And on the island she quickly set forth the plain little toilet-set her mother had given her on her last birthday, the manicure set that was a present from Papa Sherwood, and the several other knickknacks that would help to make the big dresser look as though "there was somebody at home," as she whispered to herself.
"This is the old fool you could twist round your finger, who found the money for your manicure parlor, and who was in love with you, eh? What are you, anyway?" he added, turning furiously upon Mr. Bundercombe. "A cop? Is this why you were trying to put up to me a few weeks ago?" Mr. Bundercombe waved aside the accusation. "Nothing of the sort!" he declared. "Then what is it you want?"
And we can't talk in the manicure parlor those tables are crowded together so! I've a tremendous lot to tell you, too. Which would you have, Marion?" Miss Rose dutifully considered the matter while she continued the scalp massage.
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