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This happened to place Leola after Guy, and perhaps might give her the last word, as it were, with the people; but our committee was there, and superior to such accidents. The flags and the bunting hung gay around the draped stage.
Mrs. Jeffries and Mrs. Mattern had a way of being in the hotel office at hours when I passed through to meals. They never came together, and always were taken by surprise at meeting me. "Leola is ever so grateful to you," Mrs. Mattern would say. "Oh," I would answer, "do not speak of it. Have you ever heard Guy's 'Blue-Jay' story?"
"Reuben Gadsden is likely to mortify us. He is an earnest boy, but nervous; and one or two others. But I have limited their length. Reuben Gadsden's father declined to have his boy cut short, and he will give us a speech of Burke's; but I hope for the best. It narrows down, it narrows down. Guy Jeffries and Leola Mattern are the two." "The parents seem to take keen interest," said I. Mr.
The laugh is one of the big differences between women and men, and I would give you my views about it, only my Sunday-off time is up, and I've got to go to telegraphing." "Our ways are together," said I. "I'm going back to the railroad hotel." "There's Guy," continued Stuart. "He took the prize on 'The Jumping Frog. Spoke better than Leola, anyhow.
"And in the words of the poet," concluded Stuart, "Sharon has an immense future behind it." Our talk was changed by the sight of a lady leaning and calling over a fence. "Mrs. Jeffries," said she. "Oh, Mrs. Jeffries!" "Well?" called a voice next door. "I want to send Leola and Arvasita into your yard." "Well?" the voice repeated. "Our tool-house blew over into your yard last night.
"Leola has spoke in five cultured cities," she went on. "Arvasita can depict how she was encored at Albuquerque last Easter-Monday." "Yes, sir, three recalls," said Arvasita, arriving at our group by the fence. An elder sister, she was, evidently.
"Are you acquainted with 'Camill'?" she asked me, with a trifle of sternness; and upon my hesitating, "the celebrated French drayma of 'Camill'," she repeated, with a trifle more of sternness. "Camill is the lady in it who dies of consumption. Leola recites the letter-and-coughing scene, Act Third. Mr. Patterson of Coloraydo Springs pronounces it superior to Modjeska."
I found myself wishing now that there could have been two prizes; I desired both Leola and Guy to be happy; and presently I found the matter would be very close, so far at least as my judgment went. For boy and girl both brought me their selections, begging I would coach them, and this I had plenty of leisure to do.
And if Leola had made 'em cry good and hard that night, the committee's decision would have kicked up more of a fuss than it did. As it was, Mrs. Mattern got me alone; but I worked us around to where Mrs. Jeffries was having her ice-cream, and I left them to argue it out."
"The Death of Paul Dombey" is plated pathos, not wholly sterling; but Sharon could not know this; and while Leola most prettily recited it to me I would lose my recent opinion in favor of Guy, and acknowledge the value of her performance. Guy might have the men strong for him, but this time the women were going to cry. I got also a certain other sort of entertainment out of the competing mothers.
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