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It went to a bitter finish in which the vanquished bully was sent with a powerful blow backward into the water, while the beautiful young girl ran to the victor and nestled in the protection of his strong arms. Merton Gill passed on. This was the real thing. He would have a lot to tell Tessie Kearns in his next letter.
"How much?" says Izzy, tryin' hard to choke it back, but losin' the struggle. "Seventy-five for a double ticket," says Tessie. "That's the kind you want." "Maybe I would yet, if I could get a partner," says he. "Ain't that an awful sad case?" says Tessie. "Nobody's teased me very hard, either." "You'll go with me, yes?" says Izzy. "It's awful sudden," says she; "but a chance is a chance.
Yet each one of the girls was capable of starting a shirt waist in an emergency on Saturday night and finishing it in time for a Sunday picnic, buttonholes and all. Their help might have been invaluable. It never was asked. Without warning Chuck came home on three days' leave. It meant that he was bound for France right enough this time. But Tessie didn't care.
Tessie is learning the fiddle and I know she'd be glad to show off, and so would Effie, if we could get our organ out into the barn." "And you can whistle," put in Allee, all excitement as Peace unfolded her brilliant plan. "You sound just like the birds, and Gail said only the other night that you did better than lots of people who have taken lessons.
Her face was white with earnestness. "Can you speak French?" "Yes," Angie answered. "Well," said Tessie, and gulped once, "well, how do you say in French: 'Give me a piece of bread'? That's what I want to learn first." Angie Hatton said it correctly. "That's it! Wait a minute! Say it again, will you?" Angie said it again, Tessie wet her lips. Her cheeks were smeared with tears and dirt.
But my feeling is not educated and I poke, and then end by having to bite, and then, just as I discover it is peach, after all, some one has run off with the last box and Ida has to be found and a substitute declared. Tessie gives up in despair and hurls herself on me. So then Tessie is nearest to me in the whole factory, and Tessie is slow.
We left Jacqueline rejoicing over her merit badge and Tessie pondering on her increasing perplexities. Venture troop over in Franklin was making such rapid strides in good scouting that Captain Clark, of True Tred, had reason to warn her troop members to look to their laurels.
It was delectable to have the girls beg her to come to drill, and assure her no one need know she was employed as a waitress. But Tessie "adored the pose" as she learned to think herself, and she had no idea of being caught in the official net of a scout meeting, where all sorts of questions might be asked, the answers to which could not even be hinted at in a scout manual.
Tessie sat sewing by the window, and every now and then raised her head and looked at me with such innocent compassion that I began to feel ashamed of my irritation and looked about for something to occupy me. I had read all the papers and all the books in the library, but for the sake of something to do I went to the bookcases and shoved them open with my elbow.
And when Vee gets enthusiastic over anything it ain't any flash in the pan. It's apt to be done, and done right. She tells me what to do right off the reel. And you should have seen me blowin' that five hundred like a drunken sailor. I charters a five-piece orchestra, gives a rush order to a decorator, and engages a swell caterer, warnin' Tessie by wire what to expect.
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