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She went with Helen to the dressmaker in Lumberton, when Helen ordered her new costume. "Why don't you let her fit you now, too, Ruth?" demanded Miss Cameron. "Oh, there is plenty of time. Let us see first how well she makes yours," Ruth returned, with a forced laugh. She knew she could not wear her usual costume with the picked class without looking odd.
Hammond and the Alectrion Company left Lumberton, Ruth was able to get into town with the draft of the first part of the play, and read it to Mr. Hammond. Miss Hazel Gray was present at the reading, and Ruth had given that pretty young girl a very good part indeed in the new film.
Washington, December 4, 1803. I arrived this afternoon, and found here your three letters from Petersburgh, Lumberton, and Georgetown. The last is dated the 2d of November. How very long ago. These letters are very satisfactory, except on the article of your health; of that you must speak a little more plainly. How long are you to stay in Charleston?
He then set out on his travels, going in an empty freight car from the Lumberton railroad yards. But he was caught and brought back, literally "by the scruff of his neck;" and his grandmother was never ending in her talk about the escapade. The curls remained short, however.
One morning in June, five years later, a black man limped slowly along the old Lumberton plank road; a tall man, whose bowed shoulders made him seem shorter than he was, and a face from which it was difficult to guess his years, for in it the wrinkles and flabbiness of age were found side by side with firm white teeth, and eyes not sunken, eyes bloodshot, and burning with something, either fever or passion.
Perhaps he has deserted his tribe for good, and he may help us learn about the necklace." "You want to be very careful in trying to pump the lad," said Mr. Cameron, with a smile. He need not have feared on this point, however, as it turned out. The very next afternoon Ruth and Helen hurried in to Lumberton to make inquiries at the hospital.
Sadoc Smith, after all. Ruth read to her the first part of "The Heart of a Schoolgirl" and to further the continuation and ultimate successful completion of that scenario, the old lady would have done much. Curly looked upon Ruth with awe. He was a devotee of the moving pictures, and every nickel he could spare went into the coffers of one or the other of the "picture palaces" in Lumberton.
Potter was pretty kind to me, and he kept me as long as there was work there." "But you haven't got to tramp it, now?" "Only to look for a steady job. I I come over this way hopin' I'd hit it at Lumberton. But they're discharging men at the mills instead of hiring new ones." "And I expect you'd rather work in the woods than anywhere else?" suggested Ruth. "Why yes, Miss. I love the woods.
Tellingham has telephoned for the department at Lumberton " With a shriek of alarm, Miss Scrimp picked up the little old "brown Betty" teapot off the hearth of her small stove, and started out of the room with it whether with the expectation of putting out the fire with the contents of the pot, or not, Ruth never learned.
"Briarwood Hall? I have heard of that. We go there soon, I understand. Mr. Hammond is to take some pictures in and around Lumberton." "Oh!" exclaimed Ruth. 'That will be nice! I hope we shall see you up there, Miss Gray, for Helen and I go back to school in a week."
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