Show she squelched him and then wept it was a broiling blistering sweltering hot day every man in the car wore a wilted collar and had a cinder in his eye there seemed to be nothing on earth to do but to wipe your streaming face and swear at twenty third street there came into the car a girl as fresh and cool as a nosegay of sweet peas in a shower bath of dew not a man but stared at her in respectful delight and felt cooler and better natured but ona fellow in the corner a poor misshapen withered up chap with one foot in a brace stared t oo 00 long you knew she like it by the way the pink deep 1 ened in her cheeks and the white teeth into the full red lower lip finally she looked up at him with that grave steady light in her eyes as only a good woman can look when she want any nonsense that kind of a rebuke makes a man so ashamed of himself he cant look himself in the face for a week but the individual returned the look with a bold insulting glance before which the steady eyes faltered and fell and the red flamed up in her cheeks feeling his eyes still upon her suddenly she looked up again not into abo mans face which was fairly good to see but coolly over his extremities as much as to say you poor wretch who are you with your miserable semblance of manhood to think a woman would flirt with you what a mistake you are any well the fellow was pretty lame but old mercury with his winged sandals have hustled out of that car any quicker than he did and at the first station sneaked off the platform and the girl well in a minute she was sitting up very straight lipa that looked as if they wanted to quiver and bright shining eyes and on the cinders in her lap were two round wet spots girls are the queerest creatures iu the world anyway it was a riched thin of course but she had to do it and the idea of feeling sorry afterward new york letter |