The Corral, Volume 1, Number 6, March, 1908 Page: 4
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THE CORRAL, ABILENE, TEXAS
I can manage some way-but I don't know what to do,! " She was
on the verge of tears.
"Of course I'll help you", he said. "Forgive me. I'll call a cab
and we'll see what we can do." He was constrained and formal.
She evidently wished it. Just as the driver stopped he began
feeling in his pockets, then with a look of shame, said:
"But I haven't any money either. We can't go. Where does
your friend live?"
"I don't know, I've never been there and haven't her address."
"Well we must walk on and decide what to do. Surely we will
find her. I'm sorry for your plight, and ashamed of mine. I
ran out hurriedly for a walk and "
"Don't say anything about that, I'm glad to know I have seen
a familiar face. And, Oh! I remember now! She was going to
the theater after she met me, and will no doubt be there, We
can wait till she comes out. I'm so glad you're with me."
She was looking at him now; at his face and form, and un-
consciously her face grew sad. He looked at her in turn, and a
strange light came in his eyes, a strange triumph in his voice;
a new mastery in his manner.
"We will sit quietly here in the park till time for your friend.
It will be some time yet. We can talk over many things.'
Still there was something of stiffness between them. Suddenly
a sense of the humor of the situation possessed Helen. She broke
into a laugh and after a moment he joined her.
"Just to think of we two, sitting on a bench in a park, because
we have nowhere else to sit, paupers. If I only had a tin cup,
and you a cane, and a bandage over one eye, we could pass allright
I'm so hungry I could almost steal. I wonder if that old wo-
man would give me just one banana or orange if I told her I was
starving. Do I look hungry?"
"Wait, call her, here's a dime!" he exclaimed after rummaging
in his pockets.
The old lady came tottering forward, smiling and nodding her
head. Evidently she felt the honor of such unusual notice. She
was talkative. The two seemed to interest her.
"It's funny to me as the like o' you 'nd be buyin' from me. Ye
looks fur the world like sweethearts and like ye loved each
other. Ye ain't never had no fallins out is ye?"
Richard dared not look at Helen, but he knew she was blush-
ing. He handed the old lady the dime. Helen moved uncomfort-
ably; but he looked at the old woman.
"Yes, we have, I'm sorry to say, mother and the funny part is,
its cause she says I ain't good enough for her."
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Simmons College. The Corral, Volume 1, Number 6, March, 1908, periodical, March 1908; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth109339/m1/6/: accessed June 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hardin-Simmons University Library.