The Strange Experiences of Tina Malone. Ethel C. M. Paige

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      "Headache?" I asked breaking the silence.

      "No—anything but," she said.

      She would not look up at me at all and I sat quiet wondering.

      "I've finished your 'Hedda,'" she said, "how you can like her I don't know."

      "I didn't say I liked her," I said, "except for her artistic value. I like the play."

      "You're the queerest mixture of theory and practice," she said. "She was a beast to those aunts, and you believe in kindness."

      "Oh, Naomi, those aunts were rather troublesome," I said.

      No, not a word of praise for Hedda.

      But there was something strange and mysterious about her that night. She did not stir while I was there but just looked up to say good-night.

      "If you could let me have your latch-key, dear, when you go out on Saturday, I might take my things up in the morning," she had said.

      ​So when Saturday arrived I hunted up a gay little ribbon, tied it to my latch-key and went down to her.

      "There you are," I said.

      I held the ribbon over her head like a necklace and dropped it and kissed her cheek with a laugh.

      She started as I held it up as if she did not know what I was going to do.

      "Wear it there just as I do," I said, turning to her as I hurried to the door.

      "Now I'm safe," she said.

      There was a curious look on her face as she said it—something mysterious that I could not understand.

      Safe! Why "safe?" I wondered, and I thought of a hunted thing.

      I ran off to my work, happy in the thought of having her even closer at hand and someone to meet me right at home when I came back.

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