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Daisy Taylor was the town vamp. Not that she was pretty. But sirens / were all but non-existent in the town. Perhaps she was forced to it by / circumstances. She was quite dark, with little brushy patches of hair / squatting over her head. These were held down by shingle-nails often. / No one knows whether she did this for artistic effect or for lack of / hair-pins, but there they were shining in the little patches of hair / when she got all dressed for the afternoon and came up to Clarke's / store to see if there was any mail for her.
It was seldom that anyone wrote to Daisy, but she knew that the men of / the town would be assembled there by five o'clock, and some one could / usually be induced to buy her some soda water or peanuts.