What's up with variants of Currier 'E'/EVA 'l'?

[Emma May Smith]

I've always seen this glyph as having two strokes:
1) like an [i] stroke: short straight line from top left to bottom right
2) a hook from top left, travelling rightward (and maybe a little upward), then turning down and to the left, crossing stroke (1), before trailing off.

(To my eye:

In the "one go" example you can see that the width and stroke edges in the upper left hand corner of the loop appear to change.

In both cases the bottom right end of the short stroke (1) is thicker(?) and darker, as though the pen stopped and paused for a moment before being lifted.

I'm no expert though, so I could be wrong.)