Show I H OW o w 1 P k By B y SEWELL SEW ELL FORD FO R D 1 ney n e y p asse a s e d I t 0 n Copyright yng 1908 by Ford All i rights reserved says say of all th the light It ht car grown up kids that ever tallied through Ute Me on tiptoes tiptoe Now ho do YOU ou guess Ut Sure be Ive le hinted something of ot the kind kind about ab Jut ut him before but I aint ever Sone done the th subject Justice It would take our fOUr language and lid nd a motion picture to give g e you even an outline sketch rf if r jim him and then juet Just as you thought what hed do next hed ru u ct CrUll d guess Sow 0 la laA 1 week to his own Ih he was wal wa supposed to be off on onna na Jat a trip got up by S Sadie and the he Purd for the special stunt Munt of a punk Austrian Count on o othe the Bar Bir Harbor crowd But Bat along lOAg late Thur da afternoon when rm Im leani had hak na K m fl mv my 11 chair with my feet teet on the niilow sill Jill ill about in particular nd enjoin the exercise e a aab aab aab ab fetches up U outside I hears herS some t up the stairs two at a Jump tump and in rushes his Ills Joyous nibs earin a Merry ferry Widower straw lid with ith a pink and white band b nd and earry carry or of his varieties of r one sll sil M r headed haded sticks fomo om on Shorty says he h Get our ag g and lefE Jers catch eatch teh the mountain 8 We Ve nave have forty minutes to tomAke mAke sk It In Gwan Owan says MYS I Qt your n 11 that breathless way Its ts bad for the ahe But I T mesa mean it really I do says ys he h f roddin me playful pI In the ribs with the thc cane handle landle Its all right tight Ive made tade I il the thle th arrangements and you can be begAn gAn for cor two or three days just as well wella L Lar a ar not Tome Come on hurry up Easy Eay now says SAS I L This Thu Thua air a t no engine en Re house where you can L Lck frk ck your head in holler once and hive have me fliP down the pole Youve Tung me m in on them nutty excursions of 01 lurs urS times enough But this lent t one of that kind says say t n Truly it will be Jolly sj sport ort you I inow ow and I had counted on your going with Sv Sy Pinckney says I my heels h ls down and for tor a good look at him if ouI quit through your our cylinders maybe I can canh I h beer bear r what hat youre to say eay It would help hel some If state where oare goin and why Oh I tell you says ys he Why Wb iI its somewhere up in the White Mountains fountains No Xo particular spot spat I suppose su jose Mys I r IDon Don Dont Dort t be absurd says s he I cant remember the name of the station of 01 course oure but Its Us on the t th tickets that enough Unless s youve lost Io t the tickets says say 1 L But how about this detail of why wh youre oure goin I X II that on the tickets too or Of do you ou get the Information from the tho brakeman Is 1 it Just a pleasure pleure trip the tile doctor has hat ordered for tor the benefit of ot your jour family or oi Or are you taklo It be because cause tUe you had a funny dream Purely bu business ae e says Pinckney Its lt s about er Here he fishes out a arani acard cart card takes takeJI a glimpse at it and andoe noes oe on Its about Notch Manor oooo says I And this Notch Manor Manora a rold colt or ora ora a n ne new m way of doln doin up tip the hair Its lt a a hotel says Pinckney quite a IL large one too and full ull of guests gue ts Im Fm Tot rot quite sure SUI but Im afraid I own it Youre which T says SILS ys I Afraid you own a hotel Say Sa what wh t are the toms It If its catchin Id like to be exposed Well at least Im threatened with a hotel note says MYs Pinckney Anyway An aY I must muM go g up and see Bee about it so I thought I would like to have hae you ou That do says I If It said Rid that first oft off wed be halfway there by b You with a hotel Oh splinters wIn Why sav say I miss that tion inn for a farm fann HI Dig out that emergency kit of mine will in you And take care of the shop until utu I show up again Im ofT off with Pinckney And an away ay we e starts Just like that it u was wa 1 a batty move on my part wrt but hut Pinckney gettin tangled up with d I Trent and then out of oC em is III one of th joys of my existence Gen Ily ly hes always alway been able to duck any jarnagin consequences but from the this looks like It might be the th date at of the eclipse How was as it handed to you ays ys i after we d got aboard the train and was halfway through one of oC them imitation dinners they thy serve erve ye on the dinin din In cars Then he h goes on to tell about Ollie and how he lie got mixed up u I with Ith him Seems that Ollie is I one of o the reg Ur ar hotel the that owns 01 11 so many resort re ort Joints you L Lm know m There was four brothers to tc p start Hart art th ith and they the all contracted the I tei keepin pj habit early sari earl In life Each L 0 f en em e managed to bring up a not full sized farm fann house you yo ou I underhand tand but limited editions that thai L t occupy too many ninny rooms durin dunn Lr t r rush eason and as aa fast as a young hi i grew up tall enough h to lean lear leans I ws s on the they built 11 t a t L Mr for him hlat They took teak to It nat I T t ton tr v as a Greek creek roe does to a I rut stand n pt Ollie on Hed been spoiled by I n nt to college and gettin in with 1 a nu bu hUh lh h of f t young So when whet i Its S n n for him to P pick k out wt a summer r tinn rt and a nd begin Sin the th vaca mr he k aint prepared He Th t s a lot about afternoon teas but bu I fat fast little about any kind of break t the sort brought in ft 1 It a tray at a m itt His Hi CA hrs and d uncles put him bim down dO 1 as a brunette Iamb lamb of the nock Dock and be gun s apfl of f himas Th as the Ute family Joke thing Ollie knows hes hea an i et rhan S He that his ate old nan man h bas ha him nim he hou nothing but the Notch Not h Manor rn hata always been a doubtful propOsItion position sn an with a proviso that If It he hea heun run Tun un it t for two a II seasons and show profit hes bes ht to have th th his share of L rt rn from foia the eys e It he falls 18 down hes hOS to be b put tri on ont penso list with Just frugh t to k keep P him OUt of ot the t e soup firt m rt Well II OBit Ollie brave enough The oi n he picks out for tOr w manager manage manag a sC hum um of hla hI top p that t played short ri n th V tV nine and eang K first m ln th l the ge club chab He had nad other to too bu but r somehow they t w With h the hotel business and when It e h up at the end erid d o Of f October O tober tob ct at as evera figures to the bad badt 1 III e him t h Bm meets s P at af the club his tae b Ie of f viE and dIsplays Tl fl f th the 11 i letters hi his have hae 1 f t t tu hm tiu That gets eV d in the e case He of ers rs s tr to t lj rut ut I up cash cath for Lor a new deal and take a mortgage on Notch Manor So this summer Ollie makes his plunge with an interest handicap and a new manager got his hotel once ence as banquet t chairman of the Phi Delta Gamma And once more he slips excavation Pinckney dont know knO the full par but he lie gathers from rom Ollies wire that the amateur manager has ha quit two of the clerks has followed suit and hes left with a balance on the wrong side aide of the ledger and a house ful of disgruntled guests And now he wants to turn over his beastly hotel to me says Pinckney Fancy that Im to says sas I but its a strain your program It was a SL foolish question Pinckney dont do business ss accord In to program Hes Hea Just going up to look things over he h says and to Josh Ollie along I ex poet It If the truth was waa known though Pinckney has an Idea he can ean spend halt half an hour with OHio Ollie and give him points enough to pan pall him i in through Ever know anybody that think a hotel would be a cinch for him Ive even had pipe dreams like that myself m sef But say sa neither of us had ever been right up against the proposition before And It was a mess all aU right tight About ten next mornin were landed at a dinky little station up amongst the most perpendicular scenery in the State of Gf New Hampshire and after a ten teri minutes stage ride were dumped In iii front of this Notch Manor house squat tin tip down between two counties set up on edge Its a big barracks from a roof roo and an epidemic of striped window awnings Besides drives theres Just enough fiat flat ground left for a postage stamp lawn and a couple of tennis courts on the side You Tou walk I two blocks In any direction without comin to a place where there ought to be a passenger elevator but want so much as a ladder Gee says I Talk about spendin the tile summer In the mountains Me f fr jr the bottom of a nice cool air shaft But look at the scenery says ays Pinckney give me a crick In the neck says ys I r This air is certainly exhilarating though says he sW out his chest Its good enough air says sas I but Im m callin for something more from life liCe than Just a chance to breathe When can we jump a train back to Broad Broadway Broadway way WS Pinckney says theres a through ex cx express express press stops about six p m and he hopes to have everything all straight f I t W a Z t f t aI 1 b i pr ti I I 1 Lk c cAh Ah go sit on a i tack says I And if you dont d nt explode youre puncture proof ened out by then so we climbs out ut of or orthe the stagg and tells a porter to take us In to Mr Bickford Hes very vel busy just now nots no sir says the porter So much the better says sas PInckney Ah there he is And we e admits that the baggage jug juggler gler glen was an accurate describer Over the heads of the crowd around the office desk I gets a glimpse of a light haired good lookin young chap to mop the worried expression off ort his face with a handkerchief and answer seven different people at once Its a glar anvil chorus hes hos conducting for every last one of em knocking tome some thing or other Ones about the table service others about the grub and the rest wants to know kno why their laundry dont come where the cigar clerks gone to and why they cant get hot water on the top floor Ollie was doln doin his best to pass out the syrup when he looks up and see sees Pinckney In behind the coun oun counter I ter ten Thank goodness youve come says he his back on the crowd tiers lre lets go into the private office and lock the door Oh you have some someone someone one with you ou Only On Shorty Mccabe says sas Pinck Pinckney ney doin doln the honors Do you know now to run a hotel mys 8 S oure Olife to me eager and ex ax expectant He can run anything says sas Pinck Pinch Pinckney Pinckney Pinchney ney Gwan says J 1 Dont you OU let him pump you full of hot all air that way But too much excited to take advice His one idea Is that come to take the hotel off his Ills hands Its yours ours from this minute says he I dont care a hang about the will or anything else I want to get out of this before I F go crazy craz Oh its been awful I With that Ollie slumps Into a chair and Its only by degrees that Pinckney gets out of him an itemized bill of the horrible state of ot affairs It dont look so wonderful bad as far as we can see seeThe seeThe seeThe The late banquet artist did work up something of a deficit before he lie left lett owing to tOl slim attendance early in the season SeNOn but since then the place has filled up and the books book show a p good fat margin of weekly receipts recel over cx ex expenses pens pensY res Y s but If they nil alt leave groans OHIa Ollio And they will threat threatened ened to do It it you hoar hear them Just now flow Its been like that every day da Pshaw says Pinckney You Tou dont know how to handle band Ie them Dont try to explain just make promises Promise them anything all they want ant But things are bad says Ollie The meat cook Is careless the hall boys lazy and the waiters valters Impudent Ive Ie talked to them about it too and asked them if it they please do better but do you know they only laugh at me meThe meThe meThe The mean things says I Pinckney shakes his head at me and I proceeds to pass out some more val valuable valuable al advice He tells Ollie the way to reform the help and get em up on au I their toes is to give em the grand jolly joll His idea Ideo is to throw each one a a bouquet about twice a day da tEll toll em eni I how good they the are and what bully work wont there doing the way I manage my man mail t when hes cranky crank says Pinckney Come on well try it now I IId Id rather not says Ollie But Pinckney is all worked up over the notion and he fairly drags Gill Ollie along to make the rounds of oC the bund build bunding tW tWing ing in on his s mission As for tor forI me meI meI I stays behind and studies the time timetable timetable timetable table I dont know how thick Pinckney I spread it on but he must have done a wholesale Job for Cor hardly got back bak before the results begin to show sho Inside of half halt an hour two docen dosen d n ae u assorted 1 sorted help has bas come in and struck 01 OI He Ita for a raise If U they the were such crack crackerjacks as been be n told they were ere they wanted more money or er else they the i meant to quit Some of or em went WIIt so far as to knock off pend In arbitration t I By B lunch time the thing has spread d un until until 1 til its developed Into a general strike And nd maybe there want a mad crowd of hungry folks in the dinin room that I noon with three grub slingers to serve sene four tour hundred people and only cold at that Wow I could hear em way ay out In the far corner of the veranda where Im gettin away awa with a couple of ham sandwiches Id bribed a bellhop to swipe from the kitchen A little later you should have seen the bunch around the office desk and heard em tellin Pinckney and Ol 01 Ollie Ollie lie their private opinion of such a hotel I slips around where I could peek through the window at em and when I catches eyes I gives him I the grin I could afford to Want WanI ant there that six train back to te New ew York And I have some something something something thing to rub Into Pinckney Say It was wa I all to the joyous while It lasted I goes goe I out for a little climb up one of them then shady stepladder paths path just to kill I time and think over what a lovely inee he was in I felt so good I sits on a arock arock s L rock for tor about an hour and gloats plenty of time to make the train I strolls back to the hotel and an II I i finds the guests holdin boldin indignation I all over the front veranda I grins once more and pushes in to look Jook lookup up Pinckney He aint behind the desk desi or anywhere in sight In the private of office office fice flee theres nobody but Ollie OWe face down on on a leather couch with a wet towel around his head Wheres your side partner the soft soap apostle says sas I IDo IDo IDo Do you mean Pinckney says SAya he Why hes gone Ha He ha Ho ho says I So he h took to the woods eh eli eliNo Xo No says sas Ollie He Ho caught the local local lo Ia cal down to the junction and is going to get the express there He said aid he hi had in full charge that says I Left LeU who I You Tou says sap GlUe I Me Ie Ba I Not on yr WI do But Bat theres no one e ys hi himself up and u t this hi his hands hand Im rm out of at It ft III i ia a note from Pinckney on the tile desk deak Its there all right and its a aone aone e eone one too He lIe explains explain what a hole Ol 01 Ollie lie Ue is hi In and how no hed love kwe to stay Itay aa l pull him out If It it want for his to Join Count In PortIa Portland and wont I take hold held and do the be bt t tI tI I I can until he can cam send sand up an experienced ex manager He H dont care what I 1 Ido Ido do or wb wh t happens happeD if Ie Ill only at atAh hAlt Ah Ak scissors says I You wait walt a u atil util til I see sec him on the express What that bg lg of mine Oh dont please dont leave lea me RM her hera a loner alone says soya 76 Ollie He said sakI yo t charge and aDd Ive told ji I would too 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