Show THE KID KIDBy By Helen Green in New York Tork Tele Telegraph Telegraph Telegraph graph It was afternoon Slanting beams of light shone In jn upon a scantily tenanted room in Canton Willies hop ho joint In Ina Ina Ina a corner comer bunk bun Petie Pete Fresh unhealthily fat was sleeping off oft the effect of ot many pills enjoyed on the previous night Staccato grunts issued from his open mouth The Tho mantin manIn man In the next ne t bunk stirred nervously Listen ListeD at that lobster he com corn complained q it if goes right trop me mo nut Hey He Trun yer jer fist Int his an see will that make mak him leave off that there Diamond Flossie who held high rank among the accomplished ladies ladles of the th was arranging her har blonde blond coiffure at a little mirror which she produced from that useful repository her stocking She neatly pinned back backa a stringy strand which had been some hours before a coquettish curl Then she advanced upon Petie Fresh and poked him vigorously Nix cut it out but rebuked Flossie the matter wit choo Gurgling Petie Fresh opened his eyes ees yawned and drowsed again but with less noise The air was hot It reeked with the smell of or stale opium A sticky sUchy tray was in the middle of ot the floor fio r laden with two overturned beer bottles and some soiled glasses The Kid had treated before he began the pleasant task of ot cooking off his habit Oh Keel called Flossie She spread a red smudge of rouge rouge over her cheek paled by long and frequent sessions with the juice A Chinaman padded in from the diry y corridor Gwan over to the Dairy Lunch launch an git a cup of an a piece o ber berry berry berry ry pie she said heres the coin I feel teel kind o like I need fillin before the tue pipe Big George eorge who was lying low be because because because cause th Central Office was searching busily for him on account of a finan financial financial financial cial transaction in which George had successfully investigated a wealthy vis visitors visitors pockets struck a match The sound caused enus d the Kid to jump l I Youre all over or the th layout I YoU today said Big George Gege ey eying ng the Kid with friendly interest aint int you right Kiddo I been goin agin the coke cole lately replied the Kid gloomily an anit anit anit it dont do a guy no good Diamond Flossie was shocked at his admission I to choo l she reproached r that put youse on the blink bUnk Stick to the hop We git some pleasure out o that Oh I cut out said the Y Kid hastily h sUly you Y never see me a amark amark amark mark for long I git sL frei shell Hes been sm since last night whispered Flossie pipe his lamps Big George Georg nodded The Kid could smoke a great many ny pills before reaching a condition entirely I satisfactory to himself H dl not I Intend to cease his efforts to o acquire a load While Diamond Flossie awaited her 1 meal she sha sat on the edge of his bunk I Big George Georg across the room gazed lan languidly languidly at both I IThe The bulls grabs grab Dutch tan an Reddy ho he h observed Was Vas I tehlin I Iou you ou people I guess up agin it II this s trip Reddy his fall money said I Flossie an hell ell have to stick sUck Youse cant git no lawyer awyer thom them buys Thata V hats he in Sn for asked the Yen Ten Y n shee Kid dreamily He Ho carefully cleaned the bowl of his pipe Diamond Flossie lit It an odorous cigarette in the his oil lamp over oyer which he cooked the pills They The turn a party for lor Ills I is rock and his poke all sh answered an they go i get soused an crack to some feller Next Nest t they the know bot of ems mugged teddy Reddy never did have no sense said Big George He aint popular with the mob anyway I dont never git sore at in a few fa dollars to i a pal pil p 1 but them then kind cant git none my coin It IL hard ha l An no account guns gunk at that thatA thatA A couple of o elbows come lookin for formo mc mo last night remarked remark d the Kid Icid He closed his eyes Y I sighing wear wearily wearily ily lb Diamond winked wiCked at Big I George Georgo Ge igo Hes Kes got his she said in a low J voice olce They nobody him the hop These parties said the Kid opening his eyes again know Im the lad had that pulls of a trick up uptown uptown town I trims a feller an does a lam before they get to me He spread a amount of opium on his pipe and with the worked it into a pill which bubbled Into lighter brown as the lamps heat h at warmed It Throw me that gee rag said Big George I got to clean this pipe up some A soiled square of cloth was used to Wipe the pipes free from evi cl evidence dence of past pills This was the gee rag raJ Well it dont worry me resumed the narrator cause I aint scared care of em I got gat a gun in my kick an Ill use it if Sf it comes to cases About 4 it is I guess Willie tips tins me how a a flash OK on 0 every smoker a lot of ot poor hop ss os s usual said Flossie bitterly a course They gits gUS in here an I ste em cm they th com 5 past the door I got the Junk on me an its in thousand dollar hills bills Theys seventy of ot these here bills an a coupler pieces s sOne One of ot these bulls os a tall thin feller He looks like Ilke an animated animate yen hock him in the corner he says Now we got him cinched Every ones up In the air but Ut me inc Im all aU right cause when they first come In I puts myself where they cant find me Well VeIl they go g all over oyer the joint an tn An finally they got to give up UJ So they the beat It V ats he mean George Georg in lo interrogated t Flossie But where could you git to wit them in the room she Inquired The Kids y dropped from his hand He lay limply upon ills sidO unable to move moe Where was you she persisted The Kid yawned sleepily I 1 was in the gee ee rag he rz ra r plied |