Show if I f By SEWELL FORD r i iP PLAYING W WILBUR TO SHOW i z f Copyrighted by the Associated Sunday Magazines Incorporated Inco P oral ed j it t t Its It all right You can put the Ted cv v sign on an anything you read In the z about s a lost rt rt and wd affinities both be In the fad for the plain straight old t se business Is still stilli il i tho ter ring I have word j 11 j it H and Pinckney ought to know i iy j I Yf f es hes an Authority now Sure Suren n 1 Miss Gerty the twin tamer And ji say what hat do you ou suppose they did with the gift pair of ot terrors Jack and Jill k they the was makin the weddin wed din J t tour ur Took em along Honest they the ravels for tor ten weeks with two kids kid Ave jve re trunks and a couple of ot maids You Td 10 1 dont look like no honeymoon says I when I meets em In jersey City Id d tate tale you ou for tor an ex party part We are says sas Pinckney grinnin Weve eve been exploring the western part of for the United States We Te have discovered discovered ered Colorado Springs the Yosemite A It aua i 1 a lot more very ery interesting places a B i i over lover i again be makin a new map I ex exp pt p t says I It lt would be new to most New York Yorkers ers says he hend Anil nd Ive been trin ever since to fig figure figure figure ure out whether or not a knock cc and then I has a suspicion that acquired some some now new new bug I r are 11 IX hes been out through the alfalfa bit belt but maybe his Idea Idoo of the till brio such a great place only comes the fact that Gerty was produced here Perhaps Its ns all he says too but 1 notice he seems mighty might glad gla l to get back baK to Main street New York 1 thought so If It oud seen the way he tracts tails me around over town the first day after he lands We was on the go from roon anon until 1 a n m and his cab bill must musti i hav ji split a twenty up fine What tickles me though Is that hes he the same old Pinckney only more so Rein FEin married dont seem to weigh no heavier on his mind than an another another other club So Instead of me losin track tatk t k of him altogether together he shows up here at the studio oftener than before And how it was he happens to tobe tobe be bl on hand when this overgrown party I from the ham orchard blows In fn i ill Just at the minute though Pinckney vas pas as back in the dressin room into Irto his hi frock coat after atter our little half hour session on the mat so Swift Joe Joeand Joeand Joeand and me was the reception committee As R the i JOT or opens I looks up to see about seen seven foot of cinnamon brown plaid cloth clotha a little the homeliest stuff stud I ever see used for clothes a red and green necktie a face the color of a ripe tomato and one of these buckskin tint tinted tinted tinted ed felt hats on top of that from mm rom the peak of ot the Stetson to the heels of or his No 14 he must F here jre ve been some Borne under ninety inches j but iut not much And he has all tho the grace gracen gracea n o a water tower Whoever tried to build that suit for him must have got desperate and put cut it out with pith their eyes whet abut for tor it him only In spots and I them not very cry near together to ether But what can you do with a pair pall of knock knee I and shoulders that slope like a hip I roof tOor Not any an freaks that day da aid hem too stunned to make any crack mck on our own hook me and does the thc silent Ilent gawp and waits walts to see If It can talk taUe For a minute he looks Ike lk he cant He Just stands there with ls Its 1 mouth half halt open grinnin kind of or sheepish and good natured as 3 if we rould tell what he wanted just by his looks look Finlly I breaks the spell Hello Sport says I If you see sec se seal ai al am v dust on top of that chandelier fan dont t mention It ft ItHe itHe He dont make any reply rep to that just TIns grins a little wider so I gives hes him a arow row deal find museum down on Fourteenth street heet says I tOr have havelu you lu got a Bowery Bowel engagement This seems to twist twit him up Still more but hut It pulls the cork Excuse me friends says sas he but Im to round up an house that used to tobe tobe tobe be hereabouts If Satin house says sa s I If It you OU r f ean the fried tried egg parlor that was wason on the ground floor that went out of or business bus business iness months ago But theres lots more just as good around on Sixth ave aye avenue avenue nue rue and some that carry carr stock enough to fill you OU up part way I guess I 1 want lookin to grub up yet et says sa S SI r I was wag huntin for for some one that worked there And say sav you ou have thought thou ht Rny one with a natural sunset sm et color like that fiat could lay Jay on a blush But he does nd Its It like the red calcium fp 11 a II brick wallI wall I Th h tush tush says T J You dont rr T in an to tell me a man of or your our size is ilin some m Lizzie Maud H Hr cants ant his head on one side pulls ut it a blue silk handkerchief and be bf beto gi i to wind n It around his fore foore finger ik Ivo a It bashful kid been caught passin Pa J m a note in school her names says say he Beck Beek Beeke re e says I J Sounds like a new ne Kind of or music box No relation I INt M MN N Nt t yet vet says he lie n hiss his s S iMers but weve ee swapped rings f alt all aJ the cutups says saS I L And Andt t f t what whit part of oC the plowed fields do doa dor 1 r a d fi hail hall from Why Vh Im from Hoxie says sas he as ash asi i nth ich h that hat told the whole story st r n 1 r fell tui says ys i J Is js that a flag sta stat t or w orL a 1 four corners Somewhere in hio aint It Sh county count Kansas says sa s he be heWell beWEll Well well says I Now I can ac account count int for your size Have Hae to grow tall tan net lit there dont you sos not to get gett i ost t in m the wheat patch patcha say a for a Josh consumer he was the i lit Acct t ever AH AU he does is stand there here therean there an And t grin finn like he was eras the weak end of ofa R a variety Wlliet team But It seems a n shame to t jo crowd a whim performer so I was Just tellin him hed lied better go ao o out and hunt nt up a city directory in some drug TI re when hen Pinckney comes up tip look lookIn In i interested There says I Heres a man man now that narn n lead you straight ht to in ino o 0 time Pinckney let me make you ou Acquainted with Mister er Cobb Cobh says the tIle Hoxie gent Wil bur hur tobb obb Prom From Fr m out west est I puts In givin the nudge Hes yours It aint ant often I has a chance to un 1 d anything like that on Pinckney s I rubs It In The thoughts of or him himo o Win around town a human extension like kp this Wlbur WIbur strikes Joe Ao AoI o 0 I that he most has a chokin fit Rut Tut YOU vou never know what turn I in goin to give gie to a jolly joU He lIe dont even een crack a smile but reaches up and hands Mr Ur Cobb the cordial shake just as though hed been a pat pattern pattern pattern tern sized gent dressed accord In to the new fall styles Ah says Pinckney Im rm Very ery glad to meet any aI one from the west What state Mr tIre Cobb And inside of ot two minutes hes gettin get gettin ct tin all the details of or this hunt from the ground up an outline of past life Seems that Wilburd got his first start in Maine but way wa back before he ho could remember much his folks had moved to Kansas on a homestead Then when Wilbur out he takes up a quarter section near Hoxie and goes to corn farmin for himself raisin raisina a few hogs as a side line Barrin bean bein caught In a cyclone or two and gettin elected junior of ot the Sheridan County Grange much happened to until one day he took a acar acar acar car ride as far west as Colby Junction ts where he meets up with phina She was jug lin stopover ra rations rations rations at the railroad lunch counter counterMen counterMen Men Ien must have been mighty ml scarce around the junction or else she wants want wan the most she can get for her money for tor as she passes Wilbur a hunk of or pet petrified I rifled pie and draws him one muddy mudd with two lumps on the saucer she throws in a smile that makes him feel like hed stepped on a live third rail to his tell he must have hung around that counter all aU day eat in through the pie list from top to bottom and back again until its a ander wonder his system ever got over oer the shock sho k But keeps him himon himon himon on with googoo eyes and giggles sayin salo how It does her good to see a man with witha a nice hearty appetite and anel before it come time thin for him to take the train back got real well acquainted Ire He finds find out her first name and how dies been a whole orphan since she was goin oln on ten After Alter that Wilbur Wll ur makes the trip to Colby Junction res relar lar every eyer Sunday and got to the point of about settin the day da when she was waR to become Mrs Irs Cobb when gets word that an aunt of ot hers that kept a house in Fall River RIer Mass wants her ber to come east eist right away Aunty has some kind of or heart trouble that may ma finish her any minute and as was the nearest relation she had there was a show of ot her bean bein heir heiress heiress heiress ess to the whole joint Course Z thinks she ought to tear herself hersel loose from the pie counter but before she quits the junction her herand herand and Wilbur takes one last buggy bugg ride with the reins wound around the whip socket most of the way wa She weeps on shirt front and says pays no mat matter matter matter ter how far oft off she is or how long she has to wait walt for him to come shell al always always always ways be on demand And Wilbur Wil Wilbur Wilbur bur says that just as soon as he can make the corn and hog vineyard hump Itself a little more hell come So packs a shoe box full fuU of ot otfried fried chicken c blows two t o months wages wager into a yard ard of yellow railroad ticket and starts toward the cotton mills i Its a couple of months before Wilbur gets any letter and then It turns out outto outto outto to be a hardluck tale ta e at that phina has found out what a n lime tastes like discovered that the Fall River aunt anything more the matter with her heart than the aver aYer average average age landlady and that what fell fen heiress to Is only a chance to work eighteen hours a day for her board So disinherited herself and Is about to make a bold bohl jump for New e York which she liked the looks of as she came through and shell write more later on onIt onIt onIt It was later about six sir months phina says sas happy hapP and hopes Wil Wilbur Wilbur Wilbur bur is the same got a real elegant ele elegant elegant gant job as cashier in a hi I r N u 4 L 1 y y t L Lf ba S f S Sr r A Ar b r 4 r r S q f r ra rr a r t k r L f fl Ji l a t l s t r rt t r i 1 t 4 F I 0 N 1 l Y t p 1 71 iI iIi i i i r ij I r t J 3 t Oh Wilbur she he says Im you yours restaurant meal ineal establishment and all in th she has to do is to sit behind a wire win screen and make change Its different from an apron and the gents gent what takes their food there steady I treats her like Ilka a perfect ct lady lad New NewYork Xe York tolk is a bi big place but gettin ettin so o she knows her way a around quite well now and It would seem funny to go goback goback back to a little burg like Colby i And all about her herbein bean bein on demand dema 1 or anything of that kind Course C urse its an antique old yarn but it was all fresh fr h to Wilbur Wil ViI Wilbur bur Not bein much of oC a letter writer he keeps leeps on Ce the hogs punctual and nd boom the corn and an walt n for more news But theres doin doln I Then says sas he I got to and and this fall tall being as how I was coming as far east as Chicago on ona ona ona a shippers pass I reckons Id better keep right on here hunt up and take her back bak with rye rite The way he tells It t was real earnest and at some points them whey colored eyes of ot his moistens up p good an dewy dew I but he finishes strong and You guess though that any corn fed Ced romance like that would stir up such a blood b as Pinckney A few months back he have listened the preamble but now he have hav been more Interested if this was a case case of ot Romeo Astor and Juliet Dupeyster Shorty Short says he cant we do something some something thing to help belp Mr 11 Cobb find this young oung lady lad ladi ladyDo i Do you mean It I it says sas I or are you battin him a josh He means it all aU right He spiels of ofa off offa a lot of ot gush about the joy of two lovin hearts that has got strayed so I asks Wilbur if he can furnish any am description of Sure he can ca He digs up a leather wallet from his inside pocket and hands han s out a tintype of Miss lIss Beck one of these portraits framed in pale pink paper taken by a wagon artist that had wandered out to the junction by b the picture must have haye been a sure prairie rose her hair loose over her shoulders shoulders shoulders ders and a genuine Shy Ann hat one of or those brims with the front pinned back The pug nose and the bigmouth big bigmouth bl mouth want just after the Venus mod model model model el but its likely she looked good to Wilbur I takes one squint and hands it back bacle Nix Six never neer says I Ive rYe seen lotsof lots lot lotsof lotof of fairies on street but none like mee that Put it back over your I heart Wilbur and try tl an ad in the lost column But Pinckney aint willin 11 Un to give up so so easy e sy He says saS how Mr Cobb has ha come ome come moren a thousand miles on this i tender mission and its up to us cis s to do I our best towards helping him along alongI I see just where we was let I Into this HIls affair of but as i so set on it I begins begin battin my m head for tor a way wa of up the I trail I And its wonderful what sleuth work you can do just by b the phone I liberal First I calls up the agent of the build In and finds that the meal has moved over on Eighth ave ae avenue avenue nue ime Then I gets that number and brings old boss to the wire Sure he be remembers Miss Beck No o she aint with him now He thinks sho she took a course in and one of or orthe the girls says she sh heard of or her doin the hand holdin act in an apartment hotel on West Yest street After Af After After ter three tries we has Z herself on the phone Guess here says as T That you ou Roland says sa s she Aw pickles says I Set the cal calendar calendar back a year or FO so and then come conic again Ever heard of Wilbur from Hoxie Kan Ilan Whether hether it was a squeal or a snicker I make out but she was on onAs onAs onAs As I drag Wilbur up to time tho th receiver I has to carry carr through the talk myself n self and I makes a a date for him to meet her in front of ot the hotel at that evenin when the day shift of nail polishers goes off duty Does that suit Wilbur says sas I Does it You never neer saw so much j pure Joy jO spread over oer a single counte countenance countenance countenance nance as what he flashes hEs up He gives me a grip I can feel yet et and the grin that opens his face tace was as one of ot these relar ear connectors Pinckney was tickled too and its all I can do to get I 4 iI i iI i I him off oft one side shIe where I can whisper pr 1 j i confidential tt li I Maybe it aint r I struck you yet et says r that likely to have have lr changed some in her l n I ideas as to what what 11 I a all aU honey hone boy bo looks like Uke Now Xo f right in his way wa but aint he a lit Ut tie tle rugged to spring on a lady Indy manicure ff i that seen him for some time i ti It I J And nd when Pinckney comes to take a cloe close view f fa he agrees aTes that Mr Ir Cobb Is a trifle fuzzy fuzz But we 1 can spruce him I up says Pinckney There are four t I t 1 hours to do it in Four weeks would be better 1 i 1 says sas I 1 its considerable if I of a contract That dont bother t Pinckney any an Hes got nothing else elle on hand for the after atter k 1 noon and he h e cant plan better 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