Show AJVD THEN SCRIVJVER THOUONI Scrivner Is a man of great energy and dispatch whoso hours are so filled with activities that ho has formed a habit of quick and a sometimes Injudicious Inju-dicious speed Not for many years has he had time to think twice before speaking and however generous his Impulses and correct his life he does now and then fume and splurge Into vexatious predicaments It was Just lu this fashion and meaning no harm nt all that he encountered a situation last week that well nigh undid him for a time Scrivner rushed Into n telephone booth nt the Fifth Avenue Hotel and gave tho number of a friends telo phono up town It was n matter of business as well as friendship and Scrlvner had only ten mimics before he must rush away to an appointment In Fortysecond street The conversation conversa-tion at his end of the wire went like this Hello Bill That you7 he said In his loud and tumbling speech Thats good You see I told you Hello Hello Hel-lo Bill That you Bill Somebody cut in on us I was saying thatHello What the Whos this anyhow No Im not Robert and I dont want you Get off the wire will you Say operator Scrivner opened the door of the booth leaned out and called to the girl to take that fellow off his wire Then he went at It again but found w the other man making ns DIM I ho was For one brief t trrl l ment Scrivucr tried persuasM Say old man he said TIn l awful rush Wont you So am I was the snappy Whoso wire is thus anyhow Its mine you i > Ile i tip Its mine Youve no right to O shut up that trap and tit sang out the voice You much tap That was Incendiary and S didnt think at all before he spot Ill give you n box of clgatl shouted a good box of clgamu J give mo your name and addreJ can como around and smash y0J Your f B face Sure came the quick respell > confident almost eager tones always glad to accommodate a t man My names Kid McCoy live at yo Hotel Cumberland Sllcnrie fell In Scrivncrs booth dropped the receiver leaned lJ his chair and gasped for breath sat a full minute there In a sorl trance then opened the door I walked out dazed and perspltbl page overtook him at the door 01 f writing room J Thirty cents please said thj Scrivner paid and took to thai to cool off Up to ycsteday Mr Coy was still smoking his own New York Press |