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Show s "nr" i V' t . . N- - SECTIONFOUR - THE: DESERET NEWS SATURDAY JUNE rro out 10 1922 , i r i ' 4 rv ;j tho beautiful JWJ. sure aftT he; Ma. way. BUnk; you give me tho horroro. I turn to It, but have-no- t wkb &0R dollgr yfopoatUon. tholr . aint outoanout playing otakea have Teg ya but wait'ap'-'-r- ft Uvefrom Sunday to J?'1 work? -- con u It wlllf tvm tu "It dont mean because a gtrt was I? Gad,AssI m skiab be hack--:. mill 7 em ( born in tbs mad ' nhoo got to stick ftmiigtf tPh darkness. . so that Bho'even laid aa rpot on bln 7 , gamble here and a little gamble there, j there, does It? Juon and slid past him lightly,-- - " "No, but oho cant protend she dont But when you honored, I didnt out it d10' "iw i In a minute,- - Bllnh.'.' " V know one of the old mud turtles when and begin to work up muscle to got on th. Job ftata, did IN I didnt ho sees one." hTri - Hurry, he said, hie smUe bra' . Mud turtle to the right name. by a swift twitch of feature, and -big hie fresh stein. ; The crowd has got gour number , ,775 Once out ot his vision,- - sho wers 7 nil right kiddo; they.- know youre out film ' out. latch Inf itch itr 1 and in a bath of few 'tar-after bigger game- Youre a little His volco narrowed to n nasal qual-sharply . I Marjorie Clark mot hor companions toward tbs small hallway, wfJI s f turneoat thats what they say about .t above hU of the rim , stem.. bead kid of oend you. didnt her and the gaslight burning on not i Who wouldnt turn a' whole Christmas box like you wanted looks more Ilka boll on a buoy day ering against tho two paaelo e Ow., Christmas-tid- e men and women . "And say, you give, back that ' "No, yen dont," he said, smiling and ooatTurnooat! they was ashamed of? I guess me to. did I? I didnt sttek a brand down hero than like Christmas ova glass in the dingy brown door.' P'1 y.. soiled lives breathe alcohol kodak picture you swiped off me yes- gathering hlsparcela Outside the nnkeo had ceased V V. you all dont remember how X used to now flvor In the black silk dress pat-- 1 dont It? . my I dont photographs give terday. "Do." idha and dare to glanoo back Into out ay even baok In those years, when I torn, knowing all tho while ghed havo , He WM warmed, and the right skin th sinister looking side strsst tr? I ' ? v promiscuous." was the dim corridors ot their Ion a os. Dont. taking tickets down at Lutes' old It drunk up before the opened th had softened as dried fruit expands In a white hush, a slnrle Um of sorocl!' , of you? ' "That little ahap-shFourteenth street amusement parlors, creases out. I didnt, did I? footsteps crunched Into tbs ' J wate-r"Do. ' Cronies, Son In an ae of steam Nix, home will! that took and bafora ho walks tho wrong beat I were approaching a oonverg- . . ' . . th sidewalk.' A clock fromsufgrSky-ways They I, ur tht-oiromothor-of-pe"Whats wrist? turn warm In their a frame to breeze banks two y, Tho it of avenuea from tho tho ened tower out away going gang hung 4a?ih thleJ great scraping rang eight, jwt. swap white Christmas upon "Where?" , down thoro." snowfall had lightened. Marjorie Clark BHThat whfi echoes singing like anvils In the sharp stories right over the parlor table." There. I thought yon said you "I all moment thin rest remember, hanker air. On let for above her rlghty." And with upon th crosatown gase the the "Sure! , ,and forefinger laid along-family threw It away. .voufillenn on three time you hops were full of light andstreet ths ', "How I was going to get mo a Job lde of nose for the companion and her voice seemed and Bible, huh? I had a fellow once tell oorivky, hand flew to her left wrist uptown hero, where tfler I could got in with suddenly to nestle deep in her throat. Went out. cold backs of the good old days. me he was a bookmaker, and I was as' if aright wedging m and out. Marjorie' welt lay there. "Its Christmas eve. kiddo. What crowds a decent crowd of girls and not bo Not least upon the busy magnate's green enough then to beg him to take Clark I If the of her Blink, at Gee, pulled any run. and thought strength of a good time do you want "This. I huh I I fbrgot I had It known for the kind down thoro that table Is his shopping list. the uplift stuff I've tried to pump kind me out and let me see him make 'em. on. This this little old, street oorusp for A Christmas tree sheAt the Twenty-nint- h bracelet you your money? and all 'em of you I I wasn't. knew, into you had seeped in. Gee, If I could trimmed In tin merest Jnomol Evening, 16 paused for salesgirl sit But I've learnt a thing or two about you found in the subway. It "Sure we knew." angsts?" , In their for breath dnd for a think that. Blink!" hall bedrooms, you and your kind since then, Charley-- said glanes hj-- s its nothing but red celluloid, anyway. "Yea but what good does that do; Tears lay close to the surface of her . "Do I? You Just bet your life I dq." ths dark lane of ths quick their aching feet In a tub - of boy." , with diverging strsot, Then let ms get It for you, sugar- The double row I I nearly did throw R away." r .hot water and their aching fingers i stone his of was and words thrust plum. You just stick to me tonight blank-face- d lean face housea You look Just like a little gipsy, you snip over fIn "You comb out tonight and Ill Fancy Fruits give further forward In affirmation. and shouldering one an- - ' busy with baby ribboned show it to you myself." and you can have any little thing your other Uk paper do, with that red comb in that black me the once-ova and and dolls cut tttMU 7 from lo MarJ. to All tokens of Yule-tid- e "Haven't I "It do hau to on got heart deslcea Hero, waiter." And ho She can. And why? Because I, ain't think of you got my number yet. hair of yours and that red braoelet if affection. you and those big black eyes Jingled again In tho depths of his d newspaper, stood back indistinctly swear I arm. little brown Ill your tome certified. a I havent from counterfeit Cholly; you?" Even as It flowered In a manger, 1 ths most of. n tho gainst night, and load of could ' yours shining, minutes ten high . i pocket. didnt miss my train by crowd, and whos going to tako the water wagon parade. tho Christmas spirit, a perennial lily What ie it, little one, number the cushioned in untrod snow, ths ! If ?ou wnt to loss my company stoop first tims I seen you standing hers trouble to find my number and see if , fourth of them from the rlght. loaa- upon the sooty face of the world, scared-cat- ? s to the habita It black those with at you double Blink, this got big quick, another order qounter you real?" Its just blooms cut of the slack heap of men's She flung him a glance over the eyea of yours shining out watch mosL For a .minute tonight you stein. Just look at you seeing double looking and undistinguished, except : " "Aw, now- rife and strife. that ths ashes n at its curb was . of one shoulder. Nineteen 11 you dont hump miss "Youll lt broken-dowagaln n old granny looked like coke and and It scared already. Didnt . a In the hearts of children It Is a summon! urn snow. of , i, a ed over glorified run 'away, Charley-boRightly I'm all right, baby, never felt betover In the Thirty-fourt- h street hajise ma Dont let the coke get you. Blink; - pod filled with tholr first happiness. ' her, and her Ups were cherryllke, Aa she stood thors, tho ache In Mar- - j but - "Dare you to come along! Ill wait where tor Heavens . dont." ter In sake, life." , my me I roomed notice last give Down from a sky the color of cold tilted slightly as If their fruit had for the- "I sent her a fiver, MarJ, and a You caught me when I was down lorle Clarks throat threatened to boti because Addle Lynch found me a cloak of swift. snow fell been plucked from the tree of sophisBh took up , hop j breath till I do." week, black silk,. and a doll with red hair and blue, didnt you, and pumped me corns' articulate. hold "Dont your out one to see cams mo lit ZS nlght.and swift pace again, but onward. .upon the pity, muffling. Its voice like tication. for the kid. Youghtta seen, MarJ, real full of a lot of Sunday-scho"Dare you to come out on the eighth up like a Christmas tree. talk, a hand held against its mouth: ChilTen minutes within J'You bet your life Im scared." tho i grout be later, it.1 and on X the Ill word, hair what that's did. was eighteen! Say And I fool you Thats why say, MarJ, stlok to dren who had never before beheld, a of tho Grand Union 1 .Why, out there in Glendale, tittle the station." to get soft and come down heated mausoleum "That waa fine, Blink. Fins! tho old ones who know you. enough White Christmas leaped with the Joy ode, you ' wont meet your own at "Ill sheGlenticket , for u,bought see myself crazy with the blues WJhere you . going ? - Aw, corns, Llko May Pope used to say. a girl, I was! But I folt It station, of it. A sudden army of men with shadow. If thats whats hurting first" dale. ' On track ten tho In bones love as wao the for of not well havo lettew my ao MarJ, you the tho Mike; I game lying. you're blue faces and no overcoat. sprang, you, "You might as well come, kiddo, be- might I was right about the coke.. 1 sooA had. already made Its first Jerk out. name." . goln." . and armed with shovels, You bet your life I wont. cause Jll get you yet." a . free man, - Marjle, was throw a I I Is you to Yea If to high This that twitch- ward as she made her dash for It. sign go. got from out tho storm. City parks lay My old woman will fix you up all " stuff about ths Id Tr soft In the striped sweater. I knew t , the Twenty-nint- h pedal guy corner. ing Street, my Mon In In the spick swaddling cloths .of tc!ed sudden finery, coming right. kid. and ths Christmas tres on the glrl ."Where has the straight and harrow That's where I room;' that fourth I was right I I Just knew, new-lai- d snow, Its roadways and gar-- J UP out of tho canyon of Wall street no. she wont. "Oh, she station. at the Glendale me Maybe He Someleaned to, I'd to for know? like got her hand. house to the right. That dark one, - remembered v dsn beds, nymadamlzsd streets, that It was Christmas 'Aw, come on, kiddo; were going hasnt cut her ." black-eyetimes d I a think but blind to "Little, I got Its nothing blttsle, baby you runty lanes all of one Identity- - Otoa-da-is go." and felt for bauble money. , to have a tree for the little brother, A flush swept his face like quick alley pushing me back," me wrong. ' got "Where?" At early dusk and through the and the old woman will be rigged up wind. lay In a miniature valley bsnsY j 1 "Ugh-h-qui- t. "If I was a freeman, Mur) Let go! , "Where do you s' pose? Home." iwhlte dance of the white storm the like a mast in her spotted silk. Come ths railroad elevation; ra sender 1 bum sport all rlghty. a Youre "Let me He meet a slick little solstraightened her doin' Whats there?" regarding hillside and out toward down u city slid its four million packs oft its on; who'll be any the wiser? And you! Gee, if I was to tell you fellow that doesnt have to look two emnly and controlling the alight sway tho open slight ' - four million backs and turned homeand mockery rose to the what I think country. a are. If I was!" Laughter heryou his flgura he of before walks the beat ways wrong lng to Whatta do Christmas you with to from removed tho '' the shopper's surface her ward. Pedestrians going eyes, bubbled Immediately Into her lower In daylight; let me meet a fellow like She teeth sank her , a Im gentleman. . in eve? Sit two In the Into down bent and of their . your by four, eyes nteep flight stairs, leading flurry Ups. light Up to keep It from trembling, but that, and where does It get me?" Her waa more ot a cough. twiddle thumbs? your smaii houses from tho . and darted for surface cars and sub"Hub, whats that only son. stuff jmlled, ' station, gabled "I'nf no saint, MarJ, but there aint "There ain't no ouch animal." Immediate sobs rose to her throat; All about with thatched roots that-worths ways. Commuters laden with bundles you But I wouldnt take the trouble, a beat In town Id havo to look two There ain't? I seen you trying to snow she "Gee. I dunnol coolies hoods kppOarsd in and with tickets between their teeth, how you had to Ianda Job in the city Charley-bo- y I like said, take I wouldnt on. Ask any ' one honest, ways rope ail seen today rlghty. I and make good, after your old man rushed for their trains. uncertain ranks forming ; uncertain .' trouble. "Does the slick little fellow dunno!" you." set , bundles died, eh? How about your yester- the He the Women with b&rlng-dow- n streets. up Jangling again. he X get my number? He does not. I'd "Sure did." The slick guy In windows Lights gleamed in frequent"Ill get you yet you little vlx, It's Christmas eve, MarJ." and babies wedged through the crowd day's line" of talk.? throwing squares - pt,goldlnslstecL his white smile flashing, and like to see one of them ask that dirty checka" "I colored light Jn ths .snow. Thats right, rub It Inland she fighting tot traiqs and place. Boyslittle yellow head over In the Fancy crowd. . fnto the You" wandering-boyretreating about how mothers .All Hero uniforms and boardlngIn cadet and'thero whore shads .Wpjrs Fruits to go home with him. A llfcle looked away from 'him. You oh oh, youd1 "Sure, I seen you, I was loafing drawn, the himself afl plastered shadow pTa Qr school girls homeward hound. thrust -found mo high around e MarJ, "Come, Nobody-Homdont leave. llko Just head because her. She the stood after a! Grand Union whole hour tree stood grotesque the window;and dry like this. Come, IU blow you before you seen me forward their shining faces as If Into over with the mortgage and worked backward andlookingarched him, against was she raised an in amen corner of in forward de- the Bronx and has a hip All today, baby doll Flckst fences . moved post. 'the tomorrow. A tight tangle of bugl-'ne- nights to get out from under. master to a little supper, kiddo. I got a I seen the whole show. marched crookedly aloug. At saph In- - .. men passed single file through about aw, say, whats the use? But the pose of Carmen's immortal atti mechanic brother to call for her every of meal tickets coming to me couple down slick little Checkers Grabbed'the fiance. her behind out But flashing I ths to light you fellows, Boys tersectlon of streets a white orcllght. always say a trelliaed gateway and on down to time she works 16 minutes laVr, she at Harry's on some Ivories I threw line, didnt her heart rose to her throat and can you? Bowled him over dangled, siastng and spreading Its, ra- a lower level. A messenger with a cultivate good memories; you need tude , wear her hands crossed on her last night. with those blAck be a eyea of Went warm to blood em.' of her your. Little brother! Joke! In face, Ha, gush "Dice: And after the line of ta!k for him right like he was a stick ot dlancs to the very stoops of adjothlrig chest and a lily stuck In 'em and get tipsy spray of holly stuck upright Little I aw I brothers truying it. " housea his cap whacked with avoided newsIt Just tried to make me swallow. candy and you was . , you .too." with away h? the illuminated hands of the licking blocks from ths left of ths- staswift what we call my sister Till's Uttre Ihen Two Did I believe It? I did not." "You're paper at a got right, you kiddo; mo' to In slick take a big eyeful tion Marjorie Clark paused in- ths kid. Aw, what what you' Illuminated tower clock swung to the sand Pretty and darted, in and around the than ten of such put together. stakes, MarJ. Just for a oouple Mice that, wasnt IT Some Uttle . "No Check white shower of one of these arcllghts. ' legs put me. in bad for, sister? wide angle of five oclock. Miss Marknees of the crowd. A prodigal hesi- want to so as "Imer as we meal and tickets her better good tossed. Im Come, ere was." he girl, as Im not you jorie Clark .and Miss Minnie Bundt, not so sure by a sasy to trip up Th wind had hauled around to the tated. then bought a second-elas- s shot that any you aint been down to Harrys for long Rad to face her am. leaped think I I from he Fancy Fruit stand opposite, of those baby faces would say no If months; north and- - Its raw breath-- - galloped ' ticket for home. Two nuns hurried wont you , halo "Cut get your that And brother! "Little say, thats ast off the brown cocoon of their they was - ever - invited to say-yacross ths open country, stinging hsr. softly on missions of Christmas. one mussed from time. Its Christmas p in your Gad, what you mad about, kiddo? Across ths street, diagonal, a low The low thunder of a thousand feet; a bottle of malted milk there out workaday for the trim street finery Watch out there, that cab, Blink. Gee, eve, MarJ. Gentleman eh? friend, to that pocket, shabtaking too youre house the 'to angles, ths snow American nerves which tired feet, eager feet; flat feet, are the as as shopgirl, your I heard steady first gelatin." "You ths time. Just cut that talk, and double banked ofIn a many you him. aint it? Sure it Is. across its north drift - They were veering- - through of economists and theo high by feet; young feet, callous feet, archthe stupefaction I to If It too." alone go got This aw,- - this say, you havent rists, can tonight, quick, stood well back in shadsw ex- - . ed and archlesa feet Voices that rope flank, out out crowds evolve Into of and soft the eight of be spmehow Itll the wettest MarJ, flurry "After Christmas I bigger gama eh, kiddo?" cept that on ths peak of ' Its small those snappy black eyes of yours dollars a week. the storm. Flakes like pulled out bits ever spent. It will. like wind to a gale. A child dragged got Fine chance." for have you? This bottle plekle this and clearly defined by ths ' the of cotton floated' to their ahoulders, Christmas eve like It waaIll room looker In tho by the arm and whimpering. A group here nothing, met, they never good 'Nt Is In this enough down here, eh?" veranda, aw, this weather-van- e my pocket, pickled spun to the Seventh avenue, for before, I will. of shawled strangers Interchanging a a bottle If you want to know It No." arcllght, a eyes of Mias Bundt resting there. "No, of brandy for my old placid Hale. the instant before the left In the eye Miss Jargon. He sharp tho Clarks no wavy man "Aren't kiddo." meeting you, at woman. snow threatenyou First and her all, flurry a Marjorie Clark ducked her head to Within the marble mausoleum of great Greek facade of the Grand Union lng like that? Just no man at all? . Tee he liked me. He like me all the with left foot begins to drag like a rag square of mirror. was a onslaught of wind and crossed tbs . like dream of station, Athens likewaiting room. Its benches linedtravelft? do. all aint If tell khty, "I I got to go It alone .Heavens,- if street Snowing, with rheumatism. you they seen through the dapple of white kicking up a fine flurry ot snow a the kaleidoscopic face of the ver run ' across a I fellow was be. wont that Her rose and his confusion Im crazy enough on Yep." before her. A convoy ot tress stood shadows. Immediately the eye veered, tonight, level Min. to with ing public, a train announcer bellowed with It.laughter I'd' me, little tear a the hyewide Gee, thats get hat, nifty things open. down ths quiet ' however, the great cosmopolls formed a paean of tracks and stations. in blB face, I would, In military- precision "A line of talk like that will send Whered you get the pompon?" "Sure, she cried. ) rlfbt bare branches snthrao-ln- g their street avenue, periavenue tore by down At the onyx and nickel-plate- d meeting ' his face! mo -Kr.f.ht J home' come Aw ten. and Five on, than aw, J If Marje." anything, her in Immediate shadows. treillusion. Another block and sec' you want to quicker odical stand men In passing snatched. - "Well,of all the nerve - My names level MarJ, only ,.Lm ?n It." She turned her "It Jt aint got the avenue written the d creaked when she drew It back- ats u try clothing shops nudged one face away andknow their evening paper from off the stack that Is." now?" It over It." toward the all dark aisle property. of private ward, scraping outward and upon he another, their flapping wares for sale the side street. on the counter, flopping down their d bln, know i1- ..Lam itself. "It But said yu Silence. ' It. slipped. of like sidewalk a hill of loos snow, Jittott them wash clothes on In outside, the glow a r about aa tralht as a pennies as they ran. I didnt mean It, .MarJ." Some little gee, I liked It "Want some my powder, Min? line, empty arms and legs gallivanting Marje. that small house & garden lay tucked ' a spray of red and white electric " name." "I . hats Pink s pretty-whining." In the. wind. A storm car combed ' backllde now end then, beneath its blanket, a scrawny line of bulbs, in a bower of the instant "Well, of all the nerve! girl. Don't. Don't give herself "Nope. through the driven snow, scuttling It me"Dont go. hedge fluted with snow enclosing it girl periodical covers, and black-ey- e oft Come on, Youre horrors the movie want to to and to . a leave .me alons Want and clearing the tracks. Down an'go all, Miss Marno backsliding for you and a few stalks that would presently 11 There the most vivid of them five- a"a the Marl ,we tonight. stores? fob or or bum around the other block the hot spicy smell of a flower. The hood of ths dark veranda t jorie Clark caught a hastily flung eighteen. Who s going be any the tonight Mexican dish floated ' out between the thetoXownirt0rWe1eytlnSo1tha m ff surmounted with Its high ruche of chriBtmag eve. back copper ooln on the fly, her laughter wiser? I got something out there I u.g Cant. of an doors A bar. swinging snow, scorned to incline, Invitational. want to tell you. mounting with it. ' houflankTn ."wind' Hef drained!)! man lurched out, laughing and crying. blank-face- d ' Date? ti?''tfm. theTot when Marjorie Clark pulled out Whoop, My hearings all right In the city.1 a Clarks steered ' kiddo." Marjorie companion her face canyoni.whl,tlln Yep.. "Good catch, caught his sway a bit' too late. Its something I want to whisper her past and turned toward her hi ln1Ihitiith),'fh who was sickened as she stood and she was Silence. hl,?.h ' "Oh, you Charley-bo- season?" "Forget that, kiddo." where I can get next to that right A flush rose to Miss Clarks face, twitching features, suddenly, and even I can't. It waa that showed me down the steps again, ths tightness little ear of yours. you pitching for last Fine little Joy lane for your Christ, plainer than all that their looseness, softened. went before squeezing her throat, her. gloved hands . You got a swell chance at that darkening It. She adjusted her dyed through The Reds, because thats , your ma Poor kiddo, he said, "Just send eye, eh? Dont go, MarJ, Have how I was wasting my time working fumbling the gate latch, and her kneo fur tlbbet and & small Imitation fur them to me . little ear of mine, nix." color. . a for reference.' I can do heart and be a sport. Let me blow over you. . tnat flung against it pressing ft outward. cap at Just the angle which doubled some tall , Stingy. "Say If you're going to eaten In ths moment of her most frenzied down at Harrys for vouching for you. yp" "Aint I got something on you, too. You bet your life Im stingy. fts face value. Something seemed to yPPcr youve got to - break feel I "The old times way sake. a golden patch of light from attitude lately Didnt sometimes, but re- here between peacheo; limit don't sure you you' out white Christmas a from me her then promise hear for and It8 eyes speed leap somebodys honest, I think if I get to getting the my old woman to keep an eye on mo? throwing It up to you do an opened door streamed out and over. ' I Aint -you? and track ten Run along, Charley-bo- out where I live. Come on out ai)d j treat behind a smile and a squint. much deeper, theres no tetl didn't you? For old times! sake, her. In Its radiance a womans Checker on you?- , let me ehow you a good time, little! 7 Say, Mln, If my voice hurt me like indlgoes and Merry Christmas lane i d You ing where t jhc game MarJ! Its Chrlstmaa", I to alone. silhouette, hand But Mr Charles Scully-swun- g yours doea Id rub salve on it, and as well as theyll the name ain't all poetry, t She stood shivering and I aint blaming you. Como bent In a visor over her eyea leaned wish you was half as white as went out, slamming the door behind iet-m- e down gazing halt, poured his armful of packages thisI Christmas Into the black throat of the street: tell'you that MarJ, lets swap our real namea" forward, and rushing past her and Is. - Honest, sometimes fher a tear lay on the edge of Into a wire basket of down ths plushy steps the Through the fall of mild snow he What ?'' be a ifterry evening In that to myself,-says, aint there her d lashes threatening to eould see her .face shining out darkly, two"Itll card views for ten cents, swung open I saysnone ft,n 1 blaming you.' Only figure of Mr. Charley Scully, a red and s,ur9' by four of of you white? Hae a girl ricochet down her smoothly powdered and his wont It? Look v on his overcoat with a sprinkling col-of- Just bare, eager fingers moved at It down there:youra the level, to me like her girl be on the level: antiquated red wool Indoor jacket flyall lt?"l d velvet cheerful, got keep aint dodging snow 6n its cheek. She winked It In again. The toward her arm, and except when the !t wlnd. and a forelock ot his Tears "over "h'er.i ? !JsbS iry your after, and' we In formed life? a mustache black glaze small .his swarm was close to. her, spasmodic twitch locked his features, eyea lar, lifted dont measure up down here, say so. shiny hair lifted. Come, sister, lets catch the five- - station him In a smile. fkce, too, was thrust forward, keen Jostling, kicking her ankles in passing, thlnk youre crazy, Blink." "Be a sport, MarJ." "Marjle! ,,Y?UI Back eyes, Id miss three trains eighteen." and close to hera ' 1 know NDs. kiddo. She backed AH right Blink!" the fata You better run along before you 'buffeting. used Ive against up ' "Ive been telling you that for five At the for you.. From out the swift tide a figure ' ,"MarJ! Marjle?; y lea8, on 11 &ettlnk get me all rubbed the wrong way, entrance e.trar.f to family ' ' Harry's years, Theres not another girl. , "I no, no I now- - J 11 Checkers J8 At Ill be buying my without an overcoat, and a cap visor Place, and Just around four-fortown meal ticket, let mo tell you that." pulled well down over his eyes, locked ' "Now, don't go getting me wrong. from the main entrance of knetwh Why little one. Marjle! Marjle!"--' y0U ' Blink. I should -- worry. Anyway, for all " I so no no arm from the rear that she ' ,; 1okln hlm ji buy your own meal ticket, her doors and a broadside of -- vfn)7 If I was what ths law calls a free swinging your mind If "Then I know youve changed me But her Inertia was of no moment, eyes, but her lips thats what hurting you, little prang about, releasing herself. frosted plate-glaa bead of front, tonight, man, know MarJ, kind what you a of and are coming out with and the come Charles ?"For vut very on Heavens sake. Blink, out tho presently touchy, and Scullys ' I would nave put up to ga -- burned eullenly through a red You take that back., little one. thirty-minustrong right arm propelling' hor, shs , will you ? Ive Jabbed proposition Its winklng, so to speak, at all five years ago when I had .my globe, you What In was bright-lighte- d The quick blood ran up. Jnto runnmd ir you onlya the you hat-pi- n be green warm, around the a less ha!)- the with for word that. than . say who would enter there under cover df fr-- , gills health and my looks and kiddo? Don't, you say yourgelf her small face, dyeing It, and she at the station with bells on toIll MarJ.-Yesway, its door closing her inland ths meet Its murk. want to "If features. you me bo maks his from re, that Just wide-hippoearing i and the game come to- withdrew Come on. Ill show you the you. figure InIm merry as a crutch. What tune up on that old song- .- You ain't Wometa with faces ths fatty white gethertheIn name Gee, you re about Christmas eve of your life. the same package? I aint spotted silk fumbling the throat I have .pot! Be a brought you around. Blink?" fastand man to 3ail6L. llp are even have that own enough -It little Might you a get as your with doughnut, as square you. t enlngs of her Jacket, and the stooped-for- m Alarjle. a fellow' drop around to pick kid out of ths dutches of a mother kissed blood, slipped from the dark arguing "Cant fellow a cant -"You back.-take . 1 it of Juniper, said.1 Jumping off Charley Scully Yes, I always say. Inviting a girl tide -- of -- the side etreet-int- o up," thats pulling her down to Hadea with trance. the enHe . and flecked his fingers her thin rubber shoea . dragging miss .his train Just to wish a little to be a sport Is a slick way of inviting you -- "Land that Job? Furtive couples rose out of for a laughed her. Take it from me; If there wasnt Merry waiter, out A. Christraas,.J,er0 his seen flinging 'where I've Whew, Hades: Ma. .. beauty Jlkeyou.. theyre soaking wet, legs at being tNot a chance. What they want something In me thats Just sorry for the night; the men, lean as laths, Get her a pair of TiUa slippers or the table.' But on the level. I want to tako you a Bport ian(jB a gri, I have. I aint, down d there Is a roughrneck, not you, I WQUldnt-walthese here blocks col caps drawn a clever little girl. Mark something. Youre upland out home with me tonight: .honest' I thaujj Heavens, I aint. Is what I al- Sometimes when I look down; girls some with red lights and Ive got to hand It to you. Angentleman "robber down, flay, take It wjh you. "Dont Jerk the child like that, aon-Purways saystq them do, little apltlli-e-lf some and no with In In at from a their hard. light fellow you ha after me; worked It eyes, other honest, right Blink, stein you em off easy." there, waiter, and one "Crank up there, Charley-bo"Well, of all the funny little prop- - the high-claTurkish baths, Third look to me Uke the cokes got you. and most of them with chalk colored for the girl; she needs seconds to make that osltlons." it." Through glazed eyes Marjorie Clark, got about thirty Blink. powder laid on- over - the golden pollen PiU-I- t no avenue to tone his Joints aint ' up out if it cornea balancing herself first on one foot, Jii right "Well, there's nothing funny about train In. of youth. " "Now, Marjle more. I got to have class, kiddo, thats ask your proposition." then the other, the spotted silk arm WhlTa lfi?U 80 Bheety-lookin- g "Gets you sore every time Within Harrys Place, Christmas You wouldnt tell me If It had. But a lean I ouch toward black-eyes- ? Talk got why you. and half sustaining her, could gllmpae th one temper little but It. Youre green girl; funny found ,)rik. little you out, dont the twitches berth all you got enough me rlghty," eh? Gad, I like you that scene of an adjoining room: a fir tree "Cut that." gee, I like you.V about your little tin saints!" the great soaped-ove- r except that, way. i glue, "Its me nervsa MarJ; me nerves above like you for ydur temper, Come down tonight, MarJ? There was that In his glance and and standing against a drawn window bllnu ' "Say,-i- f you wdsny slickef youd at the far end of the room amirror and you. holly llk "Where?! vT7U .of tho flash teeth and his the white you for' and half hung In tinsel fringe, aban ,k"w'ltVI slide." ' "Bah, you got 'about as much back- wreath - dangled from the tarnished gilt v.rS D,amed thing - about-yo- u. doned in the very act of being draped, "Harrys." You cant scare me with those pomaded air of geniality about him frame and againat the 'clouded-ove- r a as bone fish. Jelly Blaming things Let gof Let go) I say. a woman and a child stooping at It Well, I guess not. that sent a- quick network ot thrills black eyea on a girl. glass a forefinger had etched a care- IT ,m I base ' Above a carved black walnut ' "Buy you a dinner." Cant I, my brave boy! Say, youd darting through her; all her peroep"You took tho backbone out of ms. less Merry Christmas. greenish aura I table and from a mother-of-pear- l, "But youre flat as your hand." At tables set so close that waiters want to quarantine the dictionary If tions rose and her color. I tell you:" m ,wlthljlt,le . move a uWSuld small amateur photograph of "Come only frame, little girl." stiffly, on, He set up a Jingling In his left between them, the habi- and she "Oh, no, I didnt; It's been missing you found smallpox in it, that's how back from the table Marjorie Clark smiled out at herself. "Oh," she cried, clenching her small pocket. tues of Harrys Place dined wined, only half articulate. first birthday. since hard you are to scare. your The figure In spotted silk dnye4 and a tempest of fury flash"I am, am I? too, but mostly out of uncovered steins out and Let heart vitals "Well, of all .the lines of talk, If tan hand, "Eating for my me pass please. across her face, "you you fresh oftthe and hurried with It stemless glasses. And you and your confounded highfalutin or two-inc- h "Well,. Im not going. Where you golng. peaches?" you aint got the greatest. Cute Is ing toward the rear of the hallway, her fellows uptown here think Just behere-a- nd there- - at zmaller tables a "When you going to cut this come- amen notions. He no name for you. reached for her hand. left fpot dragging slightly. can dy, you wear good clothes and "Before you ever clapped eyes on me solitary figure with & seer's light In "And Bay, the place where you cause .Mary?: -hold-doY?u thad. MarJ? j didnt mean to '"Just a second, dearie-chiluntil I a decent-Jobthat you was mors famous for your arm his eyes sipped his greenish milk! tflerk' must be a classy clothes not. you "Im Just Im get you sore." begtnnlng. find dry things for- - you. Bon, stop of a propyou can put up any kind An electric piano, its shallow tones "N-nmuscles than your backbone. I guess Charley-bointo eh? Blink. "Breaking high society, the me. around lamb until she osition like girl Oh a to fussing oh, Fine chance. ' gets I don't . remember "You beauty, you." how your own undigested "by the crowded room, little one- - If you ever Just Right-o- , . , , , rested." , every one of you! mother told me the very day before played In response to whomsoever , with the of Yes, ; down you pass by the Brown Haberdashery, on gang on But ot tho first tho tws instant little of all the "WeU, spitfires. a coin Into Its maw. Kicked-u- p She died how she tried on Twenty-thir- d 'Gad, bul 1 like .you. Sit down. of them standing alone there' in tho street, drop Jn and "What do you think I am? What there hanging on like the plague I got knees to keep you out of a her old lipped sawdust In k the flakes. like lay t air a new nix. swell marriage lunch, a fttarJ to Ill Tra-lbuy you chance,, proposition put little hallway, Charley Scblly turned does one of you. up and downFrom her table near the door Mies that woman. All that happened where did you get that town, every n?u 1 can talk big money, girl. "Its because we know you too well. with to Marjorie Clark, catching up-think I am?-- ) Do I look like I baok In the days when you had Marjorie Clark pushed from her a litway 17 - swiftly Blink. . checked suit, and Ill bet you flag the was born yesterday? two MarJ. Knew when had iDpnt email hand. His eyas carried the-you you Well, I d your muscles and was head rubber-dow- n ter of Sit down, girl. Harry dont stand her sent her dishes and train out at Glendale where you live or the day before or the day wasn't, to black t Iridescence and a used ot bronzs. ,t carry pigtails before at You knew her dark glance out over the room. A few tuff in here no more." with that tie. Oh. you Checkers!"' "Marjle, he said, "to- - why. td thfenk If.I was a nice appear- bucket Into the family entrance of kind whenHerscheys. that. Honest, too of ,,j'.ft did and you pairs It, circled dancers sinuous now, why a , - Why Some class to. me, eh, kiddo?" MsJ .why Wttle youd coma! ing fellow like you Id be. ashamed, Harrys Place, crying with madness ' aint you man enough to blame vouaw small clearing around-th- e electric - Cj . , Jle!" , "Oh, I wouldn't say that. i'fiot new proposition girl- One I would. I'd go out in the garden and every rime your old man Sent you. aelf for what you are instead of blaiifT piano. Walters ,i u of foam-drifti- that 11 make Checkers look Uk with ' fans ' ' He leaned closer. His spille had eat worma I.wo,uld. 30 I oh, Charley-boV I J Gad, I can'see you yet. sweetness, with lng a girl. Gee! , stein finclutched between A t.1 whit a s;, crescent and Mke a slight c.7tal an uplift What. Uttle ose? proposition, too, MarJ. He retreated before her scornt but your Mg black eyes blacker than ever, What?,! "I mean didnt It Jostled MarJ. them It. gers, In A At ' a could to passing. slipped listen low . too baby In left r dunno." it" his cheek, 11 depression home your old man from 8help me, I didnt. Sometimes I Just small table adjoining, a girl slept In and smiling. Yea Blink, but not now. When "What Is it, hon? Alnj yoi A for a dimple, twinkled when he Ill get 'you yet, you llttM vlx, he off asteering Jamboree." dont know what Im saying. MarJ; her arms. Two more entered elbow you get yes. Ut be. as up, you v.i I you an black-fyestar.. , like d oughtn't t adjacent saldi T,yS)T pretty little vlx smiled, "Sometimes I wake up In thats how my mind ktnda gets some- In elbow, and directly a youth In a gin to dream about those millionaire "I am dunno, only I I)T tt "Take it from me, Queenle, these you, Ill get you yet. Ma was stjll alhe times. All fuzzed over like." d and muffled sweater wool Just,llks.him . I propositions, BMnk; Try and keep Charley scared, guoHt. fclad rags are my stock In trade. In "Yes you will. and me and her was 'What's the odds what you say, high to his tooth and features that In your thera wlta" Why, you Just nsvsfl w "If you change your mind, come out listening to him creak up sitting my line I got to sport them. At horns the on Blink? Youre Just not man-sizof stairs himself I spite twitch would and Mar Jt," as nowryeu J'AbabyeouldUu-4othtotierej m all to the overalls. If my boss on the Two 1 " I wake his can bad girlie. tell gueBS." twitch again.""1 up, proposition,- MarJ, and big money, too, Shs could not moot was to zee the old red wool smoklng-Jsck- et blocks jto the left of, the station; , tho yotr. ln anlghta In a sweat." sweat She was a bleak little figure bowing "HL Blink, ho said In passing. diamonds rtght MarJ.ItJs eyes, but hlp itit: Y hed corner house with a little weather-.cock-Ov1 knew you In themjSays, kiddo. lntothe wind, her.tlbbet flapping back HI1i .wear around Somehow with her Ups she smiled that tho , tightness ' 44. the porch, Caa't mlss-lt- v fire mo - for burlerqulnf the me. knew over o.ne like shoulder. Just Thats why Reader, your- heart lifted up and down at him and did not tug for th sssmsd suddenly tA,6, j, , ' I'll be drapin' the ,treo in tin fringe you cant you" "I ain't, ain't' I? I aint gone glowing with Yuletido and good will release of her hand. Dallied , p'ull- nothing over on a felshe sold. ' "Charley-bofor the Well, of til tho nerve.. Lot go my and wlehlng you wore there." low, kldo. thats had as many pulls through a living hejl sitting on ths toward men. turn not in warranted Instant Instead. ot rtt-T- f the soand But. at ft::, y suckers as I have. water wagon for you, have I?" hand. "Oh," she cried, her volco crackod on your nausoa from th reek of Harrys Place. I lit up BUnk. " Youre ' ' T I C bne. sob. hate had You're I little with a It, little you. "Didnt know (Contuiss quitter, you are, and "Try to keep from twitching that Mors plant, can love the light and! "Some big guns in Wall, street. . ate) sometimes ger gams." Tht Name .and the Game X - think (or ! .I rf ipv-lln- os. jaroJ . ht bk u. to. 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