Show 0 OB SINCLAIR 0 SUGAR 0 0 0 DADDY DADD 0 0 0 0 0 by FANNIE il HURST 0 0 0 0 0 0 a 0 0 0 0 0 0 Q by y mcclure New newspaper syndicate to the six photographs awrich ACCORDING of slim sinclair JL letty leigh had on her dresser he had not taken on weight up to about the age of thirty four As a matter of fact that was true the sinclair who left hla his small upstate up state town at thirty five was vas still within the normal range it was in the next ten years that obesity began to set in people said that it was because he began to sow his wild oats at the age when most men are finished with them there might have been some truth in that the upstate up state boy who had plodded through the first halt of hla hs life with his nose close to the grin grindstone earning a frugal living in a frugal town had not had much time for play it had bad been due to his capacity for drudgery that nt at thirty five he had accumulated a fair fortune considering the size of the town called E empire it was not unna unnatural tyral that tile the new world the new whirl the new excitement of a city like new york should veep sweep a man like ob sinclair as he be tame came to be called oft off his feet and that Is what it did less than three years after ills his arrival in the metropolis ob hadnot had not only more than quadrupled in wall street the fort fortune u ne he be had made in empire in dairy products but he had become known a long along on broadway as a sugar daddy there are synonyms and equivalents of sugar daddy butter and egg man angel but as ob began to take on weight and his jowls to fall into soft folds of flesh sugar daddy somehow seemed his more apt pseudonym in a few short years ob had frankly become the show girls darling lie ile bung around their stage doors he sent seat them flowers he wrote them mash notes lie ile bought them forbidden wine lie ile gave parties in ills his flat where adult men and women actually indulged in the obsolete pastime of drinking champagne out of satin slippers when ob performed this ritual in his natlia and gold flat where a party of fourteen was present he be did it with complete unconsciousness of what a threadbare gesture it was to him it was the most stimulating exciting and miraculous circumstance that had ever happened to him the fact that bittle 1111 mirabel rabel Money toes musical com edys dancing darling was actually supping with him in his apartment and that he old ob sinclair from empire new york was tilting her incredibly small satin slipper to his lips and supping champagne out of it it seemed to ob that the vagaries of late were treating him to a ride down life that was its as thrilling as n R moot along a coney island scenic railway i who was lie he ob sinclair to be sitting in a satin and gold flat in new york surrounded by all these glittering people of the glittering show world drinking champagne from ohp satin cup of a little dancer who was the toast of the town well ob was going to make the best of ills opportunities before mirabel Money toes had left his flat th that at night there was tucked away in the adorable little bodice of the frock she wore substantial evidence of abs appreciation of the miracle that had befallen him it was curious but with fill all hl hla slack lack of astuteness in his dealings with people in a world so allen alien to him ob in hie file beginning never for a moment forgot just what his relationship was As the began to wag about mi all new sugar daddy ob knew precisely to what lie he owed the great privilege of his title money and ob who was by then in the seven fl figure class of finance never for a m moment 0 ml nt forgot tt it Bil mirabel rabel Money toes had a flat or rather a bungalow built especially for her on top of tile the twenty first story of one of the towns smartest hotels she had bad a bial body car of italian make said bald to be the most expensive iliou alm ever brought into america ob literally covered the slender forearms for earma of the little dancer in bands of jewels jewel s As for Ml mirabel rabel with an instinct of the fair play of give and take site she upon oh ob in return her dainty charm and whirled about for all the world like a humming bird conscious of tta its brief life and greedy for the honey while it lasted it Is difficult to know at just what point oba song sane apprill appraisement of the situation began to collapse after two or three years of maintaining his p position along the rialto as sugar daddy to the lovely little dancer ob began to enst cast the glo gloating abing eyes of illusion upon ills lii s little pet after all her smile ans so ready for him her endearments dear ments so profuse her eagerness to do his bidding so spontaneous it began to dawn upon oh 01 slowly and with a sweetness that was terrifying that this bit of loveliness might be permanently ills his lie ile began secretly to plan for the permanent capture of the little mirabel more freely than ever he be met inet her demands with more prowler 1 he ted the group of slim dim young boys boya who danced attendance upon her there again old ob felt himself to be wise ile he knew the call of youth to youth ile he never denied her this call ue he was generous with her boyish suitors and up to a certain point let them hang around her and dance attendance mirabel knew that point and never once had she erred sugar daddy came first about the end of the fourth year just as ob keyed to a pitch of self confidence beyond anything he bud bad ever dreamed was about to venture to make demand for the permanent ownership by way of marriage of the lovely mirabel one of her young men whom ob had employed for the purpose of giving him a living absconded with the sum of several hundred thousand dollars of abs money it was proof of mirabell Mi great hold upon ob that she succeeded in preventing pursuit and prosecution by sheer force of her curiously dominant will power she prevailed upon ob to let the crime go by default and against ills his every instinct of integrity he gave in six months later on a blow that came overnight its as it t were little mirabel joined her absconding lover where he was living in seclusion on a mediterranean island leaving ob in the phraseology of a gossipy broadway cold and hat flat the extraordinary part of it was that old ob blighted wounded stricken humiliated picked himself up after the first blank shock and resumed his role of sugar daddy lie ile Is sugar daddy today to one after another of the little humming birds of broadway Broadw ny and one by one he is deserted by them deathless Deat liless to ob Is the thrill of sugar daddi 11 ile he still hangs around the stage doors lie he still sends flowers no he still writes mash notes and buys forbidden wine ile he still gives parties in his fl flat a t where adult men and women actually indulge in the obsolete pastime of drinking champagne out of satin slippers to him it Is still the most stimulating exciting and miraculous circumstance that has ever h happened a p to him the fact that musical comedy darlings actually sup with him in his apartment and that b he ob sinclair from empire new york tilts incredibly small satin slippers to his lips and sups cups champagne out of them it seemed to ob that the vagaries of fate were still treating him to a ride down life that was as thrilling as a scoot along a coney island scenic railway and after his years of su gar he still asks himself the question who was he ob sinclair to be sitting in a satan and gold flat in new york surrounded by all these glittering people of the glittering show world drinking champagne from the satin slipper of a little dancer who was the latest toast of the town As the town tawn stilt still wagged about his sugar daddy reputation ob forgotten to what he owed the great privilege of his ats title money well ob was waa still making the best of his opportunities back in empire miss lety leigh who has loved him avith a secret and hopeless passion since they romped upstate up state meadows together sits in her quiet hou house seand and day by day regards with the eyes of her hopeless passion the six photographs of ob 06 that line her dresser |