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Show KEPT HI3 ENGAGEMENT. Wa Ready to Make Good'on tho Hot-Air Hot-Air Proposition. "I'm not much of a hand nt caves-dropping," caves-dropping," said a thoughtful looking man tho other day, "but I couidn't help listening to tho lino of hot air, four-flush four-flush talk that n fellow behind mo on the Euclid beach enr n few1 nights ago was handing to a girl. Ho kept it up all tho way from East Ninth street clear out to tho beach. j "Most of tho talk ho was getting off was nbout tho princely salary his firm had to put up to keep him nnd about how smooth he was. "I turned around nnd looked at tho two of them out of the tail of my eye, and then I knew how ho managed to get awny with It, for tho girl was one of those wilted looking affairs that would bellovo you If you told her you were the man that built Niagara falls. I also turned my lamps on him nnd ,he looked to mo like a man whom you could rob of an entire two weeks' salary and yet commit only petit larceny. "But I couldn't holp listening to his talk. After awhile I heard him give the girl his telephone number. 'Call mo up somo afternoon when you're down town,' he Bald, 'and we'll havo lunch together.' "I jotted down his phone number and waited to get somo clew to his name. By and by I heard her call him Frank, and I thought that would do. 'Two days after that about noon I had my stenographer call up his number num-ber and ask for Frank. Then I had her tell him that she wanted that lunch ho promised hor on the Euclid beach car. Frank was right in for It, and said that he would go over and order a lunch at a hotel that he mentioned. The girl promised to meet him In half an hour, If he would go ahead and order. "In about 20 minutes I went oyer to watch developments. There sat my hot-air neighbor of the beach car at a little table set for two, waiting patiently waiting. I went away and came back for another look an hour later, and he was still waiting." Cleveland Plain Dealer. |