Show HER OWN AY cA j GIRL o Of Of course cour said ald Mamic Sterns will keep kep me m here just lust a as long as he h can tonight Julie Jull for he knows know that you are ar rooming tit at t our apartment p nt I bet b t hardly get et et out the th door when hell he'll como corn hero here her to t pump me but dont don't you werry orry Julie Im I'm enough h for tor that man and he koo It Ive I've never corn come o off orf second best beet when hos ho's he triad to bawl me out yet Sa Say Judy your your- friend Mamie is 13 right there JImmI Jimmie remarked U e w went out Youve said something something- I an- an answered an sacred wred Mami Mamie Riley Is ts the th best beat friend Iv lve had In all aU the world I never dreamed a a girl 1111 could be bego b jo go sweet and sincere and hon hon- honest lion hon honest est eat Why Jimmie JImmI when I see e her smiling at all tho those SAtyrs who think that they thoy th y are re flatt flatter flatter- flattering l- l ing her I can only think of o a lily Illy In a muck bid bed b d Yes Yea Tc Mamie t Is my best friend frind Xo No No Judy not your best beat friend If you'll consent to count me In No one on on earth rth will be bea bea bs a better friend to you than I It if you'll let l t me m bl be so o My but youre you're coming along alon fast Jimmie You Y u know I hardly knet you In our old horn home town and now you want wint w nt me to let you yoube yoube yoube be mv my b best st friend JImmI Jimmie Costello looked so o hurt that I hastened to assure him that I h know he was as wa u as a good food a friend a Mami Mainie But not any better Remember her bee ber that young man I said ald ld Well Ill I'll try to be b satisfied 1 i with that he grinned But Ill I'll warn you ou young younS lady ladr Ill I'll not take anything less leu than some ome sometIme time lie he tucked me m a little closer under his hi arm arm- arm that I Imay Imay may ask you to let me m be b a a little something more mor Dont Please Pleas dont don't Jimmie for Id I'd hate hat to 10 lose lor as a good 1 a friend ae aa a you ou If It you ou are ar hint hint- hintIng Inc hint log Ing that you want w nt to be b m my mys s r etheart I dont don't want ant a sweetheart sweetheart- and I do want a friend Oh dont don't worry about me inc cheerfully remarked Jim What d do you want to do take a taxi ta-al or do do you ou want to ro o Into the first fating eating place we come corn to That m in i t better Id I'd rath rath- rather rath- rath rather er Cr walk alk As A we passed In front o ot a brilliantly lighted window Jimmie Costello topped stopped short hort and twist twist- twisted twisted twisted ed me m around Judy how long Ion I hav have you been here About two month months And have hav you ou had to stan stand the insolence of those thos men all that time 1 No I didn't hav have hav to all ill the time but It I were ere not nt listening to their insolence I would have been listening to their theil c compliment ment ments which wa was w worse Ive I've come to the th conclusion that a aman aman man I Is Inordinately proud roud of ot hl hi supposed power powel to please for for- hes hel always alay trying to add to his hi little box of or trick tricks Copyright 1928 NEA Service Inc A flat Checkers nat hJ |