Show Synthetic 41 i Gentleman f By y CHANNING r POLLOCK Oo Pollock Pollack W W-JU W NU Service Ser SYNOPSIS t The Duke Carry Barry Gilbert likable able youth of twenty three Jobless and broke en- en ent enten t ten fete a an unoccupied summer summer homo home In Southampton seeking shelter sheller from a term storm He makes himself at home Doz Doz- at st the fireplace he ho Is startled by bythe bythe bythe the arrival of a butler Willetts and anda a chauffeur Evans Ivans He lie learns that the theten theOD ten eon OD of the owner of at the house Jack Bidder RIdder whom the servants had never neverseen teeD seen Is expected He lie decides to blurt bluff It out Isis Ills supposed parents have left for tor Germany Next morning he Is given Iven letter for tor his mother U He lIe opens n It and finds flags a message from tram the real Jack laying saying he could not come and returning a hundred-dollar hundred bill The Tho boys boy's father had bad pensioned him Into obscurity Bar Dar Barry Barry ry pockets the money mone Intending to re- re return return return turn It later Ho lie orders Evans to take tako him to Montauk Intending to disappear there On the way he meets Judge and his daughter Patricia Believing he Is Jack Udder Bidder she Invites him to dinner the following Thursday Barry returns to Southampton deciding to stay a bit longer Mr RIdder Sr through his newspaper the Globe ac ac- accuses accuses ac- ac accuses Judge of oC taking orders from Tammany Hall lIall In a condemnation tion proceeding Barry Darry meets Peter WInslow prominent attorney Winslow tells Barry Darr that Judge had seen an nn accident In n which a woman was killed by a taxicab At home homo Barry Darry finds the wife of ot the real Jack RIdder awaiting him Her husband is In jail In Jn New York charged with the tho murder of Mike Kelly Tammany boss CHAPTER III III-Continued III Continued 6 6 Everything about the girl was n a contradiction the Duke thought Hard liard and yet soft sort with her steely eyes ees e es and ber her quivering lips Her lier English was rather better than fairly good and let jet she could say Hes a tough guy that that bird I Beaded lashes eye-lashes and anda anda a 1 little boy A chorus girl who be be- believed in her husband and came an red to miles through the night to help Jelp him A philosopher the Duke u 3 we have hae seen and he be found him him- himself himself self elf musing mus Is anyone anyone black bl k or white Arent Aren't we all contradictions kind kind of a dirty gray grayr Go IGo on he said o Well Jack was getting this fifty from the old mans man's lawyer when lawyer when I Imet Imet Imet met him We were playing pla West Palm Beach and he followed me to Miami Hadn't anything else to do TIe lie was drinking all the and I knew hed he'd never quit until he had to Ill Til marry you I told him but not while youre you're loafing around on money you get from froma a guy that's ashamed of you I want wanta a home I said and a husband I Ican Ican Ican can respect You get a Job and Ill I'll marry you 3 Did he Yes lYes he lie did and an I married him That week It was a good job too too too- night clerk In a big hotel at Palm Beach After that we let the fifty lay In the post office Jack didn't want to at first but I said sahl Were going to tomake tomake tomake make Jay Rogers mean something and then were we're cre going back and md talk turkey to theold the old man man We had a swell lit little tle tie home and the kid came and hes he's swell too And then lien all nil at nt once the boom busted right In our face and the hotel closed and we beat It back to New York Say what am I telling you rou this for i m It l Go Goon on on 1 Well the he next chapters chapter's the same old story No money No Job Tramp Tramp- Tramping TrampIng ing lag the streets looking for work Know snow what that's like Ie I Invented it said the thc Duke Well then you know Things kept happening The boy got sick and the people we e rented the room from threatened to put t us out and I guess Jack ack couldn't stand It So he went to see his mother without mother without telling me He Re didn't tell her about me either The old lady la y gave gae him a hundred bucks backs and Invited In him down here herc I dont don't know what else happened because I was so mad he be didn't di nt dare tell me Proud Well WeH partly but I guess the truth troth Is I was scared they'd thoyd separate is US Anyway I made mad him send the Money back we e going to do he said Let the kid starve e I cant can't get Wt work No I answered but may may- maybe maybe be I can Im I'm a good hoofer If f I do dolay dosay say lay It myself and theres there's worse look ing lag girls In a lot of shows I Well there wasn't an Aborn show In town Or any other regular show that wanted me So last Monday I landed in a Joint called The Cocoa Cocoa- Cocoanut nut ant Bar One of ot those places where yot YO get a n ten-course ten dinner and a n revue for two dollars d li rs and both 1 of em rotten Salad without dressing and you Sou dont don't care cure because the show girls are e the same way Tough rough spot The spot spot The Cocoanut Bar but Bar but I wasn't choosey l last Monday So So then Jack was mad Plenty Hed He'd been promised a place aA 88 7 f elevator ele evator man In Brooklyn but we Didn't couldn't wait walt for that You Yo can be as s straight in a cabaret as us you can In Ine InDent a convent Cony ent D en t if you want to do Oh e last I-last night Mike Ah Ab About Kelly KeHy came carne In out eight With two strong- strong a arm ause guys I knew him right away he be was live five weeks at the ho ho- tel where Jack worked wo kel In Palm Beach Bertch And he ho sat down and sent for tor the boss Luis boss Luis Morano the boss Is and Is-and anC they had n a stiff pow Morano was sore all aU through when he came back where the thc dressing rooms are And then we swung Into a number called Tickle Me 1 e. e The girls go up lip lipto to the men In that number and paw cm em n a good deal And In the middle of ot this pawing Kelly Jumps up and yells that Ive I've tried to pick his pock et Id I'd really rall Just got to him as an an- another another other girl Irl left but he hc grabbed my arm and shouted so you could have ha heard him In Harlem Luis ran over o and the bouncer brought a cop and anda a crowd gathered g been drinking a lot You cant can't get et away with that l' l he kept kept yelling at Morano l Ill send this girl Irl to the Island hn nd you to the thc hot spot hot spot You watch me mc met I I got ot nothing to do with It It Luis answered I dont don't even tn know this girl lrI She only came Monday Isn't that right boys Well th the end of or It t was that I walked out with the cop been I in the lock up yet only there was a decent young youn fellow v on OD the thc desk at atthe atthe atthe the station house lie let me go on my promise to return If It I was want want- wanted wanted wanted ed there being no one there to sign the complaint While she talked the Duke was thinking Astonishing things had happened and went on happening Were aston aston- astonishing astonishing things always ah a s 's happening every every- everywhere everywhere where And did they conic come about as quietly as this as much as though they were the thc commonplaces of ot dally daily routine Youve walked Into a pretty mess the thc girl had said But nut after all It wasn't his mess So far as he was concerned the game was up lie He had bad made full and complete con con- confession confession confession to this girl without a mo mo- moments moment's moments moments moment's ments ment's hesitation Firstly because the game ame was up anyway and secondly be be- because because cause It had seemed the tl c right moment for laying la cards on the table lIe He had asked to see her hand and he couldn't expect to do that without showing his own Without Inspiring her con con- Why did he want to inspire her confidence What was her story to him ilm Why should he care what hap hap- happened happened happened to a n woman he had never nc seen In In Bad But damn It he be had seen her I He lie had seen Into her ber mind and heart beart which is s a good deal more than looking at a face or a alack ablack ablack black lack satin dress Her life would be over with this And the old mans The doctor says any shock might prove serious One false step on your part art If he knew would end every every- everything thing hing forever And he would know 11 Ill as he Is be he still has his newspaper newspaper newspaper per sent him and he lie sun still reads every word The Duke felt sorry for these young people too too for for that foolish young youn husband who hurt a fly and for this painted soft hard young wife and mother who had wanted a ahome ahome home and a a man she could respect Patricia Well that hurt He lIe had known It would He lIe had known from that first day that he hc cared a lot for this girl who needed a n spanking but butle buthe buthe he le had known too that his caring carin wasn't going coins OiD to come to Even if his luck had held hel you couldn't c marry a girl like that and then have her ler find out that you were a bum An imposter It didn't matter now What mattered now was whether this boy had killed Mike lIke Kelly And An If It Ithe lie he ic hadn't whether It was going to tomake tomake tomake make much difference difference with all the Boss Boss' cohorts arrayed arrn ed against him And anyway how the whole business was to be b Kept Kept for for a while at least from from the woman who was counting the days hl S to his letter at Youve Youre got your nerve Peggy ODay had said Well that's what we need now And An t i as he listened Barry Jarry was more and more compelled to agree with her We got home around half past ten o'clock the girl had been saying sa and Jack was wild when he saw the thc cop and heard the story Ill Til be back for you tomorrow the cop said and you'd better be bc here This department takes akes its orders or ers from Mike Kelly and dont don't you forget torget that Im going to see Mike Kelly Jack says sa s I knew him pretty well In Palm Beach And I know where he lives Ill I'll be back here by midnight lIe He was just was just as the thc clock was striking I remember that because I thought of or a line from a burlesque of ot an old play I was In once The hour lour has bas struck and I am here Jack was all a The son of a sea- sea cook l' l he says sa s The dirty skunk Ill I'll get that guy some day I It be he see you I asked Sure he lie saw me Jack said sal The butler brought me right In In-a In a Jap or ora ora ora a Filipino or something been drinking and he was drinking more moreIn more more- moreIn morein In the dining room He TIe came In to tome tome me mc In the drawing room though and shut the tie doors behind him The Jap or or the Filipino came In after with witha a bottle of Scotch whiskey and two glasses and Mike hike kept on drinking I had one with him He TIe was vas pleas pleas- pleasant pleasant pleasant ant enough to start with The tele tele- telephone telephone telephone phone rang raD In the hall and he lie apolo apolo- apologized apologized for tor going out to answer It When he came back have to tomake tomake tomake make It snappy he says sas Ive got an Important conference here bere In a afew afew afew few minutes So then I told him about you and he went v nutty I a damned little thief 1 I he yelled 0 I my wife I answered II Your I Your wife wifel I he said sal 1 Yes and andI I guess anybody's wife that wants herl her I Dont I say that I asked him Ill Til I say anything I damn please I l he shouted Who the hell are you yoo telling me what to say A guy liv liv- living living ing In off a n girl at nt Spanish Luis Morn Morn- nos no's 1 Well I dont don't give I e a damn who you live lire off but when Luis em emon emon emon on to lifting stuff out o 0 my pocket they got the wrong bird 1 This dames dame's going to jail tomorrow v and ond Im I'm going to headquarters myself to be sure she does go Now get out l I he says Well of course Tack Jack loses his tem tern per They yelled nt at each other a n few minutes and then Jack says sa s 's he calmed down Listen he lie says as quietly ns Im I'm talking now I I dont don't amount to much and I 1 guess I know It as os well as you do But you yon let up on my wife or Ill I'll never nc let up on you as long as ns I live live so so help met mel me I And with that he flounces out of ot the house Did you bang ban the door I asked trying to make him laugh I 1 banged both of ot cm em he hc an an- The door loor from the drawing room Into the thc hall and the front door I mean menu what I said too If Ir youre you're ar ar- arrested ar- ar arrested rested tomorrow tomorrow- She paused for u moment and slumped back Into her chair as though completely exhausted find tInd the rest In the paper she concluded The cops picked him up about three o'clock this afternoon He thought they'd come for me first and he said sal a few things about Kelly that arent aren't going to help much I dont don't know yet why they didn't pick me up too Anyway when they'd gone I did a whole lot of ot thinking And I decided ed this wasn't a good minute min min- minute minute ute for pride or anything If It they're going to separate us I said why they're going to ro and that's that So SoI I took a chance and the time first train train I could get after Id I'd found somebody to look after the thc boy When the butler but but- butler butler ler told me Mr Ir be home around midnight I figured my luck had bad changed Of course I never never thought of or a fake Ridder Bidder There was no will Ill-will In her tone only a faint amusement succeeded almost Immediately by desperate earnestness Well that's my story she said God only knows why I told you I came out here to tell It It because I didn't think even that tough old bird would want to see his boy sent up for murder Now what Now what do we do Cable I haven't ha got money enough have you I haven't got a lawyer or ora ora ora a dollar doHar to hire one I haven't ha got a relative that I know about or a friend In the thc world Just a sick kid t lot home and a fellow Im I'm kind of ot strong for tor locked up In the Tombs She had asked What do we do I haven't ha got money enough have you Taken him Into partnership that's what she had Into one of ot those natural inevitable partnerships of ot peo pea people people pie who have no one to whom they have the right to turn the kinship of the poor and despised and out ont cast castI castI castI I know a great lawyer said the Duke A great criminal lawyer I Imet Imet Imet met him tonight A fellow named Winslow Not Peter Winslow The Duke nodded Yes hes he's great enough but hed he'd never take my case lie He might take mine the Duke mused aloud We struck up quite r I 11 1 r I 1 Know a Great Lawyer Said the tho Duke a friendship He offered to get me a Job Of Ot course that's all off oft because be be- because beca cause ca cause use use- Because why Because he lie Isn't going to do any any- anything anything thing for me mc when he lie finds Im I'm a fake Nobody Is when they know Im I'm not John Clarke Bidder lU Jr The Duke Dule rose slowly and walked across the room He TIe was thinking hard Nobody Is s he lie repeated still more slowly as ns he be returned to the chair In which was sitting the wife wIre of ot the thereal thereal thereal real Jack RIdder But why should they find out now The girl looked at him wide I dont don't jet get you Its easy he answered still slow slowly ly and very cry deliberately People dont don't do anything for fakes takes or cast- cast castoffs castoffs castoffs offs accused of murder They wont won't do anything for the time real John RIdder Rl der because hes he's broke and In disgrace But they might do a lot for the fake take John RIdder Ridder-if Ridder If they didn't know he was a fake I guess Im I'm dumb Peggy said but still I dont don't get you |