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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH Sonny Spilled the Beans at Dinner SYNOPSIS as straight in a cabaret as you can in striking. I remember that, because a convent, if you want to do. Oh, I thought of a line from a burlesque well last night, Mike Kelly came in. of an old play I was in once. The About eight oclock. With two strong-arhour has struck, and I am here. Jack The son of a guys. I knew him right away, was because he was five weeks at the hohe says. 'The dirty skunk! tel where Jack worked in Palm Beach. Ill get that guy some day! And he sat down, and sent for the Wouldnt he see you? I asked. The Duke, Barry Gilbert, likable youth twenty-threenjobless and ters an unoccupied summer broke, home in 'Southampton, seeking shelter from a storm. He makes himself at home. g at the fireplace, he is startled by 'the arrival of a butler, Willetts; and a chauffeur, Evans. He learns that the son of the owner of the house. Jack Bidder, whom the servants had never seen, is expected. He decides to bluff it out. His supposed parents have left foi Germany. Next morning he is given a letter for his mother. He opens it and finds a message from the real Jack, saying he could not come, and returning a hundred-dolla- r bill. The boys father ,had pensioned him into obscurity. Barry pockets the money, intending to it later. He orders Evans to take him to Montauk, intending to disappear there. On the way he meets Judge Hambidge and his daughter, Patricia. Believing he is Jack Ridder, 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, accuses Judge Hambidge of taking orders from Tammany Hall in a condemnation proceeding. Barry meets Peter .Winslow, prominent attorney. Winslow tells Barry that Judge Hambidge had seen an accident in which a woman was killed by a taxicab. At home Barry finds the wife of the real Jack Ridder awaiting him. Her husband is in jail in New Tork, charged with the murder of Mike Kelly, Tammany boss. I of e, I m sea-coo- Doas-Jin- Sure, he saw me, Jack said. The butler brought me. right in a Jap, or a Filipino, or something. Kellyd been drinking, and he was drinking more In the dining room. He came in to me, in the drawing room, though, and shut the doors behind him. The Jap or the Filipino, came in after, with a bottle of Scotch whiskey, and two glasses, and Mike kept on drinking. I had one with him. He was pleasant enough to start with. The telephone rang in the hall, and he apologized for going out to answer it. When he came back, Youll have to make it snappy, he says. .Ive got an Important conference here in a cant get away with that! he kept few minutes. So then I told him about you, and yelling at Morano. Til send this girl ! he went nutty. to the island, and you to the You watch me! a damned little thief! he I got nothing to do with it, Luis yelled. answered. I dont even know this girl. Shes my wife, I answered. Your wife! he said, Yes, and She only came Monday. Isnt that I guess anybodys wife that wants right, boys? Well, the end of It was that 1 her ! walked out with the cop. Idve been 'Dont say that, I asked him. was a the lock-uthere in Ill say anything I damn please yet, only CHAPTER III Continued Who the hell are you, decent young fellow on the desk at he shouted. station house. He let me go on telling me what to say? A guy livthe I Everything about the girl was a my promise to return if I was want- ing off a girl at Spanish Luis ! contradiction, the Duke thought. Hard, ed, there being no one there to sign Well, I dont give a damn who and yet soft, with her steely eyes, and the complaint. v her quivering lips. Her English was While she talked, the Duke was rather better than fairly good, and thinking. yet she could say, Hes a tough guy Astonishing things had happened, that bird I Beaded and and went on happening. Were astona little boy. A chorus girl who be- ishing things always happening, everylieved in her husband, and came an where? And did they come about as hundred miles through the night to quietly as this; as much as though help him. A philosopher, the Duke, they were the commonplaces of daily as we have seen, and he found him- routine? self musing, Is anyone black or Youve walked Into a pretty mess, white? Arent we all contradictions the girl had said. But, after all it wasnt his mess. So far as he was kind of a dirty gray? Go on, he said. concerned, the game was up. He had made full and complete conwas this Jack fjfty "Well, getting from the old mans lawyer when I fession to this girl, without a .momet him. We were playing West Palm ments hesitation. Firstly, because the Beach, and he followed me to Miami. game was up, anyway, and, secondly, beHadnt anything else to do. He was cause it had seemed the right moment drinking all the time, and I knew hed for laying cards on the table. He had never quit until he had to. Ill marry asked to see her hand, and he couldnt you, I told him, but not while youre expect to do that without showing conloafing around on money you get from his own. Without inspiring her fidence. a guy thats ashamed of you. I want Why did he want to inspire her a home, I said, and a husband I can respect You get a job, and Ill confidence? What was her story to him? Why should he care what hapmarry you. " pened to a woman he had never seen Did he? in Bad Nauheim? But, damn it, he Yes, he did, and I married him. had seen her! He had seen into her "I Know a Great Lawyer, Said the That week, It was a good job, too Duke. night clerk in a big hotel at Palm mind and heart, which is a good deal or a more a at than looking face, we let the After Beach. that, fifty lay em In the post office. Jack didnt want black satin dress. Her life would be you live off, but when Luis sics on o to out stuff my over pocket, this. And mans. the old with lifting to, at 'first, but I said, Were going to The doctor says any shock might they got the wrong bird! This dames make Jay Rogers mean something, and serious. One false step on your going to jail tomorrow, and Im going prove then were going back and talk turkey to headquarters myself to be sure to the old man. We had a swell lit- part, if he knew, would end everyshe does go ! Now, get out ! he says. And would know. he forever. tle home, and the kid came, and hes thing Well, of course, Jack loses his temswell, too. And then, all at once, the Ill as he is, he still has his newspaper. he sent They yelled at each other a few still reads every him, and boom busted right in our face, and per and then Jack says he calmed minutes, word. the hotel closed, and we beat it back he says, as quietly Listen, The Duke felt sorry for these young down. to New York. Say, what am I fplling now. as I dont amount Im talking too for that foolish young people, you this for? r to I I and know it as well much, guess a husband who wouldnt hurt fly, on. Go on my do. as let But hard-sofup you you t young Well, the next chapters the same and for this painted, as on or never let up wife, Ill you who wife a had and wanted mother, old story. No money. No job. Trampso I as me! live long help home and a man she could respect. ing the streets, looking for work. "And, with that, he flounces out of Patricia? Well, that hurt. He had Know what thats like?" known it would. He had known, from the house. I Invented it, said the Duke. Did you bang the door? I asked, know. Things kept that first day, that he cared a lot for Well, then, you to make him laugh. trying needed a who this but spanking, happening. The boy got Mck, and the he girl both of em, he anI banged his had that too, known, caring people we rented the room from wasnt from the drawing The door swered. come to to going anything threatened to put us out, and I gues3 room into the hall, and the front door. luck Even had his if couldnt held, you Jack couldnt stand it So he went I mean what I said, too. If youre arto see his mother without telling me. marry a girl like that, and then have rested tomorrow find out were bum. "a her that you He didnt tell her about me, either. She paused for a moment, and The old lady gave him a hundred An imposter. It didnt matter now. back into her chair, as though now was slumped What mattered whether this bucks, and invited him down here. I exhausted. killed Mike completely had if And, Kelly. dont know what else happened, because boy find the rest in the paper, Youll was to he whether it hadnt, going me. dare so tell mad he didnt I was with all the she concluded. The cops picked him Proud? Well, partly, but I guess the make much difference Boss cohorts him. up about three oclock this afternoon. arrayed against 1 truth is was scared theyd separate come for me, first, us. Anyway, I made him send the And, anyway, how the whole business He thought theyd a few said and he a was to for at be things about Kelly least while, kept money back. Whatre we going to do? to help much. I woman that arent who was from going the counting kid starve? I Let the cant he said. know to dont his at the yet why letter Nauheim. they didnt pick days get work. No, I answered, but mayme up, too. when theyd Anyway, "Youve got nerve, your Peggy be I can. Im a good hoofer, if I do a did of thinking. lot whole I gone, said. Well, thats what g OPay had say it mySelf, and theres wasnt a good minthis And decided I now. as we need he And, listened, girls in a lot of shows. or ute for anything. If theyre pride, was more and more compelled "Well, there wasnt an Aborn show Barry to us, I said, why, separate going, to her. with agree in town. Or any other regular show and thats that. So to, going theyre me. So last Monday I that wanted the first train a and took I chance, We got home around half past ten landed in a Joint, called The Cocoa-nfound I could after Id somebody get the had oclock, beep saying, girl Bar. One of those places where was wild when he saw the to look after the boy. When the butand Jack dinner and a a you get me Mr. Ridderd be home revue for two dollars, and both of em cop, and heard the story. Ill be back ler told I figured my luck around midnight, the tomorrow, and for cop you said, without and Salad dressing, rotten.' Of had course, I never be changed. here. This department you dont care because the show girls youd better of a fake Ridder. Mike orders from thought takes and its Kelly, The same are the way. Tough spot in her tone; There was no Cocoanut Bar but I wasnt choosey dont you forget that. a faint succeeded, to amusement, Mike see Tm only, Jack going Kelly, last Monday. by desperate says. T knew him pretty well in Palm almost immediately, So, then. Jack was mad. earnestness. "Plenty. Hed been promised a place Beadh. And I know where he lives. Well, thats my story, she said. as elevator man in Brooklyn, but we Ill be back here by midnight. God as clock was He only knows why I told you. I the was You can be just couldnt wait for that. boss Luis Morano, the boss is and Morano they had a stiff paw-wowas sore all through when he came back where the dressing rooms are. And then we swung into a number, called Tickle Me. The girls go up to the men, in that number, and paw em a good deal And, in the middle of this pawing, Kelly jumps up, and yells that Ive tried to pick his pocket. Id really just got to him, as another girl left, but he grabbed my arm, and shouted so you could have heard him iiv Harlem. Luis ran over, and the bouncer brought a cop, and a crowd gathered. Kellyd been drinking a lot. You re-,tu- rn hot-sp- "Shes ! p Mora-nos- . eye-lashe- s, , , worse-lookin- . ut ten-cour- ill-wi- ll came out here to tell it, because I didnt think even that tough old bird would want to see his boy sent up for murder. Now what do we do? Cable? I havent got money enough; have you? I havent got a lawyer, or a dollar to hire one. I havent got a relative' that I know about, or a friend in the world. Just a sick kid at home, and a fellow Im kind of strong for locked up in the Tombs. She had asked, What do we do? I havent got money enough; have Taken him into partnership; you? thats what she had. Into one of those natural, inevitable partnerships of people who have no one to whom they have the right to turn; the kinship of the poor, and despised, and outcast. I know a great lawyer, said the A great criminal lawyer. Duke. I met him tonight. A fellow named Winslow. Not Peter Winslow? The Duke nodded. Yes, hes great enough, but hed never take my case. He might take mine, the Duke We struck up quite mused, aloud. a friendship. He offered to get me a job. Of course, thats all off, be- cause Because why? Because he isnt going to do anything for me when he finds Im a fake. Nobody is, when they know Im not John Clarke Ridder, Jr." The Duke rose, slowly, and walked across the room. He was thinking hard. Nobody is, he repeated, still more slowly, as he returned to the chair in which was sitting the wife of the real Jack Ridder. But why should they find out now? The girl looked at him, wide-eyeI dont get you. Its easy, he answered, still slowly, and very deliberately. People dont do anything for fakes, or castoffs accused of murder. They wont do anything for the real John Ridder, because hes broke and in disgrace. But they might do a lot for the fake John Ridder if they didnt know he was a fake. I guess Im dumb, Peggy said, but still I dont get you. d. Listen. He resumed his seat in the small chair opposite her. You came out to get old John Clarke to help you. Yes. And he wasnt here. No. (TO BE CONTINUED) Speak, See, Hear No Evil, an Old Japanese Proverb The three wise monkeys symbolize an old Japanese proverb, Speak no In evil, see no evil, hear no evil. Japanese the proverb reads, Iwaaru, which literally mizaru, kikazaru, means Therefore, notes a writer in the Indianapolis News, it often is said that the names of the monkeys are Iwazaru, who speaks no evil; Mizaru, who sees no evil, and Kikazaru, who hears no evil. Each word in the proverb ends with zaru. By adding zaru to a verb in Japanese it becomes a negative adjective. The Japanese word for monkey is saru, which phonetically becomes zaru when it is preceded by a modifier. Hence, the three monkeys became associated with the proverb merely as a pun. Sometimes they are called the Little Apes of Nikko because they appear in mural decorations in the ancient tombs in Nikko, Japan. According to some Japanese writers the three apes symbolize the fact that the Japanese talks too much, the Chinese sees too much, and the Indian hears too non-seein- g, She was one of those excessively capable women who make the worst kind of mother-in-laStill, relations with her only daughter-in-lawere somehow kept sweet until At dinner the other night, a very stately affair, the old lady observed her little grandson drumming on the table with fork and spoon. The dowager reached across the table, seized the implements from him. But the grandsons of capable women are usually given to a certain independence themselves. My mother," he declared for the whole company to hear my mother says youre a horrible old woman, and your a cranky old woman, too. New York Sun. 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