Show pollock w iu service SYNOPSIS SIS puke duke barry gilbert likable youth the twenty t three jobless and broke enan of unoccupied pled summer home in seeking shelter from a 80 ha mirihm himself at home do doz storm 1 m a at j the fireplace lie he Is startled by jig arrival of 1 a butler willetts and th evans lie he lea learns ans that the hauff erfur cur of 0 the owner of tile tho house jack tot whom tile servants had never i la L expected lie he decides to blurt bluff beell parents have left ut t his is supposed ito germany err nanY X next ea t morning lie he Is given I 1 r tor for his mother he 0 pens opens it letter i j d finds a ines message sage fron from the real jack ile he could not corne come and returning win ing I 1 say hundred dollar bill the boys father laii pensioned him into obscurity bari pockets the money on ey intending to return ry it later ne lie orders evans to take IB to montauk intending to disappear on tile the way he meets judge there lim bidge and ills his laughter daughter patricia ivyng lie he Is jack ridder she sha invites him ha to dinner the following thursday returns to southampton deciding barry irra a bit longer mr ridder sr stay to 0 o through his newspaper the globe ac aws judge ilam bidge ot of taking orders ron tammany hall in a con condemnation emna proceeding barry meets peter pete r winslow prominent attorney winslow tells plis barry that judge 1 hambidge had seen iten an accident in which a woman was KIS killed by a taxicab at home borne barry inis finds the wife of the real jack mader kidder awaiting him iler her husband is in jail in new york tork charged with the murder ol of mike kelly tammany boss CHAPTER ill III continued 6 I 1 everything about the girl was a ontra contradiction diction the duke thought hard and yet soft wid witia her steely eyes and ter her qu quivering iverin lips her english was rather better than fairly good and yet et slie she could say lies iles a tough guy that bird S beaded eyelashes eye lashes and a little boy A chorus girl who believed in her husband and came an hundred miles through the night to help him A philosopher the dulse duke as we have seen and he be found himself musing ausin Is anyone black or white arent we all contradictions land of a dirty gray go on lie he said owell nell jack was getting tills this fifty from the old mans lawyer when I 1 net met him we were playing west palm beach and ile he followed we me to miami any anything thin else to do lie ile was drinking all the time and I 1 knew hed never quit until he had bad to til ill marr marry y you I 1 told him but not while youre loafing around on money you get from i guy ashamed of you I 1 want a home I 1 said and a husband I 1 ran can respect you sou get a job and ill marry harry you did be yes les he be did and I 1 married him that week it was a good job too tight light clerk in a big hotel a at palm beach after that we let the fifty lay in the post office jack wa want j to at first but I 1 said were going ta date jay i rogers mean something lan and d then cewe we re going back and talk turkey to the old man 1 we had a swell little littie home and the kid idd came and hes swell roell too and then all at once the boom worn busted right in our face and tte the hotel closed and we beat it back ionea to new york say what am I 1 rollans ton IOU this for go on oil 1 well lvell the next nest chapters the same old story no money no job tramp ing 2 the streets looking for work snow what like 1 I invented it I 1 said the duke I 1 well then you know things kept the boy got sick and the deopke we rented the room from threatened to put us cut and I 1 guess aita ck stand it so he be went to 10 see bee his mother without telling me he w tell her about me either the he old lady gave him a hundred buds and invited him film down here I 1 wt dont know what else happened because was so mad lie he dare tell roe me itolle ItOl floud ld well all the partly but I 1 guess truth ith is i anva was s seared scared separate 3 anyway I 1 made him send tile the oney back we going to do he e said iet et the kid starve I 1 cant I 1 get work vork no i answered lit but it maybe 1 can rm im a good hoofer if I 1 do ily I 1 y it myself and theres worse look g girls in a lot of shows in vell there ellere ant an aborn show a town that th or any y other regular show j at wanted ted me so last monday I 1 lauded wea I 1 a a i joint called the cocoa it 1 tar one of those places where oil tor get a ten course dinner and a revue tott for 01 two dollars do als and both hot of era em often WD 1011 salad without dressing and ire e the dont t care because the show girls Coco same way tough spot the cocoanut laTt ut t anut monday nut B ar 91 r but I 1 choosey chiosey 8 so 0 then I 1 jack was mad I 1 nty enty hed been promised a place could elevator vator man lan in ia brooklyn but we tt wait tor for that you can call be as straight in a cabaret as you can in I 1 a convent it 1 you want to do oil oh well last night mike alike kelly came in about cl eight bt with two strong arm guys I 1 knew him right away because lie he was five weeks at the hotel where jack worked in palm beach and he be sat down and sent for the boss luls morano the boss is and they lind had a stiff powwow pow wow morano was sore all through when he came back where the dressing rooms are and then we swung into a number called tickle me ale the girls eirls go up to the men in that number and paw lem em a good deal and in the middle of tills this pawing kelly jumps up anil and yells that ive tried to pick ills his pock et id really just got to him as another girl left but lie he grabbed my arm and shouted so you could have heard him in harlem luls luis ran over and the bouncer brought a cop and a crowd gathered kellad Kel lyd been drinking a lot you ton cant get away with that he kept yelling at A morano forano ill send tills this girl to the island and you to the hot spot you watch me 1 I got nothing to do with it luls luis answered ered 1 11 I dont even know this girl she only came monday that right boyst boys well tile the end of it was that I 1 walked out with the cop ilive been in the lockup lock up yet only there was a decent young fellow on the desk at the station house lie let me go on in my y promise to return it if I 1 was wanted there being no one there to sign th the complaint while she talked the duke was thinking astonishing things had happened and went on happening were astonishing things always hap happening penin e everywhere and did they come about as quietly as tills this as much as though they were the common commonplaces commonplace es ft df dally daily routine youve walked into a pretty mess the girl had said cut but after all it his mess so far as he was concerned the game was up ile he had made full and complete confession to this girl without a moments hesitation firstly because the gaine game djs was up anyway and secondly bei cause it had seemed the right moment for laying cards on the table ile he had asked to see her hand and he co uldal E expect to do that without showing liis ills own without inspiring her confidence fi why did lie he want to inspire I 1 her ier confidence what was her story to liim him why should he care what happened to a woman lie he had never seen in bad Naulie nauheim Nau helm lm but damn it he had seen her ile he had seen into her mind and heart which is a good deal more than looking at a face or a black satin dress her life would be over with tills this and tile the old mans the doctor says any shock might prove ser serious lous one false step on your part SC if lie he knevi would end everything forever and lie he would know ill III as he is ile he still has nis newspaper sent him and he be still reads every word the duke felt sorry f tor or these young people too for that foolish young husband who hurt a fly and for tills this painted hard soft young in wife and mother w who lio had wanted a home and a man sh slie e could respect patricia well that hurt itie he had bad known it would lie had known from that first day that he be cared a lot for tills this girl who needed a spa spanking liking but lie he had known too that ills his caring going to come to anything even E ver if bis big luck had held you marry a girl like that and then have her find out that you were a bum an imposter it didat matter now what mattered now was whether this boy had killed mike alike K kelly elly and if he whether bother it was going oln to make much difference with all the boss bose cohorts arrayed against him and anyway liow how tile the whole business was to be kept for a while at least from tile the woman who was Cont counting Dg the days to ills his jet letter ter a at nauheim youve got your nerve regu peggy oday had said well what 11 and as he be list listened eDea we need now and d more compelled barry was as more an to a agree ree with her we got home around half past ten had been saying ick the girl and jack ack was wild when he saw the th e and heard the story til 1111 be back cop 1 said land and the cop for you y on tomorrow better be here tills this department mike kelly and takes its orders fro from dont you forget that jack rm im going to se see e mike alike kelly 1 know knew him pretty well in I 1 palm all says and I 1 know V here lie lives ves beach ch bea ill be buck back here liy by mill midnight it ht t US as tile the clock was he was jus just striking I 1 remember that because I 1 I 1 thought of a line from a burlesque of an old play I 1 was in once the hour flour has struck and I 1 am here jack was all a tremble the son of a sea cook he says the dirty skunk ill pet get that guy some flay day he see you I 1 asked sure he saw me jack said the butler brought me right in a jap or a filipino or something kellad 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 I 1 filipino came in n atter after with a bottle of scotch whiskey and two glasses and mike alike kept on drinking I 1 had one with him ile he was pleasant enough to start with the telephone ran rang in the hall and he apologized for going out to answer it when lie he came back I 1 have to make it snappy he be says 4 ive got an important conference h here 0 re in a few minutes so then I 1 told him about you and he went nutty ashes Sh es a damned little thief I 1 he be yelled slie Sh es my wife nife I 1 answered your wife he be said yes and I 1 guess wife that wants tier her I 1 dont say that I 1 asked him ill say anything I 1 damn please lie he shouted who the hell are you telling me what to say A guy living oft off a girl at spanish lul luis s well I 1 dont give a damn who 3 if I 1 i ff fl I 1 N 4 1 I know a great lawyer said the duke you live off but when luis em on to lifting stuff out 0 my pocket they got the wrong bird this darnes dames going to jail tomorrow and im going to headquarters myself to be sure she does go I 1 now get out he says well of course jack loses ills his temper they yelled at each other a few minutes and then jack says h he e calmed down listen he says as quietly 1 I dont amount as im talking now to much and I 1 guess I 1 know it as well as you do but you let up on my wife or vii ill never let up on you as ion long as I 1 live so help me and with that lie he flounces out of the house did you bang the door I 1 asked trying to ma make ke him laugh 11 1 I banged bof both of beul em 1 he answered the door from the drawing room into tile the hall and the front door I 1 mean what I 1 said too if youre arrested tomorrow she paused for a 11 moment and S slumped jumped back into tier her chair as though completely exhausted find the rest in the paper she concluded the cops picked him up kip about three k this afternoon ue ile thought come tor for me first and lie he said afew a few thin things s about kelly that arent going to lie help ip much I 1 dont linow know yet why they pick me up too anyway when gone I 1 did a whole lot of thinking and I 1 decided this a good minute tor for pride or anything if go going to separate us I 1 said why going to and that so 1 I took a chance and the fa first train I 1 could get after id found somebody to look after tile the boy when the butler 1 told me sir mr edderd Id derd be home around midnight I 1 figured my luck had changed OI of course I 1 never thought of a fake there was no ill will in her tone only a faint amusement t succeeded almost immediately olund lately by desperate earnestness well my illy story silo she said 01 god ol only knows why I 1 to etolil 11 nu ll i came out here to tell it because I 1 think even that tough old bird would want to see his boy sent up for murder now what do we do cable I 1 got money elou enough h 1 have you I 1 got a lawyer or a dollar to hire one I 1 got a relative that I 1 know about or a friend iu in the world just a sick kid at home ionic and a fellow im kind ida of strong for locked up in the tombs she had asked what do we do 1 I got money enough have you taken him into partnership what what she had into one of those natural inevitable partnerships of people who have no one to whom they have a the right to turn th the e kinship of the poor and nd despised and outcast 1 I know a great lawyer sald said the duke A great criminal lawyer I 1 met him tonight A fellow named winslow not reter peter winslow the duke nodded yes hes great elou enough il but hel hed he l never take my case lie might take mine the duke mused aloud we struck up quite a friendship he offered to get me a job J ob of course all off because because why because he to do anything for me when he finds im a take fake nobody is when they know rm im not john clarke clarice ridder jr the duke rose slowly and nd walk walked e d across the room lie ile was thinking hard nobody is he repeated still more slowly as he returned to the chair in which was sitting the wife of 0 the real jack ridder but why should they find out now the girl looked at him wide e eyed 1 I dont get you its easy he answered still slowly and very deliberately people dont do anything for fakes or cast offs 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 f fake ake john ridder kidder it if they know he was a fake 1 I guess im dumb re peggy y said but still I 1 dont get you listen lie ile resumed his seat in the small chair opposite her you came out to get old john clarke to help you yes and he here no TO BE CONTINUED |