Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-02-03
BENTLEY'S SYSTEM.
Continued from page 10.)

act as If she'd been born before the lOOlughts
She's tough one. II must be put on; she
must have her littIc attention turned my way
some, don't you thinky I've been keeping this
thing up steady, but I'm afraid I'm losing my
Gne touch, and she not hru''Nrd yet Il makes
my head swim, Miss AGdiuajun
l guess yUuru putting up thanksgiving
prayer by this time because ] have bcCh keep
Ing away from you al right, pat up another
while you re about it ON account Of the fact
that I'm going to stay away And I'll make
my other bulletins shorter so there's another
item
II you'd think something Icoald do for you
IL would be the best assignment III go, this
month I'm IN Just as bad fix ~ TO ohliga
tons "a II You were being bored Ivy Calvert
svery day. You'll have 1t all 10 worse in the
end IL the time you get bnuG hcIl believe
be owns that room, and he'll only let you In
rs q laundering favor
Bentley's next bulletin was made out
IN orthodox form
SLIGHT VICTORY.
The Besicgod weakcns 50 far ~ to snub Re
nieger. After the beer BCsiUsCr went into his
shell Forgot to- sny good morning. Openad
The window without asking permission Bs
seged in subsequent conversations was stern
~ busincsslike in u mousy manner.
N. B.-After all, that : about her usual act,
20 probably there's nothing in II after all. ]
wish a spraincd ankle was all there was tho
matter with me. Yours truly - ,,
The next voiced a surprising PROPOSE
tion:
lam thinking ct read) Of doing the ancient
honorable and saying something 10 old Martin.
I don't know anything more about the little
eIockworks that run that tamo lamb OF his
than did at first You might as well try to
sgitate a Waterbury. But the office seems to
be getting ON to me- cur-r-rses ON '.m, and IN
afraid Martin may get fidgety. bet it's that
sabby old Irish woman OF yours that's been
giving me away. I'd thrash him for the cash
he's got in his clothes Just on the chance II any
enc would guarantee that 1t would pay for
drink. Then II blow off to him ,Martin), ten
30 one he II develop q colossal genius for max.
ng an Of himself Is different ways
This was the last | heard directly
from Bentley for several weeks. In the
meantime 1 occasionally had news Of
him from other people. An Office boy
came Ip for copy one day, and after he
had gotten it continued TO hang around
in an engaging manner. He was nice
BOY ish boy and spent his spare time
writing to some one whom he addressed
rs Miss Touty Fareman, Dear Miss.
He was unnaturally careless OF these
letters Gas of all other matters personal
and professionally, and once, before re-
alizing what it was | read the opening
sentence of one. 1t Kan. THE Hours
spend away II IN Thee, Tooty, are no
good whatever. but | know you don t
feel truely AS do. " SO you see he was
prepared by experience to take an in.
terest in the game Of love wherever he
saw it,
"Well, Jimmy. how are things going
1t the Office" asked. by way of being
friendly. while he stood irresolutely by
the.dUUr
"They say--they say Mr.. Benuey's
In love with that Martin girl" said
Jimmy, his tone even more than his
phrasing showing that his callow con-
.empt for feminine kind still included
all of the sex but Miss Fareman or her
successor.
"Do you think he isf" asked.
"When loois at her don't" he as
serted. "She don't amount to nothin,
but Mr.. Bentley acts kind Of queer. He
xeeps lookin at her when he thinks no
body don't see him-he don't notice
me. He stops still sometimes and stares
right before him till somethin makes
him jump. think that's a bad sign,
don't you. Miss Abingdon
At last the time came when ! was
able to make little trip down town.
went to the office, but not to the edi'
torial rooms, because they could be
reached only by means Of short flight
of steps after leaving the elevator, ant
i did not want to attempt the climb
My errand was with that great person
known here as 1.-THE boss.
The boss name was J. b. Higgins
He was big Drained. big bodied
coarse fibered. powerful old fellow, will
q good deal of human nature in him
And though all the other women anC
most Of the men in his employ stood il
terror of him, did not, and 80 l die
not. like them, altogether hate him
He was higdly skeptical of good always
and anywhere. but yet he had too mucl
sense not TO know that dIstrust car
overleap the mark, can be tripped il
its own net, and it always pleased mt
to see his suspicious both sustained an(
held in check by his sagacity.
He met me with his gray eyes peer
ing alertly out from under his shaggy
eyebrows and over his puffy purple
cheeks. to see whether, after all, hat
really been having such bad tim
with that ankle l had come down t
Eight out little question of salary. ant
Mr.. Higgins met me as both counse
and plaintiff on the other side. Thu
contest and its results are matters asid
from this history, but we are concerned
with the touch Of humanness that nov
and again, against his will and hi
theories. diversified his simple brutal
ty, and TO which we owe anothe
glimpse of Bentley.
.'The boss ALWAYS began an inter