Arizona republican., 1903-10-12

no harm done." Of course. he didn't Know who Maggie was. neder did Bos- ton, and I whispers to her to say not ting. and she wouldn't be found out.
 Go along wit you," she says, I'm in me place here, and no shame to Da found out. It's dose high rollers dat isn't in deir place."
 Well. l was worrying a bit, but de swells wasn't: and dey all, de leaders as well as de swells. tries to find out who de unknown champeen was-for she had put Maggie out of de running, for fair. But it was no use: she wouldn't say noting in a regular voice: and dough Boston offered her box of gloves if she'd take off her mask, she only shakes her head and gives him de ha. ha.
 Say. dere must be something what MT. Paul calls 'zelerating' about talk ing glass at a Roseleaf ball. for pretty soon de swells was letting out deir college yell. what dey must Joined forty years ago, or so and when de next set was called for. pchee. if dey didn't grab off de unknown and Mag gie and make side, De old gazea- bos was not Woise at dat. High and fancy stepping must be one
 
 dey wasn't lounging in no back seat. none of de time. Maggie got q fierce scare on when she found herself at de end wit Boston, and she didn't do her best; but de unknown was right in it, and was having de time of de evening" when Whiskers holds out his hat about five feet up. Say let her go, and 1e toe of her shoe runs trough de top of de silk dicer so far dat it held on, and 1 picks it off for her, and when does it, she was laughing to herself and hully gee I was on in minute it was Willy Widdy,
 I didn't have to ask de answer: knows it was some game shed been helping out in wit Duchess and l says noting. but goes on d still hunt for dat gon; keeping de punctured dicer in me hand. I didn't have to look far, for soon sees q figure dat I'd know for Duchess q mile off in fog. and I waits till she was out of de set she was dancing. and I says to her, "Woman!" I says. what's dning?" I says. When she sees de dicer in me hand. she says, Dat was good boy for to capture Whiskame's hat. Give it to me and I will make it into ten dollair."
 De cheek of her paralyZed me so dat NItlutu ut ulCtT, ana iShS W1iS I tt be let in de game she was playing. Sure" she says. Madam Harding, is fond of sport. and she asks me could l get her here and home wit nobody knowing-dat was when I tells her dat you was to take Whiskaire and Msieu Bostong here.''
 You had a right not to go and tell her notting," I says.
 "Of soft toiOty' SnvS dat S1ncv hussy. T had a right not to. but I had a right for to do it, also.
 Say. what can a man do when he has a wife like dat? I didn't dare to put de swells wise. for dat would be giving away Willy Widdy. so l just hangs around to see dat no bad break was made. but I wasn't needed. Widdy was at de table wit de leaders and de swell- and she was coming 'em like i dey was come-ons, and she was steerer for a green goods layout. She was good a actress out on | top of de stoige, for you wouldn't know | her voice in a tousand years if you | was her own ladder. De leaders bote asked her in to supper, but she says dat she had radder have supper at de | Lobster Palace. and at dat Boston | jumps at de chance, and he gives her an invite to supper dere. She says sure. but dat she would have to ask a fren, and dey says any fren of hers I-anodder bottle,
 We'll, say, tings was doing swift after dat. Widdy goes to Duchess, and dat saucy goil sends for me. Dey say dat dey is going home, but foist Widdy | wrote a note for me to take to de | Lobster Palace. She reads me de note, | so dat I would know what cards were | in me hand. She writes to Whiskers | dat instead of one fren she asks four dose was to be me, Maggie, me fren | de barkeeR and Duchess. Den she tells Whiskers, in de note, dat he had forgot his hat, and dat I was to fetch it to him, and dat dere was a ten dol lar hat check charge on it. She tells him to say to Boston dat he was to treat her friends we'll dough, as nc masks were worn in de Lobster Palace dey would have to sit at anodder table.
 One of de leaders digs up a dicer for Whiskers, and dey was off to wait for de unknown. Den me and Duchess takes Widdy home; and meet me fren and Maggie. and de four of us chases to de palace. I seen Whiskers duck when he pipes Duchess and me. but l |
 He reads it and near falls off his cha il and when I gives him his dcer wit de hole in it. de four of em at de table me swells and de leaders, has fits foi fair. Well, my party was to take g table and order on him. We did. Say
 he must have job cutting off coupons for Duchess orders dat supper. and she can order to beat de bank-when dt check goes to anodder party to be set tied, but Boston never winked wher de waiter hands it out to him.
 We had to get home before break
 fast, so we leaves before de oddel party. Boston was telling de leaders
 how to run deir jobs; before We left
 but de next morning he only says tC me. "Chames.' he says, You promis- ed to git us out of de ball wit de re- toin of our hats for a dollor t'row.
 Excuse me. sir" I says. Dat wa.
 only your hat l insured" Den he laughs so dat he couldn't pour de soda
 into de glass where I'd put de oddei
 part of de mixture. and he says, Var COurtlaQQt had tO nav q hat check