Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-29

leyity, employed upon such a frosty indis
vidual as that agent, might cause him to
have me arrested for disorderly conduct Or
something.
II try not to have the d. It's oftensr
than four times a year, I couldn't refrain
rom replying. however.
he cracked another of those farthest
nS S,.n smiles which covered his face for all
Er-you Will have to pardon this ques-
.loI' put we have to be very careful he
sad sa,d then. Now. does your wife-er-is
YOUR WiIe In any way-er-convivialr
White ribboner,' 1 replied aithonpb tina
fanatic
n,.,. You have a piano. and your wife
yes. 1 admitted, trembling with fear
OF the consequences Of the shocking admis.
You VIII agree to the clause in tho
lease which prohibits plano playing or In.
sTumental or vocal music OF any kind in
the apartments after 1890 at night?' he
inquired.
IN time the music with a stop-watch,
repled, which caused the agent TO glance
at me with great disapproval, and had to
mu 1t something placating TO square my.
You do not appear to be quarrelsome'
ne did me the honor to say then. so I
Snah not ask you whether your domestic
me Is peaceable one. although that is
question which we are forced to investi-
gate In many eases. Have you parrot?'
"'Dog?'
SWEETEST bird dog I'm North America r
promptly replied
oh, you have? he said. twisting about
IN MS chair and staring at me with a sort
or ha- ha -now-I've-got-you stare. Wen,
that, OF course, settles It. We don't allow
dogs In our apartments
On, l haven't got the dog with me IN
New York, / made haste to explain. Hes
Maryland
The agent was silent for quite little
while then. except that he drunnmed on the
edge of his desk with the butt of his pencil
some more. | shifted from one leg TO the
other l had a sort of feeling that had
been under the dissection of the foreman of
grand jury.
Found References Satisfactory.
-Four days after my inquisition by the
agent | got a note by mail from him.
The Washington references which you
gave having been found satisfactory he
wrote, we have decided to accept you as a
tenant, winding up with the request for
me to visit his Office and sign the lease l
went, and the agent treated me with quite
a noble condescension, as If he had decided
to try me out as his office boy. | signed
the lease, paid the months rent in ad-
vance, and when / made my getaway I
felt If the agent had treated me quite
Handsomely in permitting me to hand him
large section of my monthly salary for
the privilege of living In one of his flats.
In the meantime my wife decided that
we would need a few more articles OF fur
niture in addition to what we had already
had shipped over from Washington. With
pad and pencil we figured 1t out that we'd
need about 500 worth. Like most WASH
ingtonians, had picked up the installment-
plan habit during my life in the District of
Columbia, and so l went to an installment
plant with my wife, where we picked out
the stuff needed, and l gave the in
stallment people the name of my firm as
reference.
while we were moving in the little
ten-year-old daughter of our boarding
house landlady accompanied my wife on
one of the trips to the fat. The jat itor
spotted the child, and Immediately tele-
phoned to the agent that we were snug