The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-25

less parasites who find nourishment
after their kind. For your sake, and be-
cause of my regard for your uncle, l
warn you to beware of such cattle"
Upon returning to my hotel | found
a message from Miss FranSlyn asking
if it would be convenient to loan her
for few days the sum of FIVE hundred
dollars. She is to repay it from her
first weeks salary as star, yet is SO
distressed at the necessity of asking the
temporary favor that she is nearly i'll
from nervousness, so is obliged to re-
quest me to send the sum named. But
shall give her pleasant surprise by TAX
ing the loan to her in person, SO will
delay the conclusion of this letter until
my return.
Dear Uncle Silas: I fear there is
more guilt in this world than l was
prepared to encounter, and that / must
revise my judgment of some of my
friends I found Miss Franklin, on
whom | have just called, in a morning
gown-it was six in the afternoon-of
tenuous texture and somewhat untidy APP
pearance. She seemed more surprised
than pleased to have me respond in per-
son, and excused her appearance by in
forming me that because of long rehear-
sails without salary she had been obliged
to pawn much of her extensive ward
robe
| asked her at once to accept the loan
she had requested and she received it
with assurances of a speedy return. She
then said that she was so much over
come by my kindness that it would be
painful for her to prolong the interview,
so, regretting that | had no opportunity
to make the proposal ] had in mind, I
he - Al<.
apartment house i'll which she occupies
somewhat restricted accommodations I
saw that it was raining, and to my an
noyance / found that / had left my um-
brella in Miss Franklyn's hall.
| returned quietly, and finding the
door aiar. as l had left it, entered,
thinking not again to disturb the lady
in her nervous condition. To my great
confusion / heard her in an adjoining
room talking in joyful manner to an
other person, who, judged from THAR
manner was her mother | refrain from
relating to you the conversation | could
not but overhear before / secured my
umbrella and fed, but I am compelled
by sense of duty TO admit to you, dear
uncle, that | heard her mother affection
ately reproach Babe for not having asked
me for a thousand dollars. remarking,
HE is so easy a mark.
The young lady's gleeful response was
that she knew a good thing when she
had it, and did not purpose to kill the
goose which promised to lay so many
golden eggs.
Horror struck at hearing this and
little more it is unnecessary to repeat,
I found my umbrella and rushed from
the room. While l am compelled to adj
NIT that Miss Franklyn's conduct is not
free from suspicion. / still feel that il
her interest in sugar of the beet variety
were properly cultivated it would turn
her thoughts from lobster and wine
toward d life of greater sweetness and
light. Neither can I forget that in
speaking OF me to her mother she APP
Piled to me a term OF endearment. She
has frequently said TO me that she dear
v loves a lobster, and | overheard her
say to her mother, in speaking of me,
He's such a lobster
Affectionatelv
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