Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-16


We'll, she didn't appear TO take the Jolt
hard at all. In fact. she looked quite lot
easy as she murmured that there was her
jewelry.
Nope, I said TO that The Cutlery
junk stays out. I'll be turning my turf as
ISOLATION button in tomorrow. | guess, and
with the few thousands that I'll snag out
of the sale of that maybe I'll be able 10
pick up something from the ground. That's
the program. anyhow. / hate to have the
button auctioned off. hut there are a lot of
things that shredded man hates So let
us be real merry and 1 staked her to a
sepulchral laugh
well. she declined to converse at all
about our bustedness that evening. but
when I'd finished reading the papers after
breakfast the next morning she came into
my smoking box, dressed for driving. and
said
The little red wagon is out in front I
have few dollars put away. Let us repair
downtown and get the money. Maybe 1t viii
tide you over just little.
Your pennes?' said l. Not any. Cop
per money isn't what need just now. and
IL you think that m going to toss the price
of a couple OF bonnets for you after the
wreck you've got me handicapped all
wrong
But she insisted upon my ACCOMMODATING
her downtown. anyway. and so / went
along. She was driving and she pulled up
in front of a Broadway safe deposit plant
ness.
Foxy I said to her. You've put that
little hold-out of 50 in place didn't know
anything about. eh?
She didn't make any reply. but went up
to the desk and gave a lot of passwords
and countersgns and SUCH and then fol-
lowed by uniformed employee Of the plant,
and me tagging after. she went into the
room where she had tucked her hat money
away-aS | thought.
when she opened the box the thing that
happened reminded me of a jack-in-thc-box
play. A rubber banded roll that had been
stuffed into the box by main force popped
out and fell on the floor with a thud. Ii
was the last deposit of about twenty such
in the small box. and all of them rubber
banded summersquash looking things of
about the same size.
I think that what we have here may
help some said my wife with kind of
smile that looked phony to me. for she had
some dampness in the corners of her eyes.
It's my winnings the season. Forty
nine thousand. Not so bad?'
II never came so close to falling down
while standing up, in a state of robust
health, in my life. But there wasn't word
in me.
Er-by the way my wife went on all
of this was in your possession at one time.
| won it all out of your book.
Still l stood gaping at her like 81 Slap
stick in front of the Flatiron building. Not
a verbal gurgle in around my person
Our little newsboy friend. you know.
my wife went on. "All of the playing that
he did in your book was for me. you see
That's about all. That's how she had
gut square yards with me for ruling her Off
the tracks. far the grand stand bet
ting went. She had got her information
from the distinguished trainer who
frequent guest at our house and table. and
the newsboy plunger had been her commits
sioner.
"All of the duff that the newsboy plunger
haG taken away from me had belonged to
my wife. and for his work she had stakei
him, so that he. too. had strung along
the trainers information and had become 4
re-enough plunger on his own account.
Nobody ever found out how near my turf
association button had come to going on
since that queer shore-up of my bank wad.
x <
'Um-by the way my wife said TO me
on the following morning, L really believe
should like to go out to the track this
afternoon. It's been so long since I've VS.
tied the track you know. Can | do little
betting in the stand if ! am very secretiVe
and surreptitious about ito
" Bet a Johngates, which is a million L
said TO her. but not in my book if you
please. l don't believe / want your play
any more. You're too good. Send your
bets TO a book backed by somebody vou
don't like. You've had enough fun with
me- haven't your
And so nobody ever hears me saying
anything TO my wife any more about me
righteousness and unseemliness of female
can always about tell when I've ndIIgei
in eI ough Of this reactionary, fyback con-
versation.