New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-11

the wrist 1t was cinch for them, me bein' fixed
so | couldn't let go, and | hung there waitin to
feel myself being punCtured. But it didn't come.
Instead there was let loose a Dago remark that
wasn't any use at all to me- 1t sounded mighty
businesslike though for all that the words were so
smooth and tinkly that l wasn't scared little
bit. 1t wa mt mans voice, | was sure OF that
Guess your lady friends here" l sings out to
Rolly.
Have you got herr" says he.
No says |; she's got me-"
But no sooner does she hear him than she lets
90 of me, shoves her head out OF the window and
calls up to him. Roly says something back, and
for the next two minutes they swaps DagO talk
to beat the cars; so | knew we'd found the right
girl
" How shall pass her up?" says l.
Just then she made spring for that rope ladder
of ours and overhands up like a trapeze star. An
me thinkin' we'd need derrick bOsns chair!
1t want time for reunions at that stage of the
game nor for hard-luck stories either. None of us
was pnn to hold any sociables with the Malabistos
We quit the chowder club the jump, streaked
up the hill into MOtt-st and piled into of those
fuzzy two-horse chariots that they keep hooked
up for weddin's and funerals.
Where to? says the bone thumper.
Head her for Buffalo ID let loose to beat the
Lightning Express says l; but hunt for asphalt"
That fetched us up SecOnd-ave., but there wasn't
any conversin' done until we'd put fifty blocks
behind us. Then l reckon Rolly asked his lady
friend if she'd missed any meals lately. From the
way he gave orders to steer for a food refinery she
must have allowed that she had skipped a few.
Not havin time to be particular we hit goulash
emporium where they spell the meat-card mostly
with CTS. But they gave us a private room up
stairs, which was what wanted
Shorty" says Rolly to me- its about time you
were properly introduced This is Caramel
Howdy.' SAYS |.
1t wasn't until then that I got a full-length view
OF her in the light And say, l glad we'd
landed 50 far east of Broadway Post for a
welcher if she wasn't rugged out in regular Pirates
OF PenzanCe' chorus costume. 1t would have been
all right outside a Drcamland Joint, and it would
have let her into the Arion ball without ticket
but it wasn't built for circulatin around New
York in.
"Piffle, pifle." says I to Rolly Folks Il think
we've Pinched her out OF a hippodrome ballet
Hadn't we better send for your lady friend trunk?
Rollv grinned, but he looked her over as satisfied
as if she'd been dressed acCordin' to his own water
color designs And she something of a star
yes, yes If you lookin for figure and con
Giton. she had EN- And when it came to the
color scheme-wen, 10 grease-paint manipulation
ever mixed cafty-o-lay and raspbry-pink the way
it grew her. For q madc-in Sicily girl she was
the real meringue But her clothes the limit.
"Where'd She get emf says |.
Rolly, he says as how them the kind of toys
she all the time when she to home They
the kind he'd first seen her n and he reckoned
that She q lett IN hurry.
Wen see about gettin something more suitable
for her later on" says he and orders up seventeen
kinds of skeezcdsky, to be served in relays.
Miss Carrie Meyer, or whatever her was, had
brought her appetite along, even if she had mislad
her suitcase. And while she pichin' into what
passes for grub Second-ave. she tells Roly the
story of her lfc-lcastways that's what it sounded
like.
As l gets it from him afterwards it was like this
Shed had some kind of a run-in with the old folks
they wantn her to marry Teller that owned a
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