Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-24


HS6(I2A you're workin' the WINS pump act
E%AiTsNS onme! I've been runnn the studio,
EEA6VS and l amt been usin' any ocher
pup fund, either.
But I'm wise to what YOU re drivin at, and eX-
pect you nights well have the whole of that Sir
BERTHE business. Fact is l wal lookin' for any
thing else. When you spring real candy girl like
Sadie that foreign bunch, and let it get nosed
around that she has wad big enough to stuff
mattress with, there's bound to be excitement
among the noble poor.
She hadn't been there month before begins
to get all kinds of reports First it was Lord
Alfn'alf, then it's Baron Hochheimer and next it's
Duke Snideovitch, with a few counts and princes
on the side; until wouldn't have been much
prised to hear she was comm home wearin a double
decked crown and bringin' throne chair as excess
baggage. What thinkin' all this time? Say,
when it comes to plannin out what Sadie IL do,
don't tackle the job.
If she's made up her mind to put her stencil
somethin' of that kind, says l, why its hers
that's all And if she don't want em, they'll hear
about it..
Along at the last of it, though, I'd kind of lost
track Of her and it begun to look as if she'd settled
down over there for good when one day Pinckney
shows me her the passenger list, and says
Il suppose you will be down bright and early
to see the steamer come in; EN- Shortly!
Hull" says 1. me watin' at the dock! For
why?" ..
But you're anxious to see Sadie again, aren't
What gave you that idea?" says 1.
''Oh, hol' says he, and them snappy black eyes
of his opens wide, like he'd dug up something
All, lose it," says l. You and your oh, hos!
Hull"
But say just between us, that only steer.
I'll own up l some interested. Anyway,
takes pains to be posted on when the boats sighted
off Sandy Hook, when she's due at the pier, and
about the time Sadie would be apt to be trippin
down the gangplank
"cheel" says Swiftly Joe, after I'd 'phoned for
the fourth time you must be exPeetin' some one
'One of them gueSSeS is right, Swiftly, says l.
But takes it all out in usin' the wire, stickn
close to the shop all day, and 1ettin on to myself
that didn't where she or how she looks
Then comes that stuff in the evenin papers, teln
about this Sir BERTHE Entwistle, who'd come over
in the ship.
Seems he was good deal of whale Sir BERTHE
was. Not that he's done anything special for
himself; but he's had the right kind of grandfathers
and has always been mixed up with the swell push
it bein' Walesy and Eddie with him, whenever the
doors was shut and the wrapper yanked off fresh
deck. And all that goes to make him the one best
bet far the dinner party push goes. The paper
says he met at Quarantine with bushel basket
of invites, and they figure out that if he takes EN-
all on after the other he could get free board
Fifth-ave for year
They'd tried to stand Sir BERTHE up for talk, and
get him to give his views New York it looked
from the saloon deck opposite Fort Wadsworth ;
but BERTHE has ducked so they fills out the column
descrbin' the two stunnin American beauts that
was helpn him hold up the rail. And say, the
minute reads about the with the copper red
hair and the Irish blue eyes, don't need to see
any halftone to know it was Sadie.
The other may be peach too thinks I; but
I'll bet she don't stand one-two-SiX If Sadie Sulll-
vans got her line out"
Which don't mean that I'm feein' gay about it.
I'd been hopin she'd left all that truck on the far
though, kind of put frost on the dahas and l
guess l want none too cheerful 1t when
right in the middle of my crouch that I'm rung
up by Mrs. Purdy Pell. Now 1 want to mark it
up that she means well most of the time, Mrs
Purdy Pel does; and the way she puts it to me
about my bein down on the list for a little welcome