New-York tribune., 1907-10-27


him up as one OF these HgTYgffE//
ar tight aristocrats, 8FEFSf M
that so skittsh about EsI sffF III
nlentionn their private FH FIff ~
affairs they don't ifi
let when the house
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been one OF my reg lars for most month before |
even locates the club that his steady hangout
! was gettin proud Of Chandler, Just on that ac-
count. Now with most folks that l meets IN under
shirt and gym trousers It would have been case Of
Channy and Shorty inside of ten DAYS, but not with
HIM When he steps into the front office he plucks
MS I'D as prompt as if he was buttn into a church
Then there John Drew bow and Good morn
ing, Professor McCabe - from him, and Howdy
Nr Pullen from me
Is he pawn extra or what - saws Swiftly Joe
All. throw in the reverse clutch, Swiftyl' says /
That's Just our way of admittn' to each other
that both OF US IS real gents II 5 sOmethIn youl
never have any call to practise.
AIR splash,'' SAYS Swiftly. Since when:"
Maybe did have strain my mem ~ some TO keep
l. up, but II was all just natural as breathln with
Chandler. l should say the first words he learned
Beg pardon, and | don't $ pose he tucked
Z napkin under his chin in his life He looks the
part too, ben one Of these tall straight backed
chaps with a figure that seems Just built for frocl
coats and dress suits. He's OF the early old
kind, havn a streak Of gray in his forelock, though
he can't be much over forty, If he 5 that.
| gets Il from Pinckney that Chandler comes from
some old Kentucky family that lived in New York
tor two or three generations and has always been
the swim. Tending out on balls and dinners and
teas ChandlerS reg lar Job IN lie and II
he could keep IN shape TO go against these little
tAree A suppers and cotllllons that starts III the
middle Of the night that Chandler calls on me
That's what I'm here for, and on account OF PInck-
1ey I've got a sort OF a leanin' toward that kind
They ain any great in the world; but then
again they ain 50 bad a some other brands
Well, Chandler and me gets along fine, and has
b-aced him up lot, and II all strictly business
when one day last week, as was tnlshin up with
: little genteel glove work, he breaks his record.
Professor" SAYS he, | shall be unable TO come
Thursday. l am going to the country for day
u so"
That's nice M Pullen," says l.
Pardon me, says he, but it's beastly bore
I detest going to the country"
OH" saws |. Got a string you, have theyr|
-Ah-er-a what says he.
It's case OF drag. eh?' says l. Somebody out
.aere wndIn' the winch, Maybe Lady Angelina: >
oh no. nol SAYS he. Dear no!'
Then TO prove his case he tells me about Oncle
lyman. Seems the old boy had been judge or
something, and quite some OF party back IN Ward
McA1Ister's times But when Aunt Elvlra, his run
ain mate had passed in, he took 1t awful hard
He'd chucked his job given all his old friends the
shake and moved out into the edge OF West
chester County, where he'd planted himself n a
-ickety old nansard rooted affair, and hadn stirred
out Of II since He'd been there dozen years or so,
grown a billy goat beard and worked up lot 81
odd kinks II his gray matter, the way folks VIII
when they 90 of by themselves
He'd tired 70 drop Chandler too, but Chandler
wouldn't have be5T one that banks heap