Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-14

Jarvs's face as he sizes up the specimen; oh,
say now, Shorty, he begins, there's such thing
as"
"Gwan!" says l. Want you just tellin' ME
about how you plannin job for the coroner?
And Heneys been threatenin to do the same thing
for weeks. He comes in here every day or SO and
talks about iumpin' off the dock dom the air
dance I've been stavin' him off with slugs of prune
brandy and doses of good advice; but if chap like
you has caught the fever then see I've been dom
wrong not to let Heiney have his way. Now there's
the back room, with plenty of rope and gasets
Get in there, both of YOU and make reg lar bee
of it,
Heiney, he stands blinkin and starn' at Jarvis,
until he gets him so nervous he almost screams.
For Heavens sake, Shorty says Jarvis, lets
not Joke about such subject!
the y1e Hene ns do
the trick in minute if he had the nerve He's got
things on his mind, Heney has. And what's the
odds if they amt so? Compared to what you've
been fussin' about, they're. Here Heney, you
tell the gentleman that tale OF yours Begin where
YOU was cook in some seashOre hotel in Swltzer
land
~ pail and wavin one hand. Eet ees at Lack
Como, in re montongs l am re head chef. noi!
Yes, you look it," says l. "A fine figure of
a chef you'd make! wouldn't you? Well, 60 on:
about bein' full of prunes when they called on you
to season the soup. What was it you dumped
in instead of salt arsenic. eh?"
Non noni" says Heiney, gettn' excited
lie poizon for re r-r-rat. keep heem in =
tin re salt. l am what you
call nt9xicate: l make re I mist AK. All
ley eat re soup. Zen come by me re
maitre dh6el He say re soup ees spoil Eet
has re foony taste. All, mon D1eM Mon-
Yes, yes" says 1. Never mind whether it was
Monday or Tuesday What did you do them"
MOI I fly" says Heiney Il an am ,s dstr tract
apron my white chapeau. Ah saer-r-re nom! How
my heart is thoomp. thoomp. on my inside! All
night | speak to myself: You have keel zem all!
Ze belle ladies Re pauUre shildren! All, you have
poi zon-ed! lev make to tweest up re 1oOr.'
All diabel Always l can see zem tweest up!
Regular rough rats carnival, ehs' says l.
Three hundred beautiful ladies and poor children.
mention few men, dom the agony act on
the dinin floor! There, Jarvis How'd you
like to carry round movn' picture film like that
in your mem'ry? Course, I've tried to explain to
Heiney that nothing of the kind took place;
that the papers would have been full OF it, and that
hed been in the jug long before this if it had But
this is Heiney's particular pipe dream. and he
can't let go of it. It's got tangled up in the works
somehow and nothing / say will jar it loose
Poor cuss! Look at hm No doubt about its
seemin' real to him, is there? And how does your
little collection of feabes show up alongside it; eh,
Jarvis?"
- of moldy sweitzerkase was fascinatin' to
look at.
Il beg pardon" says he but you say this hotel
was at Lake Como?
Heiney mods his head then his face with
his hands as if he was was seem things ,n! again I;
occurrence?" says Jarvis.
Year before the last in Augoost' says Heiney,
shudderin ,-"Augoost seven.
THE seventh of August! says Jarvis. And
was your hotel the Occident,"
''0ni, oni!" says Heiney. "LH6tel Oeeidem."
Guess he means Accident says l. What do
you know about it, Jarvis!
Why" says he, Il there
WHAT" says l. Here, Heiney, wake up
Here's one of the victims of your rat poison soup
With that Heiney gets mighty interested; but he