The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-22
SOCIETY-DRAMATIC

&. saeus like when a man comes IN mere,
"a start In to renew his red corpus
,,es and take the dark brown spots off
ne liver. he begins to get confidential.
"a, tbev tell their troubles to the dem
tis+ or the man in the cigar store, or
Inc old family doctor? Oh, no; they
unIoads EN- on Shorty McCabe, and be-
core can duck I'm all tangled up in
sore fool stunt or other that wouldn't
have run into by myself in thousand
years.
,.ouldn't be any Of that kind Of nom
eense from Chandler Pullen. The min
,fe he drifts in here with a card from
pincknev. and I looks him over, 1 sizes
him up as one Of these alright aristo-
rrats. that's so skittish about mention
IN their private affairs they don't even
LET on when the house is afire.
And it was a close guess, too. Why,
c,bandler'd been one of my reg'lars for
most a month before ] even locates the
club that was his steady hangout- /
was gettin' proud of Chandler. Just on
that account. Now, with most folks that
I meets in undershirt and sym. trousers
II would have been a case of Channy
and Shorty inside of ten days; but not
with him. When he steps into the front
Office ne plucks his lid as prompt as If
he was kuttin' into a church. Then
there's a John Drew bow and Good
morning. Professor McCabe, from him,
and .Howdy. Mr.. Pullen." from me.
rs he payin' extra. or what?" says
Swiftly Joe.
An. throw in the reverse clutch,
swiftly says l. That's just our way
OF admlttin' to each other that both of
us is real gents. It's somethin' you'll
90 to
Abr. splash" says Swiftly. 'Since
when?"
Maybe I did have TO strain my mem
ny some TO keep it up. but it was all
Just as natural as breathin' with Chan
der. I should say the first words he
learned was beg pardon, and 1 don't
spOse he ever tucked a napkin under
his chin In his life. He looks the part,
too, bein' one Of these tall. straight
backed chaps, with a figure that seems
just built for frock coats and dress
suits He's one of the early old kind,
havin' a streak Of gray in his forelock,
though he can't be much over forty, 81
he's that
L gets it from Pinckney that Chan
dler comes from some old Kentucky
family that's lived in New York for two
or three generations and has always
been in the swim. Tending out on balls
and dinners and teas was Chambers
reglar job in life. and II was so he
could keep in shape to go against these
little a m suppers and cotillions that
starts in the middle of the night that
Chandler calls on me. That's what I'm
here for. and on account Of Pinckney
I've got sort of a leanin' toward that
kind. They amt any great use in the
world; but then again they amt so bad
as some other brands
Well Chandler and me gets along
T1e. and I has braced him up lot, and
It was ali strictly business, when one
dsy last week, as we was finishin up
with little genteel glove work, he
freaks his record.
Professor" says he. Il shall be I'M
able to come on Thursday. I am going
10 the country for day or so"
That's nice. Mr.. Pullen," says ].
Pardon me-" says he. but it's a
Oeastiy bore. detest going to the
country"
have they?"
"Ah-er-a what?" says he.
'Its case Of drag, eh7" saws I
Somebody out there windin' the winch?
Maybe Lady Angelina"
on 10. no. says he. Dear nop
Then 10 prove his case he tells me
about Uncle Lyman. Seems the old
BOY had been a judge or something.
aud quite some Of party back in Ward
McAllister's times. But when Aunt
Elyira. his runnin' mate, had passed in.
ne took II awful hard. He'd chueked
ms Job given all his old friends the
snake, and moved out into the raw edge
VI esIchester county. where he'd
painted himself in a ricLxetv old MAN
SHr0 rOnfad a
out OF II since. He'd been there a dozen
years or so. grown a billy goat heard
ana worked up a lot Of odd kinks in his
ErdE matter the way folks viii when
they go off by themselves.
lie q tried TO drop Chandler. too. but
,hahuler wouldn't have it. bein' one
.-al banks heap on relation. Accord
III 70 Chandler's notion, the least no
could do was TO look the old gent nm
once year, on his birthday. whether
w. welcome OF not. Near as / couId
- "a Jul ne wa MT welcome at all. and
ms year Uncle Lyman had TOOL, -
TO send word In advance that he ~,a p,5,lia
come. ''"' ne needn't
says he. iiiluence''
tlcketts chum OF his. eh?" saws 7
handler hushes up and makes a too.
'Ns ne d tasted something bad .s0icI,-
Ell IS merely his old butler " saw N
VINO seems to have developed a strono.
dislike for me-" Oi1S
hlnd Of bosses the old man aror,d
Goes he%' says l. ''''u'
handler admits that he does Nrora,,
u.aI; ne lets out that he's almost afrsid
VI INchet himself. But he's hound 70
- "ut ana pay the birthday ,,iei+
l,iea,iln TO make one last try at inducir;
,hGie Lyman to give up the hermit OF
, sna some back TO town. where he ca,,
uecent and comfortable on -be
" 'i e-h big income that keeps dolFn,
i' rom his real estate investments
1 wish, though" SAYS CbandIer .1
~, 10, nave the company of some one
al a.. "Ioln 1 could rely; some one like"
men MS eyes rolled toward me.
dodge N4uet couldn't
tt,.-.,ICS only one-night stand. and
-. IlAely TO be need of a peace pro-
.' .'o,eT among the hired help" saws !.
YOU can count me IN.
On. really May y" saws Chandler
,GIatelul2 Say, it's a pleasure TO do
, ,i'.llss Tor some folks. and while as a
st .,'edl tnlng l wouldn't Jump at the
,t',''lCe OF passin' the compliments of
- season 20 some grumpy old duck
never seen. / looks on this as a kind
u HlOCent excursion, We StortS or