The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-13

eitner- Inere was expensive rugs on
the floor. and brass lamps hangin' from
the ceilin', and pieces of tin armor
hung around on the walls, with nary n
sign of an oil stove or a foldin' bed.
lot OF folks was already on the
ground. They was swells. too, and
they was floatin' around so thick that
IL was too or three minutes before I
gets view of what was sittin' under
the big yellow silk lamp shade in the
corner. Say, who do you guess? Swiftly
Joe! Honest, for a minute l thought Z
must be havin' a nerve spasm and see
IN things that want so. But il was
MIN. all right: big as life, and lookin'
as prominent as soap ad. on the back
cover of magazine.
There was plenty of shady places in
the room that he might have picked,
out he hunted out the bright spot. He's
| sittin' on one of these funny cross
legged-Roman stools, with his toes
turned In. and them gridiron pants
pulled up to show about five inches OF
MacGregor plaid socks. And he has a
satisfied look on mis- face that / couldn't
account for no way
Course. l thinks right off that he's
broke into the wrong ranch and is
waitin for some ONTO come and show
him the way out And then. all of a
sudden. / begins the remember things.
Ann used to get to pose for her when
she had the top floor back in our build
Ing. She made an embossed clay pic
ture OF him that Joe used to gaze at
by the hour. And once he showed me
her photo that she'd given him. Then
there was the special invite he'd been
tellin' me about. Not bein' used TO get
tin such things. he'd mistook that card
to her studio openin as a sort of pri-
he hstfIt
dream about him and her havin' a hand
holdln' session all to themselves.
Great CATS" thinks /. Can il be
Cornelia Ann he's gone on?"
Well. all you had to do to get the
answer was TO watch Swiftly follow her
around with his eyes. You'd thought.
findin' her in bunch OF topnotchers
like that. and rugged out the way he
was, he'd been feelin' like a green
strawb'ry in the bottom of the basket.
But nothin' of that kind had leaked
through his thick skull. Cornie was
there, and he was there dressed ac-
cordin' to his own designs. and he was
as contented and happy as a turtle on
log, believin' the rest of us had only
butted in.
was feeln' all cut up over his break.
and tryin' to guess how COrnelia was
standin' it, when she floats up TO me
and says:
Wasn't il sweet of Mr.. Gallagher TO
come? Have you seen him?"
Seen HIM" says /. You don't no.
tice any bandage over my eyes. do you?
Notice the get UP. Why, he looks like
a section of a billboard"
"Oh, / don't mind his clothes a bit"
says she. Il think he's real picturesque.
Besides, / haven't forgotten that he
used TO pose for me when hiring models
meant going without meals. wish you
would see that he doesn't get lonesome
before l have chance to speak 20 him
again"
He don't look like he needed any
chirkin' up" says l; but I'll go give
him the howdy.'
So / trots over to the yellow shade
and ranges myself up in front of him.
You nights well own up. Swiftly"
says |. rs Cornie the one?"
''Uh-huh." says he.
TOLD her about il YETI" says I.
ABR. cheel" says he. Give a guy a
chance"
Sure" says I. But go slow. Joey.
go slow
l don't know how it happened. for all
told about it was Sadie and Mrs. Pur-
dy Pell: but il want long before
everyone in the joint was next to
Swiftly. and was pipin' him off. They
all has 10 be introduced and make a
try at gettin' him to talk. For awhile
he has thu time of his life. Mostly he
just grins: but now and then he throws
in an ABR. chee!" that knocks 'em
silly.
The only one that don't fall for
what's up is Cornelia Ann. She gets
him TO help her pass out the teacups
and the cake. and tells everyone about
how Swiftly helped her out on the
model business when she was Twin on
picked pigs feet and crackers. Fin
lily folks begins to dig out their wraps
and come up TO tell her how they'd had
a bully time. But Joe never makes a
move.
Sadie and Mrs Pen want in any
hurry. either, and the first thing I
knows there's only the five of us left
| see Sadie lookin' from Joe to Cor
ME and then passin' Mrs. Peil the
smile. Cornelia Ann sees IL too. and
she has a synopsis of the precedin'
chapters all in a minute. But she don't
get fiustered bit. She sails over to
the coat roc,n. gets Swifty's lid, and
comes luggin' ii out.
I'm awfully glad you came. Mr.. CAL
lagher." says she. handin out the bean
pot, land hope to see you again when
| have another reception-next year"
"Eh?" says Swiftly. like he was walk
in up from dream. Next year!
Why, l thought that"
Yes. but you shouldn't" says She
Good night
Then he sees the hat. and a light
breaks. He grab BIS the lid and makes
a dash for the door.
isn't he odd?" says Cornelia
Well say. I i:idn't know whether I'd
get word that ni<ht that Swiftly had
jumped off the bridge. or had gone back
10 the fusel oil He didn't do either one.
though; but when he showed up at the
studio next mornin' he was wearin' his
old clothes. and his face looks like he
IVES foreman of a lemon grove.
.Ah. brace up. Swiftly says I.
There's others
He just shakes his head and signs.
and goes off into a corner as If he
wanted TO die slow and lingerin'.
Then Saturday afternoon. when II
runs off so warm and We begins the
noon shutdown, / thinks I'll take a
little run down to Coney and hear the
frankfurters bark. 1 was watchin' 'ep
load the boys and girls into a roller
coaster. when along comes a car that
has somethin' familiar in il. Here's
Swiftly. wearin' his brass band suit. a
cigar stickin' out of one corner of his
mouth. and an arm around fluffy
haired Flossie girl that was chewin'
cum and wearin' fruit basket hat.
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