The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-05


reach. with legs branchin out just un-
der his armpits-you know how them
Clothes pin fellers are built-but when
You finish out the combination with
pop eyes and couple of overhangin'
= 'front.' teeth-Well. what's the use?
%ossy don't travel on his shape. He
don't taye TO. nth pepper bossir' a
coupin of trunk lines.
When he first began comm to the
studio sized him up for a soft boiled,
ana wondered how he could stray
around town alone without havin his
shell cracked Took me some time. too.
before / fell TO the fact that Rosy
was wisern he looked; but at that
ne want no knowledge trust.
Just bein good natured was Rossys
long suit. Course. he couldn't help
GRIMM his mouth is cut that way.
There want any mistaken the look
IN them wide set eyes of his, though.
Iliat was the real article. the genuine
I'll stand for anything kind Say. You
could spring any sort of a josh on
Rossy and he wouldn't squeal He was
one of your shy violets. too. Mostly
he played thinkin'- part. and when
he did talk he didn't say much. After
you got to know him real well. though.
and was used TO the way ne looked,
You couldn't help likin Rossiter. I'd
had both him and the old man as reg
iars for two or three months. and it's
, hstsuTdi WAS more or less cnummy
with them.
3 so when Rosy shows up here the
!. other morniT and shoves out his prop
osition TO me. | don't think nothin
: of it.
Shorty, says he. kind of hushin
up. I've got favor TO ask of YOU
You're welcome to use all I'VE got
In the bank, says l.
1T isn't money" says he. CROWN
pinller.
OH" says l, like was lot sur
) prised Your usin' the touch preamble
made me think it was. What's the
! eo?"
FL can't tell you Just now" says
he: but I'd like your assistance i'm a
little affair about eight O'Clock this
evening. Where can find your"
Sounds mysterious" says /. You,
amt goiu' up against any Garfield
game: are you?"
"Oh / assure he begins
That's enough" says l. and names
the particular spot III be decoratin'
at that hour
You won't fail?" says he. anxious.
Not unless an ambulance gets me"
says l.
Well didn't go around battin' my
head all the rest of the day, tryin'
10 think out what IL was Rossiter had
on the card. Somehow he amt the
kind you'd look for any hot stunts
from. If I'd made a guess, maybe L
said he wanted me To take him and a
college cnum down 10 chop suey joint
for an orgy on lichi nuts an weak
tea.
So I want fdgetfn. any that evenin'.
as holds up the corner OF end street.
Qassin' the time of day with the rounds
And watcbip>>the Harlem folks streak
Z ny to the roof gardens. Right on the
tick a hanson fetches up at the curb.
r Do. fat@e rfxr IN ma hn txriU
wag TO jump in.
''Your runnin on sked," says /.
"Where to now?'
IT think your studio would be the
best place." says he. IF you don't
mind
around the corner. AS we does the
turn i sees another cab make wild
dash to get In front, and. takin' a
peek through the back window, / spots
a SECOND one folowin'.
"Are we part of A procession" says
: l. pointin' em out TO him.
, He only grins and looks kind of
aheepish That's the regular thing
nowadays" says he.
What, Tin badsers?" says /.
He mods. "They made me rather ner-
~ vous at first" he says. but after I'd
,een shadowed for week or so got
used TO it, and lately I've got so /
would feel lost without them. Tonight.
though, they're rather nuisance. I
thought you might help me to throw
II them off the track
n But who set 'em on?" says /.
a "Oh. it's father. I suppose" says he,
not grouchy, mind you. but kind of
o tired
:, why. Rossy.'' says 1. Il didn't think
n you was the sort that called for p. d.
reports"
I'm not" says he. That's just
= fathers way. you know. when he sus-
pects anything is going on that he
hasn't been told about. He runs his
things all the time. And maybe some
of them weren't busy; so he told them
to look after me-"
Well, sayi I've heard some tough
things about the old man. but 1 never
thought he'd carry a thing that far
blood In Rossiter than you'd look for
in p ribbon clerk. Outside of the little
ladylike boxini that he does with me-
as a liver regulator. the most excitin'
fad OF his ever heard OF was collectin
picture postals.
Now, generally fights shy of mixin
up In family affairs. but someway OF
other / just ached to take a hand in
this. Rosy" says /. you're dead
anxious 10 hand the lemon to them
two sieut's; are you?"
He said he was.
''And your games all on the straight
after that. is it?'' says.
Pom my honor. 1t u.s. says he.
'Then count me in" says l. 81
amt never had any love for them sneak
detectives. and here's where / gives
'em a whirl."
But say. they're slippery bunch
They must have known just where we
was headin, for by the time we lands
on the sidewalk In front of the physi-
cal culture pariors the man in the
leadin cab has jumped out and faded
'He will be watching on the fiool
above. says Rossiter. "and the other
one will stay below"
That's the way they work IL, eh p
rays ]. Good Come on in without
lookin' around or lettin' 'em know
you're on.r
We goes up TO the second floor and
turns on the Etjn IN the front office
q Then puts on. a pair of gym. shoes
opens the, door easy, and tiptoes dowr
~ the stairs. He was Just where