The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-28
By SEWELL 70 RID
Copyrighted by the Associated Sunday Magazines Incorporated

morning. when me friend Barney. the
rounds. comes along.
Say, Shorty" says he, didn't / see
you drifting around town earlier in the
evening with a young sport in morning
glory clOthes?''
He was no sport" says l. That
was Bentley. He's Y. NJ, c. A. lad in
disguise"
ITS a grand disguise" says Barney.
Your quiet friend is sure Twin up 10
them clothes.
You're kiddin'," says I. 1t would
take live one TO do credit 10 that har-
ness. When 1 left Bentley at half
past ten he was in the elevator on his
way TO bed
Il don't want to meet any that's more
alive than your Bentley" says he.
There must have been a hole in the
roof Anyway, he shows up on my
beat about IL. picks out a swell cafe,
butts into party of sOubrettes. flashes
thousand dollar bill. and begins 10
: buy wine for every one in sight. In
side of half an hour he has one of his
new made lady friends doing a high
/ kicking act on the table, and when the
manager interferes Bentley ticks TWO
walters 10 a standstin and does up the
house detective with a chair. Why, /
has to get two Of my men TO help me
gather him in. You can find him rest
I ing around 10 the station house now
Barney" says ], you must be get
I ting color blind. That can't be Bent
/ ley"
! You go around and take a look at
him." says he.
Well. just, TO satisfy Barney, 1 did.
! And Say. it was Bentley. all right! He
was some mussed, but calm and con-
/ tented.
Bentley" says I, reprovin' like.
| you're a bird. you are. How did il
| happen? Did some one drug your
Guess that ice cream must have
gone to my head" says he, grinning.
Come Off" says J. I've had a re-
port on you. and from what you've
got aboard you ought TO be as full as
a goat"
He want, though. He was as So
/ Der as me. and that after absorbing A
quart or 50 of French foam.
If / can fix il SOS to get you out
on bail" says I. will you quit this red
paint business ana be good
"G'wan" says he. I'D rather stay
| here than go around with you any
more. You pat me asleep, you do, and 1
can get all the sleep ! want without a
guide. Chase yourself
/ l was some sore on Bentley by that
/ time; but I went to court the next
morning, when ne paid his fire and
/ was turned adrift. l starts in with
/ some good advice, but Bentley shut me
off quick.
cut it out" says he New York
may seem like a hot place TO RUbes
/ like you but you can take it from me
/ that, for a pure joy producer, Palo-
pinto has got it burned TO a blister
! Why. there's more. doing on some or
] OH hac cl1rr m,
on the whole length of Broadway. No
more for me- I'm going back where
l can spend my money and have nay
/. fun without being stopped and asked
to settle before I've hardly got start
ed"
He was dead in earnest. too. He'd
/ got on a train headed west before I
! comes out Of my dream. Then | be
/ gins TO see a light. II was a good deal
of a shock 10 me when il did come, but
I has TO own up that Bentley was a
ringer. All that talk about morning
prayers and Sunday school picnics was
/ just dope, and while 1 was so busy
| dealing out josh TO him he was hand
ing me the lemon.
My mouth was still puckered and my
| teeth on edge, when Mr.. Gordon gets
me on the phone and wants 10 know
how about Bentley.
/ He's come and gone" says I.
so sOon?" says he. Il hope New
York wasn't too much for him"
Not at ALL" says l @he was too
much for New York But while you
was giving him Instructions, why didn't
you tell him to make a noise ike
hornet? 1t might have saved me from
being stung."
Texas, Ell? Well, say, next time
sees a map Of that state I'm going to
hunt up PalopintO and draw a ring
around it with purple ink.