Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-19

perfectly honest when / said that I am in as
much trouble as you are"
She was still incredulous but he so earnest in
his insistence that she reluctantly came back and
allowed him to seat her upon the bench beside him.
He explained to her in careful detail precisely what
had happened to him, and his unshaven face and
soiled collar sufficient corroboration She
laughed at his somberness when he had finished.
Lovely" she exclaimed with sparkling eyes For
minute was afraid exchange had given me the
wrong number, but l couldn't figure out how you'd
Joined the t. Wad family SO quick But now watch
the blue trail of gasoline. Come with your Aunt
Besse!"
She sprang to her feet and he uncertainty.
Where you going?" he asked.
ITO beat it before the banks close" she exultantly
replied Before three o'clock we'll be looking over
an assorted collection of timetables and won't owe
you cent for my fare to New York and a new outfit
from plume to patent feathers. Now, don't ask me
how I'm going to do it, I'll giggle myself to death
over how easy it is"
IF blind lead blind am very willing to be
led he Iaughingy observed as he caught step with
her. But you have not told me about your own
troubles"
Mel" she said with infinite disdan. 81 fell
victim to my fatal beauty and it gave me the
brainstorm all right. dreamed had voice and
figure, and that if just let the public know about
them I'd have Patti forgotten and Melba retired
pension. So tried it, and The Belle of Broadway
Company Number Forty-Two quit here. That's all.
There's only people in this town with pink
nails and there's forty-two girls to look after them
jimmy and dark lantern to get it; if I'd send to
the boss barber at the Belveigh I'd get money SO
quick the edges would be scorched off when it got
here, but I'd have to marry Jimmy when got back.
and while starving would be quicker, it wouldn't be
painful. And that starvation turns no musical
comedy either. I've got a dnky little two-by-twice
room paid for until tomorrow night, and then it
would have been little me to somebody's kitchen
with a half-Neson on a gas range. And can't boil
eggs"
They had crossed the little park by this time, and
had stopped in front of of those dngy looking
houses that have the perpetual smell of midew in the
front hail. She ushered him into dim parlor en-
beshed with six pieces of ragged plush furniture
and collection of atrocious wax flowers on the
mantel under a glass globe, and then she tripped
upstairs to the third floor. In moment she hur-
red back with her suitcase and bowl of water She
threw up blind and placed the bowl on little
table beside the window.
First of all you've got to look the part, so dip in
your hand, she directed him as she opened the suit
case and produced her manicure set She was silent
only until she sat down when get back to little
old Broadway tomorrow night" she ratified on as
she deity and vigorously manicured him, 'Il promise
never to get farther than four blocks away from the
subway again long live. used to kick because
I'd get called up to room, sure as death that the
lob would take an hour and half and that there'd
be no tip to manicure some waspy woman with her
hair on the table and her complexion the dresser
and her figure hanging up in the closet and the rest
of her beauty scattered four chairs and the bed