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pearl necklace nor what wad of easy money he'd
just cofared and THROWN modest bluff was only
right and proper. But it struck me they was over
dom the act; for every now and then L catches EN-
swappn' the most hopeless, desperate looks, which
the case didn't call for at all
a. All, let him go as far as he likes, L Whispers to
Teddy These fits of his don't come often
=" But really can't accept such favors says
Teddy land we don't wish to
That's all he had time to get out though; tor
Wesy is calm for details of his past life and his
future plans all in one breath
that you're in Teddy?''
Why, l am school teacher, ;" says Teddy
You don't say!' says Westy Does it pay
well?''
Fairly WE'LL" says Teddy Il to be raised
to nine hundred this fall
"A month";" says Westy.
MONTH" gasps Teddy. No. no Nine hundred
Whe-e-e-ewl" whistles Westy And you had
the nerve to get
But he chokes himself off just in time and takes
it out in lookin EN- over curious, while Teddy goes
on to tell how he hopes he wont always have to
teach school, as he has studied mining engineering
some by himself, and if he could only save up
enough to come down here and take cheap sum-
mer course he might get into different line: He
thinks possibly they salt away couple of hun
dred by next summer. providm' he gets odd jobs
on the side.
Westy's face takes queer look as he listens.
Maybe he was accountin' for the baggy condition
of Teddy's weddin trousers and the awkward set
of Mrs Blossoms bargain counter suit.
.'Ahem!" SAYS he. 1T has just occurred to me
that l haven't done anything yet in the way OF
wedding presents. To make up for that am 60
ing to take YOU two out little shopping trip,
and we'll see what pick up before the stores
close Come on, Shorty. shall need your advice
THEY tries to hold back; but it's use While
L they're framn their objections Westy has rung
up cab, and the next thing they know we We been
hustled up to one OF them swell ftth,ave- )o,nts
that looks as much like store gold bread plate
looks like fryin' pan. A negro IN brass buttons,
and coat of embroidered on the lace curtains
in the front door panels is all that gives you hint
it amt a private house. but Westy makes the
manager trot the curb and take instructions.
Il want you to fit this lady out with complete
travelling costume says me- sr ana ,'lt you n annh
We can. sir says the manager 80
AN right" says Westy Well be back at
fve-thirty."
Bv the look Mrs Blossom gives us as we left.
you'd thought we was maroonn her desert
island; but before she can renlg the cab is under
way and were headed for Soakem Brothers, where
YOU can buy ready made the kind of clothes King
Eddie wears, at twice the price. 1t takes less
half an hour to fit Teddy to suit of featherwelght
tweeds and a twenty-dollar Panama and with
pair of chamois gloves and malacca stick he looks
almost like real sport
Then goes back after Mrs Teddy. She keeps
us waitin only half an hour or so before she floats
down the steps And say the result worth
all the delay! That manager chap must have put
his whole force the job; for he's changed a
like she d just run down from Newport for the day
From the dish brimmed feather lid to the silver
buckled French pumps, she's as trim and classy as
anything you'll comm off tae Lusitania next
month They've even shaken the doughnut twist
out of her back hair and done it up Merry Widow
style;
thing like! How do they feel?'
II hardly know" says Mrs Teddy, actin
kind of dazed lin afraid they dread
fully expensive.
I'm used to that says Westy with grin at me
Now We'll go to the Waldorf roof for dinner chr"
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