The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-06


,,tbs and she's been movin' In the
Us, row. too. Me? All. say, anyone
lid think I'd been burnin' my IedSerS
W. y-av Y u're workin' the WINS pump
~ an me, I've been runnin' the stu
a. and : amt been usin' any ocher
mn fund, either
p,,t I'm wise TO what you're dr1Vln
80 and 7 exp sct you nights wen nave
- -. -,bole of that Sir BERTHE business.
toct &c I want lookin' for anything
else When you spring a real canuy
civil like Sadie on that foreign DuiCIl'
and let II get noised around mat sie
has a wad big enough TO stun d ma -.
tress with. there's bound TO De some ca
cftenent among the noble poor
She hadn't been there month before
"a begins to get all kinds Of reports.
Eirst II vas Lord 'AIfn'alf, then ITS
poron Hochheirner. and next it's Duke
C,fdaovitrh. with a few counts anu
,,,trces on the side; until l wouldn
have been much surprised to hear she
ms comm home Wearin' douDle-
dsclxed crown and bringin' throne
hair as excess baggage. What was l
tbinkic' all this time? Say. when II
comes to plannin' out what Sadieh oo'
I don't tackle the Job
'If she's made up her nina 10 pu !,
her stencil on somethin' of that KIM
saws I. why, it's hers. that's all Anc
81 she don't want en- they he'i
about it." .,t, ia
l,ird ~ lost track of her, and ii begun
- Joolr as II she'd settled down over
tbsre for good. when one day Plnck-
- s,,o7rs me her name on the passen-
ger list. and says:
81 suppose you will be down bright
and early 10 see the steamer come IN;
..FIuhf" saws I. me waitin' at the
dock! For Why2'
"But you're anxious to see Sadie
again. aren't yOu?' says he
what gave you that tdea? says /
"Oh. no." says he. and them snappy
black eyes of his opens wide, like he'd
dug up something new.
@4h' lose itr' says / you and your
oh. hos" HuhT'
Rut say. Just between us. that was
only a steer I'll own up 1 was some
interested. Anyway, I takes pains to
he posted on when the boats sighted
off Sandy Hook. when she's due at the
pier. and about the time Sadie would
he apt to be trippin' down the gang
plank.
Chez" says Swiftly Joe, after I'd
'phoned for the fourth time, you must
be expectin' someone special on that
boat or is IL a bluff"
"One of them guesses is right,
Swiftly" says l.
But l takes il all out in usin' the
wire. stickin' close to the shop all day,
and lettin' on TO myself that / didn' [
care where she was or how she looks
Then comes that stuff in the evenin,
papers. tellin' about this Sir BERTHE Emf
wistle, who'd come over in the same
ship
Seems he was a good deal of whale,
Sir BERTHE was. Not that he's ever done
anything special for himself; but he's
had the right kind of grandfathers, and
has always been mixed up with the
swell push, Il bein Walesy and Eddie
with him, whenever the doors was shut
and the wrapper yanked off a fresh
deck And all that goes to make him
the one best bet. so far as the dinner
party push goes. The paper says he
was met at Quarantine with a bushel
basket Of invites, and they figure out
that If he takes 'em all on. one after
the other. he could get free board on
Fifth avenue Cor a year.
They'd tried TO stand Sir BERTHE VI
for talk, and get him to give his views
on New York as it looked from the sa-
loon deck. opposite Fort Wadsworth;
but BERTHE has ducked. so they fills out
the column descrlbin' the two stunnin
American beauts that was helDin' him
hold up the rail. And say, the minute
I reads about the one with the copper
red hair and the Irish blue eyes. 1 don't
need to see any halftone 10 know it was
Sadie.
1.-THE other may be a peach. too
fhfp1re Z hut hot CHI u4o 4
one-two-siX IL Sadie Sulnvan's got heI
line out"
Which don't mean that I'm feelin' gay
about it. I'd been hopin' she'd left al
that truck on the far side of the water
This bringin' one over with her though
kind OF put frost on the dahlias, and ]
guess I want none too cheerful. II
was when I was right in the middle OF
my crouch that I'm rung up by Mrs
Purdy Pel Now ! want 10 mark IL Ut
mat she means we'll most of the time
MIS- Purdy PelI does: and the way she
puts II TO me about my bein' down on
me list for little welcome home din
her she was givin' that night was or
the level
OF course" says she. you are on,
Of Sadie's old friends. and 1 wouldn'
mink Of leaving you out: but
sure. says l. I'm much obliged
100 And its too bad. amt II, that ms
havln' a date with my Sunday schoo
class may make me hand in the re
grets?"
50 sorry" says she. "Sir Bel iii
lhtWisue Is to be with US, you know
hut yoan come If you CAM"
Don't let the soup get cold waitin
''t me. though" says !.
ana with that I rubs the whole pro
eeuih on the slate. Sadie and me haC
ee' good friends for quite some time
onu we'd thought more or less well o
S an other, even after she got to trav
Lu nlgh: but I didn't have to figur'
-ons 70 see that If she'd entered her
eH Tor the Sir BERTHE sweepstake
mere want any use in me hangin
Vr ule fence. II was me for the back
Iound, loOkin' as pleasant as 1 knew
Nv, You couldn't blame Sadie, coUlt
sou. didn't Never could find mdcl
~II with her program, anyway.
Sus' by way of keepin' my courlg
- 1hough. I plans out little solitair
,,eoration of my own. / goes tn
INIT too, includin' evenin' clothes
ann a cab. and orderin' dinner at tn
Eelest joint on Broadway. That
Sneie l was. under the pink candI
uaue' guessin' at which fork com
eAt' and havin' an expensive and lone
seIne time OF IL s-bsr looks nm ~