Evening star., 1908-05-10
II S S I S T E r
By EDWARD SALISBURY FIELD

know what I'm threshng him for
Il don't ask you to thresh him. Iou-' 81
looked doubtfully. Il don't believe -
could
Neither do IT, | said
The thing to do is to humiliate him
That easier said than done.
1t can be done. and | will do 1t
By Jove! that woman has spirit Whe. she
angry, she's magnificent L admire magrtnceil
angry end but | fell to wondering
l really envied Jack Vermilion.
"Well?"
Il was thinking" | said
You agree that it can be done?"
Wees"
And you will help me?-,
Il suppose 50.
You're dear!" she said
It's a-er-rather underhand game Ventured
1t isn't" she declared
OF always privileged to fight III
devil with fire. ," l responded hastily.
If Beverly Harmsworth was a devil. it would D
simple: but he's not,-he back stairs
edition of The Gossiper,' with SANDER
on every page,
Then fire should destroy him COM -
And now all that remains is for you EW
to find the Any will do 50 long ~
as he's presentable. though naturally | ~
should prefer him to be a gentleman.
Ii he gentleman" | began, ~
" he would hardly" | stopped short; 4tS
for l could scarcely tell Mrs Vermilion MS
that no gentleman would enter into the w
conspiracy she had planned. Yet | had NJ
promised to help her. I'll do my best: lH
| faltered. -Atz
She eyed me approvingly for the second az
time that afternoon. on re a dear!. CAy
she said
As l walked up the avenue after say,
ing good by to Mrs. Vernlilion |
wished l we'll out of it. Beverly
HarmSworth wasn't at all a bad sort; besides
everybody in our set gossiped Why. hang il
ALL l bit of gossip myself Pretty woner
like to be entertained. and when chaps a bache
lor- Furthermore. it was that had started tina
story about Linda TOpham and Frank Rhoades- Il
was true. too. every word Of it. Who would havs
dreamed Mrs. Nernilion was such Puritan
quite made up my mind not to her 50 often il
the future: she oo--er-upsetting.
We Sherbornes have always been men of honor
when We make promises. We keep EN-. va
sorry for Beverly HarmSworth, Il was, honestly
but having put my hand to the plow. l wasn't goin.
to turn back till Id powed him. Still, it
of a nuisance. especially as didn't how wa
pick up the sort of fellow Mrs. Eernion had de
scrbed. He must be poor. or he wouldn't take tn,
job he must be preSentabe, or he wouldn't fill tn,
bill. In the first place. I've always made it pom
not to know poor people In the second place. i
deuced paradox to expect person to be poo
and presentable at the same time.
don't know what | should have done if it hadn
been for my man Milton. though it wasn't till l.
got beastly headache thinking about it that 1t
CURED to me to hand Mrs. Eernilion'5 commiSslo.
over to him. Milton's uncommony capable; if h'
wasn't. shouldn't keep him.
Milton, L SAID, = l want You to do something.
Yes. Mr.. Sherborne.
You know gentleman when YOU one,
Il do, sir
Well. | want you to find ME a man th, look
like one he is poor, not shabby and willing |,
turn an honest penny. | think perhaps YOU nigh
find him in Broadway"
Any name, SIR"
Certainly Any man that fills these require
1nents will do.
And if l find him. SIR
You must find him." said Tell him wi,E
to see him here at nine 0 clock this evening Yo,
be hat, all