The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-19
Professor McCabe Has Another
Adventure and Does a Good Turn

helto! says L. ''Whered you dow
in from?'
Then makes him acquainted with
Sadie, and asks him what it'll be. oh.
he did il well; seemed as surprised as
II he hadn't seen me for year. and be-
gins to get acquainted with Sadie right
away. 1 tried to give her the wink.
meanin' to put her next TO the fact thai
here was where she ought to come OuS
strong on the broad AS and throw in
the dOntcher-knows frequent; but it
was no go. She didn't care rap. She
talked just as she would to me. asked
Pinckney all sorts of fool questions,
and inside of two minutes them two
was carryin' on IKE couple of kids.
I'm a rank outsider here, you know"
says she. and if il hadn't been for
Shorty I'd never got in at all. Oh, sure,
Shorty and I are old chums. We used
to slide down the same cellar door"
S'elp me, 1 was plumb ashamed OF
Sadie then. givin' herself away like
that. But Pinckney seemed TO think IL
was great sport. Pretty soon he says
he's got some friends over at another
table. and did she mind if he brought
'em over.
Think you'd better?" says she. I'm
the Mrs. Dipworthy of The Drowsy
Drops you know, and that's tag that
won't come off,
tend to the tag business. They'll be de-
lighted to meet you"
Say" says /, soon as he'd left,
don't be a sieve, Sadie. Just forget
auld lang syne and remember that
you're travelling high"
They've got to take me for what I
am, or not at ALL says she.
Yes. but you amt got no cue to tell
the story OF your life" says I.
no q NrrkG in sraH IL
Shorty" says she.
! was lookin' for her TO revise that
notion when 1 sees the kind of cOmpa-
ny Pinckney was luggin' up to spring
on US. I'd seen their pictures in the
papers, and knew 'em on sight. And
the pair wasn't anything but the top
of the bunch You know the TWOm-
bley-Cranes, that cut more ice in July
than the Knickerbocker trust does all
winter. Why, say, to see the house
rubber at EN- as they came sailin' our
way. you'd thought they was paid per-
formers stepping up to do their act. 1t
was a case Of bein in the limelight for
us. from that on.
"Hully chee." says I. Here's where
/ ought to fade"
But there wasn't any show to duck;
for Felix was chasin' over some more
chairs, and Pinckney was dom the
honors all round. and the first thing I
knew we was a nice little family party,
chuckin' repartee across the pink can
die shades, and behavin' like star
boarders that had paid in advance.
II was Sadie. though, that had the
center of the stage, and III be stag
gered if she didn't jump in to make
her bluff good She let out everything
that she shouldn't have told, from
how she used to wait on table at her
mothers boarding house, to the way
she'd got the frozen face ever since she
came TO town.
But what am ! expected to do?"
SAYS she. I've got no Hetty Green
grip on my handbook. There's a whole
binful of the 'Drowsy Drop dollars,
and I'm willing to throw 'em on the
bonfire Just as liberal as the next one,
only I want place around the ring.
There's no fun in playing a lone hand.
is there? I've been trying to find out
what's wrong with me, anyway"
MY dear girl" says Mr. Twoubley-
Crane. there's nothing wrong with you
at all. You're simply delicious Isn't
she, now. Freddie?"
And Freddie just grinned. Say, some
men is born wise. Professor McCabe
and l are exchanging views on the
coming lightweight contest" says he.
Don't mind US, my dear"
Perhaps that's what we were gassin'
| bout. or why is q hen? You can
| search me. I was that ratified with Sa-
I dies nerve display that I didn't follow
anything else real close.
But when il was all over and III
/ been brought to by a peep at the bill
/ the waiter handed me, / couldn't figure
| out whether she'd made a bulPseye or
rung in a false alarm.
One thing / did notice, as we sails
/ out and that was the stout Pettigrew
/ person who'd passed Sadie the picked
pigs foot ON the avenue that after
noon. She was sitting opposite a skim
py little runt with a bald head, at a
| table up near the door where the
! walters juggled soup over her feathers
| every time they passed. Her eyes were
/ glued on Sadie as we came up, and by
/ the spread of the furrovs around her
mouth see she was tryin' to crack a
smile.
Now" thinks I. here's where she
! collects chiIblains and feels the mercu-
ry drop"
! But say, would you look for it in a
dream book? WhatAlOes Sadie do but
pass her out the glad hand and coo
away. like a pouter pigeon on cOrnice,
about being tickled to see her again.
! oh. they get me dizzy, women do,
That want a marker though. TO the
reverse English carom Sadie takes
/ after we'd got into a cab and started
for her hotel. Was there a jolly for
me, or Thank you, Shorty, I've had
the time of my Iife?" NOthin like il.
| She just slumped into her corner and
switched on the = bOO-hOOs like girl
| that's been kept after school.
Enjoy yourself. Sadie says 1.
k"Only remember that this IS a hanson,
not a street sprinkler.
That didn't fetch her so after awhile
tries her again. What went wrong
says l. WIS she stringin' you, or was
it the way I wore my face that queered
the sh0w?"
ITS all right Shorty" says she be-
tween weeps And nothing's wrong.
nothing at all. Mrs Whats-Her-
Names asked me to stay a week with
her at their Newport place, and old
Mrs. Pettigrew will turn green before
morning thinking of me, and I've
1 shaken the hoodoO at last. But it all
came so much in lump that I just
had TO turn on the sprayer. You know
how ] feel, don't you. Shortly
Sure" says I, Just as well as IL
you'd sent me a picture postal OF the
place you boarded last
But. say, 1 turned the trick, didn't I?