New-York tribune., 1909-10-03

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w our house-weeps before breakfast, tears
in the coffee cup and sudden showers OF
real damp woe all through the day. It's been tur-
nished bv a Young lady with a busting heart that
Sadie annexed durn her visit up in the Berkshires
Geraldine's the name of this young party OF the
frazzled heartstrngs, and she's a niece OF my OLD
req'Iar Pyramid Gordon. He dug her up out IN
California somewhere, three or four years ago found
that her pa and ma both laid away and that
she was livin with some OF her mother relations
that We're in the prune rals1n business. 1890.
Well Pyramid strong hold IS ben good to any OF
his clan that don't expect it; what does he do
but bring this niece on here and sent her to swell
boardin school, where she could have her voice
manicured, and learn other parOr tricks such as ne
thought a member of his immediate fam ly ought to
know I'd heard him tell more or less about his
little Jerry; but never took enough notice to
know whether 1t was a bull terrier he was taIhlh
about. a person.
But when Sadie comes back from the stylish end
of Massachusetts, hanged II she am town TINS
identical Young party, having run across her up
there and heard the whole details OF her soul har-
roNin' tale. don't know as ought to STR YOU all
up by repeatn it. either Its one OF those nineteen
vear-old heart renders that ought to be confined 70
the slush pages of the ten-Cent magazines, and gen
rally IS. Maybe though, YOU can stand 1t II hurry
over the saddest parts.
IT'S all about how her and Young college hickey
by the name of Bunk Wallace met and was parted
lust where and how they first got acquainted and
the other tOuChin prelimnaries, has got away from
me for the minute but there something SAID
about a iunior prOu1-Whatever kind OF convention
that is-and a holiday house party and getun TO
gether at class day exercises and baseball games ana
Anyway. it was a case of h-you-kiddo at first
glimpse on both sides. Next thing anybody knew,
She was wearin a single spark on the third hnser
south and announces that She and Mr.. Wallace was
engaged-with her Just out of the seminary and HIM
havin another year of college ahead
Maybe Pyramid Gordon don't do the war dance
on receivin that bulletin. Why, he'd been plannln
to have her spend couple of years seem Europe,
and then on bringn her back TO Fifth-ave. and
lettin her pick out of the young MultyS or
Plutes and swing right into the alimony But
Jerry calmly gives out that Bunk IS the only honey
boy the world for her. If she Europe at all,
she wants to 90 with Bunk for guide and the we'd
din diploma in the bottom of the trunk She guesseS
the Alps and all them other old ruins will be right
But who is her howls Pyramid Where does
he come from? What's his rating
Jerry don't know. He's iust her dear Bunk that 5
all He will be a senior this fall and next spring he il
know all there is to be known and will come to clam
her. She thinks his folks live up the State some
Where-Syracuse, maybe Schenectady and that
his fathers lawyer.
Huh" grunts Pyramid. Son of some cheap
country lawyer, eh' Fine prospects for supporting
wife he'll havel What's he planning to live on
and waiting for the old man to take him n9 Hadn t
thought about that, | suppose. What else has he
got To recommend HIM
why, everythingl" says Terry He has the
lovehest gray-blue eyes, and the incest manners.
and ~
BAH" explodes Pyramid The city IS full of
htteen-dollar clerks with lovely ewes and nice man
| don't suppose he ever earned a dollar In his
life You send back that ring Jerrv. and stop his
coming around Tell him TO forget it until he has
made good.
Oh, Pyramid did the stony hearted guardian act
like the leadIn heavy of a stock company But that
wa Mt the worst of 1t. Dear SUI MOI Bunk got ust
as raw deal from his side of the house when he
broke the news to Pop.