The sun., 1909-02-14


four dollars worth OF arnica didn't d.
his knees any good after he began TO TAX,
treatment for II, Rnd ever since he's beer
going around looking like a Wisconsir
lumberjack on the blacklist and the winter
half over.
Say yought TO see the typewritist he's
! got in his Office nowi II she wasn't born
at least nine years before Edgar Allan Poe
ever saw the light Of day then she was
born last Tuesday week. and you can hear
her creak as she walks, She's got q chart
on her that looks like q Cape Hatteras
storm signal, and when Freddy dictates
a letter to her she's 80 deaf that she has
to rest her head on the top button Of his
vest to hear him, and oh. it's great, fine
no. no!
Serves him right for letting his wife
visit him at his Office. Man who permits
his wife to visit him at his Office Ia bound
to have to nudge across with u heap Of
explaining sooner or later. and
But here | am forgetting all about the
thing that ! just happened to breeze In to
ask you about. Now. l hope you'll get me
right. old chap, when l tell you that I
never in any circumstances do the slink
thing to find out about a mans business
and his credit and all like that but this
Is place where it's matter Of dollars
and quite some dollars--snd everybody
appea ~ to have better line ON the thing
than I've got. and it struck me- that aybe
you were hepperino to some Of IL.
lt's this way: Joe Openmitt's been
singing q proposition at me lately that
sounds good from a whole lot Of angles
for money thing, and I've been doing
plenty Of listening toAim. ut that, only.
Well. you know how IL is. These yarns
reach a fellow. you know. and they sort
OF make him feel like ducking no matter
how good the thing looks.
Now ! don't know anything about
Joe's habits or anything Of that sort
but since I've been listening TO his hot
line Of gun about this good thing he wants
TO have me join along In with him why I've
sort Of kept my ears and eyes open, you
know, and there are some fellows who
spin il that Joe's chief asset is that ability
Of his TO turn loose lot Of south breeze
Met two or three people who told me In
so many words that Joe planted the hornet
Oh 'em when they went into good looking
things with him, and these folks were
there with the rnallet for Joe bigger than
piledrlvers
Now l hate to listen 10 this kind OF
stun and l make IL practice to sort !
Of beat 1t away from where such talk is !
going on. but Of course when one OF these !
fellows went ahead and unreeled it that /
Joe before he came to New York at all !
had got into some kind Of trouble with |
The authorities out In Cincinnati over
some queer paper that he sifted around !
among his friends. why, had to listen
70 protect myself, didn't |? Fellow that |
old me this appeared TO have all of the !
ietails down pat, and he said that Joe |
lad had to fight like wildcat 10 keep |
,ut OF a suit Of striped clothes on that
occasion. Well this sort of gave me some
olt, I'm free to admit and then when
heard that Joe had gone through with
ome deal with you, why
How's that? Joe's all to the good, 4,
md az honest q man es ever you did busi-
less with. and you'd trust him with every
hing you had. and all like that? Well.
,'gee. I'm sure glad 10 hear that. I honest
h' NoN tuat you say tldt III bOrTy
mentioned those little bits Of informa-
ion that drifted my way. really.
II doesn't make any difference now.
ither, thPt one fellow sort OF hinted 70
ne that Joe. who s married and keeps a
well establishment here. you know. has
wife and children living ir poverty out
A Omaha right at the present time. and
don't believe a word OF it. even IL this
ellow that did slip me this piece Of in
claims to have been acquo irted
iith Joe twenty years or 40. |
Darned peculiar. isn't il. how these !
trange yarns get around about a mao? I
hey just seem to he in the air. that's {
II. Nobody ever repeats EN-, except I
1 the strictest confidence. az I am now,
Ut still they float around. and the first G
hing you know they're public property t
lst a. much as II they'd been published .
, the newspapers. =
Well. old pal. don't feel bad about il /
ecause you've nearly telked me deaf. /
,lmb and blind, because ] assure you | c
ke it. and the only reason l am now going
, beat it ia because --Ahs. ha!-you 6
ppear to've told me about all you know. c
'ell. s'long. s
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