Evening star., 1909-03-07


&W@TSS1l amt lived in vain. WhateVe
ISA&6NlEXfW worth. I'm on his books tor
|6HSSREkt1 that much.
NSAGlCH4A I'll admit too that this [
man chap amt apt to get I
credits by the sweat of his brow or the fs
his brain There's plenty of folks would class
as so much plain nuisance, and | have 1t
him that his family puts 1t even stro
That's one of his specialties, confdin to stra
how unpop lar he is at home Why, he hadn't
the fact that he was son of Mr.. Craig Mallory
was suggestin' quarterly account for him Whe
gives me the warnln signal.
DON'T" says he. Il draw my allowance
fifteenth, and unless you get it away from
me before the twentieth you might as well
tear up the bill No use sending it to the
pater either He'd renig
Handing you few practical hints along
the economy line, eh:' says l.
Worse than that says Dyke. It's a
part of my penance for being the Great Dis
appointment. The whole family is down on
me Guess you don't know about my Aunt
Elvira2"
| didn't, and there was no special reason
why | should; but before | can throw the
switch Dyke has got the deputy sheriff grip
on the Mallorys private skeleton and is holdln'
him up and explalnin his anatomy.
Nov, from all I'd ever seen or heard, I'd
~ always supposed Mr. Craig Mallory to
they live at Number West; but that's near
enough to the avenue for one OF the old fam lies.
And when you find a man who puts in his
time chairman OF regatta committees. and
judgin hackneys, and actin vice president
of swell club, you're apt to rate him in the
seven figure bunch, at least. Accordin' to
Duke, though the Mallory income needed
much stretchin as the pay Of twenty dollar
clothing clerk tryin to live in a thirtyfve
dollar fiat And this is the burg where you
can be as hard up on fifty thousand year as
on five hundred,
The one thing the Malorys had to look for
ward to the time when Aunt Elvira would
trade her sealskin sack for a robe of glory
and loosen up on her real estate. She was
near seventy, Aunty was. and when she first
went out to live at the old country place. up
beyond Fort George, 1t was good halt-days
trip down to 2,d-st But she went right on
livin', and New York kept right on CROWN
and now she owns cow pasture two blocks
from subway station, and raises potatoes on
worth thousand dollars a front foot.
Bein' of different tastes and habits, her and Br'
Craig never got along together very we'll. and
was wears when each of EN- tried to forget tina
other existed When little Dyckman came, tho
the frost was melted. She hadn't paid any a
ton to the girls; but boy was diff \
havin' had son of her to boss around and
about, she took it out on Dyke. nice, piou
lady. Aunt Elvira was; and the mere fact that
Dyke seemed to fancy the taste OF morocco
cred New Testament she presented to him o
third birthday settled his future in her mind.
He shall be a Bishop" says she, and hints
accordn' as Dyckman shows progress along
line she intends loadin' him up with worldly G
Up to the age of fifteen, Dyke gives fair il
ton of a Bishop in the bud He's light h;
pleasant spoken youth, who stands well wit
Sunday school teacher and repeats passages
the Psalms for Aunt Elvira when she comes
to inf1ict her annual visit
But from then on the bulletins want SO favo
At the diff trent prep. schools where he was trie
he appeared to be too much of live to
much headway with the dead languages. A
the only sub ects he led his class in was hazine
football and buildin bonfires of the school furni
Being expelled got to be so common with him
towards the last he didn't stop to unpack his tt
Not that these harroWin details was passed
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