Evening star., 1909-09-05


dressed youngster. less dirty. and being
caught with the goods almost scares the life out
of him.
'Ha, you young imp sings out Duke catchn
him by the collar "Nipped you that time. didn't l?
Stealing flowers, eh >?
The kid tries to holler; but cant get out sound.
Where do you come FROM eh. says Duke, glvln
him gentle shake.
The youngster points out through the gates.
We'll, haven't you got a tongue? says Duke
What you doing around here? Who are you,
anyway, and why
If you'll pardon me- says voice behind u.s. Il
think can explain.
TT mighty nice voice. too of the low,
cooin kind. And the young lady that owns it is
good deal of honey girl. if she got up plain
and simple in shirtwaist suit and tennis shoes. Her
big brown eyes was lookin' Duke over steady and
calm
Well go ahead" says he. I'm listening
"This says She kind of half smilin is Master
Jimmy McQuade, of West Blank-st. Rather far
west. isn't it Jimmy"
Near Tenth av ner,' says Jimmy, squr1nn'
loose and finding his voice
The Hel's Kitchen district, you know. goes
the young lady Jimmy and thirty more much s
weeks outing. We are taking care of them in that
building there
y Huh! The old fish house!" says Duke "Well,
l cant have him in here stealing flowers.
I'm very sorry that Jimmy should do such
thing" says the young lady. and shall"
ay ha oot rea IsJ fa but
kind of joSin. and holdin' out her hands to him.
You see, she shoots over at Duke, his sense of
property rights somewhat underdeveloped.
''Yes, l see" says Duke real sarcastic; but 1
don't take any stock in this fresh air nonsense You
folks ought to leave such trash in the city streets,
where they belong. If you must bring EN- down
here, keep EN- out of my grounds, that all"
Now, even for Duke Pollard that was stating it
raw and ugly. But the shrtwaist girl don't seem to
be fazed She just keeps eyin him quiet and
curious and when he's all through she smiles square
at him. Then she turns to the kid.
Never you mind, Jimmy" says she. Il don't
A.. IL -1,t
"Aw chee!" says the youngster,
cockin his head up. He's big stiff,
Tut, tut. Jimmy. That isn't po-
lite, you know, says the young lady.
Come on; it's almost supper time"
! and with another glance at
she takes the kid by the hand and
marches him out of the gate
HUH" grows Duke That's a
IL sample of charity work! En-
I ~ couraging youngsters to steal!'
Ny&N : All can it, says l. :. If all the
8VI plutes mean you, I'd be in
AM2 favor of stealin myself.
NJ why, what's touched you up,
w McCabe7" says Duke pretendin' to
be surprised. What's the matter
~ now"
You" SAYS l. Fine exhibition
you gave, want it, And before
young lady Gwan! You've got the
disposition of sick hyena.'
M Well, we passes few compliments
like that back and forth and if
hadn't known Duke we'll as do
! ! !: i !
we'd had it out right there on the
grass and I'd jumped the next train
to town. But | could see he was half
ashamed of himself all the while he
doing it, only he didn't know how
A to act any diff'rent. So l stays on,
~ and we goes back to the house to get
ready for dinner. him gum a
sport on Monday mornn.
Nice cheerful dinner party we had
that evenin with mother and the
aunts tryin' to drag conversation out
of dear darling Duke and glancin'
' suspicious at me when he d only growl