The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-03-13

haffieG. ae ssesawpd on the mizzen
| mast of his craft as safe as steepie-
| jack rugged to the tlagpole OF a SKY ,
scraper.
step in. lady," said Jerry, gather
ing his lines.
The young woman stepped into the
cab, the doors shut with Il bang, Jer-
rvs whip cracked in the air, the crowd
in the gutter scattered. and the hne
hansom dashed away crosstown.
When the oat spry horse had hedged
a little his first squirt of speed Jerry
broke the lid of his cab and called
down through the aperture in the voice
OF cracked megaphone trying tn
! please:
3 where. now. will ye be drivin' toE'
ANYWHERE you please" came NJ
the answer. musical and conteDted.
Its drivin for pleasure she Is,
thought Jerry. and then he suggested
as Il matter of course:
Take a "Trip around in the park
lady. Twill be Elegant cool and fine.
Just as you like answered the
fare pleasantly.
The cab headed for Fifth avenue and
sped up that perfect street Jerry
bounced and swayed in his seat. the
potent fluids of McGary were disquiet-
ed. and they sent new fumes to his
head.
He sang an ancient song of Kills
nook and brandiShed his whip like
baton.
Inside the cab the fare sat up
straight on the cushions, looking to
right and left at the lights and houses.
| Even in the Swallowed hanson her
eyes shone like stars at twilight.
When they reached Fifty ninth street
Jerry,s head was bobbing and his
reins were slack. But his horse turn
ed in through the park gate and be-
gan the old familiar nocturnal round.
And then the fare leaned back, en-
tranced. and breathed deep the clean,
wholesome odors of grass and leaf and
bloom. And the wise beast in the
shafts. knowing his ground, strucL
into his by the hour gait and kept to
the right of the road
Habit also struggled successful.
against Jerry's increasing torpor lie
raised the hatch of his storm tossed
vessel and made the inquiry that cab
bies do make i'll the park.
Like shtop at the Cas-sino, ladyF
Gezzer rfreshm's. Ii lish'n the music.
Ev'body SHOPS"
Il think that would be nice, SAID
the fare.
They refined up with plunge at the
Casino entrance The cab doors flew
sopen.
The fare stepped directly upon the
floor. At once she was caught in web
of ravishing music and dazzled by a
panorama of lights and colors. Some
one slipped a little square card into her
hand on which was printed a number
"a.
She looked around and saw her cab
twenty yards away, already lining up
in it's place among the waiting mass
of carriages, cabs and motorcars.
And then man who seemed to be all
shirt front danced backward before
her. and next she was seated at lit
tie table by railing over which climb
ed jasmine vine.
There seemed to be a wordless invi'
tation to purchase. She consulted a
collection of small coins in thin
nurse and received from them license
to order glass of beer.
There she sat, inhaiing and absorb
ing it all, the new colored, new shaped
life i'll fairy palace in an enchanted
wood
at fifty tables sat princes and
queens clad in all the silks and gems
of the world And now and then one
of them would look curously at Jer
rvs fare.
They saw plain figure dressed iii o
pink silk of the kind that is tempered
by the word .foulard1 ana Il piait
face that wore a look of love Of life
that the queens envied.
Twice the long hands CT the clocks
went round. Royalties thiuned fror