New-York tribune., 1910-01-23

either. 1t happens like this: | was sHs
just preparin here the other sAsS
time, to rush around the corner and 2
destroy plate of lunch counter hash z.ff
decorated with parsley and dropped
egg, when | gets this phone call from xs3
Duke Borden, who says he wants to Hye3A
me the worst way. &&z6
Well" says l. the studios still
here on 42d-st., and if your eyesight
amt failed you"
Oh chop it, can't you, Shortly"
says he. This is really important
Come right up, can't you?"
That depends, says |. Any par
tic lar placer" ss1(eS
"Of course says he. Here at the &Sa1RI
Club-no, make it Sherry's. I'm to
meet Chick Sommers there in half
hour. Wen have luncheon together
and HX [kW
I'm on" says l. Il don't know
Chick; but I'm a mixer and III stand -
for anything in the food line but cold "A
egg. Scratch the chilled hen fruit and
I'm with you" g&
Know about Duke. don't YOU? 1t W.
amt much to tell. He's just one of n
these big, handsome, overfed chappies
that help the mounted traffic cops to
make Fifthave. look diff rent from
other Main-sts. He don't do any
special good, or any particle harm.
Dukes got just enough sense, though
to have spasms of thinkin he wants
to do something useful now and then and all | can
dope out of this emergency call of his is that this
IS new thought.
THAT'S the answer too He begins tein' me
about it while the head walters leadn' us over
to corner table. Oh, yes, he's going in for business
IN dead earnest now, yknow-suite of offices his
name on the letterheads and all that sort of thing
bah Iovei
All of which means that Mr. Chick Sommers who
was star quarterback in O5, when Duke was maxim
his college bluff on the Gold Coast has r11nq hin,
into South Jersey land boOmin' scheme A few
others, friends of Chicks are in it. THEY'RE all
r1pp1n good fellows, too, and awfuly clever at
planning out things Chick himself, of course is a
corker 1t was him that insisted on Dukes bein
treasurer.
And really" says Duke about all have to do
IS drop around once or twice week and sign a few
checks"
Il see" says I. They let YOU supply the funds
Why, yes says Duke. I'm the only one who
can, yknow. But they depend great deal on nv
judgment, too. For instance take this new deal
that S on 1t has all been left to There are one
hundred and eighteen acres and we don't buy a
foot unless | say That's where YOU come in
Shorty" 49,
oh, do II" says l.
You see" Duke goes on, I'm supposed to in
spect 1t and make decision before the option ex-
PlreS, winch Will be day after tomorrow The fact
IS We been putting off going down there and now
ind I've a winter house party on, up in Lenox
and Well, you see the box I'm in -
Sure! says l. You want me to sub for Won,
at Lenox?" ' Sou
Deuce take it, no. says Duke. II want YOU to
go down and look at that land for me
HUH! says |. What | know about real
estate Wouldn't" ' ie"
oh, that's all right" says Duke. Its on1v =
matter OF form. The boys say they want it and
i III gong to buy 1t for them anyway; but inst To
nave II All straight and busnessike either | ought
to see the land myself or have it inspected hy S'
personal representative. Understand"
- Duke, says L, you a reg'lar real estate
NaPoeon | wouldnt have believed it was in Won p"
.l,fdnow' Know says he. I'm really surprised at