The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-07-08
The Judge and
The Washers

really-and she was always groomed
to the limit.
She would stroll by the great ho-
tells and restaurants of Fifth avenue,
waiting for her prey. Then she
would pick out some emerging male
who looked pretty soft meat. She
had keen eye for portly men of the
good-natured-looldng type, men with ,
vacillating mouths, men who looked
easy to stampede.
Having selected such a victim,
she would trip up to him, generally
after nightfall, address him with
some simple question: question,
generally, about her direction, Or
something of that sort-to gain his
attention and cause him to stop.
Then, looking her victim smack
dab in the eye, she would say some
thing like this to him:
you have stopped me and insult
ed me. You are a masher. If You
don't give me twenty-five dollars l
shall have you arrested. If you are
arrested on the charge OF MASKING
YOU will be disgraced. | have moth
ing to lose. You have. II makes no
difference whether you are guilty or
not. your disgrace will be the same.
, If you don't give me the twenty-five
dollars instantly 7 shall scream AMI
faint and you will be arrested
: Invariably the men thus swooped
d upon by this petite doll dug into the
!. nankeens and produced the twenty
+ five dollars like little men. In so
f doing they were perfectly sensible
i A grown-up man knows when he is IN
/ had and the men thus lit upon by
e this and other cute harpies of her
v species were perfectly well aware
r that they were corralled and corral
e led proper. They just produced anc
e let it go at that They didn't ever
v go to the bother of pursuing the
q suuab. They couldn't afford to ~
Il mingled up with stuff of that SOFT
IT It was a nice little trade for this one
and several others. They fattened OF
lie it. But Big Bill, he put 'em away
If
r. myself was maced once by thi
G. lovely little black-eyed person !
,e was after the dinner hour at tn
At Waldorf, and was emerging there
Is from with a consciousness of castro
= nomic duty we'll performed with a.
I'd over-auriferous western relative L
10 settle the score. The snappy-eye
f. nudge looked me over carefully as
swung toward Fifth avenue, anC
70. quite naturally, I grant, conclude
ID that was the living image of tn
nt fall guy. SO she eased over alonf
~. side of me and handed me her littl
II. collection of stick-up verbs. Ho"
ever, was acquainted with tn
m. stuff, though I'd never had anybod
nd try to uncoil it on me.
a "Twenty-fve?" said I. Sure. Blu
At the smallest I've got is fifty"-tha
%, being the Munchausenism, for di
70 have a four-bit piece in the chang
~. pocket, and Just that. "Waitll ] go u
he into the Waldorf and get the fit
70. changed and I'll come back and"
mt mo you don't" she cut in, in tn
at placidist tone you ever heard, tn
Eft smile never once leaving her fac
en- Don't try to slip me any Of thu
ar. getaway stuff. You'll nudge me II
whole fifty, right now, or stand Il
a pinch"
up Then the miracle which doc
er. sometimes pop to protect fat folks
tn but only sometimes-did pop. II
te, house detective of the Waldorf a
: peared in the doorway Of the Thirt
ur- fourth street side for the purpose
SOS saying something to the carriai
oh door opener, 7 knew him not on
to- middling well, but chummig so,