Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-05-20

you want TO, dinner II be ready. I
guess you'll be ready for 1t too"
There was narrow, unexpected pas
sage, with an uncarpeted and still mar
rover stairway leading steeply up ~
regions above; also there was strong
nay, overdevclopcd-s of dinner
which could be all too easily divided
into its component parts-corned beef
and cabbage. with perhaps body
guard OF onions.
"One more flight for you," explained
Jacobus. "Thcy amt got too much
accommodation here, aud Miss de
Lisle me and my, wife and the other
ladies' are on this floor. gentlemen
above. Here you are' and with
light knock. which was notification.
not request, he flung the door open.
on narrow bed visible from the
threshold a young man. hardly more
than boy. was stretched reading
something that looked like manuscript.
lie glanced round. but did not move
on seeing Mr.. Jacobus and n stranger.
81 thought you said this was my
room!" exclaimed Loyeland. startled.
80 1t is, and there's your roommate.
Didn't know whether you'd be in. Ed.
| can introduce you to each other
right now. Mr.. Ed Binney, our prop.
crty man, prompter and second viz
lain-Mr. Perccval Gordon Of England.
our new juvenile. Now you know
each other, and / guess, Eddy, you
can put Mr.. Gordon up TO all he needs
TO know"
This was worse than the Bat hotel.
where each man who earned % cents
could have his own cublcle. But now
Loveland was not paying his own way.
The management" was TO do that
and feed him too. Az he had but a
quarter In the world. thrust upon him
rs a loan or gift by generous Bill.
Loveland was not in position to be
critical. Here he was, and here he
would have to stay till he heard from
home or something turned up"
AS for hearing from home. he had
begun almost to despair. for his two
cables had remained unanswered now
these many dreary days. Still, after
an interval OF more waiting for n tele-
gram from his mother he had written
to her and TO Betty Marlborough.
ashamed to take outsiders into the
deepest secrets of his humilating nd
ventures. But at best It would be
fortnight before Bill Willing could for
ward to some address yet to be given
letter from across the sea.
Ed Binney looked as though he
might have pleasant qualities II ap-
preached in The right way. So with
amazing self restraint Loveland re-
Trained even from the mild insult of
disguised glance. He said in his nice
voice thai he hoped Mr.. Binney would
not mind his coming. as, he really could
not 2hclp himself, whsreupoa Mr..
Binney grinned. showing teeth white
as girls. and replied that IL 1t were
not Mr.. Gordon 1t would be some one
else, who might be worse. as 1t struck
Mr.. Bnney that Mr.. Gordon would at
least be fond of washing himself.
To this Mr.. Gordon responded that
there were few things he liked better.
but 1t seemed ms If there wouldn't DO
much opportunity at Smiths hotel
You had to do 1t in sections with a
washbowl, said Mr.. Blnney, but never
mind-you got there just the same II
you were In earnest. Then they both
laughed, and Binney exclaimed with
evident relief that he was jolly glad
Gordon wasn't the sort of boy who
put on airs.
Then he bounced Off his tremulous
cot. He showed his roommate "the
ropes"-in other words, which bureau
drawers" were at the newcomers dis
position, where he had better keep his
toothbrush and SO on. lie con6ded TO
Loveland the fact that he himself had
not been long in the company. but
had come from better one, which he
would now regret IL the lone night"
stands had not been too much for his
strength. "If your lungs are always
playing you tricks you have to put up
with transformers, for at least they
give you week stands, and most of the
hotels throw in fires Free" he explain
ed. II can see that you've stepped
down in the world bit, too, so we
ought to have fellow feeling for
each other"
While Loveland made himself pre-
sentable for the early dinner Ed Bin.
ney went on to sketch the members
of the Crowd" though in a manner
very different from the managers sar-
castle descriptive efforts. He said
that Jacobus was tyrant and bully,
but that he could act; that every one
except Miss Moon was afraid of -.
j." and she wouldn't be afraid OF an
Indian chief on the warpath; that
Miss dc Isle didn't dare say her soul
was her own or that black was black
IL old Jack remarked that 1t wasn't;
that Jacobus had done very good
thing for himself in getting hold of
Lille as a star, although she had no
money, for she was a peach. 4
live wire, just the sort Of little gal TO
he N "por NJ towna lika this uEnil-u