The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1911-01-05

HE WAS ALL FRONT
earbolic acid. moonlight, cold cream
and the evening newspapers"
You are outrageous, Ferg," | said,
Surely there is none Of this graft
as you call II. IN q perfect and harmo-
Nous matrimonial union.'
Well" said Pogne, nothing that
wouh justify YOU every time ia call.
ing up police headquarters and order
ing out the reserves and a vaudeville
manager on dead run. But it's this
way: Suppose you're Fifth avenue
millionaire, soaring high, on the right
side OF coppers and cappers.
| You come home at night and bring
a S9000,00o diamond brooch to the
lady who's staked you for claim.
You hand II over. She says, oh,
Georgep and looks TO see II It's back
ed. She comes up and kisses you
You've waited for 1t. You get ii. All
right. It's graft
But I'm telling you about Arteml-
| sia Bye. She was from Kansas, and
she suggested corn In all OF Its phases
Her hair was as yellow as the silk.
her form was as tall and graceful as
a stalk In the low grounds during
wet summer, her eyes were as big and
startling as bunions, and green was
her favorite color.
'On my last trip into the cool re-
cesses of your sequestered city | met
human named vaucross. He was
worth--that Is, he had million. He
told me he was In business on the
street "A sidewalk merchant says |,
sarcastic. Exactly says be, senior
partner Of paving concern
Il kind Of took TO him for this rca-
son: met him on Broadway one
night when l was out of heart. luck,
tobacco and place. He was all silk
hat, diamonds and front He was all
front. IL you had gone behind him
you would have only looked yourself
In the face. | looked like cross be-
tween Count Tolstoy and Ju:e lob.
ster was out Of luck | had But
let me lay my eyes on that dealer
again.
"Vaucross stopped and talked to me
few minutes, and then he took me
to high toned restaurant to eat din
ner There was music and then some
Beethoven and Bordelaise sauce and
cussing In French and franglpangi and
some hauteur and cigarettes. When
am fush | know them places.
II declare ! must have looked as
bad as a magazine artist sitting there
without any money aud my hair all
rumpled like | was booked to read a
chapter from 'Elsie's School Days at
Brooklyn bohemian smoker. But
vaucross treated me like bear hunt
er's guide. He wasn't afraid Of hurt
Ing the walters feelings
"Mr. Pogue,' he explains to me, i
am using you
Go on says ]. ! hope you don't
wake up
And then he tells me, you know,
the kind Of man he was. He was q |
New Yorker His whole ambition was
TO be noticed. He wanted TO be con
spieuous. He wanted people TO point |
him out and bow TO him and tell
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