Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-11
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looking at something he ina gined to be a
clue. -e sses u -ssse-s sos
:. ''Er--ye-ef.'- replied, going right on
with that book-scanning thing
| knew ! wouldn't be able TO discourage
him. But l felt that / ought to go as far
as l could with the stun. self-preserva-
ton being the first law of habit
That ''ye-eh' number of mine only
egged him on. The "ye-eh'' thing al.
ways does have that effect upon EN-
Heap o. snow already this winter"
he husked. Out where / come from
there's been more snow this year al
ready than for a dozen years past"
Get it? His desire was TO force me
to ask him where that "out-where-l-
came-from place happened to be.
But / wouldn't do it. 1 gritted eight
or ten grains of perfectly good enamel
off my teeth-he couldn't hear me grit
ting above the roar of the tram, but
l gritted all the same-and 4 made a
mental yum unto myself that I'd never
ask MIN where that place out where he
come from was. even If the pianet
Neptune were to tall right down on the
ground and break up into small stones
Tor merchandising purposes.
Did he care? Not the worth of q
groat! And I've as much OF an idea
OF the worth of a grOat the average
campaign manager has of the extent of
his boss following
L live out in NebraSkyv said he Der
fectly contented and composed when he
perceived that / wasn't going to grab
him around the neck with both gnarled
mitts and demand that he LET me know
life. Always have quite some snow
out in Nebrasky, but this year we come
near gittin' buried by it,"
The phrenologist frequently has
spoiled it on me that l ann not by
nature the abysmal brute But if snow
ever really does bury folks, how ] did
wish in that moment that that Nebra sky
snow had Inferred. Oh, we'll, am
not going to open myself to the ac-
cusation of harshness. But IT, the mans
accounts having all been squared and
his wife and children having been pro-
Vided for, that Nebrasky snow had only
rendered it impracticable to be riding
on a car between New York and Phla-
why. However, hush. This is not
a thing to go on with.
That so?" said !. 1t was frightful
mistake, but L did it absent mindedly.
Anybody on train who goes so far
becomes so encouraging. as to say
That so?' to a chirpcr deserves all
that he gets. and more.
AS l say, I received that which be-
longs to me. l believe l know more
inside bail now about the state of Ne
braska than Bryan himself. He told
me all of the details about that mighty
state, and then, after telling it again
he whistled il. Then he adapted il to
the ballad form and sang it. After
which he told me all about it again
in the regular husky tone of voice nat
ural to him.
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Then he narrated unto me all of the
lot 1t
trip to the east. He told me- with e
obvious effort to impress the fact upon
me, that he was a horrid, dissipated
divvle, that he had remained at one o
them New York all-night restaurants
until nearly o'clock in the morning
1t was a frightful, an appalling confess
sion for human being to make to a
perfect stranger, but l received il
calmly. BY this time 1 hated him So
intensely that l should have remained
murderously calm had he Informed me
last Tuesday ne had slaughtered three
little children and buried them under
And then-rea1ly. really, one hesi-
tates to commit such fool things to
paper-he informed me that the pur-
pose of his visit to New York had been
wife! AS true as one lives and
breathes and goes to dinner, he done
that. and that is what he done.
I've related merely one detached in.
stance of my nineteen million expert
ences with the travelling chirpers dur
ing the past six weeks or more.
could fill special sixteen-page sup
plement of the -yeah-pape with
similar and even worse instances. But
l won't because they won't let me. All
the same, they can't stop me from re-
affirming my profound belief that the
taciturn Englishman is dead right all
right.
CLARENCE L. CULLEN