Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-06

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sheets, III wire you at By the way, will just
Newport fetch you?"
1--WE are going West" says Fiddle important "out to
Ohio
"Gee." says I. "'Way out thereo What's the idea"
"To attend reunion of the Piddie family" says he
swelin' up chesty.
"You don't mean it" says I. "Then there's others
"Over three hundred invitations have been sent out
| understand. says he. THAT embraces the twelve
known branches of family in this country There
will be representatives present from England ALSO
Of them member of the House of Commons We trace
cur line back you know, to Sir John Pidde who the
sixteenth century was knighted for"
Say, If MIR. Robert hadn't rung the desk buzzer Just
then expect I'd been loaded up with enough Piddie
genealogy to have filled book AS it is Pm sent
on an Grand wondern why it is some has their
tors all card ndexed while others have lost theirs the
shuttle There Wee and Sappy Westake that could
point out where theirs all planted. Even pinhead
like Pidde, it seems. could roll off the lineage stuff
And me- | could only go back to possible Uncle Bill
who'd jumped board account.
must have chewed that for the rest of the day.
and it wa mt until some hours later that l had what
call one of my mornn lunches. You know EN-, don't
you! Hits you when you first roll out, clear and hard
and sort of gives you angle things, all in flash
Huh thinks |. what the use botherin' about
family tree unless it's the kind that has real
parcels and punches of dvidendbearn stocks from the
branches? Where does it help Pddie, tracn clear back
to Sir John! Seems like my play was to enter as
unknown and qualify IN the young pluto class without
And, say that's the great thought Jugs down to the
office with me that mornn. Course, wa mt worryin'
but what could do it, for I'd many boneheads
who'd won out without half tryn. And here | was,
right next to the big money bunch and of the insid
you might say, of aggregation that had
four sets of books to keep track of all the profits and
make the common stockholders think they gettin'
square deal. Who had better chance? I'd like
know
MAYBE would have thrown out hints, or
~ sprung it on the firm gradual but that amt my
style. "Nlr Robert says l. driftin' his private
office casual, hadn't better be lookin around for
some first-class man to fill my place.
"Why, Torchy!' says he "You're not thinking of
leaving us, are you'
Nothing that says |. I'm ready to be
taken in, that's all.
Ready to WHAT says he, starin sort of puzzled
"Oh, to have my name go on the etterheads, says l.
Course this office boy snap has been all right for
time and | amt regiserin' any kick on the wav I've
been used but I'm ripe for somethin fatter now"
"Oh!' says he. you'd like to be promoted
"Say, that don't half cover it, not near says l. at
amt BEN moved up peg or two that I'm strkln for
What I'm plannin broad jump, from the brass gate
here into a room of my own, with my title the
ground glass door and whack at the dividends Get
the scheme?'
"By degrees says he tit rather sudden isn't it,"
Most everything good comes that way says l.
"True, very true" says Mr.. Robert. But
what particular office, Torchy do you think you would
like"
81 amt picked out anything special" says L; "but
YOU know Mr.. Robert there's a lot of boobs holdn'
down cnch jobs here that amt any more than a
ham sandwich at a Chamber of Commerce dinner. I'll
leave it to you which of EN- needs the fresh
Only want to break into this high finance thing right
off
H -n-m-m!7 says he "You don't mind my consult
ing the board first, do vou?'
Not bit" says l. MAKE it as regular as you like
SO long it amt held up more'n week two
"Ah, thank you, Torchy,' says he. And in the