The Washington times., 1912-05-25
The Parsimonious Cocktail
--= BY -
EDGAR FRANKLIN
copyright, 1872 Tho Frank A. Munsey
All Rights Reserved.

What ice does that cut when 1t comes
to the profit man makes out OF tizz.
young Dilbury use to buv from. TWO to
twenty quarts every night heforS- he
landed here? what? And now, he
Uer ana ne comes M aISae
rupted him. fhe voice was killed:
Banks. sitting white and oazed. heard
"Gentiemen Gentlemen Gentlemen
drowned him. The spokesman stood
upon a chair and waved his hands and
hard, apparently to get control Of his
fellow;;visitors. but they were past all
They roared = shrieked screamed
leaped from the floor.
And at last out of all the turmoil
| came the logical conclusion. in biting.
''51HSPS 5%YNcH Tf'ffi Hl%!' q;
Seven vocal chords in Banks throat
began to vibrate together. The result
started from his chair, then with this
indefnable howl of mingled rage and
terror. and even as he landed upon his
ths 6o enGrns for m Hang sf
rascal! Down with him! Grab him.
-, Weltheim, and pass him over this way.
Lynch him! Kill him"
A., Now. i Is a matter Of certain record
want Of action When there is need OF
action on Banks part, Banks, so to
| speak, is on the job.
In this case the requirement seemed
to be absence-not absence fifteen min
utes or half an hour from then, but i'm
. He did the act with the simple effec-
tiveness of the true artist.
The back yard was seven feet below.
Banks, therefore, opened the. window
| SteDDed down
one step. He had a marked aversion
to being lynched anyway.
It was quite long step and it Jared
landed on the ground alive and on his
feet; and within something like the
thousandth part Of quarter Of a sec
evidently into the kitchen.
There were two large, hearty, greasy
negro ladies, there. There was also the
blond attendant, consuming a section of
Banks grabbed the attendant by the
free hand and cried aloud
Bill. If there's a side or a back en-
trance to this place, get me out Of it
within five seconds and I'll give you
five hundred dollars'
He himself could not altogether un-
derstand the 1ve-hundred-dollar part,
but he had said 1t and he would stick
to it. Indeed. he proved the fact by
producing the five- hundred dollar note
and thrusting it into the attendants
mana Win pOSlUVe smile.
| The attendant also smiled.
} Further, he accepted the bill and took
; Mr.. Banks gently by the elbow and
plloted him. He led the way into the
back yard again. He pushed Banks
} he thrust Banks through it.
Thank YOU very much, SIR" he said.
And he added: II wish to Moses the
stuff had been a longer time to work on
you. I'll have your machine here in a
, second sir"
Whereupon he effaced himself from
the scene. and Banks rubbed his eyes
/ and looked around dazedly.
) 1t was decidedly a dark street. but
! he thought he knew where he was. He
leaned against the brick wall which
ranged along the end OF the yard and
rubbed his EYES agan .Wsxe6 And sdSd Sst then
corner,
He climbed into it with feverlsh haste
: Standing up. he looked back over the
i wall at the house; The windows In that
I table lamp, were brilliantly lighted now
More than that, they were open. and
men were at them-men with silk hats
and derby hats and soft hats. And they
: were climbing through and dropping
into the yard in search of him. And
J., they seemed to flow out through the
windows as steadily as water coming
through the sluice of a mlll-wheel.
i Banks drew the robe about him com
e fortably and grinned.
Home" he said.
Then he changed his mind.
I old hoteel-instesd'" he said. Wv. "Thes
:. might possibly be there. and If the!
2 The start-from-the-seat device wen
Z off like Gatling gun. and his word
4 were drowned.
= A Continuation of This Story VII
= he Found In TOmOrrOw's
HnE.