New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-13
WHY HUB TOOK THE COUNT
BY SEWELL FORD

leave Hub until he seems contented I'll put in I'LL
to Mrs. Talcot for your time, say IKE an houI WI"
that do:"
~Oh. certainly. says Pinckney. 1T starts no" Be
sides you're bound TO be crazy about Hub
AT FIVE an hour | could be nutty about most any,
one, says l.
UNJUST say though that it want any case OF love- II
1 first sight: for when Mr. Talcott shows up I'D
can see in him is tall. loose-lonted Sag-shou 'ied
Young gent with long. serious face high cheeNo 1s
a heavy chin and an odd droop 10 his mouth corners
You wouldn't guess from the healthy color in his ek
that he's an invalid: but he carries one wrist Imp I'D
black silk sling and drifts in sort OF hesitatm ana ISM
full There want anything specially humorous a. III
the way pnckncv does the honOrS; but Hub grlnS III
Of foolish and then cuts loose in highpitched, raSpn
voice To say how he's glad TO know me, and thai ne
hopes he amt causin much trouble, and so on IN
I'll Pncknev steps in and soothes him down.
There. there, old chap" says he. Its only Fro-
fcssor McCabe, YOU know. He's going down with
you and I'm sure you'll both be crazy aoou' each
other" IT..
overtime And if were goin TO catch the t"o,i'ee"
we amt got much margin to waste on you.
So gives Swiftly a few hints about what to phone
ont to Sadie and how TO handle few specials OF NINE
grabs my emergency kit bag, and of We 60 We h"d -
hour ride into South Jersey and Hubby oiu
scout. developed any sudden kin' for me durln that
time he conceals it we'll Mostly he sits sort OF supeG
down in his parlor chair hngerin bunch OF oieHV"
letters now and then ganCn' tmid al the othci p"S
scngcrs and Shrinkin back pancky when the cohdu0'"
calls for his ticket. which | was holdm. -,
Once he remarks TO me jerky and Ioid 'tA' !
quite a long trip and when We re halfway 'lcl0 ~ sN
me excited il I'm were on the rgh' I''i' N"y
expect they can't help it, bu some o' l.,'
colapscrs take it out in queer ways. don t'l i','
est that's as chatty as we got the ".'.t mp, ~ ILL.,,
drive from the station he observes tll1l U' "' m
s,ch q fat sandy country and he believes aem mere"
make him worse. . ? -,s-
~Ah. nump your chest full of this pine ar and ioE,'
tho ecrpcr,- saws "Thcvll buck You mp 10 INC
rstor;,,n, See that must be the roof OF H. on theie'
IT'S some elaborate shack o-halt cement ,'.
L shnqIc with the beams shown through ,' ~
lish style and the tall trees left grown close 20 W
Whispcrin Pines was good name Io' IT, ~ nv, INTO
than one. as we discovers later. They shows ~ ny NJ
2s and 20 ON the second hoor.-cunnn niue Gems
oncn;n onto individual sleepin porcheS' ea'h WIN
white iron cot 4 maid in nurse UNIFORM YEN, -
that s,ppcr1l be ready in ten minutes; SO W. Ia.
M hastv and gets down Just as they UNI" Ib -
Hmm, room doors So there wa mt any time ioi HUI "
get fdgety mt. e. ,,r,straters
Saw did YOU ever sixty or seventy -HN' C Iii,
all in bunch2 Believe me, II was some nlN rr -,
ton-from Young girls of twenty that l'u III M ,bat
many, dance orders To heavyweight old doWaseiS U.a
had emitted too many dinner plates mere Wa - =
Young men, a few more midde-aged gents anu anu, Ion
grayhaircd old sports; but all OF EN- WIN 4 nU'N'
account back of their complaints .,+ would
It's big bare ROOM full OF round taDleS '. i, lav
seat about ten with plenty of elbow room Tor ioih ;
and me and Hub are planted casual at one oil EN-,
without ben introduced or anything 'G DE- Tor
want strong for Sociability at WhSperih I'M h;n'
there want the usual boardin house cna',ei po ob
nassed across the tables | see folks noddln 10 'N"