Middletown transcript., 1914-04-11

gum that the Consolidated puts VI
against the public as just as good az
that my ancestors made famous
see"
For heavens sake, shut up! You'll
see snakes If this keeps on. That lem
onade that Mrs. spotswood gave you
has gone to your empty head"
ut was not the lemonade that Mrs.
Spotswood gave me, it was the touch
ing line Of talk that-er-that Josie
Richards gave me-" He paused while
Wallace waited with his jaw loose
on it's hinges. Say, Bob. isn't she a
queen?"
$50 that's it,"
But he made no further protests. He
was level-headed youth, was this
young advertising man. He knew as
well as anyone that If the trust feared
and wished to purchase the Jones
gum it could be but because the trust
knew that the Jones gum was a dan
gerous competitor If, managed as it
had been, unadvertised. it had been a
dangerous competitor to the trust,
then it was worth having -emphatical-
ly worth keeping.
And some day Broadway must do
something. He could not forever play
the idler on the Great White Way,
even if his millions were unnumbered.
1t was no life for an actual man, and
Bob was sure that hidden somewhere
in his friend were the true elements
of worthy manhood. Nothing had oc-
CURED to bring them out, that was all.
He thought they might be coming now.
Reaching the hotel, they found the
place in utter darkness. Not a light,
even turned down for the night, was
visible at any window; not a sound of
life came from the building save a
rhythmic cadence of some sleeper soft.
ly saving wood with a dull saw.
"The clerks asleep" said Bob.
How do you know that is the
clerk?" asked Broadway, listening crit
ically to the snore.
81 heard him singing when 1 first
got here, and now recognize the
voice. He held the tune a little bet.
ter, then, that's ALL
Have we got to wake him up?"
Sure! Why, it's after eleven
o'clock"
Nothing but the thought of Josie
Richards eyes could have kept Broad
way at that instant from casting all
his worthy resolutions to the winds,
selling to the trust and searching out
a Bible upon which to swear that he
never again would set foot in Jones'
Vile. But he did remember Josie's
eyes, and so began to hammer on the
door.
After quarter Of an hour of steady
hammering, some shouting and little
whistling, he was rewarded by a sleepy
and ill-tempered voice from a slowly
opened window.
Heavens! Was his window closed.
And yet that snore got out to us!"
ut sawed it's way out, Bob suggest
ed.
We'll, what ye want? the angry
voice inquired.
Want to get in"
AT LnlS Llmo the n1ghtT
Sure. It's always night before we
ever want to go to bed"
well, the Grand hotel, it don't think
much Of folks that stays out all night |
ong, I'll tell you that!" the clerk ex-
claimed, as he came down in bright
ed flannels (and not much of that to
et them in.
'All night long!"
Amt it quarter after 'leven?"
After telephoning Rankin (much to
he clerks disgust) to hurry to Con-
lecticut by the first train in the morn
ng, with well-packed bags, the two
riends crept upstairs, abashed.
The clerk scorned such a menial
ervice as attending them, and, in the
xcitement left from the rebuke he had
eceived, Wallace stumbled into the
7rong room. All doors were partly
pen, for the night was warm, and no
ne feared the midnight interloper,
here in innocent and simple Jones'
lille.
Fortunately the moonlight fell upon
be bed, and warned him, otherwise
here might have been a scandal in :
um Village, in which case the com
lainant Che felt certain from that hur-
led glimpse) would have been a sylph
close upon two hundred and fifty
ounds. .
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