Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-05-30
BROADWM JONES -
FROM ScENE5 IN THE PLAY Y,..sS 49, -

gum that the Consolidated puts up
against the public as just as good as
that my ancestors made famous.
see"
For heavens sake. shut up, You II
see snakes if this keeps on. That lem
onade that Mrs. Spotswood gave you .
has gone TO your empty head
1T was not the lemonade that MIS-. .
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 its hinges. Say, Bob, isn't she
! queen
so that's ito"
But h. made no further protests. He
was a levelheaded youth, was TINS
Young advertising man. He knew as
we'll as anyone that if the trust feared
and wished to purchase the Jones
gum 1t could be but because the trust
knew that the Jones gum was a dan
gerous competitor. II, managed as IL
had been, unadvertised, it had been
dangerous competitor TO the trust
then it was worth having -emphatlcal-
" worth keeping.
And some DAY Broadway must do
something. He could not forever play
. the idler on the Great White way
even n his millions we're unnumbered
II was no life for an actual man, ana
Bob was sure that hidden somewhere
in his friend were the true elements
7 of worthy manhood Nothing had oc
Y CURED to bring them out, that was all
+ He thought they might be coming now
I Reaching the hotel, they found the
{ place in utter darkness. Not a lgnt
even turned down for the night. was
e visible at any window; not sound O
life came from the building save
- rhvthmic cadence of some sleeper soft
" saving wood with dull saw.
4 The clerks asleep" said Bob.
How do YOU know that is tn
j. clerk? asked Broadway. listening crit
lie ically to the snore.
81 heard him singing when | frs
got here. and now | recognize tn
IL voice. He held the tune little be
ut ter. then, that's all.
Have we got to wake him up"
n Sure, Why, it's after eleve
at o'clock"
Nothing but the thought of Josi
fy Richards eyes could have kept broa
way at that instant from casting a
OBJ his worthy resolutions to the WIND
a selling to the trust and searching o.
lie q Bible upon which TO swear that |
never again would set foot in Jone
Vile. But he did remember Josie
ny eyes, and so began to hammer on u
door.
it'll After a quarter of an hour of stea'
lst hammering, some shouting and lltt
whistling, he was rewarded by slee
st. and ill-tempered voice from $40"
I'VE opened window.
ent Heavens, Was his window close
be And yet that snore got out to us!
out TT sawed it's way out" Bob sugge
ed.
Ind We'll. what We want?" the ane
voice inquired.
ms, Want to get in
AT this time the night"
soft Sure. It's always night before
ore ever want to go to bed
nat. We'll. the Grand hotel, it don't TIL
nee much Of folks that stays out all nil
md, long. I'll tell you that" the clerk
claimed. as he came down in brig
an red fannels land not much of that
let them in.
est, "All night long,"
Amt it a quarter after 'leven?'
OF After telephoning Rankin (much
ady the clerks disgust to hurry to {
), is necticut by the first train in the mt
out ing, with well-packed bags, the
friends crept upstairs. abashed.
ark. The clerk scorned such a me
It's service as attending them, and in
mad excitement left from the rebuke he
r to received, Wallace stumbled into
wrong room. All doors were pa
are open. for the night was warm. and
e all one feared the midnight interlo
gum there in innocent and simple 10
my vile.
,ting Fortunately the moonlight fell l
the bed, and warned him, other
sane there might have been scanda
houl- Gum Village, in which case the
plainant the felt certain from that
road ried glimpse) would have been
of close upon two hundred and
snt! pounds.