New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-01
THE TRUE
DOPE ON
SNUFFY
BY SEWELL FORD

Of the argument And it funny too how the
different tales about how Duggan come to be workn
for Twin got started and spread through the place
Some sad his mother had been only sister OF the
,to uncle but that when she married Duggan he east
her off and never spoke to her afterwards. Others sad
how that couldn't be So or she wouldn't have named her
only boy for him.
But fnTv it was settled that, while there had been
family row. it had all been patched up few years DdcN'
boforo Duoqan's mother died; but that Tom Lamar
didn't believe in loadin' young man down with lux
ures until he'd had chance to make good on his own
hook There was a big debate for awhile as to whether
il would be when he got be twenty-five, or thirty,
that Uncle Lamar was goin to send for him to come
West live with him in his doube-decked palace and
be vice president of a railroad But in the end we knew
it was TO be when he twenty-eight can't say just
how we knew, but the word was passed around, and
nobody disputed it.
lust Think says Miss SpriggS, the old maid who's
our crack stenographer at fifteen week. Some day
he will come in for four million dollars!
"Pdiie says six, says l.
~Reallv!" gasps Miss Spriggs. Il wonder what it
must be like to look forward to that? Six Millions
NOBODY showed any green in the eye either. Some
~ how everyone was mighty kind and gentle to young
Duqoan always called him Mister, and made things
easI, for him. Even that don't bring out any chesty
signs In fact he got better right along was nice and
polite to everyone don't sniffe half so much, and
seemed to be takn' on flesh. For one thing, he want
always draggin Uncle into the conversation, as some
would. Course, he did flash pgskin pocketbook
once.-a swell affair, with fancy design stamped on
the outside.
The Lamar crest, he explains.
The inside was lined with watered silk, and one part
was cut out like picture frame, with photo in 1t.
Uncle Thomas" says young Mr. Duggan.
It was natural we all wanted to see such fancy
present and he passes it around free Same way with
the gold watch he got on his birthday. That had the
Lamar crest engraved on it too
"Gee!" says l. Il expect that set him back a couple
of hundred or so"
~Oh no. says Young Mr.. Duggan at isn't such an
expensive one, really. But it bully of him to re-
member my birthday
"EIuh." says I. IF it me- III be sore he didn't
make it a sx-cyinder roadster Maybe he's savn that
up for next Christmas?
Duggan smiles and shakes his head. Yes, he was
modest about it ALL that's fact got to kind Of in'
him. for al he was such dead wire; used to tow him
out TO nv favoe quick lunch joints, and put him wise
to things Iwould be something YOU know years after,
when folks mentioned Thomas Lamar Duggan the
Young California millionaire, to be able to remark
casual, "Oh-Tommy? Yes, we used to run together
lot when he was in New York. Besides, there was no
tellin who he'd be wantin as high-priced private
Rotary some of these days You know how it is
That must have been goin' on near two years Mean
while he's been jumped couple Of times to better Jobs,
he's bucked up amazin in his work and personal ap-
pearance, and has taken Pidde's hint OF wearn
couplin link between his last two names, that he
signs it Thomas Lamar-Duggan. And by the best
count he could make the grand comm out party OF his
was only little over thirty months off.
THEN one day he consents to let pilot him around
to a new basement Joint I'd discovered, where they