Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-01-15


+ a well-preserved old-er-I mean nat
she seems we'll preserved.
We'll canned. you meaR. said val
lace. But too much chemical presery-
alive in females is as dangerous as
+ il is in food How did we happen to
go there tonight? You roped me INTO
that Broadway. You didn't tell me
where you meant to take me. You
merely said we'd go to dinner With
some friends of yours"
We'll. she's a friend OF mine.
/ Broadway defended rather hotly An
! idea, so terrible that it was fasclnat-
I ing had occurred to him.
she might have gone TO school with
your grandmother. It makes n SICK
to see her ogle you. | think she ants
to marry you"
| Broadway burst into a laugh which
he was we'll aware was quite too loud
too cackly and too hollow; he feared
acutely that his friend would recognize
its falseness.
TO marry me, Ho. no." Instantly
his manner changed. But | don't ike
the way you speak about her, Bob.
Remember-we have just enjoyed her
hospitality"
Enjoyed it. Speak for yourself, old
man! If had known where yon were
going, do you suppose would nave
gone with you? l can meet grand
mothers schoolmates at the Old La
dies home | don't have to go to din
ner with them
Nov, Bob"
Wallace burst into laugh. Il be-
Heve ii is pure charity he guessed.
You are trying to make others happy,
You smile on her as you would throw
dollar into a Salvation Army cash
pot around Christmas time"
Bob, I'm thinking about getting
married"
His friend sat straight and locked at
him in dumb amazement for second.
| Married? And is grandma in some
way related to the bride who may be-
Bob, need"
He stopped. Almost he had told his
friend he needed money; but ne mad
not the courage. To confess poverty
on Broadway is like confessing muir
der in a church.
Need what?"
"A rest. I'm going to-er-take
some sort of a vacation. Don't know
what. Maybe back to the old home.
Anyway, you won't see me af5und for
quite little while"
Never mind. old chap! I'll tell.
them all that you have bad to go
away on business. Go somewhere and
get Strengthened out. You need It.
There's. something wrong with you, or
you I'D never have gene TO that
dinner FbeIaa that ancient mariness
could ogles5 1ths AAass-slss zEtls;ss -.
wen. you won't see me for WeeR'
or two"
Drop me a line if you want any
thing"
Jackson Jones went away early on
the following morning. AS ignorant OF
business and of business methods as
baby. yet he tried to scheme some
way by means of which he might re
coup his staggering finances. Wild
ideas. all impractical, whirled through
his brain.
He must have money, that was GER
tain. He had not the least idea of
Just how he had accomplished it, but
he had spent his patrimony-sp it
all and more than all of it. If he had
paid UP the debts he owed-which all
the world seemed glad to have him
owe-that was the hard part of it;
everyone seemed anxious to have him
go in debt to them-he would have far
less than nothing left.
For days he stewed above his fig
ures in room of which he kept close
guard upon the key. He told Rankin.
who was curious, that he planned to
write a book
Indeed, sir? Fiction, sir?"
Fiction? Cad, no. Fact"
"a book of travel, sir? I've travelled
quite bit. Perhaps"
NO. Or yes. OF travel up and down
Broadway"
Splendid, sir, if | may be excused
for taking such liberty. I'm sure no
gentleman in all New York is more
familiar with the subject. sir. | shall
be glad to read 1t. sir. I'm sure it
will be quite a revelation"
Rankin" said Broadway earnestly,
"if | wrote what | really know about
Broadway it would be a revelation.
He grew very serious, for him. 1T
would put some men on pedestals. and
they would not be those who now
stand highest. 1t would put some men
behind the bars, and among them are
some men who now are free to come
and go, with welcomes when they
come and invitations when they leave,
in every place where people gather in
this town"
He burst into sudden laugh Great
stuff, Ell, Rankin? When you say
Broadway you stir me up. love it,
hate it; it always fascinates me.
There's no street like it in the world.
IF your book is like that, sir, 1t
will be a big success" commented
Rankin, spellbound. It's going to be
a fine book, Mr. Jones"
1T won't interest Broadway. There's