Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-10

followed Mccain out OF the tent. A quick trolley
ride brought the railway station and in few mill
we had left Okra far in the rear and
headed for the first of the string of
towns that the Mighty IIarkns Show
to play before winding up the season i'll
Louisiana. l don't recall whether \
Billport the first the second stand IA
after Okra. 1t makes difference. Nc AZ
Cam and struck the burg in the after IN
noon, and while he .loafed around the IN
hotel reading week-old New York n
papers hustled to the newspaper offices,
arranged the parade with the Chief of
Police, did the necessary work of press
agent ahead of a circus and was Johnny -
on-the-spot with castiron appetite long -
before the dining room opened tor the -
evening meal.
"See Gawkey?" Mccain yawned from
the midst of a stack of sporting supple
ments.
l hadn't. For one thing, l had been
too busy; for another, the promise had
slipped my mind temporarily. | told Nc
Cam the evening next day would do.
We were in no hurry.
Hash house isn't open yet. Might
try the telephone said he, and went reading
port of prize fight that had already taken its place
ancient history.
Turning to the G's in the local phone directory
discovered that Isaac Mumford Gawkey had both
residence and business number. 1t nearly six
o'clock, and remembering the s1nall-town custom of
early suppers called the house masculine voice
swered.
aHelo!r said l. aDoes Mr.. Gawkey live there.
That's mel
@Goodl" went on. 4My name is Colenan-Thomas
COLEMAN. I'm publicity manager Of the Mighty Har-
kns Show, which comes to your town next week You
have brother James, have you not?"
q had brother James, came the reply Haven't
seen or heard of him in years
"Well,a James Gawkey, who says he's your brother,
employee of circus and asked to look you
up and request that you pay him visit when the show
gets to town You'll find him in the
Wait minute interrupted the voice, and could
hear confused tumble at the other end of the line.
fanced caught the word mother, and that
l heard something like scream. Then Gawkey
turned to the job. 3Say, said he, Il want you
out and have dinner. Ill call for you my Hows
that? friend with youo All the better! Well bring
him along Always keep open house. Be there in five
minutes! Goodby!'
He shouted this and hung up the receiver before
had chance to think Of decent way to refuse the in
vtaton. Mccain, when told him, said he fool
allow to phone that he should have done it HIM
self He grumbled something to the effect that while
it was bad enough to drag him around flock of one
night stands overstepping the bounds Of decency
by forcing him to sit down with strangers at home
cooked meals queer towns in dreary part of the
country where cooking had always been lost art My
friend John Henry Mccain, r, often talked like that.
So told him to shut up and say nothing about James
Gawkey, brother, and Musty Scanlon circus clown, be-
ing and the
1--WE got an idea said l. "that the man we're going
to break bread with is punkins hereabouts.
Talked like it. Well say his longlost relative is at the
head of the comedy department of the Hawkins Show.
It's the truth. He's head clown. Come on. Here's our