Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-19

She had become suddenly sober.
That's one part of it that / can't
be 9 ad about, Harry"
"Whyf"
You know that whenever Sam Con :
way helps YOU or gives you anything,
| he makes you pay for it--some time
somehow. And the way he makes you
nay when pay time comes--it's not
always the way you'd rather pay"
There 3 nothing in this. aud never
will be, for Sam Conway " exclaimed
Harry: He just did it because he's
You mean you think he's your
friend. "
"Now, lst"n here, Jennie!" The
young fellows face had flushed, there
was an emphatic ring TO his voice.
These stories about sam Conway are
all bunk. Sans politician, Yes, but
the people who think of Sam Conway
as Il schemiue political boss have got
Sam all wrong,
"Sam is II rood fellow and he's a
good straight friend. who'd do anything
for his friends and he's certainly
don" lnt for me. I tell you, SAN f
all right
~ hope he'll be so in your case,
/ Harry. Bu'--le careful :"
"San' al right" he repeated.
"I've said all ] wanted to say. Let's
not talk any more about that part of
| It. She was smiling again.
81 guess YOU can guess the chigf rea-
son why I'm glad about this job.
''R""ause YOU can buy more red
neckties -
/ because I'm in right-I'n be pro-
moted-and I'll be making real money
IN about two years. And in two years
you'll be eighteen and through high
school. And when you re eighteen. Miss
Jennie Malone, you and / ure going to
get married.
"Oh, we are. are we--just like that. "
she returned coolly. "Wcll. If that &
! "orr g"""s of what I'm guessing, Mr..
! Harry Edwards. you'd better guess an
T''nsS iDr me. ~
She was sober now and she looked him
straight in the ewes. and she spoke with
finality and cool air OF worldly inatur-
! it's that seemed strangely out of keep
I ing in one of her years. Don't try to
kid yourself that way, Harry. / ike
YOU a lot you're u nice boy--but that
little plan is never going TO work out. I
have some ideas OF my own--and I've
told you before that you don't fit into
them.
"Oh. ! know you have some kind of
crazy ideas. you and your father. But
listen, jennie. I'm going to make good.
and make good big-for you
II hone you make good Harry, but
you re not going to do it for mo.
She passed him. and nc made no
move. At the door She turned and
smiled teasiugly
"Yohll really be a nice hoy. Harry,
when YOU grow up-if that ever hap
pens -
"1'u be grown up to the exact size
TO fit you in two years" he rctorted.
She laughed, mockingly, and shut the
door behind hcr--and in so doing, she
shut Harry instantly and completely out
OF her mind Her attention was ali
now upon quite another natter--one
which had been rcst.CSsly 10 the back OF
her thoughts this hour or sU.
She stood Z moment in the little hall
al the top Of the stairway gathering her
wits; then she crept swiftly but quietly
dowu and slipped ever so cautiously
through the side door. opening from the
hallway, into the cafe, and sidlcd var
ily along behind tho screens until she
was near the door of her fathers Office.
Inch by inch she leaped forward until
her vision swept the whole of the in
terror. AS she saw that the Office was
empty, the tensity of her figure re-
laXed.
She crept to the fSsure between
screens, and gazed into the cafe. At
first she did not see the crowd making
merry in their various ways; she had
eyes for but one thing. her father.
Presently she was convinced that he