Evening star., 1919-12-14


rightly"
II forgot. Dee Dee, today was your
eye-doctor day. He's always scarin'
you up. Just don't pay no attention.
I forgot it was your day"
Sure you forgot. But you won't
forget if l wake up alone in the dark
some day.
Dee Dee"
You won't forget then. You won't
forget to nag me even then for duds
to go automobilng with fly men that
can't bring you no good"
Dee Dee, amt been but one night
this week. / been saving up all my
nights for-for tonight"
Tonight. Say, if can't keep you
from going to the devil on skates
if"
ITS only the second time this week,
Dee Dee, and II promised He'll
have the limousine top Off tonight
and feel. it Is just like summer A
once in a while"
What do I gotta have? What do
gotta have but slave and work."
CHAPTER ii.
ITS different with you, Dee Dee.
You're older even than my mamma
was, and didn't you say when YOU
and her was girls together there
wasn't a livelier two sisters? Now,
didn't you, Dee 'Dee?"
In a respectable way. yes. But
there wasn't the oily-mouthed. bald
headed divorced man alive, with little
rat eyes and ugly lips, who could
nave took me or your mamma out
auto riding before or after dark. We
was working girls, too; but there
wasn't man didn't take off his hat
to us, even if he was bald-headed and
it was 20 below zero" ..
"Aww
yes. 'aw'! You keep running around
with the kind Of men that don't look
at girl unless she's served up with
rum sauce and see where it lands
you. Just keep running if you want
TO- but my money don't buy you no
red ribbons to help to drive Won to
the devil!"
The way you keep fussine at me.
when I don't even go to dances like
the other girls! I-sometimes T iust
wish / was dead. The way I got to
watch the clock like it was a taxi
meter the whole time I'm out any,
where's. It's the limit Even Max
Meltzer gimme the laugh today"
You'd never hear me say watch
the clock If you'd keep company with
boy like Max Meltzer. A straight.
clean boy. with Aonest intentions by
girl lookin' right out of his face.
You let boy like Max Meltzer begin
TO keep steady with you and see
"hat say. You don't see no yellow
streak IN his face; he's as white as
the goods he sells"
i know. I know. You think now
because he's going to be made buyer
Tor the white goods in September he's
the whole show. Gee! Nowadays
that amt SO muchy much for a fell
low to me-"
mo. I think that the kind of fel-
lows that fresh Mamie Grant gets you
acquainted with are muchy much. I'm
strong for the old rat-eyed sports like
jerry Beck, that amt got q honest
thought in his head. / bet he gives
you tho creeps, too. only you're the
KIND of girl. God help you. that's
SO crazy for luxury you could forget
the devil had horns If he hid 'em un-
der a automobile cap"
Sure I am. I amt seen nothing but
shaving and drudging and pinching
all my life, while other girls are
strutting the avenue in their furs and
sleeping mornings as long as they
want under eiderdown quilts. Sure,
when a man like Jerry Beck comes
along with a carriage check instead
OF subway ticket l can thaw up to
MIN like a waterloo, and I amt
ashamed of 1t. neither"
They turned into a narrow aisle of
street lined with unbroken rows of
steep, narrow-faced houses. Miss
Worte withdrew her arm sharply and
plunged ahead, her lips wry and on
the verge of trembling.
When a girl gets twenty. like you.
it amt none Of my putin no more.
Only I hope to God your mother up
there Is witness that IL ever a woman
shaved to keep a girl straight and
done her duty by her it was me. That
man amt got no good intentions
by"