Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-17

sOll' DlnCk eyeS-yOu Know the KIND
The women were all mad about him
but he never bothered much with any
of them until we happened to lay of
for week in Chicago and went tC
French Lick to see what the springs
were like. There he met Annie Halsey
He was dippy over her from the
start, although / tried to steer hin
off, for the resort was wide open and
the crowd pretty swift. Annie was O
swell dresser and posing as n society
dame, but she seemed to stand in with
the gambling element, although she was
the cold -blooded kind and straight, as
far as that went. Jack wouldn't lister
to me and she was crazy about him, too
so you see what chance | had! When
our season closed he married her, and
before six months passed she tired OF
him and showed herself in her true
| colors.
'She was crooked-crooked as they
make en- 1t was born in her, / guess.
Jacks little old four hundred a week
wasn't pin money to her. She was for e
ever Matching up schemes on people we
met from rocking at cards to black
! hiuii, anu u y lhS W Pub llfil oNtI. ~
| first she thought she could make him
stand in with her, but after she saw
the way he took that she played n lone
hand and defied him. Jack loved her
and stuck even after we found out that
she d been silent partner in that
gambling ring, roping in the suckers to
be trimmed.
He thought he could reform her,
but meanwhile his work was falling of
and at last, about five years ago, she
| left him fiat. lie still believed in her.
though. believed in the good that WASH t
there and waited for her to change and
come back to him. Instead of that she
/ framed up case against him and di-
vorced him and then the drink got him
and he went to pieces.
"You never saw fellow go down the
| line as quick as he did. Our act was
| Cancelled of course. in spite of all |
could do to keep him straight. So |
worked out the season in one, for |
wouldn't team up with anybody else
trying to make him pull himself to-
gether. He couldn't do it, though.
She'd taken the heart out OF him. And
within few months he disappeared,
down and out. | never could find him
again, so you see. young fellow, if your
Amy Howard is the Annie Halsey |
knew, you got off cheap"
"Still, you don't know where could
reach herr" Paul insisted.
The other shook his head.
81 never heard of her again, either"
at is tough about your partner"
remarked Paul after a pause. Per
haps he has gone back to his own peo
pie. though. Where did he come from"
IT don't know. He never talked
much about himself; but he had an
older sister somewhere who worshiped
the ground he walked on. I've seen
some of her letters begging him to come
home and I got an idea he had run
away when he was kid. l don know
where she wrote from
do you remember her name?" asked
Paul, beckoning to the waiter.
Nothing more for me, old man I've
got to hit the hay. No. l
wouldn't know the name if | heard it
again, and it won't do you any good to
try to locate her or Jack. ! don't think
he ever let her know that he had mar
ried; he was waiting for Annie to brace
up and run straight so he could be
proud of her. and then when the bust
up came it was too late The comedian
shook his head lugubriously once more.
mo, Mr.. Harvey, if it was Annie who
trimmed you, you'd better say good
by to your three thousand and thank
your stars it was no worse. If Ia
been Jack / would have"
He paused and clenched his hands
as he rose.
You would-what?' Paul watched
him curiously.
II wouldn't have let her make a bum
out of me, ruin my work and my hap
piness and my life, and then laugh in nv
face and go on her way. I'd have killed
her 49,