Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-26


your papa could set his son up in busi-
ness with twenty or thirty thousand
and not feel 1t, eh?''
, That's what Niche says, but pas
slow aSout it,
| Your brothers got the right idea
all right: why. l bet il your papa had
! three sons he could set them up in
business and not feel IL, Ell? / know
a thing or two about the money that's
eeen made in the mems clothing bust
:less the last fifteen years"
PAPA is right rich. / guess"
And grand old man IL there ever
was one"
He sure is and self-made too Hon
est. it's just like a story the way he
misunderstanding and making his
| way peddling. and then when he mar
RED mamma: right from of the East
SIDE too. the two of them starting the
| little store together. the two of them
pushing through all the dirt of the
East Side and coming out of it so fine
and all. Shows how goodness can
grow out of all that filth down there
don't it. Joe?'
, ITS grand. Esther"
Him and mamma don't show it, may,
be. but they're just pure gold. they
are. They-they're just pure gold
His hand lay over hers. quiescent
| A waiter lowered in the distance. The
gable and laughter of tourists was
suddenly remote.
IF the old gentleman only won't stir
up game tonight. Esther, Wen make
last evening of it on board. al.
rightly"
II jr.st told papa he-he couldn't
drag ,cu down there tonight. Gibral.
| tar coming in sight and you knowing
| so much to describe about places
II sure want to stick with you to.
night, Esther. fact is, l just wan,
| to stick with you all OF the time"
Her hand flew to her breast.
! Joe"
MY little dearie-girlie-I want te
steal you"
oh, Joe-you-you mustn't"
| But he was on his feet suddenly
and grasping his hat from the table
! Cad" he cried there's the boa,
whistling three times. We got to dc
| rest of them have all started down al.
ready"
"Oh, Joe! Mamma! Let's run. Let's
Hand in hand and with the Hellenic
| swing of youth. they scuttled across
| the green turf. From the harbor. full
OF warning came another blast.
+ X
THE quicksilver OF madness runs
through the veins of a moonli,
| night. Poets chew their pen-ends and
| grope for meter. The Blessed Dano.
| sci leans out. Harlequin laughs In
| his tight sleeve and kicks up his heels
! in kinship with the world. AS man,
| maidens as there are in the world
| scent the perfumed garments of Ro.
| nance as she rustles through the cor.
ridors of the night and sigh for O,
| with their. lovers.
Esther Lefkovitch sighed. too. blu,
| family, as if she would not break q
spell. Before the approach of the
| Roumania the moon unrolled a strir
of light. just as a pathway of carpe,
A hump of black, like the great sill.
! houette of a kneeling camel. rose
| against the sky. Here and there al
| it's knuckles lights twinkled. Along
| the silent deck couples crept out from
corners. whispering. pointing in pan.
| in its flight. Esther Lefkovitch fol.
| lowed it with eyes that were mellow
to moistness.
! Esther, that you. child?"
Mamma. how you scared me
sneaking up behind me so soft"
! always in q lonesome place like
this on top deck I find you. Esther
Twice over this boat I've been bring.
ling you your heavy coat for the damp.
| ness. Here. put it on"
| She slid into the garment, fastening
IT across the smooth V of her barred
throat.
For why. Esther. you should stay
| up here in the dark all alone, when
downstairs the young folks got dane.
ing and everybody is out on the lit
up decks, I don't know"
! 1--we ust been alone a minute
mamma"
| ia, because now the game begins
1 guess. Esther. you think it's so nice
on a big boat like this, the way YOU
let that nix from Chicago come ur
| here with you to such a lonesome
spot"
1--WE came up to watch the Gibraltar
! mamma. See, how plain it's getting
| out there already-that black thing
Seew
Il tell you between my husband, who
leaves me alone every night to play
cards, and
He promised tonight he wouldn't
m ANNA"
ia, but when I seen his long face
| right away 1 said rather by myself
would sit than look at it. Between
him and my daughter, what runs ur
| mountains and then gives me heart
| failure when she nearly misses the
ship. and then on top always finds out
the lonesome places like this be.
tween the two of them I got a lone.
some enough time of it myself. just
let me tell you"
| But mamma, dear, you've got the
| nice ladies you've met on the boat
Mrs. Kron and Mrs. Lipp and all OF
| them"
| with the right kind Of a young
man not one word would I say to ali
| the good time you want. But with
such a nix who leaves you alone by
yourself every night by o'clock and
who has got in his head eyes what ]
wouldn't trust SO far as from here
Eyes! That just shows. mamma
| how little you know about things
| If there's one thing he has got it's
! eyes. grand black eyes anybody would
| notice.
always. Esther. a persons ewes
are like looking glasses what tell the
| truth about him. Right through the
| eyes of a nix I can see just like in q
mirror grand eyes or eyes not so
You've just got to quit calling
| him a nix like that, mamma. Who
is it I'd like to know but p: VI drags
him downstairs every night I'd like
! to know. Who is it? Who?"
Tonight. Esther. your papa did
Tonight. maybe not. but every
other night. It just shows Dam
tigers got honor. though He's not
going to get of this boat without
giving tnem all every chance to win
back. He's got honor. that's why he
went down"
II tell you. Esther. how much /
think of him. So much, that L even
don't want to hear his name. Gott
sci dank. tomorrow we land, and
that's the last We see Of him with
helped to save, in his pocket"
We'll. then. you-you quit running
him down, ma. He's a prince il you
want to know it. You-well IL
could tell you something if I wanted
to. but IL won't right now-I-I
won't. But you got to quit picking
fx mn n, L.