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the fare, pleasantly.
The cab headed for Fifth ave-
nue. and sped up that perfect
street. Jerry bounced and sway
ed in his seat. The potent fluids
Of McGary were disquieted and
they sent new fumes TO his head.
He sang an ancient song Of Kill
isnock and brandished his whip
like a baton.
Inside the cab the fare sat up
straight on the cushions, looking
TO right and left at the lights and
houses. Even in the shadowed
hanson her eyes shonC like stars
at twilight
When they reached Fifty-ninth
street Jerry's head was bobbing
and his reins were slack. But his
horse turned in through the park
gate and began the old familiar
nocturnal round And then the
fare leaned back. entranced. and
breathed deep the clean, whole
some odors OF grass and leaf and
bloom. And the wise beast in the
shafts. knowing his ground,
struck into his by-the-hour gait
and kept to the right Of the road.
Habit also struggled success
fully against Jerry's increasing
torpor. He raised the hatch Of
his storm tossed vessel and made
the inquiry that cabbies do make
in the park.
Like shtop at the Css-sino,
lady? Gezzer r'freshm's, n lish'n
the music. Evbody shtops."
Il think that would be nice"
said the fare.
They refined up with a plunge
at the Casino entrance. The cab
doors few open. The fare stepped
directly upon the floor. At once
she was caught in a web Of
ravishing music and dazZled by a
panorama Of lights and colors.
Some one slipped a little square
card into her hand on which was
printed a number-34. She look
ed around and saw her cab TWEEN
ty yards away already lining up
in its place among the waiting
mass Of carriages, cabs and mo-
tor cars. And then a man who
seemed to be all shirt-front dane
ed backward before her; and next
she was seated at a little table
Dg a Talllu- over W l4lA II eAlAAloSN
a jessamine vine.
There seemed to be a wOrdless
invitation to purchase; she con-
suited a collection Of small coins
in a thin purse. and received from
them license to order glass Of
beer. There she sat, inhalinG
and absorbing il all-the new
colored, new-shaped life in a
fairy palace in an enchanted
wood.
At fifty tables sat princes
and queens clad in all the silks
and gems of the world. And now
and then one Of them would look
CuriousIy at Jerry's fare. They
saw a plain figure dressed in a
pink silk Of the kind that is tenn
pered by the word "foulard," and
a plain face that wore a look OF
love OF life that the queens en-
WED.
Twice the long hands Of the
clocks went round. Royalties
thinned from their al fresco
thrones and buzzed or clattered
away in their vehicles Of state.
The music retired into cases OF
wood and bags OF leather and
baize. Walters removed cloths
pointedly near the plain figure
sitting almost alone.
Jerry's fare rose, and held out
her numbered card simply:
rs there anything coming on
the tickPt?" she asked.
A waiter told her it was her
cab check. and that she should
give it to the man at the entrance.
This man took it. and called the
number. Only three hansoms
stood in line. The driver Of one
OF them went and routed out
Jerry asleep in his cab. He swore
deeply, climbed to the captains
bridge and steered his craft to
the pier. His fare entered, and
the cab whirled into the cool
Businesses of the park along the
shortest homeward cuts.
At the gate a glimmer Of rea-
son in the form Of sudden suspi-
cion seized upon Jerry's becloud-
ed mind. One or two things oc-
CURED to him. He stopped his
horse, raised the trap and dropped
his Photographic voice. like a
lead plummet, through the aper-
ture:
Il want to see four dollars be-
fore goin any further on the
thrip. Have ye got the Dough-"
-Four dollars" laughed the
fare softly, dear me. no. I've
only got a few pennies and a
dime or two"
Jerry shut down the trap and
slashed his oats-fed horse. The
clattsr of hoofs strznrIed hut
could not drown the sound of his
profanity. He shouted choking
and gugling curses at the starry
heavens; he cut viciously with
his whip at passing vehicles. ne