Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-07

I with my sick husband is that child. Mr..
! GratE. Don't take her away from me.
Just let us live on like before Mr GratE.
! don't take her away from me y
4 Mama, dear. Please. darling /
won't go; won't. dearie, mama !" =
! why. Mr.. Gratz. did you come to us
| With such big ideas when better off we
were without them? Don't take her from
wages by Tracy's and when always 7
can sell my pickles and smoked meats
to the delicatessen. we can get for her
poor papa what comfort he needs. Don't
Mr.. Gratz, don't"'
And with her great retching sobs all
released. she rose. cropping for the slim
form of her daughter: folded Il to her
beneath the cape, the curving young
cheek pressed hard TO her heavy bosom
and the unlovely spectacle OF her tear
slashed. bubblv face turned fun to Felix
GratZ.
He moved toward her with q sudden
furriness OF voice and his own gaze soft
ened by flm Of moisture.
why, Mrs. KolinslSy. l wouldn't take
your beautiful little girlie away from
you, not for a million dollars, IL that's
the way you feel. You just forget all
about it and take her home with you
and"
NO. no. Mr.. Gratz. it's all right You
you amt good to offer Il. hut--she trusts
] YOU just as much as I do, Mr.. Gratz. but
but
why. Mrs. Kolinslly I'd no more take
your little girl for this business II you
I don't want
! u don't say. Mr., Gratz, lit amt
! a grand offer. but-but-"
Mr.. Gratz, she means she can't spare
me now. with my father on his back
and nobody around evenings, you--you
see she needs me now.
''He--he needs me. too. You-you
/ see, II amt we don't appreciate. Maybe
some other time. Mr.. Gratz, Maybe /
maybe-you-you're so good; Mr.. Gratz.
apd-you can-undcrstand. YOU
you're so good"
Tears broke through her voice and in
the act of unwinding from the Cape's
embrace. her hat fell back and 4 great
low her knees. She caught H. winding
it up again, without heed or embarrass-
Maybe some other time, Mr.. Gratz
At the sight Of that loosened coil Mr.
Gratz's voice came through firm again
and he moved quick step forward.
Why, of course. ! won't, little one.
T-weli, / Just couldn't be mad with
=. YOU. but you're making n mistake, Mrs.
I Kolinsky. amt forcing. but you'll
have your little girl reproaching you
here until the day you die. Mrs. Kolin-
sky. YOU aren't losing her. You're gain
ing her. She's got a chance. big one.
Let her have II. To prove TO you that
IFS a big chance, I'll pay $50 week
; You parents amt got the right to swing
your children's destinies They belong 10
them Let her come here tomorrow at !
and sign short contract. $50 per, and
see how she likes it. Look at her face
there now and see how she wants it
!; yourself"
, Mrs. Kolinslly turned her face, the
t tears driven against il, toward he'
daughter
: "Ros!e--Eos.e. YOU want it,"
With her hands cupped one in the
other and held out straight from her
Miss kolinshy opened her lips for re-
( tort
t T-.sixty--I-mams-
You want it, Rosie? Don't be afra,c
. 70 say TO mama what you want. You
. you want il, Rosie
For a little while. Rosie. you wan
p mama Should let you try IL and
. oh. mama, not-not when YOU lool
at me like that
Answer mama. Rosie. Il feel bette,
YOU tell me the truth. What 70,
want, baby. won't be hard for mama L
learn how TO want, too. You want
of course she wants il, Mrs Kolin
e sky. Look at her face. amt tia
h You want il. Rosie"
e Yves, mama"
" When Felix GRATIS pale yellow auto
mobile, raCv-lOokinE as - hound an
. with red leather upholstery and thre
extra tires in red leather casing. dre'
r; up alongside of twelve stories OF ston
-. and stucco, facing the lowest end Q
Riverside Drive, where rents and apart
J. ment houses run highest. MINDLESS an
a bltingly clear evening. Uttered with IN
y close, eager stars which shine so brigE
through still cold, had descended.
= In the twelve-story apartment hous
]. lights began 20 CLEAN on the vertica
:. Twelve stories Of dining-roofn maid
, tweaked on twelve stained-glass dome
"a OF electric light; removed twelve silve
," fruit baskets from twelve solid mahoE
any dining tables spread silence Clot
p and white damask for twelve layers {
vertical dinners.
n From a very Byzantine elevator Fell
Gratz emerged TO the ninth layer
these, admitting himself by one of
e, chain OF keys laboTously extracted frol
W his great-coat and somewhere IN II
n region OF his right hip.
y A rosy light, twealled on at his eT
'e trance, flowed Immediately out into y
= warm hallway to meet him. Against
y background OF very pink silk hampstead
e a short wide figure moved >forwaI
% through the frame Of doorway,
Felix"
.p "Ach, you're cold. Felix. Like tc
And you're warm. ma Like toa
n your cheeks feel. Eh?" he pinched h.
~ cheek easily and in a state OF pleasaI
z. relaxation hung up his coat on u gide
Id elk-horn and, rubbing his hands IL h